This outage does highlight the importance of a backup channel for communications. DSU has an emergency communications system for the folks who really need to know and coordinate outage response. Our curriculum management system, Desire2Learn, is hosted elsewhere, so profs can use that to alert students that they can't get at the library and other other campus resources and perhaps share materials through the D2L Content pages in the interim. And we can always text each other.
As for cloud computing, we'll have some inevitable hiccups like this using remote apps. But are they any more frequent or inconvenient than the work stoppages caused by spilling Pepsi on your laptop or having your home system go ape from that one nefarious virus that sneaks through in that e-mail from Grandma?
A cut cable is just the new blizzard, the new snow day, the new canceled flight that keeps us from getting our work done when we thought we would.
Crawford Kilian, Writing for the Web, 4th ed., Self-Counsel Press: Bellingham, WA, 2009.
I just finished reading Kilian's Webwriting guide. I would enjoy teaching English from this text. Kilian does a good job of putting communication into our clickety-quick context.
The Interactive/Constructivist Communication Model: When you write online, you need to think beyond the standard instrumentalist model of communication. That model says your sender transmits a message to a receiver, with the intent of making the receiver do something. Kilian says nuts to that: online, you're having a conversation. Sender and receiver constantly change roles, interacting to jointly construct message and meaning. Corporate writers often have a hard time getting this (see Chapter 6).
25% Slower: that's the oft-quoted stat from Jakob Nielsen on how much more slowly we read online. Paper has better resolution than computer screens. Our screens are getting sharper, but even on the iPad and Kindle, Nielsen found reading speeds 6% to 10% slower than in printed books. Write acordingly online: keep it short (Kilian says 100 words max!).
Orientation, Information, Action: These three principles should guide all writing. Online, first orient your readers: make it clear to them where they are and how to get around your site. Inform them: be clear and correct (spell things right!). Then direct them toward action, whether it's leaving a comment, contacting Congress, donating money….
Advocacy and Marketing: Chapter 8 concisely summarizes tips for persuasive writing. The section on propaganda types, myths, and devices could make nice bite-size handouts and classroom activities.
The county's Levy Court — the equivalent of a county council — has an existing rule that bars employees from using government equipment for personal social media activity at work. But a recent proposal would extend that ban to include activity during non-work times, specifically as it relates to commentary that disparages co-workers or reflects unfavorably toward the county government [Brian Heaton, "Social Media Usage Becoming a Free Speech Question for Governments," Government Technology, 2011.05.17 ].
As law professor Phillip Sparkes points out in this article, Kent County is going well beyond the boundaries on public employee speech set by Garcetti v Ceballos (2006). That case recognized that public employers can place some limits on what city officials, teachers, and other public employees say while acting in an official capacity. However, that case does not allow government to impose rules on off-duty speech like those proposed by Kent County.
"I think folks that draw lines as far as what you can and can't do on your free time are avoiding the inevitable," she said. "Social media has been here and it's not going away. Locking it down is just going to create more management headaches in the long run" [Heaton, 2011.05.17].
People are going to talk… and Tweet. They're going to use their smartphones and iPads to do so. Trying to control employees' every utterance is unconstitutional and impractical. Instead of trying to keep employees from talking, local governments will make better use of their time working to treat employees and the public right so they all have good things to talk about.
Only a few years ago, discussion of meaningful use of electronic health records on mobile devices would likely have conjured images of rolling workstations and conventional laptop computers. In the last few years, the form factor for common mobile computing devices has folded down significantly, as touchscreen-enabled smartphones and tablets have experienced faster adoption that most previous technological innovations. Making meaningful use of EHR systems still requires systemwide investment in technology and training, but it can now take advantage of personal mobile computing devices widely adopted by health care professionals for their personal use. "Besides the obvious benefits of always-on, ubiquitous connectivity, it leverages something most doctors and patients already own — a mobile phone or, increasingly, a tablet. This is why we have seen so many healthcare solutions coming out that incorporate wireless" (Lewis, 2011b). This multiply advantageous form factor may not "crush" laptops in the healthcare space, as one champion proclaimed one month after the iPad hit the market (Merrill, 2010a), but new mobile computing tools are enjoying remarkably fast adoption in the healthcare field.
With the meaningful use verification period for the CMS EHR Incentive Program opened Monday ("'Meaningful Use' Reporting Period Starts for Electronic Health Records Program," 2011), it is thus important and timely to see if adoption of mobile computing devices by health care professionals may help health care incorporate health IT in their regular service provision. This paper reviews current rates of adoption, uses, and motivating factors of mobile computing technology by health care practitioners.
Mobile computing preceded smartphones and tablets in the form of personal digital assistants. 26% of U.S. physicians used PDAs in 2001 (Lu et al., 2003). However, at that time, PDA users in health care settings faced more barriers. Many more institutions lacked integrated information systems that could provide PDA users access to patient databases. Screen size and resolution, poor interfaces, short battery life, and hardware fragility hindered usability (Lu et al., 2003). Studies expected PDA use to rise rapidly (Lu, Xiao, Sears, & Jacko, 2005), but the above barriers prevented the devices from gaining dominance in the health care industry.
Laptop computers with tablet capability brought some expanded interface capacity. However, these devices posed challenges the same problem as PDAs with poor battery life, with the greater weight and bulk compounding usability problems. Older tablets also generally ran operating systems designed for use with keyboard and mouse, making operation in tablet mode unwieldy (Robertson, Miles, & Bloor, 2010).
Now mobile computing tools appear to be rising to meet the hopes expressed for mobile computing years ago. Current literature echoes past promises of halcyon days for mobile computing—smartphone technology, for instance, is called a transformative, paradigm-changing technology (Bottles, 2011). However, current adoption and use rates appear to give ground for such statements. Smartphones are leading the way in modern penetration of mobile computing technology in the health care field. Knowledge Networks survey finds 64% of doctors have a smartphone. 27% of primary care providers and specialists have a tablet, an adoption rate five times the rate for the general population. That statistic is all the more remarkable given that health care practitioners generally lag other industries and the general population in information technology adoption. Manhattan Research mid-2010 found 72% of U.S. physicians have a smartphone or PDA; Chilmark Research finds 22% of physicians with iPad by end of 2010 (Dolan, 2011). A 2010 PricewaterhouseCooper survey found 63% of physicians are already using personal devices for mobile health solutions (Lewis, 2010b).
At the institutional level, in fall 2010, one IT enterprise supplier found that healthcare institutions constituted 10% of iPad-deploying customers, the third-largest segment among its clients, just behind the technology sector at 11% and well behind the leading financial services sector at 43% (Merrill, 2010b). An October 2010 HIMSS survey found 70% of responding members planning to deploy iPad and other Apple mobile devices in their health care facilities by the end of 2011 (Lewis, 2010a). Interestingly, 30% of physicians in a survey last year reported that, benefits notwithstanding, their hospital or practice leaders would not support the use of mobile devices (Lewis, 2010b).
Operating systems adopted show some significant differences between health care practitioners and the general consumer population. Nielsen numbers on the broader consumer market show devices running the Android operating system take up 48% of the market. iOS holds 31%, while Blackberry OS claims 18% (Zeman, 2011). A Bulletin Healthcare analysis (Hirsch, 2011) of its health professional subscribers found a much different breakdown of OS choice. It found 93% of its subscribers who use mobile devices use Apple-based machines. iPhone users decreased from an 86% share of the mobile audience in this group in June 2010 to 79% in February 2011. iPad users rose over the same period from 8% to 14%. Android doubled its share of users to 6%. This study found the three in ten subscribers used mobile devices to read Bulletin healthcare's daily email briefings, showing that physicians use mobile devices for basic information seeking and ongoing professional learning.
These different rates appear to be higher among more mobile practitioners like P.A.'s and ER physicians and lower among more lab-based analysts like radiologists and pathologists who may travel less in their facility in the course of their normal workflow.
Mobile computing funtionality ranges from access to integrated EHR solutions to standalone applications for communication, reference, and administration. DrChrono introduced its iPad EMR the same month the iPad launched; by September, ClearPractice followed with the Nimble EMR application (Merrill, 2010a). The MyChart Apple application lets patients access medical history, appointment times, and lab results. The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are testing Canto (for iPad) and Haiku (for iPhone) for likely implementation in October with an upgrade of the Epic EHR system (Bennett, 2011).
The Emergency Medical Spanish Guide was developed by an EMT whose experience with Spanish-speaking patients led him to create an application that could provide and even pronounce simple yes/no questions in Spanish to bridge language barriers in the ER (Usatine, 2010). That application is now paying for the former EMT's medical school tuition. A similar application exists to serve French-speaking patients (Castro, 2010). InVivoLink this month released OrthoPod, an iPad app to help orthopedic surgeons access their personal implant registry and see patterns in their procedures and patient data (press release, 2011).
Reference apps like Epocrates and WebMD are most popular mobile apps; apps from pharma manufacturers get little use (Dolan, 2011). As of April, 2010, over 125,000 doctors were using Epocrates on iPhone and iPod touch devices; one study claimed that "60 percent of Epocrates users avoided three or more medical errors a month" (Bottles, 2011). The American Medical Association released its first mobile application this month, a free application through iTunes to allow doctors to look up, track, and organize Current Procedural Terminology billing codes (Gillette, 2011). This release for Apple devices acknowledges the dominance of Apple products in this sector.
Articles on mobile applications provide multiple examples of physicians educating patients with mobile images from Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy (Davis, 2011; Porter, 2011). The FDA this February approved Mobile MIM, a mobile radiology application that allows clinicians to share and make diagnoses based on CT, MRI, and PET scans (Lewis, 2011b).
The AirStrip Cardiology app (iPhone, iPad; planned for Android) gets data from GE Healthcare's Muse Cardiology Information System's cloud database of current electrocardiograms. Through the AirStrip system, doctors can access ECGs immediately anywhere instead of relying on potentially distorted faxes or PDFs. On mobile screens, physicians can zoom in on small differences, as small as a half-millimeter, that make make a big diagnostic difference but that might be lost in the resolution of a typical fax (Horowitz, 2011). This application complements other apps planned by GE Healthcare to expand mobile EHR access (Lewis, 2011b). AT&T last month announced similar expansion of its cloud-based Healthcare Community Online to include a mobility interface for smartphones (Lewis, 2011b).
Cloud computing and virtualization broaden mobile health IT from the realm of specific mobile apps to full mobile access to an institution's integrated EHR system. Dell this month released a mobile clinical computing program that allows hospitals using the Meditech health Care Information System to virtualize their system and provide secure access to desktop applications via any number of devies, including tablets (Lewis, 2011c). Virtualized clients also mitigate concerns about information security on personal devices (Lewis, 2010a).
Mobile hardware is improving the capabilities available to doctors. This year's iPad 2 processes images nine times faster than the original device in 2010, allowing faster processing of more detailed medical images. The dual cameras of the tablet also make it easier for rural doctors to share photos of wounds and conference with remote colleagues (Lewis, 2011b). These capabilities can facilitate communication among radiologists and clincians and expedite diagnosis and treatment (Choudhri & Radvany, 2010). Radiologists who are accustomed to more sednetary workflow in a dedicated imaging lab with specialized equipment may find value in accommodating mobile platforms to support better interaction with referring physicians in patient management teams (Shih, Lakhani, & Nagy, 2010).
The largest motivators for this apparent rush to mobile deployment include point-of-care applications, clinical decision support, medical image viewing applications, and general administration. Another survey finds that physicians agree the greatest benefit of mobile health will be the ability to make decisions faster by accessing more accurate data in real time (Lewis, 2010b). The perception overlaps with the perception among more than 60% of physicians that the best benefit of EHR systems is real-time patient information access (staff, 2011).
A Knowledge Networks marketing survey finds physicians relying on mobile units for checking email, researching medications and conditions, and taking surveys. Physicians still prefer in-person visits with drug company representatives over e-marketing—markedly more so among physicans over 55, but still with a strong majority among those under 40 (Dolan, 2011). Nonetheless, Epocrates has just launched a mobile drug-sampling service, offering their 315,000 physician members the ability to order custom samples via mobile devices (Millard, 2011).
Christ Community Health Services in Memphis chose iPads as its main hardware platform for its coming switch to electronic health recorsd. The hospital chose from among numerous technological options based on tests in clinical settings and criteria including battery life, ease of use, and portability. As a result, CCHS Memphis is now preparing to implement 38 iPads in five health care centers for use in all charting. CCHS physician John David Williamson said "that intimate, non-disruptive doctor-patient interaction is the 'definite advantage of the iPad. Rather than having my back turned to a patient while on a computer, I can actually continue to have a normal interaction with the patient…'" (Maki, 2011). Similar advantages have driven an Ottawa hospital to order 1800 iPads to be in the hands of its physicians, residents, and pharmacists by July (CBC, 2011).
Methodist Le Bonheur Hospital in Memphis started with in-house iPad pilot project and is now testing use of a virtual private network to give authorized iPad users outside the hospital access to medical records (Maki, 2011). Such a move is a logical extension of the mobility allowed by such devices, not just from room to room within the facility, but beyond the walls of the facility. MLBH user cites portability, ease of use, and quick access (no long boot-up, no long log-in and log-out from room to room) as reasons for adoption. Hospitals that have already implemented EHR may also have invested in desktop computers in each room, lessening the need for mobile solutions (Bennett, 2011; Maki, 2011). One official at Stern Cardiovascular Center in Memphis suggests putting desktop on cart to wheel from room to room (Maki, 2011), although physicians who have tried newer handheld mobile solutions might balk at the idea that the traditional computer on wheels (the COW, as it is abbreviated with just a touch of mockery) can provide comparable utility.
Dr. John Halamka, chief information officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, puts mobile medical device criteria in concrete terms that argue strongly in favor of iPads as a perfect fit for doctors: "The secret for the ideal clinical device is it has to weigh a pound, it has to last 10 hours, because that's [a doctor's] shift, you have to be able to disinfect it so there's no risk of contamination, and you have to be able to drop it 5 feet onto carpet without damage" (Davis, 2011). Size, weight, and battery life are cited by other users and observers as reasons newer mobile computing devices are gaining acceptance among health care practitioners (Merrill, 2010b). Doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess also say ability to share information with patients is key. Consider the difference between visiting with a doctor who is ensconced a few feet away at a computer terminal, data upon which the patient cannot see, and a doctor bedside, entering data on a screen the patient can see and even touch and manipulate. Mobile devices create the possibility for more natual bedside communication and interaction (Bennett, 2011) between health care providers and their patients.
Mobile applications provide another opportunity to reduce the separation between health care provider and patient. When tools are downloadable to common platforms like mobile phones and tablets, doctors and patients may be able to use these devices together on their own devices with minimal expense. A psychiatriast may be able to provide information to a visiting patient from an application like the new PTSD Coach, just released this month by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (Montalbano, 2011). If the patient has a compatible smartphone or tablet, the psychiatrist can just as easily "prescribe" that the patient install the application on his or her own mobile device and use the application outside the office to manage his or her own symptoms. Unlike a large integrated EHR system accessible only to physicians at hospital or clinic workstations, mobile applications open more possibilities for patient use and interaction with their health care providers and data. Common mobile devices also offer physicians channels by which to provide remote healthcare, an option a majority of consumers and physicians find acceptable (Lewis, 2010b). Such remote monitoring could mark an electronic return to the practice of "house calls" (Lewis, 2010b).
Integrating mobile devices into regular care may also promote patient confidence in the quality of their care. A Sage Healthcare Insights study released this month finds 81% of patients "have a positive perception of documenting patient care electronically" (staff, 2011), a level of positive perception greater than that found among physicans (62%). Patients report greater confidence in physicians who use EHRs and icnreasingly expect physicians to give them access to electronic records and tools (staff, 2011). These findings stand in contrast to concerns expressed that patients may object to their physician answering questions by seeking answers from a machine instead of consulting their own professional knowledge; besides, the push for evidence-based medicine will demand increased use of technology in health care (Shaw, 2011). Also driving expectations of greater health care technology use may be the againg and retirement of baby boomers. This demographic has egnerally lead other groups in technology spending and adoption (Bottles, 2011); as they become senior citizens and increasingly need health care services, they will bring their preferences for technology to that industry. Physicians can respond to such perceptions and expectations by working with EHR data via mobile devices in sight of patients and even showing them the information they are accessing and entering on those devices.
Personal choices and innovativeness appear to be playing an important role in mobile device adoption. At one Memphis hospital, for example, almost all iPads in use are owned by individual physicians (Davis, 2011). Even if their institutions lag in promotion and integration of health information technology, individual practitioners are finding the new generation of smartphones and tablets sufficiently useful to incorporate into their own workflow, even if just for reference and communication. The new mobile technologies are also sufficiently accessible that health care practitioners have designed many of the simple apps available for varios devices.
Past health information research contains various predictions of great technological advances in mobile computing that did not catch on. However, the swift penetration of smartphones and tablets in the heallth care industry, coming on the heels of increased institutional and government investment in EHR, suggest that mobile computing has reached a new level of integrative utility for health care providers.
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I'm speaking today on my effort to create an instrument for coding narrative content in online discussions. Following are sources cited in the presentation.
ReCal2: Reliability for Coders: a handy online calculator for intercoder/interrater reliability for nominal data. Calculates Percent Agreement, Scott's Pi, Cohen's Kappa, and Krippendorff's Alpha (nominal). Site also offers tools for more than two raters coding ordinal, interval, and ratio data.
Altman, D. G. (1991). Practical Statistics for Medical Research. Chapman & Hall/CRC.
Greene, K., & Brinn, L. S. (2003). Messages Influencing College Women's Tanning Bed Use: Statistical versus Narrative Evidence Format and a Self-Assessment to Increase Perceived Susceptibility. Journal of Health Communication, 8(5), 443–461.
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Fellow blogger Subbashini of Exploring the World Around Us gave me a "gift" as part of the White Elephant Challenge. Her gift was her drawing of a horse. Subbashini illustrates her blog posts with lovely drawings and I was honored to have received this horse gift. This Challenge is to give the gift of a photo to three bloggers. I was happy to respond and to give a photo gift to three bloggers. If they wish to take up the challenge as well then that is wonderful but there is no obligation to do so.
To Heather at Dinosaurs, Donkeys and MS I would like to give my photo of Isabel Werth in her victory round having won the Gold Medal at the World Equestrian Games. Her mare Bella Rose had been injured and spent four years out of competiton There was doubt she would ever return to the show ring. But Isabel never lost hope and when Bella Rose was finally healed brought her back to victory. That kind of endurance is just what Heather, who lives with Multiple Sclerosis, brings us in her very optimistic blog.
To Zoolon of Zoolon Hub my photo of the Thames River at night. The river flows beneath Chelsea Bridge, the dots of red lights are the construction cranes redeveloping the Battersea Power Station. Zoolon is a musician, composer, lyricist, poet and through those mediums is a social commentator. The photo of the bridge and lights; old and new and a river running through it reminds me of Zoolon's very engaging and creative blog.
My third photo gift is to Cat of Wild Atlantic Rider. This rider and riding instructor lives on the West Coast of Ireland in County Mayo. She goes galloping on the beach! In her blog she shares this and her other horse adventures, horse shows and accomplishments with honesty and a sense of humor. Those are two qualities essential to being a good horse person and rider. I am gifting her this photo of Biasini and me setting off on the exentended canter in the Prix St. George dressage test. It is not a gallop on the beach but Biasini loves this and I just go along with him.
Next Post Preparing for the Journey.
I am delighted to know you like the photo and also that you will send out some gifts at well.
Thank you for sending me this challenge and for your lovely horse drawing.


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Lessons Learned on the Road to Happiness with Rene and Jim: Creator Series
by Rene Agredano and Jim Nelson
Welcome to our new series Creator's Creations where creators submit their stories. We are sharing highlights from transformation stories and how we are creating FIT Life Creation and the community.
In this Creator series feature, we are featuring Lessons Learned on the Road to Happiness with Rene and Jim.
Highlights of Story and Creations:
Turning Tragedy into Triumph
Content creators and influencers filled the packed conference room, eager to learn how to grow an online niche community. Jim stood at the podium and told them how. "If we can do what we've done with our Tripawds site for three-legged pets, you can grow a successful business around your blog."
Then he drove home his point. "No niche is too small, and you are all an expert about something." He spoke at the popular pet bloggers conference to expand the reach for our labor of love – the world's largest support community for amputee pets and their people. Why did we do it? We owe it all to our first dog.
Jerry was our heart and soul dog, the Chief Fun Officer of a full-service marketing firm we had grown from scratch over a decade. He kept us sane and centered during long, stressful workdays while teaching us how to work together and keep our marriage intact.
In 2006, he turned eight years old. And one month later, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a deadly bone cancer with a grim prognosis. Back then we didn't even know dogs got cancer. And the shocks kept coming when doctors told us amputation could get rid of the pain and improve his quality of life for a few more months, maybe a year.
It seemed impossible that our best friend and hiking partner could cope on three legs. Feeling lost and alone we turned to the Internet, but what we found back then wasn't very helpful – nor was it hopeful.
Photo Credits: Rene Agredano and Jim Nelson
It's better to hop on three legs than to limp on four. Jerry's Motto.
We overcame our reluctance to amputate and went ahead with surgery. Then we started a small blog to update friends and family about his progress. A few weeks later, I turned our life upside down once more. "Hey what do you think about taking a road trip?"
I suggested to Jim after handing him a gin and tonic. "We could sell all of this and take time off. A sabbatical!" We were both burnt out on the business we had grown. It was time to expand or get out, and I knew in my heart if our time was limited with Jerry, I wanted to make the most of it. Surprisingly, my cautious risk taker husband agreed.
Over the next six months we planned for a year off and sold everything to give our retiring CFO the road trip of a lifetime. It was our way of paying him back for all those long workdays he waited patiently for us to play. We didn't make a killing on our sale, but it allowed us to buy a pre-owned diesel truck and brand new fifth-wheel trailer.
For two amazing years, our beautiful three-legged dog beat the bone cancer odds. Maybe it was the constant change of scenery, maybe it was just a fluke. But we had the time of our lives roaming the country and making the most of every moment we had left. Along the way, PBS sent a film crew to capture our life on the road for the documentary, Nature: Why We Love Cats and Dogs.
Jerry left us in 2008. After that fateful day in Yellowstone National Park, we focused on building his legacy by making Tripawds the best resource for people facing amputation for their beloved pets.
Today, we're still on the road in our RV, nurturing new members, managing the non-profit Tripawds Foundation and hosting 1600+ three-legged dog and cat blogs. We tell Jerry's story in our book Be More Dog: Learning to Live in the Now – with a foreword and original illustration by MUTTS comic strip creator Patrick McDonnell.
The Amazon #1 New Release teaches readers about the important life lessons Jerry taught us, and everyone he met. It also details how we turned our passion into a full-time labor of love.
Our Accidental Brand
Your brand is more than pretty photos, a logo and tagline. It stands for what you believe in. It tells a story. Ours evolved organically. When Jim first registered the tripawds.com domain, he wanted to reclaim and empower the "tripods" term vets use to describe three-legged dogs and cats.
At first, we only wanted to share Jerry's story, and his motto: It's better to hop on three legs than to limp on four. But soon passionate pet parents reached out to us, concerned for their own pets facing amputation. Once Jim installed discussion forums so we could all talk with each other, the community took off from there.
Our new calling had found us. We vowed to provide free educational resources and create a platform for discussion where anyone could share their own pet's amputation stories, treatment plans, and results. Before we knew it, we were content creators writing helpful articles, producing videos and podcasts with veterinary experts.
The social aspect grew when we added a live chat room. Then Jim built the Tripawds Blogs network to give members a free way to blog about their own Tripawd. Our calling wasn't making any money, since charging for access just felt wrong when we considered the financial stress all our members face.
But we knew that if Tripawds were to survive, it had to earn us an income somehow. It finally started to pay for itself, once we curated our existing content into e-books and started selling helpful assistive devices we personally tested with Jerry, or our new spokesdog Wyatt Ray.
Today, our Tripawds logo that Jim designed is a badge of honor for amputee pets everywhere. The encircled three-paw trademark also symbolizes a merit badge for pet parents who do their homework by finding the best pet amputation recovery and care resources we have to offer.
Thirteen years ago we never would have dreamed that our calling would arrive in a community that helps three-legged pets and their people everywhere – from an RV.
Biggest Success Factors
Measurement of Success Matters.
Being featured on PBS was just the beginning of many ways that Tripawds has rewarded us. Publishing our book, with Patrick McDonnell creating the foreword, are two other milestones. But the one that I get giddy over is when Oprah said she loved our story.
Long before we finished Be More Dog, I called into the Gayle King Show on Sirius XM Radio. They were asking listeners to share their adventure stories. After I briefly described the two-year road trip we took with our three-legged dog,
Oprah told Gayle, "I love how they got in their RV and did it for their dog, Jerry."
If there's one thing that Jerry's experience taught us, it's that true success cannot be measured with money alone. The satisfaction that comes from helping others is what matters.
The best measurement of our own personal success is the simple fact that Jim and I are still enjoying our nomadic lifestyle more than a dozen years later, while serving others in their time of need. And when a veterinarian refers their worried client to us, it's absolute proof that we are doing something right.
Your Challenges & How You Turned Pain into Purpose
Overcoming Challenges to Find Our Purpose
Jim and I have never felt more pain than when Je

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The Crypto virus pandemic is still going strong! This particular virus comes in many different forms and flavors. However, the result is almost always the same: your data being held hostage for ransom. There are multiple ways of acquiring this virus, the most popular being through emails! These cyber terrorists are very creative and savvy trying to disguise their email so you will open it (i.e., subject line of "Your UPS tracking number") or "Hello, here is my resume." Do NOT open them! As a good "rule of thumb" you should never open anything unexpected or suspicious attachments with .EXE or .ZIP file extensions. These are executable files that once opened, run wild and perform their function. That function is rarely a good thing.
The GOOD news: There are firewall devices out there to help stop these viruses from entering and infecting your entire network. The firewalls must have a specific function included in them so ask your IT staff if your firewall has DPI/SSL.
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CCHIT critic identified
By Neil Versel
The lengthy criticism leveled at the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology just got a little lengthier, and we finally know the name of the critic.
A "Calvin Jablonski" just added a comment to my post about CCHIT from earlier in the week. This seems like the same person who posted under the name "CJ" on the Wall Street Journal Health Blog last week, a comment subsequently reprinted here and on the Health Care Renewal Blog—there might be others, too—that brought a response from CCHIT Marketing Director Sue Reber on all the same blogs.
I searched the name "Calvin Jablonski" and could only find his posts about CCHIT, not any information on his background or interest in this topic. I believe, based on my statistics monitor for this site, that the comment came from IP address 65.218.162.# (the # indicates a number that I'm not privy to), on the network of marketing firm Euro RSCG 4 Impact in Norcross, Ga.
Today, Jablonski hammered away at alleged links between CCHIT and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society:
Ms Reber why don't you admit the defunct status of CCHIT?
Its been verified... Why don't you admit CCHIT has concealed its defunct status?
Why do you deny which is obviously the truth and which as been verified? CCHIT is a defunct 501 c 3 tax exempt non-profit that has been dissolved for over a year.
Why don't you admit CCHIT was spwaned by none other than Steve Lieber, CEO of HIMSS.org, another 501 c organization that hasn't paid a dime in taxes but has made over $100million dollars in profits?
Why don'ty you admit CCHIT and HIMSS has presented an advocacy positon of not asking for millions, but now, BILLION of dollars that will fall down the same tax-dodging rat hole if funded according Liebers' plan?
Why don't you admit the non profit scheme cooked up by HIMSS.org is full of "artificial transactions" designed to operate as a business filter that allows both organizations to fly below the level of taxable income on IRS radar?
Why don't you admit CCHIT has continued to take checks from vendors during the period it has effectively been dissolved?
Why don't you admit there is a revolving door for staff members between CCHIT, HIMSS and the EHRA?
Jablonski's anti-CCHIT campaign actually started before the WSJ comment. "Calvin Jablonski, 501(c)(6) expert"
commented on the Chilmark Research blog
about the economic stimulus legislation on Feb. 1. You'll note that he has some company in his criticisms. From the same string of comments, "rockyostrand" says:
Caution, Achtung, Cuidado,
Non-profit trade associations like HIMSS are waiting in the wings and closets at beltway bandit locations all over Maryland, Virginia and D.C. with their hands and cash buckets out waiting for the ink to dry.
Get ready for that giant sucking sound to make the tax dodging 501 (C) 6 "C- Suite" a lot richer.
Don't you think its time to get the CCHIT and HITSP people out of the mix? its clear at this point they are after the checkbook , the other stuff about HIT is just the game they are playing to get at it. The thing about CCHIT- its an outgrowth of HIMSS and started at 230 E. Ohio St in Chicago, literally a HIMSS subsidiary spinoff residing residing under the same roof. Try looking into the CEO of CCHIT. You will find he is the CMO of HIMSS- gee what small world… YEESSS , Mark Leavitt, possible relation to Mike Leavitt, HHS Secretary.
Rocky Ostrand
That's awfully close to Jablonski's original critique—and clearly wrong in claiming that CCHIT Chairman Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., still is CMO of HIMSS (he went on leave from that position when CCHIT started, but he's since officially split from HIMSS) and that he might be related to former HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt. Mike Leavitt is a devout Mormon from Utah. Mark Leavitt is a Chicago native of Jewish descent.
On the most recent set of allegations, I believe CCHIT has never hid the fact that it was created by HIMSS, the National Alliance for Health Information Technology and the American Health Information Management Association. Whether Steve Lieber personally spawned CCHIT, I don't know and don't think is relevant.
The questions about the involuntary dissolution of CCHIT as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation under Illinois law are valid ones. The questions about possible conflicts of interest involving CCHIT and other organizations are valid ones. The charge of a "scheme" full of "artificial transactions" is a serious one, but I don't see any evidence to support it.
One more thing I've discovered since the original post: CCHIT's previous office before moving to 200 S. Wacker Dr. in Chicago was at 233 N. Michigan Ave., the same location as AHIMA, not the 230 E. Ohio St. building where HIMSS is based.
You can bet this is not the last we'll hear on this subject. I can't wait to see if CCHIT has another "town hall" at this year's HIMSS conference. That ought to be fun.
Neil Versel blogs regularly at Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog.


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5 Questions to Ask Before Building an App
Consumers have nearly four million apps to choose from. Here's how to vet your idea to see if it can compete.
By Christina DesMaraisContributor, Inc.com@salubriousdish
Have an idea for a killer mobile app? If you forge ahead you'd better do it with your eyes wide open. Nearly four million apps are available for download across the major app stores, with 1.5 million in the Apple App Store and 1.6 million in Google Play, which means getting noticed and catching on with mobile device users won't be easy. If you really want to give your app the best chances for success, take some advice from Ben Rudolph, co-founder of Straw, a social polling app for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone that launched in June. With 12,000 active users and close to 500,000 poll interactions, he says his team did some things right to get traction early on. For one thing, he says there are five questions anyone should ask before building a mobile app.
1. Will the app solve a broad problem?
It might ingeniously do something for you or a niche demographic, but if you're looking for wide adoption, you'll need an idea that will help the masses. "A lot of times people [say], 'I've got a great idea for an app because I have this hole in my life,' or, 'I have this thing that I need done,' but it's something that's unique to them," Rudolph says. "I think the real opportunity is when you create an app and you create a service that actually solves a broad problem."
2. Will the app fundamentally change consumer behavior?
Think of the home-run apps that have done this. For example, when something big happens and a person wants to gauge public sentiment or sound off an opinion, he or she may go to Twitter. And phone-toting young people ubiquitously use Instagram to communicate and share images of their lives with friends and followers. Will your app be one people use once a month or every day? Whatever you build should be something that aims for the latter.
3. Whom are you building it for?
Rudolph and his team created Straw for Windows, iOS, and Android to democratize polling and make it easy for as many people as possible to get advice and opinions from their online communities and the internet. They also built the platform's voting mechanism in HTML5 so everyone--even people who don't have the app--can participate.
To figure out which solution is right for you, think carefully about who the app is for, how those people will use it, and what platforms need to be in play to make it a reality. "For some that might mean HTML5 only. For others, iOS and Android [or] just one of the two," he says. "Don't peanut butter your resources just to check the 'all platforms' box."
4. What do you stand for?
In other words, what's your core culture? "You really need that North Star to say this is the thing that we're trying to accomplish, how we're going to accomplish it, and why we believe it matters," he says. "If you stay true to who you are, what you believe in, and why you're building your product or service, it makes it much easier to prioritize features, marketing, and how you want to engage with your community."
5. Should you monetize it?
With the title of worldwide retail sales evangelism director, Rudolph has a full-time gig at Microsoft, as do the other three co-founders of Straw. "Microsoft has a great moonlighting policy that allows us to do this as a full-blown side project," he says, adding that, for now, the Straw team is focused on growing the app and engaging its community, and that, at some point in the future, it will determine if it makes sense to turn it into a growth business. "We didn't want to just say, 'Hey, we're going to go build a monetization platform built on X strategy,' and then people revolt on it," he says. "[It should] feel like a natural extension of the app and actually increase its usefulness rather than turn people off."
Published on: Jul 29, 2015


Inch of Creativity: You're a Star!
Hello and welcome back from the long week-end! I hope you had a wonderful long week-end and that you were able to get some crafting time in.
But I'm happy to say that last night, I was able to find it!
I hate crafters block... Do you ever get that?
On friday night, I had my Pictogram Punches, Try it Class. It was so nice to stamp and socialize with such lovely ladies.
Today's card is one of the cards we created. When creating this card, I was completely inspired by this card on Pinterest. I just loved how the stars hung off the moon.


There are a number of horse trailers on the market today, which is enough to confuse even the experts. There are many tips to choose the right horse trailer, which will suit your needs. For most people it will be the lifespan of the horse trailer, which makes it worth buying in my books.
The steel horse trailer has been around the longest and over the years, it has proven itself to be sturdy and durable. They might weigh more and require you to wash and wax the exterior more often, but they cost cheaper to maintain since more shops will do it. The aluminum trailer on the other hand, was built to reduce the weight and to fight against rust. However, they will oxidize over the years. You will not have to maintain it as often as the steel horse trailer, but when you do so it will be more expensive.
Use the internet to find out more about these two different types of horse trailers, so you can decide for yourself, which will be the better one to suit your needs. Everyone is different and depending on what you are looking for, you should be able to find the right horse trailer for your needs.


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My husband mooched off me for 8 years — should I spend my money before we divorce?
Her soon-to-be ex never paid the mortgage, or contributed to their bills
By Quentin Fottrell, MarketWatch
Dear Moneyologist,
I'm planning to divorce my husband of eight years, as he's never worked in this time or contributed to bills. We live in California, a community property state. We live in a house which I bought before the marriage for $700,000, and it's appreciated to $1.2 million. I continue to pay my mortgage on it. I don't have much in savings, just $20,000, and $100,000 in retirement. Is there anything I can do to protect my money? Should I put extra money towards my car or house payments? Should I send money to my parents?
Unlucky in California
Dear Unlucky,
You could do that, but a judge is likely to notice your sudden generous payments towards your mortgage and car loan, and could even penalize you for them. That's the kind of surreptitious action that has gone against others years after the fact. In 1996, a California woman won $1.3 million in the lottery and filed for divorce 11 days later. She didn't tell her husband or anyone else about her windfall, and two years later her husband found out about it (they always do) and sued her. Superior Court Judge Richard Denner ruled that she acted out of fraud or malice and awarded her husband all of her winnings. Had she been honest, they both would have walked away with half.
Listen to our new podcast: Money, Markets & More (or subscribe on iTunes ): Walking a mile in dead men's shoes and Millennials tap home equity for frivolities.
In most divorce cases, especially in California which is a community property state, couples are instructed to divide their shared assets down the middle (in monetary terms) and, as part of that settlement, they're allowed to keep what they own personally, such as clothing and jewelry. In your state, you take out of the marriage what you brought into it, but this grows more complicated when a home has appreciated during a marriage and/or when marital assets were used to pay the mortgage (even though, in this case, your husband never actually worked). I'm not against your giving a little money to your parents if they need it for a specific reason, but not to hide it before your divorce is over. If you do have to split those savings, $10,000 is a small price to pay for your freedom. (Interestingly, I told a similar thing to a fellow earlier this week, who learned a $10,000 lesson.) One more consideration: You may need that $10,000 in savings for legal fees.
You could spend your savings, but a judge is likely to see your sudden generous payments to your mortgage and car, and could even penalize you for them. That's the kind of surreptitious action that is likely to go against you in the long run.
The Moneyologist
What's more, the judge is likely to take into account that your husband never worked over this time, or paid the bills, and a good lawyer will make sure that's front and center in your divorce case should your husband's lawyer ask for alimony in lieu of you living in your house (sorry to bring that up). The upside: Alimony is tax-deductible for the payer and must be reported as income by the payee. "Divide it all down the middle, start over and look to the future," says Randy Kessler, an Atlanta-based lawyer who wrote the book, Divorce: Protect Yourself, Your Kids, and Your Future. "You should feel better that when the case is over, you will still have a job and can replenish so even if it is all divided, you will still be better off than him." It pays to have a good (and honest) divorce lawyer.
There are so many dirty deals that happen before people file for divorce. I recently heard of a case where a husband took $1 million equity out of the home that he lived in with his wife (his name was on the deed) shortly before they filed for divorce. That's the kind of paper trail that leads all the way back to a disgruntled judge in divorce court. I've had so many letters in recent months from or about people who want to pull a fast one: The wife who wanted to disinherit her stepchildren in the event that her husband of one year dies, and even a psychotherapist who wanted to be in cahoots with his client to cheat the insurance company.
You've lived honorably up until now and paid your own way and, yes, your husband was a mooch. Leave this marriage with your head held high and don't let him change who you are.
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Fire Away: A Conversation with Marilyn Manson
The rock icon talks Heaven Upside Down, how he'd like to die, and chaos through emojis
by Bryce Segall
on October 04, 2017, 12:00am
Marilyn Manson just pissed in the sink. This isn't the first thing he does after introducing himself, but it's pretty close. We're on an anonymous floor of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in a modest room, tucked away at the end of the hall. "DO NOT DISTURB" hangs innocuously on the door, which upon opening reveals a drab gray common area, with blackout shades drawn tight despite the fact the sun has already set. Manson himself seems loose, in high spirits, and possibly intoxicated. It's tough to tell if this is in celebration of his accomplished and ferocious new LP, Heaven Upside Down, or simply to ease the pain of a recent touch up to his full-back tattoo, one which he shares with pal Johnny Depp. "Do you want to see it?" he asks, shirt already half off.
We retreat to the unit's bedroom, where Manson offers me vodka and his assistant seals us in. Sitting on the bed a mere arm's length away, day-old makeup softly smeared and dressed head-to-toe in black, Manson lets the interview balloon to an hour in length. At moments, it's hard to imagine spending any less time together as the now 48-year-old rock icon is generous with his stories and incredibly verbose. It doesn't help that he immediately hijacks our time to share a preview of the since-released video for new single "WE KNOW WHERE YOU FUCKING LIVE".
(Read: A Brief History of Marilyn Manson Being Strange)
In person, Manson is thoughtful, excited, articulate, and down to earth. He's no longer conservative America's poster boy of evil, with his mixed bag of crass humor and sharp intellect coming off more as a kid too smart for his own good than a genuine troublemaker. Often, it seems like Manson is simply interested in seeing how much he can get away with. "I just got this," he says, holding up a knock-off Straight Out of Compton t-shirt altered to reference carcosa. "You get that down on Hollywood Blvd?" I ask. "Amazon Prime," he responds.
Over the last decade, both his recorded output and the internet have pulled back the curtain, revealing more of the Brian Warner underneath than ever. However, it's clear in conversation that no matter how many secrets are revealed, the rabbit hole that is Marilyn Manson still goes on for miles.
Do you wanna see my new video?
Sure, I'd love to.
I showed it to a girl who I've known for seven or eight years, who knows me very well, and she had a look on her face after seeing it that was very troubling. I said, "What do you think?" and she said, "I'm worried that someone's gonna kill you, and every girl in the world will wanna fuck you." So, I guess I did my job.
Who directed the video?
The video wasn't actually conceived by me. It was conceived by a guy named Bill Yukich; he worked on Beyoncé's Lemonade. But more importantly, he was the guy who edited the video for "The Dope Show". So, the picture of me where I'm on the table, that for the most part made me who I am today; he's the one responsible for putting that in the edit. That's when we first met. Then I invited him on tour, and we were in a hotel in Poughkeepsie, I believe, and at that time the hotel was also filled up with 15- or 16-year-old soccer teams. Girls and boys running the halls rampant. Bill — maybe because of me at the time, I filled him full of Jack Daniels or something — was convinced that he could fight them all and we, together for the most part, according to the police and the hotel, set fire to one of the rooms.
There's a plaque commemorating the $28,000 in damage I did to the hotel, which I'm never invited back to. I had to save Bill from being arrested because he tore off his shirt and said he wanted to fight everyone. So, when it came to doing this video and he said we're going to use a mortar launcher and blow up a minivan in a home-invasion situation involving nuns, I knew his pyrotechnic skills were solid.
Amazing. That's friendship.
He weathered the entire tour with me. I think that we — he and Perou, a photographer who did my album artwork that was also involved in this — all sat in Chicago, and were all, well, I can say at least I was, high on narcotics and biting my shirt, and watched Columbine take place live. And I was just saying, "Wow, I'm gonna take the blame for this. I can see it coming."
So, later in life, to have the same two people who were with me then create something far worse on the spectrum of me trying to involve guns or anything of that nature, it makes me smile a little bit. When you look at it versus what we see on TV, it doesn't even seem very shocking. To me, it's not shocking. That's why I was shocked by the review I got from someone I've known intimately for eight years. Because it amuses me that I can do something that made someone I know so closely fear for my life and also for their security, regarding my dick.
Whether it's shocking or not, it's a lot to process.
I think it's good to cause confusion. And not to talk about politics — it's boring. I'm tired of hearing about it; I was tired of hearing about it during Bush and every other president after that. But the only thing I have to say about the thing everyone wants to ask me about is that after I put the gun in the mouth of Spin's editor, I hid out in a hotel, and it was the Trump Towers. So, that's the thing I have to say about Trump. I hid out at the Trump Towers after committing a felonious act.
Well, clearly you have some thoughts on our president. You released that video decapitating an effigy of him on election day.
I don't know what you're talking about. There was a video of me, and for some reason, it's not online anymore. It came out on election day, and no one was president at that point, so it wasn't anyone except if you wanted it to be them. It was a man in a suit and a red tie. More importantly, I'm making it rain Bible pages in that video, and the lyrics of the song, "SAY10", say: "Cash is a poor man's money."
The interesting thing is that when I was unearthing my childhood keepsakes and I found my 12th-grade notebook, it said "Brian Warner, Glen Oak High School," and I opened it to the first page, and in pink sharpie it said "SAY10." So, that's how long it's been embedded in my head. And I think it's clever, but at the same time, I didn't think it defined the record, so I decided to wait. And if I hadn't waited, I wouldn't have the three songs that define the album: "Revelation #12", "Saturnalia", and "Heaven Upside Down". And I thought "Heaven Upside Down" really described the record much more as a whole, as a title. So, I think everything definitely happens for a reason.
You mentioned "Revelation #12", which I certainly agree is a cornerstone of the record. I was curious, as it proclaims a coming of the end-times, whether you feel like we're truly living in them at this point?
It does seem a little apocalyptic right now, but the world's been ending since whenever the Bible was written. It should be noted though that it's "Revelation #12" and not "Revelations". It's a bit of a nod to the Beatles, "Revolution #9", but it's also a nod to taking back the hashtag. It's the pound sign on your phone, and it will never change. It's not a hashtag. In the book of Revelations, it has an 'S', so it's a combination between Revelations and revolution. (Ed note: Manson is wrong here. In the Bible, the book is just called Revelation)
You're a noted Beatles fan. You spoke a lot about them in the Holy Wood era.
Holy Wood was Beatles inspired in so many ways. John Lennon had a great impact on my life even though I was too young to know it. The White Album was one of my mother's favorite records, and she only had several 8-tracks she would play. But, for some reason, she lost the second side of The White Album, so I only ever heard the first one. Until I made this album, Holy Wood was my most precise and well-thought-out work, despite the fact that I survived on a diet of mostly jello and cocaine at the time.
Why jello?
[Laughs] I don't know. I really couldn't answer that question. I mean, Bowie's diet during his period was peppers, milk, and cocaine. There's always the food pyramid; I just didn't have the third part. Maybe the third part was absinthe, but that's a really bad combination for your health. I think I survived, though. A lot of temporal lobe damage could have occurred.
On Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, and Holy Wood, you'd create additional characters beyond the Marilyn Manson persona to express the concepts you were trying to address. Now that you've moved on from that, is that void of character being filled by injecting more of you, Brian Warner?
I think there was a point before The Pale Emperor where I had to say, "I'm not as good, or as strong, as I want to be," so I need to make a comeback. That's a big dick to suck or a big pill to swallow. Metaphorically, because there was no dick sucking, but there may have been pill swallowing. I wanted to get my confidence and swagger back. And with this one, I wanted a record that represented honesty and realness. This record doesn't have a persona or character, but it lives within me as having the same enthusiasm and fire and intent and same reckless abandon as those early records, where they said, "Make a clean version of the record," and I said, "I haven't even showered in two weeks. You want a clean version of the record? Go fuck yourself, or take it and dip in water." If some kid wants to buy a record at Walmart and it's the edited version, your money's not wanted here, son. Go buy a gun and get it the old-fashioned way. I don't care what you do.
I don't know if you noticed, but you've become an accessory lately. Justin Bieber is putting his name on your shirts, Lil Uzi Vert's literally wearing you as a chain…
There's a great difference between those two. Justin Bieber, I met him, and it was when he was wearing the shirt that had his name on my shirt. And he said to me, "I made you relevant again." Bad mistake to say to me. The next day I told him I'd be at his soundcheck at Staples Center to do "The Beautiful People"; he told me it was his idea, and he believed that I'd show up, cuz he was that stupid, and that day I also took all the proceeds from those shirts from him. They didn't even fight; they were just like, "Yeah, we already know we did wrong, so here's the money." But he was a real piece of shit in the way he had the arrogance to say that. He was a real touchy-feely guy, too, like, "Yo yo bro!" and touches you when he's talking. I'm like, you need to stand down. You're dick height on me, okay? Alright? So, stand down, son.
Lil Uzi Vert … I met him, we became friends, and his attitude reminds me of myself when I started out. And I was very pleased to hear his new record. "SAY10" was his favorite song on mine.
I heard he's doing a rock album next. Are you gonna work with him on that?
Yes. Tyler Bates and I are going to do that with him. I think if I had to pick what Lil Uzi Vert should be if he's involved in rock, it is an early Bad Brains or Faith No More, but with a catchier element. I think that he has punk rock in him. He's a little, crazy motherfucker and smart as fuck, and he really has an attitude like I did. I like that about him.
Are you guys just doing a song or are you doing the whole album?
I don't know yet; that's to be determined. He wants to do a rock album next, and I'd love to see that happen because I think that he could make a new thing. Not some rock/rap type of thing. Something special and new that I think needs to be created just to fuck the world up more.
You have a love affair with rap. Can you rattle off some stuff that you love? What's the Manson turn-up playlist?
I like stuff that is really hard and heavy. Strangely enough, if you were to ask me what one of the records was that influenced this album strongly, and it can't be taken literally, is Rihanna. Her last record. That one song, "Love on the Brain", it really hit me because I saw her perform it, and she just meant it. I think that's maybe what rappers like about me — they see it as being sincere and real. I think that's as much a part of rap culture as it was of punk rock and real rock or whatever you wanna call anything. It's not about how many tattoos you have or if you say "fuck" enough in a song. It's in the way you say it and the way you live your life.
Look, let me rapid-fire you some questions because I have a feeling someone's gonna come in here at any moment and cut it off.
No, no, don't worry. They won't cut your dick off.
Okay, good to know. For the diehards, and because we've touched on Holy Wood, what's up with the Holy Wood novel? You announced it almost 20 years ago, and it still hasn't seen the light of day.
Strange that you mention that. Two days ago, I opened it up for the first time in years because it was a very bitter experience in my life. I actually wrote a Holy Wood film, because New Line wanted to make it my version of The Wall.
One person at the movie company said, "Why don't you make something like Hard to Hold?" and I said, "Do you mean the Rick Springfield movie?" [Laughs] I wasn't insulted. I was just amused by it. But then I turned the script into a novel, and I re-read it for the first time two days ago and said, "I need to work on this right away." And that's why I'm in this hotel, because I'm going to finish it tonight. There's only one thing to finish, just the finessing of chapter 13.
Is it the story of the Antichrist Superstar/Mechanical Animals/Holy Wood trilogy?
Originally the script was more guided towards that, because of The Wall aspect that the movie company wanted. So, it was more of a musically related thing that took those three records together. But putting it in a novel and re-reading it, it sounds more relevant now. It's prominently interested in the president, his daughter, his wife, and this kid that wants to be just like them. The kid is growing up as a proletariat and wants to join this culture of Celebritarians — a word I made up and trademarked — and the daughter wanting to be unlike what she grew up living in.
All of this being based in and around an exaggerated version of Holy Wood, Hollywood, movie facade, backstage lots, and Death Valley, which could be a metaphor for everything. But the rest of the world is not even included in it. It's inspired by things like Brave New World and 1984 and books of that nature. But strange you asked that because I opened it up two days ago and said, "Fuck, I gotta finish this thing."
You mentioned "Celebritarian" What is that? I know it's related to the cross on the cover of your new album, and you've used that cross in the past.
It's inspired by the Cross of Lorraine, which was used by so many different things — the Red Cross, the crusades, fascists. I just thought it represented the idea that there were two previous Christs. There was Jesus and there was JFK, and the whole idea on Holy Wood was that they're waiting for the third and final savior, and that's what the president says he's going to be. President White. And when I read it back now, it sounds so of the moment, more than when I wrote it around 1998 or 1999.
There was a lot of "white" reference in your work back then: "Coma White", "Great Big White World"…
A lot of people thought that it was a race thing, and it was more of the idea that white is the composition of all colors. Black isn't even a color. So when you think about race, or in the past when people referred to others as "colored," it's a really inappropriate oxymoron because black is not a color. At that time, it wasn't meant to be political or a statement other than me just being me. I'm just a curious kid that pokes at things, sometimes steps on caterpillars and sometimes pets them, sometimes eats snails as escargot and sometimes puts salt on them and tortures them. Whichever way you want to look at it, it's just me being interested in how culture works and seeing what I can poke at and look at and reveal and share.
Do you think it's crazy that all that poking got you on TRL?
What was weirder than that — and I don't know if I've told this story — but there was this Year in Rock thing that I was on. And funny enough, Carson Daly, who looks like a strange AIDS zombie now — not knocking him, just describing him as a visual artist. He told me his favorite song of mine was "The Reflecting God" the first time I met him, and I'd just been reading in Teen People that he liked going to church with Jennifer love Hewitt, who is a three-namer … gotta beware of three-namers, all of them. Lee Harvey Oswald, Jennifer Jason Leigh … Evan Rachel Wood… [Laughs]
So, the first time I met him, he said that, and I thought he was just trying too hard, because I was literally reading about him going to church as he said that to me. It seemed like he was just trying to appeal to me but whatever. And later, when I went on there to perform another time, I was in the Kennedy car, the assassination car, promoting Holy Wood, and apparently I had said something back when I was on for the Year in Rock about how Puff Daddy potentially could have damaged music by sampling Led Zeppelin. Kids might grow up to not think of Led Zeppelin when they hear that song, "Come with Me" or whatever. And after that, Puff wanted to, apparently, kill me.
And you can't say I wasn't asking for it in a way, because I'm in the Kennedy assassination car in Times Square, and these 4 SUVs pull up right when MTV is like, "Okay, you're going on in five minutes." These SUVs sort of circle us, and Puff Daddy gets out and he's yelling at me, but I can't hear what anyone's saying because I have a headset on, but he's yelling at me. Fortunately, my bodyguard knew his bodyguard, but it was a bunch of guys that looked like they wanted to kill me at the moment, and I think he genuinely did.
I have since seen him after that, and we're all good now. It was at that Vote or Die thing, and I'm thinking, "Yeah, that's weird, because of that time I almost died related to you and a JFK thing." And then I have to talk to Carson Daly after, and I'm sitting there next to him and I say, "Dude, do not…" — and I said "dude" because he's the kind of guy that would respond to that word. I said, "Dude, do not mention what fucking happened with Puff Daddy." I was like, "If you do that, I will beat your ass." I was truly scared for my life for once, because I was vulnerable — I couldn't hear what was going on, I'm in the Kennedy assassination car, I'm surrounded by black SUVs, and a bunch of guys are yelling at me, one of them being Puff Daddy. I think he was just really upset at the time.
I feel like that would be the way you'd want to go, though. Killed in the Kennedy car. Or, how would you wanna die?
Well, I decided — and I put it in my will, this is true — I said if I ever die and someone says it's a suicide and there's not a lot of other people dead around me, then they're lying. So, I put it in my will that I want to be loaded with explosives, that way if anyone attends my funeral, they'll blow up. I put that in my will and also that my body had to be put in my manager's yard no matter where he lives and that an eternal flame has to be lit every day, or he does not get any of the proceeds of my riches. Not that I'm saying he's going to outlive me anyway.
That's great. But that's not how you want to die.
I would want to die with somebody that I loved. I would want to die in the most romantic way, in a shootout or something. I want to die in the most dramatic way if I had to pick. I would not want to die alone. I would not shoot myself, I would not hang myself, I would not cut my wrists, I would not jump off a bridge.
I don't mean kill yourself. I just meant I'd thought you'd considered this as you seem to have a fascination with death.
I have a fascination with death, obviously. I think I would rather do it in an elaborate way that I'm involved with. That it's not something that surprises me.
What about the end of the world or a nuclear blast?
Well, not if Korea did it. But if the whole world died at the same time, then it would be okay with me. Then there would be no one around to talk about my death or get the tagline "Marilyn Manson died today." I would probably want to die in a situation where if it were possible, talking hypothetical, where I would become a zombie. That's why I did not acquiesce in my will to donating any of my organs to science. [Laughs] They're not useful to me; why would they be useful to anyone else? Except for my brains, but I need them in the event of a zombie apocalypse. I would like to die, with a hard-on, and become a zombie, and then I could do zombie fucking, I guess.
Do zombies fuck?
Well, they could, and then you could spread the zombie disease through semen.
I don't think zombies have semen.
Well, let's call the people on The Walking Dead and find out.
Speaking of zombies on television, do you watch Game of Thrones?
I watched the first season, but I had a relationship with the girl who died, the red-haired girl; she blew the dwarf and then died later. She also wrecked my Jaguar. So, that's why I don't watch it. I don't like people who kill my cars. I only had one car; I have no car now. I don't even have my driver's license.
Why don't you tweet more?
I don't like Twitter as much as Instagram, but you can't underestimate the power of Twitter considering it could be responsible for the current political situation. I do use Twitter as a metaphor whenever I get in an argument, though. I say, "Pretend life is Twitter." Do you want spend all your 140 characters arguing? Or, do you want to say something nice? You know, I prefer not to fight. If there's a problem, I like to fix it. Not create a new one. Fights don't accomplish anything. And, usually, I win, whether people like it or not, just because I say I do.
Okay, last question. We can't skip this one. It's important.
Size 11 and a half. Oh, I thought you were going to ask my shoe size.
There's a lot of curiosity around you as a human being. Yeah, you're Brian Warner. But, you're also this larger than life character of Marilyn Manson, and I think people are curious what the regular person behind that is like. So, I don't feel misguided in saying that the people want and deserve to know: What are your most used emojis?
Well, first off, this is me being real. This is genuinely me. But I like that question, let's look … there's not one for dicks.
What about the eggplant?
I don't like that because it's weird. I don't want to have a vegetable dick, seems too vegan. Okay, here we go: coffin, wink, lipstick, 100%, pumpkin, poop, angel, black cop, ghost, sleeping, devil, devil's horns, lightning bolt, fire, heart, black heart, carcosa, bat, carrot, finger with the other fingers so it looks like they're doing it. I'm trying to look at ones I'd make with people I text all the time, because sometimes I do chains of them, or sometimes I hit all of them at once.
Just to cause chaos.
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Here's a little compilation of all the different rappers/crews who performed at the event Also be sure to check the last ITL show at Justin.tv before the weeks out. MP3 of the show comin soon.
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Q: KOHANA 3.2.0 don't select column i have two joined tables. Now i need to print out some columns, but problem is that i have Firms.Id and FirmsUnique.Id columns. When i try to ->select("*") kohana 3.2.0 throws error: "Column 'Id' in order clause is ambiguous"
$firms = ORM::factory('firm')
    ->select("Firms.Id", "FirmsUnique.*")
    ->join("firmsunique")
    ->on("Firms.FirmUID", '=', 'FirmsUnique.Id')
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    ->where('ProjectId', '=', $projectid)
    ->group_by("FirmsUnique.FirmName")
    ->limit($pages->items_per_page)
    ->offset($pages->offset)->find_all();

How do i deselect column? Or i have to type manualy all columns that i want? (->select("Firms.Id", "Firms.ProjectId" ... etc))

A: ->order_by('Id', 'ASC')
->where('ProjectId', '=', $projectid)

to
->order_by('Firms.Id', 'ASC')
->where('Firms.ProjectId', '=', $projectid)

Also you can use echo $firms->compile(Database::instance()); before  calling find_all() method to inspect your query and try to execute it in MySQL directly to find some bugs and errors.

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Growth Hacking, Marketing
by Digital Nod December 15, 20206:30 am
Why Storytelling is an Integral Part of Growth Hacking: Houston Golden
Storytelling is the new marketing.
Gone are the days of the hard sell and many startups have slowly turned to storytelling to supercharge their growth.
Stories are powerful. They allow companies to create campaigns that resonate with prospects, branding that sticks, and products that people can relate with.
LinkedIn – the largest professional social media platform in the world – is also ripe with companies that have employed storytelling to drive growth and stay relevant in even the most competitive of industries.
"The reason we've been successful on LinkedIn and able to hack the growth of many companies are because of the stories we tell," says Houston Golden, founder and CEO of BAMF Media, a digital marketing group that specializes in turning their clients into LinkedIn Influencers through impactful lead generation and thought leadership.
Using storytelling on LinkedIn might sound a little out of the ordinary, especially on a platform that is geared towards business professionals, as opposed to storytelling on other platforms such as Facebook or Instagram.
However for Golden, who's helped hundreds of startups and Fortune 500 companies gain traction on LinkedIn, there's no better way to spark growth.
"People are drawn to stories. Back in the day, if you wanted to get an important concept across you'd use a story. Fables, epics, legends, you name it, were all used to communicate a message because it makes the content easier to understand and memorable. In marketing, you don't just want your audience to easily understand your message, you want them to remember it, too," says Golden.
The statistics also speak for themselves, according to a study, we are 22 times more likely to remember a message when it's wrapped in a story. If you want to deliver a memorable message, package it in a story.
Golden's company, BAMF Media, has earned global recognition for its innovative LinkedIn Influencer service that employs storytelling for every campaign that they run. To them, it's an important part of hacking growth, especially on a highly competitive platform that's built for business.
Crafting marketing campaigns with great stories have helped his clients find their competitive advantage, raking in hundreds of millions of views and boosting both their active and passive lead generation efforts on the platform.
"Storytelling is an integral part of growth hacking. If you want to grow, you have to make sure that people buy into and relate to your cause."
There are many reasons why marketers are turning to storytelling to craft campaigns:
Relational – as mentioned by Golden, stories have a way of appealing to people because they're non-threatening and easily digestible. In an age of account-based marketing and personalization, having the relational edge, helps build competitive advantages.
Interesting – the biggest advantage of stories is the way it captivates an audience. In the battle for attention on the internet, it's not just about standing out, it's also about maintaining that attention.
Memorable – getting prospects to take a look at your message is just half of the battle, getting them to remember you when they need the services that you offer is the war. People tend to remember stories more than the benefits of a product, if a marketer can spark recall based on a campaign's story, then their half way through the sale.
Entertaining – utilizing storytelling on a platform like LinkedIn offers people a breath of fresh air. Instead of the regular professional content or deliberate ads, providing them with a story helps break the norm. Let's face it, ads are boring, people want to be entertained.
However, not all stories are created equal, and some will naturally do better than others. This is why on competitive platforms like LinkedIn, Golden ensures that storytelling also follows a scientific approach.
"You need to be relational. People don't read stories to learn about you, but to relate to and learn about themselves. And not everything you write is going to blow up with your audience. This is why we publish content consistently — between 12 and 120 times per month for our clients — to make sure everything is A/B tested and tweaked until your audience tells you the story they love the most, and you go viral. Once you find the sweet spot, you can leverage your story to hack growth," says Houston.
The storytelling approach is also the most efficient way to build a brand and craft great messages. Startups can spend a majority of their resources trying to prove that they're the best in the business, but if people aren't open to the message, it's an uphill battle.
"Remember that a story is only as good as the script or the core message. Even if your story is solely driven by emotion but has a bad script; your message will get muddled or even worse, twisted to a whole new narrative. It's easy to become a storyteller as long as you're truthful to yourself."
LinkedIn storytelling has allowed Houston Golden and his team at BAMF to create one of the strongest brands on the platform, and create new markets for their clients. It's the single most critical part of their growth hacking efforts because in this highly competitive age, it's the one of the only things that works.
Digital Nod
The DN News Desk reports on information from all around the globe. The desk puts the spotlight on personalities and businesses across various verticals that have an influence on their industry.


The flour is mixed with the eggs and a drop of oil until it reaches a solid but soft consistency, the mixture is left to rest at room temperature covered with a cloth for 6 hours and then the dough is rolled out not too thinly.
For our tradition, pasta is slightly high since it is an ingredient and not a base for containing the filling.
Cook the pumpkin in the oven, clean it from the peel and from the seeds and pass it to the grocer, chop the amaretti, blend the mustard and knead adding the Parmesan or Parmigiano Reggiano mantovano, the nutmeg (a little), the salt, 1 whole egg and 1 egg yolk.
The dough must be homogeneous and not too moist, the taste must have a balance between the sweet pumpkin and the bitter amaretti with the light touch of the spice (nutmeg).
With the dough you make the rectangles of about 4 - 5 cm on each side and put the filling in the center by folding the sides and closing the ends with the wheel.
The tortelli are boiled in boiling water and then put into the pan with a drizzle of melted butter, they are seasoned with a sauté of tomato and onion in which the filling of tortello is added to soften it is added grana or Parmigiano Reggiano grated mantovano and they pass soft in the oven.
This is the classic recipe of the preparation and seasoning of pumpkin tortello which is offered for Christmas Eve dinner in the territory of the countries between Mantua and Cremona: the Casalasco.
The paired wine is the Lambrusco Mantovano DOC, preferring the version with a light sugar residue that makes it softer and less acidic.
Mantovana English soup is one of the traditional sweets of Trattoria dell'Alba, the recipe is by grandmother chef Maria.
Mix flour, sugar and bitter cocoa with a little milk, making a mush without lumps; add the milk bringing to a boil, stirring with a wooden spoon.
Whip the egg yolks with the sugar, add marsala and white wine and cook in a bain-marie.
Sprinkle the ladyfingers in the mixture of marsala and almond liqueur, spread them on a flat plate and cover with pudding, making two layers, finish with the zabaglione.
Leave to rest for a couple of hours in the refrigerator before serving.
The goose is completely peeled, defatted and cut into pieces, its noble fat is placed in a pot, (formerly of earthenware hence the name "terragna") and melted, we add the pieces of meat with some aromas and si let it cook slowly several hours.
When cooked, it is placed in the refrigerator to rest for several days, sometimes even weeks, so that the meat is frolli from cooked.
At the moment of serving it, remove the necessary amount from the "terragna" and heat slowly over the heat.
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