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Wellington: Dec 12, 2012
After an ugly turn of events in the captaincy fiasco in New Zealand cricket, the board earlier went out and apologized to Ross Taylor for the way the issue was handled. Following that , Ross Taylor has immedietely come out and accepted the apology and stated his urge to return to action for the Kiwis.
Taylor, New Zealand's top test batsman, acknowledged the apology in a post on his Twitter account, as he wrote: "I appreciate the apology from NZC. Keen to put it behind me and looking forward to getting back with the team soon," as reported by Skysports.com
This came after the board had issued an apology to the Kiwi batsman who led his side to a Test victory in the second Test against Sri Lanka at Galle. "The board has reviewed all aspects of the captaincy issue and wishes to publicly place on record its apologies to Ross Taylor and his family for the manner in which events have unfolded," NZC chairman Chris Moller said.
Moller added, " There are no hanging offences in all of this. Yes, the ball's been dropped, absolutely. Could we have done things better? Absolutely. Are we going to learn from those mistakes, well we hope so."
Taylor was earlier stripped off the one-day and Twenty20 captaincy on the recommendation of Mike Hesson and there was confusion regarding his future as the Test captain. Taylor went on to decline the offer to continue as Test captain and even opted out of the tour to South Africa with Brendon McCullum being named the new captain.
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Loki Laufeyson wielded the Chitauri Scepter in The Avengers, gifted to him by Thanos. The Scepter is one of the six Infinity Stones.[1]
The Avengers
The scepter had a long golden handle and a black fitting which held a blue gem encircled with silver blades. It allowed its owner to open rifts through dimensions with the Tesseract as a gate key, fire destructive blue energy blasts and bend the wills of others. Subjects are placed under control of the scepter by placing the scepter on their chest for a moment, at which time their eyes momentarily turn black, then change to a blue color similar to that of the Tesseract itself with no visible pupils.
Loki used the scepter to brainwash Hawkeye, Dr. Selvig and numerous S.H.I.E.L.D. agents into his followers. He could transform it at will from its long, fully-extended appearance to its smaller but equally deadly form the same way he transformed his own appearance with and without his full body armor and cape. He also disguised it as a cane when disguising himself as a human in a lavish suit. The scepter also functioned as a devastating close-range weapon, being able to violently impale and slash enemies and besting most in combat with ease. It was even strong enough to match Thor's mighty hammer Mjølnir in close-quarters combat, much the same way Odin's spear Gungnir had when Loki wielded it in his first duel against his adopted brother, Thor.
The only known person who is apparently immune to the sceptre's mind-control abilities is Tony Stark/Iron Man, whose Arc Reactor implant somehow disrupted Loki's attempt to brainwash Stark into using him against the Avengers.
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The Scepter was obtained by HYDRA and was being tested on by scientists under Baron Strucker's authority.
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- Fans have speculated that the blue crystal is the Mind Stone from the Infinity Gauntlet. It was confirmed on October 28, 2014.
- In the mid-credits scene of Captain America: The Winter Soldier on one of the monitors in the background, the Staff can be seen being taken apart piece by piece, digitally, hinting at the possibility that the stone inside the staff is capable of being separate from the staff itself.


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Are worries about losing your job holding you back from booking a cruise? Two of the nation's biggest cruise sellers have a plan to allay those fears.
Sister companies CruiseOne and Cruises Inc., which together bill themselves as the USA's largest cruise retailer, today are announcing they will offer "job loss insurance" to customers who book cruises between March 1 and May 2.
Following in the footsteps of Norwegian Cruise Line and JetBlue, the cruise agencies say they will give customers full cash reimbursement if they need to cancel a cruise due to a job loss.
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Dubbed CruiseAssurance, the new offering is available to anyone who books a cruise from one of the more than 1,000 CruiseOne or Cruises Inc. agents nationwide.
"In today's environment, it is crucial for businesses to step up to the plate showing we understand consumer challenges," said Dwain Wall, General Manager of CruiseOne and Cruises Inc.
Under the terms of the CruiseAssurance policy, customers booking a cruise will be able to cancel the trip up to the day of departure or even during the vacation if they are laid off from a job. The only requirements are that travelers must have purchased an entry-level travel insurance plan from CruiseOne or Cruises Inc. and present their termination letter.
CruiseOne and Cruises Inc. insurance policies are administered by travel insurance giant Travel Guard. The company says the price of the travel policies won't go up as a result of the additional coverage, and the "job loss insurance" is being offered at no extra charge.
Cruise Loggers, are worries about losing your job keeping you from booking a voyage? Would the availability of job loss insurance through a cruise travel agency allay those fears?


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The Shorty Interview with Nour E. Al-Hammoury
Has Twitter changed your life? If yes, how?
Yes, Gives me the ability to provide Signals, Market analysis also to receive links and market news.
140 characters of advice for a new user?
WALK BEFORE YOU RUN , if you fail don't give up, you have to try again and again to reach your target.
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During the markets holidays
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She graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in biology and biochemistry from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., and she received her medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in Jackson, Miss.
Dr. Cannon conducted her internship and residency training in family medicine at USA, where she was chosen as co-chief resident.
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English librarian Jonathan Harker (John Van Eyssen) travels to Transylvania, where he is employed by the mysterious Count Dracula (Christopher Lee). Eventually, Harker learns that his employer is a vampire, one of the undead who must suck the blood of the living to survive, and he becomes one of
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Ominous narration from Hammer Films, recapping a previous vampire film Horror Of Dracula, in which Peter Cushing (as Van Helsing) kills off Dracula (Christopher Lee), opening Dracula, Prince Of Darkness, 1966.
Horror of Dracula -- The first Hammer Dracula film in which, the infamous vampire (Peter Cushing, 'Star Wars') is given a new, elegant and ruthless persona as he descends upon England.
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Jonathan Harker, a student of vampires, ventures to Dracula's castle and attacks him. The revengeful vampire leaves his dark abode to prey on the family of his attacker's fiancee. The only man able to protect Harker and his fiancee is Dr. Van Helsing, a friend of Harker's. As a fellow-student of vampires, he's determined to destroy Dracula.
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The U.S. stock market has been on a steady slide since President Obama's reelection. But shares in Nashville-based hospital chains spiked after Election Day. The head of the industry's lobbying organization says that's because the Affordable Care Act is good for business.
The President's reelection gives hospitals some certainty that they'll benefit from more people having insurance. Governor Mitt Romney had threatened to dismantle the health care overhaul, including the so-called individual mandate.
Chip Kahn is president of the Federation of American Hospitals. He lobbies congress on behalf of the Republican-leaning for-profit hospital business, but he says Democrats' health care policies may be better for the bottom line.
"I mean, I vote Republican, and I just wish that the party had more of an orientation toward getting everybody covered. For me, it's the one issue that sort of sticks in the craw a bit."
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Airborne Safari around Kenya 10 Days 9 Nights
General Information
- Type:
- Adventure
- Price from:
- 3690 USD /person
- Phone:
- +254-20-2212535
- Fax:
- +254-20-2212536
- Payment Types:
- Cash
- Credit Card
- Cheque
- Travellers cheque
- Paypal
- Wire Transfer
- Duration:
- 10 days
- Location Start:
- Nairobi
- Location Finish:
- Nairobi
- Start time:
- 0700hrs
- End time:
- 1200hrs
- We Speak:
- English
Last updated: 01/27/2010
This tour flies you over Nairobi onwards to the Great Rift where you will have a spectacular view of the only earth feature that can be seen while in space. . You will be able to see plenty of wildlife varying from Kenya's Big five, the lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo and the cheetah among a host of other different animal species.
Lake Nakuru is a shallow strongly alkaline lake set in a picturesque landscape of surrounding woodland and grasslands alternating with rocky cliffs and outcrops, stretches of acacia woodland and rocky hillsides covered with a Euphorbia forest.
Day 1
Nairobi Mara:
Pick up from airport by our tour manager then a safari briefing, and transfer to the Wilson Airport and fly to Masai Mara game reserve, which is commonly known for the 'big five'.
The Maasai Mara, now The New 7the wonder of the world and 4th preferred tourist destination in the world is a home to wildlife in such abundance and variety that it is difficult to imagine. The most spectacular event of the natural world takes place here; The annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture while being followed on their heels by the predators of the savanna; lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures.
It hosts over 450 species of animals which include lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephants.
Dinner and overnight at the Mara Springs camp or similar.
Day 2
Pre-breakfast morning game drive which gives you the chance to see animals hunting, thereafter back to the lodge for lunch. Afternoon you can choose to go for game drive or relax by the pool or visit the Maasai villages.
Dinner and overnight at the Mara Springs camp or similar.
Day 3
A full day spent game viewing across the rich tree stubbed grasslands and rolling hills. The Masai Mara is renowned for its great herds of plain game, black manned lion, leopard and cheetah and every type of wildlife in Kenya.
The wildebeests are the most dominant inhabitants of the Masai Mara. Their numbers are estimated in the millions. The great migration starts in July each year when well over one million wildebeest along with large numbers of Thompson's gazelles, zebra and other herbivores migrate from the Serengeti plains in Tanzania to fresh pastures in the north and then back south again in October.
Dinner and overnight at the Mara Springs camp or similar.
Day 4
After breakfast check out and have an en route game drive as you drive into the Great Rift Valley. Arrive in Nakuru national park in time for lunch. After lunch proceed for an evening game drive in the park, which has some rare animals like white rhinos and Rothschild giraffes.
Dinner and overnight at Lion Hill Lodge or similar.
Day 5
Pre-breakfast morning game drive which gives you the chance to see animals hunting, thereafter back to the lodge for lunch. Afternoon you can go for game drive or relax by the pool or visit the Masai villages.
There have been some 95 species of mammals, amphibians and reptiles and over 400 birds species recorded on the Masai Mara Reserve. Nowhere in Africa is wildlife more abundant, and it is for this reason a visitor hardly misses to see the big five (buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino.)
Dinner and overnight at Lion Hill Lodge or similar.
Day 6
Pre-breakfast morning game drive, then proceed to the lake where you have the chance to see the thousands of flamingoes and many more species of birds. Noon check out for northern Kenya past the Aberdare ranges. Arrive at Samburu National park early in the evening as you have en-route game drive.
Dinner and overnight at Ashnil camp or similar.
Day 7
Spend the whole day in Samburu slopes which has rare reticulated giraffes and plenty of the family.
Dinner and overnight at Ashnil camp or similar.
Day 8
In the morning after breakfast proceed to the airstrip for your flight to the Amboseli national park arriving in time for check in at Porini camp.
Dinner and overnight at Porini camp or similar.
Day 9
Spend the whole day in Amboseli where you can have a chance to a clear view of the famous mt. Kilimanjaro. The park is famous for the biggest elephants.
Amboseli is renowned for its huge elephant herds. Africa's highest Mountain - Mt Kilimanjaro sits on the upper slopes of Amboseli National park. Mt. Kilimanjaro snow white peak lies across the border in Tanzania. Seeing the Kilimanjaro hovering above the clouds in the early hours of the morning is quite an experience. For the enthusiastic photographer, animal pictures arising against the dramatic backdrop of the mountain is quite a thrill. Apart from the Elephants, Amboseli is a home to; buffalos, black rhinos, zebras, wildebeest and other plain animals.
Dinner and overnight at Porini camp or similar.
Day 10
Transfer to the airstrip after breakfast and a pre breakfast game drive and depart for Nairobi at Wilson airport. Enjoy a complimentary lunch at the famous Carnivore restaurant depending on your flight schedule, drop off at airport.
End of safari.
Extra Information
- Inclusions -
- Transport based on a safari minibus with pop up roof for game viewing - Park entry fee - Accommodation and all meals in Aberdares, Lake Nakuru & Maasai Mara - Service of an English-speaking driver guide - Game drives as per the Itinerary - Government taxes
- Exclusions -
- Hot air Balloon flight in Maasai Mara - US$ 425 per person extra (Price is subject to confirmation at the time of booking.) - Tips to driver guides and porter. - Extras at the lodges - tips, drinks, telephone, laundry etc - Items of personal expenses.
- Extras -
- Maasai Mara Balloon Flight
Take the opportunity to fly over the Mara in a Hot air Balloon provided at an extra cost. The balloon package includes a champagne breakfast in the wild! If you can spare the money, viewing abundant game afloat a balloon is an unforgettable experience.
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By Gil Stein
NAZI PROPAGANDA films were made to convince the world that Germany was a peace-loving nation that was forced to attack Poland. With the creation of the web and the access the 24-hour "news," it is so much easier to spread lies and half-truths.
The Arab propaganda machine has done a terrific job of creating a fictional reality that portrays terrorists as victims and their victims as evil. The small country created by refugees and surrounded by hostile neighbors is the international bully, while terrorists supported by despots are the world's heroes. Muslim leaders deny the historical Jewish ties to Jerusalem even though Jews have lived in the city continuously since before the birth of Islam. They have created the myth that Israel came about because of the European Holocaust. Modern Zionism had its roots in the 19th century and early 20th (Tel Aviv celebrated its centennial last year). The Holocaust may have made international support of a Jewish state more politically acceptable, but the groundwork for a Jewish homeland was started well before World War II. They make claims that Israel is the reason the Palestinian Arabs have no state. Israel supported the U.N. Partition Plan, which created a Jewish state and a Palestinian state. Every Arab country voted against the resolution and seven Arab armies attacked the new country of 650,000 Jews. The Palestinian Authority today still will not accept a Jewish state in the Middle East.
Everyday lies abound in the press, which are then spread via the web and are baseless but "newsworthy." Following the earthquake in Haiti, Israel sent doctors and erected the first mobile surgical hospital on the island. Not only is the anti-Israel propaganda machine unwilling to acknowledge Israel's humanitarian contributions, they are now charging Israel with stealing Haitian organs.
Local activists have contributed to this climate of hate and false accusations. They compare the plight of Gaza to that of the victims of the Holocaust, embellishing the situation there and minimizing the death of 40 percent of world Jewry. Gaza is no paradise, but it is ruled by Hamas, not Israel, and Hamas has vowed to destroy Israel.
That doesn't stop the lies. Israel is accused of genocide (the deliberate destruction of a people) when in fact under Israeli administration of the territories, the Arab population increased, as did their standard of living. Now Israel is accused of war crimes because she attacked military targets in civilian areas. The fact that terrorists and rockets were located in those areas seems to be inconsequential. College campuses feature "Israel Apartheid Week" even though Israel has rescued thousands of Ethiopian Jews and brought them to the promised land. Arabs in Israel enjoy equal rights of Jews, except for compulsory military service. Today Africans from Darfur and elsewhere are desperately trying to sneak into Israel. Arab homosexuals seek asylum in Israel as they are persecuted in Muslim countries, facts ignored by most human rights organizations.
Israel is not perfect, nor should we expect it to be. She has made mistakes. This can be said of every country. When we criticize a country as criminal when she defends herself, racist when she accepts refugees from the poorest of countries, of harvesting organs when she sends hospital teams to Haiti and intolerant when she is a haven to gays and other persecuted minorities, we only strengthen those who support terrorism and bigotry.
Gil Stein is the Santa Cruz representative for Stand With Us, an international advocacy and educational organization headquartered in Los Angeles.
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As I mentioned in an earlier post on the D'Aulaire's Mythology books, the Norse Myths have always had a powerful symbolism for me; they were the mythology of half of my ancestors and I always liked the myths themselves. Oh, the Norse Gods were far, far from perfect, but overall they seemed more likeable and less, well, dicks than the Greek Gods, which were the other mythology that I was most exposed to. But their stories were, after all, relatively static; their stories were finished, their race was run.
But then in 1980, I moved into an apartment with two other guys – Steve Reed, whom I've talked about previously, and Ed Lord. Ed and Steve both had considerable collections of comics, and I read my way through them all, meeting many new heroic friends along the way – the New Teen Titans as they were just being published, Spider-Man, the X-Men…
… and The Mighty Thor.
At first, this version of the God of Thunder left me scratching my head. Thor's a big, red-bearded, boisterous bruiser of a guy. Okay, this guy's big, but where's the rest of it?
But in a superhero context, this blond Thor was fun, speaking in his faux-ancient English and wielding an entertaining suite of powers. And then Marvel showed they were perfectly aware of the true mythology, doing a special in which cameraman Roger "Red" Norvell becomes a red-haired and bearded Thor, complete with the gauntlets and girdle of legend.
At that point I grinned and accepted their modern take, and enjoyed the comics for what they were. I certainly liked this new Thor, and I even played a character based on him in Villains and Vigilantes (one of the earliest superhero RPGs). He wasn't written as a dumb bruiser, either, but often would use a combination of brains and powers to get the job done, something that always makes me happy – in either heroes or villains. Spider-Man was always in my top tier because that was pretty much his schtick, and it was nice to see that even someone like Thor, who was way up there in terms of sheer power, would not forget that brains complement brawn very nicely.
He was also a character who worked well solo or as part of a team – although there were times when you had to wonder why he bothered with the "team" bit; I'm particularly thinking of one comic – I think it was when Graviton went particularly over the top and ripped up most of Manhattan Island – where the tunnels were flooding and so Thor, to prevent that disaster from killing hundreds or thousands of people, dives into the ocean and blows the entire sea back with a hurricane that he summons underwater, making Moses' parting of the Red Sea look like a kid playing in a bathtub. Iron Man is there, and if I recall correctly the caption says something like: "And Tony Stark suddenly feels very small, next to the power of a living god."
He also had a fun stable of bad guys to fight – his scheming brother Loki, of course, plus The Enchantress, the Absorbing Man, and many others. But Thor didn't quite get into the very top tier of my comic heroes…
… until Walt Simonson took over.
Simonson's run on The Mighty Thor is generally held up as one of the finest accomplishments of American comics – and rightly so. He took the acknowledgement of the old legends that occasionally popped up in the original comics, combined it with the established history and characters in Marvel, added in a heavy dose of the real legends, and from this built a multi-year saga that I read as it came out, one torturous issue at a time, filled with more wonder and flat-out genius than I had expected to see in comic form.
I could try to describe what Simonson did that was so awesome, but in all honesty I'd probably end up simply recounting his entire run. There was hardly an issue where he didn't have some sequence that was either heartrending, inspiring, incredibly amusing – or all of them together. Even ideas that seemed ludicrously stupid were, in his hands, made the stuff of legend (Thor: Frog of Thunder?). He brought out the Norse legends and polished them, fit them into the Marvel universe, and shook the foundations of that universe from one side to the other. He gave Thor an equal and brother in arms, brought Loki, Thor, and Odin together to fight a single enemy, cursed Thor with a terrible weakness that simply gave him the opportunity for greater heroism… and through it all, let us see both Thor's humanity, and his alien nature, the true power of Asgard and the powers from which it sprang.
Two particular sequences burned themselves into my mind more than any others. The first is one that anyone who has read the comic will remember from this simple quote: "He stood alone at Gjallarbrú." It represents one of the purest and best examples of the trope "Heroic Sacrifice", and is one of the greatest "Crowning Moments of Awesome" in the entire run, when Skurge the Executioner faces the entire army of Hela alone, fighting them to buy time for the others – including his once-enemy Thor and Balder – to escape.
The other may well be the single greatest comic book published, at least to my mind: the final battle between Thor, God of Thunder (then suffering under the curse of Hela), and Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent (who in legend was destined to slay Thor in Ragnarok). Written and drawn entirely in splash pages, with a double splash page in the center, it is designed to project the epic nature of this duel between a god and a monster so immense that it literally circles the entire world. The narration, too, is literally epic – written in the style of ancient epic poems. "Nine steps the hero took, striding like a giant; he fell to earth, reckoning not his resting place. Would you hear more?"
Simonson's run on Thor solidified his place as one of the three top heroes of my comicbook reading, and his was one of the last Marvel comics I stopped buying (which happened around the time the Inferno crossover ended). In my heart, I maintained the image of the Simonson Thor as the "real" Marvel Thor.
One can imagine I was… a bit nervous… about what would be done with Thor when they made a movie about him. He'd be an easy character to screw up; certainly the one prior time to bring him to video was a failure (in one of the Lou Ferrigno Incredible Hulk movies). I hoped – after all, the more recent superhero films had done pretty well – but I was still very nervous when I walked in.
And then we open on a slow, dramatic shot of Asgard, pure Kirby and Simonson gorgeousness turned into a live-action image of incredible, impossible grandeur, and I knew that the people doing it had understood. Thor lived on the screen, and lived well.
Oh, there were some changes – they compressed the "learning of humility" which was supposed to have taken a lot longer into the single movie; they eliminated his dual Donald Blake identity (though they did make a nod to it); and they carefully avoided claiming they were actually Gods, which somewhat annoyed me since that was part of the point of their existence in the Marvelverse – that the Asgardians, and especially Odin, were not just some advanced alien race but something very different, ancient, and mystical.
But overall, they did capture the essence of the Thor that I had known and loved all those years – and given us a new, and I think far better, version of Loki, one whose fall is more poignant because we can see what could have been if he had been just a tiny bit more willing to swallow his pride, just once more.
My ancestors would not, immediately, recognize this Thor and his Asgard. Yet, in some ways, he is not all that far from the original. The original Thor was seen as the defender of the mortal world, a friend to the common man, one who might walk among them, eating, drinking, and fighting alongside those who caught his eye and favor. Marvel's Thor, too, fights for the mortals around him, and has sought to live as one of them. Especially in Simonson's hands, and in this new movie version, there is I think a respect for the origin as much as there is for the comic-book tradition.
Thank you, Marvel – and especially thank you, Walt Simonson, for taking an ancient legend and making him as powerful in our era as ever he was in the past.
I'd like to think that the real Thor would approve.


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'Spaceship Astronauts,' the Animated Send-up of Sci-Fi Madness Movies, Will Make Your Eyes Bleed
Animator Brad Conlin and Team Tiger Awesome's brilliant, psychotic spoof of the whole "we're in outer space and someone's going crazy" genre is not for anyone who's even remotely seizure prone. Seriously. No joke. Not for you.


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hos·pi·ta·bleadjective \hä-ˈspi-tə-bəl, ˈhäs-(ˌ)pi-\
: generous and friendly to guests or visitors
: having an environment where plants, animals, or people can live or grow easily
: ready or willing to accept or consider something
Full Definition of HOSPITABLE
a : given to generous and cordial reception of guestsb : promising or suggesting generous and cordial welcomec : offering a pleasant or sustaining environment
: readily receptive : open <hospitable to new ideas>
— hos·pi·ta·bly \-blē\ adverb
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- The people of that country are very hospitable.
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Don't Let Nurses Sink Your Bottom Line
Because higher patient satisfaction scores translate to higher Medicare reimbursements, how nurses interact and talk with patients has a demonstrable and significant impact on a hospital's bottom line.
When a patient in pain cries for help, it's almost always a nurse who responds. But how swiftly that response comes and how effectively the interaction that follows satisfies the patient's needs has repercussions far beyond the bedside.
The way nurses interact and talk with their patients could have an impact on a hospital's bottom line, concludes a new study. It finds that how hospitals perform on the "communication with nurses" dimension of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey strongly influences several other "Patient Experience of Care" dimensions.
And as we all know, higher patient satisfaction = higher reimbursements.
Here's a refresher about the areas in which patients rate their care within HCAHPS [PDF]:
- Communication with doctors
- Communication with nurses
- Responsiveness of hospital staff
- Pain management
- Communication about medication
- Cleanliness/quietness of hospital environment
- Discharge information
- Overall hospital rating
The Press Ganey study aimed to find out which of these measures influenced each other. Researchers used data from a sample of 3,062 acute care hospitals to conduct what's called a "hierarchical variable clustering analysis" on the HCAHPS dimensions. This analysis identifies multiple measures that are consistently grouped together and pinpoints which measures lead the others.
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Nora O'Neill (5/24/2013 at 2:19 PM)
I appreciate the other comments recommending a broader view of influencing factors on a patient's experience within a hospital. I'm very uncomfortable with the title of this article as it is laden with negative connotations. Many, if not most, nurses prefer to have a strong rapport with patients & families. Healthcare is in the midst of an overhaul due to faulty systems. Be global in your view, please.
Lisa S. (5/24/2013 at 9:07 AM)
I agree with Lisa's comments. Organizations must create environments to fully engage patients in ways that contribute to overall quality. We have been lured into believing patient satisfaction scores are indicators of quality care, and go so far as to reimburse based on satisfaction scores. Studies do not positively correlate patient satisfaction scores with quality outcomes. If reimbursement depends on patient satisfaction, the satisfaction rating tools need to more closely align with quality indicators.
corelibrary (5/23/2013 at 12:39 PM)
I am not sure I like the title to this article. "It takes a village to care for one patient" and nurses are not the bottom line for pain alleviation[INVALID]they need a medical order for medication from the MD. The team approach with open communication should be fostered and collaboration and efficiency to care.
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Author Notes: Fried mushrooms are one of my favorite fried foods (vying for the title with fried pickles). Like fried pickles, I prefer to slice the mushrooms instead of leaving them whole: more surface area means more fried goodness. I've experimented with a lot of breadings, and this one is hard to beat. You dust the mushrooms with flour, dunk in buttermilk, and then shower with a mixture of finely ground panko, lemon zest, and minced parsley. After pan frying them for a few minutes until they're crispy and golden, how you serve them is up to you. Here I've included a recipe for smoked paprika remoulade, a nice dipping sauce if serving the mushrooms as an appetizer or snack. The mushrooms are also delicious atop a lightly dressed green salad with shavings of pecorino cheese. - EmilyC
Serves 4
For the fried mushrooms
- 1 cup panko
- 3 tablespoons italian parsley leaves
- kosher salt + freshly ground black pepper
- grated zest from 1 lemon (see optional use for lemon below)
- 8 to 10 button mushrooms, stems removed and sliced 1/4" thick
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- oil for shallow pan frying (olive or canola), about 1/4 to 1/3 cup
For smoked paprika remoulade
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons finely diced cornichons, pickles, or capers
- 1 teaspoon whole-grain mustard
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- kosher salt + freshly ground black pepper to taste
- To prepare fried mushrooms: Combine panko and parsley leaves in the bowl of a food processor; pulse until finely ground and well integrated. If you've just washed your parsley, dry it before adding to food processor.
- Set up a breading station with four pie plates or low bowls. In first, add flour. In second, add buttermilk. In third, add panko crumb mixture, then stir in lemon zest and season with salt and pepper. Dust the mushrooms with flour, then dunk in buttermilk, then dredge in the panko crumb mixture. When breaded, place them on a holding plate until ready to be fried.
- In a skillet, heat the oil until shimmering. Fry the mushrooms in batches over moderately high heat, turning, until golden and crispy, about 3 minutes total. (A fish spatula works well to flip the mushrooms without tearing the breading.) Drain on paper towels and sprinkle with kosher salt. (The fried mushrooms can be held in a 225 degree oven for 20 to 30 minutes.)
- *Optional: instead of throwing out the lemon, add it to the fry! Thinly, thinly slice the lemon (as paper thin as you can) with a sharp knife or mandoline, and then bread along with the mushrooms above.
- To prepare smoked paprika remoulade: Combine all ingredients in a small bowl and mix until well combined.
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Millions of gallons of sea water rushed into Bellevue Hospital's basement during Hurricane Sandy, forcing a massive evacuation of patients and the closing of the nation's oldest public hospital for the first time in centuries. NY1's Cheryl Wills went on an exclusive tour of Bellevue to find out when the hospital will be fully operational again.
Signs of the holiday season are finally on display at Bellevue Hospital on Manhattan's East Side, after Hurricane Sandy crippled the crown jewel of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation. There are still remaining signs of the storm's wrath, like darkened hallways, a candy-red tube that funnels heat throughout the chilly facility and handwritten messages of hope for recovery.
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Bears aren't averse to playing trick ball — usually with little success
BY MARK POTASH firstname.lastname@example.com September 18, 2012 9:24PM
Green Bay Packers' Tom Crabtree (83) celebrates as he scores a touchdown on a pass from punter Tim Masthay during the first half of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
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Against the Colts, the Bears recovered from a slow start to run 23 consecutive plays without a negative one (sack, penalty, etc.). In their five touchdown drives, the offense had just one negative play in a span of 41 plays — a holding call on Chris Spencer. Against the Packers, the longest streak of positive plays was six. The Bears had 16 negative plays overall and at least one negative play on 10 of 11 possessions.
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Trick plays have been a part of Bears lore since the 1933 NFL Championship Game, when, with the Bears trailing 21-16 in the fourth quarter, Bronko Nagurski faked a run up the middle, stopped suddenly and passed to end Bill Hewitt, who lateraled to end Bill Karr, who ran down the sideline to beat the Giants 23-21.
But despite that glory, Tom Crabtree's 27-yard touchdown on a fake field goal in the Packers' 23-10 victory over the Bears last week added to the team's dubious history with trick plays. Walter Payton once threw two touchdown passes on halfback options against the Saints in 1983 — 56 and 21 yards to Willie Gault — and the Bears still lost 34-31 in overtime. In fact, Payton threw eight touchdown passes in his career. The Bears were 1-6 in those games.
Here's a look at five memorable trick plays in Bears history:
◆ Sept. 16, 1973 — The Bears surprised Tom Landry's Cowboys with a fake punt on fourth-and-two near midfield when up-back Bob Parsons took the snap and gained five yards for a first down. With the game tied at 17 in the fourth quarter, Bears coach Abe Gibron, perhaps thinking Cowboys rookie special-teams coach Mike Ditka would never expect a team to run the same fake twice, tried it again. But Billy Joe Dupree tackled Parsons for a three-yard loss with four minutes left. The Cowboys' Toni Fritsch kicked a field goal with 1:26 to go, and the Cowboys won 20-17.
◆ Nov. 16, 1980 — The Oilers looked like they were settling for a chip-shot field goal by Fritsch late in the first half, but took a delay-of-game penalty to goad the Bears into going for a block. Instead, holder Gifford Nielsen threw a shovel pass to Tim Wilson, who ran it in for the only touchdown of the game in a 10-6 Oilers victory.
◆ Nov. 6, 1977 — The Bears were ready for Oilers noted big-play receiver/kick returner Billy ''White Shoes'' Johnson in a key spot late in the first half with the Bears trailing 10-0. ''We even yelled, 'Watch the reverse,' '' Bears safety Gary Fencik said. But it was one of those days. Johnson took a reverse and went 61 yards for a touchdown that ignited a 47-0 rout that dropped the Bears to 3-5. Somehow, they recovered to win their last six games and made the playoffs.
◆ Dec. 23, 1979 — Trailing the Eagles 27-17 late in a playoff game, the Bears tried to run a hook-and-ladder play, with Mike Phipps passing to Rickey Watts, who would lateral to Dave Williams trailing the play. Unfortunately, Phipps' pass was intercepted by the Eagles' Herman Edwards.
◆ Dec. 10, 1971 — The Bears already had fooled the lowly Saints with a fake punt (Doug Buffone gained 19 yards for a first down), a halfback pass (Don Shy 23-yard touchdown pass to George Farmer) and a double reverse (Farmer 11-yard gain). Leading 35-7 in the third, they called for a fake field goal. Holder Bobby Douglass tripped and was apparently downed. But he got up and overthrew Willie Holman, who ended up getting in an altercation with Saints defensive back D'Artagnan Martin and ejected.
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|Wed, 01-30-2013 - 9:14am
Good morning ladies, how are you this Wednesday morning?
|Wed, 01-30-2013 - 9:17am
I got up and make breakfast for everyone, coffee and got the roast in the crock pot for dinner. I would have been to work on time if there hadn't been 2 major accidents on the way that slowed me down. But, on a good note, as I was sitting still in traffic, I was able to put a fresh coat of polish on my nails. I have a dentist appointment at 2 today, I am leaving work at 12:30, unless my old boss gest ahold of me for lunch as i told him I was available from 12-1:15 for lunch if he had time. I have 3 new bill analysis to work on today, which is tight since I am working both a half day today and tomorrow, so I will be busy this morning trying to get the first drafts to my directors. Its amazing that they expect a 3 day turn around time on these things. I have been lucky that everyone so far has been one filed and analyzed in previous legislative sessions, but I am sure there will be brand new ones soon and this is the first time I have done these types of things.
Anyways, I am hoping to get some time in at the YMCA before my dental appointment, it'll depend on lunch. Then I'll pick up Madison, head to the chiropractor's office, then go pick up Emma from school. Tonight is more laundry, cleaning and paperwork for DH.
Have a great one!
|Wed, 01-30-2013 - 10:00am
Good morning! It is so dreary outside. I'm trying not to let it affect my mood. Laundry is going (and it will be all day), dishwasher is empty and for once I didn't have a backlog of dishes waiting to refill it! Zeph is still asleep. He goes to bed at 9 and is asleep within 10 to15 minutes. I'm just stunned at how much sleep he is needing!
I have some housework (cobweb removal, dusting, and vacumming) to tackle before school so we won't start until after lunch. He'll probably work until dinner. Tonight we are watching Glory since he is learning about the 54th Massachusetts. There is something about Matthew Broderick that irks me, so I hope I enjoy the movie.
|Wed, 01-30-2013 - 10:00am
I love how you put on a fresh coat of nail polish while stuck in traffic- now THAT'S multi-tasking!
Not much going on here today, it's raining like crazy. The in-laws are supposed to be coming over later this evening so we can do some pre-planning for our Orlando vacation coming up in a couple weeks. So I should probably clean up a little bit....bleah.
|Wed, 01-30-2013 - 2:35pm
iVilliage is working for me today. So I'll post something.
No- didn't get the job I interviewed for last week. Sigh. The hours though were 1-9, and when I asked Becca if she wanted me to work them, she said "not really". And now I don't know if I apply for anything else right now or not. There is one thing I could do and probably get. But- Pearson sent me an email at the beginning of the month for a month-long project in March, and if I did that whole one I'd probably get put on another week long or so project after that. I don't really mind the work, I really like the people, and the pay isn't bad either.
Then Kristen calls. Why? She needs stuff. That she forgot when she was here for a month. And I'm guessing she kind of doesn't want to go to Walmart herself and get it. SIGH. Since I'm going to have to do a run for school stuff for Becca (2nd semester started yesterday and she's got 3 new classes) it's not much more to get her stuff. I'm thinking I might make her pay for the postage (such a mean mom LOL)
And Becca bothered her on Saturday. I guess she was in the Mac lab trying to study (with the guy she likes? Riiiight) Becca got on facebook with her, and proceeded to bother both of them. THEN she called Kristen's phone and talked to Kristen (and this guy- he answered her phone?) I don't know. I really think they both like each other- she was talking about him again to me. As long as they take it slow I'm fine with it.
Govenor's School auditions went ok. She won't hear back until March. Which is kind of annoying. They do scheduling for next year starting in Feb. So she makes up her schedule for next year- then she's got to go do it all over again if she gets into Govenor's school. Why? If they do this school (it's kind of like an arts magnet school) she'll only have 2 classes a semester. The other 2 bells she spends every day at this place. The mom that I talked to, her step-daughter's been in it for a year and a half now and LOVES it. Not to mention she'd get viola lessons, with a teacher who's a step up from the one she has. (I think she graduated from Julliard) She can still do school orchestra. She can still graduate with an advanced studies diploma.
All-State auditions are in a month. I told Becca she wasn't going to do the string program at James Madison this year. I know it's a lot of fun. But we are paying for a trip to Chicago with orchestra. She made the top orchestra last year, and there's no guarantee from year to year which one you'll be placed in- it's all on an audition. And, it's the same weekend someone has to go help Kristen move out of the dorms. The concert is on the SAME DAY as Kristen's move-out date. Underclassmen are done a couple of days before that, but she has to play at Commencement. And I have no interest in helping her move stuff- then taking the car full of stuff 2 hours north to James Madison THEN driving home. She was mad at first. But when I got an email about it a couple of days ago, and said she wasn't going- she said she was "ok with it".
It's crazy warm here today. Got all the windows open. It's going to storm tonight though, and the temp's going to drop 30 degrees.
|Wed, 01-30-2013 - 3:04pm
Having a heck of a time with iVillage today and when I was finally able to post tim came home wanting some attention. LOL Then took me to lunch. So, now I am back. We has a two hour delay due to some nasty storms in the area. I made the kids a yummy breakfast. Traffice to the schools were crazy today. Kinda odd how from one day to the next how crazy it can or can't be. After dropping Matthew off I ran to Starbucks and treated myself to an iced mocha coffee. Took the long way home to avoid the traffic. Got some stuff taken care of for the bills and then Tim came home. We went to lunch and home again home again. I need to scoop a litter box but I am thinking of making one of the kids do it today. I need to load the dishwasher. I have been researching places to stay in the DC area and have found plenty of place betweem $50 to $300 to stay. We've got to weigh what we will be expected to pay if we stay at a cheaper place versus staying somewhere a little more but having free parking and within walking distance of all the attractions we are interested in. I am also excited about my interview tomorrow. I so so so hope I get this job even though it's on ther other side of town. I might be able to work it out where I only drive over there a few days a week so help save on gas. I also think Katie shared her illness with me. I started with a haeavy chest and coughing last night and today I am still coughing with a slightly sore throat. Just get me through this interview and then get sick. Maybe I will be able to start on Monday after that. Ugh. She did go back to school today. Not sure I already said that above. Today after school I need to run Matthew over to the comic store to pick up his new comic magazine that he has reserved every month. It was his Christmas gift from Natalie, he gets first crack at the new comic magazines of his choice. They set them aside for him, if he doesn't want them he lets them know and they put them out for public sale.
Dinner will be some kind of beef stew. I am looking for a new recipe instead of my same ole same ole. I need a change.
|Wed, 01-30-2013 - 5:00pm
Hi everyone. Today was exhausting! I overslept by about a half hour and left for work feeling very rushed and not having eaten breakfast. Then our classroom teacher had her observation today so we didn't get our breaks in the morning, and our two most problematic students were hell on wheels today. Worst recess ever.
Ian had a regular school day. Kayleigh had school and NHS meeting.
Nothing going on for tonight. Right now, I'm baking cookies, then going to start on the sweet and sour popcorn chicken and hoping to have a mostly relaxing evening.
|Wed, 01-30-2013 - 5:17pm
Hi everyone. Today was exhausting! I overslept by about a half hour and left for work feeling very rushed and not having eaten breakfast. Then our classroom teacher had her observation today so we didn't get our breaks in the morning, and our two most problematic students were hell on wheels today. Worst recess ever.
Ian had a regular school day. Kayleigh had school and NHS meeting.
Nothing going on for tonight. Right now, I'm baking cookies, then going to start on the sweet and sour popcorn chicken and hoping to have a mostly relaxing evening.
|Wed, 01-30-2013 - 6:00pm
I would love the name of the place you saw for $50 a day. Even the youth hostel was $145 a night. If we go, we would stay for 5 nights and visit the Crime and Punishment Museum (with a lab), Fords Theater (with a lecture), a monument bike tour, Madame Toussads, Smithsonian Air and Space, Smithsonian Natural History, plus a revisit of the monuments at our leisure, Arlington Cemetary, and Mount Vernon. We would stop at Gettysburg for 2 days on our way home. DH thinks we should wait until 8th grade since that is a typical 8th grade trip.
|Wed, 01-30-2013 - 6:31pm
DD just called needing to be picked up. I thought she eas staying to work on costumes for the play. School day went by quickly. Tonite I have a junior college planning meeting for DS. I was really hoping to just chill out at home as I have a really difficult class tomorrow. Not much going on. /p>


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So, you and your man have been dating for a while, and you think it's time to take things to the next level.
In layman's terms, you want him to put a ring on it; but how exactly do you do that without being too
obvious? It's not typical to ask someone to propose to you and giving him an ultimatum isn't the best
option either. Besides, nobody wants to be offered a ring after practically begging for it by being demanding.
No two relationships are exactly the same as the dynamics often differ, but there are a few rules
that can apply to all unions and ultimately lead to a marriage proposal.
As a woman, you must know where you stand in a relationship and be able to effectively communicate
with your partner. The role a woman plays may vary depending on the type of relationship she's in. The
only way to determine your role is to communicate with your partner. If you're looking for a husband to
provide for you and start a family with, while he's seeking a woman to casually date, then the union
is destined to fail. Your views and desires should be expressed early on so that you won't become one
of those women who feels the need to drop hints by watching wedding themed shows on television,
or purchasing issues of Brides Magazine and leaving them around for him to notice. These types of
hints can be seen as either desperate or forceful, both of which aren't good adjectives to describe a
bride-to-be. Try not to talk about marriage until he brings it up.
Realize that if a proposal is going to happen, it will happen. There's no need for outside influences
or pressure. This is because pressuring a man to make a decision before he feels he is ready will
inevitably lead to uncertainty or fear. Fear causes some people to run away to avoid a negative outcome.
Now if you've been dating a man for over five years and he doesn't so much as mention the
"M" word, perhaps then you should reevaluate the relationship.
Another important rule of thumb is one that is quite cliché. That old saying, "Why buy the cow when
you can get the milk for free?" applies when one is attempting to turn a boyfriend into a husband. If
a couple already lives together, has an active sex life, and the woman cooks, cleans, and performs
other wifely duties then what does the man have to look forward to? He technically knows what it's
like to have a wife. He may see no point in spending thousands of dollars on a ring and a wedding when
he's already content with where his relationship is. This rule isn't meant to deter you from being the
best girlfriend you can be, but to remind you that there are certain activities that should be reserved
for later. It's up to you to determine what those activities are. Just be sure to keep in mind that many
men are willing to date women that they don't see as "marriage material."
Men appreciate genuine women. While keeping your hair and makeup done may seem like a necessity,
it's important to show him a less glamorous side of you. He will appreciate that you took the
time to let him get to know the real you. After all, that's the person you're expecting him to spend the
rest of his life with. Once you're comfortable being your true self with the man you love, you are ready
for the last and most important rule to follow on the quest for an engagement ring.
When a man sees that his woman is confident and capable of loving the very person she expects him to
love, he is pleased. If there are things that you wish to change, change them. You can't expect a man or
anyone else to be happy with you when you're not happy with yourself. Self-assurance is key.
Following these rules will not guarantee a marriage proposal, but they're a great start. Your relationship
must be built on a solid foundation; one that you are confident will withstand the test of time. When
you find the right person, you will know and hopefully he will too. With proper communication and
unconditional love, two people who are down for the same cause are sure to get engaged when the
time is right.
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Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff, who writes regularly for CNN.com, is a media theorist and the author of "Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age" and "Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take it Back."
(CNN) -- The social media universe has been aghast this week after the revelation that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia has invested $300 million in Twitter. The shock and awe seems to center around the notion that Twitter has been at least partly responsible for the Arab Spring uprisings that directly threaten the Saudi royal family's grip on power. On the surface, anyway, this seems like a contradiction.
Why would the king's nephew be investing in the medium of his family's enemy? Will he attempt to influence the development of the network or try to make it more susceptible to censorship in a regime-threatening emergency? And what of Twitter?
Will the participation of a major investor widely considered to be the beneficiary of one of the world's most exploitative dynasties tarnish the company's otherwise net-friendly brand image? Why would Twitter accept such an investor, and why would he court them in the first place?
The answer, most simply, is for the money.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is no doubt aware of Twitter and Facebook's tremendous influence in his own and neighboring countries, and may even be personally concerned about what a revolution might do to his own and his family's sovereign rule. But why should that stop him from positioning himself to become the wealthiest deposed royal he can be? It's a win-win.
For its part, Twitter, which isn't even a public company, is not actually selling shares to a Saudi Arabian prince. It's Twitter's early investors who are selling $300 million of their own shares to the Prince's investing group, "Kingdom Holding Company." Of course, Twitter benefited by selling those shares initially, and now benefits indirectly as the resale of these shares puts the company's total valuation up to $8.4 billion.
The dismay and disillusionment associated with this transaction seems overblown to me, or at least misplaced. In short, we are looking at the wrong medium. We are not witnessing Twitter operate against its central, democratizing premise. We are witnessing money operate in perfect accordance with its own, highly abstracting premise. Money, by its very nature, launders.
This is exactly what money and the corporation were invented 700 years ago to do: provide kings and other members of the aristocracy with a way to invest at arm's length in projects they may or may not want to be associated with. The corporation gives people a way to invest passively in companies whose operations they might not want to know about, much less be known for.
Likewise, generic, central currencies give people who have done Lord-knows-what the very same access to markets as those who have earned their money through sweat or innovation. Once it's money, it is as clean as anyone else's money.
Similarly, once you sell your business to shareholders, they can do what they like with the shares. That's what is meant by shareholding. In the simplest language possible, when you sell your business, you have sold your business. (Maybe that's why so many top people have been leaving Twitter lately. Their shares have vested and they are less restricted about what they can do with them once they quit.)
This is the beauty and horror of investment capital. Just as a Saudi prince can invest in our revolution-inspiring Internet darlings, each of us is free to invest our own retirement savings in the likes of cigarette and liquor companies, weapons manufacturers, polluters, outsourcers and sweatshop exploiters.
We can put our kids through college by investing in the very oil companies through which the Saudi royals made their money in the first place. Then, hopefully, our kids can go on to become peace workers, revolutionaries or even Twitter employees. Or not.
If we're truly concerned about the long arm of international investing, we might best reconsider how we invest ourselves. Instead of relying on the anonymity of outsourced investing to the stock market, why not look around for who or what needs money in our towns and communities?
The Obama administration is already in the process of curtailing the regulations that prevent nonmillionaire investors from putting money into one anothers' businesses. This means we can begin to depend on local money to start-up our own ventures, and on local ventures to build our own savings.
And at that point, if we don't feel like having a Saudi Arabian prince participate, we can just say no.
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