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This Little Tiger Goes To SchoolPete Engardio
Hong Kong entrepreneurs love their Remy Martin XO cognac, gold Rolex watches, and Mercedes 600s. But when it comes to spending on research and development, they are notorious tightwads. Then what must a local manufacturer think when he first sets foot inside the lavish Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, which opened its doors to its first freshman class in September?
The whole place seems designed to make a statement: Hong Kong's miserly attitude toward R&D is about to change. For starters, I marvel at the massive, snow-white main academic building designed by Hong Kong architect Simon Kwan. The courtyard, inspired by Venice's Piazza San Marco, is the size of a football field. All the facilities, from the clean room for semiconductor research to dormitory digs wired with data lines, are first-rate. Students and staff, gushes a brochure, can even "enjoy the sparkling waters" of a 50-meter pool with enclosed sun deck that "will offer bathers a spot for a drink or snack in a resort-like setting." Bali H'ai indeed: From atop a 450-foot cliff, the campus gazes over a tranquil seascape of islands and lush green mountains.
But the Suntan U. image is deceptive. Consider the impressive roster of professors. Some 80% were recruited from such big-name American schools as Johns Hopkins, the University of California at Berkeley, and Princeton. Most, such as Vice-Chancellor Woo Chia-Wei, are Chinese-Americans lured by the challenge of bringing advanced science to Asia. Woo's goal is nothing less than to build the MIT of the Orient. Pacing before the stunning view through picture windows in his office, Woo says: "If you are going to have a technology university, it has to be world-class or nothing." The Hong Kong government ponied up 60% of the university's $400 million construction cost, while the rest came from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, the gaming monopoly that last year separated the colony's 1 million horse-race fanatics from a staggering $6 billion.
The gleaming seaside campus is just part of Hong Kong's crash program to drag its industry into the 21st century. Hong Kong has been notorious for timely knockoffs but not for innovation. Now, shaking its laissez-faire ways, the government is funding research centers for everything from computer chips to biotechnology to catch up with the other Tigers: Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea, which are already reaping the benefits of concerted government efforts to shift their economies from cheap assembly work to high tech. Hong Kong's economic model is what the run-and-shoot offense is to football: Its entrepreneurs lunge for quick fortunes in market niches in electronics, toys, and garments. Consummate competitors on price, they will open a 1,000-worker factory in as little as two months.
While such nimbleness may continue to serve Hong Kong well for years, it has qualms about placing all its eggs in one basket. Any instability in China, where Hong Kong does most of its manufacturing, could tip that basket over. Meanwhile, the enclave spends a paltry 0.04% of gross national product on R&D, compared to Taiwan's 1.2%.
"For Hong Kong, a compact-disk player is considered very high-tech," says Lily Chiang, executive director of Chen Hsong Machinery Co. A $100 million maker of injection-molding machines and robotic arms, Chen Hsong is doing its part by donating $1.2 million to a new off-campus plastics-technology center.
RAILBIRD RICHES. One reason why so many of Asia's top techies study and work in the U.S. is that the region has never before had a full-blown, MIT-style science and technology university. The hope is that, over time, local branches of multinationals and hundreds of local startups will cluster around the campus. The dream is for the university to be to Hong Kong what Stanford University has been to Silicon Valley: an academic test bed for emerging technologies and a perpetual talent pool.
So far, however, Hong Kong industry, if anything, seems baffled by all the hopeful talk. "The type of entrepreneurs we aim to help aren't even here yet," concedes Woo. "They will come with the next generation."
By 1999, the new university expects to have 10,000 students and 1,000 faculty. The bachelors' programs will be reserved almost entirely for Hong Kong residents, while the school hopes to draw half of some 5,000 graduate students from abroad. Students from China will be particularly welcome. Hong Kong leaders hope the school will be an incentive for China not to undo the status quo when it assumes control from Britain in 1997. Chinese delegations have visited the campus and have supported it and its low-tuition operating principles.
CLEAN SLATE. For faculty, the opportunity to shape a new institution is one of the big draws. Take Nelson Cue, a leading expert in the obscure study of high-energy fields in solids and former chairman of the physics department at the State University of New York at Albany. He got the similar post in Hong Kong after responding to a 1989 ad in Physics Today. "In American academia, I could pretty much chart what I would be doing for the next 20 years," he tells me over lunch in the spanking new faculty cafeteria. "How often does an academic get the chance to build a program from scratch?"
Another attraction is that, although now in a British colony, the university has America stamped all over it. The faculty is mostly American, and the curriculum, with its wide selection of electives, is based on the U.S. model. The entire business school, in fact, "is almost an exact copy of the program at UCLA," says business school Dean Ernest J. Scalberg. "There is no other unabashedly American university in this part of the world."
So unabashed it even has a rainmaker for corporate sponsorships: Thomas E. Stelson, whom I first met in Atlanta in 1987, where he did similar work for Georgia Tech, one of the U.S. schools most successful and up-front at snagging research grants from the Pentagon and big corporations. "When we get everything together, we'll be an education powerhouse that will serve Hong Kong industry like never before," Stelson says, listing corporate targets. Meantime, to pay for all those fancy buildings and labs, there are the generous coffers of the racetrack, Hong Kong's biggest charity donor. Of course, if all the dreams of Stelson and the rest of the staff come true, the new campus will hardly be a charity case.


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L. Caudill USMC (ret)..." Why the gun is civilization". Google
I live on Orcas,."[/QUOTE]
I tried getting on a dolphin once, very slippery.
Living on an Orca ? At least their bigger then a dolphin
L. Caudill USMC (ret)..." Why the gun is civilization". Google
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I didn't write that I lived on an orca. I wrote "Orcas." That's more than one.
While we sit on one of them, the others keep adjusting our seat belts.
May we go back to the original subject please? Every time you make a joke, I am absolutely driven to answer with another.
So it's all your fault!
If you tell someone you are carrying, then you are no longer concealed.
It is a good to tell family and close friends that you carry but not when you carry. You should instruct them to never ask if you are carrying.
In a stress situation you don't want someone pointing at you and saying" he's got a gun." That could make you the first target.
[QUOTE=usmcj;279311]I didn't author this piece, but I think it to be the best "reason/s to carry" I've ever run across.
1. We can ignore other basics of personal safety. Every permit holder that I know realizes that almost all dangerous situations can be avoided by vigilance, alertness and by simply making wise choices about where one goes and what one does. We don't walk down dark alleys. We lock our cars. We don't get intoxicated in public or hang out around people who do. We park our cars in well lighted spots and don't hang out in bad parts of town where we have no business. A gun is our last resort, not our first ...
This is a well reasoned, thoughtful piece. Thanks for posting it.
because every bit as important as the right to bear, is the responsibility to keep. If it's in my waistband, I know where it is and what it's doing. (NOT getting stolen)
If we could carry here (we can but we need to submit a request to the chief of police and he NEVER approves) it would mostly be because I can. I love the idea of being able to carry, I used to carry my toy guns on my waist as a kid and I'd love to do it now. BUT I do know that it's a scary world out there so having it loaded and ready would be due to the dangers of an imperfect world.

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Painting tile and tub questions
Hi guys I am planning on painting a tub and tile in an old bathroom and I am wondering what the best system is. I am an auto painter and I painted houses for 2 years so spraying will not be a problem. I will be purchasing a airless sprayer but I think it would be better to use my hvlp is that correct? I also need to know how tile looks after spraying is it good or bad? The house is being spruced up for resale so it needs to look good but not perfect. Thanks for the advice guys
I looked up a bunch of videos on youtube and it looked easy. I also found some before and after pics they look good. I am a good auto painter so I can apply my experience with cars to the tub and tile. Here are some pics what do you all think? I can also do tile work so either way its fine but I would rather not do tile if I have a choice
"Painting" tile? Your kidding, right?
I have NEVER heard of anyone painting a tub.....any type of refinishing product for a tub is porclean based. I can't imagine any paint holding up....even Emron...
If I was looking for another house and saw the tile and tub had just been painted I'd do one of two things, offer thousands less or just walk away.
There's just way to many homes on the market to take a chance on a hack paint job.
Painted tile looks like, well painted tile, there's no more grout lines.
I would not have an issure with a pro refinishing job on the tub. By pro I mean a real tub finisher. They come in and acid etch the tub and apply a long lasting finish that would look like new.
Only draw back it could not be used for a few days waiting for it to cure.
[QUOTE=joecaption;1084378]If I was looking for another house and saw the tile and tub had just been painted I'd do one of two things, offer thousands less or just walk away.
There's just way to many homes on the market to take a chance on a hack paint job.
Painted tile looks like, well painted tile, there's no more grout lines.
I would not have an issure with a pro refinishing job on the tub. By pro I mean a real tub finisher. They come in and acid etch the tub and apply a long lasting finish that would look like new.
Only draw back it could not be used for a few days waiting for it to cure.
Do you have experience painting tubs or tile? Did you see the videos and pics they looked ok or it just me?
I can surely paint a tub that is not a problem painting a tub is the same process as painting a car only easier. I need to know is it worth it does it look good and what products are the best. I wont use some harry homeowner kit from the Home Depot. As far as doing a crappy paint job I will not I do everything the best I can. if I was not already a good painter I would not even attempt the job. I am not out to screw someone who will be purchasing the house what goes around comes around. If it is not worth it to paint the tub or tile I will not even try I was just trying to save some time.
The house is old and it needs a lot of work. it is an inheritance and we are limited on time and money that's why I was considering paint.
I was watching a home improvement show a while back. They refinished the ceramic tiles on the wall. It look good when they were done. It was a professional job. Like a guy who does bathtubs. It was that one women's home. The hometime show with dean Johnson. The first women he worked with on the show. The Jo Jo women. She had it done on her bathroom.
Pfunk, I've been on a couple of restoration jobs where I've seen tubs/tile professionally redone. Some thoughts:
I counseled a lady one time who had art deco tile colors, and she was asking me about painting them or tearing it out to replace, neither of which she could afford or wanted to get involved in. I told her to stop fighting it and work with it. It wasn't working because she was decorating it in a contemporary style. She decorated it with art deco decor and turned it from a problem to a converstaion piece. Selling it to a prospective buyer might just be a re-staging issue. There are more questions than whether you can do it and what it would look like, those are things you can already see.
Car paint jobs look great when you first roll them out of the booth.....but it's how they look a year later that tells you the quality of the job.
I consider painting tile akin to painting good oak or any other hardwood.....
Look....I can understand why your looking at that as an option....your a painter.....it's a skill you have....you know how good your cars look when your done....whereas tiling is a skill set your not comfortable with....so there is a tendancy to fall back on what you know.....I get it...
But....knowing how tough it is to get stuff to stick to tile....(one of the reasons it's used), painting is just not a good way to go.....
Please understand that some of the guys who commented above have many many years of experience....if there is a mistake to be made, they were most likely the first to do it...
Take for example joecaption....he is retired....and not at an old age....we are lucky that he cares enough about doing jobs right to share his knowledge here.....that is the way most of the guys are. You would be the same way when offering advice on how o paint a car....like how much hardner....which brands of paint to avoid, etc.
At the end of the day, you can do what you want. We are just trying to help avoid the "How do I clean this paint off" posts.
Ok thanks guys I will just go ahead and replace everything in the bathroom. The tile the tub the toilet and the sink is all awful so I guess I will bite the bullet and redo it. the whole house is awful for that matter. We will be redoing the hardwood floors the kitchen the bed room siding windows the yard ext. just about the whole house. What will a little extra work on the bathrooms be lol. So thanks guys I really appreciate the answers I was not trying to sound rude if I came off that way and thanks for the free advice!
Rather than have it refinished a bathtub liner might work.
They....those are pretty neat........looks just like a new bath tub....
Until it starts to leak right around the drain.....then you start getting water trapped between the liner and the actual tub. When you stand up in it to take a shower, it's like having a water coushion for your feet.
And it helps to put your location in your profile.....
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Sad news for Dentonites who had a love affair with the gourmet burgers at Love Shack: the branch in that city is closed, as of Monday. The news about celeb chef Tim Love's burger shack came over Twitter and Facebook; here's what the Facebook post said:
Dear Love Shack fans,
As of today, October 29th 2012, the Love Shack Denton location is permanently closed. After 18 months of business, Chef Tim Love has decided to redesign and renovate the space which will open as a brand new concept in early 2013.
Please direct all questions to firstname.lastname@example.com
Thank you for your dedicated support and patronage, and we look forward to seeing you at Tim's new concept!
DFW.com's Bud Kennedy contacted Love, who told him, via text message: "[We are] changing to [the] original concept. We wanted a high-end steakhouse but wanted [the] economy to be right. We feel now is the time."
The Denton store always served steaks and an upgraded menu.
Still, the news does come at a peculiar time, since Love recently announced that Fort Worth will once again have a second Love Shack outpost, in the former home of Caro's restaurant at 3505 Blue Bonnet Circle. (The burger shack closed its West 7th location a few months ago when the owner and Love couldn't agree on a new lease.)
Until the new Denton Love spot opens, his fans can tune in to the Food Network's The Next Iron Chef: Redemption on Nov. 4; Love will be competing.


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text: LAS VEGAS, Oct. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet heavy business demand for secure, cost-effective mobile app development both on premise and in the cloud, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the 3.0 release of SAP® Mobile Platform and a cloud version powered by the SAP HANA® platform for real-time enterprise performance. The latest versions are intended to provide unmatched productivity for developers via a comprehensive set of platform services, an open standards-based architecture and by embracing a "bring-your-own-tools" (BYOT) strategy through integration with third-party development tools. Millions of developers shall be able to use SAP Mobile Platform to create beautiful user-centric employee, business and consumer mobile apps, rather than spending time learning new tools and protocols. The announcement was made at SAP® TechEd, being held October 21-25 in Las Vegas. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110126/AQ34470LOGO) "Today's most successful businesses run mobile, so to stay competitive companies need to move quickly to implement a future-proof mobile strategy on an integrated, open, standards-based mobile platform," said Anthony Reynolds, senior vice president, Worldwide Mobile Sales and Solutions, SAP. "We worked extensively with customers and partners to design and build our breakthrough new platform to provide a seamless user experience that lowers total cost of ownership for IT and lowers total cost of development for any type of mobile app. Early interest and feedback is fantastic and we are excited to bring this new platform to the broader market." With a forecasted 102 billion mobile apps to be downloaded in 2013 i, many app developers now prefer to develop for mobile devices over desktops. "Our research shows that all applications will be mobilized, making full application lifecycle management critical for protecting mobile investment," said Chris Marsh, principal analyst, Yankee Group. "Companies will look to integrated platforms along with open standards and interoperability to gain longevity. The leading mobile app platforms will be characterized by open and extensible architectures, an API management and data orchestration layer, extensive developer libraries, agnosticism to tools, infrastructures and standards, integrated testing and analytics and a rich ecosystem." As the leader in helping companies large and small mobilize their businesses ii, SAP plans to offer one of the most mature and proven mobile app development platforms. To expand on the previous integration of Sybase® Unwired Platform, the 3.0 release of SAP Mobile Platform shall integrate the primary mobile application solutions from SAP — including SAP Netweaver® Gateway technology, Sybase Mobiliser and Syclo Agentry — to meet current and future mobile app use cases. The combination is envisioned to provide businesses of all sizes and in all industries a complete, highly flexible platform capable of handling mobile requirements for designing, building, testing, deploying, scaling and securely optimizing any app for any user. "User adoption of the apps we created with SAP Mobile Platform has been tremendous," said Peter Matzek, business product owner, Varian Medical Systems Inc. "Four hundred engineers were running the field service app within a month, and as soon as word spread about how great it was, the rest asked, 'How can I get it?' Having the tools you need to do your job better is a good feeling, especially when you are helping to save lives." Broad Set of Platform ServicesTo deliver a cost-effective solution for designing employee, business and consumer mobile apps, SAP Mobile Platform shall not require re-engineering of processes, resources or existing infrastructure. The platform is designed to keep developers "out of the weeds" and focused on creating a compelling user experience building on essential core and application services. These are envisioned to include core services that run in mobile apps, such as authentication, onboarding configuration, life-cycle management, logging and data integration; app services targeted for more specific functions around mobile commerce, including couponing, loyalty and mobile banking, and geolocation. Support for native, hybrid, meta-data driven, mobile Web and SMS app architectures is also planned to be featured. Open, Standards-Based PlatformTo provide a premier user experience for developers without requiring training on new tools, SAP Mobile Platform is intended to offer a future-ready architecture based on open-standards and open-source technologies that incorporate the latest mobile technologies. These shall include offline capabilities using the Open Data Protocol (OData) standard; OSGi architecture with Spring and Equinox frameworks; open-source Apache Cordova container with platform plug-ins; extensive use of HTML5 both in the product and for building apps; and HTTP REST APIs common across the on-premise and cloud versions of the platform. Unparalled Developer Productivity Improvements To optimize productivity while helping reduce development time and maintenance costs, developers shall still be able to choose their preferred development tools, augmented with software developer kits (SDKs) provided by SAP and libraries for building native and hybrid apps. Additional capabilities to help reduce total cost of development shall include common SDK for both on-premise and cloud mobile apps; WYSIWYG development environment for HTML5 apps; BYOT support; standards-based data integration; and offline/synchronization support. "'Bring-your-own-device' is dramatically increasing smartphone and tablet usage in the enterprise, thereby elevating mobile apps to the mission-critical sphere for all businesses today," said Morris Beton, general manager, Developer Programs & Strategic Alliances, Intel. "The requirement for mobile apps demands that IT provide a highly scalable mobile platform for effective support. To better understand how SAP Mobile Platform provides a foundation of valuable tools for IT and developers in a single deployment, SAP and Intel engineers benchmarked a representative system under a full range of mobile app scenarios. 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Grantee: Educational Service Unit #2, Fremont, NE
Project Name: American Independence - Myths and Realities
Project Director: Diane M. Wolfe (402) 721-7710
Funding: $999,998
Number of Teachers Served: No information available
Number of School Districts Served: 1
Number of Students Served: No information available
Teachers from 40 schools throughout northeast Nebraska will participate in this three-year program offered collaboratively by Educational Service Unit #2, Wayne State College, and the Eastern Nebraska Distance Learning Consortium. Scholars of U.S. history will help participants explore the myths and realities concerning U.S. and Native American struggles for independence during this country's formative period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The program seeks to form a cadre of educators dedicated to improving American history instruction. Teachers will conduct graduate-level coursework and develop and post online lesson plans to be used by teachers across the nation. They also will create an online American history course to be delivered through Wayne State College for the duration of the project and beyond. The program's success will be evaluated through a three-year qualitative and quantitative applied research study, which will examine the impact of project staff development on teacher self-efficacy and student academic performance.
Grantee: Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, NE
Project Name: Teaching Excellence in America's Core History (TEACH)
Project Director: Karen Stanley (402) 436-1827
Funding: $995,963
Number of Teachers Served: 60
Number of School Districts Served: 1
Number of Students Served: No information available
Partnering with Nebraska Wesleyan University and Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln Public Schools is providing a professional development program for elementary through high school teachers that includes history seminars; summer colloquia involving work with primary documents and artifacts; institutes; workshops in academic settings and historic sites; and mentoring to improve the teaching of U.S. history. Participants can earn 18 hours of graduate credit and are expected to provide district leadership in history instruction strategies and classroom activities impacting 1,200 teachers and 32,000 students. The program replaces broad survey courses with course syllabi aligned with identified periods of American history: Progressivism and Expansion of Democracy in the 20th Century; U.S. Rise to World Power; Struggle for Civil Rights Among Minority Populations; Confronting the Challenge of the Great Depression; The Cold War at Home and Abroad; and Challenges of Post-Cold War America.
Grantee: Millard Public Schools, Omaha, NE
Project Name: Teaching American History: MPS & MOEC
Project Director: Martha M. Bruckner (402) 895-8306
Funding: $910,930
Number of Teachers Served: 90
Number of School Districts Served: 7
Number of Students Served: No information available
The district—representing Metropolitan Omaha Educational Consortium (MOEC)—is partnering with area schools, Nebraska Department of Education, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Strategic Air and Space Museum to improve teacher competency in U.S. history, and raise the level of achievement of more than one quarter of Nebraska students. Summer seminars, workshops, videoconferences, consultations, and creation of a electronic lesson plan library (1,000 documents) are components designed to improve content knowledge and pedagogical skills of primary and secondary school teachers in grades 5, 8, 9, 11 and 12. Content topics include: Thomas Jefferson's Vision of a Meritocracy; Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist Debate; Ronald Reagan and the Conclusion of the Cold War; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Lewis and Clark; American Revolution; Civil War and Reconstruction; and the Civil Rights Movement.


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How Far Will My Daughter Go? Ch. 02byArrowThroughTheHeart©
I watch my gorgeous eighteen year old daughter Sadie sashay down the driveway to her car, and ask what I've done to deserve this - she's going to model for me!
My business as a freelance web designer is a little slow at the moment, which is probably a good thing because I'm going to spend the day designing Sadie's site.
I notice that I've left my camera on the coffee table. I examine it further. The tech geek in the shop reckoned that it can film movies whilst taking high quality pictures. I'd better read up on that, it could come in real handy later.
I've got a rough layout ready, so I start to load some of the photos I took yesterday into it. Oh wow, she's hot. I start to massage my dick.
I keep flicking through the photos, my dick getting harder as the pics get hotter. I release my cock from my trousers and start to pump.
Oh God, there's that pic where she's showing off her arse. I'm going to cum.
Is that the front door? It can't be, she should be at school!
Oh no, it is. I can't hold it.
"Hi Daddy...what are you doing?"
She comes into the room just as I erupt.
I see her eyes flick from my dick, to the screen with her picture, and then back to my dick. Her eyes are lingering...is she staring at my dick?
"Sadie, um, what are you doing home? Er, give me a sec will you?"
"It's okay Dad, I'll just go up to my room, and you can pop up when you're ready."
She backs away towards the door as I hastily tuck my cock back into my trousers, and grab some tissues to clean up.
"No, it's okay, stay." I figured she'd seen it all now anyway, and it was only going to get more awkward if we didn't talk now. "Why aren't you at school, is everything alright?"
"I got sent home because I'm apparently not dressed appropriately. Can you believe it?"
She dropped into one of the chairs, and her skirt rode up giving a generous view of stocking top and bare thigh. She'd unbuttoned another couple of buttons of her blouse since she left this morning, and you could clearly see the inside of her tits as she, just as clearly, wasn't wearing a bra.
She crossed her legs, pointing a sexy 4 inch heel in my direction. She looked incredibly hot, but I can see why they didn't think it suitable for school.
"I think you look amazing darling."
"Thanks Daddy. I'm supposed to get changed and go back, but is it okay if I just miss the rest of the day?"
I had a quick think. This was an opportunity.
"On one condition - you do some more modelling for me, in what you're wearing now."
She didn't even pause to think about it.
"Sure. I suppose we need to get a few sets done for the website, don't we?" She gave me a wicked grin, and a wink. "Do you want to start now?"
"Actually, I've signed us up to a couple of other sites, so that you can get an idea of what they're like, how the models pose, that kind of thing. Do you want to have a look at those while I get us something to eat?"
"Good idea."
I hurry off to the kitchen, and get myself sorted out. God, how could I have let her catch me doing that? And why doesn't she seem bothered about it?
Oh yeah, food. I set about getting some sandwiches. I can hear the occasional "ooh" and "wow" from my daughter in the other room, so she's obviously found something she likes.
I re-enter the living room with the plate of sandwiches, and set it down on the coffee table. Sadie doesn't look up from the screen.
"See anything you like?" I ask.
"This girl is so hot."
I watch my daughter, but she doesn't move her eyes from the screen. I peak to see which site she's looking at. Ah, it's the one I picked especially, with the girl who looks like Sadie's friend, Trudy.
She's looking at a pic of the girl lying on the ground with her butt in the air, with two fingers in her cunt and one up her arse. It's one of my favourites.
I notice that Sadie's thighs are apart, and there is a slight smell of sex in the air. We need to get started with the photos while she's so obviously horny.
"Here, take a sandwich, then we can get started."
"Okay, thanks."
Sadie peels herself away from the computer, and I get the camera ready. I'm far too excited too eat.
"Daddy, how much money do you think we can make from this website?"
I don't look up from what I'm doing as I reply: "That depends on how far you go, dear".
She seems satisfied by that answer, and looks to be mulling it over.
"Okay, the plan this time is that I'm going to take video of you as well, so I won't say a word. You can say what you like, but direct it at the camera. When you've finished, blow a kiss, or just wave goodbye, and I'll stop recording."
She looks almost as excited by this as I am.
"Can we put a bit of music on?" she asks.
I start filming as she moves over to the sound system, and bends at the waist as she selects a CD. As she bends over, she looks back at me, and she catches me filming her. I spot her smile to herself, and she bends over a little further.
The music starts, and she starts to sway to the rhythm. She sashays back to the middle of the room, and stands, facing me.
She stands there, hands on hips, letting the tension build. She blows at a stray strand of hair that has fallen over her eye, and smiles at the camera. Then she starts moving.
Wow, she is dancing so slowly and seductively. Is this what she does when she goes out at night? How is she still single?
She peels off her jacket, and grabs hold of her breasts, kneading them and pushing them together. She blows a kiss at the camera, and turns around.
Slowly, oh so slowly, she bends over, running her hands down her legs until she has a hold of her ankles. I have a perfect shot up her skirt, and move closer and get on my knees to get a proper close-up view.
She doesn't seem to mind, and holds the pose until I move back away. My breaths are coming quickly now, and my heart is trying to find the quickest way out of my chest.
She slowly stands back up again, and does a quick little twirl, letting her skirt flutter in the air, and allowing a brief glimpse of her thong. She eases herself down onto her haunches, keeping her legs together, before slowly moving them apart. Again, I zoom right in to get a fantastic view of her crotch. Her black lace thong is so small she has to shave herself, and I swear I can see a little moisture glistening.
She slowly eases herself up again. I can see the confidence flowing through her as she realises that she is in complete control. She lifts the front of her skirt, again letting me film her crotch, and she runs her fingers across her pussy.
We both moan, and she giggles.
Turning round, she unzips the back of her skirt, and the back of her thong comes into view. She eases the skirt over her hips, and still keeping her legs straight, leans over and pulls her skirt down to the ground.
My dick is trying to force its way out of my trousers.
She turns to me again, and rubs her breasts through her blouse, then rubs her nipples with just a couple of fingers. She moans and pouts at the camera, then starts to undo the remaining buttons of her blouse.
My breathing stops as I wonder how far she is going to go with this.
I hear a giggle as she turns around, so that her back is to me, and she eases the blouse off her shoulders, and lets it drop to the floor.
Her bare back looks fantastic, and she waves her arms out to the side, making it clear that there is nothing covering her breasts. Swaying again to the music, she cups her fabulous tits with her hands, and turns slowly around.
Facing me now, wearing only a thong, garter, stockings and hot high heels, and with just her hands preventing me from seeing her tits in all their glory, she has never looked so amazing.
She moves one arm so it covers both nipples, and lifts the other hand to blow a kiss goodbye. She holds the pose for a moment.
"Dad, are you going to stop filming now?"
I snap out of it, and lower the camera.
"Was that okay Daddy?"
Was it okay?!?!
"It was incredible darling."
Smiling, she turns around and picks up her blouse, slipping it back on before I can see any more. She picks up the skirt, but doesn't bother to put it back on.
"Dad, I've just realised I didn't get a new bikini yesterday, and there's a pool party this weekend. Is it okay if we take some more pictures later, I want to pop down the shops and get something nice."
"Sure honey, I'll get this set sorted out for when you get back so you can see what you think." I think I did a good job of hiding my disappointment.
"Thanks Daddy."
She's still holding the front of her blouse shut as she leans forward to kiss me on the cheek. As she moves away, her free hand brushes against my cock, and as she starts to climb the stairs, I start spewing sperm in my trousers. Just before she disappears out of sight, she glances back with a wicked grin on her face, seeing the panicked look on my face.
Did she mean to touch my cock then, or was it an accident? And does she know that she just made me cum?
I clean myself up and get to work on the website again.
There's the sound of the shower. Another morning, time to get up.
As I throw on some clothes, I try to get over the disappointment of not getting to shoot some more film of Sadie last night. She had rung to say that she had bumped into a friend at the shops, and she stayed out until after I'd gone to bed.
Preparing breakfast for my little girl, I think back to how hot she looked when she left yesterday. Now, for just a simple trip to the shops, she's started dressing incredibly sexily.
I hear her coming down the stairs, and turn to the doorway to great her.
Fucking hell!
If I thought yesterday's school outfit was hot, this would break the thermometer. She's wearing a blouse that must have been a couple of years old, because it's far too small for her, and she's tied it underneath an incredible cleavage. She must have cut another couple of inches off her skirt, because it now barely covers her crotch, and if I could look from behind, I'm sure it wouldn't cover her arse. And she's finished this ensemble off with a pair of thigh-high black leather boots.
"Morning Dad. Do you like my new boots? I saw them yesterday, and just had to get them."
She does a little twirl, and I can indeed see that she must be wearing a thong because I can see the bottom of her bare arse cheeks.
"Thanks Daddy." She comes forward to give me the usual kiss on the cheek, and it's oh so gentle. I am rock hard in my shorts.
"Darling, if you got sent home yesterday for dressing too sexily, what the hell are they going to do to you today?"
"Hopefully send me home again. Then I can come home, and we can take some more photos."
Cunning plan. I like it.
"Darling, I could just ring the school and tell them that you're not well today."
"Daddy, you're bad! And with my exams in a couple of weeks, too."
Quite honestly, at this precise moment, I couldn't care less about her exams.
"You sit down and eat your breakfast, I'll ring the school, then fire up the computer so you can see how yesterday's set turned out. I've nearly got the website ready to go, I think we should just have another set or two before we launch."
"Excellent. Thank you."
The video that I edited last night is just uploading as Sadie enters the living room.
"Just in time, sweetie, the video's ready when you are."
"Cool." She drops down next to me on the couch, and snuggles close to try to see the screen. Her right tit is pressing into my arm.
"Dad, I can't see it too well, there's a reflection on the screen."
"Well, you have it then." I start to pass the laptop over to her, but she stops me.
"But then you won't be able to see it."
"That's okay..." I'm interrupted as I see the flash of an idea across my Sadie's face.
"I'll sit on your lap, have the laptop on my lap, then you can watch it over my shoulder." She looks chuffed with this idea, and the thought of having her sat on my lap is both exciting and worrying.
Before I can begin to protest, she lifts herself onto my lap. It's been a few years since she was sat there, because I realised it was starting to get dodgy...for the very problems I am now encountering.
Because my dick is so hard, and her skirt is so short, my cock is pushing between her legs, against her panties. I can feel that her crotch is slippery, so she must be wearing that latex thong again. Oh God, I'm not sure that I'm going to survive this.
She wiggles her arse to get comfortable.
"Is that okay for you Daddy, not uncomfortable?"
It's fucking heaven and hell merged into one.
"No dear, I'm fine."
She moves to press the play button for the movie. Every little move she makes goes straight to my dick. This is going to take monumental self-control.
The movie starts and, no more than 5 seconds in, I have to close my eyes. I can't cum with my daughter on my lap!
I hear the moan from the video, and Sadie moans along with it! She's getting turned on from watching herself cavort on film.
"Dad, this is so hot."
All I can manage is an "Uh-huh".
Finally, it's finished, and Sadie moves off my lap.
"Wow, that's really good. I like when you zoomed in on my fingers when I ran them along my pussy, that was really hot."
"Yes it was, that should get some members rolling in."
I've done it! I've got through it without cumming in my pants.
"I'm going to go get changed into my new swimsuit, I'm sure you'll like it."
"Okay dear."
I'm setting the camera up for the next video, when Sadie calls from upstairs.
"Dad, I'm ready. Why don't you film me coming down the stairs, and we can start the video like that?"
"Okay. Don't forget, then. I'll keep filming until you blow me a kiss or wave goodbye. Okay?"
"Okay Daddy."
I point the camera at the bottom of the stairs and wait. I hear her coming, and resist the urge to move the camera - I want her to move into the frame.
Ooh, she's wearing her white shoes with the 4 inch metal heel. And...
Good God, I've died and gone to heaven. The bikini she's wearing, if you can call it that, is the tiniest I've ever seen. It's white, matching her heels, but is almost see-through. I swear, I can see her nipples easily through the two tiny triangles of fabric, and that's where I zoom in first.
She continues walking towards me, and passes me to stroll to the centre of the room.
She stands there, letting me sweep down her body - I can see her pussy lips! I can definitely see them through the flimsy scrap of material. It can't be much more than an inch wide, and I can see now that she is completely clean-shaven.
She waits for me to complete my sweep down to her heels, then back up to her face. I zoom back out and take up my normal position. She strikes some poses, while I struggle to keep myself calm.
I wonder how far she's going to take this - she can't remove any clothing without going further than she's gone before.
So she surprises me by pulling the two tiny triangles covering her nipples away from her tits, showing them to me in all their glory.
She pouts at the camera, pinching and pulling at her very erect nipples, and she moans. Her tongue, complete with piercing flicks out to lick at a nipple. She lifts the tit towards her mouth, sucking it. She's purring now, and so am I.
Biting her nipple, stretching it away from her tit, she looks straight at the camera and groans. She reaches behind her back and unties the top, letting it fall to the ground.
She turns around, getting down on her knees, running her hands over her arse, kneading her cheeks. She pulls them apart, and I can just see the edges of her arsehole either side of the piece of string that is her bathing suit.
Again, I wonder how much further this will go.
She leans right forward, arching her back, surrendering her butt to the camera. I zoom in as she runs her fingers over her pussy lips.
She turns around, still on the floor, and spreads her legs wide. Again she rubs her pussy, moaning louder now. A finger slips beneath the fabric, and she starts to rub her clit. The moisture from her pussy must really be flowing, her suit is now nearly transparent.
She stands up, facing away from the camera, and bends at the waist. Her legs straight, she looks back at me, and licks her lips. Slowly she starts to pull her thong down her long legs. The crotch doesn't want to leave, stuck to her cunt with her juices.
Finally it breaks free, and I can see her lips unobstructed for the first time. Like the rest of her, they are a thing of beauty, just perfect.
She rubs her pussy again, more violently now. She slips a finger inside and lets out a little yelp of delight. She forces it in further, then another finger, until she has two fingers buried in her young cunt. She tries briefly to stick a third in, but it's too tight and she seems satisfied with two.
She removes her fingers and straightens up, and I think for a second that that is as far as my daughter is going to go. But she isn't finished.
She looks around the room, as though searching for something, and looks frustrated. She looks at the floor, and I can see the thought process as she looks at her feet.
She lifts one foot of the floor and removes one of her sexy heels from it. She lifts it towards her mouth, looking at it carefully.
Slowly, she starts to lick the metal heel, up and down, then sucking it, the whole 4 inches into her mouth.
She sits herself down on the floor, legs spread wide, and holds the stiletto heel of her shoe pointed at the pussy. Surely she isn't going to...
She does. Looking straight into the camera, she pushes the heel of her shoe into her steaming cunt with a loud grunt.
Slowly she starts to move it out, then in again, until she starts to pump herself quickly.
Quicker and quicker she gets until suddenly she stops. Reaching over to her other foot, she removes that shoe as well, giving the heel some loving lubrication from her hot pierced tongue.
She holds that heel to her pussy, and slowly starts to push it in. As she pushes one in with one hand, she pulls the other almost all the way out with the other, until she gets into a rhythm.
Her moans are getting louder and louder, and I begin to wonder if any passers by might hear her through the open window. The thought turns me on even more, as I watch my young daughter fuck herself with her high heels.
She stares into the lens of the camera, and starts to pump the heels in together, at the same time. The pitch of her moans rises, until she is almost screaming.
Suddenly she shudders, collapses onto her back, and twitches uncontrollably on the floor, dropping her heels but still rubbing her clit.
She slows down, eventually coming to a stop. She sticks two fingers into her sopping wet cunt, and lifts them to her mouth.
"Oh, tastes so good."
She blows a kiss to the camera, and smiles.
I lower the camera slowly, and stare at my daughter, spread on the floor in a pool of her juices, still smiling at me.
"Was that okay, Daddy?"
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Took my covered vehicle because of extensive smoking and oil consprution, was told to submit all records of oil changes, because I change my own oil to save save money, they said I had to go back to where I bought the oil and get reciepts, I buy oil when its on sale, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Auto Zone ect..there is no way I could get all these reciepts...no where in the contract does it say you can't do your own oil changes. And who keeps reciepts for 6 quarts of oil..is it going to be defective? You use it, clean up and go on..this is their little loop hole to deney living up to their agreement...I am furious at the arrogence of the rep I spoke to. he said get the reciepts or we don't pay I paid $1808.00 for this warranty, and the first time I go to use it they refuse a covered item. and by the way valve seals are a covered item.
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Resource allocation strategies in Southeastern European health policy
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The past 23 years of post-socialist restructuring of health system funding and management patterns has brought many changes to small Balkan markets, putting them under increasing pressure to keep pace with advancing globalization. Socioeconomic inequalities in healthcare access are still growing across the region. This uneven development is marked by the substantial difficulties encountered by local governments in delivering medical services to broad sectors of the population. This paper presents the results of a systematic review of the following evidence: published reports on health system reforms in the region commissioned by WHO, IMF, World Bank, OECD, European Commission; all available published evidence on health economics, funding, reimbursement in world/local languages since 1989 indexed at Medline, Excerpta Medica and Google Scholar; in depth analysis of official website data on medical care financing related legislation among key public institutions such as national Ministries of health, Health Insurance Funds, Professional Associations were applicable, in local languages; correspondence with key opinion leaders in the field in their respective communities. Contributors were asked to answer a particular set of questions related to the issue, thus enlightening fresh legislative developments and hidden patterns of policy maker's behavior. Cost awareness is slowly expanding in regional management, academic and industrial establishment. The study provides an exact and comprehensive description of its current extent and legislative framework. Western Balkans policy makers would profit substantially from health-economics-based decision-making to cope with increasing difficulties in funding and delivering medical care in emerging markets with a rapidly growing demand for health services.
KeywordsHealth economics Southeastern Europe Western Balkans Resource allocation Cost containment Policy
Pace of health care reforms among unique Southeastern European markets
Southeastern Europe, recognized more widely as The Balkans peninsula, consists of a mosaic of small post-socialist middle-income markets. They share a common historical legacy in health care planning and policy. Unlike Albania, Yugoslavia resided outside the Iron Curtain and was atypical among surrounding socialist countries for its highly decentralized, municipally funded health care [1]. Governmental policy makers in the Balkans once considered health care as a consuming sector rather than as a sector producing health for the nation; the positive impact of health investment to working productivity was largely ignored [2]. In the turbulent 1990s, health funding almost collapsed. Since then, these countries have undergone transition with individual success rates. Contemporary momentum in these markets, with public health gains and losses, and the current difficulties in medical care provision and financing, are the outcomes of that process, and are the consequences of the complex and unique path followed by each particular nation.
In the postwar decades, local governments strove to deliver equity of health care access for broad poor layers of the population. Most governments adopted the Semashko model of funding with its reliance on central planing, which essentially leant heavily towards hospital care rather than primary care [3]. Finally, the aim of delivering basic care was achieved, infant mortality rates decreased substantially and life expectancy at birth increased. Some of the health policy strategies used to achieve these goals were rising standards of health professionals' education and proliferation of large secondary and tertiary care hospitals. Soon, the average numbers of physicians and hospital beds per head of population were among the world's highest. Even today, the frequency and length of hospital admissions in the Balkans are significantly higher than the EU average. In the long run, the core weaknesses of old funding pattern and the unsustainability of centrally managed large health systems became obvious [4].
The 1990s were marked by civil wars and the break up of Yugoslavia (1991–1999), and severe civil unrest in Albania in 1991 and 1997. These events left almost one-third of the health facilities, particularly in Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania, either severely damaged or looted while the "brain drain" of health care professionals from the region to the West was explosive. Financing of all seven health systems was brought to the verge of collapse and recovery was bound to take time. The first decade of the twenty-first century was marked mostly by peace, economic growth and the final shaping of transitional health system reform.
The post-recessional years of 2010–2012 brought severe instability to pharmaceutical markets in Southeastern Europe. Accumulated local government debt towards the pharmaceutical industry led to severe shortages in market supplies. In such circumstances, the issue of cost-effective prescribing of medical procedures became increasingly important. Policy makers soon realized that some of the key contributing factors causing financial losses were prescribing patterns and clinician behavior [5]. Adherence to guidelines had to be improved, and procedures recommended to patients needed to be more evidence-based and less costly. Up-to-date resource allocation strategies and cost containment policies will be analyzed using the example of regional markets. Geographically, these economies belong to the Western Balkans and, although politically still residing outside EU, they are deeply involved in the EU accession process, with four out of seven members having obtained EU Candidate status.
As the historical core of Yugoslavia, Serbia followed the democratic changes occurring in the surrounding area at a slower pace. The transitional process here begun to enroll the wider sociopolitical establishment after 2000. All the historical circumstances heavily influenced the evolution of the health care system itself. Later, dynamic economic development enabled Serbia to rank among upper-middle income economies. National health care expenditure consequently increased. As elsewhere in the region, there is only one core Republican Health Insurance Fund in Serbia in charge of all public and most private health care funding. As a non-profit state-owned institution, this core funder does not fulfill the basic criteria of a classical social health insurance model of an independent non-governmental funding source. Such a fund leans towards generating significant financial losses [6] by contracting with medical care providers based on estimated costs rather than number of consumers. The Serbian health system has thus experienced severe difficulties in achieving a sustainable funding model [7].
During the past decade, significant health policy changes have occurred in terms of recognizing the need for evidence-based decision making. The World Bank (WB) has financed efforts to establish a formal Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agency (2005–2008). Heavy budget funding of large research projects on health economics (2006–2014) and publishing of local guidelines on pharmacoeconomic evaluations in Serbia are some of the most visible landmarks of such developments [8]. There are only a few distinctive university degree level courses in the field. In 2002, one-semester evidence-based medicine and pharmacoeconomics courses were introduced at the University of Kragujevac—the historical bedrock of Serbian higher education. Postgraduate specialty training in pharmaceutical policy and pharmacoeconomics is offered by the Faculty of Pharmacy University of Belgrade. Some positive developments in the field are a requirement for pharmacoeconomic data to justify particular drug usage in industrial reimbursement submissions. Committee members concentrate mostly on drug budget impact and do not include the cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) considerations adopted in most high-income societies. With a decade of HTA development behind us, awareness of the necessity for cost containment policies still needs time to mature and obtain full practical implementation.
The most western of the countries considered, Croatia has experienced more rapid economic development, placing it among high-income non-OECD economies. A substantial effort was made to introduce evidence-based decision-making in health care. To date, it is the only country in the region to have a formal HTA agency. Its health care funding experienced the pattern seen throughout Eastern Europe—a shifting of health expenditure from public to out-of-pocket citizens' contributions in order to cover financial deficits [9]. Since 2002, significant attention has been paid to diversification of the basis of revenue collection, although payroll taxes remain the biggest single contributor. Striving to achieve sustainable financing, local authorities will be forced to decrease another side of the equation—consumer spending and rising demand for health services in an aging population [10]. According to current national legislative on pharmaceutical reimbursement, evidence on cost/effectiveness trials with 7- point submissions are recommended for industrial applications on new drugs. A particularly promising sign was certainly the recent development and adoption of a local HTA guidelines document in February 2011. Systematic health economic evidence estimates as an official approach to resource allocation is slowly but steadily taking roots among Croatian policy makers.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Consisting of two political entities—The Republic of Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)—this country's transitional development in terms of health care funding and policy has been uneven [11]. The BiH Federation's legislative framework has predicted mandatory submission of cost-effectiveness and local budget impact evidence for reimbursement of expensive drugs. Unfortunately, this requirement has not been put into practice so far. Commonly applied criteria are based on lower price industrial offers for the domestic market [12]. The unique pharmaceutical market of the Republic of Srpska has a significantly lower rate of prescribed drugs per patient [13]. Higher overall drug expenditure in the BiH Federation can be explained by higher consumption and higher drug prices in this entity. Good news is that a new legal Act on reimbursement procedure was introduced in the BiH Federation in April 2011, proposing submission of budget impact, CEA and modelling studies as part of the decision-making process. Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a whole, has established neither a formal nor informal HTA assessment body. The introductory process in terms of capacity building is still ongoing, with a long road ahead. It will take time before systematic health economics (HE) evidence assessment becomes an institutional approach to health care considerations within the national health system.
Albania developed a health care organization pattern according to the eastern Semashko model [14]. In the 1990s its health system deteriorated due to the decreasing role of the state, the rise in poverty and economic inequalities, and the bouts of social unrest in 1991 and 1997 [15]. The system was financed predominantly from the state budget, encompassing taxation that was unreliable due to the huge informal sector and difficulties in collecting taxes. During the past decade, the health system has made bold steps forward with a number of foreign assistance programmes being aimed at health care access and delivery issues. Unlike the rest of the region, the Albanian community is characterized by a young population, healthier life style and lower rates of prosperity diseases. Using as key indicators of total health system efficiency, some authors concluded that Albania was one of transitional "winners", performing better than most ex-Semashko systems [16]. Since 2008, the government has initiated an ambitious Albanian health system modernization program, through which a number of medical professionals received HTA training, which is likely to bear fruit in the future. The issue of sustainable health care funding and providing access to the broad poor layers of the population remains high on the political agenda. The overall level of health economics development still lags far behind that of Serbia and Croatia and substantial investment in capacity building is needed.
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
After peaceful secession from Yugoslavia and independence in 1991, for a number of years Macedonia followed a highly centralized socialist model of health care provision and funding [17]. There were numerous efforts aimed at raising standards and quality of care [18]. Even today, there are marked differences in the accessibility of the primary care facilities network throughout the country, with a certain neglect of rural and mountainous areas [19]. The first wave of early transitional reforms during the 1990s succeeded in improving legal framework but failed to control over-utilization of hospital care and expand reimbursement of private sector services to the citizens. HTA and evidence-based thinking among local policy makers will need time to take place. On the other hand, some promising developments have come from the local International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) chapter in 2011–2012. Among activities currently conducted are development of Macedonian guidelines for pharmacoeconomic analysis, HTA education for regulatory bodies employees and a proposed public debate on the role of pharmacoeconomics in the national health care system. All of these small steps forward in the southernmost country of the region, supported by broad positive trends in the surrounding countries, are expected to bring likely benefit in future.
Kosovo (*under UN resolution 1244)
In socialist Yugoslavia, Kosovo was one of the poorest regions and republics invested heavily in its development. The dynamic socioeconomic changes after the civil war and secession in 1999 brought substantial foreign investment to Kosovo's health sector. One of the unfavorable consequences of Serb retrieval was the resulting shortage of experienced managerial staff [20]. European Union administrative assistance was essential in terms of developing a legislative and financial framework for medical care provision in Kosovo. WB field assessments claim Kosovo to have the youngest population in Europe but key health outcomes, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, rank significantly worse than the rest of the Balkans. Being the only regional economy without a health insurance fund, public healthcare is still financed from the government budget [21]. Both gross domestic product and per capita expenditure on health are significantly lower than in neighboring economies. The local list of fully reimbursed essential drugs is quite limited compared to that of neighboring states, leading to narrow treatment choices. Under these circumstances, citizens' out-of-pocket costs for health care are estimated at as much as 40 % of total expenses. Much of these come in the form of informal payments, which is a widely recognized pattern in many transitional economies. Additional obstacles to effective health care access and satisfactory equity is uneven income distribution and poor infrastructure in rural mountainous regions. Kosovo's officially planned mid-term health reform adopted principles of cost-effectiveness [20], but real application of a "value for money" way of thinking among policy makers still needs to take place.
Sustainable health system financing will be a long-term challenge. In this sense, serious human resource investment in the fields of health policy, economics and technology assessment is needed. When choosing between competing medical interventions, economic considerations bear particular weight in a low income economy. The government assigns particular amounts to health facilities in a per capita-based equation, neglecting the performance and value of the services provided. An overall trend is heavy underutilization in terms of clinical visits and admissions compared to neighboring countries, and an unsuitable structure of medical spending [22]. A wiser, long-term health policy, grounded in planning and careful allocation of scarce resources, would certainly contribute to maximizing health gains, in particular for vulnerable populations and the poor.
Western Balkans countries, World Bank (WB) and World Health Organization (WHO) estimates on key parameters for 2010; additional sources: official national statistics and legislative framework in local languages
GDP per capita PPP 2010 (USD)
Health care expenditure (% from GDP) 2010
Health care expenditure (PPP) per capita 2010 (USD)
Formal/informal HTA agency role
Absence of HTA bodies in both entities—capacity building taking place in Federation BiH
Absence of HTA body—capacity building taking place
Absence of HTA body
Absence of HTA body
Absence of HTA body—HTA proposed in national health policy strategy
Quality assurance unit, Ministry of Health Commission on pharmacoeconomics—the republic fund of health insurance Serbia
Agency for quality and accreditation in health care, Department for Development, Research and Health Technology assessment Croatian Branch of the Italian Cochrane Center
National Health Economics Associations
ISPOR, Pharmaco economics section of Serbian pharmaceutical society
ISPOR, Croatian Society for Pharmaco Economics and Health Economics (HDFEZ)
Cost-effectiveness evidence requirement in industrial submissions for marketing approval of new drugs/medical technologies
Not requested
Not requested
Not requested
Not requested
Health system funding pattern
Budget impact analysis evidence for reimbursement decisions
Not requested
Cost effectiveness evidence for reimbursement deaccessions
Required as mandatory
Not required
Not required
Not required
Not required
Explicitly defined willingness to pay threshold or range
Presence of national HTA and/or pharmacoeconomics guidelines
Guidelines for pharmacoeconomic evaluation for Serbia
Croatian guideline for health technology assessment process and reporting
Pharmacoeconomics guidelines—currently under development
Recommendations for future implementation of health economic assessments in reimbursement of medical services
Observing the pace of the huge changes in Southeastern Europe in the past 23 years, we see an upward trend of health system reforms aimed at improving quality and accessibility of medical care [24]. Recently, a number of countries bordering the EU region have experienced severe difficulties in health care financing worsened by recession. WB economies exhibit some distinctive common weaknesses of financial sustainability in their health systems [26]. Firstly, the main source of revenue collection is payroll taxes, levied mostly equally on employees and employers. Coverage of populations remains uneven [27]. This model limits the income base to formally employed citizens, and there is a severe problem in how to encompass informal employment wages and the huge pool of unemployed, which in the Balkans ranges from 17 % to 35 % of the overall labor force. Another issue is that medical care is generally funded through different adaptations of Otto von Bismarck's universal health insurance model by a single core health insurance fund that is a not-for-profit governmental institution. The vulnerability of such funds to generating significant financial losses has been exposed many times in past [25]. Another particular weakness is the recognized Eastern European pattern of filling gaps by both formal and informal out-of-pocket expenses [28]. Widespread corruption throughout the Balkans, in particular for hospital-based services, is still a large part of the landscape [29]. For ordinary citizens this simply means lower affordability and therefore decreasing demand for necessary health services [30]. To date, there have been many attempts to widen the basis of revenue collection but no efficient mechanism to resolve the issue has been proposed [31]. In a number of countries, the consequences include worsening of general population health in terms of neonatal mortality and life expectancy at birth [2]. Authorities have room to intervene and stimulate contracting between private health care facilities and these large national funds. If private health insurance companies showed an interest to enter competition at the level of the regional market place, it would help funding relief in future. The influence of traditional authorities and inefficiencies of the rigid administrative hierarchy still remain as obstacles to a more adaptive health policy.
The remaining issue is the application of an analytical framework to provide an evidence base for resource allocation in health care. Knowledge of HTA and HE methodological skills and interpretation is scarce throughout the region [32]. The very concept of incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (CER) and quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is poorly understood and mostly unexploited in public debates on the issue. Willingness-to-pay thresholds remain undefined in all countries of the region. There is some practice of interpretation of original Cochrane or NICE reports on particular technologies. However, it is widely recognized that inter-country transferability of such analysis and their conclusions is unreliable [33]. It is extremely difficult to compare microeconomic and clinical settings; these have developed under fundamentally different circumstances and labor costs are still substantially lower in the east of Europe. Local assessments or systematic adoption of strategies from more advanced but similar Eastern EU economies seem to be the most reasonable choice according to the Hungarian model [34]. To date, the key positive development in the region was the introduction of obligatory (Serbia and Croatia) local budget impact and CEA (mandatory in Serbia, recommended in Croatia) for industry after new drug/technology marketing approval and before pricing negotiations and seeking reimbursement. National capacities for reimbursement approvals of innovative drugs with extreme budget impact are in fact very low throughout the region. With the current lack of understanding of cost-utility analysis (CUA) and CEA results and consequences among board members, key features of pharmacoeconomics application rely on simplified cost-minimization judgements. An honest observer would note local economies' inability to keep pace with growing overall health care costs and, in particular, drug expenditure rising twice as fast as national GDP [35].
Local policy makers must recognize the need to raise health economic awareness and to implement capacity building measures. Relying on HTAs in pricing and reimbursement processes, would afford greater value for money for those paying for services [36]. Such a strategy would tackle not only costs but, even more importantly, would affect the other side of the equation and lead to system efficiency in delivering high-quality, evidence-based services. Wider dissemination of HE and HTA skills and methodology would contribute to more efficient prioritization and reimbursement strategies. Development of national guidelines on pharmacoeconomic and HTA assessments in local settings was a bold step forward. An even more important step would be top-down policy pressures aimed at improving adherence to good clinical practice guidelines in order to control prescription patterns and impact choices of cost-effective technologies among clinicians. By this means, more satisfactory clinical outcomes in terms of life years gained, DALYs or QALYs could be achieved by wiser prioritization of resource allocation. Substantial investment in health economics development and practical application would lead to a decrease in irrational spending and significant cost containment. These savings would allow these transitional health systems better affordability and higher equity of health care access for their vulnerable and mostly aging populations. If the proposed changes take place, it could lead to relief of the current difficulties in the provision and funding of medical care in the Balkan countries.
The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia funded primary health economic trials providing grounds for this market analysis through approved Grant OI N°175014. The Hosei University Invited Scholars Fellowship created an opportunity for the author to acquire the necessary methodological skills to provide proper healthcare market analysis. The publication of study results was not contingent on Serbian Ministry of Science's or Hosei University approval or censorship of the manuscript. The author would hereby take the opportunity to express gratitude to some of regional opinion leaders that contributed to this analysis: Danka Stefanovic, M.Sc., Health Economics Manager, ADOC d.o.o. Belgrade, Serbia, Prof Ljubica Suturkova, PharmD PhD. Professor of Faculty of Pharmacy UKIM Skopje, Republic of Macedonia and ISPOR Chapter Macedonia President and Tarik Catic, MscPharm Master in Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics, ISPOR Bosnia and Herzegovina Chapter President.


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They say love is devine
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The art of us brings me joy
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O Pacific, I Miss you
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Those gallant waves from across the sea, most times, were as calm as can be
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Your reliability and timeliness, so superior to my own, and more faithful than clocks
From your sandy shores on a non foggy day
Sometimes atop the sea cliffs, whether bright or gray
I watched the sea gulls and my dear children would play
Often your winds were enough to take my breath away
But I never fretted, because I so treasured what you had to say
I miss those regular visits, bringing you greetings
I wish that I could sit in those special meetings The ones where you and the moon make plans and plots
When the two of you with your creator decide, El Nino's or not
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Correct, private, flexible and efficient range test
Bao, Feng, Dawson, Ed, & Peng, Kun (2008) Correct, private, flexible and efficient range test. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 40(4), pp. 267-281.
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|Round 7 Summary Report by Tom Braunlich
|Mon, May 19 2008 (20:31)
Yury Shulman took another big step toward the championship by defeating Julio Becerra to maintain his 1-point lead with only two rounds to go. Shulman was not sitting on his lead by playing safely with black; he instead played into the main line of the Qg4 French Winawer Variation. In the post-mortem Yury said that after 22…Rg4 it is hard for white to find a move. Julio tried a diversion by rushing forward his h-pawn, but before long it was lost. White might have tried 36.Rxc4 intending to fight on with two bishops against two rooks. 39…R1h3 forced mate with some flair.
WFM Tatev Abrahamyan is a student at Cal State in Psychology.
The round was a very combative one, with only one game was drawn (Ippolito-Vigorito).
Kaidanov – Onischuk was another key game this round, a very interesting Two Knights variation in which black played 8…Be7 instead of the more usual 8…Rb8. Before long white had two sets of isolated double pawns and Alex cleverly sacrificed two more pawns to exploit this and threaten penetration with his better developed pieces. Black soon won back these pawns, with interest, helped by the excellent 21…Ne1. In the post mortem it seemed that 27. Nxf5 instead of 27.Ba3 was white's best chance to hold on.
Defending champ Alex Shabalov has not been having a good tournament. Today his chances for the title were lost with his defeat by Kudrin, whose 21.Qf3 suddenly just won a piece.
Friedel joined the leaders when Gurevich played a sharp line of the Queen's Indian with 13.Nb5 and Josh shot back with 16…Nxf2 and 17… e5. He was winning after 24…Nxh2!
Akobian also won to stay among those within range of first place by finding the subtle 20…Be5! Perelstheyn beat Yermolinsky who again used an usual line of the Carlsbad QGD. 46. Rh4! set up a mating net with the threat of Rch8. The Fed defeated Ivanov with the same idea of …h5 to safeguard his kingside he used against Shankland. 32…d5 exposed white's king.
Sergey Galant was doing well against Jesse Kraai until 28…Rxh2? lost a tempo to grab a pawn (the players decided 28…Kd6 was better.) Kaufman beat Shankland in an endgame in which 17…Na6 was called an error by Alan Stein in the commentary room (17…Nce4).
Important events in the Women's event turned the leader board over. Krush won over Airapetian while Zatonskih was upset by Tuvshintugs in a Caro-Kann modern main line, falling from ½-point ahead to ½-point behind.
Tomorrow's K-Z matchup will likely determine the champion.
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Quality and design: Suzuki is incorporating concept car elements in its latest models, including the Swift (centre).
6 October 2004
By BYRON MATHIOUDAKIS
A KIA Carnival-caning seven-seat people-mover is among the key new products a resurgent Suzuki is rolling out between now and 2008.
Three sport utility vehicles that includes a Ford Territory-style "cross-over", a new small car and possibly a replacement for the 1990s Cappuccino convertible are also expected to debut as Suzuki seeks to double its sales and alter its sagging image.
Suzuki revealed elements of its $US1.5 billion future model strategy to GoAuto at last month's 2005 Swift launch at the Paris motor show.
That car, a Toyota Echo rival featuring styling and engineering several notches above what people may expect from the Japanese economy brand, sits on a fresh platform that will underpin most of Suzuki's new model army.
This will include the forthcoming people-mover, which will be built off a stretched platform and allow seven occupants to be seated far more ably than the current Grand Vitara SUV-derived XL-7.
Speaking of the Grand Vitara, its replacement will eschew today's separate chassis construction for a monocoque platform that Suzuki says will be unique among the SUV throng.
This should liberate far more passenger and cargo space while greatly improving on-road performance and refinement compared to the 1998-vintage vehicle Suzuki sells at the moment.
The larger "cross-over" SUV, due out in 2007 but expected to be previewed in lightly disguised concept car form at the Detroit or Chicago motor show early next year, will be Suzuki's largest vehicle in this class yet. It is expected to be offered in seven-seat as well as five-seat configurations.
At the other end of the SUV scale, a small city-based runabout is being developed with Italian car-maker and General Motors partner Fiat. That should arrive around the same time.
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Report: Obama admin has issued threats against the Benghazi whistleblowers?
posted at 8:41 pm on April 29, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
For months now, Republican lawmakers have been wondering about the status of the survivors of last September's terrorist attack in Benghazi that resulted in the death of four Americans, and why it is that Congress has not been afforded more access to them. In March, Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested that the Obama administration was engaged in specifically blocking access to these witnesses, and that the witnesses had even been told to "keep quiet" — a notion that the administration blithely dismissed and Democrats once more pooh-poohed as the mere partisan pish-tosh of those petty Republicans.
The latest update from Fox News, however, reports that at least four career officials from the State Department and CIA are lawyering up as they prepare to provide "sensitive" information about the Benghazi attack to Congress, and that Obama administration officials have served some of these witnesses with not-so-subtle hints about the consequences of coming forward: Nice career you've got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it.
Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department official and Republican counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, is now representing one of the State Department employees. She told Fox News her client and some of the others, who consider themselves whistle-blowers, have been threatened by unnamed Obama administration officials.
"I'm not talking generally, I'm talking specifically about Benghazi – that people have been threatened," Toensing said in an interview Monday. "And not just the State Department. People have been threatened at the CIA." …
"It's frightening, and they're doing some very despicable threats to people," she said. "Not 'we're going to kill you,' or not 'we're going to prosecute you tomorrow,' but they're taking career people and making them well aware that their careers will be over [if they cooperate with congressional investigators]." …
Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican from California who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday to complain that the department has not provided a process by which attorneys like Toensing can receive the security clearances necessary for them to review classified documents and other key evidence.
Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Sunday that more Benghazi hearings are coming in short order — and that he thinks they're likely showcase some "explosive" revelations (if, that is, the media should condescend to take notice in any other capacity than the ever-dismissive, "My, these Republicans are certainly determined to discredit Hillary Clinton!"):
"There are more Benghazi hearings coming; I think they're going to be explosive," Mr. Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican who is a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told Fox's Uma Pemmaraju.
Mr. Gowdy wasn't able to give out too many details, but he hinted that the public for the first time might hear from witnesses to the terror attack that left four Americans dead. …
Mr. Gowdy added that in a trial, "direct evidence, direct testimony by eyewitnesses is always the most compelling."
"Trust me when I tell you you will want to follow the hearings that are coming up," he reiterated.
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Jai had baked 2 dozen small currant buns yesterday so this morning it is a treat for the village monks as she stops them as they pass the house on their food rounds. She doesnt do this very often but always on her birthday for good luck.
We spend most of the morning in the kitchen cooking a large pan of curry - well, Jai cooking and me watching to be more accurate. I do help out with making some bread finger rolls which with some small sausages will make a beer snack for this afternoon.
George, Wan and daughter Maria arrive about 2 o'clock and John comes about an hour later on his own
George and family leave early evening but after his wife has joined us we eat with John and stay drinking until about 9pm.
After everyone has left we begin the big clear up before turning in feeling quite mellow.