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Healthcare abuse and fraud in nursing homes cost the healthcare system billions and put residents at risk. Nursing home administrators and staff have a legal obligation to protect residents from personal identity or medical records theft, withholding medication or overmedicating and other forms of mistreatment that occur where nursing home fraud takes place.
If you suspect that a nursing home resident is affected by healthcare abuse or fraudulent billing practices, help is available. Call 1-866-548-9636 today for a free case consultation. Learn more about your rights and what you can do if you suspect fraud.
What is Healthcare Abuse and Fraud in Nursing Homes?
Healthcare abuse and fraud is the practice of improper, inflated or otherwise unlawful medical billing. Medicaid, Medicare and private insurers who fund the care of nursing home residents are vulnerable to fraud. When it happens, residents are inevitably affected. In nursing homes, healthcare abuse and fraud includes:
- Phantom billing – Where a nursing home bills for services or care that is either unnecessary or not performed.
- Double billing, upcoding or upbilling – Billing includes more procedures or supplies that are more expensive than those performed or used.
- Billing for medically unnecessary goods or services.
- Billing for non-covered goods or services.
- Providing kickbacks in exchange for unused drugs or medical records.
- Managed Care Providers billing Managed Care Plans for medically unnecessary services.
Federal and state agencies investigate complaints of Medicare and Medicaid fraud, in addition to proactively seeking out offenders to bring them to justice. These agencies can use the Medicare Fraud Strike Force and the criminal justice system to punish those who commit healthcare fraud and deter others from participating. However, these systems do not provide compensation for elderly victims in nursing homes who have been adversely affected.
If you suspect that you or a loved one are suffering mistreatment, abuse or neglect in a nursing home, you do not have to fight the system alone. Call 1-866-548-9636 to learn more about how you can protect nursing home residents from healthcare fraud and abuse.
Who Does Healthcare Abuse and Fraud Affect?
The perpetrators of healthcare abuse and fraud may feel that the amount of money they are inappropriately billing is just a small drop in the huge national healthcare spending bucket.
However, Medicare and Medicaid fraud are the most prevalent form of insurance fraud in the United States. Experts estimate that fraud adds roughly 10% to annual Medicare and Medicaid spending.
Healthcare abuse and fraud in nursing homes is more than a simple financial crime. The impacts and harmful effects on vulnerable nursing home residents can impact the victim’s quality of life, emotional well-being and physical health.
How Are Nursing Home Residents At Risk?
Nursing home residents are already among the most vulnerable members of society. Due to their physical limitations, cognitive issues and other conditions, they may be reliant on nursing home staff for meals, medication and personal care.
This puts nursing home residents at risk of all kinds of mistreatment by those involved in healthcare fraud. These are just a few of the ways healthcare abuse and fraud affects victims:
- Stolen medical records provide information that identity thieves can use to obtain controlled prescription medications.
- Nursing home residents may be pressured by pharmacists, nursing home staff or others on whom they rely for access to medication to sell their personal information in exchange for kickbacks. This forces them to participate in the crime.
- Staff members may succumb to bribery to sell unused drugs. This incentivizes withholding medications from residents who need them.
- Nursing home resident medical records may be falsified to justify fraudulent billing, which can endanger the patient’s care and even their life in the future.
- Residents are at risk of unnecessary procedures and medications being imposed upon them to justify fraudulent billing.
Nursing home staff and other service providers who work inside nursing homes are in the best position to detect and report healthcare abuse and fraud. However, these people also understandably fear the potential repercussions of reporting their employer to federal or state regulators.
Call Fight Nursing Home Abuse now to learn more about your rights and responsibilities in cases of healthcare abuse and fraud in nursing homes. Call us toll free at 1-866-548-9636.
What Compensation is Available to Nursing Home Residents Affected by Healthcare Abuse and Fraud?
Healthcare abuse can have a severe and long-lasting impact on its victims. In the most severe cases, wrongful death can result from nursing home fraud. For example, a resident whose medical records have been falsified to justify billing for an opioid medication is vulnerable to having that medication administered by other medical professionals with good intentions. Where a resident is allergic to the drug or has other prescriptions or medical conditions that are contraindicated, the reaction could be fatal.
When a loved one dies due to healthcare abuse, a law firm can help families secure compensation. Compensation may include funeral costs, burial or cremation expenses, pain and suffering experienced before death and more.
If you have experienced the detrimental effects of healthcare abuse and fraud in nursing homes, compensation may be available for:
- Pain and suffering
- Therapies, counseling, rehabilitation, or other services required as a result of the abuse
- Moving you to a safe facility for your security and well-being
- Financial losses sustained as a result of the fraud
- Emotional anguish
- Proper medications, adaptive equipment, mobility aids, and other medical supplies denied to you as a result of the fraud
Contact a Nursing Home Abuse Law Firm
If you or someone you love is suffering from healthcare abuse and fraud, you should know that you are not alone. At Fight Nursing Home Abuse, we help victims and their families understand their legal rights. We also explain the options available to them for obtaining justice.
While we know that you feel overwhelmed, help is just a call away. Call 1-866-548-9636 to request a free consultation with our nursing home abuse lawyer.


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Fantasy/Concord Music Group [Release date 20.01.17]
Despite this being Alejandro Escovedo’s twelfth studio album I had not heard of him before, something I am glad has been rectified as this a wonderful album and has me wanting to explore his back catalogue. The album is produced by Peter Buck (R.E.M.) and Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5), who are joined by guitarist Kurt Bloch (Fastbacks), drummer John Moen (Decembertists), saxophonist Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) and singers Corin Tucker and Kelly Hogan.
Musically it reminded me of Hold Steady/Neil Young on the upbeat rock of ‘Heartbeat Smile’. The backing vocals of Kelly Hogan and Corin Tucker really add to the song and their contribution throughout the album adds to the overall sound greatly. ‘Horizontal’ fair blasts you away with its loud guitar with a distorted guitar solo Neil Young would love. You can hear the influence of R.E.M.’s Peter Buck on this one.
Whiff of 70′s rock and T.Rex on the riff-tastic ‘Shave The Cat’, a radio hit if only daytime radio would open their ears and playlists. ‘I Don’t Want To Play Guitar Anymore’ has Alenjandro in reflective mode, looking back on his life and why he may not want to play guitar as there are no more stories left to say. Hopefully not as he has found a good partnership here with Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey.
Highly recommended and an album that stays with the listener long after you finishing listening to it, not just melody wise but also the lyrics and song themes. ****
Review by Jason Ritchie
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text: Yes, Don Quijote attacked windmills and was dillusional. But was he really mad? Don't people today decieve themselves that money will make them happy, or that they can live however they want without consequences? So yes, Don Quijote is a bit extreme. But is he really deceiving himself any more than modern day people, who strive to reach an unobtainable goal or chose to ignore reality? I'm not so sure that Don Quijote crazier than the average person.

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North Carolina OL decommits from Maryland day after explosive ESPN reports
The day after two explosive ESPN reports on Maryland football resulting in multiple staffers being put on administrative leave, the Terrapins have lost a 2019 commitment.
Parker Moorer, a 3-star OT/DE out of Charlotte, North Carolina, announced he was decommitting from Maryland on Saturday. The note attached to Moorer’s tweet makes no mention of the recent reports, but the timing of Moorer’s announcement links him to the recent news.
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Moorer committed to Maryland in April. He has one other Big Ten offer, Rutgers. The other Power 5 offers among his 13 total comes from Louisville and West Virginia.
Without Moorer, Maryland’s 2019 class is down to nine commitments. The 247Sports Composite ranks the class No. 14 in the Big Ten and No. 71 nationally.
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Julie Delpy writes, directs, and stars in The Countess, a stuffy—possibly mind-numbingly dull—take on the Erzsebet Bathory story. The film is being shopped at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Countess Bathory is is one of history’s most notorious milfs/serial killers. She is believed to have murdered numerous virgin girls and used their blood as bathwater in an effort to remain youthful looking for her young suitor.
Delpy is the Oscar-nominated director of Two Days in Paris. Sadly, this movie looks exactly what an Oscar nominated director would do with the subject matter. But, it does have one thing going for it: Australian actress Radha Mitchell.
While it’s unclear what role Mitchell plays, it is the kind of high-brow movie the sexy 36-year-old may go nude in.
Mitchell impressive horror creds include this year’s The Crazies remake, creature-feature Rogue, the superb Silent Hill, and Vin Diesel’s only watchable flick Pitch Black.
Radha Mitchell is part of Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-Fi Today.

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The votes have been cast in the schools of Council District 30, which includes parts of Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village and Ridgewood, as part of a pilot program for educational participatory budgeting, the first program of its kind in the city.
Like the annual participatory budgeting process, members of each school were able to cast votes on how a capital funding allocation of $100,000 would be spent in their school. The total funding to the district’s 21 schools was $2.2 million, with Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale) announcing that three schools received additional funding due to their high levels of student participation in the voting.
“The project not only provides needed upgrades for local schools, but also gives students an opportunity to be engaged in a meaningful democratic process,” Crowley said. “This project empowers the school community in a new way. And when students and parents participate, they witness firsthand how their vote can make a difference.”
The winning projects ran the gamut of capital improvements, with 11 of the 21 schools opting to use the funding to increase their supplies of laptops and/or smartboards for educational use. Additionally, PS 97 in Woodhaven will upgrade the sound system in the auditorium and Queens Metro High School will be using the money to improve the bleachers in its gymnasium.
The three schools that received additional funding were PS/IS 113 in Glendale, which got $50,000 for 93 percent participation; PS 91 in Glendale, $30,000 for 81 percent participation; and PS 290 in Ridgewood, $20,000 for 78 percent participation.
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Models with Selection on Both Viability and Fertility (Fecundity)
M. Frank Norman, 10/1/2008
This note concerns models for evolution under selection on the basis of viability (probability of survival to reproductive age) and fertility (related to number of offspring) in a large, random mating population. It is an introduction to the spreadsheet
that calculates and graphs the trajectories of these models for arbitrary parameter values, including values where population mean fitness declines.
We assume that there are only two alleles, A1 and A2, hence three genotypes, a = A1A1 , b = A1A2 , and c = A2A2 , with viabilities sa, sb, sc, fertilities ta, tb, tc, and genotype frequency distribution pa, pb, and pc in zygotes (newly conceived individuals) of some generation. This distribution is the same for males and females.
The viability selection process leads to a modified genotype frequency distribution ps, where psg = pgsg/sum(phsh), g = a, b, c. (Sums are always over repeated indices.) There is then random mating among surviving adults, and a mated couple of gentypes g×h produces, on the average, f(tg,th) offspring, whose genotypes are distributed according to the usual Mendelian rules. The expected number, ng , of offspring of genotype g can then be calculated from a table like those used in the derivation of the Hardy-Weinberg law, and these numbers can be divided by their sum to obtain the zygotic genotype distribution in the next generation.
In this model, the fitness (expected number of offspring) of an individual of genotype g is
wg = sg sum(f(tg,th)psh)
where sg takes account of survival or non-survival and the sum is an average (using post-survival probabilities) of couple fertilities over various possibilities of g’s mate. Population mean fitness is the average (using pre-survival probabilities) of these,
w = sum(wgpg).
We focus on the cases of additive and multiplicative fertility, f(t,u) = t+u and t×u. The corresponding mean fertilities can be shown to be
additive w = 2 sum(pgsgtg) = 2 sum(pgsg) sum(psgtg)
multiplicative w = sum(pgsgtg) sum(psgtg) = sum(pgsg) (sum(psgtg))2 .
Norman, M. Frank, A very simple model for declining mean fitness, Journal of Bioeconomics, 2005, 7, 157-160,
I showed that mean fitness could decline in the additive case, but claimed that this could not happen in the multiplicative case, since that case was equivalent to a pure viability selection model with viabilities sgtg , and mean fitness never declines in one-locus viability selection models. I now see that this claim was not entirely correct. The claimed equivalence is well known for trajectories of gene and genotype frequencies, but the formulas for mean fitness are not equivalent, and, in fact, the multiplicative fitness model can exhibit declining mean fitness for parameter values not very different from those that produce declining mean fitness in the additive model.
The spreadsheet calculates and graphs trajectories for arbitrary parameter values for both additive and multiplicative models, and highlights parameter values for which mean fitness declines.

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DVB Debate this week discussed the obstacles that stand in the way of the next generation’s path to success.
Speaking on the panel at Pansodan studio in Rangoon were: youth writer Linn Thaik Nyunt; youth platform leader for the Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs’ Association, Thinn Thinn Sett; and founder of Mingalar Myanmar, Dr. Phone Win.
Dr Phone Win suggested that to be successful, it is not enough to have skills, you also need to have close ties with the government.
“If you find someone who is rich and not a crony, point them out to me,” he said.
“If you don’t have the government in your pocket, there will be no water from the faucet.”
Writer Linn Thaik Nyunt said the conditions in Burma meant it would take a long time for Burma’s future entrepreneurs to make it. He mentioned that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, both dropped out of school but still became highly successful.
“In Burma, if you drop out in second year, you will become a beggar,” said Linn Thaik Nyunt.
But Thin Thin Sett claimed young people needed to take an active role in pursuing opportunities.
“Sometimes opportunities come to you and sometimes you have to go grab them yourself. I do not agree with young people if they are just going to wait for the opportunities to come to them,” said Thin Thin Sett.
One of the main arguments in the debate was the issue of cronyism. Panelists said corruption was a big problem in Burma and was the reason why so many of the country’s brightest did not become successful.
“Cronies exist because of corruption. If young people continue to do things the way cronies do, corruption will never cease,” said studio guest and National Democratic Force party member, Aung Ko Ko.
Salai Samuel from the Chin Youth Forum agreed and claimed only one in ten people are successful without having ties to cronies.
“I agree with the fact that we can only be successful if have ties with persons in power,” he said.
The studio generally concurred that the younger generation would have a better chance of being successful when corruption was tackled. They also agreed that young people needed to work harder but said there needed to be societal systems in place that allowed young people to pursue opportunities.
Next week on DVB Debate: To what extent is Burma ready for refugees to return home?
You can join the debate and watch the full programme in Burmese at www.dvbdebate.com
Or share your views with us by commenting on our website at www.dvb.no


Raja Casablanca, in the first phase of the Confederations Cup, on Sunday. Vita Club (3-0) was auctioned. Report
Raja Casablanca has added an ASVT Club (3-0)In the first round of the Confederations Cup this Sunday night. The controversy surrounding a complex Mohammed Yyi was presented to the party before a single demonstration of the Green Devils. Juan Carlos suffered from aggressive possession of the Guerrilla men, "WCB" was old as defensive football: physical density and quick counter in midfield. When the plan was critical Jean-Marc Makcusu, big aggressive property, injured, Was replaced by Eddie Ngoyi (24th). The king's pressure increased sharply. Hosts dominate points, but did not include functionality. Before the break, there was a little better chance, while Lukeng captured Rahim (41) good head in his match. In one half, King Casablanca scored 11 shots for only one shot. Moracons did the compromise after the break?
And the king decided to target …
The answer in the back of the locker room was not long. On fast attacks, Benhalib was performing one Outstanding wait for Rahimi. Kara is already a scorer in the quarter on Brazzville grounds, the young center-cheats quietly lurking and allow its team to finally take advantage (48th, 1-0). Due to smog smoking, the meeting was blocked in a few minutes due to smog. It has not changed anythingClimbing by the king. With a nice shot at a low post, Rahimi made second lead of lead (61, 2-0). Things were made easier for the hosts when AS Vita Club accepted the penalty kick through Bunga. Benhalib scored the ninth goal of the season in the Confederations Cup against Lukong (65th, 3-0). Ten diminished, Florent Ebège's voice was heard. No significant feedback has been reported. At the Martiors Stadium, they have to show a completely different face in order to be expected to return to the most settled position next week. At this price there is a great feat.
– CF (FR) (@KEF_Online_FR) November 25, 2018
– cf (@CAF_Online) November 25, 2018


Paolo di Canio, the new Sunderland manager, has issued a statement declaring he does not support "the ideology of fascism".
The Italian's appointment has sparked controversy on Wearside, with a number of supporters vowing to boycott the club, feeling "sickened and ashamed" by Di Canio's political beliefs.
While at Lazio, Di Canio declared "I'm not a racist, I'm a fascist" and made fascist gestures to Lazio's far-right supporters.
At his press conference on Tuesday he said the fascist accusations were "ridiculous and pathetic", before today's statement clarifying his stance.
“I have clearly stated that I do not wish to speak about matters other than football, however, I have been deeply hurt by the attacks on the football club," Di Canio said.
“This is a historic, proud and ethical club and to read and hear some of the vicious and personal accusations is painful. I am an honest man, my values and principles come from my family and my upbringing.
"I feel that I should not have to continually justify myself to people who do not understand this, however I will say one thing only - I am not the man that some people like to portray.
“I am not political, I do not affiliate myself to any organisation, I am not a racist and I do not support the ideology of fascism. I respect everyone.
“I am a football man and this and my family are my focus. Now I will speak only of football.”
Di Canio bears the DVX tattoo on his shoulder - the Latin appellation for the former National Fascist Party leader Benito Mussolini - and former foreign secretary David Miliband resigned from the club as vice-chairman and non-executive director - citing Di Canio's "past political statements" as the reason.
On the website of supporters' magazine A Love Supreme fan Rob Johnson wrote: "Words can hardly express how sickened and ashamed I am by the appointment of Paulo Di Canio as our new manager.
"Lest we forget, during World War II 267 people were killed and over 1000 wounded in Sunderland by Nazi bombers."
Richard Parker added: "For the first time in nearly 40 years, I find myself questioning whether I can continue to support our great club in the way I have done over the years.
"I am sickened by our appointment of Paolo Di Canio."


UK to Bring Forward Ban on New Petrol and Diesel Cars
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New reports suggest the British government could fast track the adoption of electric vehicles by bringing forward the ban on internal combustion engines. According to analysts, advancing the ban on the sale of combustion engine vehicles from 2040 to 2030 could significantly accelerate EV ownership and reduce emissions. While an earlier date has not yet been confirmed it’s expected Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make the announcement later this year.
The decision to end sales of petrol and diesel powered cars was first announced in 2018, with the government setting 2040 as the deadline. The ban was set to play a central role in the national goal to hit net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. When transport secretary Grant Shapps maintained the ban could be bought forward to as early as 2032, pressure to advance the deadline started to build.
Calls to boost EV infrastructure
The movement was spearheaded by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), which stressed the original 2040 deadline will prevent the UK from hitting its 2050 net-zero target. To accelerate the ban, the CCC called on the Johnson administration to “continue to support strengthening of the charging infrastructure, including for drivers without access to off-street parking.”
Lack of infrastructure is one of the biggest concerns held by British motorists, with many drivers concerned the nation’s public EV charging network won’t be able to cope with a sudden increase in electric vehicles. The government has already started to act, increasing its EV charging station fund to £10 million and pledging to install 3600 new urban charging stations in 2020.
An exciting opportunity to support low-carbon industries
“2030 is an ambitious but achievable date by which to phase out the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid vehicles, one that would give a new lease of life to the UK car industry whilst combatting climate breakdown and cleaning up the air that dangerously pollutes so many of our towns and cities,” says Labour shadow minister Matthew Pennycook.
For Pennycook, it’s an exciting opportunity for the government to support low-carbon industries and create environmentally conscious jobs. “It’s time for ministers to seize this opportunity as part of a world-leading green recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, creating good jobs across the country and generating real momentum for next year’s COP26 climate summit,” adds Pennycook.
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Smoke and Mirrors
100 years ago, a fresh wind blew through the art scene. A new world order challenged populations after the ‘Great War’, but also increased their desire to live. At the Kunsthaus Zürich, the exciting decade of the roaring 20s is examined in detail.
Do you have a weakness for the roaring 20s? Do you enjoy the chic little dresses and cheeky dances of the flappers? Do you have a passion for Bauhaus design and Dada? Then you’ll love the Smoke and Mirrors exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Open until 11 October 2020, it shows what was new and exciting a century ago. With around 300 exhibits, 80 artists are presented, focusing on developments in the major cities of Zürich, Berlin, Paris and Vienna. What was innovatively created back then often still has an impact today. For this reason, contemporary artists have also been invited to respond to the impulses from the roaring 20s with their own works. The subtitle of the show reads: From Josephine Baker to Thomas Ruff.
But first, one has to take a step back and look at the situation from which this explosion of lust for life resulted. The First World War (1914-1918) had escalated into the bloodiest conflict in living memory, a worldwide pandemic followed. Europe was marked by the destruction of imperialist structures and political instability. Moreover, people had experienced years of hunger, epidemics and destruction and found themselves in a new social reality. Young creative people responded and experimented with gender roles, they played with language and created urban visions. A generational conflict broke space and empowered all genres of art.
Faster, higher, further
The 1920s were marked by acceleration, and in so doing promoted photography as a new art form. Artists like Man Ray or Lázló Moholy-Nagy tried their hand at the emerging (black and white) medium, while Erwin Blumenfeld and Hannah Höch used photographic snippets for their provocative collages. A zoom on Höch’s realistically painted picture Die Journalisten (1925) shows six deformed heads of reporters. They were the highly regarded critical mediators of the zeitgeist. They explained to their readers, in the popular reportage style, what was going on. But why are the body parts deformed? Perhaps they were war-disabled, perhaps the artist wanted to allude to the Cubist painting of a Picasso.
Exemplary for the liberated body feeling, especially of women, the exhibition shows a large number of original dresses. Here the makers benefit from the fact that Zürich has had a long tradition as a silk city and that valuable items on loan are available. The body-enhancing fashion, which includes wide ‘Marlene trousers’ and the ‘little black dress’ by Coco Chanel, conquered the dance halls in no time. To songs like You Look like a Man, my Darling, which described a woman in a ladies’ tuxedo, the young people enjoyed themselves in the clubs and jazz venues.
On the theatre stages, the same image prevailed. Not only in musical revues did the skirt hems become shorter, but modern expressive dance also shed the stiff ballet tutu. Half-naked women’s bodies had previously only been seen in private, but now they were jumping around barefoot in flowing robes to the delight of the astonished audience. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, for example, captured the sexually charged mood, partly fuelled by drug consumption, in drawings. Paul Klee, Xanti Schawinsky and Oskar Schlemmer captured the movements in abstract constructivist pictures.
All this was only made possible by the rationalisation of the working environment, especially the introduction of assembly line work. This gave people more leisure time – they became consumers, so that film could establish itself as a cultural product. The ‘new living’ in the functional, light-flooded housing estates, equipped with their own bathrooms and fitted kitchens, became the new standard. The bright rooms were furnished with light-footed tubular steel furniture, design classics by Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier or Mies van der Rohe, which we still appreciate today. Of course, the Bauhaus School in Dessau must be brought into play, this interdisciplinary think tank that has already made history with its own building architecture. The advertising poster art of the time, which reflects the new viewing habits, served the artists as an extended arm into everyday life.
The exhibition curators have made an effort to give female artists the voice they deserve as a matter of course. In this way, one can enjoy new perspectives on a decade that has been portrayed many times before. The different styles existing in parallel are not presented chronologically, but according to socio-cultural themes, which makes the tour entertaining. The question remains: are we currently experiencing déjà-vu as a result of the global economic crisis, the politically heated situation and social upheavals? Curator Cathérine Hug warns against jumping to conclusions. After all, history has always lived on inevitably in every present, she says. Instead, the exhibition aims to broaden the view and bring to the fore those phenomena of the 1920s that had a lasting aesthetic influence on society throughout Europe.


During the first wave of the pandemic, colleagues in Plymouth, UK, led the way in developing a mechanised breathing aid which, unlike a ventilator, can be used without invasive intubation. The device pushes a steady flow of oxygen into the lungs via a face mask while the patient is conscious.
The breathing aid can be made from easily sourced materials, such as car windscreen wiper motors. An open source manufacturing pack is available, including AutoCad drawings, a bill of materials and a component parts list.
Colleagues at Pandrol Rahee in India are now looking to make an initial 500 units in response to the current serious shortage of ventilators in their country. It is fantastic to see our technical knowledge and skills being put to such good use.
In addition, colleagues from Raipur, co-ordinated by HR Director Anand Shukla, have donated five life-saving Philips ventilators to the local authorities.
Thanks to colleagues everywhere for their efforts as we continue to fight the pandemic.


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There was a time in my marriage when I expected my husband to read my mind. We were one flesh, right? So he must know how I feel without me needing to explain and of course he knows what I want based on my subtle hints and clues….ha! Over and over again I would get mad/frustrated/resentful because he didn’t respond the way I wanted; the right gift in the wrong color, trying to fix my problem when I just wanted him to listen, misreading my need for a hug with a desire for more.
I decided to try something truly innovative – I communicated what I wanted. I had my eye on a baker’s rack in a catalog, and an open wall in the kitchen where I wanted it to go. We couldn’t afford the piece immediately, so a few weeks before Christmas I tore out the picture, circled the color I wanted and taped it to the wall where I envisioned it sitting. You know what happened? I got exactly what I wanted!
My husband loves to give me what I want, these days I have to be careful with my words because if I like something he will try his best to get it for me. I’m not sure why I thought he should ‘just know’ what I needed, like that was the sign of a good marriage. I owe it to my guy to be honest with him when something is bothering me, instead of playing a game and then resenting him for not following my rules.
After many years our communication has improved, and our marriage has too. Maybe we’re on to something…
Jennifer, thanks for this great post. As one of the guys, I will confirm that we don’t do well in reading subtle hints and clues. We operate better with “hit me between the eyes” directness. Sometimes we even need you to draw us a picture. We can do better at focusing and truly listening (eye contact!). Our desire is to serve, to make happy, to bless and to love. But we need help understanding what that looks like.
Thanks for the insight, instead of wishing we were more alike, we really need to appreciate the differences and respond accordingly.
Glad you stopped by today! Welcome to the world of blogging – I always love to find fellow Bravehearts along the way.
Your heart for your husband and for God who created you both are evident in your words. What a blessing.
Have a lovely weekend!
Thanks for the kind words! I read some of your work for the first time today and really enjoyed it, and plan to go back for more.
i’m not sure it ever gets “easy,” per se, but it certainly gets easier! i am a terrible gift giver myself. Caused my wife to cry on her birthday on year. 🙂 Thanks for your honesty. i am always feel enlightened and pleasantly reminded by your writing and this post is no exception.
I agree about the lack of ease, I think the important thing is that you’re still trying! For some reason we women look at gifts through several lenses that were never meant to be there by the giver, very frustrating for all! Thanks for the continued encouragement!


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Our Complete range of products are Natural Black Sesame Seed, Natural White Sesame Seed and Black (Kalonji) Seed.
These seeds are highly valued for their nutrients and oil. The oil is known to stay fresh longer and does not easily turn rancid. Black Sesame Seed appears to be a small-sized seed but without a doubt, it’s very powerful. It has intense flavor and aroma. Black sesame seeds are used for many health-promoting and anti-aging benefits.
BNB Natural White Sesame Seeds is considered to be the oldest oilseed crop known to humanity. Although it is an oily seed, the fat content in it is very healthy and can be used as healthier cooking oil across the globe.
Nigella Sativa also known as Kalonji, often called Black Cumin is an annual flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. Kalonji seeds can be used for adding flavor to the food. Kalonji acts as an herbal remedy that has been touted as the magic bullet for a variety of ailments. Black Seeds Contains Thymoquinone which is an Excellent Antioxidant And Anti-inflammatory Compound. Kalonji seeds are perfect for flavoring your home cooking.

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Winter storm causes issues for travelers
Messy Commute, Power still out for many
Flights cancellations and messy roads will affect morning commuters and travelers as the winter storm continues to hit our region.
As of 8:00am, Thursday, around 29,000 customers in our region are currently without power.
Green Mountain Power is reporting 18331 customers while NYSEG is reporting 3623 outages in Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties.
There are 8 cancellations at Burlington International Airport before 10 am and 1 delay for an arrival.
Drivers in Vermont, New York and the Upper Valley of New Hampshire are urged to be careful on roadways as crews continue to work to clear them.
VT 511 is reporting VT Route 30 is down to one lane in Hubbardton due to trees.
Crews also clearing Route 17 in the Starksboro area where several trees are down.
Route 116 in the Rocky Dale section of Bristol is closed due to trees and powerlines down in the roadway.
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Kashmiris will never accept decision contrary to UN resolutions: AJK PM
Islamabaad : The Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan says both Pakistan and India are bound to implement the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir to allow the Kashmiri people to exercise their right of franchise and decide their future.
Addressing a news conference in Muzaffarabad, he said Kashmiri people will never accept any other decision contrary to the United Nations resolutions.
Referring to the next general elections in Azad Kashmir, he said elections will be held on schedule.
He also made it clear that elections will be conducted in accordance with the process laid down in the constitution and any attempt to enforce new experiment will be resisted.
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Lib Dem councillor triumphs in Alexandra by-election
LIBERAL Democrat Nigel Scott is the new borough councillor for Alexandra ward after being elected last night (Thursday October 9). Mr Scott won the by-election with 1,460 votes, compared to Labour candidate Joanna Christophides s 772 votes; Tory candidate
LIBERAL Democrat Nigel Scott is the new borough councillor for Alexandra ward after being elected last night (Thursday October 9).
Mr Scott won the by-election with 1,460 votes, compared to Labour candidate Joanna Christophides's 772 votes; Tory candidate David Douglas who won 443 votes; Green Party candidate James Patterson who won 221 votes, and BNP candidate Fred Halsey who secured 27 votes.
After the results were announced at Wood Green Civic Centre, Cllr Scott said: "I'd like to thank all my staff. I'd like to thank the police for their presence and ensuring everything is done properly; and the campaigners for achieving this fantastic result."
He added: "I met some members of the Labour Party while I was canvassing and I hope they will stand again because that is what makes democracy work."
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The 58-year-old married father of two, lives in Wood Green near Alexandra Palace Station. He has worked for a sexual health charity for 10 years and is also a governor at Alexandra Park School and Bounds Green Primary School.
He told the Broadway: "I will be campaigning to improve traffic conditions in the ward, fighting to save Alexandra Palace and the community building CUFOS which is behind it."
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Meanwhile, George Meehan, Leader of Haringey Council and Labour Cllr Matt Cooke were busy tallying up the percentage of Labour votes.
"There has been a six point one per cent swing to Labour" cried Cllr Meehan, "which isn't bad in the middle of a major economic crisis.
"But I suppose the loudest message from voters here tonight was to the BNP... to get lost!"
Tory candidate David Douglas was also satisfied with his share of the vote:
"My share of the vote has gone up" he declared, "I'm dead pleased."
And then added: "The biggest problem we have as Tories in this area, is that people say they are Conservatives but then admit that they don't want Labour to get in, so they vote Lib Dem.
"My message to them is that they should vote for the party they believe in.
"I also believe that if 1,460 people living in Alexandra have voted Lib Dem, the Lib Dems could at least find some candidates who actually live in the area to stand," he added defiantly.
The by-election was held after Lib Dem Cllr Wayne Hoban stepped down to take up a new job in Worthing.
In total, 35 per cent of the 8,200 people who were eligible to vote did so. It is not yet known how many of the 300-strong Jewish population voted because of the election being held on Yom Kippur. This was the holiest day in the Jewish calendar - in which practising Jews were unable to drive or write.


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Lviv Art Gallery’s history can be traced back to a Polish museum started in 1907 and expanded with additional collections in 1914 and 1929. Significantly, it features a large number of pieces by Polish artists that have been acquired during World War II, giving it the most impressive collection of Polish art outside of Poland.
Lviv's main art repository has two wings: one in the lavish Pototsky Palace, and the other one is just around the corner on Stefanyka street. The Pototsky Palace wing houses an impressive collection of European art of 14th-18th centuries, including works of Rubens, Bruegel, Goya and Caravaggio. The wing on Stefanyka street contains 19th- and early-20th-century art as well as some 21st-century pieces. Superb collection of Polish art with some works by Jan Matejko is also presented over here.
The pride of the museum are Georges de la Tour’s “Payment of Dues” and Tiziano Vecellio’s “Portrait of a Man».
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With over 60 halls and more than 400 works on display from leading French, Italian, Austrian, German, Russian, Polish and Ukrainian masters, the exhibition presents different epochs and art movements. The halls on the ground floors regularly host thematic exhibitions, art lectures, discussion clubs and other art themed events. Last entrance is one hour before closure.
Lviv Art Gallery is the largest and one of the finest art museums in Ukraine.
Address: 3, Stefanyka street, Lviv.
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Bulky and sharp foreign body in intestine can stop at the sphincter of the rectum. Below are tips from enemas (especially shards of broken glass tip); the accumulation of feces.
Symptoms. Voluminous foreign body and sharp foreign body give the phenomenon of proctitis (pain in the rectal area, especially during defecation, tenesmus, passage of mucus and blood).
Over and complication. When the damage to the gut wall develops peritonitis or paraproctitis.
Recognition is usually easily based on history and palpation examination of the rectum or inspection mirror and by rectoscopy.
Small and mild foreign body easily depart after enema. Sharp foreign bodies should be removed after anesthesia and expansion sphincter. Accumulations of feces raspravlyautsya finger, retrieved finger or softened by enemas.


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Pets at home
Pets at Home is the UK's leading pet care business providing pet owners with everything they need to be able to look after their pet - from food, toys and bedding to grooming services and veterinary care. RSPCA and Pets at Home have been working together to promote responsible pet ownership for over ten years.
Way we work together
Pets at Home customers can support the RSPCA or their local RSPCA branch through the VIP Club Lifelines scheme. Since 2012 £1.5million VIP Lifelines have been raised to enrich the lives of animals in our care. A massive thank you to all Pets at Home customers who support in this way.
Pets at Home is supporting our rehoming programme through RSPCA Adoption centres located in Chesterfield, Friern Barnet, Newport and Stockport stores. This provides an opportunity to help rescue cats like Katie find their forever homes.
Pets at Home Foundation
Pets at Home Foundation (previously Support Adoption for Pets) is a registered charity that supports hundreds of pet rehoming organisations in the UK and have generously donated close to £1.5million in charitable grants to RSPCA and RSPCA independent branch network since 2008.

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This homemade, gluten-free and vegan quesadilla was so fresh and filling; the flavor combinations were exceptional. I am really proud of this one, and I hope you enjoy it too.
1 brown rice tortilla
1/4 of an avocado, smashed
1 handful of arugula
1/8 cup cilantro
1/4 of a ripe mango, sliced
1 tbsp soy-free veganaise
1/2 of a tomato, sliced
1-2 tbsp kimchi*
Always opt for fresh, organic, local ingredients whenever possible.
*Make sure you purchase organic, real kimchi or make your own. Many kimchi brands are filled with chemicals and junk your body does not need.
1. Lightly grill tortilla in a nonstick pan on low-medium heat for about 20 seconds on each side to soften
2. Layer your tortilla as desired. My best tip: Place smashed avocado on one side and the soy-free veganaise on the other side and then layer from there. This helps everything to bind together.
3. Fold the tortilla in half and then cook each side until golden brown and lightly crisped.
Recipe yields one tortilla, but you can easily make as many as your heart desires.
I’ve priced each organic quesadilla at approximately $3.25 to make.

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The coming decades could see a 'seismic' shift in central bank policymaking as technological disruption puts downward pressure on inflation, according to HSBC Global Research.
In a new report titled The rise of the digital natives, HSBC economist James Pomeroy warns that labour and goods prices could shift dramatically by 2030, spurred by shifting generational consumption habits.
Specifically, 9 per cent of the global population is made up of ‘digital natives’, people who have spent their entire secondary education in a country with an internet adoption rate above 50 per cent, However, Mr Pomeroy notes that figure is set to climb to 30 per cent by 2030.
“Today's young, digital native generation consumes differently. Having grown up at a time of rapid IT development, it is more likely to adopt disruptive technologies,” he said.
Mr Pomeroy said the increasing rate at which this sector of the population adopts disruptive technology could put downward pressure on inflation through the proliferation of price information and the entry into the market of businesses offering cheaper goods and services.
“This may be a one-off shock in terms of the arrival of the technology, but the impact will persist while adoption rates continue to rise,” he said.
Central banks “may need to think about a broader range of measures” when setting policy, Mr Pomeroy said, since supply-driven low inflation requires a different response from demand-driven low inflation.
“As technological adoption looks set to continue to rise sharply, there will be pressures on the price of goods, and now services too. In this world the impact on growth will depend on labour markets and productivity, which in turn will drive the policy response," he said.
“Central banks and governments will have to react to this seismic shift as it is simply too big to ignore."
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Local Control in Action
Summary and Policy Implications
California and the nation are at the crossroads of a major shift in school accountability policy. At the state level, California’s Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) encourages the use of multiple measures of school performance used locally to support continuous improvement and strategic resource allocation. Similarly, the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) reinforces this local control, requiring more comprehensive assessment of school performance and a less prescriptive, local approach to school support. These changes represent a major cultural shift for California schools and districts.
As California supports districts statewide to embark on this improvement journey, there are important lessons to be learned from the CORE districts, six of which developed an innovative accountability system under a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The CORE districts are early adopters of the new accountability paradigm: local leaders using multiple measures of school performance and working together to figure out collectively what works best for struggling schools.
This study examines how the CORE districts understood, implemented, and responded to the new accountability system implemented under the waiver. Our research indicates that a shift to greater flexibility and locally-determined capacity building efforts brings its own set of challenges, but substantial benefits as well. The CORE districts present an opportunity to learn how to effectively utilize multiple measures of school quality, develop shared accountability, and build capacity for schools and districts to improve.
In summary, we find that: 1) district and school administrators greatly appreciated the shift toward a more holistic approach to measurement and an emphasis on support over sanctions; 2) most waiver districts adapted CORE’s accountability system to their local needs, revealing a tension between shared accountability and local variation; and 3) CORE’s measurement system and district-level collaboration hold promise for improving local systems, while efforts to improve schools through collaboration and capacity building remain a work in progress.


BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Mandatory HIV testing of workers in China should be revoked and the right of people living with HIV (PLWHIV) to employment should be protected, a report released in Beijing Tuesday advocated.
The report, HIV and AIDS Related Employment Discrimination in China, was released at an event held by the International Labor Organization (ILO), UNAIDS and Marie Stopes International.
The report documents discrimination against PLWHIV in workplaces across China, including the mandatory testing of workers, the denial of job offers, forced resignations, mandatory job changes and demotions.
The ILO and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) jointly conducted the research.
The report notes there are several challenges in China.
For example, people with HIV are prohibited from working in the civil service and in hotels, cafes, bars, beauty salons and hairdressing salons.
Xiao Jun (a pseudonym), who was recently refused a teaching job because of his HIV status, said, "The report highlights the kind of discrimination we face on a daily basis. Nobody can live without work, and there is no valid reason for denying us our right to work."
The report recognized that progress has been made in reducing employment discrimination in China.
For example, the 2006 Regulation on the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS and the 2007 Employment Promotion Law guarantee HIV-carriers' right to work.
UNAIDS released a report in 2009, The China Stigma Index, which found more than 40 percent of HIV-positive people had faced HIV-related discrimination, with nearly one in six having been refused employment.
The release of the report is scheduled to coincide with World AIDS Day, which this year focuses on protecting the rights of PLWHIV.


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Because, here are Nature Coast RV, located on the Nature Coast in Crystal River, Florida, we get more people financed (even those with marginal credit) than anyone else in our immediate area, we understand your special needs. We have a long list of lenders at our disposal that will work with us and you to get you on the road quickly.
Our motto says it all. “Buy with confidence from people who care”. Purchase your next RV from someone who knows how you feel. At Nature Coast RV, not only will we assist you in every phase of the financing, we will also teach you how to use and set up your new Motor Home or Travel Trailer. We’ll spend as much time with you as you need to ensure you are comfortable with the new ownership process and that you look forward to your next camping experience.


Power plant on board
The electricity supplier is the generator, while the starters, fans, controllers, lamps and heaters are the consumers. The battery resembles a bank card, the bill that melts with each start of the engine and is topped up with the help of a generator.
If this does not happen, the battery card will soon be reset and you will therefore no longer receive “credit” for the next engine start. However, this happens in life, when you spend more than you earn.
Battery almost empty? The cause may be the generator which, if the car gets stuck in a traffic jam, cannot supply all consumers with power at the same time.
Old machines can’t handle it
Is there sufficient generator power to supply all consumers (headlights, windscreen wipers, heating) with power when the combustion engine is running at minimum idle speed? A few decades ago, the magazine “Behind the Wheel” made measurements on cars of that time: the energy balance was checked on the Volga GAZ-3110 (with a ZMZ-4062 engine) and on the Zhiguli VAZ-2104.
The overall result was disappointing: at the minimum idle speed, car generators could not supply all regular consumers with energy, and therefore the batteries began to discharge. The same thing happens in slow traffic jams: headlights are on, fans are buzzing, music is playing loudly and generators are barely spinning.
What about modern?
Even the layout shows that cars that are stuck in traffic use a lot of energy.
We checked the editors Largus with a range of 136 thousand km: we warmed up the engine and turned on everything that could handle, from high beams to windshield wipers. However, everything is in order: the on-board voltage was 13.2 V and the battery has been charged successfully.
Do the generators supply normal power to all consumers when the combustion engine in other cars is running at minimum idle? Or does the battery always start to discharge under such circumstances?
We asked representatives of leading car companies.
Comments from car manufacturers
Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles have a system for monitoring and monitoring the battery charge level. Depending on the condition of the battery, the operation of a particular vehicle system will be limited to prevent battery discharge and to keep the battery in a state that guarantees stable starting of the car.
The balance of electricity in a car is calculated during design and depends on many factors. Engineers are not faced with the task of ensuring continuous simultaneous operation of all electricity consumers on board for an unlimited period of time.
There will be no battery discharge.
A good alternator ensures normal operation. Otherwise, a message will appear and the associated warning light will illuminate to indicate a malfunction.
The assistant “generator manager” in the engine control unit always provides the required battery charge and controls the ICE operating mode depending on the power load of the attachments.
There is no battery discharge.
Under the conditions of a warm and serviceable car, when the engine is idling, the generator ensures the normal operation of all regular consumers that are turned on at the same time. And maintains battery charge to allow subsequent engine start.
Don’t the reactions of Jaguar Land Rover, Volvo and Hyundai sound cautious? For example, the generator may not supply all consumers with power at the same time.
Denis Zagarin, Head of the NAMI Test Center
There are no separate requirements for generators
There are no separate requirements for the assessment of the energy balance and generators in the vehicle. If we talk about generators as spare parts, then according to clause 94 of Appendix 10 of TR CU 018/2011, the following requirements are imposed on them:
- performance in environmental conditions;
- performance when voltage changes;
- electromagnetic compatibility;
- vibration and shock resistance;
- protection against the ingress of dust and moisture;
- dielectric strength of insulation.
The answer from Jaguar Land Rover is therefore indicative. But not all cars (especially cheap ones) have similar systems that turn off consumers.
Stock pocket not pulling?
Is it really impossible to make sure that in every car, even at minimum idle speed, the generator can “supply” everyone?
The fact is that it was designed on the principle of reasonable adequacy. And since the car is still made for driving, not being stuck in a traffic jam, the generator is also only calculated for the average consumer, who alternates standing in a traffic jam with normal traffic on the highway.
Attempts to increase the generator’s performance (reducing the gear ratio between the crankshaft and the generator pulleys) will revert to the rapid wear of the bearings at high speeds (it’s not all the time to be in traffic jams!). Installing a deliberately more powerful generator is always extra kilograms, rubles and liters of fuel.
As the load increases, the generator slowly begins to “ground”, reducing the output voltage. If a voltmeter is installed in the car, it is easy to follow. Battery charging continues, but at a lower voltage. In the future, the voltage of the generator and the EMF of the battery can become equal – charging stops. As the load increases further, the battery begins to discharge.
How not to drain your battery
The limit below which the voltage should not drop is about 12.7 V.
If you notice that the voltage in the on-board network drops under load (the headlights dim, the voltmeter readings decrease), it is advisable to check the voltage on the battery terminals (when the engine is at minimum idling and the maximum number of consumers).
The normal voltage in the vehicle electrical system must be 13.8 – 14.2 V. If the voltage rises to the indicated values during the shutdown and there are no complaints about the state of the on-board network (oxidized contacts or poor alternator belt tension), then you should take into account: in traffic jams at maximum load, your car battery cannot cargo accept more. So a consumer in such a situation has to be sacrificed.
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Such cases are not isolated. We understand the reasons and listen to the opinion of car manufacturers.
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Precise, complete, trustworthy, and timely documentation is critical to validate services provided, reduce risks, and improve patient care. With accurate clinical documentation, a medical billing company can help healthcare providers submit valid claims for reimbursement. If the information presented in the documentation does not provide a complete and accurate picture of the care received by a patient or does not support the billing codes, claims may be denied.
While electronic documentation is designed to increase both the quality and the utility of clinical documentation, it has resulted in large volumes of data and repetitive information. Maintaining documentation integrity while using automated EHR functions has become a major challenge for physicians. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is simplifying documentation through its Patients over Paperwork initiative, but the focus is still on quality improvement. However, there are two things physicians should know about clinical documentation improvement (CDI):
- CDI is not about just ICD-10 or CPT coding, but about ensuring that the medical record provides an accurate picture of the patient encounter.
- CDI is not about providing more documentation – it’s about improving the quality and value of clinical documentation and better using this documentation to improve care.
Here are 5 strategies that experts recommend to improve clinical documentation in 2020:
- Tell the patient’s story: The clinical record should tell the patient’s story in as much detail as is required to ensure seamless care. The documentation should communicate the patient’s past and present health information and medical treatment to other clinicians. Providing a summary of previous history and its impact on treatment options would be useful. The documentation should also convey the physician’s thought process about the patient’s care. For instance, accurately portraying a patient’s comorbidities is essential to ensure high-quality care for chronic diseases.
- Use the SOAP documentation method to add narrative to the record: Instead of just checking boxes in the EHR, physicians can still use the traditional SOAP documentation to add their narrative to the record. The Rheumatology article notes that including the physician’s assessment and rationale would prove valuable to support the plan of care and demonstrate medical necessity for services provided.
- Supplement E/M templates with free-form text: The medical record should indicate the correct E/M level that best describes the service provided. The nature of the presenting problem and the complexity of medical decision making are key considerations when choosing the E/M level. However, standard EHR systems feature documentation templates for the four E/M office visit levels that make it easier to get higher levels when the medical necessity might not be there. Experts recommend supporting EHR templates with using free-form text to describe the nature of a visit. For instance, even one or two lines can add detail and integrity to the note by stating what is unique to that patient visit.
- Think twice before using the EHR copy-paste function: The ECRI Institute warns that poor use of copy-paste can affect clinical documentation quality by:
- Introducing new inaccuracies
- Facilitating the propagation of inaccurate information
- Allowing the creation of internally inconsistent notes, and
- Resulting in lengthy notes that may obscure important clinical information
- Best practice is to perform a mindful review to ensure that the documentation is not redundant and reflects the current situation
- Capture new findings and relevant information: In addition to pertinent facts, physicians need to document new findings and impressions. This includes diagnosis, positive exam findings, pertinent negative exam findings, and significant abnormal test findings. Physicians need to use their clinical expertise to translate findings into diagnoses (www.hospitalist.com). This may result in more clinical documentation and the use of more diagnostic codes.
The ICD-10 official guidelines address coding for uncertain diagnoses, with different rules for inpatient and outpatient coding. Hospitalists can offer an uncertain diagnosis for a condition that is suspected as being present: If the diagnosis documented at the time of discharge is qualified as “probable,” “suspected,” “likely,” “questionable,” “possible,” or “still to be ruled out,” “compatible with,” “consistent with,” or other similar terms indicating uncertainty, code the condition as if it existed or was established. In the ICD-10 guidelines for outpatient settings, CMS states: “Do not code diagnosis documented probable, suspected, questionable, rule out, compatible with, consistent with, or working diagnosis or similar terms indicating uncertainty. Rather, code the condition(s) to the highest degree of certainty for the encounter or visit, such as symptoms, signs, abnormal test results or other reason for the visit.”
The goal should be to ensure clear, accurate, concise, documentation that conveys the patient’s story and treatment plan to other caregivers. The physician should make sure that fellow clinicians reading the note understand their thought process and why those conclusions were drawn so that they can continue to provide the right care. A monthly or quarterly documentation self-audit of a select number of patient records can help identify any issues and drive improvement.
Excellent documentation is important for superlative patient care, compliance, medico-legal, utilization review, and accurate reimbursement. Outsourcing medical billing and coding is a practical option to ensure accurate ICD-10 and CPT coding to submit accurate claims and improve cash flow.

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This image was made during this July’s LuminOdyssey photography expedition to Svalbard.
I made this image while standing on the deck of our ship while we prepared to board our Zodiacs to explore the glacier in this fjord up close. Fog was flowing down off a nearby mountain and across the glacier, and made a stark backdrop to the foreground. The kittiwakes (small gulls) perched on the ice are just a tiny detail, with the mountain showing through the back-lit mist on the left. Tiny details stand out in a large print, while unfortunately a small JPEG on the web only lets us see the overall image design. Hopefully it works on both levels.
Made with an EOS 5DmkII and 24-105mm/4 lens (zoomed to 105mm to get this framing) at ISO 100, I was able to capture this at 1/800s @ f/8. Shooting in manual exposure and having fixed my exposure for some panoramas across the glacier, I knew the exposure was going to be close to correct for this bright scene. And on reviewing the histogram it was: I have not had to tweak even the Exposure slider inside Lightroom.
This is one of those simple compositions that are partly an experiment. But I think I like the result.

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07 Jan How to Be More Green in 2015
As I mentioned in a previous blog, one of my resolutions in 2015 is to create less waste whenever/wherever I can. In this blog I’ll give you tips on how to be more green in 2015. I have taken tours of my local Recycling and Household Hazardous Waste centers to become more informed and put my own plan into action. I now want to share that information with you.
Each city/county has different rules for recycling so it’s important to check with your municipality. I’m going to give general recycling tips here for the San Francisco Bay Area, but they might not be correct for your area. In San Francisco, we compost and I think this is a great addition to the recycling/waste program. Even if your municipality doesn’t do it, try it on your own (for fertilizer, especially if you have your own garden). Because I eat whole, non-processed foods, I have a lot of food waste, but it doesn’t need to be thrown in the trash since it breaks down easily.
The number one takeaway from my visit to Recology and Rethink Waste in San Carlos, CA was this:
“When you put something in the garbage, your hands are the last things that touch it. We do not sort your trash. Please be conscious of what you throw out.” – Rethink Waste Tour Guide
That trash goes directly to a landfill where it will sit, forever. Sometimes our trash is even shipped overseas to other countries! This is why I find it best to err on the side of recycling than trashing items.
The key here is to be mindful about every bit of waste you produce. Throwing something in the trash should be your last option. Think to yourself:
- Can you use it?
- Can you donate it?
- Can you sell it?
- Can you return it?
- Can you compost it?
- Can you recycle it?
If you answer NO to all of these questions, then the trash is your only/last option. But 95% of the time, you can avoid throwing things out. It also helps to be mindful of this before you even purchase an item! Be aware of what you are bringing into your house because at some point you will be bringing it out. This is important to think about when giving items to other people, too.
Here are some basic tips to help you be more mindful when it comes to having a greener footprint.
RECYCLE – When items can be reused or remade from old items.
*My compost bag on the far left, trash in the center (I hardly have any now), and recyclables on the left.
- No need to rinse containers – We’re in a huge drought in California, and must conserve water wherever and whenever possible. So scrape the containers as best as you can, and then toss into the recycle bin. This is good news when it comes to those pesky honey/peanut butter containers!
- Keep caps in place – As it turns out, those caps are important. Keep the caps and lids on your recyclables when you toss them in the bin.
- No need to crush – My grandfather loved crushing his aluminum soda cans. But as it turns out, there is no need to crush your recyclables. In fact, it’s better if you keep them whole so they are better usable in the future.
- Throw it all in together – They’ve made it a lot easier to recycle than in years past, because you can now throw everything into one large bin. Also, many municipalities have photos and descriptions of exactly what you can recycle. A basic rundown: plastic containers/bottles/utensils, glass/aluminum bottles/cans, cardboard (unless it’s soiled, then compost), and paper of all kinds (again, unless it’s soiled).
- When it doubt, throw it into the recycle bin – $1 million worth of machinery in addition to dozen of human hands sort items in the recycling centers. If it’s trash, they’ll find it and sort it. No one will sort through your trash!
COMPOST – Your waste management facility will spray the compostable items with water to keep them wet and help them break down faster. You’ll see compostable items steam when they are breaking down into a fertilizer type material.
*You can buy a compost bin (which cuts down on odor) or you can collect food waste in a plastic container and keep in your fridge or freezer.
- Lawn/yard trimmings – If you are a homeowner, you may have a bin designated for plant/yard trimmings. In San Francisco, this is also our compost bin. Nearly every plant type material can go in here (there are exceptions with each municipality)
- Human hair, animal hair/fur, dryer lint – Hair, fur and lint are decomposable and therefore compostable.
- Tissues and Q-tips – Even if you’ve used these, you can compost them.
- Soiled paper/cardboard and coffee cups – This goes for paper or cardboard that has been soiled by food: paper towels, cardboard pizza boxes, deli paper, etc. You can also compost used paper towels that have cleaning products/dirt on them. Coffee cups can go in compost, but the plastic lids must go into the recycle bin.
- Food waste – instead of using your garbage disposal, compost all leftover food waste.
Make small changes when and where you can, I’m a big believer in baby steps. Implement one change now and in 1 month (or 3 or 6) make another. Once these become habits you won’t even think twice. These small changes made by everyone will add up to big results, and they don’t take much effort at all. Also you don’t need fancy containers – use what you have available.
Please do your part and recycle what you can and reduce what you send to a landfill. If we each produce a little less trash each year, we can – and will – make a difference. And by this time next year, many of these will be regular habits for you. Hopefully you’ll inspire someone else to implement these changes, and they’ll pay it forward as well.
If you have any questions about creating less waste, recycling, or composting, please do not hesitate to contact me!


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Who are you?
We are a group of artists who happen to be life long friends sharing our love for creativity.
What Do you do?
We bring our own visions to life and collect unique items from the artists we adore. These are the gems and treasures we want to share with you.
We want to spread creativity and joy to everyone we meet! Being happy and creative isn't just a mysterious phenomenon, it's an essential part of life!
How did you start?
The idea of MUKA really began back in our college days. We would often lounge around and talk about all our outrageous ideas, dreaming of a future where we could carve out a place for ourselves to express our creativity, to bring joy to ourselves and others through art. We wanted to express the truths of our times, speaks to the importance of our values and represent the diversity of the world around us!
What's the point?
We have but one goal in mind: to make MUKA into an one-of-a-kind brand where every person from all walks of life can find a piece of themselves. Whether it be in a pin, on a shirt, with a sticker or through an art print we want to be a part of your journey!
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Navigating copyright can be a daunting task. So we’ve partnered with the experts at ASMP to break down this important subject and help you take the necessary steps to protect your work.
The Photographer’s Guide to Copyright is filled with insights and resources to help you get an understanding copyright law, register your images, and protect your work from infringement. This guide is a go-to resource that will help you:
- Understand your 6 exclusive rights under copyright law
- Learn how to safeguard photos and avoid infringement
- Get tips to register their work through the U.S. Copyright Office
- Discover steps to take if their work is infringed
The guide also offers in-depth interviews from photographers and experts from ASMP, who address key areas – including major trends in copyright today, how to incorporate copyright registration into a daily workflow, the risks to weigh before joining social networks, demystifying what counts as “Fair use”, plus copyright for video and motion.

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The crew was amazing...Excellet!!! Few people, not too busy and so confortable boat...
This tour is for those of you who want to see the Na Pali Coast, but are not interested in snorkeling. On board the 65-foot power catamaran "Holo Holo", journey to the famous Na Pali Coastline for some of the most incredible photo opportunities anywhere.
"If you don't like the weather, wait ten minutes." This phrase best describes Kauai's weather. Most of the year Hawaii experiences winds from the northeast at 10-25 knots. That's why the old sailing ships called them the "trade winds," since they could be relied upon for counducting commerce across the Pacific.
August through April are generally the lightest wind months of the year. May, June and July have the most consistent winds and sailing during this time is exhilarating. The hallmark of the winter season is the combination of light winds and cool nights. When the wind blows in the winter, however, it is generally the strongest of the year.
Chicken slices on salad, ceasar salad, spinach quiche, fruit platter, veggie wrap, vegetable crudités w/dip, chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies, bottled water, island juices, soft drinks, beer, wine, mai tais' and champagne included.
Location: Departs Port Allen Harbor
Schedule: 7 days a week
Time: Check-in 2:00-3:30 (varies throughout the year), returns after sunset!
Duration: 3½ hours
Vessel: 65 ft. Powered Catamaran 'HoloHolo'
Children: 5-12 pay reduced price. Children 4 and under are not allowed.
Note: Removal of shoes upon boarding is required. If anyone in your party has a medical condition, such as diabeties, please advise at the time of booking so we may make special arrangements. For safety purposes, medical information is requested before sailing. Possible rough seas can make for misty sailing - bring a raincoat or jacket. NO pregnant women!

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The EU’s four-year Joint Operation for Ultra Low Emission Shipping (JOULES) project has accepted challenges for the European Maritime Industry to significantly reduce energy consumption, emission of climate gases and other harmful pollutants at their conference last Wednesday in Hamburg. Leading European shipyards and their suppliers, universities and consultants in the maritime sector have formed a consortium to examine the potential of future design concepts. Commenting during the conference, Professor Olav Hohmeyer, an external adviser to the project, said: “The JOULES project has given great insight into the challenges related to a considerable reduction of greenhouse gases in shipping. Apart from the continued improvement of energy efficiency, social consensus about the need for clean and renewable energy sources in the climate protection strategy is vital and not only in shipping.”
Collaboration between industry and colleges
JOULES has recommended a catalogue of short and long-term political measures such as incentives and securing equal competitive conditions under new regulations. Peter Crawley, EU Project Office for JOULES, noted: “JOULES has shown what can be achieved when industry and universities from all over Europe work closely together on developing a strategy and outline practical, innovative solutions with substantial influence. At the end of JOULES, I look forward to learning how the results achieved with EU funding can be used further.“
Results of project
Some 22 case studies have shown how design concepts for various types of ships in European shipyards can meet the outlined targets by 2025 and 2050. The simulation of the vessels energy grid in the early design stage is crucial. The impact on ship design with respect to integrating proven and innovative technologies in vessels energy grids will be assessed from an economical point of view. The environmental impact taking into account the cradle to grave concept will also be evaluated in depth. A new holistic approach to ship design for two future scenarios (2025 and 2050) will be realized, lifting the potential of the European Maritime Industry to contribute to a more sustainable future.
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The 4th in our ongoing series of live reviews details a night featuring 4 diverse and exciting solo acts presented by human_friend, Jesse Alarcon!
1st (er...last) up is...Astrolope! Working in reverse-chronological order, we closed the evening's festivities with PG artist, Astrolope! This was my first time witnessing Paul Geldart (aka Loud Paul) kick it live solo, tho I have seen him kick it in combos playing drum/percussion duties for both Other Families and Waxlimbs in the past (see those live reviews here (OF) and here (Waxlimbs))! Were it not amazing enough that Paul can work his magic in so many different contexts, the ability he possesses to multi-task in front of an audience is beyond commendable! Want proof?
(Big thx to Peter Gorski for the POV footage!)
Paul is a powerfully skilled drummer and masterful electro-musician (check his gear/live vids in the C-Dept!), so seeing/hearing these two things come together right before my eyes/ears is something truly mindbowling. Not only does the music captivate the audience, but so does Paul's stage demeanour which lends a whole other level of clever 'tainment to the act. Oh yeah, and were that not enough, Astrolope's audio-sync'd lite-rig is a thing of dazzling beauty, complimenting the music perfectly. To say I was blown away would be an understatement -- the energy thru-out the room was fuggin' lightning in a bottle! Ya totally killed it, Paul! (And now it's time for a fan favourite...)
(Big thx to Lex Metcalfe for the POV footage!)
So, right before being intro'd to Astrolope, I'd the privilege of hearing Glue Gun Records artist SAGES perform for the first time! Offering an array electro-dreampop, synth sequences are complimented by quirky, ethereal vox. Again, a performer with a sense of humour, SAGES works the room with grace. The gift for developing emotive musics which capture heart and soul is obvious; the ability to relay that to a live audience is admirable. With layers that just beg you to close your eyes and lose yourself simultaneous with block rockin' rhythms so you'll often have a pulse whilst strolling thru the mental mists generated in rea


Shanghai to resume building Disneyland theme park after 2010 - report
December 02, 2007: 11:35 PM EST
Dec. 2, 2007 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) -- BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - Shanghai will resume building its Disneyland (NYSE-DCQ) (NYSE-DIS) theme park after 2010, the China Business Journal reported citing sources.
A source was quoted as saying that total investment in the projected theme park will also increase to 40 bln yuan from the previous 30 bln yuan.
The park is expected to be located on Chongming island instead of the original plan to build it in Shanghai's Chuansha district, the source said.
The Disneyland them park project was suspended due in part to fallout from the Shanghai pension fund scandal last year.


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The Making of a Dream
Two score and one decade ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous words, “I have a Dream” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. This seminal speech marked a turning point in the civil rights movement leading to the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Acts in subsequent years. This Wednesday (August 28, 2013) marks the fifty year anniversary of this historical event.
In 1961, only two years prior to Washington march, Martin Luther King, Jr. preached the sermon “The Church on the Frontier of Racial Tension” in a chapel service at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. King was no stranger to Southern Seminary, as he had attended on a few prior occasions when his mother served as the organist for the Woman’s Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention which held meetings on the campus.
Henlee Barnette, an ethics professor at the seminary, observed that King closed his sermon “with a typical peroration that characterizes many of his messages by noting that there is something in this universe which justifies the poet’s conviction that truth will triumph.”
King’s confidence in the triumph of truth was founded upon his broader biblical convictions. While his orations, like the famous “I Have a Dream” speech, give ample references to our nation’s founding documents—they find their deepest authority in the revelation of God as creator.
This belief in a Creator, wed to a biblical understanding of humanity, propelled King’s bold outlook for the future; a dream he was willing to both live and die for. This three-strand theme of the Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of Man, and optimism for the future permeates, not only King’s speeches, but so much of the historical language surrounding the fight for freedom and equality.
The eighteenth-century image used by the British anti-slavery campaign offers a visual depiction of this reality with the caption, “Am I not a man and a brother?” (below). Those who wished to defend and advance slavery often did so by making the case that some races were less than human. The language used to combat such ignorance was inescapably biblical. The brotherhood of man is a logical outworking of the doctrine of the fatherhood of God.
In a day when skepticism claims so much of the headlines, it is important to underscore the religious nature of the fight for civil rights. Here’s a few examples:
I Have a Dream:
“In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. . . I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness . . . . And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
The Emancipation Proclamation:
“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free . . . . And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.”
– Abraham Lincoln
On the Horrors of Slade Trade (Delivered in the House of Commons in 1789):
“And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?”
– William Wilberforce
Abolition Speech (1789)
“I take courage – I determine to forget all my other fears, and I march forward with a firmer step in the full assurance that my cause will bear me out, and that I shall be able to justify upon the clearest principles, every resolution in my hand, the avowed end of which is, the total abolition of the slave trade . . . let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest till I had effected its abolition.”
– William Wilberforce
Speech before the House of Commons (1791)
“Let us not despair; it is a blessed cause, and success, ere long, will crown our exertions. Already we have gained one victory; we have obtained, for these poor creatures, the recognition of their human nature, which, for a while was most shamefully denied.”
– William Wilberforce
Inscription from Wilberforce Memorial in London’s Westminster Abbey:
” . . . by the blessing of God, (he) removed from England the guilt of the African slave trade, and prepared the way for the abolition of slavery in every colony of the Empire: in the prosecution of these objects he relied, not in vain, on God.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream is a really a call to return to the biblical understanding of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. It is a dream that requires us to first look back, so that we can then move forward. For King, it was a look back into our nation’s founding documents, but only to see beyond them into the transcendent reality of what it means to be created in the Image of God.
So as we remember King’s brave speech, let us also remember the biblical principles that shaped his most dearly held convictions, that led him to conclude that powerful charge, fifty years ago, with this beautiful refrain:
“And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'”


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Empire Hôtel is located in the heart of Nimes, opposite Nimes Cathedral and 800 metres from the Roman Arènes de Nîmes. Free WiFi access is available.
Each guest room at Empire Hôtel also has a TV, a desk and a private bathroom. Some guest rooms have a balcony.
Nimes TGV Train Station is just 1km from the Empire. Carré d'Art Museum is 800 metres away.
General information about the hotel
Check-in : from 14:30 to 00:00
Check-out : from 07:00 to 11:00
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Following the UK publication of his remarkable verse novel, A Long Way Down, last year, it is good to welcome an earlier novel by this multiple award winning author. This one was first published in the States in 2016 and is the first of his “Run” (US title “Track”) series of four books that has featured in the New York Times best seller lists. Each book is written from the point of view of a member of The Defenders youth running team, kids who have been brought together from different city backgrounds to take their place on the team, exploring what the experience means for each of them. This is the story of Castle Cranshaw, aka Ghost, a boy whose father has been imprisoned for domestic violence, including shooting at Castle and his mother. Ghost is haunted by the memory of his father and his own life is punctuated by “altercations” that lead to frequent school suspensions. It’s an old American story of how sports can transform troubled youth, but it’s an excellent version for pre-teens, with a convincing first person narrative that reveals Ghost in all his contradictions and charts his changing perceptions of himself, his community and his running mates. It’s told with economy, humour and understanding of the pressures of growing up, especially growing up poor in America.
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