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By Jeff Gallatin
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A former Bay Village firefighter who was one of the leaders of a group that challenged Bay Village Mayor Debbie Sutherland's administration about fire department staffing issues several years ago now plans to contest her for the mayor's job as well.
Marty Mace, who served 24 years as a Bay Village firefighter, as well as a five-year member of the state of Ohio's Department of Public Safety, division of Emergency Medical Services board, has announced his plans to run against Sutherland, who is the longest-serving mayor in Bay Village's history.
Mace was one of the leaders of a group of city residents and safety force members who challenged Sutherland's administration when it dropped minimum shift manning levels in an effort to deal with tight budgets. The administration and groups eventually came to an agreement to put floating firefighter positions in place to rotate among shifts and deal with the staffing issues. However, those positions have been set aside in the continued tight fiscal year budgets.
Mace said safety issues and the city budget are among the primary reasons he is seeking the position.
"There have been changes in the city budgets which I think need to be addressed," he said when asked if the fire and police department staffing were among the issues he was concerned about. In addition to the floaters' positions, how the fire department's inspection duties are handled has remained a contentious issue among city council, Sutherland's administration and the fire department. The police department has suspended indefinitely the D.A.R.E. officer's post, citing the need to use an officer who would be assigned to those duties for road patrol work. Council has also considered eliminating some safety force positions to try to help deal with cuts in funding levels and the tight municipal budgets.
Mace said major weaknesses in the city emergency management structure became apparent during and following Superstorm Sandy last fall. He said he would have more specific comment on the issues after the Emergency Communications Task Force releases its final report, which it was scheduled to do at Monday's City Council meeting.
Mace said the budget must be considered carefully, saying the financial crisis of the last few years is crippling the city's ability to provide services.
"Bay Village is our city, providing our services, with our tax dollars," he said. "As times are tough and dollars are short, the priorities of the people must prevail. Citizen participation in the democratic process is vital to successful municipal government long after the polls close on Election Day."
Mace said people are empowered by transparency in government and that his administration would ensure meaningful and timely public notice of critical decisions, with increased access to City Council meetings to keep the people informed about decisions that affect their lives.
Mace's decision could lead the city into a mayoral primary. In addition to Sutherland and Mace, Claire Banasiek, a substitute school teacher, and David Volle, a former city building inspector, also have pulled petitions to run for mayor. If at least three end up filing the petitions by the June deadline, it would require a mayoral primary.


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I have a good friend who has pretty much given up all hope of exercising. She was on a roll in the beginning of the year but after a bout with the flu, she stopped exercising and eventually lost interest all together. Unfortunately, many people get in a rut and find it hard to pull themselves out when it comes to exercising.
I was in a rut for a very long time, years in fact, when I wouldn't exercise at all. Family would pester me about the importance of exercising and I just blew it all off because I wasn't motivated.
Below, I am sharing what I think will benefit anyone like my friend who is stuck in a rut and needs motivation to start working out again.
Get a check up – A lot of times, it takes a doctor to tell you that you need to drop some weight, lower your cholesterol, and other health issues to get you moving again. If you have a purpose, it may motivate you to take action.
Walk first – When you haven't exercised in a long time, your motivation level is very low. Walking is one of the simplest exercises to use in order to get back into the habit. Once you can walk, then you can build up to a jog, and eventually a run.
Invest in an iPod – I can't workout without music. Listening to your own playlist is extremely motivating so I suggest investing in an Apple iPod or other mp3 player.
Learn something new – Most of the time people who don't like exercise don't like it because it's boring. If that's the case for you, do something that won't feel like exercise like learning martial arts, swimming, learning tennis, boxing lessons, etc.
Become an expert – Pick an activity and become a pro at it. For example, maybe you've always wanted to run a marathon or become a bodybuilder. It doesn't matter if you're out of shape now, just pick what you like, train and become an expert in it.
I think the best way I avoid exercise ruts is by not going too long without workout out. I have stayed consistant about working out so it has become a habit like flossing. When it becomes a habit, then it is harder to break.
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NCAA Betting Online: A Star Wars theme is playing out in the Elite Eight round of the 2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. When the Florida Gators and Louisville Cardinals meet on Saturday, a former Jedi apprentice will aim to defeat his old Jedi master.
Billy Donovan was a guard on Rick Pitino's Providence team that made it to the Final Four in 1987. After Donovan played the Wall Street game for a few years he came back to the hard court to work for his old coach as an assistant.
It's the old adage: Pitino taught Donovan everything he knows about basketball.
"I've said that outside of my parents, he's the most influential person in my life," Donovan said.
Donovan has won national championships with Florida twice while Pitino only has one title in his storied career. But the teacher has owned the pupil when they've met, going 6-0 all-time versus Florida. But this is the first postseason showdown.
The Gators are back in the Elite Eight for the second straight year. They lost to Butler in overtime as 4-point favorites, but that experience should be invaluable because many of the players are still on the team.
One who wasn't is freshman Bradley Beal. Donovan has been urging the blue-chip, NBA prospect to be more assertive on the offensive end and he delivered big in Thursday's win over Marquette.
Beal filled up the stat sheet with 21 points, six rebounds, four assists, two steals and a pair of blocks. He only missed two of his 10 shots from the floor.
"Bradley Beal is their swing vote. He's versatile. He plays multiple positions," Marquette head coach Buzz Williams said.
Florida covered the college basketball spread Thursday as 1-point underdogs behind the 68-58 win. The Gators have won all three of their tourney contests by double digits and an average of 23.3 points. They are 4-0 ATS in their last four outings.
Florida was the best team in the nation in 3-point shooting during the regular season but when shots were falling from deep against Marquette (7 of 27), the Gators leaned on their defense.
The Golden Eagles were limited to 31 percent shooting from floor and 29 percent from 3-point land. They were the first to crack 50 points on Florida in the tourney but the Gators have allowed the third-fewest points (153) in tournament history through three games. Florida did a superb job getting back and not allowing Marquette to get into its transition offense.
You saw what Louisville looked like when it wasn't connecting from the field Thursday. The Cardinals and Spartans both started the game ice cold and had a combined 12 points at the 10-minute mark of the first half.
But the Cardinals started to heat up and made 7 of 15 shots from downtown, which gave them a 5-point lead going into halftime. They would never relinquish the upper hand and eventually knocked off No. 1 seed Michigan State, 57-44.
The Cards have been on a roll since the Big East Tournament, which Pitino said gave his young team a ton of confidence. They have won six in a row and covered college basketball spread in all of them.
Louisville's win on Thursday was also all about the defense. Instead of the normal gameplan of trapping, Pitino had his players go over the top of screens and push the Spartans out. The idea was to make MSU work extremely hard to get the ball into the paint to their bigs.
It worked because the Sparties could not penetrate the pesky zone defense. And when they did, 6-foot-11 center Gorgui Dieng was there to reject any offerings, recording seven blocks on the night.
Pitino's zone has been suffocating throughout the tourney. MSU shot under 23 percent from the field and committed 11 turnovers when Louisville was in a zone, and the Spartans' 44 points were fewest ever from a top seed during the shot-clock era.
No opponent has made more than 24 percent of its 3-point attempts against UL in the last seven games. The under is 10-1 in the Cardinals' last 11 outings.
The college basketball spread for this contest was released by BookMaker at a PK while the total opened at 131. Donovan-led Florida teams are 13-3 SU and 12-4 ATS in the Round of 16 or better. Minute-by-minute spreads, totals and props are available for this game using the live betting platform at BookMaker.
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Madden NFL 06 Game Boy Advance
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- Release Date: Aug 8, 2005
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If you've got last year's version of Madden NFL, then you don't need this one. It's so disappointing to see such little improvement in this series.
The controls, interfaces, artificial intelligence, graphics, audio, and pretty much everything else in this latest game are mostly unchanged from the previous one. That's not a complete negative, since last year's game delivered some great football, but you may be disappointed if you were hoping to see significant upgrades to this year's model.
This is not a bad game, but it doesn't make the playoffs when compared to other handheld systems. The GBA shows its age and limitations with this title.
So, essentially what we have for the 2006 version of Madden on the Game Boy Advance is last year's game plus Mini Camps.
Nintendo PowerA solid title with good football sense and strong gameplay. [Oct 2005, p.97]
If you've never touched a football game in your life, it might be a little out of reach for you, and if you've played every football game out there, it might seem a bit boring and pointless.
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Greg Grease ft. Budah Tye - Flyin' Kites
At first glance, Flyin' Kites might seem like an unusually innocent pastime to base a rap record around. But why front? Childish or not, that sh*t is fun. As you might have surmised however, Greg Grease does it a little differently than your average group of kids at the park; the Minneapolis rhymesayer is the kite and, instead of having someone run through an open field to get him aloft, he just takes a few puffs of a swisher blunt. The latest installment in the artist's ongoing Cornbread's Coming series, a sampled beat co-produced by the artist and BenZilla bangs in the back as Grease waxes poetic about the pleasures of cheap reefer: "I'm a connoisseur, it's gotta smell like cat piss and cow manure." Budah Tye assists on the guest tip. Like what you're hearing? Then keep it locked for further Cornbread's Coming releases, as well as the latest on the artist's forthcoming LP, Cornbread, Earl & G.


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Ray, whom I wrote this story about, says in an email sent out Tuesday (copied in full below): "I recently was introduced to a great website that could quite possibly change your life forever. It's about numerology--the science of numbers--and how they influence virtually every single aspect of your life."
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I wrote you a few days ago about a site that a friend of mine has created that's all about numerology (the science of numbers) and you...
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I recently was introduced to a great website that could quite possibly change your life forever. It's about numerology--the science of numbers--and how they influence virtually every single aspect of your life.
I've studied and been interested in numerology for years; and while it might be easy to be skeptical... if it was good enough for Pythagoras (the father of mathematics), it's good enough for me. Besides... even modern science now tells us that the entire Universe is built upon geometry and numbers.
It nailed my personality to a "T", revealing things about me that I don't share with anyone--even some of my closest friends! It was so accurate that it was actually beyond belief.
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Dont Get Scrooged: How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant, and Downright Mean-Spirited People
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Death by PowerPoint: A Modern Office Survival Guide
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Was She Pretty?
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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Broadway, 270 pp., illustrated, $25
If you've been braving the crowds recently trying to get that all-important (if problematic)
A best-selling author, Carlson details his how-to-deal strategies: You either turn the other cheek or rise to the challenge. With a friend who's driving him crazy, he decides confrontation is worth it. "It occurred to me that I had never told my friend that his nonstop chatter bugged me, that I liked natural silences and lulls, and that I thought these were even a testament to closeness," Carlson writes. "I did not want to hurt his feelings by telling him, essentially, to shut up once in a while, but if I didn't I knew I would soon stop wanting to be around him." So Carlson bites the bullet. He confronts his friend, kindly. And the friendship doesn't just survive, it prospers.
Sometimes, however, confrontation is simply not worth it. When that "scrooge" insists on muscling ahead of you in line, Carlson suggests going Zen and letting your anger dissipate. Which is often much easier said than done.
Still, despite our best intentions, we often blow our tops. And the worst place to do that is at work. Thus Michael Flocker's "Death by PowerPoint: A Modern Office Survival Guide." Looking for a stocking stuffer for your favorite office drone? Try this. You'll find it shelved under humor/self-help/how to find yourself a brand-new job. Flocker has corporate life down to a mad science. According to him, "Nothing pleases a corporate employer more than an increasingly expanding employee with their self-esteem on the downswing. You think those Krispy Kreme donuts in the kitchen are an act of generosity on the part of your employer? They are not. They are part of an evil plot to accommodate your most base instincts while simultaneously producing a sugar high and undermining your confidence. Think about it. Are glazed donuts really the reward you were looking for?" Flocker tells you how to ditch that temptation, and slim down while getting ahead and making the best of your dull, drab job. Unfortunately, this is a book that feels rushed out, one that could have used some close editing, though there are plenty of funny set pieces.
Speaking of stocking stuffers, you might try "Was She Pretty?," by Leanne Shapton. This is a book of drawings with bookended enigmatic descriptions. The theme is jealousy, and it's quite a hip little tome. Next to a line drawing of a kitchen stove and cabinet, there's this quote: "Kim's ex-boyfriend Wade kept his love letters in a kitchen drawer. Kim was always tempted, but never opened the drawer. She would stare at it while she cooked." There are oddly poignant moments in these pages, for jealousy is a universal condition. Still, as a baby boomer, I'm no Kim. I wouldn't waste time staring at that drawer. I'd have those letters out on day one, the tea kettle going, the envelopes steamed, their contents read and carefully replaced. I'm sorry, but angst? Baby, that is just such a 21st-century thing.
In an earlier century, we lived on a planet where daily life was wonderfully predictable. We called this planet childhood. Bill Bryson's own was long ago in a place truly far, far away; Des Moines, Iowa, circa 1955. His memoir, "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid," offers a pitch-perfect, nostalgic, and tenderly ironic description of his youth .
Bryson's Des Moines is a place where optimism rules, yet underneath it there is an ever-present, gnawing anxiety. A booming economy, stabilized by an underpinning of rampant paranoia, produced wonders aplenty.
During the '50s, television went from being a luxury to a necessity. TV dinners were mass-produced like Fords and served on folding tray tables. The American diet was transformed: "By the end of the decade the American consumer could choose from nearly one hundred brands of ice cream, five hundred types of breakfast cereals, and nearly as many makes of coffee. At the same time, the nation's food factories pumped their products full of delicious dyes and preservatives to heighten and sustain their appeal. "
In grade school, civil defense drills took place once a month. Bryson, always a skeptic, questioned their effectiveness . His dad agreed, Des Moines being a little too close to Strategic Air Command headquarters. Bryson writes, "We in Des Moines would be up to our keisters in fallout within ninety minutes if the wind was blowing to the east, my father told me. 'You'd be dead before bedtime,' he added brightly. 'We all would.' " Bryson's take on this advice is smart, and completely in tune with all that makes this book worth reading. He realizes that "nuclear drills were pointless. Life was too short and we'd all be dead anyway. " Wise. Somewhat innocent. This is a marvelous book.
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TAMPA — Youssef Megahed's family became U.S. citizens Friday as he sits in a South Florida detention center preparing to fight for a chance to remain in the country and gain citizenship himself.
"It would have been the happiest day of our life, except for what's happening to Youssef," said older brother Yahia, who took the oath at the Tampa Convention Center along with his parents, Samir and Ahlam Megahed.
While Youssef Megahed's family can now call this country home, the U.S. government wants nothing to do with him.
Deportation proceedings begin Monday near Miami against the former University of South Florida student who was acquitted on explosives charges at a federal trial in Tampa.
"On Monday, we will be fighting this same entity for the freedom of my brother," said Yahia Megahed, 26.
From the swearing-in ceremony, the Megahed family returned to their Tampa Palms home to pack and prepare to drive to Miami for the legal battle.
"In my heart, I am deeply sad because Youssef filled his application in the same day," said Samir Megahed, 62. "He is more qualified to take the citizenship more than me. He loves America."
A federal jury in Tampa acquitted Youssef Megahed, 23, on April 3 of illegally transporting explosive materials and illegally possessing a destructive device. He could have received 10 years in prison on each charge if he had been convicted.
His future remains unclear.
Megahed's sister, Mariam, 21, is scheduled to take her citizenship exam Sept. 10 — the birthday of her 12-year-old brother, Yassien. The law allowed Yassien to become a citizen when his parents did Friday.
"My happiness will not be complete until Youssef comes to celebrate with us in the same occasion," Samir Megahed said.
Ramzy Kilic, executive director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations Tampa Chapter, called Youssef Megahed's detention frustrating. But he said others should be encouraged by the family's resilience.
"Youssef knows he's innocent, and he's going to fight this until the end," Kilic said.
The Megaheds visited the United States from their native Egypt for the first time in 1996. They spent three months traveling the country as tourists and visited Las Vegas, New York City, San Diego, Atlanta and other major cities.
Youssef Megahed fell in love with the U.S., his father said.
"He asked me, 'Can we come and live in this country?' " the dad said.
So they did.
The family won a lottery for a green card on the first try. Family members have lived in the United States as legal permanent residents for more than 10 years.
Samir Megahed said he hopes to remain here with his entire family for many more.
"They give us this citizenship and they want to deport him. They want to separate the family. They want to destroy the family," he said. "We came as a family. We want to live as a family and complete our life."
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Energy Exploration Technologies (NXT) has reported that the Stress Field Detector technology evaluation survey program in Syria has been completed over an area controlled by the Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC).
NXT commenced the survey on March 23, 2004, and completed the twelve survey flights on March 28, 2004. The survey consisted of 5,800 kilometers of survey over 41,760 square kilometers of survey area. At this time, the company is preparing to present its findings to the Ministry and SPC to complete the formal evaluation process.
During the survey operations NXT received exemplary cooperation from all government departments and agencies in Syria. NXT's Piaggio Avanti 180 was the first civilian aircraft granted permission to fly outside of controlled airspace in Syria.
NXT is a technology driven oil and natural gas exploration company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The company utilizes its SFD technology as a wide-area exploration tool to prospect for high impact oil and gas accumulations. — (menareport.com)
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Corsair H80 and H100 CPU Coolers Released
Corsair have just announced that from today the brand new H80 and H100 self-contained liquid CPU coolers are available from Corsair authorized retailers worldwide!
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The H80 offers the familiar single 120mm radiator design while the H100 offers superior performance from a dual 120mm radiator design which is a first for Corsairs range of Hydro CPU coolers. This opens up the ability to support up to four 120mm fans installed in a push-pull configuration.
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text: Madsen OK with being center of attention By Dave Hickman October 3, 2012 Story Share MORGANTOWN - The team's quarterback had just thrown for what, 1,000 yards and 50 touchdowns?He'd further distanced himself - at least for this day on a wholly fluid landscape - from anything resembling competition for the trophy that goes to the best player in college football.You couldn't switch on any of the ESPN family of networks - probably even ESPN Deportes, although we will have to trust the Spanish speaking among you for confirmation on that - without hearing some football-savvy coach or talking head singing Geno Smith's praises.And yet there they sat Sunday afternoon in West Virginia's team meeting room at the Puskar Center, going through the normal day-after business at hand, including the naming of the team's champions - by the coaching staff - from Saturday's 70-63 win over Baylor.That there was a defensive champion named at all was rather surprising, but no more so than when the offensive champion was announced.A day after Smith set school records with 656 yards passing and eight touchdowns, Stedman Bailey had broken the school record for receiving yards with 303, Tavon Austin snapped the mark for receptions with 14, J.D. Woods had the singularly most spectacular and significant catch among his 13 receptions and Andrew Buie had stepped up to fill a running back void with 25 carries, the offensive champion was ...Joe Madsen.The center.Even his offensive line mates groaned."Braun was [mad],'' Madsen laughed, referring to right guard Jeff Braun. "Geno wasn't. I told him I just needed another T-shirt.'' OK, so maybe mad isn't the word. Braun and the rest of the linemen know the deal. They toil in obscurity. None will ever throw eight touchdowns or gain 300 yards receiving or carry the ball 25 times."Hey, as long as somebody on the offensive line gets it, that's all that matters,'' left guard Josh Jenkins said.And West Virginia's coaches have been passing the award around all season, never to Smith. In the first game, against Marshall, Smith threw for four touchdowns and four incompletions and Shawne Alston got the T-shirt that goes to the champions each week. Buie got it, in part, because of his blocking and receiving after a 31-yard rushing day against James Madison. Only when Austin got it after the Maryland game did the selection not raise any eyebrows.Then again, this was the first time it went to a lineman, which is what mildly got to Braun because after the first game, Dana Holgorsen praised him like almost no other lineman had been praised in the history of the game. Still, he's without one of those nifty T-shirts."Yeah, but Braun takes everything far too serious,'' Madsen said. "Sometimes I have to tickle him just to loosen him up.'' Somehow that's probably a kind of dancing bear mental image best left alone.There's no denying, though, that what Madsen has done deserves some sort of mention. And we're not talking just the Baylor game, but over his career.The guy has played in 42 games and started every one of them. Smith has taken what, perhaps 2,000 snaps in his career? Almost all of them have come from Madsen.He and Eric Jobe rotated between center and guard when Madsen was a redshirt freshman and Smith, then the backup to Jarrett Brown, usually had Madsen in front of him that year. Over the next two years and this one, only when Madsen missed the Champs Sports Bowl game against N.C. State did Smith have another regular snapper."And I think Braun might have done it a few times when I had to sit out a play and then I was out at the end of the Orange Bowl when Geno was still in there,'' Madsen said. "But that's about it.''There is a lot to be said for that consistency. "That's one thing that gets overlooked when it comes to Geno's play,'' Holgorsen said. "Who's been snapping the ball to Geno since Geno has been here? It's been Joey. [Braun] is right there, too. There's a level of comfort that exists."To have a consistent center-quarterback exchange is something that's often overlooked.''And it has been consistent. When was the last time anyone saw Smith scooping a snap off the ground or leaping to grab one? There haven't been many.Shoot, you want to talk completion percentage? Smith's is "only'' 83.4 percent this season."I haven't had any incompletions and no interceptions,'' Madsen said. "Of course, I don't have any touchdowns, either.''No, but he's helped out on a ton, which probably deserves a bit of mention for the only guy on the team who touches the football as much as Smith."I took some criticism from some people for naming him the offensive champion, but those plays never get started without a center that does everything right,'' Holgorsen said "You can delete a few of those touchdowns or rushing yards if the center isn't doing his job. It wasn't just the center, though. The whole offensive line played well. Joey graded out the best out of all them, so he's the one that earned that award.''And he'll be happy to live with that T-shirt and a few audible groans.Reach Dave Hickman at 304-348-1734 or email@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/dphickman1. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Charleston restaurant 2 Gazette editorial: Capito has second chance to do the right thing 3 Rod Run and Doo Wop brings classic cars, music to Boulevard for 12th year 4 Parole hearing set for Putnam man who claims wrongful sex assault conviction 5 Doug Smock: AAC not ready for Power 6 quite yet State golf tournament -- Catholic captures team title; Buffalo's Hoshor takes medalist honors Previous Story Ex-MU guard Johnson signs to play in Canada Next Story


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There are some really incredible horror films on the horizon prepping for release, but none quite as anticipated as American Mary. The follow-up to Jen & Sylvia Soska's brilliant Dead Hooker In A Trunk, American Mary has more buzz going than a swarm of hornets. The Blood Sprayer is no exception to the buzz rule. We're pretty amped ourselves! The Twisted Twins have bombed around The Blood Sprayer pages before and will be doing so again with this release.
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Things you may want to take note of are: • External Size • Internal Size • Location of drain plug if included • Seal of the door/lid • Guides for internal dividers/shelving • Wheels • Non-standard internal shape • Total internal volume • Presence of new plastic smell • Manufacturer catalog/stock code After you do you comparison shopping, pull the trigger. Keep in mind that fall and winter months there are great deals on coolers. Also, don't forget to look around on the internet if you are having a hard time finding the right one. Once you get the cooler, you have to prep the box for cigars. To do this, pour ¼ cup non-scented bleach into the cooler, and then fill it with water. Let the cooler stand over night. Dump the water out in the morning, and let the cooler sit in the sun all day while you are at work. When you get home, bring the cooler inside. Pour half a box of baking soda in a dish and place inside the cooler. The next morning, open the cooler and check for any lingering plastic smell. Once it is smell free, you are on to the next step. Now you are ready to prep your cooler. You'll want to decide on the placement of you hygrometer and humidifiers. I suggest placing the hygrometer on the center of the door for convenience. Then add any shelving you may want. I suggest a thin flat humidifier in at least two equally divided places. Preferably four as the thin humidifiers do not hold much. There are two key elements to remember about humidifiers, surface area and volume. In layman terms, the greater the surface area, the faster the humidifier can react to swings in humidity. While volume relates to how often your humidifier has to be dried out or recharged. There are three viable choices for humidification; silica beads, wet oasis foam, and an active humidifier. Since people who opt for cooler-dors usually do so because it is an inexpensive storage option, I am not going to cover active humidification. These units are generally over $175 each, require a power connection, and offer little in terms of humidity removal. Silica beads are a great option as they require less maintenance than wet oasis foam. On the other hand, wet foam will hold more moisture, which is a good choice for those who live in a very dry climate. Once everything is mounted in the cooler-dor, go ahead and close it up, and place it in its home. Check regularly, your safe zone is %60-65 RH. Once you reach this zone, go ahead and put your cigars into your cooler-dor. You will have to keep an eye on the cooler for a while as your cooler fluctuates in RH. I have found that when I need to add or remove humidity, the best way is to not directly manipulate the humidifier. Instead, the introduction of a catalyst is often the best option. For instance, if the RH in the cooler gets below my desired level, I will add a damp sponge until the RH increases to the desired point. If the RH climbs too high, I will add dried cedar blocks until the RH is at an acceptable level. Cedar blocks can be obtained from many cigar boxes. You dry the blocks by warming up an oven to 200F, then adding the blocks for 5 minutes. Place in the freezer until cool to the touch, then place in the cooler until the RH reaches you desired point. If you are experiencing wide swings in RH, perhaps there is too much empty space in your cooler. You should strive to keep your cooler ½ full at all times. If your cooler is going to be ½ full or less, it would be wise to add items to decrease empty volume. You can do this by adding empty Tupperware boxes with their top on. This will decrease wide swings in humidity. While this is not an exhaustive source for how to maintain a cooler-dor, it will give you enough information to build on from scratch. A cooler-dor can be as elaborate, or as simple as one desires. As time goes by, you will find how to maintain a democratic way of keeping a stabile environment for you cigars. I am by no means the end all be all authority of coolers or fridges. I encourage you to ask questions if something is unclear, or raises doubts. Also, your choice of humidification may differ. This post was not intended to argue the merits of each choice. Good luck in making your cooler and happy smokes. Emo


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i got an overbite problem, when i was at the orthondotics office he recommended aobut invisalign. i have never heard that before and it sounded like a pretty good deal so i chose it. He said i had 100% overbite. i been researching stuff about about invisalign online and im getting REALLY scared that it will not fix my problem plus we will have to pay about 4000 dollars for the treatment.
Can Invisalign Fix 100% Overbite?
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Invisalign and overbite
You have asked a great question. In this context "overbite" means the vertical overlap of the front teeth. 100% overbite means that the upper front teeth cover 100% of the lower front teeth. In general 20% to 30% overbite is about normal. If one of the goals of your treatment is to correct the overbite, then Invisalign may have trouble fully correcting it. On the other hand, if overbite correction is not an important goal then Invisalign may be OK. One thing for sure: with braces we can correct virtually any bite problem no matter how severe, but with Invisalign bite corrections are often less possible and predictable. Your orthodontist should be able to clear up any confusion regarding correcting your overbite.
Most experienced Invisalign providers agree that deep overbite correction is one of the most challenging movements to accomplish with aligners. It is somewhat more successful in adolescents who are still undergoing some facial growth than in adults who kave fully matured. One approach that can get around this limitation is to combine Invisalign with regular braces thus taking advantage of the best attributes of the two systems. Given your description of your overbite, I urge you to be sure you are being treated by a provider with a lot of Invisalign experience. A successful outcome will be a challenge to accomplish under the best of circumstances!
Invisalign and overbite are challenging together
The term overbite is common in two scenarios, a "buck tooth" look OR when the upper teeth cover the appearance of the lower teeth when biting. They are not the same thing, so correcting them take different approaches.
Invisalign has a difficult time with the second scenario or "deep bite". It CAN be done, but it is more predictable with traditional methods.
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The Salt Lake County mayoral race between Republican Mark Crockett and Democrat Ben McAdams is almost dead even, much closer than the 10-point lead a Salt Lake Tribune poll gave Crockett last week, after the pollster revised the numbers Monday.
J. Brad Coker, managing director of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research in Jacksonville, Fla., said the altered figures give Crockett 44 percent of the vote to 43 percent for McAdams, with 13 percent of voters still undecided. It has a 4 percent margin of error. Figures released Friday had given the Republican a 10-point edge (48 percent to 38 percent, with 14 percent undecided).
Given Monday's new numbers, and since more undecided voters have tended to vote Democratic than Republican in Salt Lake County, Coker said the Crockett/McAdams poll points to "a 50/50 tie."


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Boys' day out! Scott Disick and his 1-year-old son Mason Dash were without mom Kourtney Kardashian as they stopped off at a park in Beverly Hills, California yesterday for a bit of fun (March 26).
Kourtney is usually the one in the spotlight, but her beau took center stage this month on the cover of Men's Fitness magazine. The E! reality starlet Tweeted her approval, writing, "I love @scottdisick's Men's Fitness cover!! He looks like James Dean!"
In the interview, Scott talks about how fatherhood inspired him to rethink his wild ways: "I realized I didn't want to wake up 10 years from now and have a son I didn't know," he says.


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As someone who has focused about 70 percent of their online marketing time on B2B, it's always fun to get involved in a B2C project, especially one that's e-commerce related. Over the past few years I've been able to work with a handful of accounts that fit this description nicely. The rush of seeing live dollars at work online is addictive to say the least.
Recently, one of our employee was asking questions about a new e-commerce PPC account she was assigned and the topic of Google Product Listing Ads came up. As the beta tests had been limited for a long time and the client wasn't a Google affiliate, it seemed as if it would have to wait.
But not for long! Earlier this month Google revealed that they were expanding these product ads for all of their advertisers and just in time for the holiday season!
The key points that advertisers should be aware of with these ads are:
- They pull data (product image, price, and merchant name) from the Google Merchant Center.
- No fancy, persuasive ad copy.
- CPA based price (as opposed to CPC, you only pay when people who clicked convert to a sale).
- Not based upon keywords (see Google eliminating keywords from PPC).
With a successful account (also running through Google Merchant Center), we were just given access to this expanded beta at the end of last week. No, we weren't greeted by a welcoming e-mail or visit from one of Santa's elves. Instead we found that we had a new "Auto Targets" Tab inside our AdWords account.
Clicking on the "Learn More" link doesn't yield much help:
However, hovering over the Auto Targets Tabbed Tool Tip gives the advertiser a bit more info:
In doing a bit of digging around the AdWords Help Center, I found a few resources that aren't linked to (currently) through your AdWords account:
- Google's Product Listing Intro on YouTube
- Difference between Google Product Extensions for Text Ads vs. Google Product Listing Ads
- Google explains What are Product Listing Ads?
- Official Google Explanation: What's the difference between product listing ads and product extensions?
If you think you have the differences down, have been recently included in the beta test, and are ready to try out your new found toolset, then set up is pretty straightforward.
Under the Auto Targets Tab, if you click on "+ Add product target" you're given a selection of current campaigns and ad groups from which to choose:
Your choice is to add All Products to the ad group of your choice, or you can be more specific and choose a group of products to display. These are based on up to three different criteria from your Google Merchant Center Feed. Your choices include:
- product_type
- brand
- adwords_grouping
- condition
- adwords_labels
If you need help fully understanding Google Merchant Center Attributes, try here.
Once you select your criteria, your new Product Ads will be added to your account. You may change the columns you see to include Conversions, etc. But other than reporting, the only thing you can change is the maximum CPC.
As this is so new I'm not able to report results yet. But if you were a lucky early adopter or can shed some light on anything you've learned, please share in the comments and I'll happily update the post with the most recent information. Stay tuned for the results in my next column.
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The plant has very chunky, compact buds that often turn blue or purple at the end of the flowering period. It can get a fair bit taller than the Blue Himalaya, sometimes reaching 70 or 80cm but most examples will be 50 to 60cm and can easily yield 1 to 2 ounces. The strain gives off fruity and spicy scents and has wonderful medicinal qualities borne out of its indica heritage.
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A couple of months ago a local citizen wrote to the editor of the New Haven Leader lamenting, among other things, the fact that Republicans were not showing proper respect for the president since he won re-election.
Being neither Democrat nor Republican, I felt that I was in the perfect position to state that if he had been shown any respect, it was substantially more than he was worthy of. There was, however, a municipal election coming up and since the correspondent was a mayoral candidate, I thought my comments might be perceived as negative electioneering.
Well, the election is over and having just witnessed the despicable sideshow the president staged with the grieving parents of the Newtown shooting victims, I can no longer hold my tongue. He used these poor, pitiable people as shills and stage props solely for the purpose of advancing his own questionable political agenda.
Ex-White House Adviser Rahm Emanuel espoused the mantra of never letting a crisis or a tragedy go to waste. The president evidently learned well, well enough to engage in this shameless political perversion. Just as he endorses revisionist history and redistribution of wealth, he will see to it that the end justifies the means with regard to this unconscionable exploitation of dead children.
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One Direction's Liam Payne has replied to tweets made by The Kooks singer Luke Pritchard telling fans of the boyband not to follow him.
The Kooks front-man went on a rant on his Twitter page about the boy band and urged them to "buy real music".
When one fan replied to his tweet saying she likes both One Direction and The Kooks he was not impressed and replied to her saying, "I'd rather anyone who likes One Direction never follow me. You literally have no idea how upset I am."
Payne tweeted at the singer saying that One Direction have always been fans of Pritchard's band but that he doesn't agree with him verbally attacking his fans.
The tweet reads, "Sad thing is @lukekook we are/where fans of your band, nice one man verbally attacking your own fans how very rock and roll of you ;)"
Pritchard has since deleted the negative tweets and apologised to Liam for his rant.
Sad thing is @lukekook we are/where fans of your band, nice one man verbally attacking your own fans how very rock and roll of you ;)— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) November 27, 2013
@Real_Liam_Payne man, I regret having a rant but the machinery of the industry pisses me off. I respect you do your thing— luke pritchard (@lukekook) November 27, 2013
This whole thing now has gone too far. Gonna say I have my opinions but meant no offence, that's why I took down them there tweets. Love— luke pritchard (@lukekook) November 27, 2013


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Marinated Salmon with Mango Kiwi Relish
Serves 4
1 tablespoon honey
2 teaspoons low sodium soy sauce
1 teaspoon canola oil
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
4 6-ounce salmon fillets
For the relish:
1/2 cup mango, diced
1/2 cup kiwi, diced
1/4 cup cilantro, minced
1/4 cup orange juice
Method of Preparation:
1.To prepare salmon, combine first 4 ingredients in a large zip-top plastic bag. Add fish to bag; seal. Marinate 10 minutes.
2.While fish marinates, heat grill pan or large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Remove fish from bag, discarding marinade. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add fish, and cook 5 minutes on each side or until the fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.
3.While fish cooks, prepare the relish. Combine mango and the remaining ingredients. Serve over fish.


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Owen Wilson: I want Nicholson as my BFF
Owen Wilson still has a certain famous person he'd love to get to know better.
They're two of the biggest names in Hollywood, but aren't yet friends. However Owen hopes there's still a chance, as he's a big fan of the screen icon and would always be happy to see him at an A-list event.
"Jack Nicholson," he told British newspaper Metro when asked who he'd most like to see at a showbiz bash.
"Every time I read an interview, he sounds so great. He just seems like the coolest. I did meet him on the Jim Brooks movie How Do You Know but I didn't get to know him."
Jack is known for being loud and brash, and can often be seen with a drink and cigar in his hand. Owen may be a fan of the triple-Oscar winner, but usually he cringes away from domineering personalities.
"Living in Los Angeles, you are never crazy about traffic. And sitting next to a blowhard at dinner or on a plane," he said of his pet hates.
"[A blowhard] is like a bragger - it's a very loud and overbearing personality. I'll tell you a place that doesn't seem to have a lot of those people - Tokyo. I had never been before and I couldn't believe what a great city it was. And the people - there's a level of civility and politeness that made me feel like I was a blowhard."
Owen is currently starring in thriller No Escape, but will go back to his comedic roots later this year with Masterminds, and then Zoolander 2 in 2016.
He also has plans to work with quirky director Wes Anderson again, having previously collaborated on The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Darjeeling Limited.
"Yeah I loved The Grand Budapest Hotel, it's one of my favourites of Wes'. I saw him the other day. We'll find something to work on," he assured.
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Mustering even a smidgen of sympathy for the Lakers — they of the legends, the dancing girls, the celebrity fans, the 16 NBA title banners — is like feeling sorry for McDonald's. When a massive success is self-sabotaged in America, people tend to laugh and say the failures are deserved. But in the Lakers' case, the circumstances leading to their demise and wobbly future at least should be acknowledged as unique.
The owner who built the monster, Dr. Jerry Buss, has created chaos after death. When he passed away 14 months ago, Buss declared in his will that the Lakers be owned and operated by his six children and that two of the children would share equal power atop the hierarchy. His daughter, Jeanie, would run the business side. His son, Jim, would run the basketball side. Jeanie, outgoing and popular with Hollywood types and regular folk alike, is very good at her job and always has been.
Jim is a screwup.
I have known this. You have known this. Magic Johnson has known this. Everyone in Los Angeles, everyone in the NBA, has known this. But not until Phil Jackson took a meeting two weeks ago with the equally bumbling James Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks, did the Blunder Busses become a civic crisis in southern California. Jackson, who led the Lakers to five championships as pro basketball's most acclaimed all-time coach, seems the ideal leader to direct this franchise out of its current morass. He has the credibility to lure top free agents, the equilibrium to see the long view and the relationship with Jeanie — they are engaged to be married — to keep the Lakers among the league elite. It will be horrifying for L.A. peeps if Jackson, as expected, is announced this week as the Knicks' president of basketball operations.
But it's going to happen. And short of Jim Buss resigning his position, there is nothing anyone can do because of the old man's will and testament. Every living Laker great — Magic, Kareem, West, Worthy, Shaq, Kobe, all of them — could surround Jim Buss in a circle, subject him to water torture and attempt a coup, and it wouldn't work. Dr. Buss wanted his son to run the basketball show and chose to put it in writing. By all indications, his son is going to do just that, even as the old Jimmy stories re-circulate about hiring his bartender buddies as scouts and how Jeanie, as she wrote in her recent biography, wishes she could communicate better with her bizarre brother.
With Jackson about to leave his fiancee behind for chunks of the NBA calendar — no way can he run the Knicks from their Playa del Rey oceanside pad, lest he be crucified by New York-centric fans and media — it's possible a once-glorious basketball team and a 13-year romance both could be jeopardized by his move. In a last-gasp attempt to prevent Jackson's departure, Bryant went public this week for the first time with Jim Buss-related concerns. When I asked Bryant last year about Jim's ability to lead, Kobe expressed confidence.
Not anymore.
"I think we have to start at the top in terms of the culture of our team," Bryant said. "What type of culture do you want to have? What type of system do you want to have? How do you want to play? It starts there. You've got to start with Jim. You've got to start with Jim and Jeanie and how that relationship plays out. It starts there and having a clear direction and clear authority."
While dropping those seeds of doubt, Bryant then lauded Jackson and asked how management possibly could diss him twice. Last season, you'll recall, Jim Buss and general manager Mitch Kupchak interviewed Jackson for the coaching vacancy only to reject him for Mike D'Antoni, which is no way to treat an icon, much less Jeanie's boyfriend. "You know how I feel about Phil. I have so much admiration for him and respect and have a great relationship with him," Bryant said. "Personally, it would be hard for me to understand that happening twice. It would be tough. I don't really get it."
It's simple. Jim Buss doesn't want his future brother-in-law in his playpen. And if Jim and Kupchak fail to land a significant free agent or two this summer — which is what happened to the Chicago Bulls when Jackson, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and the NBA's greatest dynasty was dismantled prematurely by an egomaniacal owner and GM who, ahem, wanted to built their own dynasty — then Bryant's final two seasons with the Lakers will be miserable. It has been agonizing enough this season to watch with a fractured knee, an injury that officially will keep him sidelined the rest of the regular season. When asked if he could remain patient until the summer of 2015, when the likes of Kevin Love and LaMarcus Aldridge should be available in free agency, he blew his lid.
"No. No. Nope," he said. "Not one lick.
"Oh, yeah, let's just play next year and let's just suck again. No. Absolutely not. It's my job to go out there on the court and perform, no excuses for it. Right? You've got to get things done. Same thing with the front office. The same expectations they have of me when I perform on the court, it's the same expectations I have for them up there.
"How can I be satisfied with it? We're like 100 games under .500. I can't be satisfied with that at all. This is not what we stand for, this is not what we play for. … I feel like killing everybody every time I go to the arena. I'm just on edge every time. I feel it probably more than anybody in the organization does. It drives me absolutely crazy."
Killing everybody?
No. Don't do it, Kobe. Not worth it.
Johnson, who is considered a team vice president though he isn't paid, never has had a problem criticizing Jim Buss. He used Twitter, as usual, to vent about Jackson's departure. "I love Jim & Jeanie Buss, but we need Phil Jackson to be the face of our great organization, the Los Angeles Lakers," Jackson wrote, tweet after tweet. "Kobe Bryant is the face of the Lakers' team. Who is the face of the Lakers' organization? In signing Phil Jackson, Owner Jim Dolan & (general manager) Steve Mills are saying to the Knicks fans, they're ready to win now!"
Unless Dr. Buss would agree to a seance, then a rewriting of the will, these are your Lakers. "Now I know what it feels like to be a Clipper fan all those years," Bryant said.
Poor Kobe? Not a soul would say that.
I could call for Jim Buss to step down, but what's the use? He and a bartending buddy are planning on scouting Kansas center Joel Embiid in the NCAA tournament, not realizing the 7-footer has a serious back problem.


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Innovation, Health & Wealth
1. Published on 5 December 2011, the document sets out an integrated set of measures that together will support the adoption and diffusion of innovation across the NHS, and sets out a delivery agenda which will significantly speed up the pace and scale of change and innovation. The full DH document (36 pages) is here.
2. The report has been developed as part of the Prime Minister's UK Strategy for Health Innovation and Life Sciences. The aim of this strategy is to ensure that the UK maintains and builds on its world leading position for life sciences, and that the UK remains and grows as an attractive location for investment now and in the future.
The document has been brought together by the NHS Chief Executive Review Team supported by an External Advisory Group and underpinned by over 300 responses to the call for evidence from clinicians, academia, industry and a wide range of other stakeholders.
3. All parts of the NHS will need to take bold, long term measures in 2012/13 to secure sustainable change. The role of innovation will be critical to this.
4. The document contains short briefings on innovation, why it's important, barriers to innovation and diffusion and what makes diffusion happen successfully. (See section 7)
5. The document's key focus on is eight priority areas for improvement (section 8 ) and descriptions of High Impact Innovations (section 9 ) which should be introduced with immediate effect.
6. Chief Executives and senior leaders in all areas of the NHS are now expected to make an immediate start by
- Building the actions set out in this document into their planning processes for 2012/13
- Planning to deliver the High Impact Innovations
- Working together to develop local plans for the formation of Academic Health Science Networks.
Key messages include:
7. Innovation is defined as 'an idea, service or product, new to the NHS or applied in a
way that is new to the NHS, which significantly improves the quality of health and care
wherever it is applied'
7.1 Copying is good.
7.2 Innovation transforms patient outcomes
Innovation can simultaneously improve quality and productivity
Innovation is good for economic growth
7.3 Barriers to diffusion are well documented; the focus of the report is on developing solutions to those barriers
7.4 What makes diffusion happen? Top down pressures (central requirements, regulation and incentives with support), horizontal pressures (peer influence, collaboration and competition) and bottom up pressures (patient and public demand, professional and managerial enthusiasm, entrepreneurship and choice)
8. The priority areas for improvement:
8.1 Reduce variation in the NHS and ensure greater compliance with NICE guidance.
- Introduce a NICE compliance regime to reduce variation
- All NICE technology appraisal recommendations are incorporated automatically into relevant local NHS formularies
- Establish a NICE implementation collaboration to support prompt implementation of NICE advice
8.2 Working with industry, develop and publicise better innovation uptake metrics.
- Develop and publish an innovation scorecard to track compliance with NICE technology appraisals.
- Procure a single comprehensive and publicly available web portal for innovation in the NHS.
- Work with Which? to develop consumer campaigns to raise awareness amongst the public and patients of innovations in healthcare.
- Establish the clinical practice research datalink – a new secure data service within the medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency.
8.3 Establish a systematic delivery mechanism for diffusion and collaboration, building strong cross boundary networks.
A national knowledge exchange network will be developed by applying the Academic Health Sciences Centres (AHSC) partnership model to align education, clinical research, informatics, innovation, training & education and healthcare delivery to improve patient and population outcomes. Academic Health Science
Networks, to be formed in 2012/13, will work closely with other parts of the innovation landscape including NIHR Biomedical unit and Centres (BRUs and BRCs), NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs), Health Innovation and Education Clusters (HIECs) and NHS
Innovation Hubs.
At the same time, a sunset review of all NHS/DH funded or sponsored bodies will be undertaken to make recommendations about future funding.
8.4 Align organisational and personal incentives and investment to reward and encourage innovation.
- Align financial, operational and performance incentives to support the adoption and diffusion of innovation.
- Increase the profile of, and maintain investment in the NHS innovation challenge prizes.
- Extend the 'never events' regime and encourage disinvestment in activities that no longer add value.
Establish a specialised services commissioning innovation fund
8.5 Improve procurement arrangements to make the NHS a better place to do business.
- A procurement strategy will be published in March 2012.
- Aim to double investment in small business research initiative to develop innovative solutions to healthcare challenges and help drive growth in the UK SME sector.
- The NHS Intellectual Property strategy will be reviewed and a model developed for contracts that is fit for purpose
8.6 Develop staff by 'hard wiring' innovation into training and education.
- Build innovation much more clearly into competency frameworks.
- Establish joint industry and NHS training and education programmes for senior managers.
- Establish an NHS Innovation Fellowship scheme
8.7 Strengthen leadership in innovation
- The NHS Operating Framework for 2012 – 13 requires the NHS to prioritise the adoption and spread of effective innovation and good practice.
- Clinical commissioning groups will be under a duty to seek out and adopt best practice and promote innovation.
- Strengthen leadership and accountability for innovation at board level throughout the NHS
8.8 Identify and mandate the adoption of high impact innovations. (From April 2013 compliance with these high impact innovations will become a pre-qualification requirement for CQUIN)
- Accelerate the use of assistive technologies in the NHS aiming to improve at least 3 million lives over the next five years.
- Launch a national drive to get full implementation of Oesophageal Doppler Monitoring (ODM) or similar fluid management monitoring technology into practice across the NHS.
- Launch a 'child in a chair in a day' programme to transform the delivery of wheelchair services throughout the NHS.
- NHS organisations will be required to explore opportunities to increase national and international healthcare activity and DH will host a summit with UK trade and investment in the New Year.
- The NHS will be required to work towards reducing inappropriate face to face contacts and switch to higher quality, more convenient, lower cost alternatives.
- The NHS will be required to commission services in line with NICE – SCIE guidance on supporting people with dementia.
The new commissioning system presents an opportunity to de-clutter, consolidate and streamline innovation activity in the NHS.
A new implementation board to oversee delivery is being established with Sir Ian Carruthers as the chair, reporting to the NHS Chief Executive.
CLAHRC NDL prepares briefings on pertinent Health and Social Care documents and policy for ease of reference. However, there may be omissions (perceived or actual) in the briefing: a link to the full document is therefore provided here and in the text above.
This CLAHRC Innovation Health & Wealth briefing is also available as a pdf download here.