Transforming America by redirecting wasted health care dollars

ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2012) ? The respected national Institute of Medicine estimates that $750 billion is lost each year to wasteful or excessive health care spending. This sum includes excess administrative costs, inflated prices, unnecessary services and fraud -- dollars that add no value to health and well-being.

If those wasteful costs could be corralled without sacrificing health care quality, how might that money be better spent?

In a study published in the current online edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Frederick J. Zimmerman, professor and chair of the department of health policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and colleagues outline some of the myriad ways that $750 billion could benefit Americans.

"If cut from current health care expenditures, these funds could provide businesses and households with a huge windfall, with enough money left over to fund deficit reduction on the order of the most ambitious plans in Washington," Zimmerman said. "The money could also cover needed investments in transportation infrastructure, early childhood education, human capital programs, rural development, job retraining programs and much more. And it could transform America with little to no reduction in the quality of, or access to, health care actually provided."

Zimmerman noted that while different observers would likely have different priorities regarding the alternative uses toward which the wasted expenditures could be directed, all would agree that the alternatives proposed in this study have inherent social value.

"When the fastest-growing part of the economy is also the least efficient, the economy as a whole loses its ability over time to support our current living standards," said Jonathan Fielding, a UCLA professor of health policy and management and director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, who is a co-author of the study. "The U.S. has become irrationally attached to its inefficient health care system. Recognizing the opportunity costs of this attachment is the first step in repairing the system."

In the study, the research group, which also included Dr. Steven Teutsch, chief science officer of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and first author Jeffrey C. McCullough, a graduate student at the UCLA Fielding School, presented one scenario of how that money could be used.

For one, the authors propose that more than $410 billion per year -- or 55 percent of the savings -- could be returned to the private sector for individuals and companies to use as they please; another $202 billion (27percent) could go toward deficit reduction, yielding a greater reduction than the congressional "super committee" sought and failed to achieve. An additional $104 billion (14 percent) could support additional investments in human capital and physical infrastructure.

"For example," Zimmerman said, "the Head Start program could be doubled in size, universal preschool could be provided, average class size could be reduced from 22-25 to 13-17 students. And trained nurses could conduct regular home visits for high-risk pregnancies."

Two percent of the savings, amounting to $18 billion, could promote urban and rural quality of life by improving the built environment surrounding schools, expanding and modernizing public libraries, improving wastewater treatment and providing rural development grants to every small town in the nation. Job-training opportunities would be affordable for nearly 50,000 unemployed persons. And under the research group's scenario, the remaining 2 percent of the savings would be devoted to fully funding an extensive wish list of transportation projects to alleviate road congestion and promote mass transit alternatives.

Freeing up this money would be no easy task, Fielding warned. These excess expenditures will be difficult to reduce because the costs are spread across many groups, and the financial beneficiaries are coordinated, clear-minded and powerful, he said. Overcoming this resistance will require concerted collective action on the part of many economic sectors, governmental agencies and other organizations that are not used to seeing themselves as sharing interests with the others.

But whatever one's values and preferences, said Zimmerman, "eliminating excess medical care costs provides a monumental opportunity to reallocate those resources to strengthen our international competitiveness, enhance our well-being and build a healthier nation."

The result of redirecting some $750 billion per year, he said, could be transformative for Americans, and the potential uses for these funds are panoramic in both scope and possibility.

"This will not be an easy fight," Zimmerman said. "But we believe reconceptualizing our excess health care spending by looking at its opportunity cost to society is an important first step."

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Concert Business Grinds to a Halt in Hurricane Sandy's Wake ...

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David Byrne and St. Vincent had to postpone their appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight in New York because one of their backup musicians was stuck in Mexico City, a monitor engineer was stranded in San Francisco and a horn player flew from Portland to Minneapolis to Washington, D.C., before finally realizing he couldn't even get into the city via car. "A lot of the alternative plans that got made were then themselves canceled," says David T. Viecelli, one of the duo's managers, adding they'll still appear Thursday on The Colbert Report and hope to reschedule Letterman. "It was a constantly rolling readjustment period ? 'we have to do this more convoluted thing.'"

In addition to drowning subways, knocking down trees, exploding transformers and generally disrupting life in New York and the East Coast, Hurricane Sandy has scrambled the entertainment business, particularly music. Broadway shows and performances at Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall and Lincoln Center were canceled on Monday and Tuesday; late-night hosts Letterman and Jimmy Fallon performed their regular shows yesterday with no live audiences, while Jimmy Kimmel nixed a live taping of his show in Brooklyn;?Journey canceled their show tonight at Brooklyn's Barclays Center; and Louis C.K., Mos Def, Ghostface Killah, and Grimes all canceled Monday night gigs.

Hurricane Sandy Disrupts East Coast Concerts

Other acts are cancelling shows outside of the New York metropolitian area. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band postponed their Rochester, New York concert from Tuesday to Wednesday; Trey Anastasio moved his Sunday night show in Port Chester to November 5th; Cat Power's Sunday gig in Philadelphia was pushed to January 2nd; and indie-rockers the xx and?electronic dance music star Pretty Lights scrapped tour dates throughout the East Coast.?

Perry Greenfield, who manages singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, spent the last two days with nowhere to go because his Red Light Management office is on Sandy-ravaged Wall Street. Wainwright's appearance, with fun. and the National for the Freedom to Love Now! marriage-equality benefit at the Beacon Theatre, was canceled tonight ? and Greenfield had to deal with the logistics from his Manhattan apartment with no Internet or cable. "It was tough yesterday," he says by phone. "We had a few stranded folks."

In the short term, the canceled concerts will merely be a financial hit for artists, venues and promoters. When New Yorkers and other residents in Sandy-affected states assess the damage, some predict longer-term repercussions. Sarah Kesselman, director of events and talent buyer for Santos Party House in Manhattan, had to postpone a sold-out Shiny Toy Guns show tonight and may not reopen until Thursday ? tough to overcome during Halloween week. "It's not that there is damage to the club, but we don't have power, so it's just a matter of canceling all the concerts," she says. "It is affecting us financially." A top promoter told Billboard he expected "an impact on our budgets and earnings."

Smaller clubs in especially rough weather zones may have longer-term problems, too. Owners of New York fixtures such as legendary jazz club Village Vanguard, Arlene's Grocery and Terra Blues couldn't be reached Monday, but Greenfield fears the worst. "It's in a basement in the West Village," he says. "Who knows what's going on." John Scher, a longtime New York City promoter who had no power in his suburban home, is even more apocalyptic. "New York's a disaster. Manhattan's closed down," says Scher, who canceled three shows in the city this week, including Rickie Lee Jones Thursday at the Concert Hall. "There's no power in Manhattan from 34th Street south ? that pretty much makes about 90 percent of the clubs in the rock space, and the subways are completely closed and flooded. Losing a week of shows probably will hurt a lot."?

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Eateries facing a plate of health care issues | Atlanta Forward

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Higher menu prices. Fewer work hours and jobs. Zero expansion and possible closings. This, writes a local franchiser, will be the potential impact in the restaurant industry of health mandates under the Affordable Care Act. But the co-founder of a workers? advocacy group suggests that businesses can profit by taking care of personnel.

Repeal Obamacare

By Aziz Hashim

More than three years into our jobless ?recovery,? 12.1 million Americans are still out of work. Nearly 23 million have stopped looking or can?t find full-time work.

The labor participation rate is 63.6 percent, the same level we saw in 1981. Employers are only adding slightly more jobs per month needed to keep pace with normal labor-force expansion.

So why did the unemployment rate go down below 8 percent last month? In large part, due to an increase in part-time work. While the drop in unemployment may seem completely positive, there is an underlying problem for small business owners due to Obamacare.

As employers begin to make their growth plans for the next year, the true costs of Obamacare have started to sink in. They threaten much of the growth forecast in businesses like mine, a franchise of pizza, burger and chicken restaurants that include Atlanta-based Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. I want to grow my business and add more locations. Obamacare penalizes me every time I add a full-time worker to my franchise.

The employer mandate forces employers to provide coverage or pay a penalty once they reach the 50 full-time-employee threshold. Employers face a decision of closing a business, eliminating jobs, or shifting workers from full- to part-time to avoid the law?s penalties. We are likely going to choose the latter option.

In the franchise industry, there are thousands of multi-unit franchises like me who are put at a competitive disadvantage by the law?s employer mandate. This threatens growth in our industry. In cases where a franchisee owns and operates multiple locations, the law treats these firms as one company for tax and health-care purposes.

Suppose a multi-unit franchisee owns four establishments with 15 full-time employees each. Under the law, this multi-unit franchisee will be treated as a single firm with 60 full-time employees. The employer will be required by law to provide health care benefits for all employees or pay a fine of $2,000 per full-time employee per year. If these four establishments were owned and operated separately, they would be exempt from the health care requirement.

If these four separately owned businesses choose to offer health insurance, they would in many cases be entitled to a tax credit, making this an even further disadvantage for multi-unit ownership.

Businesses cannot operate at a loss for an extended time. That is the choice this law may force companies to face. Another often-overlooked factor is that many businesses will have an added incentive to become more automated and employ fewer workers. Utilizing automated check-out counters and purchasing new machinery are options we must consider to reduce the number of employees and remain profitable under these mandates.

Business owners like me who want to continue to expand would feel more confident about expansion and hiring plans without Obamacare. The only way to change this is by repealing Obamacare in its entirety and starting over with market-based solutions.

Aziz Hashim is president and CEO of? Decatur-based National Restaurant Development, Inc.

Health care can help stabilize workforce

By Saru Jayaraman

There?s been a lot of talk about the recent announcement by Darden, the world?s largest full-service restaurant company and owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster, that it would reduce workers? hours to avoid having to provide health coverage when the Affordable Care Act goes into effect in 2014.

None of the coverage mentioned the impact on one key stakeholder group: consumers.

Last fall, a server at a North Carolina Olive Garden was forced to work with Hepatitis A because the company neither offers paid sick days nor any kind of health care. Three thousand people had to get tested for Hepatitis A and many ended up winning a consumer class-action lawsuit against the company.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a great step to ensure that people who touch our food are not sick, making sure that we don?t get sick as well. Darden claims the ACA is forcing the company to reduce its employees? hours to stay afloat.

Moreover, the National Restaurant Association would have you believe the industry is going to collapse if it actually provides workers with genuine health-care access. There are plenty of great employers in America already providing benefits.

For the last three decades, Zingerman?s Community of Businesses in Michigan has been providing up to 80 percent of workers? health care premiums on a comprehensive health care plan. Zingerman?s started as a two-employee deli in 1982. It has grown to an award-winning company with nine businesses that employ 575 workers and realize more than $40 million per year in revenue.

How? Zingerman?s was committed to working benefits into its business model from the start and heard workers? input in choosing the plan.

Says Zingerman?s founder Paul Saginaw, ?What do you get from it? You get a stable workforce. You get a workforce that can stay healthy. You get someone who feels good about the company and is out there trying to help the company be successful. The benefits are enormous. So now you figure out how to make it work.?

Everyone agrees health care costs are high. Saginaw believes a government-funded plan would be best. Without that, Saginaw needs and wants his employees to be healthy, for the sake of his workers and customers, and for his own bottom line. His workers say their customer service is better because they feel secure.

In fact, restaurants in the whole city of San Francisco have had to contribute toward a health care fund for their workers since 2008. Business is booming.

The organization I direct, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, puts out a consumer guide on which restaurants provide benefits like paid sick days and which don?t at www.rocunited.org/dinersguide. We should support restaurants that do and let others know they shouldn?t cut corners because we put our health in their hands every time we eat out.

Saru Jayaraman is co-director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United in New York.

Source: http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-forward/2012/10/30/eateries-facing-a-plate-of-health-care-issues/?cxntfid=blogs_atlanta_forward

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Advantages of the Internet: More Cost Effective Way to Do a Business

If you are like a lot of people, you probably dream of quitting your day job and working for yourself.

People around the world dream of being their own bosses and beating the time clock and the weekly paycheck, but a lot of these individuals never realize their dreams of opening their own businesses.

One major reason why you may not have quit your job and opened your own business yet is due to a lack of funds. Opening a brick-and-mortar business can cost thousands of dollars, and most people don?t just have that much lying around.

Therefore, many people give up on their dreams before ever giving them a try.

You shouldn?t let this happen to you.

Instead, you should embrace the advantages of the Internet.

One of the advantages of the Internet is that you can open and operate your own business, say goodbye to your boss and your job and live the life that you have always wanted, and you won?t even have to have a lot of money in order to do it.

You can run practically any type of business online

Regardless of your talents and your passions, you can surely put them to good use with the help of the Internet.

More and more people are now doing business online, and there are countless options out there for those who want to open their own businesses.

Whether you want to provide an online service, sell things or just make money off of the advertisements, you can surely find an opportunity online.

One of the main advantages of the Internet is just how versatile it is.

There truly are an incredible amount of opportunities out there for anyone who is ready to put forth the effort in order to take them.

Getting started is cheap

Instead of having to shell out thousands of dollars in order to start a brick-and-mortar type of business, you can save a lot of money while still opening the business that you want by starting it online.

Regardless of your type of business, all you need is a website or blog. Luckily, you can save a lot by establishing your business in this manner.

Instead of having to pay to lease a building, you can simply pay around 10 dollars for a domain name and 5 dollars a month on Web hosting.

You don?t even have to pay an expensive Web designer in order to get started.

Instead, you can purchase?out of the box WordPress theme by StudioPress. These themes are high quality, easy to use and SEO friendly, making it simple to get the professional look that you desire without spending a fortune.

For example, paying less than 100 dollars for a professional looking theme, think as initial investment in your business.

Cut out labor costs

One of the biggest expenses that many business owners have is paying for hired help.

Regardless of how much your heart is in your business, it?s going to be impossible for you to run things on your own if you have a brick-and-mortar store.

This isn?t the case with an online business.

You can pick and choose your hours around your own schedule, and you can handle things at your own pace. This means that you probably won?t have to hire any help unless things get really busy .

Reach a larger audience

Bringing in enough business in order to turn a good profit is another challenge that many traditional business owners deal with.

If you live in a small area, it can be hard to drum up a large amount of business. In turn, larger areas often have too much competition when it comes to many businesses, making it even harder to make it.

Another one of the great advantages of the Internet is the fact that you can reach a large audience from the comfort and convenience of your own home.

In fact, you can do business with people all over the world.

Have you ever considered the advantages of the Internet when it comes to opening and operating your own business?

Are you willing to give it a try?

You might also be interested in:

1. Five Advantages of Using the Internet for Your Business
2. The Unexpected Advantages of the Internet

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Celiac Information: SIMPLY GLUTEN FREE MAGAZINE

10/28/2012

There is a new gluten free magazine that just came out that is out of this world,.
It is called Simply Gluten Free
I just received my first issue? and love it
I think the website is www.simplyglutenfreemag.comThe first premiere issue has information on the holiday recipes and information on updates on Celiac Disease
The premiere? issue also has some articles on gluten free make up the Paleo Diet? a Gluten Free Vegetarian diet
The one article that I? really loved was on page 11 which was an article on a new device called EZGluten which yo can detect gluten in a food or drink by a testing kit that actually meaures if there is gluten in a food or drink
It comes with a full test with instructions and everything except the food or drink that you want to know if it has gluten in it
You ? only need a tiny bit of food or drink to put in the test tube the size of a a finger tip full of crumbs from the food you want to know about or the drink?? you want to know about?
The test will tell you if there is no gluten in it or if it is positive? for gluten? or if it has a very high positive level of gluten in it
The website is www.ezgluten.com.? I think this is great you can easily check in abut 10 minutes if a food has gluten in it without having to eat it and without having to be exposed to gluten and get sick
This magazine has everything in it for the holidays and everything you need to help you out with your gluten free diet and help to control your disease.?

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Ten years of assisted suicide at Dignitas ... - NRL News Today

By Dr. Peter Saunders

Editor?s note.? Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members.

Now that the Tony Nicklinson case is over and the next assisted suicide bills (from Falconer in the House of Lords and Macdonald in Scotland) are not to be debated until next year one could be forgiven for thinking that the relentless media pressure for the legalisation of euthanasia might relent for a few weeks.

But no ? first we have the pronouncements of junior health ministers Norman Lamb and Anna Soubry giving their support for the legalisation of assisted suicide and now the BBC, in its role as cheerleader for assisted suicide, is making an international news story about the fact that it is ten years since the first Briton went to the Dignitas suicide facility in Zurich to kill himself.

This is actually a non-story. The on-going sad procession of desperate Britons on the Swiss suicide trail is in reality a tiny trickle but every new case is seized upon by sections of the British media, and especially the BBC, in an attempt to create the impression that there is a huge ?unmet need? and as a further opportunity to say again that we must have the debate that we have actually not stopped having constantly for the last six years.

In fact, given that the BBC repeatedly breaches international suicide prevention guidelines in its coverage, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that a significant number of those travelling abroad have been encouraged to do so by seeing others doing it on television with full media and celebrity support.

The carefully orchestrated and well-funded celebrity driven campaign run by Dignity in Dying, the former Voluntary Euthanasia Society, is skilled at getting hugely disproportionate coverage for every new case it can find and the BBC, in particular, is only too willing to provide them with an international media platform.

Today?s story is in the news because DID obtained some new figures from Dignitas and sent out a press release to sympathetic media outlets including the BBC. The BBC have also given prominence to an emotive hard case in a prime time slot in Radio four whilst relegating a more serious examination of the issues to a time when far fewer people were listening.

The reality is that between 2002 and 2011 a total of 182 Britons ? on average 18 per year ? have killed themselves at Dignitas. Numbers per year since 2006 have been relatively constant between 20 and 30 per year.

These numbers are a tiny fraction of the 550,000 natural deaths that occur in Britain each year and a very small trickle compared with the 650 and 13,000 who, on the basis of the 2005 Lords Select Committee report, it was estimated would die in Britain annually under an Oregon or Dutch-type law, respectively.

The 750% increase in assisted suicides amongst Swiss nationals since 1998, along with the disturbing 18% annual increase in euthanasia in the Netherlands over the last year will sound strong alarms to legislators in Britain that we should not be contemplating going down this route.

Reports from the Netherlands of psychiatric and dementia patients being euthanized and mobile euthanasia clinics along with Belgian accounts of organs being harvested from euthanasia patients and 32% of all euthanasia deaths being ?without consent? understandably fuel this concern.

Public opinion polls supporting a change in the law can be easily manipulated when high media profile (and often celebrity-driven) ?hard cases? are used to elicit emotional reflex responses without consideration of the strong arguments against legalisation.

But when these arguments are heard decision-makers have consistently voted against. There have been over 120 attempts to legalise assisted suicide through US state parliaments all of which have failed in the last fifteen years.

British parliaments have also rejected any loosening of the law here three times over the last five years ? in 2006, 2009 and 2010 ? on the basis that any change would place pressure on vulnerable people (those who are elderly, disabled, sick or depressed) to end their lives for fear of being a financial or emotional burden on others.

More than seven out of ten MPs refuse to back calls to legalise assisted suicide as shown in a recent ComRes poll.

The vast majority of UK doctors remain opposed to legalisation along with the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Physicians, the Association for Palliative Medicine and the British Geriatric Society.

Similarly all major disability rights groups in Britain have resisted any change in the law believing it will lead to increased prejudice towards them and increased pressure ?to seek help to die?.

The first duty of Parliament is to protect its citizens. Elder abuse and neglect by families, carers and institutions is real and dangerous and a law allowing the active ending of life could be so easily exploited and abused. This is why strong laws are necessary.

The British Suicide Act is thereby shown to remain fit for purpose. Through its blanket prohibition on all assistance with suicide, it continues to provide a strong deterrent to the exploitation and abuse of vulnerable people whilst giving both prosecutors and judges? discretion in hard cases. It strikes the right balance, is clear and fair and does not need changing.

Ten years of Dignitas and ongoing media pressure should actually change nothing.

This appeared on Dr. Saunders? blog.

Source: http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2012/10/ten-years-of-assisted-suicide-at-dignitas-another-excuse-for-an-international-news-story/

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In this quickly-paced, stressful age we reside in, everyone demands a small recreation. Sports collecting is a hobby that can fill your spare minutes with interest and offer a diversion to the everyday grind. Sports collecting requires a lot of forms based on the individual who is pursuing the hobby. Several men and women select to gather memorabilia from their beloved professional teams, but other people gather items connected to golf, fishing, and other recreation sports. Collecting requires a certain amount of space, but collectors are creative about obtaining ways to display their collectibles.

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153,000 Premium Domain Names Owned By Ondova Hits The ...

The U. S. Bankruptcy Court has just issued a Court Ordered for the sale of two portfolios of domain names, one containing more than 150,000 domain names and separate portfolio of more than 3,000 domain names (the ?Portfolios?), plus related monetization and registrar contracts.

The minimum bid is $4.3 million dollars and you will have to put up $500,000 into escrow to bid on the auction.

The domain names are owned by Ondova a company that?Jeff Baron was involved in and which we wrote about in March of last year.

?The auction of these two portfolios, one containing 3,000 premium domain names, and another large portfolio containing more than 150,000 domain names, will take place on November 9, 2012, in Dallas, Texas.?

?The ruling allows liquidation of receivership and bankruptcy assets to resolve all claims, terminate the receivership currently administering the portfolios, and to pay fees owed to 22 different law firms and solo attorneys.?

?Interested bidders are invited to visit the website?http://CourtOrderedDomainSale.com/?to request bid information. November 6, 2012, is the deadline to qualify as a bidder.?

To be considered a qualified bidder, a $500,000 earnest money deposit must be made, the standard Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) form must be signed with a qualifying overbid of at least $4.3 million, and a Non-Disclosure Agreement must be signed no later than November 6, 2012. ?

?Validation of ability to close is required; only serious bidders should apply.?

The Receiver retains the right to sell the portfolios in whole, or in part. Due Diligence materials will be made available on a confidential basis and at the sole discretion of the Receiver.

The auction will take place November 9, 2012 at 1717 Main Street, Suite 4000, Dallas, Texas, 75201, at 10:00 a.m. CDT.

Only Qualified Bidders will be permitted to attend the auction.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? Motorists, start your engines. It's opening day for the last leg of a Texas toll road with the nation's fastest speed limit.

The final 41-mile stretch of Texas Highway 130 will open Wednesday after three years of construction. The speed limit will be 85 mph.

The toll road is intended to help alleviate the increasingly crowded Interstate 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio, which are two of the state's largest metropolitan areas.

The new stretch will be from Mustang Ridge, about 10 miles south of Austin's international airport, to Interstate 10 just east of Seguin. A 50-mile stretch bypassing Austin is already open.

Tolls for personal vehicles displaying an electronic toll tag will be about 15 cents per mile. But no tolls will be collected until Nov. 11.

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Zuckerberg Would Have Joined Microsoft If Facebook Failed (VIDEO)

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Healing Those Stubborn Emotional Wounds | Psych Central

Mary was experiencing low self-esteem and worthlessness.

She?d say her eyes were ?broken faucets.? She?d cry often, and would easily get irritated and explode at her children and husband. She had gained weight in the past year. She snacked all day and would finish a bag of chips in minutes without even noticing. She had difficulty concentrating, felt muscle tension, and above all, she was feeling like the ?worst mother in the world.? One day she reported she just wanted to ?escape her world.?

She was not suicidal but just wanted a break. She didn?t see the light at the end of the tunnel any time soon. Sometimes she would say things like ?I feel my heart being crushed. I am a bad person. I am exhausted and ready to quit. Things haven?t gone my way.?

Why was Mary so depressed?

She had a supportive husband and three children. Her husband had a good job and she had not worked outside of the home since she got married. Everyone in her family was in good health ? except her. Her adolescent son was making choices she didn?t like. His latest choices were against the family?s religious values and beliefs. It pained her to see her ?baby? go against what she taught him for seventeen years! She felt like a failure.

Mary was attributing her son?s misbehavior to herself. Intellectually, she agreed her son had a choice. After all, she had taught him about freedom and power to choose. But her guilt kept nagging within her: ?It didn?t do me any good to stay home. Maybe if I had worked outside of the home he would not be so spoiled. I should have been stricter. I should have spent more time with him. I should have home-schooled him.?

There were a lot of regrets, tears, and grief. Her handsome, well-groomed, intelligent, and healthy-looking son was becoming a memory. Things were turning out differently than expected. Her pain was intolerable and she tried to hide it. Arguments, yelling, and silence were only increasing the emotional gap between mother and son.

She was focusing on the half-empty glass.

She rehearsed in her mind all that ?she should have done, should not have done, and could?ve done.? Mary was focusing on the half-empty glass. She could not forgive herself. Her thoughts were getting her deeper and deeper into a black hole. At night she would go over things she had said or may have done in the past that ?could?ve caused? her son to take a different path than what she had anticipated for him.

She found herself in my office at her husband?s request. She actually didn?t believe she needed help. She believed she was a strong woman and could handle any trial. ?After all, isn?t that what life is about? We need to endure our trials, don?t we?? she?d say. I agreed with her, but reminded her enduring to the end doesn?t mean we have to suffer in guilt and pain the rest of our lives. She was experiencing many errors in her thinking.

Mary?s story represents stories from other women I have seen and counseled in my office. Many of them are experiencing emotional pain, difficulty sleeping, concentration problems, anger, regret, guilt, shame, anxiety, fear, loneliness, discouragement, and more.

The good news is that there is hope, People who suffer from depression and anxiety disorders can learn the skills to overcome their challenges.

Mary learned what was going on in her body and determined she needed to see her physician for medication. She made a plan to improve her physical condition by eating healthier and exercising. She learned relaxation skills such as progressive muscle relaxation techniques, visual imagery, and simple mindfulness exercises. Her sleeping habits also needed some readjustment.

She had forgotten to take care of herself and find joy. She took small steps to attain goals to develop new hobbies. She resumed activities she had abandoned. She had previously believed that she should focus all her time and attention to help her son figure things out. She realized her son needed to do most of the work. She finally recognized how her thinking errors and self-defeating beliefs had affected her emotions negatively. She identified the source of her negative core beliefs. She was able to change them by working diligently outside the weekly sessions. She learned a series of writing exercises and became an avid writer; that contributed to her healing also.

If you can relate to Mary?s feelings, remember there are answers ? there always are. Talk to a loved one you can trust. He or she can help you find the right therapist for you. It is possible to have joy despite the trials and challenges of life.

APA Reference
Hagen, A. (2012). Healing Those Stubborn Emotional Wounds. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 23, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/lib/2012/healing-those-stubborn-emotional-wounds/

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PFT: 'Maybe we?ve just spoiled people,' Brady says

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The Bills? four losses this season have been by scores of 48-28, 52-28, 45-3 and 35-34, so it doesn?t exactly take a detailed film analysis to realize that Buffalo?s defense isn?t playing well. But Bills defensive end Chris Kelsay said that after watching film of Sunday?s loss, he?s fed up with the effort his teammates are giving.

?You watch the film and not everybody was playing hard every snap and that?s unacceptable,? Kelsay said.

Kelsay said he thinks it may be on players like him to personally get in the faces of teammates who aren?t giving their all.

?We might have to grab guys by the shirt collar and tell them to get to moving,? Kelsay said. ?It?s nothing personal, but we?re relying on you. Myself included. If I?m not doing my job I expect Kyle [Williams] to grab me by the neck and tell me to get going. That?s what it?s going to take. We?ve got a lot of young guys. We?re going to get everybody on the same page.?

Kelsay didn?t name any names of teammates who aren?t trying, although he did suggest that Mario Williams isn?t going 100 percent because he?s hurt.

?I?d take Mario Williams at full health and full speed probably over anybody else in the league,? Kelsay said. ?At the same time I?d take Sean Ferguson, who we cut, over a guy that?s playing 50 percent, and I think our coaches would too. The playmakers have to make plays and the way you do that is giving all out effort every play.?

Ultimately, Kelsay says, there?s just no way he can tolerate being part of a defense that plays the way Buffalo?s defense is playing.

?It?s inexcusable,? Kelsay said. ?It?s a blessing to be in this league and to go out there and lay an egg there are no excuses for it.?

Kelsay is saying what needs to be said. The question is whether his teammates are listening.

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Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy

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Once a common medical procedure, the standard autopsy is passing out of use. In the 1970s bodies underwent postmortem examination in nearly 20 percent of deaths in the U.S. By 2007 the rate had fallen to 8.5 percent of all deaths and to only 4.3 percent of deaths caused by disease.

The reasons for the decline are well documented. Autopsies reveal medical mistakes, making doctors and hospitals uncomfortable. Medicare and private insurance do not reimburse providers for the procedures, so families must pay in full. And in the increasingly diverse U.S., members of some religions, such as Orthodox Judaism or Islam, object to dissecting a body after death.

Yet autopsy is a time-honored and reliable tool for confirming, or questioning, the actions of both medicine and law enforcement, so pathologists have looked for a viable alternative. Inspired by rapid technological improvements, researchers in several countries have been exploring the possibility that medical imaging?in particular, MRI and CT scans?might substitute a ?virtual autopsy? for the more traditional variety.

?The findings so far are mixed,? says Elizabeth Burton, a visiting associate professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University. Virtual autopsy, she says, ?is better for examining trauma, for wartime injuries, for structural defects. But when you start getting into tumors, infections and chronic conditions, it's not as good, and I doubt it will ever be better.?

After about a decade of research, proponents concede that various difficulties?including high cost, competition for access to imaging machines and some inherent limitations of the technology?will likely prevent virtual autopsies from fully replacing the hands-on version. Nevertheless, the new techniques are answering cause-of-death questions that have frustrated traditional autopsies and are sidestepping religious objections. By enhancing medical education and suggesting improvements in emergency care, virtual postmortem examination is helping the living, too.

Forensic Frontier

Postmortem imaging began as a laboratory technique in legal investigations. Dissection usually destroys tissues, but a research group in Bern, Switzerland, recognized that advances in imaging technology would let them look deep into tissues while preserving evidence. In the early 2000s they combined MRI and CT scanning with computer-aided 3-D reconstruction to prove causes of death for difficult cases, which included drownings, flaming car crashes, and severe injuries to the skull and face.

Their process, which they dubbed ?virtopsy,? ignited interest in applying postmortem imaging to other forms of traumatic injury. Since 2004 the U.S. military has performed x-rays and CT scans on the bodies of every service member killed where the armed forces have exclusive jurisdiction?that is, not just on battlefields abroad but on U.S. bases as well. Imaging ?is an adjunct to the traditional external and internal postmortem exam,? says Edward Mazuchowski, chief deputy medical examiner in the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System. ?It allows us to identify any foreign bodies present, such as projectiles. X-rays give you the edge detail of radio-opaque or metallic objects, so you can sort out what the object might be, and CT, because it is three-dimensional, shows you where the object is in the body.?

Along with analyzing causes of death, the virtual exams help to assess the accuracy of medical care in the field. Through imaging, examiners can detect whether medical devices, such as breathing tubes and long needles that can decompress a collapsed lung, performed as expected or fell short. Those analyses spur improvements such as lengthening needles to make sure they penetrate soldiers' sturdy musculature, as well as redesigning body armor to protect against the shrapnel scattered in unpredictable patterns by improvised explosive devices.

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Five Actions that can make your Sales Forecasts a Hit ? Business ...

A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organized ~?Anonymous

If you are in business or sales, this time of the year is tough. It is the season for budgets and forecasts. ?You are either looking back and thinking what went wrong or taxing your brains on how to get it right for the next year. Or you could be one of the lucky few who raked in more, much much more than you forecasted. Either ways, this is not a good situation to be in. Predictability is key to successful business outcomes. You cannot decide how much to spend and where to spend unless you know with great accuracy how much and where your revenue is going to come from.

What usually happens in the forecasting process is that the senior management asks their sales leaders for a forecast, the sales leaders check with their reps for a ?gut feel? number. The sales reps come up with a number (maybe 10%-20% lower than their gut feel number, to play it safe). The numbers roll up to the senior management. At this stage, the management takes a look at the numbers and checks it with the number they have in their minds (the number that will satisfy the investors/owners), then either discards the sales numbers completely and make up their own numbers or if you are lucky, the numbers get approved. This is quite a hellish process as you can see with lots of stress and heart burn at every stage but no guarantees that the end result is the most accurate version of forecast.

Accurate forecasting is an art ? there is no foolproof method or formula to get it right but there are a few steps or actions that business/sales people can keep in mind that can improve the accuracy of the forecast and make the process easier:

Action #1 ? Understand what Forecasting Is and Is Not ? A forecast is not an aspirational goal, nor a ?quota? or a ?crowd-pleaser? number, nor an administration activity nor a computer program output. It is rather a Projection of ACHIEVABLE sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salesperson?s estimates. Many people at this stage confuse a sales plan with a sales forecast ? this is disastrous as it affects the entire chain of the business cycle which depends on the achievable number to do its planning to delivery on the forecast.

Action #2 ? Collaborate to Win: To make forecasts more effective, there must be a free-flow of information between all the functions to prevent duplicacy or contradictory data. There has to be respect for different point of views. Each function has its own insights ? delivery timelines, ramp-up plans from engineering, capacity constraints from operations, campaign or events plan from marketing, customer satisfaction scores from customer support? all of these could have an impact on the end revenue results. Hence, it is important to have a strong mechanism in place to efficiently bring together different organizational functions to contribute their inputs in a spirit of collaboration.

Action #3 ? Joining the Dots: A good forecast is never stand-alone. It takes into account trends from the past too like the previous year(s) sales in the same time period to account for the impact of seasonal buying patterns, a similar state of the economy, currency exchange rate fluctuations, availability of resources, marketing campaigns, etc. As Eugene O?Neill famously said ? There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now. Given that a forecast has to predict the future, it makes good sense to base it on what is known ? the past.

Action #4 ? Reward Accuracy: Like in other management areas, what gets rewarded gets done. Sales people often have the mindset that their job is to sell and not forecast. This mindset is disastrous for the company bottom-line. Accurate forecasts have a huge impact on the company margins so why not put some of it back to reward the source of accuracy. It is important to put in place policies and practices particularly in the job performance evaluation criteria to reinforce the fact that forecasting is important for business success.

Action #5 Track and Improve: At best, a sales forecast is an educated guesstimate built on the basis of certain assumptions. And the basis for assumptions as well as the assumptions themselves change rapidly in the business world. Hence it is critical to review the forecast on a regular basis (fortnightly at the very least) to check if the assumptions still hold good. Measure your forecast accuracy, develop mechanisms and metrics to identify and eliminate the sources of error and plough the learning back into your sales forecasting process. This will ultimately help build confidence in the forecasting process and improve the accuracy so that the entire organization can benefit from better planning.

?Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.?

Henry R. Luce?(1898?1967), US?publisher

What process or mechanism do you use to generate accurate forecasts? What other steps do you take to improve the predictability of your business? I would love to know.

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Hyundai, Broadcom Power Next-Gen Connected Car - M2M Magazine

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DETROIT,?Oct. 15, 2012?News Highlights:

?????? Advances wide-scale adoption of automotive Ethernet
?????? Extends infotainment and passenger safety features across price points
?????? Delivers 100Mbps connectivity for in-vehicle networks, with future scalability up to 1Gbps

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Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:?BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced a joint development agreement with Hyundai Motor to power the next-generation connected car. The collaboration will integrate infotainment, telematics and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) features such as surround view parking and lane departure warning into Hyundai vehicles. Together, the companies aim to deliver robust features and faster connectivity to a broader number of drivers. Visit?www.broadcom.com to learn more.

Based on Broadcom?s?BroadR-Reach? Ethernet technology, the single high-bandwidth in-vehicle network will deliver cost-effective, lightweight 100Mbps connectivity to advance integration of safety applications in the vehicle. Broadcom will showcase the technology at SAE Convergence in?Detroit, October 16-17.

As members of the?AVnu Alliance and?OPEN Alliance (One-Pair?Ether-Net) Special Interest Group (SIG), Broadcom and Hyundai Motor have partnered since 2011 to drive wide-scale adoption of Ethernet-based automotive connectivity.? Ethernet enables an open, scalable network for powering in-vehicle infotainment and ADAS, while supporting faster implementation of next-generation technologies and multiple networks, improving the ability to share data from a common source to the entire network.

BroadR-Reach Ethernet also supports the IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB)? standard, a key technology for achieving high quality audio and video transmission in automotive by providing guaranteed quality of service (QoS), frame synchronization and timing necessary to stream professional-quality audio and video traffic.

For ongoing news, visit Broadcom?s?Newsroom, read the?B-Connected Blog, or visit?Facebook or?Twitter. And to stay connected, subscribe to Broadcom?s?RSS Feed.

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?Demand for advanced safety features, together with the need for higher bandwidth and faster connectivity within and between in-car networks, continues to grow at a rapid pace. Broadcom?s Ethernet solutions, pervasive throughout cloud-scale data center, carrier and enterprise networks, are now making their way into the vehicle, enabling a more scalable and open architecture. Our collaboration with Hyundai Motor will make features previously only available in luxury models accessible to a broader number of drivers, ultimately improving automotive safety for the masses.?

Dominique Bonte, Vice President and Practice Director, ABI Research

?As in-car connectivity transforms the automotive industry and driving experience, empowering consumers with passive and active safety along with infotainment and connected lifestyle services at cost-effective price points will be critical to making the connected car a viable experience for all. Ethernet has emerged as a cost-effective standard for powering automotive connectivity and counters age-old issues of scalability and cost-prohibitive technologies that stand in the way of the connected car experience.?

SunJai Lee, Infortainment Design Division Leader, Hyundai Motor

?Hyundai is confident about the viability of Ethernet in the car and looks forward to closely collaborating with Broadcom to develop an Ethernet network for Hyundai vehicles. The in-vehicle Ethernet network will enable key features including infotainment, lane departure warning, park assist and telematics to deliver greater value to our customers.? We chose to partner with Broadcom as they deliver superior Ethernet-based innovation to enrich the driver and passenger experience.?

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:?BRCM), a FORTUNE 500? company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom? products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry?s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything?. For more information, go to?www.broadcom.com.

Broadcom?, the pulse logo, Connecting everything?, the Connecting everything logo, and BroadR-Reach? are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in?the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU. ?Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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What food is high protein and low fat? | Health and Fitness Tips ...

With the development of society, all aspects of our lives are also changing. For example, in the diet to eat healthy, eat nutritious. So what foods are nutritious? What food is high protein and low fat?

High protein is the level of food protein content, and low-fat is the proportion of triglycerides, cholesterol less food. Usually the two are linked together. Now to tell you about the high protein and low fat food.

1, The first category: meat (including pork, poultry, beef, etc.). Meat protein content between 10-20%, commonly known as lean meat is less fat content of meat, and the fat meat is the fat content of more meat, lean meat protein content more than fat meat. The fat content of the meat, and animal species, age, body parts, fattening situation had relations. Total of 20 kinds of amino acid building blocks of proteins, including eight (essential amino acids) is the human body can not synthesis, must rely on food intake contains eight kinds of amino acids; meat protein is a complete protein, can provide all kinds of amino acids needed by the body. When the meat protein is digested in the human body, the decomposition of the amino acids can be absorbed.

Tips: such as lean beef, each containing 100 grams of protein 20.1 g; sauce beef, each containing 100 grams of protein 32 grams, braised beef contains 25 grams of protein per 100 grams.

2, The second category: eggs. Egg by egg white and yolk. Egg white in nutrients protein, containing the essential amino acids needed by the human body, the body can be completely absorbed and used almost the whole egg protein, is the best quality protein food.

Tips: such as eggs, egg is one of mankind?s best source of nutrition. The eggs contain a lot of vitamins and minerals and proteins of high biological value. Best of the people, the quality of egg protein, second only to breast milk. According to analysis, the the hectogram eggs containing protein 12.8 g, containing 11 to 15 grams of fat. Eat eggs are also some precautions, such as avoid eating immature eggs, do not eat eggs and tea immediately.

3, The third category: fish. Fish food meat tender and delicious, nutrient-rich, easy to digest, and is a favorite food. Especially suitable for the elderly, young children and patients eat. Fish is low in fat content of 1 to 10%, and the protein content in the 15 to 20%, is a high-quality protein, the shorter fish muscle fiber, protein organization structure soft, moisture content of the meat is tender, easily digested and absorbed, digestibility 87 ? 98%.

Tips: pregnant women and the baby fish to be careful.

4, The fourth category: beans. Many varieties of beans, soybean, broad beans, green beans, peas, red bean. According to the type and quantity of beans nutrients they may be divided into two categories. Soybeans represented a class of high-protein, high-fat beans. Another beans while high in complex carbohydrates characterized, such as mung bean, red bean. Very high nutritional value of the beans, eat beans every day, the human body can reduce the fat content, increase immunity and reduce the risk of illness, beans contain high protein content, good quality, its nutritional value is close to the animals protein, is the best plant protein.

Tips: fat content of soy beans in about 16% to more than 35% are proteins, can be processed into tofu, dried tofu, tofu skin, like red beans, mung soup to drink, good taste can also the disease prevention.

5, The fifth category: cereals. Cereals mainly refers to the seeds of plants of the Gramineae. It consists of rice, wheat, corn and other grains, such as millet, black rice, buckwheat, oats, barley rice, sorghum, etc..

Tips: such as wheat rich in starch, protein, fat, minerals, calcium, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and vitamin A. Protein content of 10% to 20%.

Accounted for 80% of rice protein containing lysine high alkali insoluble glutenin, lysine content higher than the other cereals, amino acid composition ratio is reasonable, the digestibility of the protein is more than 90%, the nutritional value is very high.

Per 100 grams of corn in the corn calories 106 kcal, 2.9 g of cellulose, 4.0 g protein, 1.2 g fat, 22.8 g carbohydrates, and the other containing the mineral elements and vitamins.

Per 100 grams of millet and millet 9.7 grams of protein, 1.7 g fat, 76.1 g carbohydrates, the millet gruel healthy food. Boiled available separately, can also add jujube, red bean, sweet potato, lotus, lily, millet gruel boiled flavor nutrition sedative effect.

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How can meditation assist in pain management ? Health ? Bangor ...

Meditation as a practice is considered to have begun over 6000 years ago, and is a practice that takes many varieties of form in the present. Some meditation techniques involve focussing on the breath, such as Vipassna , while other practices advocate chanting of a mantra such as Om to focus the mind and keep it in the present.

These meditation practices are passive and take a lot of practice, although the benefits of mastering these specific types of meditation are long lasting and profound. These types of meditation are usually considered more spiritual than other types, although you can certainly practice these methods without a spiritual inclination.

Other types of meditation are more activity based ? my sister meditates every day while washing dishes at the kitchen sink, as she allows her mind to de-focus and relax and finds this very soothing. There are also practices such as dynamic meditation, which involves shaking the body vigorously and making spontaneous sounds, which is said to release deep buried emotions and will ultimately benefit the physical and mental health of the individual.

And then there are guided meditations which take the individual on a guided imagery journey with the purpose of achieving deep relaxation without the danger of being sidetracked by the ego. If you?ve ever tried to meditate and found yourself making shopping lists or to-do lists you?ll know why this type of meditation might be useful.

Regardless of which type of meditation you choose, the practice itself has enormous health benefits ? improvements are typically experienced with heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, adrenal gland function, immune system function, and so on. Other benefits of meditation include a clearer mind, becoming more aligned with one?s life purpose, improved presence (or being in the Now) and increased feelings of wellbeing.

And unlike other Chronic Back Pain Treatment and Chronic Back Pain Management for stress, like medication, meditation has no side effects to speak of.

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Lack of sleep tied to teen sports injuries

ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2012) ? Adolescent athletes who slept eight or more hours each night were 68 percent less likely to be injured than athletes who regularly slept less, according to an abstract presented Oct. 21, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans.

For the abstract, "Lack of Sleep is Associated with Increased Risk of Injury in Adolescent Athletes," researchers asked middle and high school athletes (grades 7 to 12) enrolled at the Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City, Calif., to answer questions about the number of sports they played and the time they committed to athletics (at school and through other programs), whether they used a private coach, whether they participated in strength training, how much sleep they got on average each night, and how much they subjectively enjoyed their athletic participation. Seventy percent of the student athletes (112 out of 160 students; 54 males and 58 females; mean age 15) completed the survey, conducted in conjunction with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Researchers then reviewed those students' school records pertaining to reported athletic injuries.

Hours of sleep per night was significantly associated with a decreased likelihood of injury, according to the study results. In addition, the higher the grade level of the athlete, the greater the likelihood of injury -- 2.3 times greater for each additional grade in school. Gender, weeks of participating in sports per year, hours of participation per week, number of sports, strength training, private coaching and subjective assessments of "having fun in sports" were not significantly associated with injury.

"While other studies have shown that lack of sleep can affect cognitive skills and fine motor skills, nobody has really looked at this subject in terms of the adolescent athletic population," said study author Matthew Milewski, MD.

"When we started this study, we thought the amount of sports played, year-round play, and increased specialization in sports would be much more important for injury risk," said Dr. Milewski. Instead, "what we found is that the two most important facts were hours of sleep and grade in school."

The advanced age risk may reflect a cumulative risk for injury after playing three or four years at the high school level, Milewski said, and older athletes are bigger, faster and stronger.

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Mailing Lists versus Forums: Community, Convenience & Closeness ...

The way we communicate in groups online naturally changes as our technology evolves. We cannot assume that a technology or format that worked in one decade will work as well in the next.

And yet, there?s a reason why some technologies persist, despite alternatives that seem to offer additional benefits. Email is still with us (and seems likely it will always be, in one form or another), largely because of its asynchronous and convenient nature. Unlike so many other newer online technologies and services that seem to demand our real-time attention, email is happy to be exist in the background on our computers and mobile devices, ready to be reviewed in batches when our time permits.

Yet time and time again, organizations seem to face the same common conundrum ? now that we?ve ?outgrown? our mailing list, how do we move our organization to an online forum?

Let?s review the benefits and drawbacks of different ways people communicate online today in groups, and see if we can?t answer why mailing lists remain popular, despite their flaws.

Mailing Lists

Electronic mailing lists ? also referred as by one of the specific and most widely-used brands, ?listservs? ? have been with us long before the web, since 1984. Their longevity can be attributed to the fact that email is still a commonly used, daily tool by most of us. Because mailing lists exist, in user?s eyes, primarily through one?s email box, they are simple, automatic, and require little end-user thought. The conversations just come to you.

The downside to this automation is one of focus and volume. As mailing lists grow in volume ? whether through an increase in subscribers or through existing subscribers simply posting more and more to the list ? some people find it harder and harder to manage the growth.

As mailing lists grow, they also become more diverse. A topic-focused mailing list of 100 people can grow into a morass when it reaches 1,000 subscribers. Why? Because people start branching out in discussing tangential or social topics that are less focused than the initial mailing list?s topic. Some people find this annoying or hard to manage, while others see it as the normal, healthy growth of a social group.

Mailing lists stink in their ability to easily manage and archive a diverse set of topics. While most mailing lists have web archives, the archives are often difficult to access, search, or browse through. They can only be organized via date, threads, or authors ? but not topics! This is largely the fault of stagnant software development for mailing lists, since they are seen as such old and stale technology. Mailing lists seem to work best when their topics are very well-defined and don?t stray too often outside of that specific topic area (e.g., a mailing list about Lady Gaga would be a better limited topical choice versus one entitled, ?Pop Singers?).

Mailing lists are also greatly dependent upon a user?s email software, and the user?s ability to successfully use all of the program?s features. For instance, email programs since the early 1990s have had the capability to filter messages and organize them into specific folders, to make for easier reading and tracking. Yet still many users don?t know they can do this, or how. Therefore, some users can quickly become overwhelmed by a high-traffic mailing list?s volume.

Mailing lists also have few social aspects built in to the software ? aspects that can enhance a group?s psychological closeness and sense of community. There?s no concept of a user profile with a photo or links so that other users can easily see what that person?s all about. There are no friends lists, or ?ignore? lists for people you don?t want to read emails from (although a person could do this via their email program?s filters).

Pros

• Automatic for end-user ? requires no new learning, everything ?pushed? to user
• User engagement is stronger ? no need to remember to visit a website

Cons

• Inaccessible archives
• Confusing to subscribe/unsubscribe
• Volume of messages
• User experience largely dependent upon type of email client used
• Threading, filtering is email client dependent
• Discourages media sharing (such as photos)
• Hard to social share
• No sense of a user profile
• No ?friending? or ?ignore? capabilities

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Web Forums

Web forums come in a diverse set of shapes and sizes. Although web forums have been around nearly since the web itself (circa 1994), people still tend to think of online forums as ?new.? The most widely used commercial web forum software was first developed in 2000 ? 12 years ago! ? and is called vBulletin. Now in its fifth generation, it is a mature product that still has a vibrant developer community to help with add-ons and ways to enhance its functionality and change its looks.

Forum-based online communities are usually a collection of forums, organized around specific topics (which may also have even more discrete sub-forums). A pop singing community could have forums for each popular singer today (?Lady Gaga Forum?), and then sub-forums for even more specific topical discussions (?Lady Gaga Concerts,? ?Lady Gaga Clothing,? etc.). Web forums are simple, too. You go to the forum?s website, register for an account, confirm your account, and usually can begin posting right away.

To try and combat the problem of reminding users to re-visit the forum community, most forums also allow members to subscribe to specific forums or topics of interest, so they can receive updates via email. Usually, however, a user can?t reply via email ? they have to log on to the forum and make their reply there.

Forums allow not only for a greater diversity of topics, they also have much richer social sharing aspects. People can share photos, their user profile, and even create friends lists of people they like on the forums. Alternatively, if a user finds they don?t want to read any more of a particular person?s posts, they can also add them to their ?ignore? list.

Such rich features make forums an obvious and easy choice for most.

Pros

• Simple paradigm understood by most
• Better organized via topics
• Archives & accessing old topics easier
• No email distractions unless you manually subscribe to them
• Same user experience for all ? user experience not web-browser dependent
• Encourages sharing media (such as photos)
• Easy to social share
• Rich user profiles
• Can ?friend? other users, or ?ignore? ones you don?t care for

Cons

• Have to remember to visit forums ? it?s pull versus email?s push
• Requires manual signup & registration
• Can have more off-topic conversations by members who stumble upon forum

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The Paradox of Mailing Lists vs Forums

So why does anyone still use mailing lists? Despite their older tech, why does Yahoo Groups, for instance, list over 50,000 health-related mailing lists? Why are the most active cancer support groups still based around mailing lists? Why does most software development still happen via mailing lists?

Herein lies the paradox of mailing lists. Despite all of their faults, they are the easy, lazy choice. That is, because they don?t require any effort on the part of the user to access the topical conversations, they are easier for many people to use, especially if a person belongs to multiple online communities (and who doesn?t nowadays?).

Here?s a personal example. I have not only a half-dozen professional organizations I?m involved in, but I also enjoy about an equal number of hobbies and social interests. Add to that another 4 or 5 areas where I need to keep up as a developer, sysadmin, and owner of a small business. That?s about 18 different communities I?m actively involved in. (And that doesn?t even count the usual array of social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn.)

Imagine they all had web forums as their community of choice. That means in order to stay current with them, I would need to visit 18 different websites a day (in addition to the dozens of other sites I already visit for news, entertainment, distraction, information, research, etc.). This problem is getting worse, too, as more and more websites want you to download their specific app for your Android or iPhone.

I could, alternatively, carefully curate what specific topics I?m interested in for each community, and subscribe to them to receive email alerts when those topics are posted to in the forums. This would require some time up-front, and then some time to keep such lists updated and current. I?m also not sure how receiving so many notices would cut down on my email volume, however, of email volume was the problem I was trying to solve.

That is why mailing lists remain popular ? you can subscribe to dozens of different topical lists, and visit them in your mailbox whenever you want, without having to remember to visit each specific website.

From most organization?s perspective, web forums are the obvious choice. But that choice may not always be so obvious to the organization?s members.

Footnotes: Dr. John Grohol is the CEO and founder of Psych Central. He is an author, researcher and expert in mental health online, and has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues -- as well as the intersection of technology and human behavior -- since 1992. Dr. Grohol sits on the editorial board of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking and is a founding board member and treasurer of the Society for Participatory Medicine.

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Grohol, J. (2012). Mailing Lists versus Forums: Community, Convenience & Closeness. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 21, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/10/20/mailing-lists-versus-forums-community-convenience-closeness/

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