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Catholic Health. Welcome to the first part of your orientation to Catholic Health. Please review the following slides. If you have questions regarding the material please bring them up when you attend you in class general orientation session. Catholic Health Corporate Compliance. Anne Mason
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Anne Mason
Compliance &
Privacy Officer
Promotes Ethical, Professional, and Legal conduct
"Doing what is right"
Defines Responsibility/Accountability
Supports CHS Standards
Assurance of Quality Care
Attain Compliance by:
Embracing our Mission and Values
Adherence to Policy and Procedures
Found in Compliance 360
Maintaining High Standards of Business and Ethical Conduct
Standards of Conduct
Deal openly and honestly with others
Maintain high standards of conduct in accordance to the CHS mission, directives of the Catholic Church, and applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations
Conflict of Interest
We have a responsibility to act on the best interests of Catholic Health. We need to avoid situations that lead to actual or perceived conflicts of interest
Documentation and Billing
Must be accurate and complete
Associate Compliance Guidebook
provides information on the Standards of Conduct
and is available on CHS website
An observation of failure to follow Standard of Conduct, Policy or Procedures, or observation of an error requires reporting.
Associates can face disciplinary action and even termination for failure to report such events.
All associates are expected to follow standards for:
Legal and Regulatory Compliance
Business Ethics
Conflict of Interest
Appropriate Use of Resources
Professional Conduct
And follow the Code of Ethics
social or entertainment events,
or free meals
associates must consult with their supervisor.
See CHS Policy for further information
If working on behalf of CHS do your actions or activities result in personal gain or advantage, potential adverse effect for CHS, or the potential to interfere with professional judgment, objectivity or ethical responsibilities?
Potential Conflicts of Interest Relationships
include financial relationship for yourself or your immediate family member or secondary employment
Speakers' bureau
Advisory Panel
Administrative positions with Pharm or DME
Third party payor
Other entities doing business with CHS
All potential Conflicts of Interest must be reported
It is fraudulent to either document services that were not performed or to submit claims for services without appropriately documenting those services.
Missing clinical notes (dates, signatures, orders, care or service rendered) or test results
Incomplete, or illegible documents
Improper billing and coding
can be interpreted as fraud or abuse and lead to a
false claim with the government resulting in penalties.
Reimbursement can only be sought for services or items that have been provided and appropriately documented.
If it's not documented, it's not done
It is a crime to knowingly make a false record, file, or submit a false claim with the government for payment
A false claim can include billing for service that:
was not provided or documented
not ordered by a physician
was of substandard quality
Improperly coded or billed
It is also unlawful to improperly retain overpayments
Allows for Qui Tam Relator –notification to government with protection
(Whistleblower provision)
Government Sanctions
Individuals or entities can be excluded from participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs.
CHS must not submit any claims to Medicare and/or Medicaid in which a sanctioned individual
or entity provided care or services.
If sanctioned, the person must provide notification immediately to the Compliance Officer.
Follow CHS Policies and Procedures
Offer Language Assistance Services
to those in need
Ensure patient privacy and confidentiality
is maintained (HIPAA and HITECH regulations)
Compliance Policies and Procedures are available
on Compliance 360 (or in an on-site reference manual)
and apply to all CHS associates
Additional compliance policies are also applicable to:
Home Care
Clinical Laboratory
Physician Practices
Nursing Facilities
Coding & Billing
Home Health Agency
PACE Program
Language Assistance Program
Language Assistance Program Policy is found in Compliance 360
Mandatory service by law
Family may NOT routinely interpret
Offered upon initial contact AND every time medical information is provided
Documentation is vital to compliance
See Policy for additional information
and HITECH
Health Information Technology for
Economic and Clinical Health Act
Privacy and Security Policies are in Compliance 360
Individually identifiable health information
Also known as
Protected Health Information (PHI)
Transmitted or maintained in any
form or medium
Treatment, Payment or
Health Care Operations
Only access portions of PHI necessary to carry out your duties or to fulfill request
Disclose minimum necessary for your job function based on need for the information
If unable to obtain patient consent, may use professional judgment to share information with a patient's family and friends
- Be careful with phone
call pertaining to patient
-Pick up faxed or printed PHI immediately
- Use fax cover sheet, verify # & receipt
- Scan PHI only to CHS e-mail accounts
- Make sure to encrypt if being sent outside CHS
- Careful forwarding and replying
- Double check name/address and
material prior to sending
All e-mails sent to a CHS web address are encrypted and therefore secure.
Each e-mail sent outside the CHS system,
will need to be encrypted if it contains sensitive information.
For instructions on a sending external encrypted
email type "encryption" in the search box of Compliance 360.
Curiosity can be a normal human trait
family members, friends, co-workers, persons of
public interest or any others that you are not involved in the care of or …
are...VIOLATIONS of HIPAA
Individuals do NOT have the right
to look up their own health records
Your computer use can be monitored
Lack of integrity
Ethical concerns
Theft or misuse of services
Improper Political Activity
Breech of Corporate Confidentiality
Improper use of Proprietary Info.
Environmental Health and Safety Issues
Dishonest Communication (spoken or documents)
Improper Business Arrangements
Failure to follow Record Retention policy
Receipt of incentives for patient referrals
The Associate Guidebook or your supervisor can provide additional info.
Immediate supervisor or appropriate department
Higher level manager
Compliance Officer
Compliance Line 1-888-200-5380 available 24/7
Confidential and Anonymous (if desired)
Report behavior issues, HR policy violations,
and union contract matters to Human Resources
Protects associates from adverse action when they do the right thing and report a genuine concern
Reckless or intentional false accusations by CHS associates are prohibited
Reporting the possible violation does not protect the constituent from the consequences of their own violation or misconduct
Associates have a duty to report
HIPAA/Compliance concerns
Upholding CHS Mission and Values,
Adhering to Code of Conduct,
Policies & Procedures, and the Law
Completing education and employment requirements
Constant Monitoring for Concerns
Duty to Report Concerns
and Support Non-retaliation
During an Investigation
be truthful
preserve documentation or records relevant to ongoing investigations
For the Associate and CHS Managers/Supervisors/Administrators
includes termination of employment for violations or failure to report concerns
For Catholic Health System
policies & procedures, and other standards
as soon as aware of situation
apply ethical decision making
Always Seek Knowledge (A.S.K.)
Use Associate Booklet as reference
on CHS website
Compliance/HIPAA Privacy Officer
Anne Mason 821-4469
CHS HIPAA Hotline
HIPAA Security Analyst
Sally O'Brien 862-1938
Corporate Compliance Hotline
1-888-200-5380 (available 24/7)
All reports are confidential
19 Bill of Rights
They are posted in all patient care areas
They are available in Spanish as well as English
If they don't understand their rights, someone needs to explain them
Receive treatment without discrimination
Receive considerate and respectful care in a clean safe environment free from unnecessary restraints
Receive needed emergency care
Know the names and positions of people caring for them, and refuse their treatment
Know who the MD is who is in charge of your hospital care
A non smoking room
Receive complete information about their diagnosis, treatment and progress
Receive all information for informed consent
Receive all information to give informed consent regarding do not resuscitate
Refuse treatment and be informed of effect
Refuse to take part in research
Privacy in the hospital and confidentiality of all information and records of your care
Participate in decision making about their care, including discharge
Review of their medical record
Receive an itemized bill with explanation of charges
Complain without fear of reprisal
Authorize family members to visit
Make known your wished regarding anatomical gifts
Catholic Health
What is "Risk Management"?
Risk Management is the systematic review of events that present a potential for harm and could result in loss for the system.
Risk Identification
Review Occurrence Reports
Review Patient/Visitor Complaints
Participate in Root Cause Analysis
Review concerns expressed by CHS
Loss Prevention
Educational Programs through
CHS University
Department specific inservices
Claims Management
Investigating & reporting occurrences and claims made to insurance carriers
Assist with discovery requests for lawsuits
Claims Management
Assist with Summons & Complaints and Subpoenas
Claims Management
Within CHS, a process server is to be directed to Administration of the facility in order to serve a Summons or a Subpoena. (HIM may accept subpoenas for hospital records)
Risk Financing
Obtaining & maintaining appropriate insurance coverage:
HPL (Healthcare Professional Liability)
GL (General Liability)
D&O (Directors & Officers)
Property & Casualty
Fiduciary (Finance)
An occurrence is an event that was unplanned, unexpected and unrelated to the natural course of a patient's disease process or routine care and treatment.
What are sources of an Occurrence?
Patient harm/potential for harm like
falls, med errors
Visitor injury
Patient related equipment
What are sources of an Occurrence?
Security issues like elopement, crime,
Lost or damaged property
What is the purpose
of an Occurrence Report?
Who can complete an Occurrence Report?
Any associate or physician who discovers, witnesses or to whom an occurrence is reported, is responsible for documenting the event immediately by means of the Occurrence Report. Anyone who requires assistance should contact the department manager.
What happens to the Occurrence Report?
The completed Occurrence Report is to be forwarded to
the Department Manager
Who will investigate the occurrence and forward to either Quality & Patient Safety Dept or Security as indicated in the
Risk Management process
Risk Management Process
Patient and visitor safety are assessed from both clinical and environmental perspectives
Notify Quality & Patient Safety of patient occurrences
Notify Security of visitor or property occurrences
Risk Management will be notified by QPS or Security
and will participate in evaluation of occurrence
Risk Management will report occurrences to insurance
carrier in cases of potential liability
Risk Management will manage claim as indicated
EMTALA is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
(aka COBRA)
EMTALA provides a
Guideline for safely and
transferring patients in
accordance with
Federal regulations.
The law provides for a medical screening exam (MSE) to all individuals seeking emergency services on hospital property. Hospital property includes the driveway, parking lot, lobby, waiting rooms and areas within 250 yards of the facility.
If an emergency medical condition is found, it will be stabilized within the hospital's ability to do so, prior to the patient's transfer or discharge.
If a patient does not have an emergency medical condition, EMTALA does not apply.
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003
"RED Flag Rules"
Hospitals that maintain covered accounts must develop and implement written policies and procedures to identify, detect, prevent, and mitigate identity theft.
You can help reduce opportunities for Identity Theft by keeping PHI confidential and out of public view.
If you believe someone is presenting suspicious documents or acting in a suspicious manner, notify your supervisor who will notify Risk Management
Catholic Health
Carol Ahrens, RN, BSN 821-4462
Director, Risk Management
Joanne Ricotta, RN, BSN 821-4463
Risk Management Coordinator
Linda McGavin 821-4467
Risk Management Technical Assistant
Valerie Pizarro 821-4468
Legal Services Administrative Assistant
Violence in the Workplace
'The process of transforming CHS into an organization with a superior ability to deliver patient-centered, quality, compassionate healthcare through outstanding professionals and innovative technology.'
Welcome to Equinox
Catholic Health System
General Orientation Level 1
Quality and Patient Safety
It is a Focused approach to identify, evaluate and improve strategic clinical processes to realize our overall goals of improving patient safety and clinical outcomes
Strategic "Dashboard" Categories Include:
At CHS we believe that the patients and associates safety are our main concern. As a result we have focused our efforts to strengthen our Culture of Safety with the ultimate goal of eliminating medical errors to our patients and injuries to our associates.
How? By raising our expectations of our Board, Leaders, Physicians and Associates.
We expect every ASSOCIATE, LEADER and PHYSICIAN to:
Additional Patient Safety Initiatives:
National Patient Safety Goals
The Catholic Health System fully endorses and supports the Joint Commission (JC) standards wherein any employee who has concerns about the safety or quality of care provided in the hospital may report these concerns to the JC. Furthermore, CHS demonstrates it's commitment by taking no disciplinary action against any associate who reports a safety or quality of care concern to the JC. Any employee can also feel free to report these concerns to the Quality and Patient Safety Department in their facility
The Infection Control Program is
designed with prevention in mind…
Compliance and guidance is primarily from
these agencies:
New York State Department of Health
Center for Disease Control
Occupational Health and Safety
Joint Commission
How are infections transmitted?
Dependent on the type of infection
Respiratory infections are transmitted
through coughing, sneezing and talking by
someone who is ill.
Other infections may occur from:
Direct skin to skin contact
Contaminated inanimate objects
A strong immune system is extremely important in
keeping healthy.
Transmitted through respiratory secretions
Includes seasonal, H1N1 and others
Practice respiratory etiquette and hand
Meticulous hand hygiene
Hand Hygiene
when taking care of patients with C-diff.
because you need the mechanics of hand washing.
Associates should not work while ill
Prior to returning to work after illness, associates must be ever free for 24hrs and off antipyretics
Annual Health Assessment/PPD
Obtain vaccines (eg. Influenza, Hepatitis B)
Report any potential communicable illness exposure (eg. Chicken Pox) for appropriate guidance
Two Plans:
Pandemic Influenza
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Maggiano's Little Italy
At Maggiano's, you'll find authentic Italian-American cuisine prepared by gifted chefs, old-neighborhood charm and generous portions being passed around the table.
A dark exotic experience awaits you with classic Moroccan fare and belly dancing.
Mastro's Steakhouse
Offering hand-cut prime USDA steaks and superlative seafood, this upscale steakhouse is the ultimate in a decadent dining experience.
Memphis Cafe
A critically acclaimed diner serving gourmet Southern home-style cooking from a classically trained chef whose strive for perfection will make you coming back for more.
Mezzet Mediterranean
Named for the wide array of Middle Eastern small plates—mezze—beloved for the fresh, vibrant flavors of Mediterranean cuisine—these tempting dishes, plus generous salads, savory kebobs and more are prepared in a bustling exhibition kitchen.
Mi Casa Cal-Mex Cantina
A Westside locals' favorite, Mi Casa serves traditional-style Mexican food in a warm, rustic atmosphere.
Milk & Honey
Milk & Honey offers teas, shaved ice, frozen yogurt, coffee drinks, baked good and other small bites in a cozy setting.
Mitsuwa Marketplace
Mitsuwa Marketplace is a Japanese-style market featuring delicacies found in Japan, as well as a food court serving mostly authentic Japanese cuisine, everything from house-made udon to freshly prepared ramen.
Morton's The Steakhouse
Quality, consistency and genuine hospitality are the pillars of this successful steakhouse.
Native Foods Café
Native Foods menu aims to please the palates of vegans and non-vegans alike, with a variety of hearty dishes, delicious desserts and homemade beverages inspired by the travels of its chefs.

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New pop-up strategy inspired by cuts, not folds
Origami-inspired materials use folds in materials to embed powerful functionality. However, all that folding can be pretty labor intensive. Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are drawing material inspiration from another ancient Japanese paper craft — kirigami.
Kirigami relies on cuts, rather than folds, to change the structure and function of materials.
In a new paper published in Physical Review Letters, SEAS researchers demonstrate how a thin, perforated sheet can be transformed into a foldable 3D structure by simply stretching the cut material.
"We find that applying sufficiently large amounts of stretching, buckling is triggered and results in the formation of a 3D structure comprising a well-organized pattern of mountains and valleys, very similar to popular origami folds such as the Miura-ori," said Ahmad Rafsanjani, a postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and first author of the paper.
"We find that applying sufficiently large amounts of stretching buckling is triggered and results in the formation of a 3D structure comprising a well-organized pattern of mountains and valleys, very similar to popular origami folds such as the Miura-ori."
The team found that if the material is stretched more, the temporary deformations become permanent folds. The team also found that the pop-up pattern and resulting mechanical properties of the material can be controlled by varying the orientation of the cuts.
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Transitioning from EQS to R for structural equation modeling (SEM) is made easier with a set of functions to convert .out files into R code. The EQS output can be converted into lavaan syntax and run in the R environment. Other functions parse descriptive statistics and the covariance matrix from an EQS .out file. A heat map plot of a covariance matrix is also included.
Author | Craig M. Krebsbach |
Date of publication | 2013-11-18 20:42:38 |
Maintainer | Craig M. Krebsbach <email@example.com> |
License | GPL-2 |
Version | 3.0 |
eqs2lavaan: Convert EQS Output to lavaan Syntax
eqs2lavaan-package: EQS Output Conversion to lavaan Functions
eqsCorr: Translate Covariance Matrix in EQS Output to a Correlation...
eqsCov: Translate Covariance Matrix in EQS Output to a Covariance...
eqsDesc: Extract Descriptive Statistics from an EQS Output File
out2lavaan: Function Called by the eqs2lavaan Function
plotCov: Plot a Covariance/Correlation Heat Map
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1 The Big Data Mining Company BETTER VISILITY FOR BETTER CONTROL AND BETTER MANAGEMENT 100 Examples on customer use cases Thanks to SECNOLOGY s wide range and easy to use technology, it doesn t take long for clients to benefit from the vast range of functionality. 1. Detect and analyze fluctuations and potential weaknesses on the information system 2. Maintain a flow chart to identify all communications in the information system. e.g. network, protocol, applications, server, services, department, or company level 3. Identify users who haven t logged in within a two week period 4. Filter only the important events from a large data volume 5. Separate useful and irrelevant data 6. Track the number of users who accessed a website and how often, the most frequently viewed, the most frequent users and user nationality 7. Monitor and control the security policies at workstation level or server level 8. Identify the top 20 users who surf the Internet and the 10 sites they visit most often 9. Monitor the duration colleagues spend on the internet, from start time to end time 10.Monitor any configuration changes and the changes that were made on the critical servers or security devices 11.Compare and contrast the number of transactions carried out on a group of servers and/or a certain population looking at the current and previous year s transactions 12.Compare and contrast memory and CPU utilization on all production machines 13. Trace the progression of different sessions for each protocol from the point of internet access 14.Analyze the firewall configuration and identify any rules that are no longer used, objects which no longer exist, and the sequence in which the rules must run and improve the performance of the firewall 15. Identify who accessed a particular server at a certain time, for example, Human Resources Server between 13:00 and 14:00 on November 20th Obtain a global overview of all events on one Central Server 17.Analyze the configurations of all routers and check for inconsistencies with the level 4 switches page 1
2 18.Collect, extract and convert raw data to meaningful data for a 3rd party application 19.Receive alert notifications whenever there is a major change on a device 20.Analyze the PABX (Private Automatic Branch exchange) logs for communication management, right management, and billing man agement to get a more accurate understanding of how their subscribers use the content or applications they are providing in order to adjust their subsribers billing plans 21.Better control of third party services that may jeopardize Telco s existing revenue streams (e.g. Skype) over a GSM/3G network and to accurately measure third party service usage in order to provide the basis for checking and adjusting the SLAs put in place with Content Providers 22.Control the networks increasing complexity and enable the building of richer quality of service (QoS) measurement and troubleshoot ing sol tions for the both the enterprise and carrier markets 23. Perform data log extraction to process key selected business information over IP networks in order to significantly improve their business critical application performances 24.Analyze both signaling and voice transfer sessions and facilitate correlation between protocols to enable MOS computation per call, per group of calls, per location, etc. in order to improve the experience of their VoIP service users. 25.Understand network behavior, why traffic may be experiencing delays and how subscribers use their network 26.Deliver more detailed and valuable data for clients in order to refine and adjust media investment strategies by measuring all valuable information produced in the digital world 27.Extract accurate information at user level to manage the quality of the user experience (QoE) and profile usage, in order to provide specifically customized and targeted offers 28.Carry out accurate and reliable IPTV audience measurements with a user-friendly plug-andplay solution, in order to optimize IPTV viewer profiling and generate extra revenue 29. Provide full visibility on all peer-to-peer transfers enabling the entertainment industry to prevent huge revenue leakage from piracy 30.Detect and prevent unauthorized information transmission from corporations computer systems to outsiders 31.Analyze all Internet communications (websurf, chat, webmail, file transfert, etc.) and help Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to en hance their Internet interception offers 32.Empower data retention solutions to record all communication details while saving storage capacity. Telecom operators are legally required to make detailed information, describing communication transiting through their network, available to government authorities 33.Anticipate malfunctions by being proactive 34.Evaluate potential opportunities by projected forecasts page 2
3 35.Compare and correlate events from several devices and different sources (applications, systems, users) 36.Ensure that data is traced in real time and that all actions have been carried out 37.Categorize and list any unusual activities 38. Identify a dead lock loop in the system, eliminate it and alert the messaging administrator 39.Analyze all communication logs to ascertain whether a user, an application or a process has tried to access a number of times a device which it doesn t have authority to 40.Save, track and protect all traces, files and configurations from all source devices 41.Carry out horizontal and vertical investigations and correlations 42.View in a clear and concise manner all events that take place on security devices 43.View in real time what is happening at security level 44.Verify that the security rules are being implemented correctly with no inconsistency amongst all security devices 45. Identify the security rules that aren t being used, ones that are used often as well as those used least 46. Identify the security rules that have been recently added and the objects they are applied to 47.Scan for any inconsistencies between different security rules 48.Access to business views 49.Awareness of how system security will react to an audit 50.Audit data and control with an audit trail 51.Access an original security trace at a given time 52.Analyze and trace attacks on 15 regional agencies for a given period 53.Compare the real impact of a new device or new architecture on the information system 54.React automatically and appropriately to a particular set of structured events, behavior or circumstances 55.Automate the traceability and retention period according to the type of data and according to countries legislation 56. Filter only useful information (parameters, thresholds, conditions, circumstances, etc) 57. Present a comprehensible technical support synopsis for the management hierarchy 58. Identify what is happening on the information system and protect it from any unknowns page 3
4 59.Evaluate to what extent the information system is vulnerable 60. Interrogate the log content of any device, operating system, or application 61.Achieve and maintain regulatory law compliance (PCI-DSS, SoX, GLBA, FISMA, HIPAA, ISO 27XXX, etc.) while replacing tedious manual processes as well as incomplete processes with full and detailed reports 62.Collect all available information so as to speed up the investigation process of an incident 63.Measure the qualities of services rendered and have access to all factual information 64.Correlate several events from several different sources of devices, systems and applications 65.Qualify the threat and quantify the risk on critical platforms 66.Anticipate needs to aid quick responses to new business requirements 67.Set up an SLA based on key flags or parameters from applications, systems, network devices, or telecom switches 68.Reorganize documents automatically, sorting them according to policy or strategy 69.Have access to a powerful robot that is able to perform several tasks at once, according to its directives 70.Set up a tool that measures the online functionality of internet sites 71.Execute a collection of static data from file systems or databases 72.Monitor the network devices 73.Measure and audit outsourced maintenance services handling printers and network devices all over the world vs the contracted SLA 74. Track the flow in a complex Firewall Load Balancing architecture framework 75.Reformat the data file or amend the format of the file data 76.Receive alert notifications if a device or application doesn t restart 77.Manage remote user s connection to know who is connected to the network and at what time and for how long 78.Know which applications, systems, networks have had production problems and for how long, in order to improve their service quality management and troubleshooting 79.Reduce the operating cost and the restoration times of service incidents 80. Profiling all types of data source 81. Find, clean (duplicates, inconsistency, caducity), restructure, and enhance all or some of the business data page 4
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Lots of moisture in the area. Highs will be muggy and in the low 90's with lows in the mid to upper 70's. Winds will be 5-15 mph but higher in storms. Rain chances max out at 50%. Two areas of interest are about currently that could impact the west coast of Florida. Invest 94 is tracking across the Atlantic with top winds of 25 mph currently and Invest 95 along the coast of Mexico which has winds of 20 mph but could remotely ride a stalled cold front across the Gulf...
By: kflhuds05, 4:10 PM GMT on August 13, 2012
Outlook for the early week appears to be typical summertime weather. Highs will be in the low to mid 90's with lows in the mid to upper 70's at night. Winds will be 5-10 mph and variable but stronger in storms. Rain chances are at 30%. Nothing to mention of note in the Gulf or Caribbean of tropically speaking. Hudson, FL USA weatherSunset at Sam's Hudson Beach Bar, Hudson, FL
Updated: 4:27 PM GMT on August 13, 2012
By: kflhuds05, 4:49 PM GMT on August 06, 2012
Outlook for the workweek looks like a normal summer values. Highs will be in the low to mid 90's and lows will be in the mid to upper 70's. Winds will be 5-8mph and varialble, higher in storms. Rain chances will average 40% over the time period. Threats for tropical weather at this time are non-existent. Hudson,FL USA weather
Updated: 4:51 PM GMT on August 06, 2012
By: kflhuds05, 7:05 PM GMT on August 01, 2012
Highs should be in the low 90's during the day and lows in the mid 70's at night. Winds will be 5-10mph out of the W-SW but higher in storms. Rain chances are at 30% and increase to 50% Sunday. Still too early to get a good line on Invest 99 in the tropics on where or if it will even form soon. Will monitor for further development. Hudson, FL USA weather
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Gunvor Nelson
Swedish artist Gunvor Grundel Nelson was born in 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden, and now lives in Kristinehamn, Sweden. She has worked as an experimental filmmaker since the 1960s. Some of her most widely known works were created while she lived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, where she became well established among other artists in the avant-garde film circles of the 60s and to the present (Gill, 28). As of 2006 she has to her credit twenty films, five videos, and one video installation (Holmlund, 67).
Education and awards[edit]
She obtained a Master of Arts degree from Mills College in Oakland, California.[1] Her teaching experience includes the San Francisco Art Institute from 1970 to 1992, after which she moved back to Sweden in 1993. Additional positions she has held include a year at San Francisco State University from 1969 to 1970 and a semester in 1987 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been featured in numerous European and North American festivals, one-woman shows, and she has been the recipient of several awards and grants. Some of these awards include: a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, as well as a Rockefeller Foundation grant (Holmlund, 84). Nelson's films were shown quietly in the underground circuit on the West and East coasts of the United States, until the mid-70s when she began to get press from sources that ranged from Playboy editors to Pauline Kael. This increase in national press coverage of her films was in part due to the notable Take-Off, a memorable satire on the performance of the striptease (Gill, 28).
In many of her major works she addresses subjects such as: childhood, memory, the idea of home/homeland and displacement, aging and death, and the symbolism of natural forces — particularly in relation to female beauty and power. Her talents for editing what is often dreamlike imagery, combined with fine attention to the effects of language and sound on the moving image, serve to enhance the consistent aesthetic of her experimental films.[2]
Nelson often creates what she termed "personal films" rather than "experimental" or "avant-garde" films; on this matter she says:
"Everyone seemed unsure of what to call it. It is difficult. Are you really so "avant-garde"? Experimental films sounds like something incomplete. I have made both surrealistic and expressionistic films, but I prefer the term "personal film". That is what it is about. Even if many don't understand the meaning of the term. On the other hand, it can be easier to refer to them as avant-garde films. But I like the description "personal film" since it stems from one person. When you paint, the term you choose will be described by method; mural painters for instance and so on. But when it comes to film we lack [the capacity] to describe what we are really doing." (Sundholm, 167).
Her depictions of women's experiences and issues of identity are never overtly political in their agenda or simplistic in nature; often they explore the sensual and erotic, and critique society's portrayal of women (Sundholm, 4) yet she denies any specifically "feminist" agenda behind her art-making. Instead, she creates "feminist" works in the broader sense of the term, they seek to find a more universal resonance as they address the personal and: "what is original, instinctive, and natural in womankind".[3] Nelson also prefers not to be referred to as a "woman" artist but simply an "artist".
Nelson's work often reveals her fascination with the visual translation and transformation of the world that a camera is capable of achieving. Commenting on her first film Schmeerguntz, a collaborative effort with Dorothy Wiley[4] Nelson said:
"I discovered how beautiful things look through the camera... A melon or dirty dishes, seen with a lens in close-up were translated into something else... The camera became like binoculars; you zero in on a small area and isolate it, and it becomes more precious because it's selected." (Holmlund, 78).
Her fascination with materials reflected in the titling of her work likely stems from her earlier artistic background as a painter. The visual transformations she obtains in the act of filming she typically modifies through painting and animation, and then organizes through painstaking editing of images and sound.
- Schmeerguntz, 1965 (15 min.):sd., b&w; 16mm
- Fog Pumas, 1967 (25 min.):sd., color; 16mm
- Kirsa Nicholina, 1969 (16 min.):sd., color; 16mm
- My Name is Oona, 1969 (10 min.):sd., b&w; 16mm
- Kirsa Nicholina, 1969 (16 min.):sd., color; 16mm
- Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob (with Dorothy Wiley), 1971 (70 min.): sd.,col.;16mm
- One and the Same (with Freude Solomon-Bartlett), 1972 (4 min.): sd.,col.;16mm
- Take Off (with Magda), 1972 (10 min.): sd., b&w; 16mm
- Moon's Pool, 1973 (15 min.): sd., col.; 16mm
- Trollstene, 1973-76 (120 min.): sd., col.; 16mm
- Before Need* (with Dorothy Wiley), 1979 (75 min.): sd., col.; 16mm
- Frame Line, 1984 (22 min.): sd., b&w; 16mm
- Red Shift, 1984 (50 min.):sd., b&w; 16mm
- Light Years, 1987 (28 min.): sd., col.; 16mm
- Light Years Expanding, 1987 (25 min.): sd., col.; 16mm
- Field Study #2, 1988 (25 min.): sd., col.; 16mm
- Natural Features, 1990 (30 min.): sd., col.; 16mm
- Time Being, 1991 (8 min.): si., b&w; 16mm
- Old Digs, 1993 (20 min.): sd., col.; 16mm
- Kristina's Harbor, 1993 (50 min.): sd., col.; 16mm
- Before Need Redressed (with Dorothy Wiley), 1995 (42 min.):sd., col.; 16 mm
- Tree-Line/Tradgrans, 1998 (8 min.):sd., col.; video
- Bevismaterial:52 Veckor (Collected Evidence: 52 Weeks), 1998 (4x30 min.): installation
- Snowdrift (a.k.a. Snowstorm), 2001 (9 min.): sd., col.; video
- Trace Elements, 2003 (9 min.): sd., col.; video
- True to Life, 2006 (38 min.): video
- New Evidence, 2006 (22 min.): video
- ^ http://re-voir.com/shop/en/49-gunvor-nelson-
- ^ Jensen, Jytte. "Gunvor Nelson Retrospective: Personal Lens." Film Exhibitions 2006. 10 Oct. 2008
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- Gill, June M. (Spring 1977). "The Films of Gunvor Nelson". Film Quarterly. 30 (3): 28–36. JSTOR 1211771.
- Holmlund, Chris. "Excavating Visual Fields, Layering Auditory Frames: Signature, Translation, Resonance, and Gunvor Nelson's Films." Women's Experimental Cinema. Ed. Robin Blaetz. Duke University Press: Durham & London, 2007. 67-88.
- Sundholm, John. The Material and the Mimetic: On Gunvor Nelson's Personal Filmmaking. Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 48.2 (2007) 165-173. JSTOR Bard College Library.
External links[edit]
- Gunvor Nelson at the Internet Movie Database
- Gunvor Nelson at the Swedish Film Database
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Defining Requirements for Social Web Applications – Part 2: The Framework
This is the 2nd post in a series on Defining Requirements for Social Web Applications. Click on the following links to access previous post in this series:
This post will present a general approach for defining requirements for Social Web applications. As with the other posts in this series, the content is largely borrowed from Joshua Porter's book Designing for the Social Web. Porter's book is a gem, and if the topic of social web design is of interest to you, I highly recommend you pick up a copy.
The single most important factor in specifying requirements for any product or application is to focus on how your users will use the application. This includes both the core use cases (or user scenarios), as well as the key requirements for user interaction.
Chapter 2 of Porter's book introduces a framework for Social Web Design. He starts out by emphasizing the importance of staying focused on the "core" use cases for the social application, and being careful to avoid scope creep, and saddling your application with a whack of non-essential features. This involves prioritizing the overall feature list, and focusing on the essentials.
The AOF Method
Porter provides a very nice framework for identifying core social application requirements which he calls the AOF method, where AOF stands for Activities, Objects, and Features.
The AOF Method is comprised of 3 key steps:
- Focus on the primary Activity
- Identify your social Objects
- Choose your Feature set
– The first question you must answer is what is your audience doing?
– Once you've got the activity down, you have to identify the objects that people interact with while doing that activity.
– From the activity and objects you can derive a core feature set, answering the question: What are the actions people perform on the objects, and which are important enough to support in the web application?
Focus on the Core Activities
Porter communicates that a common refrain when doing requirements analysis is "know your users?" He points out, however, that more important that knowing all about the people who will be using a social application is having a deep understanding of the specific activities that the solution will enable.
Actually, Porter advocates focusing on a "single" core activity – for example, with Amazon, it might be "shopping for books", with Flickr it's photo sharing, and so on. But I'm going to allow for some leeway here, and allow for a small set of core activities that the site might support.
Once you've defined your small set of core activities, you should focus deeping on the tasks your users will take to succeed in accomplishing these activities.
Quoting Porter:
We should know all the steps taken in performing the activity, the decisions people need to make at each step, the influencing factors in those decisions, and what types of roles people are in when making them.
Goals, Tasks, and Activities
Porter writes:
It's helpful to distinguish between goals, activities, and tasks. Goals are end conditions people are striving for. Activities are the set of tasks people do to achieve their goals.
Many times we focus too much on tasks instead of the larger activity. Instead of focusing on the task of "purchasing goods", it is more beneficial for design purposes to focus on the activity of shopping, as it better describes what's really going on.
Thinking on the level of activities allows us to focus on both the details of tasks as well as the overall goals of the people who use are software. Activities also allow us to take into consideration the social interactions we participate in when we solve problems, whether getting recommendations from trusted people or asking perfect strangers what they would do.
Here's a nice chart provided by Porter that distinguishes between goals, activities, and tasks for some popular social websites:
While Porter is talking about identifying key social application activities here in the context of developing applications, the same analysis should go into acquiring packaged applications to deliver valued user experiences. If you don't carefully consider the key activities that your application must support, and the user experience of how those activities are fulfilled, there's very little chance that you'll deliver experiences to your users that delight them.
Next up, Social Objects
Having established a method for defining user requirements for your social application, the next post in this series will delve into the heart of the matter – identifying and describing your Social Objects.
Stay tuned.
Also in this series
- Defining Requirements for Social Web Applications – Part 1: Overview
- Defining Requirements for Social Web Applications – Part 3: Social Objects
- Defining Requirements for Social Web Applications – Part 4: Defining Core User Actions
- Defining Requirements for Social Web Applications – Part 5: Motivations for User Participation
- Defining Requirements for Social Web Applications – Part 6: Collective Intelligence
- Defining Requirements for Social Web Applications – Part 7: Enabling Sharing
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Friday, March 31, 2006
The Wizard of Oz
This is what happens when a flying, torch-gifting monkey meets a heartless Tin Man, a mindless Scarecrow, and a wimpy Lion. What a weird story. Dorothy is arm-wrestling the Witch off screen. That was my first sketch.
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Lion is put in his place...
I love the Wizard of OZ! I think it was around the 4th grade when I would go to the library and check out as many OZ books as I could find; -especially the big fat ones with the amazing illustrations in them. I would study those drawings so much; they were a big influence on me. We currently live in a house that used to be on the MGM lot back in the day, and it is where they made all the costumes for the Wizard of OZ movie. We call it the Tailor of OZ's house. Cool, huh? I hope to add color to this one too, eventually.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Well, here you go. Great subject, Jed. I really enjoyed it. Now I have to work late to catch up on my actual job.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Monday, March 27, 2006
The Tin Can
I figured if I posted this "piece" first, the rest of you won't feel ashamed to post your own this week.
Here are my thoughts:
Maybe this is what inspired L. Frank Baum to have a man made of tin who needs a heart.
Or maybe it's what eventually become of the Tin Man.
All I know is, I should be kicked out of Toon Club.
Here are my thoughts:
Maybe this is what inspired L. Frank Baum to have a man made of tin who needs a heart.
Or maybe it's what eventually become of the Tin Man.
All I know is, I should be kicked out of Toon Club.
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Joe Fowler
Friday, March 24, 2006
And now... Jed's Assignment - The Wizard of Oz
I think it's my turn, isn't it? Anyway, if it is, I decided it would be fun to do the wizard of oz. Dorothy. The tin man. The lion. The scarecrow. Toto. Some flying monkeys. Pick one or tackle the whole crew. word to your mothers.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Captain Hookie Mercury
My first few sketches were leaning toward the Frank Thomas design of Captain Hook. As I tried to get away from that, I realized I was just drawing Freddie Mercury of Queen. Rather than choose one direction or the other, I simply combined the two. My apologies to both Captain Hook and Freddie Mercury for seeing each of them as the other.
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Thar be Hooky and Tink
I took a cue from Shane and just posted the sketch. It's been a crazy busy couple of weeks, so this is what I can do this time. If I ever get color on the thing I'll replace this one.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Baby Hook Hands
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
The future Hook
What a fortuitous coincidence. I've just been working on an illustration for someone based on Captain Hook so this gives me the opportunity to see what you all think of it. The idea here is to show him as an English gentleman prior to his becoming Hook and foreshadowing what he will become in the clouds.
Friday, March 10, 2006
All Ye Who Enter Here...
Avast ye land lubbers, 'tis true -this next week's topic be CAPTAIN HOOK!
So tie down the main mast mateys, and put your hands together ('cause he's only got one!) for the Steal-handed Stingray, the Sleaziest Sleaze of the Seven Seas- CAPTAIN JAMES HOOK! Yo-Ho!
-The Fearsome Captain Seth (arrrrgh!)
So tie down the main mast mateys, and put your hands together ('cause he's only got one!) for the Steal-handed Stingray, the Sleaziest Sleaze of the Seven Seas- CAPTAIN JAMES HOOK! Yo-Ho!
-The Fearsome Captain Seth (arrrrgh!)
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Samurai Seth
Hey look, it's me, but I'm a samurai! I would be sitting on the couch with Shane, but he took the whole couch.
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Seth Hippen
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Samurai Adrian and the Case of the Twenty-Headed Dragon
With his faithful sidekick, Chim Chum the Fox, by his side, the portly defender goes undercover to discover the truth about... HOLY EGGROLLS! A TWENTY-HEADED DRAGON! RUUUUUNNNNN!!!!!!!!
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Adrian Ropp
Monday, March 06, 2006
Samurai Scrappy
Revealed at last! Who's behind the mask of the Hit Show, "Samurai Jack"?
When casting was looking for someone brave, daring and experienced in cartoon acting, one name came to the forefront. Scrappy-Doo! Asked if he minds his anonymity behind the mask, Scrappy answered, "After the Scooby and Scrappy show there weren't a lot of parts out there for cute, daring, pint-sized pups. So when they offered me the part of Sammy, as I like to call him, I leapt at it. After all, I have to bring home the kibbles and bits just like anyone else.
003 Samurai "Your Name Here",
Mark Swan
This Week's Topic - Due March 13th
After having a few laughs about the dinosaur with my face and staring at rough sketches of Samurai Jack all week, I thought of the topic: Samurai "your name here".
Go to town... goooo theeeere!
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Puff the Magic Data Entry Dragon
Well, it turns out good ol' Puff's magic was a little hard to categorize into a specific "job skill." Stay in school kids.
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