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Pease, 66, of Anderson, MO, was desperately ill and in the hospital during most of early 2007, as she waited for a lung transplant at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. But her support team included her husband, Joe, her 87-year-old mother, seven children, 39 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
And the team grew to include other patients either had recently had transplants or were waiting for a transplant, and who stayed with their caregivers at the St. Louis RV park in downtown St. Louis.
Patients on the waiting list for a lung transplant need to be within two hours of the hospital so that they have time to be prepped for surgery when donor lungs become available. After transplant, patients need to stay near the hospital for about three months to undergo rehab, monitor for organ rejection and to adjust their medications.
As a result, many out-of-town patients and their caregivers, such as Pease and her husband, temporarily move to St. Louis when they become sick enough to go on the transplant waiting list. An option for patients who own RVs is to live in the RV park, which is about 10 minutes from the hospital. The patients who live there form a close-knit community.
"They were just like a support group," Pease said. "They'd be checking in on everybody else, making sure everyone had dinner."
Pease's had been a smoker and had worked in chicken houses for several years. But she never had lung problems until she became ill with pneumonia in 1997. She went on oxygen afterwards to help her breathing. She continued to work into 1998 though, until she came down with pneumonia again.
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After researching lung transplant and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Pease came to St. Louis to be evaluated for transplant in December 2006.
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She received her lung transplant later that day.
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Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
Founded and directed by Mario A. Di Cesare, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton, MRTS was the publishing program of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton from 1978 to 1996. While in New York, the series produced over 150 hardcover volumes, spawned a paperback series called Pegasus, and housed the journals Exemplaria, Milton Quarterly, and General Linguistics. MRTS's mission was and continues to be simple yet twofold: to produce basic first-rate scholarship such as fundamental reference works and critical editions and translations of works not generally available; and to produce these works at prices individuals can afford.
In 1996, when Professor Di Cesare was nearing retirement, he divided what had become an immense enterprise into two parts, MRTS, which is the main series of hardcover books, and Pegasus Press, which embraces the paperback series, journals, and electronic publications. He then successfully negotiated new homes for both parts. MRTS came to the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University in September 1996, and Pegasus moved first to the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and then into private hands eight years later. ACMRS continues to maintain the original goals for MRTS set down in 1978.
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From its inception, MRTS has maintained as its goal the production of high-quality scholarship in handsome and durable format. We have retained that goal at ACMRS and have done all we can to keep production costs for each volume to a minimum. We also have gained considerable support for this endeavor from the university itself. But we still rely on additional support from external organizations to ensure that the quality of our books remains high and that their price does not put these books out of the reach of individual students and scholars wishing to purchase them. Comparable books from publishers of comparable quality are frequently priced well out of the range of most individuals.
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|"Attack of the Graske"
|Doctor Who interactive episode
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Jo Pearce
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Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
|14 minutes
|Originally broadcast
|25 December 2005
"Attack of the Graske" is an interactive mini-episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on the BBC Red Button service on 25 December 2005. It was then made available, and is still available, as an online game on the official Doctor Who website.
The Tenth Doctor welcomes the viewer into the TARDIS. He tells them that he has been watching the viewer for some time, as they have been watching him, and that he has been impressed enough to want to take the viewer to help him on his next adventure. His current companion, Rose, has been dropped off at Wembley in 1979 for an ABBA concert. He then imbues the viewer's television remote control with the power of his sonic screwdriver, allowing the viewer to take part in the proceedings.
To start, the Doctor shows his new assistant a family of six celebrating Christmas in a living room, by means of the TARDIS scanner – a family, it seems, like any other, except that one of them is an alien imposter. By alternating between two different viewpoints, namely from within the family's television set and from the handheld digicam the daughter got for Christmas, the viewer has to determine who does not belong.
The mother's eyes glow for about half a second a few seconds into the sequence, revealing her as the imposter. She is now alone with the father in the house's kitchen. A small alien transmats onto the kitchen table, where he uses a handheld device to zap the father. The Doctor tells the viewer that the alien is a Graske, a species that invades planets by replacing its population. When he is done, the Graske transmats away, leaving a changeling of the father behind to join that of the mother.
As the Doctor tracks the Graske through time, the viewer takes command of the TARDIS's controls, and activates the vortex loop, dimensional stabiliser and vector tracker as requested. Eventually, the Graske is located about 120 years in the past, somewhere in Victorian Britain. The viewer must use a map on the TARDIS scanner to pinpoint its location, as the screen blips where the Graske's DNA is found. After zooming in to High Holborn in Holborn, central London, on Christmas 1883, the viewer takes a quick walk around a square and must then uncover the Graske from its hiding place.
Having been found behind some boxes, the Graske kidnaps a young street urchin by zapping him, and as before leaves a changeling in his place. Tracking the Graske, the Doctor takes the viewer to the Graske's base on Griffoth and guides them through the base. Having used three number and logic puzzles to pass through the airlocks, the viewer arrives in a room filled with various beings in stasis pods; the Graske keep the originals to sustain the copies. The viewer also learns of the Graske's ultimate intention to replace every living, sentient creature in the universe with one of their doubles.
However, the viewer is spotted, and must duck to avoid a Graske's weapon fire. Fortunately, the blast ricochets around the room and frees a Slitheen from a stasis pod, who then proceeds to vengefully chase the Graske who imprisoned it. The viewer thus has the opportunity to make one last crucial decision — either the teleport settings can be reversed, sending all the kidnapped beings back to their proper places in space and time, or the Graske's own stasis control can be used against them, freezing the Graske and everything else in their base.
Depending on the choice the viewer makes, there are two alternative endings to the episode:
- If the viewer decides to freeze the entire Graske base, the Graske and all of their victims become trapped. The changeling mother and father talk mechanically with the rest of their family, and the daughter storms off to her room, believing that her parents are trying to ruin Christmas.
- If the decision is made to send the victims back, the viewer sees all the stasis pods being emptied, and the mother and father of the family are quickly glimpsed livening up the party at their house whilst "Another Rock And Roll Christmas" by Gary Glitter plays in the background. The universe — and the family's Christmas — are saved.
As the Doctor takes the viewer home, the programme evaluates the viewer's "score". Depending on how well they did, either the Doctor decides that his new companion is not quite ready for the job (but was not far off and should try again), or the Doctor comments on how impressed he is with the viewer, saying that perhaps one day he will call on their help to save the universe again.
In either case, the Doctor then removes the sonic powers from the viewer's remote control and bids them farewell, firing up the TARDIS to go back for Rose, but warns the viewer that "if you turn the TV over to ITV, the galaxy may implode," referencing the rivalry between ITV and BBC.
This episode had the working title Changeling World.[1] Executive producer Julie Gardner told Doctor Who Magazine that the mini-episode was treated as a "full-blooded, sophisticated production," with a new alien villain, new sets and new special effects. Writer Gareth Roberts went on to write the episodes "Invasion of the Bane" (co-written with Russell T Davies), Revenge of the Slitheen, The Empty Planet, Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (co-written with Clayton Hickman), The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith and Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? for the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as the Doctor Who episodes "The Shakespeare Code", "The Unicorn and the Wasp", "Planet of the Dead" (co-written with Davies), "The Lodger" and "Closing Time".
The countdown to the start of the segment uses a design based on the Gallifreyan script seen in the series, and includes both Arabic numerals and the Gallifreyan numerals used in the New Series Adventures. The countdown shown for the tasks is a simplified version of this which does not include the Gallifreyan numerals.
Unlike all other new series episodes, this episode is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio.
Location shooting took place at the Coal Exchange and Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay.[2]
The music played during the countdown is the orchestral arrangement of the Doctor Who theme music which plays over the credits of "The Christmas Invasion". The musical cue used during the later challenge sequences is from "The End of the World".
A total of 496,000 viewers played Attack of the Graske on the BBC Red Button service. The episode was available again following the New Year's Day repeat transmission of "The Christmas Invasion". As of 30 March 2006 the game had an average of 41,000 hits every week on the BBC's Doctor Who website.
- ^ Doctor Who Magazine #366
- ^ "Walesarts, Coal Exchange and Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay". BBC. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
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- "Attack of the Graske" The online version of the interactive episode at BBC Online.
- "Attack of the Graske" on IMDb
- "Attack of the Graske". Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from the original on 1 January 2008.
- "The Attack of the Graske" at TV.com


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There are perfect days in Tahoe South and then there are more perfect days.
This one could start with a sport fishing adventure, bright and early in the morning on a quest for local inhabitants including Brown and Rainbow Tahoe Trout, Mackinaw and Kokanee Salmon. Several outfitters, steeped in fish stories, history and some secret spots that will almost guarantee success, are available to make this a true Lake Tahoe adventure. Teeming nearby streams and rivers will get your heart—and your line–jumping and several local restaurants will gladly turn your trophy into dinner prepared to your liking.


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From Beet.tv: Forrester's Bobby Tulsiani discusses his company's recent report about online video providers but, more importantly, provides some insight into how online video is being used: Video is now an essential video tool for businesses, and the Forrester report is a guide of representative companies, he says.
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The link for the Geek Squad email contact form is located at the bottom of the company's home page under the heading "Popular Links." The link opens a page with a standard email response form. Although users cannot add their own email-subject text, a drop-down menu provides a variety of subject choices, such as "New Service Request" or "Technical Question." As of 2015, the company also accepts phone calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at (800) 433-5778, as stated on their "Contact Us" page.
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Although there are various methods of opening the third eye, one of the most effective ways is to meditate daily, using an "Om" or "Tho" chant. This technique involves relaxing the mind and the body while focusing your attention on the pineal gland and chanting "Om" or "Tho." Repeat this technique numerous times.Continue Reading
Breath slowly and evenly to relax your body and mind and to sink into a meditative state. This step may take around ten minutes or more. Do not rush this step to ensure you achieve complete calmness of the body and mind.
Once the body and mind are completely calm, focus your attention on the sixth chakra, or the pineal gland, which is in the center of your brain. Create a mental picture of an energy or light that is coming out from the center of the forehead, slowly growing in strength and size.
Once the light is growing, focus on the light and expand it while removing any blockages. Cite a chant, while doing this step to enhance concentration. One good example is the Om chant. Another is the "Tho" chant. "Th" in "Tho" has the same pronunciation of "Th" in the article "The."
Repeat steps 1 to 3 numerous times because this could help open the third eye. Perform the same steps daily.


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|Queen's Speech (Motion for an Address),The Order of the day being read, for resuming the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed yesterday, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows:
|Adjournment,Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.(Mr Clive Betts.)
|[Adjourned at 3.00 p.m.
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|Health and Safety,Good Laboratory Practice Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 3106), dated 18th November 1999 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Milburn].
|Magistrates' Courts,Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority (Constitution) Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 3099), dated 12th November 1999 [by Act] [Mr David Lock].
|Pensions,Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) (Amount Required for Restoring State Scheme Rights) Amendment Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 3069), dated 15th November 1999 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Darling].
|Public Health,Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 3107), dated 19th November 1999 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Prescott].
|Sea Fisheries,Portland Harbour Fishery (Variation) Order 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 3049), dated 11th November 1999 [by Act] [Mr Nicholas Brown].
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|Museums and Galleries,Report of National Museums & Galleries of Wales for 1998-99 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Murphy].
|Treaty Series (No. 77, 1999),Protocol, done at Geneva on 18th November 1991, to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes [by Command] [Cm. 4517] [Mr Secretary Cook].
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Fundraising event returns: King Koil Great Auckland Bed Race
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Famous fundraising event returns – The King Koil Great Auckland Bed Race is now supporting all New Zealand registered charities
Following its inaugural success last year, The King Koil Great Auckland Bed Race (KKGABR) has shifted venue for its 2014 edition and will run at the Auckland Domain on Sunday 13 April. This fun day extravaganza aims to beat last year's fundraising efforts, which totaled more than $30,000 for the Hospices of Auckland. In an exciting tweak to the format, bed racing teams can support their charity of choice, which opens this charitable platform up to all New Zealand registered charities.
Platinum sponsor A H Beard Ltd has already sprung into action, linking their famous King Koil brand to the event. A leading New Zealand bed manufacturer, A H Beard is delighted to align their long-established promise of 'superior sleep' with this innovative family fun day offering "the most fun you'll ever have in bed – with knobs AND wheels on!"
"We're delighted to be involved with this event. We believe it's important for local communities and businesses to actively engage with registered charities, helping to raise awareness and committing ongoing support to deserving causes," says Sharon McGeough, A H Beard Ltd, NZ Sales and Training Manager.
The KKGABR is essentially a game of two halves. Firstly, the bed racing teams decorate their specially crafted beds and dress in costumes to participate in a novelty fancy dress parade. They take their inspiration from the event theme, which is 'Under the Covers – Cuddle Buddies'. So, who is in your bed, or more importantly who would you like to be there?
Later in the day, the same teams strip off their costumes to race their beds around a designated three kilometre course, competing in a time trial for the glory of the podium. All teams consist of one passenger (sitting or lying in the bed) and six runners. Originally an English concept, this unique fundraising event was brought to New Zealand in May 2013 by Samantha Jung-Fielding.
"We welcome all kinds of runners! Whilst some highly competitive teams are back to defend their title, we also have plenty of fun runners who simply come to enjoy the day, no matter their racing ability. In fact, everyone is eager to raise funds for their chosen cause, and this is the key focus in the lead-up to the event. Racing teams achieve this by raising the profile of their charity in their local community, and encouraging the support and sponsorship of family, friends and business colleagues," she says.
People can also get involved in the KKGABR by sponsoring the event or volunteering on the day. Spectators are encouraged to attend and view the race, sample the treats at the food stalls, enter raffles, enjoy the free entertainment and perhaps win a spot prize.
"There are plenty of trophies to be won including coveted prizes for best costumes and best-dressed bed. Over the years, I've seen teams dressed as Village People, sporting heros, zombies and Smurfs. Kiwis are known for their ingenuity, so I'm look forward to seeing the incredible costumes Aucklanders come up with again," says Jung-Fielding.
With its new central Auckland location, the KKGABR is the ideal event for corporate businesses to encourage team-building and leveraging corporate and community pride.
I'd really love to see companies like restaurants, pubs, banks, legal firms and accountants challenging each other to participate. It's perfect for employees, as it encourages team-building as well as fitness, and brings a significant feel-good factor to everyone involved," says McGeough.
Each racing team is fundraising for the registered New Zealand charity of their choice. In addition, the 2014 corporate sponsorship of the event spearheaded by A H Beard enables the organizing team to offer significant cash prizes at the event. In effect this means that any charity represented at the event by one or more racing team has the opportunity to really win big, simply by showing up!
The KKGABR is organized by The Great Auckland Bed Race Charitable Trust.
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There comes a time in all our lives when we see all our friends with young children or babies, and we start to think seriously about having one of our own. In the modern world, there are many women who don't want to have children, and that's fine. But from where I'm sat, the thought of having a baby can be extremely overwhelming, and while we are never ready, the need of having one surpasses any other financial concerns. So, if you have decided to have a baby, where do you begin? Apart from the obvious, trying for a baby is all about looking after your body. Eating well, moderate exercise, and avoiding stressful situations are all things which you need to be conscious of. There are many women that can get pregnant quickly, and for others, it can take a longer amount of time. It can be upsetting for many people, but this is normal. Statistically, in every 100 couples that are trying for a baby, approximately 30 will conceive within one month, 75 will conceive within 6 months, 80 to 90 within 12 months, and the 10 or 20 that remain can take longer or require help to get pregnant. While it may seem that everyone gets pregnant at the drop of a hat, this is far from the truth.
With the 10 or 20 that require help to get pregnant, thanks to modern medicine, there are now many different things that you can do. Examples include ovulation induction, embryo transfer, and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. IVF is a popular method in the modern world, but it can be a costly process. There are more affordable IVF treatments available now, and these can help to boost your chances of getting pregnant, but it should be used as a last resort. There are things that you are asked to do to increase your fertility chances during IVF treatment, and these include things like eating healthily and taking fertility increasing supplements. And prior to IVF, you should be getting your body ready for pregnancy by introducing healthy habits. Of course, in life, there is no guaranteed chance of pregnancy in anyone, but by keeping your body on the healthy side, it will increase your chances of getting pregnant naturally or by alternative treatment.
Before getting pregnant, there are measures to take in order to increase your fertility. Look at your diet, what sort of foods do you eat? It is so much easier to get fast food or to eat ready meals than it is to cook a meal. But these foods are not only high in saturated fat, sugar, and salt, but they are very heavily processed. Limit your intake of these foods during the conception period, and you will see a difference in your health. Increase your amount of healthy fats, like olive oil, nuts, and seeds, and having an overall healthy diet, full of protein and fruit and vegetables, are things that you need to start doing. In terms of supplements, the most important one, which is recommended by healthcare professionals, is folic acid. Take a daily supplement of 0.4 mg (400 micrograms) from the period that you stop your contraception. Folic acid is part of the vitamin B family and is essential for development in the early weeks of pregnancy. Foods that are high in folic acid include leafy green vegetables, like spinach or broccoli. As well as eating the right foods, you can eat the wrong foods. Bacteria are something that can cause damage to a baby, so by avoiding foods that are unpasteurised, like milk, soft cheese and raw eggs, is recommended. Check the labels to see if they are pasteurised, and cook your eggs fully. Also avoid foods that are high in vitamin A, such as pate.
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Although the world economy continues to grow, the economic health of the United States is at risk. There are several potential problems. In this short essay we examine how the price of oil impacts our economy, and conclude a recession is highly probable. If America does experience a recession, or even a period of declining GDP, the resulting economic malaise will spread to all of its trading partners.
That's one of the "benefits" of globalization.
For the last month, the words "China" and "India" have floated over and through the House and Senate hearings on energy and climate change.
For the past two years or so informed commentators (including Seymour Hersh and Scott Ritter, among others) have been predicting a US air attack on Iran. MuseLetter for March 2005, titled "Onward to Iran," summarized relevant information available at that time. In recent months concern over America's intentions has grown even more intense, to the point that it has become the fulcrum of nearly every discussion about the future of world affairs.


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Over the past decade, as banks have effectively outsourced debt collection to third parties, this corner of the financial world has slid into an abyss of harassing phone calls, shoddy recordkeeping and wrongful collections.
This is reflected in the latest data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's complaint database. Since the database was opened to the public in June 2012, Americans have aired more grievances about collections than about any other aspect of their financial lives. As of June, the CFPB had received 316,810 complaints about debt collection. The most common objection? "Continued attempts to collect debt not owed," cited by 39% of filers. (The second-largest topic of complaints is mortgages, at 272,153.)
The CFPB has said it plans to hold banks and other first-party creditors responsible for accuracy of their consumer debt data even after it's sold to third parties, which may accelerate the trend for lenders to bring debt collection back under their roof.
Banks historically sold distressed consumer debt to agencies, but that process was rife with problems. In August 2014, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued guidance that dramatically reduced the pace of sell-offs. Since then, banks have primarily only outsourced the collection of the debt, versus selling it off. However, the CFPB's actions could also curtail that practice.
The timing is good, though. Artificial intelligence, chatbots and self-service technology have reached a point where they can provide a much-needed makeover to the collections process. Such technologies can help lenders learn to reach out to people at times and in channels that are more conducive to a conversation and repayment. They can help engage borrowers in a negotiation about their debt that can result in far higher repayments than repeated threatening phone calls.
AI at Acima
Acima, a provider of instant leases for online shoppers, drives collections with a homegrown AI engine, according to CEO Aaron Allred.
"The machine learning platform tells us who is past due, who's most likely to pay, what's the best time to call them, what time of day we should be calling them, or on what day of the week," he said. "It's the brains behind our collections efforts, so we're calling the right people on the right day at the right time."
Of course, the AI has to be trained.
"We have hundreds of thousands of customers we've made leases to, and probably half of them have missed payments somewhere along their lease cycle," Allred said. "We start collection efforts on that. We dump that data into the machine learning platform."
The system constantly analyzes what days past-due customers were called and how many times they were called. It also studies if they were called on their home, mobile or work phone.
"As you continue to dump more and more data into the platform, all those data points go back into the platform and it retrains itself," Allred said. "It gets smarter and smarter as it gets more and more data."
Debt negotiation portals
About five years ago, BBVA rolled out a collections self-service portal, where customers who are late on card or loan payments can go and ask for help, schedule a payment or make a promise to pay. In certain cases, borrowers could even renegotiate the terms of their debt.
BBVA did not allow an executive to comment on how well the portal is working today. Still, the idea made so much sense; we expected other banks to introduce similar sites, which seem like an obvious alternative or complement to collections calls.
While we haven't seen others follow suit, they might start, said Steve Platt, president of Decision Analytics for Experian North America.
For starters, more banks are embracing the idea that they should nurture customers even if they fall behind in a payment.
"I think in the past, if a customer got too far behind on payments, that became a black mark that it would be hard to ever recover from," Platt said. "With the sky-high costs of customer acquisition these days, managing and valuing your customers through that entire life cycle is worth more than ever."
The wide-scale adoption of everything digital and mobile could also help.
"That means that not only would you use mobile for customer acquisition and managing your own banking relationship through an app, but equally so you can extend that technology into the collections space," Platt said.
A third reason is that banks that have relied heavily on third-party debt collectors are starting to bring that activity back in-house.
Recently, Experian rolled out a portal similar to BBVA's called eResolve that banks can license.
As a customer falls behind on debt, a bank using eResolve will send him a link to the service and give him a chance to work out the debt online, rather than through phone calls. The bank decides which options for bringing the balance current will be offered.
"It could be an option to simply resolve the debt there without having to have any interactions with collections group, it could be a payment plan the lender is willing to offer, it could be a reduction in finance fees," Platt said. "It's ultimately up to the lender."
Embedded in eResolve and Experian's broader debt management software, PowerCurve Collections, is a decision engine that helps the bank navigate choices about how to manage accounts that are past due.
It can drive decisions like how often to contact customers and the most effective way and times to reach them. Sometimes doing nothing is the right approach, Platt said.
TrueAccord's virtual assistant
The fintech startup TrueAccord has built an AI-powered virtual assistant that several large financial services firms are piloting and might launch soon. It's also working with LendUp, an online lender to people with poor or no credit histories.
TrueAccord creates a personalized strategy for each consumer.
"It's proactively reaching out to the consumer in the best channel possible, it follows up, it reacts to consumer behavior, even if they look at the offer and drop off," said founder and CEO Ohad Samet.
The virtual assistant is generally more likely to be empathetic than bullying, but it can be firm as well.
"People in debt are scared, they're angry, but sometimes they need to be told, 'Look, this is the debt and this is the situation, we need to solve this,' " Samet said. "Sometimes being too empathetic is not in the consumer's best interest. People who are in debt can experience something that's very neutral."
Samet demurred as to what collections methods work best or what types of outreach dramatically improves the chances that someone will repay the debt.
"There isn't one size fits all," he said. "That's why machine learning works where others don't work."
But he is a fan of a multipronged approach. There can a "halo effect" of reaching out to a consumer via multiple channels, he said.
"If you send a consumer two emails subsequently, you get one level of response," Samet said. "If you send an email and then you make one phone call attempt — not five, just one — or you send one email and a text message afterward to follow up, the response rates can be as high as two to four times what the baseline of two emails will be."
TrueAccord can also handle a negotiation process where somebody could change how often and how much they pay.
"If the consumer wants to pay $50 this week because they have two part-time jobs, this week they can pay $50, next week they can pay $25, the week after that they can pay $100," Samet said. "That's very convenient for consumers and something a call center can't support. Customers want to feel like they're heard and like they're getting the customization they need."
Typically TrueAccord collects 40% to 50% more than traditional collections agencies, Samet said.
The upper end of that range comes in the cases of prime consumers. "Some of them need reminders only, some of them are in financial duress that requires a lot of hand holding," he said. "It really varies. But consistently we have a lot of data to show that we outperform traditional agencies."
TrueAccord also has a collections agency subsidiary, but Samet stressed that agents there are not compensated for how much they collect.
"Our agents are paid to be accommodating, they're trained to listen, they're trained to work with the consumer, and the most important thing, they'll get paid a reasonable salary no matter if the consumer pays or not," Samet said. "They're not on the phone saying, 'Oh, crap, if I don't make this I won't get my bonus,' which is the standard with a traditional collection agency. Which makes you wonder, why would banks submit their customers to this experience?"
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AT&T has opened its doors to pre-orders of the Nokia Lumia 1020 in the US. But the UK is still holding its breath as to when we might see the 21-megapixel phone make its way to these shores.
Listing the regular price without contract at $659.99 (£438), AT&T is the exclusive carrier in the States and is offering the phone on a two-year contract for $299.99. All three colours of the 32GB model - black, white and yellow - are available to pre-order.
Read: Nokia Lumia 1020 pictures and hands-on
The price was already known because it was revealed alongside a US street date of 25 July during Nokia's press event in New York City last week. At the time, UK availability was simply referred to as "coming this quarter".
AT&T's pre-orders are believed to be shipping on 23 July in order to arrive in customers' hands by the American release date. Pocket-lint will keep you up to date on UK networks' plans for pre-registration or any pre-order pages that appear.


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Four new Enderverse stories from Card will initially draw genre fans, but the stories from lesser-known writers are the compilation's real driving force. James Maxey's provocative To Know All Things That Are in the Earth takes a decidedly skeptical look at the Rapture; David Farland's The Mooncalfe puts an interestingaand uniqueaspin on oft-trod Arthurian legend; and Tom Barlow's brilliantly sardonic Call Me Mr. Positive explores isolation on a deep space mission gone tragically awry. If the quality of these stories is any indication, IGMS has as much promise as the newcomers it showcases. (Aug.) Copyright Ac Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist This collection of 17 stories from Cardas e-zine takes its title from his belief that writers getting readers to suspend disbelief is like old-fashioned medicine-show hawkers convincing customers that their patented elixirs will work. On the whole, he and Schubert have selected well, even if 5 of the 17 are Ender universe stories by Card himself. The best of those is Pretty Boy, about one of Enderas opponents and of a particularly horrifying form of child abuse. Highlights among the remaining dozen entries are Aaron Johnsonas comics adaptation of Cardas Fat Farm; Brad Beaulieuas In the Eyes of the Empressas Cat, which will not necessarily make cat lovers purr; The Mooncalfe, in which rising fantasist David Farland takes a dark look at the Matter of Britain; and David Lubaras Hats Off, in which dealing with a bully with magic backfires amazingly quickly. Adding value are the authorsa afterwords, which disclose the remarkable diversity of ways writers reach the Web or the page and how Card influences new writers. --Roland Green Product Details Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (August 5, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0765320002 ASIN: B002LITS5W Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews) Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #646, 293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) Did we miss any relevant features for this product? Tell us what we missed. Would you like to update product info, give feedback on images, or tell us about a lower price? Customer Reviews 4.2 out of 5 stars (12) 4.2 out of 5 stars 5 star 6 4 star 3 3 star 3 2 star 0 1 star 0 See all 12 customer reviews a I also found some of the other author's stories to be very good and I hope they write more. a Steve _G | 5 reviewers made a similar statement a This book is qA definite good read!q a Barnabas | 3 reviewers made a similar statement a It doesn't really spoil either book, since it's an early chapter of EiE, but it throws you for a loop. a P. Gilmore | 1 reviewer made a similar statement Most Helpful Customer Reviews 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful 4.0 out of 5 stars Like a box of chocolates... January 20, 2009 By Yuri Ashuev Format:Paperback .... You never know what you are going to get. There's a huge variety of writers, styles and even genres (not all the stories are sci-fi). I really liked the 'afterwords' that allow one to peer a little bit in the mind of the writer. Disclosure: I picked the book from a local library because of the title, having never read any of OSC's works before. Instead of posting a detailed review, I will try here to (subjectively) grade all the stories on the 1-5 scale and 3 factors: - Setting/basic idea. Especially in science fiction where you imagine a world different from ours, I like to see how things work in it. Pluses for little (even is pseudo-) scientific details. - Actual Story/Plot. Gauges how interested I was in turning the pages to learn what happens next. - Narration: for both the flow of the story and the ability of the author to influence my feelings with his/her writing style In the Eyes of the Empress's Cat (Bradley P. Beaulieu) 555 My favorite story of the bunch, nicely set in a vaguely Middle Eastern kingdom. Still don't understand how the Empress's cat got sick. Mazer in Prison (Orson Scott Card) 445 Very well told story in a simple setting. A little ambiguous regarding the role of the young lieutenant. I feel that there could be more done on double and triple meanings of the communications. Tabloid Reporter to the Stars (Eric James Stone) 545 Lots of qscienceq on alien life and well-narrated, but you still want more from the ending... Audience (Ty Franck) 434 An interesting idea of exploring the world of uber-specialization but it seems difficult to make an interesting story out of it. Points for trying. The Mooncalfe (David Farland) 453 Nice dark prequel to the era of Knights of Round Table, though I found the language (the author is trying to evoke Old English) a little tedious. Cheater (Orson Scott Card) 445 The same review as Mazer in prison: well-told story in a simple setting. Seems it's easy for OSC to produce these on short notice... Dream Engine (Tim Pratt) 554 This is probably the best in terms of setting the stage in a futuristic metropolis. Narration was a little overdone. I did not like the made up pronouns for the asexual Howlaa (zie and zir?) Hats Off (David Lubar) 425 Another one with an interesting idea, well written, but basically no plot. Even in a short story format, more meat can be put on these bones. Eviction Notice (Scott M. Roberts) NR This is deeply disturbing story which I certainly do not want to ponder again. So no rating. Aahh! I am having nightmares just thinking about it! To Know All Things That Are in the Earth (James Maxey) 555 I liked it! A scientific look at the Rapture! Beats of Seven (Peter Orullian) 535 An interesting setting and a basic premise of a strange instruments and sounds, but it seems just like in qAudienceq the writer struggles to make a complete, interesting story out of it--probably the best one could do in a short story format. I am not a musician--perhaps one can appreciate it more. Nice air of mystery to the narration. Pretty Boy (Orson Scott Card) 445 Same review as Mazer and Cheater Respite (Rachel Ann Dryden) 212 I absolutely hated this story. Basically, husband and wife are having a basic argument for some reason placed in a sci-fi setting. Fat Farm (Aaron Johnston , Orson Scott Card) NR This is a comic version of an OSC story. I liked it, but can't really pass judgment on the literary merits. The Box of Beautiful Things (Brian Dolton) 324 Well-told, but the point of the qboxq is nothing too special. Taint of Treason (Eric James Stone) 213 I do not understand why this is considered to be a story worthy of inclusion. There's one powerful moment, and the author in the afterward said he struggled in putting a story around it, but a moment does not a story make. Call Me Mr. Positive (Tom Barlow) 232 An umpteenth take on the theme of loneliness in space (2001 Space Odyssey anyone?). I did not like the style of the qjournal, q and there's nothing to remember afterward. A Young Man with Prospects (Orson Scott Card) 433 Did not like this too much: majority of story consists of 3 female members of an Italian family arguing with each other. I think the idea is a little forced, and the narration is definitely worse than OSC's other work. The afterward is better than the story itself. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful 5.0 out of 5 stars A lot of bang for a little buck January 28, 2009 By A. Roger Crooks Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase I bought this as an Orson Scott Card fan but dare I say that I found authors that rival the great OSC in this book? These stories are not very long and most can be read in a sitting. There is a lot of variety which was nice for me. I like fantasy slightly more than science fiction. This was a nice combination of both and some other unique items thrown in as well. I have been reading a story or two each night. I discovered author Eric James Stone by reading this book and finding his work has been like finding treasure. His stories were particularly enjoyed by my sixth grade son and I and I think we'll be buying any/everything with his name on it. His writing is brilliant. I saw the other reviewer comment that the Taint of Treason wasn't well recieved by him. I have been quoting a line from that story to my son for weeks which has us both laughing (in a morbid way). You'll know the line once you read the story. Thanks goes out to Schubert and Card for giving us a qsamplerq of so many great writers. You really can't go wrong with this book. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 6 of 8 people found the following review helpful 4.0 out of 5 stars I want more! August 26, 2008 By Kyle Taylor Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase Somehow when I bought this book I assumed that it would contain the complete written works of OSC's IGMS up to this point - 8 issues. (There's 9 now, but there was 8 when the book was published.) Excluding the audio stories, essays, and interviews (which requires subscribing to the IGMS to get) this is what I expected to get in a bound paperback book: issue #1 - 10 written stories issue #2 - 9 written stories issue #3 - 10 written stories issue #4 - 10 written stories issue #5 - 10 written stories issue #6 - 10 written stories issue #7 - 11 written stories issue #8 - 10 written stories (80 in all) Instead I got 18 select stories out of the first 4 issues: 5 from issue #1 4 from issue #2 5 from issue #3 4 from issue #4 The book includes the artwork for each story. It also contains the new Ender stories from each of the first 4 issues. And it's 432 pages. I suspect it'd be somewhere around 2000 pages if it included all of the stories up to issue 8. Despite my disappointment in the book's lack of completeness, I'm still glad I bought it. It's a solid collection of great stories that I can hold in my hand and read, without having to stare at a computer screen. And I'm thinking it might be worth paying an extra $2.50 to get the rest of the stories from his website. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No ao See all 12 customer reviews (newest first) Write a customer review Most Recent Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars qA Definite Good Readq I read qOrson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Showq. And I highly recommend it. This collection is full of powerful stories... Read more Published 23 months ago by Barnabas 3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book I enjoyed reading some of the stories. Others just didn't interest me at all. All of the stories that Card wrote were excellent. Published on February 6, 2010 by Lynette Hopkins 3.0 out of 5 stars Fun collection of stories Some good background for the Ender's Game Universe fans, and a few other entertaining stories by some unknowns. A few of the stories weren't very intriguing for me. Published on July 28, 2009 by Jake Moening 3.0 out of 5 stars Card's stuff is by far the best I was a bit disappointed to realize that only a handful of the stories in this book are actually written by Orson Scott Card himself. However, I did read them all. Read more Published on July 25, 2009 by Ruth in NM 5.0 out of 5 stars Great source of short scifi stories I liked this book a lot. Card's Ender's Game stories were what I bought it for and I was not disappointed. Read more Published on March 12, 2009 by Steve _G 5.0 out of 5 stars A great collection that serves its purpose I'll admit I purchased the book because of its inclusion of more stories from the qEnderverseq. And since it came with so many other authors' stories, I went ahead and read them... Read more Published on December 26, 2008 by raficus 4.0 out of 5 stars A good collection Warning: this book has a chapter from qEnder in Exileq as one of the short stories. It doesn't really spoil either book, since it's an early chapter of EiE, but it throws you for... Read more Published on December 12, 2008 by P. Gilmore 5.0 out of 5 stars SIMPLY CONTINUE TO READ EVERYTHING THAT CARD WRITES OR RECOMMENDS! THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH ORSON SCOTT CARD IS THAT WE'RE ALMOST CAUGHT UP WITH EVERYTHING HE'S EVER WRITTEN OR EDITED. IT'S A DEPRESSING SITUATION! Read more Published on December 11, 2008 by D. G. Evans 5.0 out of 5 stars fine compilation The eighteen stories selected for this anthology were first published in the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006 and were considered the best from the four IGMS... Read more Published on August 9, 2008 by Harriet Klausner Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Watch. Read. Shop. Relax. Millions of Amazon Prime members enjoy instant videos, free Kindle books and unlimited free two-day shipping. 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November 2012 – June 2015 . DRs Big Christmas Show 2016. Watch the show here I have edited more than 150 videos for Louisiana Channel - a website based at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. ´Videos on the arts featuring the artist´. Visit the site at channel.louisiana.dk
'Musik i Virkeligheden' : Editor
August 2012 - November 2012. I edited a documentary tv series for DRK. The series had 8 episodes. I don't think you can watch the series anymore, but you can try at dr.dk/tv/se/musik-i-virkeligheden
'Ekko Shortlist': Koncept developer
January 2011. Ekko Shortlist is a top ten poll of the best Danish Short films right now. I invented the concept and design together with Mads Damsbo. We sold the project to the Danish film magazine Ekko in 2011.
'Shatila Girls' : Director/Teacher
January 2012. A documentary project in Shatila - a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. 6 teenage girls were given a camera to make a short documentary about someone living in the camp. The films were shown at an art festival in Beirut. The project was made together with Ina Lindgreen, with help from the Danish Center for Culture and Development.
'Kvinderne fra Mjølnerparken' : Director/Photographer/Editor
April 2011 - June 2011. A documentary film about three women living in a 'ghetto' neighborhood, Mjølnerparken, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The film has aired several times on Danish TV (DR2). It was directed, edited and filmed together with Cecilie Enevold.
'Turen til Palæstina': Director/Photographer/Editor
A documentary film about a group of young Danish-Palestinians travelling to Palestine for their first time. Made for Mjølnerparken/Lejerbo.
Music videos I have directed: (and edited)
- Klumben & Raske Penge: Ghettio
- CTM: The Road
- CTM: Cezanne
- Guldregn: Stadig væk
- Raske Penge og Højer Øye: Blæst igen
- Darkness Falls: Nightgames
- Disa: Marry You
- Quadron: Favorite Star
- Darkness Falls: Hazy
- Rumour Said Fire: Moon Stream
- Nina Born: Kaperlaq (design project)
- CTM: Jewel
- Nikolaj Nørlund: Ned Til Søen
- De Høje Hæle: Der er ingen der forstår
- Raske Penge: Intelligent
- Raske Penge og Klumben: Rundt
- Raske Penge: Bor her
Music videos I have edited:
- Raske Penge og Højer Øye: Ik stol på dem
- Raske Penge: Yndlingsstof
- Disa: Sun
- Dig og Mig: Når jeg kommer hjem
- Raske Penge: Original Bang Ding
--- Watch the videos on the pages 'Director' and 'Editor
I graduated in 2011 from the Danish School of Media and Journalism in TV and Media Production.
The TV and Media Production bachelor programme qualifies the students to develop, organize, produce and market TV and media projects in media companies or communication departments in private and public companies.
I was an intern at a documentary film production company, Jigsaw Productions, in New York, at the National Danish Broadcast Corporation (Pirat TV and P3) and at the tv production company Koncern TV- og Filmproduktion.


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