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The Tower. It's a card of clearing, of tearing down, of.....uprooting? I suppose this is why some decks (like the Wild Unknown and the Sasuraibito) portray the Tower as a tree being hit by lightning. But I take issue with thisRead More
Reimagining the Swords as Enneagram Work
From an Enneagram perspective, exploring the swords as the suit of type structure is incredibly helpful. The swords can be literally interpreted as our type's patterns, and each card shows us working with them in some way.Read More
Paying Intuitive Attention: the High Priestess and your Enneagram Type
The High Priestess is the archetype in the Tarot where we access our intuition. But what *is* intuition?Read More
The Knight of Cups & Your Enneagram Type
The Knight of Cups in general implores us to lead with our hearts, showing up with our hearts on our sleeves, willing to move through the world with vulnerability and empathy. But what does it have to say specifically to your type?Read More
Breathing in the Heart: a reflection on the 3 of Swords
What are we being asked to grow into, in the 3 of swords? What are we being asked to receive? With what are we being filled?Read More
A Call to Action: 9 and the Moon
the Moon is a card of ACTION. It speaks to retrograde and reflection, yes, to stagnation and self-forgetting. The crayfish in the swamp on the card wants to retreat back to the waters of forgetfulness, just as the 9 wants to remain numb, 'checked-out'.Read More
Becoming a Vessel: 8s & Holy Truth
the Star is where we learn the fundamental truth that life is a spiral, and that we are not imprisoned in closed circles. It is liberation from the "captivity of spirit".Read More
Masonry to Gardening: the Tower & Enneagram 7
The Towers that we have built give way to gardens, where we work in concert with the Universe. "It is the way of humbling oneself to the role of the seed, in opposition to that of exalting oneself by building towers."Read More
Deflating Demons: the Devil and Type 6
How do we get to Faith from here? In the 'Wisdom of the Enneagram', Riso and Hudson remind us that "Faith is not belief, but a real immediate knowing that comes from experience." So the Devil here, as an *experience* is offering type 6 (and all of us) the way from mere belief to true Faith.Read More
Thinking with the Flood: the Holy Omniscience of 5
In the search for truth, we "demand that [it] must entail clarity. Guided by this principle we endeavor to be precise, but in doing so we effect an intellectual enclosure. That which is enclosed is *clear*, yes, but it is separated by the enclosure from the great flood of truth (of which we have taken possession of only a drop). The drop is clear, but it is only a drop taken from the flood, i.e. from the great context of truth."
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Death, Dust & Type 4
The card in the Majors to represent this idea, Death, immediately brings to mind the biblical verse, "For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Returning to our origins of dust seems a little too basic for the Tarot though (ummm, and for type 4s: I see y'all! Like, dust? BASIC)
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The Holy Hope of Enneagram 3s & the Hanged Man
Enneagram 3s Holy Idea is is something called 'Holy Hope'.Dr. David Daniels describes Holy Hope as "the original state of hope in which things work according to universal law (and are not dependent on anyone's effort)."Read More
Justice & the Holy Idea of Enneagram 2s
What is Holy Will/Freedom anyway? Type 2s live in a sort of 'give to get' universe, where they try to fulfill everyone else's (never-ending) needs in order to assure that their own (totally repressed) needs will be met. Not only are they acting as 'agents of other's fulfillment' (David Daniels term), but almost as if they're agents of the Universe itself.Read More
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Designer MiNo. 3774: Mr. Rodine C. Teodoro (Philippine Postal Corporation)
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Current exhibitions at Bard Graduate Center Gallery offer something for almost every interest, from modern jewelry to the ancient world and from anthropology and native American history to graphic design and the rise of branding. A View from the Jeweler's Bench: Ancient Treasures, Contemporary Statements; The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt, and the Making of Anthropology; and Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars are on view through July 7, 2019.
Bard Graduate Center is a research institute that offers MA and PhD degrees in decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Its gallery consists of more than 4,000 square feet of exhibition space on four accessible floors, providing an intimate context within a historic townhouse for visitors to engage with the works on view. The Bard Graduate Center Gallery contributes to the broader cultural and educational landscape of New York City by offering customized tours and a variety of public programs developed in conjunction with each exhibition. It consistently earns international acclaim and has presented more than sixty exhibitions and publications since its inception. Each year it serves an international audience of 30,000 scholars, students, art and design professionals, and museum goers of diverse backgrounds.
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The Irish Times view on the ESRI/Department of Finance Brexit outlook
GDP would end up 5% lower over the next decade and employment would be down by 80,000
"Most exposed in a no-deal scenario would be sectors such as agri-food, with a high reliance on the UK market and facing new tariffs and other trade barriers." Photograph: Trevor McBride
The threat posed to the economy by a no-deal Brexit is graphically set out in the latest analysis from the Economic and Social Research Institute and the Department of Finance. Because Britain's exit from the EU is an unprecedented event with far-reaching and diverse implications, such an exercise has a significant margin for error. However, the warning that over the next decade, GDP would end up 5 per cent lower than otherwise and employment would be down by 80,000 is sobering.
So is the assessment that about half of this impact would hit the economy by the end of 2020 in the event of a chaotic no-deal exit. Negative as this is, it is worth remembering that work from the Central Bank suggested the initial hit could be even higher.
Whatever kind of Brexit emerges will be bad for the Irish economy but the impact of a negotiated exit, or one which leaves the UK with closer trading links with the EU in the long term, would be much less. As the costs in this scenario would emerge over a longer time period, they would also be more manageable. The problem with a disorderly no-deal departure is that much of the outcome would be apparent very quickly and the impact on consumer and business confidence would be inevitably negative.
The impact would vary significantly from sector to sector. Most exposed in a no-deal scenario would be sectors such as agri-food, with a high reliance on the UK market and facing new tariffs and other trade barriers. In turn this could quickly affect farmers and the wider rural economy. The beef sector faces particularly serious threats, but other areas like pigmeat and dairy would also be affected. So would many SMEs selling into the UK without the resources available to larger firms to deal with the fallout. Rural Ireland would be more exposed than major cities, though the overall initial economic repercussions would reverberate throughout the economy.
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The economic calculus, of course, is similar for the UK in that a no-deal exit would mean much higher costs and more uncertainty. We must hope that this reality creates an impetus for the House of Commons to come to its senses. It must find a way forward, either through approval of Theresa May's withdrawal agreement or setting some other course which would probably require a longer delay to Brexit. Only days before Brexit had been due to occur, it is extraordinary that the British political system has not yet done so.


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Description of Getresponse Free Html Software For Email Marketing
Getresponse is primarily an email marketing app Which Allows you to: Free Html Software For Email Marketing
Import and host a mailing list and capture data on it
create newsletters that can be delivered to the subscribers on your mailing list
automate your mails to subscribers via use of'autoresponders'
view and analyse data related to your email advertising campaigns — open rate, click through, forwards etc..
Recently however, Getresponse's feature set has developed quite a bit, to the point at which it is becoming more of an'all-purpose' marketing solution.
In addition to email advertising, it now also supplies training hosting, landing pages, and a few CRM (customer relationship management) functionality.
We are going to discuss all these attributes in depth below, but first, let us look in pricing.
Primary Features
Getresponse's feature set is arguably one of the most comprehensive on the market.
Not only does this provide all of the crucial stuff you'd expect from an email advertising platform – list templates, hosting, autoresponders, analytics and so forth, but as mentioned above, it's been expanding the attribute set to the point at which it's morphing into an all-in-one / CRM-style advertising and marketing platform.
The inquiry is if Getresponse is a jack of all trades and master of none – let's drill down into the crucial qualities to find out.
Customer Support
Up until quite recently Getresponse service was one of the most comprehensive available for email marketing tools: the company offered phone service together with live chat support, email service and assorted online tutorials / resources.
Sadly, the telephone service has been discontinued. Instead you'll need to use live chat (24/7) or email support. To be fair, many similar e-marketing platform suppliers only offer you these two stations – if telephone service is a deal-breaker for you you might wish to contemplate Aweber, which nonetheless supplies it (you can read our Aweber review here).
In terms of the caliber of Getresponse support, I have never needed to use it quite often (a good thing) but once I've I've found it for a bit of a mixed bag (less of a fantastic thing). Some of those live chat service I've received has been excellent, and I have not had to wait too long to talk to a broker; the email support .
Some of the comments I've got from our readers will indicate that there do have to be improvements made in terms of the caliber of support Getresponse offer. Much like a number of these types of companies, I expect it boils down to who you get on the day. Free Html Software For Email Marketing
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Getresponse provides some very comprehensive analytics and reporting options. You get all the basics of track – open speed, click-through, unsubscribe Prices and so forth – but also to that there are some very nifty features that are worth a particular mention, specifically:
'one-click segmentation': the option to spot people who didn't engage with an e-newsletter that you shipped and set them in a segment of subscribers which you can then email again using another version of the e-newsletter
'metrics over time': you can discover just when most of your subscribers take action on your mails, and period your prospective mailouts based on this info
'email ROI': by incorporating some tracking code into your post-sales page on your site, you can find out how effectively (or not!) Your email campaigns are driving earnings, and workout your return on investment in email advertising.
Per-user information – you could click on one of your subscribers and see in which they signed up from, where they're located and which emails they've opened previously.
Mailchimp and Aweber provide some comparable reporting performance (particularly around sales tracking) however Getresponse's reporting application is decidedly one of most featured on the market (it surely trounces the stats choices offered by Mad Mimi and Campaign Monitor).
Thus far so good with Getresponse, however, in regards to templates, Getresponse arguably falls down a little.
Unfortunately, the templates provided out of the box seem somewhat dated; they aren't as attractive as those provided by Mailchimp or even Campaign Monitor (and I marginally prefer Aweber's offering here too).
On the other hand, the templates are very tweakable – you can change fonts, layouts and vision easily enough with all the controls provided; and of course there is nothing to stop you simply designing your own HTML email template and minding the code for it.
Furthermore, there are a lot of templates to choose from — over 500 — and they're introduced in easy-to-understand categories, therefore it's generally pretty straightforward to find a good starting point for a template and then edit it until you're delighted with the plan.
If you are really unhappy with the templates offered by Getresponse, there is also the option of purchasing a template by a third party supplier such as Theme Forest.
Another thing worth pointing out regarding Getresponse's templates is that the range of RSS-to-email software options are not so extensive (only 11 templates are supplied – well short of their 700+ available for regular newsletters!) And a few of them played a bit for me when I tested them (2010). I finally found something that worked for me, but I think there are definitely a few improvements that could be created in this region. Free Html Software For Email Marketing
Autoresponders are e-newsletters which are delivered to your subscribers at intervals determined by you personally — you can put them up so that immediately after somebody signals up to your mailing list, they get a welcome message from your company; a week later they can get a discount offer for a number of your products or services; three weeks later they could obtain an encouragement to accompany you on social networking. And so on.
Getresponse's autoresponder functionality is an integral selling point – it provides among the most extensive feature sets available.
You can send time-based or action-based messages; time-based choices include cycles such as the example above, and action-based messages can be triggered by user actions or information, such as:
contributors to particular lists
changes in contact tastes
completed trades / targets
changes in user data
Lately Getresponse launched a brand new version of the new autoresponder performance, called'Marketing Automation.'
This allows you to make automation workflows using a drag and drop builder – you essentially install an'automation flowchart' that educates Getresponse what to do if a user opens a specific offer, clicks on a specific link .
This kind of performance goes far beyond what's traditionally been available from autoresponders, and allows you to make a user travel that can be customised to the nth degree.
For a quick overview I'd suggest taking a look in Getresponse's video overview for Marketing Automation.
It is important to note, however, these more advanced marketing automation features are only available on the pricier plans – the'Guru' program and up. Free Html Software For Email Marketing
Landing page Builder
Online advertising campaigns which make use of landing pages will usually generate far more leads in the event, rather than simply directing people to some (cluttered!) Site, they tip users to appealing'squeeze pages' containing clear information and a tidy, well-designed data capture type.
Getresponse provides something very useful in this regard that most of its rivals do not: a landing page founder (and one that's mobile-friendly to boot).
Products like Campaign Monitor and Aweber ask that you make use of a third party (and non invasive ) landing page generating tool such as Unbounce or Instapage; Mailchimp lately introduced some landing page functionality but it's yet to become as sophisticated at Getresponse's.
However, unless you are on a Getresponse'Pro','Max' or'Enterprise' plan, the Getresponse landing page functionality is fairly limited: you can just produce 1 landing page, which could simply be displayed 1,000 times per month.
Additionally, and very importantly, you can't utilize the landing page A/B testing performance on the least expensive Getresponse plan (whereby the machine shows a sample of your customers different variations of your landing page, calculates conversion rates, and ultimately rolls out the top performing landing page automatically).
If you are serious about landing pages – and they are certainly a useful attribute – then it's definitely worth considering among the costlier Getresponse plans.
You may purchase the Landing Pages attribute as an add-on for an extra $15 a month, but very frustratingly, although the add-on permits you to display an infinite number of landing pages to potential subscribers, it does not include A/B testing.
Accordingly, if I had been considering the Getresponse landing page functionality, I wouldn't bother with this rather half-baked add-on: I'd just go for a few of the pricier programs (which I suppose is exactly what Getresponse would like one to do!) .
Mobile-Responsive Design
Getresponse was before its rivals for quite some time using its responsive email layout functionality, which automatically corrects your e-newsletter's template so that if an individual is reading it onto a mobile device, the design and fonts will be automatically optimised for the device in question.
Most competing products have captured up on this today, and extend responsive email templates, but Getresponse is far better than many similar products as soon as it comes to displaying a reactive preview of your e-newsletter – you just hit on a'mobile preview' button for an instant snapshot of what your email looks like on a smartphone (see image right).
Not only this but you can'reverse' the smartphone preview around, so that you can preview what your own email looks like when the display is used in either portrait or landscape style. Free Html Software For Email Marketing
Customer Relationship Management
Among the most frustrating aspects of utilizing many famous CRM tools is that the necessity to export data to CSV and straight back into your email marketing tool as a way to perform mailouts (or the necessity to export data from your email marketing tool into your CRM to include prospects to it).
So when I saw Getresponse recently introducing a brand new CRM feature into their plans I was intrigued – this could potentially do away with all that info exporting and exporting, and keep everything neatly in one place.
Initially I wasn't that impressed with the Getresponse CRM tool as you can only use it in order to carry out quite basic tasks: you could create sales pipelines, add contacts to these and monitor activity (emails, telephone calls etc.) with those contacts manually.
But lately Getresponse have upped their video game a bit on this front. The CRM is currently integrated with all Getresponse's email marketing operation and you can add users into a CRM pipeline based on their action (form completions, email opens, purchases etc.) or activate autoresponders depending on the accession of a new contact into a pipeline phase.
An example of how you could use this functionality would be as follows:
It is possible to add a contact to a particular point on a sales pipeline based on the page of your site that they finished a form on;
you could then send them a automated email tailored to this pipeline period a few days afterwards;
and based on the actions they took with regard to that email (clicking on a particular link etc) you can automatically move them onto another stage of the pipeline and automatically invite them to a webinar.
It is very clever stuff, and I can not think of any similar email marketing product offering such a tight integration between autoresponders and CRM pipelines. For this kind of performance you normally must look at committed — and more expensive — CRM products such as Salesforce and Infusionsoft.
However, it's not all fantastic news about the CRM front — there are a few big things missing out of Getresponse's CRM attribute set.
The most glaring omission is email activity tracking. Additional CRM packages allow you to bcc a dropbox email address whenever you send an email to some lead or client; doing so keeps a list of the communication from the contact's history. There is currently no method of doing so together with the Getresponse CRM, nor is there an simple way to send one-to-one emails to prospects or customers.
And oddly, when you click on a contact in a deal pipeline, you can't see their contact action — i.e., the activities they have taken (open, clicks etc.) in regards to previous communications which you've sent to your prospects aren't displayed. To observe this, you have to go out of the CRM section of Getresponse, hunt for your contact in the contacts section and click in their details. But guess what? Doing so does not display their deal history.
Task management is non-existent too: unlike dedicated CRM tools, there is no way to assign tasks to other team members.
Eventually, adding contacts to a pipeline stage is difficult. You have to add contacts to a list , then visit the CRM pipeline, add a bargain and search your lists for the contact you just added. From a usability standpoint this is extremely clunky and time consuming. You should just be able to add a bargain directly to a pipeline and enter the contact details of your guide or customer at the point.
So as things stand, the Getresponse CRM is somewhat half-baked. However, it is a new feature and the things it can do on the automation aspect is remarkable. I am optimistic that this attribute gets developed over time because done right, it's possibly a game-changer for entrepreneurs and SMEs.
Getresponse recently introduced the ability to sponsor webinars on the platform.
Given that webinars are usually used as a lead-generation strategy, the idea of having your email database along with your webinar tool under the same roof is very attractive.
The pricing is also very competitive also by comparison to established webinar solutions. For instance, among the leading webinar providers, Gotowebinar, charges $199 per month to sponsor webinars with up to 500 attendees; you can really do exactly the same (and a whole lot more) with Getresponse for $165 (so long as your list size is below 25,000).
With regard to attendee limits, the Getresponse'Guru' program allows you to sponsor a webinar with around 100 participants; the'Max' plan's cap is 500.
You can even buy webinars performance as a add on to a cheaper plan: $40 per month buys you a 100 attendees limit, $99 per month buys you a 500 attendees limit. It isn't clear what your choices are if you will need to host larger scale webinars than that however.
A couple of Getresponse webinar features worth flagging up as being especially useful are:
The fact that your attendees do not need to install any applications to attend the webinars
one-click list of your webinars
screensharing functionality
free online storage for playback files
Ultimately webinar performance is potentially an extremely useful feature to have sitting on your e-marketing arsenal and its inclusion as a feature provides Getresponse a very significant advantage over its key competitors, especially once you consider that you can link it in with a built in CRM tool (more about that in a minute ). Free Html Software For Email Marketing
Email Deliverability
The email deliverability rate – the proportion of e-newsletters delivered that successfully reach inboxes – is obviously a very important point to look at when choosing an email marketing instrument.
Not all email marketing providers are that forthright about their deliverability rates; however, Getresponse seems pretty open about this, with this to say about it in their own website:
At GetResponse we're frequently asked about the quality of our deliverability speed. Since deliverability is dependent upon many things, including the content of your messages, the deliverability rate could vary for every mailing. For our clients collectively, however, we're pleased to say our general deliverability rate currently stands at 99%.
Obviously you're going to have to choose the company's word for this, but supposing it is accurate, it is a good speed and inspires confidence that the huge majority of emails that you send using Getresponse will reach their receivers.
What's more, Getresponse actually gives you the deliverability rate of each message on your email analytics – this is something that I haven't struck on rival goods' metrics. A thumbs up for it.
I do need to pull Getresponse on one thing relating to deliverability however: to ensure a high deliverability rate, it's advisable to use a platform called DKIM email authentication. You can use DKIM using Getresponse – but just on the more expensive Getresponse'Max' plans.
Although I've not encountered any deliverability difficulties using the less costly plans, competing products don't make you invest in a more expensive plan to avail of the feature — it'd be good to see Getresponse becoming more generous here.
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Email Opt-in
There are two approaches you can use to add subscribers to a mailing list: having a'single opt-in' or even a'double opt-in' process.
If you utilize one opt-in procedure, the individual registering to your own mailing list is added to a mailing list the moment they hit the submit button on your sign up form.
With a double opt-in procedure, the person registering to your record is sent an email containing a confirmation link that s/he must click before being subscribed.
The main advantage of a single sampling procedure is that it makes it very easy for users to subscribe to a mailing list; additionally, it generally increases conversion speed and so the number of subscribers on your record. A double opt-in procedure is best for verifying the people subscribing to a list are using real email addresses and leads to cleaner data and more precise stats (because receptive rates etc. are calculated based on a list containing just email addresses).
Now, the good news is that Getresponse permits you to make use of either opt-in approach – this is not true with all competing products. Thus a thumbs up for Getresponse to be flexible about this.
Collecting Data
There are two methods to use forms in Getresponse – you can add a HTML form which you style yourself, or you could design your form in Getresponse (choosing from a decent selection of templates and tweaking them to match your website design). If you go for the latter path, you may add the form it to your site using a snippet of code that runs some Javascript to show your type — that can be shown in a variety of different formats (for example inline, pop-up or slide-up).
You're probably thinking that all this sounds quite good — but to tell the truth, I think there's a lot of room for improvement with regard to Getresponse form templates.
To begin with, they're not responsive (i.e.they won't resize themselves automatically to match the device they're being viewed on).
Additionally, no controllers are offered by Getresponse to change forms on or off on specific devices or pages of your website. In the light of Google's new approach to pop-ups (where websites can take a hit in search results if they display'intrusive interstitials' on mobile devices) this is a small concern.
To circumvent this, I generally avoid using Getresponse form templates, and make do using HTML embeded forms that I style myself, and also for popups I connect my Getresponse to some growth-hacking tool named Sumo (this allows me to change pop-ups off for cellular users, in addition to display forms precisely as I'd love to and on the pages I want). Free Html Software For Email Marketing
UI Experience
Overall, Getresponse is pretty simple to use. It's certainly easy enough to perform all of the fundamentals: import contacts, create campaigns, setup autoresponders and check numbers and the interface is really clean and intuitive.
With regards to how it stacks up against its rivals in this regard, I'd assert that Campaign Monitor is a tiny bit more user friendly, and Mailchimp has a slicker user interface (though one which makes locating certain performance just a bit tricky at times).
1 area I feel that might be significantly better from a user-friendliness standpoint is that the Getresponse e-newsletter editor.
Whilst its drag-and-drop strategy does in theory provide an extremely flexible approach to make blocks of content and transfer them around an e-newsletter, in practice it's quite user friendly to use and may lead to accidental deletion of material, or placement of it in the incorrect portion of the e-newsletter.
If you're able to get your head about it, and practice using it a little bit, it will result in a useful tool – it's only that the implementation of it might be rather better.
Additionally, as explained above, the CRM instrument could be far better from a usability point of view — adding contacts to deals could be unnecessarily difficult.
Free Trial
The 30-day free trial which Getresponse supplies is completely operational and the free trial is not contingent upon providing credit card details.
This helps you avoid that annoying"oops I forgot I signed up for this particular trial and now I'm getting charged for a commodity I don't use" scenario.
The only down side to this free trial is that it restricts the amount of subscribers it is possible to send to to 1000. It would be good if that could be raised a bit, as it would help potential users try out the tool in more'real world' situations.
There are 3 main sorts of Getresponse pricing plan -'Email','Guru' and'Max' — and within each of them, several additional types of plan to pick from (all based on list size).
Up to 1,000 subscribers: $15 ('Email') / $49 ('Pro') / $165 ('Max')
1,001 to 2,500 subscribers: $25 ('Email') / $49 ('Guru') / $165 ('Max')
2,501 to 5,000 readers: $45 ('Email') / $49 ('Pro') / $165 ('Max')
5,001 to 10,000 subscribers: $65 ('Email')/ $75 ('Pro') / $165 ('Max')
10,001 to 25,000 subscribers: $145 ('Email') / $165 ('Pro') / $255 ('Max')
25,001 to 50,000 readers: $250 ('Email') / $280 ('Guru') / $370 ('Max')
50,001 to 100,000 readers: $450 ('Email') / $490 ('Guru') / $580 ('Max'
Additionally there is an"Enterprise" plan for consumers that our lists transcend 100,000 email addresses: that begins at $1199, using accurate pricing depending on prerequisites (if you're interested in the"Enterprise" plan, you will want to contact Getresponse to schedule a demo, outline your needs and discuss pricing).
Substantial discounts are available if you pay upfront for 12 or 24 months of support (18% and 30% respectively) — those are much more generous than most competing platforms. Free Html Software For Email Marketing
Distinctions of Every Strategy
Each of the Getresponse plans cover the significant fundamentals — key characteristics include:
The capacity to import, develop and host an email database
a wide Assortment of templates
autoresponder functionality
responsive email designs
split testing
in-depth reporting
RSS / site to-email performance
comprehensive segmentation alternatives
social sharing programs
There are a number of differences between the'Email','Pro' and'Max' programs but for me the key ones are:
CRM – Getresponse provides a customer relationship manager tool on its'Guru' programs up
Landing pages – you can only avail of all landing pages which allow split testing and boundless views if you are on a'Pro' program or higher
Webinars – that performance isn't accessible at all on the'Email' strategy and the number of webinar attendees is restricted for the'Guru' and'Max' programs at 100, 500 respectively (it's unclear what the limitation is about the'Enterprise' program ).
Users – you can only have one user account on the'Email' program; by comparison you receive 3 on'Pro', 5 on'Max' and 10 on'Enterprise'.
Pricing Vs Competitors
Provided that you're pleased to use one of those entry-level'Email' programs, the pay-per-month Getresponse programs are on the whole more affordable than those provided by many of its key competitors, especially in case you have a reasonably high number of email addresses onto your own database.
By way of instance, in case you have a mailing list comprising between 9,000 and 10,000 documents that you wish to send an unlimited number of mails per month to, then you might discover that hosting it using Getresponse prices $65 per month.
This is:
$4 a month more affordable compared to Aweber
$10 cheaper per month than Mailchimp
$84 a month cheaper than Campaign Monitor*
* Campaign Monitor's pricing structure depends not just the number of email addresses on your own database but on the number of emails you send per month too. If you're happy to limit the amount of emails delivered via Campaign Monitor (in the example above, to 50k emails), you can expect to pay a monthly fee of $89, still substantially higher than Getresponse's.
The sole well-known service I can think of that comes from considerably more affordable is Mad Mimi, which costs $42 a month to host up to 10,000 email addresses (note however that the performance provided by Mad Mimi is nowhere near as broad as Getresponse's or really the other products mentioned above).
Additionally, it is worth pointing out that Mailchimp offers narrower pricing bands, meaning that depending on how big your list, it may sometimes be a slightly cheaper alternative than Getresponse.
In the database end of things, Getresponse's pricing is pretty competitive too – you can sponsor a database containing 1,000 email addresses for $15 a month using Getresponse, compared to $29 with Aweber; $59 on Campaign Monitor (unlimited send).
Mailchimp's monthly fee to get a 1,000 record database is exactly the same as Getresponse's; and Mad Mimi supplies a marginally cheaper, if much less functional offering for $12 per month.
Two final things to be aware of about the pricing front:
Some competing suppliers — especially Mailchimp – provide completely free account for users with a small number of documents (but these don't offer the full assortment of features that you get on a paid program ).
As mentioned before, if you're ready to pay upfront for 1 or 2 years, you can avail of substantial discounts the other competitors do not yet supply.
So the most important thing is that Getresponse is pretty competitive in the pricing department. However, what about attributes? Free Html Software For Email Marketing
Getresponse represents among the more cost-effective tactics to host and communicate using an email .
It's also among the most interesting products of its type – in that it provides email marketing, landing pages, CRM and webinars all under a single roof. It is difficult to think of any competing product that delivers this'all round' proposition, and it is what continues to convince us to use it for Style Factory's email advertising.
Some improvements to Getresponse do need to be made however, particularly where the email programmer is concerned – its drag and drop interface is more fiddly and less responsive than it ought to be. A good deal of improvements could be made to the data capture forms too, especially for users wanting to exhibit them on mobile devices.
And from what I gather from reader feedback, there are developments that could be made to the service offering.
All in all though I rate Getresponse very highly – you receive substantial bang for your dollar with this item.
Listed below are a few pros and cons of using Getresponse overall:
Advantages of Getresponse
Excellent marketing automation options.
The CRM performance integrates neatly with Getresponse's email automation functionality.
Provided that you're pleased to utilize an'Email' program, Getresponse is more affordable than many of its key competitors (in some situations, significantly so) whilst supplying just as much, if not more functionality as them.
The discounts you get when paying upfront for a couple of decades of service are very generous – you'll be hard pushed to find comparable reductions in prices from key competitors.
Its webinar functionality is a USP – something which isn't offered by any products that are similar.
Its own reporting and thorough split testing features are strong.
Getresponse is clear about deliverability rates, publishing figures on its website and providing deliverability data for person e-newsletters that you send.
It provides a very flexible approach to information segmentation – more flexible than many competing products.
It allows you to add subscribers to a mailing list on either a single-opt in and also a dual opt-in basis.
It transmits emails that are reactive and allows you to preview smartphone versions of your e-newsletters very easily.
It comes with a useful landing page creator – but bear in mind you have to be on a more expensive plan to get the fully functional version of this.
You are able to try all its features free for 30 days without the need to input credit card information.
Disadvantages of Getresponse
The drag and drop interface for designing emails may be a little bit on the fiddly side.
The information capture forms supplied are not responsive and you can not control when and where they're displayed on your website.
CRM functionality has to be improved substantially before it could be thought of as a substitute for a standalone CRM merchandise.
There's a limited range of RSS-to-HTML e-newsletter templates supplied.
You can just use'web-safe' fonts in e-newsletters, which may make the templates seem marginally less slick than those supplied by competing goods.
The pricing arrangement is a little confusing, with customers having to pay something of a premium to access the landing page creator tool.
The free trial restricts the number of readers you can send messages into 1000.
The landing page addition doesn't let you execute A/B tests, meaning that so as to obtain this functionality you're forced to use a more expensive program than you may like.
DKIM authentication is only on the more expensive'Max' plans.
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Section Ⅰ English-Chinese Translation
Translate the following two passages into Chinese.
Part A Compulsory Translation
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All this has come about because of the sudden rise and prodigious growth of an industry for the production of man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal properties. This industry is a child of the Second World War. In the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the
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The result has been a seemingly endless stream of synthetic insecticides.
What sets the new synthetic insecticides apart is their enormous biological potency. They have immense power not merely to poison but to enter into the most vital processes of the body and change them in sinister and often deadly ways. Thus, as we shall see, they destroy the very enzymes whose function is to protect the body from harm, they block the oxidation processes from which the body receives its energy, they prevent the normal functioning of various organs, and they may initiate in certain cells the slow and irreversible change that leads to malignancy.
Part B Choice of Two Translations
The theory of evolution by natural selection was put forward in the 1850s independently by two men. One was Charles Darwin; the other was Alfred Russel Wallace. Both men had some scientific background, of course, but at heart both men were naturalists. Darwin had been a medical student at
Edinburgh University for two years, before his father who was a wealthy doctor proposed that he might become a clergyman and sent him to Cambridge. Wallace, whose parents were poor and who had left school at 14, had followed courses at Working Men's Institutes in London and Leicester as a
surveyor's apprentice and pupil teacher.
The fact is that there are two traditions of explanation that march side by side in the ascent of man. One is the analysis of the physical structure of the world. The other is the study of the processes of life: their delicacy, their diversity, the wavering cycles from life to death in the individual and in the species. And these traditions do not come together until the theory of evolution; because until then there is a paradox which cannot be resolved, which cannot be begun, about life.
The paradox of the life sciences, which makes them different in kind from physical science, is in the detail of nature everywhere. We see it about us in the birds, the trees, the grass, the snails, in every living thing. It is this, the manifestations of life, its expressions, its forms,
are so diverse that they must contain a large element of the accidental. And yet the nature of life is so uniform that it must be constrained by many necessities.
So it is not surprising that biology as we understand it begins with naturalists in the 18th and 19th centuries: observers of the countryside, bird-watchers, clergymen, doctors, gentlemen of leisure in country houses. I am tempted to call them, simply, "gentlemen in Victorian England ", because it cannot be an accident that the theory of evolution is conceived twice by two men living at the same time in the same culture—the culture of Queen Victoria in England.
Section Ⅱ Chinese-English Translation Translate the following two passages into English.
3Part A Compulsory Translation
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So who killed hitchBOT? The friendly hitchhiking robot made it across Germany, Netherlands and Canada with nary a scratch, its treks followed by children and technology enthusiasts worldwide. Alas, the U.S. proved less welcoming: Late last month, hitchBOT was wrecked — in the City of Brotherly Love.
I hope we solve the crime. I'd like to ask whoever did it why.
HitchBOT was designed by Canadian researchers to investigate whether a robot on its own could survive in a world of humans. So they created a sociable machine that could talk to passers-by, asking for rides to its next destination. Here's The Associated Press, summarizing the experiment:
"The kid-size robot set out to travel cross-country after successfully hitchhiking across Canada in 26 days last year and parts of Europe. It's immobile on its own, relying on the kindness of strangers. Those who picked it up often passed it to other travelers or left it where others might notice it."
Kind strangers carried hitchBOT to a wedding and a comic book convention.
With its bright blue limbs and squarish head inside a clear canopy, hitchBOT looked about as unthreatening as a robot can look. It was designed to be unfailingly polite in its requests for help and could carry on a limited conversation. Europeans and Canadians were cooperative. Then hitchBOT's creators decided to try the same experiment in the U.S.
The journey started in Massachusetts, and, at first, things went according to plan. After a period in Marblehead, hitchBOT was carried to Boston. The robot's Twitter feed features photographs on the Duck Tour and at the Public Garden. At Fenway Park, fans dressed hitchBOT in a Red Sox jersey. In New York, it was photographed in Times Square.
Things turn ugly
After that, alas, hitchBOT's fortunes turned sour. On July 31, a motorist tweeted, "I just picked up a hitchhiking robot!! This night has gotten really weird." The robot ended up in Philadelphia, where a person or persons unknown smashed its canopy, tore its arms from their sockets and left the wrecked robot in the street.
We'll probably never know who destroyed hitchBOT, which is a shame, because it would be interesting to ask the perpetrators why they did it. Was the attack simply the work of teenagers who, had the robot not been available, would have vandalized something else? Or was some special anti-robot animus at work? If we're going to play detective, we should look at the evidence.
Researchers have tried various methods over the years to measure public acceptance of robots in various roles. Attitudes toward them vary, and are probably influenced by images in science fiction. A 2012 study for the European Commission found that most Europeans surveyed had favorable opinions of robots in general, but a strong majority nevertheless opposed their use in the care of children, the elderly or the disabled. Asked about robots in their own lives, 48 percent said that they would work beside a robot, but few were willing to have a robot perform surgery on them. (Interestingly, respondents also overwhelmingly said they would not want robots to walk their dogs.)
There are important cultural differences in views about robots. For example, a 2008 study of college students in Japan, Korea, and the U.S. found levels of acceptance of robots as communication partners (just what it sounds like) highest in Japan and lowest in the U.S. But acceptance of robots in the workplace was highest in the U.S.
What about familiarity with technology? A 2012 study by James E. Katz and Daniel Halpern found that although general competence with the Internet was not a predictor of attitudes toward robots, particular online experiences — for instance, membership in a community that uses avatars for interaction — suggested a more positive attitude.
So whoever killed hitchBOT probably wasn't a member of Second Life.
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But it's likely that whoever did was prone to violence toward people, too. Recent research indicates that our brains respond to images of love or violence toward humans and robots in similar ways. Volunteers viewed images of a woman wearing green and separate images of a green robot dinosaur. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the subjects' brains showed similar activity in the limbic regions as they watched the woman and the robot being treated affectionately or cruelly, with the important exception that as the cruelty intensified, images of physical violence against the woman evoked more powerful responses than those of physical violence against the robot.
The researchers professed surprise at the degree of empathy toward robots: "Even though we assumed that the robot stimuli would trigger emotional processing, we expected these processes to be considerably weaker than for human stimuli," one said.
There's also anecdotal evidence that many people feel empathy toward robots — at least the cute ones. Earlier this year, Boston Dynamics, a company owned by Google, posted a YouTube video of its employees kicking its new 160-pound robotic dog, Spot. The company's intention was to demonstrate how tough and steady Spot is. A firestorm of social media criticism followed, along with several satirical videos protesting a rising tide of violence against robot dogs.
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We still don't know whether the wrecking of hitchBOT was simple vandalism or an expression of what Katz and Halpern call robotophobia. But given the widespread affection for cute robots, it should come as no surprise that there is a Kickstarter campaign to put hitchBOT together again. I'm sure the money will be raised with no problem. And that certainty is part of what makes the tale so quintessentially American. An experiment is designed to discover whether a robot can survive among humans. Europe and Canada treat the robot with respect. Americans demolish it then raise money to repair it. Imagine how much cheaper it would have been not to demolish it in the first place.
I suppose the experiment is still running.
Stephen Carter is a Bloomberg View columnist and a law professor at Yale.


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lcarreau - Oct 5, 2010 11:24 pm - Voted 10/10Question..
Are those jagged peaks to the SW of Sloan
called "The Monte Cristo Group?"
What a group of peaks!
beaudaddy85 - Oct 6, 2010 2:58 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Question..
Yes Icarreau!!! That is the north face of the Monte Cristo Group or some use to call Pride Of The Mountains Range. They are a pretty neat group of Peaks.
lcarreau - Oct 6, 2010 3:25 pm - Voted 10/10Re: Question..
Too bad I never visited them when living in
Personally, I think your photo should have
got POTD, but it really shows off some of
the rugged scenes in that area. Awesome..
beaudaddy85 - Oct 6, 2010 3:34 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Question..
Hey Thanks A Lot!!! There is so much to explore out here, it will take me a lifetime... Speaking of Sloan Peak and rugged scenes, you should check out Gimpilator's Trip Report he posted today. :)
Josh Lewis - Jan 16, 2011 9:44 pm - Voted 10/10Brings back good memories
Back in the days (2005) I hiked up here when the marmots were squeaking a lot during sunset while at Stujack Pass, but I loved to watch the red colors on Sloan Peak. I've seen this moment many times, sadly no camera. But thanks for capturing this.
Cheers Josh Lewis.
beaudaddy85 - Jan 24, 2011 6:33 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Brings back good memories
Thanks Josh! This picture wasn't from Pugh, but I know what you mean... The views of Sloan from Pugh are also amazing, probably even better... I think
Josh Lewis - Jan 25, 2011 1:18 am - Voted 10/10Re: Brings back good memories
Woops, I should have read the description. It looked so much like what I've actually seen on Mount Pugh that I thought it was taken from there.


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Vacation rental apartment. Sleeps 5, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. No pets allowed.
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Puerto Morelos, QUINTANA ROO 77580
High ceilings, charming Mexican decor, great breeze from large sliding patio door that opens onto your private balcony. A spacious Great Room concept with a shared living room and kitchen area. The house has A/C throughout. Each bedroom has a private bathroom
with walk-in shower. A third bathroom off the hall. The second bedroom has 2 twin beds that can be made up as a king bed. The beach is three blocks away and the town square is a easy 15 minute walk.
We have a central office at Abbey del Sol just next to Casa Sonoma. Our English-speaking manager can help you have the perfect vacation. We can help arrange individualized tours and excursions. "Where Travelers Find a Home."
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Great vacation great location
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We were staying in another property and decided to extend our time in PM. Mary was very helpful in arranging our stay here. She arranged our reservation, helped move our luggage, and refrigerator items. The property is gorgeous. It was clean, well maintained
with new kitchen appliances. The second floor allows for plenty of breeze to cool the rooms. We highly recommend this and any Abby property
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This two bedroom apartment is very spacious with 2 balconies plus a deck by the pool downstairs. It is safe, clean and comfortable and only 2 short blocks to the beach. It is about a 15 min safe and pleasant walk to the centre with restaurants and shops
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Prague - On the same day the Czech Republic has started vaccinating chronically ill people, another person died of the A/H1N1 virus.
A 56-year old man with a heart condition died of the whole organism failure in Karlovy Vary.
Patients with lower immunity, people who have recently undergone a surgery or dialysis and asthma sufferers will be in the first line of the vaccination that has begun in south Moravia last week.
"These people have to be vaccinated first, as they will have to get another shot in two weeks," health minister Dana Jurásková said at a press briefing.
With the arrival of the first 95,000 doses of swine flu vaccines earlier last week the vaccination has kicked off in Brno on Friday morning.
"We are starting to vaccinate people today in Brno hospitals," Jiří Korta of Pharmos, distribution company, told Aktuálně.cz. The storage warehouse for the vaccines has its seat in south Moravia.
The second line will include people working in the health sector, followed by staff working in sections regarded as vital for the functioning of the state.
The country's chief hygiene officer Michal Vít said that by next spring about one million of Czechs will have been vaccinated against the A/H1N1 virus.
"In total, 713,000 chronically ill people, 137,000 health workers and 158,000 people considered vital for the functioning of the state will be vaccinated," said Vít. He added that the next batch of swine flu vaccines should arrive in December.
In reaction to the sharp increase in swine flu cases across the country, some schools have been shut down and hospitals have restricted visits of their patients.


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For the past three years, Flomaton High School's history teachers have put on a History Fair where students in the 10th and the 11th grade research a topic, come up with an argumentative question, and develop an essay and project board explaining their view on a topic. Multiple businesses and organizations from around the community come to our school's history fair to inform visitors about their cause. Many antique collections are shown at the fair to give students a real life experience with objects from the past. Judges grade each student's work and winners are chosen from the best projects.
This year, the FHS History Fair is on April 12th in the gymnasium. The fair is open to the public between the times of 8 AM to 2 PM. This is going be a great year for the history fair and I hope to see you there.


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These Elite Troops Spent 15 Years At War. This Program Tries To Prepare Their Minds And Bodies For The Next 15.
As the battle against extremists widens, the U.S. is relying on special operations forces more than ever.
Can we bomb a movement that has no nation but definitely has a strong belief system, like we used to have? Haven't we learned that every bomb creates terrorists?
Imagine yourself shaken awake, rushed off to a strategy meeting with your presidential candidate of choice, and told: "Come up with a plan for me to do something about ISIS!" What would you say?
Obama must rise above his defense of policies that are not working and declare war on ISIS like Roosevelt declared war on Hitler.
In the many strategies proposed to defeat the Islamic State (IS) by presidential candidates, policymakers, and media pundits alike across the American political spectrum, one common element stands out: someone else should really do it.
It drives me crazy to watch policymakers and experts making the same dumb mistakes time after time, several mistakes, actually, which synergistically add up to one self-defeating blunder after another. You'd think someone would learn something. Yet now, facing ISIS, you guessed it: we're doing it all over again.
Unfortunately, for us in America, some of our narrow and localized views of world politics hinder us from digging deep and understanding world and sectarian conflicts such as those that have given rise to ISIS
Senator proposes granting the White House sweeping authority to attack the terror group anywhere.


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I. Introduction
Beginning in mid-June 2004, the Scruggs Law Firm, a well-known plaintiff's class action firm that made its name in tobacco litigation, and a consortium of additional local law firms, filed class action lawsuits in federal district courts against some of the largest not-for-profit hospitals and hospital systems in the United States. The plaintiffs are uninsured patients who as consumers allege that these hospitals and systems have harmed them by violating implied and/or express promises, consumer protection laws, federal tax law, the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act ("EMTALA"), and state laws governing contracts and charitable trusts, among other violations. Currently, lawsuits have been filed in 17 states1 against approximately 30 health systems and hospitals. The plaintiffs' law firms have indicated that additional proposed class actions likely will be filed, and the firms have established an on line "litigation site" (http://www.nfplitigation.com), which among other things solicits information to identify potential additional class representatives.
II. Class Action Complaints
On June 16, 2004, four similar proposed class action lawsuits were filed in federal district courts in Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, and Ohio against four health systems and hospitals. The proposed plaintiff class consists of uninsured patients of the named hospitals. The plaintiffs seek monetary damages and injunctive and other equitable relief against the defendant systems and hospitals. Substantively similar proposed class action complaints have since been filed against not-for-profit hospitals and systems in several waves, most recently on July 15, 2004.
Generally, the plaintiffs assert that the defendants have engaged in a pattern and practice of charging uninsured patients significantly more for health care services than they charge insured patients. Moreover, the plaintiffs allege that the defendants pursue aggressive collection techniques against uninsured patients resulting in lawsuits, judgments, garnishments, property seizures, and personal bankruptcies. Many of the complaints allege that the defendants require uninsured patients to sign contracts promising to pay defendants in full for all charges as a condition to admission into their hospitals or emergency rooms, and also assert that the defendants allow certain affiliated non-charitable groups to derive a profit from the defendants' operations. As a result of unpaid taxes and income from their "for profit operations," the class action complaints assert that the defendants have amassed millions of dollars in cash and marketable securities while neglecting to provide charitable care to the uninsured. Several of the complaints also name the American Hospital Association ("AHA") as a conspirator based upon the trade association's advice and assistance to the defendants regarding hospital operations generally, and billing and collection practices concerning the uninsured in particular.
The complaints allege causes of action based on the defendants' federal tax exempt status as charitable institutions pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3), which requires them to operate "exclusively" in furtherance of a charitable purpose, with no part of their operations (either directly or indirectly) attributable to any non-charitable commercial purpose, and with no portion of the defendants' earnings inuring to the benefit of any private individual or entity by accepting this favorable tax exemption. The complaints assert that, by reason of their tax-exempt status, the defendants have explicitly and/or implicitly agreed to: (1) operate exclusively for charitable purposes; (2) provide affordable care to all their patients; (3) charge their uninsured patients rates for health care services that are reasonable and not higher than rates charged to their insured patients; (4) utilize their net revenues and assets to provide affordable health care to their uninsured patients; (5) not pursue outstanding health care debt from their uninsured patients through aggressive and unreasonable collection efforts; and (6) provide an emergency room open to all without regard to their ability to pay for such health care services.
Premised on the theory that the uninsured patients are express and/or implied intended third party beneficiaries of the defendants' agreement with the United States, the complaints assert causes of action for breach of contract, breach of the duties of good faith and fair dealing, and breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment. Additionally, many of the complaints allege violations of EMTALA, civil conspiracy, and several state law specific violations of consumer protection and other laws.
III. Significance Of Lawsuits
These lawsuits include some creative and novel theories and cover a broad range of legal issues and subjects. By characterizing the cases as class actions and bringing actions in many jurisdictions across the nation, plaintiffs' counsel attempt to utilize techniques commonly employed in consumer class action litigation to place overwhelming pressure upon the defendants. It may not be a coincidence that the lawsuits were filed about the same time as hearings were being held on Capitol Hill on the charity care practices of not-for-profit hospitals, and on the heels of the oddly defensive reaction of federal agencies' to the AHA's request for clarification of federal regulations relating to hospital billing and collection practices.2
The breadth and scope of the proposed class actions, which seek to hold not-for-profit hospitals responsible for national problems surrounding the treatment and billing of the poor and uninsured, could have a major impact upon not-for-profit health systems and hospitals throughout the United States. We expect that plaintiffs' counsel will push very hard for prompt certification of the purported plaintiff classes in an effort to generate leverage in the hope of forcing a major settlement involving substantial damages and accompanying policy changes.
There are a variety of defenses that are available to the defendants in these cases. As with other large consumer litigation, the most important phase of the litigation is likely the beginning -- where defendants will have the opportunity to contest plaintiffs' efforts to obtain class treatment of their claims. In this regard, plaintiffs will be required to show that they represent a well-defined class with common claims and injuries. However, individual hospital policies regarding charity care and admissions are likely to vary widely and be individually distinct. Similarly, the claims of loss and damages for individual plaintiffs likely will involve very different issues, facts, and circumstances that are not easily subject to adjudication in the form of a class-action.
The cases also present an important question of whether the plaintiffs even have standing to assert the claims being raised. Thus courts will have to determine whether a not-for-profit hospital's charitable obligation affords individuals a right of action to challenge alleged short-comings. Substantively, the complaints raise novel theories, and perhaps misstate the law, regarding a not-for-profit entity's obligations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. For example, most practitioners do not think of a grant of tax exemption as creating a contract between the IRS and the exempt entity. Further, courts have long held, and the IRS agrees, that in the context of section 501(c)(3) the term "exclusively" means "substantially." Moreover, in recent years the IRS has focused not on some vague notion of "charity," but on the benefit an exempt hospital affords to the community it serves to determine whether its activities are charitable enough to merit exempt status under section 501(c)(3). Courts will be asked to decide whether a hospital's charitable contribution or "community benefit" is satisfied given the alleged facts.
Given the potential exposure raised by these lawsuits, any named defendant will want to give them their most serious attention. In order to be successful, it is imperative that defendants in these lawsuits plan and coordinate their responses at the very outset of the litigation. This is particularly so with regard to their efforts to challenge plaintiffs' attempts to certify a plaintiff-class and thereby gain leverage against defendants.
Obviously, selection of defense counsel is crucial for the defendant not-for-profit hospitals, which have not historically been targeted in this type of litigation. Counsel must have experience in developing appropriate strategies for this type of case, an understanding of the procedural rules that can be employed in defending class-claims, and the capacity to manage and coordinate defense strategies in conjunction with counsel for other named defendants. In this regard, legal counsel should have substantial class action expertise as well as intimate familiarity with the hospital industry and knowledge in the substantive areas of law relevant to the complaints. Proficiency in the requirements on organizations that are exempt from federal and state tax, and that are subject to government health program payment and fraud and abuse rules, will be invaluable.
1. These states include: Alabama; Arizona; California; Colorado; Florida; Georgia; Illinois; Louisiana; Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; Oklahoma; Tennessee; and Texas.
2 See Reed Smith's April 7, 2004 Client Memo entitled, "HHS Agencies Issue Industry Guidance on Hospital Discounts," which is available on our website at http://www.reedsmith.com/library/publicationView.cfm?itemid=67538.
This article is presented for informational purposes only and is not intended to constitute legal advice.