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Final Four Recap: #2 Oklahoma falls to #2 Villanova 95-51. #1 UNC beats #10 Syracuse 83-66.
To say I was surprised by the outcome of the Oklahoma Villanova game is an understatement. I had to re-watch the game to really believe Oklahoma lost by 44. I had no idea Villanova could get that hot. This win was the largest margin of victory EVER in a March Madness Final Four game. They shot 71.4 % from the field. Is that even fucking possible? At one point in the second half, Oklahoma had like 4-5 offensive rebounds and missed 5-6 SHOTS on one possession. There’s just no way you can beat a team that shoots over 70 percent from the field. Especially when your best player, Buddy Hield, goes 4-12 from the field with 9 points and only 2 assists. For anyone that missed the game, Hield hit a 3 on the opening possession, and I’m sure many of the readers much like myself thought he was going to have one of those 46 point Kansas nights. The exact opposite happened, and after the first few possession’s he looked a little timid, and was so much less aggressive then his team would have liked.
The blame can’t be put on him, because his team just couldn’t hit shots. However, in what could have been his second to last game ever in a Sooners jersey, I think we all would have hoped to see a little more out of Hield. Going into the game, I was hoping to see a strong effort from Nova’s Seniors Ryan Arcidiacono and Daniel Ochefu, and that’s exactly what we got. Arcidiacono shot 83% from the field and had 15 pts in the game. While Ochefu had 10 pts and 6 boards. What I wasn’t expecting was to see such a break out game for junior guard Josh Hart. He shot 10-12 from the field and finished the night with 23 pts, 8 reb, 4 ast, and 2 stl. I was not expecting such a huge game from the junior on such a big stage. But he was scored in almost every way, and was a lot of fun to watch out there.
As for the Syracuse loss to UNC, I wasn’t all that surprised. UNC just looked a lot more energetic out there, and throughout the whole game you could kinda tell they wanted it more. Not only did the Tar Heels look like they wanted the ball more, they proved it by dominating on the boards. I think the final rebound tally was 43-31. In addition they shot 53% from the field compared to 40% shooting from the Orangemen. Syracuse has no reason to hang there heads, they had a great season and they made an even better run in one of the hardest tournaments in the world.
We’ll see you next season Jim…
Villanova vs. UNC preview:
So, after one of the craziest tournaments we were forced to watch one of the more boring final four’s. With two pretty clear victories, we are left with a national championship that in my eyes is a toss up. I can see both these teams coming out and playing great. We saw that on any given day the Wildcats can come out and just light it up like they did last night. And of course we know that UNC was a heavy favorite going into the tournament, and have easily beaten team after team on the way to the national title game. If the Wildcats can hit shots like they did last night, then it’s going to be tough on Roy Williams Tar Heels.
My prediction is that the #1 seed Tar Heels will pull it out, but I’m fairly confident to say its gonna be close one. Buy a rack and get it on ice now, tip off is tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time and can we watched on TBS.
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The connection between Serbia and Greece goes back hundreds of years and up to millennia, all the way back to the days of Jason and his fearless seafarers who sailed Danube all the way up to Belgrade.
Still, this story leads us to the period after WWII when over the course of three years there was a unique Greek republic within a mellow little village in Vojvodina.
Greek polis in the middle of Vojvodina
At the start of 1940ćs, Bulkes or Buljkes located around 30km away from Novi Sad near Backi Petrovac was one of the bigger villages in Vojvodina, mostly inhabited by Germans from Podunavlje. They came to this area during the great migration to the region of otherwise uninhabited Backa during the 18th century.
The quiet life in this region was harshly interrupted by WWII and after the war had ended, the residents started moving out. Their empty homes were then inhabited, by a decree from high commander Josip Broz Tito, by several hundred refugees from Greece. They were people who'd fled the unrest in their homeland and found refuge in Yugoslavia.
Still like almost anything in history, this story also isn't black and white. Namely the settlement itself had a political note to it seeing how the refugees were members of the people's liberation army in Greece known under the acronym ELAS. ELAS was the most numerous left-oriented organization during WWII which stood opposed to the Axis powers and the marionette regiment in Greece. Right before the end of the war in 1944, intending to gain political power in liberated Greece, ELAS began confronting other resistance organizations that had different political views than them as well as outside help. This fight for power would eventually become a bloody civil war in Greece that lasted from 1946 to 1949. During one of the peaceful periods ELAS was completely disarmed and due to disagreement with this decision several thousands of their most radical members had left the country.
One of the countries they found refuge in was the friendly Yugoslavia. The Greek were settled in Kumanovo at first in 1945, but from there they were transported to the abandoned Buljkes.
The original purpose of the bulges camp was obscured in secrecy
This entire movement from the start was obscured in a veil of secrecy. From the few documents left behind which were gathered by Milan Ristovic and published in his book "Experiment Bulkes" we find out that the original transport during June 1945 included 2072 people, mostly prominent members of ELAS with their families.
The number of residents is also unknown and moved between 3000 and 6000 souls, divided into groups of 100 people. The entire community was founded on strict Communist principles. Everyone who were able-bodied were obligated to work in everyday tasks and towards the benefit of the community. This meant that after the successful harvest in 1946, the Yugoslavian government could withdraw food aid and completely hand over the town management to the Greeks.
The village itself was managed by a board which was at first led by the activist Mihalis Paktasidis. In addition to daily work, they also organized various cultural and social activities. During that time Buljkas got its own library and book store, propaganda materials, books and textbooks for children. Thanks to the fact that the refugees included a number of highly educated citizens, they were also able to start a junior school where they taught lessons in Greek.
The goal was to prove that the Communist way of life is sustainable in the long run.
The twilight of Communist paradise
Still the idea of a "Communist paradise" soon began to collapse in on itself. From the very beginning there were divisions and conflicts among the settlers both in a political and ethnical sense. There were especially disagreements between the Greeks and a small number of Macedonians. Conflicts also arose between old and new settlements who accused the board that the new arrivals are assigned to the most demanding agricultural jobs. Not used to their new life conditions and climate, the settlers weren't able to achieve self-sufficiency for their community and still had to rely on help from the Yugoslavian government for food and fuel.
What was also concealed was the supposed military role of the camp. Namely, among the refugees there were also a number of Greek military personnel who allegedly trained the refugee in guerilla warfare in order to join the ongoing unrest in Greece. This role of the camp was at the same time firmly supported and denied by both the Greeks in Buljkes, the ELAS representatives in their homeland, the Yugoslavian government and the UN whose reports expressed a strong doubt towards the village's peaceful intentions. This is why Yugoslavian government forbade any contact between the residents of Buljakes and the surrounding villages as well as transporting guerilla fighters and refugees to participate in the fight.
Still the end of this social experiments came about due to political unrest between the communist forces after the decision of Yugoslavia leaving the Cominform. What ensued were conflicts and mutual accusations of cooperating with their political opponents and betrayal between the Yugoslavian and Greek government, the Greeks in Greece and in Buljkes and the Buljkes residents themselves. Key role in these events was played by Aleksandar Rankovic who already in 1948 notified Tito about the critical situation and warned that the village had sunk into anarchy and fell under the rule of 'thieves and enemies of the country'.
The final decision was brought a year or so later in July 1949, when the disbanding of the camp was enforced due to reports of various misuse, drastic misconduct, severe life conditions and near dictatorship of the ruling board. What was also a key factor were the damages that Yugoslavia suffered due to financial misuse of provided aid.
In August 1949, the first group of Greeks left the country and went to Czechoslovakia, after which only a few hundred people were left in the village and their fate remains unknown.
Maglic, the place that has it all
Over the course of previous 70 years, the former Greek republic in the heart of Vojvodina suffered extreme changes. The name of the village was changed by the end of 1949 to Maglic, as decided by its new residents who mostly came from war-ravaged Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lika and south-east Banat.
Though today there is no remaining trace of the former Greek commune, the spirit of self-organization and self-help remains strong. This is why the residents of this ethnically colorful settlement will proudly state that "Maglic is the place that has it all'.
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An Die Musik
January 14, 2012
Josh Ginsburg celebrated the release of his new CD, Zembla Variations
(Brooklyn Jazz Underground, 2012), with two special performances, one at the Jazz Gallery in New York on January 12 and the other two days later at An Die Musik, a cozy, loft-like venue in Baltimore. Zembla Variations
marks Ginsburg's debut as a leader, after having been an especially active jazz bassist in the New York area over the past dozen years, in addition to touring in Europe and Asia. He was joined by his collaborators on the CD, Eli Degibri
on tenor and soprano sax, George Colligan
on piano, and Rudy Royston on drumsall of whom are among today's most accomplished jazz instrumentalists. While they aren't yet household names, they've all had important associations with major jazz heavyweights: Degibri has toured with Herbie Hancock
, Colligan is in Jack DeJohnette
's current band, and Royston is working regularly with Bill Frisell
. Ginsburg himself has an impressive resume, having played with Tom Harrell
, Mulgrew Miller
, Kenny Barron
and Bobby Watson
, in addition to regular work with Colligan's own trio, and Marcus Strickland
and E.J. Strickland
The quartet's performance in Baltimore was a homecoming of sorts for Ginsburg, who grew up in the city before making his way to the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, where he wrote most of the compositions on the CD. The CD's title, in fact, is derived from Ginsburg's nickname for Red Hook"Zembla"borrowed from a fictional land in the 1962 Nabokov novel, Pale Fire
. In the notes to the CD, Ginsburg describes the novelist's Zembla as a "mad fantasy."
Never having been to Red Hook myself, I can't say whether or not Ginsburg's compositions evoke the area, but there's plenty of fantasy in them. Ginsburg's quartet started out his set with the CD opener, "PushBar (for Emergency Exit)," a dramatic piece inspired by sounds of the New York City subway. "Oxygen" held a relaxed, strolling feel, with romantic playing by Colligan, followed by "Gently," a ballad-like composition in 7/4, which included an outstanding solo workout by Ginsburg. "Red Giant" nicely featured some exciting improvisation on Degibri's part on tenor, along with a climactic drum solo by Royston. Stevie Wonder
's "Too High" provided a fun change of pace in the set, featuring a playful arrangement where Ginsburg took the melody line in his instrument's upper register.
On the whole, the outing had its fill of great, adventurous playing by Ginsburg and his colleagues. Here's hoping he takes on more opportunities to showcase his fine writing and virtuoso musicianship sometime soon.
Photo Credit: Bob Kenselaar


Even those of us whose job requires them to visit a large number of bars, saloons, and watering holes, have one too many from time to time. Maybe we got a little overzealous sampling some pub’s vast whiskey collection. Or we lost track of how many pints of discounted lager we enjoyed during happy hour. Either way, we drank too much and (hopefully) left without incident, called an Uber, and slept it off. Life goes on.
But some bar patrons enjoy a few too many drinks and don’t have the wherewithal to give their friends an Irish goodbye and head on out the door before things get out of hand. Alexander Carlin, beverage director of Infuse Hospitality in Chicago knows that someone has had too many when they start to bother other guests.
“Before I start counting the number of drinks the guest has enjoyed or check to see if they are showing physical signs of inebriation, I evaluate if they are intruding on another guest’s experience.” He pauses and adds, “Every person has their limits but when you insert yourself negatively into someone else’s existence I see it as my time to pull you aside and have a little friendly conversation. Sometimes this solves the issue and other times it turns into an Uber ride home. I always offer to take care of this for a guest to make sure they get home safely.”
This isn’t the only bad customer habit exacerbated by inebriation. And maybe, just maybe, hearing from our favorite bartenders about the negative signs that signal them to cut you off will help you recognize them yourself. You could even self-moderate to enjoy your night (and the next day!) more.
Ruining Other People’s Fun
Cody Henson, beverage director at The Alida in Savannah, Georgia
As soon as you start making a negative impact on anyone else’s fun, it’s time for our relationship to end. Just walk in the door and be respectful. Be respectful to the staff and to the other people at the bar. We’re all here to have a good time.
Hjalmar de Boer, food and beverage manager at Conrad New York Midtown in New York City
In my opinion, there are many signs — some very obvious and some slightly less. Tiredness, slurred speech, no coordination and many more. But please — bartenders — don’t just ignore intoxicated guests, get them a glass of water and some food.
Being Belligerent To Other Guests
Christian Clotter, bartender at The Chester in New York City
Aside from the classic tell-tale signs (slurring, stumbling, glassy eyes), it’d have to be when a patron begins talking belligerently to other guests who clearly do not want to interact with them.
Lack Of Self-Awareness
Sophie Burton, beverage director at Politan in Chicago
If they can’t slow down on ordering another round, even to drink water. Stubbornness and lack of self-awareness is a huge indicator that this person may be nearing a place where it is irresponsible for both their well-being and the business to continue serving.
Buying Drinks For Neighbors
Eric Reeves, general manager at City Mouse in Chicago
It always stands out to me when people start buying drinks for every stranger around them and then offer to buy me drinks, too. I appreciate your generosity right now, it’s certainly better than a mean drunk, but save some of that money for your cab ride home, friend… it’s time to go.
Mark Syben, bar managaer at Buccan in Palm Beach. Florida
There is a multitude of signs that a guest is clearly at their limit, such as aggressive behavior, bothering another guest, and slurred speech.
Being A Jerk
Alexander Carlin, beverage director of Infuse Hospitality in Chicago
This can mean many things but mostly don’t be a jerk. Don’t run around the restaurant at 4 pm screaming the name of your favorite presidential candidate or jump on the bar and profess your love for Jessica Rabbit (but really who doesn’t), or worse hit on someone that isn’t into it.
It is more of a service to a guest to maintain decorum and civility before things get out of hand and they do something they might have to apologize for later. It’s always a sign of a great host and bar professional if they can create an atmosphere where everyone is having a great time and the fun peaks and it’s time to go home before you do something that will require an “I’m sorry”… or worse.
Complaining About Weak Drinks
Steven Staney, general manager of Sombra Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi
Obvious signs are loud, aggressive behavior. Saying drinks are too weak, ordering another when not finished with the drink.
Getting Much Louder
Bryan Mayer, bartender at Azabu in Miami
When someone around the bar gets much louder than when they started their visit. As Maestro of the bar, it’s your duty to make sure that you’re aware of your bar and everyone at it.
Major Personality Change
Natasha DeHart, founder and master blender of BENDT Distilling Company in Lewisville, Texas
Service industry personnel have to be constantly aware of their customer’s condition. Although one customer may be able to consume one cocktail per hour, others may have one cocktail and be intoxicated. Some signs to look for are loud/slurred speech, change in behavior — becomes rude, sad, angry, inappropriate, aggressive, flirty — and/or a change in balance or overall coordination.
Daniel Sedora, bartender at Time Out Market in Miami
Slurring, disrespectful behavior. I can’t go much in-depth about it other than this, but I consider it part of my job to stop you when you’ve had enough. Safety should always be the main priority.
Abraham Millett, head bartender at Plunge Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
One perfectly clear sign it’s time to give someone the least favorite number for anyone at a bar (86) is after they’ve started loudly confessing “I love you man,” for the 3rd time and loud enough for the entire bar to hear. Trust me, time to give them water the check and an Uber.
Fighting With Partner
Andrew Lamkin, lead mixologist at The Alex Speakeasy in Washington, DC
When you’ve done this as long as I have, you just sort of know. Their speech changes, attitudes change, you can sense they might pick a fight with their significant other. Beautiful people can get ugly quick and we want to try and keep that from happening. It’s a bit harder when the person just walked in and they are already a mess. Cutting off the person that you’ve built some rapport with is easier.
Sleeping At The Bar
Leah Stumbo, bar manager at Bar Moxy in Nashville
One of the first and easiest signs to catch is a customer raising his or her voice. Another, perhaps more obvious, signal is when they start dozing off at the bar. As a bartender, we see all personalities across the bar, but those two signs are pretty universal.


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The Citizenship by Investment Unit from the Government of Antigua & Barbuda has announced the approval of a Limited Time Offer (LTO) – a reduction on the fees for the inclusion of dependent children to an approved application.
The fees after the reduction are as follows:
Dependents aged 0 – 5 years at USD 10,000
Dependents aged 6 – 17 years at USD 20,000
Please note that this Limited Time Offer (LTO) expires on October 31st, so this is a perfect chance to apply and secure your second citizenship and passport for you and your family of 4 members with a single investment of USD 100,000 plus reduced fees. This investment which leads to second citizenship and the acquisition of a second passport from a new country you can call home – will benefit not only your personal and business life, but also your future generations.
In addition to this Limited Time Offer (LTO), the CBI Unit from the Government of Antigua & Barbuda announced the following amendments to its Citizenship by Investment Program:
- Government Processing Fee changed to USD 30,000 for both the NDF Contribution and Real Estate options, for cases submitted on or after April 1st, 2020. This represents a USD 5,000 increase for the National Development Fund (NDF) Contribution, but a reduction of USD 20,000 for the real estate options.
As before, this covers the first four family members. Subsequent family members will be charged USD 15,000 per person.
Allowing resale, after the 5-year holding period, of CIP real estate to a subsequent CIP applicant as an eligible CIP investment. Property and/or shares may be resold only once to qualify as a CIP investment.
New Nationalities Welcome to Apply
The program now welcomes potential applicants from Afghanistan, N. Korea, Somalia, Sudan, or Yemen if they have been residing outside of these countries for the last 10 years and have no economic ties to any of these restricted countries.
Also, Iraq is no longer part of the restricted countries list, which means, all Iraqi citizens are welcome to apply now and benefit from this second passport program.
Why Apply for Antigua & Barbuda Citizenship?
Antigua & Barbuda Citizenship by Investment is the only Caribbean passport program that allows you to include families of 4 members with a minimum investment of USD 100,000. At Savory & Partners, we have processed an important number of family applications from the Middle East with a success rate of 100%.
The Government of Antigua & Barbuda is also the first Caribbean country to start processing Citizenship applications from stateless applicants (commonly known as Bedoons) from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Brunei. Each case is reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Successful applicants obtain their Citizenship Certificates and passports in 4 to 6 months, allowing them to enjoy a vast number of benefits only dual citizens have access to.
Benefits Of Antigua & Barbuda Citizenship
- Antigua & Barbuda has no taxes on worldwide income, capital gains, dividends, gift, wealth and inheritance.
- There is only a 5-day residency requirement over the five years. (This requirement could be satisfied all at once or in parts.)
- Fast processing within 4 to 6 months.
- There is no need to renounce your current citizenship(s).
- Once travel bans imposed due to the COVID-19 outbreak are lifted, you and your family will benefit from Visa-free and visa-on-arrival travel to 145+ countries. Including access to the Schengen States, UK, Switzerland, Hong Kong & most British Commonwealth member countries.
How to Apply
Investors willing to apply for the twin island’s passport program should submit their application only through a Government-approved agent. As an authorized agent, Savory & Partners has accompanied and assisted hundreds of families across the Middle East and far beyond in securing their second citizenship and passport.
By booking a FREE online consultation with our team of experts, you will be able to determine if you are eligible to apply for the program and proceed with your application. We will also suggest the proper investment method, whether Government donation or real estate investment that meets your expectations.
Get in touch with us now and find out how a second nationality and passport for you and your family can change your life forever, the time is now. +971 54 440 2955.

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In our previous Revenue Cycle Matters posts, we discussed the importance of clearinghouse and claim scrubber partners as part of an effective revenue cycle management strategy. We also highlighted the benefits of focusing on first pass yield and clearinghouse features that support positive collection outcomes.
In this post, we turn our attention to another key component of a successful revenue cycle management strategy... Analytics and Reporting.
Analytics & Reporting
We saved this topic for now because the ability of your clearinghouse and claim scrubber to effectively review edits and process claims has a BIG impact on the quality of data in your revenue cycle reporting.
We’ve already emphasized the benefits of electronic claim submission (837s), equally important is having a clearinghouse set up to process a high-volume of electronic remittances (835s or ERAs).
If you receive a significant portion of your remittances via fax or mail, you increase the risk of posting errors and make it much harder to obtain a full picture of your revenue cycle health. You also probably spend a lot of time manually merging claims data from disparate sources to create your reports – which is better than doing nothing, BUT... it could be much easier!
This is another reason why we emphasize the role a clearinghouse should have in staying on top of payer enrollments. Not only does it increase payer response time, save money and ensure compliance, but electronic claim processing also increases the integrity of your revenue cycle data.
More Reliable Analytics
Hospitals should receive 90-95% of their remittances via 835, but often vendors will make that difficult to achieve when they charge by volume or per payer. When the cost and administrative burden of the enrollments becomes overwhelming, providers end up only opting for 835’s from a few of their top payers.
When a hospital’s revenue cycle team maximizes the number of insurers they submit and receive 837s and 835s from, they increase their ability to reconcile the remittance data with the original claim. Which paints a more vivid picture of the lifecycle of their claims and allows for more efficient denial analysis and payer reporting.
If your clearinghouse is the system warehousing these data exchanges, at a minimum it should help eliminate the hassle of manually gathering data from disparate locations. Clearinghouses with a denial prevention philosophy can do one better by providing automated reporting tools, as well as visual representations of your top denials and trends, which saves even more time!
In a 2016 survey, HIMSS Analytics found that 31% of providers did not have a formal denials management tool in place. This number has probably improved since the survey but even in the last year, we’ve visited hospitals who don’t have an efficient and consistent way to report on denials. The main reason being the time-consuming nature of putting the data together in a meaningful way, which is understandable given most days Revenue Cycle leaders don’t have enough time to grab a 2nd cup of coffee!
Denial reports and analytics with the ability to drill into specific denial categories and trend performance metrics over time, like those below, are invaluable resources for uncovering opportunities for improvement. Especially when you are ready to take a more proactive approach to how you prevent denials.
Top 10 Denials: Most common denials, where you can drill down to payer and claim level detail
For example, if you see eligibility denials as your #1 offender, drill down and find out which payers are denying most frequently, then look for common themes within those rejected claims. You may find an opportunity at admission to make an adjustment to the patient intake process and prevent those denials in the future. With proper analytics you’ll have the reports to back you up.
As the HIMSS study concludes, denial reporting is not enough. The ability to act on denial data to eliminate future denials is the real key to A/R success. The practice of continuous improvement is just as important as the reporting tools, because technology alone cannot fully automate denial management and there are still issues such as working with payers and adjudicating claims.
Understanding How to Use Your Analytics
Once you have the majority of your claims and remittances matching electronically, the analytics available is virtually unlimited – denial reporting, cash projections, payer scorecards, contract variance. It becomes extremely important to be able to gather this data in an actionable format or it can become overwhelming.
Most clearinghouses provide some level of reporting. Some will provide a high-level snapshot of your data while others provide the ability to drill down into different levels of detail. Access to data and being able to apply that data are two different things. We often work with providers who have access to tons of dashboards and reports, but can’t get through the noise to find what they need to make an impact on A/R and cash performance.
The purpose of denial analytics is to be able to easily identify why your claims are not being paid on first submission – going back to that all important first pass yield rate.
Revenue Cycle Matters Tip: Your clearinghouse support team should be routinely working with your team to find preventable denials and improving the claim scrubber based on the root causes of the payment delays. Turning denials into edits – thereby improving the first pass payment rate for your claims.
First Pass Yield: A Snapshot of your payment success and denial rate over time
Business Partner or Vendor
If your clearinghouse is unable to provide you with the assistance you need to fully leverage its capabilities, you may want to rethink your relationship with that vendor. Are they a vendor or a partner?
Depending on how great an impact a service provider has on our ability to perform our duties, we make a strong distinction. If we receive office supplies from them and the relationship is more transactional, we’d probably consider them to be a vendor.
If the service they provide has a direct impact on our bottom line or there is potential for them to have downstream interactions with our customers (a clearinghouse checks both boxes) – we look for a business partner.
The technology available to revenue cycle teams today has the potential to increase staff productivity and collections. What good are all these expensive tools if you are not trained to use them properly? Or they can’t easily be customized to suit your hospital’s needs?
Given the impact a clearinghouse has on your day-to-day operations, make sure the company you sign a contract with has the same goals as you do for your hospital’s accounts receivable. They should invest time training your team to use the system effectively, collaborate with them to understand the root cause of denials and be accessible when you need a new edit or to set up a new electronic payer enrollment.
In addition to efficiencies gained by having a single platform for clearinghouse, claim scrubbing and reporting services your revenue cycle can achieve higher levels of productivity with business partners you trust.
Choose Denial Prevention
At efficientC, we take a denial prevention approach to claims management. Our clearinghouse software and our client experience team are both hardwired to stop likely rejections from reaching payers before they can become a denial.
Our analytics platform lets users identify where and why denials are occurring. All the way down to the claim detail. When it comes to your A/R, we share the same goals and our client experience team is there to help your team understand and use analytics to increase collections. We meet at least quarterly with every client to ensure they understand what is happening in their revenue cycle.
As a leader in the denial prevention movement, we love sharing our story. efficientC was born from a need for a better way to manage claims. Built by revenue cycle experts for revenue cycle specialists, we created a revenue cycle management tool to make your transition from a strategy of denial management to denial prevention seamless.
For more revenue cycle management insights and collections best practices, stay tuned for the next installment of Revenue Cycle Matters.
Measuring the Cost of Denials and the Impact of Prevention
When it comes to denial management, there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach.
No Denials Tool in Place Means Opportunity for Improvement
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Which Audio Player are You Using?
You canâ€™t ignore the fact that at some point of time, youâ€™ll listen to music on your computer. Whether itâ€™s a CD, mp3, Internet radio or even to an annoying Flash ad that uses sound, you have to admit that itâ€™s a great way to keep yourself occupied.
Listening to music only needs a software program that does the needful. This brings me to my question for all the readers. What program do you use to listen to music on your PC? I know it sounds a little strange but Iâ€™m curious about preferences of the folks who visit Ghacks.
There are a lot of audio players out there. For most people, I guess it doesnâ€™t make that big a difference as long as it plays the songs. But I know some people who are vary particular. How did you select your player? Did you like how it looked or how you could customize it? Were you looking for something that could play specific audio formats?
Iâ€™ll start the ball rolling. I listen to music on my computer everyday and my player of choice is Winamp 2.8. Yeah, I know itâ€™s old but what can I say. I started using it 8 years ago and I guess itâ€™s grown on me. I want to try the Linux player Amarok though. With all the rave reviews I keep hearing, I canâ€™t wait for it to be developed for Windows.
Some of the other players I know about are Media Monkey, iTunes, Songbird, Foobar2000, etc. Drop me a line and tell me what your favorite player is and why.
Update: My favorite music player right now is AIMP. It is lightweight, comes with an impressive set of features which remind me a lot of the Winamp of old, only better.Advertisement
Me using the Nero Showtime latest version..i feel it gives a much better digital output
I use iTunes as I have an iPod so it contains my huge library, but I use WMP to play my favourite playlist when I’m gaming. This is because I have a G11 keyboard with media keys at the top that control WMP even when it’s running in the background, whereas it only works with iTunes when it is in the foreground.
iTunes is annoying in the way that it is very locked down, but I have the iTunes playlist exporter to export my playlists to formats that are friendly with WMP.
I mostly use VLC for playing music, but occasionally I use Windows Media Player.
i use windows media player 11… gives me good features in terms of library and playlists… i could do without the burner etc… but what the hell… looks super cool.
xm player is another good one… has a tiny footprint.
aimp2 is my choice since when I discovered it.. it has tabs for playlists, infos of every song showed directly in the playlist, a lot of useful features like copy to clipboard the song you’re listening to or capture radio streaming and much more.. must try it!
tried a few in the past was a winamp fan for years (until AOL took it over) now I use foobar2000
AIMP2 replaced Winamp 2 on my system a few months ago… I don’t know how I’d never come across it before!
Out of the box it has all the looks of Winamp 5 without the bloat, a huge range of options, nice crossfading and plays a much wider range of file formats than anything else I’ve come across. Also includes a set of utilities with it which are nicely separated from the player avoiding bloat for those who don’t want their player to also be their library, CD ripper/burner etc etc.
It also has Winamp compatibility for plugins although I’ve found this to be hit and miss in cases where the plugin expects to actually find a copy of Winamp somewhere. Works for my music blogging on Last.FM though :) Well worth a look!
BTW – if you really want to give Amarok a go and you don’t mind a good afternoon of downloading to get it sorted, have a look at the blog post here –
I am still using WinAmp. On its own it is nothing special but it has a wonderful plug-in called Dynamic Library which searches the entire library as I type an entry, it makes it fabulously easy to locate any track.
I’m using both iTunes and MediaMonkey. I use iTunes coz i have and iPod, but b4 i have an iPod i started using iTunes too…. I like it bcoz MSN will display wat i’m playing in my iTunes….. I use MediaMonkey for other format such as FLAC, APE etc….
I sort of use a 3 program approach (overkill I know):
1. Media Monkey for regular playback… Fast, flexible, light on resources even with a huge library, and most importantly an amazing tagging application.
2. iTunes for transferring songs to ipod. MediaMonkey claims to have this capability, but I feel it is poorly implemented. iTunes is straight forward in this regard…
3. Winamp (any version with XM Radio)… I simply love the radio stations offered through the integrated xm radio on Winamp… great for trying to find new music.
1) it’s pretty lightweight
2) has a clean and simple interface
3) global hotkeys for users who don’t have a MM keyboard (though most players have global hotkeys nowadays)
i-tunes to connect with i-pod
but also foobar, foobar and foobar in everyday life because it is so much lighter than i-tunes
I was a Winamp user, but then dropped it when it became too bloated.
Foobar is cool because it’s really straight to the song.
I’ve just switched from Winamp to XMplay as recommended by Martin in his blogs. I like it a lot and will probably keep it as my default music player now.
I use Winamp for music and VLC Player for video because it simply plays everything! :)
XMPlay (default audio) and AIMP2 : BASS technology releases sound like no one!
Otherwise, whatever bloated it may be, Windows Media Player does play quite good IMO.
The worst I’ve met was RealAudio : anything but real!
Winamp only for Gracenote DB and CD ripping… We stopped being in love after version 2.x …
VLC, Winamp or Media Player Classics
I daily use iTunes when I listen to the music because of its splendid CoverFlow, even though I’m currently appreciating Songbird with this feature. On Linux the plum is Amarok!
Years ago I used Winamp, I forget why I migrated away from it. Anyhow, I started using WMP 9, now 11. It does what I want, namely plays music, without a bunch of features I don’t use and that just clutter up the GUI.
In my house, Foobar2000 since I only have WindowsXP here, but in my office I use Linux Mint and Amarok to listen music.
I use Cowon’s Jetaudio exclusively, for 2 big reasons:
1. It plays every type of music on the market.
2. It plays every type of video on the market.
Mostly VLC or GOM player but I also have KM Player which is excellent and extremely customizable
WinAmp5 with classic skins (modern support probably uninstalled ;P).
No CPU floods, everything work OK.
I can’t see the difference in performance between Winamp 2.x and 5.x. Of course, 3rd edition was hopeless but 5.x is IMHO very good.
Me, i’m using vlc player. There’s no big interface, it’s simple and does what it should: it plays music. sometimes i also listen to windows media player, because i can open it, click on play and it plays randomize through my library without much work for me.
Foobar. It’s light weight and highly customizable with global hotkeys you can set up for changing music easily at any time.
I love customization so Foobar is really the only choice for me.
for music I use Winamp 2.91
I think it’s Winamp 2.91 STD Final (1.62 mo)
memory, because Winamp 2.91 Lite Final (623ko) doesn’t read ogg and Winamp 2.91 Full Final (2.21 mo) is useless for me.
for a very long recording of several hours, I use media player classic, it’s possible to resize his window “to seek” easily.
iTunes for iPod
Foobar2000 for audio
VLC for video
Amrok for radio
Winamp 5. It’s got way less baggage than Itunes, it works out of the box (not a lot of tweaking needed), and I still get a robust media library.
I use Foobar2000 to listen to my fovorite albums, I have lot of playlists here, a playlist for each artist. Itâ€™s light weight, highly customizable and very good in sound quality. You can change everything in this player.
Foobar2000 is the Firefox of music :)
For occasional mp3s I use instead KMPlayer, my favorite multimedia player, so that if by mistake I click on a mp3, the music i was listening doesnt stop and the playlist on Foobar remains untouched.
I use Amarok when working at home (I run Linux). Recently started working in an office regularly at a WinXP machine and been using winamp, mainly because I’d used it in the past and foobar2000 didn’t seem to have a decent media library component (not one I could find intuitively).
Might take a look at AIMP and/or MediaMonkey…
If I could figure out how to get pulseaudio/andLinux to recognise my USB headphones as an audio sink, I’d probably be using Amarok on XP too!
I use MediaMonkey almost 24/7.
It can handle my 100+ gigs of music without additional cpu/ram load.
With a couple plugins, it updates my Now Playing status on MSN, can change my display pic to album art, and also uploads the album art and a now playing page to one of my personal websites. Last.FM gets updated usually too.
Itunes just seems to slow and clunky to me, but I don’t have an ipod either. I do however have to load up the Zune software to update my zune every once in a while..
Other than that, Winamp is my 2nd choice on windows. Linux I use Amarok, xmms, or mpd.
VLC 0.86f is the best!!!
Foobar2000 because it’s nice to my computers ram and cpu
Foobar2000 when on the computer.
Floola to transfer music to my iPod.
Winamp 2.8 for music, VLC for video
Winamp 2.8 because of performance (listening while playing games) and the equalizer options.
VLC because I’ve never had any codec problems or other stuff with it, and when I have video files with out of sync audio it’s easy to fix the problem on the fly with VLC
I’ve tried everything around but always come back to foobar2000 because:
-it can play anything
-it’s very customizable
-it’s very tweakable
-sounds the best to me
Me too winamp 2.9
On Windows I’m using the AIMP2.
On Linux I tend to stick with Rythym box, and on windows I normally use either Foobar or VLC. Lately though, because of my Creative Sound-blaster card, I’ve been using the Creative MEdiasource software that came with it more and more. It’s fairly fast (although, it can be a bit laggy at times when watching movies, but I don’t do much clicking then anyways). It also sorts through my songs fairly quickly, and adding new folders for it to scan is a breeze. It’s not my preferred application,but it does work well enough for me.
J River Media Jukebox
It was shareware but is now freeware. Think MediaMonkey. But, I think it blows MediaMonkey out of the water. Mainly because it has
1) A nicer interface
2) It can burn cds at full speed (MM is crippled)
I mostly use Media Player Classic and once in a while WPM 11. Used to use Winamp, but it got too bloated. Have tried several others that were good, but I just don’t listen to enough music on my comp to care that much.
foobar . . . I’m not into the nice looks of other players. I just want my music listed easily so I can play it. I find it much easier to organize and make lists in foobar, although there are some simple features I don’t understand why they are not integrated. Whatever, nothing is perfect. I guess I’ll just stick with v0.9.4.5 since I use Windows 2000. The newer versions require XP.
was using winamp….it bloaateedd so much i changed to XMplay
foobar2000 all the way!
I started with WMP, but changed then to WinAMP.
2 Weeks ago, my system crashed and I started to use BSplayer (wich I found on filehippo.com) because WinAMP uses ~20 MB RAM, BSplayer tops at 6 MB. It doesn’t care about the Playlist size, how long your last restart was, is skinable and plays the most audio and video formats.
But for Videoplay (AVI, …) I use VLC, for DVD’s PowerDVD (and sometimes VLC)
Long story short: #1 Rule to choose Mediaplayer: Less RAM usage –> Better
Used Winamp for years since version 2.0. loved it.
Until they jumped to version 5.So never could have used a winamp 4skin…
Swapped it for the then pretty unknown VLC and enjoyed it very much, the easiness at which it didn’t complain and simply opened every file.
Until I upgraded and had Vista installed, since then I use and love Kmplayer. It does everything and does it good.
iTunes. Nothing beats it on a Mac. :)
I’m using iTunes mainly as I have an iPod. I am looking to get rid of iTunes as it is a POS and go with maybe Windows Media Player or something else.
I forgot to say that I’m using ZOOM for video. It’s easy and flawless. I’ve tried VLC but had many problems in my system. I was using GOM but it had some little problems lately with .wmv.
Media Monkey here :)
It’s a very likeable player with good functions for sorting the music.
Wow! I never thought I’d get these many comments! Maybe I should post stuff like this more often. Thanks a lot everyone.
I use the latest version of WinAmp (currently v5.531). Ever since I discovered it, I didn’t change my Audio Player, even though I kno there are better Audio Players. I’m just too lazy to get a new one.
I use cowon jetAudio.
plays video & audio – supports almost all types of formats – minimizes to system try – can configure hot keys for almost all functionalities – have very compact interface while playing video- arrow keys for ffwd/rewind/vol up/down etc…
(these features are very important for me ‘coz my laptop dont have multimedia keys.)
Amarok pwns all :)
I use Winamp 2.95 with a very clean skin, after all its for listening to music, its always minimized in the system tray as a set of buttons to play and advance songs, so who wants a super duper coolgy bungy shinyskin?
Then i use media player classic with klite codec pack for video. I like VLC and bsplayer too but i find media player classic its better, more configurable, i love it cause it starts centered on the screen, what i dont like its the poor playlist it has
sorry im not an english native speaker!
Winamp 5 with classic skin. Pretty lightweight, fast, and media library that rocks all other media players.
foobar2000 (for albums and like, playing from library) + xmplayer (for single files, through file association)
After trying Winamp 2.8 through the current version, iTunes, Foobar2000, Media Monkey, Windows Media Player, VLC, and Media Player Classic, I have settled on XMPlay for my audio needs.
With this many comments, maybe you should just make a poll :P
Foobar2000. Small, clean and fast – but can play almost any format.
But polls have very few options, this is most interesting and then please make an article analyzing all.
Only the best here:
Music, Video, Photos, iPod, iPhone, Documents, Podcasts, etc. with….
J River Media Center latest version (regular updates) !
@tash: because the poll answers are infinite.
winamp is my first choice.
1) 1-by-1 – simple mode (but not necessarily)
2) kmplayer – control mode
3) winamp – full monty
at home: mediamonkey. so good I even paid for it. – Lighter than most (especially iTunes)
– excellent library management even for very large sizes
– neat interface
– flexible ripping solution
– works just well with my zen stone plus
at work: amarok (on Kubuntu)
– does most of what I need there correctly.
– I’ve met some really strange bugs though, but they happen very rarely.
My choice is MediaMonkey and my reasons are:
1. Low system resources
2. User friendly
3. Good interface
4. Great library options
5. Impressive tagging and audio files management options.
Hey man, too late, but my choice is XMPlay: ultralight, standalone, very simple use, fast open, modular plugins, extra audio HQ. Yeah, i love it! ;)
Winamp, but definitely an older version. I’m not on the laptop at the moment, but it’s definitely beyond 2.x and below 5.x so maybe around 3? It’s before they added all the bells and whistles to make it a ‘media’ manager. Am going to read your review of Amarok later though because I do wonder about alternatives ^^
xmplay for just pure audio, no frills.
My default audio player is AIMP2. Light, simple, and beautiful; I love it cuz can hide it in the system tray, and still skip tracks and control volume. Testing Songbird and Floola, cuz iTunes ate a lot of space, just to transfer files to my iPod.
My video player is the simple, very light and versatil GOM Player. It’s just perfect.
In windows, up until recently winamp was the golden standard.
however, as of late, the player is buggy as hell.
foobar, because of a plugin “quicksearch toolbar” that can even search in the folder name and filename (I can’t tag automatically since it’s mostly jpop, so I won’t bother to tag).
Foobar,cuz it has many cool but useful component. http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Components_0.9
I use VLC and Km Player—both are good and sooo much better thanReal or WMP player
Aimp2 for music (Quintessential Player previously, and CoolPlayer before that)
GomPlayer for video (previously CrystalPlayer..and something else I forgot)
Well, pretty much using KMPlayer, because of its great reproduction capabilities, has almost all video and audio codecs, supports all kinds of internet streaming protocols, also supports serbian subtitles which is very important to me.
Has smaller memory fingerprint than WMP, and hasn’t crashed, not even once! It just doesn’t show the Now listening on MSN, but i can live without it :P Strongly recommend!
As far as I am concerned there is only two decent options, aTunes on windows and amarok on linux, both are FOSS and both are brilliance, take my word for it and give them a go, you will not regret it!
Amarok is definitely the player of choice

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This morning, we had a free morning with a few options. Some students returned to Brandenburg Gate and the Holocaust Memorial with our documentary filmmakers, Justyna and Max, to help them film a portion of a documentary they are making about Abbey Road Programs. Many students were also interviewed by the film crew about their experience thus far and their thoughts on studying abroad. Others went west to the Charlottenburg Palace and perused the old summer grounds of Frederick the I and Fredrick the Great. A small group took a picnic to the Tiergarden and later climbed up the Victory Column.
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But at a Crenshaw meeting of the board of commissioners of the L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency's (CRA), when Anderson prepared to ask the board for public aid, something odd happened: Ridley-Thomas suddenly left the room and three commissioners followed suit. Anderson was then informed his project could not be addressed because the quorum had been broken. After securing $14 million in funding and sinking $175,000 of his company's money into making the proposal work, Anderson was left to watch Ridley-Thomas stand him up. "This is something the community really needed. I got everybody on board this project, including Ted Kennedy," says Anderson bitterly. "But I couldn't get Mark."
It is a common complaint in the Crenshaw district. A growing number of people looking to turn the area around say they have been repeatedly disappointed by a councilman who, despite presenting himself as a man of the people, seems pathologically indifferent to their concerns. They accuse him of being merely another politician on a power trip, motivated largely by a compulsive need to control everything that goes on in his district. And while they acknowledge that the councilman once seemed to be paving the way for large-scale projects - by lobbying successfully for Crenshaw's inclusion in his South-Central district, then by expanding redevelopment zones there after the riots - they feel that little of that promise has been filled. "He doesn't do what's good for the community because he spends most of the time cultivating outside interests, namely the Coliseum [football stadium]," says John Caldwell, a Crenshaw-area attorney who represents the Leimert Park Merchants Assn. "He stays silent. He's not with the community at a time when it desperately needs him."
At the dawn of his political career, Ridley-Thomas was regarded as a great black hope, lionized on the cover of the now-defunct L.A. Reader as a principled urban warrior, a politician schooled in civil rights activism but focused on the future, an elected official who would be able to finally bridge the growing gap between politics and populism and, through sheer force of will, speed revitalization in the city's steadily eroding black community. Today, despite local plaudits for his neighborhood Empowerment Congresses, Ridley-Thomas is regarded by many constituents as quite the opposite - temperamental, often vindictive and too ready to invoke the wishes of community to mask his own motives. Some are even saying they were better served when, before re-districting, the Crenshaw district was represented by 6th District Councilwoman Ruth Galanter. "When Ruth Galanter was in office, her style was, 'Give the people what they want,'" says one public official who asked not to be named. "With Mark, it's more like, 'I'm going to give the people what it is I've decided they want.'"
Developer Anderson says he has been burned more than once. A $600,000 revitalization plan now being touted by the city for Leimert Park is virtually identical to one proposed five years ago by Anderson, down to the funding source. But in the city's version, Anderson is not involved. Another one of his projects, a palm-tree beautification of Crenshaw Boulevard, resurfaced with a different architect in place. The Ladera Heights-based architect said the betrayals are especially galling because "you have to work three times as hard in the black community to get things done, and then you get burned. I thought Mark was serious about things. He created all these opportunities for developers [after '92], and then nothing happened."
Development advocates agree that Ridley-Thomas' obsession with his own, often acutely personal, agenda has contributed to the snail's pace of economic progress in Crenshaw; the recent furor reported by the Weekly over the councilman's attempt to thwart development in the Santa Barbara Plaza because of a tiff with plaza developer Magic Johnson illustrates the point. (Ridley-Thomas passed an ambiguously worded motion in council Tuesday to swiftly and "successfully" conclude negotiations between Johnson Development and the CRA. A deal was finalized that afternoon, and development is moving forward.) Crenshaw is the 8th District's best hope for rapid revitalization, but with Ridley-Thomas at the helm, many people doubt that will happen.
Ridley-Thomas himself is sanguine about the criticism and maintains that his office has in fact done much development during his tenure. And he has unquestionably brought development into the area in the form of supermarkets, auto-parts shops, affordable housing complexes. But critics note that this is not the kind of development that generates core jobs and in turn stimulates the local economy. When asked specifically about projects like Anderson's, Ridley-Thomas shrugs and says that everyone in South-Central, perhaps understandably, wants everything to happen now. "Hey, we're out here doing it," he says. "Development is tough. Not everybody is going to be happy with what goes on. That's the nature of the business. We got a Shoe Warehouse [on Crenshaw] where there used to be a liquor store. You may have problems with the warehouse, but you have to say it's a hell of an improvement over what was there."


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An update, with comment from Walmart, appears below.
Two news reports yesterday shed new light on Walmart’s relationship to the Bangladesh factory where at least 112 workers died in a November 24 fire. One shows Walmart’s role in defeating a proposal for retail corporations to pay for safety improvements; the other shows that multiple Walmart suppliers used the factory this year.
“Walmart’s efforts to evade accountability make a mockery of its pretensions to be committed to protecting the rights of workers in its supply chain,” said Scott Nova, the executive director of the Workers Rights Consortium, in an e-mail to The Nation. Walmart did not respond to a request for comment late last night.
In a Wednesday morning article, Bloomberg News reported an April 2011 meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh, at which major retail corporations considered a proposed agreement under which they would pay more so that their suppliers could make safety improvements. Ineke Zeldenrust of the Amsterdam-based NGO Clean Clothes Campaign told Bloomberg that Walmart’s director of ethical sourcing, Sridevi Kalavakolanu, said at the meeting that Walmart would not agree to pay the higher cost.
Bloomberg reporters Renee Dudley and Arun Devnath also revealed a document written by Kalavakolanu and a Gap official, which was included in the meeting’s minutes, which stated, “Specifically to the issue of any corrections on electrical and fire safety, we are talking about 4,500 factories, and in most cases very extensive and costly modifications would need to be undertaken to some factories. It is not financially feasible for the brands to make such investments.”
Zeldenrust, the Clean Clothes Campaign’s international coordinator, told the New York Times’ Steven Greenhouse that Walmart was the company that “most strongly advocated this position.” The 2011 meeting followed dozens of deaths in Bangladesh factory fires. The Tazreen factory in Bangladesh, the site of last month’s deadly fire, had limited fire exits and no fire escapes.
“No company,” Nova told The Nation, “that is unwilling to pay [factories] enough to make it possible for them to operate safely can claim to be interested in any way in the rights or safety of workers.”
The Times article, also published Wednesday, revealed that at least three supplier companies were using the Tazreen factory during the past year to provide apparel for Walmart and its subsidiary Sam’s Club. According to Greenhouse, the documents “include an internal production report from mid-September showing that 5 of the factory’s 14 production lines were devoted to making apparel for Walmart.” Another Bloomberg article by Dudley yesterday reported that at least five Walmart suppliers used the Tazreen factory.
These articles may draw renewed scrutiny to Walmart’s account of its role in the factory and the Bangladesh apparel industry. As The Nation has reported, following the November 24 fire, Walmart initially said it could not confirm that it had ever sourced apparel from the Tazreen factory, and could not confirm the authenticity of a document found on the website of Tazreen’s parent company, Tuba Group, which showed that a Walmart audit had uncovered “higher-risk violations” in the factory in May 2011. Photos taken by Bangladeshi labor activists, first published by The Nation on November 26, showed Walmart-branded clothing present in the factory after the fire.
In an evening statement November 26, Walmart said that it had suspended the Tazreen Factory prior to the fire, but a supplier had continued filing orders there on Walmart’s behalf in violation of Walmart’s decision. Walmart called the incident “extremely troubling,” said that it had terminated the rogue supplier, and again touted its ongoing “work across the apparel industry to improve fire safety education and training in Bangladesh.” Following the statement, Walmart declined The Nation’s request for comment regarding the identity of the supplier and when the factory ceased to be authorized.
The WRC’s Nova, who provided the documents to the Times, told The Nation that they clearly establish that there were multiple Walmart suppliers using the Tazreen Factory as recently as April of this year, and at least one when the fire broke out. He added that there are “strong indications in the documents, but short of certain, that it was still multiple suppliers at the time of the fire,” rather than the single rogue supplier implied by Walmart’s statement. The WRC is a labor monitoring group whose board is composed of students, university administrators, and labor organizations. (Some of the Tazreen documents are posted below; they were provided to The Nation by the Corporate Action Network, which also posted them on its own website.)
Nova also called Walmart’s role in the 2011 Dhaka meeting “especially revealing.” He described Walmart’s position as “1) We know these factories are unsafe. 2) We know it will cost substantial sums to make them safe. 3) We are not going to pay for this. 4) We are going to keep using the factories anyway.”
Walmart’s senior director for international corporate affairs, Kevin Gardner, told the Times that the 2011 comments from the company’s ethical sourcing director had been taken “out of context” and that “Walmart has been advocating for improved fire safety with the Bangladeshi government, with industry groups and with suppliers.” Regarding the documents showing multiple suppliers active in the factory this year, Gardner told Greenhouse, “As we’ve said the Tazreen factory was deauthorized months ago. We don’t comment on specific supplier relationships.”
The Corporate Aaction Network, which helped organize Black Friday protests in support of US Walmart retail workers, has posted resources on its website encouraging activists to “end deathtraps for Walmart workers” by signing a petition, writing a letter to the editor, and installing a “memorial shrine to the victims of the Tazreen factory fire at a Walmart near you.” Some US retail workers in union-backed group OUR Walmart are raising money and holding prayer services for the families affected by the fire in Bangladesh.
“Walmart’s greed and arrogance appear to be boundless,” said Nova. This is a company that siphons billions in subsidies from US taxpayers, that has made billions in profits on the backs of Bangladeshi workers, then scoffs at the notion that it should be asked to pay one dime to protect those workers from dying in factory fires while they sew Walmart clothes.”
Update (1:30 PM Thursday): In an e-mail to The Nation, Walmart's senior director for international corporate affairs, Kevin Gardner, reiterated the company's position that "the Tazreen factory was no longer authorized to produce merchandise for Walmart months before the fire," and that "Regarding the Bloomberg report, those remarks are out of context."
Gardner added, "Walmart has been advocating for improved fire safety with the Bangladeshi government, with industry groups and with suppliers. We have been actively developing and implementing proactive programs to raise fire safety awareness and increase fire prevention. We firmly believe factory owners must meet our Standards for Suppliers and we recognize the cost of meeting those standards will be part of the cost of the goods we buy."
Check out Josh Eidelson's coverage of Walmart's labor battles here at home.

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Lodged Tax Return, this year on 1st July over 170,000 taxpayers rushed to lodge their tax return. Despite this, the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has warned of common mistakes that could potentially result in some Australians have their refunds adjusted.
The ATO confirmed that 172,000 individual tax lodgements were received on 1st July 2021. These figures are just under a quarter of the 740,000 lodgements it received in its “biggest 1st July ever” last year.
When discounting the events of the covid-19 pandemic that led to the huge increase in 2020, the figures for 2021 are still an increase from the 100,000 lodgements that were made on 1st July 2019. This has come despite the ATO announcing that it would only commence the full processing of tax returns from 7th July this year.
This means that tax refunds are only expected to flow from Friday 16th July this year.
The huge number of early lodgements made by Australian taxpayers has come despite the fact that the ATO has given employers across the country until the end of July to complete their Single Touch Payroll finalisation declaration as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.
The ATO has said that lodging before income statements are finalised was an easy way to run into mistakes that could slow down refunds.
“We understand the rush to get a refund as fast as possible, but racing to lodge your return can often lead to easily avoidable mistakes,” says ATO assistant commissioner Tim Loh.
“Waiting until the end of July to lodge allows the ATO to add information into your tax return from employers, banks, private health insurers and government agencies into your tax return. Agents can access this information, too.
“By allowing more time, your return will be easy, speedy and, importantly, more accurate. By avoiding mistakes, we’ll be able to process your refund faster.”
According to the ATO, an excess of 230,000 lodged tax return are adjusted each year using third-party data, with individuals commonly failing to include all their income, including interest, dividends and rental income.
Four out of five people get refunds at tax time. While we usually get these out in under two weeks, it may take longer if the ATO needs to address any mistakes and potentially adjust the taxpayers return.
To avoid errors and delays, it is crucial for taxpayers to double check all the information in their tax return before hitting the submit button.
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has given a warning to taxpayers who choose to “copy-paste” work related expense claims, like those accumulated when travelling between work sites, or laundering uniforms, while they have been working from home.
Although the majority of Australians are doing the right thing, the ATO has reassured tax payers that the tax agents data analytics will be on the lookout for any unusually high claims that are made at tax time.
The ATO is especially wanting to crackdown on instances where a person’s tax deductions are much higher than other workers who are in a similar job that pays a similar amount of income. The ATO also plans to look closely at anyone who has significant working-from-home expenses that maintains or increases their claims for things like car, travel or clothing expenses.
You cannot simply copy and paste previous year’s claims without evidence. However, the ATO is aware that some of these unusual claims may be legitimate. So, if you explain your claim with evidence, you have nothing to fear.
According to the ATO, close to 8.5 million Australians claimed nearly $19.4 billion in work-related expenses for the 2020 income year.
The ATO pointed to 2020 data that showed the value of car and travel expenses decreased by nearly 5.5 percent, while the value of clothing expense claims saw an increase of about 2.6 per cent, as frontline workers were faced with “first-time” expenses for items like face masks and sanitiser.
The pandemic forced swathes of the workforce to work from home, work-related expenses are expected to spike for the 2021 income year. Despite this, taxpayers should be aware that some expenses, like travel, might not be eligible.
Lodged Tax Return, Australian Government Plans To introduce New Gig Economy Reporting Regime
Share economy participants across Australia will no longer be able to avoid their tax obligations as the federal governments announces plans to legislate a new compulsory reporting regime.
The new reporting regime means that share economy platforms such as; Uber, Airbnb and Deliveroo will all be required to report information of every transaction to the ATO, in the same way the taxable payments reporting system (TPRS) is being currently applied across a number of industries.
Transactions associated with ride-sourcing or a short-term accommodation service will be first in line for the reporting regime, with share economy platforms required to report these transactions from 1st July 2022.
All other share economy transactions will fall under the new reporting regime from 1 July 2023.


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Pregnancy test kit
Simple and effective method of pregnancy test
Pregnancy is a very joyful and beautiful moment for every woman. Many look forward to becoming a mother. So it is very important to take a pregnancy test at the right time. Through which you can be sure whether you are pregnant or not. Therefore pregnancy test is necessary at the right time and in the right way.
How To Use Pregnancy Test Strips
A pregnancy test is an examination of the presence of an unborn child in the womb. A pregnancy test can tell whether a mother is pregnant or not. People have been using different methods since ancient times.
Things to know before taking a pregnancy test
- Pregnancy test method.
- How many days after intercourse to do a pregnancy test.
- After how many days the test gives the correct result.
The right time to take a pregnancy test
Method of doing pregnancy test:
Generally we use three methods to perform pregnancy test. Like –
- Pregnancy test kit.
- Pregnancy blood test.
- Home pregnancy test.
Which Is The Best Pregnancy Test Kit
A pregnancy test is usually done using a kit. It is the easiest and least time to test. This kit is available at any drug store. This test is done seven days after a missed period. However, the results can sometimes be wrong. Test with first morning urine. Test instructions are provided on the insect packet.
How Much Is A Pregnancy Blood Test
A blood hCG test is the definitive pregnancy test. And with this test you can be 100% sure whether you are pregnant or not. Your pregnancy can be confirmed by collecting a blood sample exactly seven days after your missed period and detecting the presence of hCG in it.
Home pregnancy test
How Much Are Home Pregnancy Test
Today I will tell you some methods of pregnancy test at home. Which is very effective. In ancient times, this is how people used to test their pregnancy.
1. Pregnancy test with sugar
Sugar has been used in pregnancy tests for a long time. Mix a spoonful of sugar and the collected morning urine sample in a clean bowl and wait. The hormone hCG is present in the urine of pregnant women. which prevents the sugar from dissolving. As a result, sugar freezes instead of dissolving.
2. Homemade pregnancy test with toothpaste
Toothpaste is a modern way of pregnancy test. Choose white toothpaste for tasting. Take a clean bowl, put 2 spoons of toothpaste in it, put the morning urine sample on the toothpaste and wait. If the toothpaste mixes with urine it changes color to bluish color and foams up. Then pregnancy can be confirmed.
3. Homemade pregnancy test with soap
Soap can be used for pregnancy test very easily and in less time. This test can be done with any soap. It requires a clean bowl and a soap. Place the soap in the bowl and put the urine sample in it. Note that if the soap foams and bubbles appear then you are pregnant.
4. Pregnancy test with salt
Everyone has salt in their house and easy pregnancy test with salt. Mix 1 teaspoon of salt and urine sample in a clean bowl and wait three minutes. If it mixes and forms a creamy white clot, you are definitely pregnant.
5. Home pregnancy test with vinegar
Vinegar is a form of acid that is usually diluted. and used in cooking. A pregnancy test can be done very easily with vinegar. Mix a little white vinegar and urine sample in a clean container. If it foams and bubbles, you are pregnant.
6. Homemade pregnancy test with dettol
Ditol is commonly used as an antiseptic. However, pregnancy test can be done very easily. Take a spoonful of Dettol in a clean container and take morning urine sample in it. Then wait for 5 to 7 minutes if the urine separates from the Dettol and forms a layer above it means you are pregnant.
7. Pregnancy test with bleaching powder
Bleaching powder is usually used by us for cleaning germs. But it can also be done as a pregnancy test very easily. If there is no clean container, I give bleaching powder and urine sample. If it foams and bubbles, you are pregnant.
8. Pregnancy test with baking soda
Baking soda or sodium bicarbonate is an ingredient in baking. Pregnancy test can be done very easily through this. Take a small amount of baking soda and urine sample in a clean bowl. If there are many bubbles and the gauge rises, you are pregnant.
Thanks for reading: How To Make A Pregnancy Test At Home, Sorry, my English is bad:)
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Half of rheumatology patients report persistent symptoms after COVID-19
Over half of adults diagnosed as having a rheumatologic disease reported persistent COVID-19 symptoms at least a month after recovery from their infection, according to survey results presented late last week at the virtual American College of Rheumatology annual meeting.
A news release from the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City described the study, in which researchers emailed surveys to 7,505 men and women 18 years and older who had been treated for rheumatologic conditions at the hospital from 2018 to 2020.
Among 2,572 survey respondents, nearly 56% who said they tested positive for COVID-19 reported symptoms lasting 1 month or more, including loss of taste or smell, muscle aches, and difficulty concentrating. Patients who smoked, took corticosteroids, or had a chronic condition such as diabetes or congestive heart failure were at particularly high risk for long-haul symptoms.
Only two patients reported pre-existing fibromyalgia, a condition that produces symptoms similar to those of long-haul COVID-19. "Our findings do not suggest that symptoms of fibromyalgia are being misinterpreted as long haul COVID in patients with rheumatic diseases, which is something that has been raised as a possibility," senior study author Lisa Mandl, MD, MPH, said in the release.
Lead author Medha Barbhaiya, MD, MPH, said that understanding the long-term effects of COVID-19 in this population is critical. "For rheumatology patients, long-haul COVID may be particularly challenging, as these patients already have significant chronic health issues and warrants further investigation," she said.
The researchers plan to use the data in a longitudinal analysis to determine if lingering COVID-19 symptoms interact with or aggravate rheumatologic conditions.
Nov 6 Hospital for Special Surgery news release
Mandated sepsis bundle tied to increased antibiotic use, fewer deaths
A series of measures mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to improve sepsis care in US hospitals was associated with increased sepsis diagnosis and antibiotic use, but also with reduced mortality, researchers reported late last week in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
In their analysis of the Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Management Bundle (SEP-1) Core Measure, required at all US hospitals that receive CMS compensation as of October 2015, the researchers looked at antibiotic use among adult patients at 26 hospitals during the year before and the year after implementation (October 2014 through October 2016).
The SEP-1 bundle promotes early administration of effective antibiotic therapy in sepsis patients, but its impact on antibiotic use wasn't known. Sepsis diagnosis rates and all-cause mortality were also analyzed.
A total of 701,055 patient were included in the study, and more than 1.9 million antibiotic days of therapy (DOT) were administered during the study period. Antibiotic use and sepsis diagnosis increased 2% each month during the SEP-1 preparation period (October 2014 through September 2015) and remained elevated. Cumulatively, the rate of sepsis diagnosis increased 32.9% during the entire study period, and the mean monthly antibiotic DOT per 1,000 patient-days increased 24.4%.
The rate of all-cause mortality fell 5% each month during the SEP-1 preparation period, then declined by 2% each month during the SEP-1 implementation period (November 2015 through October 2016). Cumulatively, the monthly mean all-cause mortality per 1,000 patients declined 38.5% over the entire study period.
The study authors note that while it's plausible the decline in mortality was related to improved antibiotic therapy for sepsis patients, they did not observe changes in mortality in a subset of patients with suspected sepsis. Furthermore, the decline in mortality was out of proportion to the increased number of patients diagnosed as having sepsis and to the increase in antibiotic use.
"Our analysis does not demonstrate a causal association between implementation of SEP-1 and changes in antibacterial use or mortality, but strongly suggests that additional investigation into the value and potential adverse events of mandated antibiotic therapy is required," the authors wrote. "Any benefits provided by the prompt and broad application of antibacterial therapy for patients with suspected sepsis may be quickly outweighed by adverse events."
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Three Jamestown Canyon virus cases detected in New Hampshire
New Hampshire has reported three more Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) cases, two in patients hospitalized with neurologic symptoms, according to the state's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
The adults, who all recovered, live in Loudon, Pittsfield, and Rumney, New Hampshire, and were infected with JCV through mosquito bites.
"With these three JCV infections happening in early fall, it is important to remember the season of mosquitos is longer than just the summer months. Mosquitos can continue to transmit infections like Jamestown Canyon Virus until there is a mosquito-killing hard frost," said Benjamin Chan, MD, MPH, New Hampshire state epidemiologist, in a press release. "Residents and visitors of New Hampshire should take steps to avoid mosquito bites from the time the snow melts in the spring to the hard-frosts of fall."
Though most cases of JCV are mild, moderate to severe—and even fatal—cases of the disease have been reported. If symptoms occur, they are likely to include fever, muscle aches, headaches, and fatigue.
There are no vaccines or treatments for JCV at this time.
Nov 5 New Hampshire DHHS press release
Zika outbreak strikes third Indian state
A Zika outbreak has so far sickened nearly 90 people in India's Uttar Pradesh state, the third Indian state to be affected by the virus this year, according to Reuters, which cited local health authorities.
The latest outbreak is centered in the Uttar Pradesh city of Kanpur. So far, 89 illnesses have been detected, including 17 involving children. One of the patients is a pregnant woman, whose condition is being monitored. Cases in the city have been rising since late October.
In the middle of October, the World Health Organization (WHO) described two other recent Zika outbreaks in India, one in Kerala state and the other in Maharashtra. The outbreaks were the first for the two states, though India has reported Zika virus cases before.
More H5N1 avian flu outbreak reported in Europe, South Korea
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks in poultry are accelerating in Europe, with Poland among a handful of countries reporting new detections in poultry and wild birds, according to notifications from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Poland reported two outbreaks, one at a commercial farm in Lubusz province in the west that raises turkeys and geese and the other at a noncommercial farm in Silesian province in the south that houses multiple poultry species. The outbreaks in Poland are its first involving the subtype since 2008.
Also, the United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said high path H5N1 has been confirmed at a small backyard facility in Warwickshire County in the West Midlands region.
Other countries, mostly in Europe, reported more H5N1 detections in wild birds, according to the latest OIE report. They include the Czech Republic (mute swans in South Bohemian region), Ireland (peregrine falcon in Galway), the Netherlands (waterfowl in North Holland Province), and Sweden (wild goose in Skane County).
In October, European veterinary officials warned that the spread of H5N1 along migration routes could portend more outbreaks in the months ahead.
Elsewhere, South Korea reported two H5N1 outbreaks in wild birds, one in mandarin ducks and other species in North Jeolla province and the other in mandarin ducks in South Chungcheong province.
Nov 5 and 8 OIE reports on H5N1 poultry outbreaks in Poland (Lubusz and Silesian provinces)
Nov 8 UK DEFRA report
Nov 5 OIE reports on H5N1 wild birds in the Czech Republic, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Nov 5 OIE report on H5N1 in wild birds in South Korea