Lakewood, WA Ozone Water Treatment Systems by Ozone Pure Water Inc.
Ozone water purification is a system that utilizes oxidation to remove contaminants from your water supply. This water treatment system introduces ozone into the water system through aeration. Then the ozone attaches to the unhealthy elements in your water supply that may include bacteria, toxins, iron, chlorine, sulfur, and more. Ozone water treatment in Lakewood, WA works to fully eliminate bad tastes, odors, and cloudiness from the water you use daily. Keep calcium stains and mineral buildup off of your laundry,dishes and fixtures, and remove harmful metals, chemicals, and other elements. Every one of our whole home treatment and point-of-use water treatment systems are totally customizable to ensure you get the exact water purification solution you need.
Ozone Pure Water offers a multitude of ozone water purification solutions in Lakewood, WA that can be utilized for residential, commercial, or even industrial settings. The systems we offer range from point-of-entry systems that purify the whole water supply from the storage tank or well to under-the-counter systems that are attached to a specific faucet to receive clean, filtered water directly from the tap. Each of our treatment systems comes with all the parts you need, and can be quickly installed for immediate use. With our expansive inventory, you can always find the parts you need and have it shipped to you fast.|Never stress about replacement equipment again with Ozone Pure Water's extensive inventory and quick shipping.}The Ozone Pure Water Lakewood, WA ozone water treatment representatives can help you decide which part is ideal for your system by discussing product details like lifespan, performance, and cost. Whether you're in the market for a new ozone water purification system or it's just time for a new injector, our professionals can make sure you get precisely what you need.
To ensure that the water you utilize every day is always pure in Lakewood, WA, an ozone water treatment system is an ideal solution. The ozonation process has unparalleled ability to rid your water of bacteria, viruses, and other harmful contaminants from your water, leaving it clean and pure. Our water treatment systems even get rid of the chemicals left behind by other types of water purification systems.
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Bell Media Group, LLC ("Prospect Reach", "we" or "us") recognizes the importance of privacy for our customers and users. We want to be transparent about how we collect and use information in connection with the website ProspectReach.co (the "Site") and any service offered by the company, provided in connection with the Site or otherwise (the "Services"). Thus, we developed a privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") that applies to the Site and Services, and this is incorporated by reference into the Site Terms of Use accessible here.
In this Privacy Policy, we'll often refer to "Personal Information". This is information that identifies (directly or indirectly) a particular individual. Personal Information may include (without limitation) your first name, last name and email address, and you may provide Personal Information to us in many ways including on our forms, surveys, applications or during account creation.
In this Privacy Policy, when we refer to "you" or "your," we mean any person accessing the Site. If the person accessing this Site acts on behalf of another person or entity, "you" or "your" also means that other person or entity. By submitting Personal Information through the Site or Services, you are providing your permission and consent for the collection, use, retention and disclosure of Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
The Privacy Policy describes the following:
How we collect information (including Personal Information) and what types of information we collect
How we use and safeguard Personal Information
Your rights and choices regarding how Personal Information may be used and disclosed.
Before we discuss the types of information we collect, please note that use of our Site and Services is strictly limited to persons who have attained the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which they reside; you must be at least eighteen (18) years old to use our Site and Services in any jurisdiction. Prospect Reach does not knowingly collect or store any Personal Information or any information from any persons under the age of 13. If Prospect Reach discovers that Personal Information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected or stored, Prospect Reach will take the appropriate steps to delete this information from our systems.
I. Information We Collect
Information You Provide Voluntarily to Us
We collect Personal Information from you directly. For example, we may obtain Personal Information when you request information, products or services from or otherwise interact with the Site or Services, or fill out a Registration Form.
We may also collect Personal Information through your access to your accounts online, as well as your asking questions through our "Contact Us" link, such as your name, address, e-mail address and other contact information. We may also collect data resulting from your activity on the Site, such as transaction information.
We collect navigational information about where visitors go on our Site and information about the technical efficiencies of our Site and Services. In the process of gathering navigational information, anonymous information may be collected which will provide information to us regarding use of our Site. Anonymous information is information that does not directly or indirectly identify, or cannot reasonably be used to identify, a particular individual. Examples of anonymous information may include information about your Internet browser, domain type, usage statistics, and service provider, collected through tracking technologies and aggregated or de-identified data.
We may also collect anonymized location information or your IP address for analytics purposes, and we may authorize third parties to do so. This information may be collected from your mobile device's location-aware features when you request certain services that are dependent on your physical location.
Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms
Depending on how you access and use our Site and Services, you may use a browser feature known as a "cookie." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the computer that runs an Internet browser and is commonly used to store information about a user's online activities, including information such as the content or advertisements that a user views or the pages a user visits within a particular website. A cookie can contain information about you, your computer, your browser, your session, the websites you visit and other information about you or others who use, or have used, the computer or browser you use to access the Internet. Cookies are used for record-keeping purposes: the stored information can be retrieved by our website server when you return to the website. This allows us to personalize or regulate the use of this Site, and it also permits us to automate the access and data entry functions of this Site (e.g., login information), and to tailor the appearance or presentation of this Site to your preferences or interests.
We use cookies as a convenience feature to save you time, to understand how our Site is used, and to improve the content and offerings on our Site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages or recall your specific information on subsequent visits (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our Site). We may also use cookies to offer you or inform you of products, programs or services and targeted advertising. You can opt to have your browser reject cookies.
Most or all browsers permit you to disable or reject cookies. You can do this by adjusting your preferences in the browser.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of the cookies, explanations and cookie policies, if applicable, on the Site. While we will maintain the accuracy of this list in good faith, although it may not be complete or fully accurate.
Prospect Reach (sessionID and prefs)
SessionID Keeps your session active and expires when you close your browser or log out of Prospect Reach. Prefs is a collection of simple preferences and expires when you close your browser or log out of Prospect Reach
Cookies may be used to facilitate product feedback and sending help messages to our customers.
https://help.drift.com/faqs/drift-cookie-security-and-privacy
Cookies may be used to assist in payment transactions.
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Collects information about how visitors use our site. We embed YouTube videos to demonstrate features which may place cookies.
Advertising pixel for prospecting and retargeting.
HTML editor we use that may place cookies to facilitate a proper user experience.
facilitate a proper user experience.
Social sharing and heatmaps on how visitors use our site.
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Prospect Reach does not track its customers over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore does not respond to "Do Not Track" signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of Personal Information about an individual consumer's online activities over time and across third-party Web sites or online services. Accordingly, your selection of the "Do Not Track" option provided by your browser may not have any effect on our analytics or tracking tools. Use the "Help" feature of your browser to obtain more information about refusing cookies. If you set the browser you use to reject cookies, you may not be able to access the Site or use the full functionality of the Site, or it may take additional time to utilize such functionality. If you opt to reject cookies, you may need to re-register with us every time you visit our Site. Your continued use of our Site reflects your consent to allow additional cookies to be placed on your computer to help you navigate the Site.
Pixel Tags, Web Beacons and Similar Technologies
These are typically small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the Site, our applications or certain e-mail communications that we send to you. They may involve the transmission of information directly to us, to another party on our behalf or to another party in accordance with its privacy policy. We may use these technologies to track your engagement with our application or our marketing messages.
Clickstream Data
As you use the Internet, a trail of electronic information is left at each website you visit. This information, which is sometimes referred to as "clickstream data," can be collected and stored by a website's server. Clickstream data can identify the type of computer and browsing software you use and the address of the website from which you linked to the Site. We may use clickstream data as a form of non-Personal Information to anonymously determine how much time visitors spend on each page of the Site, how visitors navigate throughout the Site and how we may tailor our web pages to better meet the needs of visitors.
Prospect Reach or our hosting provider may collect traffic information from visitors for statistical analysis and Site improvement. When you access the Site, we (or our hosting provider) may collect information about your visit in a log file on a server. Log file information may include, but is not limited to, internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks. We (or our hosting provider) use this information to analyze trends, administer sites, track users' movements in the aggregate, and gather demographic information for aggregate use. We (or our hosting provider) may review this information to better understand overall trends and to determine what kinds of content are popular with and useful to users.
Information Other Websites Collect from You
Our Site may contain links to other websites operated by other parties whose practices may be different than ours. When you click on such links and visit such other websites, you need to be aware that we may not control such other websites or such other websites' business practices, and that this Privacy Policy does not apply to such other websites. Consequently, the operators of such other websites may collect different kinds of information about you and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected on the Site.
II. How We Use Information
We may use your Personal Information to help us improve our product and service offerings, improve the Site's functionality process queries on the Site, to contact you when necessary in connection with products or services you accessed or inquired about via the Site (i.e. troubleshooting your account), to provide you with account login credentials, and to send you information, offers and other promotional materials from us and selected third parties. We may also use your information for analytics purposes to assist us in understanding how you use the Site or Services and to improve our Site or Services. Below is how we use specific categories of Personal Information.
We may use your e-mail address to provide customer service information or answer your questions and requests. We may also occasionally send you our e-mail updates, notifications or other information about our products and services or about the products and services of our affiliated companies. We include information in each commercial email that allows you to opt out of receiving future communications.
By engaging in any kind of activity on the Site that uses financial information, you consent to our using your financial information, including credit card information, or providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine is necessary, to process your transactions. These third parties may include banking institutions used to process these transactions. Any of these various third parties are authorized to use your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control.
We may use demographic information to tailor the Site and communications to the interests of our users.
Third-Party Email Account Syncing
Prospect Reach allows you to connect our Services to your various third-party email accounts (such as Gmail) for the purpose of sending email and for us to check your inbox for replies and bounces. We require a small set of permissions on your third-party email account to be able to do this and will only use it for the purpose of providing you with our Services or for diagnosing issues related to your third-party email account. Prospect Reach will not use your email account information for any purpose other than providing the Services to you. Prospect Reach is not responsible for any issues related to your third-party email account.
Permissions we require for connected Google accounts:
"View your email messages and settings"
Prospect Reach will access your basic profile information including photo, name, and email address so that we can properly label your account.
Prospect Reach will periodically check your inbox for messages. Our app will check your inbox to find replies to emails sent by your Prospect Reach campaigns in order to present this information to you within the Prospect Reach application, turn recipients into leads as necessary, and stop follow-up messages from sending when a reply causes someone to become a lead. We also look for unsubscribe requests and bounces to emails sent by Prospect Reach to keep your contact lists up to date and help you with deliverability.
In rare cases, our engineers may use an internal tool to attempt to locate emails related to your Prospect Reach campaigns to either resolve a support request you submitted, to solve a bug, or to investigate a potential security issue. This is always done in such a manner that the engineers view the least amount of information possible.
"Send email on your behalf"
Prospect Reach needs this permission to be able to run your campaigns.
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose information about your individual visits to our site, or Personal Information that you provide to any outside parties, except when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with any law, or (ii) protect the rights, property or safety of Prospect Reach, our users or third parties.
Disclosure to Agents
We may provide information about you (including your Personal Information) that you have provided to us through the Site to third parties ("Agents") that provide services to help us with our business activities such as to host or maintain our Site; for data processing services; to provide website or data security; to provide operational, analytical or reporting services; or to provide technical support. In connection with providing those services to Prospect Reach, an Agent may have access to your Personal Information, but such Personal Information will be disclosed to Agents in a manner consistent with our Data Security processes, will not be used for any purpose other than as Prospect Reach authorizes, and it will not be disclosed by the Agents to any third party.
Disclosure to Legal Authorities
Prospect Reach may disclose your Personal Information when required by subpoena, court order or other legal process, or if it has a good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with any applicable federal, state or local law or regulation, (b) assist government enforcement agencies, (c) investigate, prevent or take action in connection with suspected or actual illegal activities, (d) investigate suspected or actual violations of Prospect Reach's rights, (e) protect the rights, property or safety of Prospect Reach and its customers or employees, or others, (f) investigate and defend against any third-party claims brought against Prospect Reach or (g) protect the security and integrity of our Site.
Disclosure for Corporate Transactions
We consider the information that you provide to us to be a business asset. Accordingly, Prospect Reach may disclose Personal Information and other information about you to a third party in connection with the sale, assignment or transfer of some or all of the assets of Prospect Reach or as the result of a change in control of Prospect Reach, in which case we will require any such third party to treat any such Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Any such third party to whom Prospect Reach sells, assigns or transfers Prospect Reach's assets will have the right to use the Personal Information and other information that you have provided to us.
Disclosure of Anonymized Information
Prospect Reach reserves the right to use and disclose anonymized information, aggregated information or publicly available information that has not been combined with nonpublic Personal Information for any purposes including without limitation Prospect Reach's internal use and research.
However, Prospect Reach will not disclose information, even in anonymized, aggregate, or derivative forms, that is made available by our connection to email providers such as Gmail, including API calls relating to checking, reading, or sending email, in accordance with the Additional Requirements for Restricted Scopes as specified by Google. When connecting to email providers such as Gmail, Prospect Reach will only make use of the information necessary to render our service so that we can display our user interface and perform requested actions on your account.
We may contact you for promotional purposes via email. We recommend that users who no longer wish to receive promotional materials or have their information provided to third parties modify their account settings, as you may have chosen to receive promotional materials in the account registration process. If you are still receiving promotional materials 30 days after modifying your account settings to no longer receive such emails, you may contact us directly using the information below and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to comply with changes you request. Note that our compliance with such requests in certain cases may involve batch processing and other processes that take 30 days or longer. If you require an immediate change to your Personal Information and are unable to make such a change using the available Site resources, please contact us. If you opt not to receive such communications or to allow us to share your information and then you give your Personal Information to us again by using the Site or under other circumstances that permit us to use your information, we will regard your opt-out as having been rescinded. Also, please note that users may not necessarily opt out of receiving all communications from us or opt out of sharing certain information with third parties, as specified as being necessary in various portions of this Privacy Policy.
You may additionally opt out of receiving email communications by using the opt-out instructions included in an email you may receive from us.
Please note that changing or deleting your information through the Site, or otherwise opting out of receipt of email communications from us and third parties, will only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of transacting future business on or relating to the Site and for managing future communications from us and third parties. These changes and deletions will not change or delete information collected or submitted pursuant to any customer agreement, or information already collected as part of a product or service purchase in our transactions database which may be shared with our third-party service providers regardless of your email preferences.
Disclosure To Authorized Third Parties
There are links on our Site that direct users to third-party websites. If you follow any such links and you enroll in the respective services, your name and other requested information will be transferred to the operators of the respective third-party website. If you choose to use these third-party services, please review the third-party website's terms of use and privacy policy prior to any transfer of your personal, or other, information. Prospect Reach is not affiliated with such third-party websites, and you therefore acknowledge and agree that your use of such third-party websites is at your own risk, and Prospect Reach will not be responsible for the operation of such third-party websites or your access and use thereof.
We may also contract with some third parties to monitor certain pages of our website for the purpose of reporting website traffic. Where authorized by us, these third parties may use cookies and/or other monitoring technologies to compile non-identifiable information about our website visitors.
IV. Your Rights and Choices
Account. In order to keep your personal information accurate and complete, you can log in to review and update your account information, including contact and billing information, via your account settings page. You may also contact us to request information about the personal data we have collected from you and to request the correction, modification or deletion of such personal information. We will do our best to honor your requests subject to any legal and contractual obligations. If you would like to make a request, cancel your account or request we delete or no longer use your account information to provide you Services, contact us at support@mylocalagency.co or the address set forth at the end of this Privacy Policy. Subject to applicable law, we will retain and use your account information only as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
E-mail. As described above, if you do not wish to receive promotional emails from us, you may opt out at any time by following the opt-out link contained in the email itself. Please note that it may take up to ten (10) days to process your request. Please also note that if you opt out of receiving marketing communications from us, we may continue to send to you service-related emails which are not available for opt-out. If you do not wish to receive any service-related emails from us, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Cookies. You may also refrain from providing, or withdraw, your consent for cookies. Your browser's help function should contain instructions on how to set your computer to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or to not receive cookies at any time.
Third Party Analytics Services. Some of the services used provide the ability to opt-out. You may opt-out of Google Analytics' using Opt-Out Features on their respective websites.
The Google Analytics service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out from Google Analytics service from using your information by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser tool: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: www.google.com/policies/privacy.
Additional Rights. Subject to local law, you may have additional rights under the laws of your jurisdiction regarding your personal data, such as the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
V. Users Outside the United States
The Prospect Reach Site and Services are hosted in the United States and are governed by United States law. If you access the Site or Services from outside the United States, please be advised that the information you provide Prospect Reach may be transferred to, processed and stored in the United States where the Prospect Reach servers are located and our central database is operated. You acknowledge and understand that the data protection and other laws of the United States might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By your continued use of the Prospect Reach Site and Service, you consent to the transfer of your personal information to the United States.
VI. California Privacy Rights for California Residents
California residents may request certain information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by Prospect Reach to third parties for direct marketing purposes. As noted above, Prospect Reach does not disclose your personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes unless you have first agreed to such disclosure. However, if you would like to make such a request, then please contact Prospect Reach at support@mylocalagency.co
VII. Data Security
Prospect Reach takes reasonable precautions to protect Personal Information provided to us through the Site from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Prospect Reach has put in place reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures designed to safeguard and secure such Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. While Prospect Reach strives to undertake such reasonable and necessary efforts to secure Personal Information provided to us through the Site, even such security measures do not guarantee the security of all Personal Information, and Prospect Reach cannot guarantee that the Personal Information it collects, uses and retains will be protected in all circumstances, including those beyond Prospect Reach's reasonable control.
Particularly sensitive information is encrypted. You can usually tell whether encryption is being used by noting the "locked" or other status indicator on the browser you are using. If the browser you are using does not indicate that the session is secure (e.g., by displaying a lock, a key or a similar icon), you should assume that the connection is not secure and that third parties will receive the information shared by you and us during that part of the session. Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computer networks that may be located outside of the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of our security procedures:
All customer data has at-rest and in-transit encryption
User passwords and other similar user secrets are salted and stored with a one-way hash using the SHA-256 algorithm
Backups of data are stored for a maximum of 45 days
All compute resources that handle customer data are firewalled behind a virtual private cloud (VPC)
Tight security rules are in place to allow only the minimal points of access to our VPC for the purposes of serving and maintaining our products
Full-time technical employees have limited access to customer data based on their role and job function
Prospect Reach has no technical contractors at this time and if any are contracted in the future they will get minimal, temporary access to production on a need-to-have basis
On Amazon Web Services, have policies in place that require multi-factor authentication for our accounts
Our email domain has a policy in place to require multi-factor authentication for anyone with a @Prospect Reach.com email address
We rely on Stripe for all our payment processing: in terms of credit card information, we only store the last 4 digits of someone's card in our database
VIII. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and if we do we'll post any changes (material or otherwise) on this page. Please check back periodically, as you agree to any revisions to the Privacy Policy by continued use of the Site or Services.
IX. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@mylocalagency.co or PO Box 412 Arcadia, SC 29320

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Uzuklar hukmdori: Qirolning qaytishi (Inglizcha: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) 2003-yil rejissor Peter Jackson tomonidan ishlangan fantastika sarguzasht film. Film gʻoyasi J. R. R. Tolkienning Uzuklar hukmdori (1954-1955) hikoyasiga asoslangan boʻlib, Uzuklar ittifoqi (2001) va Ikki qal'a (2002) filmlarining davomi hisoblanadi.
↑ THE LORD OF THE RINGS – THE RETURN OF THE KING. British Board of Film Classification. Asl nusxadan arxivlandi (5 July 2015). 4 July 2015.
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↑ "'Lord' rings true / Tolkien's epic fantasy springs to wondrous life onscreen". The San Francisco Chronicle. 30 December 2001. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121106022956/http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Lord-rings-true-Tolkien-s-epic-fantasy-2837728.php.
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Political Leadership in The Age of Scoundrels - Reflections ...
ISGAP Flashpoint
With a focus on the contemporary context, ISGAP Flashpoint features articles designed to foster public debate about critical issues related to developments in global antisemitism.
Political Leadership in The Age of Scoundrels – Reflections in advance of the UK's December Election
Flashpoint 64
Dr. Neil Brandman
Dr. Neil Bradman is a businessman, Chartered Accountant, research geneticist and sometime Chairman of the UK's National Council for Soviet Jewry. The views expressed are personal.
If the second quarter of the twentieth century was "The age of the dictators" then the current period is bidding to be "The age of the scoundrels". Certainly, few would claim that many of today's national leaders display high levels of personal integrity. Perhaps it was 'ever so' but surely, not, in democracies, displayed in such petty and crude ways as now. Inflaming the lower instincts of the mob has always been a danger in representative democracies and more than one dictator has risen to power through the ballot box. Often by exploiting fear, hatred or envy of 'the other'.
The greatest change in political discourse in the past twenty years is the ability through social media of politicians to address large bodies of supporters without the intermediation of reporters. 'The base', whosever's base, is more easily and cheaply reached, fired-up and weaponised. Repeated assertion can wear down skepticism.
Is this what is happening in the UK election where voters go to the polls on Thursday 12 December? Few, even among their most ardent supporters, believe what the leaders of the two main parties are saying. The right risks embracing xenophobia while the left, too frequently, slips into envy and hatred of perceived success – particularly economic success. Is this what lies behind claims that the Conservative party harbours Islamophobes and the Labour party is antisemitic?
It is true that parties have been forced to suspend members who have been excessively intemperate in their Facebook and Twitter posts but one has the impression that this has more to do with embarrassment at the crudity of the posts than disapproval of the underlying intentions. We know that racism is a constant threat in all societies. That much is patently obvious from 'monkey chants' directed at black footballers and ubiquitous use of demeaning epithets directed towards members of other ethnicities or religions. Jews are no less at risk of tolerating such behaviour than are others. We too (now identifying myself as a Jew) have an extensive vocabulary of derogatory descriptors for our non-Jewish neighbours; and how many of us protest when friends use such terms in private? If community leaders ask: "will our grandchildren be Jewish?" referring to the retention of identity rather than religious practice, how do they think their statements are heard by other groups?
As a British subject with homes, businesses, children and grandchildren in both England and Israel do I think British political leaders and people are more xenophobic and discriminate more than their Israeli counterparts? The answer is a resounding "no".
In the United Kingdom Brexit, the dominant issue in the election, has created a natural 'we' versus 'them' environment in which the demonisation of 'the other' can be nourished. However, Britain is not fertile soil for the widespread public adoption of such opinions, much less an environment in which violent movements flourish. Social apathy in the public sphere is a good protector against organised subjugation. Party leaders have failed in their responsibilities but the matrix of the society in which they function can absorb their failure. Soft discrimination will continue and the people who will bear the effects most are the black British. Will British Jews speak for them as loudly as we have for ourselves?
In multiple surveys of how minority ethnic groups in Britain are under-represented in 'markers of success' Jews are not included as one of the ethnicities. There can be little doubt that as an immigrant community we have, by the usual indicators of success, been successful. Similarly, Israel has been an economic success. We need not and should not apologise for either of those achievements but neither should we be surprised when those successes engender envy in others.
Overwhelmingly the Jewish community in Britain supports Israel. Let us not be naïve, opponents of Israel, and in the main 'the left' of today is not a natural supporter of Israel, will conflate Zionism and Jewish identity and use that created ambiguity when it is to their advantage. Easy to do when all Jews have the 'right of return' to the Jewish state.
Labour will not win Thursday's General Election. The Jewish community has been vociferous in challenging the Labour Party's toleration of antisemitism and the claimed lack of enthusiasm of its leader to confront it. Therefore, let us not be surprised when the combination of Jewish protest and election loss is used to demonstrate the way Jews pull the levers of power to achieve the ends their Zionist elders seek.
Will it matter? Not much.
Should it be challenged? Yes.
Is there a lack of personal integrity among political leaders? Yes, but the public of today do not think that important. They expect no better.
Would there have been a mass Exodus if Labour had won? No.
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AT&T claims Verizon is misleading customers by showing its 3G network (wide coverage) and comparing it with AT&T's coverage map (comparatively limited coverage).
AT&T told an Atlanta federal court Wednesday that Verizon's ads are misleading because they fail to mention that AT&T's 2.5G network covers most of the blank areas shown in Verizon's coverage map.
And it probably hurts more after Wednesday's courtroom battle than it did before.
He also noted that TV viewers are not always alert.
Thanks to this lunacy, potentially millions of people who never seriously considered their respective coverage maps previously, know have Verizon's red and AT&T's blue etched in their minds. After today's ruling, Verizon is free to run the ads well into the 12 Days of Christmas.
This is, presumably, not how AT&T expected things to work out.
However, they still have a chance to make things even worse. Should AT&T pursue its action, it may end up with a federal judge actually declaring its 3G network to be inferior to Verizon's.
That would not surprise AT&T customers, who live with the network, but it takes talent to get a U.S. District Court to agree. Especially when AT&T began this lunacy in the first place.
A smart company would look at what this lawsuit has not accomplished so far, concede (internally, at least) that Verizon has a point, and get out of this mess as quickly and as quietly as possible.
Is AT&T a smart company? Merely bringing the suit was enough to make people wonder. Continuing it is likely to make everyone sure.
Forget that. We're already sure. Let the comedy continue!
(There remains, of course, the possibility that Sprint and T-Mobile might file suits of their own).


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Powering our way through another week like a fastball from a top MLB player, we're getting reach to strike it strong and smash another weekend of top retro movie out the park!
SATURDAY 19th June
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) 5STAR 12:20pm-3:10pm
Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts rescues an old car from the scrap heap, only to discover it has magical, gravity-defying powers. Meanwhile, Baron Bomburst, the blundering ruler of Vulgaria, will do anything to get his greedy hands on it. Children's musical adventure, based on the book by Ian Fleming, starring Dick Van Dyke, Lionel Jeffries, Sally Ann Howes, Gert Frobe, Benny Hill and James Robertson Justice.
Evolution (2001) Film4 2:45pm-4:50pm
Two science teachers investigate a mysterious meteor and discover it is oozing a strange fluid containing millions of minuscule but rapidly evolving organisms – which start to turn into terrifying alien monsters with a taste for human flesh. Sci-fi comedy, starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore, Seann William Scott, Dan Aykroyd and Ted Levine.
Matilda (1996) 5STAR 3:10pm-5:15pm
A gifted youngster is packed off by her selfish parents to the prison-like Crunchem Hall School. Once there, she befriends a sweet-natured teacher who convinces her that not all grown-ups are bad – and urges her to use her special powers to turn the tables on the nasty headmistress. Fantasy comedy, adapted from the children's book by Roald Dahl, with Mara Wilson, Pam Ferris, Embeth Davidtz, Rhea Perlman and Danny DeVito, who also directed.
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The Next Karate Kid (1994) Film4 6:50pm-9:00pm
Wise karate mentor Mr Miyagi meets the orphaned teenage granddaughter of a soldier who once saved his life. As well as guiding her through the trials of high school and her first romance, he takes her to a Zen monastery to hone her martial arts skills. Adventure sequel, starring Pat Morita, Hilary Swank, Michael Ironside and Constance Towers.
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The Cable Guy (1996) GREAT! movies 7:05pm-9:00pm
A man makes the mistake of engaging a cable TV installer in conversation in a ploy to get all the channels for free. However, the manic repairman shows an invincible determination to be his new best friend – and does not take kindly to rejection. Comedy directed by Ben Stiller, starring Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick and George Segal.
Apollo 13 (1995) ITV4 7:40pm-10:25pm
Fact-based drama about the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 mission to the moon. Crew leader Jim Lovell is faced with a nightmare when the mission suffers an onboard explosion – leaving the team stranded in space with a dwindling oxygen supply while flight controllers and engineers in Houston try to find a way to bring the crew safely back to Earth. With Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise.
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Wonder Woman (2017) ITV 7:45pm-10:20pm
An Amazon princess who grows up in an enchanted realm has her first encounter with the outside world during the First World War. American airman Steve Trevor crash lands on her isolated island home. Determined to bring the chaos sweeping the world to an end, she ventures onto the front line in an attempt to bring down an ancient and powerful evil force that is driving the human race towards destruction. Director Patty Jenkins' blockbusting fantasy adventure, starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine and David Thewlis.
Boyz N the Hood (1991) GREAT! movies 9:00pm-11:15pm
A bright but underachieving teenager with a domineering single father strikes up a friendship with two brothers, and over time, the three young men each follow their own path – but a tragedy eventually leaves them facing a dangerous choice. Drama, starring Cuba Gooding Jr, Laurence Fishburne, Morris Chestnut and Ice Cube.
Pearl Harbor (2001) 5STAR 10:00pm-1:40am
The reported death of a pilot during the Second World War leaves his girlfriend seeking solace in the arms of his one-time best friend – until the supposedly dead airman turns up. However, when the Japanese launch a bombing raid on a US base in Hawaii, the three of them have to put aside their personal problems. Romantic drama, starring Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale and Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cocoon (1985) 5STAR 12:25pm-2:45pm
The elderly residents of a retirement home treat themselves to an occasional dip in the pool at an abandoned house. It turns out that friendly aliens in human form are using the place to restore dormant members of their species – and energy from their cocoons is giving the old-timers a new lease of life. Ron Howard's sci-fi drama, with Wilford Brimley, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Don Ameche and Steve Guttenberg.
Junior (1994) ITV 1:45pm-3:55pm
A fertility expert pioneers a treatment enabling men to become pregnant and carry babies to full term. When the authorities cancel funding for the research, he decides to test it on himself but gives little thought to how difficult it will be to keep it a secret. The situation is further complicated when he starts to fall for the woman whose child he is carrying. Comedy, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson and Frank Langella.
Cocoon: The Return (1988) 5STAR 2:45pm-5:00pm
Three elderly couples return to Earth five years after leaving to retire on a distant planet, surprising their families, who assumed they were dead. Several of their alien friends have come back with them to recover members of their own race left behind in cocoons on the ocean floor, one of whom has been abducted by a government research institute. Sci-fi sequel, with Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, Steve Guttenberg and Jessica Tandy.
My Girl (1991) GREAT! movies 3:00pm-5:00pm
A lonely 11-year-old tomboy feels responsible for her mother's death, but a boy's friendship helps her get through her emotional problems. Meanwhile, when she realises her father is falling in love with his new employee, she sets out to do all she can to end the romance. Drama, starring Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Ice Age (2002) E4 3:55pm-5:30pm
Three mismatched prehistoric animals join forces to return a human infant to its tribe – but as their journey unfolds, the creatures fail to anticipate the many perils and pitfalls that lay in store for them. Animated adventure, featuring the voices of John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic and Jack Black.
My Girl 2 (1994) GREAT! movies 5:00pm-7:05pm
Thirteen-year-old tomboy Vada visits her uncle in Los Angeles to write a school project about her mother, who died during childbirth. Meanwhile, she meets Nick, the son of her uncle's girlfriend, who has to reluctantly chaperone Vada around her mother's old haunts – but before long romance blossoms for the pair. Comedy-drama sequel, with Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis and Austin O'Brien.
The Waterboy (1998) ITV4 7:10pm-9:00pm
An American football team's waterboy puts up with constant ridicule from the players. But one day his anger gets the better of him and he demonstrates an unexpected talent for tackling – so the coach gives him a chance to prove his worth on the pitch. However, he has to keep his blossoming sporting career a secret from his overprotective mother. Comedy, with Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler and Fairuza Balk.
Pretty Woman (1990) Channel 5 9:00pm-11:25pm
A ruthless millionaire hires a prostitute while on a business trip. Realising she may be useful in helping him keep up a successful appearance, he pays her to accompany him for a week as he associates with the rich and powerful – but falls in love despite their many differences. Romantic comedy, starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, with Ralph Bellamy and Laura San Giacomo.
Kickboxer (1989) Paramount Network 9:00pm-11:00pm
A martial arts student witnesses his brother being brutally defeated in the ring by a Thai champion in a fight that leaves him paralysed. Vowing revenge, he seeks out the help of a reclusive master, under whose tutelage he hones his skills until he is ready to confront his enemy. Action thriller, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio and Haskell V Anderson.
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Lynn demonstrates how to make a very easy Thanksgiving side dish. The traditional cranberries are roasted to bring out a great flavor. This is super easy and can also be used as a spread on toast or bagels for breakfast.
Place cranberries, sugar, zest and juice of orange, water and vanilla bean that you have split and scraped the seeds out of, (I put the rest of the vanilla bean in the mixture, too) in a roasting or baking pan.
Place in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Discard vanilla bean and let come to room temperature and then refrigerate.


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Trump Labor Department Official's Mockery of Antisemitism Gets Labeled as Real Antisemitism, Leads Him to Resign
Gary Legum
Here is something you don't see every day. On Tuesday a Trump administration official resigned after being inaccurately accused of antisemitism.
Leif Olson had just begun working as a policy advisor in the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department on August 12. Then a reporter for Bloomberg Law dug up some old Facebook posts by Olson that the outlet deemed antisemitic. The reporter, Benjamin Penn, sent screenshots to the Labor Department with a request for comment. According to Penn, four hours later he received word that Olson had resigned, effective immediately.
Where this gets weird is when one reads the posts and sees clearly that Olson was mocking antisemitism.
Granted, sarcasm sometimes does not translate well to the Internet. But there was some important context to the posts that would have perhaps clued Penn in if he had not missed it.
Olson posted his comments in August of 2016. At the time, then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was locked in a primary battle for his Wisconsin congressional seat with Paul Nehlen, a vicious anti-Muslim bigot who claimed to be part of the alt-right. Nonetheless — or more accurately, because of his hard-right views — Nehlen had been championed by outlets such as Breitbart, which spent much of 2016 openly advocating for Ryan's defeat.
Nehlen was later revealed to be a hardcore antisemite as well. But before the general public knew this about him, Olson was writing Facebook posts parodying the views of Nehlen and his supporters, using the sort of over-the-top language common to Breitbart reporters:
Establishment insider RINO corporate tool Paul Ryan was finally brought to heel in tonight's primary election by an uprising of the conservative masses of Real America eager for an authentic voice in Washington instead of the same tired globalist open-borders pap they've been pushing on us since the Elites abandoned the People. The guy just suffered a massive, historic, emasculating 70-point victory. Let's see him and his Georgetown cocktail-party puppetmasters try to walk that one off.
Olson is a neoconservative, a group that includes many Jews and which spent much of 2016 mocking the language of people such as Nehlen who peppered their critiques of the GOP establishment with antisemitic tropes about "globalists" and "elites." But just in case anyone — such as, say, a Bloomberg reporter in 2019 — missed the context, Olson also posted this in August of 2016:
The left would quibble with referring to Breitbart as "a trustworthy source of opinion journalism," but this post makes it clear that Olson had been parodying the coded language of that site. Penn either missed this or, more ominously, purposely left it out of his story.
After handing in his resignation, Olson posted on Facebook that "I never thought I'd see the day when making fun of alt-right anti-Semites led to being branded an anti-Semite, but here we are."
Late Tuesday afternoon, Bloomberg told Erik Wemple of The Washington Post that it stands by its reporting:
Asked Bloomberg for a comment on the @benjaminpenn story on Leif Olson. https://t.co/Nt7fQGxMUT The response is unsurprising and highly disappointing: pic.twitter.com/oX1c9a8wcI
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) September 3, 2019
This response is the equivalent of Bloomberg sticking its fingers in its ears and hollering "LA LA LA WE CAN'T HEAR YOU." The outlet's position is that its reporter asked for comment from the Labor Department, Olson resigned, and that is the end of its responsibility.
But that position is not consistent with responsible reporting here. Even if one excuses Penn's failure to recognize the sarcasm of Olson's original posts, the conservative made it clear that he was mocking antisemitism, not engaging in it himself. While Bloomberg did quote Olson telling Penn that he had been engaging in sarcasm, it seems appropriate to make clear that his later post upends the entire premise of the story.
The resurgence of antisemitism in public life during the Trump administration is an important story. Reporters should be looking at it closely. But it is also important to not be overzealous, to report accurately and give context. And to acknowledge when you have failed at meeting those standards.
Gary Legum has written about politics and culture for Independent Journal Review, Salon, The Daily Beast, Wonkette, AlterNet and McSweeney's, among others. He currently lives in his native state of Virginia.
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Strateegiakonsultant, õpetaja, start-up investor ja äriraamatute autor Peter Cohen jagab oma kogemustele ja uurimustööle toetuvalt, milliste harjumuste juurutamine aitab juhina kõige teravamasse tippu jõuda.
Those who become CEOs invest more time to understand the organization's deeper reason for being, figure out a new initiative it will need to do to realize that purpose, and let those with power know that they want to be in charge of making it happen.
One of the most important jobs of a CEO is to create and cultivate a company's culture. So ask yourself: What kinds of people get ahead here? Do those values help or hinder the company's growth?
If you hope to run a company, you ought to be able to see what your current employer does well and where it could improve. And you should know how you would do it differently if you were the boss.
Great CEOs serve the people who work in their organizations. That means that focusing solely on your own needs will hinder your climb.
If you want to show your company's leaders that you have CEO potential, start to think about how you can help others to do their jobs more effectively. After all, a talented leader will spend time listening to the people who are in charge of getting things done.
One of the most important things CEOs do is to give people purpose. They do that by thinking of ambitious goals that will inspire the talented people they have hired.
If you are an employee now, ask yourself these questions: What ambitious goals is your organization striving to accomplish? Do those goals excite you? Do you see career opportunity in working to achieve those goals. You should look at your industry and develop a vision for it. Then, figure out how you would set ambitious goals to motivate others to join you in realizing that vision.
If you want to practice becoming a CEO, learn how to give up control to others. Tell them that your role is to provide direction and theirs is to figure out how to get there.
CEOs who insist on managing the tiny details of employees' work will ultimately turn them off.
If you aspire to become a CEO, you need to coach people to figure out how to achieve the organization's goals.
The CEO must be good at different skills as the company grows.
Intellectually, it may be easy to see that an early-stage CEO needs to be good at selling or building a product. But the CEO of a public company must communicate well with many different stakeholders and make sure that it follows regulations and procedures.
To make sure you are always the right person for the job, ask yourself these questions: Is your work critical to the company's success? Are you the best person to do that job? Do you enjoy that work?
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Here Are 20 Signs You're a Playboi Carti Fan
Easily one of the most unique voices in hip-hop today, 23-year-old Atlanta rapper Playboi Carti introduced the world to his distinct flow, baby voice and mystical ad-libs in 2017, with his eponymous debut mixtape Playboi Carti. Filled with unapologetically soft-spoken bars, the debut LP polarized critics as Carti became a torchbearer of mumble rap—the term often used to degrade younger rappers like Carti or imply the subject puts little emphasis on lyricism and wordplay. But it also helped him gain a rabid and deeply loyal fan base. His debut single, "Magnolia," in 2017, spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of the biggest cult classic hit records of the year.
To his fan's delight, Carti returned with the lauded album, Die Lit, in 2018. The project doubled down on the Atlanta native's twitchy ad-libs and mumble rap stature. "Bought a crib for my mama off that mumbling shit," he spits on "R.I.P." while crowd surfing in a black-and-white music video. Meanwhile, colossal co-signs and features from Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, Young Thug and more industry heavyweights cemented Carti as an artistic force to be reckoned with.
But Carti has been uncharacteristically quiet since Die Lit, appearing only to guest on a handful of features and tease his long-awaited follow-up album, Whole Lotta Red, seemingly out of thin air. Prompted by a feud with his longtime collaborator Lil Uzi Vert, the release of his new song, "@ MEH," on April 16 has been a long time coming for fans who have spent two years patiently waiting for WLR. But there's more to Carti's unique fan base than enduring his music drought. Here are 20 signs you're a Playboi Carti fan.
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The Great Purge has happened, Closet Organizing And Space Saving items have been used to create a more functional and appealing closet. Now, what to do with all the accessories and jewelry? Accessories such as scarves, hats, purses are an important part of your wardrobe. They are items that make it more "finished" or even the "wow" factor. You will want to have easy access to these items to create an outfit that is appealing and fun! Today I am going to show you some of the items I am using to organize my accessories and jewelry.
Lay out all your accessory items on your bed. Take some time and purge those that you do not love or have not worn. They are only hogging space. Pair your jewelry down to LOVE pieces. Make notes of where you might have holes such as (need a long necklace that goes with my favorite top).
Scarves are such a great way to add color to any outfit. Simple black pants and black shirt become a WOW outfit when you add a turquoise scarf. I have added several scarves that are thin to my collections this year for the simple task of adding color to an outfit. My scarves are the Soophen Pashmina Scarves from Amazon. I also have a few prints scarves. Here is how I display my solid color scarves.
Other unique ways to hang and display your scarves include using ladders, towel rods with shower rings, tie holders, pant holders. even towel racks.
I am going, to be honest with you. Not a big purse/tote girl. Only change purses out seasonally and some year not at all. I do have some bags for special occasions and I have found that my bags are getting smaller and smaller. Now what I do have are totes. Many that were given as gifts or freebies. I purged like a mad woman in this area. Really, how many do we need? My answer was just a great leopard print and one for the lake will do.
Now to organizing those purses, bags, and totes. The key is to keep them clean, neat, and easily seen for use. I found these great acrylic dividers from Amazon. They attach to the shelf by sliding on. Perfect for creating flexible division solutions. These are also great for those who like to fold and stack sweaters.
My favorite way to organize my necklaces is a DIY. Use a bulletin board and push pins. You can decorate the bulletin board with fabric or cute wrapping paper.
Bulletin Board And Push Pins For Necklace Organizing.
I have ordered this bracelet organizer too for some of my favorites to have quick and easy access. Plus it just looks good on my dresser.
To organize my earring I have two methods. One is the stackable drawer organizers. These are great because they have lots of storage compartments.
Since I have gotten into hats this year, I need a way to store and organize them too. This simple towel rack from Target makes a great hat organizer.
If you are like me and don't have but one or two. Use large Command Hooks to attach to the wall. The biggest thing is to display them and wear.
I hope this helps you with your closet organizing project. Now is a great time to purge your closet, organize, and get ready for the spring.
This is part 3 of a series on closet organizing. Missed the first two? Here are easy links to help you catch up.
So many great tips! I am all about organizing and storage ideas so this immediately caught my attention. Best of luck to you on your closet purge!


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Can Patients Handle the Truth? Getting Access to Doctors' Notes
A new study asks patients if they want to read what their doctor is writing in their chart. Overwhelmingly, the answer was yes. Not surprisingly, doctors resist.
By Alice Park @aliceparknyDec. 20, 2011
Thomas Tolstrup
Do You Really Want to Know What Your Doc is Writing About You? MSNBC
Online Access to Notes on Patients Gets Mixed Reaction USA Today
Do You Want to See Your Doctor's Medical Notes? Harvard Health Blog
The last time you were at the doctor's office, and your physician scribbled or typed something into your chart, did you wonder what it said? If so, you're in the majority: according to a new survey, more than 90% of patients said they would want to know.
Not surprisingly, most doctors were less than willing to share. In the OpenNotes trial, conducted at three primary care practices in Boston, Seattle and rural Pennsylvania, 254 physicians were asked whether they would be willing to make their office visit notes freely available to patients in their electronic health records for one year: 114 agreed, and 140 declined.
Office visit notes constitute include not only patients' medical history, but also a record of what was discussed with the physician in the privacy of the exam room and in some cases, the doctors' insights into patients' prognoses and guesses about what might be ailing them. Of the doctors who agreed to participate, 69% to 81% said they thought the transparency was a good idea and beneficial for patients. Among the patients, 92% to 97% said having access to the notes would be helpful.
The difference in opinion is hardly surprising. After all, the U.S. health-care system is built on the paternalistic view that doctor-knows-best — the physician is the gatekeeper for providing and interpreting any information related to our medical care. Increasingly, however, patients are demanding transparency and taking back control of their health and their health records.
"The patient has been out of the loop until now," says Dr. Tom Delbanco, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior author of the paper, published in the Annals of the Internal Medicine. "The basic notion of our trial is, 'What right do you have to keep the patient out of the loop?' Patients are legally allowed to see doctors' notes, but we make it as hard as possible for them to get them. So what we are doing now is saying to patients, 'This is all about you, this is your health and your record and we want to involve you more actively in your care.'"
The doctors' and patients' attitudes recorded by Delbanco and the study's lead author, Jan Walker at Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, are just the beginning. The team has collected further data on how doctors and patients reacted to open health records, and how they used the information. Delbanco and Walker plan to report on those results next year.
In the meantime, some of the potential impact is already becoming clear: among the doctors who declined to open their office notes, most said they were concerned that their assessments or interpretations of patients' health information would be confusing or frightening to patients. Others worried that they would have to censor their written records to protect themselves from possible malpractice, if patients were offended by or misinterpreted their remarks.
But Dr. Kenneth Shine, executive vice chancellor of health affairs at the University of Texas, who wrote an accompanying editorial for the study, says those concerns may not be warranted. At the University of Texas, where patients have had access to their electronic records for several years now, and in some cases have been able to view their physicians' notes as well, there has been no increase in malpractice cases. In fact, insurance premiums have dropped since the records went digital.
Another major concern expressed by doctors — that open notes will trigger more questions from patients and require more time on the physicians' part to address — has failed to materialize within the University of Texas system. Indeed, many physicians noted that when patients have access to their records, it actually helps answer many of their questions and therefore saves the doctor time. "I'm not arguing that there aren't going to be issues or problems," says Shine. "But the fundamental principle of being transparent, of having a partnership between the doctor and patient, and facilitating communication is well borne out by experience."
Open notes may even serve as a motivational tool for some patients, says Walker. "We've heard of cases where the doctor has been telling patients for years to lose weight, but they haven't done it. But now when they read the notes, and see it in black and white, they can see how worried the doctor is, and they start changing their behavior," she says.
In the trial, 75% of patients said it would improve their adherence to their medications, if they could see in their chart why the doctor thought they needed the drugs and how they might help them. Most patients also said having open notes would encourage them be more in control of their care and take better care of themselves. About 20% of patients said they would share the notes with friends and family, which may further increase the likelihood that they will follow their doctor's advice and benefit from the care they receive.
Such openness may pose challenges in certain cases, however. Psychiatric patients represent a sensitive population when it comes to sharing medical information, and Walker and Delbanco recognize that these cases may require special protocols to ensure that patients are not exposed to undue harm by reading about how their physicians interpret their symptoms.
"We are opening a long line of inquiry," says Delbanco. "We won't be able to answer all of the questions immediately, but there are things we can do." For one, he says he uses smaller words that patients can understand in describing their conditions and proposed treatment options. He also avoids abbreviations that patients may not be able to decode: one that might cause some misunderstanding is SOB, which doctors use as shorthand for "shortness of breath."
But the fact that patients were overwhelmingly in favor of seeing their doctors' notes suggests that physicians may be facing a sea change in the way they deliver care. "My personal opinion is that the availability of patient records to individuals who want to see them is an irresistible force that is not going to go away, and it's important for physicians to accommodate to the changing environment," says Shine. "They need to recognize that what they put in a chart is in fact likely available to not just patients but their families, and they should behave accordingly."
Alice Park is a writer at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @aliceparkny. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.
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Alice Park is a staff writer at TIME and covers health, medicine, nutrition and fitness.
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Grammy Nomations: Surprises and Snubs
Story posted December 6, 2020 in Arts & Entertainment by CommRadio Arts & Entertainment Staff.
It's that time of the year again when people get mad about the Grammy nominations, and this year is no different. The nominations for Grammys 2021 were revealed last week, and it caused quite a controversy with many snubs and surprises.
Snub:
Although "The New Abnormal" was nominated for "Best Rock Album," The Strokes deserved more. Through excellent production from Rick Ruben, every single song was packed with raw-emotion, beauty and the singles that are ever so catchy.
"The Adults are Talking," or "Bad Decisions" deserved at least a nomination for Best Rock Song or Performance. - Caelan Chevrier
Surprise:
Taylor Swift is back! The singer received six nominations this year with her surprise album release "Folklore."
Swift's emotional duet with Bon Iver, "Exile" is also nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, even though it wasn't an official single from the album.
It's been five years since Swift was last nominated for Album of The Year, and it is great to see that "Folklore" hasn't been snubbed like Swift's last two albums. - Jimmy Lu
Harry Styles has been consistently delivering great music, and his album "Fine Line" just got added to Rolling Stones' list of "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." However, the album was shut out of the Album of The Year category despite being one of the strongest male pop star releases this year. - Jimmy Lu
Mac Miller and Juice WRLD both have the biggest rap releases this year with "Circles" and "Legends Never Die," and yet both were not seen anywhere in the rap categories. - Jimmy Lu
Despite having many mixed and negative reviews, and putting out one of the weakest pop albums of the year, Justin Bieber still landed three nominations for "Yummy," "Intentions (feat. Quavo)" and "Changes." Singers like Selena Gomez could easily replace Bieber with her album "Rare" and her critically acclaimed single, "Lose You To Love Me." - Jimmy Lu
One of the biggest and most shocking snubs in Grammys history goes to The Weeknd, receiving no nominations at all despite releasing one of the year's most critically and commercially successful albums, "After Hours." The singer, along with Halsey, have since made posts on social media accusing Grammys of being "corrupt." - Jimmy Lu
Post Malone snagged three Grammy nominations this year, two for his single "Circles" and one for "Hollywood's Bleeding" for Album of The Year. For a mediocre record at best, it comes as a surprise that his 2020 studio release wasn't nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album or Best Rap Album instead. - Caelan Chevrier
Halsey was completely shut out of the nominations like the Weeknd. Her studio album "Manic," easily one of the year's best releases, deserves at least several nominations — much like last year when "Without Me" received no nominations while being one of the biggest songs in 2018. - Jimmy Lu
British-Japanese singer Rina Sawayama has made quite a noise this year with her debut album "Sawayama." The album received universal acclaim from critics and it ended up on several publications lists of best albums of 2020. "Sawayama" is a genre-bending album that deserves to compete in the big four categories or at least a nom for Best New Artist. - Jimmy Lu
BTS finally got their first nomination for the song "Dynamite" after years of dominating the streaming services and being one of — if not the biggest — bands on the planet right now. - Jimmy Lu
The critically acclaimed double-album "Eternal Atake" by Lil Uzi Vert received no love from the Recording Academy either. Despite releasing some of the year's most entertaining singles and versatile projects as a whole, the rapper was once again shut out. With a record expecting to age phenomenally, this was truly a miss. - Caelan Chevrier
Although Coldplay's eighth studio album "Everyday Life" was hailed as one their greatest albums, it is certainly unexpected to see it being nominated as Album of The Year when there are many other artists who made a bigger impact in 2020. - Jimmy Lu
Super duo Killer Mike and El-P from Run the Jewels received no nominations for "RTJ4." With a record touching on so many important topics such as police brutality and corruption in politics, it comes to a complete surprise that nothing from the record, not even their stellar singles, were nominated for anything. - Caelan Chevrier
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Sprints Wonders If No One Else Trusts Steve Spurrier // 08.28.09
By Brandon Larrabee Aug 28, 2009, 2:43am EDT
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We're all homers. One of the most difficult things about writing any conference-wide blog, as your humble correspondent has noted before, is screening out your own biases. Sure, it would be fine for a South Carolina blogger to predict an 8- or 9-win season on a South Carolina blog, but the objective here is to be realistic.
How did I do with a 7-5 pick? According to some of the better bloggers out there, not very well. Dr. Saturday:
But given Spurrier's history of instability at quarterback -- whether by injury and impatience, he's had two different regular starters each of the last three years at Carolina -- and the perpetual struggles of the offensive line, Garcia's sophomore campaign might qualify as a success if he's still upright and atop the depth chart at the end of it. If he actually manages to the 'Cocks above .500 against a schedule with at least seven games they'll enter as likely underdogs, that's just gravy.
That wasn't the worst part of the post.
No, the honor of "hardest line for a South Carolina fan to read" came earlier in the post, when the Doc was ruminating on Spurrier's reign so far and where the program stands now.
The window has slammed shut so emphatically that it almost seems hard to believe it ever existed in the first place. And whether it did or not, it's hard to find any reason it might open again soon -- beginning with talent relative to the rest of the SEC.
As fan, you have to eventually get to a point where what "the experts" say doesn't bother you as much, even when it's someone as universally respected as Hinton. Sometimes, they turn out to be wrong. But it's still troubling that a more objective look at the Gamecocks finds a .500 record "gravy" when I almost consider that level of achievement a given.
And the Doc is not alone. In their fine preview of the SEC, The Rivalry, Esq. includes South Carolina as one of the teams that will not make it to a bowl.
The Music City Bowl is ecstatic to finally get the Vols in Nashville. Auburn heads to the Liberty Bowl. Kentucky goes to Shreveport. South Carolina, Vanderbilt and Mississippi State spend a long, mild winter thinking about next year.
South Carolina less likely to go to a bowl than Tennessee? Auburn? Kentucky?!? Not that it's impossible to picture all three going to the postseason -- I already have the Vols and the Wildcats playing in late December or early January. But I also have both of them behind the Gamecocks in the SEC East.
I am not alone among South Carolina fans and observers, at least. The Head Ball Coach himself sees opportunities for improvement this year after last year's Outback Bowl debacle almost did him in.
Spurrier, entering his fifth season at South Carolina, said he quickly got over that funk, thanks in large part to the way the Gamecocks recruited, and remains committed to bringing an SEC championship to a program that has wallowed in mediocrity throughout its history.
"We've got a lot of good, young talent on our team.
"That and the new (assistant) coaches we got in here sort of re-energized me. I look at it like we're starting our second run here." ...
"We certainly have hopes that these guys we have now and the guys on the way will help. Like I said, we're starting on our second leg, and we'll see where it takes us."
Chris Brown argues at the Doc's place that part of the problem, though, is Spurrier and his seeming inability to adapt. So if Spurrier adds some elements of the spread, is that enough to turn this thing around?
We're running some of the spread stuff and our quarterbacks are able to run a little bit. So we're a little bit different than we have been in the past and running the ball some out of the shotgun. ... Yeah, we've never really had great running quarterbacks. We've had decent guys who could run a little bit. But if you're going to run that spread offense, your quarterback's got to carry it six to eight times a game.
Again, I don't let this get to me too much as a fan. There are examples almost annually of teams that are written off for dead every year and emerge to have great seasons. Sure, the numbers are pretty small -- but part of a fan's job is to enjoy the ride, even if you have to grasp at some fairly thin straws to keep your hopes up.
If nothing else, South Carolina can always be Defensive Back U. As long as the Gamecocks get "Youth, depth and who will play where" figured out.
Though if he throws for 58.8 yards an attempt, he should be a shoo-in
Red Cup Rebellion comes to the conclusion that "Heism@n Trophy winner Jevan Snead" is unlikely.
That's how many tight ends Florida has, in this case Aaron Hernandez. If he goes down, the Gators might have to use -- horror of horrors -- a fullback.
Did he say the same thing about Chris Todd?
Tommy Tuberville on Greg McElroy:
"Watching him handle himself, the way he threw the ball, listening to the other quarterbacks talk about him, I think he's going to be a very, very good quarterback," he said.
Coming from one of the game's foremost experts on quarterback play. (HT: Roll Bama Roll)
A strong safety controversy?
If such a thing is possible, it might be brewing in Baton Rouge now that Les Miles has named a starter.
But will anyone even notice?
WR Montez Billings will be suspended for Auburn's first four games. Again, wide receiver. The impact of this on Auburn's game should be minimal.
It's gonna be hard to play in Hazmat suits
Alabama starts quarantining players to contain some sort of flu. Could it be SWINE FLU?
I wouldn't worry about it too much
Robbie Andreu is concerned about Urban Meyer's pledge to remain uncontroversial. This is different from the last time he made this promise -- how?
Peace in our time?
Year2 noted this in a FanShot yesterday, but it looks like the uproar over media credentials is mostly resolved.
The West is a puzzle. But, then, you already knew that.
And The Valley Shook explains why it's so hard to settle on a favorite in the SEC West:
Every team, even the good ones, have questions and areas of concern, including us.
At least it's not based on people in Montana
I really don't want to link to this, but it's just too good. Stewart Mandel has come up with a way to rank the best QBs of all time. By adding up their fantasy football points. No, I'm not kidding.
'If we could just do that to two more games, maybe we could get back to No. 1'
Georgia edits its 2008 season.
Sweeping prediction of the day
Tennessee will not win the SEC until at least 2012. Don't worry; it's all part of Boy Wonder's plan.
A less sweeping but perhaps more interesting one
The Mayor gives us his random forecasts for the coming season, including this one:
Caleb King will rank third in rushing yardage for the Georgia Bulldogs this fall.
Makes one wonder who will be Nos. 1 and 2.
What a difference a decade makes
An incredible article recounting where college football was in 1999 and how it's changed over the last 10 years.


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We Need to Talk About Representation in 'Ready Player One'
by Suzanne Leibrick
Op-Ed: Suzanne Leibrick weighs in on the implications of Ready Player One as a representation of VR culture to the broader public.
First, a disclaimer: if you haven't read Ready Player One already, now would be a great time to stop reading. I know, I know, you really want to hear what I have to say, but read on at your own risk.
Another disclaimer: I'm not here to discuss whether or not I think this is a "good" book, or whether I think Spielberg can make it into a great movie. As someone who firmly believes in the power of VR, and that it's going to change how we interact with computers in the future, I think there's a lot to be said for the fortuitous timing of the book and film.
Having said all that, there are some things I want to talk about that aren't so great. The book is set in the year 2045, where human civilization is in severe decline—there's an energy shortage, people are starving, and really, everything sucks. But here's the kicker: despite all of that, everything still sucks more for women and people of color. No matter how bad our white male protagonist has it, things are still worse for non-white-straight-cis-males.
It's very hard to explain VR to someone who hasn't tried it before. The easiest route to explaining VR is simply to put a headset on someone and let them experience it for themselves. In the 90s, the first real generation of VR devices were depicted pretty well by a few films (for example, Lawnmower Man). In the intervening years, we forgot both about the hardware and the sci-fi possibilities of VR.
Now, with the birth of consumer ready VR devices, it's more important than ever for us to show people why they should care about VR—because it will soon become an integral part of their lives. Their literacy and understanding of VR will be what determines their ability to participate in it. I hope the film version of RP1 will be able to do that, and do it well. In some ways, this could be crucial for the early industry as a whole. This is why we need to be thoughtful in the ways we discuss and analyze some of the tropes and ideas presented in the story itself.
In the world of Ready Player One, since everyone spends most of their time in VR, one of the key themes that crops up repeatedly in the book is how people choose to be represented. Today, we're all used to the idea that in social communities online, we are usually represented by either our name or a handle, along with a profile picture of some kind. In the OASIS, the virtual reality successor to the Internet, everyone can choose to represent themselves however they like, although to go to high school in the OASIS, students must have an avatar that is both human, and the same age and gender as them.
Beyond the boundaries of high school though, every person can choose how they look and sound to the rest of humanity. As a concept, this is fine, but in the book we are stuck treading over old stereotypical gender roles repeatedly.
Presumed Masculinity
For example, Art3mis, the main female character in the book, is someone who Parzival, the protagonist, white, teenage male, first admires from afar. She's a famous 'Egg Hunter,' or Gunter—the class of people in the book who are searching for a hidden easter egg in the OASIS that will make them the owner of the OASIS. She blogs online, but multiple times through the book, Parzival mentions that she might not really be female, but could be a hairy knuckled, male-pattern balding fifty-year-old guy named Chuck. In part, the reason that many people challenge her female identity is that they just can't believe that a woman would be as knowledgeable as she clearly is—she's too skilled to be female.
As a woman in the tech world, sadly this idea is all too familiar. In situations where gender isn't explicitly stated online, women are generally assumed to be men, since men are the "Default human" we are trained to expect. The more knowledgeable you appear, the less likely you are to be seen as female. This occurs repeatedly in the book, to the point where Parzival seems to need to assign a "real" gender to everyone he interacts with, from a teacher that he muses might be female for all he knows, but is probably male, to a person he meets in reality whose gender he can't determine—so he decides to think of this person as male.
At another point in the book, Parzival mentions a black market programmer. Despite once more having no clue as to the identity of this person, he refers to them as male, presumably because when someone has programming skills, they must be male. He also repeatedly asks Art3mis whether she is female, and at one point decides that she must be, because he's attracted to her, and he doesn't want to be attracted to a guy.
What we get is a book that mentions gender a lot, but doesn't really understand what it is saying about it.
These kind of ideas are damaging for many reasons, in part because at no point should it be acceptable to decide someone else's gender for them. Parzival's best friend, Aech, presents in the OASIS as a white teenage male, and until he meets her in person, Parzival isn't aware that she's actually black and female. She, coached and prompted by her mother, had hidden her identity, because the OASIS "was the best thing that had ever happened to women and people of color."
Not an Oasis for Everyone
When the Internet first really began to become popular in our real world, this was an idea you would see a lot—that no longer would we be perceived by our gender, ethnicity or other physical attributes, what we had to say would be evaluated on the merit of our ideas alone. Fast forward to today, and many women online still experience floods of harassment simply for speaking our minds. Female journalists view it as a hazard of their job. In today's world, being visibly female and speaking online inevitably lead to harassment.
What saddens me about Ready Player One is that it describes a world where this is still the case. Science fiction has a history of helping us imagine worlds that are either horrific warnings of the worst dystopias, or visions of the way the future could be so much better than the present—Star Trek being the most classic example here. I really wanted Ready Player One to be more aware of this history, by either showing us just how bad things could be for anyone that's not white and male, or giving us hope that things won't always be as bad as they are today. Instead what we get is a book that mentions gender a lot, but doesn't really understand what it is saying about it.
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Acceptance or Allowance?
As an example, after discovering Aech's true identity, there's an obvious moment of awkwardness, followed by Parzival slowly realizing that she's still his friend. At that point, he has this thought:
We'd connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by something as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.
Reading that, you might think "Wow, what a great guy, he's just understanding her for who she is." But the truth is, none of the things he thinks of as inconsequential really are—he's already made clear throughout the book that gender is extremely important to how he perceives people, and we, as humans, generally also identify ourselves by these same factors. Who we are is in part, defined by who we identify as, and what groups we identify with, whether those factors are gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or our love for VR.
The statement echoes one that you might have heard before: "I don't see color." I don't feel qualified, as a white woman, to go into all the reasons that's bad, so here's an excellent breakdown. The implication, though, is that who we are, who we identify as, is a bad thing. Being female, being black, being gay, these are all implied as negatives, probably in part because the experience of being those things is still negative in the world of RP1. What Parzival is really saying, though, is, "I see who you are despite all of these things that I'm going to say don't matter to me, but really they do." And yes, Aech most definitely catfishes Parzival, and should probably have told him the truth about her a long time ago, but it also says something about the world they live in that even despite their close friendship, she never feels comfortable coming clean before she has to.
Parzival also decides, a little later, to keep referring to Aech using male pronouns, because her avatar is male. He doesn't ask her what she'd prefer, but instead decides that the identity he most easily accepts for her, that of a white male, is the one he wants to continue thinking of her as. While the book doesn't suggest that Aech is trans, this is the kind of behavior we often see people adopting around trans people, refusing to accept their choice of pronoun, their choice of name or identity. This is another symptom of the idea that who Parzival wants someone to be is who they are—that he gets to choose their identity for them, and for the most part, when he decides to choose someone's identity throughout the book, he decides that they are male, because that's easier for him, or more simply that he often can't appreciate that they might be female – especially if they show high degrees of competence in areas like gaming, programming or general "gunter" knowledge.
The Object of Affection
Of course, Art3mis, the love interest is the sole exception here. She's his love interest, his reward for completing his quest, and often his sole motivation. While she gets to be female (when he eventually pushes her so hard she admits that she is female), there are other places where her consent doesn't matter to him at all. This is probably the issue that bothers me most with this book; Ready Player One, in many ways, is the masculine version of Twilight—its hero is an everyman, someone easy for many men to identify with. 80s Pop culture references aside, this is stylistically a young adult book for men. That's why it's so problematic that, just as with Twilight, consent doesn't really matter, and lack of consent can even be seen as romantic.
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At one point in the book, Art3mis decides she doesn't want to continue her OASIS-based relationship with Parzival. She wants to concentrate on the quest, and tells him so. She cuts off all communication, blocking his calls, emails and chat requests. She even stops writing her (very popular and lucrative) blog. She does everything she can to completely cut him off from access to her, and yet he still spams her with requests and emails, sends her avatar flowers, stands outside the door of her OASIS fortress, and even drops "lovesick bombs" on it from above, comprised of mixtapes and notes. He's lonely and isolated, and so we're supposed to feel sorry for him because he loves her, and yet she has rejected him. But—and this is really important—this is not romantic behavior, this is the behavior of a stalker.
Most people, when rejected, feel hurt, but in general they will move on relatively quickly. In Parzival's case, he stalks her for weeks or months, and only really stops when she progresses forward in the quest ahead of him. He decides to focus back on the quest, because he wants to prove himself to her, and so that she will talk to him again. Something that is intrinsically important to her, he wants to beat her at, so that she will pay attention to him again. None of this is healthy behavior, which would be fine if that's how it was portrayed in the book; if it was clear that this is really unacceptable, that the character is in the wrong here. But instead, it's romantic. Eventually, Parzival gets what he wants; he wins the quest, meets her in real life, and she becomes his reward—a far too common theme in gaming and culture in general.
This is not the world's worst book. There are also other issues I didn't get a chance to address here (Daito and Shoto as racist caricatures for example). I'm hoping that in the movie, some of these issues will be addressed differently, that the female characters won't be shallow foils to show how great the hero is, but rather fully fleshed out characters in their own right, who have the right to say no to a man and have that decision respected. Most of all though, I hope that rather than continuing the popular lone exceptional geek theme that we have been stuck with since the 80s—we can instead visualize a future which includes the ability for women and people of color, for all people, to be themselves, online or off, where they are given the freedom to define and express their own identities, and where we can appreciate and love who they are inclusive of that identity, not in spite of it.
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Suzanne Leibrick
Suzanne Leibrick is a Virtual Reality Experience Designer at Intel. She is also cofounder of ARVR Academy (arvracademy.io), a nonprofit dedicated to providing education, mentorship and open source teaching materials to communities that are underrepresented in the tech industry, specifically focusing on the Augmented and Virtual Reality industries. Prior to joining Intel, Suzanne was also a course developer at Udacity, teaching 360 Storytelling and Immersive media as part of the Virtual Reality Nanodegree. Mentor to Boost VR companies, and highly active in the Indie VR community, as well as a member of the IGDA VR SIG. Before immersing herself in the VR industry, Suzanne also worked in mobile health and fitness gaming as creative lead.


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