CABO SAN LUCAS - The Mercury/Western Outdoor News Los Cabos Tuna Jackpot started off giving away $60,000 in prizes at a party and ended giving away $60,000 in prizes at a party, with another party in between resulting in another $60,000.
WON Editorial Director Pat McDonell, emcee for the event, stands behind prizes before the awards ceremony at the mall.
"The level of support we receive from our sponsors for this tournament is incredible," said WON Publisher Joe Higgins. "That's because many of them have come to Cabo and seen what a great event it is."
Sponsors attending the 2004 Tuna Jackpot included folks from Mercury, AIM Marine, Berkley, Crocodile Bay Lodge, Costa Del Mar, Fred Hall and Associates, Fishworks, Furuno, G. Loomis, Hi-5 Lures, Melton International, Owner, Peter J., Puerto Los Cabos/Pisces Real Estate, Seaguar, Shimano, Solomon's Landing, Southern California Ford Dealers, Waterfall Resort and Yo-Zuri.
The event kicked off with a check-in/captain's meeting at the fabulous Puerto Paraiso Mall with its great lineup of restaurants and ever increasing number of shops. Sponsors took over the entrance to the mall on the marina side with booths displaying and touting (and even giving away) product.
Every team member received a goodie bag stuffed with great stuff like the official Leatherman hats besides all the paraphenalia necessary to the tournament, like the Mercury flag for the boat and party wristbands.
Having everything ready to go required a lot of work on the part of the WON staff, which met the night before at Solomon's Landing for an incredible meal and to coordinate their efforts for the four-day event.
More than 1000 people attended the award ceremony.
Of course, the sponsors pitch in and help, too, and Gary Schaffer of G. Loomis, Marc Mills of Shimano and Fred Hall's Mike Battistoni could be seen carrying the massive amounts of prizes from lockup to the stage.
The weather was perfect in Cabo, but it's a long time between 2 p.m. when check in starts until they start giving away prizes about 7 p.m. There was a big difference in the photos of the crowd taken while Kit McNear gave out the rules and the photos of the crowd when they listened to find out whether they won the Burch Ford trip for two to Palmas de Cortez, a Baja Fishing Resort 4 day/3 night fishing trip or a trip on the Smith River with Phil's Smiling Salmon Guide Service.
The list of prizes is literally too long to print, but the highlight of the evening was when Mills of Shimano stepped up to explain a mistake in shipping resulted in single-speed TLD 20s being sent to Cabo instead of two-speeds.
"We decided that we're going to give away an additional 8 two-speed reels," announced Mills. "I'll give you my card and all you have to do is give me a call."
When the prizes are gone at these parties, the crowd vanishes an instant later - but then there's plenty to do in Cabo and some of the participants may have even decided to get some sleep.
The strain and demands of competition caused tournament staff to drop the party after the first day's fishing, but that didn't mean the partying stopped. Many of the sponsors joined WON for dinner at the new Puerta Vieja restaurant out by Misiones.
Wahoo winner was Don Giotionini, seen here clutching the G. Loomis Rods that were part of the prize for his 55.4-pound 'hoo.
The sponsors had already had a full day, with Mills lining up the Gambler for a wide open shot at the dorado for the Shimano and G. Loomis gang, while John DeVries of Seaguar nailed his first dodo ever while fishing with Richard Hightower, Mike Bohn and this writer. Battistoni led the charge on the local golf courses.
Some of the sponsor fishing boats went out a little late the next day, but just about everyone was there to watch as Don Presley and his team sweated out the last 10 minutes of their big money victory on the beach in front of the Hacienda Beach Resort. Owner's Dennis Yamamoto was there for every weigh-in and was gratified when every single money fish was caught on an Owner hook.
Then the center of activity moved just a little ways down Medano Beach to the traditional Mercury party, where all tournament anglers received the official Tuna Jackpot t-shirt. The Hacienda Beach provided a no-host bar and sold food like hamburgers and carne asada.
But the big draw was the second $60,000 installment of prizes. Phil Desautels, who provided two Smiling Salmon trips, was an angler in the event and lucked out in the night's drawing with a Cannon downrigger. Some have characterized the fishing in the Tuna Jackpot as slow, but Desautels said it was only slow for big fish.
"We were the second boat to the Finger every day and we caught lots of tuna, they were just all small fish," said Desautels. "And the dorado were everywhere."
Seaguar's John Devries made a speech that was short and to the point.
The big winners during the second party were members of the same team, Team 111. Larry McCormick won the $8,000 trip for two to Waterfall Resort, while Phil Cowan was the first beneficiary of a Joe Higgins brainchild.
With the evening getting on and the stack of prizes on the dais dwindling, Higgins decided to award everything remaining - an incredible mix of everything from Plano rod tubes to Zeiss binoculars, Yo-Zuri lures to Angler's Center gift certificates - to a single angler. Cowan was the lucky recipient.
Saturday night at the Awards Banquet, tournament anglers and their guests were treated to a sumptious spread put together by the restaurants of Puerto Paraiso and $554,000 in checks were handed out to deserving winners.
Then it was time for more swag. The big prize of the evening was the $20,000 trip for four to Crocodile Bay Lodge and lodge owner Robin Williams drew the name of Fred Friday of Henderson, Nev.
An $8,000 trip to Sitka Sportfishing's Dove Island resort for 4, a $7,000 trip to Waterfall Resort, a trip to RW's Alaska Fishing, a Picante Fleet charter for four, a panga trip courtesy of the Jig Stop, spools and spools of Berkley Big Game, a Samy's Cameras digital camera, Costa del Mar sunglasses, $100 Melton Internation gift certificates, G. Loomis rods to the wahoo winners and more, and $100 shopping sprees to the Fred Hall Show in Long Beach were all part of the long parade of prizes. The shining moment of the evening, however, came when Minerva Smith of Cabo's Minerva's Tackle provided a gold tuna pendant to be auctioned for the local charity she is involved with.
Pat McDonell was the auctioneer and soon had a full scale bidding war on his hands as Don Presley and Marty Burch made it clear they wanted the bauble. The bidding seemed to slow around $4000 (the value of the pendant was $1200), when Jeremy Steward of San Diego jumped in and not long after Presley bid $7000. Burch countered with $7200.
Presley strode toward the podium from his table and thrust his arm in the air.
Burch got another chance when Crocodile Bay's Robin Williams donated a $20,000 trip right on the spot for another auction. Burch had the winning bid and $11,000 went to the Cabo charity.
The rest of the Trinidads, Tiagras and trips (Buena Vista Beach Resort for two) were handed out, including another massive last gasp grab bag drawing.
Of course, with 631 anglers on hand, not everyone won. But there's always next year. Mercury, WON and all our great sponsors will be on hand. See you there.


Make no mistake. Florida State does not have a talent problem. Florida State has a development problem. For whatever reason whether it be poor coaching, misevaluating the character of an individual, or some other external factor, there have been an alarming number of elite recruits who have worn the garnet and gold in recent years only to turn in a lackluster career that leaves us all scratching our heads wondering at what could have been. By no means am I here to personally attack any individual who gave his heart and soul to this program, but simply didn't possess the physical traits necessary to make an impact on the field. However, I will not shy away from the fact that once again here we are staring down the barrel of another once-promising career that ended in frustrating disappointment.
Jeff Luc: The five star inside linebacker battled injuries and struggled to pick up the defensive playbook. He transferred out after his second year.
Christian Green: Another guy who was never really a headache off the field, but didn't live up to the hype of being the number four high school receiver in the nation. Injuries played a role, but so did the glaring deficiencies at the receivers coach position.
Nick Waisome: The undersized defensive back come in highly touted for his quickness and overage skills, but sort of got lost in the shuffle while trying to compete for playing time with future NFL studs like Ronald Darby, PJ Williams, and Jalen Ramsey. It happens. Tough break for a tough kid.
Mario Pender: He came in as a five star running back and was slated to be the next difference maker after the post-championship departure of Devonta Freeman and James Wilder Jr. But then Karlos Williams moved to halfback, Dalvin Cook happened, and Pender found himself in the custody of the Tallahassee Police Department on charges of domestic battery by strangulation.
Ryan Green: Another one of Dalvin Cook's depth chart victims. Still, one has to wonder how the high school All American and No. 3 overall running back nationwide was never really able to break through and contribute when it counted.
Ermon Lane: One of the best teammates you'll find anywhere and without a doubt Nole-blooded through and through, unfortunately, his FSU career didn't quite live up to the hype. I'm going to go out on a limb and chalk this one up to poor receivers coaching. There's no excuse for a guy that big, that strong, and that athletic to not develop into a superstar.
Kain Daub: One of the gems of the 2014 recruiting class never even sniffed the field for the Seminoles after a short-lived FSU career that was marinated in headaches and served with a side of discipline issues.
Sh'Mar Kilby-Lane: The four-star recruit who was supposed to be the answer to Florida State's perpetual lack of depth on the linebacking corps couldn't make the grades and found himself on a junior college roster by the 2017 season.
De'Andre Johnson: It is well documented that the All-American who was supposed to compete with Deondre Francois for the starting quarterback job saw his days as a Nole come to a screeching halt after surveillance videos emerged of him punching a girl in the face at a Tallahassee nightclub. He is one of three former FSU signal callers who found stardom through the Netflix documentary series Last Chance U, which follows former major college football stars trying to find redemption at the JUCO level.
Da'Vante Phillips: Heralded by coaching staffs across the country for his size and strength with the potential to be a real game-changer in the receiver corps, Phillips' FSU's career was regrettable, to say the least. He parted ways with the team while dealing with five felony charges related to pocketing the difference from fraudulent money orders.
Malik Henry: Henry was the No. 1 quarterback in the 2016 high school class. He was advertised to be an immediate impact player with an off-the-charts football IQ and sniper-like accuracy. Undisclosed violations of team rules left him suspended indefinitely after just one season with the Noles. His frustrating lack of any willingness to receive coaching was on full display in the latest season of the aforementioned Last Chance U.
And now most recently, Deondre Francois.
Obviously one has to account for the fact that there will always be a percentage of recruits who turn out to be busts, but clearly, FSU has been producing an inexcusably large amount of wasted talent. So who is to blame? Well, the argument could be made that the staff was riddled with incompetence across the board, but we're talking about a coaching staff that won 29 games in a row and a national championship, so I don't think that's it. You could also argue that there have simply been too many guys allowed to don the garnet and gold who don't possess the type of character you want in your locker room. Maybe, but some of the guys I just listed are absolute stand up citizens. I don't think it's that either. The reality is that failure and underachievement have been so prevalent in this program recently because of the development of a culture that breeds failure and underachievement. Somewhere along the line leaders stopped leading. A chemical change occurred in the lifeblood of the program. The culture that not too long ago was producing unparalleled success at every turn has devolved into a toxic slime that facilitates failure and rewards selfish actions.
Fortunately for Willie Taggart, this changing of the guard at quarterback is an opportunity to say out with the old and in with the new. Now is the time to implement a leadership-driven culture that promotes unselfishness and sustains itself on the principle of finding the guys who really want to be here. Florida State has always been especially vulnerable to the reality that sometimes great football players aren't always great citizens. And every Seminole fan is aware of the extreme disdain that the national media seems to have for the garnet and gold, so we as a fanbase have to be especially prepared to receive criticism at every turn. The reality is that FSU, much like our two main rivals to the south, will always be a magnet for hooligans. Coach Taggart has a choice to make. Will he choose to be the "player's coach" he has established his reputation as? Or will he adapt some more disciplinarian tendencies in order to ensure that FSU steers clear of investing time, effort, money, and resources into more players who are going to just end up in the news for all the wrong reasons.


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Q: Disable anchor preview on iPad running iOS 11 I am having an issue when trying to code a long press image change on iOS 11, specifically iPad devices whereby I cannot seem to stop the anchor preview from displaying. This affects the animation from running properly as displays the image with a box shadow. If I completely remove the anchor tag then this works as expected. This preview functionality does not happen on an iPhone running iOS11.
I have tried using e.preventDefault to prevent mobile Safari and Chrome on the iPad from performing this action by default but it does not seem to resolve it.
The only option I can think of is to remove the anchor tag and use window.location.href on a click of the containing parent but this is not desirable. Has anyone else come across this issue before?

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The above shows the code I am using to trigger a long press on the container and the hover in/hover out functions just lazy load a new image and then animate accordingly.
UPDATE
I have now managed to get rid of the ugly border around the image by setting pointer-events: none on the image. However mobile Safari running iOS version 11.4.1 still insists on adding something to the touchstart when a long touch is applied. See below.

I believe this is something to do with 3D touch but what is confusing about this is that an iPhone 6S running the same iOS version does not do this with 3D Touch switched on! Is this something that can be solved by code? I have tried adding user-select: none and -webkit-touch-callout: none but still to no avail.

A: This was resolved by using:

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This essentially disables dragging on the device so treated it as a draggable element.

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A valid power of attorney requires two parties: the principal -- person signing the power of attorney; and agent -- person given power to act on behalf of the principal. In general, a power of attorney gives an agent the power to assist the principal with his financial affairs (e.g., managing bank accounts and real estate) or make health care decisions (e.g., end of life medical care). A power of attorney is either effective immediately or becomes effective at a future time, such as when the principal suffers from physical or mental incapacity. When the principal dies, the power of attorney is automatically revoked.
A notary public's function when notarizing a power of attorney is to prepare an acknowledgement that is affixed to or made part of the power of attorney. A properly prepared acknowledgement requires three things: that the principal appear in person before the notary; the principal declares the signature on the power of attorney is his own and made willingly; and principal intends the provisions of the power of attorney to take effect. After the principal signs the power of attorney, the notary signs the acknowledgment under penalty of perjury and stamps the document with his official seal.
To prepare a valid power of attorney for finances, the requirements of the state where the power of attorney is signed must be followed, including whether it must be notarized. Some states, like Illinois, specify a "statutory power of attorney" that provides a complete format the power of attorney must follow. Illinois law also requires a witness to sign the power of attorney in addition to requiring the principal's signature be notarized. In New York, a valid power of attorney must include the notarized signatures of both the principal and agent. Because state laws require documents effecting real estate to be notarized -- and a power of attorney can be used to transfer real estate -- state law is likely to require a power of attorney for finances to be notarized.
State law requirements for signing a valid a power of attorney for health care vary in several ways, but can generally be categorized into four groups: states that require the principal's signature to be notarized; states that do not require a notarized signature, but require one or two witnesses to sign the document; states that give the option of using a notarized signature or witness signatures; or a state that requires both witnesses and a notarized signature. A power of attorney for health care is often used in conjunction with a living will - a document that states the principal's wishes regarding medical care and treatment, particularly end of life medical care.
National Notary Association: What is Notarization?
Illinois General Assembly: (755 ILCS 45/) Illinois Power of Attorney Act.


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Abarth ready for last race of 2020 season
by Cameron Matthews November 26 2020 88 AMORE?
Last race of the 2020 season of the FIA European Rally Championship and the Abarth Rally Cup at the Canary Islands Rally
The Canary Islands Rally, the last round of the FIA ERC European Championship and the 2020 Abarth Rally Cup, will be the catwalk for the Italian Andrea Mabellini, whose victory in the Scorpion single-make championship will be made official by ERC during the race weekend.
In fact, the cancellation of the last stage of the ERC, the Spa Rally that should have taken place in Belgium, together with the three successes obtained in the rallies of Roma Capitale in Italy, Fafe-Montelongo, in Portugal and in Hungary, 'Abarth Rally Cup to the young Italian driver.
Mabellini, who races with his compatriot Nicolò Gonella on the Abarth 124 rally R-GT of the Bernini Rally team with the colors of the Napoca Rally Team, will also try to achieve success in the ERC2 category (which sees turbo four-wheel drive cars in the running as well as R-GT). Currently Mabellini is in 3rd place in the ERC2 ranking.
One of the characteristics of the event on the island of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria is the road surface of volcanic origin, very abrasive and with strong grip, even in case of rain. The track, generally without debris, is characterized by long climbs and descents that alternate fast sections with more tortuous ones, ideal situations for the Abarth 124 rally.
In the 2019 edition, at the Canarian Rally, the 124 rally achieved success in ERC2 with the Spaniards Alberto Monarri and Alberto Chamorro.
In addition to Mabellini, the Polish crew made up of Dariusz Polonski and Lukasz Sitek are back in the Abarth Rally Cup with the Abarth 124 rally of Team Rallytechnology.
The race kicks off from the Gran Canaria stadium in Las Palmas on Thursday 26 November at 5.15 pm, after the completion of the special qualifying stage, scheduled for 15.03, which determines the starting order. The first stage will be held on Friday 27th, starting at 9.30 am and arriving at 9.30 pm, with 9 special stages. Saturday 28 the last part of the race, from 9.00 to 16.28, with 8 other special stages. In total, the route measures 559 km, 202 of which of timed speed spread over 17 special stages.
The rally will be held behind closed doors due to COVID-19, but fans will be able to count on 4 PS live on Facebook and ERC YouTube, as well as all day on ERC Radio and highlights on Eurosport.
Abarth Rally Cup classification: 1. Andrea Mabellini (ITA, Napoca Rally) 75; 2. Martin Rada (CZE, Agrotec Abarth) 43; 3. Roberto Gobbin (ITA, Winners Rally Team) 36.
After the European championship, the rally season for Abarth will continue at Rally di Monza, from 4 to 6 December, the official round of the WRC world championship and the R-GT cup
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Maserati increases its worldwide presence
Mystery Ferrari V12 on the way?

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Some excellent advice. Words of wisdom that I've also followed in my lifetime. Life is good!
This experience will only make you stronger. Chin-up, ButterCup.
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This site is for information about the St George's URC orchestra and ceilidh band. For more information please contact Christine Oakes or otherwise Andrew Hamnett for details of the orchestra and Jared Johnson or Gill Armstrong for details of the ceilidh band.
We are always pleased to see new members of the orchestra and the ceilidh band: we aim to include anyone interested in our music and willing to share the fun of playing together.
The orchestra plays for worship once a month and the ceilidh band plays for the country dance club once a month, as well as similar events at other churches.
Regular and occasional players are welcome to both the church orchestra and the ceilidh band. A list of dates for both groups is given below - purple for orchestra, turquoise for the ceilidh band and black for both. Please ask to be put on our e-mail list if you are interested in joining any of the events.
Orchestra playing for the Women's World Day of Prayer on 1st March 2019 at Morpeth Methodist Church. This service was based on music and ideas from Slovenia and was very well received by the congregation. Photograph courtesy Shirley Forster.
Photograph sent by Gill Armstrong showing the Ceilidh Band playing for the 4th Morpeth Scout Group Ceilidh, with Jared Johnson at the caller.
A You-Tube film from Morpeth TV News showing the beginning of the ceremony with an introduction by Nora Campbell, this year's main church organiser. Photograph from Shirley Forster of the band and choir rehearsing on Friday 23rd February at St Jams' Church for the Women's World Day of Prayer. The service itself will be on Friday the 2nd March at 2.00 pm with the final rehearsal at 10.00 am. The photographs shows Harriet Gilfillan conducting the choir and the orchestra in the music which is themed this year on the country of Suriname.
The band played for evening service at Great Bavington on June 18th 2017 in glorious weather. They are seen here practising outside the historic church before the service.


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The Telehealth Landscape is About to Change
These days, there are surely some interesting dynamics at play. And no, I'm not talking about the post-election dynamics or the holidays during a full-blown health crisis. I am talking about the forces at play at this very moment, preparing for the inevitable time later in 2021 when politics and everyday life are for the most part stable again. The Telehealth Landscape is about to change – dramatically.
Pandora's Box is Open Wide
Covid-19 certainly demonstrated the feasibility of virtual care delivery and it is understood by most in healthcare that a wide-spread use of telehealth is here to stay. Still, many voices in the "traditional" care delivery system still wish that things could go back to "normal" and continue to believe that telehealth "didn't really work". But when you peel back the layers behind such statements, what I often found is a self-fulfilling prophecy: because they did not think it was going to work, they found evidence when it did not work.
For this very reason for over 10 years I've been implementing telemedicine services in health systems starting with the champions, the early adopters. Those who believed in telehealth as a viable clinical tool – not a replacement for in-person visits, but another tool in their tool chest to deliver extraordinary care.
As I've said in last week's article: the comparison should be between "no access to care" and "access to virtual care". But statistics on "no access to care" are hard to come by, because you cannot count what did not happen. So it's hard to measure the true value of having access. Though we did see that during the height of Covid-19 infections when patients would rather have no visit.
But let me today focus on some other dynamics at play, that in my opinion are presenting a big threat to healthcare as we know it. I'm talking about the increasing, as I call it, "shadow healthcare system", that is now forming and rapidly expanding.
Here are just a few select clues that the landscape as a whole is about to change dramatically:
Amazon.care started out in 2019 with an isolated pilot in Seattle as an experimental, alternative tool to lower the cost of care for some of Amazon's workers. As expected, just after the launch a year ago, Amazon.care now opened its membership to all Amazon employees and dependents within the state of Washington. It's not a big step from there to offering the service to all residents in Washington state.
Walmart Health offers in-store access to care, starting as low as $30 per visit. It is thereby in direct competition with similar services at CVS and Walgreens who are all ultimately in competition with the local health system that is relying on "standard visits". While Walmart Health at the moment is not offering virtual services, it is only a small leap to that next level of care delivery.
Healthcare.Bestbuy.com is the final new player in the healthcare market to round out our trio of retailers getting in on the healthcare market. It is combining it's tech expertise, it's mobile geek squad and its vast footprint to offer better access to care and home monitoring.
Add to that list the sheer number of well-funded mainstream telemedicine services (e.g., AmWell, MDLive, Teladoc or Dr. On Demand) and the up and new-comers (Heal, Wheel, 98point6, etc.) as well as numerous new niche players (such as OrthoLive, DorsalHealth or Kaia Health in the musculoskeletal field) and you get the sense that the buffet of telehealth offerings will become highly crowded and competitive very soon (if it isn't already).
In addition, numerous digital health solutions companies that traditionally have not been in the telehealth space, are now actively working on augmenting or expanding their solutions to enable the delivery of care at a distance.
The Pressure Is On
All of that is to illustrate that a massive wave of competitors to the incumbent healthcare delivery ecosystem is barreling across the landscape "toward a community near you". Digital and virtual health can almost ignore geographic boundaries (except a few state lines) and many of the services are not tied to fee-for-service reimbursement (or any insurance payment for that matter).
What I'm concerned about is that — backed by billions of dollars in venture capital funding (which mostly translates into well-backed marketing campaigns) — these new solutions will woo especially those modern healthcare consumers that typically create the incumbent healthcare providers' profit margin or break-even margin. When this income source is diverted to other entities, the whole fragile business model of many rural health systems or safety net hospitals can crumble.
In addition, those hi-and-bye healthcare providers do not ensure (or even strive for) a true long-term relationship. Plus, due to the lack of integrated medical information, there is also no to very little information passed on the patient's primary care provider about that telehealth visit, leading to a fragmentation of care and suboptimal care decision making, as it is based on limited data. The US healthcare quality is already bad enough as it is (compared to other nations) and this fragmentation will exacerbate that.
A Solution is available
For me the solution, though, is not regulation. Rather, my solution is to sound a shrilling wake up call to all healthcare leaders to become fully present to what is going on in startup up co-working spaces all over the world.
What's needed is bold and assertive leadership to set forth a Connected Health or Virtual Care strategy and to leverage the trust bestowed upon most providers by their imminent community to offer a superb, continuous, integrated care experience – at a distance or in person.
With strong leadership, an expert team (e.g., complemented through external advisors, such as Ingenium) and sufficient resources, healthcare organizations can turn things around within weeks in shorter time frames than it takes a startup to raise another round of funds.
Here's the quick recipe:
The Leadership of Connected Health starts with the CEO
Establish a cross-disciplinary, physician-led executive team
Set forth the vision and mission for why Connected Health is important
Assess and evaluate the current telehealth services and identify those that are in competition with the telemed-only services
Improve, grow, expand and add based on what the patients want and need
Yes, these steps take time and resources. But the alternative could lead to financial extinction within a year, if a convenient, telehealth-only service provider starts going after your patients.
Does your organization have a Telehealth Strategy? What's in it?
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Christian Milaster optimizes Telehealth Services for health systems and physician practices as the interim Telehealth Program Director. He serves as a Digital Health & Telehealth Advisor to startups and established Health IT firms. Christian is a Master Builder of Digital Health and Telehealth Programs and the Founder and President of Ingenium Digital Health Advisors, a boutique consultancy focused on enabling the effective delivery of extraordinary care through workflow optimization and the judicious use of technology. Born, raised, and educated as an Engineer in Germany, Christian started his career at IBM Global Services before joining the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where he worked for 12 years in various roles before launching Ingenium in 2012.
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Where did my Dharma go?
I'm in a slump. Admittedly I am unwell, some kind of virus, low in energy and just generally blah. If you are a human, and have ever been unwell, I am sure you are well aware of what this feels like.
So you tend to have idle time when you are unwell, when not sleeping, couch'ing or tv'ing, there is a spaciousness that comes with being unwell, and maybe even leads you to reflect on what it is you have been doing when you were feeling on top of it all.
That's me, right now, unwell and contemplating what has been unfolding in my life. And something I have been pondering a lot lately is the experience of Dharma, the journey or path, your calling, vocation, the specific set of skills, talents and traits that are uniquely yours and you get to share them with the world at large.
In looking at these words, something for me immediately revealed itself, and that is, as long as I can remember, I have made my hobbies into jobs which I desired to become careers. Without even touching on Vocation, let me explain what I mean by that. Since a young age, I have LOVED dance. I went to my first dance lesson at the age of three, and even though had breaks, pretty much did some style of dance up to the age of 30yrs. With dancing my passion, hobby, purpose for living kind of thing, I proceeded to teach dance for 10+ years, making it my job and career. I would choreograph, teach, perform, and although I loved it, there was an element where because I relied on it for an income, some of the passion started seeping out. So I changed, drastically. I used my training in the Youth Sector, and headed up to a small town in WA called Laverton. I did a 12mths Indigenous Youth Officer role and it was really nice having superannuation, holiday pay, sick leave, etc. Yet, the responsibilities of this JOB was overwhelming. The needs of the demographic I was working with left me feeling despondent about life in general, no matter how much funding was raised or how many amazing activities were offered, there seemed to be no end to the problems and challenges that the community faced, which as a sensitive, artistic type, this job which was a career for 12mths, was holding my life force captive.
So I left, returned home to Melbourne, and got back into the job that I was good at, teaching, moving, instructing. Into the land of Group Fitness I fell, and this was a perfect fit. I now had a job that allowed me a lot of free time to pursue hobbies and passions, and at this stage of the game, is where Yoga stepped in. Now Yoga, I thought was my Vocation. I felt a strong calling to this art form of movement. I didn't initially see it as a job or career, but more of something larger, and the more training I did, the more I was tapping into something that was significantly different to the experience of a Job. But, like anything, the more time you spend with an experience, the more you maybe take it for granted. I realised that by turning my Vocation into a Job, ie the way I earn money to pay my bills and exist in this material world, the more there was something that started to fall by the wayside, an experience that seemed like this sacred offering, was now becoming just a way to get by, a way to pay the bills.
So I am in deep reflection about all this, our hobbies – what we do for pleasure with no expected outcome. Our jobs – what we do to pay our bills and get by in life. Our careers – jobs that we are willing to invest more time into than is financially returned to us because we believe in the road it heads down. Our vocation – a greater calling, a whisper from the universe that reminds us of our gifts and talents and calls them forth into the world to be utilised for the greater good of all.
And I ponder, where am I at with the experience of teaching Yoga?
Is Yoga my hobby or my vocation? Is it inappropriate to call it a job or career? What happens when you are in a creative industry, offering weekly inspiration, yet the inspiration within yourself is conflicted?
I know one thing for sure, that I believe 100% in the healing industry. I believe that I have gifts and skills to offer this industry and IÂ feel integrated as a person, offering benefits to the community at large through the experience of yoga.
It is usually at this point in one's journey that reflection is vital. Charles Du Bos  says - The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
So I ponder, what am I in this moment of my life as a Yoga Teacher. What could I become in this experience? What am I willing to sacrifice, what way of being no longer serves me?
Join me this week in classes that will open us wide to this question of this becoming. This revealing ourselves to ourself in a more intimate way, allowing for the conflictions and passions to reveal themselves simultaneously.
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But, it is essential to squarely call Evil what it is.
Sarah Hoyt, of According to Hoyt, has an impressive and thoughtful essay on why the Elite so often seem to promote truly BAD ideas.
I'm going to be relatively quiet over the next several weeks. I have a brother with medical problems, an out-of-town family celebration, a husband who has set up a small house nearer to work, to save on the wear & tear of commuting long distances (it will only last till the end of May, at worst), an insurance license to test for near the end of the month, and a book that is in process.
In short - Too Busy to Blog Much. I hope the world cooperates by slowing down on the stupid and evil, for at least a short time.
Hopes for you, prayers for your brother. B"H.
As to the world getting saner? Not. Possible. Alas.
Are you familiar with Evan Sayet and his Universal Theory of Liberalism?
Get some rest. If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.


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Das Weingut Seeger ist ein badisches Weingut und befindet sich in Leimen an der badischen Bergstraße. Die Familie Seeger ist seit 1707 als Winzer in 12. Generation nachgewiesen. Das Weingut ist Mitglied im Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter.

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Im Jahr 1655 erfolgte die erste urkundliche Erwähnung der Familie Seeger in Leimen als Weinbauern.

Im Jahr 1707 wurde durch Andres Seeger im Ortskern von Leimen ein Gutshof erbaut, der fortan als Weingut fungierte. Als der ursprüngliche Hof zu klein wurde, erbaute Georg W. Seeger 1895 zwischen Leimen und Heidelberg das heutige Weingut mit Kelleranlagen sowie der zugehörigen Weinstube Jägerlust.

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Home Books, Arts and Culture Books The Power of Ideas and the Idea of Power
The Power of Ideas and the Idea of Power
The progressives won the debate about whether there is a power elite. Now they need to keep the corporate elite from destroying what's left of our democracy.
by Zach Carter
PAUL HENNESSY/AP PHOTO
Amazon's city-sized warehouses are a symbol of the increasing economic and political power of large corporations.
Liberty From All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People
By Barry C. Lynn
Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
By Zephyr Teachout
Though it may be difficult for young readers to believe, there was a time when Americans turned to academics for guidance on great social questions. For most of the 20th century, whole disciplines vied with each other hoping to lay claim to the Great Theorist of the Age. John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman became household names from the realm of economics, while philosophy departments held up John Rawls and Robert Nozick. Historians Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Richard Hofstadter offered not only accounts of social movements and political figures, but sweeping theories of America, the state, and history itself. Even political science, a field now bedraggled by statistical regressions to nowhere, once grappled with grand ideas, arming democratic theorist Robert Dahl for intellectual combat with radical sociologists Floyd Hunter and C. Wright Mills.
The great intellectual clashes of this era all had to do with power. In 1953, Hunter, a little-known sociologist at the University of North Carolina, published Community Power Structure, a dry book with a dry title that sent shock waves through the academy. Studying the city of Atlanta's informal policymaking process, Hunter concluded that while the city was officially governed by elected officials, a narrow clique of corporate leaders controlled the agenda. Much of what voters cared about—better housing or a higher minimum wage—never came up. Instead, city government was focused on policies that boosted returns on real estate assets and increased revenues for downtown retailers.
Three years later, Mills reached a similar conclusion in The Power Elite—the rich were running the show. Hunter and Mills were not Marxists in any traditional sense, but their books presented nuanced reformulations of the old Marxist idea that the state was controlled by capitalists who exploited the political apparatus to further their own interests. The reforms of the New Deal era had strained that idea, but Hunter and Mills sought to demonstrate that in the postwar world, American democracy was not so democratic as it seemed.
They were right. But their ideas steadily fell out of favor in the years following Robert Dahl's 1961 study Who Governs? Dahl concluded that despite a few imperfections, elected leaders really did respond to public concerns. There were special interests, of course, with unjustified levels of influence over the political process, but there were a lot of them, and no particular group controlled the overall agenda. It was elected leaders, surveying this plurality of interests, who exercised real power in the American system, which was, all things considered, a pretty healthy and democratic way of organizing a society.
Dahl was wrong, and subsequent critics—most notably G. William Domhoff—persuasively demonstrated that he had misunderstood his own study. But his ideas were perfectly attuned for a new age of American ideas just over the horizon.
By the 1980s, all this talk of power had been buried by a new faith in the genius of financial markets. Public demand for great questions about the way of things dried up. Everyone already knew the answers. Growth and efficiency were the correct goals and intellectual justifications; their absence the ultimate indictment.
The high era of American political theory came to a close. We had entered the Age of the Economist, but a peculiar sort of economist who explicitly eschewed the significance of social ideas and of power. New Jerusalem would be built from mathematics alone, its temples constructed of algebra. What seemed to the untrained mind like a festering social problem was, to the learned economist, merely a passing flaw soon to be perfected. Everything would work out fine, by definition.
The financial crisis of 2008 demolished this thinking, along with much else. The intellectual contest to define our current era has been live for some time now, and the most politically effective school of thought to emerge so far has been anti-monopolism. In Washington, the fruits of its labors are everywhere, from the Trump administration's blockbuster antitrust suit against Google to a devastating 16-month Big Tech investigation by House Democrats that concluded Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook are actively "undermining both political and economic liberties." Beyond the Beltway, millions of people who have always hated Facebook can now enjoy a sophisticated canon detailing why, exactly, they should.
Teachout and Lynn show how today's monopolists often simply bypass official mechanisms of democracy to issue their own edicts about who can conduct what activity on what terms.
TWO NEW ENTRIES in that corpus demand our attention: Liberty From All Masters, authored by anti-monopoly ringleader Barry Lynn, and Break 'Em Up, the latest book from progressive law professor and New York political agitator Zephyr Teachout. Along with recent works from Matt Stoller and Prospect executive editor David Dayen, Lynn and Teachout have reinvigorated the public debate around the relationship between public and private power in America that raged for much of the 20th century.
For Lynn and Teachout, the most pressing evil among us is the tech platforms—Silicon Valley behemoths that do not merely connect individuals or collect data, but order digital life and commerce. The trouble with Facebook, Google, and Amazon is not measured in excessive profits or consumer prices, but in the way they each create independent systems of power insulated from public accountability.
"Monopoly," Teachout writes, "is a rival form of government burrowing its way into democratic government." Where Mills and Hunter detailed the way that midcentury corporate elites corralled public officials into doing their bidding, Teachout and Lynn show how today's monopolists often simply bypass official mechanisms of democracy to issue their own edicts about who can conduct what activity on what terms.
Amazon, for instance, is not merely a portal for customers but a warehouse business, shipping network, payment processing platform, data server operation, and even advertising arena that can require separate terms for each one of these aspects of its operation. The rules it imposes on its third-party sellers—the retailers responsible for most of the actual goods that move through Amazon—frequently change, and sellers must also abide by an extra set of unwritten standards. Without buying advertising space from Amazon or agreeing to use Amazon's shipping service, for instance, many sellers report that their products are functionally erased from Amazon's search results. If they complain, Amazon withholds its private infrastructure. When the book publisher Hachette objected to the terms of an Amazon contract, Amazon imposed a two-week shipping delay on the delivery of Hachette's books to consumers.
Even seasoned Big Tech critics will learn much from the abusive practices detailed in Teachout's book. In her telling, Big Tech companies are not so much internet businesses as federal regulators and public utilities. As Mark Zuckerberg put it, "In a lot of ways Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company."
For all the horrors that Lynn and Teachout present, they both resist the nihilistic determinism that other students of power often fall prey to. If the rich control the government, after all, how can the tools of government ever be turned against them? For Lynn and Teachout, the rise of today's monopolies is not woven into the fabric of capitalism. It is a relatively recent phenomenon, created by specific policies and a particularly lax attitude about antitrust laws. Bringing monopolies to heel is merely a matter of the government and the public waking up to what is happening.
As descriptions of what has gone wrong in the digital economy and a prescription for what ails it, Break 'Em Up and Liberty From All Masters ring true. Both books are punchy and accessible. Lynn writes with the flair of a seasoned business journalist; Teachout with the rhetorical fire of an effective activist.
But Lynn seeks to be more than our guide through the present digital hell; in Liberty From All Masters, he offers an intellectual history of the United States, a comprehensive critique of the Age of the Economist, and a top-to-bottom theory of political economy. These are ambitious projects, and Lynn stumbles on occasion. Important aspects of his historical narrative are wrong. Perhaps more importantly, by claiming to call back an age-old American system of thought, Lynn sells short his own creativity. For better and for worse, Liberty From All Masters is in fact a new intellectual cocktail, mixing left-wing ideas about democratic management with right-wing ideas about the virtues of the market. The political potency of this combination is evident in the anti-monopoly takeover of Washington intellectualism, but its appeal as a fundamental theory of democracy is less apparent.
The Boston Tea Party was not merely a tax revolt, but an attack on the undemocratic power of the East India Company.
Lynn's story begins with the American Revolution, where he offers a timely and overlooked reminder that the Boston Tea Party was not merely a tax revolt, but an attack on the undemocratic power of the East India Company. He then traces discomfort with concentrations of power, both public and private, that runs through key American political disputes since America's founding. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in Lynn's telling, was not inventing a new system of government, as Ira Katznelson argued in Fear Itself, but refining a set of broadly shared American principles.
The narrative picks up steam in the 1980s with the emergence of neoliberalism as a political force. The "overthrow of America's system of antimonopoly law," Lynn writes, was "the single most important act of neoliberal sabotage," as politicians in both parties fell "under the thrall of radical right-wing and left-wing philosophies." This bred a cancer on the body politic. "It's vital to understand that monopoly is not one of many economic problems but rather the political economic problem of our time."
The connection between the political right and neoliberalism is well understood—Quinn Slobodian, Angus Burgin, and Daniel Stedman Jones have all written thorough, readable accounts of different aspects of the history. Lynn's claim that the radical left was a key contributor to the development of neoliberalism is innovative, but wrong. The centrist Democratic Party of Bill Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Council was beguiled by neoliberalism—but not the radical left, which organized enormous protests against key neoliberal initiatives such as World Trade Organization treaties and opposed deregulation generally.
Lynn's Exhibit A is John Kenneth Galbraith, the most influential left-liberal economist at midcentury and a well-documented antitrust skeptic. "Here his hatred was virulent," Lynn writes, citing Galbraith's 1973 book Economics and the Public Purpose as a kind of coming-out party for his radical monopoly-friendly views. In Lynn's telling, Galbraith's influence extended to Ralph Nader and Robert Reich, infecting the Democratic Party and fueling the Clinton administration's turn to NAFTA and bank deregulation.
Moreover, what Galbraith wrote in Economics and the Public Purpose is more closely aligned with Lynn's own views than he acknowledges. "The antitrust laws are now eighty years old," Galbraith wrote. "Nothing has yet happened to arrest the development and burgeoning power" of big business. "What might be dangerous agitation for effective regulatory action or for public ownership or socialism comes out safely as a demand that the antitrust laws be enforced."
Antitrust, in other words, was not enough, and led to a dangerous complacency about other potential remedies. When he criticized antitrust laws, Galbraith was attacking a narrow conception of antitrust action—breaking up companies and blocking mergers—in favor of a more comprehensive governing regime that included regulatory action and public ownership. These are remedies that Lynn himself discusses as appropriate political responses to monopoly power.
Nor were Galbraith's ideas about antitrust new in the 1970s. In American Capitalism (1952) and The New Industrial State (1967), Galbraith assumed that big industrial conglomerates were here to stay, arguing that they might be turned to public purposes with the countervailing powers of trade unions and the democratic state. And perhaps most importantly, by the time neoliberalism achieved its political ascendance, Galbraith's ideas were out of fashion. His portrait of 20th-century capitalism largely missed the financial reorganizations of the late 1970s and 1980s, and by the Clinton years, top administration economists were not only invoking his archrival Milton Friedman, but openly mocking Galbraith in books and speeches.
The important point is that neoliberalism was not, as Lynn suggests, a triumph of the radical extremes over the reasonable center. It was a thorough right-wing intellectual conquest of both parties.
Monopolists are useful political symbols; the cartoonish behavior of men like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos helps crystallize the injustices of an economy system that creates vast inequality.
NEOLIBERALISM BEGAN its takeover of American ideas and politics in the late 1970s. Its evils soon began to exhibit themselves in the form of wage stagnation and surging economic inequality. American households were feeling this sting long before what Lynn calls the first stage of monopolization began in the late 1990s, and far earlier than the Silicon Valley explosion of the 21st century.
Lynn deserves credit for identifying monopoly as a key and particularly dangerous feature of neoliberalism—but it is not the ultimate essence of the beast. If we cannot slay the neoliberal dragon with an arrow to its soft monopoly underbelly, then monopoly is not, in fact, the single political economy problem of our time.
My own view is that neoliberalism is best understood as the financialization of public life, and that financialization breeds, among other things, monopoly. The good news here is that all of Lynn's anti-monopoly proposals—breakups, regulation, nationalization—are effective tools for fighting financialization. We know this because, as Lynn notes, they were key features of the New Deal, which not only stymied the financialization of the Roaring Twenties, but created the basis for an economy grounded in production rather than speculation.
This is a left-liberal critique. But even lefties and liberals uncomfortable with Lynn's political hybrid can recognize that it is bearing fruit. Monopolists are indeed powerful barriers to progress in America today, and the anti-monopolists have turned the intellectual tide against them in Washington. This is in no small degree a product of the conservative currents running through the project, particularly Lynn's faith that markets can work beautifully once we purge them of the monopoly men. Lynn, who heads the Open Markets Institute, has even recruited some conservative allies to his antitrust project, such as Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley.
Consider Lynn's praise for Friedrich Hayek, the Austrian economist and founder of the Mont Pelerin Society, which coined the term "neoliberal." Lynn lauds Hayek's depiction of the price system as an information distribution network that can alert the public to social problems.
"Market prices," Lynn writes, "allow the public … to take political action, if they think it necessary, to address the reason why a particular good is in short supply or oversupply." When we see that the price of a particular good remains elevated, we recognize that there is something amiss and begin to investigate. "The public price … plays a major role in making the public the public," Lynn adds.
This is a deeply conservative conception of the market and indeed the public itself. John Maynard Keynes, for instance, devoted a great deal of time and energy to discrediting the idea that prices convey all meaningful information about public needs and wants. If market prices are largely determined, as Keynes argued, by uncertain views about the future, then they cannot tell us much of anything about what is really happening on the ground—only what people expect to come. Market failures are ubiquitous and not merely a product of bigness, as any student of the environment, labor, or financial crisis can attest.
Monopolists are useful political symbols; the cartoonish behavior of men like Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos helps crystallize the injustices of an economy system that creates vast inequality. But there are limits to the democratic power of anti-monopolism. People vote on household problems like child care, health care, and unemployment. Convincing them that the market will tend to these needs once the monopolists are tamed seems like a roundabout electoral project at best, with the important exception of farm country, where households are not only workers but producers who bristle daily at the predations of financial and agricultural monopolies.
A political theory that claims John Kenneth Galbraith as a father of neoliberalism and Friedrich Hayek as an antidote needs some work. But you would be hard-pressed to identify a single Capitol Hill staffer who is interested in any of these objections. Even top Democratic policy hands now accept the premise that markets will work just fine if purged of a few imperfections. Much of anti-monopolism's new appeal among the nation's power brokers is a result of its concessions to the American right. Lynn's story about reviving True Capitalism may not hold up, but if it can persuade Washington to rid us of Silicon Valley's robber barons, few will hold his history against him.
Nov/Dec 2020 Issue Books corporate power Economic Policy Books, Culture & the Arts Zephyr Teachout Barry C. Lynn neoliberalism monopoly Big Tech antitrust inequality
Zach Carter
Zach Carter is a senior reporter at HuffPost and the author of the New York Times best-selling book 'The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.'
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