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The Data Warehouse Comeback: How the Cloud is Accelerating Insights
Webinar Speaker: David Stodder, Senior Director of Research for BI, TDWI
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT, 12:00 p.m. ET
For years, enterprise data warehouses have had a reputation for being slow to implement, expensive to maintain, and unresponsive to changing business demands. However, all of that has changed with the rise of cloud-based data warehousing. These new solutions are more agile, cost-effective, and flexible than ever before, allowing for analytics initiatives that help businesses take full advantage of all their data and all its potential benefits.
In the webinar, The Data Warehouse Comeback: How the Cloud is Accelerating Insights, a guest speaker from Forrester, as well as speakers from TDWI and Attunity (a division of Qlik), will discuss the benefits of using cloud data warehouses to unlock analytical insights. Join us to learn:
The reasons behind the rapid growth of the cloud data warehouse market
The differences between a variety of cloud data warehouse solutions
The merits of data warehouse automation in driving agile analytics
Practical advice for building multicloud data warehouse architectures
Guest Speakers:
Clive Bearman
Senior Director of Product Marketing,
Attunity, a division of Qlik
Clive Bearman is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Attunity, a division of Qlik. In this role, Clive leads the go-to-market for many of Attunity's data integration, pipeline and replication solutions, including its flagship offering Attunity Replicate. Clive brings almost 20 years of experience in the data integration and analytics markets to Attunity having held senior roles at Lexumo, Informatica, Active Endpoints and EMC. Clive lives in downtown Boston and is an ardent baseball fan. Go Sox!
Noel Yuhanna
Principal Analyst,
Enterprise Architecture Professionals
Noel covers big data, data warehouses, Hadoop, in-memory, databases, NoSQL, data integration, data virtualization, data archiving, cloud, ETL, information fabric, big data integration, data management, data tools, and data security for Enterprise Architecture Professionals. His current focus is on Forrester Wave™ evaluations, customer experience, industry trends, new and emerging markets, and architecture.
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'Millennials find music liberating,' says Not Dillon
Whether you agree or not, millennials run the world today. Those who were born in the early 80s to the mid-90s are considered to be people of Generation Y (more popularly known as millennials). These are the people who grew up during the Information Age or the brink of the 21st Century. Millennials are considered to be more digitally savvy than any of the previous generations as they grew up just when the internet was introduced to the public. Due to the amount of free information available on the internet, millennials were given the gift of endless possibilities and a lot more resources. One such millennial who is making waves and turning heads is musician Not Dillon.
An electronic music producer from Michigan, Not Dillon, is a true blood millennial who found his calling in music at quite an early stage in life. After doing various odd jobs at companies like Apple, Dillon decided to focus on his passion for music and take it to the next level, learning music production and attending various music festivals in and around the country. Eventually, the stage name Not Dillon was taken on. In a short period, Not Dillon took over the music charts and crossed over one million online streams worldwide. His song 'Back to the Start' with guest vocalist, Laura Page received critical acclaim from fans and reviewers.
Not Dillon says, "As a millennial myself, I understand what my fellow millennials think and feel. For most of us, music is an escape from the everyday drama that surrounds us." He also states, "If you put in hard work with dedication and perseverance, you will get what you dream of." Not Dillon has performed at various music festivals in the United States and will soon tour internationally. He is also known for remixing tracks by popular artists such as The Chainsmokers, LIVVIA, and many more.
As per a recent study, millennials have proven to be quick learners, hard workers, and highly productive individuals, when compared to older generations. There are close to 80 million millennials in the United States today, and all of them are headed towards greatness in their respective fields.

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Intel may cater to Apple with system-on-a-chip, dual-core Atom
Aidan Malley | Jul 24, 2008
Intel's options for Apple and other customers interested in ultra-portable devices are about to expand thanks to the official launch of an all-in-one processor and a dual-core version of its Atom processor.
The semiconductor firm on Thursday revealed the elaborately titled EP80579 Integrated Processor as its first chip to build in every feature of a mobile chipset into one package.
Where the company's earlier technology needs both a discrete processor as well as separate chipsets for video or interfacing with peripherals, the Integrated Processor includes all of this in one component; it's also relatively fast and uses a Pentium M as its main processor with a relatively recent graphics core capable of drawing pixel effects seen in software of recent years.
The component is fast for the system-on-a-chip category, but is more importantly small and a power miser. Compared to a normal system, which would need four chips to achieve the same effect, the Integrated Processor's mainboard takes up about 45 percent less space and is 34 percent more power-efficient, chewing up as little as 11 watts for the entire design.
In contrast to Atom, which in its present incarnation is too large for most small devices, the new chip is expressly meant for the embedded market and runs at very low speeds which peak at 1.2GHz. That can include commercial and industrial applications but is also tailored for very consumer-friendly Mobile Internet Devices that double as portable media players and Internet communicators.
Whether this is immediately useful to Apple is far from a certainty, as the power use is too high for an iPhone-sized device but offers too little performance for its current notebook range. Nonetheless, the breakthrough would also apply to set-top boxes and shares the same processor core as the Apple TV, which uses an under-clocked Pentium M with a basic dedicated graphics chipset that gives just enough performance to play 720p HD video.
However useful this new invention may be, Apple may have an additional choice in very small processors in as little as two months' time.
A new processor model leak suggests Intel will unveil a 1.6GHz, dual-core variant of its Atom processor on September 21st. The processor will likely be too power-hungry for Apple's planned multi-touch tablet — consuming a rumored 8W of power just by itself — but is expected to become the champion of very small budget notebooks with a price tag of just $43 per chip in large batches.
Like the single-core processor already on sale, the dual-core model will use the Hyperthreading technology that first appeared in the Pentium 4 to mirror some of the performance that would normally come from an additional real-world core.
Apple has been shy regarding its own plans, although AppleInsider has exclusively revealed that the Mac maker is likely to become a major supporter of Atom with more than one product scheduled for this year that would be based on the architecture.
Additionally, Intel itself reveals that the two technologies mentioned today will merge as soon as 2009 in Moorestown, a new Atom-based plaform that should be faster and more efficient than the first-generation Integrated Processor and small enough to fit in a smartphone like Apple's iPhone.
shanmugam
MacBook Mini (aka NetBook equivalent) on its way with or without Touch ...
mdriftmeyer
Do yourselves a favor and make friends with Intel Engineers. There is nothing about Atom and Apple with the iPhone/iPod or whatever that makes you think will keep Apple from using the IP they gained from PA Semiconductor.
retroneo
This would be useful for a replacement to the AppleTV. Today's Atom can't come close to the performance of the underclocked Pentium M in the AppleTV. A future Atom would help them build it cheaper and use less power again.
Not suitable for OS X Leopard, since a dual-core Atom doesn't even equal the performance of today's Intel Celeron line up. (which is much slower than the Pentium dual core, which is way slower than a core 2 duo)
For handheld type devices, a PA Semi Cortex-A9 Quad Core system on a chip would offer the full performance of a Core Solo Mac mini with quad cores and 250mW peak consumption for the entire system on a chip!
You are still looking at 8-16x performance per watt gap between future Atoms and currently announced ARM designs...
kolchak
I don't care as long as Apple does something. I want that tablet. My trusty 12" Powerbook is closing on six years old and is getting slow with current apps, especially since it's limited to only 1.13GB of RAM. But I don't want to buy another laptop. I want something that's easier to use when I'm standing up.
labrats5
Why does apple have to end up using intel for everything. I just can't understand this obsession. Even when intel does have a chip for the iphone's power envelope, it still probably won't be as good as competing ARM chips. Just because ARM chips basically never make the news doesn't mean they are standing still. Cortex A8 chips will be shipping in phones starting later this year or early next year, and Apple would be foolish not to use them in the next iphone.
Even if Atom ends up being just as good or better than competing ARM chips, it would still not be the right call the go with intel. The biggest advantage ARM has over its competitors is the ecosystem of dozens of fabs making competing and compatible ARM chips. This drives innovation high and prices low. Any price advantage intel might have would almost certainly be part of a loss leading strategy to gain market share and lock manufacturers into x86. Any such initiative would be short-lived and ultimately detrimental to any device will a software ecosystem and a long term road map like the iphone.
That's not to say going with intel was wrong for the mac. On the contrary, it might have been their best move ever. The Core lineup wasn't a bit better than the competition: it was leagues better. And nothing comparable to the ARM ecosystem exists for the PC. Nothing even close. But it would be stupid for Apple to think that what worked for the mac will work for the iphone. Locking yourself into one supplier for your devices most important component is almost never a good choice.
Apple plans health and wellness experiences for Apple AR headset
Internal Apple demonstrations of its planned Apple AR technology have reportedly concentrated on wellbeing, such as meditation.
Any Apple AR headset user may be able to create and sell content
A generally reliable source claims that Apple is working on ways for Apple AR headset owners to use Siri to create new apps for them, without Xcode, and then sell their work to others.


And then there is the whole ordeal of getting the stencil on the wood straight in the first place. Don't even talk about bubbles and wrinkles.
I know I had issues with all of these things when I started using vinyl stencils. I'm going to share my tips, tricks, and secrets for using a stencil to get perfect hand painted signs every time. After learning these, you will be a sign making pro in no time at all.
We're going to start this tutorial from the point your stencil is made. If you want to know how to make a stencil in Cricut Design Space thE easy way, check this tutorial here.
And you can get the 'It's so good to be home' SVG file in my free resource library. The information is at the bottom of this post.
Plus I have a bonus freebie at the end for you too.
The first tip to getting your stencil on straight is making the stencil the same size as your project (or at least close to it). I covered this in the stencil making tutorial here.
Here is my stencil ready to go. You can see it's not quite as wide as my wood. My project is 24″ long, but the long Cricut mats have a max of 23 1/2″. It's still close enough I can eyeball it.
And I plan to put something else on the bottom of this sign, so I'm aligning the stencil with the top. If I didn't have other plans for the bottom, I would have made the stencil 11″ tall, the same as my board.
Having the stencil the same size saves a lot of time and headache getting it straight.
After your stencil is cut and your letters are weeded out, we need to transfer it to your project. We do this with transfer tape.
TIP: Clear contact paper is cheaper and easier to work with than most vinyl transfer tapes.
So for bigger projects, I want my contact paper larger than my stencil. Only peel the backing off of the end edge of the contact paper.
Then stick that edge down to your surface and the edge of your stencil to keep them both from moving. As you slowly peel the backing off the contact paper, use your Cricut scraper to push the contact paper down the center of your stencil.
Stop every few inches to also run your scraper from the center out to the edges to help prevent bubbles. Work your way down until the contact paper is covering the stencil.
Cut off the end of the contact paper and trim up the edges around your stencil.
1. Once your stencil is lined up straight, place a piece of tape straight down the center of your stencil to hold it to the wood. I usually use masking tape for this step, of course, I'm out at the moment.
It may be a bit hard to see, but I used clear tape instead. It still worked well.
Placing your stencil on the wood this way is called the hinge method. You can see in the picture I am holding the right side of the stencil up, while the tape is holding the rest of the stencil down.
2. Go ahead and pull the right side of your stencil over to the left and remove the backing until the tape stops you. Cut the backing off, being careful to not let your vinyl touch the wood yet.
3. Hold the end of your stencil pretty tightly at about a 45-degree angle off of the wood. Starting where the tape is, take your scraper and start pushing the stencil down in the center. Keep the end up with a firm hold.
The only places the sticky stencil should be touching the wood is where the scraper has pushed it down.
Work your way all the way down to the end. Pushing down first the center, then outwards to the edges.
4. Remove your tape from the center. Take the vinyl baking off the left side of your stencil and repeat the process for that side.
5. Push down firmly with your Cricut scraper over the design area of your stencil. A tennis ball works well too! You want to make sure it's good and stuck where we will be painting.
6. Starting in one corner, pull off the transfer paper. Go slowly once you get to your design, especially around intricate parts. You may need to do some more rubbing or hold the viny down with your fingernail or a Cricut tool as the transfer paper comes off.
Make sure your letter centers, like for 'o' stay in place.
Tip: If the vinyl just won't stick in some areas, try using a blow dryer with a low setting on those places.
TIP: This is easier for smaller projects, but stick your transfer paper to your clothes a couple of times to de-stick it before you place it on your vinyl, it will be easier to remove. I also prefer to use clear contact paper as my transfer tape.
Now our Stencil is down, nice and straight!
Nothing is more frustrating than pulling up a stencil and seeing that the paint bled. Totally aggravating!
I have some tips and tricks to make sure that doesn't happen again.
After the transfer paper is removed, go over your design edges again, making sure they are good and stuck. Rolling a tennis ball over with firm pressure works really well.
Seal the stencil. If I am stenciling on a painted board, I prefer to use my base color to seal the stencil. That way if the stencil bleeds, it's not noticeable, because it's the same color as the base. And this also seals the edges, so our final color won't bleed.
You can also use a thin layer of Mod Podge for this step if your base is multi-colored.
If your base is stained, use a thin coat of poly to seal the stencil.
Tip- When you're applying your seal layer, brush towards the edges of the stencil. Paint like you are trying to make it bleed. And I can't stress it enough, it needs to be a thin layer!
Paint the final color. After your seal layer is completely dry, you can paint your final color.
For the final color, I use a little paint and dab it on more than brushing. You'll most likely have to do a second coat, but it's extra assurance that you won't get bleeds. Especially on rough boards like barn wood.
For the second coat of the final color, I use a little paint and light brush strokes to even the color out.
This really is quicker than it sounds. Especially using light coats of paint. Where I started is usually dry by the time I finish, so the next coat can be started right away.
Now that the painting is done, let's remove the stencil.
You're in the home stretch! Don't wreck your project now by peeling paint up when you remove the stencil.
The first part of getting this right starts before you even paint. Make sure your board is clean clean clean! Paint will not stick to dirt and sawdust very well.
And make sure your base coat is completely dry before you lay down your stencil.
That said, there are a few tricks to getting the stencil off without peeling up paint.
Note what direction your wood grain is going (the lines in the wood). In my project, the wood grain is going left to right.
And most people would start pulling the stencil up from the left or right side. That is pulling the stencil up with the wood grain. That can make the paint come up with the stencil.
We want to go against the grain as much as possible.
I start my peeling up the stencil all along the bottom.
Keep going up up up until it's completely off. Depending on your design, some areas may have to come up with the grain, just go slowly.
Even when you are pulling up the centers of your letters, try to go against the grain.
You can see my letters are nice and crisp, even where I joined two boards together. I have to admit I was worried about this 'M' where the boards meet.
But these techniques work like a charm!
We've covered all of the tricks you need, from getting your stencil on straight, to stopping bleeds and getting that stencil back off without wrecking your hard work. Now you're ready to make professional looking signs each and every time.
If you would like to see the completed project check out my post here for the full reveal.
And if you need help making your stencil in Cricut Design Space, see this complete tutorial here.
Do you want to take your painting up a notch? Learn how to stain, weather and distress new wood in mere minutes here.
As an added bonus (because I know you are going to make some beautiful signs) you can head over to my shop and grab a free SVG called 'Welcome to our beautiful chaos'. Just use this link and the price will automatically drop to $0 when you checkout. Or use code FREEDESIGN if needed.
Plus I have the 'It's so good to be home" SVG file in my Free Resource Library that is available to subscribers to my newsletter. And you can totally use it! No cost what so ever for personal use. To get exclusive access to the library and join the newsletter simply fill out the form below.
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Thanks so much for this tutorial! I want to make a small painted canvas with the word 'bridesmaid' or 'maid of honor' on it as part of a box I'm giving my bridal party. Would I follow the same steps to paint a stencil onto canvas as I would a wooden board? I'm super new to crafting but I really want these to look great when they're finished and am debating between applying stick-on vinyl vs. using a stencil to paint the words. Any advice would be very appreciated!
I have not stenciled on canvas, I'll have to try that one. I normally just apply the stick on vinyl and that can be tricky in itself. I have a post that covers some tips and tricks to get vinyl to stick to canvas here that should help you.
Hi, thanks very much for all the information you posted here. Do you have any tips for getting crisp lines when a word overlaps the crack between the boards like the M in Home in your picture? I tried putting vinyl down but there was a small space between the bottom of the vinyl and the board where the crack was, and I wasn't able to maintain the nice neat letter from the board above and below. Any guidance would be appreciated! Thank you!
Try to get the stencil as close in there as you can. And if it's possible still seal it with your base paint color. And then when you are painting the letter color just dab the brush, or even use a sponge if you can and dab the paint on that way. Don't use brush strokes especially going towards the stencil and use very little paint. That should do the trick. Good luck!
Thanks so much Chris – I will give that a try. I'm sure it will work!
Have you tried making reusable stencils? I'd love to be able to cut a stencil once and use it several times. I'm stuck on keeping all the center bits on letters like a, d, e, etc intact with the stencil material. One tutorial suggested attaching a small rectangle from the center bit to the letter but I don't think it would look good after it's painted. (Not to mention time consuming to create). Thoughts?
Unfortunately for words the only way to keep the centers in is by adding the small rectangle. Cutting reusable stencils is just like cutting paper, you don't have the adhesive transfer paper or backing on the stencil to keep the middles where they should be. Another option is to paint the centers in by hand which is also time-consuming.
Hi Chris! I didn't first sign today and followed your tutorial to a T. When I peeled up the stencil after painting, many of the edges still peeled up (almost how latex paint will be rubbery and lift) even though I used acrylics. Any suggestions?
Hi Laura! Are you talking about the edges of the letters? That could be caused by a couple of things. One – if using mod podge, either too much was used or it wasn't dry before you painted. It just takes a super thin layer, you shouldn't see any of the white, you want it so thin it brushes on clear and is barely noticeable.
Two- The paint was too thick. It's better to do 2-3 super light coats of paint than one thick layer.
I am glad I found your post. I am working on my project and I am frustrated. The vinyl is stripping my base color I painted my board with before I placed my vinyl sheet on. I have tried several methods. I tried acrylic paint- I can see parts chipping as I am peeling off the vinyl. I have tried spray paint- that was even worse and lastly I tried a paint I used for painting my walls. As some bloggers swear by. That peeled in patches. Every time I made sure the paint is completely dry so you can just imagine how long I have been working on this. I was thinking of using over the base color a poly- maybe in matte finish. But I want to consult with you before I spend money on anything that may not help.
Hi Eva! That is so frustrating when that happens! What kind of vinyl are you using for the stencil?
Thank you for such quick reply! I am using oracal 651.
I just read about using Oramask- it is suppose to be less sticky. Is that what you are using?
Yes, use Oramask Stencil vinyl. The 651 is permanent vinyl so it's REALLY sticky and will peel up most paint. I bet all of your issues will be resolved when you switch.
Thank you for your input. So mystery may be resolved lo thanks again!
Hi! Your sign is beautiful! How do you pull up the middle part of the e vinyl? Every time I try to do this I ruin part of the painted area. Thanks!
Thanks Chelsea! I use the Cricut tools to pull them up, usually the pick. Sometimes it does leave a little mark. If that happens I use the end of a toothpick to fill it in with a dab of paint.
Thank you for your tutorial. Any suggestions for a regular stencil that isn't sticky on the back? This will be used on a wood panel. How do you prevent paint bleeds?
Thanks for the post! Great tips I'm going to try!
Getting super frustrated. I stained the wood (it's smooth pine) and then applied poly on it. I then used oramask for my stencil and applied a coat of Mod Podge to seal, applied 2 thin coats of acrylic paint once it was dry. And the paint just scratches off and half of my letters peeled up partially or fully. Help please! Should I have waited til after painting to seal the sign with poly?
Hi Erica! I've had the paint from the letters peel up before and it was because I used too much mod podge. It really takes just a super thin coat. The paint scratching off sounds like it's from the poly. I would wait until the sign is finished to poly or add a second coat of poly after the letters are painted.
I am just learning to use and make stencils. I have the first gen cricut which I know I can't make my own stencils. I was just curious as to which cricut you would suggest to someone that is learning to make their own stencils. Thank you in advance.
It depends on what all you want to make. I would at least go with the Explore Air 2.


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[OB] The Diagram is Fake
Started by Storms!, December 15, 2017
Storms! High Prelan
Puncher of Gods
High Prelan
Preface: Someone correct me if I'm breaking any rules here, as I just made my account a couple hours ago. I posted this theory on a King T discussion thread, but I'm thinking that it was a little off topic since that discussion was about T as a character and this is a theory about the Diagram. So pardon my ignorance if this is a breach of etiquette!
Theory: The Diagram is Fake
I think the Diagram itself is part of the subterfuge. As others have pointed out, the original concept of "make a deal to protect my kingdom, then become king of everything" is so simple, that I believe Odium was meant to see through it. In order for the bluff to work though, you have to make it look like you're trying, hence the takeover of JKeved.
If T was so brilliant when he made the Diagram, then it stands to reason that he was smart enough to realize that Odium would be able to read/interpret it. That is the entire point. It is a classic misdirection, just on a grand scale. It's all meant to bait Odium into certain actions, presumably to put Him in a position to be vulnerable.
It also stands to reason that genius T knew that Odium would never negotiate on one of T's smart days. So why put in the "negotiate from a position of strength" line? It's part of the misdirection. If Odium is confident that T and the Diagram are not a threat, then He is much more likely to let his guard down.
T is playing the Severus Snape role. We are going to hate him for a long time and he is going to do some awful things. In the end though, it will be his actions that ultimately make Odium vulnerable to be defeated by someone else.
Basically, I just don't accept the narrative of "Odium saw through the Diagram, therefore it is moot and T is now a traitor." Genius T knew that would happen and planned for it
Khyrindor Enefel
"Nevermore."
Enefel
I think you're right about the Diagram being a misdirection, but I think it's fooled Taravangian too.
The diagram comes totally from Cultivation, and she's going to use it to take down Odium, all while mr T thinks he's doing everything for Odium.
Messremb Prelan
Prelan
I was actually just listening to one of the Mr. T interludes and he remarks at one point that on the day he created the diagram "He was a God on that day". At first I just assumed it was hyperbole, but what if it wasn't? what if he was so heavily invested with Cultivations power he was literally a sliver of Cultivation. It would make sense, as according to Honor, Cultivation is better at predicting the future than him. That would explain how the diagram predicts so much. Also, if Cultivations goal is to stop\kill Odium then this would be a great way to misdirect him into a position where he could fail. My only concern is that since we know so little of what cultivation actually wants, and her intent is not one we can count on to be favorable to the humans on Roshar, that we may be completely off on what she is trying to accomplish.
anyways, I agree that something is suspicious with the diagram, and its goal is not what we have seen.
26 minutes ago, Messremb said:
My only concern is that since we know so little of what cultivation actually wants, and her intent is not one we can count on to be favorable to the humans on Roshar, that we may be completely off on what she is trying to accomplish.
You are absolutely right. It is important to remember that this is not a war of humans v singers. It is a war of Gods v Gods. They will use any tools available
Llarimar High Prelan
Linguistspren
I have actually been thinking this same thing. At the very least, the Diagram is not what we think it is - and not what Taravangian thinks it is. In many ways the Diagram doesn't make any sense. No matter how intelligent you are, you cannot predict the future. T is not simply intelligent, he seems to be Invested somehow - touched by Cultivation's magic. The level of intelligence he reached when he created the Diagram transcends the human mental capacity.
In addition, the Diagram seem like a psychological mind game rather than a prediction of future events. The Diagram is self-fulling. If you tell someone exactly what conditions need to take place in order for them to accomplish certain things in their future, it is possible they will self-fulfill that prophecy, not because it was inherently true, but because they felt compelled to follow the instructions.
It reminds me of an episode from Avatar: The Last Airbender (the Fortuneteller, I believe the episode is called), where the main characters visit a village with a Fortuneteller woman. She tells a man that he will meet his future wife when he is wearing a certain pair of slippers, and so every day after that he wears the same slippers, idiotically self-fulling the prophecy since he will never have the chance to meet someone without the slippers.
I know that's kind of a lame example, but it's exactly how I think of the Diagram. The Diagram is not a map of the future, but a carefully manipulated sequence of self-fulfilling events. Cultivation is manipulating T to achieve her version of the future, not the version that is already predicated, the version that will best serve the people of Roshar or the version that will necessarily end well for Taravagian. Even if T was not under the influence of Cultivation when he made the Diagram (which is unlikely considering the limits of human intelligence), it is still not as prophetic as it seems, because T and his followers are literally working every moment of their lives to ensure that its ramblings predictions are fulfilled.
On a side note, I am a bit confused by T's motivations. At first, when the Diagram was introduced, I thought that he was working to become the king of the world and save all of Roshar. However at the end of Oathbringer, he settles for just saving Kharbranth. He also seems to be allowing Odium to gain the upper hand, giving up the fight and just counting his losses when the dust has settled. Was that philosophy always a part of the Diagram, or has T's mindset somehow changed?
Teesh229 Darkeyes
Darkeyes
2 minutes ago, Llarimar said:
I think this point is exactly what that Storms! was referencing in her original post. T is allowing Odium to think he has the upper hand and that T is going to be influenced and act as an agent of Odium (hence the Snape comparison). I believe T is sincere in trying to save the entire world and he is attempting to achieve that by giving the appearance he only is trying to save Kharbranth.
One a side note....damnation you Sanderson! Take my money...take all of it!
Think of genius T and not genius T as two different people. Genius T (basically just Cultivation) is conning everyone, including normal T. Genius T knew that the king of the world plan wouldn't work. In order to trick Odium though, he had to make it seem like that is the real plan, which is why he took over JKeved. That was never the real plan, but he had to sell the feint.
The real plan isn't written in the Diagram. The purpose of the Diagram is just to manipulate Odium. Normal T needs to think that it is real though, so that Odium doesn't see through the lie.
No idea what the end game is, but it's not whatever the Diagram says
Wolven House Lord
House Lord
1 hour ago, Storms! said:
I think you might be right. It does seem to simple, and far to easy to see through, that the whole idea was to become king of everything, and then make Odium preserve everyone he rules. Odium is a god, of course he's going to see through that.
The only one though that I think knows the Diagram is a subterfuge is the man he was when he created it. Every other version of himself believes in it, and so does everyone that is a part of it. It's...going to be interesting to be sure.
aemetha Originator
Nale's lunch
I do think the diagram could be a subterfuge. I'm not sure that Odium is the primary target of the subterfuge though. As Taravangian gets smarter, he loses his empathy and compassion. We've seen scenes where he orders peoples death for the most minor of slights. Now, consider when he wrote the diagram he was an order of magnitude more intelligent than even his smartest other days. If he was in such a state, I could foresee a situation where he literally stopped caring about the people of Roshar altogether, and decided the goal was worthless. So he wrote a diagram to make himself think it was a means to the stated end, but is in fact a path to a selfish acquisition of power for himself at the expense of the people of Roshar.
/end devils advocacy
15 minutes ago, Teesh229 said:
5 minutes ago, Storms! said:
Okay, this makes a lot of sense. I thought that Cultivation was just tricking and deluding T, but that is exactly the point - the Diagram is meant to trick everyone, including T and even Odium.
I am still a bit confused, however, as to whether T cognitively knows that he is tricking Odium, or if he genuinely believes that he is only working to save Kharbranth and that the rest of Roshar will be sacrificed. At what level is T manipulating Odium, and at what level is T being manipulated? Does he realize that the whole Kharbranth cover is just a ploy, that he is actually tricking Odium while he works to save all of Roshar behind his back? This was not imminently clear to me when I read the Taravangian chapter at the end of OB.
This is all just my personal theory, but normal T has no idea that he is tricking Odium. If he knew, then Odium would be able to see through it. So genius T (Cultivation) is tricking normal T so that he doesn't screw up and ruin the lie.
Normal T trusts the Diagram, but the Diagram is a lie. Think of Odium as a real life lie detector for a minute. How do you beat a lie detector? By believing your own lies. It's the same concept
Rainier Lord Prelan
I am the Stone that the Builder refused
Lord Prelan
2 hours ago, Khyrindor said:
Yup, this was my read on the scene between Taravangian and Odium. We all know Taravangian doesn't understand the Diagram, so it's not a stretch to think it's him manipulating himself, or rather Cultivation manipulating him through his boon/curse.
20 minutes ago, Llarimar said:
He's oblivious to the full scope of the Diagram, so I don't know how he could know he's tricking Odium, or if he even believes he's tricking Odium. When we left him, he was bargaining for as much as he could. I don't see that as tricking Odium, rather capitulating and
30 minutes ago, Wolven said:
The only one though that I think knows the Diagram is a subterfuge is the man he was when he created it. Every other version of himself believes in it, and so does everyone that is a part of it.
T is not simply intelligent, he seems to be Invested somehow - touched by Cultivation's magic. The level of intelligence he reached when he created the Diagram transcends the human mental capacity.
On this thread, I think Taravangian might have been captial-A Ascended during that day. What is the Diagram if not a giant cultivation? Prune here at this day, then let it grow, then prune back and construct a scaffold, and it will grow thusly, and then.....
He held Culitvation's power for a day, and the result is the Diagram, which is cultivating him as much as anyone else.
We know that the Diagram is about as anti-radiant as possible (Destination before Journey), so maybe it's all pointing towards the one moment when a second Bondsmith is needed, as the purpose of the Diagram is to bring Taravangian to the point where it can be him. This would have to be after the absolute failure of the Diagram, for him to see that his work has been in vain, in order for him to internalize the Knight's oath.
Leyrann Honorspren
Honorspren
When that woman (forgot her name) comes to T with the "intelligence distribution", T remarks, regarding his Diagram day "it should never have happened" or "it should not have been possible" or something along those lines. That could very well be subtle foreshadowing by Brandon that, indeed, it never happened; rather, Cultivation did something else.
(also note that we are not actually talking about a boon/curse here, it's Cultivation that gave the power, not the Nightwatcher)
shawnhargreaves Vanisher
Wannabe Asarya
Vanisher
2 hours ago, aemetha said:
As Taravangian gets smarter, he loses his empathy and compassion. We've seen scenes where he orders peoples death for the most minor of slights. Now, consider when he wrote the diagram he was an order of magnitude more intelligent than even his smartest other days. If he was in such a state, I could foresee a situation where he literally stopped caring about the people of Roshar altogether, and decided the goal was worthless. So he wrote a diagram to make himself think it was a means to the stated end, but is in fact a path to a selfish acquisition of power for himself at the expense of the people of Roshar.
Remember that super smart T = Cultivation.
Cultivation indeed has no empathy for individuals, but that doesn't mean the goal is selfish acquisition of power. Cultivation will use whatever tools are available, including destroying or harming her own tools in whatever ways may prove useful, in order to achieve growth and change toward a desired outcome.
For instance, this winter I planted clover in my raised beds, as a cover crop to protect the soil from winter rains. This will fix nitrogen into the soil, then start flowering in late February. At that point I will turn the soil over, killing thousands of baby flowers, let it rot for a couple of weeks, then plant onions and carrots where they can feed on the corpses of dead clover. I will feel no guilt for this mass slaughter - it's just the best way I know to grow big nutritious spring vegetables.
THAT's what Cultivation is. I pity what may happen to poor T once this is all done playing out :-)
Just now, shawnhargreaves said:
This is not confirmed at all. This is entirely supposition, which may or may not be correct.
It is in part the assumption that this is true that made me want to post my devils advocacy.
Aleksiel Scadrian Waffle Cook
Scadrian Waffle Cook
I think parts of the Diagram are a subterfuge and what's truly important is what Odium couldn't see. I'm interested why he couldn't see it - did it have something to do with the type of surface that was used like in another novel or was it something else? And since T had the Diagram written on papers carried around shouldn't Odium be able to read it and nullify the initial effort made to conceal certain parts of the Diagram?
But I don't want to get hyped about the Diagram and what the hidden part of it might hold and mean, because Recreanse secret was pretty underwhelming, so I'd rather not expect much.
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Edgedancer Huey Long
Dakhor Monk
7 hours ago, Storms! said:
It is a classic misdirection, just on a grand scale.
Quick theory: Mr. T is actually Kelsier and also a Kandra. After the events with South Scadrial, he realized that to save his planet, he needed to prevent Odium from escaping his imprisonment, so he used Hemalurgy to transfer cognitive shadow into a Mistwrath, becoming a Kandra, then worldhopped to Roshar, killed the original Mr. T during his trip to the Nightwatcher, and took his place. He then created the Diagram as an elaborate series of contingent instructions to himself and removed the spikes containing key components of his memory, causing him to believe he really was Mr. T.
His plan is to make the deal with Odium, meaning that Kharbranth will be unaffected by the Desolation. As the rest of Roshar is devastated, the value of real estate in the City of Bells will rise. As a loyal servant of Odium, Kelsier/Mr. T will advise Odium use leverage to invest in this growth market. However, Kel will have already begun engineering the sale of real estate to Thaylen investors overseas, triggering a asset valuation bubble. When the bubble bursts and Odium is left severely underwater, Kelsier will revel his true idenity, and that he'd bought up Odium's debts during the Kharbranth real estate crash. Rayse has no way of making the payments required, so Kelsier forecloses his Shard and Ascends. Again.
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Lighteyes
The king negotiated for those born in or married to a citizen of the city to survive, that could potentially be used against odium. He is bound by his deal.
Blackhoof Highprince
Highprince
13 hours ago, .S.A.M.K.M said:
Maybe, but it seems like the only way to do that would be:
a) expand the bounds of the city to retroactively cover the whole world, meaning that everyone was "born" in Kharbranth
b )perform millions of polygamous marriages to marry everyone on earth to someone in Kharbranth, thus protecting everyone under the 'spouse' clause.
Both of which seem quite unlikely
MonsterMetroid Ferring
The Onyx Flamingo
23 hours ago, Storms! said:
If Odium is confident that T and the Diagram are not a threat, then He is much more likely to let his guard down.
Great post! I really loved this because the fact that part of the diagram still stood out to dumb taravangian really supports this to me.
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ceskykure Bridgeman
Bridgeman
2 hours ago, Blackhoof said:
This would be ideal, but i have a feeling that Odium would either renegotiate or put some limiters on it. like only those married before we made the deal, or only born within so many miles of the center of the city.
Dlyol Hazekiller
Hazekiller
I agree with the theory that the Diagram is of Cultivation and as we have seen in Oathbringer with Dalinar she is very good at playing a discrete but effective long game to get what she wants but I just want to comment for a moment on how dumb Taravangian's 'only saving Kharbranth' idea is. It's actually a really neat bit of characterisation from Brandon given that this is meant to be one of Taravangian's stupidest (at least in an intellectual sense) and most caring days. Kharbranth is a city-state that depends for everything on there existing in the rest of Roshar a functioning economy to provide the goods and services it needs to survive. If the rest of Roshar is destroyed (which I find to be more likely in the long term than simply given over to the Singers given Odium views them as tools not as people he bears any affection for) then what will Kharbranth eat or use as building materials or any of the other things a city-state needs but cannot produce on its own. Furthermore, given Odium's endgame is to leave the Rosharan system, what is to stop the Singers if they do now control the rest of Roshar from deciding they would like to own Kharbranth as well and simply taking it given the massive strategic superiority they would enjoy.
In fact, it is such a stupid idea that I almost wonder if Brandon inserted it so that at some point in the future Taravangian can realise how stupid it is and defect away from Odium's side if that what he wants to do with the character long term.
Haha I am picturing an alternate future with Kharbranth perched on a chunk of ground, ending three feet from the walls, floating in the void.
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Thanks Metroid, glad you liked the post! I've been following all things Cosmere for a while now, figured it was time to stop lurking and start contributing. Nice to have an outlet for the nerdom!
teknopathetic Vanisher
Pure Lake Fishymancer.
One issue is that the diagram KNEW that Odium would come AFTER Dalinar ascended. The diagram didnt just allow for this, it planned for it. Smart T is okaying a long long game with us. Dalinar was never supposed to die, and for some reason Mr.T is using Renarin almost like Atium to blind Odium.
Another curiousity: Odium knew nothing of the diagram - nada, squat, diddly. How on earth would Odium know so much else, but not have seen that? Is Odium blind to certain forms of fortune telling? Renaein is unique because he sees the future, and Kaladin saved Dalinar after seeing the future. It would be cunning to trick Roshar into thinking fortune telling was evil so that no human ever used that against him.
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by Jared Johnson | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, Digital Health, Health IT, Internet of Things, Patient Engagement, Podcast | 0 comments
Kate McCarthy, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, walks us through several key ways in which health IT vendors may be failing to market effectively, starting with her recently published brief that describes the innovation at HIMSS that was happening by newer vendors in the basement. She also details why vendors need to understand their customers better, the need to fail faster with new technologies, the benefits of getting less expensive and less complicated, and how the worst thing we can do is to keep doing everything the way we've done them in the past. Her viewpoint from atop the industry will keep you captivated and provide valuable lessons.
Air Date: June 8, 2016
Guest: Kate McCarthy, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
1:39 Introducing Kate McCarthy
6:32 HIMSS basement innovators upstage the main floor vendors
10:00 A tipping point in the industry for smaller vendors
11:45 Security remains a top concern
12:58 What trends should health IT marketers be paying attention to?
14:10 The greatest thing health care needs to improve is understanding the customer better
16:30 Snapchat and video are dominating marketing; but what about healthcare?
18:12 Meeting customers where they are already
19:15 #1 tip for health IT marketers
20:05 The danger of doing things the same way
20:58 What advice would you give clinicians to overcome those paint points
22:20 The need to fail faster with new technologies
23:16 Bonus question: If you could join a rock band or music artist for a day, who would it be?
Jared Johnson: Hello again my friends and welcome to the Health IT Marketer Podcast, the podcast that tells the story of innovation and health IT. I am your host Jared Johnson of Ultera Digital, healthcare influencer and content marketing. This is the first and only podcast dedicated to you, to the health IT marketing community. Welcome aboard.
If you want to keep up with the trends, voices and marketing tools involved in healthcare IT and healthcare technology, you are in the right place. Health IT right now is in a renaissance of innovation. The line between digital marketing and digital health is blurring to many of the same methods that used to be strictly for marketing, things like Facebook and Twitter, other social media tools, web portals and mobile apps, those are now being used directly in patient care and here on this program we cover them all.
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All right, on with the program. All right, well, our guest this week is Kate McCarthy. She's a senior analyst with Forrester Research. Kate, good morning. How are you doing?
Kate McCarthy: I'm great. How are you Jared?
Jared Johnson: I'm doing fantastic. We were just saying it's sounding like it's getting a little less cold in the Boston area this time of year. How's that going out for you?
Kate McCarthy: It's great. The trees are starting to bloom. This is a beautiful time to be in New England and the weather has been unseasonably warm so far so I actually have my garden planted, I have some happy dogs at home. It's been an early spring here which is nice.
Jared Johnson: And you and I were just speaking about this but do you want to let our listeners know a little bit about the two dogs and that particular breed that I had never heard of, the Italian water dog?
Kate McCarthy: Yeah, so my youngest dog Winnie is a Lagotto Romangnolo, which is an Italian water dog and she's three years old and is . . . the breed is known for truffle hunting of all things and she, this time of year, gets really excited about all of the new smells and so she's a little bit difficult to wrangle but she is a lot of fun. Our older dog Jackson is a black lab mix and he's happy to get a little air conditioning and some swimming in to stay cool but they're both fun and they are both excited to be outside all the time now. Never a dull moment.
Jared Johnson: Well, why don't you tell our listeners a little bit more about your background because you've had a very interesting background to get to where you are now. Let us know a little bit more about that and what you're doing in your current role at Forrester.
Kate McCarthy: Yeah, so I come to the healthcare space via coaching of all things. I coached for swimming at the beginning of my career and to an exercise physiology bent to that work and got great exposure to the healthcare ecosystem at that time and decided at young age I really wanted to be part of organizations that were helping improve the healthcare ecosystem. Back in the '90s when we first started looking at this or I first started looking at this stuff it was so clear that the good old days of healthcare were going away.
And I think certainly over the 15 plus years that I've been in the industry it's just gotten harder and harder to be a provider in this space. The reimbursement system changing, the Affordable Care Act, all of those things and so [inaudible 00:04:12] my flip-flops I got to spend a number of years [inaudible 00:04:16] health during the pre and post IPO phase which was a really exciting time to be there. Obviously, that company has seen some great success since I've left and I have a world of respect for what they do.
And in my time there I got a great opportunity to engage with different physician practices and hospitals across the country in a myriad of settings and get some great exposure to what the real pain points were for organizations. And so from there, I went into the consulting world. I actually worked on the affordable care act reporting a lot of the lobbying efforts behind that and the regulatory understanding for different key stakeholders and then went back into direct care at Partner's Health Care where I sat in the strategy group during the times we worked on everything from pop health to mergers and acquisitions. A very, very fun, direct experience and wonderful organization obviously. Partners at Women's [SP] Mass General, and the Brigham [SP] here in the greater Boston area. So really, really great people there and have been excited to take all of those experiences now and sit in more of a perch view of the industry as an analyst at Forrester.
I am the analyst. I call myself the cruise director for healthcare for Forrester. I am the full time senior analyst who looks at the healthcare ecosystem. At Forrester, we tend to serve up by role rather than a vertical and so we look at things horizontally. So what might someone in business to business be struggling with versus someone in enterprise architecture, those sorts of things, and I sit in the vertical really helping organizations think about how all of those different roles influence the healthcare ecosystem, what's the nuance for that space as opposed to something like retail.
It's a really, fun, fun job. I get to talk to providers and payers and all of the great vendors out there. I'm always learning about new, fun innovation which is, I think, the most exciting part of my job.
Jared Johnson: Also, needless to say, you're have a unique view of what has happened and then what's coming and that I think that's really cool and so needless to say I guess also that you're quite familiar with HIMSS.
Kate McCarthy: I am, yeah.
Jared Johnson: And you recently published, with Forrester, you recently published a brief about your experience at HIMSS and what you saw there. It was titled "Basement Innovators Upstage the Main-Floor Vendors." I'd love to hear a little bit more about that. I've had a chance to read that but it was a fascinating take on what you saw literally and physically there happening between the main floor and the basement floor and the other floors at the convention center and then applying that to the industry itself. Can you tell us a little bit more about what you were describing in that brief and what were your key takeaways from HIMSS this year?
Kate McCarthy: Yeah, it's so funny. So HIMSS is always a bit of a whirlwind. It's always really big and when I went this year . . . this was my first time going as an analyst. I'm used to being there on the vendor or the provider side and when you go as a vendor or you go as a provider you get to stand at one place and people come to you.
And so this was my first year having to walk and see everyone and I don't know that before this most recent HIMSS visit I really ever appreciated quite how big the conference is. So one of my first takeaways was I've met my step goal by 8 a.m. every day on my Apple Watch. So it's just huge. Everyone goes. You have everyone from the Intermountain Healthcares of the world in the provider space to the Athenas and the Epics and the Cernas, and the Kasens [SP] and then you have people who are nimble startups or incubators from bigger companies coming to bring new products to the market.
And so you get a great landscape of different vendors that support the healthcare vertical there in addition to the providers and the pairs that go there. There's always great conference content too. But the biggest thing for me this year I think was just the juxtaposition of the layout this year was a little bit different than in years past and it was so clear that . . . I titled the brief what I did because that main stage was really the big tech giants. Now, if you looked at the size of Epic's booth, frankly, it was bigger than my first apartment. It was huge. People had two story booth setups. It was just visually, literally stunning that it was just so big.
And then you went down to the basement and you saw these little, tiny cubes where you would find people like in AirStrip who were really bringing a mobility solution that frankly solves challenges and things like interoperability for physicians, doing really incredibly innovative things in a smaller space and with more nimble technology. I mean, I don't think when I met with AirStrip they ever took out anything more complicated than an iPhone and it was just so powerful what their product is doing for the market.
And so just that balance of . . . there was all of this innovation almost hiding in the basement. You had to look for it to find it as opposed to that top floor where it was everyone you expect to be there was there and I have a lot of respect for those big tech giants and the brands that they've built and the services they provide. But where it's such a tipping point in the industry . . . there's a lot of green room for those basement innovators to grow up into this space and either work with and support those big tech giants in solving things like interoperability or giving people an alternative path. And I think that the industry is really at a tipping point where it's exciting and also probably a little bit scary for folks.
The conference really started with Secretary Birdwell talking about the need and the commitment the vendors and provider community had made to interoperability. People were very excited about it but I think there's a recognition, whether people are saying it out loud or not, that we've been trying to solve interoperability in the healthcare space for a number of years. Folks like John Halamka who have been blogging on Geek Doctor about how difficult the ON [SP] Committee has been and what the roadblocks had been there. And I'm not sure why we would start to have more success there than we've had when we've had so many really talented people and such strong commitment in the community for a number of years.
So largely what I talk about in this brief and what a lot of my research will look at this quarter is understanding the limitations of the systems that exist today. What are ways that we could get interoperability achieved? That might be a little bit outside the box of what people are thinking in terms of the traditional sense. Maybe Epic and Cerna won't ever talk well together but maybe something like an AirStrip or a CloudMine can give people an alternative way to connect and share information and get rich data on patients in the right moments at the right time and that's really what I talk about in my brief.
I talk a little bit also about some of the other areas where we saw a lot of content at HIMSS. So security remains is just such a big topic in healthcare. One of the things that I look at pretty closely in my role and in partnership with our security and risk team here is the growing Internet of things. Everything from an Apple Watch to a Fitbit to an MRI machine. I saw a great presentation from Avaya about their SDN Fx product, which is the size of my iPhone, and you can connect it to these big MRI machines or pieces of the network to secure the different vulnerabilities in a way that's pretty sophisticated and helps alleviate some of the concerns that folks have in this space.
But by and large really the conference was so much about the juxtaposition between the innovators and then the existing ecosystem and it's clear that there's a level of disruption that's going to come. It's just a matter of when and how more than anything else.
Jared Johnson: Well, those are great questions then to lead into as we're talking to health IT marketers about where they should be focusing their efforts and I'm curious what you think about that in terms of what topics or trends or platforms . . . if you're marketing for a vendor or for an agency, where should you be focusing your efforts right now?
Kate McCarthy: It's such a good question. If I'm thinking about the really critical issues in healthcare right now, I'm thinking about a couple of things. I'm thinking about the rise of the empowered patient and I start with that because the healthcare industry lags behind other industries in so many ways. But in terms of understanding their customers, that's really where there's the biggest disconnect when you compare healthcare to an industry like banking or aviation or retail. It's just so clear that healthcare doesn't understand its patients or employees or members if we're talking about a health insurance company and some of that's because of PHI compliance issues. Handling of patient data is tricky. It's a little bit more complicated than my browsing history for my newest pair of shoes or a toy for Winnie but the moments that make up a patient's life are just as important. If anything, they're more important.
And so helping organizations understand the need to better understand who their customers are and what's driving patient behavior is the single most important thing that any organization needs to focus on and that everything you do falls beneath that. So I break that down into things like . . . in the insurance space, you really need to be focusing on transparency in the provider space as well. Both cost transparency and outcome transparency are really important to think about moving the industry forward. We have to assume that patients are going to be willing to shop for their insurance products and for even the services they acquire in the direct care space.
There's a lot of price variation in the market. You just look at an MRI. An MRI on a knee can range from whatever, $500 to $2,500 for the same MRI depending on where you go in a given market. And so as people have more dollars at risk and they're more aware of those dollars at risk, there's a degree of shopping we can expect to see hit the space. Same thing, we see a lot more shopping in the health insurance space than we ever saw before because of the introduction of health insurance exchanges.
And so this notion that customers were trapped and Blue Cross Blue Shield and Aetna and United had to spend most of their time worrying about their big employer contracts because people largely contracted for insurance through group contracts through their employers. That's changing. More people are going direct through insurance exchanges and individuals. 2015 was the first year that we saw . . . it's less than 50% of the market now is group contracts. More than 50% was insurance exchanges, Medicare, Medicaid, direct commercial product purchasing.
And so that's really starting to change already and it's only a matter of time before that demand is there for customers to really want more from their businesses and so whether you're in the electronic health record space or data analytics, helping your customers understand their customers is just mission critical.
Jared Johnson: One of my associates in the podcasting world, Janet Kennedy, she just attended Social Media Marketing World in San Diego and she put it this way, she just said "It is really obvious that the couple of trends or platforms that are happening out there at least for marketers are in Snapchat and video. Everyone wanted to be the first mover in those two things." I think easier to talk about use cases for video. I'm curious what you think about that. Are there any particular platforms if you're talking . . . we see Blab and Periscope and do you see any platforms or tools that have the most potential?
Kate McCarthy: I have to say the social media stuff does get a little tricky when you're talking about patients and moments but the rise of the community for patient communities is pretty huge. So whether it's Facebook or Patients Like Me and their platform which is obviously compliant and secure, patients are looking to engage with other patients that have similar challenges. And I would say that's the biggest change that I see and that opens the door for those communities to be engaged with in a digital space that never existed.
And so that is one area I would certainly point out. The other thing that always comes to mind for me in more of a social context is that the consumer is using Internet of things to connect their lives and their social context into the healthcare ecosystem. So whether you're talking to a runner who's really active and using a Fitbit to connect back to things like MapMyRun, those things have really taken off and I think that's why we see so many organizations trying to partner with wellness companies to really find ways to connect to those patients in the places where they're already going naturally and that's the hardest part of healthcare.
You have to meet people where they are already and I don't know that it's Snapchat or Twitter but it's certainly the ecosystem of apps. They're supporting health and wellness, the companies that support those things, the Limeades [SP] and the Jiffs [SP] of the world and companies like Lark that do a little bit of the wellness work but also some artificial intelligence coaching. All of those folks are trying to understand the moments of truth for patients in the moment that patients are willing to share in a natural way and I think that that's where there's the most opportunity.
Obviously, the companies themselves spend a lot of time on the traditional marketing channels like the Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and Snapchat and you have to use those tools too but that's not necessarily where patients are going and so figuring out where the patients are is really the most critical thing.
Jared Johnson: What would you say then is your number one tip for health IT marketers? We've touched on a couple of other things but if you had to boil it all down and say "Hey, here's my number one tip out there." What would that be?
Kate McCarthy: My number one tip would be to keep it simple. There's the tendency to overcomplicate things in healthcare because it is complicated. If you just walk through one patient encounter with one doctor that's . . . you've seen one and you could go see a 100 and they would all look a little different and so the inclination is to always add a level of complexity to this space.
And what needs to really happen is a level of common language and understanding has to be there but being willing to take simple things that have worked other places and using them in healthcare is the best thing we could possibly do. The worst thing we can do is to keep doing everything the way we've been doing them in healthcare because that's never worked, right. It's just gotten more expensive and more complicated and our health records don't talk to each other any better today than they did 10 years ago really.
So taking a lot of the noise out of the space, avoiding high customization and really getting to the simple truth of things. It's not easy but it's how we'll find our way out of this mess I think.
Jared Johnson: Well then let's flip that coin and talk . . . if we're talking to clinical teams or we're talking to clinicians and you've mentioned the rise of the empowered patient, you've mentioned a lot of the different pieces there. The payers are part of the puzzle, providers are part of the puzzle. We've got clinicians sitting there squarely in the middle of this saying, "Hey, well, I'm just not ready for that." Or some are ready for it and just don't know what to do. So I'm curious what advice you would give clinicians just to overcome those pain points when we're talking about adopting digital health tools or empowering patients.
Kate McCarthy: Yeah, so at first I would say to your marketers, "Please spend some time talking to doctors about the things that make their life hard." Because we didn't do that 10 years ago when we built these health record systems and we haven't done a good job of it when we rolled out new technology and part of why clinicians are struggling right now is because we didn't ask them for advice. We didn't get their buy-in in the right way and we built products that do not work for them. It's hard to step back and think about a way forward with all of those challenges and it's got to be really hard to say I'm going to try new technologies more often because that has not worked historically but what I would say is there is a lot of great promise out there in the tech ecosystem especially as people really start to understand just how difficult it's been for physicians.
I've mentioned AirStrip a couple of times. The thing that was just most impressive to me about them and their work is that they get the physician voice, they get the pieces of information and physicians need in order to make really sound clinical decisions at the right moments for patients. So there are companies out there that get it.
A willingness to try new technology and to fail faster with it is just so important. It is no longer the case that we're going to install big tech platforms and live with them for 20 plus years. If there's a solution that's in front of you today that's not working, you can start to be a voice for change. Make the product work, find products that work for you instead.
It isn't the case that people are installing Epic and saying "We're going to live with it for 20 years." Banner Health Care publically said that they ripped and replaced Epic in more than one of their hospitals and went with Cerna. And I'm sure the opposite is true as well that people have gone with Cerna and other vendors and decided that it wasn't a fit and they've made a quick switch. It's not an impossible thing to do this day and age. And so don't live with it if it's not working and if it's not working, find something that does.
Jared Johnson: As we start to wind up here I do have time just for one more question and I think you know what that question is but it's our bonus question.
Kate McCarthy: Yeah.
Jared Johnson: That is if you could join any rock band or music artist for a day, who would that be? And I can clarify right off that doesn't have to be somebody who's alive now. If you want to jump in the way back machine and find somebody who's no longer with us here on Earth, that's okay too but it's anyone. Any rock band or music artist.
Kate McCarthy: Man, I mean, you open up the door to ghosts of days past and that's a whole new ballpark but I spent some time thinking about this and I have to say since seeing her on Carpool Karaoke I've got to go with Adele. Not only is she an amazing singer but she's apparently hysterical and seems like a lot of fun to be around. So I would like to spend the day with her, drink some wine and listen to her sing.
Jared Johnson: I love that. Actually, it took me a while to actually realize that Carpool Karaoke was happening. I was a little late to the party there but I think I binge watched every single episode within about a 24 hours' period and . . .
Jared Johnson: I just considered it now. James Cordon's a gift to humanity that he's doing that so . . .
Kate McCarthy: Absolutely. It's the best ever. You need a pick me up, go Google some Carpool Karaoke.
Jared Johnson: Seriously, and you're right. Adele's was amazing. I mean, we got to see her personality a lot. It was very fun.
Kate McCarthy: Yeah. I mean, and she's a fellow Spice Girls fan. So I've got to give her some love for that.
Jared Johnson: Oh, that's right. They were doing a little Spice Girls in there. Well, hey Kate, I really appreciate you taking the time and being our guest here on the podcast. If there are those who want to . . . if they have a question for you or they just want to connect with your or engage with you in any way, what's the best way for them to find you?
Kate McCarthy: So they can find me at Twitter at K_McCarthy1 and I am also at Forrester at kmccarthy@forrester.com.
Jared Johnson: Well, we appreciate it again and I would love to have you again on the podcast some time and thanks for tuning in with us and taking a few minutes to chat with us.
Kate McCarthy: Thank you so much. It was a lot of fun.
Jared Johnson: Well, that wraps up our program this week. If you enjoyed this episode as much as I know you did, please consider leaving a review on iTunes. Ladies and gentlemen, remember it's up to us to tell the story of innovation in health IT and remember to build your audience one gig at a time. In fact, how's that going? I'd love to know how that is working for you and if you'd like more pointers on building your audience.
Until next time, I'm Jared Johnson and you've been listening to the Health IT Marketer Podcast. This program is sponsored by Ultera Digital, healthcare influencer and content marketing. For a full archive, you can go to healthitmarketer.com. That's healthitmarketer.com. Thanks again for tuning in and I'll talk to you next time.


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November 30, 2022 Arts + Life » Performing Arts
The New Director of Two Burlington Choirs Is a Heavy Hitter in the World of Early Music
By Amy Lilly
Published November 30, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. | Updated December 2, 2022 at 2:49 p.m.
Courtesy Of Pierre-Etienne Bergeron
Eric Milnes
At a recent rehearsal of the Vermont Choral Union at the College Street Congregational Church in Burlington, 39 amateur singers gave their best rendition of Charles Gounod's "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" to Eric Milnes, their new director as of two months ago. Milnes was focused and energetic, swiveling on the piano bench to observe each section of the choir while tossing off a virtuoso accompaniment with no apparent attention to sheet music or keys.
When the chorus arrived at the refrain, the director leaped up to discuss and rehearse all the nuances of the word "rejoice": what to call the sound of its first vowel (a "schwa"); the way the second syllable could be sung in a tiny decrescendo; where to put that last S sound. Each minute directive pulled a better sound from the singers.
"That's a compelling shape," Milnes finally declared. The group had spent about 10 minutes on a single word. Everyone was satisfied.
Milnes is the seventh director of the 55-year-old chorus and arguably the most accomplished musician to hold the office. The early music specialist's biography is a dense list of performances at the heads of famous choirs, baroque ensembles and symphonies in the U.S., Canada, Europe and beyond. He has played with many of those, too, as a harpsichordist and organist.
Milnes, who holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and a master's in music from the Juilliard School, cofounded and directs the professional vocal and period-instrument baroque ensemble L'Harmonie des saisons. The internationally touring ensemble is based in Granby, Québec, where Milnes lives with partner Mélisande Corriveau, a cellist and viola da gambist who is L'Harmonie's cofounder and artistic director.
Also an experienced recording producer, Milnes produces L'Harmonie's albums, two of which have won Juno Awards — the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys.
In short, Milnes isn't the type of person one might expect to direct an amateur chorus in Burlington. Make that two: He became the director of music at the College Street Congregational Church in January 2020, after the retirement of its longtime director Yona Yellin.
Milnes will lead both groups in upcoming live local performances. The Vermont Choral Union performs two "Season of Light" holiday concerts, consisting of classical choral works for Advent and Hanukkah, this Saturday, December 3, in the College Street church and Sunday, December 4, at the First Congregational Church of St. Albans. Isabelle Demers, an associate professor of organ at McGill University in Montréal, will be the organist for both.
For their first live concert since the pandemic, members of the College Street Congregational Church choir will join L'Harmonie des saisons for a performance of George Frideric Handel's Messiah at their church on Sunday, December 11. It is likely to be the only Vermont performance of the work to feature a full baroque period-instrument orchestra, including Corriveau's cello, made in 1692.
Seven Days met Milnes at Kru Coffee on Church Street in Burlington in a rare moment of stasis for the director: He would conduct 11 concerts featuring five different programs in the next four weeks. Originally from New York City, Milnes, 63, sports shoulder-length feathered hair. He was chatty and opinionated — a far cry from his focused conductor's persona.
After years of dividing his time between Québec, Boston, New York and Europe, he recounted, he had been looking for "a way to center my activities nearer to Montréal." When the offer to direct the music program at the College Street Congregational Church arrived, Milnes had recently concluded a 37-year tenure as the music director of an Episcopal church in New York. He was looking for a new church directorship, and Burlington's location was ideal.
To learn about the local music scene, he queried a longtime friend and professional collaborator, Scott Metcalfe. A Burlington native, Metcalfe directs Blue Heron in Boston, a vocal ensemble specializing in Renaissance and medieval music.
"He gets us to do what we didn't really know we could do." Deborah Wright tweet this
As a violinist, Metcalfe was Milnes' concertmaster in several of the latter's ensembles, beginning in the late 1980s. For his part, Milnes has played harpsichord in Blue Heron performances and produced all of the group's dozen recordings. Its 2018 album became the first North American recording to win UK magazine Gramophone's Classical Music Award for Early Music.
Metcalfe recalled by phone that Milnes "was trying to get a read on what the scene [in Burlington] was like, what potential there might be to do something on a larger scale."
In fact, Milnes hinted to Seven Days that he has plans to launch a baroque music festival in town, though he didn't reveal details.
Though most of his experience is with professional musicians, Milnes is enthusiastic about directing a local church choir and a community chorus. His long experience with church choirs, often seeded with professionals, has taught him how to "assimilate people of different abilities," he said.
"I understand [the Burlington jobs] as a test of my long-held challenge: [to prove that] an amateur choir can sound as good as a professional one," Milnes declared. He added, "The only difference between a professional and an avocational singer is the voice they're born with."
Milnes' condescension-free approach has been a pleasant surprise to Burlington singers. Deborah Wright, a soprano from Essex who has sung in the church choir for 20 years, opined, "He knows how to make church choirs work better. He gets us to do what we didn't really know we could do."
Jim Bentlage, a baritone from Jericho who joined the Vermont Choral Union in 2016, during Jeff Rehbach's tenure, said of Milnes' rehearsals, "He's captivating; he's exhilarating. It's like you're taking a college course at Juilliard in not just singing but music history."
In Metcalfe's view, Milnes is "an extraordinary musician. He's capable of working at the highest professional level and does, but he also has a gift for working with amateurs, asking them for the best they can give and then being happy about it."
During the pandemic, Milnes taught his Congregational singers to create home videos of themselves singing their parts while listening to musical cues on headphones. Then he edited the results together, producing short videos of sacred music that were streamed by online religious services around the country.
Soon, the group graduated to singing Messiah remotely. Milnes blended the church singers' voices digitally with the professional ones of L'Harmonie des saisons, added the instrumental ensemble and produced a high-quality split-screen video of the work.
Matthew Van Wagner, a South Burlington tenor and member of both the church choir and the Vermont Choral Union, delighted in the Messiah challenge. "I would do 40 or 50 takes of a particular section," he said by phone. Van Wagner sang for a decade in the now-defunct Granite State Opera, among other ensembles, and plays trumpet in Green Mountain Swing.
He said the director is serious "but has a great sense of humor, too." One video Milnes produced features Van Wagner as both soloist and trumpet player in a jazzy rendition of the Black spiritual "Down by the Riverside." Other choral members — and one small dog — sing around him on separate Zoom-like screens.
Bentlage, who is president of the Vermont Choral Union board, was on the search committee that chose Milnes.
"When we looked at Eric's résumé, we were a little leery, to be honest," he said by phone. "He's quite an internationally accomplished musician and choir director, and we were thinking, What if this guy gets tired of us?"
The group no longer has those worries. "Eric has big ideas that are going to take us into a musical adventure that we've not been in as a group," Bentlage said. "We're no longer purely a cappella; he'll introduce instrumentalists. He has a vision for us as more of a period group putting on authentic baroque music."
In Metcalfe's view, Milnes' presence will enrich Burlington's music scene "in a way that's really logical: a southern Québec/northern Vermont collaboration, where there's French [heritage] on both sides.
"Having worked with him," Metcalfe added, "I know these are going to be superb concerts."
The "Messiah" concert on December 11 at 4 p.m. is sold out, so a second performance has been added at 7:30 p.m. Find tickets here
The original print version of this article was headlined "Going for Baroque | The new director of two Burlington choirs is a heavy hitter in the world of early music"
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Exclusive Interview: The Futuristic Polar Bears
Rick Nijsse 21/06/2012 1
In 2010 they merged together and started a new fresh breed of Polar Bears, the one's with guns and lasers! The Futuristic Polar Bears didn't wondered the earth but they immediately burst onto the EDM scene, leaving a trail of huge releases including their massive club smash 'Freakin' on the mighty 'Subliminal Records' alongside Jason Herd. With their devestating force of House Music they are smashing dance-clubs all over the globe and are a prime example that hard work, raw talent and a good looking band-name for posters are
key-points for progressing in the industry.
So we thought it was time to have a chat with these well evolved Polar Bears.
Hi Guys, how are you all doing?
(Rhys) We're good thanks, we've just finished off some new projects for the summer. Can't wait to road test them over the coming weeks.
First of all, how did you all become producers?
(Luke) I was originally a drummer, Rhys is a classically trained pianist and Fran used to teach music technology back in Dublin. We all made the natural progression to production.
In 2010 you teamed-up, how were you careers before this merger?
(Fran) Myself and Luke were working with Kid Massive for Audiodamage Records before hand and Rhys was producing under the name "Stefano Azati" and was releasing on the likes of CR2.
You're having an exciting year in 2012 – can you tell us more about it?
(Luke) Yeah 2012 is shaping up nicely so far! We've had some great releases on Hotfingers, 303Lovers and Caballero as well as some fantastic gigs playing alongside the likes of D.Ramirez, Riva Starr, EDX and Tocadisco. The Highlight so far has to be our collaboration with Fatboy Slim on his Get Naked release. Watching the crowd go mad at Ultra Music Festival in Miami as he dropped it peak time in his set was a proud moment for all of us.
How was it to work together with Fatboy Slim on "Get Naked"?
(Fran) It came about by chance, Fatboy Slim was supporting our 2011 version of "Circus Bells" we'd done and all of sudden we got an email out of the blue from Norman saying "here's a link to a bootleg I've done of your track". The reaction on it was massive and we agreed to make it official.
Do you have much planned in the near future from a production perspective?
(Rhys) We've just finished records for Pacha, Milk & Sugar and My Digital Enemy's new label Zulu Records. We are also working with K-Klass and Antranig from the USA on a couple of new projects, which we are very excited about. Finally we are very honoured to have been asked by Loopmasters to produce a new sample pack. It's always something we've wanted to do and its great to finally get the opportunity to make one.
How are your standpoints about the current way of selling you music? Is it the right way to go?
(Fran) With technology like it is, MP3 selling sites like Beatport/Traxsource/iTunes is the only way to go at the minute. I just wish somebody would bring in something or governments pass a law to stop all the illegal file sharing – it's ruining music.
Do you think that bringing EDM music to U.S.A. is a bad thing?
(Luke) I can only see it as a good thing, it opens up new avenues and opportunities that once weren't there. There's a lot of talent emerging from the states now as well.
Where and what is your favourite club on earth?
(Luke) for me it's a beach party in Mexico called "Fiesta En La Playa" @ Mezzanine in Tulum. I've had some great times playing there.
(Fran) Lush, Portrush, N.Ireland. So many great nights playing there over the years, the crowds are awesome.
(Rhys) Sankeys in Manchester was cool. 1st time I played there I was like "wow" the sound system is phat and the crowd are always up for it.
What's the most memorable moment of your career?
(Fran) Our first major label that we signed to with the polar bears was Morillo's Subliminal Records. That was a pretty special feeling.
If you could play at any place in the world, where would it be?
(Luke) For me it'd have to be Green Valley in Brazil, the videos look amazing, plus I really want to visit Brazil.
(Fran) Zouk in Singapore for me. I visited it a few years ago and was blown away. Definitely would love to play there.
(Rhys) Papaya Beach Club in Croatia looks pretty special. Open-air venues are always amazing to play at and we've heard so many great things about the place.
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