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Wisdom of Solomon or Wisdom, early Jewish book included in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not in the Hebrew Bible. The book opens with an exhortation to seek wisdom, followed by a statement on worldly attitudes. Chapter 3 is an eloquent passage on the immortality of the just and the rewards of the wicked, amplified in the next chapters. Then follows another exhortation and a transition to a section praising wisdom, ending with a prayer for it. The remainder of the book is a history of God's care of the Jews from the beginning, with a long parenthesis on the natural origin of idolatry and its folly. The style and content of the book lend themselves to quotation; for example, St. Paul's letters allude to passages from Wisdom. The book is probably of Alexandrian Jewish authorship—most scholars place the date in the two centuries before Jesus. Some see in it a composite work of three parts: chapters 1–6, 7–9, and 10–19, of which the third is said to resemble a PassoverHaggada. It is the paragon of what is called wisdom literature, a term for the Jewish philosophical writings of the pre-Christian era. The following books of the Hebrew Bible also represent this type: Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Sirach.
See D. Winston, The Wisdom of Solomon (1979). See also under Old Testament Apocrypha.
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Wisdom of Solomon. One of the books of the Apocrypha. The author's familiarity with Gk. philosophy places him as a Jew of Alexandria in the period 2nd cent. BCE–1st cent. CE. The terms used of Wisdom in ch. 7 passed into Christian theology as applied to Christ.
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Solomon, Wisdom of
Solomon, Wisdom of (book of the Apocrypha): see WISDOM OF SOLOMON.
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SOLOMON, WISDOM OF (Gr. Σοφία Σαλωμῶνος (or Σ. Σαλωμῶντος) or, ή Σοφία; ή πανάρετος Σοφία, "the wisdom of all the good precepts" – a title sometimes given also to Proverbs and Ben Sira), an apocryphal work. The ascription of the book to Solomon is mentioned explicitly in chapters 7–9 (particularly in 9:7), but such early writers as Jerome (Praefatio in libros Solomonis), and Augustine (De Civitate Dei, 17:20), already were skeptical about this ascription, and attributed the work to Philo despite the fact that its viewpoint differs from his.
The book can be divided into three parts. Chapters 1–5 deal with eschatology, 6–11 deal with wisdom, and 11–19 are a Midrash on the Exodus from Egypt with a Hellenistic presentation. The first part discusses the fate of the righteous and the wicked. The wicked man regards all acts as accidents, and is thus not deterred from doing whatever he wishes; he is unaware that in the end man's life will be judged by his good deeds. Although the wicked man appears to prosper, eternal life and happiness is reserved for the righteous. Thus the righteous man, though he appears not to prosper, is the truly wise man. By its very nature wisdom is unlikely to enter the soul of the wicked (1:4).
The second part describes wisdom as a metaphysical reality, as "a breath of the power of God" (7:25). It exists forever and through its power all knowledge and every virtue is created. It determines the history of Israel. Without expressly mentioning their names, the author exemplifies wisdom's role in the life of biblical "heroes" (Cain, Noah, the men of Sodom, Jacob, and Joseph) and in important events (the Exodus from Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea).
In the third part the author deals at length with the plagues in Egypt and the redemption. The miracle is regarded not as a change in nature but as a change in the principles that constitute nature, and whether as reward or as punishment always takes the form of measure for measure (e.g., the waters of the Nile were changed to blood because the Egyptians first sinned with water when they cast the Hebrew children into the Nile; on the other hand, the Israelites were rewarded by receiving water from the rock). Punishment itself comes after all possibilities have been exhausted, since it is God's nature to wait for the repentance of the wicked. While discussing Pharaoh's rebelliousness the author incidentally discusses the origin of idolatry in general. It lies in man's bad habit of not seeking for the first cause, and in the fashioning of images which were indeed first created for a specific occasion (e.g., a father mourning for his only son erected an image of him), but then spread through the desire to flatter tyrants and their ambition to exalt themselves. Through idolatry man also found a way of realizing his desires by assigning a different god to each of his vices.
The purpose of the book is to strengthen the Jewish believer against the seduction of idolatry. The problem of the sufferings of the righteous, already discussed in the Bible, is dealt with here against the background of Hellenistic thought. The punishment of the righteous serves the purpose of "testing" or "educating," but his reward is granted in the world to come. God is the God of the living and He intended man to be immortal. However, Satan's jealousy brought death into the world (2:23f.) but only the men of vanity experience it (2:24). The punishment of the righteous is fleeting but his hope everlasting (4:3), while "the memory of the wicked shall perish on the day of reckoning" of their iniquities, i.e., on the eschatological Day of Judgment. Like Proverbs and Ben Sira this work compares wisdom to a creative principal through which God acts in the world (18:15). Idolatry, which is the opposite of wisdom, is regarded as fetishism. The author scorns in particular the worship of "contemptible" beasts (cats, snakes, monkeys), a cult common in Egypt.
Many influences have entered into the book. Besides that of the Bible, the book's view is similar to the view of the sages that evil does not come from the Lord (1:13 – Sifra Be-Ḥukkotai, ch. 4:1); that the soul preexisted (8:20 – Ḥag. 12b): that there is a heavenly temple (9:18 – Gen. R. 1:4); that everything is judged measure for measure (Sot. 1:7); and that the soul is a trust (Yalk Pr. 935). Like the rabbinic aggadot it mentions the singing of Hallel at the time of the Exodus from Egypt (Pes. 117a). Other views, however, are Platonic and Stoic, e.g., the idea that the world was created from primeval matter (9:9); that the body serves as a hindrance to the influence of God in man (9:15); that there are four virtues (8:7); and that spirit is preexistent. As in Platonism, the wise are the beloved of God, and as in Stoicism the spirit is compared with fire (2:2). The author mentions several other views (that right is might; that man dies but once) only in order to refute them.
As far as the language is concerned, a conscious effort is made to imitate biblical style, including parallelism, but construction of the sentences is Greek and is polished. There is a tendency toward alliteration, paranomasia, and complex words rare even in Greek. Opinions differ as to the composition of the book. Some are of the opinion that the first part was written in Hebrew, others consider the whole book to have been written in Hebrew, while yet others divide it among various authors all of whom wrote in Greek. However, the composition of the Greek words, the use of assonance, the rhythmic construction and the imagery (crowning the head with flowers, the victory processions of athletes, etc.) in all parts of the work alike support the view that it was written in Greek by one person, apparently in Alexandria. The date of composition is uncertain. Since the author opposes the deification of kings, some ascribe it to the era of Caligula. However, the Ptolemaic kings also compared themselves to gods. A 16th-century manuscript was found (now in Hechal Shlomo in Jerusalem) which is a translation of the whole apocryphon, seemingly from the Latin, into a corrupt Hebrew.
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[Yehoshua M. Grintz]
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By Viktoria Draganova
Viktoria Draganova: You current exhibition, Eyes in the Back of your Head at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, expands on a technological experiment revealing modernist delusions of grandeur. Your starting point is Funkstation Kamina, the first telecom tower in Togo built by a German company. What prompted you to engage with this architecture?
Bianca Baldi: I first came across a series of photographs of the radio tower in the collection of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana. The images commissioned by Telefunken were striking to me in the way they were styled to present modern progress in a supposedly barren landscape. It was the story of the construction that moved me most as this huge investment also revealed a huge imperial gesture in the ambition of linking both states wirelessly. Ironically, due to the outbreak of World War I it would only be fully operational for a few months and only very few messages were transmitted. Nevertheless, I am intrigued by this gesture of creating this first connection as it is a metaphor for a historical shift in the way we think about power, moving from a centralized point to a realm of invisible transmissions.
Installation view "Eyes in the Back of Your Head", Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, 2017. Courtesy Bianca Baldi and Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof. Photo: Michael Pfisterer
VD: The structuring element of the show is transparent fabric hanging from the ceiling in a specific arrangement. Printed on it is a collage of the above-mentioned photographs of the tower's construction site. What type of space do you create in the exhibition?
BB: The structure is based on the plan of a talisman scroll that was collected by the same Slovenian engineer who designed the radio tower. In my practice I am curious about how spaces can be transformed in order to acquire a new quality – in this case, this quality is subjective or magical. The lines on the talisman scroll originally inscribed by a cleric are applied to the exhibition space that becomes a talisman against disillusionment. I'm also interested in how this magical experience could potentially be triggered within the space through the body of the visitor walking in it.
What is notable about this kind of talisman is that its magical potential works by creating an infrastructure, a pathway, to trap the evil spirit. For me this is similar to the radio tower, which is both formally and conceptually another infrastructure that enables the transmission of imperceptible forces. Although the scroll and the tower share the same language – that of the medium, the transmission, the channel – they could hardly be on more opposite ends of the knowledge spectrum.
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VD: When entering the exhibition, we hear a voice echoing through the space. I found myself navigating through the labyrinth of hanging images to finally find its source, a tall geometric sculpture.
BB: In my practice, I often create fictional characters that act as allegorical stand-ins. The raspy voice one hears belongs to the character of the medium reciting an incantation. The voice emanates from the sculpture fashioned after Funkstation Kamina and guides visitors through the staged landscape. It suggests the magical, in stark opposition to the machine, the tower, the colonial intervention. The historical waiting room of the Harburger Bahnhof on the other hand is filled with a deep bass frequency which stimulates an urgent pulse in the visitors' bodies – somewhere between a heartbeat and a radio signal.
Installation View :Eyes in The Back of Your Head (2017) Video and steel construction, acrylic one-way mirror, monitor 142 X 82 X 82 cm. Courtesy Bianca Baldi and Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof. Photo: Michael Pfisterer
VD: The sculpture has a mirrored surface that also serves as the screen for a film, a CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) rendering of the space we are in. What is the nature of this "second sight" you are creating here?
BB: The CG space created in the film suggests a second sight, different from the vision limited to your eyes. It is an additional sense, a feeling of being out of your body, and the CG vision allows you to traverse the space anew, showing you perspectives that defy the limits of the human body.
VD: Just like in your previous exhibition, Pure Breaths at Swimming Pool, Sofia, the voice seems to play a central role: it activates the space while it confronts the way we believe to obtain knowledge about our present and past.
BB: Yes, what we understand as knowledge is something formalized through a legitimization process, be that by tradition, media or institutions. In Pure Breaths, the image of the breath became my proposition for an alternative way of experiencing something, a suggestion that you can breathe something in before you see it. It is proposing that there is a possibility to breathe in sensation as opposed to knowing something. The presence of the voice runs as a thread through the space, giving it a corporeal dimension. Experience is rather individual and related to one's own body. Perhaps it is from this point we can rethink what constitutes knowledge.
Bianca Baldi, Eyes in the Back of Your Head, 24 March – 4 June, 2017, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg.
Viktoria Draganova is a writer and curator living between Frankfurt and Sofia, where she is the director of the project space Swimming Pool.
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You Can Go Home Again: The Trend of USMNT Players Signing With MLS Clubs
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by Andrew Lewellen
This summer five USMNT players have signed or re-signed with MLS clubs. The most significant of those was Clint Dempsey, who shocked the American soccer community by transferring to the Seattle Sounders from Tottenham Hotspur. Two weeks later, 24-year-old Galaxy center back Omar Gonzalez, the 2011 MLS Defender of the Year and 2012 MLS Cup MVP, signed a Designated Player contract with the Galaxy, foregoing opportunities to play in Europe to stick with the two-time defending MLS champions. Nearly two weeks later, Landon Donovan announced he, too, would be signing a contract extension with the Galaxy, likely meaning that he would end his professional career in Los Angeles.
The same day the news of Dempsey's transfer broke, U.S. defender Clarence Goodson attended his first training session with the San Jose Earthquakes, whom he joined after five years playing in Norway and Denmark. In June, Sporting Kansas City retained USMNT midfielder Graham Zusi and defender Matt Besler, the 2012 MLS Defender of the Year.
Last Thursday, when U.S. men's national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann announced his roster for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Costa Rica and Mexico, five of these six players were on it (Goodson didn't get a call-up). Those five join Real Salt Lake's Kyle Beckerman and Nick Rimando, and Seattle's Eddie Johnson, bringing the number of MLS players on the 23-man roster to eight. (Originally, the number was nine, but on Saturday, Seattle defender Brad Evans suffered an injury in a match against Columbus and needed to be replaced.) Between Donovan, Dempsey, Gonzalez, Besler, Zusi, and Johnson, MLS players could easily occupy four or five spots in the team's starting 11.
The strong presence of MLS players in the USMNT is not necessarily a new phenomenon. The 2002 World Cup squad — which became the most successful of the modern era by advancing to the quarterfinals — featured a core of MLS characters; six of the 11 who started in the team's historic first-round victory over Portugal were MLS players. Brian McBride, a member of that 2002 team who played 10 years in MLS and five seasons with Premier League side Fulham, says the times are changing. "2002 is a lot different from the standpoint that there wasn't really many options to go overseas," he says. "That's changed completely now."
What's different is that top American internationals are making the decision to stay in or return to Major League Soccer, not because they have to, but because they want to.
"These players have options," says McBride, "and they're real options. But they're making a commitment, and so is the league, and that's a positive for the future of soccer."
There are a number reasons these players chose Major League Soccer over an international league. In Dempsey's case, it was a matter of playing time going into a World Cup. But when it comes down to it, the reason Major League Soccer can sign and re-sign these players is money.
McBride sees the domestic league stepping up to the plate, financially: "I like the fact that MLS is coming to the table and saying, 'We want to keep you guys, and while we may not be able to pay you what you could possibly make overseas, we'll pay you a lot more than what we used to pay or usually pay the top Americans.' That's great."
Cobi Jones, a veteran of three World Cups and the all-time leader in caps for the U.S., who also played 12 years in MLS, agrees: "These moves over the past month or two have been another significant step forward for MLS, bringing national team players back at significant sums."
After signing with Seattle, Dempsey talked with Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl about the $40,000 salary he earned during his first MLS season (2004), and how he lived with a host family to save money. Nine years later, his annual salary with Seattle is around $8 million.
What's making it possible for MLS to pony up the cash to sign these players? The Designated Player rule. Originally constructed to enable the Galaxy to secure David Beckham from Real Madrid in 2007, the DP rule allows each MLS team to sign up to three players to their team whose salaries, for the 2013 season, count as $375,000 (or $175,000 if he joins after the middle of the season) toward the team's salary cap of $2.95 million, but whose actual salary can greatly exceed that amount. The club just has to find a way to pick up the tab.
Traditionally, Designated Players have been aging internationals like Beckham and Thierry Henry. This summer, in an odd twist, the DP rule has been serving a new purpose: attracting and retaining top American talent.
The signing of these USMNT players is definitely a boon for MLS, but Klinsmann seems to have conflicting opinions on whether the domestic league is competitive enough for American internationals.
In June, before the Gold Cup, he said: "MLS has [been] a huge part of the development of the national team because it's the foundation of the professional game in this country. The foundation is getting stronger and stronger. And we with the national team program want to kind of continue on that work that is done in MLS and also give those players the opportunity to break into the national team roster."
Then, in the days following Dempsey's move to Seattle in August, he said: "I am thrilled for MLS," he said, "because you have an outstanding player now hopefully filling more stadiums and getting even more kids and people excited about the game. For Clint it's a challenge, coming from one of the top leagues in the world, coming back to the U.S. and being back in MLS where we still have to work on a lot of things."
Gonzalez says that Klinsmann approved of his decision to stay with the Galaxy, but suggested, at some point, he experience European football. "He basically told me he thinks it's fine that I stay here in MLS, and hearing him say that really put my mind at ease and really made it easier for me to make this decision … I really wanted to know what his thoughts were, because I was already thinking maybe I wanted to stay here with the Galaxy, and to hear him validate it and say it's fine if you stay for a couple of years, but at some point you should go to Europe, you should see what that's like to test yourself."
Klinsmann's take on MLS seems to mirror the American soccer public's long-established view of the league when it comes to elite American internationals: It's a proving ground for young players and a retirement home for aging veterans. But the signings by players like Dempsey, Gonzalez, Zusi, and Besler are changing that perception.
Andrew Lewellen (@AndyHLew), a former college soccer player and youth coach, is now a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. He writes the weekly "Hold the Line" column for AmericanSoccerNow.com.
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New York Giants interested in James Bradberry (Report)
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The New York Giants need to bolster their secondary. As a result, they're reportedly showing interest in pending free agent James Bradberry.
In 2019, the New York Giants secondary was near the bottom of the league. Dealing with issues related to blatant inconsistency and inexperience, Big Blue allowed an average of 264.1 passing yards per game. This statistic put them at No. 28 in the NFL.
The Giants will need to hone in on this problem when it comes to the draft and free agency. The latter option could be utilized very soon — the free agency period begins March 18 at 4:00 p.m. ET — and one potential target may be a fellow draft pick of general manager Dave Gettleman.
According to Ralph Vacchiano of SNY, the Giants are expressing interest in cornerback James Bradberry.
While serving as the general manager of the Carolina Panthers, Gettleman selected Bradberry in the second round (No. 62 overall) of the 2016 draft out of Samford University. He was brought in to fill the void left by Josh Norman, who joined the Washington Redskins a season removed from a 2015 All-Pro campaign.
In his four years with the Panthers, Bradberry has recorded 279 combined tackles, seven tackles for loss, eight interceptions, and 47 passes defended in 60 total games.
Would this be a good acquisition?
There are a number of ways you can look at the potential signing of Bradberry.
When you compare him to some of the other cornerbacks who are soon-to-be free agents, he's not the most successful. Guys like Byron Jones and Chris Harris Jr. have undergone better careers up to this point. The former was a second-team All-Pro in 2018 and the latter has been named to three All-Pro teams in his career.
But there's an advantage to Bradberry, and that's the price tag. Bradberry will certainly be cheaper than the other two aforementioned defensive backs. Spending less money could prove to be a beneficial move for a team that possesses a number of glaring holes and is experiencing an obvious rebuilding stage.
Bradberry, despite only 26 years old, would additionally bring that veteran presence to the Giants cornerback room.
At the moment, the team employs the likes of Deandre Baker (22), Corey Ballentine (23), Grant Haley (24), and Sam Beal (23). They no longer possess that experienced corner to help mentor and lead this group. Janoris Jenkins provided those qualities prior to the organization waiving him last December.


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BINGHAM, William Harrison, 88, passed away on February 15, 2010, 65 years to the day after first meeting his wife. He was born in Richmond on March 19, 1921, son of the late Lucien Warner Bingham and Mary Saville Bingham. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Alma Newell Bingham; his daughters, Kathryn Gorman and her husband, Richard F. Gorman III, of Richmond and Susan Mickey and her husband, John E. Mickey, of Clemmons, North Carolina; three grandchildren, Michael Davis Gorman and William Bingham Gorman of Richmond and Sarah Hollis Mickey of Clemmons, North Carolina and Providence, Rhode Island; his sister, Mary Keith Hinshelwood of Richmond; and his brother, Charles S. Bingham of Largo, Florida. Bill was an Eagle Scout, graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, and received his degree in chemistry from the University of Richmond. He was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Pacific in World War II aboard the carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) as a dive bomber and fighter pilot with Dive Bomber Squadron 14 (VB-14). He fought in all the major campaigns of 1944-45, including the Marianas campaign and the liberation of the Philippines. He married in 1945, and in 1946 he brought his bride back to Richmond and joined his father in business at Bingham Truck Service. Upon his father's retirement, he took the sales department and formed his own company, Bingham GMC Trucks. He served as treasurer of the Virginia Highway Users for many years and on the General Motors Dealer Council. He stayed in the Navy Reserve, and led his squadron in Norfolk during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He retired as Commander in 1964. He loved all airplanes and enjoyed his naval career. He was president of the Richmond Jaycees, 1956-1957, the Richmond First Club, 1974-1975, and was chairman of the Community Chest. He served on the board of the Richmond Cerebral Palsy Center for many years, the Richmond Automobile Dealers Association, on the board of the University of Richmond Alumni Association, and as a Sunday School teacher and deacon at the River Road Church, Baptist. He was a longtime member of the Kiwanis Club of Richmond, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Virginia Historical Society, and was a volunteer at the Virginia Aviation Museum. He and Alma traveled the world and enjoyed great adventures. His favorite trip was when they flew an antique Stearman biplane from Kansas City to Richmond. He was a Virginia gentleman and a proud American. In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to River Road Church, Baptist, 8000 River Road, Richmond, Va. 23229. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, February 19, 2010 at River Road Church, Baptist. His family will receive friends at the church following the service.


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Q: Amazon Network Load Balancer required port 80 to be publicly open on nodes from target group? I have a website running on apache httpd. The two web nods are added under Network Load Balancer. If I open the port 80 of the two web nodes only for the default security group or VPC CIDR range, the website does not work. However, If I open the port 80 fully 0.0.0.0/0 then it works.
This was not the case in Classic ELB. Am I doing something wrong here or its the default behaviour of Network Load Balancer?

A: Due to the nature of the Network Load Balancer, traffic is passed directly to the target instances, retaining its source IP address. Thus to the target instances (and their Security Groups) the traffic looks like it is coming straight from the Internet. So you would need to configure the Security Group of the target instances to allow public access.
I've seen lots of people complain about this, and I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon updated NLBs in the future to work like the other load balancers, but it may not be possible due to the way NLBs are designed.
If you are using port 80 then I assume this is for HTTP? Why not use an Application Load Balancer instead and get the Security Group feature you are looking for as well as things like SSL termination?

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– Many readers will be deeply saddened to know that Ileana Welte died of a heart attack last Wednesday whilst travelling on the Tube in London.
Many will know her from her long time working in Bosch in the UK, where she was particularly associated with the NHS Direct telehealth service, and more recently her management of the UK side of Big White Wall where she was doing a brilliant job driving the uptake of digital health in the NHS to help treat people with mental health problems.
She will be very sorely missed; her untimely death has come as a huge shock to many.
We will shortly be publishing a larger article with contributions from Bosch, Big White Wall and from ex NHS Direct colleagues – other contributions will be gratefully received. We will also publish news of her funeral/memorial services when received.
Many thanks to Sharon Le Corre for pointing us to the Bosch Healthcare announcement that from the start of the New Year their telecare business is now owned by Quantum, under the name Telealarm.
[grow_thumb image="http://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Health-Buddy-Web-Image.jpg" thumb_width="200″ /]Bosch Healthcare's partnership with Remedy Health Media for a web-based version of Health Buddy for telehealth premiered today at International CES. It will be available on desktop, smartphone and tablet. The format seems to combine both the monitoring aspect of the hub-based Health Buddy with extras such as an integrated reminder system, patient engagement and behavior modification tools such as brain games to improve memory and cognition, and patient educational content. The countries it will be available in were not disclosed. While Bosch has vigorously maintained that the Health Buddy hub will continue to be supported [TTA 24 Sept], Editors Charles and Donna have maintained that it will be relegated sooner, rather than later, to a secondary product line. Release.
1. Bosch Healthcare is not exiting the UK market. Telecare is business as usual and we will continue to sell our entire line of telecare products in the foreseeable future. We have placed all new telehealth activities on hold for now as we spend the next few months re-evaluating the business strategy based on current market dynamics in the UK.
2. We are not exiting the Health Buddy device business. We will continue to offer Health Buddys to patients who need them. The Remedy partnership press release announced an expansion of our patient interface portfolio to more mobile and internet-based solutions, not a replacement of existing Health Buddy devices.
Bosch to can Health Buddy, withdraw from telehealth in UK – temporarily?
On September 6th, Bosch announced a tie up with Remedy Health Media [TTA 10 Sep] "to launch remote patient monitoring products designed for tablets and smartphones", which suggested that it would not be long before they stopped selling their purpose-built telehealth hardware.
[grow_thumb image="http://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TROLLS-1992-008.jpg" thumb_width="150″ /]In February and for a few months, this Editor was on a tear about the quaintly dubbed patent trolls–primarily (but not always) non-practicing entities (NPEs) which don't create or market products, but buy up other people's/companies' patents and then seek out opportunities to license them. These NPEs target and challenge vulnerable startups and early-stage companies to defend their patents and systems; the suit for royalties, the financial threat, the papers filed, the attorneys called, the money spent and the eventual settlement (or licensing) is in reality just a form of what's called in Latin America la mordida. It becomes cheaper to settle than to fight–and the cost can be six or seven figures.
The shots over the bow were in 2012: Bosch's February lawsuits against Waldo Health, ExpressMD/Authentidate and MedApps (now Alere Connect) [TTA 16 Feb 2012] and then the strange practice of PHR developer/patent accumulator MMRGlobal [TTA 23 Oct 2012] in sending hundreds, perhaps thousands, of letters out to EHR/EMR users to advise them of possible patent violations and demanding licensing. This Editor observed then and during the spring this year that it was only a matter of time that NPEs would pounce on healthcare tech as investment action accelerated. Yet discussions by this Editor with companies in some public venues indicated a certain level of obliviousness to the threat–that there were not enough assets to go after, thus healthcare startups made poor targets–though side conversations with IP specialist attorneys indicated otherwise.
[grow_thumb image="http://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Doro-Liberto-810.jpg" thumb_width="100″ /]Doro's unveiling of their second smartphone, the Doro Liberto 810, along with its 'privileged access' to two Withings devices–the Smart Body Analyzer (weight, body fat, heart rate) and Pulse Smart Activity Tracker–continues their moves into older adult-appealing mobile telecare/telehealth offerings, as tracked by founding Editor Steve since at least 2009. Doro's assertive move into Quantified Selfing as part of what they call 'the world's most liberating smartphone', is more fully featured and was predicted by David Doherty earlier this year [TTA 25 Feb]. It is also not Doro's first big alliance; late last year, Bosch Healthcare announced that Doro would be the mobile platform for telecare offerings in Germany and Sweden [TTA 16 Nov 2012]. Both the release and Mobihealthnews indicate that this offering will roll out to select European markets initially, but the latter states that a similar offering will debut in the US by early 2014. (For US readers, Doro is equivalent to GreatCall's Jitterbug line) According to Mobile, the Liberto will be available in the UK in October.
Engaging patients (sideways?) is a new partnership announced by Bosch Healthcare and New York-based Remedy Health Media to add web-based solutions to its current health management programs delivered through their Health Buddy and T400 devices. The release and coverage (Mass Device, mHealth News) implies that monitoring will part of the patient engagement with "a suite of innovative web-based products for remote patient monitoring" available later this year. Does it mean that the hubs are on their way to the scrapheap? Hat tip to reader Bob Pyke.
Conflicting telehealth signals – is the VA or E Riding of Yorkshire CCG on the money?
Can there be two greater contrasts than the recent decisions by the Dept of Veteran Affairs in the US (VA) to award a five year $28.8m telehealth contract to AMC Health and that of the E Riding of Yorkshire CCG to "axe" its telehealth service?
Well someone thinks telehealth is good news!
Medtronic has just announced a $200m takeover of Cardiocom, the telehealth device maker. If you can get through the paywall, the WSJ article is here (updated link not paywalled–Ed. Donna). FierceMedical quotes Medtronic as saying that "At-home monitoring is a proven method of reducing the rates of hospital readmission…and that translates to savings for payers, providers and governments." First area of joint working is expected to be heart failure. Recent US regulations on Medicare, and increasingly insurance payers, penalize hospitals for 30-day same-cause repeat admissions. Medtronic press release.
It also should be noted that Medtronic's CEO, Omar Ishrak, is well acquainted with home health. Mr. Ishrak was formerly the CEO and president of GE Healthcare through mid-2011–and the driver behind making what was an ultimately failed bet in getting GEHC into home health. That was in 2008-9 with a tiny company called Living Independently Group, developer of a telecare system called QuietCare, which ultimately went to the Care Innovations JV with Intel. (Disclosure: I was head of marketing at the time of the acquisition.) Like GEHC, Medtronic is acquiring a closely-held company in a very different line of business with drivers quite unlike its own; they are retaining the former CEO as a general manager of the division but whether other management or the brand name will survive is not disclosed.
Doro has revealed its latest handset – the Doro Secure 681." According to an item in Mobile Magazine, the phone will launch in the second quarter of this year and is "aimed at people who currently rely on the support of a fixed-line telecare services, allowing them greater mobility outside the home." The 681 is said to be the first mobile phone to feature an embedded 'class one' telecare radio receiver that is compatible with Doro's wearable wrist, neck and fall sensors. Alerts can be sent to monitoring services via the internet or SMS. To this editor, if the photo in the above item is to be believed, the clamshell design and screen/keyboard layout is going to be too complicated for many people in the target market. It also looks like big-boy Doro has been learning a few lessons about the need to check and report battery charge levels automatically from UK small-guy Carephone. However Doro will have the advantage of being part of Bosch's offering to the public. It will be interesting to see which gets traction with the public first, the Doro/Bosch combination or O2's Health at Hand.