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Tank Shortage?
It seems to be a lot harder to find a tank now than it was for the first few months after TBC. The tanking classes are warriors, druids, and paladins. Maybe raiding requiring more healers is pushing would-be paladin/druid tanks to switch to healing specs, thus reducing the total number of tanks out there.
I'm a case in point. I was Protection for all my TBC levelling and a month or two later. Now I'm Holy. +1 healer for raiding, -1 tank for 5-mans. And I think that this may be a fairly common experience for paladins. How common do you think it would be for people to go the opposite route, from healing to tanking?
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Just from my little view on a yound and low pop EU server: switched from Prot to Holy (Shockadin) at 67 for the end stretch. After I dinged 70 two weeks ago, I got at least two or three tells a night asking to tank for them, whereas groups as a healer were impossible to get.ReplyDelete
Back to prot I went. However, I also got some /w invites to raiding guilds as a healer (which I declined).
- Anonymous5:34 AM, August 13, 2007
On my server, a pally who wants to tank can't get a spot in any of the big guilds because they automatically expect / require him to respec to heal. Not commenting of whether that's good or bad, but it's just the way it is. So he's in our small guild waiting / helping as we get gear and experience for eventual Kara raiding. (And he doesn't have the money, or gear, to respec back-and-forth.)ReplyDelete
As long as a pally is forced into a healing role in raiding, there will be that many less hybrid-tanks.
This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDelete
Realized my last comment made no sense.ReplyDelete
On my server I've noticed a shortage of good tanks. I get alot more tells asking for tanking than I do healing. As far as raiding I'm not sure because I just got keyed for Kara over the weekend. I do have hope for raiding because the guy who puts on the Kara raids that I'm going to OT for is in a big raiding guild who's GM is a Tankadin and he's the MT for SSC/TK.
Hopefully that shortgage will stay long enough for me to build up a good reputation for tanking though.
- Anonymous6:21 AM, August 13, 2007
I've certainly noticed the shortage. I'm lucky to get a 5 man run now on my holy paladin, and 3/4 of the time when my group can find a tank they are horrible and cause the group to fail. I guess I should just spend my time running AV instead of sitting around trying to find groups for instances.ReplyDelete
It's hard for me to say, but it seems like when I do a 5-man...if I'm going to tank, we can't find a healer. If I'm going to heal, we can't find a tank. It goes both ways I think.ReplyDelete
Something handy about being a paladin is that you can tank non-heroic 5-mans just fine as long as you have Improved Righteous Fury and some halfway decent tank gear.
I re-specced into Protection upon returning to the game from a six-month hiatus and have been invited to more groups as a protection paladin than I ever was in the old world as a holy paladin.ReplyDelete
I plan on staying protection until I've grinded (ground?) enough money to get the mount(s), enchants, etc. that I want before moving back into the raiding field. I would honestly prefer to remain protection and tank/off-tank in a raid setting, but given the current situation of paladins in the game, that ain't gonna happen.
I agree, though. I've tanked quite a few 5-mans for guild groups grinding out faction, but I've healed only a relatively small amount of those same instances because there are always more healers than tanks.
As always, I appreciate your insight and observations on things that are apparent in the game world but usually go unnoticed.
- Anonymous4:27 PM, August 13, 2007
I don't see how paladins/druids switching specs would impact the 5-man tanking pool that seriously. Once you have the tank gear, you can tank most of that content. (Heroics may be another story, but vanilla should be quite doable)ReplyDelete
If you're talking about PuGing groups... perhaps the low tank supply has to do with PuG fatality rates and typical repair costs for the tank.
- Anonymous12:17 AM, August 14, 2007
I guess the problem is that most people don't want to tank for PUGs, and proper raiding guilds already have dedicated tanks.ReplyDelete
I'm getting constant invites to tank for PUGs on my paladin, even though he's specced holy and I don't even like being the main tank. (Off-tanking is fine, leaves me free to aid squishies by getting mobs of them, or joining the healing squad.)
And I suppose the repair costs the poster above me mentioned are involved too. ;)
I find this so interesting to read, because I've been in the same situations.ReplyDelete
I originally leveled 10-60 as prot, then went holy as it was the only spec back in the MC/BWL/AQ/Nax days. By the time TBC came around I had been holy for so long that I simply remained that way through 70. Then the most interesting thing happened. My guild started running 5-mans and realized that a prot pally wouldn't be such a bad thing. So I was asked to respec for the 5-mans, and had a great time tanking through most of Kara.
Then we hit SSC/TK, and I'm required to go back holy, because I "can't tank" the mobs that hit harder as well as a warrior or feral druid. So, to keep a raid spot, I of course respec and regear.
The funny thing is, my guild is now having a spot of trouble with heroics, as the warrior tanks are having problem mantaining aggro on the multi-mob pulls. Height of irony.
- Anonymous12:14 AM, August 15, 2007
Dont underestimate Arena.ReplyDelete
A ms spcced warrior is not a great tank if he isnt geared for it.
But between Arena and Bg's he will get a trickle of very good epic gear every few weeks without going near a 5 man at all espcially a pug 5 man.
Currently I am flipping my druid between 5 man tank and alt kara healer every week:(
"As long as a pally is forced into a healing role in raiding, there will be that many less hybrid-tanks".
I don't think its any one particular answer that nails why there is a "Tank Shortage" but i will agree with "doeg" above on that.
Maybe mine is just my observation playing WoW as a Paladin. But in my observation some paladins are Hybrids, some are Dedicated to healing and some are dedicated to Tanking Specialty and Rets.
At lvl 70 it seems to me some Paladins want to raid and in order to get to raid they are forced to spec to heal in order to raid. A compromise. Seems to be the easy route vs not raiding at all.
As a result over time those now Healing Paladins become good dedicated Healers vs the Tanking kind OR learning how to become Good tanks. They are trapped in been healers or else or to make their guild happy.
Thus as long as your forced into healing by suggestion of others then that's one less Free thinking person to decide to become something else. Healer or Tank.
In the end my take is that Paladins make their own choices to dedicate their hybrid nature to healing or tanking and the choice you make is the one you live with. Thus a possible Tank Shortage.
That might be only part of the overall answer and the answer may have many faces.
- Anonymous3:20 PM, August 27, 2007
After getting a couple of Kara tanking drops, I've built up an uncritable set for tanking 5-mans (even though I'm speced holy). I haven't done it a whole lot yet, but it seems to work ok. I can hold aggro like nobodies business (holy shock is like having a second taunt) and our healer didn't seem to be having any real trouble keeping me up.ReplyDelete
Still need some practice though, it's been a long time since I tanked regularly. (Actually haven't really done it since my first char, a warrior.)
What I want to know is why are all the priests holy again? I want my mana battery...
- Anonymous3:30 PM, August 28, 2007
Oooo I want to know what tanking drops can get Holy to uncrittable.ReplyDelete
Without Holy Shield I don't see where you're going to make up that 30%.
Uncrittable is fairly easy, even for non-Prot paladins. It only requires 490 Defense.ReplyDelete
Uncrushable is the hard one. However, only level 73 mobs and raid bosses can crush, so it's only something that you need to worry about for raid tanking.
The need of healers is not the only cause for the shortage of tanks.ReplyDelete
I believe Blizzard bad design of no-warrior tanking classes, druids and palas, is another big reason.
In may case, a proct pala, I tank all karazhan up to nightbane... what a nightmare tanking with fear (lucky allies) 1-2 man death per try/kill plus a chaotic experience for all raid moving to fear range just in case.. Druids have the same problem....
Then comes Gruul, ups a stupid book in the place of a gun, we lost 50 stamina for that...
Well, how can we be MT´s …. Maybe of tanks… or healers of course…
Finally, check the pala tanking gear. There is none beside the tier until you pass Mageridon. That could mean the blizzard never intender palas as tanks, just compare the pala healer drops versus the pala tanks drops up to SC.
- Anonymous2:47 PM, October 02, 2007
Personally I think one of several reasons is tank burnout. Both guilds I've belonged to since TBC were constantly in need of a tank. Pretty much if you CAN tank they NEED you to tank. I left the first guild because every time I came on, I got asked to tank something for them. I like some variety in my play. I went ret for a month just to get a break. It's not that I dislike tanking, I love it. It just gets old when you want to play this game to have fun and it just becomes another real-life drag of people hanging on your help. Being able to jump into an arena a night or two a week and not feel gimped by your spec would really help break the monotony and make me happier about tanking, but Blizzard still clings to the outdated notion that free (or cheaper) respecs would be game-breaking somehow. Wow is 2 games... PvE and PvP. I want 2 specs. EQII is already planning on it... what is Blizzard doing?ReplyDelete


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Generation Text: Teens and Texting
Little 160-character messages now play a huge role in how teenagers interact with one another, and it happened practically overnight. R U up on the latest in telecommunications?
For kids, part of the process of becoming a teenager means identifying less with family, more with friends (of both the same and the opposite sex). This breaks parents' hearts a little—because it means they talk mostly to one another and very rarely to us. This is not exactly news. It's been going on for millennia, and every society has coped differently.
However, to paraphrase an ancient Chinese curse, today's moms and dads are doomed to live in interesting times. The past few decades have brought about major technological leaps in terms of telecommunications. Teens in the 1950s and 1960s were gifted with the meteoric rise of the telephone, an innovation that changed adolescent relationships forever, even if they had to chat in the hall within earshot of everyone. The 1970s brought phones in their bedrooms, altering the dynamic again. Fast-forward to the 1980s, when teens were spending so much time talking, exasperated parents had second lines installed. E-mail ushered in the 1990s, followed by instant messaging. The walk-up to Y2K brought cell phones. And today's teenagers, luxuriating in their own personal slice of telecom history, have texting.
By the Numbers
Technologically speaking, shooting off 160-character messages is only a slight bump up from instant messaging. But the social impact has been seismic. Texting dwarfs all other forms of communication for today's teens. According to trend trackers at Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center, in February 2008, 38% of teens sent text messages daily, a figure that jumped to 54% by September 2009. Now, a year later, the number is undoubtedly higher still. The same study found that the average high school girl sent 100 text messages each day, or around 3,000 per month, and 15% of teens were sending more than 200 texts a day.
But if you examined what's actually in those messages, it's highly likely they're saying the same things you said to your friends when you were their age, just in an abbreviated form. Yet while the content may be the same, the medium is fundamentally different, with its own distinct texture and pace. Longhand letters are considered elegant and charming. The telephone allows resounding emotion to bridge great distances instantly. Texting is the ornery love child of the two—fast and impulsive, young and without nuance, atomized and eternally available. And it's transforming the fabric of our children's lives whether we like it or not.
Of course, change is often good. Without it we don't get progress. Imagine our lives without, say, the polio vaccine, the Internet, Ben & Jerry's or Tivo. And the reason most teens have cell phones in the first place is patently obvious: They make parents' lives easier. Texting, even more so than a phone call, is a simple way to keep tabs on kids and sync schedules. It's also the means by which teens routinely ask one another about homework, firm up plans and keep in touch with far-flung buddies. Where teens are concerned, anything that greases the wheels of information exchange is difficult to argue against.
System Overload?
Clearly, texting has upsides. But what's weighing on parents' minds is whether there's a point at which there's too much messaging going on. The way that texting allows kids to stay connected to their friends every waking moment of the day (and many of the non-waking ones) is unprecedented. As a teen, you might have spent two hours on the phone every night with your best friend, and that probably felt like a lot to your mom and dad. Today many, if not most, teens are engaged in an ongoing conversation with their pals that lasts from the moment they wake up until they go to sleep again, only to pick right up again the following morning. This cycle has resulted in a new set of norms and assumptions, primary among them that any text should generate an immediate response, according to Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center (pewresearch.org). "There's a perception that teens are always available, and therefore if you don't respond quickly, you're angry," she says. This can lead to misunderstandings if a friend texts a kid who can't conveniently respond, like if he's sleeping. Or driving.
Lucy, a 17-year-old in Santa Fe, New Mexico, sends on average 300 texts daily. When her parents examined her bill, they realized that many were being sent after they thought she was asleep. Addressing the problem turned out to be as simple as a call to their carrier to disable texting during sleeping hours, but the fact that they needed to do so illustrates the irresistible lure. Talking on the phone all night would be exhausting, and probably a little boring. Texting, however, is low-impact and all sizzle. Any given message feels like it takes zero time to send, and the rhythm of waiting for a response creates a miniature positive reinforcement loop. Even when conversations peter out, they can be revived hours later on a whim. The combination of these effects results in immense conversational stamina. And it's hard not to see how this constant, if slight, distraction can fragment a child's consciousness.
Arrested Development
Beyond the distraction factor is reasonable concern that this shallower form of communication—after all, there's only so much substance you can pack into 160 characters—is stunting teens' emotional growth. Which is why Sherry Turkle, director of the Initiative on Technology and Self at MIT, who has been studying the effects of technology on identity for decades, is troubled. "Today's teens would rather text one another than talk," she says. The stock explanation is that messaging is more convenient, but digging deeper brings to light that they find using their own voices too revealing, according to Turkle. And the lack of actual conversations, with their typical nuances and give-and-take, prevents teens from learning how to "read" people and respond empathically. More important, with a phone in their pocket all the time, kids are never really alone. The net result of constant connectivity is that many have a hard time making simple decisions or weathering minor setbacks without conferring with others, which over time can erode confidence in one's own coping skills.
But while texting's social and psychological effects are hard to gauge precisely, its ramifications in schools are clear. Teachers roundly complain that they feel texting—whether the act of sending one or the anticipation of receiving one—distracts students. Today almost all schools expressly prohibit cell phones in the classroom, but teens are so adept at typing on the sly, the rule is more or less moot. Given that a 2008 Harris Interactive study found that nearly half of kids—42%—could text while blindfolded, it's not surprising that Pew's research also revealed that 64% of kids had sent a text during class. While students are sometimes asked to put their cells in a basket when they enter a classroom, many carry a fake phone for handing in and keep their real one hidden.
The simplest solution would be to block or jam cell phone signals inside school buildings during classroom hours. However, parents—now accustomed to being able to reach their child at all times—typically balk at this, having apparently forgotten that kids went to school without mobile phones as recently as five years ago. Complicating matters is that Congress specifically outlawed any attempt to block wireless communications in 2005. The law didn't stop administrators at Mt. Spokane High School in Spokane, Washington, who installed jammers as a last resort, only to disable the devices three days later for legal reasons.
Despite the many concerns, at the end of the day texting is just a technology. The problem isn't so much the thing itself as how it's being used. Our society has yet to figure out the collective implications of living in 160-character bursts. The people who create a new technology (usually adults) are almost never the group that realizes its full potential (usually kids). And that potential invariably carries positive, though harder to see, consequences along with the more immediately obvious negative ones. It would not be surprising if texting throws off some interesting benefits for those who grow up with it as part of their social system. Texting removes friction from human communications, exactly as the telephone did 50 years back and the Internet did 10 years ago. Both developments transformed society. Who's to say that the kids of tomorrow won't be part of some kind of hive mind that brokers peace in the Middle East or cures cancer? We may look back in 20 years and see that texting was the first step toward something overarchingly connective and beautiful. Or we may view it retrospectively as the beginning of our evolution into an army of zombies with eyes glued to our phones. Knowing humans, it'll probably be a little of both.
In any case, at this point arguing against texting is like arguing against the ocean or the color orange. They're already there, and too many people are attached to them. Firing off messages at will has become deeply and firmly entrenched in youth culture, albeit in a disconcertingly fast fashion. Wishing it away is naive. Although if history is any guide, it probably will go away one day. Right around the time we get comfortable with it, which will coincide with something new coming along. Here's to interesting times.
Where the Boys Are
When it comes to texting, the battle of the sexes is alive and well.
Teens text in strikingly divergent ways. Girls send significantly more daily messages than boys, 80 versus 30, according to Pew Research—and are nearly 20% more likely to send a text just to say hello or chat. In terms of subject matter, both boys and girls rely on texting for functional purposes, like making plans or checking on homework. Beyond that, girls anecdotally report avidly back-and-forthing about their social relationships ("Are you serious? I had no idea she was mad at me!"), while for boys, external, third-party topics, such as sporting events ("omg total blown call, should be Chargers ball") tend to dominate. The differences even extend to punctuation. Scott Campbell, assistant professor of new media at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, claims he's seen significant stylistic differences in form, with boys tending not to use punctuation, whereas girls have evolved an extremely subtle emotional grammar. For instance, according to Campbell, if a girl puts a period at the end of a text message, then it comes across as if she's mad. Rest assured that the dot at the end of this sentence conveys no anger whatsoever.
How did texting suddenly become so popular? Ask the people who price the plans.
The cost structure of limited versus unlimited messaging plans is a big part of why texting is now a way of life for teenagers, says Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Research Center. A kid with a finite num-ber of messages for any given month—say, 100—will definitely think twice before hitting Send. But once someone moves to an unlimited plan, he stops being so selective and frequently fires off trivial notes like "OK" or "Fine." However, because U.S. cellphone carriers bill per message sent or received, one teen getting an unlimited plan—thus entering into that anything-goes mind-set—can have a ripple effect on her friends, because her no-longer-rationed messages end up nudging her pals on limited plans over their monthly allotments, resulting in their parents receiving big bills. In late 2007 the major carriers started pricing unlimited messages at just a few bucks more per month than limited plans—and given the math, many parents switched their kids to unlimited texting. According to Lenhart, "One person in a social circle getting an unlimited plan more or less forces the other people he wants to communicate with regularly to get an unlimited plan."
A Brief History Of Text Messaging
A VERY LONG TIME AGO The first organized mail systems are established in Persia and Egypt.
ALSO A VERY LONG TIME AGO The Sumerians invent school. Shortly thereafter, presumably, Sumerian teenagers invent note-passing.
2000 BC through 400 AD Various courier systems are developed for message delivery in the world's major cities.
476 AD Rome falls, along with its high literacy rate. For the next several hundred years, most of the people who know how to read and write are monks. Nothing too sexy happens, text-communications-wise, for several hundred years.
1200 AD As his empire expands, Mongol emperor Genghis Khan uses homing pigeons to carry written orders miles away.
1290 The German Thurn and Taxis family begins a private courier service. During the next few hundred years it grows into an extensive mail system in western Europe, eventually nationalized by Prussia in 1867.
1440 Johannes Gutenberginvents the printing press, enabling mass production of books. Literacy rates soar.
1794 Claude Chappe creates the non-electric telegraph to communicate visually over long distances. It was replaced soon after, in 1809, by the electric telegraph, the brainchild of Samuel Soemmering and the precursor to the telephone.
1876 Though numerous inventors had been working diligently on the problem of "voice over wire" for many years—building on one another's discoveries—Alexander Graham Bell is awarded the patent for the telephone.
1949 Al Gross patents the telephone pager, primarily used in hospitals and emergency situations.
1965 E-mail is invented at MIT to pass messages from one computer user to another.
1969 In conjunction with MIT, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) creates ARPANet, the first packet-switching network, and the precursor to the Internet.
1972 The @ symbol debuts as a way to designate a particular user on a particular machine.
1973 The first call is made on a mobile phone by its inventor, Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola.
1974 Motorola offers the first consumer pager for sale.
1983 The Unix "talk" protocol is updated to allow users on different computers to "chat" (type) to each other in real time (this had previously been limited to multiple users on a single mainframe).
1990 Cell phone text messaging is invented by Nokia employee Matti Makkonen, utilizing a previously unused segment of "junk" data passed between cell phones and cell towers. 12.4 million people worldwide have cell phones, 22 million people carry pagers.
1992 Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web, a way of turning any word in a document into a link to another document. It is text-only for its first two years but eventually leads to an explosion in popular use of the Internet.
1994 Pager use balloons to 61 million, but will soon be eclipsed by cell phones and text messaging.
2002 26 students at Hitotsubashi University in Japan are failed for receiving exam answers via their mobile phones.
2006 Twitter, a publishing medium tailored to the typical length of text messages, debuts
2007-2008 Most U.S. cell phone companies begin offering unlimited texting plans.
2009 Ashton Kutcher becomes the first Twitter user to get 1 million followers, narrowly beating CNN. Reading significance into this will only make you sad.
Originally published in the October 17, 2010 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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Gilmore: If the 1% had less, would the 99% be better off?
Kai Ryssdal: I don't know that there's an official count of how long the Occupy protests have been going on, but today's day number 58 of the demonstrations that started in New York City. They've come to a close in Oakland, Calif., at least for now. Police moved in this morning to clear campers out of a plaza in downtown.
The through line of this movement so far, at least the one that's been easiest to understand, is the wealth gap. The "we are the 99 percent, but the 1 percent gets to control everything" story. We decided to turn that question on its head a little bit and ask if the 1 percent had less, would the 99 percent be bettter off?
Here's commentator Elspeth Gilmore.
Elspeth Gilmore: I am the 1 percent. I recently marched on Wall Street with the 99 percent. I stand with the 99 percent, but I marched for myself, too. For decades, the U.S. economy has been organized to boost the wealth of the 1 percent.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, 40 percent of all wealth gains between 1983 and 2009 went to the 1 percent. Eighty-two percent went to the top 5 percent. All the rules of the economy have been tilted in my favor. Yet it is not in my interest to allow the disparities of wealth to keep growing. We should not have to hoard wealth in this society in order to keep our families healthy or to get an education. Health and a good education should be rights.
My job at Resource Generation is to organize wealthy people under 35 who want to change this. There are more than 1,500 of us who know that our lives would be better if we personally had less and we could all rely on a collective safety net. We need to re-imagine what is possible.
I want to live in a world where we together provide the basic needs of all people: adequate infrastructure and roads, well-funded school systems, clean water systems, innovative transportation and health care for all.
We need a more just economy — and one of the ways to get there is for people like me to pay higher taxes. Lets change the policies that keep the wealth in the hands of a few. Let's increase millionaire taxes and end loopholes for corporations. Please tax the income from my investments at least as much as my earned income, it's common sense.
So let me say this as plainly as I can. Tax me, tax the 1 percent. If the 1 percent had less money, we — a 100 percent of us — would be better off.
Ryssdal: Elspeth Gilmore is the co-director of Resource Generation. Tomorrow our series continues with Reihan Salam on the same question: "If the 1 percent had less, would the 99 percent be better off?"
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Directions: From the intersection of US 20/ID 75, turn S on ID 75; travel ~10 mi; R (W) onto paved W Magic Valley Rd; zero odometer; at mi 1.6, look for raptors in cottonwood stand on R; mi 5.4 dirt rd to R leads to S end of reservoir and dam; mi 8.2 dirt rd to the L (N) to Lava Point and Lava Ck (rd not good in winter); mi 8.7 dirt rd to L meanders through a sagebrush steppe area; mi 9.6 is W Magic Village (Magic Resort); mi 9.7 follows main rd past restaurant and makes a slight L to boat launch.
Description: Three islands, near the dam, serve as nesting sites for 2000 breeding pairs of California and Ring-billed Gulls and 25 pairs of Caspian Terns. Follow dirt roads accessing the western edge of the reservoir. These roads are accessible to all vehicles when the roads are dry. Nesting Long-billed Curlew can be seen. Look for Western and Clark's Grebes and Common Loon during the summer. During migration, American Avocet, Black-necked Stilt, Northern Pintail and Shoveler, and Pacific Loon may be found. Large numbers of Trumpeter and Tundra Swans and some waterfowl arrive when the spring thaw starts in late March-best viewed from the restaurant's deck located in West Magic Village.
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|Is anyone else as surprised as me that this experiment with knives didn't end with a trip to the ER ?
It was kabob night. I have a bone to pick with whoever it was that said, "If your kids are involved in the prep work, they will eat whatever you put in front of them." That person is pure crap with kids who probably also poop glitter. Because I don't care how many veggies they chopped or how cool it was to spear squash with a skewer, my kids were still not touching grilled zucchini with a ten foot pole. But meat on a stick? Well, that's a different story. Meat on a stick = good.
And whatever it is about grilling that suddenly makes a man capable of cooking dinner also equals good.
That lean, mean, grilling machine also turned the big 3-4 a couple of weeks ago. It was a real throw down event as evidenced by the fact that people began taking their shirts off during the party.
Yesterday, my grandmother (who has been keeping my kids some during our foster care meetings) called to discuss the issue of my children's chronic nudity. I say they are kids and they are probably fine. After all, I'm not sending them to school nekkid or shopping with them in Walmart with their privates dangling out. Her defense was, "Yes, but even Adam and Eve had a FIG LEAF!" *sigh*
In other news, our beloved Kentucky Wildcats are in the final four. They are playing their arch rivals (Louisville) for a shot to be in the championship game. Essentially what this means is that in Kentucky right now, people rooting for opposing teams are beating each other up while they are hooked to dialysis and the state government has pretty much shut down. Do you want to know what I think about it?
Yep- that's me, fast asleep during the second half of the last UK game. I found this picture on my phone. I think the mister took it and could be planning to use at as some form of blackmail. I'm beating him at his own game because I'm sneaky like that. Mwuhaha. Prior to falling asleep, I was all about the game and paying homage to our star player, Anthony Davis- who has become famous for his giant unibrow.
But, when these people don't schedule games until 9:30 at night, I just can't stay awake, even if I am startled back to life every few minutes by someone screaming at the television. I'll give five dollars to the person that can tell me in a way that makes sense, why certain people think that yelling at a magic talking box will make a team play better. I'm considering it one the universe's great mysteries. Like Stonehenge.
One thing that is not a mystery? The adorableness of this "present" that appeared on my doorstep.
Sadie and her best pal just love to do stuff like put Miles in a basket with a blanket and pose him like he's a little doll or something and then take his picture. He eats it up, so I suppose being left on a doorstep a-la The Chipmunks style isn't psychologically damaging his little former orphan heart too badly. No harm no foul, right? After all, he doesn't look like damaged goods to me...
However, they may be justified in confusing his doll like status because with these glasses on I think he could totally pass for a Cabbage Patch Kid. Man, wouldn't adoption be so much easier if we could just tell our kids that they sprouted from a cabbage patch? Or even explaining child birth? That's it. I've just made the executive decision. I'm erasing all prior history and until I decide otherwise, it is now official that ALL of my children (including the ones I gave birth to) came from the cabbage patch. (because ewwww... who wants to think about being conceived? Not me!) And on that note, I've also decided that I must now go and teach my children how to dance the cabbage patch because it's a critical life skill- like math or brushing your teeth or removing rodents from your hair.
Happy weekend!
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Brand loyalty is the pie everyone wants a slice of: if you know your customers aren't spending money with your competitors you can guarantee your market share will be growing.
But while it's easy to get excited about the idea of brand loyalty, there aren't many who know how to generate it. Our panellists share their list of key ingredients.
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Pain happens when parts of the body are damaged. Cancer pain can almost always be reduced, so tell you doctor if you have pain.
There are many types of pain. Describing your pain clearly can help your doctor or nurse to find the best treatment.
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There are a lot of things that you and other people can do to make you feel better and help with your pain.
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Sec. 1945. [42 U.S.C. 1396w-4] (a) In General.—Notwithstanding section 1902(a)(1) (relating to statewideness), section 1902(a)(10)(B) (relating to comparability), and any other provision of this title for which the Secretary determines it is necessary to waive in order to implement this section, beginning January 1, 2011, a State, at its option as a State plan amendment, may provide for medical assistance under this title to eligible individuals with chronic conditions who select a designated provider (as described under subsection (h)(5)), a team of health care professionals (as described under subsection (h)(6)) operating with such a provider, or a health team (as described under subsection (h)(7)) as the individual's health home for purposes of providing the individual with health home services.
(b) Health Home Qualification Standards.—The Secretary shall establish standards for qualification as a designated provider for the purpose of being eligible to be a health home for purposes of this section.
(c) Payments.—
(1) In general.—A State shall provide a designated provider, a team of health care professionals operating with such a provider, or a health team with payments for the provision of health home services to each eligible individual with chronic conditions that selects such provider, team of health care professionals, or health team as the individual's health home. Payments made to a designated provider, a team of health care professionals operating with such a provider, or a health team for such services shall be treated as medical assistance for purposes of section 1903(a), except that, during the first 8 fiscal year quarters that the State plan amendment is in effect, the Federal medical assistance percentage applicable to such payments shall be equal to 90 percent.
(2) Methodology.—
(A) In general.—The State shall specify in the State plan amendment the methodology the State will use for determining payment for the provision of health home services. Such methodology for determining payment—
(i) may be tiered to reflect, with respect to each eligible individual with chronic conditions provided such services by a designated provider, a team of health care professionals operating with such a provider, or a health team, as well as the severity or number of each such individual's chronic conditions or the specific capabilities of the provider, team of health care professionals, or health team; and
(ii) shall be established consistent with section 1902(a)(30)(A).
(B) Alternate models of payment.—The methodology for determining payment for provision of health home services under this section shall not be limited to a per-member per-month basis and may provide (as proposed by the State and subject to approval by the Secretary) for alternate models of payment.
(3) Planning grants.—
(A) In general.—Beginning January 1, 2011, the Secretary may award planning grants to States for purposes of developing a State plan amendment under this section. A planning grant awarded to a State under this paragraph shall remain available until expended.
(B) State contribution.—A State awarded a planning grant shall contribute an amount equal to the State percentage determined under section 1905(b) (without regard to section 5001 of Public Law 111–5) for each fiscal year for which the grant is awarded.
(C) Limitation.—The total amount of payments made to States under this paragraph shall not exceed $25,000,000.
(d) Hospital Referrals.—A State shall include in the State plan amendment a requirement for hospitals that are participating providers under the State plan or a waiver of such plan to establish procedures for referring any eligible individuals with chronic conditions who seek or need treatment in a hospital emergency department to designated providers.
(e) Coordination.—A State shall consult and coordinate, as appropriate, with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in addressing issues regarding the prevention and treatment of mental illness and substance abuse among eligible individuals with chronic conditions.
(f) Monitoring.—A State shall include in the State plan amendment—
(1) a methodology for tracking avoidable hospital readmissions and calculating savings that result from improved chronic care coordination and management under this section; and
(2) a proposal for use of health information technology in providing health home services under this section and improving service delivery and coordination across the care continuum (including the use of wireless patient technology to improve coordination and management of care and patient adherence to recommendations made by their provider).
(g) Report on Quality Measures.—As a condition for receiving payment for health home services provided to an eligible individual with chronic conditions, a designated provider shall report to the State, in accordance with such requirements as the Secretary shall specify, on all applicable measures for determining the quality of such services. When appropriate and feasible, a designated provider shall use health information technology in providing the State with such information.
(h) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Eligible individual with chronic conditions.—
(A) In general.—Subject to subparagraph (B), the term "eligible individual with chronic conditions" means an individual who—
(i) is eligible for medical assistance under the State plan or under a waiver of such plan; and
(ii) has at least—
(I) 2 chronic conditions;
(II) 1 chronic condition and is at risk of having a second chronic condition; or
(III) 1 serious and persistent mental health condition.
(B) Rule of construction.—Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the Secretary from establishing higher levels as to the number or severity of chronic or mental health conditions for purposes of determining eligibility for receipt of health home services under this section.
(2) Chronic condition.—The term "chronic condition" has the meaning given that term by the Secretary and shall include, but is not limited to, the following:
(A) A mental health condition.
(B) Substance use disorder.
(C) Asthma.
(D) Diabetes.
(E) Heart disease.
(F) Being overweight, as evidenced by having a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 25.
(3) Health home.—The term "health home" means a designated provider (including a provider that operates in coordination with a team of health care professionals) or a health team selected by an eligible individual with chronic conditions to provide health home services.
(4) Health home services.—
(A) In general.—The term "health home services" means comprehensive and timely high-quality services described in subparagraph (B) that are provided by a designated provider, a team of health care professionals operating with such a provider, or a health team.
(B) Services described.—The services described in this subparagraph are—
(i) comprehensive care management;
(ii) care coordination and health promotion;
(iii) comprehensive transitional care, including appropriate follow-up, from inpatient to other settings;
(iv) patient and family support (including authorized representatives);
(v) referral to community and social support services, if relevant; and
(vi) use of health information technology to link services, as feasible and appropriate.
(5) Designated provider.—The term "designated provider" means a physician, clinical practice or clinical group practice, rural clinic, community health center, community mental health center, home health agency, or any other entity or provider (including pediatricians, gynecologists, and obstetricians) that is determined by the State and approved by the Secretary to be qualified to be a health home for eligible individuals with chronic conditions on the basis of documentation evidencing that the physician, practice, or clinic—
(A) has the systems and infrastructure in place to provide health home services; and
(B) satisfies the qualification standards established by the Secretary under subsection (b).
(6) Team of health care professionals.—The term "team of health care professionals" means a team of health professionals (as described in the State plan amendment) that may—
(A) include physicians and other professionals, such as a nurse care coordinator, nutritionist, social worker, behavioral health professional, or any professionals deemed appropriate by the State; and
(B) be free standing, virtual, or based at a hospital, community health center, community mental health center, rural clinic, clinical practice or clinical group practice, academic health center, or any entity deemed appropriate by the State and approved by the Secretary.
(7) Health team.—The term "health team" has the meaning given such term for purposes of section 3502 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
[291] See Vol. II, P.L. 111-148, §2703(b), with respect to the evaluation and assessment of States that have elected the option to provide coordinated care through a health home for individuals with chronic conditions.