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The gift certificate comment is odd because I've received and purchased gift certificates from International Orange numerous times without any problems. I have also used them well over a year after receiving them without issues. I love this place and the staff has always been professional and knowledgeable. I've always received fabulous service (generally facials and skin treatments) that leave me feeling refreshed and beautiful. The one and only "complaint" I have is that parking can be a pain, and I am quite experienced with SF parking.
Do not buy gift certificates here. I was given a gift cert here from friend and granted, I didn't use until after 1 year from receiving it, but when I did go in to use it and after I told them I had gift certificate and gave them the gift cert #. I got massage and then when I went to pay I tried to use the gift certificate and they said that someone else had used my gift cert. It was strange to say the least seeing as I had the certificate the whole time. They young lady who was very nice trying to help me, took my number and said she would need to talk to the manager and get back with me as to why the funds were gone. The next day I get a call from the IO manager only to find that they are sorry and that someone else used it...they aren't sure how it happened. After explaining that I never used it or let anyone else use it, she hung up on me. It was disturbing to say the least, but alas, that is life. I will never go here again. My tip: DO NOT BUY GIFT CERTIFICATES FROM IO
I go for the yoga – I've been going here for yoga classes for almost 4 years. Some teachers come and go, but the best ones are still there. I like IO for the ambience of the yoga studio (hardwood floors, lots of light) and the class options, but also for the other students that go. I've met a lot of nice people at class. I also go to the spa for waxing, facials and - when I have the extra cash - massages. The spa is small, but I like the steam room in the Women's locker room and the deck out back. I've always had a great massage, but the services are on the expensive side. Sign up for email specials.
Ilya is the Best Massage Therapist!! – I was visiting San Francisco and had a Spafinder gift certificate. I scheduled a massage at International Orange and lucked out with Ilya. It was, by far, the best massage I have ever had. A real focus on relaxation and reducing stress. I will be back on every visit to SF!!
i like this place. it is very beautiful. the staff are nice to me. and the treatments so perfect. i will recommend this place to my friends and relatives. good job international orange spa. unique name too. :P
so so massage – After hearing all the hype about this place I finally made it in. I was a bit disappointed. The atmosphere was not relaxing at all, I felt cramped and awkward. The actual massage was just average. It was not spa like at all.
SF WEEKLY's BEST Spa & Yoga Combo 2008 – I just picking up SF Weekly's BEST OF SAN FRANCISCO 2008 and saw that IO is rated BEST SPA & YOGA COMBO! I took some of my own medicine this week and am feeling more revved up than ever thanks to my wellness routine this week. Today, I had an amazing yoga with Rosemary at 9:15am and yesterday I had a truly pampering and shoulder-softening 90 minute massage with Christy. I am biased, but I love what we offer at IO and just wanted to share the good news. Try going during the weekday sometime and pray for sun on the deck...that is heavenly. :) AD
TRUE CUSTOMER SERVICE... – my boyfriend has been a client of IO for a couple of years now and has been trying to get me to switch where i go for my salon services{I AM VERY PICKY}. last week he surprised me with a massage for the two of us at IO. why did it TAKE ME SOOOOOO LONG to go there? From the time I entered the place, i felt GREAT things were going to happen. The staff at the front desk was really helpful and made me fell comfortable from the moment i walked in! after getting into my rob, the two us sat outside on this BEAUTIFUL sun deck! next, ... the message. WOW, best ever!!! Nathan was so wise when it came to all the parts of the body. I was very relaxed and at one point i even went to sleep because it felt so good!
Now, it looks like my boyfriend got his wish, I AM HOOKED ON IO and cant wait to have another service there! if you are looking for a clean, simple, YET amazing spa, IO is the place.
thanx, JORDY!!!
International Orange not for Men – International Orange is for Women only--- Men need not apply. I made several phone calls to make an appointment with a male for a massage. I re- arranged my schedule and inconvenienced several others in order to fit my appointment into the International Orange schedule. It was my Birthday. I am not from San Francisco. I am a former international diving champion. I have tone and muscles that only a man with strong hands can tackle.
After several phone calls, I was assured that I would have a strong man giving me the massage,When I arrived, I was shown to a very small dressing room, removed my clothes and put on the appointed robe with a pair of sandals attached. Unfortunately, the slippers were both for the LEFT FOOT. I had to go into another locker to get a right footed slipper to make a pair.
I then went to the waiting area for the therapist as several people walked by with robes saying "PRACTICE SILENCE".
Shortly thereafter, a little girl, perhaps 5'4" approached me to tell me she was going to give me a massage. I looked at her with dismay. After several phone calls, taking off my clothes, trying to find a "pair" of slippers that matched, the final insult was this little girl that thought she was going to give me a massage.
i was not happy as i felt i had been lied to from the beginning, starting when I checked in as there was no mention that my masseur was to be a young girl.
Instead of wearing robes that say-"Practice Silence", they should be wearing robes that say- "Practice Honesty".
Lastly, I have had massages in some of the best Spas all over the world. The sum of my experience at International Orange is that it is truly a rip-off for MEN!
A good friend of mine had a similar experience.
The Worst Spa Experience Ever!
International Orange was disappointing from the time I tried to make an appointment, until the time I requested a refund.
The staff's attitude on the phone was the first red-flag. I have rarely been treated this disrespectfully when trying to book an appointment. The attitude was underwhelming and the staff was very disorganized and not friendly. The facility is minimal. The changing room is barely large enough for one person to move around in. The lockers are small -- my clothes were piled up on top of one another -- as was the steam room. Essentially it fits one, possibly two people.
As I am a large, athletic male I requested a man. Each time I showed up there was a petite female waiting for me. The staff claims they tried to call me, but I never received any calls from them. It felt as if I they had intentionally allowed me to come in and then tried to push me into something other than what I had requested. It was a total waste of my time and resources.
I suppose the staff's lack of understanding my needs and their unwillingness to even remotely try to accommodate them was the most disappointing, therefore on a scale of one to ten I would give International Orange a zero.
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One is working to see the success rate among its students improve — even if it's not in the most obvious ways. The other has taken being a thief to a whole new level of low.
Here are our picks for Thursday's winner and loser from the news.
A look at the numbers in the school district's recent graduation rate report doesn't tell the whole story. The district's dropout rate is improving, even amid challenges like a student body that's 80 percent economically disadvantaged. Yet the most exciting number to educators in the district is that nearly 21 percent of its seniors in 2011 did not graduate on time - but they are on track to finish high school in five years, thanks to a range of programs available to them. As assistant superintendent Jennifer Martin said to the school board, that's saving children - and helping them be successful.
Criminals are easy targets when you're looking for something to complain about. And it's not like "cold-hearted" is a unique phrase when you're describing a thief. But it's with special disgust that we'll call out the person who targeted Habitat for Humanity for a recent caper. The person hid in the store after it closed, then grabbed a locked cash box before leaving via the door. This store survives on public donations so that it can fund homes for people who need them - and it generated more than $500,000 in sales in 2011. We have no doubt that the store will recover, but it's a shame that it has to.


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Despite Microsoft's efforts so far, incompatibilities still dog the new OS.
Vista, the long overdue successor to the now ubiquitous Windows XP, was released
commercially on Jan. 30. Upon its release, Microsoft boasted that, among its
other benefits, Vista worked with some 1.5 million devices and peripherals and
a host of legacy applications. At its yearly financial analysts meeting in late
July, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner offered a six-month update on the state of
application compatibility at Vista's launch as well as at the six-month mark.
"On the application front, over 2,000 applications have earned the 'Works
with Windows Vista' or the 'Certified for Windows Vista' logo," Turner
said. "That's up from 650 at launch, so big, big improvements are getting
made in this space every single day. Around 70 critical enterprise applications
have been updated to be compatible since launch," he continued, pointing
to applications from hardware and software vendors like Cisco Systems Inc.,
Nortel Networks, Adobe Systems Inc., McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp., Citrix Systems
Inc., Oracle Corp., Tivoli Software, SAP AG and IBM Corp.
For JC Warren and many other IT pros, though, Vista's hardware and application
compatibility still has a long road to travel.
Anthony Ginger, an instructional support specialist at a community college
in Southern California, has several complaints about Vista compatibility. "Our
help desk app HelpSTAR crashes the Aero interface," Ginger writes in an
e-mail. Other problems include the inability to directly manage servers due
to the lack of a compatible administration pack, along with needing to purchase
a new video card to use three monitors simultaneously.
Below is a partial
list of some popular applications that aren't Windows Vista-compatible.
[At press time, these products did not work with Vista.
That may have changed. Check the vendor's Web site to determine
if a product is now compatible. -Ed.]
Vista does offer a "compatibility mode" that lets users run programs
in environments similar to previous versions of Windows going back 12 years
to Windows 95. In Ginger's case, that mode is purely hit or miss. "Various
apps work in compatibility mode, some not at all," he writes.
To a degree, this should be expected. XP has been out for more than five years,
while Vista still has that new-car smell. Given Microsoft's pronouncements about
the clear superiority of Vista, along with its five-year development cycle that
gave top-tier developers ample time to ramp up, the question is why some major
business and consumer applications weren't ready to roll.
In a press release announcing Vista availability, Microsoft called Vista "the
most significant product launch in Microsoft Corp.'s history." Chairman
Bill Gates crowed: "Windows Vista ... will transform the way people work
and play." Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer also fed the hype machine, claiming
that Vista "will have a dramatic impact on computing long-term."
Indeed, maybe it will. It's certainly had plenty of short-term impact on some
environments -- but little of it good.
Early Disappointments
Linnie Gooch had high hopes for Vista, only to see them dashed. Gooch was running
a pre-final version of Vista released to Volume Licensing customers on Nov.
30, 2006. "I installed Vista when it was released in early December, only
to realize my brand-spanking-new laptop had no support for it. The manufacturer
said they wouldn't support it until after the 'official' release," Gooch
writes in an e-mail.
The problems didn't end there, according to Gooch, an IT security manager for
a credit union. "I had numerous problems getting it to work with anything
that wasn't Microsoft related. Soon, I just went back to XP. It works, and I
don't have to hit 'Allow' 100 times a day. It's a complete waste of time. I'm
sad to see that Microsoft worked so hard on [something that's] not working as
well as they had hoped."
In the interest of fair and balanced reporting, condemning the product based
on a handful of anecdotes is not offering a three-dimensional view of the story.
Microsoft has consistently said it's working diligently to make Vista more compatible.
"We take exhaustive steps both internally, and by working directly with
our partners, to address compatibility long before customers ever experience
an issue," Microsoft says in an e-mail.
In that same e-mail, the company says its compatibility testing ran the gamut
from 35,000 tests per week of the top consumer and enterprise apps, to deep
engineering engagements with its business partners on Microsoft campuses around
the world "That said, we recognize that not all applications and drivers
in the industry were up-to-date by launch and that there have been some compatibility
issues as a result," the statement reads.
Microsoft also ticks off a number of statistics that support its claims of
Vista compatibility:
One site that has attempted to track Vista incompatibilities, based on user
input, is www.ieXbeta.com, an independent Web site primarily about Microsoft
beta software. ieXbeta set up a Wiki to accumulate information on Vista compatibility.
As of the end of July, its list of software with minor Vista compatibility issues
numbered 79 products, and the list of software with more serious compatibility
issues stretched to 122 programs.
Another compatibility sore spot is in the area of specialized business apps.
Chris King, IT manager for the Chico, Calif.-based construction company New
Urban Builders, says that a mission-critical business app, BuilderMT, is incompatible
with Vista. Worse yet, the manufacturer has yet to give him a date for when
the software will be upgraded to work with Vista. The same situation exists
with their accounting program, Timberline Office from Sage Software.
He's hardly alone. Warren, of the asset management company, says Vista won't
work with a number of his company's critical programs, including its payroll
app and an investment-tracking product.
Supporting Arguments
That anecdotal evidence is buttressed by findings in a recent Forrester Research
Inc. study. The study, by analyst Benjamin Gray, talked about Vista migration
plans with 45 IT managers. One of the most important reasons they were hesitating
on the move to Vista was the lack of application compatibility.
Writes Gray: "Over the course of our discussions with IT professionals,
we heard application-compatibility success rates that ranged from as low as
60 percent to as high as 90 percent when tested against Windows Vista. These
figures naturally trended upward over time as more and more applications became
certified for Windows Vista."
Gray, in his report, quotes the frustrations of one director of IT operations:
"A lot of our enterprise applications aren't compatible with [Internet
Explorer] IE 7, which is forcing me to squeeze more life into the corporate
PCs as we get that fixed."
Beyond business apps, there is still work to be done in the area of consumer
apps. King details some of his troubles. "Dreamweaver 8 won't even load
in Vista. I've also had problems with Roxio Easy [Media] Creator 9. It's supposed
to run on Vista and didn't." Officials from Adobe -- which owns Dreamweaver
-- say the product is indeed compatible with Vista.
The Roxio situation has been one of the most aggravating for non-business Vista
users. Roxio was even promoted as a Vista Premier launch partner, giving everyone
the impression that if any app would be Vista compatible, it would be
Roxio. To his chagrin, King discovered multiple compatibility issues that have
continued to exist with Vista. Underlining the problem are the Roxio discussion
boards and various Internet forums that have been filled with complaints.
This reporter, in fact, has a similar issue. When Vista boots the following
message appears: "This driver is blocked due to compatibility issues."
It lists the driver as "Sonic Solutions DLA" and the publisher as
"Sonic Solutions." Sonic is the parent company of Roxio. A patch,
however, has been issued for that error.
Still, other compatibility problems exist, particularly among laptops. Eddie
Whetzel, an IT special projects manager in Maryland, has been using a Lenovo
X60 tablet PC since March and still has several unresolved issues. "The
problem with sleep/hibernate is that the tablet goes into a coma," he says.
"At first, it was unable wake up from sleep/hibernate at all. The hard
disk activity light and the wireless network lights were blinking for activity,
and the charge power lights were lit, but the screen just never lit up."
The Lenovo-issued patches have helped some, but the problem still surfaces,
Whetzel says.
Internal Difficulties
Even Microsoft's own apps have issues with Vista. Whetzel reports he's had difficulty
with Microsoft Word since upgrading from XP. "The problem with Word --
but not any of the other Office apps -- is that it's terribly slow, on the order
of 30 seconds or so, to start or shut down," Whetzel states in an e-mail.
"The swirling hourglass seems to take forever to disappear. Interestingly
enough, this didn't happen with XP," he says.
Anita Metcalf, a systems engineer in Texas, says an Office compatibility problem
caused her to ditch Vista. In an e-mail, she writes: "Used Vista -- got
rid of Vista." She elaborates, stating that she was running Vista with
Office 2007, but because Vista no longer stores credentials for Outlook, and
because she has Outlook automatically download e-mail from several POP3 servers,
she was getting prompted to type in her password non-stop.
"Apparently this was considered by Microsoft and it was decided that the
impact would not be significant. Even for users on our company's network, it
would be extremely annoying. I truly hope [Microsoft] comes up with a solution,"
Metcalf explains.
A Microsoft spokesman responded to Metcalf's complaint via e-mail: "We
are not aware of this problem with Outlook; Outlook stores the credentials for
its accounts [that] it is set up for."
Do the application compatibility problems with Vista pose a huge problem for
Redmond in the sales channel? That's hard to determine at this point. Normally
businesses begin a slow movement toward upgrading to the latest Microsoft desktop
OS within a year or two of its release (and typically not until the first service
pack drops). Consumers routinely won't upgrade their OSes. Instead, they prefer
to get a new OS when they purchase a new computer.
While Microsoft brags it has sold more than 60 million Vista licenses as of
June, signs are emerging that Vista sales aren't what Microsoft initially hoped
for. In July, Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell said that the company changed its
forecast of desktop OS revenues in fiscal year 2008, revising Vista's revenue
down from 85 percent to 78 percent, and Windows XP's revenue up from 15 percent
to 22 percent. That means Microsoft expects XP sales to be 50 percent stronger,
and at the expense of Vista.
Offering further corroboration that Microsoft's initial forecast was too optimistic,
market researcher Gartner Inc. stated in a report this spring: "Our market
data suggests Vista has had very limited impact on PC demand or replacement
Dell Inc. threw more cold water on Microsoft's rosy Vista outlook by deciding
to re-offer XP on six of its computers in response to customer demand.
Although these signals don't necessarily foretell doom and gloom for Vista,
it's clear that Microsoft needs to do everything it can to make Vista attractive
to buyers, and an excellent place to start would be with markedly improved application
compatibility. That's already happening, as witnessed by Microsoft COO Kevin
Turner's commitment to continuing work on application compatibility.
Microsoft managed to roughly triple Vista's application compatibility within
the first six months of its release. If it can continue that pace for a full
year, Vista will be well on the way to the kind of industry adoption that XP
enjoys. If not, and reports of application incompatibility continue to spread,
Vista could have a rough time ahead.
Also, don't forget the benefits of virtualization. Problems with Vista can
be overcome by running apps in a virtual machine with XP loaded. The two most
popular are Microsoft's free Virtual PC, and VMware Inc.'s Workstation (starting
at $189).
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Corporate greed and power breeds incompatibility, neither smart nor green. What a sad commentary on intelligent people. Sad indeed.
I'm running Vista Ultimate on a notebook - I'm a software developer and this machine is my workhorse - I've had NO problems at all. Office works great, Visual Studio, Oracle, SQL Server, a bevy of shareware utilities, some of which I've had since Win 95. One thing I have had trouble with is Roxio - on my old XP machine. The new version 10 installed successfully on Vista, but I've not had a chance to use it much. Seems to me before pointing the finger at That Evil Microsoft at the get-go, one should take a look at all those third-party software vendors and realize that it takes time and effort to change software to accommodate new platforms. Yes, they've had a while to gear up, but the consuming public seems to believe that as soon as a new OS is launched all the the third-party vendors should launch at the same time - that's just not feasible for many. They have to wait for the final product and then make their modifications just as the end-user must.
Sounds like a lot of newbies posting here. Has to be newbies as an experienced computer user would know how it works with a new OS - and any new OS for that matter. Vista is not like XP - this has been well known since Vista was first mentioned by Microsoft. Having been around this business since the roll out of XP, Win2k, ME, 98, I can say - all those OSs has same issues as Vista does now compared to XP. That's how it works with a new OS - if you haven't figured that out by now - give it up - it's hopeless. And I just have to say - Microsoft doesn't have much to do with 3rd. party drivers - that's the vendors responsibility. They send a driver to MS and MS tests it. It don't work - it don't get WHQL and goes back to the vendor. Just though this would help those without the knowledge of more experienced in the business.
Along with thousands of other users, from what I'm reading on the community support pages, my email is stuck in Outbox and cannot be sent or even deleted. I receive emails okay. Why hasn't this system-wide problem been solved by now? I much preferred Windows XP. Vista is NOT an improvement.
Vista simply is not ready for prime time. With our testing and actual usage in a world wide corporate networked environment. It simply doesn't have enough "umph". The pc's tested were Dell workstations 450, 470 and 490's. Each machine had over two gigs of ram. These pc's are powerful. But the more tasks you do the slower it gets. If its a dedicated to simply reading mail or surfing the web. Life is good. But who does just that at work. It's a shame. Vista is really good looking. Provided you keep the vista interface and not switch to windows classic in order to get more speed from the machine. Using Xp with Vista transform pack isn't such a bad idea. If you like the "Vista" look.
I find it very frustrating that Windows has released a new operating system that for the most part is not compatible with alot of the other software that is compatible with Windows XP. When XP came out, almost all of the software that was compatible with Windows 98, even windows 95, worked with XP. Now it seems that with the exception of Dell, you can't get a computer without Vista. It's bad enough to shell out the money for a new computer, now I have to replace all the software as well? Much of it is stuff that I need and does not yet have Vista compatible versions. While the writer of the article blames the software manufacturers for not getting their act in gear sooner, I blame Microsoft for creating a new and supposedly exclusive operating system that is going to force many people to replace much of their other software as well. While it's great that Microsoft is doing all they are doing now to fix the problems, but this is an issue that should have been done BEFORE they released Vista. I've got at least two major programs that are not on any compatability list for vista, and will cost me more than the computer to replace. I'd go for a Dell, but none of the units they offer with XP have a hard drive larger than 80 gb. At 60 Gb on the current laptop, I'm just about maxxed out on space.
Here's a news flash; Vista works fine. So did all of the flavors of XP, 2000, 98. 95, 3.X, 2.0 and MS-DOS! The recurring issue seems to be vendor software, hardware manufacturers and home-grown application designers that lag behind in developing applications and hardware drivers that are compatible to each new release of their respective products, yet somehow expect their products to miraculously perform to specifications in a new OS environment. While I find it strange that even some of Microsoft's own application are having operational difficulties with Vista (Windows Live Messenger w/ Vista Ultimate for one!), I appreciate your comments regarding the finger pointing in multiple directions, including hardware and software vendors. As with other operating systems, the idea of creating an OS to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of applications and hardware varieties in use today is idyllic indeed. Microsoft may appear to possess unlimited resources in R&D to build an operating system tailored to run commercial and consumer products, but in reality, the company relies on both software application designers as well as hardware manufacturers to make some effort to align their products with such a broad target market.For some odd reason, Microsoft believes that the XP line is in its declining stage, yet my experiences show that many prefer to stay with the XP line before switching to Vista. While XP sales may be declining, the OS is solid in a maturity stage, not only in corporate use, but also in the public arena. Like the 2000 line, XP is very popular, and Microsoft should seriously reconsider extending XP's product support. As you stated in the article, Vista was in a very lengthy development cycle, perhaps longer than any previous OS release from Microsoft. Now, ten months into the introduction phase, I still encounter many hard-headed developers that believe that it is Microsoft's responsibility to provide an OS with capabilities to run their 'legacy' products. The questions become: What were they doing while Vista was in a 5-year development phase? Microsoft went through great pains to release beta versions of Vista to many of these corporate developers through channels such as MSDN and TechNet memberships. Was there a lack of feedback to Microsoft from these beta and early-release recipients that justifies why the OS is problematic at the corporate level? To illustrate, if a company like Adobe agrees to package its reader software along with a computer manufacturer pushing out Vista, what possible excuse can Adobe have for its late release of a Flash player that is compatible with Vista? How can a world-wide computer manufacturer such as Acer release laptop computers that are advertised to be Windows WHQL-ready, only to include a integrated web cam that complains after the system is upgraded to Vista? Additionally, many of my customers' complaints about IE7 are associated with third-party add-ins that causes the browser to behave the way it does.Before we kick Vista to the curb, let (once again) give these hardware/software/firmware laggards a chance to catch up and join the program.
What I'd really like to know is what Ballmer and his cronies say every time their Vista PCs choke. I have a new Dell with Vista Ultimate (the ultimate joke!), Core Duo, 2GBs of memory and another two on ReadyBoost, and still have to close browser windows etc. to get enough juice for very simple tasks. And yes, just like with XP, I find I have to reboot at least every other day to retrieve a semblance of high performance, though it soon disappears. At least XP was refreshing. Vista has been a pain right from the start.
Was forced to have VISTA business on a Dell Laptop a while back (another week and they were offering XP Pro again!). Right out of the box got the Sonic incompatability message when booting, wouldn't work with the older version of Outlook which is the company standard, F-secure only had a BETA version which had to keep being reloaded, my backup software needed .NET v1.1 and it wouldn't load even after removing .NET 3, constant asking for permission to run messages (security is useless if it persuades you to turn it off!), even on a fast machine with 1Gb of memory Office apps took an age to load. It lasted a month and then I formated the disk and re-installed XP Pro - we now have a nice well-behaved and fast Laptop, OK it doesn't look quite as pretty but it's much more productive. Microsoft seem to have forgotton that changing versions in business can be a pain and the lack of backward compatability even with Microsoft legacy applications is a serious ommision - Vista seems to be aimed more at the Home user entertainment market.
Microsoft is looking more and more like the Titanic steaming full ahead into history.
As far as my home office, Vista is a disaster. The money machine at Microsoft has so segmented the OS that my new laptops with Home Premium can not communicate with a Win 98SE print server. The overall productive network throughput has dropped by 35%. If I new a way to get my money back or get XP Pro in place of Vista, I would leap at the opportunity. Theonly truly heartening thing is that my firm (approx 2000 seats) is evaluating Linux as an alternative.
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Dear Editor: Good issue! A couple of comments regarding your July/August editorial ["CME at Risk"]: Yes, at the moment, CME is at risk. Funding for CME is shifting perceptibly to promotional education, because, in pharmaceutical companies that have recently separated medical education from promotion, product managers are reluctant to "lose control" by assigning dollars to programs managed through scientific affairs or a similar department.
You are optimistic when you suggest that the Office of Inspector General will not investigate a good scientific program. The incentive for whistle-blowers is so great that a disgruntled employee or former employee of a pharma company or accredited provider or nonaccredited medical education company may well point the finger at a supposed incidence of undue influence over prescribing. The pharma company, as has happened in recent cases, may prefer to settle rather than fight, whether or not the grounds for action are thoroughly legitimate. [It's not easy to determine,] as U.S. assistant attorney Thomas Kanwit said, that the discussion was not "a result of any activity by the company." Not much of a safe harbor in that statement, in my view.
Certainly, the Accreditation Council for CME (ACCME) must do a thorough job of enforcing the revised Standards for Commercial Support when they are finally implemented. But so far, ACCME has not adequately defined what surveyors will look for when they examine data on conflicts of interest and the resolution of these. Unless a whistle-blower notifies ACCME of a suspected violation, enforcement will be retrospective, perhaps as much as four to six years after the fact. The alternative is to require periodic submission of data, program by program, and carry out reviews every three to six months. The cost of enforcement will rise dramatically.
Measurable results from CME will not in themselves be a defense against failure to live up to the ACCME Standards, the OIG regulations, and FDA requirements. Physicians can change behavior just as well — perhaps more so — from attending a promotional education program.
And your comment about evidence-based content needs elaboration. The critical element is fair balance in the evidence presented. I have seen more than one example of a CME program that presents well-documented evidence showing that a supporter's drug outperformed a placebo, with no effort to place that drug in the context of other treatment modalities.
While the immediate future of pharma-supported CME is cloudy, I believe that in 12 to 18 months the sun will shine again. Pharma managers will figure out how to work effectively within the compliance guidelines created by company attorneys, who in turn will modify the guidelines to be more workable. Accredited providers will, with ACCME's more detailed advice, determine how to serve their clients within the spirit of the Standards. Time tends to smooth out the peaks and valleys, I've learned.
Lewis A. Miller, Principal
WentzMiller & Associates LLC
Darien, Conn.
Dear Editor: So far this year, I have been declined nearly 20 percent of my budgeted revenue from industry. I have never been declined a grant request in my years in CME. I am extremely concerned about the financial viability of our CME program. This program has been accredited for nine years and has been in existence through joint sponsorship since the 1970s.
Our program in some ways is fairly innovative. We have piloted an evidence-based CME project similar to that of the American Academy of Fam-ily Physicians. Although we are not accredited to award EB-CME credit, we feel evidence-based content is exceptionally valuable to the learner. Further, our recent Accreditation Council for CME survey gave us exemplary compliance for evaluating the effectiveness of our activities. This information is included in our grant request letters. It has been suggested that companies are looking for evidence-based activities and outcomes measurement; yet despite our ability to offer both, we are still not being approved for a multitude of grants after filling out 20-page applications and including intricate details of our programs.
I am not sure where to go at this point. There is little information or support for providers being offered by ACCME or any other accrediting bodies, e.g., the American Medical Association, or in my case the Medical Society of the State of New York. It has become difficult for me to tell whether I am alone, if this is affecting every CME provider, or if it is affecting just the little guys. I was hoping you might be able to point me to resources which may assist in maintaining the financial viability of our program, as well as perhaps point me to influential decision-makers who might be able to assist providers.
The OIG compliance program is consistent with the PhRMA code and, in my opinion, CME seems to be somewhat of a "safe harbor." I never imagined that the longtime relationship of the pharmaceutical industry and CME providers would have been this significantly changed or perhaps even become extinct. While I truly appreciate the intent of the compliance program even where it relates to education, I believe, where accredited CME activities are concerned, the ACCME's Standards for Commercial Support place the onus on CME providers to control the content of the activity and ensure that the activity is free of unethical behavior by the supporting reps. If we as CME providers are doing our jobs, then the pharmaceutical industry should have nothing to fear.
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Dear Editor: The July/August issue contains a piece about the National Medical Foundation for Asset Protection ["Switching Sides"]. We invited a speaker to give a lecture about a similar topic at our annual session this year.
To be fair, it was one of the more popular lectures in terms of interest but this does not negate the fact that the speaker concluded his remarks with what could only be described as a commercial or sales pitch. Practice-management lectures have long been deemed appropriate CME; more recently risk management has been a popular non-clinical topic. All may not agree, but I think that in our current litigation climate, it is in the best interest of a medical practice to be protected from being wiped out by a lawsuit. This could mean the difference between having access to care or not, so I think this is a good topic — without the commercial!
My suggestion when bringing in speakers on nonclinical topics is to offer them a display tabletop outside the lecture area to meet with attendees. Better yet, sell them an exhibit space. Most importantly, the speaker will probably not be a physician, so explain the guidelines regarding commercial bias and make sure they understand the agreement they sign before they give their talk.
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Austin, Texas
A Problem by Any Other Name
Dear Editor: I guess I don't understand. Isn't your definition of "outcome mapping" ["Getting Your Meeting Unstuck," June issue] just forcing a conclusion? It's like going into a meeting about apples, then asking if everyone wouldn't rather enjoy oranges.
While it is true that "problem identification" is possibly a form of negative energy, it is also true that effective identification of problems results in new and as yet unexplored opportunities. It is part of a process. The time to ask about desirable outcomes evolves as the discussion progresses about the "problems."
I have had desirable outcomes by asking clients (and my own staff) to first focus on what's wrong, then strive to identify solutions. Sometimes I don't even use the same people to cover both aspects. While there are some "learning curve" slowdowns when different people review the work of others, it is offset by the ability to look for and manage creative and potentially rewarding positive outcomes.
By the way, problems don't happen in a vacuum. Negative results are presented through customer feedback, employee comments, even competitor inroads on sales and profits. A sharp organization is always on the lookout for methods of obtaining feedback from all stakeholders: employees, customers, competitors, public interests, and stockholders. Feedback is one of the prime lubricants of the marketing and operations process. What good does it do to identify optimum "outcomes" if the resources are not available to correct problems or seize opportunities? This is particularly true in small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures.
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The team will spend its mornings serving at UWNNS helping to expand the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to ensure people in the community get the tax credits due to them. VITA is a free tax filing service for people with less than $50,000 in yearly income. The NCCC members will be trained and certified by the IRS. VITA sites are an important way for low-income working families to learn about and access the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Each year, thousands of low-income Nevadans miss out on the EITC because they don't know they qualify or don't know how to claim the credit. In 2011, UWNNS's 10 VITA locations (there are now currently 12 locations) helped 2,389 individuals receive more than $3.1 million in total income tax refunds.
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Five years of various construction projects have transformed and enhanced the 178-year-old campus of St. Joseph's Villa into a modern, vibrant facility that serves as a safe and efficient community resource for families.
Earlier this month, Villa officials gathered with clients, volunteers, students, Henrico County Manager Virgil Hazelett and Fairfield Supervisor Frank Thornton to celebrate the campus' transformation.
There was a strong sense of excitement and accomplishment in the air during the June 6 event at the Villa, where the changes will ensure that it remains a vital resource for needy families – 82 percent of them from Henrico. The improvements have helped the Villa build new partnerships, increase capacity, improve efficiency and expand the scope of its services.
"Before this project, we were serving 800 [people] – now we are serving about 2,000," said Board of Trustees member JoAnne K. Henry.
The renovation is the first major construction of infrastructure and roadways on the 82 acre campus since 1931. A major investment is the new perimeter road that makes it safer for the 450 vehicles that access the campus each day, while removing them from the pedestrian walkways and safeguarding clients, staff, visitors and children.
"My son has attended the Villa for four years and will be graduating this year. I think it's wonderful and it gives the children time to walk through the school without cars going by," said parent Jaralyn McIntosh. "It's the best idea they could've come up with."
Other significant features include a new culinary arts center for dining and career training, a pedestrian avenue and walkways to connect buildings and campus resources, renovation of the gym and underground infrastructures including utilities and technology and restoration of the central garden and green spaces to promote outdoor learning and therapy.
The transformation began five years ago when architects, board members, engineers and staff devised a master plan for the future of St. Joseph's Villa with safety and transportation as the main goals.
The building committee, led by Villa Chairman John Gentry, held monthly meetings for 26 months to create budgets plans and implement work. The Villa launched its first ever capital campaign, "Believing is Seeing," with a goal of $10 million. Despite launching the campaign during one of the worst economic recessions in recent history, the Villa reached 99 percent of its goal. The money raised came from various donations from businesses, grants, staff, board members and friends.
The transformation is one that not only has helped expand the reach and scope of services the Villa can offer but has also been an example for the students.
"The number one reason to love the new campus is because of inspiration for transformation. Seeing what the campus has become inspires a sense of possibility in the individuals that they serve here," said Villa senior Ellen Trebour during the grand reopening.
Said Villa CEO Kathleen Barrett: "They have been thrilled; we asked the students for their input and how they felt about everything. They were involved every step of the way, and everyone loves the finished project."
Established in 1834 by the Daughters of Charity to serve as an orphanage and school, the Villa has now evolved as the oldest and largest continuously operating children's nonprofit organization in the metro region. It is a non-religious affiliated, non-profit organization that works to serve children and families by providing children with special needs the opportunity to succeed through innovative educational and day programs. Many of those served are dealing with autism, homelessness, or physical and mental disabilities that would classify the children as "at risk."
The project was recently awarded the Greater Richmond Association Commercial Real Estate Award for the best site improvements in 2011. The project finished under budget and before the targeted completion date.
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Varina Ruritans honor students
The Varina Ruritan Club hosted the winners of its 2014 Environmental Essay contest at its monthly meeting March 11 in Varina.
The contest, in its eighth year, was for the first time open to students in grades 3-5 at Varina Elementary School. (It previously was open to Sandston Elementary School students.)
The meeting included the winners, parents of the winners, Varina Elementary principal Mark Tyler and several teachers who were in charge of the contest at the school. > Read more.
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The game will take place Saturday, April 12, at 7 p.m., and the teams hope to raise $3,000 through donations, raffles and other efforts. Admission to the game is free, but fans who attend are asked to donate funds for the Glen Allen Youth Athletic Association's Buddy Ball program, which enables disabled children and teens to play baseball. > Read more.
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Step 12 Slide over center of rink shank and begin to wrap the 26 ga. wire around the shank. Each wrap must be tight, close and not overlapping. This is very important to keep a clean look to your design. Also, be gentle with the wire. If it breaks you will need to unwrap and start over. Use a sewing motion to make these wraps.
Step 13 When you reach the top, make three wraps on the wire that has the white pearl on it. Then extend the wire over the white pearl and make three wraps between white pearl and large Red Rouge pearl. Trim and tuck in small ends.
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