text: If an attacker tries to login to many accounts, then the admin should be made aware of this. This allows the admin to take countermeasures and reevaluate security. \nPlease consider to add a function to notify the admin of such event. It can be in the form of an email or an on-site alert or something that shows in the admincp.


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And the silly junk-addicted people decided to have one last "hurrah" before beginning a restricted diet tomorrow morning. Only it wasn't such a "hurrah"... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9q-ijkoULY] … [Read more...]
Our GAPS Journey, Vol.1: What and Why
One of my New Year's Resolutions was for us to do the GAPS Diet as a family. I have been reading about this diet for over a year now, and have grown more and more convinced of our need for it. It's a huge undertaking and a serious commitment, so … [Read more...]
Bidding Farewell to the Microwave Oven
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Real Sea Salt vs. Refined Table Salt
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The Prix de Lausanne is perhaps the best ballet competition for young dancers. Many famous Principals, including the Royal Ballet's Steven Mcrae (originally from Australia), have gained placements with international companies by winning the competition. These finals feature both a classical and contemporary piece drawn from a repertoire and performed by each competitor.
Steven Mcrae's wins the Prix de Lausanne 2003:


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1. Re: Am I missing something?beverly Jul 22, 2012 3:25 PM (in response to BenHutson)
Ben, check your packet again. Typically there is a website link for attendees to download updates. Keep in mind that the speakers just got back home, too. Give them a little bit to pull together updates!
2. Re: Am I missing something?MattLeach Jul 22, 2012 3:44 PM (in response to BenHutson)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Here is the link where updates are posted.
There are a few on there already. Keep checking back to see if there are more:
3. Re: Am I missing something?jrenfrew Jul 22, 2012 4:59 PM (in response to BenHutson)1 of 1 people found this helpful
You're being too keen.....
Patience Ben.
4. Re: Am I missing something?mr_scott Jul 22, 2012 5:27 PM (in response to BenHutson)
Hi, Ben:
Some of the speakers made specific mention that they would try to have the updates available within 2 weeks.
- - Scott
5. Re: Am I missing something?BenHutson Jul 23, 2012 12:43 AM (in response to BenHutson)
Thank you all for the quick response.
I guess I am being way too keen. Can't wait to get my hands on the material!
2 weeks and counting... thanks Scott.


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Emily Remler (September 18, 1957 – May 4, 1990) was a Jewish American jazz guitarist who rose to prominence in the 1980s. She recorded seven albums of hard bop, jazz standards and fusion guitar before dying of heart failure at the age of 32 at the Connells Point home of musician Ed Gaston, while on tour in Australia.
Born in New York City, Remler began to play the guitar at the age of ten. Initially inspired by hard rock and other popular styles of music, she experienced a musical epiphany during her studies, from 1974 to 1976, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She began to listen to such legendary jazz greats as Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. She took up jazz with a ferocious intensity, practicing almost constantly, and never looked back. After leaving Berklee, she performed in blues and jazz clubs in New Orleans, working with bands such as FourPlay and Little Queenie and the Percolators before beginning her recording career in 1981. She was championed by guitar great Herb Ellis, who referred to her as "the new superstar of guitar".[1]
In an interview with People magazine, she once said of herself: "I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery." ~People Magazine 1982~
Recorded for the famous Concord label, Remler's albums showcase the diverse influences of a fast developing artist who quickly developed a distinctive style through versions of standard tunes and genres. Her first album as a band leader Firefly won immediate acclaim and her bop guitar on the follow up Take Two was equally well received. Transitions and Catwalk traced the emergence of a more individual voice, with many striking original tunes, while her love of Wes Montgomery shone through on the stylish East to Wes.
When the rhythm section is floating, I'll float too, and I'll get a wonderful feeling in my stomach. If the rhythm section is really swinging, it's such a great feeling, you just want to laugh —Emily Remler
In addition to her recording career as a band leader and composer, Remler played in blues groups, on Broadway and with artists as diverse as Larry Coryell, with whom she recorded an album entitled Together, and the singer Rosemary Clooney. She played for the Los Angeles version of the show 'Sophisticated Ladies' from 1981 to 1982 and produced two popular guitar instruction videos. She also worked as guitarist for Astrud Gilberto. In 1985 she won the 'Guitarist Of The Year' award in DownBeat Jazz Magazine's international poll. In 1988 she was 'Artist in Residence' at Duquesne University and in 1989 received Berklee's Distinguished Alumni award.
She married Jamaican jazz pianist Monty Alexander in 1981, the marriage ending in 1984.
When asked how she wanted to be remembered she remarked:
"Good compositions, memorable guitar playing and my contributions as a woman in music…. but the music is everything, and it has nothing to do with politics or the women's liberation movement."
Two tribute albums were recorded after her death, Just Friends volume one and two, featuring contributions from Herb Ellis, David Benoit, Bill O'Connell and David Beberg among many others. In 2006 the Skip Heller Quartet recorded a song called "Emily Remler" in her memory.
Studio albums
- 1981: Firefly
- 1982: Take Two
- 1983: Transitions
- 1984: Catwalk
- 1985: Together - with Larry Coryell
- 1988: East to Wes
- 1990: This is Me
- 1991: Retrospective, Volume One: Standards
- 1991: Retrospective, Volume Two: Compositions
External links
|This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original article was at Emily Remler. The list of authors can be seen in the page history.


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The greatest decision you can make!
|The greatest decision any of us could ever make is to give our hearts and lives to Jesus Christ. A relationship with Jesus secures our eternal destiny and leads to genuine fulfillment in life. God's promise for our future is revealed in the words of the prophet Jeremiah that state, "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" (Jeremiah 29:11).
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Baselining VoIP service quality
Simple changes to the installation procedure can provide significant returns.
The network and infrastructure are architected, the product is developed, load testing of the infrastructure is complete, the marketing campaign is underway and customers are signing up at a blistering pace. You want your triple-play installation to go smoothly and don't want to send a technician to the house for installation issues that can be detected automatically. The ideal scenario is a self-installation by the customer. No one has to be home, there is no truck roll and costs are kept to a minimum.
Unfortunately, the technical competence of customers and the number of unsuccessful installations has kept the percentage of self-installations relatively small. Most carriers still send technicians for at least one triple-play service installation, and some are sending a technician for every new service turn-up. Truck roll costs vary from carrier to carrier but range up to $500. If a second truck must be rolled just to correct the initial installation, 10 months' revenue from a $50 service is wasted.
For those carriers advanced enough to provide self-installation of a VoIP service, the installation is usually considered complete when the customer hears a dial tone and successfully makes their first phone call.
But what if the quality of calls made on the line is poor? It's well within the capabilities of a service provider to go one step further and immediately establish call quality, allowing the provider to address any quality issues right away.
Imagine an installation scenario in which customers are instructed to dial a number within the provider's own network. The phone rings, and a friendly welcome message is played to the customer, thanking them for signing up for the service and letting them know the installation is complete. From the customer's perspective, this phone call is a pleasant introduction to the service.
From the provider's perspective, the call serves a specific technical function. The provider can measure the voice and signaling quality of that initial phone call, scoring it and comparing it with thresholds established within its network.
If the call quality is acceptable, the quality report is automatically logged as a baseline for that customer, and no action is required. If the call quality is unacceptable, an automated alert is sent to the NOC to take action.
The purpose is to identify installations that are a problem and take action before a truck roll, or before the customer returns the gear within their "30-day trial" period. This increases customer satisfaction and ensures the stickiness of the service.
Measuring the quality of a customer's service starts with a simple
phone call and results in correlated data that guarantees a
consistently high quality of experience.
For those installations where a technician is on site, the scenario can be used in the same way. The majority of carriers today only require a technician to check for a dial tone before calling the installation complete. A simple phone call from the customer's home phone can validate the installation, provide the test call results to the technician, and give the technician confidence to move on to the next installation or stay to fix a problem. This simple test is done without any custom equipment, with limited technician training and for a minimal investment.
The signaling and media metrics used to determine an acceptable call are based on the standards in the industry:
- Post-Dial Delay (PDD) – The time it takes, after you've dialed, for the phone you're calling to ring.
- Post-Pickup Delay – The time that elapses between answering the call and receiving the first packet of media (conversation).
- Call Setup Delay – The time from receiving the request for the call until the final acknowledgment from the caller that the call setup has been successfully completed.
- Mean Opinion Score (MOS) – Voice quality based on the G.107 E-model.
- Packet statistics – Packet loss, delay and jitter.
All of these statistics can be measured for every installation call, and the results are consistent across the user base.
Tens and hundreds of thousands of installations make for interesting data. Turning that data into useful information is unlocking a key to new business intelligence. Now, installers can be tracked for completion time between installations. Direct employee installations can be compared with contracted installations. Quality can be compared by time of day, region or any temporal dimension. Information can be presented to multiple levels of the organization and used to validate the success of the process.
Post installation, carriers need to identify problems proactively and give technicians tools that allow them to actively troubleshoot VoIP issues. Service providers need to know more than service availability; they need to understand when quality is degrading and address problems before the customer service calls start.
The same system that answers the calls from customers can be used to generate and measure calls when a problem is detected. The message to the customer is different, but the information about the quality of the signaling and media is the same. When a customer complains about poor voice quality, the customer service representative uses the automated system to generate a test call to the home. The customer answers and hears a message explaining that the call is being measured and that the issue is under investigation. The results can be compared with the baseline call and can be used as a starting point to further troubleshoot the issue.
In addition to these troubleshooting scenarios, 24x7x365 monitoring of VoIP service quality can be achieved through a number of standards that allow silent test calls to the home and reporting of quality from devices in the field:
- RTCP XR (RFC 3611) – Defines how any network device can report media quality statistics over RTCP.
- NCS Loopback (PacketCable standard) – Allows an EMTA to act as a mirror for test calls.
- SIP Media Loopback (IETF draft) – Defines how an endpoint (ATA, IP phone) acts as a mirror.
- End-of-call voice quality reports through various protocols, such as SIP and H.248.
The concept of IP Media Loopback testing is simple. A device in the network makes a test call to the endpoint at the customer premises and asks the receiver to circle back every packet it receives during the test. Performance metrics are shared between the source and the mirror (loopback device) using RTCP or RTCP XR, making the data available to the correlation and analysis engine. Test calls are silent, and flexible scheduling policies can be defined for loopback sessions that meet the needs of network operators and don't interfere with customer calls. Since RTCP is already part of the CPE device, there is no need to have a technician sent to the customer's site or to download software agents. Service providers can automate this process for proactive, periodic monitoring or can run on-demand tests as needed.
Simple changes to the installation procedure and minimal training can provide significant returns, especially in an economy when every dollar counts. Limiting the repeat truck roll through the final installation call is the first step to assuring the installation. The result is unleashing an entirely new set of data for analysis and taking a step toward the ultimate goal of increased customer satisfaction.


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Mrs. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring attention to the ongoing troubles at the VA and its apparent inability to effectively manage major construction projects, specifically, the new veterans hospital at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Orlando, Florida, in my congressional district.
Our Nation's veterans have served our country honorably, putting everything on the line to protect our freedoms. After all they have done for us, it is Congress' duty to ensure that our veterans' service-connected medical needs are taken care of.
The American people were told that for $665 million they would receive a state-of-the-art medical facility to care for the hundreds of thousands of veterans in central Florida, which is one of the most underserved veteran populations in this country. This project is desperately needed in our community. Our veterans cannot wait any longer, nor can hardworking taxpayers afford more expensive delays.
Recently, Chairman Miller held a hearing with the Veterans' Affairs committee to examine these delays. During the hearing, it became clear that incompetence and a lack of leadership from the VA is to blame for the egregious amount of errors with this project. Those errors include forgetting to order medical equipment, designing incompatible power sources in patient rooms, and designing doorways too small for the equipment that needs to get through them. These basic design errors are absolutely unacceptable, and we must hold the VA accountable for them.
While I am not a member of the committee, I felt it was my duty, as the Representative for central Florida veterans, to participate in the hearings and conduct the oversight necessary to get answers and move the project forward.
Having toured the hospital construction site recently, I knew that the project was behind schedule and over budget. Listening to the hearing testimony, coupled with seeing the site firsthand, reinforced the fact that the VA has fallen down on the job and is failing our veterans.
Veterans in my district have to drive hundreds of miles in some cases to get the cure and the care they need and have been promised--they've been promised--in return for their service to our Nation. These are often elderly men and women who cannot afford the trips. And we have young veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have sustained injuries that make those long trips incredibly painful.
This is not the best we can offer; and we should be ashamed, in the VA, that those brave warriors have to travel long distances with the vague hope of getting the care they need. The VA can do better. We can do better.
Today's consideration of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill helps put the VA's feet to the fire and will spur them to return the focus to our veteran population and not on bureaucratic mismanagement and political infighting.
The language of the bill makes it clear that, while the hospital construction remains fully funded, it is no longer an open-ended construction project with bills to be paid years into the future. The legislation states quite clearly that funds obligated to complete construction have to be spent within 5 years. The message should be heard loud and clear by the VA: get your management in gear and finish this hospital.
Mr. Speaker, the delays at this hospital are despicable, and the inability of the VA to provide what our veterans have been promised is unacceptable. Our veterans and their families have put everything on the line to defend our country. Making sure their service-connected needs are taken care of is the very least we can do to repay our Nation's heroes.
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Announcement Thank you for visiting my shop. I design and hand make sterling silver pendants, earrings and rings of animal and nature themes. Most of these original designs are also available with a variety of stones. All items are brand new and manufactured with pure sterling silver and all safe materials.
Thank you for visiting my shop. I design and hand make sterling silver pendants, earrings and rings of animal and nature themes. Most of these original designs are also available with a variety of stones. All items are brand new and manufactured with pure sterling silver and all safe materials.
Barbara Mayer on Aug 15, 2017
I am so happy to receive this piece of art,I absolutly love this horse!!! It is beautiful,the photos do not do it justice. Thank- you so much for creating it. Barb
S Patel on Aug 15, 2017
Fits perfectly and very beautiful. The eyes seem very real :)
cressamarie on Aug 8, 2017
Gorgeous! perfect fit! as always love your art!!!! AAAAA+++++
Jewelry As Art
It is quite easy and inexpensive to set up a home jewelry casting shop and begin creating original designs. I have 5 work stations in my studio: (1) A model creating work station (I use wax models), (2) A space for investing the model in a casting flask, (3) A burnout area with a kiln, (4) A casting station for injecting metal into the hot flask (I use sterling silver) and (5) a finishing area.
My jewelry is intended to have meaning beyond the intrinsic value of the metal and stones and so I carefully and accurately detail all of my nature themes. The foundation of jewelry making for me is wax sculpting and that takes very little equipment. Easily acquired hand held wax carving tools; a heat source like an alcohol lamp or soldering iron to heat the tools and shape the wax; good eye magnification and a lot of patience. A completed wax model can be invested in a gypsum and quartz slurry, inside a cylindrical steel flask, that will harden around the wax and preserve the exact shape of the model during the burnout cycle. The model itself completely evaporates during burnout leaving a perfect impression of itself. The hot flask can then be injected with molten metal and once quenched yields a metal model almost identical to the original wax. When I have carved a wax that I like, I make a Room Temperature Vulcanized rubber mold of the wax which enables me to obtain as many exact replicas as I need.
When I started making jewelry, I made all of my own equipment for less than $200. A kiln capable of reaching 1500 degrees Fahrenheit I constructed out of firebricks and heated with propane; I employed a steam casting technique using a small torch, a clay flower pot and an electric hot plate. My hand finishing tools were garage sale items that I modified and an old motor was perfect for polishing. I used these tools for several years until I could afford better. It is actually quite useful and beneficial to make your own tools. The same skills needed to fabricate tools are also needed for jewelry work.
I have found that wax sculpting, for me, was and is the most rewarding and difficult part of the process. The mechanics of manufacturing jewelry can be easily learned with practice. Creating original design figurines with perfect detail however, can take many years to master and differentiates an artist from a craft person. The insight for a design comes in a flash of light but a finished design comes from diligent work and many hours.
My shop is in my home and I have been a jewelry artist, manufacturer, designer, fabricator and vendor for 22 years. During that time I have acquired very useful equipment such as a very reliable electric wax pen, a vacuum chamber and pump, a flex shaft polishing motor (or two), vibratory finishing machines, a good torch, a centrifugal casting machine, a pressurized wax injector, and many elegant hand tools. Some tools are best purchased if the resources are available and in that regard a small home jewelry shop with impressive capacity could be set up with excellent tools for $5000.
A functioning jewelry studio can also be located in a very small space. When I was enrolled in jewelry classes at Palomar College in San Diego I had my shop in part of a 2 car garage; now I have a 200 square foot studio in which I can make 100 pieces a day if need be and from my small shop I ship to customers worldwide (thank you Etsy). Jewelry creation is fun, it is creative and it can be a career. I very much enjoy hearing from other artists who are finding their way to successfully offer original designs.
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Catalin Cosoi, Head of the Online Threats Lab at internet security solutions provider BitDefender comments on the news that Nintendo has become the latest target for hacker group Lulz Security following previous attacks on Sony.
"I guess we can detect a pattern here in ripping off significant amounts of sensitive information from not-very-secured servers. This type of organisation, which stores and processes such data, is definitely a desirable target as we're talking about hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Actually, the gaming industry has been a favourite target for malware writers for several years now. However, the most important aspect in these two attacks is not the motivation of financial gain. According to the hackers, it is about making a statement and proving that network security should be a serious business. SQL injections and DDoS seem to be the favourite attack methods. I'm ready to bet we will hear more about similar incidents in the months to come. Chances are that users' interest in purchasing goods and services from companies not able to secure their data will drastically decline. To avoid such a scenario, organisations should make sure any information leaving their premises is encrypted and useless for the attacker. As for DDoS, they might consider re-designing their server network architecture and using appropriate protection technologies."


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|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Nov 28, 2006
|Filing date
|Jan 22, 2004
|Priority date
|Jan 22, 2004
|Fee status
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|Publication number
|Thomas E. Creamer, Peeyush Jaiswal, Victor S. Moore, Scott Lee Winters
|Original Assignee
|International Business Machines Corporation
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (24), Referenced by (5), Classifications (30), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/763,083 filed on the same day as the present application and having the same inventors and assignee.
1. Technical Field
The present invention relates in general to a system and method for providing caller information across heterogeneous networks. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for providing caller attributes to a call recipient over a computer network in order for the call recipient to effectively process the telephone call.
2. Description of the Related Art
Caller identification (caller ID) became possible with the implementation of Signaling System 7 (SS7) and is a technique to include a caller's telephone number in a telephone call to a call recipient. SS7 provides a signaling backbone for the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) which transfers call information from one central office to another central office. With the implementation of SS7, it became practical to forward a caller's telephone number through the SS7 network to a central office serving a call recipient (i.e. terminating central office).
A terminating central office receives a caller's phone number, and embeds the phone number in a telephone call to the call recipient between the first and second ring of the telephone call. In some instances, a name associated with the initiating calling number is included in the transmission message. The information is sent in one of two formats which are a Single Data Message Format (SDMF) and a Multiple Data Message Format (MDMF). The SDMF includes the date, time, and a caller's telephone number. The MDMF includes the date, time, caller's telephone number, and a name associated with the caller's telephone number.
Caller ID, however, includes limited information pertaining to a caller. A challenge found is that in order for a call recipient to retrieve more information corresponding to a caller, the call recipient must have access to a local database that includes the caller's customer profile. Many call recipients, however, do not have access to a local database that includes customer profiles. For example, a service repairman may receive a telephone call on his mobile phone from a customer while he is on call. In this example, the service repairman receives the customer's phone number, but does not receive the caller's address which the service repairman needs in order to travel to the customer's residence. Since the service repairman does not have access to a local database, the service repairman is required to ask the customer his address and write the address on paper.
Furthermore, a caller may wish to provide sensitive data to a call recipient in order to avoid entering his information using his telephone. For example, a caller may frequently order merchandise from a mail order catalog in which the caller provides the mail order catalog with his credit card information. In this example, the user may wish to automatically provide the mail order catalog with his credit card information when the caller places a telephone call to the mail order catalog. A challenge found, however, is that caller ID does not provide a way for a caller to authorize a call recipient to receive the caller's sensitive data.
What is needed, therefore, is a system and method to provide valid caller information to a call recipient based upon a call recipient's request and a caller's authorization preferences.
It has been discovered that the aforementioned challenges are resolved by using a name resolution adapter to access caller attributes from a centralized storage area, and provide the caller attributes to a call recipient over a computer network based upon a call recipient contract agreement and initiating caller authorization entries.
A caller places a telephone call to a call recipient using the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). The caller's central office sends the telephone call to a terminating central office over a synchronous optical network (SONET). In addition, the caller's central office sends the caller's telephone number to the terminating central office over SS7. The terminating central office receives the caller's telephone number, and sends a message to a name resolution adapter. The message includes the caller's telephone number as well as the call recipient's telephone number. The name resolution adapter uses the call recipient's telephone number to look-up contract agreement information which includes caller fields that the call recipient wishes to receive. For example, a name resolution adapter service provider may have an agreement with a call recipient whereby the call recipient wishes to receive a caller's address with each incoming telephone call. In this example, the call recipient may use the caller's address to route the telephone call to a company's retail store that is nearest to the caller's address.
The name resolution adapter identifies caller fields corresponding to the call recipient's contract agreement. If one of the caller fields includes a request for sensitive caller data, such as a credit card number, the name resolution adapter verifies that the call recipient is authorized to receive the sensitive caller data. For example, a caller may authorize a mail order catalog to receive the caller's credit card information in order to avoid the caller from providing the credit card information each time the caller calls the mail order catalog.
The name resolution adapter includes the caller fields in a request to a service control point (SCP) which, in turn, retrieves caller attributes corresponding to the caller fields from a line information database (LIDB). The LIDB is included in the PSTN and is managed by one or more telephone companies. The service control point provides the caller attributes to the name resolution adapter. The name resolution adapter includes the caller attributes in a message, and sends the message to the call recipient over a computer network, such as a TCP/IP network. The call recipient correlates the caller attributes it receives from the computer network with the telephone call it receives from the PSTN.
The foregoing is a summary and thus contains, by necessity, simplifications, generalizations, and omissions of detail; consequently, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the summary is illustrative only and is not intended to be in any way limiting. Other aspects, inventive features, and advantages of the present invention, as defined solely by the claims, will become apparent in the non-limiting detailed description set forth below.
The present invention may be better understood, and its numerous objects, features, and advantages made apparent to those skilled in the art by referencing the accompanying drawings. The use of the same reference symbols in different drawings indicates similar or identical items.
The following is intended to provide a detailed description of an example of the invention and should not be taken to be limiting of the invention itself. Rather, any number of variations may fall within the scope of the invention which is defined in the claims following the description.
Initiating caller 105 uses PSTN 100 to place a telephone call to a recipient caller, such as enterprise application 190. Enterprise application 190 is a telephone system that supports multiple phone lines. For example, imitating caller 105 may wish to call a computer manufacturer's help desk for assistance with configuring his computer.
Initiating caller 105 sends call 110 to central office 120. Central office 120 includes switch 125 which receives call 110. Central office 120 performs two functions with call 110. Its first function is to identify a destination central office that corresponds to call 110. Central office 120 identifies that call 110 corresponds to a telephone that central office 140 supports. Central office 120 sends call 110 to central office 140 over synchronous optical network (SONET) 128. Central office 120's second function is to send initiating caller 105's telephone number (e.g. caller number 130) to central office 140 through signaling system 7 135.
Central office 140 receives and correlates caller number 130 with call 110. Central office 140 then sends a request (e.g. request 150) to service control point 160 for a name that corresponds to caller number 130. Service control point 160 retrieves caller name 175 from line information database (LIDB) store 170, and sends caller name 175 to central office 140. Central office 140 includes caller name 175 and caller number 130 in caller identification 180, and sends caller identification 180 with call 110 to enterprise application 190 over a destination subscriber loop between the first and second ring by means of two modem tones. Caller ID 180 is transmitted serially in FSK mode using either a Single Data Message Format (SDMF) or a Multiple Data Message Format (MDMF). The SDMF includes the date, time, and calling number. The MDMF includes the date, time, calling number, and the name associated with the calling number. Enterprise application 190 uses caller ID 180 to retrieve caller profile information from profile store 195. Profile store 195 may be stored on a nonvolatile storage area, such as a computer hard drive.
Central office 140 receives caller number 130 from SS7 135, and sends message 210 to name resolution adapter 200. Message 210 includes caller number 130 as well as the call recipient's (e.g. enterprise application 190) phone number. Name resolution adapter 200 uses the call recipient's phone number to look-up contract agreement information that is located in contract store 215. A call recipient sends an agreement request to name resolution adapter 200 in order to establish a contract agreement. For example, enterprise application 190 may have a contract agreement with a name resolution adapter service provider whereby enterprise application 190 requests a name and an address that corresponds with each incoming call. In this example, enterprise application 190 may use an initiating caller's address to route a particular phone call to a company's retail store that is closest to the initiating caller's address. Contract store 215 may be stored on a nonvolatile storage area, such as a computer hard drive.
Name resolution adapter 200 identifies requested caller fields corresponding to enterprise application 190's contract agreement, and includes the requested caller fields in a request (e.g. request 220) to service control point (SCP) 160. Service control point 160 receives request 220, and retrieves caller attributes corresponding to the requested caller fields (e.g. caller attributes 230) from line information database 170. Service control point 160 sends caller attributes 230 to name resolution adapter 200.
Name resolution adapter 200 includes caller attributes 230 in a message as well as telephone port location information that identifies which port enterprise application 190 will receive the corresponding call. Name resolution adapter 200 then sends enterprise application message 240 to enterprise application 190 over computer network 250, such as a TCP/IP network. Enterprise application 190 validates call 110 using enterprise application message 240. Enterprise application 190 then uses caller attributes 230 to retrieve caller profile information from profile store 195 to process the call (see
Table 300 includes columns 305 through 325. Column 305 includes a list of initiating caller telephone numbers. A service control point uses information in column 305 to match a NRA request with a particular initiating caller entry. Column 310 includes a person's name that corresponds to the telephone numbers included in column 305. Column 315 includes address information that corresponds to initiating caller numbers that are shown in column 305. Information in columns 310 and 315 are the same as information listed in a telephone directory.
Column 320 includes billing information that corresponds to telephone numbers listed in column 305. For example, a person may have his phone bill charged to his credit card whereby the person's credit card information is included in column 320. In this example, a service control point may retrieve billing information from table 300 and provide the billing information to a name resolution adapter which, in turn, sends the billing information to an enterprise application. In this example, for security purposes, an agreement is in place between the initiating caller and the call recipient that allows the call recipient to receive the initiating caller's billing information. Column 325 includes service preference information corresponding to phone numbers that are included in column 305, such as call waiting, call forwarding, and three way calling.
Table 300 includes rows 330 through 340 whereby each row includes an initiating caller entry. Row 330 includes caller attributes corresponding to phone number "512-555-1212. " The caller attributes include the name "John Doe", the address "800 Anytown Dr.", alternate billing "12324356", and service preferences "call waiting" and "caller id." Row 335 includes caller attributes corresponding to phone number "496-123-4567. " The caller attributes include the name "Jane Doe", the address "500 Anystreet", alternate billing "989865447", and service preferences "three way calling." Row 340 includes caller attributes corresponding to phone number "654-987-4321. " The caller attributes include the name "Bob Doe", the address "310 Court Ave.", alternate billing "97844675", and service preferences "caller id."
Table 350 includes columns 360, 370, and 375. Column 360 includes the telephone number of an initiating caller which has configured authorizations corresponding to call recipients (see
Column 375 includes sensitive caller data authorizations corresponding to call recipient identities located in column 370. Row 380 shows that call recipient "876-543-0989" is authorized to receive "Billing Information" corresponding to initiating caller "512-555-1212. " Row 385 shows that call recipient "656-789-6434" is authorized to receive "Birth Date" information corresponding to initiating caller "512-555-1212. " And, row 390 shows that call recipient "467-864-2578" is authorized to receive "Social Security Number" information corresponding to initiating caller "512-555-1212."
Contract manager 420 retrieves requested caller fields from contract store 215, and contract manager 420 passes requested caller fields 425 to line information database (LIDB) message manager 430. LIDB message manager 430 includes requested caller fields 425 in request 220, and sends request 220 to service control point (SCP) 160. Request 220 may be formatted in a standard format, such as TCAP. SCP 160 retrieves caller attributes from LIDB store 170, and sends caller attributes 230 to LIDB message manager 430. LIDB message manager 430 forwards caller attributes 230 to enterprise application message manager 440.
Enterprise application message manager 440 includes caller attributes 230 in EA message 240, along with a telephone port location that identifies the port at which enterprise application 190 receives the corresponding call. Enterprise application message manager then sends EA message 240 to enterprise application 190 over a TCP/IP network connection.
At step 530, NRA processing identifies a contract agreement that corresponds to the call recipient, retrieves requested caller fields from contract store 215, and generates a line information database (LIDB) request using the requested caller fields (pre-defined process block, see
NRA processing includes the caller attributes received from temporary store 555 and caller fields from contract store 215 in an enterprise application (EA) message at step 560. Processing sends the EA message to enterprise application 190 through computer network 250 at step 570. EA application 190 receives the EA message, and associates the caller attributes with initiating caller 105's telephone call (see
A determination is made as to whether to continue processing telephone calls (decision 580). If processing should continue, decision 580 branches to "Yes" branch 582 which loops back to process another call. This looping continues until NRA call processing should stop, at which point decision 580 branches to "No" branch 588 whereupon processing ends at 590.
A determination is made as to whether the call recipient has an existing contract agreement (decision 620). If the call recipient does not have an existing contract agreement, decision 620 branches to "No" branch 622 whereby processing logs call information in log store 628 at step 625. In one embodiment, the name resolution adapter increments a counter to track the number of times that it receives a message corresponding to a particular call recipient. The name resolution adapter service provider may use the counter and logged information to show a potential customer the number of calls the potential customer could receive that would include caller attribute information. Log store 628 may be stored on a nonvolatile storage area, such as a computer hard drive. Processing returns at 629.
On the other hand, if the call recipient has an existing contract agreement with the NRA service provider, decision 620 branches to "Yes" branch 623 whereupon at step 630 processing looks up requested caller fields corresponding to the contract agreement located in contract store 215. Contract store 215 is the same as that shown in
At 640, a determination is made as to whether one or more of the call recipient's requested caller fields correspond to sensitive caller data. For example, a call recipient may request the initiating caller's credit card number. If the call recipient does not request sensitive caller data, decision 640 branches to "No" branch 642 whereupon processing includes each requested caller field in request 220 at step 645, and processing returns at 650.
On the other hand, if one or more of the call recipient's requested caller fields corresponds to sensitive caller data, decision 640 branches to "Yes" branch 644 whereupon processing looks up initiating caller authorization agreements in contract store 215 (step 665). Using the example described above, an initiating caller may authorize the call recipient to authorize the call recipient to receive the initiating caller's credit card number (see
A determination is made as to whether the initiating caller authorizes the call recipient to receive sensitive caller data (decision 660). If the call recipient is authorized to receive the initiating caller's sensitive caller data, decision 660 branches to "Yes" branch 662 whereupon processing includes each requested caller field in request 220 (step 645). On the other hand, if the call recipient is not authorized to receive sensitive caller data, decision 660 branches to "No" branch 668 whereupon processing logs the discrepancy in log store 628 in order to provide the discrepancy information to a call recipient. Processing includes only authorized requested caller fields in request 220 at step 680, and processing returns at 690.
Processing commences at 700, whereupon processing receives an authorization setup request from initiating caller 105 (step 710). Initiating caller 105 is the same as that shown in
Processing receives a first call recipient identity from initiating caller 105, such as the call recipient's phone number, at step 730, and stores the call recipient's identity in the authorization look-up table located in contract store 215 (step 740). Processing then receives a first authorization (i.e. credit card authorization) to correspond to the first call recipient identity at step 750, and stores the first authorization in the authorization look-up table stored in contract store 215 (step 760).
A determination is made as to whether initiating caller 105 wishes to add more authorizations to correspond to the first call recipient (decision 770). For example, initiating caller 105 may wish to authorize the first call recipient to receive the initiating caller's social security number. If initiating caller 105 wishes to add more authorizations to correspond to the first call recipient, decision 770 branches to "Yes" branch 772 whereupon processing receives (step 775) and processes the next authorization to correspond to the first call recipient. This looping continues until initiating caller 105 does not wish to add more authorizations to the first call recipient, at which point decision 770 branches to "No" branch 778 whereupon a determination is made as to whether initiating caller 105 wishes to configure authorizations for additional call recipients (decision 780). If initiating caller wishes to configure authorizations for additional call recipients, decision 780 branches to "Yes" branch 782 whereupon processing receives (step 785) and processes a second call recipient's authorizations. This looping continues until there are no more call recipients to process, at which point decision 780 branches to "No" branch 788 whereupon processing ends at 790.
The enterprise application validates the call using the caller attributes and also verifies that the call is present on a specified telephone port (pre-defined process block 830, see
A determination is made as to whether the call corresponding to the message is valid based upon profile attributes (decision 840). If the call is not valid, decision 840 branches to "No" branch 842 whereupon at step 850 processing sends an error message to name resolution adapter 200 which, in turn, provides the error message to the caller. For example, processing may play a recording to the caller as to which number to dial based upon the caller's address.
On the other hand, if the call is valid, decision 840 branches to "Yes" branch 848 whereupon a determination is made as to whether the telephone port corresponding to the message is receiving a call (decision 860). If the port corresponding to the message is not receiving an incoming call, decision 860 branches to "No" branch 862 which loops back to log the call discrepancy in unassociated call store 875 (step 870), and wait for another message. This looping continues until a telephone port corresponding to a message includes an incoming call, at which point decision 860 branches to "Yes" branch 868 whereupon the enterprise application processes the call (pre-defined process block 880, see
A determination is made as to whether to continue processing incoming messages (decision 890). If processing should continue to process incoming messages, decision 890 branches to "Yes" branch 892 which loops back to process more messages. This looping continues until the enterprise application does not wish to process more incoming messages, at which point decision 890 branches to "No" branch 898 whereupon processing ends at 899.
A determination is made as to whether to accept the call based upon the caller's profile information (decision 930). For example, if the caller does not have an account with the bank, the enterprise application may not accept the call. If the enterprise application should not accept the call, decision 930 branches to "No" branch 932 whereupon processing returns an error at 935. On the other hand, if processing should accept the call, decision 930 branches to "Yes" branch 938 whereupon processing extracts telephone port location information from enterprise application 240 at step 940. The telephone port location information corresponds to which port (i.e. circuit) the enterprise application should receive the corresponding call.
Processing checks the identified port location for an incoming call at step 950, and a determination is made as to whether a call is present at the specified port location (decision 960). If a call is present at the specified port location, decision 960 branches to "Yes" branch 968 whereupon processing returns at 990. If a call is not present at the specified port location, decision 960 branches to "No" branch 962 whereupon a determination is made as to whether processing should wait for the incoming call (decision 970). For example, processing may set a timer for two seconds whereby processing waits for two seconds after it receives a message to look for a corresponding call.
If processing should wait for the incoming call, decision 970 branches to "No" branch 972 whereupon processing loops back to check for the corresponding call at the specified port location. This looping continues until processing's timer times out, at which point decision 970 branches to "Yes" branch 978 whereupon processing returns an "unassociated call" at 980.
The enterprise application answers the call at step 1030, whereupon a determination is made as to whether to validate the caller (decision 1040). For example, a banking application may require a user to enter a PIN in order to authenticate the user. If processing does not need to validate the caller, decision 1040 branches to "No" branch 1048 bypassing caller validation steps. On the other hand, if processing should validate the caller, decision 1040 branches to "Yes" branch 1042 whereupon processing requests a PIN from initiating caller 105 at step 1045. Initiating caller 105 is the same as that shown in
Processing receives a PIN from initiating caller 105 at step 1050, and a determination is made as to whether initiating caller 105 entered the correct PIN (decision 1055). If initiating caller 105 did not enter the correct PIN, decision 1055 branches to "No" branch 1057 whereupon processing plays an error message to initiating caller 105 at step 1060, and processing returns to receive more calls at 1065 (see
A determination is made as to whether the caller requires special routing to a particular extension (decision 1070). For example, a caller may have previously spoken to a particular attendant and the enterprise application wishes to route the caller's call to the same attendant. If the call requires special routing, decision 1070 branches to "Yes" branch 1078 whereupon processing forwards the call to a particular number (step 1085), such as attendant 1090's number, and processing returns to receive more calls at 1095 (see
PCI bus 1114 provides an interface for a variety of devices that are shared by host processor(s) 1100 and Service Processor 1116 including, for example, flash memory 1118. PCI-to-ISA bridge 1135 provides bus control to handle transfers between PCI bus 1114 and ISA bus 1140, universal serial bus (USB) functionality 1145, power management functionality 1155, and can include other functional elements not shown, such as a real-time clock (RTC), DMA control, interrupt support, and system management bus support. Nonvolatile RAM 1120 is attached to ISA Bus 1140. Service Processor 1116 includes JTAG and I2C busses 1122 for communication with processor(s) 1100 during initialization steps. JTAG/I2C busses 1122 are also coupled to L2 cache 1104, Host-to-PCI bridge 1106, and main memory 1108 providing a communications path between the processor, the Service Processor, the L2 cache, the Host-to-PCI bridge, and the main memory. Service Processor 1116 also has access to system power resources for powering down information handling device 1101.
Peripheral devices and input/output (I/O) devices can be attached to various interfaces (e.g., parallel interface 1162, serial interface 1164, keyboard interface 1168, and mouse interface 1170 coupled to ISA bus 1140. Alternatively, many I/O devices can be accommodated by a super I/O controller (not shown) attached to ISA bus 1140.
In order to attach computer system 1101 to another computer system to copy files over a network, LAN card 1130 is coupled to PCI bus 1110. Similarly, to connect computer system 1101 to an ISP to connect to the Internet using a telephone line connection, modem 1175 is connected to serial port 1164 and PCI-to-ISA Bridge 1135.
While the computer system described in
One of the preferred implementations of the invention is an application, namely, a set of instructions (program code) in a code module which may, for example, be resident in the random access memory of the computer. Until required by the computer, the set of instructions may be stored in another computer memory, for example, on a hard disk drive, or in removable storage such as an optical disk (for eventual use in a CD ROM) or floppy disk (for eventual use in a floppy disk drive), or downloaded via the Internet or other computer network. Thus, the present invention may be implemented as a computer program product for use in a computer. In addition, although the various methods described are conveniently implemented in a general purpose computer selectively activated or reconfigured by software, one of ordinary skill in the art would also recognize that such methods may be carried out in hardware, in firmware, or in more specialized apparatus constructed to perform the required method steps.
While particular embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that, based upon the teachings herein, changes and modifications may be made without departing from this invention and its broader aspects and, therefore, the appended claims are to encompass within their scope all such changes and modifications as are within the true spirit and scope of this invention. Furthermore, it is to be understood that the invention is solely defined by the appended claims. It will be understood by those with skill in the art that if a specific number of an introduced claim element is intended, such intent will be explicitly recited in the claim, and in the absence of such recitation no such limitation is present. For a non-limiting example, as an aid to understanding, the following appended claims contain usage of the introductory phrases "at least one" and "one or more" to introduce claim elements. However, the use of such phrases should not be construed to imply that the introduction of a claim element by the indefinite articles "a" or "an" limits any particular claim containing such introduced claim element to inventions containing only one such element, even when the same claim includes the introductory phrases "one or more" or "at least one" and indefinite articles such as "a" or "an"; the same holds true for the use in the claims of definite articles.
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Resource use data by patient report or hospital records: Do they agree?
Economic evaluations alongside clinical trials are becoming increasingly common. Cost data are often collected through the use of postal questionnaires; however, the accuracy of this method is uncertain. We compared postal questionnaires with hospital records for collecting data on physiotherapy service use.
As part of a randomised trial of orthopaedic medicine compared with orthopaedic surgery we collected physiotherapy use data on a group of patients from retrospective postal questionnaires and from hospital records.
315 patients were referred for physiotherapy. Hospital data on attendances was available for 30% (n = 96), compared with 48% (n = 150) of patients completing questionnaire data (95% Cl for difference = 10% to 24%); 19% (n = 59) had data available from both sources. The two methods produced an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.54 (95% Cl 0.31 to 0.70). However, the two methods produced significantly different estimates of resource use with patient self report recalling a mean of 1.3 extra visits (95% Cl 0.4 to 2.2) compared with hospital records.
Using questionnaires in this study produced data on a greater number of patients compared with examination of hospital records. However, the two data sources did differ in the quantity of physiotherapy used and this should be taken into account in any analysis.
Concurrent economic evaluation alongside clinical trials is an increasingly used method for undertaking health related cost-effectiveness studies. The collection of resource use data is a prerequisite for these evaluations. There are essentially three ways to collect resource use data. Data can be collected from clinicians, patients and routine medical records. A drawback of collecting data from clinicians, through clinical proforma or case report, is that they cannot be blinded to patient participation in the study, increasing the chance of introducing a biased assessment of outcome. Disadvantages of collecting data from medical records include: access to the relevant medical records may be difficult particularly if treatment is spread over a number of different providers; the high cost in terms of research time to access such records; the accuracy of some data collection systems may be questionable; finally, some resource use data such as time off work, or over the counter medicines, may not be available from medical records.
The alternative of asking the patient for their resource use is attractive, as relevant questions can be readily included within patient self completed questionnaires. Consequently such a method is easier and less costly form of data collection compared with medical records. The disadvantages to using patient completed questionnaires, both prospective and retrospective, concern their accuracy. The accuracy of self completed questionnaires is affected by recall error, item completion rates and questionnaire response rates. Hence, patients may report inaccurate levels of resource use, they may not complete the relevant resource use questions consistently if at all and finally, some patients will not return their questionnaires.
There has been some previously published work looking at the accuracy of patient reported resource use data, but the results have been somewhat contradictory. Good agreement has been demonstrated in reports of specialised diagnostic procedures
As part of an economic evaluation conducted alongside a randomised controlled trial in the field of orthopaedics, we identified
Patients included in the study were all over 18 years and had all been referred to their local orthopaedic hospital with a musculoskeletal condition, which was classified by existing hospital procedures as unlikely to require surgery. The sample was approximately 50% male, had a mean age of 45 years and 38% (n = 315) were referred for physiotherapy.
Patient self-report (PSR)
Physiotherapy resource use questions were included in a postal follow-up questionnaire mailed to patients 3 and 12 months after their initial outpatient appointment. Patients were asked firstly if they had had any NHS physiotherapy for their condition over the past three months; if the answer was 'yes', they were then asked to give the date and location of hospital or clinic, for each treatment session they attended.
Outpatient department records (ODR)
Referral for NHS physiotherapy was recorded for all patients in their outpatient department notes, together with the location of the referral. This gave definitive data on physiotherapy referrals, but no details of actual attendances.
Physiotherapy department records (PDR)
A systematic search of the physiotherapy department records of the hospital, in which the study was taking place, enabled us to retrieve a sample of referral histories. In addition, a small number of external physiotherapy clinics routinely reported back to the hospital with the number and dates of patients' treatment sessions.
The sample of patients for the reliability exercise was selected if their physiotherapy data fulfilled the following four criteria:
• PSR and ODR data indicated that physiotherapy had been prescribed;
• The two data sources agreed about the location of the clinic supplying treatment;
• Numbers of attendances were available from both PSR and PDR;
• The time frame of the PDR data matched that of the PSR data (ie the first and fourth 3 month periods post-consultation).
The rate of agreement was measured by an intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) which assesses the conformity between two quantitative measurements, reporting the proportion of the variability due to variation among subjects. This was calculated from an analysis of variance (ANOVA) two-way random effects model
Figure 1
Physiotherapy attendance data collection
Physiotherapy attendance data collection
There were 59 (19%) patients with data available from both sources; four of these cases only had PDR data for the 6 month period not covered by the follow-up questionnaire; 3 differed in the reported location of the physiotherapy clinic; leaving 17% (n = 52) of patients fulfilling the four criteria for inclusion in the reliability exercise.
The ICC of 0.54 (95% Cl 0.31 to 0.70) indicates reasonable agreement between PDR and PSR, as would be expected with two methods of measuring the same quantity. However in this situation the ICC is a relative measure and should be assessed with respect to the other methods of assessing agreement.
Forty eight percent (n = 25) of the study group report fewer visits with PDR compared with PSR; with a mean of 1.3 (95% Cl 0.4 to 2.2) fewer visits reported in physiotherapy department notes (Table). Figure
Figure 2
Scatterplot of the difference in reported visits by mean reported visits for the two methods
Scatterplot of the difference in reported visits by mean reported visits for the two methods
Number of physiotherapy visits reported
Data Collection Method
PDR Mean (sd)
PSR Mean (sd)
Overall n = 52
4.3 (2.8)
5.6 (3.9)
Trial Group
Orthopaedic Medicine Specialist n = 36
3.8 (2.3)
5.4 (3.4)
Orthopaedic Surgeon n = 16
5.6 (3.4)
6.2 (4.8)
The table also shows that the difference in reporting observed between the two methods may not be the same for both trial groups, but the small numbers in the OS group make this difficult to say for certain.
This study has shown that there are differences in reported use of physiotherapy between patient completed questionnaire and hospital records. In contrast, with studies reporting underestimation of resource use
Assuming that most of those referred for physiotherapy receive it, the study suggests patient self-report is more accurate than physiotherapy department notes in estimating the number of patients attending for physiotherapy treatment, although even this gives a lower estimate than we would expect considering the actual number of referrals made. In addition, we have also shown that differences in estimates of the number of physiotherapy sessions attended can occur when patient self-reported data and hospital records are compared. In this instance, even for patients for whom hospital and self-report agreed that physiotherapy treatment had taken place we cannot be sure that PDR data represents the more reliable measure as there is some doubt as to whether all the physiotherapy data were either recorded at all or recorded in such a form that it was easily accessible to the researcher. This might explain the discrepancy between the two methods. It is also possible that recall problems led patients to report additional visits outside the reference period of three months.
However, even if the hospital estimates of the number of physiotherapy visits per patient were more accurate, the use of patient reported data is not likely to bias the results of our evaluation unless there were systematic differences between the trial groups in terms of accuracy. In the table there is some evidence that this could be happening, with patients allocated to OM reporting on average one extra visit per patient when compared with the OS group. It would be prudent, if necessary, to undertake a sensitivity analysis using both estimates to ensure that the two data sources do not lead to different estimates of physiotherapy costs.
Whilst the differences between the two methods of data collection are statistically significant, they may not be of economic significance. For example, if in a sensitivity analysis it were shown that the results of the cost effectiveness analysis were not affected by substantial changes in physiotherapy use as was the case in this study
The use of sensitivity analyses in these situations would also improve the generalisability of the findings. Where levels of nonresponse are high these may be combined with multiple imputation methods
This study has shown that there can be a disparity between hospital records and patient self-reported data with neither source necessarily being the more accurate. We would recommend that in similar situations, the decision on which data source to use be based upon a pilot study comparing self-report and hospital data against a rigorously collected 'gold standard'. We would also recommend that where data from both sources are available and there are material differences in resource use, their impact be assessed using sensitivity analysis.
Competing interests
None declared.
We would like to thank Helen Lawrie and Lynda Davidson for their help in collecting the data for this study and the referees for their useful comments.
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|2011-02-16, 12:13
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I usually pick a supporting girl as well, but here, Shizuku is so awesome.
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I have no problems with Shizuku, but all these Yamato Nadeshiko girls are boring me. OTOH, Soyogi seems to be much funnier because her naivity disguised of strong woman. I remember that chapter when Karin taught her how to pick dresses and make-up... and Shizuku and Karin learned why is better for them that Soyogi doesn't know that kind of things
I really feel nothing for Karin... to me she is just Rinne's sister.
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"They don't know he is the Dragon God. I think its secret so that the maidens can win him over. I'm sure all will be revealed one day." DragoZERO: That's right.. The Maidens are renowned even off the Island. I'm sure the return of the D-G would be HUGE, at least on the island, yet his reveal was only to the Maidens. (Does that make Rinne a Maiden by proxy?)
What's his job description again? To be pleased by the maidens and save the Island? I just don't know the big picture of the D-G's duties/skillsets/talents.
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Considering hazardous environment of island (earthquakes, storms, twisters, fires) main role of maidens is to appease dragon god so he wont punish his followers. From the Islanders point of view Dragon God as a teenage boy is a very good news. Instead of giving him (dragon god) offering from maidens life they only need to give him offering from their virginity . As a bonus they will also gain a new, baby, maiden
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So far his "helping" totals making young girls feel ok with themselves for chasing after him. If that's going to be it then he's no different than a gigolo. That has a "G" in it, but its not an indicator of being a God. As it has been portrayed, if Obaa-san hadn't named him a God he'd still be a simple HS kid.
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Something to sort of keep in mind here, this is all taking place between their second and third year of school. All 77 chapters have only covered the last part of their second year and maybe half of the break. What is going to be interesting is when the break is over and more will included with the interactions of the group.
As far as others knowing about his status? Remember the store clerk, she knew what he was.
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Hmm, you might have to site which chapters those happened in. While I love the series, it's a bit time consuming when having to read through the entire thing just for a few bits of information... especially if it's from earlier in the series about rather forgettable characters and conversations. Though, I think I do recall at least the store clerk, just can't recall what chapter that was in.
But I actually think that Nagi being who he is and growing up to this point as he has like any normal person is proabably one of the better things about his characterization, because even though he's been named a god, he hasn't let it go to his head. If I recall, there was a former DG before him, and the impression I got upon how he was mentioned was that he could have been a rather spoiled individual if he had grown up on the island from birth, where as Nagi has a potentially more humble attitude and view on all this. He doesn't try to take advantage of it in any way, not making demands or even exploiting the girls in ways some of us would given those conditions. One must admit that Nagi has a bit of integrity of his willpower to be caring and easy-going as he is and not fall to temptation.
Though I think he's only holding out on that mostly because he's still very much in the dark about what being the Dragon God is really all about, and being that he probably secretly fears for what might happen to the un-chosen maidens has probably forced him into keeping them in that "friend zone" until he learns all these things that may impact not only him, but the girls and others further out from his circle.
If that situation were to happen to me, I'd be cautious about that too. Like some have said before, we don't know if human sacrifice is on the menu for those who fail to get his favor. Just with what's been said so far, I would be very weary of that, kinda brings to mind this: "Get the god's favor, or go drown yourselves for failing to do so". And I wouldn't put it passed the japanese to do just that.
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The event I am referring to happens at the end of ... chapter 16/end of Volume 2(?) ... I think it is Oba (Karen's grandmother) and the School Principal?
I remember the scene with the store clerk smiling a big smile seeing the cape maidens with Nagi the maidens were all in their swimwear after the three of them and Nagi had all gone swimming iirc.... If this is the event Beo was mentioning than it MIGHT have occurred at the beginning of the summer holidays when all the Cape Maidens decided to stay at Nagi's house and Karen's declaration that she was not going to hold back. An uncomfortable night followed and Nagi, to lighten up the atmosphere some took all of them to the beach to swim. I think it was then that Soyogi and Karen each "chu'd" him on either cheek and Shizuku "attacked" him straight on, resulting in Nagi inhaling a lot of water - they went to the market after that to purchase things for dinner that night, and on the way out the storekeeper smiled broadly.
Be aware this is totally from memory - I could have mixed a few things up here. Apologies if I did.
|2011-02-20, 00:55
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Oh Maaan. What Now?
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I agree about Obaa. But I still think that's Soyogi's mom.
Been doin' the reread. There's still way too much only hinted at. Shizuku's explanation in chapter 1 P10-11,describes the D-G as " The God who lives on this Island." She then says "They say he fell in love with a girl on this island". That's before she thinks Nagi is anythingmore than a tourist from Tokyo.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Shinto has local Gods,Demons,and spirits, and it's not uncommon to have local deities.(As opposed to one Supreme God, that Nagi refers to in
Ch 6.).
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Still in Ma reread. Ch. 16 Page 20 top panel, ch 14 Page 4, lower right panel. Do you see the resemblance to Soyogi?
I'll be waiting for the fill in/back story for a while I'm afraid. My brain fills in the wrong blanks, but the Author leads me like dandelion fluff, floating.
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The Author has officially done my brain in. I will remain in a vegetative state till the next chapter. I can no more tell where this is going than a june bug can tell what model car it ran into.
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