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Nick Hanauer is a smart guy. As one of the original investors in Amazon, he is a gazillionaire and can do whatever he wants. What he wants is to convince the world that the middle class, not the wealthy, are the true job creators and that the health of a nation depends on the health of its middle class.
Recently, Hanauer did a TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design, though topics are broader) talk on this subject. After telling him the video of his talk would be posted on their web site, TED changed their minds and said the video was too controversial. Hanauer did not take this news quietly and complained of censorship. TED said that Hanauer's video was too partisan and wasn't good enough to qualify as one of the few they post on their site. Hanauer said that TED bowed to pressure, and TED said that Hanauer turned their rejection into a censorship controversy to get publicity.
What they did together was get everybody talking about income inequality and economic fundamentals again. Tweets urged people to the video or script with "You know that TED talk you weren't supposed to see? Here it is." All the articles about the controversy (including this one) have stoked the media fire. In other words, a Democrat is driving the media machine the way we've seen Republicans do.
Hanauer's presentation is short and easy for anyone to understand. The video , script and slides don't present any new ideas. The few statistics are easily verified. Hanauer doesn't suggest radical change as others do. Like Warren Buffet, he is urging the government to tax wealthy people like him more.
Yet TED curator Chris Anderson said that Hanauer's piece "probably ranks as one of the most politically controversial talks we've ever run…" and "even if the talk was rated a home run, we couldn't release it, because it would be unquestionably regarded as out and out political. We're in the middle of an election year in the US. Your argument comes down firmly on the side of one party. And you even reference that at the start of the talk. "
The bit at the beginning—the only reference to politics in the whole piece—says that the idea that raising taxes on the rich will cause job creation to go down is "an article of faith for Republicans and seldom challenged by Democrats…." That doesn't sound like he likes either party's handling of it.
So what is all this political controversy Anderson fears? I have an idea.
You know that expression, "facts have a liberal bias"?
In reality, they shouldn't, should they? Facts should be equally available and equally valid regardless of political ideology. Facts should be the basis, the "given" in any political ideology, not points of contention. And yet some are contested, and Hanauer uses or references some of these in his short talk.
First, the whole premise of his talk is that the wealthy are not job creators, the middle class is. Although he provides plenty of evidence to support this claim, only one party agrees with him. Therefore, this is a partisan premise.
After the reference to political parties, he uses science as an analogy, concluding with:
So when businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.
But in this day and age, evolution is no longer a simple fact; it has become a political position. Therefore, this is a partisan statement.
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Significant privileges have come to capitalists like me for being perceived as "job creators" at the center of the economic universe, and the language and metaphors we use to defend the fairness of the current social and economic arrangements is telling. For instance, it is a small step from "job creator" to "The Creator." We did not accidentally choose this language. It is only honest to admit that calling oneself a "job creator" is both an assertion about how economics works and a claim on status and privileges.
Everybody agrees that people create jobs; they just don't agree on which people. Therefore, the concept of job creators is not itself partisan, but to argue that the wealthy have coined the term job creator to inappropriately tie the concept to their class status is the same as taking sides on who creates jobs. Next he says:
The extraordinary differential between a 15% tax rate on capital gains, dividends, and carried interest for capitalists, and the 35% top marginal rate on work for ordinary Americans is a privilege that is hard to justify without just a touch of deification.
Perhaps we're also treading into blasphemy territory—at least some pious capitalists might say so. But probably the most dangerous thing about this presentation from a conservative's point of view is the fact that it is so very easy to understand.
If the typical American family still got today the same share of income they earned in 1980, they would earn about 25% more and have an astounding $13,000 more a year. Where would the economy be if that were the case?
Conservatives have indeed spent 30+ years framing our discussion of economics in a partisan way. They say that the wealthy are job creators. They say that the wealthy have earned everything they have. They call taxes stealing and say that the economy would function better without them. This is partisan, yet it is not generally considered controversial.
But say that the middle class has the power of job creation, that the wealthy have more than their fair share, that their extra income came from the pockets of the rest of us, and that taxes not only support better quality of life but a stronger economy—well, those facts are "controversial."
Because after all, facts have a liberal bias.
Update 6:09 PM: Title updated to reflect Nick Hanauer's broader experience as venture capitalist and clarify his position as original investor at Amazon rather than founder.
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The best we can do is make a projection based on recent trends. The graph shows the marital status of white men ages 40 to 50. Some men will marry after this age range, but not many (but the again, we don't know the future). The years go from 1972 to 2008 (There isn't enough room for the years to appear below the bars).
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A modal formula is derived from the language of a logic inductively by: if is a formula of , then is a modal formula. We denote the collection of modal formulas by .
A Kripke frame aka. modal frame is a pair of a set and a binary relation . a relation is equivalently a function sending to the set of its successors.
A Kripke model is a triple where is a Kripke frame and a relation (sometimes called forcing relation) subject to the following list of axioms:
(1) iff is not in .
(2) iff is not in or
(3) iff for all with
(Note that we used here the notation to express the "propositional interpretation" of being a member of the relation.)
A formula is called to be valid in a model resp. valid in a frame resp. valid in a class of frames if for all resp. for all all relations resp. for all for all all relations .
A binary relation is equivalently a function where denotes the (covariant) power set functor sending an to the set of its -successors and a morphism . In other words: a frame is a coalgebra for the power set functor.
Generalizing this construction for relations of higher arity one obtains coalgebras for the functor for any modal similarity type .
Kripke models one obtains as coalgebras of the functor where is the set of propositional variables. To see this note that a valuation is equivalently a -coloring of : a functor .
The functors and from above are examples of Polynomial functors.
(Definition 146, p.392) A polynomial functor is a -valued functor inductively defined by
where denotes the identity functor, denotes the constant functor on an object , denotes the coproduct functor of two polynomial functors, and likewise for the product functor, denotes the exponent functor .
A Kripke polynomial functor is inductively defined by
where denotes the composition of a polynomial functor with the power set functor .
(p.392) Kripke frames are -coalgebras, and Kripke models are coalgebras for the functor .


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the magazine for the week beginning 15 September 2011.
Contents Edit
Free gift Edit
- Lockable Silence notebook and pen.
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- FACTFILE: "You're late!"
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- PREVIEW: Episode 11 The God Complex
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- The Deadly Mutant
- AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters) featuring Prisoner Zero
Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature) Edit
- From: TV: The Girl Who Waited - Highlighted moments from episode 10
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- SPACEFILE: 8: Neptune
Posters Edit
- A3 The Doctor
- A4 Let's Kill Hitler
- A4 ULTIMATE MONSTER Tritovore
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Interview Edit
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- Welcome and news (Hello Time Travellers!)
- Geronimo: Gossip: Spoilers, True or False, Hot or not, Hello Sweetie!
- Puzzle pages and Quiz
- Readers contributions: Who and You Upload - featuring reader's letters, photos, and art.
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- Editor: Natalie Barnes Porcelain dolls that look like real children!
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- The longest gap between television Doctor Who was the nine years between the TV movie in 1996 and Rose in 2005.
- Rory the Roman stayed guarding Amy Pond for the entire 1,894 years that she was in the Pandorica.
- Concept artist Shaun Williams worked on the interior designs of the Teselecta for Let's Kill Hitler from a script referring it to as "a cross between the Enterprise from Star Trek and a telephone exchange."
- Neptune is sixty times bigger than the Earth and about the same size as Uranus; both Neptune and Uranus appear blue.
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- The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of 10% following four issues for £1 (UK).
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AMC goes back to the early '80s with the premiere of its new drama "Halt and Catch Fire," the tale of a hot-shot, morally flexible computer salesman (Joe MacMillan, played by Lee Pace) and a world-broken engineer (Scoot McNairy's Gordon Clark) who reverse-engineer an IBM computer — much to IBM's consternation.
TheWrap spoke to showrunner Jonathan Lisco about the challenges of making computer code interesting, toxic arrogance and the legacy of the early computer era.
TheWrap: Is it difficult to draw drama out of the subject matter of computer programming?
Absolutely. That's a balance that we're very, very cognizant of in the writers room, and one that we knew would be a challenge. Anytime that you're going to do a show about the computer business, I think people are going to make the assumption right off the bat that it's potentially not going to dramatically blow your hair back. But I think that's, funnily enough, one of the things that we have in our favor. Because I think people's presupposition about that is going to be exploded when they watch the show and find out just how dramatic the series will become. From my point of view, we use the cloning of the PC as a scaffold off which to hang all sorts of interesting inquiries about the character. That's my take on the show.
Also read: 'Halt and Catch Fire' Review: AMC Recaptures Its Spark With '80s Computer Drama
In the first episode, Lee Pace's Joe MacMillan character comes off as very much the heel, while Scoot McNairy's Gordon Clark is very meek and mild-mannered. Will there be more of a gray area for those characters as the show progresses?
I think there's absolutely a gray area. Look, anybody who's trying to wrap his or her mind around something bigger — capital S, capital B — they're searching for something bigger, they're searching for something that they believe, in their arrogance, might actually revolutionize the way we live, anybody who's going to be doing that is going to have a pretty healthy ego, to put it mildly. And I think that's part of the inquiry here: We're going to explore the dark side of the human ego. We're gonna explore the destructive power of ambition. We're gonna explore the often thin line separating genius from delusion. And that's not specifically just the purview of Joe MacMillan.
Don't forget, we're meeting Gordon three years after a pyrotechnic failure. So if he seems subdued, that's because it's in the wake of this personal tragedy. He thought he was gonna be flying close to the sun his whole life. He had the burden of believing, as [his wife] Donna says to him in the pilot, that he's a misunderstood genius. Well, he just got slapped. So we're meeting him under those circumstances, but I think it's not difficult to imagine that he's got a very healthy ego under that alleged veneer of insecurity.
I also think that genius is only determined in retrospect, because when they're trying to be geniuses they're often viewed as crackpots. He's going to toggle back and forth between feelings of meekness and insecurity, and an overriding, almost toxic, arrogance.
One of the most telling things in the first episode is when Gordon tells his kids that the computer he built is the best thing he ever did — which is quite the thing to tell your kids.
Yeah, and also basically talking to Donna, saying, "Yeah, maybe one of the reasons I'm stuck in the mud is because of you holding me back." And of course, what she's thinking is, "Oh, you think you're a kite, do you? Well, who do you think's holding the string?"
See video: 'Halt and Catch Fire': Will Scoot McNairy's Geek Inherit the Earth?
The show is dealing with technology that, by today's standards, is absolutely ancient. Do you worry at all about a technological disconnect for viewers whose iPhones do everything but wash their cars for them?
I did at first, when I was thinking of even taking this job. I asked myself, since we're in the information age, we don't know the end of the story entirely, but we know where we are now obviously, will people be interested in looking back at the genesis of that? I sort of went back and forth on it, but now, after doing 10 episodes of the show and being someone who didn't originally fetishize technology, I actually believe that there's a romantic quality to looking back and realizing how big and clunky these boxes were, and how ridiculous a C prompt was. But in the day, that were fantastic. There were whole clubs associated with that stuff, and people were on fire about it.
And I think there's a kind of nostalgic romance associated with looking back at how humankind invents stuff that's incredibly popular and seemingly mod today, and can tomorrow seem like something you want to sweep into the trash bin of history and never look back at.
But as a center for drama, it's a pretty great one. It's very vivid, it's very graphic, and it's very dynamic.
See photos and video: 'Halt and Catch Fire': They'll Either Revolutionize the Home PC or Self-Destruct
What other themes are you particularly interested in exploring on the series?
"Halt and Catch Fire" also likes to look at the following idea: There's some lore — it could be apocryphal, it could be true — that Mark Zuckerberg basically created Facebook because he couldn't get a date, or he couldn't get behind the velvet rope at whatever place he wanted to go dancing. That's probably an overstatement, but you know what I'm talking about. And thus, he put all his problems and all his neuroses about that into Facebook when he made it. And then we, in society, became the recipient of all that.
Similarly, the the protagonists of "Halt and Catch Fire" are kind of baking their own unique hopes, fears, dysfunctions, into the machine that they're building. And I think it's an interesting inquiry to ask, "Well, at the same time that society benefits, aren't we all therefore kind of absorbing their psychopathology they've been putting into their stuff?" We love that theme.
How much will the show be drawing from real-life cultural events in the '80s?
We're always looking at that. Obviously, during this time period, the first woman went into space, Sally Ride, and there were all sorts of interesting things happening. Now, the key as writers is always to integrate them subtly into the narrative, as opposed to making them the linchpin of the narrative. Because when you do that, you start straying from the emotional honesty of the story you're telling. Even back in that time, not everyone was constantly talking about the cultural developments of the era. We were still going out and eating, going to work and fiddling with stuff. And so if you make a whole episode of TV that's somehow focused around a historical event, you have to be wary of keeping it real.
So yes, we're always cognizant of what's happening, we're looking at the timeline of events in America and the world all the time, but we're going to use that stuff sparingly and kind of as grace notes when we think it accentuates the main story that we're telling.
Also read: 15 Burning Summer TV Questions: Will Movie Stars Connect, Can 'Duck Dynasty' Stay Afloat, Who Will Save Fox?
In the first episode, the big battle is between IBM and the upstarts, but will the rise of Apple come into any of this at all?
I think it's inevitable that our characters will have to deal with it at some level. I'd love you to watch the first season and respond to how we dealt with that. I think you'll find it really interesting and we hope pretty stirring.


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Our Home: Rhoeas Hearth
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Your home is gorgeous and has given me many ideas for my own home. Thank you for sharing all these steps. It is so inspiring to see this progress for you guys. I'm so happy for you and your family. Congrats and may 2018 be an even better for all of you.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you so much, Stephanie! We got very lucky with the storm this year (that is, if you can call 20k worth of damage "luck") in that we were able to get the insurance to cover the roof, siding and gutters, and the removal of that ugly carport. The light gray on the outside gave us a clean slate to work with. I have some plans for next year but they're small additions and tweaks. Nothing this drastic, for sure!Delete
I wasn't sure about the lavender and grey when you first posted about your paint colors, but you really made it work.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Ohhh, this is a big one. I might have to serve up some legit yoga philosophy for this one.
But let's start simple with something very unusual that has happened: I recently stopped having cravings. No food cravings. No alcohol or drug cravings. I am not having shopping cravings, nor entertainment cravings. I'm not craving sexy attention from men. And I keep forgetting to wear makeup.
This is strange because I am usually in some kind of craving-based relationship with food… quietly wishing I were stuffing my face with a bagel with lots of fresh cream cheese, or a chocolate molten lava cake, or a cheeseburger with caramelized onions, or a warm wheel of brie paired with a crumbly baguette…
If not food I am often craving an earthy glass of cabernet, or just a small puff off a ladylike spliff. Or I might find myself craving (and purchasing) several pairs of new heels online, justified because the guy I'm dating is only an inch or so taller than me so "I need lower heels." Obviously.
And let's be honest, you don't write an entire book about masterful flirtation if you haven't regularly craved that rush when someone becomes smitten with you.
This may sound sad, but the strangest of all of these is the forgetting to wear makeup. To go out without mascara on is kind of like forgetting to wear pants in my world. Mascara is the pants for my self-esteem.
We all crave according to the particular needs (or should I say weeds) of our senses. But what we rarely question is the mechanism of craving itself. Why do you crave? Why do you intensely desire things you really don't need?
Actually, this goes beyond don't need, your cravings are often detrimental to your survival: foods that take a toll on your health, pointless clothing items that drain your bank account, intoxicants that tax your organs, romantic attention from people that you don't actually like so you wind up having to sage your entire apartment after you've giggled them out the door… trips and technology and forms of transportation that are rapidly sapping the earth of its resources – the same resources our species needs in order to survive.
I'm not preaching here, I'm just saying – isn't this whole craving thing a little suspicious? Something is most definitely rotten in Denmark. And by Denmark I mean our fucking heads.
Now let's get back to yoga philosophy. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is my ultimate reference for all things awakening. 196 short phrases that altogether encapsulate what it means to be a liberated human being.
These are the sutras that seem relevant here:
1.15 Dispassion is the controlled consciousness of one who is without craving for sense objects, whether these are actually perceived, or described.*
1.16 The highest level of dispassion, leading to self-realization, takes place when the aspirant is free from all forms of "thirst," … **
These sutras are where I first caught wind of the possibility of being without craving, or "thirst". But if you've ever tried to force yourself to stay away from that tub of cookie dough ice cream in the fridge, or the sexy home-wrecker you're lusting after, you know that you cannot simply stop your cravings. Your cravings will torment you endlessly until you give in. And if you don't give in, you will likely be living in a perpetual state of psychosomatic blue balls.
So how is it possible to live without cravings?
This is where living on the edge comes in. The irrefutable truth is that you are unfathomably extraordinary. You are packed with energy, intelligence and creativity. You are brilliant and your brilliance is a force that must be fed. The way to feed it is to function at the edge of your potential on a regular basis. And if you don't, your body gets really confused.
If you don't live/create/function on the edge, those healthy urges to engage and evolve will atrophy and rot. They will become ingrown and infectious. You will then start to seek cheap pleasures and second-rate thrills as substitutes for the rich satisfaction of existing at your edge in this life.
If you have already committed the ultimate offense – that of turning away from your own ever-expanding nature, you will seek out the leftover pleasures you can easily score. You have already lost, so you may as well snort up the scraps you can sniff out. This is when the cravings kick in and you start stuffing yourself with whatever your senses desire. Hello brie wheel!
Well, at least that's what happens to me. Perhaps I'll write more on living at your edge tomorrow…
*Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Edwin F. Bryant
**From Yoga International website
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Real Salt Lake's starting center backs, Kwame Watson-Siriboe and Chris Schuler, hope the team's 1-0 scrimmage win over the LA Galaxy on Friday is a preview of things to come.
"Camp has been pretty tough," Watson-Siriboe (above) told MLSsoccer.com by phone from Carson, Calif., following the game. "We haven't been as sharp as we would like, especially defensively. We've given up too much in our other games, but I think things are getting better and better.
"Hopefully, this can be the turning point to the camp, the preseason. Maybe we can use this as a starting point to really come together as a defense."
The fact the team is counting on the pair to lead the way entering the season is a great opportunity, but at the same time a little bit daunting. Neither are particularly young – both are entering their fourth season – but neither has been expected to be "the man" coming into a season either. With Nat Borchers still out following quad surgery, and Jámison Olave traded to New York, the starting center back positions are theirs to lose.
"I am still trying to push to become a starter," said Watson-Siriboe. "Really, no matter what, you can't really think about it, though. Coach will make the decision. I just want to work harder and make the decision tough on him."
"Like any relationship, it takes time," Schuler told MLSsoccer.com by phone after the scrimmage. "We have been spending more and more time together, and it is growing. We are getting better."
One thing in particular has been good from the duo: communication. Watson-Siriboe is pretty vocal and outgoing off the field, Schuler is more reserved. On the field, however, both make themselves heard.
"It is important to have good communication," said Schuler. "You have to let the others know what is going on so you can move together as a whole team. As we play more together, we learn more and more about the other guy's tendencies and what he is going to do in certain situations."
"I think it continues to get better and better," said Watson-Siriboe of the communication. "We are continuing to work, but today's result shows what we can do. We can be one of the best tandems in the league if we continue."
The duo was on the field together for 63 minutes against LA, and they did exactly what coach Jason Kreis expects of them.
"I really like what both of them bring to the field," Kreis told MLSsoccer.com last week. "They are both young, but they are both communicators. They still might make a mistake, but you go along and try to train it out of them, keep giving them instructions and practice at how not to make it again. I feel comfortable with them."


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Amid the mole traps and Maltesers, it is easy to forget that we elect politicians to do a serious job – and it is as well to recall that when casting a vote. That is true not only at Westminster, but also in town halls and in Europe, where there is a choice to be made in two weeks' time. Often dismissed as a talking shop, the European parliament now has real powers – to change laws, direct budgets and to affect the appointment of the European commission. Riding high in the polls, Britain's Conservatives can expect to be charged with much of this work. Sadly, the party has saddled itself with a commitment that makes it much harder to do.
The problem goes back to 2005, when a modernising candidate for the leadership, one David Cameron, hyped up his own Euroscepticism to make a pact with the devils on his party's hard right. He promised to do what neither his traditionalist rivals nor any previous leader had done – split off from Europe's mainstream right and establish a new bloc that was hostile to Brussels, bent on frustrating European unity rather than advancing it. The reason why John Major, Iain Duncan Smith and the rest always threw their lot in with German Christian Democrats and French Gaullists was certainly not because they were federalists. Rather, it was because they understood that they needed friends in Paris and Berlin if they were to have any influence in European debates.
Mr Cameron is not stupid, and knows this as well. Since making his pledge he has found alternative ways to build bridges with Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel. While welcome, that does not solve the dilemma about where to recruit for his new European bloc. Under EU rules Mr Cameron needs partners in five other countries to establish a recognised group, giving him little choice but to look east. The Czech Civic Democrats – the party founded by the climate change sceptic, President Václav Klaus – is the one prospective partner that the Tories are being open about at this stage. Another is likely to be Poland's Law and Justice party, a homophobic and reactionary rabble headed up by the Kaczynski twins, who not long ago floated the reintroduction of capital punishment. Hard-line nationalists from the Baltic states could also be part of the gang.
Moderate voters who might happily back a competent Conservative in the local council in polling on the same day should surely think twice about using their European vote to boost this sort of a grouping. That, presumably, is why the plans are being kept under wraps. If he ends up keeping such company, Mr Cameron will weaken the hand of his MEPs in delivering for their country. What is more, he will risk undoing his own work in refreshing his party.


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As 2017 marches on, it's time to once again turn our heads towards regulation. This time, it's MACRA.
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will affect radiologists in 2017 and even further in 2019. The changes that may concern you will involve reimbursement and how those reimbursements will be handled.
MACRA and merit-based care
Medicare will eventually link a large portion of payments to radiologists based on value and quality of care. Performance assessments begin this year for payment adjustments in 2019. Lead study author Dr. Andrew Rosenkrantz stated that "[R]adiologists must start preparing now, taking actions to ensure future success with the payment program."
Radiologists will be paid through the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). MIPS will control adjustments, both positive and negative, to fee-for-service payments. The main concern is that while some doctors' performances will be based on face-to-face interaction, doctors who have limited face-to-face interaction may not be eligible.
Dr. Bibb Allen Jr. said the following.
"Using CMS' proposed criteria for which physicians will receive special considerations, many radiologists will be deemed ineligible for these special considerations and thus be evaluated based on performance categories beyond their control."
No face-to-face? No problem.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) communicated an alternative criteria plan that could allow for compensation for physicians who do not have as much face-to-face time as other doctors, say general practitioners.
The plan states that if CMS were to add a set of 100 or fewer codes, nearly 99 percent of radiologists would receive considerations. Patient encounters would represent just 10 percent of all billed codes among remaining radiologists. The ACR brought this plan to CMS for consideration.
According to the final rule, the CMS accepted the ACR's proposal and modified it slightly. Under the new definition, almost 90 percent of diagnostic radiologists will be eligible for special consideration, and that number could rise to 99 percent.
In conclusion, being aware and keeping up on the changes that are going into effect this year are going to be vital for the success of your reimbursement claims and how well your practice can do.
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This article was written by Mike Schwartz, a technical writer with Novarad.
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Private equity investors, who have stayed away from investing in online retail companies, have instead quietly reaped a windfall by backing logistics companies providing back-end support in the ecommerce rush.
In the latest deal, Peepul Capital recorded an over six-fold return on its investment in Ecom Express according to people aware of the transaction. Earlier this year, Multiples Alternate Asset Management also made a partial exit from Delhivery, when the company raised fresh capital led by Tiger Global Management.
"These kinds of returns are only possible if there is multiple re-rating of both a company and a sector, which is not very common," said Prakash Nene, MD at Multiples, who declined to comment on specifics of the deal.
The PE firm made a partial exit after Tiger Global led a round of about Rs 542 crore in the Delhi-based firm in May.
Peepul Capital is estimated to have earned Rs 500 crore on an initial investment of Rs 80 crore in Ecom Express. The firm made an exit when the logistics firm raised fresh capital in a round led by Warburg Pincus according to two people privy to the details.
The returns have been even higher for early seed and angel investors in these two companies, which handle delivery for top online retailers like Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal.
According to filings with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), seed fund Oliphans Capital bought shares in Ecom Express at around Rs 70 per share in 2013.
The fund is estimated to have sold some of these shares to Warburg Pincus during the investment round in June this year. Regulatory filings indicate Warburg - through its unit Eaglebay Investments - paid Rs 2,276 per share of Ecom Express; this would imply that Oliphans netted a return of over 30 times.
"It's only logical that investment is also about exits," said Anish Jhaveri, MD at Oliphans, declining to comment on returns made by his firm. "When we invested around $1 million in the company (Ecom Express) there were just four people in front of us who had just quit Blue Dart."
Ecom Express was founded in 2012 by TA Krishnan, Sanjeev Saxena, K Satyanarayana and Manju Dhawan who had launched the etailing business at Blue Dart. The Delhi-based company expects to deliver goods in over 10,000 pin codes covering more than 1,500 towns and cities, across the country in the next few years.
The increasing interest in these companies is driven by the rapid growth in logistic support for online retail. A recent report on the Indian Internet sector by brokerage IIFL estimates that the order volume for ecommerce shipments will increase 13x by 2020, with overall volume of ecommerce orders amounting to 2,000 tonnes per day.
Investors are of the view that just as tower companies gained in the telecom boom, the online retail rush will benefit from the back-end support companies.
"There are a lot of enablers which are important from a shadow driving perspective broadly similar to what telecom towers are to telco industry and EPC companies are to infrastructure," said Sreeni Vudayagiri, investment director at Peepul Capital, a PE firm with $700 million under management which primarily invests in mid-sized consumption and manufacturing businesses.
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Social media is great for branding and customer service, but don't overlook its value for lead generation as well. One of the best ways to find and generate leads is through social listening.
The great thing about using social media is it gives you the ability to find qualified sales leads, not just random people who might be interested in what you're offering. Since people openly share information on social media, you'll get a deeper understanding of what makes them tick.
It starts by using social media to identify what your target customer wants and needs. Then use that information to appeal to them and turn them into leads. Don't worry, we'll walk you through the entire process and show you how to launch a successful social listening campaign.
How Social Listening Provides Qualified Sales Leads
Many marketers use the phrases social listening and social media monitoring interchangeably. Don't be fooled – they're not the same.
Social media monitoring is looking at individual conversations going on about your brand or target keywords, usually in real time. For example, you might monitor mentions of your brand name so you can quickly reply to customer service issues.
@maggiewick2012 When you have a moment, could you please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 1-800-671-6025? Thank you!
— Dove (@Dove) January 18, 2017
On the other hand, social listening gives you the ability to be more proactive in seeking and making connections. Instead of being on the lookout solely for keywords or brand mentions, you're gathering information based on the overall sentiment and tone of conversations going on about your brand or industry on social.
Through social listening, you can better understand:
- What your audience wants.
- Whether or not specific campaigns are successful.
- The overall sentiment about your brand on social.
- Trends that affect your brand or industry
Social listening allows you to find the exact problems and challenges your target audience has, and then create solutions to offer them that are based in the value proposition of your brand.
We're going to walk you through how to use social listening to find qualified sales leads. Plus, you'll see how to do it without being annoying, pushy or spammy.
Get the Right Tools
First and foremost, you need a social media listening tool. Since the bulk of social listening is based on analyzing information, you need a tool that can gather all the data and present it in a way that's a lot easier on the eyes than spreadsheets.
Lucky for you, Sprout Social includes powerful social listening features.
Sprout allows you to save specific search terms and hashtags, and track them over time. Another handy feature is the ability to tag messages. A little later on, we'll go into more detail on why this is a game changer for using social listening.
Lastly, you have the option to create reports to see trends in the topics and hashtags you're tracking.
Now that you've chosen your tool, the next step is to put systems in place to streamline the process.
Since this process will likely involve at least two different teams – sales and social – creating systems is going to make everyone's life easier. There isn't a one-size-fits-all solution to systematizing, since every company has different needs and ways of working.
So instead of laying out a specific plan, here are some suggestions on ways to streamline social listening:
Tag Messages
We mentioned that message tagging is unbelievably valuable, and here's why. In any given day, brands receive dozens, hundreds or even thousands of incoming messages on social. Managing all of this can get messy very quickly. Tagging gives you the ability to group similar messages together. That way you can either route certain messages to the right teams or analyze groups of messages.
Our social team at Sprout used message tagging and social listening to help identify a need for our LinkedIn analytics feature. They were able to see a trend in the volume of messages coming in requesting LinkedIn analytics, which showed our customers really wanted the feature.
Address Immediate Opportunities
Social listening is not a replacement for social media monitoring. You still need to look at individual messages and respond to them when necessary. If someone Tweets your company asking about a service or is directly looking for products you offer, it's an easy win.
Your process should include steps to take when a hot lead comes through social media. For instance, you may assign it to the sales team as a task so they can follow up as soon a possible.
The last thing you want is to lose out on sales leads because you're trying to gather data. Combine social listening and monitoring to strengthen your overall strategy.
Who Responds to What?
For a one-person show, this might not be an issue. However, for larger teams, it's important to understand who's in charge of responding to which messages.
Some messages may require someone from customer service, while others might need a response from the social media or sales teams. Outlining who's in charge of which messages will keep things organized, even as your team grows.
Now that you have systems in place, the next step is to start looking for conversations.
Master the Art of Search
In order to take advantage of social listening, you need to learn how to become an expert at searching. Since social listening is all about finding trends and new opportunities, the phrases you search for are crucial.
We recommend having a list of search terms related to your industry that people would use when describing challenges they face or their main pain points. For example, let's say you're a food subscription company like Blue Apron. Instead of solely looking at social media messages involving your brand name, you could include queries like "grocery shopping" and "healthy ingredients."
I shoulda gone grocery shopping so I can make all these cool recipes I see on Facebook ?
— Cindy (@CindyYeatman) January 7, 2017
Using these search terms gives you a better pulse of industry chatter and the specific problems of your target audience. This Tweet is the perfect example of the types of issues a company like Blue Apron can solve.
Additionally, certain networks like Twitter have some more advanced search features such as looking for queries involving questions or even positive and negative sentiments.
Try to monitor queries with questions because it's usually the sign of a good lead. People asking questions are looking for solutions to a problem. Providing the solution puts your brand at the top of their mind, even if they've never heard of you before.
This tactic is particularly helpful on Twitter due to its conversational nature. People are always on the network asking questions when they want a quick response.
So I am on my last week of the 21 Day Sugar Fast.
I bought Brussels sprouts for the first time…how do you cook them?
— Kristie Sawicki (@KristieSawicki) January 18, 2017
Your list of search queries will be dynamic. You shouldn't stick with the same keywords forever. You may even find new ideas based on what you're currently tracking.
Collect & Analyze
Now comes the listening part of social listening. Start by tagging incoming social media messages that include your target keywords. You can organize your tags in whichever way works best for you. You may want tags for customer complaints, a specific keyword, a branded hashtag or sentiment.
Use Sprout's tag report to measure the volume of messages coming through with each tag.
Specifically, look for trends and tags with the highest volume of messages. This information will give you a great starting point when it's time to create solutions.
Create Solutions
Alright, so you've outlined the phrases you want to search, tagged relevant messages for your social listening campaign and have a good idea of the challenges your target audience is experiencing. The next step is to provide solutions.
The solutions can come in the form of new products, blog posts, videos, an FAQ or any other medium that's appropriate. Since you'll probably uncover a ton of opportunities through your social listening campaigns, you'll need to prioritize which ones you'll attack first.
This will be a fairly simple process if you tagged your messages. Start with the tags that have the highest volume. Keeping with the food subscription company example from earlier, let's say a bulk of your tagged messages were related to healthy ingredients. You could create a healthy shopping guide or printable grocery list of healthy ingredients. Then start promoting it through social media.
You could even go through some of the recent Tweets you tagged and start sharing your solution with them. Your freebie will pull people in your site, and hopefully turn them into leads.
The benefit of providing a free, valuable resource instead of just directing people to a landing page to buy your product or service is because it's less spammy. According to our Q3 2016 Sprout Index, 46% of social media users unfollow brands for posting too many promotional messages.
On the flipside, when you share helpful and relevant information, people are more likely to keep following you and actually engage. Try not to go too overboard with this approach though. Occasionally sharing links with your audience is nice, but if your entire Twitter feed is filled with replies with a link to the same article, it starts to look a lot like spam.
Hopefully it goes without saying, but you also shouldn't automate this process. While there are some good use-cases for bots in social media marketing, auto-replying to random posts and Tweets with links isn't one of them.
Rinse & Repeat
Social listening is an ongoing process. You should constantly look for new opportunities to find sales leads on social media. Whether it's Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, consumers are using social media more than ever to voice their struggles and look for solutions to their problems. Start incorporating social listening into your strategy to make sure you're not missing out on any opportunities.
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