Andrew DeVigal Andrew DeVigal is an Emmy-award winning innovative strategist known for building bridges, connecting people and ideas and producing meaningful, interactive stories. He is co-founder of A Fourth Act and curator of Interactive Narratives. He is a recent alumnus of Second Story and former multimedia editor at The New York Times.
Laura Lo Forti Laura Lo Forti is a story midwife who helps media makers, not-for-profits and social action groups tell stories that spark social change. She is co-founder of A Fourth Act and The Raw File. She has worked with the the Hollywood Theatre, the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections at Hunter College School of Social Work, Adobe Youth Voices, and the Center for Digital Storytelling, among others.
It's a Saturday afternoon in New York City, late April. On Manhattan's West Side, the IAC building looms tall over the Hudson, and inside is the future.
Walk through the doors to Interactive Day, the culmination of Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) Innovation Week. Polite desk attendants sign guests in, directing them to the talks on the left, the "interactive playground" on the right, and the food trucks—$11 grilled cheese or Korean BBQ tacos—parked out front. In the middle of the space, a coffee bar. There's plenty to consume.
As caffeine buzzes through bodies, voices bounce big ideas off white walls. Gamers, coders, hackers, filmmakers and investors have congregated here to celebrate one thing— storytelling.
While the first of them gathered around fires, storytellers at TFI Interactive are assembled before one of the largest high-resolution video screens on Earth. One-hundred-and-twenty feet wide and 11 feet high, this light isn't made with friction and sticks, but with low-power, solid-state lasers.
Andrew DeVigal, half as high, steps onstage to a podium at the center of the screen. He invites his 4-year-old daughter, Viola, up to dance, but she shies away to her mother, Laura Lo Forti, in the front row. Together Andrew and Laura represent their new company, A Fourth Act. Andrew is here to announce their first co-venture—HARVIS, a mobile web application for interactive storytelling.
Recovering from his daughter's slight, Andrew invites the audience to pull out their mobile devices, open their browsers, and log in to Harv.is. While they enter survey information to describe themselves, he begins.
"In the spirit of co-design," he says, "I want you to help define how you would use HARVIS for your next project." He asks the participants—soon to become a "community"—to open a "gestures" tab and to swipe up or down on their screens during the next 12 slides.
At the presentation's end, Andrew aggregates the responses in an "engagement graphic," a line graph rich with audience insight. Spanning the screen, it illustrates peaks of engagement over time. Andrew can click on any peak and see community responses and comments. He can filter through them by community role. He notes that more filmmakers than financial backers have engaged in the presentation, and everyone laughs.
In a changing landscape where anyone can publish anywhere, storytellers from all arenas are asking: is anybody listening?
It's no surprise that Andrew DeVigal is talking interactivity. He has blazed the trails of interactive media, from his informational graphic journalist days at The Chicago Tribune in the 1990s to a six-year run, ending in 2012, as multimedia editor at The New York Times.
When editors used to wonder what made a good headline, there was one sure way to know: It sold papers. Things today are far less direct. What was once a one-way broadcast now involves multidirectional relationships between media makers and their audiences. Online publishers hoping to hold readers' attention are focusing on engagement, impact and making personal connections, often hoping that profits will follow. While they collect audience feedback by the terabyte, they struggle for meaningful ways to interpret that data.
Put simply, in a changing landscape where anyone can publish anywhere, storytellers from all arenas are asking: Is anybody listening?
Adrianne Jeffries brought the issue to the forefront recently on The Verge, in a piece aptly titled "You're Not Going to Read This." Responding to debate over Upworthy's popularity on Facebook, she observed that sharing media and consuming media are not necessarily related. People retweet articles whether they have read them or not. Media may glean affirmation from Facebook likes or Twitter retweets, but these analytics are shallow. Upworthy announced in February that it is trying new ways to assess engagement. Because analytics measuring "time on page" or "unique page views" don't get to the bottom of behavior, it is turning to "attention minutes" in hopes of understanding when people are "really engaged" with content. Other digital media are also refining analytical tools. In the end, however, Jeffries concluded that measuring impact was a problem media makers had yet to solve.
One thing that seems to help is direct, personal connection. In 2013, Josh Katz and Wilson Andrews produced the most trafficked New York Times content of the year. It was a quiz and map not only created by an intern, but published on Dec. 21—10 days before the end of the year. Maybe people home for the holidays had more time to browse online, but most think the success of "How Y'all, Youse and You Guys Talk" was that it involved audience members, personally, in creating the story.
Indeed, when social media and online tools enable audiences to talk back, it's difficult for storytellers to shun audience influence. The consequences are getting attention.
In 2011, Joy Mayer published a Neiman Report on engaging communities in content and conversation. It highlighted the connection between journalists and their subjects, described an unavoidable community influence, and predicted a comeback of "public journalism," with its aim of finding solutions to community problems. (During its 1990s heyday, journalists criticized public journalism for disrupting objectivity standards). Mayer concluded that advocacy is part of the job, and she saw more and more startups concerned with engaging target audiences to foster social change.
Last August, Forbes highlighted the work of Jim Berk, chief executive officer of Participant Media, whose aim, like that of A Fourth Act, is to tell stories, engage an audience and spark social change. In September, The Knight Foundation awarded $165,000 to Reframe It to test a new polling model, Deliberative Polling, which measures community information needs in the context of legislation and public policy. Its goal is to help journalists create stories with more impact. In addition, The Knight Foundation has awarded $2.2 million to seven news organizations with intentions to report on health by focusing on solving problems.
HARVIS takes this trend a step further, into a realm easy to overlook in the digital era: physical space.
Engagement with HARVIS means involving people in a common story. More literally, it means putting people together in a room to share personal stories within the context of a greater story, such as a documentary film.
HARVIS isn't a social networking platform like Facebook or Twitter. The type of engagement found online isn't what Andrew and Laura want to create. Their idea is best explained in a Chinese proverb they often reference: Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
HARVIS is meant to be a "heads-up" experience. Here a community gathers around American Promise at The Hollywood Theatre. Credit: Wes Pope.
To that end, HARVIS encourages active, in-person community participation. It allows audience members at live events, or an "intentionally invited community" to interact with live media—films, multimedia stories, debates, lectures or presentations. It aims to use community feedback to identify issues, facilitate conversation and, ultimately, empower communities to solve problems.
HARVIS is purposefully simple and deliberately flexible.
A key feature is that anyone with a web-enabled smartphone can use it. According to the Pew Research Internet Project, that's nearly 60 percent of American adults, and the scales tip in favor of minorities and people ages 18 to 29. (Andrew and Laura still face the difficulty of reaching people without access to smartphones. Their current solution is old-fashioned pen and paper, but that might change in the future.) As long as users can swipe up and down on the screen, whether they are using an iPhone or Android makes no difference.
Andrew used HARVIS at TFI Interactive Day to enrich his multimedia presentation. But it can be adopted in an array of settings. A Fourth Act works with its collaborators to tailor HARVIS's features to reach the specific goals of each live media experience.
In their Ochre interview, Andrew and Laura offered the example of their work with Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, the makers of American Promise. The documentary film, spanning 13 years, follows two middle-class African-American families through their challenges in raising and educating their sons. At three screenings in Oregon, HARVIS facilitated audience—that is, community—discussion.
The collaborators intentionally invited diverse groups of people concerned with the same issue: the black male achievement gap. Participants logged in to Harv.is and indicated whether they were parents, students, teachers, administrators or concerned citizens. The facilitators instructed them to swipe up on their smartphones when they felt empowered and to swipe down when they felt overwhelmed.
Participants log in to Harv.is with an event-specific password and indicate their roles in the community.
The simple swipe gesture is meant to allow viewers to use the app without looking down at their devices.
Throughout the event, participants have opportunities to share their own experiences.
An engagement graphic depicts audience reactions, using thumbnails and quotes to give context to engagement peaks.
Responses in the engagement graphic can be filtered by community roles.
At chosen moments, Andrew and Laura paused the film and invited the community to share. For instance, in one scene, a student's mother asks if sending her son to private school is helping or hindering his progress. During the pause, participants took three minutes to type in their own stories. After the screenings, the engagement graphic depicted audience reactions, using thumbnails and quotes from the film to give context to the engagement peaks.
When the event was over, HARVIS had created a layered story meaningful to the audience not only because they cared about an issue, but also because they had incorporated their own experiences. HARVIS, or its process, yielded a thoughtful conversation—right then and there.
The names HARVIS and Harv.is, just as they sound, are rooted in "harvest." Besides the obvious meaning, Laura says, the word is used in the field of group facilitation.
HARVIS is not openly available to the public. Its use is limited to communities gathered by private invitation, through grassroots outreach in which Laura, Andrew and A Fourth Act's collaborators are directly involved. In this way, they ensure they reach the communities they hope to impact with a story.
Professionally, Andrew DeVigal describes himself as a "bridge builder." Laura Lo Forti uses the term "story midwife." The digital titles come together in the physical world through HARVIS and A Fourth Act.
"It was all very organic," Laura says, explaining the process of starting their new company.
The difference centered mainly on engagement. Laura followed a grassroots path of participatory journalism and advocacy. For her, story was a medium for people to better understand their own struggles. Andrew, on the other hand, worked in legacy media institutions. He established new ways for audiences to interact with media and gain deeper understanding of a story.
"The heart of my career has consistently evolved around stories, bridge building, interactivity and engagement," Andrew says. As an informational graphic journalist at The Chicago Tribune, he explained complex stories through print and interactive graphics. He trained others in digital and visual storytelling as visiting faculty at the Poynter Institute. At San Francisco State University, he started Interactive Narratives, a hub for interactive stories on the web. Andrew took his approach to The New York Times in 2006. Through interactive media such as Shayla Harris' "Punched Out," he helped bridge print and digital news.
Laura worked as a writer and editor for magazines in her native Italy and became a freelancer when she moved to the U.S. She eventually became uneasy in the journalist's role. She was too emotionally involved, and generally felt that her "subjects," as they were traditionally called, could tell their stories better than she could.
She reached a turning point when she discovered multimedia journalism in the early 2000s. That's when she met Andrew and her partner in The Raw File, Brenda Ann Kenneally. Around the same time she met Joe Lambert, a pioneer in participatory media and founder and director of the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, CA. Lambert's approach informed her practice as a storytelling facilitator.
Recognizing her divergent approach, Laura adopted new titles, first "recovering journalist," then "participatory media practitioner." She settled on "story midwife" after her pregnancy with Viola.
You see more and more established people leaving their positions and using their skills and knowledge in different fields. It's becoming very acceptable, if not expected, because the industry is changing so fast.
Laura sees stories not simply as news, but as narrative therapy. She believes storytellers can heal themselves. A Fourth Act speaks to this concept of narrative therapy by gathering people around story "not as recipients of information, but as co-creators of knowledge," she says.
In 2012, Andrew left The New York Times and moved with his family to Portland, OR., where he became creative director for content strategy at Second Story. After about a year, Laura noticed that Andrew seemed stuck in his creative work.
This past February, they entered their professional partnership. The rest, you might say, is the future.
It all sounds so idealistic. Is community storytelling centered around social issues just another Portlandia Knot Store? Andrew and Laura are taking a risk to follow their passion, but it's not unheard of in today's world. With changes in the industry come changes not only in the stories people create, but also in how storytellers work and define success.
Despite Laura's optimism, the cold, hard fact is that 90 percent of all technology startups eventually fail—even the ones with success at the start.
But not even trying yields a failure rate of 100 percent. And today's reality makes it a whole lot easier to try.
Digital tools assured Andrew he'd be able to stay in touch with friends and colleagues, and work from anywhere. Leaving a big company and a big city didn't mean leaving opportunity behind.
They've put everything on the line—career, reputation, finances, marriage and family—to start a business together, so it seems.
But the real risk they're taking is a creative one. Laura and Andrew can fall back on established skills and colleagues. If HARVIS fails, their creative vision is what suffers.
Although the odds are against them, it is up to the people who can take these risks to take them. This courage is what moves an industry forward.


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Q: Calling Store.connect in my servlet hangs I am trying to get access my GMail inbox using IMAP and JavaMail in a servlet like this:
Session imapSession = this.getSession(true);
System.out.println("getting the store");
Store store = imapSession.getStore("imap");
System.out.println("connecting to the store");
store.connect("imap.gmail.com", "address@gmail.com","password");
System.out.println("getting the Sent folder");
Folder folder = store.getFolder("INBOX");
System.out.println("Opening the folder in a READ_WRITE mode");
folder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);

The servlet hangs and does nothing more when calling store.connect("imap.gmail.com", "address@gmail.com","password");
Any thoughts??
Thanks

A: Have you looked at these to find out how to connect to Gmail. There seems to be plethora of information available out there on this topic.
Using Javamail to connect to Gmail smtp server ignores specified port and tries to use 25
http://www.mkyong.com/java/javamail-api-sending-email-via-gmail-smtp-example/
Also I'd suggest that you first write a sample program - that can be run outside of your servlet code and container - get that to work and then integrate that with your servlet code. This might make it easier for your to develop and debug.
HTH, K

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There are a couple clues here, I think. If you are familiar with this item it may becoming clearer to you now. To enter the whazzit contest, leave a comment on this post with your guess. No comments will be revealed before a winner is determined. One guess per person per post. Have you figured it out yet? I am filling a fun baggie for the prize while I hit all the craft and stitching stores in Colorado!
I wonder if there is a winner yet? Have you taken a guess at what this item is? Enter by leaving your guess in a comment on this post (limit of one guess per person per day) and when I get back we will find out who was the first one to come up with the answer. As you read this, I am already shopping for the prize on my way to Colorado.
The CQI Retreat always involves some wonderful shopping opportunities so guess where the prize will be coming from? Yes, you guessed that one right, I will be picking up some goodies while I am browsing the stitching stores in Colorado and that will be the prize. Even I don't know what it will be yet! So, have a close look and take a guess!
I am eyeing up a round robin signup at CQI for a Steampunk theme. I may succumb to temptation and put my name down. With this in mind, I have started collecting odds and ends for it. So far, I have these wonderful clock faces I ordered that arrived the other day. Don`t they look like fun?
I also found a strange little piece of metal, kind of a double spring, while vacuuming - I think it is part of a tv remote that Duke ate last week. Wonder what I can do with it? I`ll find a way to use it I think.
Just a wee note to say I will be away from the computer for ten days or so starting early tomorrow morning. I am off to the 3rd Annual Crazy Quilting International Retreat in Colorado. This year it is being held in Estes Park which looks like another beautiful scenic location. When I get back I will have lots of photos and stories to share!
I am very excited about the retreat - it is an opportunity to meet in person the folks I talk with online every day and who share my passion for crazy quilting! We all share and learn so much from each other and this is intensified at the retreat! Last year I was able to learn to emboss velvet, take a button painting class from Gerry, dye lace, and so much more!
Now, since I have yet to pack for the retreat, I had better get a move on! Stay well and see you when I get back! Hugs!
Since I have become more and more interested in miniatures, I have been looking for miniature gingham so I could try my hand at some chickenscratch embroidery on a 1-12 scale. Finally, I found some - thanks to a heads up from my minature guru, Lorna. Lorna has been doing miniatures for years and is directly responsible for my growing obsession. Now that I have the gingham, I can`t wait to start! The scale on this works out to 1.3 squares per inch which would be some really big gingham but it is the smallest I have been able to find so far. It makes you dizzy to look, so this may prove to be a challenge.
I bought one meter each of five colours. Doing a little calculation, at 1-12 this would be the equivalent of 60 meters of length but then if you take into consideration the width, it would really be the equivalent of 720 meters. Hmmmm... can we say carried away? roflol It didn't seem like that much when I bought it!
I posted the clown fish and sea anemone detail a little while ago but now I have the whole block done I thought I would post it too. The colour is a bit washed out so you might have to use your imagination a little - it is actually quite bright. The focal point of this block was the clown fish. Underneath on the tan fabric representing the ocean floor, I have added one of Nicki Lee's wonderful hand-dyed lace motifs, in this case a lovely yellow/green starfish. To the left of it, is a beaded starfish. Above these and along the seam line there are assorted beads and shells attached to represent pebbles etc in the sand. On the far right are a couple strands of assorted fuzzy yarns for seaweed. Between the seaweed and the starfish, you can see a portion of another one of Nicki Lee's lace motifs. In this case it was a floral motif and I removed the flower portion on the top to use another day and attached the leaves as another ocean plant. There are two shell fish hiding amongst the seaweed. The odd bit of stitching in the top portion of the block was meant to simulate the wave motion of the water. To see a much better example of this, check out the photo on Sharon B's Pintangle blog - this was my inspiration.
As always, I can see about a dozen things I would like to improve, redo, or replace but the nature of round robins is that you really do have to mail them on so I am forced to quit before I am ready and send it away. I do wonder if I would ever be ready though if I were allowed to keep this block and work on it as long as I like!
Sea anemones and clown fish have a symbiotic relationship. Clown fish are able to live with certain types of anemones without being stung and are protected in this way. In return, they feed off leftovers and algae on the anenome and create better water circulation for the anemone by moving around.
I am becoming more and more enthralled with the miniatures I am seeing online. If you are interested, one of the lovely artists I am following is having a giveaway at Sophia Miniatures. Check it out!
I am happy to report that Bear and Duke are now seeing eye to eye, as you can see from this picture. Once they had become acclimatized to each other, we let them loose together and studiously ignored both of them. I have to tell you though that the peripheral vision got a real workout while they were being "ignored"! Happily, they got along well. Bear is fascinated by Duke and his immense size - she runs as fast as she can trying to catch up with Duke and then when Duke turns around, she runs twice as fast the other way.
Once playtime is over, they flake out together like the best of friends!
Well, it was a pretty sad time at the airport yesterday seeing the kids away. Three sets of grandparents in attendance, as well as parents, and not a dry eye in the house. I am going to miss these beautiful children so much - but now I have to keep telling myself that a year is not so long. I am anxiously waiting for the kids to get in touch via Facebook so I can hear all about their adventures in England.
Here is what I came up with for this week`s Build a Seam (BAS) Challenge, the Half Cretan Stitch. I added a bead on the bottom of each stitch, a couple detached chain stitch leaves on the top and a funny little flower of straight stitches in red, all done in DMC cotton floss.
Finished my work on Ely`s block!
I finished my work on Ely`s block at last - took me awhile! Some of this I`ve posted about before - some is new. I mentioned the tree before - I am hoping that the other stitchers will join me on that patch adding things and that between us all we can build a lovely garden there for Ely. The white beaded flower on the far left is an Avon earring of all things! lol I liked the way it echoed the shape of the flower already embroidered on the fabric. I added the adjacent seamwork. Moving up the block there is my spider and web, my BAS Seam 58 above that and then two dragonflies built from silver beads. Above that is ribbon stem and leaves with spiderweb roses made from pearl cotton. To the left is the initial salvaged from a hankerchief with the ruched ribbon and pearl border and to the right is another pink seam.
This is Ely`s entire block after I`ve done stitching on it. There are so many seams to stitch treatments for but I need to mail this on now. I am filling in as round robin angel for two stitchers who have had to drop out of this particular round robin so I`ll have another chance to add more when it comes back around my way.
These two gorgeous kids are my darling grandchildren, Allie and Sam. They are heading off to England to spend a year with their Dad on Saturday so there was a going away party for them this last weekend. The ice cream cake I had made at DQ was a big hit - I thought the girl who decorated it did a great job putting my ideas on the cake.
Melinda and her children were at the party as well. Bobbi, Sam and Allie`s mom and my son`s better half, and Melinda have been friends forever and their children have grown up together. It shows - can`t you feel the love in this picture?
This is Sam again chowing down!
Here are Sam and Allie, opening their little goodbye cards and gifts from us. That is my son, Sean, over on the left. I love watching him watching the kids - you can tell how much he loves them just by looking at his face.
The party was a barbeque - here is the feast on display! Bobbi is such a great cook - even hot dogs and hamburgers are special when she makes them! Really! The hamburgers were to die for!
These are my guys: son, Sean, and husband and love of my life, Gary. Since it was a Sunday afternoon they spent a lot of the party on the sofa watching football.
It was a lovely party. Bobbi`s parents, Cheryle and Pat, were there too and it is always great to see them. Great party... but I`m trying not to think about the reason for it too much! I am going to miss these kids so much - I know I`ll be a blubbering mess when I go to see them off at the airport.
With many apologies for my slacking off, here I am again presenting another Build a Seam (BAS) Challenge. This is called the Cretan Catch Stitch and I thank Cris from CQI for letting me know the name of it! As you can see, this stitch is like a cretan stitch on the top and a herringbone stitch at the bottom. I hope you enjoy seeing what you can do with it!
Pam Kellogg of Kitty and Me will be holding a draw for this darling little sewing themed art quilt she made when her blog reaches 300 followers. I just checked and there are 276 right now so it won't be long. You should run over to Pam's blog and enter now while there is still time! Wouldn't this look beautiful hanging in my sewing space, providing constant inspiration? Yup, that's right - my sewing space! lol I have my fingers crossed to win this puppy!
While you are over there, check out the great guest post by Allison Aller - she takes you step by step how she creates her gorgeous landscape quilts.
On August 10th, Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims were joined on the set of The Quilt Show by members of the AAQI (Alzheimers Art Quilt Initiative) Board Members: Kathy, Susan, Mary, Diane, Ami, Beth. This day marked the first time the new travelling exhibit, "Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope", was displayed in public. I am so excited to see this photo and see how it looks! The purple panels hold 10,000 names of those affected by Alzheimers and other forms of dementia. Each name is written on the reverse of a piece of purple fabric, the slightly washed out appearance of the back side of the fabric reflecting the effects Alzheimers has on the mind. Aren`t the Name Quilts beautiful?! They remind me of panels of stained glass and I can just imagine how moving it would be to see them in person with the other AAQI quilts hanging with them.
If you look at the photo carefully, you can see my little crazy quilt hanging on the far right behind Ricky Tims. I am so proud to be part of this exhibit and can`t thank AAQI enough for choosing my little quilt made in honour of Aunt Olive. I dream about it travelling around and helping raise awareness of Alzheimers before it is finally auctioned at the end of the exhibit.
This episode of The Quilt Show featuring the Alzheimers exhibit will be aired sometime in December. I will definitely keep you posted as to the date!
If you would like to take a small step in supporting AAQI, visit Facebook today and sign up as a supporter of this cause! Thank you!
The world`s slowest stitcher (that would be me!) has done a bit more work on Ely`s block. I had a hankerchief saved in my stash which I thought had the prettiest initial E on it so I had to find a way to incorporate it. In the end, I cut the initial out in a circle, backed it with a bit of quilt batt and appliqued it onto the block with buttonhole stitch. To trim out the edge of the applique I ruched some green silk ribbon and attached it using pearls.
I admit to finding this block a challenge, which is the point of round robins as far as I am concerned of course! The block has a lot of little strip pieces and the fabrics are all beautiful but busier than what I am used to working with. Many of the fabrics are preembroidered, sequined or heavily patterned. I don`t want to distract from the beauty of the fabrics so I that is my challenge. On this lovely strip of pink pre-embroidered fabric, I tried to accomplish this goal by incorporating my design with the existing flowers. I stitched a spider web for luck, anchoring it to the plants embroidered on the fabric, and then built a little spider on a nearby branch. I like the way the motif worked.
On a completely different topic, one of the enjoyable aspects of being home from the summer job is being able to haunt my favourite thrift store again. On my treasure hunt there this week, I found this cute little Heartwood Creek store. It is now serving as a handy little bookend on my computer desk. It makes me smile so was well worth the $2 I paid for it.
While I was in town running errands, I also picked up this new Continuing Education class schedule for the Fall and Winter.
And what did I find inside the new class schedule? Yes indeed - proof I am following through on those new year resolutions! As soon as I have time to think about it, I am sure I will have butterflies in my tummy about teaching this class! Right now I am so busy that I don`t have time to get nervous. I think it is a help to have been blessed to take classes from some outstanding teachers myself - Tanya Berlin, Dakotah Rogers, Bunty Severs, etc. I know which teachers I enjoyed the most and learned the most from, so I have great examples to follow. I am keeping a positive attitude about this class and am already discussing teaching a workshop for The Calgary Guild of Needle and Fibre Arts later in the fall.
I was studying Christine Dabbs`wonderful Crazy Quilting book and left it sitting on the kitchen table the other night. Now that Duke Ellington, the bloodhound, has started eating my treasured stitching items again, I know I am really home! I am now trying to distract Duke with a new type of chewie I picked up at the pet store this week. It is a piece of elk antler - he seems to be really enjoying it.
This weekend has turned into quite the little social time with two parties I would have missed if I had gone through with my BC trip so they are providing some consolation. Yesterday we attended a great end-of-the-season get together at Little Bow Campground. In attendance were those who work at Little Bow, Travers, Carseland-Windham and McGregor campgrounds as well as support staff. It was a great opportunity to meet the folks we talk to on the phone all summer. The bosses, Mirko and Maria, prepared a feast for us - a wonderful roast pig as well as a couple Croation taste sensations and everyone brought salads. Delicious! This is DD, Katie, and Howard, who works at Travers Reservoir Campground. They have become fast friends this summer!
Well, that was my Saturday! I hope you had a wonderful one too, and that today is another great day!
Why do I do this to myself? Why do I decide to stitch motifs of millions of little french knots? You would have thought I would have learned by now but I never do! Here I am, so behind in all my round robins suddenly and I decide to make this tree on Ely's garden themed blocks of almost a whole skein of french knots. Well, I have to admit I love the way they look and I don't think you can beat french knots for foliage on trees or a topiary. For this particular tree, I used french knots with two wraps, using two strands of DMC cotton floss for the foliage. For the trunk, I tweeded two colours of brown DMC, one strand of each, and chain stitched up and down to give it some texture. I also spent almost a whole day trailing through the shops trying to find a vintage dinky toy, the kind with the rubber tires that come off the wheels, because I thought it was calling out for a tire swing. No luck on my treasure hunt this time though.
So, this is Ely's block in its entirety. As you can see. I grabbed that big white space right off the bat. I think though that in order not to be too greedy, I will leave it with just the tree on it and suggest to the other stitchers in the round robin that they add to it as a garden theme. One thing all those french knots did was give me lots of time to think about what to do on the other spots so I am ready now to finish up the other spaces - they are all planned out. Then I will get it off in the mail and on its way to the next stitcher.
It's that time again... time for the monthly slow and silent auction at AAQI! The quilts are exceptionally beautiful this time around. Please take a minute to check them out and bid! bid! bid! All proceeds go towards Alzheimer's research so your money is going to a great cause and it is never too soon to start your Christmas shopping!
The people in Parry Sound, Ontario, have started something called The Bra Project. They are building a virtual clothesline of art bras to raise awareness of breast cancer. I'm happy to have added my artbra that I made for The Way to Women's Wellness to the clothesline! The clothesline is now at 40 ft, 6 inches. My favourite is Disco Tatas! Check it out!


Growing up on Schmidt Lake in Plymouth, Josh Leddy, owner and operator of Life's a Beach Shoreline Services, has long loved the beauty of Minnesota's lakes. Leddy got into the lake-weed maintenance business with a friend in 2004 as a summer job. Starting with five clients, Leddy offered his services to homeowners on Lake Minnetonka who had issues with lake weeds creeping up on shore or clogging swim areas.


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Q: PIC16F18446 ADC says 12 bit but max value is 3ff which is only 10 bits? What am I missing?
For a 12 bit value I'd expect the range to be 000 to FFF, but I see 000 to 3FF.
Is the doco wrong or am I misunderstanding?

A: @johnlon,
I believe that the PIC16F18446 data sheet is correct but it is hard to comprehend.
What I have come to learn is the the MPLABX simulation tool is broken for the ADC on the PIC16F18446. The fault is that it can only return a 10-bit result.
I do not have a PIC16F18446 but have tested this code in a PIC16F19156 that has the same kind of ADC.
/*
 * File:   main.c
 * Author: dan1138
 * Target: PIC16F18446
 * Compiler: XC8 v2.32
 * IDE: MPLABX v5.50
 *
 * Created on August 6, 2021, 3:45 PM
 *
 *                           PIC16F18446
 *                   +-----------:_:-----------+
 *            VDD -> :  1 VDD           VSS 20 : <- VSS
 *         D4 RA5 <> :  2 OSC2          PGD 19 : <> RA0 ICD_PGD
 *            RA4 <> :  3 OSC1          PGC 18 : <> RA1 ICD_PGC/D5
 * S2/ICD_VPP RA3 -> :  4 VPP/MCLRn         17 : <> RA2 LED0/D6
 *         D7 RC5 <> :  5                   16 : <> RC0 POT
 *         S1 RC4 <> :  6                   15 : <> RC1 TOUCH_SWITCH
 *            RC3 <> :  7                   14 : <> RC2 SW0
 *            RC6 <> :  8                   13 : <> RB4 TXD
 *            RC7 <> :  9                   12 : <> RB5
 *            RB7 <> : 10                   11 : <> RB6 RXD
 *                   +-------------------------+
 *                             DIP-20
 *
 * Description:
 *
 *  This demo should work with the DM164137 Curiosity LPC demo board
 *  and the DM164144 Curiosity nano demo board.
 *
 *  It configure UARTx at 9600 baud on GPIO pins RB4 and RB6,
 *  sends a message to the serial interface, flashes the LED
 *  connected to GPIO pin RA2 once per second and echo characters
 *  on serial interface, sample voltage at RC0 and report as
 *  ASCII string on serial interface once per second.
 *
 *  The MPLABX Code Configurator(MCC) is not used. There are
 *  no dependencies on library code or code generators.
 *
 * Notes:
 *  Builds with warnings using PIC16F1xxxx_DFP version 1.8.149
 *  Builds with warnings using PIC16F1xxxx_DFP version 1.7.146
 *  Builds clean using PIC16F1xxxx_DFP version 1.6.143
 *
 *  The simulation model for the ADC is broken and returns only 10-bits
 *  not the 12-bits documented in the data sheet.
 */

#pragma config RSTOSC = HFINT32   /* Power-up default value for COSC bits (HFINTOSC with OSCFRQ= 32 MHz and CDIV = 1:1) */
#pragma config CLKOUTEN = OFF     /* Clock Out Enable bit (CLKOUT function is disabled; i/o or oscillator function on OSC2) */
#pragma config CSWEN = ON         /* Clock Switch Enable bit (Writing to NOSC and NDIV is allowed) */
#pragma config FCMEN = ON         /* Fail-Safe Clock Monitor Enable bit (FSCM timer enabled) */
#pragma config MCLRE = ON         /* Master Clear Enable bit (MCLR pin is Master Clear function) */
#pragma config PWRTS = OFF        /* Power-up Timer Enable bit (PWRT disabled) */
#pragma config LPBOREN = OFF      /* Low-Power BOR enable bit (ULPBOR disabled) */
#pragma config BOREN = OFF        /* Brown-out reset enable bits (Brown-out reset disabled) */
#pragma config BORV = LO          /* Brown-out Reset Voltage Selection (Brown-out Reset Voltage (VBOR) set to 2.45V) */
#pragma config ZCD = OFF          /* Zero-cross detect disable (Zero-cross detect circuit is disabled at POR.) */
#pragma config PPS1WAY = OFF      /* Peripheral Pin Select one-way control (The PPSLOCK bit can be set and cleared repeatedly by software) */
#pragma config STVREN = ON        /* Stack Overflow/Underflow Reset Enable bit (Stack Overflow or Underflow will cause a reset) */
#pragma config WDTCPS = WDTCPS_31 /* WDT Period Select bits (Divider ratio 1:65536; software control of WDTPS) */
#pragma config WDTE = OFF         /* WDT operating mode (WDT Disabled, SWDTEN is ignored) */
#pragma config WDTCWS = WDTCWS_7  /* WDT Window Select bits (window always open (100%); software control; keyed access not required) */
#pragma config WDTCCS = SC        /* WDT input clock selector (Software Control) */
#pragma config BBSIZE = BB512     /* Boot Block Size Selection bits (512 words boot block size) */
#pragma config BBEN = OFF         /* Boot Block Enable bit (Boot Block disabled) */
#pragma config SAFEN = OFF        /* SAF Enable bit (SAF disabled) */
#pragma config WRTAPP = OFF       /* Application Block Write Protection bit (Application Block not write protected) */
#pragma config WRTB = OFF         /* Boot Block Write Protection bit (Boot Block not write protected) */
#pragma config WRTC = OFF         /* Configuration Register Write Protection bit (Configuration Register not write protected) */
#pragma config WRTD = OFF         /* Data EEPROM write protection bit (Data EEPROM NOT write protected) */
#pragma config WRTSAF = OFF       /* Storage Area Flash Write Protection bit (SAF not write protected) */
#pragma config LVP = ON           /* Low Voltage Programming Enable bit (Low Voltage programming enabled. MCLR/Vpp pin function is MCLR.) */

#define _XTAL_FREQ (32000000ul)   /* Tell compiler what we will setup as the system oscillator frequency */

#include <xc.h>
#include <stdio.h>

/*
 * Initialize UART
 */
void UART_Init(void)
{
#define SP1BRG_VALUE (_XTAL_FREQ/(9600UL*4UL)-1)

    LATBbits.LATB4 = 1;     /* make TXD 1 */
    TRISBbits.TRISB4 = 0;
    TRISBbits.TRISB6 = 1;
    WPUBbits.WPUB6 = 1;     /* enable RXD pull-up */

    RB4PPS = 0x0F;          /* RB4->EUSART1:TX1 */
    RX1DTPPS = 0x0D;        /* RB6->EUSART1:RX1 */

    BAUD1CON = 0x08;        /* ABDOVF no_overflow; SCKP Non-Inverted; BRG16 16bit_generator; WUE disabled; ABDEN disabled; */
    RC1STA = 0x90;          /* SPEN enabled; RX9 8-bit; CREN enabled; ADDEN disabled; SREN disabled; */
    TX1STA = 0x24;          /* TX9 8-bit; TX9D 0; SENDB sync_break_complete; TXEN enabled; SYNC asynchronous; BRGH hi_speed; CSRC slave; */
    SP1BRGL = SP1BRG_VALUE &  0xFFu;
    SP1BRGH = SP1BRG_VALUE >> 8u;
}
/*
 * UART read a byte
 */
uint8_t UART_Read(void)
{

    RC1STAbits.SREN = 1;
    while(!PIR3bits.RC1IF) {}

    if(1 == RC1STAbits.OERR)
    {
        // EUSART error - restart

        RC1STAbits.SPEN = 0;
        RC1STAbits.SPEN = 1;
    }

    return RC1REG;
}
/*
 * UART write a byte
 */
void UART_Write(uint8_t txData)
{
    while(0 == PIR3bits.TX1IF) {}

    TX1REG = txData;    // Write the data byte to the USART.
}
/*
 * Hooks for C standard library I/O
 */
char getch(void)
{
    return UART_Read();
}
/*
 * Hook so printf will work
 */
void putch(char txData)
{
    UART_Write(txData);
}
/*
 * Initialize ADC
 */
void ADC_Init(void)
{
    PIE1bits.ADIE = 0;  /* disable ADC interrupt */
    ANSELCbits.ANSC0 = 1;
    ADCON0 = 0;         /* turn off ADC */
    ADCON1 = 0;
    ADCON2 = 0;
    ADCON3 = 0;
    ADPREL = 0;
    ADPREH = 0;
    ADACT  = 0;
    ADPCH  = 0b010000;  /* Select channel RC0 */
    ADACQL = 128;       /* Set acquisition time to 4 microseconds */
    ADACQH = 0;
    ADCAP  = 0;         /* Select minimum for hold capacitance */
    ADCLK  = 31;        /* Set TAD to 2 microseconds */
    ADCPCON0 = 0x80;
    ADREF  = 0;         /* Select VREF+ as VDD */
    ADCON0bits.FM = 1;  /* Select right justified results */ /* note: bit field definition does not match data sheet */
    ADCON0bits.ON = 1;  /* Turn on ADC */
}
/*
 * Start ADC conversion of voltage on GPIO pin RC0
 */
uint16_t ADC_Read(void)
{
    ADPCH  = 0b010000;  /* Select channel RC0 */
    ADCON0bits.GO_nDONE = 1;
    while(ADCON0bits.GO_nDONE){};
    return ((uint16_t)(ADRESH)<<8)+ADRESL;
}
/*
 * Initialize this PIC
 */
void PIC_Init(void)
{
    /* Disable all interrupt sources */
    INTCON = 0;
    PIE0 = 0;
    PIE1 = 0;
    PIE2 = 0;
    PIE3 = 0;
    PIE4 = 0;
    PIE5 = 0;
    PIE6 = 0;
    PIE7 = 0;
    PIE8 = 0;

    /* Setup system oscillator at 32MHz */
    OSCCON1 = 0x60;
    OSCCON3 = 0x00;
    OSCEN   = 0x00;
    OSCFRQ  = 0x06;
    OSCTUNE = 0x00;

    /* Make all GPIO digital inputs */
    TRISA = 0xFF;
    TRISB = 0xFF;
    TRISC = 0xFF;
    ANSELA = 0;
    ANSELB = 0;
    ANSELC = 0;
}
/*
 * Main application
 */
void main(void)
{
#define LED_TOGGLE_LOOP_COUNT (500)
#define ADC_READ_LOOP_COUNT (1000)

    unsigned int LED_ToggleCounter;
    unsigned int ADC_ReadCounter;
    /*
     * Initialize this application
     */
    PIC_Init();
    UART_Init();
    ADC_Init();
    ADC_ReadCounter = ADC_READ_LOOP_COUNT;
    __delay_ms(100);

    printf("\n\rPIC16F18446 start, build on %s at %s\r\n", __DATE__, __TIME__);

    LED_ToggleCounter = LED_TOGGLE_LOOP_COUNT;
    LATAbits.LATA2 = 1;     /* Turn on LED */
    TRISAbits.TRISA2 = 0;
    ANSELAbits.ANSA2 = 0;

    /*
     * Application process loop
     */
    for(;;)
    {
        /* Read voltage at RC0 */
        if(ADC_ReadCounter)
        {
            if(--ADC_ReadCounter == 0)
            {
                ADC_ReadCounter = ADC_READ_LOOP_COUNT;
                printf("ADC raw hex: 0x%04x\r\n", ADC_Read());
            }
        }

        /* Toggle LED once per second */
        if(LED_ToggleCounter)
        {
            if(--LED_ToggleCounter == 0)
            {
                LED_ToggleCounter = LED_TOGGLE_LOOP_COUNT;
                LATA ^= (1<<_LATA_LATA2_POSITION);     /* Toggle LED */
            }
        }

        /* echo characters on serial interface */
        if(PIR3bits.RC1IF)
        {
            putch(getch());
        }

        /* make application loop take at least one millisecond per loop */
        __delay_ms(1);
    }
}

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Q: NSPredicate: looking for a simpler code I am not familiar with NSPredicate syntax. The following line of code does what I want. But I wonder if there is a more concise way to do it.
Plus, any cheat sheet on NSPredicate syntax is much appreciated. The Apple doc on NSPredicate seems to me far more complex for practical purpose.
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF.name CONTAINS[cd] %@ OR SELF.city CONTAINS[cd] %@ OR SELF.state CONTAINS[cd] %@",aString, aString, aString];

A: What you have is fine. I doubt there are many ways you can "improve" or simplify your predicate for such a simple purpose.

A: You can use NSPredicate's subclass NSCompoundPredicate
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSCompoundPredicate andPredicateWithSubpredicates:
                               @[[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF.name CONTAINS[cd] %@", aString],
                                 [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF.city CONTAINS[cd] %@", aString],
                                 [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF.state CONTAINS[cd] %@", aString]
                                ]
                         ];

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NSString *aString =@"Ney York";
NSMutableArray *predicates = [@[] mutableCopy];
[@[@"name", @"city", @"state"] enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
    NSString *format = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"SELF.%@ CONTAINS[cd] %%@", obj];
    [predicates addObject:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:format, aString]];
}];

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSCompoundPredicate orPredicateWithSubpredicates:predicates];


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JaVale McGee and Andray Blatche Could Be Reunited For 2014 FIBA World Cup
The Philippines are looking to make a big splash in the 2014 World Cup, and they may have found the perfect pairing to make it happen.
By Jake Whitacre@jakewhitacre Jan 30, 2014, 12:36pm EST
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What if I told you that there was a chance you could see JaVale McGee and Andray Blatche play together on the hardwood one more time? The duo that once got suspended for getting in a fight outside a D.C. club on Christmas Eve and would probably be Shaqtin' A Fool First-Ballot Hall of Famers if such a thing existed. If I told you they were going to get back together, how much money would you pay to see it? Twenty bucks? Five? Would we have to pay you to watch?
Well, it appears like the Philippine National Team wants to give everyone another chance to watch these two play together again. You may recall after a disappointing trial run with Team USA in 2010, JaVale McGee surprised everyone when he announced his plans to become a naturalized Philippine. While the move makes some sense from a marketing perspective (he has a shoe deal with PEAK, a Chinese shoe manufacturer) it's still not all that common to see someone give up a chance of making Team USA to become the alpha dog for another nation.
Now, it appears he might have some company, according to The Philippine Star:
"We're in discussion with Javale. However, he's just found out that he needs to undergo a procedure for his shin injury. With that development, it's prudent also to choose a backup. Blatche agreed to undergo the naturalization process. He wants to play for the Philippines," said Reyes.
In his bills, Puno said "naturalizing McGee and Blatche will strengthen the Philippines' chances in reclaiming its dream as one of the world's basketball greats during the FIBA World Cup."
For what it's worth, Blatche seems to be REALLY excited about possibly joining the team:
Today, Andray Blatche says that he's half Filipino and his new name is Young Seymour, because we all want "See more of him."
— Stefan Bondy (@NYDNInterNets) January 30, 2014
The only question is, why stop there: Nick Young isn't on anyone's national squad at the moment and I'm sure the team could use some more scoring. Plus, the team wouldn't even need to make a commercial to get fans excited about their Big 3:
Of course, there are concerns, but we think they're pretty silly. It's just three guys getting back together in Southeast Asia. We've seen this movie before.


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Lauren Dreggors is an actress at Mercer University.
The "acting bug" is a powerful thing, and you never know when it's going to strike. Once it bites you, it's very difficult to shake. Lauren Dreggors discovered her love for acting less than a year before she booked the role of "Juliet" in Mercer's production of "Romeo & Juliet."
Dreggors, a junior at Mercer, is studying marketing with two minors in international business and accounting and is an active member of Alpha Gamma Delta. On top of all of those, she is also an actress.
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Value Based Payment
Hospitals and health systems remain optimistic, overall, about APMs
Eric C. Reese, PhD
Sponsored by GHX
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a reminder for the nation's hospitals and health systems of one of the benefits of value-based payment contract.
The pandemic has reinforced the premise that participating in risk-based alternative payment models (APMs) provides a reliable revenue stream that can protect organizations from unanticipated or uncontrollable declines in fee-for-service [FFS] revenue. Although it may not have prompted hospitals and health systems to accelerate their movement toward increased participation in APMs, it has contributed to the positive rationale for pursuit of such a strategy.
This point was one notable takeaway from a survey conducted by HFMA under sponsorship by GHX in August 2020, investigating the impacts of COVID-19 on healthcare organizations' strategy for embarking on risk contracts under APMs, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and bundled payment.
3 key takeaways from the HFMA-GHX research
COVID-19 has not dissuaded organizations that had plans to take on more risk prior to the pandemic to alter their plans.
Value-based payment contracts afford greater protection against revenue disruption during disasters such as COVID-19, which can have a profoundly adverse effect on fee-for-service revenue.
There is widespread optimism around improving collaboration and cooperation with APM partners (e.g., other hospitals and health systems, physicians, post-acute care providers and supply chain partners) in efforts to succeed under value-based payment.
Robin Damschroder pointed to the importance of participating in APMs in light of current reimbursement trends
"COVID-19 has shown us that the fee-for-service model does not serve the community and that current reimbursement trends are unsustainable without participation in APMs in order to share risk," said Robin Damschroder, MHSA, FACHE, executive vice president and CFO of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. Damschroder noted that 50% of her organization's net revenue is in risk and/or value-based contracts, and that compared with FFS, such contracts provide a different and valuable basis for making decisions to get desired quality, safety and experience outcomes.
The benefits of value-based payment relative to FFS also were underscored by a number of respondents within the survey, who variously noted the following:
COVID-19 has highlighted the risk of traditional volume-based payment.
There is increased interest in exploring more capitation models in the future.
Prepaid revenue streams/healthcare plans allow for better care.
Taking risk protects against volume declines.
The survey also explored organizations' perspectives regarding coordination and collaboration with various APM partners around efforts to succeed with value-based payment, including:
Partner hospitals and health systems
Employed and community physicians
Post-acute care providers
Supply chain partners, both internal and externala
Respondents were asked to rate whether coordination and collaboration with each of these partner groups has been worse, somewhat worse, unchanged, somewhat better or much better during the COVID-19 pandemic. They also were asked to rate their expectations for coordination and collaboration along similar lines in five years.
Following are key findings and additional takeaways from this research.
Impact of COVID-19
COVID-19 has had a negligible effect on the percentage of revenue survey that respondents project they will have tied to risk contracts in the next five years. The average amount respondents projected would be at risk in five years was 5.9%, compared with an average of 6.35% projected by respondents to an earlier HFMA-GHX survey, conducted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. This difference of less than 0.5% was offset in the survey findings by other, more favorable outlooks regarding the coordination and collaboration with APM partners that is so essential to success with risk contracts, as described below.
Hospital and health system survey respondents' percentages of revenue at risk in value-based payment contracts, today and projected in 5 years
Survey respondents anticipate net patient service revenue (NPSR) at risk will more than double in five years, from 2.7% to 5.9%. The question these findings raise is: Is the average anticipated amount of NPSR at risk sufficient to create a tipping point in health systems' business models?
Source: HFMA-GHX survey, August 2020
It also bears noting here that, among respondents to the more recent survey, nearly 30% said they anticipate having more than 9% of revenue at risk in five years, while a small percentage (4.5%) said they had no plans to take on risk.
The survey did elicit a diverse range of responses to the question "Have your views, intentions and expectations regarding APMs changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic?" Nearly 50% of respondents answered no to this question, while about 20% said yes and about 30% were unsure. Yet these responses showed no statistically significant correlation with responses to any other question in the survey: The "yes," "no" and "unsure" responses cut across every other grouping, from those with the most revenue at risk to those with the least. It could be that the "yes" response reflected a concern unrelated to risk contracts, such as the severity of COVID-19's impact on the organizations (e.g., those hit hardest in terms of numbers of cases).
The 5-year outlook is favorable toward risk
Despite the more recent, slightly more conservative average projection of revenue at risk in five years, the survey findings overall indicate organizations have an optimistic outlook toward risk-based contracts and are holding course with their plans from prior to the pandemic. Indeed, some organizations have already taken significant steps in the transition from volume-based to value-based payment.
"We have already invested heavily in moving to value-based care and building out an integrated delivery system," said Laura Zehm, senior vice president and chief administrative officer, Montage Health in Monterey, California. "We formed an insurance/population health company five years ago, have launched a Medicare Advantage plan and are contracted to partner with commercial insurers on HMO and ACO business. This company is co-owned with our closest competitor. In addition, we have taken our medical group from a few primary care physicians to a 70-physician multispecialty group."
Laura Zehm noted that her organization, Montage Health, has invested heavily in value-based care.
The survey's finding of widespread optimism around improving coordination and collaboration with APM partners was a major takeaway, given that such optimism goes hand in hand with a positive outlook regarding risk contracts in general. This optimistic outlook becomes apparent when one compares responses regarding the immediate effects of COVID-19 on coordination and collaboration with APM partners with responses regarding expectations for such coordination and collaboration in five years.
Immediate impact of COVID-19. The majority of respondents indicated coordination and collaboration between organizations and their various partners in APMs have remained unchanged or improved somewhat during the COVID-19 pandemic. These two outlooks represented roughly 85% to 87% of responses regarding all partner groups besides supply chain partners, where about 72% of respondents expressed these outlooks (see the exhibit below).
To what degree has coordination and collaboration on alternate payment models (APMs) been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic?
Source: HFMA-GHX Survey, August 2020.
The only partner group where coordination and collaboration were seen by anyone to be "much worse" was supply chain partners, although the percentage was small (0.7%). Another 18.6% ranked such relationships as somewhat worse. However, these percentages could very well reflect challenges around accessing adequate supplies of personal protective equipment during the pandemic — a problem that many organizations experienced acutely in the early days of the pandemic. On the other hand, 40.7% of respondents rank relationships with supply chain partners as somewhat or much better, higher than other APM groups. The survey also noted increasing interest among finance executives in outcomes-based contracting with manufacturers, in which the prices paid for products are determined in part by the actual performance of the product.
Expectations for five years from now. The overarching pattern among responses between today and five years from now is that coordination and collaboration with APM partners will improve, and this optimism applies to every APM partner group. Roughly between 73% and 78% of respondents believe they will see improved coordination and collaboration with every group, which bodes well for success under risk-based contracts. This level of optimism also suggests organizations will take steps to actively promote engagement with APM partners, such as sharing data and information, increasing transparency and providing partners (and physicians, in particular) with leadership roles in developing and guiding the value-focused strategy.
To what degree do you expect current levels of coordination and collaboration on alternate payment models (APMs) to change in the next 5 years?
Moreover, there is no sense that COVID-19 will be the driving factor in this trend. The implication is that, once the nation has recovered from COVID-19, organizations will move ahead deliberately in their plans to take on risk.
"We believe our relationships with APM partners will continue to improve because the pressure to reduce the overall total cost of care for people that we provide care to is only going to increase," said James Dietsche, CFO and COO of Bellin Health System in Green Bay, Wisconsin. "This means that individuals, businesses and governmental payers like Medicare and state Medicaid programs are trying to balance their budgets and cannot afford the level of increases for healthcare that have been experienced in the past."
James Dietsche is optimistic that coordination and collaboration between his organization, Bellin Health, and its APM partners will continue to improve.
In describing Bellin Health's response, Dietsche pointed to the actions his organization has taken with physician groups and with other healthcare delivery systems, including Holy Family Memorial, which is a member of the organization's ACO, Bellin Health Partners.
"They have experienced the positive results achieved in improving the overall quality of care delivery combined with financial success experienced with pay-for-performance programs," Dietsche said.
Post-acute care partners play an important role in Bellin Health's strategy.
"As with most regions across our nation, we are experiencing the aging of the "baby-boomers," Dietsche noted. "And certainly as we age, we see the total costs of care escalate significantly. Our evaluation of our data has also shown a significant increase for Medicare patients who end up hospitalized for an event and need a recovery stay within a skilled nursing facility. We have found significant variation in the length of stay among the skilled nursing facilities that we discharge patients to. As a result, we have developed 'strategic partnerships' with some of the skilled nursing facilities within our region to work on operational improvement to rehabilitate those patients and support their clinical care to reduce the skilled nursing facility length of stay and improve the quality of life for the individual."
Zehm underscored the importance of Montage Health's APM partnership on an insurance/population health company, which, as noted previously, it co-owns with its closest competitor.
"Running a successful MA program requires improvements in all areas — medical management, member engagement, risk score documentation, Stars measure/HEDIS, increasing membership, optimal premium structure, to name the most obvious, among others," Zehm said.
Correlation of optimism with amount of revenue at risk
One finding that perhaps is not surprising is the apparent correlation between respondents' levels of optimism regarding improved coordination and collaboration with APM partners and their revenue at risk (both current and five-year projections).
In two instances, the correlation between projected revenue in five years and optimism around improved coordination and collaboration was statistically significant: Among organizations that anticipate much better coordination and collaboration with APM-partner hospitals and health systems and with post-acute care partners, projected percentages of revenue at risk were 7.6% and 7.8%, respectively. Meanwhile, the projected percentages of revenue at risk were 3.6% and 4.0%, respectively, among organizations that anticipated somewhat worse levels of coordination and collaboration.
Correlation of outlook for employed physicians with outlook for supply chain partners
An additional statistically significant correlation bears mentioning: The survey found that respondents' common belief that coordination and collaboration with physicians is better during COVID-19 and will improve in five years goes hand in hand with a similarly positive outlook regarding coordination and collaboration with supply chain partners, as shown in the exhibit below.
Correlation of responses regarding current and 5-year expectations for coordination and collaboration with employed physicians with responses regarding 5-year expectations for supply chain partners
Respondents projections of coordination and collaboration with supply chain partners in 5 years
Coordination and collaboration with employed physicians today as a result of COVID-19
Somewhat worse
Somewhat better
Coordination and collaboration with employed physicians in 5 years
This correlation aligns with the idea that risk-based payment models have a strong tendency to promote the formation of a triadic relationship among physicians, supply chain organizations and finance. Such approaches create the opportunity not only to reduce the cost of care for discrete procedures/services, but also to gainshare the internal savings with physicians.b
Karen Conway of GHX underscored the important role the supply chain can play in clinical efforts to redesign care to improve quality.
How might this relationship develop and why? As organizations become more successful under risk-based contracts, they will see increased physician engagement in working with finance to reduce variation, including in supplies used. Physicians bring their clinical knowledge and perspective to bear in guiding sourcing decisions, while financial and internal supply chain executives will play key roles in negotiating prices and contracts with external supply chain partners. Such three-way coordination and collaboration will be an essential ingredient in any successful venture into value-based payment.
In prior research conducted by Lumere, a GHX company, physicians said they believe having increased access to data on clinical variation and costs would improve the quality of care delivered.c
Karen Conway, vice president of healthcare value for GHX, underscored the important role the supply chain can play in supporting clinical efforts to redesign care based on evidence about what improves quality.
"Beyond the price of products, the supply chain can provide data on variation in both the supply choices made by physicians and the impacts on quality and financial metrics, such as complication rates, procedural time and length of stay," Conway said. "Physicians, in turn, can make decisions that improve quality, which can result in lower total costs of care by reducing hospital-acquired conditions and unplanned readmissions."
The fact that the survey findings clearly suggest COVID-19 will have no long-term effect on organizations' appetite for risk is telling, if only to suggest that organizations with ongoing plans to build on their plans to pursue risk-based contracts seem solidly committed to this course.
This conclusion is supported by the survey's finding that the substantial majority of respondents anticipate increased coordination and collaboration among their APM partners toward success with risk contracts, which would not likely occur without deliberate actions by the respondents' organizations toward promoting such an outcome.
"Developing the capability to successfully manage risk under alternative payment systems, is, in my view, the only way to address the rising healthcare costs," Zehm said. "My perspective is that some commercial insurers are reverting to fighting with providers over fee-for-service rates. This will never address the underlying cause of the increasing cost of healthcare, which is the overutilization of expensive services. The overutilization is occurring because there is a lack of integration between sick care, wellness, social determinants of health and disease management, not because of bad actors. We either work together, or our U.S. employers will find another way, and we will all pay the price."
a. Supply chain partners here include both internal supply chain leaders, and external partners, such as suppliers, manufacturers and group purchasing organizations.
b. See, for example, Long, A., and Senn, G., "Hospitals need engaged physicians to manage supply preferences," HFMA Financial Sustainability Report, April 2020.
c. Falk, S., Cherf, J., Schulz ,J., Huo, A., "Cost and outcomes in value-based care," Physician Leadership Journal, Jan. 13, 2019.
Effect of health plan ownership on plans to take on risk
The survey conducted by HFMA and GHX in August found that healthcare organizations that own a health plan are more inclined to take on risk. The difference between the projected amount at risk in five years was statistically different between organizations that own a health plan and those that do not, with averages of 7.3% versus 4.3% of revenue at risk, respectively. This finding does not answer the question of which came first, the decision to pursue risk contracts or the decision to acquire a health plan.
is a writer and editor, HFMA, Westchester, Ill.
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Prestash, Margaret
By AhernFH on July 30, 2015
Margaret Prestash, 91, of East Hampton, formerly of New Britain, widow of Anthony Prestash, passed away peacefully Sunday, July 26th, 2015. Born March 7th, 1924 in Meriden, she was the daughter of the late Paul and Mary Stevens. Margaret is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Anthony S. and Teri L. Prestash of East Hampton, her sister, MaryAnn Novicelli of Meriden and two grandsons, Curtis and Justin Prestash. Friends may call at The Ahern Funeral Home, 111 Main St., Rt. 4, Unionville on Friday (July 31) from 11:30am – 1:30pm. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 54 Winter St., New Britain, CT 06053.
Friday, July 31, 2015 from 11:30am - 1:30pm
St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 54 Winter St., New Britain, CT 06053
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David Flores had planned to accompany his wife Dawn and their two children to LEGOLAND Theme Park in Winter Haven, Fla., on Friday, but when 3-year-old colt Higgins got into the seventh race at Tampa Bay Downs, Flores decided to enjoy fun of a different sort.
Wise move, as the retired jockey scored his first victory as a trainer with Higgins' pulsating head victory from Lake Nakuru in the mile-and-a-sixteenth turf event.
Higgins and jockey Jesus Castanon withstood a claim of foul for alleged interference against Lake Nakuru in the stretch run. Higgins, who broke his maiden in his fourth start, paid $17.40 to win after touring the distance in 1:41.97.
Crypto Gold stumbled at the start, throwing jockey Samy Camacho. After several anxious momemts, Camacho was able to walk off the course under his own power but was taken off his last two mounts as a precaution.
The victory by Higgins was made more emotional by the longstanding friendship between Flores, a product of Tijuana, Mexico, and Castanon, who is from Mexico City.
Flores tried, for both of them.
"This is what it feels like when I was riding. It reminds me of how exciting our sport is, and I'm grateful to be around good horses and great people on the other side of the game now. I have to thank (owners) Imagine Racing and Margaret Fauber for giving me this opportunity.
Flores rode 3,608 winners in his career as an equine passenger, with more than $150-million in purse earnings, before retiring two years ago at Del Mar. Included among the top horses he rode were Zenyatta, Silver Charm, Siphon, Awesome Gem, Marquetry, Singletary and Street Boss.
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