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The Salem Witch Trials
Emerson W. Baker
The Salem Witch Trials are one of the best known, most studied, and most important events in early American history. The afflictions started in Salem Village (present-day Danvers), Massachusetts, in January 1692, and by the end of the year the outbreak had spread throughout Essex County, and threatened to bring down the newly formed Massachusetts Bay government of Sir William Phips. It may have even helped trigger a witchcraft crisis in Connecticut that same year. The trials are known for their heavy reliance on spectral evidence, and numerous confessions, which helped the accusations grow. A total of 172 people are known to have been formally charged or informally cried out upon for witchcraft in 1692. Usually poor and marginalized members of society were the victims of witchcraft accusations, but in 1692 many of the leading members of the colony were accused. George Burroughs, a former minister of Salem Village, was one of the nineteen people convicted and executed. In addition to these victims, one man, Giles Cory, was pressed to death, and five died in prison. The last executions took place in September 1692, but it was not until May 1693 that the last trial was held and the last of the accused was freed from prison.
The trials would have lasting repercussions in Massachusetts and signaled the beginning of the end of the Puritan City upon a Hill, an image of American exceptionalism still regularly invoked. The publications ban issued by Governor Phips to prevent criticism of the government would last three years, but ultimately this effort only ensured that the failure of the government to protect innocent lives would never be forgotten. Pardons and reparations for some of the victims and their families were granted by the government in the early 18th century, and the legislature would regularly take up petitions, and discuss further reparations until 1749, more than fifty years after the trials. The last victims were formally pardoned by the governor and legislature of Massachusetts in 2001.
Women and Religion in Colonial North America and the United States
Catherine A. Brekus
Historically, women in colonial North America and the United States have been deeply influenced by their religious traditions. Even though world religions like Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam are based on scriptural traditions that portray women as subordinate to men, women have made up the majority of most religious groups in America. While some Americans have used religious arguments to limit women's legal, political, and economic rights, others have drawn on scripture to defend women's dignity and equality. Women's religious beliefs have shaped every aspect of their lives, including their choices about how to structure their time, their attitudes toward sexuality and the body, and their understanding of suffering. Unlike early American Catholic women, who saw their highest religious calling as the sisterhood, most white colonial women identified their primary religious vocation as ministering to their families. In the 19th century, however, white Protestant women become increasingly involved in reform movements like temperance, abolitionism, and women's suffrage, and African-American, Native American, Asian-American, and Latina women used religious arguments to challenge assumptions about white racial supremacy. In the 20th century, growing numbers of women from many different religious traditions have served as religious leaders, and in some cases they have also demanded ordination. Despite these dramatic changes in religious life, however, many religiously conservative women opposed the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1970s and early 1980s, and in the first decades of the 21st century they have continued to identify feminism and religion as antithetical.


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Children, infants and neonates represent an anaesthetic challenge because of age-specific anatomical and physiological issues. Apart from paediatric-specific anaesthetic considerations, the paediatric anaesthetist must understand the implications of laparoscopic surgery, and prevent and react appropriately to changes that will occur during these procedures. Pre-operative assessment is a multi-specialist responsibility. Predicting the effects on each organ system, planning the strategy required and maintaining open communication within the team ensure the success of the operation and limit peri-operative morbidity.
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Research In Motion will officially launch its first BlackBerry 10 devices on Jan. 30, 2013. But it won't begin shipping them until the following the month.
In an interview with Reuters, RIM COO Kristian Tear said handsets running the company's new make-or-break OS will arrive at market "not too long after" their unveiling.
In a separate interview with Bloomberg, Tear was a bit more specific, saying new BlackBerry 10 devices will begin shipping within 30 days of the Jan. 30 event.
That's a fairly large window, leaving RIM enough room to move BB10's street date closer to March, something we heard last month might be a possibility. Still, Tear says RIM is pushing to get its new smartphone portfolio out the door.
"We're working hard right now to make sure all the bits and pieces and all the details are in place for the date, when the devices will be available for consumers and enterprises," Tear told Reuters in an interview. "We have to agree with carriers as well on what they want to announce when, so it's not absolutely to our own discretion."


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This outer-space view of southwest Alaska was captured on Nov. 21 by the MODIS imager on NASA's Aqua satellite.
This satellite picture captures a broad view of southwest Alaska just as Jack Frost is nipping at the northernmost state's "nose."
NASA's Aqua satellite took aim at the region with its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, on Nov. 21. Even though that's a month before the official start of winter, Arctic sea ice is beginning to form, creating white tendrils that spread out from the Alaska Peninsula (a geological feature that always reminds me of an elephant's nose).
If you take a close look at the picture, you can trace the snow-covered volcanoes on the peninsula, the tan patches of bare land, the bright reflections from Alaska's frozen rivers and the deep green boreal forests breaking through a white blanket of frost. Need a closer look? Check out this 4-megabyte, 250-meter-resolution version from NASA's MODIS website. To get your bearings, compare the recent view with this annotated satellite picture from Google Maps.
This frosty look at Alaska serves as today's offering from the Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar, which features a fresh view of Earth from space every day from now until Christmas. Follow the links below to feast your eyes on more visual goodies for the holiday season:
- 2012 Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar
- Day 1: A fantastic Chinese fan
- Day 2: Satellite shows a Grander Canyon
- Day 3: Typhoon stirs awe — and alarm
- Day 4: Glittering nighttime view of Riyadh
- Day 5: Night lights shine on 'Black Marble'
- Day 6: Holy sites seen at night
- Day 7: Blue Marble still leaves its mark
- Day 8: Satellites look into a volcano's hell
- 2011 Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar
- 2010 Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar
- The Atlantic: Hubble Advent Calendar
- Zooniverse Advent Calendar
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UPDATE at 12:35 p.m., ET, Jan. 17: Many of you wrote in to tell us you were taken aback by Whole Foods top executive John Mackey characterizing the health law as fascism in an NPR interview, and apparently, he's feeling a little sheepish.
About three minutes into his otherwise amiable chat with CBS This Morning hosts on on Thursday, Mackey walked back his comments in response to a direct question from Norah O'Donnell:
"Well, I think that was a bad choice of words on my part ... that word has an association with of course dictatorships in the 20th century like Germany and Spain, and Italy. What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care, it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate, it's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it. So we need a new word for it. I don't know what they right word is," Mackey says.
Part 1 of his interview with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep is linked above, and you can hear him discuss the president's health care plan and his other philosophies here in Part 2, which aired Thursday.
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No doubt, Whole Foods has played a key role in propelling organic foods into the mainstream. The specialty supermarket chain has more than 300 stores and plans to continue expanding. But Mackey is not the crunchy granola liberal one might conjure while perusing aisles of earnestly labeled blue corn chips and gently misted red peppers.
He's a self-styled libertarian: a vegan who sells sustainably raised meat, a man who compares the government's health care overhaul to "fascism" but wants to improve American diets.
And he thinks big businesses have an obligation to change customers' perception that big corporations are "primarily selfish and greedy." (Not that he's opposed to profits. In fact, Whole Foods posted a 49 percent boost in quarterly earnings in November.)
Mackey sat down with Inskeep to discuss his philosophy and the new book he co-authored, Conscious Capitalism.
Mackey tells Inskeep that companies must have a higher purpose than just making money.
For example, when Whole Foods decided it wanted to stop selling overfished species of cod and octopus at its seafood counters, it didn't just abruptly cut off its suppliers. Instead, the company gave its suppliers three years to come up with a better way of fishing; during that time, the seafood stayed for sale — but with a label of "unsustainable."
In the end, Whole Foods, working with the Marine Stewardship Council (we'll have much more on them later), was able to find one supplier of sustainable cod.
"You take a risk when you do that because some of your customers ... who don't care about sustainability, they're going to go shop at your competitor's store who has the fish, so you lose some business that way," Mackey says. "But it was the right thing to do."
What he doesn't think is right is President Obama's health overhaul and the new costs that coverage requirements will place on businesses.
When Inskeep asks him if he still thinks the health law is a form of socialism, as he's said before, Mackey responds:
"Technically speaking, it's more like fascism. Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it — and that's what's happening with our health care programs and these reforms."
Still, Mackey sees room to cooperate with the administration on another front: efforts to reform the American diet, a pet project of first lady Michelle Obama.
"People in America are addicted to sugar, and to fat and to salt," he says, and as a nation, it's holding us back. "Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure."
Still, he acknowledges how hard it can be to stick to a health-conscious diet. Restaurant meals, he says, rarely meet his personal dietary rules — not just no meat, but also no oil or refined flour. Luckily, Mackey jokes, there's a Whole Foods to be found wherever he travels.
So our question to you, dear readers, is this: How big a role does a business leader's personal philosophy play in your decision to buy products from his or her company? Tell us in the comments section below.
When you start your own company, it becomes an extension of yourself, an expression of your habits, your beliefs, your quirks. When John Mackey started a health food grocery store decades ago, he hoped to make it an extension of his values. Now that John Mackey's Whole Foods market is a nationwide chain with countless customers, stockholders and suppliers to please, that is hard work. Yet Mackey still tries to do it.
And in a new book, he defends the virtues of capitalism, even if capitalism's vices have been exposed in recent years.
JOHN MACKEY: Even if its goal is to maximize profits, it's not as if business can just do whatever the hell it wants to do, because people exchange with it voluntarily, and that acts to discipline some of the selfishness and greed that a corporation might have.
INSKEEP: John Mackey is co-author of a new book called "Conscious Capitalism." It's sort of a new-age capitalist credo about how companies can become enlightened, and along the way improve the public's image of big corporations.
How did large corporations fall into such public disfavor?
MACKEY: The biggest reason is people have a tendency to distrust what is large and powerful. But then I think mostly, it's the philosophy of why business exists in the first place. That philosophy of maximizing profits and shareholder value means that many people see corporations as primarily selfish and greedy, that they're out there just to make as much money as possible, and they don't apparently care about anybody else.
I think that's a caricature. I don't think it's completely accurate. But business has not done enough to disavow that. It has not been able to embrace a more comprehensive, positive philosophy, which is what our book tries to do.
INSKEEP: Aren't there a lot of corporations that do focus primarily on maximizing shareholder value and, in fact, they think that the whole legal framework of the United States requires them to be that way?
MACKEY: Many corporations do think that way. But because business is inherently connected through stakeholders and to interdependent systems, you can't maximize profits unless you are creating value for your customers. The art of good conscious business leadership is to look for the win-win-win-win strategies so that all the stakeholders can simultaneously be winning.
INSKEEP: You said another thing there: conscious business. What do you mean by a conscious business?
MACKEY: A conscious business is one who understands, one, that it has a higher purpose besides just making money, and number two, it understands how these stakeholders are connected together in a larger business system.
INSKEEP: Can you think of a moment in the last couple of decades where you felt that you faced a decision point, a choice - you know, I could make more money this way, but I would become the evil company I don't ever want to be?
MACKEY: I think you face those choices on a regular basis. Seldom in the decisions that you make in business is it clearly black-and-white, good-versus-evil. Mostly, it's kind of on the fringe, on the periphery. But our company made a decision to get rid of what we call unsustainable seafood, red-rated seafood species that Monterey Bay Aquarium and Blue Ocean Institute - two organizations we work with - had labeled these species as unsustainable.
INSKEEP: They're being overfished.
MACKEY: They're being overfished. Exactly. So we labeled it unsustainable, and we made a decision that we would phase them out. I think it was over a three-year period.
INSKEEP: What were some of the fish that I would have found at a Whole Foods seafood counter that were labeled this way?
MACKEY: Octopus, cod, Atlantic cod, which used to be the most abundant fish in the Western Hemisphere. In pre-Columbian times, it was the basis of the whole New England fishing industry, and 95 percent of the stocks are down from what they were a couple hundred years ago. So those are a couple of examples. And we actually are very proud of the fact that we discontinued selling those species.
Some people were very happy about that, but then again you take a risk when you do that, because some of your customers are going to go shop - who don't care about sustainability - they're going to go shop at your competitor's store who has the fish. So you lose some business that way.
INSKEEP: Every phase of that decision must have been complicated. You said that you decided to phase it out, which meant that for a while, you were labeling these products and selling them, anyway.
MACKEY: And being criticized for doing so.
INSKEEP: For being a gradualist, basically.
MACKEY: Well, the advantage of doing it that way is it's a compromise. You have your internal argument, your internal discussion, where the seafood people might be saying we can't afford to lose those sales, and the other people saying we can't afford to continue to sell fish that's not sustainable. So the compromise is, is OK, we're going to get rid of it, but we'll give you three years to find a sustainable alternative to it - a substitute, so to speak.
And, in fact, in the case of cod, for example, we found the Marine Stewardship Council, which is a sustainability certifying agency, international, that Whole Foods has worked with for years, actually was able to certify one fishery of cod as sustainable. So we were able to still sell cod from this sustainable fishery. That was a good example of by giving it a little bit of time, our buyers were able to find an alternative.
INSKEEP: Because, in the end, you're in a marketplace, and you need to make a profit, whatever your values might be.
MACKEY: No. You've, once again, gone back to the tradeoff thinking, that there must be conflict. There must be a tradeoff that has to happen here, whereas I've just given you the opposite. I've given you an example where we were able to do the win-win, where we were able to maintain sustainability at the same time that we were able to meet our customers' desire to have this seafood.
INSKEEP: Well, it was a compromise, as you said, to use your word.
MACKEY: It was a compromise internally while we sought the win-win. Sometimes there are tradeoffs, but that's just a failure of creativity, a failure of imagination. In this example, there was no failure. We were able to find the win-win.
INSKEEP: And I'm just thinking in terms of trying to do business while keeping a higher purpose in mind. Everybody knows about the effect that activist stockholders have had on corporations that do have to look over their shoulders and think about shareholder value and make difficult decisions with that in mind. Since you've been public for a couple of decades, I'm curious how, if at all, you've been able to dodge the occasional investor who says: Look, you're wasting a lot of money on these idealistic schemes. I want a better dividend.
MACKEY: We haven't necessarily dodged it. The investors, of course, do want us to make more money, and they do want higher dividends and they want the stock price to go up. But I will say on balance that the investor-stakeholder is the easiest stakeholder to get along with. The stakeholder that complains the most, of course, are our customers. We have a lot more customers than we have investors in our company, and they have lots of alternatives in the marketplace they can shop at. So they're not shy to tell us what they don't like when we're doing things.
INSKEEP: Why aren't you selling this product? Why are you charging that price?
MACKEY: Yes. Or why are you selling that product? Like, even in this conversation today, when I said, well, we're going phase out the red-rated species over a three-year period, customers want lower prices and higher quality. Employees want higher wages and better benefits and better working conditions. Suppliers want to give fewer discounts and want you to pick up more of their products. Communities want more donations. Governments want higher taxes. Investors want higher dividends and higher stock price. Every one of the stakeholders wants more. They always want more.
INSKEEP: John Mackey is co-CEO of Whole Foods Market. As we've heard, he speaks his mind, and a few years ago, Mackey famously warned against President Obama's healthcare plan, writing an article that included the word socialism. When we spoke with Mackey, he'd moved on to another word for the health law: fascism.
MACKEY: In fascism, the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it. And that's what's happening with these reforms.
INSKEEP: And we'll hear that argument from John Mackey tomorrow, as we continue our conversation right here on MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Hello there,
I'm still a newbie when it comes to Java, and I've just been learning about Swing. I was wondering how you could do this:
Show a Start button and a picture, then, when the button is pressed, the picture and button disappear and a new set of buttons appear, almost like a new page on the same window?
How can I do that?


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[Global: Africa]
Nigeria and Shell Oil and the Exposure by WikiLeaks
Malik Sekou Osei
(Unedited First daft foe Black Star News
December 13th 2010)
WikiLeaks has exposed through the trove of leaked documents the extent of corruption in Nigeria that involves the major Western oil companies.
One cable details the visit to the U.S. embassy by Shell's executive vice-president for Africa Ms. Ann Pickard, on October 13th 2009, for a meeting with the U.S. ambassador Robin Sander, to discuss the status of the Petroleum Industry Bill then being considered by the Nigerian National Assembly. The bill would legalize international joint ventures, further opening the nominally state-owned oil industry to foreign capital.
Ms. Pickard was to discuss the company's plan for maneuvering and directing the legislature, cautioning that the Nigerian Senate "will pass a bad bill," but that "we aren't worried," however "we need to move quickly."
Shell had expected to have its way in the lower Nigeria house, Packer goes to say: "We are working with the House and the House appears to want to work with us." Robin Sanders had asked if the industry was united in this approach—i.e., if the US owned companies had differences with Shell, which was British-Dutch owned—Pickard replied that there was "total alignment with the international oil companies at every level."
The ambassador told her that the US, British, Dutch and French embassies had made a joint call to the managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Mohammed Barkindo, in support to encourage of the plan for joint ventures.
Then Ms. Pickard told Ambassador Sander about China's latest interests in bidding on oil blocks in Nigeria, explaining that, "Shell had received a copy of the letter that Special Advisor to the president on Petroleum Matters Dr. Emmanuel Egbogah had sent to the Chinese which said that their offer for oil exploration blocks was not good enough."
For Shell had very good sources in the Nigeria government talks with both
China and Russia, because the Nigerian government "had forgotten that Shell had
seconded people to all the relevant ministries and that Shell consequently had
access to everything that was being done in those ministries."
While looking at these discussions one can see the real relation between
the supposedly an independent country as Nigeria and the multinational oil company
of Shell, whose annual gross revenues are equivalent to Nigeria 's GDP. For Nigeria
is sovereign in name only, while Shell in partnership with other oil giants and the
US and British imperialism, has the final say on all key decisions and questions.
The discussion between Pickard and the US ambassador went well beyond
immediate oil interests. They also discussed internal Nigerian politics, including
the most recent amnesty offer by the central government to separatist militants in
the Niger Delta, the main oil-producing region within the county. Pickard goes to
say that the situation would remain quiet until the end of the year, but would get
"out-of-hand" when state elections began in the New Year.
While according to the cable, "She expressed particular concern about
Bayelsa state, home to Shell's 5000,000 barrel-per-day capacity Bonny field." She
goes to say that Israeli security experts had been deployed in Bayelsa state, but
not in the Delta region and that there has been "a big drop in kidnapping" as a
At an earlier meeting, on September 18th 2008, Pickard had discussed with a
US embassy official on the aftermath of a violent attack on a Shell facility.
According to the cable sent by consul-general Ms Donna Blair, Pickard asked what he
US government knew about any interest in Nigeria on part of the Russian oil company
called Gazprom, as well the possible shipment of surface-to-air missiles to militant
groups in the Niger Delta.
Shell executives and embassy officials had engaged in detailed discussion
of the new military tactic employed by the militants, who had attacked from land
rather than from the water, as in previous incidents, and also the political
responses by the Nigerian authorities. At this point Ms Pickard had come to
complained that the Rivers State governor "[had] lacked the connections among River
state militants leaders to successfully co-opt them as governors in [the] Delta and
Bayelsa states have done with militants in their states."
However, in relation to Gazprom, Pickard had said that "contacts in the
British government [had told her that Nigeria had promised the Russians] access to
17 trillion cubic feet of nature gas." Thus understanding that this would require
taking concessions currently assigned to other companies, and she assumed that Shell
would be the "prime target."
The Shell vice president also told the US consul that the oil company had
"intelligence" about a shipment of surface-to-air missiles, but was unsure of its
reliability. The cable continues: "When asked what aviation security steps Shell was
taking, Pickard said Shell helicopters generally fly above the effective range of
the small and medium caliber weapons used by militants."
At another meeting on January 27th, 2009, Pickard complained about the
level of corruption in the Nigerian government, saying that oil buyers had to large
bribes to the managing director of the NNPC, the government's chief economic adviser
and even the first lady, Turai Yar'Adua. "Pickard also reported an instance of the
Attorney General Aondoakaa allegedly soliciting a $20 million bribe to sign a
document," the cabled had read.
The immediate reason for this visit was an attack by militant on a tanker
loading at the Shell platform in Bonny, the 15th such attack on an oil company in
the first month of 2009, which was a part of the general breakdown of the security
in the country.
According to the cable, "The Ambassador asked what Shell's thoughts were on
any potential for a coup. Pickard answered that there is little intellectual capital
to plain and execute a coup and Shell sees little potential for one."
Then at this point the two began to discussed the precarious state of the
health of the President Yar' Adua. He was to die the next year, and has been
succeeded by the Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.
Another embassy cable notes unconfirmed reports of bribery, smuggling and
other forms of corruption linked to Yar' Adua's wife, who had purchased a $10
million house in central London . One contact told embassy officials that while Yar'
Adua was not taking bribes himself, "his wife siphoned off millions in public funds
for private use."
The cable also reported on an interview with a Yar'Adua crony, Dahiru
Mangal, who had just been named special adviser to the president. According to the
cable, "Yar'Adua instructed Mangal to crease any illicit activity if Mangal wished
to enjoy official recognition by the least the appearance of respect for the rule of
law, and thus, does not want any of his close advisors openly involved in suspected
The most recent cable from Nigeria released by WikiLeaks describes a
meeting February 26th, 2010 between Ambassador Sander and Goodluck Jonathan, then
the acting president.
The meeting was triggered by the sudden and unexpected return of Yar'Adua
to Nigeria from Saudi Arabia , where he had been near death in a medical facility
At this point Goodluck Jonathan gave the US representatives a all-inclusive
and thorough account of his plans to compel and make Yar'Adua, resignation, and to
become the interim president, then disband the cabinet and hold new elections. He
expressed his discussions and meeting with former presidents and military leaders
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assurances that the current head of the Election commission would be removed, and
Goodluck pledged to "have him out a soon as next month."
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ATLANTA -- The Reds unsuccessfully challenged the final out of Friday night's 5-4 loss to the Braves at Turner Field. Cincinnati challenged whether Freddie Freeman kept his foot on the bag at first on a Joey Votto groundout, and replay confirmed the call.
After a review lasting two minutes and seven seconds, the out call by first-base umpire Vic Carapazza was confirmed.
"I wanted to know if it was inconclusive or if it was confirmed, and it was confirmed," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "I had a chance to come up here and look at our own video, which is what they're getting in New York. And it was a confirmed out call. They got the call right in the end. That's what we're looking for from our perspective. From our bench, it looked like there was a huge gap between Freeman's foot and the base. But that was after the out had been recorded. He came off when his momentum took him off the base. The out was confirmed. It was the right call."
With runners on first and second and two outs in the top of the ninth, Votto hit a ground ball to third baseman Chris Johnson. Johnson's throw to first was wide, but Freeman made a diving grab to snag the throw.
"I think everybody became a fan [of extended replay] there in the ninth inning," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "They all turned around and watched the JumboTron to see what that play was. I saw the outfielders coming in after they saw it the first time. They said, 'Game over.'"
Freeman's great play ended a Reds rally that began with a leadoff single by Roger Bernandina and a Zack Cozart walk against Atlanta closer Craig Kimbrel. Kimbrel regrouped to strike out both Brayan Pena and Chris Heisey.
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Secrets To Bolstering Patient Satisfaction
Most podiatrists equate marketing with advertising. However, advertising is the most expensive and often least effective facet of services marketing. Internal marketing is the most cost effective, most time effective and usually the most dignified form of marketing. Internal marketing within your practice occurs continuously even if you are unaware of it. Patient satisfaction opens the door to internal marketing of your practice and comprises the bulk of services marketing. We all know DPMs who are only average clinically but do extremely well. Conversely we all know great clinicians struggling to stay afloat in today's rapidly changing healthcare environment. The difference is usually patient satisfaction. Some patients are delighted with us despite a result we would rather not have our colleagues see. On the other hand, other patients may angrily leave our practice us for some trivial reason despite a great clinical result. Numerous unconscious impressions comprise the remainder of these perceptions. A patient's perception of any healthcare service is colored by a vast array of prior experiences that set up current expectations. The patient is pleased to the extent that his or her current perceptions exceed the preexisting expectations. This encompasses far more than the clinical result (within a relevant range) and includes such non-treatment issues as the demeanor of the staff, condition of the physical premises, psychological comfort during the visit, etc. Remember, all patients talk about doctors anyway. Happy patients will tell four other people you are a nice doctor. These patients are more likely to complete treatment and follow instructions. Accordingly, they have a better chance of having a good medical outcome. These patients also tend to generate additional fees for the practice in that they pay quicker and are less likely to be the source of bad debt. An unhappy patient vehemently tells nine others that you are a nasty rip-off artist. This is sad but true. They are not as likely to complete treatment and subsequently have a less than optimal result. They generate less in fees. They pay slower, if at all, and may create a stressful environment that has a detrimental effect on the attitude of other patients in the office.
How Patient Satisfaction Can Benefit The Practice
Keeping patients satisfied is not only a vital component of patient care, it can bolster the referral rate and economics of your practice in several ways. Increased patient retention. Patient satisfaction increases patient loyalty. This translates into other factors remaining the same, more billable services given and more retail goods sold per year. All practices lose patients through death, relocation, etc. Nothing can be done about it. However, other patients defect to other practitioners or do not seek additional required treatment at all. If no other patient satisfaction program exists, other than best effort on a case-by-case basis, the techniques listed below can dramatically decrease that defection rate. Retaining a patient is more cost effective than replacing one. Note that even a 1 percent improvement in patient retention, an extremely low result, can mean thousands of extra pre-tax dollars available for practitioner salary. Increased new patient referral rate from current patients and staff. Not only do you retain the referral potential of current patients, but the rate and enthusiasm of existing patient referrals also improves. Decreased overhead percentage rate. The relative amount of profit increases secondary to improved staff efficiency as more revenue is generated on fixed expenses like rent and decreased advertising costs. A fee premium for being the area's de facto preferred provider. Increased patient satisfaction skews the usual price/quantity tradeoff of patient consumerism in your favor. This is especially important for non-covered services without third party reimbursement. Decreased time for accounts in the accounts receivable cycle and a decreased bad debt ratio. Improved office morale, less stress and increased joy from practicing your profession.
How Internal Marketing Can Make A Difference
Internal marketing becomes especially important when the public does not perceive differences in practitioner skill as significant. Internal marketing can also be beneficial and/or in an area saturated with other practitioners. For example, the world's best heart transplant surgeon does not have to worry about his or her location, office dynamics or personality adversely affecting patients. A suburban podiatrist does need to worry about such things if surrounded by other DPMs, orthopedists, physical therapists and an ambulatory surgery center, all competing for the same patient base. One example of internal marketing through increased patient satisfaction occurred a few years ago. Some patients were concerned, perhaps subliminally or overtly, about contracting AIDS, hepatitis or the West Nile Virus in the DPM's office. If staff is trained to point out the existing sterilization controls, how the office exceeds OSHA requirements and how meticulous you are, these patients relax. This "marketing" merely points out to the patient things you take for granted and removes a psychological barrier to full compliance. It is not bragging or manipulation. There is a remarkable positive cycle of benefits for everyone. There is no downside. Nobody is displeased to see you maintain a clean office. Today, one can accomplish the same thing with the HIPAA statutes given the heightened sensibility about patient confidentiality.
Understand The Variables That Can Affect Patient Satisfaction
Patient satisfaction can be affected by many variables. Most patients do not predefine what would be "acceptable" from their encounter, but have vaguely defined ranges of prior expectations that are gleaned from a lifetime of healthcare related experience. Any variance between this "acceptable" range of expectations and each trivial encounter invokes some degree of positive or negative feeling in the patient. The total perception of the office experience is an aggregate of multiple trivial and often subliminal observations. Patient satisfaction is complicated by: Inter-patient variables. There may be a significant difference among patients in their "podiatric expectations." Intra-patient variables. A single patient can perceive the same thing or situation differently at different times, depending on uncontrollable variables like mood or context of occurrence which the practice could (sometimes and/or partially) control. "Luck of the draw" in physical variables. Does Sally or Mary escort the patient to the exam room? Was it the blue or green exam room? Did the last patient who used the restroom leave a disgusting mess? Try to eliminate problems that might cause negative perceptions and implement controls to help ensure positive perceptions. Heterogeneous staff variables. Even with appropriate training, people have their own individual quirks.
Emphasize Problem Prevention
When trying to manage variables in the office to bolster patient satisfaction, it may be easier for most practitioners to start with avoidance strategies. One can anticipate and prevent detrimental patient encounter issues. Have the staff list everything they have seen as problems in the past. These problems may include things like prolonged waits, dirty bathrooms, getting an answering machine instead of a person, loud patient arguments over bills, etc. The first priority one should address is any haphazard, sloppy office procedures. From the patient's perspective, any administrative mix-up (double billing, lost records, staff problems) can create a perception of poor practice management and patients may even take this a step further and link it to poor clinical quality. Logically streamlining operations can eliminate many possible impediments to patient satisfaction. Revamping your scheduling procedure can help reduce the wait. Remember, solutions have to work for you as well as patients. One must balance decreased waiting time with optimal work capacity. Again, perception is important. An empty reception area, while optimal for minimal wait, may make patients wonder why you are not busier. Freeing the receptionist from other duties at crucial times may ensure patients always get a person on the line. Emphasizing phone etiquette training may help phone efficiency. Getting other staff members to pitch in when needed is another possible solution. Modifying billing policies and having a soundproof room in which to discuss them may help isolate one irate patient's squabble.
Taking Appropriate Action After A Problem Arises
What action can one take to remedy a problem such as a billing dispute? In any potentially detrimental situation, delineate what the staff can do to make it right. A service paradox exists and timely, appropriate action can sometimes build more patient satisfaction than if the situation had never occurred. A dispute over price should not occur in front of other patients. Many receptionists find that genuine, cute little quips like, "I know it seems high, but (wink), I'm expensive to maintain," defuse the situation by gently pointing out the overhead factor. When a patient balks at fees, gently and politely imply that we could inquire if the local plumber was available to do the exam, procedure or surgery. A little humor brings training and relative cost issues into play while making them smile. Costs are high but justifiable. Another common problem is a long patient wait. It is not enough to just have policies in place that help prevent a prolonged wait from occurring. There must also be policies in place that ameliorate an adverse situation when it does arise. This can involve placating a patient over long wait or reassuring a patient about an empty waiting room. An apology from you and/or the staff might be one technique, in the form of saying "I'm so sorry to keep you waiting. The doctor and I really try to stay on schedule because we know how valuable time is for our patients." Offering some refreshments might be another approach. In extreme cases, giving patients a beeper and turning them loose until you need to see them may work. Many patients will be impressed that you have even considered how the wait affects them. If the wait is not too long, sometimes the above management techniques can actually build more patient satisfaction than just seeing them on time.
In Conclusion
By proactively anticipating the entire visit from the patient's perspective, the DPM can structure and arrange things so patients have mostly positive perceptions. This can be done despite all the potential variables in the mix that can affect and shape patient perception. Patient satisfaction can be improved in any office and anyone can improve it. Obviously, there is no standard cookbook recipe to ensure patient satisfaction. Try to get the big picture. Identify the worst areas and fix them. Identify the best areas and reinforce them. Proceed slowly. It can be done one facet at a time. Adapt things to your own managerial style and personality. Be completely open to suggestion and change. Dr. Marcinko is a Certified Financial Planner and Certified Medical Planner for www.MedicalBusinessAdvisors.com, sponsor of the Certified Medical Planner charter designation program. He can be reached by phone at (770) 448-0769 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. Dr. Bode is the CFO for www.MedicalBusinessAdvisors.com. He is a noted author and Certified Public Accountant with a Master's of Science Degree in Accounting.


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Dana Rosemary Scallon has said she will not step down from the presidential campaign, over the sexual abuse allegations which have surfaced regarding a member of her family.
The Independent candidate surprised viewers on Wednesday night, during an RTE presidential debate when she made an impromptu statement regarding the allegations.
Speaking on the RTE show she said, "Let it be known that lawyers have already been instructed to forensically investigate a particular communication that spread this vile false allegation which attempts to implicate me and destroy my good character."
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Despite much speculation that she was about to withdraw from the campaign, she vowed to continue.
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Full text of a statement released by Dana Rosemary Scallon on Friday evening, following allegations regarding members of her family.
"A most despicable and malicious campaign of hatred is currently being directed at myself and my family.
I brought this into the public domain for the following reason; last week I was falsely accused of being a part of a deceptive cover-up regarding my Irish/ US dual citizenship, which I subsequently proved to be untrue on presentation of my citizenship certificate. Before I produced the citizenship certificate, I received a malicious email which began 'HAHAHAHAHAH – The bitch finally gets what she deserves'. I will not repeat further details of the email which goes on to threaten the release of further malicious and untrue allegations and also attempts to implicate me.
Following on from this, prior to the Prime Time debate on Wednesday, a free-lance journalist contacted me claiming that he was going to run two page stories dealing with a malicious allegation against one of my family members and attempting to implicate me. I felt it best to confront this head on and after legal advice I made my statement in the Prime Time debate. I knew by the tone of the threatening email I had received that the writer was determined to 'out' this malicious accusation. This false accusation first surfaced in a family dispute court case approx. 5 years ago and was denied. No further action was taken. It now conveniently surfaces again during my Presidential campaign. In fact in an alleged period of over 30 years there has never been a complaint lodged.
I am appalled that person or persons would seek to do this to my family. I have never knowingly done harm to any person and while some may not agree with my political, religious or social positions on certain matters, no family deserves to be the subject of such a malicious campaign. My family and I have agreed that to walk away now from the Presidential campaign would be to give support to the orchestrated campaign that I believe is being peddled from a specific source and I will not let this happen.
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2. The Workshop was attended by Prof. James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Commissioner Pacifique Manirakiza, member of the Working Group and Commissioner Rapporteur for Kenya, representatives from the Commission on Administration of Justice, the defunct Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, and the Gender and Equality Commission of Kenya. The Workshop was also attended by members of the Working Group, representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, civil society organizations in Kenya, and the Endorois community.
3. A total of forty-five (45) delegates attended the Workshop representing one (1) UN Special Mechanism Procedure, one (1) UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, four (4) the Working Group, one (1) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, nineteen (19) national stakeholders, and nineteen (19) Endorois community.
4. The main objective of the Workshop was to forge dialogue and strategize with the Government and civil society on the status of implementation of the Endorois decision and ways forward, and to come up with a joint road map of implementation outlining concrete steps to be taken with timelines. In view of this objective, various issues pertinent to the topic were discussed including:
5. Having in mind that the Government was not represented, and after a rich and engaging dialogue among the various stakeholders, it was observed that out of the seven recommendations of the Commission only one has been implemented, which is the registration of the Endorois Welfare Council. It was further observed that the absence of Government officials from such deliberations was a serious cause of concern for the Endorois community and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.
6. Accordingly, with a view to ensure that all the recommendations of the African Commission are fully implemented participants:
i. Identified national, regional and international actors that can play a role in the implementation of the decision;
ii. Urged the African Commission to call on the government to provide a roadmap for implementation within ninety days as agreed at the 53rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission;
iii. Stressed on the need to gather data about the population and territories belonging to the Endorois, and submit a proposal to the Government outlining what recognition and restitution mean for the Endorois community;
iv. Proposed to put safeguard measures in the interim to ensure that no alterations to land/resources are made;
v. Called upon the Endorois Compensation Committee:
a. to look at modalities of reparations/compensations from international and regional human rights bodies particularly the Inter-American System; and
b. to develop an interim agreement for the sharing of benefits from existing tourism and mining activities.
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You know that asthma medicine needs to get into your lungs to work, but how does it get there? Inhalers and nebulizers — that's how. They are two different devices that can deliver quick-relief medicine (also called rescue or fast-acting medicine) or long-term control medicine (also called controller or maintenance medicine) directly into your lungs. Your doctor will tell you which device is best for you.
Nebulizers are electric- or battery-powered machines that turn liquid asthma medicine into a fine mist. This mist comes through a tube that is attached to a mouthpiece or facemask. (A facemask is a kind of plastic cup that covers the mouth and nose.)
Babies and younger children often use nebulizers because they don't have to do anything — just sit in one place and receive the medicine. Nebulizers take at least 5 or 10 minutes to get the medicine into the lungs and sometimes even longer. They're sometimes big and noisy and not always easy to carry around.
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Dry powder inhalers can be a little easier to use than metered dose inhalers. But dry powder inhalers require a person to pull air in quickly and quite forcefully.
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text: Share Smaller TextLarger TextPrint Parasites and MS: An emerging treatment? By Julie Stachowiak Oct 19, 2011 2 Comments A couple of months ago, my daughter's school sent home a letter saying that a child in her class had been found to have pinworms. While this caused mass panic among the parents, my mother-in-law shrugged and said, "When I was growing up, everybody had pinworms at some point during childhood, often many times. People worry too much about these things now." Little did she know that she was touching on an emerging topic in MS, known as the "hygiene hypothesis." The idea behind the hygiene hypothesis is that certain infections or other exposures may prevent autoimmune disease activity by keeping the immune system busy with foreign invaders and less likely to turn on itself. MS is thought to be an autoimmune disease, with certain immune cells attacking the myelin sheath surrounding the nerves. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis are caused by this damage to the myelin. Some experts point to the hygiene hypothesis as a possible explanation as to why MS is more prevalent in the US, Canada and Europe than it is in other countries, where people are more likely to be infected with parasites (and thus "protected," according to the theory). It could be that those of us in the countries with highest MS prevalence are growing up and living in an environment that is too "clean" in that it doesn't provide enough challenges to our immune systems. The data seem to support the hygiene hypothesis theory. At ECTRIMS 2011, Jorge Correale of the Raúl Carrea Institute for Neurological Research in Buenos Aires presented fascinating data that demonstrates that infection with parasites seems to protect people with MS from disease activity. In an earlier study, Correale's team followed 24 people with MS for over four years - half of whom had become infected with a variety of intestinal parasites (worms called "helminths") after they were diagnosed with MS, but before they were recruited into the study. The results were amazing. Infected people had a relapse rate that was almost 19 times lower than in uninfected people over the course of the study – 4 relapses in the infected people, compared to 56 in the uninfected people. In addition, the people with parasites had lower disability (as measured by EDSS score) and fewer lesions. Today, Dr. Correale reported that after 5 years, 4 of the 12 infected people began to show negative symptoms of being infected with these parasites, such as diarrhea and abdominal pain. These people were treated with anti-parasite drugs to kill the helminths and followed for an additional 2 years. When the parasites were gone in these 4 people, MS disease activity increased. People began having relapses and new lesions were seen on MRI scans. When the researchers examined the blood of these patients, they saw that within 3 months of killing their parasites, certain immune cells that stimulate the immune system (causing inflammation) were increased, while there was a decrease in anti-inflammatory cells. So, what do we do with this information? Clearly, no one is urging people with MS to try and find some random parasite eggs to ingest. However, this is being pursued in a research setting in the US. Dr. John Fleming's group at the University of Wisconsin is currently recruiting patients for a study called, "Helminth-induced Immunomodulation Therapy (HINT) in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis," where participants will be given a drink containing harmless whipworm eggs and followed for a period of time. Hear more from Dr. Fleming on today's "Daily Minute" video. Julie Stachowiak, PhD Julie is the author of the Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto, the winner of the 2009 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the Health Category. She is an epidemiologist who is also a person living with MS, Julie has an in-depth understanding about current research and scientific developments around MS. She also has first-hand knowledge of the frustrations and anxiety surrounding the disease, as she had MS for at least 15 years before receiving a diagnosis in 2003 and has had several relapses since her diagnosis.


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Don Rickles, during "The Comedy Awards" on Comedy Central, alternately insulted and praised the likes of David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart. But Rickles, on hand to receive the Johnny Carson Award For Comedic Excellence, saved his most irreverent – and reverent words – for the late, undisputed king of late night.
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There's no replacing Carson, who beat all comers during his reign, with only Dick Cavett and Arsenio Hall carving out modest niches. No one, not Letterman, O'Brien or Leno, has neared anything close to Carson's dominance in the 11:30 p.m. slot.
Despite his considerable reach, wit and charm, there was something aloof and unknowable about Carson, a man let into millions of bedrooms and living rooms at the end of a long day to offer some much-needed laughs and give the vicarious revelers at his nightly party something to talk about at work in the morning. The lingering inability to pin him down two decades after he left public life and nearly 50 years after he took over "The Tonight Show" from Jack Paar remains part of Carson's lasting allure and mystique.
Carson, who died in 2005, is an abstraction to a generation that never saw his show but has unwittingly experienced him by growing up watching shows he influenced. Those familiar – and unfamiliar – with Carson might want to view PBS' America Masters presentation Monday of "Johnny Carson: King of Late Night," which recalls a host who made everybody on his show – and watching at home – feel big. Check out a preview below, along with Rickles' tribute to Carson:
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In the charming Old Town in front of Ferries terminal!
Airport shuttle, home cinema & breakfast!
3 detached structures in the charming Old Town from only 24,90 euro per room!
Santa Claus is the bigger novelty in the typical structures of Anglo-Saxon hostel, flat rental and bed & breakfast in Europe. This structure was designed with the intention to create a traveling accommodation. Our guests depending on the needs and habits have a way of being able to stay in more detached structures, so as to ensure a free day and night Tour in the charming Ancient Town.
Also, not too far from us, you can admire the art of our fishermen. Every morning, pull up their small boats at the port (after spending hours and hours at sea during the night), and cleaning products that we gave them the Adriatic Sea. Our visitors will also be present at the time of cleaning and to purchase of fresh seafood, which only here in Bari, in total security, can be eaten raw or cooked, and which are a symbols of pride and economic development and territorial integrity of our town.
At your arrival in Bari, to come to Santa Claus, you can climb through stairs or you can choose to path along the walls, so-called 'Muraglia'. Inside these Walls is enclosed the Old Town, the most focal point in which stands the most part of active business, ancient traditions, museum, churches, bars, clubs, disco, sushi bar, restaurants typical of the area. From the walls you could see the beauty of one of the longest Promenades of Italy. And the sea, in Bari, and for its inhabitants has long traditions, memories and it is the main source of livelihood for most of the families of the Old Town.
Santa Claus is the only suggestive and cheapest accommodation of the area, located just in front of City Port (Ferries and Cruise Terminal), at 4 minutes from train station (by urban bus number 20/) and at 15 minutes from airport (by urban bus number 16).
Just follow the up-hill called Strada Porto Nuovo in front of Port Exit and you will reach Piazza San Pietro and then search for a small arch, called Arco San Pietro next to the Caffe.Follow otherwise the stairs in front of Port Exit and then you will straight reach Arco San Pietro n. 4.
Do not forget to call us and we will pick you up with our private shuttle!
Santa Claus includes three structures, inside the main and typical arch of the Ancient Town, each one far just few metres from others.
The first one is Don Vito Trulli, in front of St. Peter Arch, in Arco San Pietro 4, built following the typical architectural structure of Trulli in Alberobello, that offers 'Sleep & Go' solution for travellers on a budget, proposing to anyone in need of accommodation and breakfast, the possibility to use the service. A night here goes up from 24,90 eur breakfast included. At Don Vito Trulli does not deny anyone the opportunity to refresh and relax at any time. You can not let it slip. At Don Vito Trulli you will have also free internet access.
The second structure is the Freddy House, in front of King Tancredi Arch, so-called, in the name of Freddy Mercury, leader of Queen, that twenty five years ago in Bari played in PetruzzelliTheatre, one of the most important theatres in Italy. In Freddy House you will find Superior 4 bed dorm with private bathroom, Superior double room with private bathroom, Imperial apartment for three adults with private bathroom, Imperial apartment for four adults with private bathroom, Imperial apartment for five adults with private bathroom.All rooms and apartments in Freddy House have private bathroom, refrigerator, air conditioning, plasma TV, home cinema.A night in goes up from 21,90 Euros breakfast included.
The third structure is the Bohemian Rhapsody, in front of Swebian Arch.
The Bohemian Rhapsody is a structure deployed in the city centre close to the brand new Petruzzelli Theatre, Niccolo Piccinni Theatre, the shopping centre of the town of Bari, Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
Bari is one of the pearls of the Adriatic, rich with history, culture and tradition. Our milestones are: the beach, nice weather, welcoming town full of kindness and warmth and a wonderful Mediterranean cuisine from medieval origins, and architectural style, such as the Apulian Romanesque, envied by the rest of the world!In Bohemian Rhapsody you will find Superior 4 bed dorm with private bathroom, Superior double room with private bathroom, Imperial apartment for three adults with private bathroom, Imperial apartment for four adults with private bathroom, Imperial apartment fo five adults with private bathroom.All rooms and apartments in Bohemian Rhapsody have private bathroom, refrigerator, air conditioning, plasma TV, home cinema.
All rates include breakfast.
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