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Patients line up near the registration desk at Great Falls Clinic Immediate Care Center, quietly waiting in line to sign in and see a provider.

The ICC, which staffs two to three providers at all times, stays busy with patients coming in with minor injuries, burns, sore throats, flu-like symptoms, and other episodic ailments.

"Respiratory illnesses are common, as are strains, back injuries, acute fever with vomiting, diarrhea and rashes," said Dr. Terrance Sweeney, a doctor at the ICC.

Sweeney has worked in immediate care for more than 20 years, and it's a field he says keeps his attention – the variety of cases requires it.

But Sweeney also sometimes sees patients whose condition must be treated in an emergency room. A patient having chest pains, for example, might come to ICC trying to downplay symptoms. Sweeney or other providers there make arrangements for them to go to the nearby Benefis Health System Emergency Room.

"I really think, if you're having a heart attack or chest pain, go right to the ER," said Sweeney.

Emergency rooms, or emergency departments, and walk-in care, also called immediate care or urgent care, have been developed to serve two separate patient populations. Emergency rooms are designed to handle patients with life-threatening injuries or illnesses, while walk-in care quickly handles minor but acute illnesses or injuries.

The two are equipped with different capabilities. For example, walk-in care clinics often can do blood draws and lab work, x-rays, testing for illnesses such as influenza or strep throat, and diagnostic evaluation, said Sweeney. But high-level trauma, life-threatening illness, heart attacks or strokes cannot be dealt with in a walk-in care setting.

Federal regulations require ERs to provide care to all patients regardless of extent of their malady or ability to pay.

Sweeney said many patients are good at making the call whether they need to go to walk-in care or the ER, but questions remain among patients, and some patients, according to hospital officials and providers, may wind up in one when they may be better served in the other.

"I'll see anyone. I'm happy to take care of anyone," said Dr. Matthew Newsted, an ER doctor at Benefis Emergency Room.

How patients access care when they need it is of high interested to hospitals like Benefis, which has worked to integrate its Walk-In Care, ER and primary care providers, said Terry Olinger, Benefis Medical Group and System Services President.

The Primary Care Provider

While walk-in care is convenient when a cold becomes a sinus infection or an injury is not serious enough to warrant a visit to the emergency room, providers in family practice argue that becoming established with a doctor is essential to receiving quality care.

Dr. Kris Kuper, a pediatrician at Great Falls Clinic, said the relationships that can grow over time between doctor and patient cannot be duplicated in a walk-in care setting.

"We like to encourage continuity of care, and we know people intimately," said Kuper. "We're possibly getting information the person doesn't even share with a spouse."

Some younger people who do not have ongoing medical conditions choose not to establish themselves with a primary care provider, instead relying on walk-in care when they need it.

Sweeney estimates that about 80 percent of the elderly population has a primary care provider. Perhaps 30 percent of younger people have one, he said.

Knowing the patient as a person and knowing his medical history are valuable tools in treatment, said Dr. Carey Welsh, a family practice doctor at GFC.

Patients should ideally be seeing their doctor once a year for a physical where the physician can go over medical concerns and make sure the patients are on track for cancer screenings that are recommended at certain ages, Welsh said.

In that setting, physicians can look for developmental delays in children or mental health issues across all ages.

There's a place for walk-in care, but Kuper and Welsh don't believe it should stand in for having a primary care provider. But they admit some patients may seek out the ER or walk-in care if they don't realize they can call their doctor's nurse for assistance or an after-hours on-call physician.

"Some people aren't aware how to access health care other than the emergency room," Welsh said.

Welsh said it can be difficult for patients to know what care to seek out. But he said many offices, including his, have nurses who can answer questions over the telephone or page the on-call physician.

Many in health care warn against relying on walk-in care as a stand-in for having a primary care physician. Sweeney suggests anyone with an ongoing condition find a primary care provider. And doing so may lead to "fragmentation" of care, said Benefis Hospitals President Laura Goldhahn.

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Still, many people who go to the emergency room or walk-in care have a primary care provider.

"If your doctor's office is closed or you can't get in, walk-in care would be a good choice – unless you need to go to the ER," said Sweeney.

Newsted said he often spends a lot of time following up with primary care physicians after treating their patients in the ER. At both GFC and Benefis walk-in care clinics, patients who do not have primary care providers are encouraged to consider becoming established with one.

For people who enter the ER but do not have a primary care provider, there is also the post-discharge clinic, a way for the hospital to follow-up with patients after they are discharged from the ER. Newsted considers the post-discharge clinic a good alternative for those patients.

While Newsted is quick to say he is willing to see any patient who walks through the door, he cautions that the ER may not provide the quickest, most cost effective care to everyone.

A patient coming in with a sore throat, for example, is immediately triaged lower than patients who have serious injuries or life-threatening illnesses. As a result, they may wait longer in the ER to see a doctor than they would in walk-in care. Cost for ER services is higher than walk-in care too.

Newsted also pointed out that patients coming in with a condition that needs many tests to diagnose – abdominal pain, for example - may be in for a long visit with many tests.

"I often tell patients you don't want me to dig any deeper, run a lot of tests," he said. "I have to know when to refer to their primary care or admit to the hospital" to get to the bottom of the problem.

The ER at Benefis sees between 35,000 and 38,000 patients each year. About one-third of those could have been seen in a walk-in setting, according to Newsted.

During times when walk-in clinics are closed, the ER is the only option. At that point, Newsted urges anyone who thinks they may need to be seen to come in.

The ER sometimes gets calls from patients wondering if they need to come in. They speak to a unit clerk and sometimes may be able to get to a nurse, if time allows. But Newsted said triaging an emergency over the telephone is difficult and fraught with legal peril.

"When in doubt, just come in," he said.

He said chest pains, suspected strokes, head injuries, fractures, and anyone with complex medical history should definitely come in to the ER, he said.

But Newsted also encourages people to use their best judgment and come when they think they should.

"We really do want people to go to the appropriate level of care at the right time," said Olinger.

When to Go

The Benefis Health System Emergency Room is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. It is located on the Benefis East campus and can be reached by turning south off 10th Ave South onto 26th Street S, and then turning east on 11th Ave South.

Benefis Walk-In Care is open Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m.to 6:30 p.m. and is located at 1401 26th St S.

The Great Falls Clinic Immediate Care Center's hours are Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays and holidays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The ICC is closed Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is located at 1400 29th St. S. The Great Falls Clinic Northwest also accepts walk-in patients Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m. to 5p.m., and it is closed on holidays. That clinic is located at 1600 Division Road.

Where to Go

Benefis' ER is a Level II trauma center staffed by board-certitfied or board-eligible physicians. An ER minor section of the department is staffed from noon to midnight each day and treats non-emergent needs. Patients experiencing chest pains, stroke-like symptoms or major trauma, including a head injury, or those who are ill and have a complex underlying condition such as cancer, heart disease or renal disease should go to the ER right away or call 911.

Walk-in care at Benefis and GFC routinely sees patients with sprains and other minor injuries, influenza, infections, strep throat, asthma, some fractures, and other non-chronic illnesses. Newborns experiencing fever, illness or injury should go to the ER, but Sweeney said infants a few months old and older can usually be seen in walk-in care for moderate fevers. Lab testing and x-rays can be performed at walk-in clinics also.

Benefis Injury Center near its Walk-In Care, where patients with sprains, strains or sports-related injuries can be seen. The hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

An after-hours pediatric line for parents with questions is 731-8865.

Benefis Medical Group has begun a patient navigator to help patients find a primary care doctor. The number is 731-8896.

But doctors urge patients that, if in doubt about where they should seek care, go to the emergency room first.

Sweeney also suggests patients bring a list of medications and cursory medical history with them to their walk-in care visit, if they have the information available.

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The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has started one of the largest sharp-tailed grouse studies of its kind in the foothills east of Idaho Falls.

Department officials, led by Utah State University’s master’s candidate Matt Proett, have fitted more than 80 grouse with radio transmitters. The goal is to find where the birds nest and where they live, which will give officials an idea of the habitat challenges facing the quick-flying birds. Biologists plan to capture and collar more than 80 birds next spring.

“The goal is to understand habitat usage, mortality rates and movement patterns,” said Proett, Fish and Game’s senior wildlife technician at Tex Creek Wildlife Management Area. “We want a better picture of the bird’s ecology in a landscape that has changed over the past 25 years.”

Armed with their findings, Fish and Game officials could hypothetically lobby to change the way ground enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program is managed. They could suggest, for example, simple changes to benefit sharp-tails. The research also could identify if sharp-tailed grouse populations are affected — either positively or negatively — by wind development in the foothills.

“We want to get information that will help us maintain and grow the species around the state,” Proett said.

The study started in late March when Proett’s crew set cage traps on breeding grounds, mostly found on private land. Biologists set the traps in areas where the birds wanted to be, avoiding the need for netting or hazing the birds.

Once the birds entered the trap, biologists collected them, weighed them and fitted them with bands and tiny radio transmitters. The transmitters weigh nine grams and are the lightest found on the market. The collars weigh less than one percent of the bird’s weight.

Biologists also cataloged the sex and age of the birds and then released them.

This spring and summer, biologists will try to find the birds several times a week. They will track them less frequently in the fall and winter.

In perfect conditions, biologists will be able to locate the birds from two miles away, Proett said.

Once the biologists have located the birds, they will close in on their location. During the spring, Proett’s crew will try to find where birds nest so they can judge where the birds like to nest and overall nesting success. During the summer, they will try to establish where birds like to live.

Since sharp-tailed grouse favor CRP ground, biologists will closely monitor exactly what type of vegetation they like to use.

This is a critical component of the study because the mission of CRP ground has changed over the past 25 years, Proett said. The federal government traditionally enrolled farm ground in CRP to address erosion concerns, but over time the program has expanded to include the needs of wildlife.

If, for example, Proett finds sharp-tailed grouse like a certain type of vegetation for nesting, Fish and Game could work with federal officials to make that vegetation a larger component of future planting efforts.

The study also will look at how wind turbines affect the birds. Fish and Game could lobby for changes in how wind development takes place. Fish and Game also could find windmills could benefit sharp-tails.

“There is no data out there on Columbian sharp-tailed grouse and wind development,” said Shane Roberts, a regional habitat biologist and Proett’s boss. “This will help us begin to understand if there is an interaction between energy development and the habitat the birds are selecting.”

The two-year study will cost roughly $185,000 and most of the money will come from federal taxes on the sale of guns and ammunition, Roberts said.

An ardent bird hunter, Proett is excited to lead the study.

“We haven’t looked at grouse with a telemetry study in the past 20 to 25 years,” he said. “A lot has changed in that time and we gather a lot of information.”

Proett said hunters who killed grouse with radio collars will be offered rewards for returning transmitters and providing helpful information.

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GSS has a lot of judgmental parents who pass their attitudes on to their kids. A lot of holier than thou, wine drinking, unhappy mothers with brats who don't know the golden rule to treat others as they would like to be treated. The mothers and their daughters are NOT kind, their MO is exclusion and the administration/faculty does nothing about it. GSS definitely has its favorite families and it is extremely obvious, so before you enroll your precious child here, please be advised not every kid is painted with the same brush. I am dealing with a psychologist for my child to undue the years of damage caused by GSS social environment and I can assure you I'm not the only parent who has had to deal with this issue.....

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My son was bullied by one of their teachers. When I went to the head master with the problem they just blew me off. After a psychologist wrote to the school an evaluation they still kept the teacher knowing this was true.

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The homework is busy work not really interesting or creative. I think too much homework can diminish a child's love for learning

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Gulf Stream school develops kids that are afraid of authority so they do develop a sting sense of determination. I feel that it would be better to develope an inate spence of determination because of encouragement. I did not see much encouragement at Gss

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The teaches sit back and watch the students bully each other and are instructed not to interfere unless there is a physical violation

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The school developes kids that work the system in order not to get into trouble not deveopling a will to want to be a better student and apply themselves.

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I feel that this school is more about wealthy parents with type A personalities trying to get their kids in an Ivey league school than deveopling strong character traits and encouaging their students to be well rounded compassionate students.

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April 22, 2009
Wonderful, loving, highly-academic and extremely well rounded program. My third grader and Kindergartener have had excellent teachers every year. The Headmaster, faculty, and staff make every effort to recognize and foster support for every child. When issues come up, they are communicated and fairly handled. Having lived in Delray for over 30 years, I feel that there is no other school in the area that compares to GSS academically, artistically, athletically, and in supportive atmosphere. We are proud to be involved in the school and so happy to have our children attending.

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My oldest daughter has been at GSS for ten years. What an incredible education she is getting. Incredible teachers! Great athletic program. All the students engaged and involved!

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Survivors of the Bhopal, India, chemical disaster are travelling Europe, demanding justice and that Dow take responsibility for the tragedy, which has caused over 20,000 deaths and poisoned more then half a million people.

Protesting at a Dow plant in Italy.

Rashida Bee, from the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, and Mohammad Ali Quaisser, a doctor at the Sambhavana hospital in Bhopal, were hoping to have a chat with executives in the Italian head office of Dow in Milan. Dow Italy had recently refused a request for a meeting with Greenpeace, following company policy. But today, the Bhopal survivors succeeded in entering the Dow building and delivering their message.

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The Dow executives in Milan expressed their embarrassment and understanding of the plight of the Bophalese. But they were speaking in strictly personal terms, as the company line from their US headquarters is to strongly and clearly refuse any moral, legal or financial responsibility for the ongoing tragedy related to the Union Carbide gas disaster.

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A multinational like Dow, the largest chemical company in the world, is made of humans who wake up every morning, drink a cup of tea or coffee and go to work. But the way things are set up today, it makes little difference how well intentioned these people are. Corporations are free to move to those parts of the world with badly enforced environmental and labour regulations, where they can pollute people and ecosystems, abuse human rights or engage in questionable practices - their only goals being maximising profits while externalising costs to poor people and the environment.

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According to GuestMetrics, based on its proprietary database of POS transactions of over $8 billion dollars in transactions and over 250 million checks from restaurants and bars across the United States, chicken wings achieved the largest share gain in the food category in 2012.  “In analyzing the 64% of sales in table service restaurants and bars that comes from food, the largest share gain in the category was achieved by chicken wings,” said Bill Pecoriello, CEO of GuestMetrics LLC. “While food sales grew almost 1% in 2012 compared to the prior year, chicken wing sales grew nearly 11%,” continued Pecoriello.  According to GuestMetrics, chicken wings sales in 2012 grew 10.7%, the net result of the number of chicken wing orders growing 7.3% and chicken wing prices increasing 3.4%. As commodity inflation picked up late in the year, the price consumers paid for chicken wings surged 13% in recent weeks as restaurant operators passed the higher costs onto consumers. The higher prices did result in a slower order rate which needs to be monitored in the weeks ahead, including during the all-important Super Bowl event.

“In further analyzing the chicken wing category, we see that about 80% of the incremental growth in chicken wings was due to strength seen among boneless chicken wings, which accounted for about 14% of chicken wing sales in 2012,” said Peter Reidhead, VP of Strategy and Insights at GuestMetrics.  “Given the average price of boneless chicken wings is $7.99 versus $6.87 for regular chicken wings, this shift in consumer preferences should prove to be a further positive for restaurants selling chicken wings.”

“In our minds, this underscores the importance of restaurant operators having an up-to-date understanding of the fastest growing food items and to adjust their menus accordingly.  Additionally, given the strong growth seen in chicken wings in 2012, this could potentially provide a lift to sales for the upcoming Super Bowl Sunday, which is obviously an important event for many restaurants and bars, particularly given the relatively weak note that 2012 ended on for much of the restaurant sector,” said Brian Barrett, President of GuestMetrics. The one watch out will be if the recent double digit surge in prices mutes what is a strong underlying trend in consumer demand.

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Diago Commuter Pedalboard

This softcase pedalboard is measured at just 49 x 26 x 8 cm and weighs 1.8 Kg, it is a more convenient alternative to bulky pedalboard hardcases.

At the core of the Commuter is a solid 12mm thick HDF pedal board, wrapped by a tough satin black coating. It is designed to let you easily slip the board out of the carrying case and carry it about conveniently with its built-in handle. It has six rubber pads which help with weight distribution when you set the board on the floor.

The Commuter features the same super-grippy pedal carpet that Diago use on their hard case pedalboards. According to Diago, the carpet does not deteriorate or become fluffy even with repeated removal of pedals, they said that it will remain grippy for the lifetime of the board. For attaching your pedals, each Commuter softcase pedalboard comes with 2m/6"6' of Diago's self-adhesive pedal tape.

The pedalboard is protected by a rugged, heavy duty Diago carrying case. It is made of a dense EPE foam shell and a hard-wearing 600 denier fabric covering which offers both impact and scratch resistance. The bag also comes with a deep pocket for storing your cables and other accessories.

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Having a softcase cover makes the Commuter ideal for local gigs where you need to hand carry a few pedals. Even guitarists that have big rigs will appreciate this case because it can hold up to 10 pedals, plus a power supply, and can also carry bigger wah pedals.

The Diago Commuter is currently available online for £59.99. You can visit Diago for more information.

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Aside from working as a good preamp, this pedal lets you add guitar effects like phaser, delay, reverb or even distortion to your voice via a simple footswitch.

The Radial Voco-Loco is a versatile pedal for guitarists that sing. It works as a standard mic preamp and lets you utilize your guitar pedals as vocal effects, adding value to your existing gear.

First and foremost, the Voco-Loco is a versatile mic preamp, with over 60dB of gain, enough to handle any type of microphone via XLR input. Adding to the versatility of the preamp is its built-in 48v phantom power generator, this lets you use special dynamic and condenser mics that require phantom power.

Another unique feature is Radial's Accustate level control that automatically sets the gain and sensitivity via a dual wafer potentiometer for improved signal-to-noise ratio. Wrapping up the preamp is a simple two band shelving EQ that will let you add bass or accentuate your highs as you sing.

After the preamp section, the signal is then fed into an effects loop that has been optimized for guitar pedals via standard 1/4" guitar jacks. With its separate send and receive controls, you can adjust the levels going to the pedals to reduce noise and optimize the signal path.

It also features a tone control on the return path that can then be used to tame overly bright pedals for a smoother more natural tone. Another cool feature is its wet/dry blend knob, giving you the ability to mix in the right amount of effect levels that you need. Finally, the Voco-Loco's output is fully balanced and is able to drive a typical mixing console input.

The pedal has two top mounted footswitches, the right switch is used for engaging the effects loops while the left switch is used for muting the Voco-Loco output or engage the loop. As an example, you could create a weird telephone effect with all of the sound passing through a distortion pedal or toggle the signal so that a blend of the unprocessed voice plus some reverb can be heard together. Rounding off its features are a 180°polarity reverse switch which ensures the pedals are in phase with the original signal when the wet/dry blend is in use.

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Roc Bubel, Radial Sales Manager, was quoted: "We have been enjoying tremendous success with both our stand-alone and 500 series EXTC effects insert module. The EXTC makes it easy to interface unbalanced hi-Z guitar pedals with balanced lo-Z pro audio devices. And with so many fun pedals now available on the market, we felt it would be cool to enable live vocal performers to get into the fun! The Voco-Loco lets you turn on or off a series of pedals with a simple foot stomp - right on stage. This is particularly beneficial for bands that do not have a full-time sound engineer as the vocalist can set up the effects and turn them on or off just like a guitarist does when playing a solo."

This compact pedal is measured at 5" x 7" (12.7cm x 17.8cm), designed to easily fit your pedalboard. It is expected to retail for $300 and comes with an external 15VDC supply.

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NEW YORK, Sunday—I have a postcard communication which reads: "Please let your readers know if you are still Honorary Chairman of the American Committee for Yugoslav Relief which is supplying radar to aid the Yugoslav children?"

I am still Honorary Chairman of Yugoslav Relief, which supplies medical aid and extra food not available in Yugoslavia in sufficient quantities—such as dried milk for Yugoslav children and women. It is a new idea to me, however, that radar is being used as a commodity for children! A radio report, I am told, stated that this committee was supplying radar equipment. But the committee promptly denied it—and I am inclined to believe it would be extremely difficult for any committee, which naturally has to submit to a certain amount of government inspection, to send anything out at this time without the proper permission.

It has also been suggested to me at various times that one should not be interested in shipments of any kind to Yugoslavia. I do not agree with this. The present economic condition in Yugoslavia has certainly been made more acute by that country's participation in the war against Germany. The Yugoslavs fought very effectively, and at a time when the Allies needed their help. This kept a good many German troops busy, which was of great importance to the Allied cause.

Yugoslavia was occupied and devastated. The situation there was complicated by the fact that certain forces within the country disliked and feared the partisans and their leader, Marshall Tito, even more than they feared the Germans, and there were instances when one group of people killed another group within their own country. This took on the aspects at times of a division on both racial and religious lines, and as a result it led to bitter feeling which even today involves both racial and religious groups.

When feelings of this kind are stirred up, it takes a long time to reunite a whole country. But women and children, who suffer most because of war, are entitled to our help in recognition of the fact that the partisans under Tito did not collaborate with the Germans, and did render the Allies great service.

It seems important to me to remember that, whether we like the political aspects of governments in other countries or not, we should respect those countries if the governments genuinely represent the will of the peoples concerned. It might be well to recall that there was a time when our government in the United States was not looked upon with much favor by the well-established and conservative countries of the world of the 1700's.

Moreover, refusal to render aid to other nations which will keep their people alive and help them reestablish themselves on a healthy economic basis, seems to me a very short-sighted policy. One of the hopes for peace in the future is that we can divorce political beliefs from economic cooperation. I think we have a right to resent deeply any interference in our own country, either by infiltration or by open denunciation, where it touches internal affairs and the expression of our own people's will. On the other hand, we must not use our power as a strong nation to interfere with the will of other peoples, even when we do not like their form of government.

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"Everything Will Be Fine," the enjoyable program broadcast by Army Radio, has a younger relation over at the Voice of Palestine: At "Good Morning Palestine," the microphone is sometimes open to regular citizens with complaints about various institutions of the Palestinian bureaucracy. As at "Everything Will Be Fine," the program hosts find it easier than regular people to locate the phone number of whoever is in charge and extract a promise that the matter under discussion will be taken care of. For example, Saturday morning, an officer in the Hebron police was put on the line to answer allegations made by a Yatta resident (who declined to identify himself ) that the Palestinian police are shirking their duty and are slow to intervene in internal conflicts of the large town. The complainant didn't want to hear about Area A and Area C and interrupted the officer several times.

Another radio program provides airtime to family members of people imprisoned in Israel. It is a particularly important show for prisoners whose parents, wives and children aren't allowed to visit them for obscure, unspecified "security reasons." Some relatives make do with a brief, "How are you, habibi? We're all fine, don't worry about us. We hope you're taking care of yourself and your health, and that you'll be released soon - you and all the other prisoners." Others go on at length, especially the women. A mother will tell her son that she sent him money for snacks or that his younger brother is out of control and that she's worried. She'll speak as if the conversation weren't one-way and part of a broadcast to which lots of people are listening - cab drivers, their passengers, store clerks and several hundred other prisoners.

Speaking of cabs: As a result of a string of fatal traffic accidents involving taxi drivers, the Palestinian Ministry of Transportation has issued an order limiting the speed of all public transportation vehicles on intercity roads to 90 kilometers per hour. From now on, all new cabs will be modified mechanically to disable higher speeds.

Between a talk show and a news edition, one may hear a public service announcement encouraging people to pay off their debts to the electric company because non-payment strengthens the occupation. A recent installment of "Women's Voices" was dedicated to an extensive discussion of the phenomenon of men preventing their ex-wives from seeing their children, and of the legal means available to women to fight this injustice.

Speaking of injustices: The Coalition for Palestinian Human Rights Organizations has criticized unnamed figures in the office of President Mahmoud Abbas who, according to the coalition, ordered the police to violently suppress demonstrations held two months ago by the new group Palestinians for Dignity. The youths were protesting the invitation extended to Shaul Mofaz to meet with Abu Mazen. But the criticism had its impact. Two weeks ago, the police allowed the group to march as far as the Muqata wall in Ramallah and shout, without interference, "Traitor, traitor, our government is a traitor."

What is the common denominator of these anecdotes? What is this compilation doing here? It's my way of addressing an assertion made in the book, "The Bureaucracy of the Occupation: The Regime of Movement Permits 2000-2006," by attorney Yael Barda, recently published by the United Kibbutz Movement and Jerusalem's Van Leer Institute. The book is based on her master's thesis in the sociology and anthropology department at Tel Aviv University. The research started with Barda's stubborn slog through the trenches while representing Palestinian laborers who got lost in the intentionally repressive labyrinth of official red tape. Barda argues against the conclusion drawn by Neve Gordon in his book, "Israel's Occupation" (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008 ), which she summarizes as follows: "Since the Oslo Accords, the force used against the Palestinians has changed and is now a sovereign power employing legal control by means of the law and policing forces; it does not intervene in civil decisions and does not distinguish between those who oppose the occupation and those who accept it ..."

By contrast, Barda's conclusion is as follows: "After the administrative and regional separation enacted as a result of the Oslo Accords, control over the lives of the Palestinians and interference in their civilian matters did not decrease; on the contrary, it grew." Barda has accompanied hundreds of laborers on their Via Dolorosa to an entrance permit to Israel and has interviewed many functionaries within the system. That is how she has learned up close how invasive, non-transparent and unsupervised the Israeli authorities are - from the Shin Bet security service to the Supreme Court - that dominate the lives of Palestinians seeking to realize their right to freedom of movement, and come up against walls of concrete, orders and injunctions.

I have not read Gordon's book, but I assume he saw the range of prohibitions in force during the period of the direct occupation: on construction, reading and writing, unionizing and broadcasting opinions, plays and movies, on planting and seeding. The people in charge in the civilian offices were Israeli bureaucrats/military personnel. They carefully parceled out permits to hook up a telephone line here or build another floor there, while putting petitioners through a gauntlet of depressing humiliations. The offensive, intentional neglect of infrastructure was always a key part of the mechanism of dominating the natives. Even getting a driver's license was a grind through the same mechanism. The Shin Bet used collaborators even before the ban on freedom of movement that started in 1991, preceding the implementation of Oslo by three years. It's enough to think about the terrifying presence of the Border Police, Special Patrol Units and National Insurance Institute inspectors in East Jerusalem neighborhood and villages, turned into choking pockets of poverty by the Israeli government, in order to remember the potential of direct control and its predatory nature. It's enough to remember Area C in which Israel will not allow an old Palestinian community to build toilets or install a solar energy system.

Area C, the 61-62 percent of the West Bank over which the Oslo Accords give Israel full authority, surrounds pockets of Palestinian self-rule in which direct Israeli control over civilian matters has, in fact, become very tenuous despite frequent military incursions, Israel's authority to arrest any Palestinian at any time, and restrictions on movement. In these pockets, autonomous moments and spaces of a civilian community are created and experienced despite the huge shadow cast by the ever-present occupation. People get used to the internal logic of these pockets. Is the normality only a mirage? A self-delusion? No. The regime created is a confusing hybrid of military-colonial state of emergency and civilian autonomy. The duality and all its contradictions are the glue that makes it hard to undo what there is, i.e. the Palestinian Authority.

This, too, is the genius of the authors of Oslo, who formulated a vague business contract open to opposing interpretations. And since the interpretation of the strong wins, we're left with autonomous pockets that only reinforce Israel's rule.


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“What metrics should I track?” and “How do I get started with SaaS metrics?” are the most common questions people ask me.

SaaS Metrics for Hackers is a 3-part article series that helps bootstrappers with technical background getting started with SaaS metrics and finances.

The first part explains the financial basics, the second part explains how to use unit metrics (the “SaaS metrics”) to debug your finances, and the third part explains how to use funnels to debug your SaaS metrics.

In this first part, you’ll learn how to find answers to questions like “Is my business profitable?” and “When will my money run out?”

VC investors’ rules don’t apply to bootstrappers

There are plenty of great articles, like SaaS Metrics 2.0, that were written for funded companies by people thinking that “in SaaS it’s winner takes all.”

Companies after high growth are using acquisition strategies that normal, careful little businesses would never use. They need to manage the extra risk that comes along – and they need more complex metrics.

If having a long-term cash-flow deficit to support your aggressive customer acquisition isn’t your main strategy, things suddenly get a lot easier.

Cash is the king, profit is the queen

If you aren’t on a risky mission to boldly go for years without profit, you can run your SaaS pretty much as you would run a normal business. You can follow your profitability from your monthly Profit&Loss statements.

Sometimes you may take extra risks, getting couple of non-profitable months because of your investments, but you still target to make profit on annual level.

Set targets for your business

Set small targets with time limits to reach them. Write them up or create a spreadsheet of them. And when you estimate how much profit you’d like to have, remember that you’ll have to pay taxes too.

Start by tracking your financial metrics

To keep yourself going, you’ll want to track at least your costs and your revenue.

Learn how to read your bookkeeping reports – they are a goldmine of information. At least, check out your gross profit margin – don’t let your costs to creep up unnoticed.

In addition to normal bookkeeping, the very first metrics that you want to know about your business are:

Monthly recurring costs – The recurring costs from providing the service.

Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) – The predictable recurring revenue that you get from your customer base each month. Or, if you are selling annual contracts, Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).

Ramen profitability limit – the rough number of customers/revenue you need to cover your monthly costs & minimum wage (just enough to afford a plate of ramen every day). Think of it as your minimum viable business.

The death clock – how long can you keep the business going (as it is) before you run out of money? This is actually your first projection, not a metric. It’s a crude forecast of your cash-flow. There’s also a web app that does the countdown for you, but I prefer the full projection myself.

Time to return the investment – This is not something you must have, but I prefer to use. It’s a projection/follow-up spreadsheet showing when my business revenue exceeds the total investment on the business. I think this is also explained in Jason’s Death Clock article.

Continue by tracking these

MRR Churn – The part of the monthly recurring revenue you lost with the customers who cancelled their subscriptions.

You can track MRR churn right from the start – as it deals with plain dollars, it won’t cause you heart-attacks like measuring your churn rate percentages too early would. The percentages don’t work until you have 50-100 customers – they fluctuate wildly and you can’t trust them.

New MRR – The part of the monthly recurring revenue that comes from new subscriptions.

If you have MRR Churn and New MRR side by side, you’ll easily see how your MRR came to be what it is. Measuring MRR Churn and New MRR is also a small step towards unit metrics, which we’ll go through in the next post.

Growth Rate Percentage – The rate at which your monthly recurring revenue grows.

If you have a chart with your MRR, you don’t really need this – you can easily see it from the chart. But this is something people are going to ask from you when you talk with them about your business.

Also, you may want to compare your business to others. Just remember that this percentage measures revenue, not profit. Don’t compare your growth rate to growth rates of funded companies – they are often spending crazy amounts of money to customer acquisition.

In my opinion, a good growth rate target for a small SaaS business is 10-15% per month, and 2013 SaaS survey shows that small businesses’ average growth rate is 89% per year.

Don’t follow up metrics that you don’t understand

If you are tracking something just because others do – don’t do that. It’s better to have a small set of data that you really use and deeply understand than to have a huge dashboard that does nothing for you.

You’ll get nicely started with just a simple spreadsheet that you update every month – there’s no need to follow up these metrics more often than that.

And there aren’t any hard and fixed rules – if you find data that helps you understand your company better, just use it. Even when nobody else would be using that data in the same way.

Track behavioral data that will be forever lost if you don’t!

Most of your financial metrics can be recovered later from your bookkeeping data, but the behavioral events – what people did and when – need to be tracked when they happen. If you don’t know how many people visited your site, where they came from and if they activated their trial or not, there’s nowhere to recover this data from.

Fortunately, at first you don’t have enough customers to benefit from this data, but I just had to mention this. We’ll go deeper into to the connection of financial metrics, SaaS metrics and behavioral events in the next posts.

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She was shunned by her mother, despised by her father, hated by the Death Eaters simply for being what she was. Throughout her life, Kai had always been rejected. Then she met Draco Malfoy and the unexpected happened: She fell in love. But Draco soon discovered that Harry Potter, the one person who had come between him and what he wanted for the past 6 years, was about to come between him and Kai, and push their relationship to its limits.

Genres: General, Humor, Angst  Era: Hogwarts   Characters: Bellatrix, Blaise (M), Draco, Dumbledore, Harry, Hermione, Lucius, OC, Ron, Voldemort  Pairings: Draco/OC, Harry/OC
Advisory: Strong Language, Strong Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature, Contains Slash (Same-Sex Pairing)
Published: 2005.04.08   Latest Chapter: 2006.02.12 Updated: 2006.02.12 Status: Abandoned (14199 words)
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