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Good news, everyone! Patch 4.2 information is heating up! I've already fired up my PTR client, and I'll be eagerly testing any new encounters. Some of the new information that has been released includes the new tier bonuses, which I'm sure you're burning with desire to know more about. I'll see if I can help stoke the flames of your anticipation. I suspect we'll have some players returning to see if new content is going to rekindle their interest in the game.
Too many fire puns? Okay, let's just blaze on through and look at healing tier bonuses.
I really do like the creativity the design team is taking with regards to set bonuses. Keep in mind that even though all of this stuff is in the PTR data, it could change at any time. I hardly expect all of this to be the final iteration. It looks like the two-piece bonuses provide a slight boost to your mana regeneration, while the four-piece offers cool effects inspired by select boss mechanics.
Priest set bonus
Holy and Discipline two-piece Your Flash Heal, Heal, and Greater Heal spells cause you to regenerate 2% of your base mana.
Holy and Discipline four-piece You have a chance when you cast a helpful spell to summon a Cauterizing Flame. Friendly raid and party members can use the Cauterizing Flame to be instantly healed for 4,625 to 5,375. Lasts for 45 seconds or 10 charges. After using the Cauterizing Flame, players cannot benefit from it again for 10 seconds.
With the two-piece, I guess I won't be doing much filler Renew work. Depending on my mana reserves, I'll need to revert back to plain Heal casting in order to gain it.
In regards to the four-piece, Chase said it best: The four-piece is the only bonus that literally scales with player skill. Chance on heal, summon a Firewell! Players click on it, and they get an instant heal. It seems like a paltry amount. I wonder if it is going to scale with mastery at all. Too early to say, and we don't know enough about the mechanics yet. It is just a first impression, and it seems to feel extremely lackluster. Where would it even spawn? The target of the heal? Next to the casting priest? I've always had mixed feelings about Lightwell, and they're going to carry over here. The effectiveness of the proposed four-piece bonus is determined by the awareness and skill of the raid group I am with.
On the cosmetic side, I'm hoping it will be a red-colored Lightwell of sorts. Imagine being in a zone that is all fire and trying to find the Firewell amidst all the chaos.
Paladin set bonus
Holy two-piece Casting Flash of Light, Holy Light, or Divine Light on your Beacon of Light target has a 40% chance to grant you 2% of your base mana.
Holy four-piece Your Divine Light also heals a nearby injured target for 20% of the amount healed.
Paladin two-piece bonus is similar in design to the priest one. The difference is that it involves your Beacon of Light target and it has a chance of restoring mana.
The four-piece reminds me of Althor's Abacus. At least it will scale nicely as paladins gain better gear. I can't find much to really criticize on the paladin bonuses. Divine Light coupled with the set bonus amplifies the multi-healing aspect of paladins slightly. I presume it'll be great for paladins placed on raid healing, although I'm not sure how often raid healing paladins cast Divine Light. If paladins are being assigned to tanks, melee players will benefit the most in a melee tough raiding environment.
Druid set bonus
Restoration two-piece Your periodic healing from Lifebloom has a 40% chance to restore 1% of your base mana each time it heals a target.
Restoration four-piece When your Lifebloom blooms, it instantly heals up to 2 nearby injured targets for the same amount.
Curiously, the druid two-piece relies on Lifebloom instead of using other direct healing spells. In fact, both of the bonuses revolve around Lifebloom. It'll be up to the casting druid to determine when to let the spell expire or when to maintain it. When it does expire, two nearby players will benefit from it. This bonus seems like it'll be slightly challenging for druids to manage. Druids will need to keep a finger next to Lifebloom, eyes on the target, and be aware of any health loss to any players around that target.
Fun times!
Shaman set bonus
Restoration two-piece Your periodic healing from Riptide has a 40% chance to restore 1% of your base mana each time it heals a target.
Restoration four-piece Your Chain Heal spell will jump to one additional target.
The shaman two-piece falls in line with the druid set bonuses. It simply reinforces the idea of players continuing to use Riptide whenever it is available and does not rely on the normal direct healing spells.
I have a hunch that the four-piece bonus is a placeholder and isn't implemented yet. As it stands, it just looks boring compared to the other bonuses of the other three healing classes. Perhaps a bonus whereby every target hit by Chain Heal has a chance to heal a nearby player for 10% of the initial Chain Heal? Mm, that's probably too overpowered.
What type of shaman bonus would you give? What do you think of your tier 12 so far?
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Utah football: Utes' bowl hopes die after loss to Arizona
The Utah Utes played like a team on the verge of elimination Saturday night, pulling out tricky and risky plays and all-but-forgotten players as they gave their best shot at maintaining bowl-eligibility hopes.
But the high risks didn't pay off for the Utes. Arizona prevailed with a 34-24 win at Rice-Eccles Stadium, ending Utah's hopes of being bowl-eligible for a 10th straight season.
It marks the first time since 2002 that the Utes (4-7, 2-6) won't go to a bowl game.
As Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said earlier this week, the Utes are in a new world of football as a Pac-12 team. Right now, that world is filled with bitter disappointment.
"There can be a lot of explanations," defensive end Trevor Reilly said. "But at the end of the day, we just didn't get the job done."
The Utes, picked to finish second in their division, wrap up their season at Colorado on Friday.
For the first time since they finished 5-6 in 2002, the outcome of that game matters little in the big scheme of things.
What's frustrating for the Utes is that a victory over the Wildcats (7-4, 4-4) was tantalizingly close.
Utah quarterback Travis Wilson, coming off the worst performance in his young career, played with more confidence than he has in previous starts and finished 28-for-40 for 311 yards.
Running back John White also had a solid game, finishing with 27 carries for 112 yards to set a school record for most 100-yard games in a career with 13.
Their performances were enough to help the Utes take a 24-17 lead into the fourth quarter after Wilson threw a 36-yard touchdown pass to DeVonte Christopher, which was just the senior's second touchdown of the season.
Normally Utah's defense plays well when the Utes have a lead to protect.
But fitting for an abnormal season, the Utes' defense couldn't keep Arizona pinned.
Arizona quarterback Matt Scott finished 12-for-27 for 160 yards and a touchdown while running back Ka'Deem Carey rushed 26 times for 204 yards.
The Utes knew Arizona, which has the highest-ranked offense in the league, was going to get its share of yards. But Utah failed to get the key stops, a common theme for the Utes this season.
After Christopher's score, Arizona used a 75-yard drive to tie the game with a 2-yard run by Daniel Jenkins.
The key play in the drive was a 19-yard pass from Scott to Austin Hill on a third-and-11, one of the seven third-down conversions the Wildcats successfully converted on 16 attemtps.
The Utes, who gambled successfully with flea flickers and a faked kick that went for a touchdown earlier in the game, pushed the risks too far on the following possession.
Facing a fourth-and-6 on their own 39-yard line, the Utes faked a punt with punter Sean Sellwood throwing a pass to Mike Honeycutt.
Honeycutt was stopped 4 yards short of the first down, and Arizona took over on Utah's 41-yard line.
The Wildcats needed just four plays to make the Utes pay, with Ka'Deem Carey rushing for 20 yards on one play and Scott connecting with Hill in the corner of the end zone on an 18-yard touchdown pass to take a 31-24 lead.
The Utes never recovered.
Their last gasp ended when Utah took over on its 7-yard line with 5:59 remaining. The Utes earned one first down but couldn't convert a fourth-and-4 as receiver Kenneth Scott was stopped a yard short.
Just like everything else Saturday, the effort was there, but it just wasn't good enough.
Arizona 34, Utah 24
R IN SHORT • The loss marks the first time since 2002 that the Utes won't go to a bowl.
KEY STAT • Ka'Deem Carey rushed 26 times for 204 yards against the Utes.

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Located at the corner of Church and Water Streets in historic, downtown Swansboro, the Chamber's office also serves as the Swansboro Welcome/Visitor's Center. With tourism a large part of the financial equation in the "Friendly City By the Sea," the Chamber works closely with the Swansboro Tourism Development Authority and Onslow County Tourism to promote the area's coastal communities.
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Good tour, a quick way to see the city and get some good historical information about the city. Also handy that tickets are valid for 24 hours so nice to mix it up over 2 days if you start around midday :)
lovely tour
Great way to get about and see sights!
One of the most cost efficient way to see a city if you do not have much time to sight see. The hop-on and off bus provides a live commentary (not taped) and the lady was very good, knowledgeable and extremely witty, you'll enjoy history lesson with lots of humor. Will definitely recommend to family and friends!
particularly loved being able to have a live commentator - great personality. Edinburgh, like Glasgow, could use a good scrubbing brush - particularly the Scott Monument! But loved the feel of the city and I think the tour did a good job of showing off the best points.
We ended up taking two tours--one audio and one with a guide. The real-person guide was so much better and interesting! Our sole major problem was starting off. I showed the Viator voucher to one tour bus driver, and he did not understand it and sent us way out of way to the city bus station, and the person there sent us to the railroad station. Viator should make it absolutely clear that customers search out the tour bus representative on Waverly Bridge sidewalk or in the booth, and the booth needs a prominent sign! Also make sure that customers understand that they can turn in the voucher for any one of several tour routes.
We do the hop on and hop off tours in all the cities we travel to...the best way to get a feel of the city and the lay of the land.
It was very good and helpful.
The tour was as promised. Very easy to catch the frequent buses and always had seats availqable. Only problem was finding out where the buses had their stopping points. when we first arrived.
We had purchased the Royal ticket and it was great that we were able to board any of the busses rather than being limited to one - plus our entrance fees were also all covered. Very crowded during August because of the Fringe Festival, but a beautiful city.
A good overall view of the points of interest in the city.
Truly enjoyable! It is a great way to know the city!
My wife and I and her brother went on a British Isle cruise on Princess Cruise line.
We pre-ordered the hop-on hop-off tour bus for all the ports that were available;
Dublin, Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow, Inverness, Edinburgh and London after the end of the cruise.
We also purchased "Skip the Line" at Guinness storehouse,
which was good because of the long line to purchase tickets.
We walked right up to the pre-buy line person and walked in.
All the hop-off hop-on buses were very good, clean and all workers were courteous and helpful.
I don't think they see the Viator online print off tickets very often,
but there was no problem using the computer print off tickets.
I would definitely recommend the hop-on hop-off tour buses every where you go.
Pre buying did not save a lot, but you did not have to worry about having local cash to buy them.
I normally do not conduct a rating but everything worked out well, so I will in this case.
Gary, Renton, Washington
Hop-on Hop-off is an excellent way to get a feel for a city and with Edinburgh Passes for three days was great!!! The Viator tour did just that. We were able to get around easily and see what we wanted. By starting with that tour we more readily understood what Edinburgh is all about. (Also don't forget to get a city bus pass...for the time you are there also!!)
Leslie T
this was such an easy hop on hop off- I had done London last year and found it so crowded and hard to manage. I am so glad I chose one of my days to stay in town and "hop around"!
very good gave us a very good insight into edinburgh it is a beautiful city loved every minute of it did not want it to end
Great way to get oriented to city.
Good value, enjoyable and staff very helpful.
Taking advice from friends, I did the circuit twice to familiarise myself with the city streets and city layout. The voiceover information was excellent and covered a wide variety of information, both historical and current news. The entire city seemed easily accessible fom the bus and it was good to know that I could get back on at any point if I got a little disoriented or my feet gave out!
Great way to see the city, Driver was good food adding to the positive experience.
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United Kingdom
Not a problem redeeming my voucher. Unfortunately we didn't have the best weather to fully appreciate the tour. Will definitely use Viator again.
Hop-on Hop-off is an excellent way to get a feel for a city. The Viator tour did just that. We were able to get around easily and see what we wanted. By starting with that tour we more readily understood what Edinburgh is all about.
This tour was so informative we never wanted to get off the bus! Edinburgh was a lovely city with so much history. Loved it!
Excellent. The tour is a must. Having never been to Edinburgh before it gave me an overall perspective of the layout of the city, so that I could decide which sights I wanted to see more of.


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The Galley
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2442 Main Street
Santa Monica, California, United States
Ph: (310) 452-1934 - Website
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Daily at 5pm
Sunday at 1pm for lunch
Opened in 1934
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The Galley is Santa Monica's oldest bar and restaurant, and features decor from 1935's Mutiny On the Bounty (the production of that same movie also inspired the legendary Christian's Hut in Newport Beach). The Galley is more nautical than tiki, but features a South Seas Bar with lots of bamboo and pufferfish lamps. Another highlight of The Galley is a large collection of World War II era propaganda posters.
July 20, 2013, 3:11 PM
The Galley is certainly a nautical more than tiki location but if you are in the area it is not to be missed. It does feel like a bit of history with fair food and drink.
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February 23, 2015, 5:18 PM
Not a tiki bar per se, but apparently the oldest restaraunt in Santa Monica. My wife and I enjoyed sitting at the bar and chatting with the bartender. The chili was good. Not many original drinks, or a mug though unfortunately.
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Being a fairly new traveler I am trying to find out if my treatment on my latest flights was the norm for airlines. My return flight home was cancelled for two consecutive days. The only thing I was offered was a discounted room voucher and a booking on another flight another day later. No food vouchers or even credit on future flight, as I finally had to rent a car to get home due to time limitations. Is there any other recourse I can try. The airline has responded that they can offer me nothing.
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Travel insurance should cover any expenses incurred as a result of this sort of thing. (I received payment for a claim once when our flights were cancelled due to extreme bad weather leaving us stranded on a Fiji Island. Yes, there were worse places to be!). They paid out on additional accommodation, food and even ridiculously high hotel internet and phone charges that we had to pay to contact airlines, insurance company, etc.)
What airline, out of curiosity? Air Asia have cancelled some flights recently and there has been discussion here about that. Just wondering if it's the same airline.
You could also try writing a letter of complaint to the company - that sometimes results in additional compensation.
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I have a friend who was flying from Goa with Virgin Atlantic, the flight was overbooked, the airline asked who wouldn't mind to go on the next day and paid a night at Hilton hotel, meals included plus gave a massive discount on a future flight (50%?). I know from experience that Air France, in these cases, gives you between 500-700 euros plus hotel bill.
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Sounds like you've been flying a Chinese Airline. It's fairly common for them to cancel without any help afterward, especially if you book through an agency and not directly with the airline (eLong, Ctrip) - the tickets are always discounted and usually fully non-refundable/non-insured. When flights get canceled there is usually a stampede trying to rebook and if you're really really lucky they will bring a new airplane . . . but you'll wait 8 hours and probably get a bottle of water for your trouble.
Though China Southern did give us a 100 RMB rebate - you simply had to photocopy every important document given to you since you arrived in China, every document concerning your trip, and then mail a registered envelop to them within 14 days.
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Sometime it happens with us. Having travel insurance keeps us safe from these kind of situations.
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Travel insurance helps you out in these cases and it doesn't cost much to get it.
Air France didn't gave me **** back in '99 so I will never fly with them again.
Etihad on the other hand gave me business class tickets to fly so that was a gift from about 4000 € in total . can't complain about that. I'm flying with Etihad for the last 3 years and never had anything better.
What you can do is write a letter to the manager from the airline. that's something that worked out for my parents with Virgin Atlantic.
Still curious what airline you where on. I guess Air china as Casey says.
Sometimes you just have to deal with it.
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If you gave more specific details, we might be able to answer intelligently. Business practices in certain countries does protect you in addition to travel insurance. The policy I follow is to purchase travel from reliable sources and not to always look for the lowest price deal from some fly-by-night airline or consolidator.
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yousaf is a spammer - only posting to direct traffic to his link. Yes, I've reported it, but Somtam must be busy lying in a hammock somewhere
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For flights leaving or arriving in EU. the following might be helpful.
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Avoid bloody Batavia Air in Indonesia at all costs! Went to Makassar airport today only to find out that my flight had been cancelled without any warning whatsoever. Batavia had both my phone no and email address but didn't bother letting me know, just handed me my money back. No alternative flights available today so I miss a ferry connection and have to rethink my whole trip. Good job it wasn't very tightly planned anyway and I have a plan B, C, D, E to fall back on! But it's annoying. If you need to get a domestic flight in Indonesia, Garuda, Srijiwaya, Mandala and Lion Air are the most reliable companies. (And Air Asia but they only have a limited number of routes).
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Batavia Air
Just looked them up and had a wry smile when I saw their motto is:
Trust Us To Fly
So they won't be getting your endorsement SBE.
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BROWN, WILLIAM S. (?–1838?). William S. Brown, Texas Navy officer, a resident of Velasco, joined the revolutionary army in 1835 and took part in the siege of Bexar. After Martín Perfecto de Cos capitulated, Brown proceeded to Goliad, where he was said to have designed a revolutionary flag displaying a bloody arm, stripes of red and white, and the motto "Independence." The flag may have been hoisted at Velasco in January 1836 (see FLAGS OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION). Brown was made captain of the schooner Liberty in January 1836; he was a brother of Jeremiah Brown, captain of the Invincible. On March 3, 1836, William Brown captured the Mexican trading vessel Pelicano near Sisal and got its cargo safely to Matagorda Bay. Because of a quarrel with Charles E. Hawkins, commodore of the Texas Navy, Brown was superseded in command of the Liberty on March 12, 1836. In July he was given another navy commission and was put in charge of the Comanche and the Fanny Butler, two captured Mexican vessels. Later he was commissioned captain of the privateer Benjamin R. Milam, but he died in New Orleans before the ship was ready for service. A eulogy appeared in the Telegraph and Texas Register for August 18, 1838.
William Campbell Binkley, ed., Official Correspondence of the Texan Revolution, 1835–1836 (2 vols., New York: Appleton-Century, 1936). Alex Dienst, "The Navy of the Republic of Texas," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 12–13 (January-October 1909; rpt., Fort Collins, Colorado: Old Army Press, 1987). Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Texas Collection, April 1947. Dudley Goodall Wooten, ed., A Comprehensive History of Texas (2 vols., Dallas: Scarff, 1898; rpt., Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1986).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article."BROWN, WILLIAM S.," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbraa), accessed November 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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I am using the html form for the input and using the servlet class
Originally posted by Bear Bibeault: Welcome to the Ranch. First, here's a useful tip for making your posts easier to read. Please be sure to use UBB code tags when posting code to the forums. Unformatted code is extermely hard to read and most people will just go elsewhere. Please read this for more information. You can go back and change your post to add code tags by clicking the .
Originally posted by Ben Souther: Is your app the root webapp inside your container? If you're not sure what this means, post the FULL path to your HTML file, starting with the drive letter of your hard drive.
Originally posted by Ben Souther: No, that's not what I was asking. Is your app THE root web application for your container? Please post the full path to your servlet.
Originally posted by Ben Souther: "coz" isn't a word. Post the full path to your servlet class file. Example: c:\tomcat\webapps\myapp\WEB-INF\classes\com\mypackage\MyServlet.class
Originally posted by sachin mesala: <form name="input" action="C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\Lasto\WEB-INF\classes\Test1.class" method="post">
Originally posted by Ben Souther: I wasn't suggesting that you put the full path in your form. I just wanted you to post it here so we can see what it is. Your application is not the root application in your server. It has a contextPath of "Lasto". Therefore, Lasto needs to be part of your URL when calling your servlet. <form action="/Lasto/xyz" ...
Originally posted by Ben Souther: The 3 dots (an ellipse) mean that I left the rest out for brevity. Make sure your tag is complete.
Originally posted by sachin mesala: I kept in the form action="Lasto/xyz" ....
Originally posted by Ben Souther: Your not writing any output or forwarding to any JSPs in your servlet.
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
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String name = request.getParameter("title");
response.setAttribute("paul", name);
There is no reason why it should show you anything.
Originally posted by Ben Souther: There's nothing missing as far as the attribute goes. You're binding it to request scope. Your JSP is reading it back from session scope. What's missing is the forward from the servlet to the JSP. Download the SimpleMVC example in our code barn. Drop the war file in your webapps directory and Tomcat will deploy it. You will then have a working example that does all of this.
Originally posted by sachin mesala: Any good suggestion from you to me, after seeing my errors , as i want to be a good programmer.
Originally posted by Ben Souther: Yes. Pick up a good book on the subject. I used Core Servlet and Java Server Pages years ago. I know there is a newer edition of it out there but haven't looked at it yet. Another one that is popular is the Head First Servlets book.
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This act illustrates exactly how SCARED these cats are. I mean didn't Bush say we wouldn't propagandize 9/11? Well it looks like flyboy lied to us again. SDW, have you gotten one yet? Did it scare you? Does it make you feel safer knowing Bush was in office trying to back us out of the ABM treaties and trying to build a missile defense system all the while AQ plotted and schemed? Does this propaganda help Bush's cause in your eyes--or the eyes of the other Bush followers for that matter?
This is sick political ploy that is so utterly transparent that even the lowest common denominator will see this for what it is. I bet this add was enough to scare as many voters away as it brought in. This pamphlet is disgusting beyond belief and it mystifies me that anyone in their right mind could still support this pack of puppies.


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Are they fads or classic desserts?
It depends on who you talk to, but one thing's for sure. Two dessert crazes of recent years — cupcakes and frozen yogurt — are thriving in Middle Tennessee.
According to some dessert industry observers, frozen yogurt is trending ahead of cupcakes, especially in the Northeast and on the West Coast. But locally, it's hard to tell which sweet treat is the most popular. There are plenty of national chains and independent shops to choose from in the Nashville area, and the numbers are still growing.
"I don't think desserts ever really go out of style, but they are even more popular in a down economy," says Sarah Voter, co-owner of Yogi's Frozen Yogurt Bar on West End Avenue near Vanderbilt University. "People may hesitate before they go out to eat, but they will still spend on themselves by indulging a sweet treat."
Voter's store specializes in self-serve low-fat frozen yogurt, but she's interested in other desserts that appeal to her clientele. She recently added cupcakes and cookies to Yogi's menu.
There's plenty of competition for a start-up such as Yogi's, and from national franchises and mom-and-pop stores alike. Consider this run of recent developments:
• GiGi's Cupcakes, a Nashville-based national franchise chain started out with three local units in 2008 and has grown to 55 nationwide in 2011. Its management team expects to have 100 franchisees by the end of 2012 as well as five local stores.
• Sparkle Cupcake Co., a store in Nashville's Lenox Village, is under new ownership and will open a second location in Smyrna in November. Its backers expect several more local units to open in the months after that. The company has just received legal clearing to begin franchising.
• The Cupcake Collection, a popular boutique in Germantown, is expanding to Clarksville and recently took its food truck, the Cupcake Bus, on the road to college campuses.
• Sweet CeCe's, a Nashville-based frozen yogurt franchise, has grown from a single storefront in Franklin to more than 50 units in two years. It plans on adding at least 30 more by 2012, including in 10 Middle Eastern countries and Puerto Rico.
• Berry Bear, a start-up headquartered in Clarksville, has four stores in Middle Tennessee and is also selling franchises nationwide.
• Red Mango, a major national frozen yogurt chain, recently awarded its first franchise for the Nashville Market to Farzin Ferdowsi, a high-profile local entrepreneur who owns 80 Taco Bell franchises. Red Mango joins an ever-growing list of frozen yogurt brands in Middle Tennessee — Pinkberry, Menchie's, Krave and Yogurt World Café.
Which begs the question: Will this sweet-toothed growth binge lead to a painful purge? One local franchising expert thinks it's coming — at least for some.
"The growth in these dessert categories has been insane," said local franchise expert Thomas Scott, author of Franchise Sales Tipping Point and CEO of Brand Journalists, a Nashville-based firm that specializes in marketing and social media for franchisors. "The dessert industry is fickle and there are usually a lot of copycats when a trend is catching on. Some brands will fail; there's not room in the market for all of them.
"The ultimate survivors are the ones who have a combination of factors — a great product, coupled with great branding and superior customer service," Scott added. "And equally important is that age-old important ingredient to success — location, location and location."
Alan Thompson, president of franchising at GiGi's Cupcakes, said cupcakes have earned their way into the mainstream of consumer tastes, and "aren't going anywhere, period."
"People have been saying that cupcakes are a fad since 1995 when they began to get popular," Thompson said. "We keep seeing an increase in interest. We used to beg landlords to give us the time of day. Now I get calls and emails every day."
Thompson admitted that the dessert business is a competitive arena, but thinks location selection is more important than specific competitors, whether they are frozen yogurt shops or cupcake stores.
"Our stores live and die based on their location," Thompson said. "In fact, we are right next door to a Pinkberry store in Marietta, Georgia, and they are a great complement to us."
MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery, a national franchise with several locations in Middle Tennessee, recognizes both cupcakes and frozen yogurt as competition. The company recently added ice cream cupcakes and frozen yogurt to its menus.
"We are all competing for the same after-lunch, after-dinner business," said Clay Arrington, who owns MaggieMoo's stores in Hendersonville, Jackson and Huntsville, Ala.
And the same choice real estate spots, which just aren't being added to the market like they were five years ago. Between that and the ongoing stresses on many consumers' wallets, the herd of dessert purveyors may soon be culled. With that in mind, a number of operators are looking at refining and evolving their concepts.
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Brian Moore, CEO of Nashville-based Sweet CeCe's, one of the fastest-growing frozen yogurt franchises in the country, is understandably biased in favor of frozen yogurt versus sugary desserts. He thinks the desire for healthier treats will keep driving growth and innovation in the dessert industry.
"I can put frozen yogurt in your mouth every day that's going to make you healthier," Moore said. "If you eat ice cream every day, you are going to be pretty unhealthy."
Glyn Patterson, one of four owners of the recently franchised Sparkle Cupcake Co., believes his new company will become one of the winners because of its strategy.
"The key is coming up with something that makes your brand stand out and having a delicious product," Patterson said. "Some part of your business needs to include something no one else is doing. One of our specialties is cupcake parties. We're planning on becoming a major brand because we're willing to roll up our sleeves and make it happen."
Nationally known Chef Heather Bertinetti, executive pastry chef at The Lion restaurant in New York City and a guest on Rachael Ray's eHow cooking channel, sees support for the cupcake and frozen yogurt "down-trending" but evolving into related — but somewhat different — desserts and treats.
"I see cake-pops and Popsicles coming down the pike," Bertinetti said. "They are desserts on a stick. I think the desserts that survive just being a fad are the more simplistic ones that are easy to make at home."
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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), the Croatian-born American physicist and electrical engineer, made the first practical induction motors. He made this working model to illustrate the claims of his patents. The induction motor has since become the most widely used form of electric motor because it is simple and robust. It has no electrical contacts to the rotor. Instead, it is what is known as a 'two-phase machine'; that is, it uses two alternating currents to produce the rotating magnetic field which makes the rotor turn. The induction motor was a major factor in the adoption of alternating current (ac) electricity supplies.
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No, the alcohol stays in solution unless you toss it into a saute' pan where it will indeed flash off.
No, the alcohol stays in solution unless you toss it into a saute' pan where it will indeed flash off.
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Hard to say but I think my Michter's 10yr improved a lot after having 3-4 pours taken out of it. Could be that I also tried while I was drinking all barrel proofers and tried it again when i wasn't.
Bourbon is complex stuff, and I'd assume some stuff is volatile. Allowing some of that stuff to gas off I would imagine changes the product. I think we see it in the glass. Things seem to change just letting it sit for a bit.
Every time you open a bottle and pour, you're actively exchanging gasses. And each time you're introducing a larger surface area in the bottle.
It makes sense, although no idea if it's good, bad, or different.
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I also notice it getting better in the glass if i let it sit for 10-20 minutes.
It's been my experience while sitting down with friends the whisky usually improves as the level in the bottle is lowered.
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I think the best way to put it is when you leave a bottle open the flavor changes through oxidation. This can be a good thing or a bad thing.
jmj, for myself I have noticed that even the same bottle will taste different to me day to day. I am surprised that I can sometimes come back to what I'd consider my favorite pour and find that yesterdays deliciousness is excessively woody today.


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As most people are by now aware, Cyrus Kouandjio is officially a member of the Alabama Crimson Tide, signing with the team days after briefly committing to Auburn on Signing Day. Alabama had long been the favorite to land Kouandjio, while Auburn was a relatively late player in his recruitment. Other schools being conidered were Iowa and, oddly, New Mexico.
Any time there's wavering from a top recruit over his commitment, especially in close proximity to Signing Day, there's always going to be some doubt that everything was on the up-and-up. When a school pops up seemingly out of nowhere in the recruiting battle, like Auburn did, it becomes basically common knowledge among partisan fans that someone was being paid illegally -- even when absolutely no evidence surfaces of any wrongdoing.
That's a shame, really. It's not a shame in that a particular school's integrity is being impugned; that practice is as old as the sport itself, and an integral part therein. Who doesn't enjoy needlessly slandering a rival team or its fan base? It's the type of devilish, puerile fun that helps make being a fan such a rewarding experience. No, the problem is not what the rumors say about the schools in question; it's what they say about the recruits.
Think about it. When an Auburn fan gets on the radio and accuses Alabama of paying off Kouandjio, the insinuation is that the Kouandjios don't care at all about Cyrus' well-being, or what school offers the best experience for him on and off the field. No, in a paranoid fan's eyes, all that Alabama (or Auburn, or Iowa, or New Mexico) needed to do was wheel out an SUV from some anonymous booster and the recruiting was done. That's a pretty lousy thing to assume about a family, especially when the father, Jean Claude Kouandjio, was on record encouraging his son to take his mind off the process for a day or two. To assume that this display of good parenting is just some act that belies a great misdeed would necessarily require a good deal of evidence, otherwise it's just plain mean-spirited.
And on the front of evidence, there is none in Kouandjio's case. Nobody has proffered any examples of conspicuous spending or shady deals made with any member of the family or anything of the sort. To make that claim anyway is to make a work of fiction, and when local media agencies report on these rumors even under the guise of "fans speaking out," they smear the public record. Our standards ought to be much higher.


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|OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this retrospective prolective study is to evaluate soft tissue, dentoalveolar and skeletal vertical changes following conventional anchorage molar distalization therapy in adult patients.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-six patients (34 females, mean age 25 years 6 months; and 12 males, mean age 28 years 4 months) were recruited from 4 specialists Board Certified. All subjects underwent molar distalization therapy according different distalization mechanics. Cephalometric headfilms were available for all subjects before (T0) and at the end of comprehensive treatment (T1). The initial and final measurements and treatment changes were compared by means of a paired t-test or a paired Wilcoxon test.
RESULTS: Mean total treatment time was 3 years 3 months ± 8 months. Maxillary first and second molars distalized 2.16±0.84 mm and 2.01±0.69 mm respectively, but also maintained a slight distal tipping of 1.45° (min 2.22°, max -6.45°) and 3.35° (min 0.47°, max -15.48°) at the end of treatment. Distal movement of maxillary first molar contributed 57.6% to molar correction, and 42.4% was due to a mesial movement of mandibular first molar (1.59±0.46 mm). Dentoalveolar changes contributed to overjet correction; maxillary incisors retroclined 5.78°±3.17°, lower incisors proclined 7.49°±4.52° and occlusal plane rotated down and backward 2.32°±2.10°. A significant clockwise rotation of the mandible (1.97°±1.32°) and a significant increase in lower facial height (3.35±1.48) mm were observed. Upper lip slightly retruded (-1.76±1.70 mm) and lower lip protruded (0.96±0.99 mm) but these changes had a negligible impact on clinical appearance.
CONCLUSIONS: Although maxillary molar distalization therapy can be performed in adult patients, significant proclination of the lower incisors, clockwise rotation of the occlusal plane and increase in vertical facial dimension should be expected. Nevertheless, in absence of maxillary third molars and in presence of mandibular third molars this procedure could be recommended.
|Mattia Fontana; Mauro Cozzani; Alberto Caprioglio
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Cephalometry / methods
Chin / pathology
Dental Arch / pathology*
Facial Bones / pathology*
Follow-Up Studies
Incisor / pathology
Lip / pathology
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The lack of PCPs as newly insured folks in MA have tried to find them has been frustrating to many. The new Massachusetts law alluded to in the linked Globe article takes some baby steps towards ameliorating this issue on the supply side. The problem, of course, is not limited to Massachusetts, as the tiny percentage of med school grads interested in pursuing a career in primary care demonstrates. As I have blogged recently at HealthBlawg, we have a looming crisis of medical homes with nobody home (remember when your G.P. was your medical home?), brought on by a persistent resistance to paying primary care physicians equitably (thanks to a reimbursement system controlled by proceduralists). Some would say that more would choose careers in primary care if their quality of life / quality of practice were improved, as if that were divorced from level of compensation. PCPs inundated with paperwork and low reimbursement rates end up seeing more patients to compensate for low reimbursement, but that just yields more paperwork; a vicious cycle. If as a society we valued PCPs more (and showed it, through more appropriate reimbursement rates) then perhaps crises of access such as that seen in today's headlines would not exist.
So let's export this model to the rest of the country and see how that goes. But, of course, this is precisely what the staunch supporters of universal health care believe is necessary to slow the cost of health care. These "insiders" whisper behind the backs of the American public that Americans demand too much health care anyway so this is what is best for "the common good".
Just because it is difficult to provide care to these underserved patients, does not mean that we should abandon the attempt to do so. For years we have been underfunding primary care, causing physicians with substantial medical school debt to seek higher paying specialties. We need to change the dynamics of reimbursement and loan repayment to attract graduates back to primary care. Exporting universal care to the country would create the same growing pains that Massachusetts is having, but, again, worth it in the long term.
In terms of "demanding" too much health care anyway, my response is to empower physicians to make decisions based on clinical exam rather than testing. Right now we test because we have to have some type of objective measure in the chart in case we get sued. Defensive medicine is a huge burden to the delivery system which makes US healthcare the most expensive in the world.
The shortage of primary care doctors in Massachusetts is having another harmful side effect: It's sending more and more patients to the emergency department (ED) for non-urgent conditions typically addressed by primary care doctors. By default, this means the system is providing patients with the wrong care at the wrong time.
This trend costs the health care system in more ways than one. Experts estimate that the cost of an ED visit is two to five times greater than the cost of a primary care provider for the same symptoms.– adding up to an estimated $1 billion annually in Massachusetts alone and $32 billion nationally. And quality suffers: ED visits lack the continuity of care provided by primary care visits, and are not designed to promote prevention or monitor patient follow-up and compliance.
The New England Healthcare Institute is partnering with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to identify and test strategies for reducing non-urgent use of the emergency department. We must also do what we can to address the supply-and-demand problem by reforming the delivery of care. This will require educating doctors in new, collaborative ways which encourage a focus on team work among doctors, nurses, pharmacists and social workers while easing the burden on primary care physicians. And we must address the disparity in reimbursement which places more emphasis on quantity than on quality of care.
An effective primary care system will help ensure that patients get the care they need, when and where they need it. As more and more insured patients enter the system, we must improve the system's capacity to accommodate them – easing the burden for our primary care physicians and ensuring better care for our patients.
I wonder if Ted Kennedy's family has to wait 90 days to get an appointment with their Primary Care doc?
This is misleading way to portray causality. The shortage of doctors is because not many people want to become primary care as they can make more money being specialist treating the disease that should have been by the primarycare physicians...if they had gone to.
Now the next step would be to ensure that there are more trained primary care doctors. We did an artcile on that ( http://blogs.biproinc.com/healthcare ) I do not recall the title offhand. It was based on USA today report which showed that the numbers of doctors is limited by congress....and which as you know is governed also by AMA.
Let us not demonize something for wrong reasons.
I have blogged about this a number of times. There are only 880,000 practicing physicians in this country and over 300 MILLION Americans. You do the math. Many physicians are flocking to states that have FINALLY reformed their med mal system to include caps on "pain and suffering" awards. Offsetting medical school loans and med mal caps is a start but giving physicians tax-breaks for seeing a certain percentage of these lower-paying insurance patients would be the next equitable step. C'mon Ted- YOU now know how important it is to have the best physicians available!
The system is gamed. Private for-profits and not-for-profit megalithic health insurers in concert with the Fed and State governments FIX PRICES in what ostensibly is supposed to be the 'free market'. There will be a permanent shortage of primary care docs until reimbursements are adjusted upward to reflect the value of cognitive services, and serious attempts to diminish the onslaught and glut of ridiculous paper work and Mother-may-I precertifications and preauthorizations which bog the doctor down interminably. Morale is in the basement justifiably. And we are just a stones' throw from I-could-give-a-damn.
Alle's idea is one I share. Since many states have turned their ludicrously underreimbursed Medicaid populations into sub-cohorts, now just risoriously underreimbursed affilitates of commericial insurers like Blue Cross and United, and made unlimited acceptance of this new cadre a requirement to stay on the commercial networks, it would make sense to reward physicians for their uncompensated care in the thousands of dollars by allowing tax breaks for that care as well as for bad debts uncollected, another growing problem. At least this would give the primary care docs some fiscal support as the economy craters under the magnificent leadership of the Titans of Wall St and their Washington enablers.
Universal healthcare must be a goal for this nation. To make this happen we must have enough providers to do so--else universal healthcare is just talk. Strategies are needed to do both, but will require a major shift from conventional systems and going against some major, big-money special interests. To say that the growing and very worrisome problem of shortage of primary care is a reason to abandon universal healthcare is unacceptable. We can and must do both if we hope to have a healthier and more productive society. The current system does not have and never has had the patient as the priority.
Until the problem of medical school debt is addressed, graduating students will continue to choose careers in specialties with higher rates of reimbursement and better quality of life.
First, as a country we need to answer one simple question.
Is medical care a right? (not healthcare but medical care)
Once we have an answer, we can then work to find the best means to support that answer.
Try setting the price of gasoline at $1 per gallon by federal mandate. You may very well find yourself waiting 88 days or longer in a line to fill your car. There is a wait for an appointment to see a primary care doctor because the price has been artificially set too low. The market really works when it is allowed to. Set the price of seeing a primary care doctor at its true value, and the lines will magically disapear.
I find this talk of a doctor shortage amusing. I run a 50-MD group in suburban Boston. I have at least half a dozen newer primary care physicians hungry for patients and there are lots of not-so-busy PCPs in our community equally hungry. Yes, I have many established PCPs with closed practices but that's because they're great doctors and very popular. It's a very normal aspect of practice development. And yes, the reason why med studets choose specialty care is because they can make more $ and enjoy less weekend call than PCPs. Having said that, all of my PCPs would be considered "rich" by any normal-person standard and we shouldn't start spending taxpayer $ to subsizidize them. On virtually every metric, the USA has more doctors per capita and spends more $ per capita on healthcare than any other country. We need to reform the system so existing resources are used more wisely.
Nobody has a right to anything that someone else is forced to pay for (in time and/or money). Getting sick doesn't entitle you to chunks of other people's lives. Let the free market work.
The free market, by the way, includes the freedom to commit acts of charity, but charity needs to be CALLED charity and treated as such. Replacing charity with entitlement is bad for both those on the giving end and on the receiving end.
Medical student, Rights are not just out there waiting to be discovered, they must be created by laws and legal structures. Thus, health care as a right is not as simple as saying everyone gets it. This is a really complicated problem, and once you try to solve it through legal means, inevitably everyone's politics will prevent you from arriving at the best answer. That is not to say that society shouldn't create legal structures to help the less well off, but please do not be so naive as to think this problem will all go away by answering the question whether health care is a right.
People of Massachusetts can thank Dr. Bruce Auerbach in part for the longer wait times. While much of the nation enjoys improved access to health care thanks to nurse practitioners, Dr. Auerbach (president of the Massachusetts Medical Society) has lobbied heavily against their ability to practice in Boston. Research has shown that nurse practitioners deliver quality care comparable to that of physicians, and at much lower costs (and in many cases with greater patient satisfaction). These facts are lost on Dr. Auerbach, but perhaps Massachusetts legislators will give greater consideration to this proven alternative. With over 120,000 nurse practitioners from a variety of specialties in this country, they won't have to look far.
I don't know whether it should be right or not to have medical care. But, I know that we should at least provide basic medical care to all. I'm talking about things like vaccinations, prenatal care, pap smear, mammo, hypertension treatment, cholesterol treatmeent, diabetes management. I would rather have people treated for these things in the outpatient setting instead of the ER, ICU or SNFs. I would just be cheaper. I don't think that this society is ready to say "let them die" to people without insurance. So, it just makes more sense to offer people basic medical care to allow us to avoid paying more for their care later. A patient who shows up in an ER with chest pain is "entitled" to get world class cardiac care and gets discharged home and can't afford the plavix to keep the stent open. We develop technology to prolong the life of a patient with metastatic melanoma 1 year at a cost of 250k, but won't remove a atypical nevus on a person without medical insurance. This is the state of medical care in America. It's a shame.
Nancy, if it is between waiting a long time to go to the doctor, or getting right in with an NP, I'll take the wait.
Nancy Asp, MSN, ENP,
As someone who has experienced care at the hands of both a NP and an INternist. Let me assure you that irrespective of what your study says. There is a difference. Nurse practitioner are empathetic and do spend more time with you, but their depth of knowledge and clinical sense is not the same. When you have many healthcare problems at once, the doctors care trumps your profession every time. The difference might be subtle to you, but as a patient you can feel it. Ideally NPs will work in collaborative teams with Doctors where the Doctor is the captain of the team, and delegates his/her simpler cases to you all, for you are capable of seeing those, but for heavens sake don't overstate your abilities and render us patients the victims.
Given the reforms there and the direction that state has been taking. it is amongst the most unattractive places for doctors to practice and they deserve to become an example to the rest of the country on how reform should not be done.
The recent proposals of Therese Murray, along with the guidelines the highly restrictive measures passed on the free practice of medicine, and the excessive autonomy being given to mid-level practitioners, makes that state a virtual no go state for PCPs. In Fact were it not for the large number of training programs there the situation would have been even more dire.
Citizens of Mass. Enjoy the collective wisdom of your elected members and the destruction they have perpetrated on you care delivery system.
Nobody has a right to anything that someone else is forced to pay for....really? So kids don't have a right to education? I mean, they don't pay for it themselves. What about a person who makes so little money that he/she owes no taxes....maybe a college student working part-time. Does this person not have a right to publicly financed police-protection just as you do?
Consider what your dramatic statements mean before you make them.
Boston residents having trouble finding a doctor are now only one phone call away.
The Mayor's Health Line started offering a new, multilingual service that puts callers in touch with family doctors and other primary care providers who are accepting new patients. This service is free and confidential.
Residents can call 617-534-5050 or 1-800-847-0710 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to connect to the service, operated by the Boston Public Health Commission.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced plans for the referral line in July after accepting the recommendations of a task force on improving access to primary care in Boston; the panel was led by Dr. Paula Johnson, chairperson of the Boston Public Health Commission's board.
"This is all about ensuring that Boston residents have access to qualified health care providers,'' Mayor Menino said. "With all of the health care facilities we have in Boston, residents shouldn't have to go to a hospital emergency room for routine medical care.''
Demand for primary care has increased as a result of the state's landmark health care reform law, which has added 439,000 people, many of them Boston residents, to the rolls of the insured. One consequence has been growing strain on the primary care system.
The referral service will keep track of open slots for new patients at doctors' offices, hospitals, and community health centers and monitor wait times for appointments. Consumers can also call to report difficulties obtaining primary care.
It is a shame that so much of medical compensation is about volume and not about quality of care. I know internists who see 15-20 patients in a morning session. I cannot imagine how this can be done thoroughly and safely. I cannot image that this could be satisfying for patient or physician.
In a very real way these are practice styles we value. In many of the larger group practices these practicioners are referred to as "high productivity physicians". Physicians who see 6 patients per session are referred to as "low productivity physicians".
It is unfortunate that these "high productivity" physicians make double the income of those who spend time with their patients, on education, explaination, and remember that "old-fashioned quality"...comfort. These same physicians are forced to over-test because they cannot spend the time required to do a good physical exam or explain to the patient why a test might not yeild helpful information.
I think an honest assesment is in order. What kind adequate history, physical exam, test interpretation, and patient education can be done in 15 minutes? In a non-complicated URI sure. Urgent care for the "worried well" can be very lucritive. But what about the chronically ill? What about patients most in need of our care. Patients with diabetes, CAD, HTN, COPD etc... These are the patients that are expensive to the entire healthcare system. If we were spending more time on prevention, patient education, and pre-emptive problem solving the cost of medicine could be greatly reduced. We are trying to do this, with physician extenders and that most often results in care fragmentation and patient confusion. There is no substitute for physician time in improving quality of care.
As long as the system continues to financially reward only high productivity, quality will be poor, medical errors will be high, patient satisfaction will be low, and primary care physician professional satisfaction will also be low.
We need to reimburse primary care physicians appropriately for their work. But we must also set a high ethical standard for medical practice in determining standard of care.
I think we should revisit the "capitated" system of medicine. Well managed patients are both healthy and economically profitable. The physician and the patient are on the same side. There is very little long-term incentive to limit care as it is counter-productive.
A capitated system is a patient centered system. It allows a much better functioning of free market forces. Typically, patients have many more options for chosing and changing PCPs then they do for changing employee based HMOs. When it comes to ethical distribution of medical resorces, I would pick my primary MD over my HMO anytime. They are better qualified to make informed and individually thoughtful recommendations and decisions.
When a physican-patient relationship is strong, something that can only be devloped through time, attention, and real empathy, costs are low, satisfaction of all parties is high, and quality is maximized. It is a win/win situation for everyone.
I would be very interested to hear other points of view as this model has been villified in the past.
Primary MD: I feel your pain.
Your assessment of modern medicine is right on, and you had me enthralled right up to the statement that we should revisit capitated systems. Essentially, all third party systems are unethical, and capitated systems are the most unethical of all. Get this: they reward doctors for denying care. All the incentives are wrong.
Here's the bitter truth: as a primary care doc you're screwed if you're going to rely upon others (meaning the government) to devise a system to pay you fairly. First of all, there isn't any money there to pay you more. Second, if Medicare really felt your care was that great, wouldn't your fees already be higher?
That's why free market answers are the only way to go. You must prove the value of your services to only one person: the patient (and you better be good!).
BTW... I'd love every PCP in this country to make $500K.
oh yeah, one more thing I can get boistrous with my trainable million I have a nice joke for you) Why is someone who never gambles just as bad as a regular gambler? Because he is no better! I want to have a good time, Lets talk about something!
I don't understand why so many PCP's are still waiting for the government to fix this mess. Fix it yourself. Get out of insurances. If you're private practicioner, start with getting rid of medicaid, then get rid of one plan after another piecementally. Also, there really isn;t much point for anyone to take medicare these days, and with the private bounty-hunters the government just hired there is even less reason.
More and more docs are able to run third-party-free practices all over the country and even the specialists are finding ways to do it. It is still a new model, but exploding every month.
check out SIMPD.ORG and you will see doctors that LOVE their life, work situation and waking up every morning to go to job..
Good news for NPs: For the first time, all health insurers operating in Massachusetts will be required to recognize NPs as primary care providers, thanks to the passage of SB2526. NPs will also be required to be listed in provider directories with physicians, so that patients may choose them to coordinate and direct their care.
Kudos to the Massachusetts Coalition for Nurse Practitioners, and to Massachusetts legislators for their efforts to improve access to health care in this great state!
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