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A few years ago I came across a delicious article by Mark Morford entitled "How To Sing Like a Planet" about something called "the Earth's hum." Apparently the Earth generates an unfathomable number of mysterious vibrations, and no one's quite sure what creates them. Morford's article is part science and part roller coaster ride, a wild riff on the notion that this hum is the Earth's music. He breathlessly describes "...countless notes of varying vibrations creating all sorts of curious tonal phrases that bounce around the mountains and spin over the oceans and penetrate the tectonic plates and gurgle in the magma and careen off the clouds and smack into trees and bounce off your ribcage and spin over the surface of the planet in strange circular loops." Whew!
It was a fun read, but it didn't tell me what I wanted to know – and what was coyly advertised – namely, how I could learn to do it, myself.
I've been trying to figure out how to sing like a planet for most of my life. Not only sing, but also how to sleep like a planet, laugh like a planet, meditate like a planet, create like a planet, and accept unpleasant realities like a planet. As peculiar as that might sound, it has not been an entirely fruitless endeavor.
The first time a planetary precept came my way was during my middle school years. Up until then I honestly thought everyone's body was beautiful, including mine. But suddenly my friends started talking about who was lame and who was dorky and who was gross. No matter how carefully I scrutinized the victims of these observations, I was hard pressed to detect any actual lameness, dorkiness or grossness. My inability to detect homeliness was definitively confirmed one day when I told a classmate that I liked Barbra Streisand, and she spat with disgust, "Barbra Streisand? She's as ugly as sin!"
Clearly if someone as amazing as Barbra was not beautiful, there was little hope for me. I noticed now that my skin wouldn't Coppertone, my hair wouldn't Farrah Fawcett, and my breasts wouldn't change the shape of my shirts in any significant way. I knew that I wasn't downright ugly, but I was just as certain that I was decidedly plain. And unhappily so.
One dreary afternoon I was lying on my bed alternating between sobbing and petting my cat, who was curled up contentedly at my side. Suddenly it hit me that my cat had never wanted to be any other color than white, or any other variety than shorthair, or any other breed than whatever. And the buckeye tree just outside had never wanted to be a oak. And the Ohio River had never wanted to be Lake Erie. And the earth had never wanted to be a different planet.
While this revelation didn't keep me from fighting with the curling iron, it did keep me from crying over my lack of bronze, fluff, bounce and general gorgeousness. Just as important, it clued me into the shift that could happen if I let myself emulate the Earth. Even now, when I remember to ask "WWED?" ("What would Earth do?"), the answers just blow my mind. For example:
Once I discovered that Mark Morford's article wasn't actually an instruction manual, I decided to write one myself and set it to music. While I was composing How to Sing Like a Planet, I found myself laughing and dancing a lot. On my "off hours" I was especially conscious of trying to follow the Earth's instructions, which included such nearly impossible tasks as "let everything unfold in its own time," "accept what's beyond your control," and somehow being weak and strong at the same time.
But when I'm not composing a piece of music that aspires to transcendency (which is most of the time), I careen through life with no more perspective than anyone else. I spend too much time filing sent emails and paid bills, knowing all the while that the Earth does not develop filing systems for anything, ever. I stay inside working on insanely beautiful days, even though I know that the Earth is all about beautiful days. I fret about whether I will ever have enough money to retire, and I don't have to tell you what the Earth thinks about that.
That said, asking audacious, improbable questions is part of my job, so even though I put the final touches on the composition How To Sing Like a Planet a few years ago, I'm still working on the complete cosmic instruction manual. I expect it to be a work-in-progress for a while.
[Drawing Derek Myers. Used by permission of the artist. www.derekthedeliman.tumblr.com]
Oh, oh, how lovely! I believe that our Mother Earth sings to us all the time, if only we will listen. I love your question WWED, and intend to start asking myself that as often as I can. Thank you so much for this inspirational piece.
Hm, wouldn't you say geological strata are a sort of filing system? (Including the part where drawers get yanked out and flipped upside down, folders get jumbled, etc). But other than that I agree entirely. Also, you can rearrange the letters in HOW TO SING LIKE A PLANET to spell POET AWAKENS, LILTING "OH!" which to me seems quite profound. Write on, sister!
Hi Elizabeth, I think poets of yore (Herbert et.al. used to talk about music of the spheres and planetary harmonies. This article brought those concepts to mind.
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Judge: Wisconsin Must Levy Environmental Protections on Dairy Farm
A Dane County judge has ruled the Department of Natural Resources can't retract a previous decision and must continue imposing environmental protections on a large dairy farm expansion.
Dane County Circuit Judge John W. Markson ruled last week that Wisconsin can set limits on large dairy feedlots to protect water sources from pollution, overturning a decision of department secretary Cathy Stepp.
The court decision is the latest development in a dispute over Kinnard Farms' plans to expand its dairy operations by thousands of cows in Kewaunee County.
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Top 50: Aiming to be a world player, Pittsburgh exports the fruits of its intellect
By Bill Toland
Technology, software, robotics replace the role that was once held by glass, iron and steel.
Pittsburghers seeing the world as even small firms pick up overseas clients
By Anya Sostek
A typical month for Nelson Cano, chief executive officer of Cima Software, is a blur of different airports, hotels and languages.
The Top 50: Lanxess is top performer among region's public companies
By Len Boselovic
Lanxess, the German chemical producer with its North American headquarters in Findlay, was the best performing public company.
Why aren't more women business leaders?
By Ann Belser
Nationally, just 16.1 percent of the directors of Fortune 500 companies last year were women.
Foreign workers relocating to Pittsburgh cope with culture shock
By Anya Sostek
Thorsten Luetzler and his wife, Ariane, were on the verge of buying their first home in Leverkusen, Germany, when Pittsburgh came calling.
How we calculated the Top 50
Figures for the Post-Gazette's Top 50 lists were derived from company reports and Bloomberg and Post-Gazette research.
From Ikea couches to BMWs, goods landing in the zones
By Patricia Sabatini
Today, roughly 2,400 businesses nationwide use Foreign Trade Zones to help lower the cost of business.
U.S. companies seek expansion via exports
By Deborah M. Todd
Navigating even international transactions introduce business owners to bureaucratic and cultural obstacles that some find daunting.
Local business leaders want more nonstop flights to Europe
By Mark Belko
Eleven years ago, business travelers could fly nonstop to London, Paris or Frankfurt, Germany, from Pittsburgh International Airport.
Fast facts about foreign trade zones
Foreign trade zones in the United States allow businesses to avoid or delay paying import fees on raw materials and other goods.
Brazil's rising power changes perceptions
By Teresa F. Lindeman
It was the 1990s. H.J. Heinz executives were considering getting into Brazil's pet food market.
Luring customers
By Ann Belser
There is a definite learning curve for doing business on a global scale and, while the process is long, the payoff can be worth it.
Groups work to bring world to Pittsburgh and vice versa
By Tim Grant
When someone asks Steven Sokol to explain what the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh is and what it does, he has a boilerplate
Commentary: Pittsburgh still finding its place in global economy
By Len Boselovic
This year's list of Top 50 public companies reflects how the changing global economy has transformed Pittsburgh.
In Their Own Words: Companies share their stories of globalization
Perspectives on running worldwide business from Pittsburgh.
Bayer stays visible in Germany, on Mount Washington
By Steve Twedt
For anyone who regularly motors through Downtown Pittsburgh, the iconic Bayer logo sign is a familiar sight atop Mount Washington.
Health care electronics leader takes bumpy ride along with Europe
By Steve Twedt
Being a global company means the bottom line can rise and fall with the global economy -- and it's been a choppy ride lately.
Bombardier to use technology developed here in London subway
By Tim Grant
Bombardier Transportation recently won a $577 million contract to upgrade the signaling system for the London Underground.
Royal Bank of Scotland seeks firm financial footing
By Patricia Sabatini
Royal Bank of Scotland burst on the scene here in 2001 when its U.S.-based banking unit, Citizens Financial Group of Rhode Island,
U.S. Steel leaves Serbia but sees opportunities in Canada, Slovakia
By Len Boselovic
Its recent retreat from Serbia notwithstanding, U.S. Steel still has a formidable presence outside the United States.
Heinz continues to spread its product line worldwide
By Teresa F. Lindeman
The company, founded in Sharpsburg in 1869, embraced the potential of feeding other countries early on in its development.
Michael Baker looks to diversify in foreign markets
By Len Boselovic
About 85 cents of every $1 in revenue Baker collects comes from government customers.
Siemens AG has eye on drilling industry
By Mark Belko
Timing, they say, is everything.
Reed Smith adapts to variety of cultures
By Bill Toland
For well more than a century, Downtown-based Reed Smith was an exclusively domestic operation, and was satisfied to be so.
UPMC banking on continuing to export its medical expertise
By Steve Twedt
The health system has more than 1,400 employees working overseas with plans for more once the international economic climate improves.
PPG paints a global path
By Anya Sostek
In the early 1900s, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. became one of the first U.S. firms to expand into Europe, acquiring a Belgium factory.
Marcellus Shale development puts state on map internationally
By Erich Schwartzel
It's safe to say the natural gas rush in Pennsylvania is crossing the oceans.
Top Growth: Lanxess leads the pack
By Patricia Sabatini
Companies landing atop the heap in the region's growth category this year can boast a triple-digit surge in profits.
Top Revenue: Firms that have links to the region fare well in revenue
By Teresa F. Lindeman
Judged by revenue alone, Pittsburgh companies were dwarfed by powerhouses headquartered elsewhere but with significant regional presences.
Top Income: Verizon tops list in profitability
By Patricia Sabatini
Not surprisingly, the top five most profitable companies last year -- led Verizon -- are all giants in in their industries.
Top Returns: Results mixed in companies' return on equity
By Ann Belser
GlaxoSmithKline, which is based in the United Kingdom and has regional offices in Moon, saw a huge jump in its return on equity last
Top Stock Price: GNC delivers earnings power as best stocks performer
By Len Boselovic
Vitamin and supplement provider GNC Holdings led the list of Western Pennsylvania's top-performing stocks last year
Top Market Cap: Region's global connection evidenced by its top companies
By Len Boselovic
Western Pennsylvania's connection to the rest of the world is evident in the region's 50 largest public companies.
Top Private: Many top private companies in region post gains
By Mark Belko
Recession? What recession? That could very well be the reaction of the region's top private companies to news of the sputtering economy.
Top Foundations: Regional foundations increased giving in 2011
By Bill Toland
When members of the Pittsburgh philanthropic community look back on 2011, they'll think of two words: Bill Dietrich.
Top Health Care: Smaller health systems finding ways to thrive
By Steve Twedt
Highmark, UPMC continue to dominate regional market but others report growth.
Top Colleges: Students find even short trips abroad are life-changing
By Tim Grant
Saint Vincent College senior Courtney Briggs became the first U.S. student to intern with Kennametal Inc. in Shanghai, China.
Commentary / Innovation should know no bounds: limits set by our immigration law make no sense
By Robert S. Whitehill
Our country needs to do more to remove the obstacles that keep future Andrew Carnegies from succeeding.


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World Bulletin / News Desk
A wildfire raged through Greece's 1,000-year-old monastic community ofMount Athos on Thursday, forcing hundreds of residents and tourists in a nearby village to flee, officials said.
The blaze, which broke out on Wednesday in a forested area on the rugged Mount Athos peninsula innorthern Greece, burned down two abandoned warehouses but officials said there were no reports of anyone hurt.
Three hotels were evacuated in the coastal village of Ouranoupolis, next to the Greek Orthodox community of 20 monasteries, police said. TV pictures showed huge plumes of thick black smoke rising into the air.
A fire brigade official said about 60 firefighters, 26 trucks, four aircraft and three helicopters were deployed to battle the flames fanned by strong summer winds and scorching temperatures.
"The situation is very difficult. The mayor asked vulnerable groups to evacuate," said the official, who declined to be named.
Wildfires are common in Greece during its hot and dry summers, when intense heat is often combined with strong winds, drought or arson.
Devastating wildfires in 2007 killed 65 people, scorched thousands of hectares of forest and farmland, destroyed villages and threatened archaeological sites.
Environmental groups have often criticised the debt-choked country for not taking necessary precautions to prevent and fight forest fires.Last Mod: 09 Ağustos 2012, 16:29


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|Occurred : 8/3/2007 08:50 (Entered as : 08/03/07 08:50)
Reported: 8/4/2007 12:28:29 PM 12:28
Posted: 8/7/2007
Location: Clovis, NM
Shape: Light
Duration:5 minutes
|Looked like a bright star moving quite fast high in the sky.
Bright light. Moving very fast across the sky, kept on going for at least 5 minutes till we couldn't see it anymore. Steady light, not a blinking light.
We saw a few military aircrafts flying in the sky after the object dissappeared. No real indicators of a normal aircraft like blinking lights, or red blinking lights, trails.


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How to Add a SWOT Analysis to a Resume
SWOT -- strength, weakness, opportunity and threat -- analysis is crucial in successfully planning and executing business projects. A potential employer may indicate their desire for candidates with SWOT experience in a job posting. However, simply stating you have experience with SWOT analysis won't work on a resume. Demonstrate your understanding of the process and prior success to stand out to a hiring manager reading your resume.
Use the acronym SWOT only if it was explicitly used in the job posting. Generally avoid jargon in your resume. Instead of listing SWOT analysis when the acronym is not used, split your experience into two bullet points. For example, you could write: "Identified key organizational strengths and weaknesses relevant to project planning" and "Quantified business opportunities to crystallize successful business plans."
List the results of the projects you used the SWOT analysis for immediately after listing your experience with SWOT. For example: "Performed SWOT analysis for consumer marketing initiatives" should be immediately followed by: "Increased product sales 80 percent over two years with targeted marketing projects."
Demonstrate the abilities you have that are necessary for effective SWOT analyses. This includes your familiarity with the industry and business cycles, ability to quantify the aspects of SWOT even among vague information, and the communication skills necessary to effectively communicate your analysis to management.
Consider reorganizing your resume with functional rather than chronological headings to emphasize your experience with SWOT and other strategic analyses.
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New Zealand Herald: Auckland's fair is a mecca for collectors and those new to art, writes Dionne Christian.
For an art-lover who likes nothing more than looking at paintings, prints, video installations and sculpture, it's quite possibly a dream come true. More concrete than that, it's a five-day event at The Cloud, on Auckland's waterfront, bringing together 40 dealer galleries, representing around 150 artists, nine not-for-profit institutions, a specialist art bookstore, Pacific Real Time - a series of sculptures, installations and multimedia work dotted around the fair - and four pop-up restaurants with premier New Zealand chef (and art collector) Peter Gordon at the helm.


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It's meant to be a kit you would grab when walking up to an accident scene. I don't want a kit with everything in it, we have ambulances within 10 minutes. In my vehicle I have more extensive support tools and first aid, but this is the kit I will grab when walking up to a car accident. I published it with the hope that other readers would be motivated to make a similar one to give them confidence to help someone in need. I welcome any constructive criticism, rather than ridicule.
Thank you for the detailed reply. I'm going to get a compact Stethoscope from Amazon, about $16 and practice a bit with it. I was also thinking of adding a Sam Splint for a quick cervical collar. I see some extraction collars but they seem rather bulky to be in a car kit, but no doubt necessary. Also good point on noting when a tourniquet is applied, I'll add a Pen to the kit as well.Disconnecting the battery is an excellent idea, in my vehicle I do have cable cutters for that but I heard it creates some issues later for the car owner if the car is a minor accident, would definitely want to just disconnect it with a toolAll the suing is a shame, when I got my EMT back in the early 90's they warned me to be careful on accident scenes.
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Thank you, good info the gloves I have are Nitrile.. I didn't quite get the significance of Nitrile with Alergies, I do now.I agree on training, EMT courses are fun and serious at the same time, and 1st aid courses are a must.


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French economist Thomas Piketty has bad news for admirers of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: they screwed everything up!
Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty First Century, has ignited a world wide debate about why capitalism is broken, and it's making Kevin O'Leary lose his cool.
Piketty sifts through historical data and shows that inequality has been steadily increasing and increasing over time. And this isn't simply a freak accident of capitalism, Piketty says — it's one of capitalism's defining features.
Listen to this clip from CBC Radio's Sunday Edition where Piketty attributes the explosion in inequality in the late 20th century to the damaging neoliberal economic policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and the corresponding decline of labour unions and the progressive tax system to counter-balance the unequal effects of capitalism:


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About Mark
VOTE for Mark Meek for State Representative because integrity and competence matter! Mark's experience and professionalism will be an added value at the State level.
Dedicated To His Family
Mark and his wife, Cindy, have been married for more than 30 years and have two grown sons. Jacob is a junior at Oregon State University and Mark II holds an MBA in Finance and works in Lake Oswego. Mark was the first in his family to graduate high school and then went on to graduate from Park College in Parkville, Missouri. He is pleased that his sons are following in his footsteps. Mark and Cindy have called House District 40 home for over a decade and in that time have been involved in civic leadership and volunteerism.
Service Matters
Mark Meek is a longtime Gladstone resident who served in the U.S. Air Force, owns a small business, coached high school football, serves on the Planning Commission and raised his family here. Growing up, Mark's family needed government assistance to put food on the table and he worked his way through college, so he knows what it's like to struggle. He sees hard-working people in our community struggle with the rising cost of living while incomes are flat. Mark will work hard to pass paid family and medical leave, increase college scholarships, invest in Clackamas Community College and increase affordable housing. Mark will invest in our schools to provide smaller class sizes and increase graduation rates because education can still unlock the door to opportunity, as it did for him.
Finding affordable housing has become very difficult, especially for young couples starting out and for seniors. Mark Meek has the skills to help create solutions for the housing crisis.
Mark's plan to ensure that the Willamette Falls Legacy project remains a top priority at the state and national level will benefit our entire region
A lot of local educators support Mark Meek because he supports us, our students, and our schools.
Mark Meek really gets that we not only need good-paying jobs in our area, but we have to have the programs to train and educate workers to attract those jobs.
Democratic voters should support Mark Meek, a real estate broker and small business owner whose long history of civic involvement includes service on Clackamas County's economic development and planning commissions.
We're endorsing Mark Meek because of his strong commitment to reproductive rights.


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The Circus of Horrors at Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
A dwarf dragging a vacuum cleaner by his penis. A buxom blonde hoisted aloft upside-down with a female trapeze artist attached to her hair. A skinny, tattoo-riddled fellow with a foot-high red mohican and a forked tongue who swallows snake-shaped swords.
It's business as usual for the Circus of Horrors, or better to say unusual. Founded in 1995 and featured last year on Britain's Got Talent, this clutch of daredevil, self-declared freaks must be one of the country's hardest-working circus ensembles. The troupe has nearly 60 British gigs scheduled during the next three months, most of them one-night stands. You can catch them tonight at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, but you might want to leave the kiddies and your genteel granny at home.


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Ok, I officially love this video…not because I'm a great fan of riding the bus (although I did quite a bit years ago when I was in high school, grad school, and even growing up in the city of Detroit) but rather because I believe in the power of community!
"The future of the church depends on whether it develops true community…unless we sense that we belong to each other, with masks off, the vibrant church of today will become the powerless church of tomorrow" Larry Crabb
"Spiritual community = the presence of conflicted relationships met by spiritual friendship, spiritual direction and characterized by the dependence upon the Spirit of God" – M. Scott Peck
When I was young in the faith, I got a taste of community. There were three young men who poured themselves in me as a brother, friend, and someone with whom they shared life. For two years, those relationships gave me hope, healing, comfort, accountability and, most important, a constant glance at Jesus and the reality of the Kingdom. Over a period of months, that little "band of brothers" became infectious and grew…other people wanted "in" because they saw something that they wanted and weren't experiencing in their own life. I'm confident enough to call a spade a spade…they saw Jesus and saw the Kingdom of God. To say the least, I've been searching for a way to quench my deep desire for community ever since. Throughout numerous experiences, I have gotten close only to be sidetracked by ecclesiastical agendas, superficiality, and a host of other relational elements that caused community to break down. I'm tired of empty feelings when it comes to community – it has been my dream for a long, long time to enter anew into redemptive and Kingdom community before I reach the end of my earthly journey. I want to take the vision of scripture for a "ride" and find any way I can to experience the sense of awe, power, and satisfaction that comes in living in the flow of what Jesus created for us to experience. I promised the Lord that I would pursue that dream in my family's most recent move and transition in life. We were created to experience oneness with God and each other. It is only when we enter into that oneness do we experience the fullness of life that God intended for us. I also realize as someone who takes the scripture seriously that we need to have the quality of community that incarnates Jesus and gives people an opportunity to see something that can only happen because of God. Relationships are difficult because of the essential brokenness of humanity. That's why Christ-followers cannot tolerate having community that is anything else than a glimpse of the Kingdom. We need to be inviting people into an experience in relationships that actually transcends anything that can happen without the presence of the Holy Spirit. To have relationships like "everyone else does" does not give witness to the lives that Jesus calls us into. The following statement is a set of values that are non-negotiable in our belief about community. Community is transformational. We single-mindedly pursue the unity of love and the missional and incarnational witness of community in the context of our lives together in Kingdom living.
I know that that is alot to chew on..but take a bite and taste the vision of community! Jesus said, in fact He prayed, that we would be ONE in faith and in love. John 13 – "love one another as I have loved you." The thirst of community is not for those who are lonely and afraid but rather for those who dare to say that they follow Jesus. Christianity is a relational journey created in the image of a God who IS eternal community (we call that the "Trinity").
If you want MORE info on the vision of community, download the document that I have imbedded in this post.


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By Richard Schamp, MD
In our last edition, I mentioned the burgeoning new competency for physicians and other clinical providers – clinical documentation excellence. Let's delve further into some specifics around the kinds of competence required in a risk-adjusted payment model. CMS has a process to verify that diagnosis codes reported that are relevant for payments in the HCC (Hierarchical Condition Category) model are both correct and supported by the medical record documentation. This process is referred to as Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV). While most PACE organizations have not yet experienced a RADV audit, they must comply with all the requirements of documentation and coding, and assume that they will eventually face an audit.
I remember when my PACE organization had a full RADV audit. Going through that process completely reoriented how our PACE staff approached our documentation processes. At Capstone, we have worked with more than 80 PACE organizations, and we've seen common errors that put revenues at risk and sometimes present serious compliance issues. Here are some of the top issues:
- Incomplete notes. All encounter notes must be complete, with evidence of a history, examination, impression, and plan (or other similar format, such as SOAP). Simply listing diagnoses is not sufficient for coding and reporting – the documentation must indicate how the conditions affect patient care.
- Unsigned notes. All notes must have the rendering provider's name, credential and signature. Notes may not be signed by a non-rendering provider.
- Non-reported diagnoses. CMS requires all relevant diagnoses (a "relevant" diagnosis is one that is included in the HCC or RxHCC payment models) to be reported at least once yearly. Not addressing, not coding, or not reporting a relevant diagnosis is non-compliant. Providers may sometimes overlook chronic stable conditions and not report them, e.g. amputation status, ostomy status, stable angina, stable heart failure, etc. Careful training and data review can avoid these dropped diagnoses and dropped payments, keeping your program compliant.
- Data leaks. We commonly find diagnoses in the medical record that are not reflected in the Risk Adjustment Processing System (RAPS) data. Since they do not file claims for most encounters, PACE organizations must have robust auditing and monitoring processes to find/fix/avoid data "leaks" between the medical record and RAPS.
- Over-diagnosing and over-coding. Obviously, upcoding or changing diagnoses to obtain higher payments without supporting evidence is fraudulent. Equally problematic, providers may inadvertently allow diagnoses to become memorialized in EMRs, reporting them when they no longer exist.
These situations and other common examples could generate findings in a RADV audit; all have straightforward remedies. Your providers need strong administrative support at the organizational level to develop best practices that avoid such missteps, as they are busy caring directly for patients. Capstone can support your organization in helping providers be more efficient and proficient at documentation excellence. Let us know how we can help.


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Irish Writers Online asked for a link in which I can write something of how one got from there to here or here to there or there to there or here to here.
1--- In my last year of high school I saw a blonde girl in the second floor of the school taking something out of her school locker. I did not talk to her. I learned her name: Melinda. I wrote a story set during World War One in which a man dies. In the second story, from the viewpoint of Melinda, she is waiting for a man who doesn't come home from war. Years later I discovered that the boy had died on Melinda's birthday, something I did not know at the time of writing.
2--- I was now a writer when Al Willis published both stories in the student newspaper.
3--- Two books have seen their way into print via Dalkey Archive: THE CORPSE DREAM OF N. PETKOV and GOING TO PATCHOGUE.
4--- A conversation in Grogan's Castle Lounge about Ralph Cusack and his novel CADENZA remembered from back many years and called to mind when Gilbert Sorrentino mentioned in an article in The New York Times that he was going to re-read CADENZA that summer. I wrote to him care of his publisher that I was editing and publishing ADRIFT, the first and still only magazine which announced itself as ADRIFT WRITINGS: IRISH, IRISH AMERICAN AND. He suggested I get in touch with John O'Brien who was starting the Review of Contemporary Fiction with an issue devoted to Sorrentino's work… over the years I wrote for the review and discussed the first lists of what would become DALKEY ARCHIVE which was founded to reprint books that were out of print but still of great value starting with CADENZA in that first list… and from there to original books of which THE CORPSE DREAM OF N. PETKOV was one of the first and then GOING TO PATCHOGUE appeared a few years later and even went to a second printing, being reviewed across the country.
4--- ADRIFT WRITINGS: IRISH, IRISH AMERICAN AND had the ambition and the realized it of publishing all the major writers who happened to identify themselves in some way as Irish, centered upon Francis Stuart and James Liddy, both of whom remain as constant though shaded centers of what came after Joyce and Beckett. I had poems from both Thomas Kinsella and John Montague that arrived too late. Aidan Higgins and Desmond Hogan were beyond my reach. Francis Stuart identified two essential points for readers and writers: opposition to the soft center of Irish writing, the knitting, that seems to have expanded beyond his worst forebodings and the writer, as did Stuart going to Berlin in 1939, has the duty to seek out the place of the greatest moral ambiguity. Liddy in his long productive years created a body of visionary poetry unequaled by any other Irish poet, rooted in the felt experience of the real world, twisted by grace and a love of boy angels, he liberated more space for individual freedom than all the politicians and revolutionaries in Ireland's splattered history
5--- THE CORPSE DREAM OF N.PETKOV has been reviewed by Andrei Codrescu in The New York Times with glowing knowledgeable praise. I discovered that the so-called major publishers were happy for me and agents were also but as one honestly said, I can't eat lunch off of you and that is the only thing that matters… At that time the agent was eating off of Paul Auster.
5--- While I was writing GOING TO PATCHOGUE I was also writing ST.PATRICK'S DAY, Dublin 1974 and pieces of it appeared in The Gorey Detail and in the Review of Contemporary Fiction. The manuscript was marked up for typesetting by Steve Moore who was then the second in command at Dalkey Archive but it did not appear in print. For some reason and it was never really clear in spite of the evidence of this marked up manuscript why John O'Brien turned against publishing the book, but that is what happened. Simple as that. We have written back and forth but as is said something happened and now it is beyond… even Steve Moore confirmed these details: something…
5--- ST PATRICK'S DAY, Dublin 1974 is just that: a walking around on that day beginning in a room in The Russell Hotel with a man looking down at the end or the beginning of the parade… he walks out to the pubs and walks through all the years of his life in Dublin beginning, 1964, in a little club behind a chip shop diagonal to the hotel ... with a long excursion to Bulgaria… he goes to the memorial reading for Patrick Kavanagh where John Jordan attempts to read a memorial address… and on to life in the Corn Exchange Building and on to … the first long book about actually being in Dublin since ULYSSES.
5--- Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill was a great champion of ST PATRICK'S DAY Dublin, 1974 offering to write an introduction in addition to the blurb she wrote but the gang at Lilliput rejected it, out of hand since I was not prepared to pay them to publish it (one of the secrets of then publishing in Ireland) (Alice Quinn lost the manuscript at Alfred A. Knopf: a sweet woman who went on to being poetry editor of The NEW YORKER)…so the book lingers on and on…
6--- More books… FORGET THE FUTURE another travel book.. summer in England, 1990 the hottest summer on record.. war getting ready to happen in Kuwait… the life of James Thomson BV...the how to write about a dead poet, THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT, without the fakery of re-creation yet at the same time entering his head… a long section when the drunken Thomson assaults the blind poet Marston appeared in BOMB thanks to David Rattray… and another section in another magazine… but again… there was a voyage midst the book to Bulgaria during the time of the City of Truth… but the narrator is going a little mad
7--- FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY With a Little Bit of Monday.. in Dublin 1999, a man goes over from London to die again in Dublin, he thinks… visiting with the Irish poet N Ni… visiting with Barbara… "A Painful Case"… who knew him in Dublin in 1964.. but also a memorial to a marriage sunk by a wife who decided her feeling had changed, that she wanted to grow spiritually and she was now comparing her husband and the soon to be former husband to the UPS driver… the husband's life with the young children... remembered what had been in the now increasingly wealthy streets of Dublin.. marked by imagined tombs for all the dead of years gone by
8--- LOSS OF DIGNITY… the falling in love.. there has to be a book to be published posthumously... and this is it… not a nice book, a book about lust, nastiness, meanness… within the narrator's mind
9--- now to: JUST LIKE THAT A Book From the So-called 60s: A Beginning and THE END.. a university student over from Dublin, Spring 1965, is in bed with another man who asks in Leipzig in the DDR, Are you Jewish?… while traveling in the DDR.. all the themes of the so-called 60s are revealed at their beginnings: conflicted sexual experimentation, intoxication, the war in Vietnam HANDS OFF VIETNAM... the division of the world… paranoia reflected in the shiny stocks of the MK47s, while the second half of the book is about how those 60s ended on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the early 70s, presided over by the talk of Anthony Burgess, imitations of Charles Manson, the dead end of Sullivanian sex and the death of the Father and the birth of the man as an adult… both the ending and the beginning sections were published by Barbara Probst Solomon in THE READING ROOM… but as is the fate of most writings in little magazines…
10--- Richard Seaver, Daniel Halpern, , FSG, Knopf, WW Norton, Dalkey Archive decided they couldn't afford to do JUST LIKE THAT… the vast sums of money… or maybe they just didn't like it… though they regretted their decisions and said they admired the prose and the ambition
11--- NOTHING DOING. A man has fallen in love with the Arizona desert and goes looking for a place to be buried… he goes with the stories.. .of a Bulgarian exiled psychoanalyst arriving in the US with only a suitcase of ties, with a Marine veteran who becomes a priest and is accused of molesting boys, yet…there is the doubt.. and American man wakes up in Paris to find his wife saying, I am going to kill our son and ruin your life…and an old man in Douglas, Arizona teases out the last bits of his life after leaving New York for the Gadsden Hotel…
12---NOTHING DOING could be seen as a long commentary on Samuel Beckett's answer to John Montague's question toward the end of Beckett's life:
And the arrangements?
In the ground.
1313--- At the moment , being written: EXIT IS FINAL.. a journey around Bulgaria and why the narrator wants to be living in Strashiza, since it is as beautiful as Venice or any other obvious place you might mention… the book was to have gone to Estonia but that seems unlikely because in Bulgaria the narrator comes upon the remains of forgotten children who might have been…
131313--- Three other books: JUST ENOUGH, strangers on the train starting in the 55 Bar on Christopher Street in NYC to a death at the feet of a statue of the Sacred Heart at Bleecker and Bowery.
THE PLASTIC SLAUGHTERHOUSE begun in Sofia in the winter of 1967/68 and finished in Normandy at Easter of 1968.
EMPTY AMERICAN LETTERS a long document of my life as foot messenger for almost 25 years in New York City, all in lieu of those portraits of Abe Lincoln.
14--- I have also written introductions to AVARICE HOUSE BY Julien Green, to ANATHEMAS AND ADMIRATIONS by E.M. CIORAN published by Quartet in London and an afterword to SEASON AT COOLE by Michael Stephens published by Dalkey Archive.
15--- I have written for The Guardian, for Newsday, for the Washingto Post, the Chicago Tribune the Los Angeles Times… There is a good article on comparing Graceland and Rowan Oak. There is a disturbing profile of Allen Ginsberg…
1515--- THE VILLAGE VOICE in New York City when it was a real weekly newspaper published two stories of mine: "Goodbye W.H. Auden" which was about the poet leaving his apartment on St Mark's Place, about his lice powder, about the fucking that happened afterward. Appearing on the front page I was famous for a week meeting as a result John Lennon who had to give me money--- prompted by Yoko Ono--- to buy beer for the party which was defending the right of the Hell's Angels and listening to Ed Sanders who was just back from writing THE FAMILY and discovering that the latest kink among the Hollywood movie stars was fucking actual corpses and that one should never forget that Manson had been one of those pet dogs which turned on his masters. And a second story "A Son's Father's Day" in which I predicted that I would drink myself to death as would my father drink himself to death: dying as he did in a parking lot two years after the article appeared... I have postponed my own fate and won't be going that way, at least for today
16---I did interview profiles of Julian Green, Nina Berberova, Julian Rios, , Carlos Fuentes, Tatyana Tolstoya… .Cees Nooteboom and Alain Robbe Grillet…also Harold Brodkey and Nelida Pinon
17--- I have written many many book reviews, usually doing foreign writers, non-Americans… anything to flee the jacket of ethnicity…
18--- in mind I have interviewed Ernst Junger, Francis Stuart, Ezra Pound, Juan Carlos Onetti, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Julien Gracq, Gyorgy Ivanov, Ivan Turgenev, Herman Melville when he had stopped writing novels… Hannah Green, Jean Rhys, Uwe Johnson in his English exile, Thomas Bernhard, Miroslav Krleza, Joseph Roth in that café in Paris, Eugenio Montale in a billiard parlor in Milano and Giuseppi Berto interrupted us as he came in with George Garrett who was saying this Cuban writer Jose Lezama Lima was asking for you in paradise.


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E. Coli is Not Just in Meat or Food, It is in Petting Zoos and Swimming Pools Too
E. coli is actually a good bacterium. It is in all of our intestines to help us digest food and provide our bodies with essential vitamins such as vitamin K or the B-complex vitamins. If E. coli is in our bodies naturally, why do some people get sick or even die if they eat or are exposed to E. coli? The answer is easy. The strain of E. coli in our bodies is a different strain of E. coli than the one that can make us sick.
Beef and dairy cattle can also carry the E. coli germ in their intestines. However, it is a different strain of E. coli than the one we have in our intestines. When the beef is processed, the animals' E. coli germs can get mixed into the ground up meat.
When you are preparing a meal at home, you make sure that you wash your hands after touching raw meat. You make sure that the cutting board is sanitized after cutting raw meat on it and you make sure that all of the meat you prepared for a meal was thoroughly cooked. You also make sure that all fruits and vegetables have been thoroughly washed or cooked before eating them. You expect that a restaurant, cruise ship, resort, casino, or anyone else providing you with a meal would do the same. Sadly, that is not always the case.
Food poisoning from E.coli can come from undercooked meat that did not kill the bacteria. It can also come from cooked meat that was placed on a surface that still had raw meat juices on it. In addition, fruits and vegetables can be contaminated the same way. They can be under washed, undercooked, or placed on a surface to be cut that is contaminated with raw E. coli.
E. coli infections are not just limited to food. Petting zoos, festivals with animals and agricultural fairs also have their decent share of E. coli. It is not a bad thing for the animals. However, when a child pets or plays with one of the farm animals, the animals' E. coli can stay on the child's hands and then be transmitted into their mouth if they did not wash their hands after playing with or petting the sheep, goats or cows. E. coli infections in children are more prevalent after Easter weekend.
Another way that a person can be infected with E. coli is in swimming pools; most commonly, baby pools. If infants and toddlers who are not potty trained are allowed to swim in a pool without the appropriate swimmy diapers, any stool or bowel elimination will be allowed to seep into the pool water. If that happens, the pool or swim club must clear the pool and sanitize in accordance to the Board of Health regulations. If they do not, you child is at risk of swallowing E. coli infected pool water.
When one has been infected with the E. coli germ, the symptoms of abdominal pain, diarrhea, sometimes bloody, and severe abdominal cramps usually start 7 days after exposure to the bacteria. It can progress to up to 10 watery bowel movements a day. Some patients have even described the bowel movements as all blood.
Having 10 or more bowel movements a day can lead to dehydration and electrolyte imbalances. Some even go on to develop hemolytic uremic syndrome which is a combination of a low white blood cell count (hemolytic anemia), low platelet count (thrombocytopenia) and kidney failure. Sadly, some patients do not survive the destruction that the E. coli bacteria caused.
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There are two types of graffiti art that are worth mentioning. The first one is the sort that blows us away with its visual appearance. The second one is the kind that conveys a message and it actually makes you stop and think about what might be painted on the wall. If you, as a graffiti artist, are managing to simultaneously coexist in both of those categories - well, you're doing something right. The art of the infamous Escif achieved both being wonderful for observing and having an important point to make. Only his work is not beautiful in the traditional sense of the word, but in an elegant, minimal way to which Escif stayed true for all of his career. This artist is making a conscious effort to get people to look at his work and not just focus on the pure aesthetic but rather be aware of what is happening - Escif explained it best: I´m not looking for decorative paintings, I try to wake up viewers' minds.
Escif regularly works on the walls of Valencia, but good luck catching him - he has stayed anonymous for nearly twenty years since he started painting. Back in the late '90, he came to the public attention with his black and white minimal design, as well as for his strange scenes that border anecdotes. Escif's pieces are deceptively simple yet inspired to a point they cause strong responses from viewers. He uses any masonry surfaces as vertical or horizontal canvases - from small cracks in walls to huge pieces of architecture. It's easy to imagine the real Escif as a caped man who runs as an invisible shadow during the night and seeks valid places to paint, all the while successfully avoiding police officers who haven't been able to catch him for two decades. But despite that illustrative thought, Escif does not consider graffiti to be a guerilla technique, but more of an art of action, of performance. Be that as it may, his art is kinda aggressive - it uses simple lines and figures to send a clear and direct message. Escif usually comments on the aspects of capitalism, politics, the economy and other sensitive social issues that plague modern metropolis.
Over the years, Escif developed his own personal symbology and such elements are incorporated repeatably onto his work. Black holes, walking walls, tumbling common objects; these are only a couple of examples that he often uses. This has led to a special kind of relationship with the citizens of Valencia - they feel as they know Escif personally, they know what to expect from him. His paintings became a part of Valencia as much as the buildings upon which Escif paints. This kind of relationship with viewers is not common amongst graffiti artists. But don't let that lead you to a conclusion Escif gets monotonous! Knowing someone is not the same as being able to predict them, is it? Escif is constantly evolving and developing new languages - just as the person changes, his art grows as well. Interestingly, if we were to catalogue his artwork from the first piece to the last, we would be able to see the development of his style to a point it's instantly possible to distinguish Escif's art from anything else you might compare him with. Escif tries to focus his work around concepts, not shapes and colors. But, ironically and honestly, his graffiti (or public art as he likes to call them) is some of the most apeling work we've seen in a long time.
The Escif constitutes his art on the fact it's all about the viewers - the only meaning to his work worth mentioning is the one viewer decides to give it. Audiences that accidently stumble upon his graffitis have the most honest opinion of all the viewers. That's why it's essential for his work to exist exclusively on the streets. For that reason, Escif has a strong belief that graffiti art is pure street art and as such is never under any circumstances to be taken from their urban environments. By doing this you take its validity, it's purpose. Escif himself said: graffiti as a concept implies transgression of public space, and because of this its institutional adaptation ceases to have value. Graffiti is on the street, in its natural condition, where it will die. Obviously, he feels taking his art to galleries is the same as destroying them. But, being anonymous as he is - at least for now - Escif is not really able to come out and stop such procedures from happening. He can only speak through the internet and the medium of graffiti with hopes that someone will listen. Luckily for Valencia, there is so much Escif artwork out there that it's practically impossible to tear them all down and put them on display in galleries and museums. A lucky break for the second largest city of Catalonia.
Escif is a Spaniard and belongs to the city of Valencia, but over the years, his work has become increasingly international. His graffiti apply to all of us living in this day and age. We don't know who Escif is, but we can safely presume he lets a little smile go for every time he sees his graffiti used on the other side of the planet. And it's used for a good reason - Escif's graffiti is simply mesmerizing. Such wide recognition might tempt some of us into revealing our identities, but not Escif who probably doesn't plan on coming out anytime soon. Furthermore, he stayed true to his (presumable) home city and Escif work sightings haven't been reported anywhere else but in Valencia for the last twenty years. Such behaviour makes us want to shake his hand and thank him for bringing back our faith in the romantic way of making art. If only we knew which hand to shake.
Featured Image: Escif - Unnamed graffiti in Valencia - Photo Credits Fubiz
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Interview: hi5 President Alex St. John Discusses Sumo, Avatars and Facebook [Video]
At last week's Casual Connect the first day had people atwitter about the Facebook vs. hi5 sumo match up later that evening. This was part of some ingenious marketing from the hi5 team, and they were looking to publicize the fact that their new development platform is ready to take on Facebook and establish hi5 as a truly great place to develop games. I got to sit down with Alex St. John, the former founder of WildTangent and now CTO and President of hi5, about his plans for the site. Check out the video after the jump.
Check out our interview with Alex below, and let us know what you think in the comments.
hi5 President and CTO Alex St. John Explains How hi5 Rocks for Games from Neil Vidyarthi on Vimeo.
Now, if you're also interested in his sumo exploits, hi5 was kind enough to send us the video trailer and I've attached it below :) I was at the event and have got to say it was a good one.
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" You should try and offer a good base pay rate so that you can get the most skilled applicants at your company. "
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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
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Project Lead the Way Students More Prepared for Higher Education
Van Overschelde, James P.
American Journal of Engineering Education, v4 n1 p1-12 2013
Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is a hands-on, project-based engineering curriculum for high school and middle school students, which has quadrupled annual enrollment in Texas in five years to over 23,000 students. The diversity of students participating has also increased dramatically. Using six years of longitudinally-linked student data, the academic outcomes of cohorts of PLTW students were compared to matched cohorts of non-PLTW students. Matching was based on Grade 8 state math assessment scores and demographic and program participation variables. Findings show that PLTW students scored significantly higher on the state's Grade 11 mathematics assessment, a higher percentage met the college-ready criterion, a higher percentage enrolled in Texas higher education institutions, and the non-college-bound PLTW students earned higher wages.
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, High School Students, Middle School Students, Enrollment Trends, Student Diversity, Active Learning, Student Projects, Longitudinal Studies, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Grade 8, Demography, Student Participation, Predictor Variables, Grade 11, Compensation (Remuneration), College Attendance, Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Statistical Analysis, Grade 12
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The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) are organising a meeting on commodity trading and transparency on 20 October 2015 (13:00-14:00), which will take place on the margins of the 30th EITI Board meeting. Extraction of oil, gas and minerals have far-reaching effects on resource-rich countries. It can spur economic growth and social development, or, when poorly managed, lead to corruption and conflict. More transparency and openness in producing as well as host countries can contribute to ensure that more citizens benefit from extracting natural resources.
With the increasing global focus on transparency in the trading of commodities, this meeting seeks to provide a platform for dialogue on transparency in commodity trading and to discuss the role of the EITI. Co-hosted by the EITI and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the meeting will bring together representatives from governments, including national oil companies, commodity trading companies, civil society organizations and academia to discuss transparency in commodity trading.
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Another of the built examples at Trondheim University which will be presented, is a doctor's waitingroom. It is a case study of special interest because it often appears to be a neglected area. Let us start asking: What do we have in common when we are waiting to come in to a doctor? We are nervous and we feel sometimes miserable. Analysing the situation we understand the need for an interior that cares for our state of mind. The level of light is important in this situation. Light has to speak softly. Instead of the ordinary strong light in the middle of the ceiling, several spots are selected to lighten the small tables separating the seats. The separation is supposed to give a feeling of privacy. By the low row of reflected planes we experience an intimate and warming atmosphere in the room. A special place for children contributes to the total impression of calm. In this corner the inside of some shelves are lit by indirect light, an effect which puts emphasis on the small scale suitable for a child. And it also demonstrates the good results of variation. The light setting in this room shows how light is caught two different ways.
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Sydney 18 February 2009 - Axway, the leading global provider of multi-enterprise solutions and infrastructure, today announced the appointment of John Lee as Regional Manager – Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. Lee, who has a strong history with the company in Asia, has relocated to Sydney from Singapore and will be responsible for both sales and channel partner development programs. His daily charter will include market development and ongoing sales of the Axway Synchrony solution suite. John will also be launching the Axway partner channel model within Australia for the first time.

"John is an exciting addition to our local team and will add great depth on Axway capabilities for our sales channel and enterprise clients," outlined Mr Stree Naidu, Axway Tumbleweed's Regional Vice President Asia Pacific and Japan.

Axway has commenced its recruitment drive for reseller and system integrator partners and has additionally launched its training programs within its new Sydney-based Sales and Training Office for existing Tumbleweed partners.

"Over the next twelve months John will focus on working closely with our existing Tumbleweed and new Axway channel partners to ensure that they are able to sell and support the Axway Synchrony solution suite as well. This is key to our global integration program," continued Naidu.

"With the introduction of a new product set as part of our merger with Axway we believe that we can further grow our sales channel here in what is a key market for the company."

John joins the Australian team from his most recent role as Area Manager, Axway, Asia South. Prior to this he held a variety of roles in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business Process Management (BPM) and Financial Supply Chain Integration both within Axway and Reuters Consulting.

John has a Degree in Computer Engineering, and Masters Degree in Applied Finance from University of Adelaide, Australia.

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Axway is one of the leading global providers of collaborative business solutions. Axway establishes the dynamic connections -- within and among enterprises -- that make companies easier to do business with. Spanning all industries, over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries depend on Axway to manage and control their business-critical information in motion --improving value chain efficiency, regulatory compliance and quality of service. Built on a service-oriented architecture, Axway's Synchrony solutions feature a highly flexible integration and B2B framework, business and technical analytics, and professional services. Axway also offers customized solutions for the financial services, life sciences and automotive industries. Many of Axway's solutions are available in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. A subsidiary of Sopra Group, SA, Axway is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. More information can be found at www.axway.com

About Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed Communications Corp., now part of Axway, is an industry leader in managed file transfer, email security and identity validation, providing enterprise-class solutions to organizations of all sizes. Tumbleweed's innovative products enable organizations to effectively manage and protect business-critical internet communications, with capabilities that span secure file transfer, encryption, data loss prevention, and email security. Tumbleweed has more than 3,500 customers worldwide, including blue-chip companies across an array of industries such as Technology, Retail, Finance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Telecom, Energy, and the U.S. Government. The world's most security conscious organizations rely upon Tumbleweed technology including Bank of America Securities, JPMorgan Chase & Co., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Our award-winning products build on 15 years of R&D and 31 security patents in the U.S. alone – many of which are licensed by other security vendors. More information can be found at www.tumbleweed.com.

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U&A (needs and behaviours)
U&A (needs and behaviours)
"U&A" research is a specific type of research project related to understanding why and how people use products and services, and what they think of them. The "U" means "Usage" and the "A" means "Attitudes", but such programmes will often include things like awareness, understanding, behaviours, needs and motivations, etc. It will often provide insight on where and why people are buying / making decisions – and the factors influencing those decisions.
Why use U&A research?
Mustard has delivered U&A surveys across many sectors, categories and products. The focus on understanding behaviour (and the factors that drive behaviour) means we have done many such studies in leisure – understanding the different needs, behaviours and perceptions of visitors / customers versus prospects, with a focus on trying to positively influence future behaviour e.g. repeat visits.
When analysing and interpreting data, we ground our approach in theories such as behavioural economics and irrational decision making. Looking at consumer behaviour through the lens of System 1 or 'fast, effortless, automatic and emotional thinking' vs. System 2 or 'slow, rational and conscious thinking' allows us to unlock the biases of the human mind and understand how they influence not only decisions that consumers 'say' they make, but also the decisions that they actually make.
We use trends analysis before, during and after the research process to understand usage, attitudes and behaviours from a broader contextual standpoint. We look at consumer, market and cultural trends to better understand what is happening and the likely direction of travel. This allows us to deliver more meaningful research and recommendations, with a more rounded appreciation of the challenges and opportunities faced by our clients and their competitors.
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text: On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Michael Richter wrote: [much that I agree with] Let me say that I love Erlang and greatly respect those who have developed it, and that I have met with nothing but kindness. As I haven't paid a single farthing for the Erlang documentation, I should start by saying that as reference material, it works well. But the only way I ever discovered stdlib was by expanding every item in the navbar until I found it. And that's despite knowing that the bundle in question was called 'stdlib'. I have found the hardcopy manuals a great resource because my approach to any book-like material is to try to read it cover to cover. There's a very different problem for someone trying to read online stuff, and it's basically an information retrieval problem. Here's an example. I just stumbled across the 'slave' module. If I had been looking for it I would not have looked for 'slave'; I would have been looking for "create remote node". Here's another aspect. For some reason the click-on-a-lot-of- nested-folder-icons interface seems to have crossed from Windows into the real world (:-). But a rigid hierarchical tree is NOT a good model for documentation. For example, if I want to read about "database applications", I really really want ETS, DETS, ms_transform, and a bunch of other things to be visible at the same time, not just odbc and mnesia. A hierarchical structure is legitimate for printed material, where you don't want a lot of duplication. But in a hypertext system, it's much less useful. Reverting to 'slave', the description for the 'slave' module never actually defines what a slave node IS. We learn that - a slave node dies when the master dies - a slave node needs to have the same Erlang distribution in the same place as the master but what OTHER differences are there between slave nodes and other nodes. For example, if I have two nodes A and B in a cluster and node B creates a slave C, can A talk directly to C? When is it better to create a node as a slave than otherwise? When is it worse? This is what I have against the JavaDoc way, now faithfully copied by Erlang programmers who wouldn't dream of copying Java. It strongly encourages a focus on *part* of the documentation. A useful part, but *only* part. In fact, precisely the part that you might be able to figure out for yourself by reading the code. A good guideline for anyone working on Erlang documentation, whether in the core Erlang/OTP team or elsewhere, is to constantly ask the question "what do programmers need to know about using this module that they WOULDN'T be able to find out by reading the code." The documentation for ms_transform, which I also stumbled over by accident one day, is actually pretty good that way. It tells you what it's _for_, why it's useful, with examples of how to use it.


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On MSNBC Wednesday morning, "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough had one of those refreshingly direct moments where he cut through all the political blather with a blunt assessment of what's really going on in the presidential race. Mr. Scarborough was talking about Rick Santorum's chances of being the nominee in 2016, when panelist Mark Halperin interjected that Mitt Romney might win in the fall (thereby taking 2016 out of the equation for Republicans). At that point, Scarborough irritatedly cut him off:
"Nobody thinks Romney's going to win [the general election]. Let's just be honest. Can we just say this for everybody at home? The Republican establishment – I have yet to meet a single person from the Republican establishment who thinks Mitt Romney's going to win the general election this year. They won't say it on TV, because they've got to go on TV, and they don't want people writing them nasty e-mails. I obviously don't care. But I have yet to meet anybody in the Republican establishment that worked for George W. Bush, that works in the Republican Congress, that worked for Ronald Reagan that thinks Mitt Romney's going to win the general election."
This basically corresponds with Decoder's own conversations with various Republican insiders. There are many who say they think President Obama is vulnerable – but there are far fewer who, when speaking off the record, say they believe Mr. Romney is well positioned to take advantage of that vulnerability. In a word, many Republicans smell a loser.
Yes, Romney is widely seen as the most "electable" candidate among Republican primary voters, and has been throughout this campaign. In Tuesday's Wisconsin primary, 38 percent of voters said that beating Mr. Obama was their top priority, and 68 percent of those voters chose Romney. But that doesn't mean they're confident Romney will beat Obama – just that they think he has a better shot at it than the other GOP candidates on the ballot.
In fact, when pollsters ask voters who they think is going to win in the fall (as opposed to who they want to win), Obama wins pretty handily. A recent Pew survey found that 59 percent of voters believe Obama would beat Romney in the general election, including 30 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.
And it is that underlying sense – that, barring some unexpected turn of events such as a double-dip recession, Romney is probably going to lose in the fall – that has really been weighing down Romney's candidacy. The reluctance on the part of many Republicans to back him until recently, and the lack of enthusiasm shown by many when they do get on board, probably have less to do with Romney's positions on the issues and whether he's a true conservative or not, than with this widespread sense that he is likely to lose to Obama.
That's why Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida followed his endorsement of Romney by telling The Daily Caller: "There are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish had run for president – but they didn't." That's why former Gov. George Pataki (R) of New York said, after endorsing him: "Mitt is not a perfect candidate," adding, "it's hard for blue-collar families like mine to identify with him. It's hard for economic conservatives to identify with him." (In fact, Mr. Pataki actually won an NCAA-style bracket put on by Yahoo News for "most tepid Romney endorsement.")
As "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart joked: "These are his supporters! For God's sake, this is politics, presidential politics. Fake it better!"
Some of them are trying. But, as Scarborough noted on Wednesday, in their heart of hearts, many Republicans – right now, at least – really aren't anticipating victory, which makes that enthusiasm a lot harder to muster.
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Global markets stabilize as Turkey jitters ease
BEIJING (AP) — Most global stock markets steadied Tuesday as worries subsided over Turkey's currency crisis and its potential impact on other countries.
KEEPING SCORE: Germany's DAX rose 0.2 percent to 12,376 and France's CAC 40 was up less than 0.1 percent to 5,414 after economic growth figures for the eurozone were revised up. London's FTSE 100 shed 0.2 percent to 7,628. On Wall Street, futures for the Standard & Poor's 500 index and Dow Jones industrial average were up 0.3 percent.
ASIA'S DAY: The Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.2 percent to 2,780.96 while Tokyo's Nikkei 225 added 2.3 percent to 22,356.08. Hong Kong's Hang Seng declined 0.7 percent to 27,752.93 and Seoul's Kospi advanced 0.5 percent to 2,258.91. Sydney's S&P-ASX 200 advanced 0.8 percent to 6,299.60 and India's Sensex added 0.6 percent to 33,751.22. Benchmarks in Taiwan, New Zealand and Southeast Asia also advanced.
TURKISH TURMOIL: Turkey's lira stabilized near record lows amid hopes that Turkey is in talks with the U.S. to ease tensions between the sides. Turkey's central bank also earlier announced measures to help its banks, but economists say that what's needed is an interest rate increase of several percentage points. The lira is down over 40 percent this year as investors question whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government can cope with problems including a diplomatic spat with Washington that has resulted in higher U.S. tariffs. Erdogan has ruled out an interest rate hike, which can slow economic growth, but analysts say one is urgently needed to stabilize the currency.
CONTAGION FEARS: Emerging markets had fallen Monday on concern that Turkey's turmoil could highlight similar problems in their economies. The Argentine peso and India's rupee hit a record low against the dollar. But those jitters eased somewhat later Tuesday.
ANALYST'S TAKE: Asian markets were "relatively more resilient" to Turkey jitters than South Africa and Latin America were, said Philip Wee and Radikha Rao of DBS Group in a report. But they said the U.S. tariff hike on Turkish steel at a time of "considerable stress" tells emerging economies not to expect Washington's help to calm their markets. "Expect more stress if the Fed continues to look past the emerging market turmoil (like it did in May) and keeps to gradual rate hike path," they said.
CHINA COOLING: Growth in factory output, consumer spending and retail sales in July were weaker than expected, adding to signs of an economic slowdown. Factory output rose 6 percent over a year earlier, in line with the previous month but below forecasts. Retail sales gained 8.8 percent, down from June's 9 percent. Investment in factories and other fixed assets grew 5.5 percent in the first seven months of the year, down from 5.7 percent in the year to June. Forecasters have expected economic growth to decline since regulators tightened lending controls last year to rein in surging debt.
ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude gained 89 cents to $68.09 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, used to price international oils, added $1.03 to $73.64 per barrel in London.
CURRENCY: The dollar gained to 110.81 yen from Monday's 110.73 yen. The euro declined to $1.1406 from $1.1411.