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[Clearly define your character by type so the reader will be able to relate it to real life experience.]
You are an artist. At your art school were some older staff – frumpy women who still wear Cyndi Lauper glasses, and stodgy bearded oafs dressed as if they work outdoors. If the police asked you to pick them out in a line-up, you’d have difficulty sighting them because they were never there much. They were out on ‘professional practice’, even though they had exhibited maybe twice in the last decade. In Richmond. You were mostly taught by sessional staff who weren’t much older than you.
You went to art school because you didn’t know any better. Your parents supported your choice. They were ‘cool’ with the idea. They subscribed to Arts Hub and knew that art was part of the culture industry. Friends of your parents who worked somewhere in the bowels of Arts Victoria wised them up to this at a BBQ. The main reason you went to Art School though is because you were a teenage narcissist. (Your other friends were in edgy indie bands. Duos actually, formed after seeing LCD and Sigur Ros live, and somehow melding the two.)
At 15, this was kinda OK, but you weren’t savvy to the fact that now everyone is a narcissist, so really you’re not that special. You specialised in installation art (duh) without realising that no matter much you were told about relational aesthetics, you weren’t doing much else but create pretty clutter or cluttered prettiness (same diff) like chic boutique design concepts for franchises at refurbished airports.
Oh, yeah: relational aesthetics. You did some theory when you were at art school. Some of it stuck with you. Some of it you liked, but of course you had no idea of how to relate it to what you were doing. But you had some friends doing a curatorial course at a real university. (Your art school ‘became’ a university – which is as dumb as saying Peter Carey is a world class author.) Actually, they were a lot sharper than anyone in your class. They were smarter, savvy and weren’t as slacker as you and your grungy friends. Maybe that’s why ‘curators’ are the new ‘artists’. But you haven’t worked that out yet. That comes later.
[Introduce a momentarily disorientating shift in time so as to elaborate a dramatic change in your character.]
You’ve been exhibiting for some time now. You are mostly known for your quotative video work based on scenes from Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979). You haven’t watched many movies. They’re all too narrative for you. You prefer to read anything by Don Delillo. (It helps you understand reviews of your work that start by discussing a scene from a Don Delillo novel.) But Stalker ‘resonated’ with you. That’s what one curatorial essay said, and you figured it was good, even though it’s a meaningless phrase.
The great thing about Stalker is – well, actually, you never watched it all the way through. But you’re pretty sure that over 5 years, you’ve watched enough excerpts on ubuweb to get what’s going on. Plus it’s the only film that everyone in contemporary art seems to know, so you figured it’s good to stick with it. It’s European (Russian, to boot); it presages the nuclear fission meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986; and it has lots of ‘art-cinema’ still extended-takes of real-life toxic areas near chemical plants in Estonia. It really made you think about toxic responsibility and one’s relation to the planet. (A quote from another curatorial essay.)
But just as you might have got stuck in a creative rut, the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima happened. Nuclear gold. It was in Japan; it was exotic enough to not worry about the 24,000 dead (who died from the tsunami, not the nuclear meltdown); and it was rated 7 on the Nuclear Incident chart just like Chernobyl. It was like science fiction, but for real. You watched a Four Corners report on it that told you all about it. They didn’t interview a single Japanese person, but they did interview three heads of anti-nuclear organizations in Australia. It finished with an American economist specialising in Asia who compared the workers undertaking the clean-up in the Dainichi NPR at Fukushima as ‘kamikaze’ fighters. That was real dramatic and appealed to you. Yeah, nuclear energy still is bad shit. Best of all, a slew of people are now scared about it because they have children or are on IVF programmes trying. You’re not being cynical though. You figure that maybe you’d like to have kids soon enough. You are genuinely concerned about the future of the planet. (You said that in an interview.)
And so you make your most ‘edgy’ work: you restage scenes from Stalker with a bunch of Japanese back-packers in Australia who answered an internet ad you posted for your new ‘art project’. You told people they represented a ‘community’ of young people in Japan opposed to their country’s nuclear policies. (Right on, man.) You haven’t been to Japan but you do know some good Japanese restaurants in Melbourne. And you read Peter Carey’s book on Japan which you found very informative. You especially liked the bit where he questioned a master sword-maker on the ethics of making instruments designed to kill human beings. It felt real ‘interventionist’. You’ve filed that away as an idea for a future ‘art project’.
This new work was a smash for you. Everyone loved the title: Fukushima Is The New Chernobyl. It’s been in a trail of national and international group exhibitions with themes dealing with how an artist responsibly engages with the future of society. You met lots of cool artists from Poland, Dubai, the US and Russia – some of who you first met online signing petitions to have Ai Wei released from Chinese prison. You all make similar work critiquing global power structures. You often think back at your foolish friends in bands trying to get lower rung slots on The Big Day Out. You were right all along: art was the new rock. They read books on Oasis; you’re friends with people who’ve been Turner-shortlisted.
[Introduce a death of some kind to make the story feel momentous and powerful.]
But you’ll never get Turner-shortlisted. I killed you about 2 years ago. I stumbled into your Fukushima video in San Francisco. I was writing an article for Frieze on the post-3/11 situation in Japan and thought I’d check out your work.
I spent 3 months in Tokyo just after the Great Tohoku Earthquake and the resulting tsunami. I had contacted The Monthly back in Melbourne about doing an article on Japan after I had read a slew of lazy, ill-informed, knee-jerk, humanist drivel from Australia’s ‘intelligentsia’ waffling on about global issues, international responsibility and how nuclear energy still is bad shit. Plus they were shitting themselves that somehow Australia would one day go nuclear, and here was their pro-active chance to make a stand.
The Monthly declined my proposal saying their next issue already had a “mini-symposium on Japan”. I read it online while in Japan. One article was an economist waffling on about how important China is in the new global economy (duh) and how Australia needed to be savvy about connecting to its emerging and converging industries. It occasionally mentioned Japan, only in terms of how Australia should decide carefully whether to be aligned with Japan in case we offend China, our utopian cash-cow to exploit as if we’re a colonial power. It was one of those laughably obsequious ‘Canberra white paper’ screeds The Monthly trades in. Actually, your dad wrote it. The other article was a whining poetic text about how ‘dreadful’ nuclear devastation is (duh) and – well actually the article made no sense. It was written by your mother, who has made a career from writing ‘historical novels set in the rich past of traditional Japan’. She’s like James A. Michener in drag. I guess she has real ‘insight’ into ‘the Japanese’ even though she doesn’t know what the letters AKB48 stand for.
I made a note to kill your parents when I got back to Australia. They both teach at Melbourne University, so all I have to do is wait until they do another tedious panel at the Wheeler Centre (“Books. Writing. Ideas”) and gun them down on stage.
Your death wasn’t so spectacular. But I wasn’t planning it, so it kinda lacked a sense of theatre. You were on a panel a week after the opening. There was a guy from a university over there who was the main speaker. I couldn’t believe the name of his department: “Global Cities Research Institute”. The only word missing was “Ethics”. He cited how important Tarkovsky’s Stalker was; the whole panel nodded in unsubstantiated agreement. It sounded like everyone had memorised passages from Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock. Their collective Green Scare has replaced the Red Scare from half a century ago.
At question time, I pointed out there was no connection whatsoever between Chernobyl and Fukushima, save for the imaginary fear in the minds of ill-informed liberals whose notion of nuclear energy ramifications is on par with Regan-era Hollywood movies like War Games. (That’s the Mathew Broderick one – not the turgidly righteous one directed by Peter Walker.) Responding to how this guy – typical of the ethical ‘international community’ of the time – admonished the Japanese for using nuclear energy, I said that if there’s one nation in the world who has the right to decide what they want to do with nuclear energy, it surely has to be the only nation in the world that disproves the neurotic myth that nothing exists beyond the ‘nuclear holocaust’: Japan, where wheat grew at ground zero in Hiroshima one month after the A-bomb blast.
I guess I shouldn't have been so shocked by how the panel and the audience ridiculed my comments. Americans – like Australians – still respond to the Japanese with bad hang-ups because someone in their family past was involved in WWII in the Pacific. I keep forgetting that Anzac Day is still a big deal in Australia, and that while we’re still nothing more than a dumb British colony farming lamb in a desert, our deeper ties with America come from us both being attacked by the Japanese back then.
After the panel finished I was waiting for a bus and you were nearby with some friends. They looked like curators, actually. All dressed in greys and black, wearing ‘90s designer glasses like the people you see waiting in transit at Helsinki airport. You were laughing loudly. Now, I know you probably had already forgotten about me, but the tone and pitch of your voice really irritated me. I walked up to you and stared at your face. Everyone went quiet.
You didn’t look like an art student anymore. You looked like a sessional staff working at an art school somewhere. You looked so Anglo it was frightening. A real Aussie. Your face was like a flag. Your nose an Anzac Shrine, ungainly sticking out like a heritage-listed edifice, kept erect for no good reason. Your hair a vineyard designed by an architect and run by a development group comprised of lawyers and doctors who hung indigenous paintings in their office foyers. Your eyes looked like Coffin Bay oysters. Your cornea looked like folds of Kraft cheddar cheese slices. Your skin was a desert of Canberra white papers, slightly cream in hue due to the recycled paper. You smelt like The Body Shop.
But I hadn’t walked up to you. I had run into you full-on, thrusting a Japanese short sword into your heart. In that second, the dumb look on your face seemed to go into an extended still shot – just like those scenes in Stalker you so loved. When you restaged that shot for your Fukushima video, you filmed Uluru in real time as the sun set. Me? I felt like I was restaging the famous photo of Yamaguchi Otoya assassinating Japanese Socialist Party politician Asanuma Inejrio on live TV. I think I got a hard-on. As your eyes glazed over, I thought of those blades of wheat growing in Hiroshima. I bet you were gluten intolerant.
Your parents are on a panel next week at The Wheeler Centre. They’ve written a book about ‘their son’ which is being launched at the Writers’ Festival. The panel is on violence in society. I’ve marked the date in my calendar.
Philip Brophy – January 17th 2013

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A major cocaine seizure in Europe has turned out to be good news for the animals at Rotterdam's zoo.
The drugs were hidden among boxes of bananas, and the fruit was later donated to the monkeys and other creatures at the Blijdorp zoo.
Dutch prosecutors said Friday more than eight tons of cocaine was hidden among the bananas on a ship from Ecuador. The drugs were seized Monday in the Belgian port of Antwerp, while the bananas were allowed to continue on to Rotterdam- the shipment's final destination. Dutch police arrested a Belgian truck driver and four Dutch men on Tuesday.
Dutch authorities say the seizure is the biggest ever in the Netherlands or Belgium.
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London, Feb 29: In a rare movie, Britain's censor has banned the DVD release of "Murder-Set-Pieces," a low-budget American horror film in which a serial killer rapes and tortures his victims, including young children.
The rejection by the British Board of Film Classification means Los Angeles writer/director Nick Palumbo's second feature cannot be legally supplied anywhere in the UK.
The last time a DVD was banned in the UK was December 2006, when the BBFC gave the thumbs down to Vince Benedetti's "Struggle in Bondage," a pornographic film that consisted of scenes of women tied up and struggling while humiliated and crying.
A BBFC spokesperson said the distributor of the "Murder-Set-Pieces" DVD, Philadelphia-based TLA Releasing, has 42 days to appeal the decision, but noted that the DVD might run afoul of obscenity laws.
BBFC director David Cooke said the board considered trying to cut the film to allow it a release here.
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DIABETES-RELATED MORTALITY TRENDS IN THE GENDER AND AGE-ADJUSTED AMONG ADULTS IN SOUTH KOREA BETWEEN 2011 AND 2015
Young-Hwan Kwon, Hyeong-Ae Bang, Myeong-Jin Lee and Won-Chang Lee*
Objective: The purpose of this paper is to estimate the epidemiological trends in the gender and age-specific adjusted crude mortality rate (CMR) among Korean adults with diabetes mellitus (DM) by the International Classification of Diseases (Codes of ICD: E10-E14) in the last half-decade between 2011 and 2015. Methods: Raw data analyzed in this study were obtained from the website of “the Crude Mortality of Diabetes” of Annual Report on the Cause of Death Statistic between 2011 and 2015 managed by the Korea Statistics Promotion Institute (KSPI). Results: There were a total of 10,793 nationwide fatal-cases (FCs) of DM with a CMR of 21.3 per 100,000 populations in 2011, while there were a total of 10,558 FCs with a CMR of 20.5 in 2015; the CMR of DM decreased in 2015 since 2011 (p<0.01). The male to female mortality ratio (MFMR) was similar between 2011 and 2015. The distribution of the CMR with DM by age adjusted groups under the 69-year-old groups in 2011 decreased in 2015 (p<0.01). However, the age group of over 70-year-old clearly showed higher occurrences in 2015 (p<0.01). Trends in FCs and CMR of DM by gender were compared with respect to the 10 key classification of ICD (E10-E14) among men between 2011 and 2015 as follows; DM with ketoacidosis, and renal complications increased in 2015 since 2011, while DM with neurological multiple and unspecified complications decreased (p<0.01). During the same period among women, DM with coma renal complications increased in 2015 than those in 2011, while DM with neurological and multiple complications decreased, respectively (p<0.01). On the other hand, trends in the age adjusted CMR among adults with DM by the ICD in less than 49 (30-49) year-old age groups between 2011 and 2015; DM with multiple complication was decreased in 2015 than that in 2011 (p<0.01), while in over 50 year-old age groups; DM with ketoacidosis, renal, peripheral, other specified, and unspecified complications were statistically significantly increased from 2011 to 2015 (p<0.05∼p<0.01). Conclusion: DM is one of the most severe and relatively common chronic diseases in worldwide including Korea. The number of elderly FCs with a CMR of DM is overwhelmingly increasing in Korea as well as in westernized countries. It is necessary for us to care for the elderly who have DM in order to maintain their function and quality of life.
Keywords: diabetes; fatal cases; gender; age; crude mortality rate; ICD; Korea.
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Geared up for a crack at League Two!
Following today's release of the fixtures for the 2016-17 League Two season, we spoke to Gaffer Gary Johnson to gauge his reaction.
His side were crowned Champions of the National League in April after a long hard season but the challenges don't stop there, " Next season our first four games are against teams who have made the most signing over the summer! Leyton Orient and Doncaster are two of the richest teams in the division so it won't be easy."
The other two matches Johnson is referring to are Mansfield Town & Carslisle United, both away, with the Carlisle trip falling on a Tuesday night!
However the Gaffer was pleased that the season's curtain raiser, against Leyton Orient, will be played at Whaddon Road, "It's always nice to get a home game to start with, especially with the prospect of three away games to follow if we get drawn away in the EFL Cup. Carlisle away on a Tuesday is never ideal for the supporters thought!"
There is a very different atmosphere around the club in comparison to 12 months ago that Gary has noticed, "It's nice to see this year's list of clubs we'll be coming up against in comparison to last year, all due respect to the National League teams.
We've got to believe we can compete at this level in the same way we competed last year. I really believe we can push for promotion out of this league despite teams being around that are giving it a right go such as Doncaster, Orient, Luton & Portsmouth."
On a personal note there are a couple of fixtures that stand out, " Obviously it's always nice to go back to clubs you've had success at so I am looking forward to the away games at Yeovil and Cambridge the most. And then we they have saved the best match until last, Portsmouth away. It's definitely going to be an exciting year!"
As with last year, Johnson has already told his players the same sort of targets to be aiming at, "I always look at group of 10 games, these first ten will show you pretty accurately how things are going to pan out so they will be absolutely vital and as always, we will need the fans' support!"

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In this video you can see us making hay for our cows.
We leave the grass in this field growing a little longer so it is more mature.
We cut the grass and then turn it over with a tedder. We left it drying in the field for one day, teddering it twice more. Then we raked it and brought it home, where we put it in one of our two haylofts. We got 7 full loads from this field.
We use hay blower to get the hay up in the hayloft. At the end is a swiveling pipe that spreades the hay evenly. We didn't really have sunny weather for drying hay outside so we will further dry it with drying machine.
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Farmer's POV (Point of View) is a channel where I share videos of different chores that are going on on our small family farm in Slovenia. We have 60 heads of cattle, mainly simmetal breed and we milk about 35 of them. We farm in a fairly hilly area so our equipment is relatively small. Currently we own 4 tractors: Fiat DT55-56, New Holland TN70DA, Deutz Fahr Agroplus 85 and John Deere 5085M.We work around 20 hectares of mainly grass fields and about 2,5 hectares for silage corn. We also have 7 hectares of forest.
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Top-ranked Iga Swiatek will host a charity tennis event next month in her home country of Poland to raise funds for children and teenagers impacted bythe war in Ukraine.
The event in Krakow on July 23 will feature a mixed doubles exhibition match and Ukraine soccer great Andriy Shevchenko will be a special guest.
“I hope that we can see each other in large numbers in TAURON Arena Krakow and in front of the television to show the strength of sport when it unites us in helping and gives us at least a little joy,” Swiatek said on her social media accounts.
Elina Svitolina of Ukraine will serve as umpire for the event. They hope to sell at least 10,000 tickets.
“Total proceeds from the event will be donated to the support of children and teenagers affected by the war in Ukraine,” Swiatek said.
The 21-year-old Swiatek has been wearing a pin with the Ukrainian colors during her matches. She has a second-round match scheduled for June 30 at Wimbledon.
More than 4 million refugees crossed into Poland after Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Poland is providing them with free shelter, social and medical care, education and job opportunities.
The All England Club banned players from Russia and Belarus from competing this year at Wimbledon because of the war.
Bars and restaurants in Spain will be obliged to offer “doggy bags” free of charge to clients to take home the food they have not eaten under a new law aimed at reducing food waste.
Under the new bill passed by the Spanish government, businesses in the food chain will have to draw up plans to try to reduce the amount of food wasted or else face possible fines.
Stores and supermarkets will be asked to reduce the price on products as their date limit for recommended consumption approaches and also reach agreements with neighborhood organizations and food banks for the donation of such products to help the needy.
Once past the “best before” date, the law recommends that foodstuffs be channeled toward use as animal feed or in the industrial production of fertilizers and biofuel.
Agriculture Fisheries and Food Minister Luis Planas said the law was aimed at “regulating and raising awareness,” so as to reduce the 1.3 million kilos (1,400 tons) of food wasted in the country each year. He said this represented 31 kilograms per person, which amounted to a loss of some 250 euros ($265) for each person.
He said only France and Italy in the European Union already have similar legislation. Planas said he hoped the bill would be approved by parliament and in force by Jan. 1, 2023.
Amazon is planning to sublease some of its warehouse space now that the pandemic-fueled surge in online shopping, which helped the e-commerce giant rake in soaring profits in the past two years, has eased.
Subleasing allows the company to “relieve the financial obligations associated with an existing building that no longer meets” its needs, Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll said.
Carroll didn’t disclose how much space the company plans to sublet. But citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that the retailer would sublease at least 10 million square feet of space and could end more of its leases in states including New York, New Jersey and California.
Seattle-based Amazon doubled the size of its operations during the pandemic, adding more warehouses and workers to keep up with demand from homebound consumers who felt more comfortable buying things online. But as the worst of the pandemic eased, it found itself with too much warehouse space and too many workers.
“Subleasing is something many established corporations do to help manage their real estate portfolio,” Carroll said.
Last month, the company reported its first quarterly loss since 2015, fueled by the e-commerce slowdown and a massive write-down of its investment in the electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive. In a statement released last month with its earnings results, CEO Andy Jassy said the company was now focused on improving productivity.
The owner of a rural English pub says he was asked to change the bar’s name by a fashion magazine because of the village where it’s located: Vogue.
Mark Graham, who runs the Star Inn at Vogue, said he received a letter from British Vogue publisher Conde Nast, saying the name could “cause problems” because members of the public might confuse the two businesses.
He said the letter from Sabine Vandenbroucke, chief operating officer of Conde Nast Britain, asked if he would change the name, adding: “Please reply within seven days or we will take remedial action.”
Graham stood his ground.
“There’s always too much a case of the big boys trying to stomp on the little boys, and as soon as I realized what they were trying to do, I went ‘you’re not having me, my handsome,’” he told broadcaster ITV.
He sent a reply noting that the village, in Cornwall county about 250 miles (400 kilometers) southwest of London, is considerably older than the magazine, whose British edition was founded in 1916.
“I presume that at the time when you chose the name Vogue … you didn’t seek permission from the villagers of the real Vogue,” he wrote.
“In answer to your question whether we would change our name, it is a categorical NO.”
Graham said that on Friday he received another letter from Conde Nast saying that it regularly monitors use of the name Vogue but acknowledging that “we did not need to send such a letter on this occasion.”
A Nepali Sherpa broke her own record as the most successful female climber of Mount Everest by reaching the summit of the world’s highest peak Thursday.
Lakpa Sherpa and several other climbers took advantageof favorable weather to reach the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit early in the morning, her brother and expedition organizer Mingma Gelu said. He said she was in good health and was safely descending from the peak.
Sherpa, 48, never got a chance to get a formal education because she had to start earning a living by carrying climbing gear and supplies for trekkers. Thursday’s successful ascent was her 10th — the most times any woman has climbed Everest — and she has always said she wanted to inspire all women so they too can achieve their dreams.
A native of Nepal, Sherpa lives in the U.S. with her three children in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Another Nepalese Sherpa guide, Kami Rita, reached the summit for the 26th time Saturday, breaking his own record for the most climbs of Everest. Rita led a group of Sherpa climbers who fixed ropes along the route so that hundreds of other climbers and guides can make their way to the top of the mountain later this month.
Hundreds of foreign climbers and an equal number of Sherpa guides are set to attempt climbs of Everest in May, the month when weather conditions in the Himalayan peaks are most favorable for climbing.

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If nothing else, Jabrill Peppers is certainly the most polarizing NFL prospect in recent memory. From second-ranked recruit overall coming out of high school to a top-5 draft projection early in the season, Peppers has always seemed destined for greatness at the next level. More recently, his draft stock has seemed to slip with many analysts pushing him to the tail end of the first round and even into the second in some cases, citing a perceived unclear NFL position.
Peppers' elite athleticism and football i.q. are unquestioned and were on full display at the University of Michigan's pro day. There, the do-it-all defender impressed the largest contingent of scouts some evaluators have ever seen at a pro day. The guest list included a long list of NFL head coaches and top team officials including the New England Patriots' Bill Belichick.
Count NFL Network's draft analyst Mike Mayock among the impressed.
Peppers played a hybrid linebacker role for Michigan this past season but has seen snaps at every spot on the field sans offensive and defensive line. His versatility, athleticism, and understanding of the game make him a valued asset but also stir confusion regarding his best NFL fit. Teams interested in seeing his ability to maneuver in ways he wasn't asked to as a linebacker did not leave disappointed according to Mayock.
“People wanted to see two things. One, can he open his hips and drive to a deep third or to a deep half, track and catch the football? His hips are outstanding,” Mayock added. “There is no problem driving to the deep third, the deep half, making a cut to get back to the football.”
With that kind of fluid agility in and out of breaks and his elite speed, teams should have no problem finding productive ways to use Peppers. Mayock's thoughts represent a break from the recent trend, but quite possibly fall closer in line with NFL evaluators.
If Peppers does indeed fall out of the top 10, don't be surprised if he ends up under the tutelage of another Harbaugh – to the Baltimore Ravens at 16th overall. Ravens' head coach John Harbaugh can surely get plenty of ideas to utilize Peppers' unique skillset from his brother, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh.


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I run to You, O Adonai, to rescue me from shame
Be Thou my Refuge, shelt’ring Rock, hide me in Thy great name
Your righteousness is sure to save, my constant hiding place
Deliver me from all my foes and trials that I face.
When I was in my mother’s womb You watched and cared for me
No wonder I’ve made You my hope, my praise continually
In awe and wonder others see the way that You protect
And I, in worship, all day long Your glory recollect.
As I get older my strength fails, please don’t abandon me
The enemies who seek my life think You no longer see
So hurry, God, oppose the proud and put them in their place
May all who seek to harm me end in shame and much disgrace.
But as for me, I’ll not lose hope, I’ll praise You more and more
I can’t keep count of Your great works, O Lord, whom I adore
There is no one like our great God who saves in righteousness
Day after day, continually, with my mouth I’ll confess.
O God, You’ve taught me from my youth, and now I’m old and gray
Do not forsake me now, O God, I’ve so much more to say
I’ll make sure each new generation learns about Your deeds
So they will know that they can trust in You for all their needs.
Your ways are right because You see from heaven far above
Who is like You, O Lord my God, so faithful in Your love?
Tho You have let me see deep trials, You bring me up again
You raise me from disgrace and pain and comfort as a friend.
Break out the instruments of praise, I’ll sing to You, my God
My lips will shout, my tongue exclaim, your faithfulness applaud
You rescued me from vicious foes, I can’t stop praising You
And those who tried to do me harm are utterly subdued.
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Cut celery into 1-in. chunks. In a large pot, boil celery and onion with broth, covered, until tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
Meanwhile, melt butter in a small frying pan over medium heat. Cook apple, stirring occasionally, until caramelized, about 10 minutes. Set aside.
Working in batches, ladle celery mixture into a blender and whirl until very smooth, about 2 minutes per batch. Stir in half-and-half and season with salt and pepper. Ladle soup into bowls and sprinkle with parsley, reserved apple, and cheese.
I tried this soup twice. After the first time I made three changes: I peeled some of the fibers off of the celery before cooking it, I doubled the apples and butter and then incorporated that into the soup, and I added whole milk with a tablespoon of cornstarch instead of the cream (since I felt like the butter was adding enough fat). On the first try it was good, and on the second try it was very good!

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The new — and currently hard to get — Echo Dot. Ry Crist/CNET Good luck trying to get the new Echo Dot with two-day shipping.Amazon’s most popular smart speaker is out of stock until early March, according to the company’s website. Target is also out of stock on its site and Best Buy’s stock was limited to two of the three available colors.”Customer response to the all-new Echo Dot has been incredibly positive,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday. “We’re working hard to get it back in stock.”The Echo Dot, which costs $50 and first became available in October, was out of stock at times during the holidays, when customer interest for new gadgets was at its highest all year. The Dot, which competes directly against the Google Home Mini speaker, became the best-selling item on Amazon worldwide during the holidays.It’s less typical for an Echo device to run out during a quieter part of the shopping year. The company had promoted the Alexa-powered gadget during a Super Bowl ad on Sunday, which may have sparked interest.Amazon said customers can check the Echo Dot page online for inventory updates. The company will continue accepting new orders, but Amazon won’t replenish its virtual shelves until March 5 for its charcoal Dot and March 11 for heather gray and sandstone, its website stated Tuesday.Availability for some colors of the Echo Spot, Echo and Echo Plus are delayed until Feb. 10; other colors for those models are in stock. See it Amazon Echo Dot $29 Preview • Amazon’s third Echo Dot takes a few cues from the Google Home Mini Adorama See It Smart Home Smart Speakers & Displays Review • Amazon Echo Dot 3 review: Alexa’s best Dot yet plays defense 2 $49 News • Amazon Echo Dot deal: 3 for $70 See It $29 CNET may get a commission from retail offers. See It Best Buy Crutchfield $49 Mentioned Above Amazon Echo Dot (third-generation, Charcoal) Alexa Amazon Best Buy Google Tags Share your voice Comments
John HarveyRegister to voteTexas will host the first statewide primaries of 2018 on March 6 and, with the Feb. 5 registration deadline fast approaching, Texans don’t have much time left to become eligible to vote. For both Democrats and Republicans, the race for U.S. Senate will be at the top of the ballot. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is vying against four other Republicans in his bid for re-election and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, is the most well-known of three Democrats aiming to unseat him.Eight Texans in the U.S. House aren’t running for re-election, which has led to some packed races to replace them, including 18 Republicans and four Democrats running for the seat U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, has held for more than 30 years. And three Republicans running for re-election — U.S. Reps. John Culberson of Houston, Pete Sessions of Dallas, and Will Hurd of Helotes — have emerged as top targets for Democrats as potential pick-ups in November, creating higher stakes in the Democratic primaries there.At the state level, nine candidates are crowding the Democratic gubernatorial primary, with the highest-profile being former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez and Houston entrepreneur Andrew White, son of late Texas Gov. Mark White. And Republican Land Commissioner George P. Bush is facing three primary challengers including Jerry Patterson, who previously held the job. Share Lower on the ballot, all of the seats in the Texas House of Representatives and half of those in the Texas Senate are up for re-election.Here’s how Texans who aren’t yet registered to vote can do so in time for the March 6 primary:Voters need to submit their applications at least 30 days in advance of an election. Registering online isn’t an option in Texas.To register, Texans can fill out an application in person at their county voter registrar’s office or pick up a copy at other locations including local libraries and most post offices and high schools. They can also print out the application online or request it through the mail. Voters must submit their registration to the county where they are a resident, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s website. Mailed applications must be postmarked before or on the Feb. 5 deadline.You can look up if you’re already registered to vote at the Texas Secretary of State’s website.Early voting starts on Feb. 20.
Gender stereotyping in baby boys and girls may start as young as three months and men recognise gender of the new-born babies based on the pitch of their cries, researchers reveal. Adults often wrongly assume babies with higher-pitched cries as females and lower-pitched cries as males.The findings revealed that inspite of no actual difference in pitch between the voices of girls and boys before puberty, the study found that adults make assumptions about the gender of babies based on their cries. Also Read – ‘Playing Jojo was emotionally exhausting’“It is intriguing that gender stereotyping can start as young as three months, with adults attributing degrees of femininity and masculinity to babies solely based on the pitch of their cries,” said David Reby from the University of Sussex in Britain. The team recorded the spontaneous cries of 15 boys and 13 girls who were on average four months old and the participating adults were a mixture of parents and non-parents.They synthetically altered the pitch of the cries while leaving all other features of the cries unchanged to ensure they could isolate the impact of the pitch alone. Also Read – Leslie doing new comedy special with NetflixThe results also indicate that men assume that boy babies are in more discomfort than girl babies with the same pitched cry which may indicate that this sort of gender stereotyping is more ingrained in men. “The research shows that we tend to wrongly attribute what we know about adults —that men have lower pitched voices than women — to babies, when, in fact, the pitch of children’s voices does not differ between sexes until puberty,” added Nicolas Mathevon from Hunter College in the US in the paper published in the journal BMC Psychology.


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New Orleans police are seeking help in finding a man known only by an alias who is suspected in a homicide this summer.
Police are searching for a man known only as "Bo" in the the fatal shooting of Shannon "Chuck" Joshua, who was found inside his home in the 1800 block of Numa Street in Algiers on June 6, according to a press release.
During their investigation, police have developed "Bo" as a suspect and believe he is a regular visitor to Numa and Lauradale streets, and that he has also been seen in the South Carrollton area with a cast on his arm.
The suspect is believed to be 17 years old, thin build with acne, a thin mustache and thin goatee. Anyone with infortmation on his location is asked to contact to contact police at 504.658.5523 or call Crimestoppers at 504.822.1111.


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When most people think about medical malpractice, they think of surgical errors or patient neglect. A recent article in USA Today reports that a more fundamental error occurs in up to 5 percent of American hospitals and clinics: the use of dirty syringes.
Experts say that approximately 150,000 patients are treated with dirty syringes annually. The use of dirty syringes is linked to a variety of patient injuries, including the development of antibiotic-resistant infections and the transmission of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis.
“People think, ‘This can’t happen in the United States; this is a Third World thing.’ Unfortunately, it happens on a regular basis, and it affects a lot of people, families, communities,” said a 57-year-old woman who contracted hepatitis C after a clinic used dirty needles while giving her cancer drugs.
“You just feel betrayed, vulnerable,” she added.
Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 150,000 patients are impacted by dirty medical needles annually, this figure is based only on the number of reported cases and represents a fraction of the total instances that occur. Many diseases that patients contract from dirty needles, such as hepatitis, can go undiscovered for years and are never traced back to their source.
“It’s a huge issue,” said Michael Bell, the CDC’s associate director for infection control. “We’re trying to eliminate a range of harms in health care – high-level, complex challenges – and we look behind us and these basic, obvious, completely preventable problems are still occurring.”
“It really comes down to a matter of greed, ignorance or laziness,” Bell added. “It makes us crazy.”
Source: USA Today, “Dirty medical needles put tens of thousands at risk in USA,” Peter Eisler, Dec. 28, 2012


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A world cruise stop at Phu My Vietnam. The ship docked bright and early in Phu My, and with no trouble, we were ashore and in our excursion coach heading for Ho Chi Minh City. Previously known as Saigon it was once known as Prey Nokor a seaport of the Khmer before the Vietnamese took control in the 17th Century.
There are many tours available to see numerous landmarks bound in history and tradition: from museums that tell the stories of war to ornamental pagodas that are filled with characters from Buddhist and Taoist religions or to the fascinating tunnel network at Cu Chi, used by the Viet Cong during the war. At their height, they stretched from the South Vietnamese capital to the Cambodian border. But for that tour, you must be thin and not claustrophobic.
Our tour was of the city, bus 22 as you can see, and as we were taking time off the proper cameras were left at home. This, for once is shot on a handicam.
Highlights of Ho Chi Minh – excursion
This is a 7 and a half hour tour which takes you into the city. The coach journey is about an hour 15 minutes and the walking tour is around 3 hours with coach breaks and lunch.
Vietnam was not how I expected having watched so many war shows but they were from the 1970s and it has been developed and ranges huge modern buildings into the sky like any major city. It has that huge contrast of extreme poverty and wealth, and you are constantly being sold hats and tee shirts. As you leave the ship the shirts are ten dollars each, as you return they are ten for a dollar and every man is then wearing the same shirt. Our excursion was to a Natural History Museum with costumes and ceramics, then to a water puppet show a taste of which is on the video.
It was then city landmarks, including the neo-Romanesque Notre Dame Cathedral, whose twin spires are a distinctive, the Reunification Hall which was once the Presidential Palace and where Liberation forces, on 30th April 1975, marked the end of the Vietnam War. Then we saw the famous Rex Hotel where all the war correspondents stayed. Lunch is supplied, Vietnamese style with dancing, a little of this is also on the film, then to Thien Hau Temple, dedicated to the Sea Goddess – Protector of Sailors. A highlight was the central post office opposite Saigon Notre Dame. It is a magnificent building designed by the French architect Eiffel. It looks more like a railway station inside with its arched roof, ornate maps and clocks set to different times around the world. Definitely a must-see. Finally to the lacquer factory which has impressive pieces but they are not as cheap as the tee shirts and hats they sell on the streets. If you like to be looked after and want to see Saigon, then this might be the tour for you. This is not our usual tour film, it is just a snippet of two of the things that are always on this excursion. See below.
Find out more about the entertainers working at sea ON BOARD ENTERTAINMENT join their Facebook Pages and & please share with your friends. Classical Guitarist Tom McLauchlan gave a fantastic performance of Cavatina on the Arcadia when we sailed it a few years later in New England.
Other excursions from Phu My
- ‘Countryside and Cu Chi tunnels’ is the one for the thin and not claustrophobic, though you don’t have to go down the tunnels.
- Ho Chi Minh City on your own is for those who do their research and love freedom.
- Then there is normally a Jewels of Indochina Overland. This is where you leave the ship and go away for two days and then rejoin. The passengers we talked to who did this were all very impressed and full of it so it is worth looking at.
Take a look at some of the places where we have filmed properly since starting the travel show. Jean is now the main presenter for Doris Visits and has been on many fact-finding missions to cruise stops. Here is a quick overview of seven Baltic Cruise stops. Click here for a taste of the Baltic.
As Phu My is a normal World Cruise stop for the Arcadia, you might like to see our film of the ship, or this film of Marco Pierre White’s Ocean Grill. The Arcadia and Adonia are the only P&O ships to have Marco’s fine dining restaurant, though he does have Marco Menus on the free dining on many ships. Click here to see the Ocean Grill. The next circumnavigation for the Arcadia is shown here.
BOOKS SET IN HO CHI MINH CITY: RU – Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French, it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp Buy Ru on Amazon – Click here
You may have seen the author on a ship giving an after-dinner speech or a lecture, his page is here. Stuart St Paul – click here
Essentials – cruise travel labels and our cruise crime novels – oh, and the seasickness bands.
The Port guides here on Doris Visits are a great way to remember your cruise and share with your friends. The crime novels are a whole new experience. You may not have been to the ports in the novels, you certainly won’t have been to the parts of the ship they use. All the cruise crime novels will make you feel like you are in the adventure and on the ship – dodge the bullets and stay out of the romance. Ship and cruise accurate, the novels are a great way for new cruisers to discover a ship too. Please share the Amazon link. .CRUISE SHIP HEIST https://amzn.to/2GKQBIp

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Big names for big Disney video game
EmptyDisney will inject some star power into its upcoming video game "Turok."
Seeking an edge in the crowded gaming market with its first Mature-rated title, Disney Interactive Studios subsidiary Touchstone said that Timothy Olyphant, Powers Boothe, Ron Perlman, William Fichtner and Donnie Wahlberg will provide the voices for "Turok," set for release in February. The game is being developed by Vancouver-based Propaganda Studios.
"The actors who lent their voices to 'Turok' are a testament to both the magnitude of the project and the interest of top-notch talent," Propaganda vp and GM Josh Holmes said.
Based on the popular comic book license, the game pits a team of commandos against soldiers, dinosaurs and other creatures.


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Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup ...
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Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.Written by
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This film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-46. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast; its earliest documented telecasts took place in Cincinnati Friday 2 September 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7) and in New York City Wednesday 23 August 1950 on WOR-TV (Channel 9). See more »
This is one of those cheap Poverty Row second features that holds some interest for fans of old movies mostly because of one or two supporting actors. Ray Walker is a cocky young fighter who has agreed to take a dive, but, being frustrated by the bell and his opponent needling him throughout the fight, knocks him out, earning the ire of the local hoods. When he gets clobbered by a cop in an exhibition fight, he decides that the sort of training he can get at the police gym will put the polish on his boxing and allow him to court pretty nurse, Geneva Mitchell. However, paired with amiable Russ Clark, he gradually becomes a decent cop, even if he's unwilling to shoot at old friends.
Walker's brash act is annoying and the story is bog standard, but there are a couple of actors worth looking at. One is silent comic Snub Pollard in a straight role as a low-level hood, almost unrecognizable without his trademark mustache. Virginia True Boardman plays Evans mother and perennial B western bad guy Hooper Atchley has a non-villainous role. None of these make this movie particularly worthwhile; director Eugene Cummings in his sole movie credit doesn't seem to have much talent as a dialogue director. It's just another of the several thousand cheap movies that played on the bottom of double or triple bills and then vanished.
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Zain KSA deploys Nokia NetGuard to protect subscribers from increasing malware threat; first operator to implement anti-malware solution in Saudi Arabia
- Nokia NetGuard protected Zain KSA subscribers in Jeddah and Makkah from malware attacks during Umra and Hajj 2016 pilgrimage
- Nokia NetGuard solution to deliver superior subscriber security as Zain KSA progresses toward transforming Jeddah into a model smart city by 2018
19 December 2016
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Mobile and data services provider Zain KSA has selected the Nokia NetGuard Endpoint security solution to protect its subscribers from the increasing threat of malware.
Zain KSA is the first operator in Saudi Arabia to deploy an anti-malware solution. It selected the Nokia NetGuard solution to monitor and analyze mobile network activity in Jeddah and Makkah during Hajj and Umra, an event that typically generates a tremendous amount of network traffic including voice and video calls, text messages and the uploading/downloading of images and videos. With Nokia NetGuard, Zain protected millions of subscribers from malware threats to online transactions and mobile applications during the 30-day pilgrimage.
Initially deployed as a pilot project, the operator plans to continue using Nokia NetGuard to ensure the highest levels of network security as it aims to transform Jeddah, the second largest city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), into a model for smart cities in the country and the world. Based on the tremendous success of the project, Zain is planning to extend the service across the kingdom.
Malware is malicious software that hijacks the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile and other electronic devices as a means to extort money, or compromise or destroy sensitive user information. It can also harness the power of large numbers of these devices to attack other computer systems, such as the recent “Mirai” malware denial of service attack targeting Internet traffic management company DYN, which disrupted Internet service for millions of users.
The increasing prevalence of new and more damaging malware, coupled with the proliferation of new applications and connected devices due to IoT and smart cities, is demanding new, more advanced approaches data security. Nokia NetGuard Endpoint Security is a network-based anti-malware solution for fixed, mobile and IoT devices. Analyzing traffic patterns from within the network, it is much more efficient than traditional antivirus software, as it cannot be disabled and protects subscribers without requiring them to install any software. The NetGuard solution enables Zain KSA to deliver superior protection for its subscribers, while providing the operator with valuable insight to better manage and maintain the security of its mobile networks.
Sultan AlDeghaither, chief technology officer at Zain KSA, said: “With the increasing adoption of smart devices and new IoT applications, malware threats are increasing dramatically, enabling hackers to gather and exploit sensitive user information. We absolutely understand the importance of endpoint network security, and are investing to protect our individual and enterprise customers. In our pilot implementation, the NetGuard solution from our long-term trusted partner ensured the most reliable and secure network for us in the Kingdom – and the Middle East.”
Ali Al Jitawi, head of the Zain KSA Customer Team at Nokia, said: “Security is an integral part of any network solution. Today, smart device users are well aware of security risks and expect effective malware protection from their operators. Our unique approach to malware detection and mitigation helps Zain KSA deliver unmatched network security while it continues to pursue its smart city development plans.”
This announcement follows a major initiative announced earlier this year in which Zain KSA will apply advanced Nokia IoT and cloud networking technologies to transform Jeddah into a smart city by 2018. The use of these technologies will improve municipal services, enhance the business climate in Jeddah and create a better quality of life for the city’s nearly three million residents.
- Web Page: Nokia NetGuard Endpoint Security
- Press Release Nokia launches first all-in-one centralized security configuration, monitoring and analysis system for operators #MWC16
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Zain KSA is the latest player in Saudi Arabia’s mobile telecommunications market, having commenced commercial operations in August 2008. Through its state-of-the-art 4G LTE-Advanced network, the ever-evolving operator is striving to become the Kingdom’s preferred choice for voice, data and other telecommunications services. Through constant development of the telecommunications infrastructure and proactive marketing initiatives, Zain remains committed to offering customers in Saudi Arabia the most dynamic products and services.
The basis of Zain Saudi Arabia’s achievements lies in the company’s ability to inspire its employees to deliver the best and most imaginative services at every level. With an energetic and inspired majority-Saudi workforce, the company is committed to employing high caliber people as well as nurturing the finest Saudi talent. For more on Zain KSA please visit www.sa.zain.com
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Tourists stoned in Jerusalem; 13 held
Jerusalem: Israeli police arrested 13
Palestinians in the grounds of Jerusalem`s flashpoint Al-Aqsa
mosque complex on Sunday after police and tourists visiting the
site were stoned, a police spokesman said.
"Stones were thrown at tourists and police officers.
Police have made thirteen arrests," Micky Rosenfeld said.
"The situation is calm at present."
He said he did not know the cause of the incident.
Nasser Kos, a resident of Jerusalem`s Old City who was at
the site during the incident said that a group of
Christian tourists entered the compound. Among them,
Palestinians identified religious Jews and began hurling
stones at police, Kos said.
Police used tear gas to disperse the Palestinians, none of
whom was hurt, Kos said.
Rosenfeld said one policeman was lightly injured by a
stone that hit him on the head, and he was treated on the
A Palestinian protest was staged a week ago at the site,
which is revered by Jews as the site of their biblical Jewish
temple, when a group of Jewish nationalist hardliners
attempted to visit.
They were prevented by police from doing so and calm was
The Al-Aqsa compound, known to Jews as Temple Mount, is
home to the third-most sacred site in Islam. It is venerated
by Jews as their holiest site, where King Herod`s temple once
stood before it was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.
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Industrial Panel PC technology has undergone significant changes in recent years. These changes have been driven by the need for more efficiency, accuracy, and speed in manufacturing, automation, and other industrial processes. This article discusses the latest trends in industrial panel PC technology and their impact on the future of the industry.
New Materials for Industrial Panel PC
The use of new materials in Industrial Panel PC manufacturing is one of the latest trends in the industry. For example, graphene, a 2D carbon nanomaterial with excellent mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties, is being used to create thin, flexible, and lightweight displays for some industrial PCs. Graphene can help improve the performance and durability of industrial PCs, enhancing their suitability for harsh environments and high-impact applications.
Edge Computing in Panel PCs
Edge computing is another trend shaping the future of Industrial Panel PC technology. Edge computing refers to the processing and analyzing of data in real-time at the edge of the network, where the data is generated, instead of sending it to a remote data center or cloud for processing. This technology is becoming increasingly popular in industrial settings where low latency, high processing power, and secure data management are paramount. By incorporating edge computing capabilities into Industrial Panel PCs, these devices can process data more efficiently, ensuring quick response times and reducing the risk of data breaches.
Internet of Things (IoT) Integration
Industrial Panel PCs are also being designed with IoT integration capabilities to enhance their usefulness in smart factories and Industry 4.0 applications. IoT integration enables Industrial Panel PCs to communicate with other connected devices, sensors, and systems, improving workflow automation, reducing maintenance costs, and enhancing productivity. With IoT integration, Industrial Panel PCs can enable predictive maintenance, real-time monitoring, and remote management capabilities, making them indispensable tools for modern industrial facilities.
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When it comes to industrial applications, longevity and reliability are of utmost importance. As such, Industrial Panel PC manufacturers are investing in developing devices that can withstand harsh environments and last for many years without failure. Some of the latest trends in this area include the use of passive cooling systems that eliminate the need for fans, harsh environment compatibility, and extended operating temperature ranges. Additionally, some companies are developing low-power CPUs and other components that can operate efficiently, minimizing heat generation and power consumption, enhancing product longevity, and reliability.
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BlurbA Patchwork Planet is a novel by Anne Tyler. Published in 1998, it tells the story of Barnaby Gaitlin, anti-hero and failure who suffers from more than the usual quota of misfortune. The book is noted for its complement of old people and eccentrics, and its sharply ironic humor.
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The Republican governor of Utah says he would sign off on legislation requiring doctors to provide anesthesia to babies during abortions.
Though Gov. Gary Herbert does not personally agree with abortion, if it is legal he believes it should be conducted in the most humane way possible.
A bill requiring anesthesia in that state is being drafted by Sen. Curt Bramble. He is proposing legislation that would require anesthesia at the age a baby would experience pain. It is not certain at this point at what age this would apply.
Herbert did note that a baby’s heart starts beating at five weeks.
Already, those working in the abortion industries have come out against the bill arguing that providing anesthesia to the baby would be more government intrusion into the mother/Doctor decision.
Minnesota passed legislation in 2005 requiring mothers be provided with the option of giving pain medication to their babies during an abortion.
Up to the early 1980s, surgeons were routinely performing surgeries on recently born babies without anesthesia because they did not believe they experienced pain.
In 1983, English doctor Kanwaljeet Anand was the first to question the lack of anesthesia. He was working in a recovery unit at a hospital in Oxford, England and noticed babies returning from operations were in shock and it often took him hours to stabilize them.
He asked permission to follow babies through their procedures and was stunned to find out doctors were only giving infants a paralytic drug to keep them still during their medical procedures. Extensive operations, including open heart surgery, were being done without any pain medication during and after the procedures.
Anand initiated a series of trials and found recovery rates for some infant medical procedures doubled with the proper use of pain medications.
As medicine advanced babies as young as 22 weeks old were now undergoing procedures. Anand noticed that even at that young age babies would wince when he pricked their foot with a needle. Anand and others believe babies experience pain earlier than 22 weeks.
Brain waves in a baby are first recorded at 43 days and by 20 weeks the baby has its full complement of brain cells.
- Utah governor says using anesthesia on babies being murdered may be the most human abortion method: Christian News
- Babies hurt then untreated during pain trials on newborns, study says: National Post
- The First Ache: New York Times
- Unborn babies can feel pain: Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life

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National Poetry Month Day 5: 2nd Person POV Inspired by…
Book#6 for my Labor Day Weekend #picturebookfrenzy is School by Britta Teckentrup. Thank you Prestel and Media Masters Books for sharing with the Lit Review Crew💜.
This would be a great first day read for middle schoolers. It touches on community, understanding each other’s stories, finding your place, and finding your people. I liked the diversity and the focus on individuality and community.
You can preorder here. It releases September 15!


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Atletico Madrid's opening goal against Marseille in Wednesday's Europa League final didn't just feature a good finish and a terrible defensive mistake.
Team Diego Simone scored three unanswered goals in the gate "Marseilles" and became the victor of the Europa League of the season 2017-2018.
Just four minutes into the second half and Griezmann turned the hill a Marseille team missing their best player had to climb into Mount Everest. Marseille kept trying, but the breaks kept going Atletico's way, and substitute Kostas Mitroglou's deft late header beat Jan Oblak but not the post.
"If he goes then great, he's given a lot to us over the years".
His OM teammates consoled him, as did Atletico Madrid's Antoine Griezmann, who came over and gave him a kiss. He has also provided 15 assists.
GETTYEuropa League final Dimitri Payet has been in sensational form for Marseille
"Antoine - if he stays we'll continue to grow and develop", the Argentinian said. But if he does leave this summer, he will at least go having delivered the team major silverware.
The difference between the two sides was laid bare after just 20 minutes, when Atleti, and Griezmann, showed just how ruthless they can be.
Torres won the Champions League, FA Cup and Europa League with Chelsea but later admitted what he really craved was to celebrate a triumph with his boyhood club, where he returned in January, 2015 with 40,000 fans flocking to his presentation.
"Even diminished, he set up the (Valere) Germain chance".
It remains to be seen how severe Payet's injury is. Dimitri Payet and Florian Thauvin, two of the chief architects of OM's run to their first European final since 2003/04, linked up to sweep their side up the pitch - Payet then slipped the ball through to Valère Germain.More news: Senate Votes to Reverse FCC's Net Neutrality Repeal
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Troubleshooting steps for performance-related problems.
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WordPress widgets are extremely important when it comes to building a website. A widget is a tool or piece of content that you can add, arrange, and remove from the sidebar (and other widgetized areas) of your site. Widgets add extra features and functionalities to your site, giving you the freedom to grow in different ways.
Adding widgets to your site is done by using the Customizer. You can access the Customizer under the Themes menu within your WordPress.com My Site area. Click on the Customize button and you’ll be taken to the Customizer. Select Widgets and designate the area where you’d like to place your widget.
Typically, you’ll have one Sidebar widget area and a few Footer widget areas, depending on your theme. After you’ve selected your widget area, click the Add a Widget button to select your widget from the list.
Picking the right set of WordPress widgets for your business site is a big decision, so here are five popular business-oriented WordPress widgets available by default on your WordPress.com site.
1. Top Posts & Pages
The Top Posts & Pages widget gives you the ability to display your most popular posts or pages, or up to ten posts and pages that received the most traffic over the last day.
This is very useful if you want to draw reader attention to your most popular content. This content is usually popular for a reason, and exposing your visitors to it means there’s a good chance they’ll benefit from reading it. This might encourage your readers to follow you to read your future posts.
2. Social Icons
Being active on social media helps improve your search engine optimization, so what better way to drive new fans to your Facebook page, Twitter profile, and Instagram feed, than by integrating clickable social icons right into your sidebar using the Social Icons Widget?
There are even separate Facebook page, Twitter timeline, and Instagram feed widgets available to add to your sidebar.
3. Navigation Menu
Creating fluid navigation for your WordPress.com site is important so that you can lead visitors through your content and showcase your products or services. By integrating the Navigation Menu Widget, you can create custom sidebar menus. This can be used to seamlessly promote specific pages, products, or services that might otherwise muck up your main navigation menu.
4. Follow Blog
One of the easiest ways to encourage readers to return to your website or blog is to allow them to subscribe to your updates with the Follow Blog Widget. It embeds a simple “follow” form into your sidebar which allows fans to subscribe to updates.
To prevent spam, your site will send emails that instruct readers to confirm their subscriptions before your site is officially followed.
5. Custom HTML
This is one of the more powerful default widgets. If you have any third-party HTML content (such as Google AdWords or code to integrate an affiliate program), you can add it using the Custom HTML Widget. If you have basic HTML knowledge, you can even craft your own custom functionality using this widget. The possibilities are endless.
A new WordPress.com site launches with 45 widgets ready and waiting for you to use. This list just scratches the surface of what’s possible.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- When the snow rolled through Wednesday morning, Meals on Wheels had several volunteers call out. So, some local officers stepped up.
“Our main goal is to serve the community,” said Winston-Salem police SWAT member Cpl. Jason Bryant.
Eleven officers, both uniformed and SWAT members, formed four teams to deliver the meals.
“We’re not just all about the bad stuff, we’re there to help them out whenever we need to,” Bryant said.
Bryant adds that Tuesday was about a 14-hour day for his team.
"So, it was a long day and a lot of police work was involved,” he said. “Then today, you get to come out and do something like this, it just kind of makes you feel good.”
Of course, recipients had unique reactions to seeing officers deliver their food.
"I’ve gotten a couple of hugs today, which is awesome,” Bryant said. “Then there’s also been people like, ‘What are the police doing here delivering my Meals on Wheels?’ But then you explain to them the weather, they’re short on volunteers, and then they’re very thankful that we’re there to do that.”
For the officers, it’s a chance to meet people they normally wouldn’t have.
“All these people in the community, they see us when times are bad,” Bryant said.
It’s also a chance for the officers to savor their time together.
“It’s not so much stress,” Bryant said. “We’re able to relax a little bit, enjoy each other.”
In all, officers delivered nearly 50 meals.

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DermNet provides Google Translate, a free machine translation service. Note that this may not provide an exact translation in all languages
Author: Vanessa Ngan, Staff Writer, 2005.
Radiothermoplasty is a form of thermal resurfacing. It is a non-invasive treatment that uses a device to deliver radiofrequency (RF) energy into the deeper layers of skin, which causes a heating action that immediately tightens skin tissue and structures.
One form of radiothermoplasty uses the Thermage® device. It is used to treat facial lines and wrinkles.
The Thermage procedure uses patented radiofrequency technology called ThermaCool™ and ThermaLift™.
To understand how radiothermoplasty works a basic understanding of skin structure is required. Collagen is a protein molecule that is found in skin, muscle, tendons and bones and provides basic structural support. Through the natural processes of ageing, collagen in the dermis (the mid-layer of skin) is gradually lost and contributes to the formation of facial lines, sagging skin and wrinkles.
The Thermage procedure uses a special treatment tip (ThermaTip™) to deliver controlled amounts of RF energy into the collagen layers of the skin. This form of energy produces a heating action that penetrates the collagen and causes it to contract and tighten. Also, collagen production is triggered, and over about six months, new collagen grows to tighten the skin further.
The following is an outline of the Thermage procedure. Other radiothermoplasty procedures may be similar.
Thermage treatment grid
Application of RF energy
Thermage is a relatively new cosmetic procedure. People treated in the early years still appear to be showing benefits from the treatment. It is thought that benefits from Thermage may last as long as 5-10 years but only time will tell.
Mild redness immediately after treatment
Although radiothermoplasty has been touted as a “non-surgical facelift”, it is not a substitute for a facelift. Radiothermoplasty can provide some of the improvements that cosmetic facial surgery gives to people, but in a portion of people, no improvements will be seen after radiothermoplasty. Radiothermoplasty is best performed during the early signs of ageing such as:
The Thermage procedure appears to work best in people with thin faces who are just on the verge of considering cosmetic facial surgery. People with very loose skin, sagging jowls and a turkey gobbler may see little improvement after Thermage and are better suited for cosmetic surgery. If surgery is not an option, then Thermage may provide some improvements, but expectations need to be managed.
Thermage works well on people with all skin types, unlike laser treatments that can cause permanent loss or variable pigmentation in darker skinned individuals.
To date, the reported incidence of side effects from Thermage radiothermoplasty is less than 1%. Some of the more common side effects and complications include:
A more serious complication is the formation of dents in the skin (rare). This is attributed to overheating of tissue causing fat atrophy or excessive tightening. Adhering to treatment guidelines and responding to patient feedback throughout the procedure may prevent this.
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A Switch accessory that is modeled after NES controllers is available was previously featured at last week’s Nintendo Direct. The controllers look great design-wise, but its functionality is somewhat limited. The NES-themed Joy-Cons are priced at $60 a pair and will only work with NES games that players can only access via a subscription to the upcoming Nintendo Switch Online service.
The official Nintendo AU website reported that the accessory will only work on select NES titles via the subscription service, “Please note: Nintendo Entertainment System Controllers can only be used while detached from the Nintendo Switch system, and only to play NES - Nintendo Switch Online games. Nintendo Entertainment System Controllers can be charged by attaching to the Nintendo Switch system.”
While the accessory’s design cleverly resembles the controller of the NES and is practically made to emulate the experience of playing on the vintage console, its functionality still remains limited and could have been better if they could also be used to play regular Switch games.


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Many well-known schools and universities offer online horticulture courses. Anyone interested in horticulture will benefit greatly from taking one of these classes. This article’s subject is agriculture’s branch on plants, plant care, and horticulture. Horticulture research encompasses various topics, including soil management, landscaping, and plant conservation. This field may teach you both the science and business of cultivating plants. Open-access alternatives to time- and money-consuming and expensive local gardening courses are plentiful. Online horticulture courses free will be the topic of discussion in this article.
Top online horticulture courses free:
Several organizations and institutions provide online horticulture courses free, such as agriculture, garden design, landscaping, and pest control. Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox are the most common browsers for this content. A PDF reader, such as Adobe Reader or Apple’s Preview, is also required for students. The free landscaping and horticulture courses the university offers do not count toward a student’s degree because they are intended for personal enrichment. Following are the top online horticulture courses free.
Gardening is Ron Finley’s Specialty:
A quality MasterClass is the first thing I’d recommend, regardless of the size or location of your garden or property. In addition to learning how to make the most of your space, you’ll learn the fundamentals of growing a healthy garden in this course. The Gangster Gardener, Ron Finley, will be your teacher for this course. Over 100,000 people have enlisted his help in developing their gardens through his guidance.
Vegetables from Scratch:
Many people are inspired to start gardening by the prospect of being able to produce fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs, and this course aims to help them achieve that goal. Not to mention figuring out how to make the most out of even the smallest plots to grow delicious, fresh vegetables for everyone to consume. Two-hour beginner gardening lectures cover where, when, and what to plant, soil varieties, and how to care for plants for best growth.
Gardening in raised beds is a cinch:
Next on my list is an amazing online gardening course that will show you how to maximize your productivity while lowering your labor by using raised garden beds to their fullest extent. Sunny Green, a passionate gardener who relishes the opportunity to share her knowledge and numerous tips and techniques, will be your guide. Sunny has taught hundreds of people online how to build thriving gardens. These short lectures address tools, materials, leveling, soil, planting, and watering.
Care for Your Plants:
Houseplants can be a source of joy inside and outside the home, regardless of whether you live in a house with a yard or an apartment in a high-rise building. It’s a great place to begin if you’re interested in developing new plants or enhancing your abilities to care for the ones you already own. Sill botanist Chris Satch teaches this course. The Sill’s indoor plant design, installation, and management services benefit residential and commercial premises. Satch teaches this course.
Students will learn how to pick a site for a garden, prepare the soil for planting, and plant seeds correctly in this lesson as part of a broader series of gardening programs. You’ll learn how to protect your plants from common pests and illnesses. Oregon State University’s continuing education department hosts Signe Danler and Gail Langellotto. Both instructors teach courses in person and online. This beginner gardening course has six hours of on-demand video. Site selection, plot preparation, watering, fertilizing, and crop rotation are covered.
Sustainable Organic Food Production:
Regardless of your vegetable garden size, you will learn how to keep it healthy and productive in this course. This lesson is important because gardening is ongoing. This book teaches you how to cultivate the soil, prepare compost, build raised beds, use crop rotation, and plant seeds. The creators of the TV show Grow It Yourself, which features gardening experts from around the world, teach this course to Alison.
Growing Your Vegetables:
One approach to gardening is to learn from one’s own mistakes, yet this is also one of the most discouraging approaches. One of the best ways to learn about gardening is to seek out the advice of a seasoned gardener who has previously gone through the process of trial and error. This course is taught by Mark Shorter, an expert in do-it-yourself projects and an expert in many aspects of home, yard, and garden.
Each week, a different plant is added to the garden, and previous students are alerted through email about each new addition. This class’s information centers on annuals and perennials, including spring bulbs, pansies, petunias, and marigolds. As was said earlier, new plants are added to the collection weekly. The training lasts more than two and fifty minutes in its current iteration.
Everything about the vegetable garden:
A to Z of starting a vegetable garden will be covered in this course. Those who live in apartments or condominiums will appreciate our top-rated online gardening course’s ability to teach them how to grow plants on their balconies and patios. Teena Spindler, a Home Depot and Miracle-Gro gardening consultant, teach the class. She teaches gardening techniques at the Farm & Food Lab’s Master Gardener Chair.
Cultivating Edible Plants in an Indoor Environment:
Many Americans don’t live in the typical suburban house anymore, so knowing how to grow gardens within an apartment or condo is extremely useful information. A large range of culinary plants can be successfully grown indoors. Sunny Green, a management consultant and proponent of returning to the basics, will also be the instructor for this session. Our list of the best online gardening courses for 2020 includes this course as a result of this.
Plants in the Home:
No matter what kind of living arrangement you want, you no longer need to be concerned with successfully growing houseplants indoors. Ornamental houseplants may be the primary emphasis of the best online gardening course, but much of the information taught there also applies to other kinds of plants. Tyler Welsh, an indoor gardening entrepreneur, and a gardening expert, will teach you how to keep plants healthy and flourishing in corporate offices worldwide.
Horticulture is a sub-field that falls under the umbrella of agriculture and focuses on the study of plants. It is sometimes referred to as the botany of plants or just botany. Taking horticulture lessons in your local area can be time-consuming and expensive. However, many colleges and universities now offer online horticulture programs that are less expensive and more convenient than their traditional counterparts. Free access to the internet can be obtained through a diverse range of institutions, such as educational establishments and charitable organizations.
Is Online horticulture courses free education possible?
Yes. Anyone can learn about horticulture from the comfort of their own home. On this page, you’ll find information about several online horticulture courses that may be taken remotely or in person.
How do I go about getting my Online horticulture courses free?
A bachelor’s degree and five years of experience are required to become a horticulturist. Horticulture is ahead. American Society for Horticultural Science offers the ASHES test.

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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is headed for a landslide victory in the Russian presidential election.
Outgoing President Vladimir Putin, who had backed Mr Medvedev, appeared with him at a rock concert to congratulate him on his success.
Russians were electing a successor to Mr Putin, who had served eight years.
Mr Putin, hugely popular because of Russia's economic boom, was barred by the constitution from seeking a third term.
Mr Medvedev has promised to make Mr Putin his prime minister.
Mr Medvedev had three challengers including veteran Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov.
Nationalist Liberal Democrat candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky was running for president for a third time under the slogan: "Don't lie, do not be afraid".
Andrei Bogdanov (centre) is the leader of the little-known Democratic Party. He promised to bring Russia into the European Union if elected president.
Russian soldiers turned out to vote in Moscow. Civil servants were ordered by their managers to vote and there were reports that police and teachers were under similar pressure.
More than 109 million Russians are registered to vote and turnout was reported to be high. There were reports of irregularities at polling stations in some areas.


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AN EVENING of musical delight will take place tonight when Northwich Folk Club meet at the Polish Parish Social Club.
The session starts at 7.30pm at the London Road venue, giving musicians the chance to take along their guitars, violins, flutes or bodhran to join in with a few tunes.
All abilities are welcome.
For more information, visit northwichfolk.co.uk or call 01565 733197.
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- Sunshine Cruz was criticized by some netizens for Macky Mathay’s presence at the school ceremonies of her daughters
- According to the critics, the appearance of Macky was inappropriate since he did not contribute anything to the studies of Angelina and Chesca
- The actress decided to reply to the netizens
Sunshine Cruz decided to respond to netizens who have criticized the appearance of her boyfriend Macky Mathay at the graduation of her daughter Chesca and the moving-up ceremony of Angelina.
KAMI learned that Angelina and Chesca study at the De La Salle Santiago Zobel School in Muntinlupa.
According to a report from PEP.ph, Sunshine said that she sees nothing wrong with Macky’sappearance.
“This is a wonderful moment for Angelina and we are happy that despite na wala ang kanyang ama, may isang tao na pumunta pa sa Alabang para lang mapanood siya, i-congratulate sya at mabigyan sya ng flowers,” the actress stated.
When asked why the daughters’ biological father Cesar Montano was not in the school ceremonies, Sunshine refused to comment.
“Hindi po namin 'yan masasagot. Hehe. Thanks po,” she said.
The actress is now in a relationship with Ismael 'Macky' Mathay.
Macky is a businessman and a half-brother to actress Ara Mina.
Sunshine used to be married to Cesar Montano. However, they separated due to Cesar’s alleged infidelity.
"It's hard to be a mother and it's hard to be a father. Can you just imagine how difficult is it for one person to play the role of two?" To All Single Moms Out There (Parenting Documentary) – on KAMI YouTube channel!

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Marty’s photo of the day #2476: Quick! Name a war in the last 70 years that the United States fought that later you thought, “Wow! I’m sure glad we got involved in that one.” Can you? I didn’t think so.
That’s because the biggest lie that politicians and the military tell us is that our young men and women need to put their lives on the line for “American interests.” If they were truthful, they would say that young men and women need to put their lives on the line for “my political interests” or for “corporation interests” or for “military contractor interests.”
I’m in a suburb of Washington, DC today to present my show, “Around the World in 50 Minutes,” at Northern Virginia Community College. I took this photo of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial the last time I was here. Etched into the wall are 58,318 names of Americans who died because of the Vietnam War. Can anyone honestly say that sacrificing those 58,318 people was good for America?


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Hospice providers now may submit claims to Medicare Advantage Organizations
More Medicare beneficiaries may enter hospice care with complementary Medicare Advantage (MA) plans as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rolls out health plan innovations under the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model. The innovative plans are meant to reduce costs and improve care for Medicare beneficiaries.
Once hospice providers have registered with CMS to participate in the program, they can begin identifying eligible patients and can bill the appropriate Medicare Advantage Organization (MAO) by first submitting a notice of election (NOE).
Identifying hospice patients with MA coverage
To take advantage of VBID coverage, hospice providers first must determine if patients with Medicare coverage also are beneficiaries of an eligible MA program. Patients who present a Medicare card with a Medicare Beneficiary Identifier can check eligibility using their normal processes or by utilizing the MAC Portal, the MAC Interactive Voice Response System, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Eligibility Transaction System (HETS), billing agencies, clearinghouses or software vendors.
The same resources can be used for beneficiaries whose cards do not list a Medicare Beneficiary Identifier by using the MA contract number and plan benefit package identification information on the MA enrollment card.1
Submitting claims to participating MAOs
To be paid at original Medicare rates for eligible patients, hospice providers that are not contracted with participating MAOs first must submit original Medicare claims for the covered hospice care.
To begin a bill for an eligible patient, provider must confirm that the hospice start date was on or after Jan. 1, 2021, and file a NOE with the provider’s MAC and the participating MAO. Next, claims should be submitted to MAC following normal procedures. Those claims will be returned with the following message:
- Claim Adjustment Reason Code (CARC) 96: Non-covered charge(s)
- Remittance Advice Remark Code (RARC) MA73: Information remittance associated with a Medicare demonstration. No payment issued under Fee-for-Service Medicare as patient has elected managed care
- Group Code Contractual Obligation (CO): MAOs participating in the VBID Model’s hospice benefit component will be responsible for coverage of the above services
The claim also must be submitted to the MAO. Hospice providers that already are contracted with the participating MAO should follow the contractual billing and claims-processing guidelines. Providers that are not in the MAO’s network can use the same forms they use to submit claims to their MAC. Once the patient is discharged from hospice, or the benefit is revoked, the provider needs to file a Notice of Termination or Revocation with the provider’s MAC and the patient’s MAO.
Hospice providers who use ABILITY EASE All-Payer will not see a change in claims submissions, as a MAO is treated similarly to a secondary payer. ABILITY EASE® All-Payer users already are able to submit NOEs to MAOs.
To register or to get more information on the VBID program, visit the CMS website. If you have any questions about how to submit VBID claims within your claims system, reach out to one of our experts for guidance.
1. VBID Model Hospice Benefit Component Billing & Payment: CMS Innovation Center. Innovation Center. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, October 28, 2020. https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/vbid-hospice-benefit-billing-payment.
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