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Every year, physician groups take doctors' temperature on the issue of pay, and every year, they are feverish. Professional associations such as the Medical Group Management Association annually hold up low average compensation increases as a key reason why the typical medical group in most regions of the country operates in the red. Physicians are often eager to complain about a system that they say fails to cover the rising amount of cash needed to run a medical practice.
It is a complex problem. Industry observers describe a complex set of compensation forces at work — including a key role that physicians play — that have been changing the way doctors are managing their practices.
Despite the growing popularity among health plans of pay-for-performance programs designed to improve quality and increase operating efficiencies, the bulk of most doctors' pay is still based on fee-for-service contracts. Health plans model these rates on Medicare's 15-year-old Resource-Based Relative Value Scale. While the Medicare model has provided a convenient framework for private plan payments, MCOs have devised their own conversion formulas for valuing services.
The need for health plans to balance the demand for a large provider network against the need to offer employers competitive premiums has shoved what some see as a built-in payment bias in Medicare into overdrive. Primary care doctors operating in regions where physician shingles are a common sight are earning less — often much less — than specialists. And specialists are finding greater strength in numbers. This is driving physicians of all stripes to organize into larger groups that can exercise greater bargaining clout. The offer of sweetened rates has also triggered a migration of physicians, especially men looking for exceptionally high incomes, into specialties that pay better, even as they are criticized for adding services that drive up costs.
The American College of Physicians), which includes a large group of primary care physicians, has joined other professional groups and a lineup of health plans to criticize the way doctors are being paid, saying that it has warped the way medicine is practiced, devaluing vital services such as doctor-patient discussions while pumping up rewards for expensive procedures and bigger volumes.
"We need to move away from the piecemeal approach: how many visits you can generate, how many tests you can order," says Robert Doherty, ACP's senior vice president for governmental affairs and public policy, who has been well aware of the great frustration that's been building among primary care doctors over pay rates.
Without fundamental change in physicians' compensation structure, the ACP and a number of prominent analysts warn, the health care industry will see fewer and fewer primary care doctors joining the ranks even as alarms grow louder over a looming shortfall of primary care physicians.
Far from resisting change, a number of high-profile managed care organizations have jumped into the middle of the payment fray. Changing the way that doctors are paid and valuing primary care in a way that improves access and quality, they say, is exactly what MCOs have been seeking for years.
There's only one health plan proviso: Any new pay system can't work if it's built on an assumption that payers should fork over more cash for medical services. The health care system is straining under high enough costs already.
"Throwing more money into the system is not going to be a tenable solution," says Lisa Latts, MD, WellPoint's vice president for programs in clinical excellence. "Unless," she adds dryly, "you know of some other pay source out there."
Getting highly-paid doctors to agree to a change, though, may be the toughest obstacle to a switch to a new compensation system.
The anger in some physician circles over payment issues has been percolating for years, and it almost always boils over in scalding bursts of outrage directed against Medicare and private insurers. When LocumTenens.com conducted a survey last summer, physician payments topped its list of doctors' biggest concerns. It triggered eruptions of withering sarcasm. "Put all the attorneys and insurance plan administrators on a slow boat to China and garnish all their wages to put back into actual patient care," suggested one.
However, physicians aren't paid equally and the gap between primary and specialty care pay is widening.
According to this year's physician compensation survey by the Medical Group Management Association, primary care physicians on average reported that their incomes climbed 4 percent. Specialists report that their incomes rose 6 percent. Some specialists reported much bigger gains, with infectious disease specialists jumping more than 9 percent and pulmonary disease specialists rising more than 11 percent (see "Specialists' Pay Surges,".)
In a recent report, the Center for Studying Health System Change fingers the uneven playing field as a key reason why many doctors, especially men, are determined to join a highly paid specialty. Female doctors entering primary care have made up for much of the exodus, but that may not continue.
"If real incomes for primary care physicians continue to decline, there is a risk that the migration of male physicians will intensify and that female physicians may begin avoiding primary care — trends that could aggravate a predicted shortage of primary care physicians," wrote Paul B. Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change.
It's not just specialists who can command sweeter payment deals.
"Rates depend on the practice's ability to negotiate," explains David Gans, who crunches income figures every year for the Medical Group Management Association's income survey. "A big practice in a small community has a good opportunity to affect payment level." In a big city, doctors abound and competition drives prices down, reflecting the free market at work.
"This is some of the frustration," adds Gans. "Doctors are often given a take-it-or-leave-it contract." Insurers don't feel compelled to sign up all the practices in an urban area, he notes.
In rural areas, even primary care physicians can drive a better bargain.
The California Medical Association (CMA) routinely gets involved in fee schedule disputes involving managed care organizations. A spokeswoman says that it is getting worse. "We always offered assistance," says CMA's Karen Nikos, "but the need and cry for help has gotten greater in the last few years."
"If you're in a big group and you control some degree of market share and health plans have to have you, you'll get their top rate," says Michael Wasylik, MD, who chairs the Florida Medical Association's managed care committee. But if you're in primary care in a place like South Florida, he says, it's a rarity to ever even hear back from your health plan's designated physician liaison when you call to negotiate rates. If you're just out of medical school starting practice, he says, be prepared to have your fee schedule handed to you, and hang on six months for your first check.
"I told a CEO for a managed care company in Tampa that dealing with them was a little like dealing with Fast Eddie's Used Car Sales," says a steamed Wasylik, who has had his own share of troubles making contact with MCOs. "Only Fast Eddie treats you with more respect."
Zach Dyckman, PhD, the principal behind Dyckman & Associates and an industry consultant who has been advising health plans on physician payment rates, points to two conflicting themes that drive MCOs: providing an adequate network for members and doing it at the lowest cost.
"There's competition in the marketplace for an attractive premium price," he says, "at least as attractive as competitors' prices." As a 2003 survey Dyckman completed for the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee (MedPAC, which advises Congress on the government's payment practices) underscores, those talks with doctors on fee-for-service rates often begin with Medicare's rates.
Plans simply don't have a lot of choice, says Dyckman. Medicare's fee schedule, which is heavily influenced by the work of the Relative Value Update Committee, assembled by members of the AMA and specialty societies and best known as the RUC, covers more than 6,700 CPT codes. The Medicare fee is determined by multiplying a dollar conversion factor times the number of RVUs for the procedure, he says. One RVU originally was valued at about $32, the amount paid for an intermediate office visit.
Today, the Medicare conversion factor is about $37. The intermediate office visit has gradually gained an RVU value of 1.66, so that the Medicare fee for this service is about $61. Medicare fees vary by geographic area to reflect area differences in physician practice costs, he says.
The way it was set up, an RVU should reflect the cost to the doctor of providing the service, the time, the skill it takes, the training required, overhead, malpractice — "everything that contributes to the cost," Dyckman explains.
Medicare determines RVUs for a myriad of CPT codes. A particularly difficult procedure, for example, could have 35 RVUs, reflecting the greater amount of skill, cost, and training the procedure requires.
Fees also don't remain static under Medicare. The agency updates its rates to help reflect changes in the way medicine is practiced. A complex new procedure that took three hours a few years ago could become a much simpler 45-minute process with considerable practice.
It would be all but impossible for plans to replicate all of that work on fee schedules themselves, says Dyckman. But there's plenty of effort made to determine how that formula should apply to the physicians in each MCO's network.
"Health plans can use different dollar conversion factors," he says. "Also, a health plan can use multiple conversion factors. For example, there can be a different one for surgery, for office visits, for labs, and for orthopedic surgery, based on their perception of what they need to do in order to have a satisfactory provider network while not paying too much."
Doctors may have considerable say in the rate — or little or no say at all.
When MedPAC evaluated its rates against private insurers earlier this year, its analysts concluded that Medicare paid on average 82.6 percent compared to MCOs. That means that MCOs paid 121 percent of the Medicare rate.
The conversion factor at private plans revolves around market forces, says Robert Berenson, MD, a health care analyst at the Urban Institute and a coauthor with Ginsburg of the recent income report. "Specialists don't want 110 percent of Medicare's rate," he says. "They may want 130 percent." Or more. Some physician groups are commanding 150 percent of the federal rate. On the bottom of that financial totem pole, though, are primary care physicians, particularly in regions such as Miami, where there is a large concentration of providers with many willing to accept around 70 percent of Medicare's rate.
"It very much varies," agrees Dyckman. "In some communities, a particular group may have substantial market power. A pathology group may have the contracts at most of the hospitals in the area. It would have very, very strong bargaining power. In rural areas there are some single specialties with a lot of leverage and high fees. In some environments where a Blue plan is dominant, physicians tend to accept their fees. Plans with less market share are not as strong."
Not surprisingly, physicians are responding to the pressure by following the same strategy that has driven mergers and alliances among hospitals: The weak are joining forces to gain some strength at the bargaining table and the strong are positioning themselves to gain even more leverage.
"Specialists are combining practices to have more bargaining power," says Berenson, "and so they'll have more scale to bring in more ancillary services."
"In Florida," says Wasylik, "physicians are linking up to use the same tax ID number so they can negotiate as a group. If 40 physicians can band together in an area where 80 doctors handle the bulk of medical care, he says, that can translate into a more powerful alliance and better pay."
The lesson on earnings in the real world of medical practice today has been driven home at American medical schools, says Berenson.
Most medical students don't want to go into primary care or general surgery, he says. "They want to go into niche services with no stress and no night calls, like radiology."
Some observers, including the American College of Physicians, say that when the RUC was set up to advise Medicare on payment rates, surgeons were given a disproportionately large share of seats at the table to offset complaints that their services would be undervalued by a resource-based payment system. Even though other specialty representatives have since been added to the RUC, surgeons continue to be powerful.
It's an equation that some experts say has led to Medicare's overvaluing those services, which has been amplified by MCOs.
"In my opinion," says Dyckman, "specialists are overpaid compared to primary care physicians relative to the true resource cost of providing services. And now we're seeing more of this in terms of shortages of primary care physicians. Specialists with perhaps two or three years of additional training can make substantially more money. I think this has and will cause supply issues in the primary care area."
There are some "huge political obstacles to reorienting the process," says Berenson. Not only are the specialists opposed to shifting from a system that benefits them, but manufacturers of the equipment used for many of these ancillary services like imaging are opposed as well. Health plans, he says, should do more to correct the imbalance.
"It gets back to Medicare," he adds. "What I have never understood, and I've started being vocal about it with chief medical officers, is why they stand on the sidelines while the AMA update committee works on relative values. They never get comments from health plans on overpaying for tests on minor procedures. They're not a part of it and I don't know why. They could influence the decision making that occurs. It's mostly AMA specialty-oriented. The update committee is biased in favor of specialty care. CMS needs more comments on overvaluing services."
MANAGED CARE contacted the AMA to get the RUC's input, but the AMA declined to make anyone available.
Health plans have tried other ways to pay physicians, but nothing rivals the dominance of fee-for-service payments.
Pay-for-performance programs are being rolled out around the country, but most influence only a marginal amount of a doctor's income. Capitation, once dominant in some markets where HMOs are plentiful, has continued its long fall from favor — a victim of both its early failure and some long-term successes (from the physicians' point of view).
"The compensation for most groups is fee-for-service and very little capitation," says Gans.
"There are a couple of reasons: Most physician practices don't understand capitation and most insurance companies realize that under a capitation agreement," if doctors have good patient and hospital utilization management, they can prosper. "Most insurance companies realize they can pay doctors fee-for-service and reap the financial benefits of reduced utilization."
Capitation got a bad name early on because it was rolled out the wrong way, with no risk adjustment to account for patients likely to drive up costs, Berenson notes. "I think in a more macro sense, health plans figured out that they didn't have to do capitation. It's a lot easier to do fee-for-service and not get into transferring risk."
Possibly there is a way to develop a hybrid approach, paying primary care doctors fees for individual services but with a monthly payment for managing chronic care. "That makes sense," Berenson adds. "Denmark pays 40 percent in fee-for-service and 60 percent in capitation. We might try something equivalent.
"The higher the ratio of primary to specialty physicians, the lower the costs," he adds. "If we could figure out how to pay primary care physicians better, get more going into primary care, and pay under a different model for care coordination, that could generate cost savings."
At some point, says ACP's Doherty, a shortage of primary care physicians would probably trigger a rise in payment rates by health plans needing to offer a complete network. But the supply of doctors isn't altered overnight. It would take another 10 years for the message to make its way through medical schools and spur more of them to train for a career in primary care.
Instead, he says, it's time to revolutionize health care and the entire compensation system in use today. You can do it, he adds, by taking a portion of each play book in the compensation system today and melding them all into a new pay plan that puts primary care physicians at the center of medical care, in what's called a medical home.
"Fee-for-service pays you for doing as much as possible," says Doherty. "Capitation pays for doing as little as possible. And pay for performance skews to what can be measured." Not everything important in medicine can be measured today.
What the ACP wants is a new formula with a risk-adjusted capitation approach combined with pay-for-performance programs so that doctors can be paid adequately for coordinating what the physician's group touts as "the best care possible." Fee schedules would also be employed to compensate doctors for the volume of work that they do.
"The medical home concept is very promising in primary care," says Brian Kiss, MD, medical director for professional programs at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida. It's a way to move health care away from an episodic approach toward a new way to manage "the entire patient."
WellPoint's Latts says, "We need to find that sweet spot where we're paying for the right utilization and the right quality."
Because of that, adds Latts, WellPoint, Aetna, the Blue Cross & Blue Shield Association, Cigna, Humana, MVP Health Care, and UnitedHealthcare have joined the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, which is exploring ways to advance the medical home approach. If a medical home can deliver on managed care objectives, she says, it could be worthy of being embraced.
"We're looking for pilots to see if this model really gets us further along," says Latts, "so we absolutely agree that payment is a critical tool for getting us to that next level."
Medicare is authorized to begin a demonstration on the medical home and the proposed new SCHIP legislation, being battled over in Congress at press time, broadens that mandate and expands the program to a larger number of practices. In the meantime, the ACP has been working to line up other groups and to expand the alliance that is backing medical homes.
Don't expect any quick fixes, says Dyckman. Individual fees will probably remain the dominant compensation approach for some time to come.
"It works," Dyckman sums up. "It's well entrenched and almost everything has its disadvantages. As long as patients are free to go to other providers, it's hard to get away from payment on a fee schedule or piecemeal basis."
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Welfare economics, which was developed from the 1930s on (by Hicks, Kaldor, Samuelson…), was once a major field of economic theory, but now seems absent from academic curricula – except perhaps in its offshoot of cost-benefit analysis and in the parallel field of social choice theory (Arrow, Sen…). Welfare economists were interested in developing criteria for government intervention in case of market failure, which they saw everywhere. However, the main conclusion of welfare economics was finally that there is no purely scientific criteria, only moral ones – that is, criteria imposed by the value judgments of some dictator or politically dominant group. On this, see my article "Social Welfare, State Intervention, and Value Judgments," The Independent Review 11(1) (Summer 2006), pp. 19-36; and " One could say that public choice theory ("politics without romance," as Buchanan said) destroyed welfare economics; from another perspective, that welfare economics sowed the seeds of its own irrelevance. See "The Vacuity of the Political 'We'," Library of Economics and Liberty, October 6, 2014. Yet, proving that government intervention and redistribution cannot be based on scientific criteria is a crucial result, which would justify bringing welfare economics back to the forefront of academic concerns. Economists (and policy makers) cannot meaningfully talk about public policy without referring to welfare economics.
Why Imports, Not Exports, Matter
As explained by James Mill in his Elements of Political Economy (2nd Edition, London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824, pp. 120 and 122):
"The benefit which is derived from exchanging one commodity for another, arises, in all cases, from the commodity received, not from the commodity given. When one country exchanges, in other words, when one country traffics with another, the whole of its advantage consists in the commodities imported. It benefits by importation, and by nothing else.
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In 1824, James Mill Explains the Theory of Comparative Advantage
"When both countries can produce both commodities, it is not greater absolute, but greater relative, facility, that induces one of them to confine itself to the production of one of the commodities, and to import the other.
"When a country can either import a commodity, or produce it at home, it compares the cost of producing at home with the cost of procuring it from abroad; if the latter cost is less than the first, it imports.
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Why the Opposition to Free Trade?
The opposition to free trade comes from the same two sources as the opposition to economic freedom in general: ignorance of economics; or the belief that individuals in some group should grab more (more money or other benefits of life) by coercively imposing costs to individuals in other groups.
On the Security Obsession
As the number of checkpoints and searches between point A and point B approaches infinity, the probability that a terrorist or common criminal will pass through the net approaches zero. But, at the same time, the probability that a government agent will commit a crime approaches one.
The Will of the People
Perhaps one can define "the will of the people" as 51% or 48% of a vote, or 35% of the electors, but it is only a definition. Or else it is the conclusion of a demanding contractarian theory.
Reminder on Adam Smith and Businessmen
"The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public; but to narrow the competition must always be against it, and can serve only to enable the dealers, by raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens. The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it."
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776).
James Mill's 1808 Commerce Defended and Today's Protectionism
James Mill (1773–1836) was a Scottish economist, philosopher, and journalist. He was the father of an even more famous figure of the 19th century, economist and philosopher John Stuart Mill. Like other classical economists, James was a defender of free trade. His 1808 pamphlet Commerce Defended answers many of today's arguments for protectionism.
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The Wealth of Nations and Free Trade
Adam Smith's famous book The Wealth of Nations (1776) developed economic and moral arguments against "the mercantile system" or protectionism. The relevant chapters are among the best of the book and there is much to be learned from them.
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Open for Business, Close to Consumer Preferences
In a couple of weekend tweets, Donald Trump warned American companies against shipping goods to America from foreign countries: "Please be forewarned prior to making a very expensive mistake!" "THE UNITED STATES," he added in bold letters and with his usual inconsistency, "IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS." "Open for business" apparently means that the government is open to meddling with businesses.
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I have just used the word 'cane' in another thread, and it got the dotted underlining as if it were 'CanE'. Can anything be done about this?
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Select it and then click the Unlink icon. (This doesn't always work for me, but I think it's supposed to... cane, nope )
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Export data using the Splunk REST API
Use the Splunk REST API to access data from the command line or a Web browser.
REST API access for Splunk Cloud deployments
If you have a self-service Splunk Cloud deployment and you want to use the Splunk REST API, file a Support ticket requesting the API to be enabled. See Using the REST API with Splunk Cloud in the REST API Tutorials for more details.
Export data
Exporting data starts with running a search job to generate results. You can then export this search result data to a file.
- Run a search job using a POST to
/services/search/jobs/. If you are using a custom time range, pass it in with the POST request.
curl -k -u admin:changeme \ https://localhost:8089/services/search/jobs/ -d search="search sourcetype=access_* earliest=-7d"
- Get the search job ID (SID) for the search.
/jobsendpoint returns an XML response including the
<sid>, or search job ID.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <response> <sid>1423855196.339</sid> </response>
You can also get the search job ID by viewing the job in the Search Job Inspector. in Splunk Web. Navigate to Activity > Jobs to open the Job Manager. Locate the search job that you just ran and click Inspect. The Search Job Inspector opens in a separate window. See View the properties of a search job.
- Use a GET request on the
/resultsendpoint to export the search results to a file. Ensure that you do the following in the GET request:
- Identify your object endpoints.
To see a list of currently available object endpoints for your user, within your app, navigate to
For example:
- Identify the search job user and app.
The following example defines
- Identify an output format.
Use the
output_modeparameter to specify one of the following available output formats. Use lower case for the format name, as shown here.
atom | csv | json | json_cols | json_rows | raw | xml
This example exports search results to a JSON file.
curl -u admin:changeme \ -k https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/admin/search/jobs/1423855196.339/results/ \ --get -d output_mode=json -d count=5
- Identify your object endpoints.
See also
For more details about the
/jobs and
/export endpoints, see the following information in the REST API Reference.
See also Creating searches using the REST API in the REST API Tutorials.
Export data using the CLI
Export data using the Splunk SDKs
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.4.4, 6.4.5, 6.4.6, 6.4.7, 6.4.8, 6.4.9, 6.4.10, 6.4.11, 6.5.0, 6.5.1, 6.5.1612 (Splunk Cloud only), 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.5.5, 6.5.6, 6.5.7, 6.5.8, 6.5.9, 6.5.10, 6.6.0, 6.6.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.3, 6.6.4, 6.6.5, 6.6.6, 6.6.7, 6.6.8, 6.6.9, 6.6.10, 6.6.11, 6.6.12, 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.0.11, 7.0.13, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2
"This example exports search results to a JSON file" is incorrect. The curl command will spit the results out to stdout. One could easily capture it to a file, though, by adding the "--output <filename>" option to the curl command.
Thank you for this suggestion!
FYI, I have found the oneshot ( blocking search 1 call ) option and passing in your own SID both useful in simplifying the call sequence
I had to use
under my 7.1.1 system.
Hi @Emiller42,
I have reviewed and updated the instructions here to include the full list of output mode options. I have also verified that you can use lower case to specify output_mode= csv.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
Some of this is out of date. It lists valid output_mode values as `JSON`, `CSV`, or `XML` which is incorrect. According to current documentation on the `/results` endpoint, valid values are: `atom | csv | json | json_cols | json_rows | raw | xml`
Also, case matters. `csv` will return results, while `CSV` will produce an error.


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Although several systematic analyses of existing approaches to adaptation have been published recently, a general formal adaptation framework is still missing. This paper presents a step into the direction of developing such a formal model of transformational adaptation. The model is based on the notion of the quality of a solution to a problem, while quality is meant in a more general sense and can also denote some kind of appropriateness, utility, or degree of correctness. Adaptation knowledge is then defined in terms of functions transforming one case into a successor case. The notion of quality provides us with a semantics for adaptation knowledge and allows us to define terms like soundness, correctness and completeness. In this view, adaptation (and even the whole CBR process) appears to be a special instance of an optimization problem.
This paper motivates the necessity for support for negotiation during Sales Support on the Internet within Case-Based Reasoning solutions. Different negotiation approaches are discussed and a general model of the sales process is presented. Further, the tradition al CBR-cycle is modified in such a way that iterative retrieval during a CBR consulting session is covered by the new model. Several gen eral characteristics of negotiation are described and a case study is shown where preliminary approaches are used to negotiate with a cu stomer about his demands and available products in a 'CBR-based' Electronic Commerce solution.


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Ms. Treasured is standing next to Idyllic Antoinette. I've removed all the tchotchkes from her hair. It was no easy job. The thread holding the flowers and the topknot in place was actually rooted! I was worried about what I'd find under all that but her hair is rooted nicely and evenly. I boiled it to straighten it out and trimmed it evenly. I will probably trim it even shorter. She is wearing the fashion entitled "Influential." I have replaced the multi-strand of beads with which the outfit came because they did not lay right and looked very messy. The jewelry she's now wearing is from a Fashion Royalty outfit. I may replace the black tights with black stockings and take off the semi-sheer black top. The dress itself is covered in micro sequins and will be lovely as a cocktail dress.
So far I am quite pleased with this line. I do have a problem with the stands but all of Tonner's stands suck pretty much so nothing is new.
I'm still waiting for two more fashions and I desperately want to order Hypnotic. The fashions I'm expecting are Brilliant and Posh. They've gone past their expected arrival date.
Amid all the fabulous fashions and pretty dolls, there is one thing I don't understand. How did they let this outfit out of the gate? Someone dropped the ball on these pants. If the price drops low, I will buy it and turn the pants into a skirt. The jacket and the bag are pretty and it looks like there's a nice tank top under there.
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KOMPSAT-2 (also referred to as Arirang-2 by South Korea) was developed by KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) to continue the observation program of the KOMPSAT-1 mission. The main mission
objectives of the KOMPSAT-2 are to provide a surveillance capability for large-scale disasters by acquiring high-resolution imagery for GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications.
The spacecraft design is based on the KOMPSAT-1 heritage making extensive use of existing hardware, software, tools, and facilities; it allows parallel integration of the payload, equipment, and propulsion modules. The KOMPSAT-2 bus structure consists of the five modules: SMS (Structure and Mechanisms Subsystem), TCS (Thermal ConTrol Subsystem), AOCS (Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem), TC&R (Telemetry Command and Ranging) subsystem, EPS (Electrical Power Subsystem), PS (Propulsion Subsystem), and the FSW (Flight Software) element.
The AOCS provides three-axis stabilization (3-axis control with zero momentum bias system) with high accuracy for roll, pitch and yaw pointing. Star trackers, gyro reference assemblies, three-axis magnetometers, magnetic torquers and reaction wheels are used for attitude sensing and control. The pointing accuracy is < 0.025ş in roll and pitch, and 0.08ş in yaw. The pointing knowledge is 0.020ş in roll and pitch, and 0.045ş in yaw. The spacecraft platform offers a cross-track body-pointing capability through roll maneuvers (up to ±45ş). The propulsion subsystem makes use of re-used components (hydrazine monopropellant thrusters with blowdown pressure-feed system, 73 kg propellant).
The spacecraft mass is 800 kg (including propellant), the S/C size is hexagonal: 1.85 m diameter x 2.6 m in height (6.8 m length in deployed configuration), the power is 955 W (EOL) provided by two solar arrays (GaAs cell technology). A super NiCd battery has a capacity of 30 Ah for eclipse phase support. The S/C design life is three years. EADS Astrium has been selected by KARI to support the platform development and manufacture of KOMPSAT-2.
Launch: A launch of the KOMPSAT-2 spacecraft took place on July 28, 2006 with a Rockot-KM launch vehicle of Eurockot Launch Services from Plesetsk, Russia.
Orbit: Sun-synchronous circular orbit, altitude = 685 km, inclination = 98.13ş, period = 98.46 min, the mean local time of the ascending node is at 10:50 hours. The KOMPSAT-2 orbit is identical to that of KOMPSAT-1 but with a different phase (180ş apart).
RF communications: Onboard storage capacity of 96 Gbit (BOL) and 64 Gbit (EOL) for image data. S-band (TT&C) and X-band (payload data at 8.205 GHz downlink frequency) communications are provided for all data transmission to the ground (real-time and playback), the downlink data rate is 320 Mbit/s (QPSK modulation). Encryption of image data. The CCSDS communication protocols are implemented. The S-band data rates are: 2 kbit/s uplink and 1.5 Mbit/s downlink.
Mission status: The KOMPSAT-2 spacecraft and its payload are operating nominally as of 2008.
? KOMPSAT-2 completed its commissioning phase in late September 2006 and started its nominal operations phase in October 2006.
? In August, 2006, KOMPSAT-2 had provided its first images.
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Spatial Resolution: 1m 4m
Swatch Width: 15km 15km
Duty Cycle: >20% per Orbit
Off-Nadir Imaging: Up to 45 degree
Orbital Altitude: 685km, Sun-synchromous orbit
Operation Life: Minimum 5 years ( Design Life :3years)
Revisit Time: Less than 3 days
Data Transmission: 320 Mbps
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On Wednesday the research company Latitude released a pretty interesting study called The Future Of Storytelling. I highly recommend it as essential reading, and I'm thoroughly looking forward to the second and last instalment in the study series.
There are a lot of good points in the study, and in my mind they all clearly point to one thing. "Transmedia" might have been a buzzword for a while. It probably still is, in the minds of many. But the term is of infinitely lesser importance; of greater importane is the fact that the audience – anyone we wish to target with our content – is already inherently geared towards transmedia.
For us as content creators it can only mean one thing. Kicking and screaming, or willingly and eagerly, we will move into the world of content transcending media platforms, or story worlds and neverending narratives, of co-creation with users and co-distribution with others, of using technology to weave stories to evoke feelings and induce experiences. There is no turning back, and we do ourselves a severe disservice if we do not acknowledge this with open eyes and strive to make the very best we can of this fact.
At the same time, my "old-media-developer-and-producer"-character raises its head and highlights the fact that while all of this is very nice, someone also need to pay for everything. Just developing the mythologies and / or story worlds needed comes with a cost. As does producing for different platforms, as does distributing content to different platforms. Will we just end up doing a helluva lot more work and paying a helluva lot more money for the same return?
I may be naive and I may be overoptimistic, but I am convinced that financially viable models will appear, more and more frequently. Crowdfunding is one way to go, working with sponsors another. My firm belief is that – just as with Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and other ventures no one had envisaged five years ago – we will see new financing models come to the fore that will make us all go "oh, ok! Yeah, that'll work! How come I didn't think about that?!?"
In the meantime what we can all do is create. Create, create, create, and then create some more. Create magical worlds and stunning characters, create enchanting narrative arcs and riveting interactive possibilities. Create more and better (and why not harder, faster and stronger while we're at it J ). Exciting times indeed!


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SAS is a Leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science & Machine Learning Platforms
For the sixth consecutive year, SAS is positioned as a Leader.
"Machine learning is a critical tool in the modern data scientist toolbox," said Lorry Hardt, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Strategist at SAS. "It allows organizations to quickly identify opportunities for their business, but also avoid risks that may go unnoticed by humans."
SAS' evaluation is based on two solutions key to the success of its data scientist users – SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning and SAS® Enterprise Miner™. Both offer users the ability to solve complex analytical problems that drive better decision making.
SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning, which runs on the SAS® Viya® engine, includes the latest statistical, machine learning, deep learning and text analysis algorithms that accelerate structured and unstructured data explorations, while also supporting popular open source languages. It unifies the entire machine learning process, from data access/transformation and preparation to scoring, in one environment.
SAS Enterprise Miner helps identify relationships and patterns buried in a company's data. It streamlines the data mining process to create accurate predictive and descriptive analytical models to find the best fit, no matter the size of the data set.
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OCEAN CITY – Less than one week after the settlement of a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit filed last year by the family of two Pennsylvania tourists who died of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in a Boardwalk motel room in 2006, five separate plaintiffs inflicted with CO poisoning in adjacent rooms during the same incident filed suit in U.S. District Court.
On March 27, the case filed in U.S. District Court by the family of two victims who died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the Days Inn Oceanfront on the Boardwalk at 22nd Street was settled before reaching trial for an undisclosed amount. The 24-count federal suit was seeking $30 million from the various defendants including the Bay Shore Development Corporation, owner of the motel where the tragic incident occurred; Heat Transfer Products, Inc., the manufacturer of the faulty water heater deemed as the source of the CO leak; R.E. Michel Co. Inc., the Glen Burnie-based company that distributed the water heater; and All About Plumbing, the local company that purchased and installed the water heater in the Boardwalk hotel months before the incident.
Six days later on April 2, a total of 10 new plaintiffs filed suit in U.S. District Court naming the same defendants in the original case along with several others including parent companies and subsidiaries of motel's ownership. Five of the plaintiffs were in the two of the rooms on the first floor of the motel and suffered directly from CO poisoning and were later hospitalized. The other five plaintiffs were either husbands or parents, or both, of the five victims and were indirectly affected by the incident.
The new suit includes 35 total counts, including premises liability charges against Bay Shore Corporation, Avis Budget Group, Wyndam Worldwide Corporation, and Days Inn Worldwide, Inc. Each of the five plaintiffs who suffered from CO is seeking $5 million collectively from the aforementioned defendants.
However, most of the counts listed in the suit are filed against the other defendants who allegedly had a hand, directly or indirectly, with the installation of the faulty water heater blamed for the tragedy. For example, each of the five victims is seeking $5 million collectively from the defendants on several counts including negligence, breach of express warranty, breach of implied warranty, and strict liability for a total amount sought of $25 million on each of the four counts.
Each of the husbands of the adult women afflicted with CO poisoning is seeking an additional $1 million for loss of consortium. The parents of the two teenage girls allegedly poisoned with CO are also seeking $100,000 each for medical bills for their children.


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"Feeling confident enough to venture out on my own, I started my own workshop, specializing in gemstones. It was a tough job initially, but after soon receiving accolades for my work, it became smooth sailing. Later, I launched my own jewelry collections, and I have been doing so ever since.
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Companion to the book Healing Mantras (Ballantine - Wellspring Books). It has quickly become popular as a way to learn the pronunciation, because every mantra from the book is pronounced on the CD. However, the CD can also stand on its own because it comes with a 23 page study guide.
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Beltway Blog — Polis measure to cut oil shale research funding passes, Colorado GOP push their own energy agenda
WASHINGTON — Congress adopted a Rep. Jared Polis amendment Wednesday that pares $25 million in federal research funding into oil shale development and puts that money toward deficit reduction.
The amendment was a rare victory for Polis, since he is a Democrat and the House is controlled by the GOP. None of Colorado's four Republicans voted for it. The other two Dems, Diana DeGette and Ed Perlmutter, voted for the measure.
"We shouldn't be throwing good money after bad on oil shale research that won't produce energy for the foreseeable future," Polis said, in a statement. "Dumping another $25 million of taxpayer money into oil shale research makes no sense when there isn't commercially viable technology that will turn it into oil."
Earlier in the day, Republican Reps. Scott Tipton, Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner and Doug Lamborn held a press conference on Capitol Hill unveiling their individual domestic energy initiatives that were tucked in an overall GOP package to lower gas prices and boost energy production the United States.


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Colombia no longer recognizes World Court on borders
BOGOTA, Colombia – Smarting from a World Court decision that cost Colombia some territorial waters, President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday that his government would no longer recognize the court's jurisdiction in territorial disputes.
Legal experts, however, said Santos' announcement was unlikely, in practice, to diminish the court's authority in any international disputes involving the South American nation.
"The decision I've made obeys a fundamental principal: The borders between states should be fixed by the states themselves," Santos said while opening a meeting of coffee growers in Bogota.
He was reacting to a Nov. 19 decision by the International Court of Justice in the Hague that his government has been railing against as unjust and erroneous.
The ruling affirmed Colombian sovereignty over a Caribbean archipelago off Nicaragua but said some waters around the islands belong to the Central American nation.
Those waters are valued for potential oil and gas deposits beneath them, and Santos, under pressure from environmentalists, had announced a moratorium on exploratory drilling in them. After the court's ruling, Nicaraguan officials said they would study exploration.
The court's decision affecting the San Andres and Providencia archipelago is final and not subject to appeal.
International legal experts said Santos' announcement would not, in practice, exempt Colombia from the jurisdiction of the World Court, as it is recognized as the arbiter of last resort under customary international law and practice.
What Santos announced was that Colombia would remove itself from the 1948 Pact of Bogota, a treaty that recognizes the World Court's jurisdiction to resolve international disputes in general, not just territorial disputes.
Santos said his government notified the Organization of American States on Tuesday of its withdrawal from the treaty.
He said the decision does not mean that Colombia "intends to remove itself from mechanisms of peaceful solution to controversies."
Matthew Brotmann, a professor of international law at Pace University Law School in the United States, said erasing Colombia's obligations under the 1948 treaty is not so simple as the country likely has laws and international obligations that adhere to its terms.
He said he doesn't think Santos stands to gain anything for Colombia from Wednesday's announcement other than burnishing his domestic political image.
"In my opinion, although he may say that they no longer are going to recognize the jurisdiction of the court, it doesn't really matter," Brotmann said.
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My problem is i have the main menu public void doMenu, within this i have options where a user enters a number 1-4 and are then taken to the chosen menu option they decide.
Below is the basic layout of it, if a user enters 1 then i want to invoke the method doAddStudent. I know how to store the value entered by the user etc i just need to know how i would invoke the doAddStudent method from inside the doMenu method.
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public class RegistryInterface { private Registry aRegistry = null; public RegistryInterface(Registry aRegistry) { } public void doMenu(Registry theRegistry) { System.out.println("Registry Main Menu"); System.out.println("******************"); System.out.println("1. Add a Student"); System.out.println("2. Delete a Student"); System.out.println("3. Print Registry"); System.out.println("4. Quit"); System.out.print("\nSelect option [1, 2, 3, 4] :> "); } private void doAddStudent() { } private void doDeleteStudent() { } }


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Holy backlash, Batman!
Warner Bros. announced Thursday that Ben Affleck will play Batman in the sequel to the Superman movie "Man of Steel."
Rumors about who'll star as the Caped Crusader in the yet-to-be-named film have been swirling ever since "Man of Steel" director Zack Snyder announced at Comic-Con last month that the two superheroes would appear together in the sequel -- their first pairing on the big screen.
Affleck's name wasn't even on The Hollywood Reporter's list of possible Batmans two weeks ago, when it speculated Ryan Gosling or Josh Brolin were likely candidates.
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Affleck will star opposite British actor Henry Cavill, who Warner Bros. said will reprise his role as Clark Kent and Superman.
Snyder's reimagining of Superman in "Man of Steel" broke the record for the biggest June opening when it appeared in theaters this year, taking in $125.1 million in its first weekend.
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Surat, a diamond hub, is an important town of Gujarat. Formerly it was known as Suryapur. It is the commercial capital city Gujarat and also the second-largest commercial hub of western India after Mumbai. This city is one of the most popular cities in India. Surat is India's eighth largest metropolitan city and also the cleanest Metropolitan Region. This city is situated on the left bank of Tapti River.
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Gujarati is spoken by majority of people. Hindi and English are also used.
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The interesting places to visit includes Dumas; it is located 17.6 Kms from BRC bus stand. Bardoli is another place situated at a distance of 33.8 Kms from BRC bus stand. Another one is Sardar Patel Museum; it is 5.5 Kms away from BRC bus stand. Hajira and The Old Fort are some more common places to visit; situated at a distance 28.9 Kms and 5.9 Kms from BRC bus stand respectively.
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You would think reviewing a Caterham would be easy. Put foot to floor, world melts, smile appears on face. That sort of thing. But there is so much more to a Caterham than excitement. This is a car that your life revolves around.
Get out of it and you will find fingers tapping and feet twitching, desperate to slide your body back into the car and go for just one more drive. In fact, we found it difficult to get out of the Supersport R, both literally and metaphorically. A Caterham offers a driving experience quite unlike anything else, both for good and bad, and this review aims to get to the core of exactly what that experience is.
The engine
First a word on the hardware. The Supersport R sits in the middle of Caterham's range, but there is nothing mid-range about it. It's mid-range if you think a cheetah is slow or a fighter jet is a casual family runaround.
The Supersport R will catapult you from 0-60 mph in 4.8 seconds thanks to its 180bhp 2-litre Duratec engine. Now, in reality, only the snappiest of gear stick masters will manage to get that kind of performance from the car.
This doesn't matter though, because even your grandma will manage to get back-snapping acceleration from this engine, as well as an exhaust note loud enough to wake the dead.
A word on that exhaust: being that it sits right by your ear, it engages you even more with the whole driving experience, connecting you to the car, letting you know in intimate detail when the engine is at its best, or worst for that matter.
That Duratec engine likes to be revved high. At low revs things are fairly manageable, so city driving, provided there aren't any speed bumps, isn't a challenge. Kick your foot down though and as soon as the RPM hits around 4500, the Supersport R goes utterly mental.
However, we will say that the close ratio gearbox does take a bit of getting used to. Starting cold, it takes a fair bit of force to work your way up through the gears. But once you get going, that shift from second to third under heavy acceleration is going to become among your favourite things on the planet.
The handling
For the Supersport R, Caterham has tried to bring most of the race-going tech in the more expensive models to a car which, even for the uninitiated, is totally drivable. You get a limited slip differential as well as race-inspired suspension with Supersport dampers.
It really inspires confidence in your driving and makes it very difficult to hit the limit of grip in the Supersport R. Even when you do, the amount of feedback you get from the wheel means bringing things back the right way isn't hugely difficult.
We really can't emphasise enough just how good the handling in a Caterham is. All the drama of the acceleration and exhaust are incomparable to the feeling you get when you first figure out how to drive a car like this through a corner on the accelerator pedal. This is a car that will make even the most inexperienced of drivers feel like a driving god.
The handling of the Supersport R, when at its best, makes the whole thing feel like a perfectly baked cake. The mechanical clunk of the gearbox, coupled with the feedback from the wheel and all the noise of that 2-litre engine utterly attaches you to the car. You are sitting so low and squeezed in so tight, that the car feels more like an exoskeleton with wheels.
Living with it
It is a shame to say, but the Supersport R really would be impossible to have as a car you drive daily. Things are so stripped back to focus on the pure driving experience, that literally any other action that you would do naturally in another car becomes an issue.
Take getting into the Supersport R, for example. Even once you have managed to squeeze yourself into the rock-hard bucket seats, you are then confronted with the joys of a four-point harness. What if it rains? You can put the wet weather gear up if you fancy, but prepare to experience what it is like to be cooked. Like we say, just like a cake.
Parking is also problematic. Vision is restricted at the best of times in the Caterham simply because you are so low down. Take away power steering and even a simple parallel park is a bit of a workout.
Finally we come to the question of the motorway. In a word, don't do it. It's loud, breezy, boring and the steering in the Caterham is so twitchy that even cruising speed demands a lot of concentration. Oh and finally, if you are in traffic, switch off all the electrics because it flattens the battery - as we discovered.
Anyone who takes issue with any of these things however really shouldn't be considering buying a Caterham. Just take one look at this bright yellow and black beast and you would be stupid to think a trip to Tesco in it would be a good idea.
This is a car for driving fun and nothing else. Get it out onto the B-roads and the Supersport R is going to come alive and win you over in an instant. That noisy trip down the motorway to the decent road will be forgotten. Mud on your trousers from footprints on the seats when you get in will seem a world away. All you will be concentrating on is driving this thing.
The Caterham to go for?
You would think picking a Caterham would be easy. They all look pretty much the same so surely it's just a matter of how big you dare go with the engine. But it isn't.
Any Caterham is going to be exciting, even the 125bhp Roadsport will make you accidentally go to the toilet at times. From there on up in the range it really is just a case of just how exciting you want things to be.
Having spent a fair few hours in cars like the Monaco, with its larger leather seats, we can see these as being slightly more suited to those who want three-quarters of the fun. The Supersport R however feels just right to us.
Quite frankly comfort isn't going to happen in any car in the Caterham range, not in the way your behind conventionally understands it anyway. Driving is what matters here. The more expensive R400 and R500 are so utterly bonkers that unless you know what you are doing, they might come back to bite you.
With the Supersport R you get all that fun, but just within the boundaries of sanity. So if you can afford it, we say go for it. If however price is an issue, even the "lowliest" of Caterhams is going to offer more excitement than you can imagine.
Don't forget that these cars hold their value provided they remain well kept and cared for. And that's an excuse to upgrade to a more powerful model later down the line if we ever heard one.
We adore the Supersport R. To us it feels like the perfect Caterham, just mad enough to be as fun as you need, without putting you through a brick wall if you blink.
City-dwellers might want to think of something a touch less bare boned, like an Elise say, but if it is going to be your second car then we can't see it being an issue. Obviously you'll need somewhere to put it as leaving a bright yellow racing car out in the city streets doesn't strike us as wise, even if its steering wheel does come off.
For those out in the country, you are lucky people. The Supersport R will transform your weekend. Take this thing on to the track however and it can get a lot more fun.
If you can afford it then, as a second car for the driving fan, the Supersport R really can't be more highly recommended.


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