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NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM - a new system has been installed at BOA & Winsley Health Centre on Wednesday 23 August 2017. St Damian's Surgery will commence onthe 12th Septemeber. We are working hard with our engineers to ensure the system is back up and running smoothly for our patients. We apologise for any difficulties experienced with accessing our services during this time. All feedback is gratefully received whilst we work with our engineers to resolve any problems encountered. Thank you for your patience.
Posted: 29.08.17
Changes to the appointment system
from the 6th February 2017
***ONLINE BOOKING FOR DOCTORS TELEPHONE CONSULTATIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE***When booking your telephone consultation with the Doctor state the telephone number you request to be called on and the reason for the call. Please note the time may vary due to unforeseen circumstances, but the Doctors will do their up most to call you within an hour of your booking.
As you will be aware from the media the NHS is under significant pressure. We have been struggling with the additional demands on the service for some time and have decided to 'act now' by introducing a new appointment system from 6 February 2017. The system aims to make the best use of the available clinical workforce and enable the most unwell patients to see a doctor quickly.
There are three separate areas of the new system:
1) If you have an urgent problem
Please telephone as early as you can on the day to book an appointment in the same day emergency service. These appointments are limited and therefore will only be booked with problems which are deemed to be medically urgent.
2) If you have a new problem (or a recurrence of an old problem) which is not medically urgent for today
Please speak to reception who will offer you a telephone appointment with a doctor. For continuity we advise that you wait to speak to your usual doctor when they are next available. This may sometimes mean that you will need to wait longer than you would ideally prefer.
3) If you have an on-going problem and the doctor has directly asked to see/speak with you again
Please let the receptionist know as we have allocated a protected number of appointments for this purpose.
Please note: the receptionist is only able to book one of these appointments if the request for a follow-up has been specifically documented in your medical record by the Doctor.
For more information please read our new Changes to the appointment sysem leaflet by clicking here
The Doctors have implemented a monthly 'topic of focus' which aims to raise awareness of current important national and local health campaigns but also to provide a 'spotlight' on certain areas/projects the Practice is directly involved in.
The focus for April 2015 is the appointments system and why the Doctors have trained the staff to ask patients for 'some idea of the problem' when making an appointment booking.
For information on this subject, please click here to download the appointments system Practice leaflet.
Posted 30.03.15
Please see the on-line appointment tab (above) for more information about booking your appointment on-line!
All the doctors and nurses work to appointments and we run 2 sessions each day, a morning session and an afternoon session.
We also offer a selection of appointments outside our normal working hours for those patients who find it difficult to make routine appointments due to work and family commitments during the working day.
To book an appointment please telephone your surgery.
The doctors of the practice have formulated a home treatment guide to help you manage COMMON AILMENTS at home such as cystitis, stomach ache, earache and sinusitis to name but a few.
To find out more, CLICK HERE to read on...
Online Symptom Checker
The NHS Direct website has a useful tool called a Symptom Checker. It's quick and easy to use and will ask you a series of questions in order to give you the best possible advice relating to your condition.
Here is a link to the Symtom Checker: http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/en/CheckSymptoms
24 October 2016
15,500 missed GP Practice appointments across Wiltshire in three months
An equivalent of 516 days of general practitioner time was lost during July –September 2016 because more than 15,500 GP, nurse and healthcare assistant appointments were missed across Wiltshire's 55 GP Practices.
Known as 'Did Not Attend' appointments they have a huge impact on the health economy, prevent other patients from being seen and waste the time of ever-stretched doctors and nurses.
Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group is urging patients to take a few minutes to cancel their appointments if they are no longer required, or if they are unable to attend. Practices will then be able to offer those slots to other patients who require them and help to reduce appointment waiting times.
Dr Peter Jenkins, Chair of Wiltshire CCG said: "Every missed appointment it is a missed opportunity for practices to see another patient. Between July and September that means practices could have seen another 15,500 patients, which is staggering. Simply by cancelling unwanted appointments, even if it is a few minutes before, it means that other patients have an opportunity to be seen more quickly and perhaps see their own GP. We were aware that most practices experience several DNAs each day, but the volumes we are seeing are quite frankly, shocking."
On average a GP will conduct 30 appointments per day and based on the total number of missed appointments for July – September 2016, the equivalent of 516 days of general practitioner time has been lost.
Dr Richard Sandford-Hill, a GP at Market Lavington Surgery explains on behalf of Wiltshire Practices: "As doctors, we understand that people lead busy lives, that plans often change and quite often many people feel better by the time of their pre-booked appointment, so needing to change or cancel it is not a problem – please just remember to let your surgery know.
"At a time when NHS resources are stretched to the hilt, it's really important that people understand the impact they have if they simply do not turn up. Everyone has responsibility to look after the NHS – it's tax payers money after all – and we urge Wiltshire people to cancel when they don't need the appointment so that those most in need are able to be seen more quickly".
As well as cancelling your appointment online, you can also cancel your appointment via our telephone cancellation line on 01225 860025.
It's a voicemail service, so you will just need to leave a message including your name, date of birth, time of appointment and who it's with.
The cancellation line is regularly checked by our staff throughout the day.
We offer appointments outside the Practice's normal working hours for those patients who find it difficult to make appointments due to work and family commitments, during the normal working week.
These surgeries are usually held on a Monday Evening at The Health Centre and on a Monday evening at St Damian's Surgery. Patients have the opportunity to book a telephone consultation with a Doctor or a face to face appointment during these times.
Telephone consultations are also available with a Doctor on a Friday morning before 8am and any week day evening from 6.30pm. Please ask the receptionist to book your appointment.
Since 11th January 2012, we have automatically sent appointment reminders by text message to patients who have given us a mobile phone number, but due to changes in data protection guidance, from 2nd June 2014 we will only send text message appointment reminders to patients who have specifically contacted us to confirm that they would like to receive them.
To let us know you are happy to continue to receive appointment reminders by text, please simply click here to submit a consent form to us on-line. Alternatively mention this to the receptionist the next time you need to telephone/visit the surgery.
If you do not wish to receive appointment reminders (by text) from the surgery, you do not need to do anything.
Please note: we will still continue to send generic text messages (to patients who have given us their mobile phone number) regarding the following services:
I f you do not wish to receive ANY text messages at all, please speak to the receptionist and this will be indicated on your medical record
There are a number of options available. These are listed below to help you decide before you ring us. The receptionist can also help you decide which one is the most appropriate for you. It may not always be necessary for you to see a GP and we welcome your co-operation in ensuring that people who, for medical reasons, must be seen by a doctor are able to do so.
This service is led by experienced, fully trained nurses who are able to deal with minor illness, injury and certain medical emergencies. You will be offered a same-day appointment where your condition will be assessed and treated by the emergency nurse, who has direct access to the duty doctor if she needs additional advice or support.
Patients are able to speak to a GP on the telephone during the working day:
Where possible the doctors prefer patients to book a telephone consultation with the doctor they 'usually see'.
If you wish to speak to a nurse:
Patients who wish to speak with a nurse on the telephone will need to discuss this with the receptionist to see what could be arranged for the patient that day, depending on which nurse would be most able to assist the patient with their query/condition.
In addition to general duties such as changing dressings our nurse-led clinics include blood-taking, ear syringing, blood pressure checks and cervical smears. In addition they can provide advice on the management of coronary heart disease, stopping smoking, diabetes, asthma, weight control and holiday and travel issues. Telephone consultations are available daily with the practice nurses.
More of the "routine" duties are now carried out by other members of the primary healthcare team, the doctors are able to concentrate on those patients who really need their expertise.
Flu vaccination appointments available from the 1st September 2017
Please do not telephone the surgery before the 1st September as the receptionists are unable to book your appointment at this time!
Winter Flu Campaign 2017
When are the flu clinics being held?
Flu vaccination is available every year on the NHS to help protect adults and children at risk of flu and its complications.
Drop-in flu clinics will be held on Saturday's. If you are unable to attend at these times we can make alternative arrangements at a later date.
Child flu Vaccination appointments to be held in the October clinics due to vaccine delivery dates.
8.30am—12.30pm At The Health Centre
Saturday 23rd September
Saturday 30th September
Saturday 14th October
8.30am—12.30pm At Winsley Surgery
Friday 22nd September
Friday 6th October
Friday 27th October
8.30am—12.30pm At St Damian's Surgery
Saturday 23rdSeptember
Saturday 14th October
Flu Campaign 2017
All about flu and how to stop getting it
NHS Public Health England - Who should have it and why leaflet please click here
Please click here to download the 2017 Practice Information leaflet
Easy read version for people with learning disabilities click here
What is flu?
Influenza or flu is a viral infection that usually strikes between December and March. It can affect people of all ages.
The first signs are a headache, sore throat and a runny nose, aching muscles, fever and shivering. Flu makes you feel completely exhausted and this extreme fatigue may last for two to three weeks.
You can catch flu by inhaling the virus or by handling items touched by an infected person. The symptoms start to develop one to four days later.
Why should I be concerned about flu?
Most people who get the flu recover after a week or two, but some develop life-threatening complications such as pneumonia, nerve or brain damage. You are more likely to be at risk from the complications of flu if you are in one of the 'at risk' groups and your body is already weakened.
How do I avoid getting flu?
The best way to avoid getting flu is to have a flu jab during the Autumn - usually between October and November - each year. The Flu vaccination is free of charge for people in the 'at risk' groups.
You need to have a jab each year to maintain your immunity, as the flu virus is always changing. The jab will not stop you getting coughs and colds, but can protect you against the latest strains of flu.
You may have a temporary slight soreness at the injection site. A few people get a slight fever, but this is short-lived.
As the vaccine is made in chickens' eggs, you should not have a flu jab if you are allergic to eggs, chicken protein or if you have had a previous allergic reaction to a flu jab. A Flu vaccination does not cause flu.
Flu vaccination is especially important if:
You are aged 65 or older - Death from influenza is most common in the over 65s - you are more likely to have severe flu and be admitted to hospital than younger patients.
You have had a stroke or TIA (mini stroke) - There is evidence that receiving the annual flu vaccine reduces the risk of a stroke in patients with a history of stroke or TIA.
You have reduced immunity - If you are receiving chemotherapy or steroid treatment; have no spleen; or if you have HIV/AIDS, your immune system is already considerably weakened. Flu will further reduce your capacity to fight infection.
You are the main Carer for an elderly or disabled person - You should receive the flu vaccine if their welfare is at risk if you fall ill.
You have diabetes - The death rate among people with diabetes can increase by between 5% and 15% when there is a lot of flu about.
You have chronic heart disease - People with flu may experience changes or abnormalities in the rhythm of their heartbeat, which indicates there is a problem with the heart muscles. Studies have indicated that people with heart disease are less likely to have a heart attack if they have a flu jab.
You have chronic kidney disease - Flu can cause dehydration which can worsen your kidney problems.
You have chronic liver disease - You may be more susceptible to catching flu and more likely to develop complications or worsening of your liver disease.
You have chronic lung disease - Flu can bring on asthma attacks and will make chronic bronchitis much worse. If you get flu, a secondary infection like pneumonia can set in. If you go on to develop pneumonia, the risk of developing further complications would be higher.
If you fall into any of these 'at risk' categories, please contact the Surgery to make an appointment for a Flu Vaccination.
Flu can be a very unpleasant illness in children causing fever, stuffy nose, dry cough, sore throat, aching muscles and joints, and extreme tiredness. This can last several days or more.
Some children can get a very high fever, sometimes without the usual flu symptoms, and may need to go to hospital for treatment. Serious complications of flu include a painful ear infection, acute bronchitis, and pneumonia.
For more information please click here
What is shingles?
Shingles (also known as herpes zoster) is caused by the reactivation of an infection of a nerve and the area of skin that it serves, resulting in clusters of painful, itchy, fluid-filled blisters. These blisters can burst and turn into sores that eventually crust over and heal. These blisters usually affect an area on one side of the body, most commonly the chest but sometimes also the head, face and eye.
Who will get the vaccine?
All people who turn 70 or 78 years of age on or after 1 April 2017 are eligible for the vaccine.
The vaccine is also available for those previously eligible but who missed immunisation. For example, anyone in their 70s who was born after 1 September 1942 and has not yet had the vaccine plus anyone aged 79 years who has missed out on the vaccine.
What about people who aren't 70 or 78, will they be getting it?
People under 70 years of age are at lower risk of shingles but will become eligible for the vaccine in the year following their seventieth birthday.
People aged 80 years and over are not eligible for the shingles vaccination because the vaccine becomes less effective as people get older. If you are worried about shingles speak to your GP.
For more information please click here
The pneumococcal vaccine protects against serious and potentially fatal pneumococcal infections. It's also known as the "pneumo jab" or pneumonia vaccine.
Pneumococcal infections are caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae and can lead to pneumonia, septicaemia (a kind of blood poisoning) and meningitis. At their worst, they can cause permanent brain damage, or even kill.
Who should have the pneumococcal vaccine?
A pneumococcal infection can affect anyone. However, some people are at higher risk of serious illness and can be given the pneumococcal vaccination on the NHS. These include:
How often is the pneumococcal vaccine given?
Babies receive the pneumococcal vaccine as three separate injections, at 8 weeks, 16 weeks and one year old.
People over 65 only need a single pneumococcal vaccination, which will protect for life. It is not given annually like the flu jab.
People with a long-term health condition may need just a single one-off pneumococcal vaccination or five-yearly vaccination, depending on their underlying health problem.
Flu vaccinations
Flu vaccinations
You are eligible for a free vaccine if you:
BOAHC Telephone: 01225 866611
St. Damian's Clinic Telephone: 01225 898490
Winsley Practice Telephone: 01225 860003
When you telephone for an appointment please be aware the Receptionist will check your eligibility to have a flu vaccination based on the 'at risk' criteria.
Therefore you will be asked by the Receptionist if you know which 'at risk' area you fall into and if not, may need to check your medical record.
If you or the Receptionist are unsure of your eligibility a flu vaccination appointment will still be made for you but your name and telephone number will be passed to a Nurse who will check your eligibility.
If you are unfortunately not eligible, your appointment will be cancelled and we will telephone you, within a week, to inform you of this.
Please click here to download the 2015 BOA information leaflet or click here to download the 2015 St. Damian's leaflet which will answer the following questions:
To read the national flu leaflet 'The Flu Vaccination Winter 2015/16 - Who should have it and why?' - click here
In the autumn/winter of 2015/16 the annual nasal spray flu vaccine will be available for children aged two, three and four years old plus children in school years one and two as part of the NHS childhood vaccination programme.
The vaccine will be offered routinely to all children aged two, three and four on August 31 2015. That is, children with a date of birth on or after September 1 2010 and on or before August 31 2013.
In addition, children in school years one and two will be offered flu vaccination.
For more information please click here to read 'Protecting your Child against flu' & learning disability flu leaflet click here
The flu vaccine for children is given as a single dose of nasal spray squirted up each nostril. Not only is it needle-free (a big advantage for children), the nasal spray works even better than the injected flu vaccine.
It's quick and painless and will mean your child is less likely to become ill if they come into contact with the flu virus.
The nasal spray flu vaccine is also for children aged two to 17 who are "at risk" from flu, such as children with long-term health conditions. Some of these children will be offered two doses of the vaccine.
The injectable flu vaccine will continue to be offered to those aged 65 and over, pregnant women, carers and adults and babies (aged six months to two years) with a long-term medical condition.
For more information click here to read 'Flu & pregnancy'
Anyone aged 70 can have the shingles vaccine on the NHS. You become eligible for the vaccine from the first day of September after your 70th birthday for the following year.
From September 1 2015, the shingles vaccine will be offered routinely to people aged 70 and, as a catch up, to those aged 78. You become eligible for the vaccine on the first day of September 2015 after you've turned 70 or 78 and remain so until the last day of August 2016.
In addition, anyone who was eligible for immunisation in the first two years of the programme but has not yet been vaccinated against shingles remains eligible until their 80th birthday. This includes:
Anyone aged 80 and over is unsuitable to have the shingles vaccination on the NHS because it seems to be less effective in this age group.
You can have the shingles vaccination at any time of year, though many people will find it convenient to have it at the same time as their annual flu vaccination.
The practice are pleased to announce that we now offer some on-line appointments for:
If you would like to register to book appointments on-line please bring a form of ID to the surgery and one of the receptionists will be happy to issue you with your username and password.
The appointments made available on-line are restricted to minimise booking errors. Due to the complexity of some appointments, we are not able to release all types of appointments. The reason for this, for example, is that the Nurses are trained to different levels and some may not be able to undertake the procedure you require. The Doctors have trained the appointments team to ask questions to identify the most appropriate clinician for your problem and will allocate the correct amount of time needed for that appointment.
If you cannot find the appointment you are looking for on-line, please contact the appointments team on 01225 865200 as they may have other options available to them not showing on-line.
If you are having difficulties with the on-line system, please CLICK HERE for a helpful step by step guide on how to book appointments and request prescriptions.
If you are encountering any problems with your online account or would like to provide any feedback please contact reception, or email email@example.com
The surgery makes one appointment every minute!
Demand is at its highest on the telephone system between 8.30am-11am & 2pm-3pm. Please bear with us during these busy periods, the staff will be with you as soon as they can.
Where possible, please try to avoid calling the surgery for non-urgent requests during these times.
If flexibility is important to you please register for our on-line appointment booking service. For more information about this service, please click the 'on-line appointments' tab above.
During a normal working week the Doctors see approximately 750 routine patients (3250 per month).
This does not include the number of patients who are seen by the Duty Doctor for urgent 'same day' appointments, which usually equate to on average 70 patients per day!
During the month of April 2015, 5% of patient's DID NOT ATTEND their routine GP appointment.
This equates to 27 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor.
On average, 7.9 appointments are wasted with the Nurse every week day!
March 2015
5.1% of patient's did not attend their routine GP appointment
= 27.6 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor!
February 2015
4.6% of patient's did not attend their routine GP appointment
= 24.8 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor!
January 2015
3.7% of patient's did not attend their routine GP appointment
= 20.2 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor!
December 2014
4.4% of patient's did not attend their routine GP appointment
= 23.8 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor!
September 2014
5% of patient's did not attend their routine GP appointment.
= 27.3 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor!
August 2014
4.2% of patient's did not attend their routine GP appointment.
= 23.1 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor!
July 2014
4.8% of patient's did not attend their routine GP appointment.
= 26.2 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor!
May 2014
4.6% of patient's did not attend their routine GP appointment.
= 25.2 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor!
February 2014
3.9% of patient's did not attend their routine GP appointment.
= 21.5 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor!
December 2013
5.8% of patient's did not attend their routine GP appointment.
= 31.5 hours of lost time for other patients to see the Doctor!
Did you know - appointments can be cancelled in the following ways:
By telephone or TEXT to 01225 860025
On-line via the practice website (to register for this service, please take proof of ID to the receptionist)
Home visits mean that the doctor can see far fewer patients during the day so we ask that you only request a home visit when medically essential.
Where possible please telephone to request a visit before 10.30 am.
For Bradford on Avon and Winsley patients, please telephone Patient Liaison on 01225 860018
For Melksham patients, please telephone the receptionist on 01225 898490
You will be phoned back by a doctor to advise you and give an estimated time of your visit. You may be asked to attend the surgery or receive telephone advice for your condition. If a visit is deemed necessary, it may not be your usual Doctor who will call.
The Doctor is not obliged to visit you at home, unless you are unable to travel due to your condition.
Please, where possible attend surgery so that full examinations are possible.
Please telephone The Health Centre between 8.30am- 5.30pm to make your appointment
01225 865200
If you are unable to attend your appointment, please inform the Practice by:
Please click here for a map showing how to get to the Winsley Health Centre from the Bradford on Avon Health Centre.
Please telephone Winsley Health Centre between 8.30am-1.00pm & 2.00pm- 5.30pm to make your appointments - 01225 860003
Dr Smith
Dr Gough
Dr Patrick
(extended hours)
Please note that this arrangement may change due to training, annual leave and sickness.
Nurse clinics are also being held at the Winsley Health Centre every day which include:
Quicker Check-in For Your Appointment
After the success of the self check-in machine at The Health Centre (BOA), we are pleased to inform you that now have installed a self check-in machine at the Winsley Health Centre.
The new facility will enable patients to check-in quicker - especially if there is a queue at the reception desk.
We are a Dispensing Practice with our dispensary based at Winsley. Dispensing doctors are GPs who are allowed to both prescribe and dispense prescription-only medicines to certain patients. Community Pharmacies (Chemists) are often not financially viable in rural areas, which is why some GPs have been allowed to dispense medicines themselves. The system is tightly controlled and we are only allowed to dispense for registered patients who live more than 1 mile/1.6km from a Community Pharmacy (as the crow flies). If you are not sure whether you are eligible for dispensing, just ask at reception.
Your prescription or medication will be available within two working days unless suppliers are short of stock. If you are collecting medication or prescriptions for others or collecting certain medicines, the receptionists may ask for proof of identity. Where prescription payment exemption applies, proof of this and completion of the back of the prescription will be required.
You can collect medication from 0830 to 1300 and 1400 to 1800, Monday to Friday. However you may be eligible for our free delivery service for dispensing medications (excluding refrigerated items and controlled drugs). This service is for patients who have severe difficulty getting to the dispensary to collect their medicines. Please ask at Winsley reception for more details.
If you need medication urgently or need your medicines early due to holidays please speak to a receptionist so that she can process your request appropriately.
The dispensary is able to offer a service of providing weekly medication compliance trays (Nomads), or dosettes as they commonly referred to. These are for patients who have difficulty in remembering to take their medication. Please speak to the dispensary for further information.
Please note we are unable to take prescription requests over the phone.
Please telephone St Damian's Surgery between 8.30am-6.00pm to make your appointment
01225 898490
If you are unable to attend your appointment, please inform the practice by:
After the success of the self check-in machine at The Health Centre (BOA), we are pleased to inform you that now have installed a self check-in machine at St Damian's Surgery.
Discussions are taking place for the possible relocation of St. Damian's Surgery in Melksham to the campus site.
To view the full press release please click here.
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Each Wednesday for the past few months, we assessed how the top prospects of the 2013 NBA Draft were faring in college and overseas. You stuck with us each week for assorted thoughts, including the biggest risers and fallers, the standouts, the sleepers and what we knew and didn't know about the next NBA Draft class. Here's the fallout…
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The 2013 NBA Draft is over and before jumping head first into next year's draft, there are a few doors that still need to be closed. This will be the final Fast Five and after the whirlwind of a draft, hopefully this can serve as some semblance of a recap to the wildest draft in years.
Here is the NBA Draft Fast Five.
ONE: What Do We Know?
On draft night, a handful of teams made one obvious, emphatic point with their moves: they are keeping their eye on the 2014 NBA Draft. Most apparent were the 76ers, who traded their young, All-Star point guard for a rookie that will not be able to play until January… with a roster devoid of talent. They may have to start Michael Carter-Williams at the point and with that will have to deal with the ups and the downs of a rookie point guard.
The Celtics, Mavericks and Hawks all made picks that are not meant to be impactful this coming season. More teams will join the battle for the top spot in the 2014 Draft, leading to many teams selling assets, trading talent and losing games.
TWO: What Do We Not Know?
Over the past few seasons, it has become ever more apparent that certain teams draft who they want no matter the consensus opinion of the league. The Pacers selected Miles Plumlee last year and Solomon Hill this year in the first round. By all accounts, both would have been available in the second round. The Thunder moved up to select Andre Roberson, who could have been an undrafted free agent. Then there is the Cavaliers.
First it was Tristan Thompson, then it was Dion Waiters, and now it is Anthony Bennett. All three picks were puzzling at the time, but the pick of Bennett is especially puzzling considering the makeup of the roster. He duplicates Thompson's position and if you are going to duplicate a position, why Bennett? Time will tell if these teams made the right calls and are smarter than us all, or if they outsmarted themselves again.
THREE: Handicapping the 2013 Rookie of the Year Race
The Sports Book has released their odds for the 2013-2014 Rookie of the Year and their choice is the consensus of many: Victor Oladipo (plus-350). Next season, Oladipo has the opportunity to either start or be the team's sixth man. After Oladipo, the next best odds are Trey Burke (plus-400), the field (plus-600), Otto Porter Jr. (plus-800), C.J. McCollum (plus-800) and Anthony Bennett (plus-1000). One name to keep an eye on is Shane Larkin (plus-2500), who might be Dallas' starting point guard.
FOUR: Sneaky Good Pick
Last season, the Lakers were lacking a lot of things on the basketball court, like athleticism and youth, as well as shooting. Ryan Kelly resolves the last issue if he makes the roster as a legit seven-footer that can shoot the ball lights out from NBA three. He is limited overall as a basketball player, but can develop into a Ryan Anderson or a Matt Bonner.
Keep reading to see the five teams in play for Andrew Wiggins…

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These are just five of the thirteen teams participating in the ICT Entrepreneurship course this year. Eight other evenly eager teams are left to be introduced in the next article. ICT Entrepreneurship this year has 41 participants with a great number of innovative ideas. Thirteen of these ideas have been selected and thirteen new companies have been founded. Together they formed three business units namely BeOne, CUBB and Mobilis. Together they are learning, cooperating and fully functioning like a professional enterprise. This all has one final goal: knowing what it entails to become a successful entrepreneur. Welcome to Utrecht University, ICT Entrepreneurship 2010-2011!
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Being a new head coach in today's NFL is like being a kid whose parents load Christmas presents under the tree at summer's end.
You can see them. But you can't open them for 3-4 more months, sorry.
Of the eight new NFL field bosses, all but Andy Reid of the Kansas City Chiefs are head coaches for the first time at the NFL level.
They're beyond anxious to talk football with their players, but because of the 2011 CBA with the players union they are forbidden from doing so.
"There's so much time between when you get the job and you meet the players," Bills head coach Doug Marrone said at the NFL scouting combine. "And that's very difficult, because people are going to ask you a lot of questions about personnel, roster, evaluations -- and you really want to deal with the players first (about that).
"For me, my excitement, what I think about all the time, is that our players voluntarily will be reporting on April 2. So having the chance to meet them, face to face, is really what excites us."
Until then, Marrone and his newly assembled staff of assistants will be fine-tuning playbooks on offence, defence and special teams, and generally "making sure everything is prepared for when the players come."
Gus Bradley, the former Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator who's now head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, sounded even more frustrated.
"I think some people say, 'Gus, things are going good. It must feel like you're on a honeymoon.' I go, 'I know, I am, it's great, are you kidding me? Every day is awesome.'
"But something's missing. We've got to get on the field and coach these guys, and I want them to have the same excitement and enthusiasm that we have as a staff. Because we feel good about them. And I think that that's the first step, to say, 'Hey, you know what? We can get this thing going here now a little bit.' "¦ That's why I'm so looking forward to April."
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Prospective Study of Heart Failure With Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (KaRen)
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First received: March 8, 2010
Last updated: September 27, 2013
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|First Received Date ICMJE
|March 8, 2010
|Last Updated Date
|September 27, 2013
|Start Date ICMJE
|October 2008
|Primary Completion Date
|December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Death rate [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
Analyse survival (all-cause death)
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01091467 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Prospective Study of Heart Failure With Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
|Official Title ICMJE
|Prospective Study of Heart Failure With Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction: Prevalence, Characterisation and Prognostic Significance of Cardiac Desynchrony
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this study is to examine electrical and echocardiographic characteristics and prognosis of consecutive patients admitted with acute heart failure and diagnosed to have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF).
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|Observational Model: Cohort
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v35 v36 34 34 So we have decided to avoid the extensible record debate, but how can we have multiple record field selectors in scope and correctly resolve the type of the record? 35 35 36 1. Overloading: polymorphic selection & update; see [wiki:Records/OverloadedRecordFields] 37 2. Namespacing: simple name-spacing & type resolution; see [wiki:Records/NameSpacing] 36 1. Simple Overloaded Record Fields (SORF); see [wiki:Records/OverloadedRecordFields] 37 2. Frege-derived Records (FDR): simple name-spacing & plus type resolution; see [wiki:Records/NameSpacing] 38 3. Type Directed Name Resolution (TDNR): like FDR, but without the name-spacing part; see [wiki:TypeDirectedNameResolution Type Directed Name Resolution]. 38 39 3. '''Are there any other approaches?''' 39 40 … … 59 60 All of the name-space mechanisms require some level of user-supplied disambiguation: if there are two fields `a` in scope, you must use a qualified name to disambiguate them. What is tantalising about this is that the ''type'' of the argument immediately specifies which one you mean. There is really no ambiguity at all, so it is frustrating to have to type qualified names to redundantly specify that information. Object-oriented languages take for granted this form of type-directed disambiguation. 60 61 61 One particular way of integrating this idea into Haskell is called [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/TypeDirectedNameResolution Type Directed Name Resolution](TDNR). Proposed a couple of years ago, the Haskell community didn't like it much. (But I still do; SLPJ.) 62 One particular way of integrating this idea into Haskell is called (TDNR). Proposed a couple of years ago, the Haskell community didn't like it much. (But I still do; SLPJ.) 62 63 63 64 I believe the community rejected TDNR because they wanted extensible records. I think it is a shame that the debate over *extensible* records has resulted in holding back any form of progress , but I do think that the TDNR proposal seems a little weak for some reasons pointed out in the proposal itself, but also because it proposes not to solve name-spacing record updates. Note that the Frege proposal incorporates the TDNR syntax, and it tackles record updates. -- Greg Weber


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T.I. – "F**k It (So What)" – [LISTEN/DOWNLOAD]
After news that his album Troubleman, was pushed back a few weeks we still got some new music courtesy of the king of the south. T.I.'s new record, "F**k it (So What)" comes off of DJ MLK's new mixtape Goodnight Don't Exist In #ATL. The king of the south has been keeping himself busy with work on his new project as well as acting on television shows Boss and VH-1's Single Ladies.
The kang also tells MTV News that he's recorded over 124 songs for his next album, Troubleman. Let's hope that he can narrow it down to a solid 12-15 in the mean time. Check out this new tune after the jump and download the entire mixtape from DJ MLK right here.
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DMA Chairman JoAnne Monfradi Dunn of Alliant recently presented at a DMIX luncheon in New York City on the importance of data stewardship in a data-driven marketing world. This is a summary of her opening remarks. JoAnne was later joined in a panel discussion by DMA member Sal Tripi, AVP of Digital Operations & Compliance at Publisher's Clearinghouse.
The DMA recently had some posters made up that say, simply: Data Love. The idea was not to be whimsical or funny, the idea was to represent how vital data is to business, to marketing, to our careers, and to our own digital lifestyles.
In fact, data-driven marketing has become so fundamental to what we do that DMA actually updated its mission statement last year to "Advance and protect responsible data driven marketing." That's quite remarkable. It means that the DMA — the largest marketing trade association in the world — is officially committed to preserving self-regulated usage of marketing data.
Our message to marketers and marketing service providers is that we have an increasing degree of responsibility to make sure we are managing data properly. And with good reason.
Data is the fuel that drives marketing. Marketing channels now both consume and generate data. The volume and veracity of data has become a business in itself with "Big Data' solutions. All that data is generating more than marketing-driven profits. It's generating some very impressive results in our economy.
According to a recent academic Value of Data study from the Data Driven Marketing Institute, the data-driven marketing created $156 billion for the U.S. economy, and 675,000 jobs in 2012. Significantly, the study also found that 70% of the value — $110 billion in revenue and 478,000 jobs — depends on the ability of firms to exchange data with each other.
That free flow of data levels the playing field and allows both big and small companies to innovate and use the data they have to connect with customers in real time and across channels. Small business and innovation are big winners in the data-driven marketing economy.
All that growth is wonderful, but remember: Access to data is a privilege. We have a big economy to protect, and our own bottom lines to watch out for. So we can't afford to be careless here.
Marketers are facing ferocious legislative threats – like no other time in recent history. To be frank, we have to protect the data or we are going to lose the freedom to use it. Thankfully, as an industry, we have a long history of successfully self-regulating our own businesses.
That is where Data Stewardship – and you – come in.
Data stewardship is purposeful. It's ethical. It's customer-centric. It's clearly defined collection, notice, choice and use policies. It's a dynamic, practical set of processes and behaviors and attitudes that create trust between marketers and customers.
Why do we need data stewardship?
- It's good for business. Smart Data Management helps marketers expand their reach, deepen customer relationships and increase sales.
- Good stewardship means better data quality. Fewer data silos. Better access. Managing your data assets properly increases business opportunities.
- Consumers expect us to be great data-drive marketers! Increasingly, consumers demand relevant, secure data-driven marketing: They don't want to fill out the same form twice. They want relevant offers in the right channels. If you don't deliver it, they will vote with their feet and go to your competitor.
- Regulatory pressures. Unfortunately recent disclosures about NSA activity is doing its part to undermine the confidence of consumers and policymakers. What we marketers think is cool, they may find creepy.
For more than 40 years the DMA has led a very successful self-regulation program for our industry. We accept tens of thousands of consumer complaints a year, and publish and enforce a set of Ethical Business Guidelines for the industry. Most marketers who run afoul of the Guidelines quickly change their behavior and become compliant. A few don't, and the list of those is on the DMA website every year.
DMA offers programs for consumers as well, to help them exercise their choice in how data is used for marketing. Two of these programs are DMAChoice.org, which allows consumers to opt out of mail they receive and YourAdChoices.com which allows consumers to opt out of behavioral advertising.
So here's the bottom line: The best defense is a good offense. A successful self-regulated business environment begins with effective self-regulation, which, for modern marketers begins with data stewardship. We all have to start by making sure we meet our own obligations to self-regulate and ensure responsible use of all data throughout our own companies.
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Discussion in 'The Blazing Arrow "Rivalry Talk"' started by Texan_Bill, Apr 14, 2009.
Full Article: Rival fans living harmoniously
I want a refund....
Notice what one of the guys said.
"Call it what it is, a Colts and Jags bashing website."
Apparently he has never read the 1,000 threads in here where the Titans get bashed and the VY sausage jokes.
Not to mention all of the internal bashing. The HWSNBN, Richard Smith, Greenwood, etc. threads....
As one of the new mods of Tailgate, and one of the old originals at the TOMB, as well as a close friend of Yvette, rest assured how grateful I am to Hookem et al for helping us.
Thats pretty awesome, I wasn't aware of this.
I'll keep my comments about the TOMB to myself.
All joking and ribbing aside, that was pretty cool of Kevin to help out.
No doubt. And to be honest, I don't have it in me to do the same. 30 other teams - even the Cryboys - no problem. But the ICOU? Fat chance. They are very fortunate Kevin has a heart as big as Texas.
There is another thread discussing the same thing.
Hookem ... don't bogart the moonshine and possum pot pie .
As much as I hate the Possums, that is pretty cool of you Hook.
Way to go Hook.
I'm sure the Tinbread fans would have missed in that forum. Here, it's nice and visible.
I refuse to believe this is true.
I don't believe it.
This is propaganda from the Crybreds to make us turn on one of our own.
Not until he come out and says he did so will I believe it.
Kevin has a big heart and it's really cool to see him get some National pub over this.
Forgotten in this heart-warming story is the continuing fact that Bud is a piece of human waste.
Let's hear it for Hookem!
Hook I wouldn't have helped Buds team if they were on fire by pi**ing on them.
You truly are a better man.
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Rebekah Parlee's detailed drawings of coastal wildlife and people are often described as native art though she is not of First Nations descent. Her work is appealing for its natural coastal content. The small number of limited edition prints that she produced makes this series a valuable collection.
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Coldest air of the Winter will settle into the region this week
This Afternoon: Partly Cloudy, Breezy and Cool
Highs: Low 40s | Wind: NW 10-20 m.p.h.
Tonight: Partly Cloudy, Cold and Breezy
Lows: 20s | Wind Chill: Single digits and teens
Tuesday: Partly Cloudy, Breezy and Cold
Highs: Low 30s | Wind Chill: Teens
A potent cold front passed through the region yesterday and cold air will continue to filter in behind it today and tomorrow. High temperatures today will only reach the low to mid 40s under partly cloudy skies. A few flurries are not out of the question especially in higher elevations. Tonight will be partly cloudy and cold with lows in the 20s.
Tuesday will see the coldest air of the winter thus far with highs only in the lower 30s. Winds will also make it feel like it is in the teens for much of the day. Winds will diminish on Wednesday but it will still be cold with highs in the mid 30s. Thursday will be slightly warmer with highs back in the low to mid 40s. The next chance for rain appears to be on Sunday.


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Valentine's Day 2015 is bound to be a little painful – in a good way!
After announcing that the "Fifty Shades of Grey" production date would be pushed back a month after Charlie Hunnam dropped out of the project and Jamie Dornan stepped in, Universal has slated the film to open on February 13 2015.
According to Entertainment Weekly, this will allow prep time for the film's new leading man.
PHOTOS: Fifty Shades Of Grey Hunk Jamie Dornan
"We see this movie as a global event," Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley told EW. "The strength of this book is really worldwide, so we want to be able to take advantage of women who are invariably on vacation with their families during the month of August in Europe."
According to the studio, the date change is not due to the film's casting shakeup.
"Together with the international marketing and distribution team, we've been looking really closely at the August date and becoming more and more convinced that the right thing to do for the movie was to push it," Langley said. "So even if Charlie had stayed, we still would have been making the date change."
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Thank you so much Megan at Food & Fitness for awarding the Divas with the Versatile Blogger Award!
First off, I need to give you 7 random facts about me that you might not know about:
- I have my skydiving license – I decided about 8 years ago when I'd finished university to get my license after doing a charity tandem skydive. I got given a tax rebate and within a month I'd booked up to learn in Spain.
- I hate bananas – The smell, the taste, the look of them. They just fill me with dread! Bleurg!
- I love spicy food, but I can't eat it as I have acid reflux. 😦
- My favourite colour is blue – every room in my house ends up being blue in some way without me even trying.
- I love Chorizo – I eat chorizo nearly every day (only a little bit though as it's not great for you!).
- I can juggle – I'm actually pretty good at it and at one stage I could juggle 4 balls at a time.
- My favourite film is Back to the Future – I have seen it about 100 times, but I still love it.
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CRAFTSEco-Art Crafts Made by You
Unfortunately, there were no books written for "twiggists" to consult. But that changed in 1999 when Storey Books filled that gap and published Rustic Accents for Your Home: 45 Projects from Vines, Twigs and Branches by Laura Donnelly Bethmann and Ann Ramp Fox. The publishers have given us permission to excerpt the instructions and illustrations for making signs with twig letters. It's a great way to bring the outdoors indoors and make something for yourself or as a special gift for someone else.
Lettering ideasThink of meaningful words and phrases to make with twigs. Consider:
Clarity, Harmony, Peace, Simplify, Sunshine, Welcome; "There's always the garden," "Carpe diem," or your favorite quote; names of family members; the seasons; seasonal and holiday greetings; your favorite flowers and herbs.
Notes on Materials
Use whatever twigs you have on hand. Don't limit yourself to twigs from only one kind of tree. The authors combined maple twigs (gray and fairly smooth) and cedar twigs (brown and textured) to provide variation in the lettering for this project.
When making signs for the outdoors, use galvanized or stainless steel nails. For signs that will be hung indoors, gluing the letters works as well as nailing.
Twig shape is an important consideration for making letters. Twigs of all shapes and sizes can be coaxed, trimmed and flexed into the appropriate letter forms. However, it's easiest if you can find twigs that naturally take on the shape of the letters.
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You requested a photo of a grave in Memorial Oaks cemetery in Houston, Texas. I went there today and asked them for the location of the grave, but they said they couldn't give me the location because it's against their policy. They only provide grave locations to family members of the deceased.
I would be more than happy to shoot the grave if you would be kind enough to get the location of the grave for me.
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Memorial Oaks Cemetery is over 70 acres. If you can provide me with a section #, I will be happy to take a photo. The staff at this cemetery will only give info to relatives.
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I am going to this cemetery this weekend to take pictures. In order for me to take a picture of Thelma's grave, I need written permission. If you could email me written permission I will be happy to take a photo for you. Also include the plot number, you can call the cemetery to get this information. My email is located on my profile page.
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The cemetery is small. There are many Pearell or Perrell's These two were next to each other near a cedar bush that was very overgrown. Isaac had other people on the other side of his and his wife's headstone. Do you want the others? Or just these two? Korleen
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I saw your photo request for Thelma at Crown Hill cemetery, are you aware of Crown Hill's policy of not giving out grave locations for volunteer photographers? You will have to call the cemetery to get the location. They are rude to volunteers and have been known to kick them off the property.
Just wasn't sure if you read about that on the main page of the cemetery. Good Luck!
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Resources and past success have a tendency to breed continued excellence in college athletics. That statement isn't exactly groundbreaking.
"You mean there's actually a reason top-tier recruits gravitate toward the Power 6 conferences and not the Sun Belt?"
Shocking revelations -- we know.
Still, over time, it can become tougher to judge which coaches are really doing a "good job" and which are riding off their particular institutional advantages.
Over the summer, CBS Sports published separate lists -- based on a poll of nearly 100 anonymous coaches -- of the most underrated and overrated coaches in the country. Speaking, at least in part, to the paragraph (sentence) above, Temple's Fran Dunphy was named the nation's most underrated coach while Villanova's Jay Wright was named the fifth-most overrated. (All of which gave me an excuse to harp on how badly Bill Self showed up Roy Williams in last year's Final Four when it came to the difference between recruiting talent and coaching talent.)
Well, Forbes has now broken the argument into monetary terms and compiled a list of the best coaches in the country "for the money."
In compiling this list, we concluded that the best way to rank a coach relative to his peers is not to do so based on the number of wins and loses alone, but instead on how much a coach wins and losses as compared to the resources he has. Thus, the list we created is a ranking of the top college basketball coaches in the country based off the coaches "cost-per-win", calculated by dividing the total number of wins against Division I opponents during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons by their respective schools basketball budget for each year. In essence, this creates an equation in which the variable numerator among coaches, resources, is divided over a constant denominator, wins and losses against the same pool of competition.
The study was split between high-major and mid-major institutions to account for the gross disparities between some of Division I's 340 basketball-playing schools.
And, in the high-major list, Forbes' study found Dunphy the second-most cost-effective coach in the nation. The numbers:
D-I Wins: 50
Cost-Per-Win: $123,570
Under Dunphy, the Temple Owls have gone to five straight NCAA tournaments and won a total of five A-10 Conference Regular Season and Tournament Titles.
If you were
curious as to who topped the list, St. Bonaventure's Mark Schmidt is your
winner with 36 wins for the low, low price of $88,467 per. Very nice to
see some praise for a guy who often goes under-appreciated even
in Atlantic-10 circles given the job he's done rebuilding an SBU program
that won last year's A-10 tournament. (Two words: welding certificate.)
Anyhow, before anybody gets too bent out of shape about Fran's national accolades one way or the other, it's worth mention that despite the due honors for his success -- Temple is the only program to beat a Top-10 team as an unranked opponent in each of the last five seasons -- the 2012-13 Owls have lost four of their last seven games (Kansas, Xavier, Bonaventure, Butler) and generally underwhelmed to date. They shoot too many threes relative to their percentage (31.8 percent on 21 attempts per game) and have largely failed defensively. Dunphy, in specific, has had difficulties figuring out his rotation. In two of the three games they have won since the New Year, they've barely gotten by against far lesser opponents (George Washington, Penn). Temple has made a habit of playing up and down to competition all season.
To tie all this back to where we started, as Dunphy's team has perhaps underachieved, Wright's Wildcats, from whom little was expected, knocked off two Top-5 teams (Lousiville, Syracuse) in the last week despite turning the ball over an average 16 times per game this season. All of which either proves or disproves everything or nothing everyone has ever said about the latter (as a coach).
So, while we're here, if you're so inclined, leave your list of the City 6 coaches from best to worst in the comments below based on whatever justifications you see fit. There's a ton of room for variation.


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Where I've Been All this Time
Well ... I've been busy.
Let's see:
I had twins!
That was something. They are adorable. You can read more about them and the rest of the family here.
Both "Dirty Darlene" and "James Dean, My Love, My Copy Boy" became available for sale in actual words-on-paper print!
Yep -- Carve Magazine and Armchair/Shotgun published the issues in which I was included. If you wanna go buy them, you can do that by following the links in my sidebar ... Yep. I added links to my sidebar!
I finished the screenplay with Mr. Lovely and Amazing.
He doesn't agree, but it's in his court for the moment. And has been ... for awhile now ...
I wrote and performed an essay for the Afterbirth reading series.
Have you read the book that spawned the series? You should. It's pretty awesome. Best collection of essays about parenting ever. I laughed. I cried. No, seriously, I did both those things. And I'm not even schilling for it because I'm in it -- 'cause I'm not. But I seriously dug reading for it -- and on my 36 birthday, even! (Basically a year from the last time I posted here.) There were 6 readers totally, and I think I fell somewhere around #3 in terms of entertainment value, so I was pretty jazzed about that.
I wrote a TV pilot spec ALL ON MY LONESOME.
It's a one-hour drama, I am very very proud of it -- and myself. Because, again: I wrote it ALL ON MY LONESOME. Which means I am the master of that particular domain -- which was a) the life-lesson learned with Mr. Lovely and Amazing, who is still both things but who has halfsies on the screenplay we worked on together, so I am not master of THAT particular domain (see the life-lesson?) and b) the advice given me by Ms. Fabulous TV Exec Old Friend, who said basically, I needed to prove I could do it ALL ON MY LONESOME.
Well -- I feel vaguely proven on that point now. That said, the spec I wrote, which satisfies all I love about television, is apparently, according to the production company and both agencies that have covered it, not sure whether it is a cable project or a network project. I sort of thought I was leaving the door open to whomever wanted it to develop it the way they wanted to, but apparently that's the wrong approach. So now I need to decide where to go in the next round -- network or cable. Which makes me think now I need a Guru to help me figure out WHAT COMES NEXT.
I started talking to a Preschool Parent about developing content for his very cool interactive iPad books for kids.
He runs a very cool company -- their first book-app is based on a story his sister wrote for his 5-yo daughter called Penelope Rose. Check it out -- it's pretty fab.
I got a screenplay commission.
Generous Old Writer Friend started a production company and asked me to write the second project for their company. Working on that now -- and again: ALL ON MY LONESOME!
And I started Mommy-blogging.
No, really, I did. I figured I had a lot of kids, I might as well write what I know ... so now I do. You can find me at Checklistmommy.com, where I've actually been getting a ton of very gratifying traffic, and which has been keeping me writing very very regularly -- which is a good thing. And which has made me think that I ought to post over here more, too -- because sure, I know about kids. I know about being a Mom. And I REALLY know what it's like to try to be a WRITING MOM.
So check back here more often -- I promise to post more, because honestly, the more I've been writing-writing, the more I've gotten interesting in talking about the nuts-and-bolts processes I've been employing to DO all that writing-writing -- and the more I've gotten interested in finding out OTHER people's processes ... Anyway. More soon.
Come on back.
Happy New Year -- and more Woe Is Me Juggling and Complaining
That story is the scariest story I have ever read -- and in context, I probably read this around the same time as Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," and I still vote "The Yellow Wallpaper" a million times scarier -- basically because I relate to it so strongly. I mean, she wasn't even allowed a pen and paper ... I, too, would go incredibly and irredeemably nuts.
Here's how I know:
I take one week off writing-writing -- the real writing, the work -- and I become a total bitch. Even if it was my choice to stop writing -- even if I decided to pack, or clean, or be Volunteer of the Year at my kids' school.
I take two weeks off writing-writing -- and I descend into a self-worth-questioning morass of chocolate-consuming, late-night weepies.
I take three weeks off ... the shit hits the fan. That's basically where I am now. Consider this:
6 weeks ago I finished the first draft of the screenplay for / with Mr. Lovely and Hilarious. I also started packing up the house for our move into the Dream House.
A week later, I started the second draft. And I ramped up the packing. Mr. Lovely and Hilarious and I started sending pages back and forth, which was a pretty decent system, until The Move began to consume me ... at which point my writing slowed, his sped up, and he decided he might as well write Draft 2 "on his lonely," as we say around here.
That sounded good at the time. I had to pack. I had to move. I had to incubate twin boys and care for toddler girls and hold it together somehow. And I had a lot of apartmenttherapy.com to catch up on.
But here's the rub:
We moved into the Dream House three weeks ago -- and I promptly went on bedrest. It's hard to really complain about bedrest when you have a nanny and husband who works at home and can basically sit on your ass and make them do all the diaper changing and grocery shopping and errand running and meal providing while you, well, sit on your ass.
HOWEVER -- sitting on your ass in the middle of your household is no way to get any writing-writing done, especially when your actual active PROJECT is being done by Mr. Lovely and Hilarious and you're just waiting around on it (not that I could concentrate on it if the situation were reversed, I mean, I'm sitting here in the middle of my loud friggin' household where there is no way I could get anything done ... especially as I stew over the fact that no one is doing anything the way I would do it myself if I weren't on fucking bedrest, but that's a subject for another day). Regardless ... I am not writing-writing. And I am going a little insane.
I was doing okay, really I was, until my husband walked in last night and said he'd finished unpacking his office. That was sort of the last straw. See, the whole point of the Dream House, for me, was a pantry, a laundry room, a guest room, and my own "DO NOT DISTURB" office space. I have spent the last six years thinking about that office space. I have designed every spare inch of my smaller-than-9x9 refuge -- I have done drawing after drawing of the furniture plans, I have gone over and over the cabinetry, I have surfed the internet for file cabinets for hours at a time, I have sat on dozens of sofas smaller than 51 inches long. But my office remains a mess of boxes because I am on fucking bedrest. My files are not in those file cabinets, because I have to depend on the kindness and priorities of other people to take my file cabinets to the body shop to be painted before I can file my papers. I still don't have a desk. I still don't have the couch. I still don't have my fucking OFFICE.
This is a dumb thing to complain about, it really is. I mean, even if I had my office, I couldn't hang out in it, I'm on bedrest, cooking the twins, and that is literally the most important thing I need to be doing right now. But the problem with bedrest is that I am never alone. It doesn't matter if the door is closed, people are in and out all day. My kids are the loudest tiny people on earth, apparently, and my husband likes to sing to himself. All. Day. Long. And make calls on speaker. Which apparently he believes doesn't work unless you are SHOUTING into the phone. And I am stuck here, in the middle of it, with nowhere to be alone.
Which is not, it turns out, really just a "Yellow Wallpaper" problem. I mean, I have TV, I have internet, I have the Huffington Post and the pre-eclampsia boards, where I am killing ridiculous amounts of time. And I have the constant, whether-I-want-it-or-not, human-interaction.
And THAT'S the problem -- I'm really climbing the walls because I have a "Room of One's Own" problem. I am never alone. Pre-Dream House, I had no private space either, but I could escape a few hours a day and go write in a coffee shop. And that was fine. But that's all gone now, and I am losing it.
I am fairly certain that the number one reason I am a writer is that I am, by temperament, someone who craves being alone. I don't get lonely when I spend a few hours writing-writing -- I get jazzed. I get re-charged. I don't feel cut off from other people, I feel more connected to them, when I spend a few hours alone. I like to eat alone. I love to go to movies alone. I just like to be alone.
And I am getting desperate. I literally broke down CRYING when my husband walked in here a minute ago to ask me what I want for lunch. I almost killed the nanny for coming in to get the laundry this morning. If I don't get some space soon, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Which is fucking hilarious, considering as of a few weeks from now I am going to have FOUR KIDS. FOUR KIDS. Which makes it incredibly unlikely I will ever be alone again.
Not until they're all in school, at least -- which, and yes, I've done the math, is the fall of 2013.
Here's hoping I get my office unpacked before then.
Way back in March, Big Shot Manager introduced me to Lovely and Hilarous Actor, and since then Mr. Lovely and Hilarious and I have been working on a screenplay that I am literally two hours of work away from completing the first draft of ... which explains what I'm doing suddenly blogging after all this time. Yes, I am my own worst enemy.
Anyway, more about the screenplay and Mr. Lovely and Hilarious if / when it becomes a movie. On to the other stuff I can dump here for now as a record that I really was, um, working, since last I posted here, and not just gallivanting about.
Around the same time as I was meeting Mr. Lovely and Hilarious, I was trying to figure out if the magazine that had bought a short story of mine, "Dirty Darlene," was, in fact, ever intending to publish it, or had just closed up shop for good. Eventually, I decided it had closed up shop for good, but then a couple of weeks ago the editor re-appeared and apparently "Dirty Darlene" will be up on the mag's site Oct 16. I will believe that when I see it.
Then I placed another story, "James Dean, My Love, My Copyboy," with a new mag called Armchair / Shotgun, out of Brooklyn, which believe it or not, is actually printed on PAPER. And BOUND. Like a real, live LIT MAG. That should be out later this fall.
And I got a little more serious about sending out "Nothing Will Prepare You," which involved, for about two weeks, employing a Virtual Assistant in India. This was not a great experiment -- apparently fiction loses a LOT in translation, and my goal of off-loading the soul-killing work of FINDING VENUES was never met. Instead, I spent twice the time trying to explain to the VA that I was not writing sci fi, or porn, or horror, that I would have spent generating my own venues lists. So that killed a bunch of time ;)
Oh, and I eventually got a truly wonderful rejection letter for "Nothing ..." from The New England Review, which was actually pretty thrilling because it was so personal and encouraging and made me think I might not be the hack I was beginning to think I was. (See "sudden interest in writing screenplays.")
Oh, and I got knocked up while all this was going on, too. Twins. Boys. Like I wasn't already intent enough on tanking my own career.
Anyway, because I at least KNOW that about myself, I am going to go try to finish the first draft of the screenplay now. But first, the reason I started writing this post in the FIRST PLACE ... (aside from the obvious attempt at procrastinating):
Today I was reading the Oct 11 issue of The New Yorker, and I came across Nora Ephron's piece "My Life as An Heiress," which is about the weeks she thought she might be coming into money, and would be able to abandon the screenplay she was struggling with, and that she was just writing because it was a job. I would just reprint it here, but I can't now, because The New Yorker has a new digital edition that makes that too difficult, so I'll spoil the ending for you. Basically, she doesn't come into much money. Which turns out to be a good thing, because it forces her to finish writing "When Harry Met Sally."
Go figure. And with that, and the obligatory, "Because of GOD," or even, "It was this cold, Spanish tile," I head back to work.
** UPDATE! Two hours later: first draft screenplay complete! Woo-hoo! **
On Rejection
So, too, I hope, for the writing. I keep writing it, and slowly slowly slowly it finds homes.
Or nearly does.
By last count:
One Master's degree eventually completed, with professorial mentoring raised to the "meet my agent" level -- which was exciting at the time. One story published, and honored with a prize. One essay published, and honored by a call-out in a magazine review. Another story bought by an actual paying magazine ... (let's ignore the fact that this mag seems to have ceased operation in the time between purchase and payment). One TV spec co-written, and championed by professionals in the biz, some of whom are complete strangers ... woo-hoo!
But getting there is mostly a story of learning to open the SASEs without the trepidation of a high school senior ("Is it thin or thick? Thin or thick?") Generally, I can read the form letter rejection and forget it rather quickly. Every once in awhile, though, I get one that's just plain rude.
Today, for instance, I received a rejection from a magazine that I had submitted a story to ONLY BECAUSE, when they LAST rejected me, they encouraged me to try again! Literally wrote, "please try us again" at the bottom of the form letter. So I tried them again, and got a rejection today at the bottom of which some jerk had added "I don't know who encouraged you to try us again, we never publish work like yours." Which is funny, because that was exactly the OPPOSITE of what their last note had said, and it's not like my writing changes so dramatically from story to story ... whatever. Suffice it to say, I was a little peeved.
(Almost as peeved as, when working as a lit scout, I brought a manuscript to the agent I was working for which she described as typifying "lazy writing" -- a phrase she actually then INSISTED I relay back to the writer. Who, by the way, had written A NOVEL. Which, no matter how bad, is not LAZY. I know. I write not particularly special novels myself, and it's still fucking hard work.)
But back to my own rejections:
Maybe an hour after I got that rude "no" this afternoon, I got an email from another magazine. A better magazine. A magazine I have actually read and rooted for since it started publishing. A magazine you can actually buy in bookstores. This magazine didn't want the story I'd sent, either. But the editor wrote this:
Dear Sarah,
My apologies. Your submission was misplaced in our system--the second time this story went astray on our end. As with your last story, I admired the quality of the writing, and though I don't think A Public Space is the right magazine for this story, I'd be interested in reading more of your work. You mentioned a new story on your blog that was the best thing you'd ever written--"Nothing Will Prepare You." If it's still available, perhaps you'd consider sending it here?
Umm, what? She read my blog? She did? Really? Cool. Wow. Talk about the best rejection ever (yes, it actually rivals the "no" I got from The New Yorker a thousand years ago, across which some intern had written "I really liked this -- sorry to say no").
All this to say, not all rejections make you want to jump off the Hollywood Sign.
RIP JD Salinger
I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in a big field of rye and all. ... Thousands of kids, and nobody big at all, nobody big but me. And I'm standing on the edge of this crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to come and catch them. If they start to fall ... and don't look where they're going. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.
I used to relate to JD Salinger because Holden Caulfield was a dissafected prep schooler, just like me. Then I related to JD Salinger (through the Joyce Maynard lens) because I was the sort of 18-year old Yalie who just might, under the right circumstances, have moved in with a 50+ man ...
Now I'm the sort of Mom who can't read or hear or watch anything about kids in harm's way. (Seriously -- NOTHING.) So those lines about Holden catching kids on the edge of a crazy cliff ... I literally wept, cried and cried so hard I nearly ran off the road.
And the little girl in the ocean before Seymour blows his brains out ... oh, that little girl! (See what I'm saying? It's not like she's the one who's about to go upstairs and pick up a gun ...) And Esme ... more love, less squalor, kid. You're the one I'm worried about, making it through with your faculties more or less intact.
Every year, I have really high hopes for my work. Not necessarily that I'll sell any of it – I am a realist, a pragmatist, first and foremost – but that I'll write it. That I'll get my butt in the chair, and the words on the page. And I try to be specific about my goals – which projects I'll focus on, and what the true, achievable goal for each project really is. And I write all these goals down, too (a practice that isn't just a work thing, for me, but a family thing—Husband and I make a one-page goals list for our work, our health, our family, our finances, and post it on the mirror in our bathroom).
Anyway, sitting down to make a NEW goal's list requires reviewing the old one. Here's the play-by-play of WHAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO IN 2009:
* Complete 2nd draft of the novel by TAX DAY
Status: Absolute failure. Didn't even LOOK at it in 2009. In the wake of Baby Gaga's birth, the plot just started to seem totally empty and dumb. I did spend a little time completely re-imagining the entire structure, and considered turning it into 3 linked novellas … does that count as progress or procrastination?
*Complete 3rd draft of the novel by LABOR DAY and send to friends.
Status: See above.
*Write one more script with Co-Writer / advance partnership another level.
Status: Sort-of / Yes! We didn't write one more script. But we came up with two concepts, for two new scripts. And we got our Big Shot Manager. And we took some Big Shot Meetings—one in studio bungalow! So that was fun.
*Complete Client's sample chapter.
Status: Done!
*Write Client's book if offered contract.
Status: Client didn't pursue contract, so this stalled out totally NOT on my watch ;)
*Submit "DIRTY DARLENE" to 60 venues.
Status: Sold (sort of). Went out to 57 venues. Finally bought by Carve Magazine, for the Fall 2009 issue. That said, there seems to have been no Fall 2009 issue … hmm.
*Submit "JAMES DEAN, MY LOVE, MY COPY BOY" to 60 venues.
Status: In Progress. I've sent it out to 23 magazines, and in December I employed a Virtual Assistant in India to come up with 40 more. So we'll see about that …
*Re-write "ALBERT & NANCY" to completion.
Status: Abandoned. I tried, I really did. But nothing I did fixed it. And then I started to lose hope. So at the moment, this story has been abandoned, despite my sister's liking it. Sorry, sis.
*Re-write "MAYFLOWER IS A TRUCKSTOP" to completion.
Status: Complete! It's now called "Nothing Will Prepare You," it's in submission, and it's the best thing I have ever written. Ever.
*Re-write "SEVEN" to completion.
Status: Abandoned. I tried. But there was no "there" there. There just wasn't.
* Re-write "HONEYMOON WHERE THE SUN NEVER SETS" to completion.
Status: Back in play! Ok, so I didn't work on this last year … but I'm already nearly done with a new draft of this story, 8 days into the new years … so that's something …
... and it's not a bad segue into next week's post …
Kids Ain't All Bad (No, Really!)
Ian Frazier is hilarious – way back in September he wrote a piece for The New Yorker called "Easy Cocktails from the Cursing Mommy," which is one of the absolute funniest things I have ever read.
I can relate – when Baby Gaga was born, Husband and I started a regular cocktail hour in our home that has led to Husband's buying our booze at Costco. In bulk.
Husband (returning from Costco): You know you have a problem when you're standing in Costco wondering why the gin doesn't come in something bigger than a 750 ml."
This is all a back-assed way of saying that I love to read and talk about mothering – and not good-mothering so much as low-bar, try-not-to-kill-the-baby-mothering, and really not that so much as what mothering does to working / career / ambition / dreams / every wasted cent of that over-priced degree (or series of degrees) that we mother-types once thought would make some sort of difference in our lives.
This obsession of mine led me to obsessively read Helen Simpson stories (a collection of hers that was published around then was called "I Don't Know How She Does It") after the birth of Small Child. It led me to rail endlessly at a Writer Friend who, in the wake of his first daughter's birth, was still somehow managing to FINISH A NOVEL. (Men. Enough said.) It led to me to killing a wonderful sixty minutes at the Farmer's Market a few months ago, talking to a Writer Friend-of-a-Friend who is bemoaning her own wasted dreams, which have been interrupted by her own kids. It led me to give up on one novel and axe a bunch of short stories, too.
Someone has to change the diapers / buy the diapers / schedule the doctor's appts / drive to the doctor's appts / set the bedtime routines / make the meals / buy the groceries / organize the birthday parties / drive the children everywhere / install the carseats over and over again / join the fucking PTA … etc.
And that someone always ends up being Mom. Mom is not allowed to go lock herself away from the kids for weeks at a time, or insist on complete quiet all day, or skip dinner-time to work or drink herself slowly to death (especially if she's nursing – that's a crime in some states). Mom can't be the artist-at-the-expense-of-the-children. That just makes Mom a bitch.
Some women cope by putting the work on hold until the kids are old enough to go to school all day, freeing up hours for writing. (Mine are WAY too young for me to even imagine that real possibility.) Some cope by putting the work on hold forever, and trying not to think too much about it by burying themselves in other people's art and movies and music.
Some kill themselves.
Me, I thought about just giving up a few times this year. I sold a story, but that magazine appears to be going defunct. I finished what I consider the absolute best story I have ever written, but no one wants it. So I thought about starting over on the career track. Maybe get a PhD, or do some interior design. Ten years ago, my grandmother told me to stop writing and go do something "you'd be good at." Maybe my grandmother had been right all along ...
Grandmother (78): Why not get into real estate? Or be a psychologist? You'd be good at that.
Me (24): Psychology? They're not even real doctors! At least suggest I be a shrink!
And this exchange was years and years before the Small Child and Baby Gaga came along and tossed their toys and dirty laundry all over my dreams.
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to consuming myself in the care of my 2-under-3.
Last year, in a last-ditch effort to cling to my Writerly Identity, I co-wrote a TV pilot while pregnant with Baby Gaga.
Meanwhile, in the run-up to Small Child's pre-school enrollment, I made a Dear Mom Friend at the school.
Dear Mom Friend is married to Big Shot Manager.
Husband strong-armed Big Shot Manager into reading my pilot, while they were both standing in a ball-pit at Small Child's birthday party. (I would NEVER have asked Big Shot Manager to read my script – I like Dear Mom Friend too much.)
Big Shot Manager liked it! He got us meetings! Co-writer and I went to production companies and studio lots and had strangers tell us we were smart and talented! (Woo-hoo!) I stopped thinking about stopping writing!
So, score one for Children, Husband, and Family. Who knew all the cleaning and washing and feeding would get me, somehow, a few steps closer to a career?
Things I Have Done This Week Instead of Writing (In No Particular Order)
2. Gotten a manicure.
3. Taken Smaller Child to Music Class TWICE.
4. Attended a PTA meeting.
5. Taken my Mac to the Mac store to have things fixed and replaced, thus ensuring I will not be tempted to work for at least 3 and maybe 5 whole business days.
6. Sewn 2 Halloween costumes -- which counts as 3, since I'm re-doing the 1st one. And there's 2 more to go.
7. Celebrated Smaller Child's 1st birthday by actually BAKING cupcakes and hosting a brunch.
Still have, coming up:
8. Hair coloring -- and straightening!
9. Smaller Child's pediatrician visit
Ah. I may never work again. This all on the heels of me scrapping 2 stories I thought were close to fixable and just turned out to be truly and utterly fucked. So you can see why domestic goddess is a little preferable to writer girl right now ...


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Wonderful choice! Court of Appeals needs new life, and much more progressive views.
This article could benefit from some clarity as to dates.
(It seems most newspapers need help, inasmuch as they date articles by when they are posted electronically, and their date in print may not match; naming weekdays does not help many days - or years - later when no calendar is handy.)
The last word of the text is "yesterday," which evidently means Sunday Feb. 10. That is surely an error. (The article is dated Monday the 11th, and was dispatched by e-mail that same afternoon.)
And Paragraph 2 may be no better. Tuesday, February 12th, is a state Court holiday for Lincoln's Birthday. I see that the Court of Appeals' online calendar says it really is open Tuesday anyway, and if that's true, I'd say the reason merits note.
If and when a solution to this widespread news reporting problem becomes evident:
register the rights to it and sell it to the NY Times! Their online archive is sometimes utterly indecipherable (e.g., obituaries citing "yesterday" or naming recent weekdays).
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Non-subsidised gas cylinder to cost Rs. 61.50 more
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The non-subsidised gas cylinder has become more expensive. The price of the cylinder has been hiked by Rs. 61.50. A non-subsidised cylinder that was available for Rs. 545 earlier in Delhi, is now costing Rs. 606.50. The prices of petrol and diesel have not changed, whereas the price of non-subsidised gas has been hiked. The hike is being implemented from today.


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Imagined Conversations: 2011 Golden Globes
Julie Bowen: Here, honey, let me help you straighten out your collar. Oh, is that a smudge on your cheek? *licks thumb* Let me get that for you, too.
Chris Colfer: Julie, I know you play a mom on TV, but I'm a big Golden Globe award-winner now. I can take care of myself!