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PITTSBURGH (October 4, 2005) — UPMC Health Plan's Medical Assistance program, UPMC for You, ranked No. 5 in the United States in a recent review by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and U.S. News & WorldReport magazine
NCQA, a national organization that reviews and ranks health plans on quality and preventive health measures, named UPMC for You the top Medical Assistance health plan in Pennsylvania. The rankings were published in the Oct. 10 issue of U.S. News & World Report.
The national news magazine used a star system to rank health plans in specific categories. UPMC for You earned five stars in three of four major categories (access to care, member satisfaction, and prevention). Of the seven top ranked Medical Assistance programs in Pennsylvania, UPMC for You was the only one to receive five stars in more than one category.
UPMC for You's high rankings were based on NCQA's review of preventive health and member satisfaction data.
The rankings are now available in the health section of U.S. News & World Report's website. The magazine publication marks the first time NCQA has released the information through a media partner.
"UPMC for You is emerging as a leader locally, statewide, and nationally," said Diane P. Holder, president of UPMC Health Plan. "The recent rankings in U.S. News & World Report are confirmation of the hard work by our staff and the network physicians who care for our members."
The Health Plan was recognized through the U.S. News & World Report/NCQA America's Best Health Plans 2005 listing in the news magazine.
NCQA is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. NCQA accredits and certifies a wide range of health care organizations and manages the evolution of HEDIS, the tool NCQA uses to measure and report on the performance of the nation's health plans.
(Note: Reporters interested in producing local health care "report cards" should contact the NCQA Communications Department at (202) 955-3518 to discuss data needs.)
About UPMC Health PlanUPMC Health Plan, a leading health care benefits company located in Western Pennsylvania, is backed by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), one of the nation's top-ranked health systems. As part of an integrated health care delivery system, UPMC Health Plan partners with UPMC to improve clinical outcomes as well as the health of the greater community. The National Committee for Quality Assurance and U.S. News & World Report listed UPMC Health Plan as the top ranked health plan in Pennsylvania, and one of the top 20 health plans in the United States. The Health Plan is the only Pennsylvania plan to receive five stars in the categories of "Prevention" and "Treatment," and is the highest-ranked managed care company in the nation for breast cancer screening, for the second consecutive year. The UPMC Insurance Services Division - which includes UPMC Health Plan, UPMC for You (Medical Assistance), Community Care Behavioral Health, and EAP Solutions - serves over 700,000 members through a network that includes UPMC providers as well as affiliated hospitals and physicians, totaling more than 80 hospitals and more than 7,000 physicians in a 28-county region.
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I like this, its perfect for the PC I've been wanting to play, as it allow some lycanthropic abilities, without the LA. You make a very good class, although my one beef with it is the ability that doubles his crit range, as it shouldn't stack with Improved Critical or the Keen spell, as most things, well, don't. Thats a pretty powerful ability in it's own right. All in all, I think you need to snip and cut a bit, there are a lot of abilities for this class, and some of them are just a little overpowered when stacked with everything. If he has lycanthropic ablities, why give him Drift? Its just a little too much in my opinion. Anyway, good work, with a few minor tweaks, this class will be perfect. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lord Canius (talk • contribs) 00:32, 16 February 2006 (MDT). Please sign your posts!
- I mentioned the stacking with Improved Critical because I happen to believe it should work that way now and that there's no reason it should've been changed from 3.0. It's just how I'm used to playing. I gave the drift because it's a neat feature that's not particularly powerful, as long as it's spread out, and so that all the Feral Warriors can be exceedingly different characters at the same time. No cookie-cutter stuff here. I don't think it's too much, especially with most drift benefits being minor as is. (You don't get any mechanical benefits until 2nd stage, after all, and then they're not that big.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maverick Wolf (talk • contribs) 06:41, 16 February 2006 (MDT). Please sign your posts!
All in all, this class is very interesting. I really wish to play one of these...however, I have found a few things that need changing. Wild Threat for instance, should be removed altogether. I find it unbalancing. When a member of thiss class accuires the level needed to gain it, he will likely out shine other combat-based classes such as the Fighter or Barbarian (Who is also a warror of nature in his own right). Drift is a special case. Not everyone has access to Complete Divine and may feel disheartened that he need to have that book to use this class. Maybe you could list the rules and other things needed to use this class in it's discription. That's all I can think of for now. I'll test this and see if I can find any other flaws. I'm not putting this class down...it just needs alittle work. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 22.214.171.124 (talk • contribs) 09:25, 25 April 2007 (MDT). Please sign your posts!
- Would you like to work on this class and fix it up? --Green Dragon 11:25, 26 April 2007 (MDT)
- Why exactly do you think wild threat is broken? Because it stacks with keen/Improved Critical? At best, you end up with a 18-20 crit range (remember, 2 doublings equals a tripling). Remember, natural weapons only threaten on a 20 without a special ability that specifies otherwise. And if you have the 18-20, then you've either spent a feat that only applies to one weapon, or are benefitting from a temporary magical effect.
- I'm sorry you don't care for the drift mechanics because they are only in Complete Divine, but I cannot post them. Complete Divine is not Open Game, so you can't just repost things found within in their entirety. I, unfortunately, have no suggestions for replacing drift. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maverick Wolf (talk • contribs) 11:43, 7 August 2007 (MDT). Please sign your posts!
- The problem with drift is that it is neither OGC or in the core rulebooks, so most people don't know what it is (just like me). You are better of creating your own class feature. Allowing multipliers to stack for crits is problematic because it doesn't follow D&D standard procedure. --Sam Kay 08:57, 9 October 2007 (MDT)
The Wild Creature class feature gives MAgic Fang as an example of an animal-only spell, but it can actually be cast on anything with a natural weapon (Aberration, Animal, Copper Dragon Disciple, whatever). I suggest finding a different example. MorkaisChosen 11:25, 22 October 2007 (MDT)
- What spell would you recommend to take its place? --Green Dragon 16:30, 22 October 2007 (MDT)
- Animal Growth works... --Aarnott 11:22, 14 May 2008 (MDT)
Power - 3/5 I give this class a 3 out of 5 because I agree with the others regarding wild threat, for one. Effects that double the threat range of a weapon simply shouldn't stack. Also, the usual rules regarding adding natural weapons to a creature that already has the same would state that the creature uses whichever damage die is larger, so a feral warrior gaining the lionlike claws may just do more damage, not gain more claw attacks. And as for the natural weapons themselves, I'm rather curious about the statement included with the bite attack. Normally, Rapid Strike requires a paired set of natural weapons and (I think) a BAB of +6, and only functions for the paired natural weapons. How does it work the way you phrased it? --Ddragon Necrophades 23:43, 21 September 2008 (MDT)
Wording - 3/5 I give this class a 3 out of 5 because it confuses, at times. For example, the aforementioned queries about wild threat, drift, and Rapid Strike. --Ddragon Necrophades 23:43, 21 September 2008 (MDT)
Formatting - 4/5 I give this class a 4 out of 5 because it seems to be in line with the formatting standards, as near as I can tell. ^_^;; --Ddragon Necrophades 23:43, 21 September 2008 (MDT)
Flavor - 5/5 I give this class a 5 out of 5 because the idea of playing a wildman who literally fights with tooth and nail is something I've been toying with. This is something I would play just for the flavor of it, and you, sir, have my respect (for what it's worth) for thinking of it. --Ddragon Necrophades 23:43, 21 September 2008 (MDT)


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He should pop round to HSBC. It's got more dosh than it knows what to do with. Amazing what happens when the Government isn't interfering in a bank.
One of the most eye-catching of HSBC's 2011 figures was how much money it has on deposit at central banks. The figure's shot up from $57.4bn (£36.3bn) to almost $130bn – a sure sign of risk aversion, if ever.
Before the crisis in 2007, that number was $22bn. But chief executive Stuart Gulliver is rightly loth to lend depositors' cash to weaker rivals at the risk of not getting it back, while noting wryly that: "The only people you want to lend it don't need to borrow it."
Such prudence hits net interest income but explains why HSBC has coped with a crisis that has decked profligate competitors, not least Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group.
With almost half its revenues from faster-growing economies, such as in Asia and Latin America, HSBC is less exposed than rivals to the eurozone and America – but it's still something to make 2011 a record year for commercial banking, with pre-tax profits up 31pc to $7.9bn. The dividends keep coming, too. Last year's $7.3bn makes $27.2bn in the past four.
For all that, Gulliver earned £7.9m last year, including a £5.9m share bonus, some 60pc of which is deferred for five years. You can argue whether he's worth that. But at least we know how he got it – as HSBC published its annual report alongside its figures, spelling out in gory detail which targets Gulliver hit and missed. His bonus got reduced, for example, for missing a 12pc return on equity target and the for the PPI mis-selling scandal.
Barclays Bank should follow suit – rather than have its boss Bob Diamond ducking and diving on results day over his pay.
What's more, HSBC's investors aren't complaining over Gulliver's wedge. Pay for performance is a decent principle – and it's not as if he's running the Hair Shirt Banking Corporation.


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Should be fine. it's close enough that it won't be a big deal. The quant scores are heavily skewed, with many students with near perfect or perfect raw scores on the quant side. However, the verbal is much tougher. Combined, your scores look competitive to get a look over at most places, if not all.
My advice is to go with the faculty member that knows you the best as a person. A faculty that can say you did well in their class, but you have no personal relationship with, has nothing more substantive to say. This would make for a really short LOR that doesn't really set you apart in anyway.
Nope. Pick a list of schools that you are willing to accept... In other words, if the 'lowest' (I know, it's completely subjective what makes a program better than others) program you applied to was the ONLY program to give you an offer, you should be excited to go there as it is. If you would have doubts, then I would say omit that from your list of schools. I don't believe in 'safety schools', where you would hesitate to go but you applied there 'just in case' you didn't get in anywhere else. If that's the case, you may be better off spending another year to shore up your application and take a better shot next round. That being said, if you don't details about many of these programs, it would be difficult to gauge your 'fit' in general ... If you go to a highly recognized private school but end up hating life there (for whatever reason), is it worth 4-6 years of your life to get the degree from there? In other words, don't reduce your list to the point where you are only aiming for the 'top 15' (again, depends on which rankings you use) management programs that you think you would like. Just don't consider a #110 school if you already know you would be completely disappointed.
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Puking and diarreah at the same time. Can be from either a sickness like the flu or from a really bad hangover.
Johan couldn't pay someone enough to clean the bathroom after a 6 hour bout of the north and souths after drinking the entire bottle of Jager the night before.
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Dude have you ever done a North and South?
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3 Makeup Looks Inspired by My Favorite Albums of 2016
Since I'm a visual person I hardly ever remember the album title but I just remember what the album art looks like.
I think it's a very adult thing to wear a glossy, pigmented lip. Or at least a I'm-in-a-commited-relationship-and-won't-drunkenly-make-out-with-anybody-tonight thing. I've never been into the smeared lipstick look. Sure, a smudge is fine, but I look like a hatchet-weilding ICP groupie after a sloppy, sweaty, gloss-finish-lipsticked make-out session.
Today I'm giving a dark, high-shine lip a go, as I don't think I'll be making out with anybody in the next 12-14 hours. Insecurities abounding (as I keep getting offers of fillers and anti-aging products and winkle-searing lasers), this newly-minted 24-year-old feels closer to 30 than 18. BECAUSE I AM. By 21 days and 12.5 hours. I want to be the first beauty editor to make live embalming a thing. That has to exist, right?
I layered MAC's matte lipstick in "Diva" under Estée Lauder's Pure Color Lip Lacquer in "Electric Wine." To keep from looking too goth--or worse, too old, I combed down my baby hairs with the bristly side of an eyebrow brush spritzed with hairspray, pulling the rest of my hair back into a high ponytail. If only for their name alone, baby hairs look so soft and youthful. I like them to be shaped and parted into slight swoops, but a little fluffy to keep the look natural.
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In Dreamweaver it is fairly simple to assign Behaviors to images (example: open new window, close window, etc.). However, to assign Behaviors to text you have to do a couple of tricks to get it to work. The first is the Close Window and the second is the Open Browser Window.
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Incorporating a WordPress Blog into an Existing HTML Web Site
I searched the web trying to find instructions on how to incorporate a WordPress Blog into my existing HTML web site. All the instructions I found were not what I was wanting; creating a WordPress blog to look like your web site and use it instead of a HTML web site. I finally found bits of instructions that actually incorporate a blog into an HTML site and here is everything put together to hopefully help someone else out trying to do the same thing.
What This Process Creates
- A new WordPress Blog web site that resides inside of your HTML web site directory.
- A new page on your HTML web site that displays the latest 3 posts of your external blog site.
Getting started creating a website
A rather lengthy video explaining the "getting started" part of web design. Not intended to explain all the details – more of an overview.
Viewing Complex Tables in Dreamweaver
If you use Tables in Dreamweaver then chances are you have run into a problem and had a difficult time navigating around complicated table structure.
Here is an easy way to "enlarge" the viewing distance around all the table sets. Under the View menu, scroll down to Table Mode, then over to Expanded Tables Mode or F6 (for Dreamweaver CS4; opt + F6).
Here in the first example is Standard Mode…
Here in the next example is Expanded Tables Mode. Note how the layout "looks" blown out on some areas — but you can easily see all the Tables that make up the layout.
This will really help to see exactly where the problem is by giving a nice space around all the tables in your layout. It will look a little odd at first because it is not a clean and true WYSIWYG version of your web page but a more of a visual aid.
I generally work in the Standard Mode and only go into the Expanded Tables Mode when a problem arises.
You can toggle between Expanded Tables Mode and the Standard Mode by typing the F6 key (for Dreamweaver CS4-CS6; opt + F6).
Adjusting Web Page Margins in Dreamweaver
If you're designing a web page and want the content to butt to the left and top edges of the browser window without leaving a margin then this is for you.
I set this on every web page I create. Most websites that float the content in the middle of the browser window will not require the change in settings – just the ones that have background images or the actual content running to the edge of the broswer window.
In Dreamweaver there are three ways to get to the Page Properties window. With your web document open; do one of the following:
- click on Page Properties… button on the Properties Window – if you have that palette open.
- under the Modify menu select Page Properties… – if you like using menus.
- use the quick key cmd J (Mac) or control J (PC) – my preferred method.
In the Page Properties window, under the Appearance Category; type 0's (zeros) in all the margin boxes and click OK.
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The Iowa Psychiatric Society (IPS) is the statewide professional association for 182 psychiatrists in the state of Iowa. It is affiliated with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) with over 37,000 members world wide.
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The Iowa Psychiatric Society is pleased to announce the selection of Sara Stramel-Brewer as their new Executive Director upon the retirement of Karen Loihl who has served in that position for 17 years.
Sara graduated from Bradley University with a degree in marketing before attending the University of Iowa where she earned a masters degree in athletic administration and sports management.
Upon relocating to Indianapolis, Mrs. Stramel-Brewer took the position of National Events Director for the Indiana Sports Corporation. In this capacity, she developed event bids, assisted with sponsor solicitation and fulfillment, and handled all event-related operations for ISC's national level events.
Mrs. Stramel-Brewer then assumed a position with the United Way of Central Indiana (UWCI) as the events manager. She managed UWCI's annual meeting, golf outings, and created and saw through the development of a $100,000+ fundraiser for United Way; United on Broadway.
Following her time with United Way, Mrs. Stramel-Brewer served as assistant manager and bank officer for The National Bank of Indianapolis.
In 2007, Sara started her own company, Liz Group LLC, an independent marketing consulting firm specializing in association management, events, marketing, and sponsorship.
In 2015, Sara's husband joined the company which now boasts seven primary clients: Professional Development Associates (PDA), the Indiana Psychiatric Society (IPS), the Indiana Council of Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists (ICCAP), the American Association of the Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT), the Iowa Psychiatric Society (IPS), 2G Sports, and AmSpa.
In her various roles, Sara oversees association meeting management, sponsorship development and fulfillment, wellness program management, membership management, as well as development and execution of continuing education symposia. Sara also handles all marketing-related functions including brand advisement and fulfillment, electronic newsletter development, and website maintenance.
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Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday declared that President Barack Obama had encouraged "parasites" to take advantage of the food stamp program and other "entitlements."
For the past week, the Fox News Channel has promoted its special, "The Great Food Stamp Binge," which highlights surfer Jason Greenslate as he takes advantage of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Although the 99 percent of SNAP recipients do not defraud the program, O'Reilly only focused on Greenslate during his Monday broadcast.
"The food stamp scandal, right now, 15 percent of the entire American population receiving food subsidies," the Fox News host announced. "And some of those people are conning the system."
O'Reilly said that the president was to blame for changing the work rules for food stamps and allowing "anybody to get them if they know how to game the system."
"I take one look at this guy and he's making money off the books," he explained. "Now I'm not going to make any accusation on national television about how he's making money, but this guy's not just surviving on food stamps. Alright? He's making money. The rat life entails a lot of different things."
"But this guy is a parasite. And my contention is that the Obama administration is encouraging parasites to come out and, you know, take as much as they can with no remorse. And this is how a country declines. This is how we become a weak nation."
Watch this video from Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, broadcast Aug. 12, 2013.
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Intellitec Solutions, LLC announced today they have acquired the Microsoft® Dynamics practice of AFS, Inc., a technology and consulting firm located in Valley Forge, PA. This acquisition will add to the team of experienced consultants available to Intellitec Solutions clients, and will further enhance Intellitec Solutions presence in the greater Philadelphia region.
Founded in 1995, AFS has had a long-standing presence in the Microsoft Dynamics community and has performed services for clients in a wide array of industries, including professional services, wholesale distribution and not-for-profit. As a top reselling partner for Microsoft Dynamics, AFS has provided support for clients using Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL financial management solutions.
"We are proud to have an established Dynamics practice join our team," said Rick Sommer, president and CEO of Intellitec Solutions, "This is a significant milestone in our continued growth. We are excited to enhance our presence in the greater Philadelphia region, and are very pleased to be able to provide additional consulting services & support options to AFS clients."
Mark Calabria, president of AFS, Inc. adds, "Our decision to partner with Intellitec Solutions was based upon their ability to provide greater resources and support options for our Dynamics customers. This acquisition will allow us to continue to focus on our core technology services, as well as offer the expanded services that Intellitec Solutions is able to provide. We look forward to a successful long term business relationship."
In addition to Microsoft Dynamics services, Intellitec Solutions will offer Intacct cloud based ERP Solutions and Microsoft CRM consulting services to AFS clients.
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New York Mets' 20-Inning Marathon Win: Pitching Staff Not Bad!April 19, 2010
Who would have thought that the New York Mets pitching staff would be the strongest part of the team, while the hitting staff would be the weakest?
Saturday, April 17 against the St. Louis Cardinals, the Mets hitting staff was shut down until the top of the 19th inning when Jose Reyes scored a run on a sacrifice fly against a position player converted to pitcher during the game. All regular relievers were already used up in the Cardinals bullpen, and the only pitchers available were starters.
Cardinals coach Tony La Russa decided not to bring in any of his starting pitchers to continue the game, so he elected to use position players to do the pitching. This decision eventually cost him the game, considering the fact that the Mets hitters could not hit a ball outside the St Louis infield if their lives depended on it.
The Mets hitting staff could not even score a run against Felipe Lopez, the Cardinals third baseman who took over the pitching duties, temporarily relinquishing his third base position in the top of the 18th inning.
This is how dreadful the Mets batters were. Even Jason Bay could not buy a hit to save his life. He went something like 0-for- 7 and was only afforded the chance to reach first base when he was struck on the hand by Joseph Mather (infielder and outfielder), another position player converted to pitcher in the middle of the game.
With his teammates standing on top of the dugout watching every pitch hurled by the third baseman, who won the three-game series opener with a grand slam the night before, Felipe Lopez pitched a scoreless 18th inning. His Cardinals teammates, jumping up and down, smacking high fives all over the dugout, roared when he entered the dugout allowing no runs and one hit to the hapless Mets hitting staff.
Every Mets fan in the stadium and at home must have been thinking that this could be the worst loss ever in the history of the Mets franchise if the team happens to lose this game. Luckily however, the worst did not happen, and the Mets came away with a 2-1 win over the Cardinals in the 20th inning.
When the season started, every Mets fan was saying that the front office did not do much to make the pitching staff better. Indeed, Mets fans are correct in their claim because the team really did not sign any big-name pitchers. They only added minor league pitchers from their farm system in Jonathan Niese, Jenrry Mejia, and Fernando Nieve, and borrowed Raul Valdes from the Mexican League.
The team also signed two Japanese pitchers (Ryota Igarashi and Hisanori Takahashi) who are currently in the bullpen along with Mejia and Nieve, while Niese is in the starting rotation at the No. 5 spot.
With these unproven pitchers on the staff, Mets fans had good reason to believe that pitching would be the downfall of the New York Mets team. But no, this is so far from the truth, the pitching staff is proving everybody wrong.
Apart from John Maine's lousy starts, pitching poorly in his first two games, the pitching staff is proving to be the strongest part of the team, especially the bullpen that have allowed fewer runs in the Majors than most bullpens have, the first couple of games in the season.
It is therefore surprising to see that hitting is the weak link on the Mets team. In fact, the Mets front office did a lot more in the off season to make the hitting staff better than they did for the pitching staff. The team signed Jason Bay to a $66 million a year guaranteed contract. Many would say that he does not deserve all that money because he has been a bust so far.
The veteran ex-Red Sox slugger, who batted .267 with 36 home runs and 119 RBIs last year with the Sox, has not done anything in the past 10 games to disprove such claim, stats provided by ESPN. Hopefully, he will come around soon for the sake of Mets fans!
Jose Reyes, who is coming off calf surgery, has not fared better either. In fact, his situation is a little different because he is coming off an injury and a bout of thyroid illness. It is obvious that he is not the same player he once was. In fact, he does not run as fast as he used to run before the surgery, and his batting average has suffered greatly in his return, batting a measly 0.171 for the season so far, stats provided by ESPN.
All in all, the Mets look more like a rebuilding team trying to be competitive while it goes through the rebuilding process. Who is to be blamed for this? It is certainly not the fault of the manager, Jerry Manuel. If anything, it is the fault of Omar Minaya for firing Willie Randolph, the only manager to have taken the Mets to the playoff in recent memory.
After Willie Randolph was fired by Minaya, the team went from bad to worse, losing more than 50 percent of its games last season, although many of the starters were decimated with injuries—Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes, John Maine, Oliver Perez, and Carlos Delgado, to name a few.
Jerry Manuel is a very good coach. However, the jury is still out on him. Many Mets fans say he is not tough enough. One of the main reasons for this is because there was an incident including Jose Reyes and Jerry Manuel, days after Willie Randolph was fired, when Manuel came to the infield to remove Reyes from the game after the manager saw the shortstop sustain an injury on an infield play.
Well, when Manuel approached Reyes, putting his hands around the shortstop to tell him that he would like him to leave the game because he did not want to take any chances of having the player injure himself further, Reyes initially refused to leave the game, shrugging his shoulders with a vigorous frown and walking away from his new manager. Ever since that incident, Mets fans have accused the amusing manager of being soft.
On the other hand, Willie Randolph was hated by some of the players. Some claimed that Willie was too pompous, talking down to them and at times being very rigid and robotic, never showing a smile. No wonder they were winning games! A good leader is never friends with his/her employees. An outstanding leader is in a leadership position to lead, not to make friends.
So, here we are again, waiting and hoping that the Mets start winning some games, so Jerry Manuel and Omar Minaya can keep their jobs. In fact, changing to a new regime by firing the General Manager and the Manager is not the answer to solving the Mets problems.
The answer is putting the best baseball players on the field. So, the New York Mets can have the best chance of winning, which will make all Mets fans happy, and that starts with signing some good hitters! We saw that the pitching staff is not bad after all—shutting down the St Louis Cardinals for 20 innings while the hitting staff struggled to get a hit against position players converted to pitchers!
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Diane L. Skupien, age 54,nee Gutknecht, passed away June 3, 2008, beloved wife of Ron; loving mother of Mike; beloved daughter of Ann (the late William) Gutknecht; dear sister of the late Carol (Gerry) Rak; fond aunt to Carann Rak. Funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday June 23, 2008 at Saint Francis Xavier Parish, 124 North Spring (at Ogden Ave.) La Grange, IL. Visitation will preceed the Mass at 10 a.m. Cremation Society of Illinois handling arrangements1-800-622-8358.
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BlueHost Vs HostMonster: Which One is Better?
In this special BlueHost vs HostMonster comparison, I'm intended to help you choose the best web host for your next website. If you don't know much about BlueHost and HostMonster, they, in fact are sister hosting companies that are owned by the same CEO, Matt Heaton. If you dig more into their History, BlueHost was established in 1996 and HostMonster in 1999. Matt Heaton has been running both the hosting companies with the same technical staff, data centers, servers, support staff and technology. That's why you may notice lots of similarity in their features, pricing plan and support system.
Both the companies are offering the single hosting plan to all of their customers. There are companies like Hostgator who used to offer different hosting plans as per their customer's need like shared hosting, VPS Hosting and Dedicated server hosting.
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Which is the Bigger Brand (Bluehost or HostMonster)?
If you look at the popularity of both the web hosting companies, you will find BlueHost is a much bigger brand than HostMonster. You can analyse the popularity of BlueHost compared with HostMonster by the fact that BlueHost Forum is much bigger than HostMonster Forum. BlueHost forum has 16000 plus active threads, 77000 plus quality posts and 64000 plus members while HostMonster Forum has 7000 plus threads, 32000 plus posts and 45000 plus active members. On both these hosting companies are currently hosting millions of websites.
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As stated above, you will enjoy the similar kind of features from both of these web hosting companies. Here is the list of features you will get with BlueHost and HostMonster:
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Both the hosting companies support staff know their tasks very well. Both the companies used to share the same support staff with each other. They are giving away 24×7 US support to their customers via Chat, Toll Free Number, Email and through ticketing system.
BlueHost Vs HostMonster Price Comparison
As far as the pricing is concerned; both the companies have similar kind of pricing plan. If you go for 12 months billing cycle, you will be charged $4.95/month, for 24 months, you will be charged $3.95 and for 36 months billing period, you have to pay $2.95 only with Bluehost. With Hostmonster, for 12 months billing cycle, you have to pay $6.95/month, for 24 months billing period, you will be charged $5.95/month and for 36 months times period, you have to pay a monthly fee of $4.95.
From the above comparison between the two web hosts, it's quite clear there is not much difference between the two web hosts. But from time to time both the web hosts used to run special promo offers to attract new customers. So you should check the price of both the Bluehost and HostMonster web hosting when making purchase for your web hosting. But right now, you can enjoy web hosting services from BlueHost for $2.95 and HostMonster for $4.95 only.
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SOURCE: Arcana
February 11, 2013 12:38 ET
DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - Feb 11, 2013) - Arcana Insurance Services recently named Gary Kirkindoll Chief Business Development Officer, assigned to corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Kirkindoll will report directly to CEO Mark A. Gannaway and will oversee development of the company's customer base in the credit union financial services space.
Mr. Kirkindoll will assist Mr. Gannaway and Arcana president and chief operating officer, Danny Caskey, in achieving Arcana's goal of becoming the best insurance solution to all financial institutions. He will also assist in identifying and implementing new system technologies and system integrations, product development and cross-selling opportunities, as well as identifying and evaluating merger and acquisition prospects.
"Gary's feelings about how a company should treat its employees and customers were identical to mine," said Mr. Gannaway. "I was impressed with his family values, industry knowledge, honesty and passion to be the best. I sincerely believe Arcana has the best executive group in our industry."
Mr. Kirkindoll has more than 25 years of experience in business development and executive management working with lenders. Prior to joining Arcana, he served as president and chief executive officer for Texans Financial/Texans Insurance Group. Before that, he was a vice president for CUNA Mutual Group and general manager of Members General Agency (a subsidiary of the Texas Credit Union League).
Arcana Insurance Services, LP, founded in 2005, is a limited partnership based in Dallas, Texas and is licensed as a Managing General Agency.
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Miles run: 4 1/2
Miles walked: 10
Migraines dealt with: One humdinger that won't let go and has kept me housebound for 3 days :(
Total weight lost since start date: One Stone! Yes, 14 whole lbs :)
Clothes I can get in for the first time in years: Loads! It's like having a whole new wardrobe.
I must be getting somewhere :) Now if I could just clear my head...
Running, sweating, hurting, losing toenails, all in memory of baby Dillon, born too soon.
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Monday, 23 July 2012
Thank You Skinner's Brewery
How wonderful! The fabulous people at Skinner's Brewery have sent me a voucher to collect an 18 pint polypin of their wonderful Cornish Ale to use as a raffle prize. I'm sure that will go down a treat and help me sell an awful lot of raffle tickets.
A big Thank You to Skinner's brewery.
A Big Thank You to Ginsters
A big thank you to the lovely people at Ginsters
who donated a Cornwall Edition Monopoly Set to be raffled off to raise money for Tommy's.
I picked it up on Friday. My first raffle prize. Yay!
That really made my day :)
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Wild chives from the yard
plus fresh eggs from the girls
make fabulous scrambled eggs with chives and cheese
plus a fresh loaf of Sara's vitamin E bread equals yum!
William plays with his new knitted chick
while Savannah models her new "owl" attire.
William finds some "eggies" for his basket
Savannah fills her basket
We plant a new tree with five types of grafts
and some roses in a hedge.
And we goofed around a bit
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About us
Les services linguistiques Larocque linguistic services inc. was founded in August 2000. Our offices are located at the following address: 17 Desroches Road, Baie de Bouctouche, New Brunswick E4S 4L9.
President: Linda Larocque, Certified Translator (OTTIAQ)
Vice-President: Raymond Arsenault
PIN: 365747-5 / GST No.: 870084548RT / PBN: 870084548PG0001
Tel.: 506-743-0044 / 506-743-0123
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.lsll.ca
Company president Linda Larocque is a Certified Translator, member of the Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec (OTTIAQ) and accountable for all linguistic services. Our company is renowned for the superb quality of its work.
Les services linguistiques Larocque linguistic services inc. (LSLL) draws on the linguistic expertise of a number of professionals with whom we have established relationships over the years to provide services to our clients. With these individuals we can respond quickly and easily to changing client priorities. All team members are self-employed and work from their home offices, have flexible schedules and can work evenings and weekends if required.


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I had always found the sacroiliac joint (SIJ) to be confusing and frustrating to treat. For a long time I just ignored it because I didn't want to deal with all the crazy tests and rules. In 2006 this all changed for me.
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Wellington bides his time
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text: Mr. and Mrs. Allen L. Brasher, Orlando, announce the engagement of their daughter, Montine Marie, Orlando, to William Darryl Long, Jacksonville, son of Mr. and Mrs. Del Carter, Jacksonville. The wedding is Sept. 28. The bride- elect graduated from Edgewater High School, Orlando, and attended Valencia Community College, Orlando. Her fiance graduated from Andrew Jackson High School, Jacksonville.


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KidWorks Presents: April Showers Bring May Flowers
Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 6:30 PM
Eldersburg Branch Library
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Join the KidWorks kids for fun with stories, songs, and activities about flowers. Children 3 and under must be accompanied by an adult caregiver.
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Draft Commission Regulation, under the General Budget Financial Regulation, on a framework financial regulation for bodies set up by the Communities.
Draft Commission Regulation on detailed rules for implementation of the General Budget Financial Regulation.
Legal base:
(Both) Article 279 EC, Article 78h ECSC and Article 183 Euratom; unanimity
Document originated:
(a) 17 July 2002
(b) 24 July 2002
Deposited in Parliament:
(a) 11 September 2002
(b) 12 September 2002
HM Treasury
Basis of consideration:
EMs of 11 September 2002
Previous Committee Report:
To be discussed in Council:
No date set
Committee's assessment:
Politically important
Committee's decision:
creating a greater feeling of ownership, responsibility and accountability among the Commission's senior officials;
helping to link expenditure to outcomes; and
rationalising the budget structure, so simplifying processes and reducing errors.
The documents
unity the budget to be the instrument forecasting and authorising revenue and expenditure;
annuality the budget to be for a financial year 1 January to 31 December;
equilibrium and universality - revenue and expenditure to be in balance, no loans for covering deficits and total revenue to cover total expenditure;
specification expenditure to be earmarked for specific purposes;
sound financial management decisions to have regard to economy, efficiency and effectiveness; and
unit of account budget to be denominated and implemented in euros.
rules for rates of conversion into and out of euros;
definitions of routine administrative expenditure;
checks of payments by the authorising officer;
procurement procedures;
content of an Invitation to Tender;
presentation of accounts.
The Government's view
"The recast Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget has brought the EC budgetary rules more in line with systems in the UK and, generally, with modern accountancy and financial management practices. It is therefore important that other Community bodies follow similar financial rules, and have proper financial controls and accountability. For example, the requirement for each body to have its own internal auditing function will ensure that proper checks will be made on the authorisation and payment of expenditure, and also that the body's financial systems will be assessed. This framework Regulation will ensure that individual Financial Regulations for new community bodies meet a common and acceptable standard."
"The Government strongly supported the adoption of the new Financial Regulation, which was one of the major Commission reforms, intended to improve financial management of the Community budget. This draft implementing regulation is clearly an integral part of the implementation process, without which it cannot be properly applied. It is important that the detailed rules and procedures are consistent with the changes which have already been agreed, and that they are clear and simple to apply. The Government intends to play an active role in the detailed consideration of the draft regulation and in the preparation of the Council's opinion to ensure these objectives are met."


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Friday October 27, 2000
CinemaWorks Signs Agreement with Wiredinn.com Inc. for xDSL and Ethernet Installation Services for Hotels in the USA and Canada
VANCOUVER, Oct. 26 / CINEMA INTERNET NETWORKS INC. (d.b.a. CinemaWorks, CDNX: CWK) is pleased to announce that it has signed a commercial agreement with Wiredinn.com Inc. Under the agreement, the companies have joined forces to deploy free high-speed Internet services to the hospitality industry worldwide.
Orbitz Hits Back
Orbitz tells Congress: The travel industry needs us — we'll offer more consumer choice and more competition on the Internet.
WTNet Way To Go!
World Travel Net (WTN) is the essential World Wide Web guide for travel information. The most authoritative and most easily navigated online travel service available.
Jamaica Here We Go!
Of all the events in the travel industry calendar, the World Travel Awards is unquestionably one of the biggest and brightest of them all. 30th October 2000, The Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall, Jamaica, Be there.


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Huntingdon First is the website of BID Huntingdon.
Here you will find lots of information for 'Visit Huntingdon' (blue tab), 'For Business' (green tab) and 'BID Huntingdon' (pink tab). If you can't find the information you are looking for, or if you have any comments or questions, please use the contact details below.
Huntingdon First and BID Huntingdon offices are open Monday – Friday 09.00 – 17.00.
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iOS 11 Latest News: The iMessage app is going the Snapchat way with the upcoming iOS 11, if rumors are to be believed, with a new screenshot alert feature. There had been reports late last year that Instagram too had gone ahead with the screenshot alert feature but these fears were allayed by contradicting reports later. The features were designed so that deleted messages or disappearing messages could be dug up. We must remind you at this point that this is just a rumor and there may not be any substance to it after all.
Originally featured in Snapchat, the screenshot alert feature had one simple task to perform: whenever someone shared your screenshot in any manner or form, you would receive a notification. Initially, the feature had simple steps to complete: when you received a snap, which can be a photo or even a video message, or you viewed a series of broadcast snaps, and then if you took a screen shot of that specific snap or story, the user who sent the said snap or the story would automatically receive an alert that you took a screenshot. This is meant to ensure privacy as well as preventing exploitation of other people's ideas or concepts. While it is not immediately clear why the feature has been added, the Intellectual Property Rights angle and halting its presumed illegal usage may be on Apple executives' minds.
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There had been denials from some media outlets, however, that Instagram is not sending notifications every time a user takes a screenshot. The original uploader will only be notified if you take a screenshot of the app's disappearing message feature. While the engineers at Apple Inc., who are bringing screenshot alert feature in iMessage via iOS 11 update, may have noble intentions at heart, some users of popular social media features will have palpitations merely by hearing about the new past-revealing feature.


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The backpack is this spring and summer's key accessory
Modern men are always on the move. A backpack should combine fashion and function and is way superior to any other bag in the menswear spectrum. Whatever style you're into – whether it's a retro suede one or a more contemporary nylon model – you can't go wrong once you strap it on. The key styles this spring and summer draw references from 90s streetwear, which means shiny nylons, zips and no more than two pockets.
The backpack is the most utilitarian and comfortable bag on the market, but shoulder straps don't look great with every outfit. You should avoid wearing a backpack with a suit, partly because the shoulder pads risk getting deformed from the weight of the bag, and partly because it's more often than not a difficult look to pull off. Opt to mix your smart items (pea coats, shirt, suit trousers) with a sportswear-inspired backpack.


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Griffin Coakley carded a 4-over 39 Tuesday at Crystal Lake Country Club to lead Crystal Lake South to a 160-168 victory over Hampshire in a Fox Valley Conference dual.
John Lishchynsky and Will Stewart each shot 40 and Ricky Falbo was one stroke behind to round out the scoring for the Gators.
Mark Spitzer and Craig Bracke each turned in 40s to top Hampshire, while Alex Korabik (43) and Bobby Stephenson (45) also scored for Hampshire.
Dundee-Crown 162, Crystal Lake Central 170: At Bonnie Dundee in Carpentersville, the Chargers picked up a FVC triumph by a 3-over 39 from Matt McQuillen.
The Chargers followed McQuillen with a trio of 41s from Josh Zahara, Jake Zirlin and Alex Matsas.
Central's Kolbe Wallin was the match's medalist with a 38. Jacob Whitney shot 42, Quinn Hawkins had a 44, and Nick Michelson shot 46.
McHenry 164, Huntley 176: At McHenry Country Club, Truman Keppy led the Warriors with a 37 in a win over Huntley.
Liam Nielsen shot a 41, Ian Grubich shot a 40 and Spencer Rudd shot a 46 for McHenry.
For Huntley, Youssef Abbadi and Ben Saiz each shot a 43 to lead the Red Raiders. Jack Wagner and Trevor Book each shot a 45.
Richmond Burton 168, Burlington Central 185: At Nippersink, Connor Lindley led R-B with a 3-over-par 39 in a KRC victory over Burlington Central.
Everett Robinson shot a 41 for R-B. Jackson Bolman shot and Eric Manuel each shot a 44. R-B improves to 6-2 overall and 3-1 in the KRC.


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Nick Desai, HealMay 01, 2018
Nick Desai is cofounder and CEO of Heal.
Sandoz signs on to lead launch of Pear's digital therapeuticsApril 23, 2018
A deal with Sandoz to lead the global launch of Pear's two lead products puts marketing muscle behind the nascent class of 'prescription digital therapeutics.'
No Google, no problem: Pharma partners with China's tech giantsJanuary 10, 2018
In the absence of behemoths such as Facebook and Twitter, pharma is partnering with China's tech giants to snare a slice of a more than $100 billion market
How working with Apple inspired Jeff Tangney to found DoximityNovember 27, 2017
The CEO's experience launching medical reference app Epocrates led him to found a social network for physicians.
Why use health plan apps? To search for specialists and understand drug coverageAugust 29, 2017
Consumers younger than the age of 45 were most likely to use an app developed by their health plan.
Bayer aims to drive patient-HCP dialogue with data-sharing app for MSJune 14, 2017
The FDA-approved app will allow MS patients to share their medication injection history with HCPs.
Regeneron uses VR to humanize retinal diseaseApril 14, 2017
The drugmaker saw a gap in patient-physician conversation about retinal disease.
Klara's Simon Lorenz on breaking away from the physician lifestyleMarch 09, 2017
He instead decided to find a way to make a physician's job easier by creating a clinical messaging platform.
BreathResearch's Nirinjan Yee on being a female entrepreneurFebruary 01, 2017
A bout with Lyme disease led Yee to found a company that helps patients measure and track their breathing patterns.
Pfizer creates app for patients with depressionDecember 15, 2016
The connection to Pristiq is not overt in the app's user interface, though Moodivator is featured on Pristiq's website.
Lilly's branded app for Trulicity looks to address adherenceNovember 30, 2016
Companies such as Eli Lilly and Medtronic have launched branded apps for their products, but experts say they don't make sense for all medicines.
Q&A: Cardiogram's Ballinger on using the Apple Watch to track heart rateSeptember 16, 2016
The app's co-founder discusses how it's educating patients and physicians about artificial intelligence and why Cardiogram is different from other heart-rate tracking apps.
How My GI Health changed the conversation for patientsMarch 23, 2016
The motivating force behind My GI Health met initial resistance. After all, it came from a company executive who professed that his goal was to benefit all companies within that therapeutic area.
Five things for pharma marketers to know: Thursday, June 18June 18, 2015
Merck settles a marketing lawsuit for $5.9 million; CVS plans to create diagnostic apps; a survey shows advertising agencies plan to keep head count steady for the rest of the year
Apple Watch — do you love it?April 27, 2015
We know it's early days (the smartwatch been available for three days to be exact), but we'd like to know how it is going.
ResearchKit: A Medical Research Revolution?April 13, 2015
Apple is putting the power of clinical trials in our pockets with ResearchKit.
WebMD to launch app for Apple's smartwatchApril 13, 2015
The small screen makes it a user-friendly medication adherence tool.
Doximity to launch Apple Watch appApril 09, 2015
The app for the smartwatch includes secure encrypted messaging.
Apple launches software platform for medical researchMarch 09, 2015
The open-source framework uses the iPhone's apps to gather users' health information.
How Mobile Apps Increase Hospital Revenue and Patient Engagement Sponsored by PhunwareJanuary 30, 2015
Phunware's VP Product Evangelist will explore how hospitals can implement a wayfinding and messaging solution, and how they can expect to benefit from it.
Five things for pharma marketers to know: Tuesday, January 20January 20, 2015
FDA draws fine line between health and wellness apps; Colorado gives biosimilar swap law another look; ZMapp is set to start human trials of its Ebola vaccine.
Insurer's maternity app rewards healthy behaviorsNovember 26, 2014
United Healthcare's Baby Blocks app seeks to become all-in-one hub for expectant moms and their babies.
App may diagnose glaucomaOctober 23, 2014
Researchers say the iPad app could help assess vision loss.
WebMD seeks to unify health dataJune 16, 2014
The health and lifestyle resource's latest app seeks to provide context for all that biometric data consumers are storing in wearables, wireless scales and glucometers.
Everyday Health rolls out CancerRx appJune 03, 2014
The bedside decision-making app includes clinical trial and drug information as well as breaking news.
App can estimate blood lossMay 27, 2014
The maker of an FDA-approved app says its algorithm can use images to assess surgery-related blood loss.
Startup clinical trial appFebruary 05, 2014
TapTrak seeks to apply behavioral tracking to clinical trials.
FDA exempts most mobile apps from scrutinySeptember 24, 2013
The agency issued final guidance on mobile apps, saying it will focus only on a subset that present the greatest risk to patients if they don't work correctly.
Business briefs: Biosimilars, Johnson & Johnson, Consumer ReportsAugust 29, 2013
FDA is concerned state biosimilar legislation could make consumers uneasy about the category, J&J hands $75 million milestone payment for ibrutinib, Consumer Reports gets into drug apps
A Parkinson's app for patients that took its cue from HCPsAugust 08, 2013
Patient use of the professional app prompted the latest iteration, and the foundation behind it is set to launch a media push.


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•Analysis and reporting of credit VaR and the various risk measures, with a particular emphasis on the assessment of correlations and concentrations in both portfolios as well as the combined portfolio.
•Contribution to the enhancement of the methodology used for credit value-at-risk and stress tests, both exposure and potential loss-based.
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When a Fish Is More Than a Fishby Vicki Monks
National Wildlife Federation, February/March 2000
For the Nez Perce and other Native Americans of the Northwest,
saving endangered salmon means saving an ancient heritage
Sitting one day last spring in the shady yard of his small clapboard home in Lewiston, Idaho, Horace Axtell unfolded a packet of wind-dried salmon, sliced paper-thin and shimmering with traces of the fish's rich oil. An elder and spiritual leader of the Native American Nez Perce Tribe, Axtell had hoped enough chinook salmon would return to the nearby Rapid River for the tribe to hold its traditional springtime blessing ceremonies there. But as too often has been the case in recent years, the run was so poor that only a token harvest was held. "This is about all we've got left right now," he said, fingering the packet. "Right now, we have nothing to bless."
For decades, salmon in the Columbia and Snake River Basins--which carve through Oregon, Washington and Idaho--have been in decline, and many populations of all five salmonid species in the Northwest are now federally listed as endangered or threatened. In the 1800s as many as 1.5 million spring/summer chinook salmon alone returned annually to the tributaries of just the Snake River. By the early part of this century, wild salmon runs numbered in the hundreds of thousands. But by the 1980s, all Snake River coho salmon had disappeared, and by the 1990s, the annual average count of Snake salmon was less than 10,000. As of last year, all the remaining runs of the two surviving salmon species there--chinook and sockeye--had been listed as threatened or endangered. So had steelhead trout, also in the salmonid family. Only seven known Snake River sockeyes returned to spawn last season.
"We thought salmon would always be here, since they were here for thousands of years," says Alphonse Halfmoon, vice chair of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and former chairman of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. As he sees it, the tribes of the Columbia Basin have an extraordinary stake in salmon recovery: For millenia, the fish have been of central importance to their culture, economy, diet and religion.
Tribal leaders not only lament the loss of a way of life, they believe they owe a spiritual debt to the fish, and they are determined to see salmon restored to their rightful places in nature. To that end, the region's Native Americans talk of further asserting their treaty fishing rights--possibly in court--in order to restore salmon to the Snake River and other waterways. The Columbia River Basin tribes, points out Nez Perce Tribe attorney David Cummings, secured what he calls "sacred promises" from the United States to take fish in perpetuity in exchange for ceding vast territories of their homelands to the United States.
Those rights have already been upheld several times. In the late 1970s, vigilante groups tried to block Nez Perce from fishing in the Rapid River, which once provided some of the best salmon spawning habitat in the world and was a favorite Nez Perce fishing stream. Idaho authorities called out the National Guard. Before the crisis was over, a number of Nez Perce fishermen had served time in jail. But in 1982, an Idaho district judge dismissed all the charges, ruling that Nez Perce treaties with the U.S. government gave tribal members the right to fish in any streams their ancestors had customarily used.
At many locations where few salmon now return, including the Rapid River, that victory has a hollow ring these days. Still, other court rulings defining treaty rights also have guaranteed Columbia Basin tribes a major role in fisheries management. Now, all the federal and state agencies working on salmon restoration must include the tribes in any decisions made.
The tribes also have become politically savvy, working to build consensus for removing, or breaching, dams that block fish passage and taking other measures to improve the salmon's chances. For example, for more than a decade the tribes have been moving forward with their own fisheries programs. The Nez Perce Tribe, for example, now employs a staff of 250 in its fisheries department at the height of the season, including biologists, technicians and engineers. Nez Perce fisheries program director Silas Whitman sees the task as something of a holy war. "We are trying to retain everything that is sacred to us," he says. "A lot of people brush that aside and say, 'Ah, that's beads and feathers talk. You guys drive cars, turn your lights on just like the rest of us.' Well, yeah, we like creature comforts, but we are willing to live with restrictions ourselves in order to get the fish back."
The tribe thinks restoring the fish and the health of the water may be critical for continued human survival. "If we don't take care of the water, if we don't take care of the salmon and other species, then we will expire along with all of those species that we have destroyed," says Allen Pinkham, a former tribal chairman and coauthor of Salmon and His People: Fish and Fishing in Nez Perce Culture. He currently works as U.S. Forest Service tribal liaison, overseeing efforts to restore logging-damaged spawning streams on reservation land. "The water is the blood of the Earth," he said last spring while sitting under shade trees along the Clearwater River, a tributary of the Snake that runs through the Nez Perce reservation.
As he talked, a blast of pungent fumes swept in from a downstream pulp mill. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, mills and other industries in the Columbia Basin regularly discharge a toxic stew of chemicals into the rivers and air--including formaldehyde, cyanide, arsenic, chloroform and dioxin. Biologists have discovered that these contaminants and others can accumulate in fish. There's evidence such pollutants may interfere with reproduction, survivability and even the ability of salmon to navigate to spawning streams. No one yet knows if the toxics affect human health, but that question could be of special concern to those who consume a lot of fish in their diets.
Even without the problems presented by degraded and contaminated streams, the region's dams have made thousands of miles of spawning habitat difficult to reach or inaccessible. A 1960s Oregon Historical Society film shows thousands of chinooks stranded and suffocating in shallow pools below the Oxbow Dam, then just completed, in Hell's Canyon along the Oregon-Idaho border. The Oxbow is one of three dams in the canyon that cut off access for the fish to more than half the spawning grounds in the Snake River drainage, which holds 24 dams altogether. Seventy-eight more dams cross the Columbia Basin. Some, but not all, of the dams were constructed with fish ladders that can help returning adult salmon migrate upstream. Efforts over the past two decades to help juvenile salmon navigate downstream past these obstacles to make their way back to the ocean have had only limited success, however.
The Dalles Dam on the Columbia, completed in 1960, flooded what had been the most important fishing and trading center for all the tribes of the Columbia Basin, Celilo Falls. According to oral history, tribal members had fished the site for thousands of years, tying themselves to scaffolds built out over treacherous falls, using dip nets and gaff poles more than 30 feet long to catch the salmon as they jumped the rapids.
Alphonse Halfmoon began fishing at Celilo Falls in the 1930s. He still remembers the day one of his friends warned him he had better tie himself off with rope or the salmon could pull him in. That is no exaggeration: A chinook, the biggest of the salmon, can be as long as 4 feet and weigh 40 pounds. Back then, they often weighed even more. "This man told me he'd gotten dragged in and got sucked down into the bubbly green water below the lower falls," he recalls. "He was getting hit by so many big salmon it knocked the breath out of him. He was getting hit in the head, the chest, everyplace." The friend survived but was so bruised he could hardly walk.
The upper-basin salmon populations, already affected by upriver dams, went into a precipitous decline after the construction of four dams on the lower Snake River--Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite--built between 1962 and 1975. Harming salmon runs, of course, was not the intent, and over the years the efforts to save the fish, although they haven't brought back the dwindling runs, have been extraordinary. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates the Snake River dams, estimates the agency has spent more than a billion dollars on salmon research, fish-passage facilities and hatcheries.
Since the dams kill so many young salmon smolts headed downstream, the Corps set up a juvenile fish transportation system, using barges and trucks to speed the smolts downriver. The system is far from perfect, however, and although most transported young salmon survive until they are released in the lower Columbia River, researchers say they don't know how many later perish from the delayed effects of stress.
Tribal leaders see the Corps' array of technological fixes as human arrogance. Not only have these efforts failed to restore the fish, many of the upriver salmon stocks are now facing extinction. "It's time for a different approach," says Levi Holt, a Nez Perce Tribe member who has worked for salmon and wolf restoration. "If contemporary science is to succeed, it must include cultural and spiritual values," he says.
And so the region's tribes have decided to try approaches of their own. Not only are they joining with environmental groups in lawsuits and lobbying for the breaching of the four lower Snake River dams, they are working on their own to restore salmon populations. Under the umbrella of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama Tribes have put together a restoration plan called Wy-Kan-Ush-Mi Wa-Kish-Wit, or Spirit of the Salmon. Says Allen Pinkham, "We're saying, 'You've kind of screwed up the earth here a little bit, so let us try it now.'"
The goal of most salmon hatcheries has been to provide fish for ocean harvest or river sportfishing, and they usually rear young fish under controlled conditions. But the tribes have now begun several controversial, experimental projects that seek to restore wild runs, using hatchery stock to supplement naturally spawning populations of chinook and coho salmon, as well as steelhead trout.
Many biologists worry that endangered wild salmon will be further harmed if hatchery fish are allowed to intermingle and breed naturally in streams. For one thing, says National Marine Fisheries Service biologist Rob Jones, the area coordinator for salmon recovery, some hatchery stocks have degenerated into homogenized, genetic mishmashes. Jones fears that releasing them into streams with endangered stocks could compromise the genetic diversity and survivability of the wild fish. "If the stock is down to only a few fish, that's a very big gamble," he says. "Mixing things up like that biologically doesn't make sense. I think supplementation has promise, but only in places where it will not jeopardize the remaining stocks of wild fish."
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission executive director Don Sampson points out that the tribal projects use only salmon with carefully selected genetic qualities. For example, only offspring from strong, long-distance fish are placed in upper Snake River tributaries. After that, Sampson says, it's a matter of letting natural selection take its course. "Those fish came from the wild. If we allow them to go back to the wild to spawn and cull themselves out, eventually the strongest will survive, and they will rejoin with the wild salmon populations and make themselves stronger," he explains. So far, the Nez Perce projects have restocked fish only in streams where wild salmon no longer exist.
On the Clearwater, the Nez Perce are in the final design stages of a project to reestablish coho salmon and supplement chinook. This past summer the tribe used helicopters to plant hatchery-raised fry in pristine creeks flowing through roadless areas. The idea is to let the finger-sized fish acclimate to river water for a winter before they head downstream. The tribe is also in the process of building a natural rearing-enhancement system that, it's hoped, will help young fish adapt more quickly to the wild. Rather than keep the fish in long concrete raceways as most hatcheries do, the new rearing facility will provide habitat designed as much as possible to be like a natural stream.
Even if all these plans succeed, there's one big catch. "These programs won't make one whit of difference if we don't do something about main-stem passage," says Nez Perce fisheries biologist David Johnson. "None of us are fooling ourselves. If we don't do something drastic to improve return rates, nothing we do up here will matter." And that means addressing the effects of dams: The federal listing of many populations of salmonid species means that recovery plans could call for dam breaching--as well as for strengthened regulations on activities such as industrial processing, logging and grazing that pollute the water or damage habitat.
The Corps of Engineers is studying several alternatives for the dams, including one plan to breach the four lower structures on the Snake River. The Nez Perce Tribe went on record last year supporting that option. Others too have concluded that breaching those dams is the surest way to restore endangered salmon-- including the National Marine Fisheries Service; the Idaho Fish and Game Commission; the National Wildlife Federation and other nonprofit conservation groups; and the western division of the American Fisheries Society, an organization of professional biologists. "The science has pinpointed these four dams as specifically problematic to Snake River salmon," says Nicole Cordan, regional organizer at the National Wildlife Federation's Western Natural Resource Center in Portland, Oregon.
The White House and Congress will make the decision on dam breaching, though, and the choice could affect barge transportation, irrigation and hydropower. Just how much impact breaching would have depends on who's making the prediction. In the visitor center at the base of Little Goose Dam, the Corps of Engineers offers an interactive video that features a cityscape twinkling with lights. If a visitor selects an option to "remove dams" in order to save salmon, the lights suddenly go dark.
Yet the Nez Perce and environmental groups point out that the four dams on the lower Snake provide less than 5 percent of the hydropower for the region and in many years don't operate at full capacity because of weak demand for electricity. Irrigation water from lakes behind those dams benefits only 13 farmers.
Whether dam breaching would help or hinder economic development in the long run remains an open question. Many local residents protest that their livelihoods will be ruined by breaching the four dams. But economic analyses suggest that may not be the case. According to a draft of a recent federal analysis, the region might actually benefit from bypassing the dams--or at least suffer no economic harm. Another analysis, published by The Idaho Statesman newspaper, found that taxpayers are spending $98 million a year to subsidize barge transportation on the Snake River. The Statesman's analysis and another evaluation done for the Idaho Fish and Game Commission both conclude that the economic benefits of breaching the dams far outweigh the costs. Taxpayers, electric ratepayers and consumers would save $183 million a year, the Statesman concludes.
And those analyses don't include the financial toll on the region's Native Americans. Commission director Sampson points out, "The tribes that once relied upon salmon as the basis of their economies lost that wealth when the salmon were taken from the streams and natural resources were taken from the land."
For now, the Nez Perce are at least still holding onto the cultural wealth they derive from salmon. When Horace Axtell's daughter Nellie was young, she learned the ancient methods for wind-drying salmon and preparing it for blessing ceremonies. The tribe's elders taught her how to sing the blessing songs and how to show respect for all of creation.
"We're still holding to that way of life," says Nellie now. "We believe that we can't remain healthy unless the ceremonies are done to honor and bless the food. The old ladies taught me that we have a responsibility to keep the salmon. Because if the salmon goes, we go. If the salmon disappears, we disappear."
Life on the Run
A salmon's life starts in a freshwater nest that can be hundreds of miles away from the ocean. Yet that's where the fish must head after maturing to the smolt stage. Pacific salmon spend between one and eight years at sea before returning to their spawning grounds to start the cycle again.
The fish face daunting natural and man-made challenges in both their downstream and upstream journeys--including degraded habitat, altered water temperatures and dams, such as Brownlee Dam on the Snake River, that can block passage or restrict water flow.
Seasonal Pacific salmon runs once filled rivers and streams all the way from California to Alaska. Today the only U.S. waterways that still teem with migrating Pacific salmon are in Alaska.
NWF Priority: Giving Salmon a Helping Hand
If four dams on the Snake River are breached, four key barriers to young salmon going downstream and adult salmon returning to their spawning grounds upstream will be eliminated. That's one key message from a collaborative effort among conservation groups including the National Wildlife Federation, Native Americans and other fishing constituencies.
The Federation also is working to save river habitat for salmon in the Pacific Northwest's temperate rain forests. And in the grasslands of central Oregon, the Federation is joining forces with Native Americans to ensure that management plans for federal lands include restoration of degraded streamside habitat. Also, the Nez Perce Tribe and the Federation are partners in a lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers for violating water-quality standards in the Snake River. If you would like to be kept informed about these issues, write the NWF Western Natural Resource Center, 2031 SE Belmont Street, Portland, Oregon 97215, e-mail email@example.com or call 503-230-0421. You may also visit the "Saving Salmon" section of NWF's web site at www.nwf.org/salmon.
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Mary Alice Kennedy
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Cabrini, 5500 Paris Ave
FEMA, In spite of the fact that Cabrini's detractors question its significance "it is what it is". It is a building eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. It was not so damaged by Katrina that it is not salvageable. Cabrini can and should be saved. I am sorry that Holy Cross feels that the structure detracts from their vision of a new campus; but, it makes no sense to tear down a building because you don't like the way it looks. Holy Cross should consider itself lucky that there are people willing to restore such an asset. No one is trying to keep Holy Cross out of Gentilly, we are asking that Holy Cross consider that ripping the heart out of this neighborhood is not a propitious beginning.
Tearing down Cabrini will have a detrimental effect that can't be countered by a school whose students will not live in Gentilly, whose parents will not shop in Gentilly and whose families will not move to Gentilly. The only change that will occur is that you will have a new school and parents who are changing their car pool route. This will not revive a neighborhood. Tearing Cabrini down is not mitigating damage.
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Week 1 - New Year Low Carb Bootcamp - And We're Off!(1000 Posts)
Morning, soon-to-be-losers!
Come and confess all on the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness
Here is a reminder of the rules of Bootcamp:
1.Eat three, proper meals a day
You must eat breakfast. It doesnt have to be a lot, but you must have something. For the rest of the day, if youre eating enough food and you are in ketosis then you shouldnt be hungry. But if you are hungry, eat something. (Hard boiled eggs make a great snack)
2.Avoid processed food, and focus on pure, natural protein as the basis for your meals meat/fish/eggs.
Things like sausages, ham, bacon, pre-prepared burgers etc should be avoided as much as possible. Avoid foods marketed as low carb, e.g. Atkins Daybreak bars.
3.Maximise your fat intake.
Fry in butter, add butter to vegetables, eat salad with a home-made vinaigrette dressing (not made with balsamic vinegar though), add mayonnaise where you can (just check the carb count on your mayo first). Eat fattier cuts of meat e.g. pork belly, roast chicken with the skin on and/or eat the fat off your lamb chops. Absolutely no low fat/light foods of any kind!
4.Make sure you are eating vegetables and salads with your food this is where your carbs should come from.
But choose only those vegetables that are on the allowed list (see below). You dont have to weigh/count carbs this is one of the great joys of this WOE (way of eating), but if youre new to low carbing it can be helpful to weigh your portions of veg in the early days, just so that you know how many carbs are in the sort of portions that you like to eat
5.Minimal dairy (apart from butter, which is unlimited).
If you are still drinking tea/coffee with milk or cream, try to restrict yourself to max 2 cups per day. You may eat cheese, but only in small amounts.
6.You must drink a minimum of 2 litres of water per day.
The more weight you have to lose, the more water you should drink
7.No alcohol
8.No fruit
9.No nuts/seeds
10.No sugar or artificial sweeteners
The idea behind Bootcamp is to make it as easy as possible for you to follow a low carb WOE (way of eating). There is no need to count carbs, as long as you stick to the rules, and focus on eating veg from the allowed veg list.
Here is the list of allowed veg:
Veg (raw)Carbs per 100g
Asparagus 1.4
Avocado flesh1.9
Runner beans2.3
Bean sprouts2.5
Green pepper2.6
Baby sweetcorn2.7
Brussels sprouts3.5
French beans4.7
Yellow pepper5.3
Orange or red pepper6.4
Ginger (peeled)7.2
Butternut squash7.5
If it's not on the list, see if you can find out how many carbs it has - or ask on this thread.
Focus on eating those veg that are 3g carbs per 100g or less for the next fortnight.
Morning BIWI! Feeling very gung-ho this morning - I've lost 6.75lbs since last Monday, despite occasional cheats (so I must have been eating real rubbish before) and am ready to get on with it!
Off for an emmental and spinach roll with a small coffee with cream to start the day!
That's a great start, coldethyl!
Here is a piece about water and how much you should be drinking. This is taken from the Carblife website (http://www.low-carbdiet.co.uk/:
Water is essential to weight loss for those who eat low-carb. The minimum consumed in a day should be
High levels of ketones in the blood stream can lead to a reduction in ketone production, therefore being well hydrated could aid in keeping the levels low and ketone production ongoing. Consuming enough water can have many other positive side effects: aids your kidneys with the processing of protein, reduces the retention of water, helps with preventing constipation, and reduces the levels of ketones released by your breath, which in-turn will reduce breath odour."
Yes, we are off!
Morning BIWI, morning evvvvvveryone
Grr. Link fail! Carblife
Moooooorning! Checking in, am 3 kgs down from my starting weight this morning! And that's in less than a week! Am also feeling much better after a shaky start.... 'Carb flu' has gone!
Can I join?
Done this before but kinda gave up! Lost a fair amount tho.
How does cottage cheese and tinned tuna fare? See bacon and ham are not good... Has that changed?
Hi BIWI, can you add me please? I can't seem to add myself, maybe because I'm on my phone.
152.5 this morning , having been a greedy pig over Christmas.
Dh has just made me scrambled egg & black tea.
Day 1 for me. Breakfast was egg white omelette and one coffee with splash of double cream.
I see I need to drink 3l of water. I will be sloshing around later.....
I have not managed to add myself to list or spreadsheet but will attempt again later.
I'm here - scrambled eggs and black coffee this morning. I'm not a great morning eater so getting eased in gently. 'Big shop' after school run for lots of nice meals coming up!
Good morning!
I am full of energy and motivation this morning. I am already showered, my hair is blow-dried and I have make up on. I haven't managed that for over a year. I can't believe it. For breakfast I ate smoked salmon and a salad with egg, red pepper, feta cheese and cucumber. I drank green tea with it. I can't believe how much I am supposed to drink... 3l. I weighed in at 181.4lbs.
Porkster - you're on the list!
ILoveTIFFANY and skandi1, you're on the spreadsheet too (down at the bottom for the moment, but hopefully Willie will re-alphabetize it later), but you haven't given a starting weight. Do you want to let me know what it is so I can add it for you? If you don't want to say the actual weight, you can start at 100, and then drop by 1 for every pound you lose.
ILoveTIFFANY - tinned tuna is perfect. Cottage cheese is OK, but it does have carbs in it, so check the side of the pot. Oh, and full fat please - none of that low fat stuff on Bootcamp!
Thanks BIWI
New week, new start. I'm only 2lb from festive cheatage but that's still the wrong direction so I am now totally on bootcamp message <salutes>
My brief history - I've lost 20lb nice and steadily since last August. What sounds more exciting is that I've gone from slightly strained in a size 16 to wondering if a 12 is getting too loose.
I know that these last few pre-maintenance pounds are going to be quite tough. I know that I won't be getting the thrilling losses of those early days and will be really happy with a pound off a week.
Time to start up my water score-chart and hard-boil some eggs. Size 10 jeans, I'm coming to getcha!
Thank you BIWI.
Weight is (sigh) 185lbs this morning.
Final aim is 150lbs which will get me back to my pre DC weight and BMI of 21.
Thanks BIWI.
I'm in. Was down about a stone lc-ing on my own before completely derailing over the festive season. Am bloated and ready to fit comfortably into my jeans again...and perhaps downside a few.
Good luck to all!
Ewan - I was re-reading Atkins recently, about maintenance, and I'd totally forgotten that he has a 'pre-maintenance' phase, where you are supposed to up your carbs so that you lose really slowly - less than a pound a week - for up to 3 months. The idea behind this is that not only does this allow you to work out how many carbs you can eat (beyond induction levels) but it also enables you to come to terms with how you need to eat once you reach your target weight.
So slow loss is good!
If anyone is unsure about the science behind low carbing, or you're being told by friends/family/colleagues that all the fat we are eating will be bad for us, then watch this video
It's about 45 minutes long, but really worth watching. If you don't have much time, watch the first 10 minutes. The statistics about the rise of obesity in the US, once low fat eating was championed, are startling and horrifying.
Marking my place...always get lost with the different threads.
Always slightly difficult when I have a strenuous day outdoors planned...and a lack of toilets.
Been following this WOE for around six months now...and I love it!!
Sounds like exactly where I am! A couple of really strict weeks to lose the Christmas naughties and then I'll take the rest really steadily.
BIWI..I loved that video. As a scientist I was almost embarrassed to admit I was eating high fat low carb. The statistics in the video validate this WOE although I was interested in the relationship between simple and complex carbs and whether the real culprit was sugar.
Still much easier to reduce all carbs.....and lose weight!!
I think the difficult thing for many people is getting their heads around the fact that so-called healthy foods, like an apple or a yoghurt (as per in the video) can have such a negative impact.
Checking in. 13 stone 2lb this morning. That was better than I expected
so I didn't move the scales to reweigh and try to get a "better" result
2 boiled eggs for breakfast
and no OJ Better go and drink some more water.
Need to go and buy some cauliflower and turnip so that I can make low-carb shepherd's pie for supper.
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Nursing Home Sets Energetic Tone/
By Janee Law
It was a dreary Thursday morning, but Carillon Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Huntington could not have been more alive. With brightly lit hallways, vibrant artwork of landscapes on the walls, welcoming smiles from staff members and the scent of peach crisp pie in the air, residents are meant to feel right at home.
"People are pleasantly surprised when they come in [because] it's not the nursing home they expected to see," said Joseph Carillo, owner, director and CEO of Carillon. "They walk around and they say they're shocked on how bright and cheerful it is. They're shocked that people are smiling and laughing and music programs are going on."
The family-owned and operated nursing home has been around for 46 years.
"I think most people think they're going to go to nursing homes, sit around and die," said Carillo, 55, of Centerport. But that's a misconception, he quickly adds. "People don't sit around…we have excellent services and activates."
Those services include rehabilitation for physical, occupational and speech therapy, adult day health services, an on-site renal dialysis center, therapeutic recreation and more.
The 110,000-square-foot nursing home, which sits on 12.5 acres, houses 315 residents between who range in age from their 50s to over 105, and 60 people for adult day care.
"We have all of those services here and the residents are thrilled," said Geraldine (Gerry) Albers, 54, of Amityville and administrator at Carillon Nursing.
Along with this, Carillon organizes several activities, from car shows, a winter ball, religious services, music programs, educational programs, happy hour, the opportunity to take trips into the community and more.
With 400 employees and 35-40 volunteers, Albers said the staff is devoted to the residents and enhance their lives, whether it's arranging their outfits, buying supplies or bringing in animals as visitors.
"Our mission is to give the highest quality of care to people and let them feel like this is their home," Carillo said, adding that one of their mottos is, "Let our family of professionals take care of your family."
Carillo's father, Ferdinand, uncle, Joseph Jr. and grandfather, Joseph Sr., began the nursing home back in 1969. The family was homebuilders and, when they were trying to make the lot into a shopping center, the land was only zoned for a church, a library or a nursing home.
"They got into nursing home by default…but they just thought that it was good business for the community [and that] there was a need for it at the time," Carillo said.
However, the single-floor establishment has since grown, starting with a skilled nursing facility and then a second health-related facility in 1975.
"The best way to convince a family to come in to a nursing home is take them on a tour and, [as] they walk around, they see the place is clean, they see that the residents are cared for," Carillo said.
Through the years, Carillon has continually renovated.
Now, it has private enclosed courtyards with gazebos, outdoor sitting and a miniature golf course.
"Nursing homes are not what they were thought of 30 years ago. They're rehab centers. They're community centers. They're people coming in and people go home," Carillo said. "The people are happy to be here and most importantly their family members are happy that they're here, comfortable and confidant."