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With Medicare implementing its value-based purchasing system in October, patient experience has moved into center stage, with incentives given to organizations that meet quality and HCAHPS patient satisfaction targets. But just what is patient experience-and how does a hospital go about improving it?
Last year, The Beryl Institute issued a white paper on the financial impact of patient experience. In this interview, coauthor Jason Wolf, PhD, executive director of the institute, discusses why healthcare organizations should embrace patient experience and the benefits that can result.
Wolf: We define patient experience as the sum of all interactions, shaped by an organization's culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care. Experience is not restricted to the four walls of the clinical setting. It starts from that very first encounter with scheduling or with a physician outside the hospital setting. It may even be through the stories shared by a friend or community member that influence a patient's perspective. It is important to recognize the patient experience encompasses a broad range of touch points well before and after the clinical encounter. Of interest is that our research has shown only 27 percent of U.S. hospitals have a definition for patient experience. Without definition how can one have a basis for action? We encourage healthcare settings to adopt or adapt this definition to help guide the patient experience direction.
Wolf: Patients can now go online and compare one hospital to another in every HCAHPS domain. At the same time, with the implementation of value-based purchasing these scores will now have a real impact on the pocket books of hospitals and health systems. This is a significant reason why patient experience has garnered much greater attention in healthcare strategy and leadership today. I also hope it's not the only reason. There is a growing recognition that improving the patient experience actually leads to better clinical outcomes, and positively impacts quality of care and the bottom line for hospitals and health systems. The organizations that have been most successful in improving the patient experience are not solely motivated by financial incentives or penalties. They are motivated by a desire to do what is right for patients.
Wolf: I don't think anyone would argue that engaging your customers in a way that increases their satisfaction tends to lead to higher engagement and ultimately profitability. A study we reported in our paper by J.D. Power and Associates shows that hospitals scoring in the top quartile in satisfaction have around two times the margins of those at the bottom. A similar study by Press Ganey shows that those organizations that are more profitable tend to have higher than average satisfaction scores. Satisfaction should not be equated directly to experience, but it is definitely one indicator in a broader conversation about experience overall. There is clearly a link between the way patients respond to their experience, or the way that they see a facility operating from a quality-and-outcomes perspective, and profitability. In fact, a study just released this spring from Ohio State University shows that organizations that focus on creating both high experiential and clinical quality far outperform their peers in operating margin.
Wolf: The marketing perspective is about the power of word of mouth. We all recognize that-as many billboards you put up on the side of the road or how many ads that you run-the perception of your organization ultimately comes down to what patients and their families and friends hear about your organization when they talk to each other, be it at PTA meetings or at the local market. Research reinforces that dissatisfied people tend to share their poor experiences broadly. One study specific to health care showed that dissatisfied patients tend to tell up to 25 others about a negative experience. What's interesting is that, based on that same research, for every patient who complains, there are 20 others who don't. This has a significant implication on the bottom line. When dissatisfied patients don't complain, we don't even know there's a problem to address. More importantly, only 1 in 10 of those individuals will actually choose to return to your facility. That's lost revenue and a lost opportunity to create lifetime loyalty.
There is a broad clinical impact of experience as well. In line with the Ohio State Study I mentioned, research conducted last year by Duke University showed that experience measures based on HCAHPS were more indicative of whether someone would be readmitted to the hospital than clinical quality measures. The bottom line is that experience matters.
Wolf: I always stress that organizations need to start with a clear definition of what patient experience is and how it supports what your organization is trying to accomplish. I've seen a lot of organizations focus simply on tactics. Although these tactics are important to moving a hospital or health system's overall patient experience strategy, healthcare organizations need a framework in which to operate. Having a clear definition for your organization keeps staff aligned, focused, and intentionally moving in the same direction. It also ensures you are moving toward your desired experience targets and that your efforts support those objectives at every step.
The second critical piece of an effective patient experience strategy is clear leadership vision and support. Senior leaders should reinforce the fact that experience is a critical aspect of their hospital or health system's organizational strategy. Linking the importance of quality, safety, and service ensures a comprehensive and effective patient experience effort. Commitment to a positive patient experience should also be demonstrated throughout the organization, from those who deliver patient care at the bedside, to those who support the delivery of care, to those who call to collect on an outstanding bill. These all are moments in which we encounter the patient and their family. We should also remember that although there are many encounters from our perspective, the patient ultimately only has one experience.
Another critical choice is designating a leader who has primary accountability for patient experience. Ensuring that someone can fully focus on this effort-whether that person is a director of service excellence, vice president of service, or chief experience officer-is also is fundamental. The role cannot be just tacked onto someone else's responsibilities: "Well, you're the CNO; you're now the experience person as well." Research we've conducted in the past year shows that organizations with a committed patient experience role have outperformed other organizations in their HCAHPS and overall satisfaction scores because they've been able to ensure an unwavering focus, a committed strategy, and consistent execution around experience.
For many organizations, that may be a hard choice to make in the face of limited resources. But at the end of the day, the benefits, potential outcomes, and impacts on the bottom line can be significantly enhanced by having someone specifically in charge of patient experience-someone who is responsible for strategy, execution, identification of tactics, and implementation of the entire patient experience plan. That's the differentiator for hospitals and health systems. Our patients and their families deserve nothing less.
Jason A. Wolf, PhD, is executive director, The Beryl Institute, www.theberylinstitute.org.
Publication Date: Monday, August 13, 2012
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Patient financial engagement is more challenging than ever – and more critical. With patient responsibility as a percentage of revenue on the rise, providers have seen their billing-related costs and accounts receivable levels increase. If increasing collection yield and reducing costs are a priority for your organization, the metrics outlined in this presentation will provide the framework you need to understand what's working and what's not, in order to guide your overall patient financial engagement initiatives and optimize results.
No two patients are the same. Each has a very personal healthcare experience, and each has distinct financial needs and preferences that have an impact on how, when and if they chose to pay their healthcare bill. It's no longer effective to apply static billing techniques to solve the complex challenge of collecting balances from patients. The need to tailor financial conversations and payment options to individual needs and preferences is critical. This presentation provides 10 recommendations that will not only help you improve payment performance through a more tailored approach, but take control of rising collection costs.
This white paper, written by Apex Vice President of Solutions and Services, Carrie Romandine, discusses the importance of patient segmentation and messaging specifically related to the patient revenue cycle. Applying strategic messaging that is tailored to each patient type will not only better educate consumers on payment options specific to their billing needs, but it will maximize the amount collected before sending to collections. Further, targeted messaging should be applied across all points of patient interaction (i.e. point of service, customer service, patient statements) and analyzed regularly for maximized results.
This white paper, written by Apex President Patrick Maurer, discusses methods to increase patient adoption of online payments. Providers are now seeking ways to incrementally collect more payments due from patients as well as speeding up the rate of collections. This white paper shows why patient-centric approaches to online payment portals are important complements to traditional provider-centric approaches.
Increased electronic engagement between healthcare providers and patients provides significant opportunities for improving revenue cycle metrics and encouraging patients to access EHRs. This article, written by Apex Founder and CEO Brian Kueppers, explores a number of strategies to create synergy between patient billing, online payment portals and electronic health record (EHR) software to realize a high ROI in speed to payment, patient satisfaction and portal adoption for meaningful use.
Faced with a rising tide of bad debt, a large Southeastern healthcare system was seeing a sharp decline in net patient revenues. The need to improve collections was dire. By integrating critical tools and processes, the health system was able to increase online payments and improve its financial position. Taking a holistic approach increased overall collection yield by 10% while costs came down because the number of statements sent to patients fell by 10%, which equated to a $1.3M annualized improvement in patient cash over a six-month period. This case study explains how.
With the ICD10 deadline quickly approaching and daily responsibilities not slowing down, final preparations for October 1 require strategic prioritization and laser focus.
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Before launching an energy-efficiency initiative, it's important to build a solid business case and understand the funding options and potential incentives that are available. Healthcare leaders should consider taking the steps outlined in the whitepaper to ease the process of gaining approval, piloting, implementing, and supporting sustainability projects. You will find that investing in sustainability and energy efficiency helps hospitals add cash to their bottom line. Discover how hospitals and health systems have various options for funding energy-efficient and renewable-energy initiatives, depending on their current financial structure and strategy.
Health care is a dynamic mergers and acquisitions market with numerous hospitals and health systems contemplating or pursuing formal arrangements with other entities. These relationships often pose a strategic benefit, such as enhancing competencies across the continuum, facilitating economies of scale, or giving the participants a competitive advantage in a crowded market. Underpinning any profitable acquisition is a robust capital planning strategy that ensures an organization reserves sufficient funds and efficiently onboards partners that advance the enterprise mission and values.
The success of healthcare mergers, acquisitions, and other affiliations is predicated in part on available capital, and the need for and sources of funding are considerations present throughout the partnering process, from choosing a partner to evaluating an arrangement's capital needs to selecting an integration model to finding the right money source to finance the deal. This whitepaper offers several strategies that health system leaders have used to assess and manage capital needs for their growing networks.
Announcements from several commercial payers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) early in 2015 around increased efforts to form value-based contracts with providers seemed to point to an impending rise in risk-based contracting. Rather than wait for disruption from the outside in, health care providers are now making inroads on collaborating with payers on various risk-based contracting models to increase the value of health care from within.
Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) is a not-for-profit hospital serving a population of roughly 200,000 in Yuma and the surrounding communities.
Before becoming a ZirMed client, Yuma was attempting to manually monitor hundreds of thousands of charges which led to significant charge capture leakage. Learn how Yuma & ZirMed worked together to address underlying collections issues at the front end, thus increasing Yuma's overall bottom line.
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As the critical link between patient care and reimbursement, health information enables more complete and accurate revenue capture. This 5-Minute White Paper Briefing shares how to achieve cost-effective revenue integrity by your optimizing HIM systems.
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Qualified coders are getting harder to come by, and even the most seasoned professional can struggle with the complexity of ICD-10. This 5-Minute White Paper Briefing explains how partnerships can help improve coding and other key RCM operations potentially at a cost savings.
The point of managing your revenue cycle isn't just to improve revenue and cash flow. It's to do those things effectively by consistently following best practices— while spending as little time, money, and energy on them as possible.
How Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford increased payments received within 45 days by 20% and reduced paper submission claims by 70% by using ZirMed solutions.
The reasons claims are denied are so varied that managing denials can feel like chasing a thousand different tails. This situation is not surprising given that a hypothetical denial rate of just 5 percent translates to tens of thousands of denied claims per year for large hospitals—where real‐world denial rates often range from 12 to 22 percent. Read about how predictive modeling can detect meaningful correlations across claims denials data.
Emergency Mobile Health Care (EMHC) was founded to be and remains an exclusively locally owned and operated emergency medical service organization; today EMHC serves a population of more than a million people in and around Memphis, answering 75,000 calls each year.
Since the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) introduction, CMS has paid more than $100 million in bonus payments to participants. However, these bonuses ended in 2015; providers who successfully meet the reporting requirements in 2016 will avoid the 2% negative payment adjustment in 2018, so now is the time to act! Included in this whitepaper are implications of increasing patient responsibility, collections best practices, and collections and internal control solutions.
Getting paid what your physician deserves—that's the goal of every biller. Yet even for the best billers, achieving that success can be elusive when denials stand in the way of success, presenting challenges at every turn. Denials aren't going away, but you can learn techniques to manage and even prevent them.Join practice management expert Elizabeth W. Woodcock, MBA, FACMPE, CPC, to: Discover methods to translate denial data into business intelligence to improve your bottom line, determine staff productivity benchmarks for billers, and recognize common mistakes in denial management.
Physician practices must improve organizational efficiency to compete in this era of reduced reimbursement and escalating administrative costs.
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The client was a nine-hospital health system with 14 clinics serving communities in a multi-state market with very limited access to care, poor economic conditions, high unemployment, and a heavy Medicare/Medicaid/uninsured payer mix. In most of these communities, the system was the sole source of care.
Though the clinics were of substantial size (they employed 98 physicians) and comprised of multiple specialists, the physicians functioned as individuals and the practices lacked any real group culture.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU senior second baseman Scott Wilcox and sophomore outfielder Trevor Lowe combined for seven hits and three RBI on Saturday afternoon at Nick Denes Field, powering the Hilltoppers to a 6-4 series-clinching win over UNC Asheville (1-2).
Wilcox tied a career high with four hits, going 4-of-5 at the plate with two RBI, a home run and a double. He was a triple shy of becoming the first WKU player in WKU Baseball history to hit for the cycle. Lowe also equaled a career high with his three hits, singling twice and roping an RBI double down the left field line in the eighth inning to tack on an insurance run for the Hilltoppers.
WKU (4-2) scored the first five runs of the game, jumping out to a 5-0 advantage with a pair of runs in the third and seventh innings plus Wilcox's solo homer in the fifth. Wilcox knocked a single to left field to get the scoring started in the third, plating freshman designated hitter Hunter Wood. Junior shortstop Cody Wofford scored on a wild pitch later in the frame to make the count 2-0.
Wilcox homered in the fifth to extend the WKU lead to 3-0 and Wofford followed suit in the seventh inning with a two-run bomb that gave the Hilltoppers a 5-0 cushion. Wilcox's multi-RBI game was the 12th of his career while Wofford's two RBI marked the second time this season he achieved the feat.
The Bulldogs rallied for four runs in the eighth inning but junior relief pitcher Brennan Pearson struck out Robert McIntosh with the bases loaded to preserve the WKU lead at 5-4. Lowe ripped his third hit of the game down the left field line in WKU's half of the inning to tack on a key insurance run and the final margin, 6-4.
Junior left-handed closer Ian Tompkins notched his second save of the series and third on the season by striking out three Bulldog batters in the ninth. Senior lefty Austin Clay (2-0) picked up his second win of the season with a five-inning shutout performance, scattering three hits and striking out one. Clay tied a career low for hits allowed in a five-inning start (3) and didn't give up a run for the first time in his career when lasting five innings.
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Congratulations to the Theatre Academy's production of Anton's Uncles
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010, 7:30 PM
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LACC Theatre Academy production of Anton's Uncles has been invited to perform at this year's Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Washington D.C., Thursday April 15, 2010 in the Family Theater. Over 1000 participating college productions were considered from across the nation and only three shows were invited to perform at this year's national festival. The Festival was founded on the principal of showcasing exemplary work done throughout the nation at the college and university level. LACC has a long history of recognition from the festival having participated at the first national festival in 1969, performing Congreve's The Way of the World at the prestigious Ford theatre.
Over the past four decades, more than 20 Theatre academy productions have been recognized as well as the work of scores of students at either the regional or national level by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The Theatre Academy of Los Angeles City College is celebrating its 81st year of providing quality conservatory training in acting, technical theatre and costuming.


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In late July, University of Montana President George Dennison sent a letter to UM students explaining that because of budget shortfalls in the University System, students should expect their education to be more costly than anticipated.
"Working together," Dennison wrote in the letter, "we will overcome this current financial challenge. We will protect the quality of education as the highest priority."
The rising cost of education in Montana is nothing new. Over the last four years, tuition at UM has increased by nearly $500. However, with all the talk of togetherness, it appears that students—not well-paid administrators like Dennison—will be footing the bill.
In a recent meeting of the Montana Board of Regents, the University System's highest paid employees voted for a pay increase ranging from 4 to 6 percent. For President Dennison, this meant that his yearly salary increased to $143,986. His raise, $5,538, is tapped from the general fund, and paid for in part by the students whose tuition was recently increased.
Imagine that UM's budget is a series of interconnected buckets, each filled with whatever money the state and the students can provide. The largest bucket in the UM budget is the general fund. This bucket, some $97 million deep in fiscal year 2003, is filled two-thirds with tuition and fees from students, and one-third with funding from the Montana Legislature.
Historically, the Legislature contributed a larger percentage of funds to the University's budget. But while UM has grown in leaps and bounds over the last decade, state funding has remained stagnant. As a result, the University has grown increasingly dependent on student-generated fees to support itself.
In recent years, the Legislature has been more and more reluctant to provide funding for the University System. During August's special session of the Legislature, $12.4 million was cut from state-funded higher education.
The effects of this cut were immediate. UM students saw an increase in tuition costs of almost $200 for the fall semester, and were assessed an additional surcharge of $2.50 per credit, a charge that will increase to $10 per credit in the spring.
Given these tuition hikes and lean financial times, not all of the regents agree that President Dennison and his counterparts should receive such a hefty pay raise. Regents Christian Hur and Bob Mercer voted against the pay increase, preferring instead a more conservative raise for university employees whose salaries are in excess of $100,000. Had that measure passed, it would have allowed for no more than a $1,765 increase each year for such employees.
Hur, who is currently a UM student, says, "These are people who, if their pay was frozen, wouldn't have been hurt at all. By any standard of government employees [in Montana] these individuals are within the top 5 percent."
Even ignoring the fact that Dennison and his colleagues are paid between four and five times the average Montana income of $32,553 per year, there are added benefits to being a university administrator. Dennison, for example, has access to UM's health care package, a free car, and the free use of a home in the University area.
"There's also the added benefit of business trips to Asia," Hur says.
Admittedly, a university president makes significantly less in Montana than in almost any other state, one of the primary justifications for the pay raises.
"If you hire good CEOs, they bring value to the whole organization," says Bob Duringer, vice president of administration and finance at UM. "The decisions that bad CEOs make can be very costly."
Duranger is also skeptical of the argument that university presidents are overpaid. The job requires a hard-to-find set of skills, he says.
"Let's get bricklayers to run this school. Let's get the custodians to run this institution," Duringer says. "You pay for what you get."
In addition to President Dennison and chancellors at campuses around the state, Richard Crofts, commissioner of higher education, also received a pay raise. His salary was increased to $144,506.
Regents Hur and Mercer think that's too high as well. They also charge that Crofts has done little to answer their specific questions about the University's budget.
"I feel like we're not doing the job we're supposed to be doing," Hur says. "The fact is, we're encouraged not to use staff time to get answers to our questions, and we're not given the information we need to make decisions."
As an example, when the regents were debating the most recent surcharge, they were told by Crofts and other administrators that the quality of education would suffer if the surcharge was not assessed. But they were given no specific details as to how it would suffer, Hur says. The regents simply had to accept what they were being told at face value.
"The administrators don't want you to involve yourself in the budget," says Mercer, who believes that the administrators' wages should be based on leadership.
"In Montana, we're asking students to pay more each year for the same service," he says. "To show leadership, we should limit the administrators' raises. We want people in our higher education who aren't just here for the money."
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Here's the formula for using excel to calculate revs per mile:
Copy and paste the above formula into cell D2. Then enter tire width into cell A2, aspect ratio into cell B2, and wheel diameter in cell C2.
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Haggar, you might want to add this to your revs per mile tab.
I thought about it, but its better to find the true numbers for your tire. It ends up being dependant on the tire, and the variation from true gets statistically larger as the tire diameter gets larger, and varies brand by brand, which is why I left it that way.
For example, when you look at car tires (I use this for looking at car situations, too, for cruising and racing), they are very very close to accurate, usually about 1%-2% smaller than advertised.
Then smallish truck tires like 31s or 265/75R16s have maybe 3-4% smaller.
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Founded in 1968, the University of New Mexico-Gallup is a branch campus of the University of New Mexico. UNM-Gallup is chartered as a community college, but with the availability of an on-campus Extended Learning Center, we also have the capability of offering some Bachelor's and Graduate programs. Students can definitely stay close to home and achieve all of their educational needs.
UNM-Gallup is the largest of the four UNM branch campuses and serves approximately 75,000 residents in the greater Gallup and McKinley County region. The college also includes the 25,000 square foot Zuni Area Learning Center and a 2,500 square foot Adult Education Learning Center on Gallup's north side.
The UNM-Gallup main campus is located in the breathtaking Colorado Desert Plateau – a culturally unique region in a state known for its diversity. With a Native American population of nearly 79 percent, the college serves both the Navajo Nation and the Pueblo of Zuni.
Today, we are a comprehensive vocational and transfer institution that offers Certificates in 18 disciplines and Associate's Degrees in 19 programs. We also offer Bachelor's degrees in six programs, Master's degrees in five programs and a PhD in one program. We operate under a $19 million budget of which $3 million is generated from state, federal and private grants.
Our college offers a number of diverse programs designed to meet the needs of our population. Among them are:
- Middle College High School – a charter high school located on the UNM-G campus;
- Center for Career and Technical Education – a program which draws students from local high schools to dually enroll in high school and college classes in a variety of career technical education areas;
- Adult Education Learning Center – provides instruction in GED preparation, basic skills, English as a second language, life skills, work place skills and citizenship preparation;
- Workforce Development programs – provides professionally designed classes in response to industry and community needs;
- Community Education – offers a wide variety of non-credit instructional classes;
- Career & Job Placement Services;
- Veteran's Resource Center
- Lobo Learning Center;
- Early Childhood and Family Center
The passage of a statewide general obligation bond in 2014 is allowing for the remodeling of the unfinished basement in the Zollinger Library. This new space will allow for expanded areas for exhibit curation and display, as well as additional classroom and study locations.
As a branch campus of the University of New Mexico, UNM-Gallup is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.


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A type of friendly flora called Lactobacillus plantarum1 has been shown to enhance protein absorption, even in situations of inflammation that are typical in people with irritable bowel or colitis.
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Rumors about a possibly more powerful CPU replacement have been circulating since February, but the speculations never got confirmed by the manufacturer. It was also reported that we were going to see the snappy Tegra 2 chipset in some Galaxy S II variations, but the news about the upgrade does not make it clear whether Samsung still plans to use Nvidia's processor too or to write it off completely. We should be able to find the answer to that as soon as the smartphone gets its official release later this month.
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I don't know if it's the humidity or something else, but growing up in Colorado I don't remember having many allergy issues. For the past 11 years since we moved to Texas, it seems like they get worse every single spring. I'm lucky that they aren't as bad as other people, but I get tired of having itchy eyes all day long! The sneezing has been horrible this year! It leaves me feeling worn out and drab.
I haven't been sleeping as well because of the allergies either so I end up with dark circles under my eyes many mornings. I don't wear a lot of makeup. Years of doing theater and wearing stage makeup left me with little desire to wear much makeup in my daily life. Although I do enjoy some subtle eye makeup. A little shadow and mascara just make me feel good. When allergies get my itchy eyes going, it's not even worth it to wear that much because it just irritates my eyes even more!
I have a confession to make. The photo above shows the makeup I use when I do wear it. Most of the time when I want to wear something, I will just do my eyes but sometimes I throw some blush in the mix and maybe even some lip gloss. The real confession is that this makeup is at least 4 or 5 years old! It's just screaming at me to be replaced! So, I decide that there was no time like the present! I needed to go to CVS to pick up something to help with the allergies and I decided new eye makeup was on the list as well! You can check out my entire shopping trip in my Drab to Fab Google+ album!
During the month of May, CVS shoppers can get a 30 count of Allegra for $17.99 with their CVS ExtraCare card. You can also play the Allegra Makeover Game and learn a not-so-obvious beauty secret that could win you a $50 CVS Gift Card from Allegra! I learned about the special price on the 30 count Allegra when I was already shopping and was glad that I'm already a CVS ExtraCare card holder!
I also discovered a $2.00 off coupon on the 5 count and 15 count Allegra 24 hour if you're looking for a smaller package. I went with the 15 count so that I could give it plenty of time to help my poor, itchy eyes! Waking up feeling like a raccoon doesn't do anything for making a person feel very fabulous! Summer is on its way so I want to feel amazing every day! So, I stocked up on Allegra and some new makeup along with some other goodies!
I started taking Allegra when I got home from running the rest of my errands. I wanted to take it for a few days to see how it would help my eyes and the nonstop sneezing I've been doing these days! I was excited to break out the new makeup after tossing the old stuff and spend a little me time on Mother's Day! It's a great day to get spend a little time on yourself even if you're just planning on spending the day with the family like I did!
After a few days, I can really feel a difference since I started using the Allegra. I am still sneezing just a bit but nothing like before! I now sneeze once or twice a day when I was sneezing at least 3 or 4 times in a row and it felt like I was doing it every ten minutes! It wasn't quite that bad but people at work were asking me if I was sick so there was definitely a lot of sneezing going on! I have definitely seen an improvement in the eye area. My eyes are less puffy and they don't itch anymore! I can rub them and it doesn't turn into the itchy burn of a few days ago! So while I'm glad I had a coupon to save a few dollars on Allegra, I would probably buy it at any price to help me get through the spring allergies!
I flipped my drab itchy eyes into fab with help from Allegra!
With the itchiness gone, I was able to have fun with my new makeup and it really did give me a little boost this morning! It's amazing what stopping to take even a few minutes for yourself can do! Moms deserve a few minutes each day to help drop any drab feelings they might be carrying around from being tired or feeling pulled in many different directions and turn on the fab feelings! Allegra definitely helped me with that!
You can learn more by visiting the Allegra website, checking out Allegra on Facebook, and following on Twitter @allegraotc. You can also follow more of the conversation using the #ClearBeauty hashtag!
Have you been feeling drab lately? Have you ever tried Allegra? How do you turn drab feelings into fab feelings?
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"They (AAP) are keen to join hands with BJP, their situation is shaky and they have lost the public support," Ramdev said addressing a press conference here. Highlighting the role he is playing in enabling Narendra Modi become the country's next Prime Minister, Ramdev claimed that even AAP was keen on joining hands with BJP.
"If he (Arvind Kejriwal) comes in favour of Modi, definitely, I am prepared to mediate," he said when asked if he will mediate in case AAP or Kejriwal shows inclination to join hands with BJP. Ramdev said he had earlier backed former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on the issue of war against corruption as the AAP leader had set out to cleanse the system, but he regretted that now he has "lost his way".
"But he deflected from his mission. Kejriwal raised issues, which Modi raises and for this I had given him the blessings. Now, I am advising him (Kejriwal) that don't make excuses, don't become a puppet in the hands of the Congress...," he said.
Slamming the AAP, Ramdev said "till today AAP's ideology, policies and their principles are not clear." "They are themselves confused whether they are Rightist, Leftist or Communist, nationalist or opportunist, what they are, they are not clear. We don't know what their economic policies are, what are their views on foreign policy, agriculture policy, they are not getting time to think on this, as their single agenda is to finish Modi," he said. He said the poor people who had thought that Kejriwal will be their messiah for them and now they have been let down.


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Chinese state firms say reform should mean more growth
By Charlie Zhu and Lucy Hornby
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's big state-owned enterprises argued for continued expansion on Friday, echoing outgoing President Hu Jintao's comments urging more investment in major government firms and curtailing hopes of reform in the bloated sector.
Party delegates spent day two of the 18th Communist Party Congress holding public debates on Hu's speech at which they read out bits that they particularly liked. Reuters reporters heard no one disagreeing with what Hu said in a nearly two-hour-long speech.
At the opening of the congress on Thursday, Hu stressed the importance of continued one-party rule and how it was threatened by corruption, a reference to the downfall of one-time high-flying politician Bo Xilai.
He also suggested a further strengthening of the state in strategic sectors, with the possibility of more market-oriented competition in other sectors.
"The direction of the SOE (state-owned enterprise) reform should be: SOEs must be more market-oriented and they must keep strengthening their vitality and influence," Wang Yong, the head of a commission on supervising and administering state-owned assets, told reporters.
"Scholars may have different views, but that's the development need of the enterprises and the state."
Hu had said on Thursday that Beijing must "unwaveringly consolidate and develop the public sector of the economy".
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If you have a will, the will itself is a member of a public record. If you don't have a will, the state will determine who gets your assets. Creditors can file a claim, long lost relatives could file a claim or anybody can file a claim on your assets. In the probate process, the court determines who gets what, and determines the verification of the claim. The entire probate process including lawyers, accountants, appraisers, court costs takes time and money.
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After 20 years behind a camera, you can spot the signs. I see marriages doomed to fail even before the confetti falls, fathers shaking their heads in disappointment, grooms with a roving eye and bridesmaids who know too much.
Behind my fixed smile, I can't help thinking about what lies ahead for the couples I'm photographing. If one has been divorced before, will history repeat itself? How will the children adapt? I see a lot of children from first marriages looking anxiously at the new family configuration that awaits them.
Sometimes you don't have to wait long for the first family argument. If there's a bad atmosphere, I wonder if it will all kick off at the reception; it usually starts there after too much champagne on an empty stomach.
I'm often surprised at the amount of competitiveness involved, the obsession with class and money. I see snobbery, antisocial behaviour, one-upmanship. Often people overspend and I wonder at some lavish weddings if the marriages are going to last long enough to repay the debts. But there are plenty of happy weddings, too, usually the smaller, more intimate, less pretentious ones. The cheaper bashes don't raise expectations and people are more relaxed. Sometimes I even get to witness pure, unalloyed joy.
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Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan
Grasslands National Park is the only national park in the Canadian prairies and is home to ancient plants, animals and geological history. It's well off of the beaten path, in southern Saskatchewan, about 100 kilometers south of the Trans Canada Highway. It holds a strange and lonely beauty in a place known as the "Land of the Living Skies". y
The park is made up of two, large blocks of land about 531 square kilometers that extend to the Canada/US border. As local ranches come available, the size will grow to over 900 square kilometers. It's interesting to see active ranch lands on one side of the barbed-wire fence and undisturbed, rolling terrain on the other.
The natural flora of the area is long and short grass studded with bulbous cactus. Trees are non-existent here and water is scarce. The dilapidated shells of former homesteads stand crooked and weathered.
This place is hot and remote. Even in the summer, when tourism in Canada is at its busiest, Grasslands National Park receives fewer than 10,000 visitors. Adventurous travellers may not see another human for as far as the eye can see.
Looking out at the desolate plains, it's easy to imagine the long-vanished buffalo herds roaming these plains with resilient native camps on the periphery. In fact, there's over 12,000 ancient teepee rings in the park.
Wildlife is returning to the natural prairie. Pronghorn antelope, the second fastest land animal in the world, still inhibits the area while other endangered species such as prairie dogs, black-footed ferrets and burrowing owls are making a comeback with some human help.
Plains bison from Elk Island National Park near Edmonton was re-introduced a few years ago. Visitors can take self-guided tours of their new refuge along the many dirt roads that criss-cross the park.
Things to do in Grasslands National Park
This place is big! Outdoor adventures include multi-day backpacking, hiking, horse-back riding and astronomy (and it gets REALLY dark here). The park and surrounding communities were designated as a Dark Sky Preserve in 2009 by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Check for guided tours and events ranging from night visits to the ferret colony to star gazing. When was the last time you saw the Milky Way?
Camping is limited in this hot, dry area and be wary as your tent pole may be the highest lightning rod around. Watch for rattlesnakes too. In the summer, temperatures can exceed +40C. Bring lots of water.
How to Get to Grasslands National Park
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The park is made up of two widely-separated sections, the East and West Block, with the park administration office located in Val Marie, Saskatchewan. Getting here is a lot of fun. It feels like you're travelling back in time the further you get from the Trans Canada Highway.
The only way to experience the park is with a vehicle. The surrounding highways are in good condition, not great, with some potholes and rough patches. Most roads in the park are graded dirt strips.
RVs won't have a problem, nor will motorcyclists (you may eat lots of dust though). Cell phone coverage is pretty good but service is intermittent in the valley bottoms.
Distance to Val Marie, Saskatchewan:
- Calgary – 607 kilometers (7 hours)
- Saskatoon – 390 kilometers (5 hours)
- Regina – 350 kilometers (4 hours)
There are two Canada/US border crossings near the park at Monchy & West Poplar River but these entry points are rarely used to enter Canada. Hours of operation are limited.
The closest international airport is in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Interesting facts:
- The first dinosaur remains to be found in Canada by Europeans were discovered in 1874 in the Killdeer Badlands in the East Block.
- Sitting bull and about 5000 Sioux natives took refuge in the area after the defeat of General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Because of its remote location, Grasslands National Park is one of the least visited reserves in the national park system. If you've been to the other national parks, make sure to go out of your way to experience the quiet beauty of this corner of Canada. Check out other things to do in Saskatchewan.
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