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I'm 28 years old 5'2 185 lbs. I have a athletic frame. I'm going to get BBL and BA with a lift. I have two children. Yily quote me $4700 USD and Baez quote me $4200 USD. I like Yily BBL work and Baez BA. I think I'm going to go with Yily. I seen pictures of her butt work and I like it. But through my email she didn't answer my question HOW MUCH WEIGHT DO I NEED TO LOSE? Do anyone have any ideals? I was thinking about losing 20 lbs.
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I really want to go to Dr. Duran but her assistance said that they are book til Feb. Do anyone know who's going in Nov or Dec and they are going to Cancel. I really need to go this year. Can ya'll please keep your ears open to see if anyone going to cancel. Thanks
Leaving Dec 9.......So Scared..... Can everyone Pray for me
Ok. I haven't really posted anything on here. I been on the website for about year reading everyone else and getting good feed back. So I couldn't decided which doctor to go to. I am getting BBL, Breast lift with breast implants. I like Duran, Yily and Contreras in that order. So I decided to go with Contreras because I need it done this year. I have to go to school for the spring semester. I know I heard bad news about Contreras but I think deep in my heart I will be ok. I went to go get my labs, ekg, lungs, heart check out . Everything came back good. The doctor just told me I was a little over. lol. As if I don't know that. So RS ladies I want yall honest opinion. What do yall think about my choice?
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Hello guys and girls, recently i have made this Threefold brochures bundle.
I put a lot of work in there but it seems it's not interesting to other people since there is just 1 sale.
Do you guys have any suggestions for me, because I think this is pretty nice item, and results aren't telling that
Should I try to make different preview image? Or add some more or other information in item description.. I have decided to publish these brochures separate also…
Hi Josip, you can't promote your files here on the forums, but what you can do is tell people about you on social websites as twitter, facebook, dribble etc. Also you can write on blogs and then promote your website on the "about the author" section.
Well I didnt want to promote myself, since this is item discusion forum I wanted to see if someone has some idea what to change on this item, because I think its not bad but its not selling as I expected…
Oh, my bad you can try to change the preview image because I think the file is OK, but you can't see all the details because of the preview image. You could add some screenshots and also make a better description of the item like features, font, colors, how you can change them etc.
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Though we celebrate romance on February 14, our well-meaning gifts of chocolate and flowers may have a toxic backstory. The International Labor Organization estimates that West Africa's cacao plantations employ nearly 300,000 children (many of them sold into forced labor). Some South American flower farms use harmful pesticides and herbicides; one report from Ecuador found that flower workers suffer higher-than-average rates of miscarriages, birth defects, and asthma. Plus, that adorable greeting card from your soul mate was likely made from virgin trees. What's an earth lover to do?
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Go to GlobalExchangeStore.org to find organic and fair-trade goodies from small, sustainable farms, such as the heart-healthy Dark Chocolate Minis Gift Box ($11) or the Sweetheart Chocolate Trio package ($12) from fair-trade company Art Bar.
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Consider a native potted plant from your local nursery, or nudge your sweetheart toward OrganicBouquet.com, which offers VeriFlora-certified blossoms (grown using sustainable techniques). Our pick: the dazzling Cherry Love Roses ($50).
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Waterproofing an exposed subfloor
Just wanna say Hi to everyone!
My name is Karen & I'm new to this forum.
I'm hoping that I might be able to get some advice.
We have a basement with a subfloor already built on top. We are waiting until possibly next year to carry on with the building, but in the meantime we have to waterproof the subfloor. We have a tarp already on, but it has some holes so it has already let water through. We need a better way of keeping the water out.
Any ideas for us?
We appreciate all the advice you can give.
You could use a Thompsons weatherseal sealant or simular product.
As bob said Thompsons weatherseal sealant and I would also purchase a new tarp or 6 mil poly. Even with Thompsons weatherseal sealant you could still get leakage through the plywood joints and "welcome aboard"..
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This article was published 1/8/2014 (1059 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Declawing is not the cat's meow and Dr. Sandy Barclay is inviting other Manitoba veterinarians to join her in ending the painful practice.
Barclay, the owner/director of the Brandon Animal Clinic, has publicly pledged she will no longer perform declawing surgery on cats.
The Winnipeg Humane Society said Barclay is the first Manitoba veterinarian to publicly take that position, next to Dr. Erika Anseeuw at the WHS, where it has never been done.
"If people know what is entailed in the surgery, they probably wouldn't do it. They don't realize it's an amputation of every toe," said Barclay, who made the announcement on the Brandon Animal Clinic's Facebook page on July 3. "Declawing cats is just so inappropriate. We don't take our dogs' teeth out because they chew our shoes, so I'm not sure why we're doing that to cats."
Barclay, a veterinarian for 24 years, said a similar surgery on a person would involve cutting off the tips of each finger at the last joint.
"Watching cats recover from it is terrible. They wake up with bandages up to their elbows, they're in severe pain and they often won't use their front feet. If they do shake their bandages off, they bleed terribly. It's rough, and we used to do maximum support (pain relief). So I am very thankful that I don't do it anymore."
Barclay's impetus for change was "The Paw Project" (pawproject.org), the 2013 documentary film which follows Hollywood veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Conrad's campaign to have declawing bans enacted in several California cities.
After seeing declawed cats suffering from chronic pain, unable to walk or living with mutilated paws, Conrad began The Paw Project charity to help pay for expensive surgeries to repair damage and relieve pain in declawed cats.
Anseeuw, the WHS director of animal health, said she 'liked' The Paw Project on Facebook and got the post that Barclay was not declawing cats anymore.
"I thought it's excellent and I told our (WHS) publicity people we need to recognize that's the first veterinarian in the province to take a stand and we should support her and start the conversation with our supporters," Anseeuw said.
Congratulations to Barclay were posted on the WHS Facebook page.
"It's mutilation. It's using surgery to treat a behaviour problem. With cats, scratching is normal behaviour and all you have to do is provide them with something appropriate to scratch on and they'll use that instead of furniture," Anseeuw said.
Barclay now offers a free, 30-minute consultation to any client wanting a declaw during which she or her associate veterinarian, Dr. Tracy Radcliffe, will discuss safe and humane alternatives such as reliable scratching posts, location of scratching items, and Soft Paws nail caps.
Barclay, who has four cats of her own, said she has long been against declawing and hasn't declawed one of her own felines in 18 years after watching the horrible recovery.
"He always walked differently. If he jumped down a certain way, he'd always hold his paws up," Barclay said.
She said she once treated a 10-year-old cat declawed at another practice who had "abscesses in all of her toes."
Anseeuw said declawed cats are surrendered at the WHS often because of issues resulting from the surgery. Cats have started urinating in the house instead of the litter box because their paws hurt when they try to scratch in the litter box. Cats who were once kind can start biting.
Anseeuw said veterinarians would need to band together to ban declawing as they did in February 2012, when the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association enacted a bylaw banning ear-cropping on dogs for cosmetic purposes.
Executive director Andrea Lear said the MVMA follows the national association's position statement on declawing and respects veterinarians' right to counsel their clients and provide services as they see fit.
"I was not aware that one (veterinarian) had come out publicly and declared that (will no longer declaw cats), but I do know that there are some veterinarians who counsel against it and take that position," she said.
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- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for brushing
- 2 tablespoons pink peppercorns, coarsely chopped
- 1 teaspoon celery seeds
- 4 Granny Smith apples—peeled, cored and very thinly sliced, preferably on a mandoline
- 2 fennel bulbs—trimmed, cored and very thinly sliced, preferably on a mandoline
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- 16 soft shell crabs, cleaned
Light a grill. In a large bowl, stir the vinegar with the 1/4 cup of olive oil, 1 tablespoon of the pink peppercorns and the celery seeds. Add the apples and fennel and toss well; season with salt and pepper. Refrigerate until chilled.
In a small bowl, blend the mayonnaise with the lemon juice, lemon zest and the remaining 1 tablespoon of pink peppercorns; season with salt and pepper. Refrigerate until chilled.
Season the crabs with salt and pepper and brush with oil. Grill over a hot fire, top shell down, until lightly charred and crisp, about 5 minutes. Turn and grill until just cooked through, about 1 minute longer. Spoon the apple-fennel salad onto plates and top each serving with 2 grilled crabs. Serve the lemon mayonnaise on the side.


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On the auspicious occasion of Krishna Ashtami, anchor Suma celebrated Krishna Ashtami on the show Genes which is telecasted on ETV. Suma started the show by paying tribute lo lord Krishna. Laxmi Prasanna Manchu (Daughter of Mohan Babu) was the special guest on the occasion of Krishna Ashtami in the show Genes. Laxmi Prasanna was dressed as beautiful and charming Gopika for the show Genes.
Traditionally, Krishna is the one to break the pot for butter but in this show Laxmi Prasanna broke the pot which was hanging from the wall. Intelligent Laxmi Prasanna was able to make perfect matches of parent-child.
Laxmi Prasanna won Rs 80,500 by playing the game Genes. At the end of the show Laxmi Prasanna danced with anchor Suma to the tunes of her father Mohan Babu.


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Blurry Vision + PRK
1 Week Post PRK, Had -2 in Both Eyes, Now Left is 30/70, Right is 20/40, is This Normal?
I m from Lebanon, 30 ys, urology resident,healthy, and I underwent PRK for myopia -2 in both eyes, 6 days ago exactly, 2 days the Dr. removed my... READ MORE
Eyes Going in and out of Focus After PRK Surgery, What is the Problem?
Hi, my cornea is thin so my doctor recommend PRK, I had 5.75 of miopia and a little bit of Astigmatism. It has been 41 days. My vision was awful until... READ MORE
What should I expect from an enhancement PRK surgery? Is it normal to have complete blurry vision two weeks after surgery?
Its been about 10 days since my enhancement and I literally can't read a book in my lap without a struggle. I know I'm in the healing process, but I'm... READ MORE
How long until PRK healing line is better?
I had PRK done 2 weeks ago today. My prescription was 100% astigmatism. Right now, my left eye is great, seeing very clearly out of that eye. The... READ MORE
I have blurry vision after PRK. Is this normal?
The Lasik and the PRK. My vision I was +1.00 in the left eye so the enhancement was to bring he vision in line with the right eye. I know it has only... READ MORE
Can vision reverse after 4 month of PRK?
Hello doctors. I had a PRK surgery 4 monthes ago. And my vision almost 24/24. Before two weeks , i got a problem in my eyes and im taking alcon... READ MORE
Reading on my computer and phone is hard and blurry. Is this normal?
I had my transprk treatment two weeks ago because I had problem reading far things/nearsighted. Today I have both problems cannot read near or far. Is... READ MORE
Had PRK a week ago, eyes ok until I Woke up this morning feeling like there is something in my left eye, like its back to day 3.
Had PRK a week ago and got the bandage contacts taken out 2 days ago. Doctor said eyes are healing fine but still has some small hazing which will... READ MORE
What are the chances that PRK surgery made my eyes worse?
About 16 months ago I had PRK surgery with monovision. While independently, my eyesight seems to be ok, my eyes don't seem to work together. My vision... READ MORE
I never had issues with my eyes hurting. After PRK on 01/28/15, still experiencing experience burning, blurriness and dryness.
From trying to rinse my face with ONLY water, even the slight fingers going over my eyes hurts. I cannot wear any make-up without crying from it... READ MORE
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I had PRK done on my right eye July 14, 2016. My eyesight is so blurry after surgery that I regret having it all. Prior to PRK i had Lasik done on... READ MORE
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Hi, I had my PRk done exactly 10 days back. Now vision in left eye is very much improved while that in right eye is till blurr. Is it normal or do i... READ MORE
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I had PRK 2 months ago and distance vision is great. My concern is on my close up vision. Anything closer than an arms length is very blurry. My... READ MORE
1 month after PRK over correction and blurry distance view. Any suggestions?
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I Had PRK Immediately Following an Incomplete Flap During Lasik.I Am Wondering if I Need an Enhancement Due to an Astigmatism?
I was having Lasik surgery and my doctor stated I had an incomplete flap. He immediately did PRK with MMC. I have an astimatism of sphere +0.25,... READ MORE
Why is my one eye blurry 1 month after PRK laser surgery?
I had the PRK surgery done on July 10th and my vision did get better around week 3 however now at week 5 post surgery my one eye (my dominant one) has... READ MORE
Rubbed my eye after ASLA (PRK) and now my vision is blurry. Have I done permanent damage?
I had ASLA (PKR) surgery 8 days ago and woke up vigorously rubbing my left eye. My left eye is now more blurry than it has been. Have I done permanent... READ MORE
1 Month Post PRK - Eyesight in Right Eye is Blurry
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- what matters most is how well you walk through the fire - charles bukowski -
A few weeks back I had the opportunity to speak at Exeter's inaugural "Fruni" event (http://www.fruni.org.uk/). Lecturers were voted in to talk about their research to an audience of staff and students from a mixture of disciplines. Below is a transcription of the talk I gave with relevant slides; it starts off with some discussion of cognitive science and phenomenology, but then mostly settles into a discussion of dancing to dubstep, Tron, and skateboarding. The basic argument is about what technology is, and what kind of things in the world might be of interest to the field of Digital and Cyberculture Studies.
- What is technology and what does it do? - and this is the subject of my book.
- Why is reading from a screen so different from reading from paper? - that was the subject of my PhD.
- How might we study Digital and Cybercultural practices in English departments? - and this is what I work on in my teaching.
Think of an apprentice carpenter with a saw, a tool that he doesn't yet know how to use efficiently. He sweats and the teeth catch and the wood splinters, the saw does the job, the piece of wood, eventually, achingly, laboriously, comes in two.
Heidegger took this as a given, but we might remember our own early carpentry efforts, where the hammer was hard to use, where we focussed on the thing rather than the work while we tried not to hit our fingers.
Timothy Taylor says something similar in his book The Artificial Ape, a work which sees technological use as what makes us human:
"it is not too much philosophy to say that the emergence of technology was and is intimately connected with the extension of the range of human intentionality. Without a car...I could not have intended to go fishing..., given the distance involved; without stone tool technology, our prehistoric ancestors could not have had the intention to kill big game...[T]he existence of objects, such as saucepans, not just allows actions but suggests them" (Timothy Taylor,152).
Defining the Digital Humanities.Asking "What is Electronic Writing?"Reading Videogames and Hard Drives.Looking at How Authors Have Responded to Digitisation?Exploring Politics Online and Networked Communities.And also Amateur Versus Expert Content Creation and the Effects of Access.We looked at The Threat/"Threat" of Digital Technology.At Neuropsychology and Interfaces.And talked about Sex Online and Subcultures.
In recognition of the importance placed on building in the Digital Humanities, even though very few of the students could program, they were still required to create something which had a computer component at some stage, and to use that creation as the basis for thinking through a particular idea.
Everything's so easy to see and access that if you don't see it then it might as well not exist. The vast majority of people aren't talking about things they haven't seen or couldn't see in two minutes time.
The overlaying of images in this fashion has become a staple of sports photography and some particularly kinetic advertising campaigns. The technique is simply called "sequence photography," and it's been around for a long time, but it's frequent use, and particularly its use in moving images is much more recent.
This is just one of the visual effects that these dancers are drawing on, but who knows how consciously? Sequence photography just became part of our visual grammar, a wholly unnatural way of looking at the world that's been made natural.
Ok, so here's a second video of a dancer called Nonstop:
There has been an attempt over the last 18 months or so to try and describe a "New Aesthetic" in the visual arts, one centred around digitisation and the intrusion of computing into visible real-world experience.
Note the use of pixels, glitches, wireframes, and computer-readable rather than human-readable symbology.
An image which can be hard to process until we've seen examples of stroboscopic photography, similar to sequence photography, and here used in a visual pun with Duchamp emulating his painting in a work entitled "Marcel Duchamp Descending Staircase."
This, for instance, is a significant trick in the winning run of a vert ramp skate competition in the early 1980s. The skater is about 4 feet off the top of the ramp, he approached the jump facing backwards, and held the board between his legs as he rotated 360 degrees in the air.
This allows for amateur skaters to have tricks broken down for them, to see the shapes their bodies should be making, and to visualise them ahead of time, and then to record their own performances and play them back to see where they went wrong, a technique which has been used extensively throughout professional sports and also the dance world, again at both professional and amateur levels.
And there really is no use denying that sex online is a big deal, and will remain part of any responsible Digital and Cyberculture studies work.
But do these questions get to the heart of what's new about online pornography?
And, again, the content is very rarely what's exciting or new, though something like the New Aesthetic goes some way to suggesting how that, far more slowly, might also be changing.
And the effect of this has been that the main habitat for the common crab... has disappeared to such an extent that it's in danger of going extinct.
And yet, if you don't think that that sounds like Humanities work, can you imagine how much we'd love to access similarly extensive data that allowed us try and map the effects of the introduction of printed books, or sheet music, or the novel, or oral poetry, or even early photography.
Such anecdotes, stored in blogs, reviews, editorials, and conversations, are a living repository of folk-phenomenological reports of what it takes to acclimatise to new devices, to become experts again.
The Digital Humanities offer a good model, but not the only one.
"in just a few years, a self-correcting, bottom-up system of quality, fundamentally independent of authorities-from-on-high, is breathing down the neck of the Mother of all sources of knowledge [The Encyclopedia Britannica]...It strikes me that there may be a very interesting consequence of this. When you have generations growing up with bottom-up emergence as routine...people are likely to realize that life, too, can have emerged, in all of its adaptive complexity, without some omnipotent being with a game plan" ( Robert Sapolsky "Weirdness of the Crowd").


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Elementary and Middle School Afterschool Program
At the Elementary and Middle School Campus, the Afterschool Program is designed to provide a safe, nurturing, and fun environment for the children to end their school day. MFS students work very hard through out the day, so the focus in Afterschool is on productive social playtime.
Students have many play options, from art projects to sand box play, to sports, gardening, and solitary reading time. Activities are almost always student-initiated and optional.
Afterschool care can be purchased in advance for a low annual rate, or used on an hourly, drop-in basis with no signup required.
Afterschool is open to all students from 3:00pm – 6:00pm, Monday-Friday. The school closes at 6:00pm, so all children must be picked up by this time.
On Mondays, Homework Club meets from 4:30pm – 5:30pm. During Homework club, students can get a head start on their weekly homework assignments. Afterschool teachers can provide support to the students as needed.
Numerous other afterschool enrichment programs are also available throughout the year for an additional fee. The class lineup changes throughout the year, offering children the opportunity to participate in such activities as art, cooking, chess, Spanish, science, martial arts, and sports.


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Aston Court Derby Hotel
Midlands Road, Derby, Derby, England
- 24 Hour Reception
- Airport Transfers
- Bar
- Breakfast Not Included
- Business Centre"
- Elevator
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Hair Dryers
- Laundry Facilities
- Luggage Storage
- Parking
- Restaurant
- Tea/Coffee Making Facilities
- Telephone Fax Facilities
- Wheelchair Friendly
Check-in / Check-out
Earliest check-in: 14:00
Latest Check-out: 11:00
- Credit Cards Accepted
- No Curfew
- Non Smoking
- Taxes Included
Group booking?
Group of 15 or more traveling to Derby?
Private Rooms
Standard Double Bed Private Ensuite
Sleeps 2
Room types
Private Room
Private Bathroom
Standard Twin Private Ensuite
Sleeps 2
Room types
Private Room
Private Bathroom
Standard Single Private Ensuite
Sleeps 1
Room types
Private Room
Private Bathroom
About Aston Court Derby
Smart Aston Court Hotel offers a warm welcome to all and there are many areas to relax and enjoy a drink or snack. Our restaurant is open evey evening and we are close to a large selection of bars and exciting places to eat. There is free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel and a business centre for the free use of hotel guests.
Accommodation Information
Smart Aston Court offers: a variety of single, twin and double en-ssuite rooms all with:
Tea & coffee making facilities, Writing area, Dial-up internet access, Direct-dial phone, Free wi-fi broadband throughout, Hair dryer, Makeup/shaving mirror, En-suite bathroom or shower, LCD colour TV, Non-smoking throughout and Trouser press etc.
Total rooms: 55Welcome to the smart Aston Court Hotel. We are located in the heart of Derby; this modern city-centre hotel offers free wi-fi internet access and friendly service. The derby train station is a brief walk away.
Location Information
Smart Aston Court Hotel
Midland Road
The hotel is located opposite Derby Railway Station and just a short walk from the City Centre. Outside the hotel are regular bus links to East Midlands Airport, Derby University, Rolls Royce and other places of interest locally.
Cancellation Policy
Customers can cancel their reservation free of charge up to 1 day before arrival. After this date, charges will be applied by the property up to the first nights cost of the reservation, unless otherwise stated in the property's conditions. Deposits paid are non refundable.


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News and Views for Tulsa's Reality-Based Community: Ideas, Politics, Letters, Art, Environment
Friday, December 30, 2011
Michele Bachmann Gets Help from ORU Students, but She's Going to Need So Much More
Bachmann studied law at the now-closed ORU law school.
The Tulsa World reports this morning that the ORU students will spend the weekend campaigning for Bachmann in Iowa. They'll even earn course credit for their work, the World reports.
But Bachmann will need more than a few student volunteers to overcome her tendency to take extreme positions and simplify complex issues. Bachmann loves simple solutions (don't we all?), but her solutions are almost always wrong.
Indeed, Bachmann's star has fallen in recent months. Recent Iowa polls have her in the low double-digits, running even with another fallen star, Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
We're not in the predicting business, but we feel confident in saying that Bachmann has a snowball's chance in hell of winning the Iowa Caucus.
Then again, with nut cases like Rep. Ron Paul and ethically challenged has-beens like Newt Gingrich going strong in Iowa, anything is possible.
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I don't appreciate you calling Ron Paul a "nutcase." State why you disagree with him but don't just write him off.
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On a semi-related noted, I've also been looking for similar functionality regarding properties that can be managed outside the realm of the Node. The observation listeners seem like the perfect place for updating things like "last modified" or a "modication counter" integer. Unfortunately, they can only "observe" and don't seem well-suited to actually modifying the node. It would be nice for the aforementioned uses if a listener could actually "intercept" a Node before it was persisted and make changes to it. I guess this would be similar to what is possible in a relaional trigger. Unless, there is a way to centrally manage properties like "last modified" or a "modification counter" in JCR that I'm missing? Ryan "Daniel Dekany" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote in message news:email@example.com... > Saturday, April 16, 2005, 11:35:05 PM, Edgar Poce wrote: > >> Hi daniel >> >> Daniel Dekany wrote: > >> I would be happily build a such framework, but I don't see how... JCR > >> nodes doesn't even have some kind of automatically maintained > >> last-modified property that I could use for quickly checking if the > >> object in the cache is outdated or not. It is almost everything that is > >> needed for the happiness. Seems to me such a low hanging fruit... > >> > >> Node n = (Node) session.getItem("/foo/theTemplate"); > >> cacheEntry = cache.get("/foo/theTemplate"); > >> if (!n.getStamp().equals(cacheEntry.getStamp())) { > >> The cached object is outdated, so let's recreate using the > >> current value of the insertsomethinghere property. > >> } else { > >> return cacheEntry.getObject() > >> } > >> >> >> I guess you can do it by creating a custom node type with a mandatory >> property that stores the last update timestamp. WDYT? > > Not good. Because: > > a) > > If all modification is made through my CMS (which handlers the > "mapping"), then I can ensure that the mapping:lastUpdate is always > changed when I change a property of the node. But a repository is not > only accessed through the interface of the CMS. It's a central content > repository that is read and write by various tools. So this solution > works for certain users, but it is against the idea of an "enterprise" > content repository, as it wouldn't work there. > > b) > > I believe that what I'm talking about will turn out to be a very common > task, and I will return to this topic later in this mail. Here I'm just > saying that there should be correct, standard, easy way of doing this. > For example, the specification should introduce nt:monitored (don't deal > with the poor name choice for now...), that should mean that the node > has these properties: > > - jcr:uuid > - jcr:modificationCounter which is automatically created and initialized > to > 0, and whose value is *automatically* incremented whenever a property of > the node is written. Yeah, there are lot of unclear things about this, > it was just a quick starting-point idea. > > This would be enough to implement a client side object cache ("mapping") > that I have talked about. If the uuid or modificationCounter of the node > returned for "foo/index" is changed, then the cached object shouldn't be > used. Furthermore I think that there should be a method in the JCR API > for this check, so implementations can optimize this (IMO) frequent > task. > > Something like this could be an optional feature. Then it will turn out > if customers will want the JCR implementators to support this feature or > not. > >> the first line of your example would be something like: >> Property p = (Property) >> session.getItem("/foo/theTemplate/mapping:lastUpdate"); >> >> But since graffito, lenya and jackrabbit communities are interested in >> such a tool it would be cool to work together, that would be the apache >> way, right? :). AFAIK the proposal discussed in the graffito dev list >> deals with many of the issues you are talking but I didn't see any >> reference to a cache with already mapped objects. > > Excuse me being a smart Aleck and telling what I think about the whole > issue, and the (apparent?) lack of comprehension about the issue: > > People already use these RDBMS-es for ages, and then later they have > built these "object mapping" layers over what he already had, like > Hibernate. Now with JCR it seems that people think that it's OK if they > say that JCR is analogous with JDBC, and since Hibernate is working > relatively well, the same trick (adding an object mapping layer later) > will work in the case JCR as well. I belive its a blind thinking. > > Look at Hibernate how and why it works without the caching problems I'm > crying about here. You run a query and you get bean instances (instead > of the low-level ResultSet). Whenever you run a query, new bean > instances are created. There is no caching (and thus no cache that can > go out if sync with the storage). No caching is needed because creating > a new simple bean and setting its properties has no significant resource > consumption compared to what the DB query eats. (And if you worry about > to much garbage, you can use instance pools, because re-setting property > values is easy, so you can reuse instances.) Yes, this surely will work > with JCR as well. The problem is that if we are talking about content > repositories and CMS-es and Web, then I it will turn out that there is a > strong tendency of storing big complex objects in the storage (usually > stored as BLOB-s, that is, binary properties, or as long string > properties), not just simple tables that can be easily modelled with > those lightweight beans. Again, look at a ZODB (Zope) what's stored in > it... lot of objects that you definitely don't want to shamelessly > instantiate and then very soon drop, again and again, like you did with > those beans. For example, you store templates here, and scripts... > creating a template or a script object eats many resources, and not only > because these objects are big and complex, but because creating the > instance may involves tasks like parsing the template/script (written in > Velocity language, Groovy, etc) and such. Same goes for other "serious" > objects as well, like XML documents (you will store it with a string or > binary property, but certainly you will have to parse that to DOM tree > before you can actually use it). A content repository is a bit like the > file system on your HDD: you store many big/complex files there (lot of > BLOB-s with RDBMS wording), not just a heap of simple tables. > > Furthermore, since these objects are relatively big in the storage, just > to get these objects from the content repository is expensive in itself > because of the I/O needed (and/or because of the memory needed if they > are in the RAM cache). Rather you should just get the values of jcr:uuid > and jcr:modificationCounter (see these earlier), and get the primary > property (typically jcr:content) only if they have changed. > > Last not least, these objects in the repository are usually seldom > changed (consider how often you modify page templates compared to the > records that store the current stocks), so it is just obvious that you > should cache them inside your CMS, or inside whatever that is the client > to the content repository. These objects are used frequently (like you > will run the page template of a frequently visited page a lot), and > modified seldom. >
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My job changes from day to day, but it includes driving Zandra to the airport, lending out garments to magazines who need them for retrospective features on, say, the Seventies, and giving the students their tasks when Zandra's away. She usually has three to four students living in her flat above the offices, which helps to make the studio a friendly environment in which to work.
We recently moved the studio to Bermondsey, where Zandra intends to house the Museum of Fashion and Textiles. We had to dismantle all the equipment and storage units, which was hard going - loading everything from print tables to screens into Zandra's small van. Since I became involved in the setting up of the museum I have been responsible for co-ordinating the board meetings, keeping the trustees up-to-date on progress, writing up the minutes from meetings, cataloguing the clothes and liaising with designers like Mary Quant and the Jean Muir studio over the images for the catalogue. It's fascinating to watch the project evolve, particularly since it will be the first museum of its kind in the UK. When we were refused Lottery funding for the museum it was a real disappointment, but it didn't put Zandra off, it just made her all the more determined to get funding from private investors.
I've changed as a person since I've worked for Zandra. I've become more confident. I no longer get flustered if someone like Joanna Lumley calls up or Lulu answers her mobile from the dentist's chair. I feel I can now accept celebrities as ordinary people, a skill which came in useful when I was recently asked to organise Zandra's party to celebrate her receiving a CBE.
Zandra isn't really an eccentric person herself, and when you are working for her you don't have to pretend to be something you're not. I'm not a trained secretary and I would be bored sitting at a computer all day. I very much like the creative side of my work and I'm willing to do anything. I've encountered so much variety within this job that I feel that in the future I could branch out in many different ways; I certainly don't feel that I've been steered in one direction. But it's nice to go back to Kent to the home I share with my parents at the end of the day and relax away from it all.
I've been proud to be part of Zandra's work and I wouldn't want to leave her until I saw the museum open, which is scheduled for the year 2000. Whenever I work at one of Zandra's shows now I join the audience in time to see everyone applaud her arrival on stage. It always gives me a huge sense of admiration for her.
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Free testosterone level is now "out of range"
I started my day this morning by watching a young buck like this one graze in my yard. He came within about 6 feet of the window from where I stood before he noticed me. Then we locked eyes—magical! (We've also got a yearling, a mamma and a new spotted baby fawn hanging around the house. The dog is totally uninterested. The cat is mesmerized, and it's reciprocal: the deer regularly trot after him!)
I don't see the bucks too often and was very pleased that he'd made an appearance on the day of my 6th testosterone injection. For the first time today, the injection got a little close to a nerve. It wasn't painful; it just caused an odd sensation that ran down my leg.
I got my recent blood work results from the doctor as well. My free testosterone is now at 41.5 pmol/L, up from 2.8 pre-T—nice! As expected, all of my hematology numbers have gone up, including my hemoglobin, which was low to begin with. Now the only metric that's "out of range" is the free testosterone. Time to haul out the Ani DiFranco CD and give that song some new meaning!
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Evasive change-of-direction manoeuvres (agility skills) are a fundamental ability in rugby union. In this study, we explored the attributes of agility skill execution as they relate to effective attacking strategies in rugby union. Seven Super 14 games were coded using variables that assessed team patterns and individual movement characteristics during attacking ball carries. The results indicated that tackle-breaks are a key determinant of try-scoring ability and team success in rugby union. The ability of the attacking ball carrier to receive the ball at high speed with at least two body lengths from the defence line against an isolated defender promoted tackle-breaks. Furthermore, the execution of a side-step evasive manoeuvre at a change of direction angle of 20–60° and a distance of one to two body lengths from the defence, and then straightening the running line following the initial direction change at an angle of 20–60°, was associated with tackle-breaks. This study provides critical insight regarding the attributes of agility skill execution that are associated with effective ball carries in rugby union.
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I don't understand your post.
I guess what made WCW different was, in it's infancy, it was different than WWE. The minute it tried to recreate what WWE was doing was when it went downhill.
WCW at the beginning was more about the sport and less about the entertainment. Eventually, people grew tired of the usual and the NWO was born. Eventually, people got tired of that and WCW didn't know what to do next. The promotion made for good TV; it's just that for the most part, those running the company didn't know what they were doing.
Re: What Made WCW Great?
The theft of ECW's stars
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Re: What Made WCW Great?
And for the record, the cash never ran out. Deep pockets Turner ran the show and said he didn't care about the money, as WCW did him well with his networks.
The end of WCW came when Turner lost his share, as if Time Warner had full control in 1996, they wanted to pull the plug then. The deck was stacked against WCW since 1996 and they were just waiting for Turner to lose his share to call it quits. Him spending money was what made things get better, as ratings/buyrates didn't drastically increase until Hogan, Nash, Hall, Savage and other big name talents came over. Had Hogan never came back and furthermore, had Hall & Nash not jumped ship, WCW would have died after 5 years because it was a money pit from day 1, until those guys came over.
Re: What Made WCW Great?
You missed 1 thing: The Cruiserweights.
Re: What Made WCW Great?
Re: What Made WCW Great?
Basically, WCW was the only company that you could see a division strictly devoted to the cruiserweights in the US. And before somebody says they stole Mysterio, Konnan, Psychosis, Juventud, Jericho, Benoit, Malenko & Guerrero, you've only named about 15-25% of the cruiserweight division. Further more, their cruiserweight/light heavyweight division really got praise due to Brian Pillman and Jushin Liger. They're the reason the division even existed but I guess we're supposed to go off revisionist history.
If people still can't see what made WCW so great/different from the rest, it's because you've never watched it or you let WWE tell the story of the history of WCW.
Re: What Made WCW Great?
most of the wrestling public worldwide had no acess to lucha libre or puro but WCW brought it to them
Re: What Made WCW Great?
For me what made WCW great was that
1. they were always trying to improve the tv-product. Bigger, fancier, louder...etc. It always looked and felt cooler than Raw.
2. Main event wrestling. I always felt with WCW that there was an important main event wrestling (not a promo) at the end of every Nitro..with WWF it wasn't the same thing.
Nothing or they would still be in business. Nitro was the cool show for a while until there were no more stars to steal from Vince.
WCW wasnt great but it was great for business, competition will do that even if its poor.
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The holidays are almost over, so the inbound mail has slowed down a bit. Not a lot, but some. I've been thinking about next spring's garden, which sounds kind of silly because we have almost a foot of snow on the ground right now.
I blame the mailman for it. My Burpee and Gardener's Supply Company catalogs have already arrived. I also received a new catalog from Frontgate, which is where I bought the hubby's iPad caddy from. I can't afford much of what's in there, but it's still nice to look.
I also recently received a shipment of copies of my latest book, A Christmas Kindness, which I wrote under the pen name C. C. Gevry. Not sure if I'll keep the pen name going forward. Seems like it might be more of a pain than it's worth with separate websites and social media accounts that need tending to.
Other books that have come my way are The Lincoln Conspiracy by Timothy L. O'Brien--thanks Patty, The Last of the Seals and Deadly Plunge by Greg Messel (I'm reading the first one now), and Iconic Spirits by Mark Spivak. It looks like this year is destined to be just as busy in the book review department. Most of my reviews appear at The Book Connection, so I hope you check us out there: http://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/
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Sticking It To Japan With Sticker ShockDavid Woodruff
John Immel, a Dodge dealer in Fairbanks, Alaska, loves shoppers' reaction these days when they compare his cars with Japanese models. Tire-kickers, he says, often squint at the fine print on price stickers and exclaim: "Gee, you're $2,000 cheaper [than similar Japanese versions]." Big Three auto makers love it, too. As their price advantage sinks in with consumers, Detroit's market share has jumped nearly two points, to 74.6%, since January, on top of a 1.5-point gain last year.
Now, as the industry gussies up new models for the start of the 1994 model year on Oct. 1, Detroit is battling to keep its comeback against Japan zooming ahead. The strategy: to raise list prices only moderately while giving buyers a break by offering deals on popular option packages, slashing dealer margins, and pushing low-cost lease deals. Detroit is also rattling sabers about another dumping suit, claiming Japanese manufacturers haven't raised prices enough to match the soaring value of the yen.
Japanese carmakers are under enormous pressure to raise prices. Worldwide sales have slumped, while the yen has risen 17% vs. the dollar this year--hammering earnings. On Aug. 24, for instance, Honda Motor Co. reported that its pretax profits for the quarter ended June 30 skidded 55%, to $148.5 million, on sales that fell 17.3%, to $8.6 billion.
To avoid price hikes, the Japanese are furiously cutting costs. On Aug. 24, Mazda Motor of America Inc. laid off 175 people, including Executive Vice-President Clark J. Vitulli and four other top execs. Marketing Vice-President Jay Amestoy calls the cuts "an effort to maintain competitive pricing."
INSULATED. How much higher will stickers climb? Final 1994 prices won't be out for a few weeks. But Dean Witter Discover & Co. analyst Ronald A. Glantz expects Detroit to boost prices 6% on average, partly because of standard equipment such as passenger air bags. Japan's prices may rise 8% or more.
But Japan could try to hold the line on models made in the U.S. Japanese midsizes--the Nissan Altima, Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, and Mitsubishi Galant--are U.S.-built, which helps insulate them from exchange rate pressures. Analysts expect Honda's all-new 1994 Accord, from Marysville, Ohio, to be priced only slightly above the 1993 model, which ranges from $14,130 to $22,100. Likewise, Toyota Motor Co. will probably try to keep in check the price of its Camry, built in Georgetown, Ky. Japanese makers "are going to be sure that everything they build here sells like hot cakes," says Christopher W. Cedergren, of researcher AutoPacific Group Inc.
Detroit, meanwhile, is doing everything it can to stick it to Japan. For starters, it has a few nifty new models coming out, including a redesigned Mustang from Ford Motor Co. due at yearend. But Detroit's main weapon is the concept of "value pricing." In place of the usual dizzying array of options, the Big Three are pushing attractively priced models outfitted with popular features such as air conditioning and automatic transmission. The idea: to eliminate haggling with dealers and pare back rebates--a technique that has helped make General Motors Corp.'s Saturn Corp. subsidiary successful.
Ford has used the technique to boost sales of its Thunderbird model 100% so far this year. And on Aug. 24, GM unveiled special package deals on seven popularly equipped 1994 Oldsmobiles. The Big Three are applying the approach heavily in California, where Japan owns half the car market. There, GM has announced deals on 24 Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac, and GMC models. A Pontiac Grand Am that lists for $15,509 this year, for instance, will go for $13,995 in 1994.
The Big Three are also using attractive lease deals to pull in customers. In late August, Chrysler Corp. unveiled a new leasing program with partner GE Capital Corp. that Theodor R. Cunningham, Chrysler's vice-president for sales, says will double its leasing business, to as much as 9% of sales in 1994. Ford already leases 26% of its cars; GM 14%.
LEASERS KEEPERS. Ford, meanwhile, is test-marketing a 12-year lease that, if it catches on, could dramatically boost customer loyalty. In early August, four Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealers in Las Vegas began promising consumers a new car every two years for a fixed monthly payment if they agreed to sign a 12-year contract. At the end of the period, customers would get to keep their last vehicle, at no extra charge.
Some Japanese rivals will have trouble emulating Detroit's new pricing strategy. A few models, such as Nissan Motor Co.'s Altima, built in Smyrna, Tenn., are getting a big sales boost from value pricing similar to Detroit's, but the high yen will make price-cutting hard for other companies. Randall R. McCathren of Bank Lease Consultants Inc., based in San Leandro, Calif., predicts that financially strong companies such as Toyota and Mitsubishi will try to match Detroit in leasing, but he thinks hard-pressed Japanese makers such as Mazda will have a tough time raising the cash for Detroit-style lease programs. Now if the Big Three can just resist raising their prices too much, they can keep the pressure on.


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Exclusive: Target Canada's supply chain gridlock: how Barbie SUVs snarled traffic
By Allison Martell, Solarina Ho and Susan Taylor
TORONTO (Reuters) - A pink Barbie-branded SUV that seats two toddlers offers a surprising glimpse into the myriad problems that jammed up Target Corp's supply chain when it set up shop in Canada, and the challenge facing Target's new Canadian head.
The toy was one of many products that piled up in bewildering volume at Target's new distribution centers as it opened 124 stores across Canada last year, said two former employees of the company's Canadian logistics contractor.
Only a year ago, Target was touting its first store openings in Canada. Then Chief Executive Gregg Steinhafel told investors he was pleased with how his workers and systems were handling the launch. But things were already going awry, said the sources, who worked at two of Target's three distribution hubs and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Goods were coming into the warehouses faster than they were going out, in part because the barcodes on many items did not match what was in the computer system. As shipments stacked up, Target flew in dozens of red-shirted staff from the United States to shore up the operation, the sources said.
This insiders' view, which has not been reported before, may partially explain why shoppers have been disappointed by empty shelves at some of Target's Canadian stores. It is a cautionary tale for other U.S. retailers who may be considering a big push into Canada.
Target, which is due to report its quarterly financial results on Wednesday, has said little about what went wrong with its Canadian supply chain. But on Tuesday it fired Tony Fisher, the president of its operation there, and replaced him with Mark Schindele, a veteran U.S. executive with deep experience in managing supply chains.
Target's launch into Canada, its first international venture, was code-named Project Bacon, an apparently playful reference to Canadian bacon sold in U.S. supermarkets. Instead of a slow province-by-province rollout, the retailer clinched a big real estate deal, locking itself into a rapid, coast-to-coast launch that later magnified supply chain problems.
The company said in February it had "dramatically reduced" congestion in the supply chain but did not give details. Asked to comment on the sources' depiction of overflowing warehouses, Target said it did not discuss vendor relationships. Continued...


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The first of that help arrived when junior college products Scott Haverkamp of Butler Community College and Corvey Irvin, Vince Vance and Jarius Wynn of Georgia Military College all signed national letters-of-intent to play for the Bulldogs on the first day junior collegeplayers were allowed to sign.
The players will not join Georgia's team until after the Dec. 30 Chick-fil-A Bowl against No. 14 Virginia Tech.
GMC coach Bert Williams, who attended the Bulldogs' Wednesday practice, expects all three of his players to have an immediate impact at Georgia.
"Obviously there's a need on just numbers alone," Williams said.
Irvin, who also was recruited by Florida and South Carolina among others, will play defensive tackle for Georgia, Richt said.
Wynn, a junior college All-American and a four-star player according to Scout.com, chose Georgia over Florida, South Carolina, Auburn and Tennessee. He will be a defensive end.
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Vance, who had scholarship offers from LSU and South Carolina among others, is the most intriguing of the transfers. For starters, he has three years of eligibility left, unlike the others, who all have two. Also, he's only been playing offensive line for just 18 months.
"He takes a quantum leap of improvement every day," Williams said.
Vance, 6-foot-8, 310 pounds, reminds Williams of former Georgia standout tackle Bernard Williams, who played for the Bulldogs when Bert Williams was a graduate assistant in Athens.
"I'm just interested to see how good he's going to be by the time he finishes here," Bert Williams said. "I really think he has tremendous potential. I told him when we recruited him this is what I think you can be, and he bought into it and did a good job for us."
Haverkamp, who also was recruited by Arizona State and Illinois, played guard at Butler but could be either a tackle or guard for the Bulldogs, Richt said.
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Without the new additions, Georgia would have had only seven scholarship offensive linemen during spring practice.
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High school: Lincoln County High School (Lincolnton)
Junior college: Georgia Military College
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According to a recent survey, payment issues are the No. 1 concern for AAFP members. We heard you and wanted
you to know that we are actively working on this topic for you with both public
and private payers.
Academy leaders, including myself, met with about a dozen representatives from one of the nation's largest private payers on Oct. 10 to discuss payment and your concerns.
During the four-hour meeting -- which included representatives from UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries, UnitedHealthcare and Optum -- the AAFP discussed distressed practice environments and clearly spelled out for company representatives that paying fee-for-service rates that are below Medicare rates harms primary care physicians and jeopardizes patients' access to care.
A number of members practicing in distressed environments
have asked the AAFP for help.
Evidence has shown that primary care leads to better outcomes and lowers overall health care costs. However, these distressed environments -- where primary care payment is especially low -- have low per capita primary care physician penetration rates, high per capita subspecialist penetration, low retention of primary care trained residents, aging primary care bases, and a decreasing number of primary care physicians.
Many health plans are offering family medicine practices -- especially
in rural areas and in areas with small- and medium-sized practices -- contracts
for fee-for-service payment that are up to 40 percent less than Medicare. Sadly,
these practices have no room to negotiate. It's take it or leave it.
We told United's representatives that such tactics are outrageous. This approach is killing primary care practices. Meanwhile, some subspecialists in these same geographic areas are being offered fee-for-service rates at or above Medicare rates, steering medical students away from primary care, driving family medicine residents out of these areas and exacerbating shortages in the primary care workforce.
Paying less than Medicare also conveys the public message that UnitedHealthcare, as both a payer and employer, does not value primary care. We urged company representatives to reconsider their corporate policy in this regard.
The AAFP's Commission on Quality and Practice is looking into the problems faced by family physicians in these distressed practice environments. In addition, a staff working group is collecting data on factors that lead to these environments, where they exist and ways the AAFP can work with constituent chapters to address the problem.
The Academy also has asked the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative to address the fact that some private health plans involved in the PCPCC are offering family physicians contracts that pay significantly less than Medicare.
It is up to you as an individual physician to decide who to contract with. However, it is important that part of that decision-making process is an evaluation of whether the offered payment leads to a viable practice with quality patient outcomes.
For years, the AAFP has urged public and private payers to adopt a blended payment model that rewards primary care physicians for coordinating and managing patient care. Our meeting with United came soon after some good news on that front. On Sept. 28, CMS and its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, or CMMI, announced the launch of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative. The initiative will involve CMS collaborating with commercial and state health insurance plans to support primary care practices that deliver coordinated and seamless care.
The program will give participating practices fee-for-service payments and a risk-adjusted per-patient, per-month coordination fee ranging from $8 to $40, plus the opportunity to share in savings resulting from the program. This model is what AAFP has been advocating in support of the patient-centered medical home, and we encouraged the United companies to participate.
Commercial insurers interested in participating in the initiative need to submit a letter of intent to participate by Nov. 15. CMS will then recruit 75 primary care practices in up to seven regional markets for the initial phase of the project. Participating physicians will benefit from the blended payment model for Medicare and Medicaid patients as well as patients enrolled in participating private insurance plans.
AAFP leaders are scheduled to meet with CMMI staff Oct. 20 in Washington, D.C. to talk about the initiative, and we plan to discuss it again with UnitedHealthcare sometime after that CMMI meeting.
I'm confident this initiative will further demonstrate that patient outcomes improve and costs are saved when the health care system values primary care by paying for all the services we provide to our patients.
Monday's meeting with UnitedHealthcare was a first for me but not for the Academy. The AAFP meets regularly with private payers, and similar meetings with other large commercial insurers are being planned for 2012. As with Monday's meeting, the focus will be on payment and improving care coordination and quality.
Our message is simple. To ensure patients' access to care, primary care physicians must be paid at a level that matches the value of our service.
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I like Arlene Alda's works, but have mixed results with them when reading them to children. Some like "Here a Face, There a Face" are tremendously popular. Others just get sort of a nod and a look like 'can we move on'. "Hello, Good-bye" lies somewhere's in between. The problem being that the photographs aren't necessarily the best for small fry.
Cold and Hot, for example, are well done. There's an evergreen covered with snow on one page and a palm tree on a beach on the opposing page. The images are attractive and convey the ideas well. But to give you an example of where things don't work out as well, let's look at Old and New.
In both cases there is architecture. An old building (Europe?) on a river versus a new abstract looking building. Now you and I and even older kids would understand why one would think the abstract-painting building was New... but two year olds don't have the cultural context to make that connection and heaven knows but most children I know aren't that interested in buildings.
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"Hello, Good-Bye" is a concept book that addresses contrasts. It's a better book for slightly older children.
The pictures are typical of Alda's work. And this book, like all of hers, are certainly worth sharing with children, either at home or at school. Good LibraryFind.
Text consist of single words. Accelerated Reading level given as generic "1".
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0887769004, Hardcover)An opposites book like no other — from the inimitable Arlene Alda!
Author / photographer Arlene Alda is back with another delightful photo essay. This time she tackles the concept of opposites with her keen sense of humor and sharp eye. This slightly off-beat collection of images is fodder for the imagination — an opposites book like no other. For children from five to eight, and those who still remember the magic of first discoveries, Arlene's through-the-lens perceptions offer new ways to see and think about those remarkable "everyday" things around us.
This is the fourth book in a series that not only instructs but also raises visual awareness and fine-tunes observational skills. Look for The Book of ZZZs, Did You Say Pears?, and Here a Face, There a Face.
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