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Family physicians in Maryland practice and work in various settings and capacities, using their skills and expertise to deliver and improve health care for thousands of patients throughout the state. This diversity is one of the Maryland AFP's (MDAFP's) greatest attributes, enabling family physicians to forge alliances and common bonds across various agencies, commissions and practice modalities, thereby strengthening the chapter's commitment to public health and advocacy.
"We are a varied bunch," says Yvette Rooks, M.D., executive vice chair and residency program director in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and head team physician at the University of Maryland in College Park. "We have folks who practice concierge medicine and folks who are medical directors, and we also have folks who run accountable care organizations. We represent a variety of specialties within our specialty of family medicine."
Although the chapter has only 700 active members, its power and influence extend well beyond its actual membership, putting family physicians in a position to drive fundamental and enduring health system change.
"We are small, yet vocal," says Patricia Czapp, M.D., a member of the governor's subcommittee on health care delivery reform and chair of clinical integration at the Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. "And we are at the table where decisions are being made."
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- The Maryland AFP is one of the most diverse chapters in the country, enabling family physicians to forge alliances and common bonds across various agencies, commissions and practice modalities.
- Within their various roles, family physicians in the state are leading health care reform and innovation efforts in both the public and private sectors.
- By drawing on its diversity, the Maryland AFP is able to strengthen its commitment to public health and advocacy, resulting in improved health for thousands of state residents.
Encouraging Leadership
"I know the leaders of this chapter roll up their sleeves and get to work at placing our specialty of family medicine front and center in the most important role we play: improving the health of our state's patients, families and communities," says Yvette Oquendo, M.D., president of the MDAFP and a staff physician at Chase Brexton Health Services in Baltimore.
For example, family physician Niharika Khanna, M.D., serves as program director of the Maryland Learning Collaborative, which provides assistance to the state's multipayer patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiative. The collaborative has helped 52 practices in the state achieve PCMH status during the past few years, effectively bringing about 250,000 patients into the PCMH model, according to Khanna, an associate professor of Family and Community Medicine, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
The collaborative has 339 physicians, and 266 of them are primary care physicians. Of that, 133 are family physicians, which gives family medicine a large stake in the learning collaborative.
State officials currently are in the process of expanding the PCMH model via a state innovation grant funded by CMS. Khanna, along with state officials, co-wrote the grant for the expansion.
Another family physician, Laura Herrera, M.D., deputy secretary for Public Health Services for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, is leading the design of the state innovation model. In their respective roles, Khanna and Herrera are spearheading the state's PCMH efforts and planning for the spread of the state's innovation model.
Maryland AFP Provides Opportunities for CME Credits
The Maryland AFP (MDAFP) is one of the few AAFP chapters in the country with an accredited journal that enables family physicians to earn CME credit.
Each issue of the quarterly journal focuses on a clinical, policy or practice management theme and gives family physicians the opportunity to read the articles and take a quiz for CME credit.
"The Maryland chapter has its own credit requirement so that within the AAFP framework of mandating 150 credits every three years, with 75 being Prescribed, six Prescribed credits must be obtained from MDAFP CME," says Esther Rae Barr, C.A.E., executive director of the MDAFP.
Chapter-sponsored programming is offered via live conferences, journals with online quizzes and, new this year, online videos taped at live MDAFP conferences. The CME policy, initiated in 2000, has prompted the chapter "to hone its educational offerings so that members can acquire quality CME and, at the same time, meet the requirement," says Barr.
"We now are in a place where our journal and quizzes are online, allowing family physicians to earn over 12 credits a year from our chapter's website, which is significant."
Khanna is convinced that family physicians are best suited for the leadership role in the state innovation model because of their background and training. "We come in with the whole person orientation, the psychosocial model and a deep understanding of the patient as a partner in their health care," says Khanna. "Family physicians traditionally have been the go-to doctor, and (the) PCMH allows us to provide patient-centered care."
Family physician Donald Shell, M.D., M.A., director of the Cancer and Chronic Disease Bureau and interim director for the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, agrees with that assessment, saying that "family medicine really gives you a broad swath of medicine and health care," which makes family physicians natural leaders in the health care field.
In partnership with the Maryland Million Hearts program(dhmh.maryland.gov), Shell works with Khanna to educate PCMH practices about state resources that are available to help patients achieve better health outcomes in cardiovascular and other chronic diseases. "I recently spoke to some PCMH practices about tobacco-related initiatives and making sure the physicians in the PCMH practices are aware of tobacco cessation resources," says Shell.
The work of Shell, Khanna and other family physicians in helping practices achieve PCMH recognition and better health outcomes for their patients has earned attention beyond the borders of Maryland, too. For example, CMS awarded multiple Maryland applicants accountable care organization (ACO) status as part of the Medicare Shared Savings Program. To quality for ACO status, entities are required to demonstrate a strong foundation of primary care physicians who are able to improve health outcomes and achieve savings, notes Czapp.
Family physicians in the state also have encouraged adoption of electronic health records and have played key roles in connecting primary care practices with the state's health information exchange. "We have many primary care practices that are well down the road of the patient-centered medical home and achieving meaningful use with electronic medical records," says Czapp, who chairs the board of one of the state's ACOs. "Those are the qualifications that allow us to say to CMS, 'We are confident enough in our ability to sign up for this program and demonstrate some savings that we can share among our doctors.'"
Looking to the Future
Czapp and other family physicians in the state are quick to acknowledge that Maryland is a progressive state in terms of health care delivery and innovation. That factor has allowed family physicians in the state to "step up," according to Czapp.
She says she is "shocked" that some states are struggling to initiate PCMH initiatives because officials in those states consider the PCMH experimental. "Light bulbs are experimental," she jokes.
Facts About the Maryland AFP
Chapter executive director: Esther Rae Barr, C.A.E.
Date chapter was chartered: June 1948
Number of chapter members: 1,200 total, 700 Active
Location of chapter headquarters: Catonsville
2014 annual conference: June 12-14, Holiday Inn, Frederick
In addition, the MDAFP, similar to other AAFP chapters, is experiencing a "generational shift," says Czapp. "We are seeing a lot of new energy coming in. This newer generation is excited about the future and what they see themselves doing as family physicians."
That applies to family physician Kisha Davis, M.D., M.P.H., president-elect of the MDAFP and one of its newer members.
Davis serves as the director of community health for the Casey Health Institute, an integrated primary care center that seeks to merge the best of east and west treatment modalities. "In addition to primary care, we also have an acupuncturist and a chiropractor, and we provide behavioral health, nutrition and wellness," says Davis. "We are not just trying to help people fix their diseases but really trying to address the preventive care and wellness piece and the lifestyle pieces that are a large part of health care and prevention."
In many ways, Davis's career is indicative of the versatility of family medicine. Before assuming her current position, Davis worked in a community health center in Columbia, Md., and served as a White House fellow from 2011-2012. As a White House fellow, Davis worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture addressing food, nutrition and breastfeeding issues. In the process, she learned how the federal government really works.
"It was really eye-opening in terms of how few voices there are in government for medicine and seeing behind the scenes as to how things run -- where the right niches are to effect change," says Davis.
Similar to other MDAFP members, Davis cites the diversity of MDAFP members as one of the chapter's greatest strengths. But she also says that MDAFP members are "good at identifying potential talent and saying, "Why don't you come to this (MD)AFP meeting."
"A lot of people just need that little nudge," says Davis.
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From the ground up, every slide and every swing has been a labor of love for the Sandy Ground Project: Where Angels Play, because each of the playgrounds represents an angel from Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"It makes me feel like a million dollars. It's the best thing we've ever done," said Bill Lavin, founder of The Sandy Ground Project.
The project was both an effort to rebuild coastal communities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that were damaged by Superstorm Sandy and a way to honor the lives of the 20 children and six adults who were killed in Newtown last year.
"We thought that too much focus was on the way these children left us. We wanted to celebrate who they were, their favorite colors, have their personalities reflected, and while doing that, have other children benefit," said Lavin.
The playground in New London is built in honor of Emilie Parker. It has the special touches of Emilie's drawings and her favorite colors of pink, black and blue. It's a playground Emilie's father says she would love.
"She was someone who was all about community and love and making sure that everybody felt welcomed, so that's what's going to happen here," said Robbie Parker, Emilie's father.
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"From something ugly that is happening, something beautiful is coming out of it," said Carlos Soto, whose daughter, teacher Vicki Soto, lost her life in her classroom at Sandy Hook.
Organizers feel the memory of the 26 angels will forever live on through these playgrounds, the passion of the volunteers who built them and the children who will be able to enjoy them every day.
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The THL Place Dictionary, Knowledge Maps, Media Management System (image collections and bibliographies), and Tibetan Historical Dictionary share a single integrated menu system that facilitates users exploring relationships between places, topics, media (images, audio-video, documents), and terms in Tibet and the Himalayas.
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Well, so much for the return of reason to the Congressional budget debate.
Even before the ink was dry on the bipartisan agreement that is supposed to stabilize the budget debate for the next two years — and before the Senate has even voted on the darn thing — Rep. Paul Ryan was on national television this past weekend speculating on what concessions he expects to extract for raising the debt ceiling.
"We don't want nothing out of this debt limit," the House budget chairman warned on Fox News. "We're going to decide what it is we're going to accomplish out of this debt limit fight."
Now, theoretically, the GOP caucus might decide that what they want is for the U.S. to pay its outstanding bills and to bring stability to the economy and signal to the investors and the markets that the days of playing chicken over the nation's credit rating are over. In which case, they'll ask for nothing more problematic than a quick vote on a clean bill.
But we strongly suspect Mr. Ryan fully expects to push for cuts in domestic spending that will have adverse consequences for the poor and middle class. That's what his party has done in the past — which is what has gotten the nation a reduced credit rating in 2011, upheaval in the financial markets and likely delayed fixes to sequestration that were finally addressed by the budget compromise that's now before the Senate.
What's shocking is not that the old playbook would be pulled out, it's that Mr. Ryan would be the one leading the charge. This is the gentleman who, just a few days earlier, was standing with Sen. Patty Murray, his Democratic counterpart in the Senate, talking about the virtues of compromise and avoiding the cycle of brinkmanship that has plagued Washington in the recent past.
It's not as if Speaker John Boehner didn't have his back on the budget deal. Mr. Boehner's willingness to lash out at right-wing groups seeking rejection of the Ryan-Murray compromise last week offered as much reason for optimism as the agreement itself. "They're using our members and they're using the American people for their own goals," he said last week. "This is ridiculous."
The speaker noted it was this same tea party wing that marched the GOP straight into the disastrous policy of holding much of the federal government hostage over Obamacare. That shutdown accomplished nothing other than costing the government billions, scaring a lot of Americans and driving down the party's voter approval ratings.
So one had every reason to think that Republicans in the House had decided that taking hostages is bad, self-destructive politics. If so, that point of view proved highly perishable. The debt ceiling is expected to be reached in early March.
Back during the government shutdown, President Barack Obama said that he wouldn't negotiate over the debt limit. We trust that he will stick with that policy and not reward and encourage further hostage-taking. Raising the debt limit merely authorizes the government to pay for its outstanding obligations and doesn't approve new spending. Passing such a measure is a matter of bookkeeping while failing to act (or rejecting it) puts the country at risk of default. This is not something over which negotiations are possible.
Two years ago, the standoff over the debt ceiling raised borrowing costs by $18.9 billion, according to one bipartisan estimate. A default would surely be worse — sending a message that U.S. credit worthiness is shaky, which could be disastrous not only for this country but for many others where the value of the dollar is critically important.
So why make the push now? To demonstrate to Heritage Action or the Club for Growth that Speaker Boehner was just kidding and that the party is willing to put the global economy at risk in order to show fealty to the right-wing? If Republicans think they would somehow avoid blame, they are clearly delusional. They didn't avoid blame after the government shutdown, and they surely wouldn't after default.
The best one can hope is that this is a lot of hot air, a bit of payback to lighten the criticism that is coming their way over the compromise and Mr. Boehner's backlash. After all, it's political fundraising season out there, and bluster comes with the territory. Even so, it's a dispiriting way to end the year for an embarrassingly unproductive Congress.
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LINCOLN - Children ages 13 and younger
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Phil Kessel, a 19-year-old winger, picked a perfect night to break out – mainly because the Bruins, coming off Monday's 6-1 loss at Montreal and with only a single goal in their two previous games, were desperate for offense.
Speaking chronologically, it had only been four days between goals for Phil Kessel. He was the only scorer last Saturday in a shootout, which gave the Bruins a 1-0 victory over the New York Rangers.
The NHL doesn't include shootout tallies in a player's goal total, though, so Kessel actually hadn't scored since Oct. 12, when his hat trick sparked Boston's 8-6 decision at Los Angeles.
The 19-year-old winger picked a perfect night to break out – mainly because the Bruins, coming off Monday's 6-1 loss at Montreal and with only a single goal in their two previous games, were desperate for offense.
Thursday, however, was also the night the Bruins recognized the NHL's Hockey Fights Cancer initiative, and Kessel - who overcame the disease last season - was keenly aware he was playing in front of many fellow survivors at TD Banknorth Garden.
"Oh, yeah, I knew about it," Kessel said after his two goals led the Bruins' 3-1 victory over Chicago. "I wore a pink tie to the game. It's a good cause."
Coaches and broadcasters also wore pink neckties to call attention to the cause, while each player wore a pink HFC sticker on the back of his helmet.
The Bruins donated $5 from each $30 seat sold to the American Cancer Society, which also received the proceeds of the team's nightly 50/50 raffle.
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Ex-Bruin Martin Lapointe offered to reprise the Big Brother role he played for Patrice Bergeron in 2003-2004, but 19-year-old Blackhawks rookie Jonathan Toews felt - literally - like a fifth wheel. So he didn't move in with Lapointe and his family.
"Jonathan was going to live with us," said Lapointe, who took Bergeron in as an 18-year-old rookie, "but we've got four kids now. (Toews) felt bad, and didn't end up moving in."
Bergeron remains grateful that Lapointe showed him the ropes, the routes, and the path to success at the pro level after Bergeron unexpectedly made it to the NHL on his first attempt. Especially helpful were the leadership lessons Bergeron, now in his second year as an alternate captain, learned from Lapointe, who also wore an 'A' as a Bruin.
"(Lapointe's) leadership is something that pretty much all the guys were feeding off," Bergeron said. "He was an older guy (Lapointe's 34, Bergeron is 22), so he had more experience, but I'm trying to bring in some of the stuff he was doing, in my own way."
Bergeron won't even try to convey a message as Lapointe could.
"He had that mean look to him," Bergeron said. "If something needed to be said, the guys were definitely listening to him."
Lapointe isn't surprised to hear that Bergeron doesn't get into teammates' faces but doesn't doubt that his former houseguest is leadership material.
"A leader's not always a rah-rah type of guy," Lapointe said. "You've just got to make sure you work hard, bring everything you've got to practice and games, and be good with the people around you. I'm sure that's what he's been doing."
Around the boards
Bruins coach Claude Julien said he planned to discuss the future of 19-year-old rookie Milan Lucic today.
Lucic played his ninth game on Thursday night. If he plays another, he'll be credited with a year's worth of NHL service. If the B's elect to return him to his junior team in Vancouver at any point this season, he can't return to Boston until Vancouver's season is finished.
Ex-Bruin Sergei Samsonov, traded to the 'Hawks after a disappointing, nine-goal season with Montreal, remained goal-less through his first 10 games with Chicago.
"It's been a different story here," said Samsonov, who has been supported by 'Hawks coach Denis Savard, "and I appreciate that, but at the same time, I realize I need to
start producing."
Next up is Philadelphia's visit to the Garden on Saturday, which has been pushed up to a 4 p.m. start to avoid conflict with Game 3 of the World Series.
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Today is officially "pencils-down" day for the Google Summer of Code Project 2009. I have been a mentor this year for the Apache Commons-Net SSH project, which aims to add SSH and SCP support to Commons-Net.
The project has been a great success, mainly down to the super work performed by the student, Shikhar, who has put in tremendous work to get a fully functional SSH/SCP client built (with thanks to the efforts of the Mina SSHD project, whose codebase we originally based the effort on). All of the goals for the project have been ticked, and some extra ones accomplished too.
I had great help and input from Chico, another Apache committer, throughout the project, and so it's been a great experience all round. This will form the basis of a release, but for now, the code is hosted on googlecode at: http://code.google.com/p/commons-net-ssh/


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Dharun Ravi Verdict: Guilty of bias, invading privacy, in Rutgers-Clementi spycam case
(CBS/AP) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - A jury has found Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student accused of spying on his roommate Tyler Clementi, guilty of some bias intimidation charges, as well as charges of invasion of privacy and tampering with evidence.
Pictures: Tyler ClementiPictures: Rutgers Spycam Trial
NJ.com has published a full list of the charges and the jury's decision on each.
A jury found that Ravi used a webcam to spy on Clementi in September 2010 and that he did it - and told others about it - because of a bias against gays. Clementi later committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge.
Ravi rejected two plea deals before the case went to trial. In October, he declined a plea bargain that would have come with a recommended sentence of three to five years in prison, but with a chance that the judge could waive any prison time. And in December, he rejected a deal that would have allowed him to avoid jail altogether, and instead be put on probation and be required to perform 600 hours of community service and receive counseling. The state would have also helped him try to stave off any attempt by the federal government to deport him.
Ravi, a citizen of India, could face deportation.
During the trial, which included 12 days of testimony, jurors heard from about 30 witnesses. Ravi himself did not testify.
Complete coverage of Tyler Clementi and the Dharun Ravi trial on Crimesider


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Advertised by Fairbanks-Morse as "the most useful locomotive ever built", the H24-66 Train Master was first introduced in 1953. Designed as a versatile locomotive with various equipment options available, it was found in both passenger and freight service across the US. It was the most powerful single-engine locomotive in production at the time, generating a total of 2,400 hp.
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Facebook Graph Search has barely been out for a week but it is already being used in a way that the social networking giant didn't intend.
A Tumblr blog called Actual Facebook Graph Searches is maintained by Twitter user @tomscott and has compiled some pretty offensive, but real, Facebook Graph searches. The searches identify a group of users' interesting quirks, to say the least.
Before this happens to you, make sure you read: All The Facebook Privacy Settings You Need To Change Before Using The New Graph Search.
Here is an example:
This search identifies people who are married but fans of cheating dating site Ashley Madison.
Here's another one that highlights employers of people who like racism...ouch.
Check out the full list over at Tumblr blog, Actual Facebook Graph Searches (warning: some of the searches are offensive).
Also Check Out: We Got A Look At Facebook's New Graph Search—Here's How It Works >


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On the Job: Little things can make work fun
- Employees often come up with ideas for the perks
- A bonus is camaraderie among staffers%2C chance to network
- Workers are more likely to bounce ideas rather than job hop
Often the little things can make a difference in how an employee feels about a workplace.
Maybe the boss ensures that you get your favorite color of nail polish at holiday time. Maybe you can bring your dog to work. Or, maybe the culture asks you to do kind things for other people.
Michele Litzky does all those things and more when it comes to trying to keep her workers happy. Celebrating her 25th year running Litzky Public Relations in Hoboken, N.J., Litzky believes offering a smorgasbord of perks is what keeps her nearly all female staff smiling and says, "Happy employees mean happy customers."
So Litzky lets workers shove furniture around in the conference room at 5 p.m. twice a week for a yoga instructor who soon has up to 15 workers on the floor going through downward facing dogs and backbends.
"One of the things we encourage is that we're all equal here," which means a senior leader may be on the floor twisting and turning on a yoga mat right next to an intern, she says.
"We want to help them handle stress, and we encourage them to do the things they love," Litzky says. "It also gives them a chance to develop a camaraderie and a chance to network with one another."
She also welcomes Libby, the office mutt, who often is featured on the company's holiday card and adds to the fun atmosphere that Litzky wants to cultivate.
It must be working. Employee Kaylie Nelson says it's indeed a fun place to work. But she says that leadership also is serious about coaching and mentoring staff.
In public relations, workers often leave an employer every couple of years, but Nelson has stayed put for five years. And that's not uncommon at the agency that has clients such as Hasbro.
"Ninety-nine percent of the time here I'm having a blast," Nelson says. "People might think that with all these women they'd be catty or competitive, but that's a stereotype. We bounce ideas off each other all the time."
Informal brainstorming sessions are made easier with the office's open concept floor plan, which also has a floor-to-ceiling view of New York through the windows, Litzky says.
As for the perks, Litzky says they are often a revolving door of ideas.
As part of the 25th year celebration, the staff is doing "25 acts of kindness" that includes helping coach children to enter the Special Olympics or making goodies for local firefighters. Employees also have "summer Fridays" that rotate among employees to allow a staffer to take off at 1 p.m. Friday to extend weekends during the summer months, she says.
Since public relations agencies often work months in advance and the staff has been busy working on holiday themes, they recently each wore the worst holiday sweater they owned and brought in their favorite holiday treat to share.
One of the best indications Litzky has had that her company provides the right culture to engage workers is a video that the staff made to recruit new employees. Set to Carly Rae Jepson's Call Me Maybe, the staff urges others to apply.
"I knew nothing about it. But I saw it and just loved their energy," Litzky says. "I was just so proud of all of them, and it was a great message to me that people are flourishing in this culture."
That doesn't mean that the firm hires only those who can dance in music videos.
"We have fun, but we work hard. We are very protective of our clients, and we want them to take pride in their work," she says. "We know who we are. So when we hire someone, we know the questions to ask. "
Apart from the fun, Litzky takes the performance of her staff seriously.
"No one is ever surprised by their performance review (because) we don't let anything fester," she says. That means feedback is offered continually as part of the commitment to helping individual career development.
"I want my employees to be fulfilled both personally and professionally, and if that means they need to take classes or have yoga in the conference room, that's what we do," Litzky says. "I want my people to look forward to coming into work every day."
Anita Bruzzese is author of 45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy ... and How to Avoid Them, www.45things.com. Twitter: @AnitaBruzzese.


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Workers affiliated to various trade unions have time and again gone on strike demanding hike in wages and allowances. The recurring row over hike in wages and allowances between workers belonging to one or the other politically affiliated (and probably motivated) trade unions and businessmen has led to not only closure of national firms but also reputed international firms. Labor strikers have intensified particularly after 2006 and there has been an explosion of registered unions at the Department of Labor. The business community argues that it is not fair to demand wages and allowances beyond the capacity of the firms to pay them. The trade unions argue that they should be paid more because the cost of living has gone up. Their row has led to repeated revision of minimum wage.
A higher wage means high cost of production. In Nepal's case, the cost of production is amplified by the inadequate supply of electricity (forcing firms to use diesel generators to run factories), high cost of raw materials, low innovation and strikes, among others. Along with the end of MFA in 2005 and the inability to compete with more competitive international players, high labor costs and strikes are also responsible for the decline of once thriving garment industry (and other manufacturing firms) of Nepal. In order to stay competitive, the government, labor unions and private sector have to work on enhancing efficiency and reducing cost of production (this can be achieved even if there is hike in wages, as seen in Bangladesh's case). Else, investors will be looking for less expensive manufacturing destinations, which would mean less investment, less jobs and low growth for Nepal.
The figure below shows that Nepal already has the highest minimum wage in South Asia. The minimum wage in Nepal increased from US$32.32 per month in 2007 to US$74.75 per month in 2012. In 2007, Nepal had the second lowest minimum wage in South Asia. In 2008, it doubled and since then minimum wage has been the highest in South Asia. Even if we consider the overall wage overheads (minimum wage and allowances), Nepal has the highest wage overhead costs in South Asia.
Now, the question here should be: is the increase in wages consistent with increase in productivity? See this article for the discussion on union strikes and productivity. The basic idea is that the marginal increase in wage should be matched by the marginal increase in productivity for long term survival of firms and employability of workers, i.e. increase in wage costs should be offset by increase in efficiency. As of now, in Nepal, it is not so as hike in wages (from an already relatively high level!) and increase in productivity are not in sync with each other. Bangladesh had synced it, i.e. the rise in wages was more than offset by increase in efficiency. No wonder, Bangladesh is the next hotspot in RMG sourcing.


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How Many iPhones Did Verizon Sell?
Statements made by Verizon (NYSE:VZ) about smartphone sales in 2012, specifically Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone sales, paint an unclear picture of just how well the iPhone did with the nation's largest mobile carrier, and also demonstrates how incredibly vague the English language allows one to be.
The Numbers:
Some mobile carrier figures were straightforward: AT&T (NYSE:T) reported the activation of some 10 million smartphones, with Verizon (NYSE:VZ) close behind at 9.8 million activations for the holiday quarter. In the previous quarter, Verizon said the iPhone made up 46 percent of its smartphone activations — compared to 54.5 percent in the previous holiday quarter. Sprint (NYSE:S) doesn't have figures out yet, and T-Mobile hasn't even begun selling the iPhone, though it will start to later this year.
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Where the vagueness arises is in a few of Verizon's choice words. The carrier said that in its smartphone activations there was a "higher mix of Apple smartphones," but there is no point of reference for the comparison. The "higher mix" could be higher quarter-on-quarter, year-on-year, or even simply more iPhones than non-Apple brands. If it were higher year-on-year, Verizon would have activated 5.3 million iPhones, at least. If it were quarter-on-quarter, the number could be a bit smaller.
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What this means for Apple:
Verizon's iPhone sales are by no means dismissible, but AT&T is still Apple's bread and butter. The nation's second-largest carrier is the biggest iPhone seller, projected to have sold around 8 million iPhones in the holiday quarter. Furthermore, whether iPhone sales are growing considerably at Verizon is of less importance than whether iPhone sales are growing overall, which they undeniably are, as evidenced by recent reports that Apple's iOS finally overtook Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android as the most popular smartphone operating system in the U.S., with a 53.3 percent share, in the four months ending on November 25.
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was at one of her accounts in Irving, Texas. (My mom is on "Big World assignment" even when she is working!)
They are called Canada Geese. They are very common in Texas in the winter months, and migrate throughout Texas.
They like to fly in "V" formations across the sky. Sometimes they are called the "Canadian Honker" because of the interesting musical honking sounds that they make.
A sad fact is that the Canada Goose is considered a game bird and it is widely hunted in Texas! This upsets me a lot. I think that since they are called "game birds", then they should be able to play lots of games! I would play with them, you know.....
I like Canada Geese, and they are another type of birdie which makes them some of my favorite friends! I hope you like them too.
Before you go, please sign my GUESTBOOK, and stop by my SMALL WORLD too, thanks!