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Hospital Revitalisation Programme; National Core Standards: Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West Health Departments reports
29 August 2012
Chairperson: Dr B Goqwana (ANC)
Meeting SummaryThe Committee asked the provinces of Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and North West to make presentations on their Hospital Revitalisation Programme and their efforts to meet National Core Standards. Mpumalanga provided a detailed expenditure assessment and gave a progress report on projects under implementation, projects under planning. It spoke about its monitoring capacity, monitoring and evaluation practices, reasons for under-expenditure, and the measures taken to improve programme management and spending. The Committee was particularly interested in the amount of time it was taking contractors to complete facilities as well as under spending going.
The Northern Cape presented a detailed account of the hospitals being built including the Kimberly mental health hospital. They described the difficulty in providing healthcare to residents of the Northern Cape because of the geography of the province. They spoke about the dire need for maintenance in the province but their being insufficient budget for it. They explained the National Baseline Assessment and six basic standards that needed to be met: availability of medicines and supplies, cleanliness, patient safety, infection prevention and control, positive and caring attitudes, and waiting times. The Committee again questioned the long time it was taking to complete facilities and why the contractors were not doing their job properly. The huge delays came up again and again.
The North West gave a detailed assessment of how their hospitals ranked and described the criteria for compliance and grading of the hospitals in the country. They described the way in which the infrastructure in the province was being developed, including new hospitals and revitalisation plans which had short term and long term goals for each hospital. They gave frank explanations for the difficulties they were having but also highlighted the strengths of the province including have the cleanest hospital award in the country. They also described how they wanted to create a uniform system of hospitals. The Committee wanted more information about contractor grading. They did not understand how a hospital could get an A grade yet still be non-compliant.
Meeting report
Mpumalanga Health Department briefing
Dr Clifford Mkasi, MEC of Health in Mpumalanga, said his province's hospital revitalization grant was R356 million for 2011/12. Total amount received was R365 million while actual expenditure was R296 million (83%) with a "committed" under-expenditure of R59.7 million but with an approved rollover of R59.5 million. The 2012/2013 grant was R300 million and as of 30 June 2012 they had received R31.7 million and the actual expenditure as of the same date was R 31.9m. The monitoring capacity was looked at. They had filled 90% of available posts in the Hospital Revitalisation Programme (HRP). He noted the specific posts that were not filled. Monitoring practices included twelve monthly reports, four quarterly reports and an annual report to the National Department of Health (NDOH). There were monthly site visits to the hospitals by HRP Unit. National Treasury and NDOH also made site visits. There were also political visits from the Premier, Portfolio Committee and the MEC. There were monthly steering committee meetings, monthly site and technical meetings with consultants and monthly interdepartmental meetings with Public Works.
Reasons for under-expenditure included poor performance of implementing agent (IDT) and inadequate expertise, unforeseen site conditions and inclement weather conditions. But there were measures being made to improve programme management and spending which include joint collaboration with the National Department of Health to form governance committees, filling vacant infrastructure and monitoring positions. They had also wanted to have two state accountants and centralised health technology management for fast tracking equipment procurement. They wanted to appoint new contracts with proven capacity to deliver on big projects, strengthen inter departmental partnerships, strengthen the capacity of the infrastructure and appoint a Resident Engineer. Mr Mkasi said that they had been struggling with filling this particular position for a very long time. He closed by showing a chart of progress on projects under implementation.
The Chairperson said that the presentation did not cover whether the hospitals were accredited or not but it was something that could be addressed during the discussion. Referring to the hospitals undergoing construction, the Committee did not know when these projects were started.
Ms B Ngcobo (ANC) thanked the MEC for his presentation. She saw the reasons for under spending but she was curious about the fact that he wanted to terminate the contractors that were due to complete projects by 2014. She asked if there was a recovery plan for that. She asked about the lack of a second accountant and if they had contacted the Department of Health about this matter.
Mr G Lekgetho (ANC) said he was impressed with the presentation and their admission of the challenges but also the way that they would be dealt with. His only concern was about the number of unfilled posts.
Ms D Robinson (DA) said she was encouraged by the appointments that had been made in the province. She asked about the infrastructure management position that had not been filled and if there had been people who applied or if it was just hard to find people with qualifications. She asked what the criterion was for a job such as that.
Ms C Dudley (ACDP) asked if the current budget of R300 million was specifically for what they had given their presentation on. In terms of the positions they had filled, it seemed as if that date was as of 2009 so she was curious about what was exactly being said there. Who was responsible for the under spending and how exactly did it happen.
Mr D Kganare (COPE) had a long list of questions. His impression about the allocated 356 million grant was it was only for that year. He would like to see the whole project and was confused because it must be a multiyear grant yet he had the impression that it was for the whole project. He was also curious about the appointed monitoring and evaluation manager, they said it was optional when it was filled, yet it must have been budgeted for thus how was it optional at all? He asked what penalties were applied to contractors who failed to deliver. What were the steps taking against the Independent Development Trust (IDT) so that they never get work from the department again and was the dispute in termination which caused the delay. He asked why the contractors were not required to pay penalties for delays and why these people had not already been fired. He was impressed that the new ones had proven themselves. The ongoing status of the projects was questioned. What did "ongoing" mean exactly and when this happened what was the initial budget and what was the finished budget? Was it a money problem or was it a performance problem? He was very concerned with this because every project seemed to be behind schedule. To him it seemed the projects were not in line in terms of time and yet no action was being taken against these companies. He asked if they were over budget and if so did they have money to complete the project or was it in danger. There should be consequences when companies take chances and contractors did not deliver but take the money. He knew a man who ran an engineering company. He was not an engineer but he just had "contacts", what were the consequences for people like this. He apologised for asking so many questions.
Ms M Segale-Diswai (ANC) thanked the presenter and asked why there were under-expenditure, and it was a good thing there was a roll over. The Health Department should be at 25% but they were only at 17% expenditure. The under-expenditure of R59 million was a lot of money so it really caused a concern. She was confused by the 90% positions filled as there were so many important positions not filled. Did they see the IDT as a poor performer and what did they do about it? From a layperson's perspective how did they miss the huge rock that prevented the building of a hospital? She asked for a timeframe and the anticipated completion date. They talked about new contracts that had the capacity to deliver on big projects yet they said that there was a poor performance of contracts with good Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) ratings.
Ms B Ngcobo (ANC) asked how many times had they had to roll over this budget. Did they sign a service agreement with Public Works and, if they did, why was this happening? They were one of the provinces with a National Health Insurance (NHI) site – when this kicked in where did they think your performance would be?
The Chairperson commented that there were two major issues, the completion of hospitals in a timely manner and the issue of corruption which was always there. The Committee had been to KZN and they had met an engineer there that said that he was going to deal with this issue of corruption head on. Mpumalanga was a province of tourists and it was a beautiful area but he was not confident that if he went there that he would get good health care. There were public and private institutions but where did the tourists go if they needed medical help. He asked for more information about the problems in completing projects. He asked about the new problem of sinkholes and how the engineers could identify such problems when building if they could not even pick up a large stone that had prevented building.
Mr Mkasi replied that the National Department had come in and done an audit. Of all the institutions and facilities in the province, there were none that were 100% compliant. This had to attend to all the issues identified by the audit and had formed committees to deal with these. He knew the standard and that they needed to make sure that they had complied. Inspection teams had looked at the facilities and there were reports that could be forwarded to the Committee. The infrastructure problem had existed when the current government took over in 1994. The province had not been on par since then. When he got into his position the problems were there, there were challenges. Restored facilities had been completed but there had been both good and bad workmanship. The under spending was as of the end of the year but invoices were still being submitted at that time. 'Committed' under expenditure meant that those funds had already been committed but the invoices had not been paid by 31 March 2012 – so in reality there had been only just over R2 million of under expenditure. The recovery plan for the under spending was that they had requested a rollover and that they wanted to use some of it for the maintenance of the structures. He wanted to let the Committee know that they did not have an accountant but that they had advertised and that the statistics for positions filled were just for those required for Hospital Revitalisation unit. Talking about positions that needed to be filled in the entire provincial Health Department would have to be a completely different discussion. Mr Mkasi said that the projects had commenced as such:
Piet Retief Hospital: commenced in 2003 and completed in 2006
Ermelo Hospital: commenced in 2004 and to be complicated in 2014
Rob Ferreira Hospital: commenced in 2004 and to be completed in 2014
Themba Hospital: commenced in 2004 and to be completed in 2014.
Mr Mkasi said the Department was not getting the sum of money in full lump sums so that construction had to be in phases and that the delays made the process take longer. Problems with delays existed mostly with the hospitals that were being revitalised as there were already existing patients in the hospitals, they had to be moved around during the different phases of construction.
The Chairperson interrupted and said that they should be planning for this. He said to have had a hospital take ten years to build was very hard to understand.
Mr Mkasi said they first finished planning and design but even the smallest of the delays could cause changes in the planning.
The Chairperson said that it was very confusing. If everything was planned, how could it take ten years?
Mr Mkasi said that it would not take ten years. The delays that were happening were because of the contractors. He gave the example of Piet Retief, the reason for its quick construction was because they built a new site. In his view, they should just build new sites. Revitalization was more expensive and inconvenient. The infrastructure of the old sites sometimes could not support the new structures.
The Chairperson said that he thought that it was time to give another province a chance to speak because he suspected that there would be similar questions for all of them. He asked Northern Cape to go next.
Northern Cape Health Department briefing
Mr Mxolisi Sokatsha, MEC of Health in the Northern Cape, said that he wanted to be up front as they had sent through a report to the Committee that had many problems. He had been misquoted before so he just wanted to be upfront at the beginning that the report that they had before them today was the correct report. They would actually have two reports, of which one was about hospital revitalisation.
Mr Lesetja Mabona, Director: Hospital Revitalisation Programme and Infrastructure for the Department of Health in the Northern Cape, thanked the MEC and noted that the Northern Cape currently had four projects. Three of the hospitals were at implementation stage and one was at the planning stage.
Prioritisation of projects was made from the Service Transformation plan. The project was submitted to the implementing agent for a minimum of 24 months prior to implementation. The Project budget was then allocated per project stage hence the multi-year budgeting. The first project was the Mental Health Hospital in Kimberley. It started in 2005 and had a budget of R290 540 000 and was supposed to take 24 months but the contractor was terminated in 2009 due to poor workmanship when the projected was 70% completed and R420m was already spent.
The Chairperson interjected to ask when they thought that the project would be completed.
Mr Mabona said that they were completing the project in 2014 and it would not be another ten years. He had terminated the contract. The next hospital was Upington. The hospital was fully completed with 90% of staff accommodation, 70% of internal roads, 50% of the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) station, 60% of the TB ward , and 30% of external roads completed. The initial budget was R158 but they had only spent R47. De Aar Hospital began construction in 2006. It had staff accommodation complete at 100% and 92%. The fence and reservoir had been completed while 60% of the TB ward and 29% of the main hospital had been completed. This hospital had a budget of R180 million but it had spent R45 million already.
The Chairperson asked when the projects would be completed.
Mr Mabona said that Upington would be completed next year and De Aar would be completed in 2014.
The Chairperson asked to clarify if it had been started in 2006.
Mr Mabona said that the earthworks had been started in 2006 and then due to insufficient budget, they had to stop the project and restart it in 2010. The last hospital to be discussed was Kuruman which was still in the planning stage. It had completed feasibility studies, a business case, a project brief and the construction was to comment in 2016 with a budget of R1 billion.
Mr Richard Jones, Chief Director of Quality Management and Infrastructure in the Northern Cape (a new post created in 2009), said he was going to present on the facility improvement programme. He apologised for sending the first report as it was an internal report sent by mistake. Although the MEC had said that he would rather the Committee not read it, it might be interesting to read because it showed how seriously the Department was taking this matter.
He explained that the province had the smallest number of facilities in the entire country, since the distance between towns and cities created enormous managerial and cost problems. There was a National Baseline Assessment and there were six basic standards that needed to be met: availability of medicines and supplies, cleanliness, patient safety, infection prevention and control, positive and caring attitudes, and waiting times. He explained the graph on page 2 of the presentation and that the country was doing poorly as a whole with those standards.
The Chairperson said that he was slightly confused by the graph.
Mr Jones said the left hand side was percentage outcome against the standards and the right hand side were the percentage of facilities that failed the standard. Northern Cape's failure rate was about the same as the national average. However the left side of the graph showed that as much as the country had a problem meeting standards; the Northern Cape had an even greater problem. They had been working with an external improvement team. They did a SWOT analysis of the Northern Cape Health Department. On the notion of Facility improvement, they found five systems that needed attention: management systems, infrastructure, equipment, human resources and financial management. The National government had now made a non-negotiable and minimum equipment list so now audits had to be conducted for that.
Mr Jones said a project implementation plan had been created and there had been workshops on the six most critical areas including waiting times, patient satisfaction, staff satisfaction and clinical audits. There were three main issues that he wanted to sort out. Infrastructure was being dealt with by a newly established Provincial Joint Collaboration Committee, a baseline infrastructure assessment which concluded that in the Pixley Ka Seme region the province need R40 million in backlog maintenance so if one multiplied that by five it would mean about R200 million for the province despite the budget of only R98 million. In terms of human resources, it was clear that there were shortages, particularly in frontline staff, which they were trying to start out. An example of this would be in the new Upington Hospital where they had been given a budget of R130 million for staff and non staff but in reality they needed a budget of R400 million. The last topic was financial management which was weak in the past but they were rapidly fixing it, including decentralizing.
Ms Segale-Diswai said when there was a delay, they wanted to know how that delay affected service delivery. She asked when the Mental Hospital in Kimberly would be completed.
The Chairperson said that the slides were confusing but that essentially it was saying that the province had to do a lot of work to achieve the norms and standards.
Mr Kganare (Cope) stated that he did not understand how a contractor could be hired to finish 30% percent for R400 million and it was as if they had started from scratch. Looking at the document that they had been sent by mistake, under the SWOT analysis, they had taken 'experienced leadership' out from under their strengths and asked the reason for that. If in fact they did have experienced leadership, how could they have problems with all of these matters. He was very interested in why that was expunged. He asked frankly if the report was honest. He understood that they had done a lot, given the geography of the Northern Cape which was very difficult, but they needed to know the truth.
The Chairperson said that they were all South Africans and these issues affected them all whether they were part of an opposition party or not.
Ms Dudley said that in the SWOT analysis, it was mentioned that the budgets were not being increased rapidly enough. In the presentation there was no overall budget – including any mention of an over expenditure or under expenditure – and that would help them put things into context. In terms of the six most critical aspects of healthcare, she asked if there were new incentives because she assumed that these had always been critical areas.
Ms Robinson said that she more muddled now then she was before. The fact that there was a document that sent to them in error and that there were graphs in the report that could not be interpreted was not the brightest sort of thing. She thought that they were there to tell them what was wrong. The presentation should be user friendly because the Committee could help them analyse where the problems. As with the Mpumalanga presentation, she thought it a catastrophic situation if a hospital took ten years to build, as it would be obsolete by the time it opened. The issue of rebuilding instead of revitalising was interesting because a hospital could be planned in a modern way with modern technology. She asked who was pulling the wool over one's eyes. She wanted clear information because of the bad state of affairs.
The Chairperson said that the difference between Health and other departments was that it caused people to die and that was what was bothering the Committee.
Ms Robinson said that they seemed to be muddling along and why did they not have experts coming from overseas to help them with the problems.
Ms H Msweli (IFP) said that she understood that the project was supposed to be implemented within 24 months so what had happened? She wanted to understand why this was happening with every project.
The Chairperson said that when Health was called before the Appropriations Standing Committee, they had explained why there were delays but the sad part was that it had created more questions.
Ms Ngcobo said that they had visited a rural hospital that had been built many years back which was being revitalised and was doing wonderfully and that they had been given the percentages and phases of the project. She did not get that joy from these presentations. The value for money was a huge factor and the issue of contractors and litigation was problematic. She asked who had to pay for litigation and if the province was responsible, where did they get the funds? She asked why they kept the underperforming contractors.
The Chairperson said he had met a young engineer from KZN and he was so against corruption, which was the bottom line. He said he was prepared to die to stop the corruption, firing people despite the connections that they had. He had the support of the MEC and the Premier.
Mr Lekgetho said that he had visited hospitals in his area and that in the former Bantustans the conditions were terrible. It needed to be discussed at some stage. In the presentations, weaknesses have been identified but these needed to show how these were to be addressed with solutions or a time frame.
Ms Kenye (ANC) asked about the contractors and their grading system. She also asked about human resources and financial delegations
Mr Mabona, Head of Infrastructure for the Department of Health in the Northern Cape, said the mental hospital had started in 2005 while the main hospital had started in 2006. It was supposed to take 24 months. The contractor was fired in 2009. They were deducting penalties. Litigation was paid for by the Department of Public Works and the new contactor had started work only in 2011. They had under expenditure before. The main hospital was supposed to be constructed in 24 months. In terms of the rollovers, they applied for the rollover because of the delays with the contractors and with their grading. They relied on the ability of the CIDB to grade the contractors and that they chose based on that.
Mr Mxolisi Sokatsha, MEC of Health in the Northern Cape, said that they used to under spend a lot of money but they were now making sure that they spent the money. The National Board of Health had been there last week. They wanted to assure the Members that they had hired a new contractor that had started in January. When he came into his position, the former MEC said that one of the major issues in clinics and hospitals in the country was the attitude of the staff. If that problem could be solved, it would solve 50% of the problems in the country. This was a severe issue and part of that problem was that these places were understaffed. He explained that cleanliness was a real problem along with the other core standards. He apologised about the graph but for some reason the memory stick with the graph in colour would not load. Most of his facilities were very small and in terms of delegations, all of their district delegations were taken away by the provincial office and in particular the financial delegations. They were trying to take back those powers to the district levels. They want to appoint the correct people at the correct posts. When he entered the department, the vacancy rate was at 42%, it was now it was at 20%.
The Chairperson thanked the MEC for the explanation but said that there were still questions. He asked if they could sort out the litigation problem once and for all. If people sleep on this that they could not be considered leaders and that politicians were paranoid and do not what they were telling them but what they are not being told. If the leadership shows a good attitude then the people underneath them would follow. He thought one of the unintended consequences of democracy was that respect became unintended to be used.
Mr Kganare said that he wanted to clarify why the second document did not state 'experienced leaders' and asked what they were hiding. Why were they spending R400 million if the project was already 70% complete? He thought people should learn from KZN about how that province was dealing with corruption.
The Chairperson wondered again how a project that was "almost completed" could cost almost as much as the entire initial project.
Mr Sokatsha replied that the original project had structural damage and that if the building had to be demolished, then the price could even escalate.
North West Health Department briefing
Dr Magome Masike, North West Health MEC, noted the North West had six mine hospitals. He provided an overview of National Core Standards (NCS), assessment criteria/domains, facility assessments, measures to address NCS, and infrastructure compliance plans. The National Core Standards include improved life expectancy, reduced impact of HIV and TB, improved mother and child health, and improved system effectiveness. The assessment domains would be: patient rights, safety and clinical risks, clinical support which includes governance, public health, leadership and corporate governance, operational management, facility and infrastructure and the six ministerial priorities.
Dr Robinson, North West Health Head of Department and Deputy Director-General, said that the Word document showed where they stand in terms of core standards. They had had quality assurance before the core standards so most of the hospitals were used to this. He explained the table and how the system worked including why a hospital could get an A but also be non compliant. If one did not score 100% and get an A then one was not compliant in the core standards. There was a national competition for cleanliness and the North West had won by outperforming the Western Cape. He continued by explaining the compliance with specialized hospitals which they were doing very well in. It was not a matter of money but a matter of leadership and attitude. They had a very good idea of where they complied and did not comply. Some of the North West district hospitals performed very well like Lehurutshe District Hospital.
Dr Robertson explained that they had just used a sample of clinics but they were using NGOs to help assess the 360 plus clinics in the province. They wanted to start using a business model like that of franchised companies such as Wimpy, the way in which everyone was the same, that same idea would be used with clinics. He reiterated that they had a long standing quality standards programme which prepared them for these National Standards. All hospital facilities had drawn up operational plans to meet the gaps in standards. Management ability and not money was key to meeting the standards. The capacity for monitoring levels was being met again by NGOs and that the people in control of managing these tasks had the expertise to do so.
Dr Masike stated that they knew what the gaps were and how to meet them in terms of infrastructure.
The Chairperson asked if when they did these assessments, they allowed the people that use these facilities to speak because he had had a letter about the state of conditions.
Dr Masike replied that Members of Parliament had asked some people but they did not get a proper sample of patients.
Mr Kabelo Motene, Infrastructure Manager: North West Health Department, took the Committee through infrastructure compliance, noting hospitals that had been and were being completed within the revitalisation programme. All major positions had been filled, besides the deputy director of financial management, for which interviews had been conducted. They had a budget of R2.1 billion and had used R1.7 billion on facilities. He looked at each hospital individually on their short term and long term plans (see document).
Mr Motene stated that in terms of hospital expenditure they had spent 99.02% of their annual budget in 2011/12 and thus far this year they had spent 44.2% of their budget. Although they were showing the Committee the infrastructure plan, they also highlighted the challenges in complying. They currently had over R2 billion in backlogs in renovations, upgrades, and maintenance – this came from an assessment of all facilities. There was also a backlog of about R2,8 billion for health facility gaps relating to service delivery. They only had about R654 million for 2013/14, R681 million for 2014/15 and a possible R710 million for 2015/16.
The Chairperson said that there was still a question unanswered. It seemed that they were raising budgets in the areas of the advantaged at the expense of the disadvantaged.
Ms Ngcobo said that "with tongue in cheek" she would like to congratulate the province on its cleanliness award. She suggested to the Chairperson that the North West be the next province that the Committee should visit. She asked, in terms of NGOs, did the province have community health workers and if the province could have an in-house maintenance team. She had a problem with all the invoices at the end of the financial year and asked if it was just a dumping project.
Mr Dikobo said he was concerned about the R2 billion backlog and if they had raised this issue with the Minister.
The Chairperson said that it seemed as though there were serious challenges in the provinces.
Ms Segale-Diswal wanted clarification on the areas of compliance and what exactly was going on with the time frame for the completion of Brits hospital. She said in these beautiful health centres, there were sometimes only two examination rooms working out of nine or the x ray machine was not working.
Ms Kenye asked more about the non compliance and the reasoning for the high level of it.
The Chairperson said that they should go there and confirm what they had heard.
Dr Robinson said with National Standards one could get an A score yet still fail to comply. He gave an example of having 100 perfectly working toilets in a hospital but if one was dirty, that one dirty toilet would make the hospital non compliant in that portion. North West was decentralising its health care. It would be better for the patients but there was difficulty in staffing and the expenses would not be cheaper. He said, yes, there would be health workers and about 700 had been trained.
Mr Masike said that the way that the core standards were set up, you could end up with an 80% and yet if one nurse did not wash her hands once, that could make it non compliant. They had partnered with Toledo University to come up with innovative ways of dealing with patient safety by drilling it into hospital workers. The patient also had to be better educated about medication but the numbers that a hospital had made this impossible sometimes. The mines and their numbers added to this.
Dr Robinson put in a comment about hand washing: the figure was less then 80% percent of doctors in America and Europe washed their hands between patients.
Ms Kenye said that her question had been reduced to 'hand washing' but that she was concerned about patient's rights and other serious matters.
The Chairperson said that perhaps he misunderstood, but what he was saying was "lets not lose hope" that eventually they would able to meet the standards. He just used hand washing as an example and did not put down the question.
Mr Motene said that the CFO was ensuring that they had in house maintenance teams. Tere was no dumping at the end of the month but the way in which Brits hospital was being funded made the budget look that way. He explained that the MEC may approach National Health for assistance and that the information regarding private company funding would be made available. Brits Hospital started on 25 November 2008 and the first contract was terminated in August 2009. The current contract started in July 2010 and it would be completed by August 2012.
The Chairperson asked the MECs to sum up their presentations.
Dr Magome Masike, North West Health MEC, thanked the Chairperson for holding them accountable because they were constructively criticising them. He talked of a clinic in the North West that was renovated by a man for free and he spoke of other projects that were being funded by private companies including Anglo-American. In terms of cleanliness, during the competition four of their hospitals made the grade including the cleanest hospital in the country award. They did not like to do fiscal dumping but there was a tendency to put pressure on at the end of the year.
Dr Clifford Mkasi, MEC of Health in Mpumalanga, said that maybe we should have answered the question that the Committee was asking by saying they cannot meet the core standards. The resources were low but they would give them a complete assessment. There was a shortage of medical professionals and only 48% of doctor positions were filled in the province.
Mr Mxolisi Sokatsha, MEC of Health in the Northern Cape, said that the shortage of nurses in the Northern Cape was severe but there was stability. The province had had problems with the outcomes of the audit. Their relationship with Public Works had increased. With regards to the mental hospital, it was mess. He invited to take the Committee to the Kuruman area where the hospital there was built in 1929 and the conditions were horrible.
The Chairperson said he welcomed their honesty but there must come a time where one must say I'm honest but what must I do? There was under spending and other things which affected service delivery. But he was happy that they were making plans to fix things. He was told that there were going to be engineers in all of the provinces but this did not seem to be happening. He thought that the President had done a very good thing for starting a Department of Rural Development and that perhaps that needed to be looked at. The Committee would assist them where it was needed.
The meeting was adjourned.
- Northern Cape Department of Health Facility Improvement Programme
- North West Department of Health: National Core Standards Report for Health Care Facilities
- Northern Cape Department of Health Report on Revitalisation Programme
- North West Province of HealthNorth West Province of Health Readiness to Implement the National Core Standards
- Mpumalanga Department of Health on Hospital Revitalisation Programme
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Framework for the buckling optimisation of variable-angle-tow composite plates
Wu, Zhangming and Raju, Gangadharan and Weaver, Paul M. (2015) Framework for the buckling optimisation of variable-angle-tow composite plates. AIAA Journal, 53 (12). pp. 3788-3804. ISSN 0001-1452
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Variable-angle tow describes fibers in a composite lamina that have been steered curvilinearly. In doing so, substantially enlarged freedom for stiffness tailoring of composite laminates is enabled. Variable-angle tow composite structures have been shown to have improved buckling and postbuckling load-carrying capability when compared to straight fiber composites. However, their structural analysis and optimal design is more computationally expensive due to the exponential increase in number of variables associated with spatially varying planar fiber orientations in addition to stacking sequence considerations. In this work, an efficient two-level optimization framework using lamination parameters as design variables has been enhanced and generalized to the design of variable-angle tow plates. New explicit stiffness matrices are found in terms of component material invariants and lamination parameters. The convex hull property of B-splines is exploited to ensure pointwise feasibility of lamination parameters. In addition, a set of new explicit closed-form expressions defines the feasible region of two in-plane and two out-of-plane lamination parameters, which are used for the design of orthotropic laminates. Finally, numerical examples of plates under compression loading with different boundary conditions and aspect ratios are investigated. Reliable optimal solutions demonstrate the robustness and computational efficiency of the proposed optimization methodology.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Wheelie Wednesday - A Wheelie Christening
Today is Myrna and Gilbert's twinsie's Christening day!
Don't they just make the most precious family?!I have been asked to be the Godmothter! How honored I am!
So I'm off to NY today! I'll be taking the train into the city and enjoying a fabulous and fun day with Bertie and Romy and their wheelie mom and dad!
And I'll be bringing with me a lovely bouquet of roses for Myrna that are from my garden!
And also a pair of rocking horses for the twins! Yes, I know, they're still a bit too young but you know how fast babies grow!
Can you see the Airedale pin on my bandana? Lenny sent it to Maggie on her 11th birthday and Maggie let me borrow it! Thank you, Maggie!
Lenny just had a birthday on July 12th! Happy birthday, Lenny! You have excellent taste in jewelry!
See you all next Wednesday!
Love, Autumn
31 comments:
- Princess Patches said...
What a fabulous gift for the twinses! You will make a great Godmother!
Poppy, Penny & Patches
- July 15, 2009 at 5:31:00 AM EDT
- Ruby and Penny said...
Have a great trip Autumn. Enjoy the babies.
Love Ruby & Penny
- July 15, 2009 at 6:38:00 AM EDT
- Dexter said...
The christening was a lovely event. You got all decked out, didn't you?
- July 15, 2009 at 6:50:00 AM EDT
- Noah the Airedale said...
Oh my goodness, godmother...what an honour.
- July 15, 2009 at 6:58:00 AM EDT
- Rocky Creek Scotties and Rocky Creek Ramblings said...
The christening was lovely. And we know they appreciated your beautiful flowers and sweet gift. You are so thoughtful.
Lilly, Piper, Carrleigh and Java
PS - we love the airepin.
- July 15, 2009 at 7:32:00 AM EDT
- Cowspotdog said...
Have fun in NY and don't get lost.....it's a big city!
- July 15, 2009 at 7:43:00 AM EDT
- tula monstah said...
Oh sooo fancy! What a special day too- enjoy,
- July 15, 2009 at 7:48:00 AM EDT
- Gus said...
Oh lovely rockie horses. We hope you get lots of cuddle time with the twinsies. Say hi to AstaRooni and her mom for us.
gussie d
- July 15, 2009 at 8:38:00 AM EDT
- Mack said...
I just know the babies will love those rocking horses! You are very thoughtful Autumn!
- July 15, 2009 at 9:10:00 AM EDT
- Archie and Melissa said...
hi autumn!
oh how fun!
have a wonderful wednesday!
m & e
- July 15, 2009 at 9:18:00 AM EDT
- Kelly said...
You will be the perfect Godmother, Autumn! Such a fine example for the twinsies!
- July 15, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM EDT
- Brind'Amour Clumbers said...
Nice profile shot Autumn!!! Beautiful family!!!
- July 15, 2009 at 11:13:00 AM EDT
- Amber and Nala said...
Pretty roses from the garden! :) have fun in NY!
- July 15, 2009 at 11:24:00 AM EDT
- Sue said...
You look very festive.
- July 15, 2009 at 11:55:00 AM EDT
- Petra said...
You will be one glorious godmother, Autumn! Safe travels on your trip to NYC!
- July 15, 2009 at 12:28:00 PM EDT
- Asta said...
I can't thank you enuff fow all youw help wif the twins, (especially little wiggly Bewtie)
I'm sowwy ghe splashed youa ll ovew and you had to change youw festive outfit. You look gowgeous. Thank you for those magnificent woses too!
And the Twins will love theiw wocking howsies(I won't let them on just yet)
wheeley smoochies
- July 15, 2009 at 12:38:00 PM EDT
- Martha said...
Hi Autumn
You will be the perfect godmother! Just make sure you avoid the godfather!
We loved the beautiful roses and how thoughtful to buy rocking horses - we trust they are the kind without the wheels!
Nice of Maggie to lend you the bandana - you looked very fetching wearing it.
love and kisses
Martha & Bailey xxxx
- July 15, 2009 at 2:08:00 PM EDT
- The Army of Four said...
GORGEOUS roses!
and wow, very cool being the godmother!
Play bows,
- July 15, 2009 at 2:17:00 PM EDT
- NAK and The Residents of The Khottage said...
Have fun!
PeeEssWoo: Maggie: Nice to see I'm not alone with the impressive peemail skills!
- July 15, 2009 at 2:29:00 PM EDT
- TwoSpecialWires said...
Autumn, we can't imagine a more perfect Godmother. You are so wise, and thoughtful. The roses from your garden were beautiful, and we're confident that Myrna will dry and perhaps press them for posterity's sake!
MIss Fergi and Jake
- July 15, 2009 at 3:06:00 PM EDT
- Dewey Dewster said...
Lovely gift ya have fer the twinsies, Myrna.....have a great time in the Big Apple....yer gonna be a special Godmother fer sure......
Dewey Dewster here.....
- July 15, 2009 at 3:50:00 PM EDT
- Ziggy Stardust said...
I imagine that you will be a wonderful Godmother. How exciting.
licks and sniffs, Sasha
- July 15, 2009 at 5:01:00 PM EDT
- Teddy Bear said...
Have a wonderful time in NYV, Autumn. What an honor to be a Godmother.
Teddy Bear
- July 15, 2009 at 6:12:00 PM EDT
- Unknown said...
That's the best wheellie outfit yet! And I LOVE the pin! It's the perfect touch.
- July 15, 2009 at 6:41:00 PM EDT
- DILLY said...
Be luvly roses!
- July 15, 2009 at 6:55:00 PM EDT
- William Tell said...
The twins should love the rocking horses, and the little Airedale pin looks so lovely on your scarf.
Happy Tails,
William Tell
- July 15, 2009 at 7:09:00 PM EDT
- ♥♥ The OP Pack ♥♥ said...
What a lovely family they all make together!!! Awesome roses too.
woo, the OP Pack
- July 15, 2009 at 8:11:00 PM EDT
- Lorenza said...
I know it was a beautiful ceremony!
Kisses and hugs
- July 15, 2009 at 9:57:00 PM EDT
- Moco said...
You are the perfect godparent. Have fun with the babies.
- July 15, 2009 at 10:45:00 PM EDT
- Thor and Jack said...
Have a great time Autumn!
- July 16, 2009 at 12:14:00 AM EDT
- Joe Stains said...
The twins are so adorable, you are going to be a great god mother!!
- July 17, 2009 at 9:08:00 PM EDT


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Journal : Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 37, October 2013, Pages 306–323
چکیده انگلیسی
We study optimal monetary policy for a small open economy in a model where both domestic prices and wages are sticky due to staggered contracts. The simultaneous presence of the two forms of nominal rigidities introduces an additional trade-off between domestic inflation and the output gap. We derive a second-order approximation to the average welfare losses that can be expressed in terms of the unconditional variances of the output gap, domestic price inflation, and wage inflation. As a consequence, the optimal policy seeks to minimize a weighted average of these variances. We analyze welfare implications of several alternative simple policy rules, and find that domestic price inflation targeting generates relatively large welfare losses, whereas CPI inflation targeting performs nearly as well as the optimal rule.
مقدمه انگلیسی
The new Keynesian model has become a new theoretical consensus for studying various issues in monetary policy (Goodfriend, 2007). However, some features of the new Keynesian model are deemed to be unsatisfactory. For example, the monetary policy rule that stabilizes price inflation also stabilizes output gap variability. Therefore, a simple price inflation targeting monetary policy can achieve the (Pareto) optimal welfare level that would occur in the absence of nominal frictions. This property of the new Keynesian framework is called the 'divine coincidence' (Blanchrad and Galí, 2007). In addition, recent empirical studies (e.g., Galí, 1992, Christiano et al., 1999 and Neely and Rapach, 2008) reveal that a staggered price mechanism by itself is incapable of generating persistent real effects of monetary shocks. Instead, it has been argued that wage stickiness may be a more important force than price stickiness for generating output persistence (e.g., Ambler et al., 2012, Chari et al., 2000 and Huang and Liu, 2002). The small open economy version of the new Keynesian model with staggered price-setting (Galí and Monacelli, 2005: Clarida et al., 2002) also lead to a striking, but controversial result. In the model, domestic goods prices are sticky but foreign goods prices are flexible. This specification of pricing behavior leads to disappearance of CPI inflation from any of the structural equations needed to compute welfare of the households. Since the model's Phillips curve contains only domestic inflation, it is then not surprising that it is optimal for the central bank to target domestic rather than CPI inflation. According to the standard new Keynesian small open economy model, therefore, CPI inflation targeting in a small open economy is misguided. But all real world inflation targeting countries are open economies, and all of them target CPI inflation, not domestic inflation (Svensson, 2000). The description of the inflation dynamics and policy implications of the standard new Keynesian small open economy model, therefore, should be modified. A number of studies have incorporated both wage and price stickiness into the new Keynesian model in a closed economy framework to help solve the issues mentioned above (Christiano et al., 2005, Erceg et al., 2000, Gali, 2011 and Sbordone, 2002). In particular, Erceg et al. formulate a model in which both the labor and product markets exhibit monopolistic competition and staggered contracts. They find that the model (with both sticky prices and sticky wages) exhibits a tradeoff between stabilizing the output gap, price inflation, and wage inflation. They also find that price inflation targeting generates a relatively large welfare loss. Most of the studies involving both nominal wage and price rigidities, however, focus on the closed-economy framework. The recent papers by Adolfson et al., 2007 and Adolfson et al., 2008 are among rare notable exceptions.2 In this paper, we employ the Calvo specification to incorporate both nominal wage and price rigidities into a small open economy new Keynesian framework. The goods market side of the model is similar in structure to the one developed in Galí and Monacelli (2005). Monopolistically competitive domestic producers set prices in staggered contracts as in Calvo (1983). Following Erceg et al. (2000), however, we modify the labor market where individual households supply differentiated labor services to domestic firms, and domestic firms combine this labor services to produce domestic goods. Monopolistically competitive households also set nominal wages in staggered fashion. These modifications lead to several distinctive features of our model. First, they necessitate the presence of the terms of trade, and thus CPI inflation, in the equation for wage inflation. Therefore, the behavior of wage inflation in this model is different from that in Erceg et al. (2000), which is a natural consequence of the small open economy framework. Second, there is a direct effect of CPI inflation on domestic price inflation, the dynamics of which, therefore, differs from that in the standard new Keynesian open economy Phillips curve of Galí and Monacelli (2005). This also has a very important policy implication (discussed below). Lastly, foreign output affects the dynamics of the real wage gap. It is through the real wage gap that shocks to foreign output affect both domestic price and wage inflation. Within this model, we discuss how the economy responds to a contractionary monetary policy shock when both domestic prices and wages are sticky. In order to disentangle the role played by nominal wage rigidity, we examine four different assumptions on domestic price and wage stickiness. We consider an economy in which (i) both domestic prices and wages are flexible, (ii) only domestic prices are flexible, (iii) only wages are flexible, and (iv) both domestic prices and wages are sticky. We find that the existence of staggered wage setting influences the economy's equilibrium response to a monetary policy shock regardless of the presence of sticky domestic prices. This exercise also implies that wage stickiness is more important than price stickiness for generating persistent real effects of monetary shocks in a small open economy. In order to find the optimal monetary policy we derive a second-order approximation to the average welfare losses experienced by households in the economy with both wage and price stickiness around a steady state with zero inflation. The resulting welfare function can be expressed in terms of the unconditional variances of the output gap, domestic price inflation, and wage inflation, and the optimal policy seeks to minimize a weighted average of these variances. For the standard new Keynesian small open economy model as in Galí and Monacelli (2005), the optimal monetary policy requires full stabilization of domestic price inflation. Then the output gap is also stabilized under that optimal policy. As a result, a fully stabilizing domestic price inflation, which is optimal for the standard new Keynesian small open economy model, is no longer an optimal policy. Instead, the central bank should stabilize both domestic inflation and wage inflation in addition to the output gap. We also employ our framework to analyze welfare implications of alternative policy rules. In addition to the optimal rule, we study four different simple policy rules whereby the domestic nominal interest rate responds to inflation and the output gap. The first rule requires that the domestic interest rate respond systematically to domestic inflation whereas the second assumes that the domestic interest rate responds to CPI inflation. They are referred to as the domestic inflation-based Taylor rule and the CPI inflation-based Taylor rule respectively. We consider an analogous rule for wage inflation (the wage inflation-based Taylor rule). The last rule considered seeks to stabilize a weighted average of domestic price and wage inflation and is referred to as the composite inflation-based Taylor rule. We use the derived approximation to the welfare function to evaluate the performance of alternative policy rules. The welfare level under the optimal monetary policy rules provides a benchmark. We rank these alternative policy rules in terms of their implied volatility for domestic inflation, wage inflation, and the output gap. From this exercise, we find that the domestic price inflation-based Taylor rule generates relatively large welfare losses due to excessive variation in wage inflation and the output gap. This finding is consistent with Erceg et al. (2000) where price inflation targeting induces substantial welfare costs. The CPI inflation-based Taylor rule, however, performs nearly as well as the optimal rule, leads to relatively small variation in inflation and output gap. There is a direct effect of CPI inflation on the dynamics of domestic price and wage inflation. Therefore, stabilizing CPI inflation is important for reducing volatility of domestic price and wage inflation. Less volatile domestic price inflation induces relatively small variance of the output gap under the CPI inflation-based Taylor rule. This result stands in sharp contrast with the policy implication of the standard new Keynesian model without staggered wage-settings (Clarida et al., 2002 and Galí and Monacelli, 2005). The plan of this paper is as follows. We describe the basic model in Section 2 and present the equilibrium conditions and dynamics of the model in Section 3. The implications and performance of each targeting regime are discusses in Section 4. And in Section 5 we draw the main conclusions.
نتیجه گیری انگلیسی
In this paper, we study several monetary policy rules for a small open economy within a framework where both domestic prices and wages are sticky due to staggered contracts. This study delivers three messages regarding the issue of monetary policy design in a small open economy. First, the optimal policy is to seek to minimize a weighted average of the variances of domestic price inflation, wage inflation, and the output gap. Second, the policy that exclusively targets domestic price inflation is suboptimal. Last, the policy that responds to CPI inflation is almost as good as the optimal policy. To bring our work in line with growing empirical evidence that fluctuations in exchange rates result in less than proportional changes in prices of traded goods and that prices respond with some delay (Engel, 1999 and Parsley and Wei, 2001), we plan to extend this research to the case of incomplete and delayed exchange rate pass-through. We also intend to explore the relative performance of various composite inflation-based Taylor rules in these environments.


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My mother sometimes is very irrational, very emotional, sometimes even childishly stubborn and insists to be always right. When she's bored, she gets on our nerves in the attempt of being entertained by us. When she's hurt, she fights back with a strong fist (not literally, of course!).
My mother is very often very shy, too, and even though she's very determined in many things, she also lacks self-confidence. It's almost hard to believe that she had written her phd thesis about a certain literature piece with a very uncommon interpretation that nonetheless got a high grade because of her powerful argumentation.
It's from my mom that I got the sensitivity for communication and feelings, as she experienced many forms of pain and cultural misunderstandings in her life (being Italian married to a German man and living in a foreign country).
She doesn't know that I understand this about her.
She is the one who introduced me to music first and then film when she took me to my first movie in the cinema ("A Chorus Line") when I was 8 years old. She is not a filmmaker or film critic. She is not a singer or any kind of musician. She never played an instrument. But she "felt" every bit that characterizes film and music in its completion. I don't know if my passion for these cultural values, including love, would exist if it weren't for her. I don't know if I would have this sense of justice if it weren't for her (Italians have a strong sense for justice, hahaha).
She doesn't know that I think like this either.
A person who understands you, is there for you no matter what time it is, encourages you when she is actually the one who sees where your heart belongs to, someone who gives you a hint for you to get back on the right track – this is very precious and hard to find in someone else.
Today is Mother's Day. Even though I agree with people who don't see the need of that one special day, I, on the other hand, appreciate this one day to use it as an opportunity to think deeper, more intense about my mother. It's an opportunity to get to know her and understand her even much better. Because you usually don't do that in a routine life. We tend to take things and people for granted.
But I really don't want to imagine life without her!
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Just Roses
A dear friend of mine brought these roses to a workshop that I was teaching in one of her mom's old depression glass vases. You know those green transparent kind they don't make anymore. I think our moms used to get these dishes inside soap boxes. It's a small painting, a 9x7 and even though it's very losely done, I've always liked it myself. This painting is about a year old. If I don't sell it, I'll just keep it.
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With the summer ahead, it is very likely that you will receive a wedding invitation or two. Celebrating the love of a couple you know can be a fun and wonderful event. However, it often leaves you in a scramble as you shop for the perfect wedding gift.
While many couples create a wedding registry, when you are close to the couple, you might want to give them something more unique. Rather than just another toaster, perhaps you are searching for a more memorable gift. The good news is that Scandinavian gifts make the perfect wedding gift. Every product sold at the Scandinavian Shoppe is high-quality and unique. You can rest assured that if you find the product through our online store, it will last the happy couple for many wonderful years ahead.
Check out a few tips for choosing the right wedding gift, browse a few of our favorite picks, and learn a thing or two about wedding traditions from Scandinavia.
Tips For Choosing The Right Gift
Picking out the perfect Scandinavian wedding gifts can be a true delight. Shop our store to be inspired and keep in mind the following helpful tips.
Think About What The Couple Needs
Just because you aren't shopping off of the couple's registry doesn't mean you need to lose sight of what they have requested. For example, if the couple registered elsewhere for bakeware, keep this in mind while you shop. Write down a list of items they have requested or that you know from experience they will need. This could be anything from dishcloths to bathroom linens.
Add In Some Extra Fun
With your practical list in mind, have a little fun! Shop our Scandinavian products and find something that matches their needs while providing a more unique and memorable gift. For example, instead of a boring set of kitchen towels, buy them a matching set of Swedish tea towels and dishcloths. These beautifully designed linens will be far more memorable than anything from a department store. The same is true for almost anything on the list! From bakeware to trivets to cheese slicers, we carry a vast selection of household goods that are stylish and fun.
Create A Themed Package
Once you have picked out a major item or two, add some extra accessories to create a themed gift. The happy couple will be delighted as they pull out a variety of Scandinavian themed gifts. This will be a fun experience for them and provide them with a matching array of household goods.
A Few Of Our Favorites
If you can't decide where to begin, we are here to help. Check out a few of our favorite Scandinavian wedding gifts.
Cheese Knife Set: This beautiful three-piece cheese knife set features oak handles designed by Anton Bjorsing. Year after year the happy couple will enjoy entertaining family and friends as they serve up a delicious tray of cheeses.
Cutting Board and Spreader Set: Every couple needs a quality cutting board. This gorgeous wooden board was designed in Estonia and features a delightful moose cutout and matching spreader.
Metal Bowl Set: Far more beautiful than a traditional set of mixing bowls, these metal bowls feature a delightful Scandinavian design. From serving up salads to mixing a delicious cake, these bowls will be useful for years to come.
Fun Swedish Wedding Traditions
Now that you know what gifts to bring to the big day, arm yourself with a few fun Scandinavian facts as well. While many wedding traditions from the United States are shared by Scandinavian countries, many are not. Check out a few of these fun wedding traditions that hail from Sweden.
The Couple Walks Together
Here in America, we are used to the father of the bride leading her down the aisle to the groom. However, in Sweden, that is not the case. The couple traditionally walks down the aisle together to the altar, symbolizing their unity on this big day.
Kisses Abound!
If you were to attend a Swedish wedding, you might be surprised to find that the moment the groom leaves the room, the bride receives kisses from all. The same is true for when the bride leaves the room. Part of Swedish tradition is that any time the bride or groom leaves the room, their new spouse is free to receive a kiss from anyone else — usually on the cheek.
The Bridal Party Is Much Smaller
Traditionally, the bridal party in Sweden is much smaller than here. While we often have multiple bridesmaids and groomsmen, most Swedes opt for one bridesmaid and one groomsman.
Now that you know a few fun Scandinavian wedding facts and you are armed with the perfect gift buying tips, you are ready for the wedding season ahead. Shop our online store for the perfect Scandinavian gifts.


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Chinese World Map from 1600s show Catholic involvement in Science
Yesterday an exhibit started at the Library of Congress which will showcase a rare World Map, the first in Chinese to show the Americas, which was created by Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci. Ricci was a missionary in China, but was also heavily involved in science.
Ricci was one of the first Westerners to to master Chinese script and Classical Chinese. Ricci was invited to live in Zhaoqing when the governor there heard of his skills as a mathematician and cartographer. It was here that Ricci prepared several maps in Chinese that contained the Americas. Six survive to this day.
Ricci and his companion not only developed several Chinese maps, but also created the first European-Chinese dictionary, translating Portuguese into Chinese. Ricci's amazing breakthrough into China continued when he was the first Westerner ever to enter into the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Ricci converted many people when they heard about Our Lord. He combined his love of God with a love of science. His beatification is under review.
For more on this story, please visit: http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-002.html
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Meet Gregory (Greg) Perdriel: Gregory_Perdriel.jpg
His Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/kashiz.kingiv
His Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/NoMoreEver925/videos
Greg Perdriel initially made his mark in MCA years ago. Since then he's done the usual pyramid pimping and has joined several (now failed) programs.
He's coming hot off the recent failure of the BitConnect ponzi bitcoin scam. So he's hungry to start making money again.
His current scam is known as Copy Profit Success Global. Here's a review: Copy Profit Success Global Review: $145 a month forex scam reboot?
You absolutely have to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7oMSrNGqik&t=119s. In the first 5 seconds Greg is (jokingly) referring to himself as a scammer (if he only believed it). Then fast forward to 1:40 in the video where he basically says he knows nothing about this company or how it works, and that he "...just came in because of the lucrative referral side of things." Lol, well at least he's honest. Well, as honest as a ponzi pimp can be anyway.


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Shaquina's Testimonial:
Before I came to Green City Force, I had just finished an internship at CVS Pharmacy in October, in hopes that they would hire me. When that didn't happen, I was home all day doing nothing. One day, my mom came home from work and gave me a recruitment flyer for GCF. I chose to become a Green City Force Corps Member because I wanted to obtain more job experience as well as learn more about the Green Industry. During my time here, I have learned how to use power tools safely and how to work with a team on a daily basis, just to name a few. The most important thing I have learned is that the decisions we make, whether socially or environmentally, will impact others in some way. All of the services that we did throughout the city were very inspiring and heart-warming. I never thought that I was going to be able to impact thousands of people and improve the environment. My plans after GCF are to work at a well-paid job and eventually go back to college. I would like to thank all of the GCF staff members for their help and support. I would also like to thank all of my fellow Corps Members for making my time here very enjoyable and memorable."


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Echoes (Lebanon, 15)
Directed by: Diane Bou Chedid
Written by: Diane Bou Chedid
Cast: Natasha Beidoun
A young girl finds some old tapes that her deceased dad used to send to her and her family since he was away. After listening to them, she visits the house where he used to be; everything's still the same, just the way he left them. She examines his belongings, where old cinema tickets lead her to his work place. Once she enters the projection room, a battle between the fantasy and the real takes place on the screen where an incestuous relationship embodies the projection where the young woman becomes part of a past she wasn't born in yet, ending up as a foetus.
Eight to Five on Cleveland (USA, 00:12:56)
Directed by: Paul Coughlan
Written by: Paul Coughlan
Cast: Joe Aspromonte, Oliver Vaquer, PJ Sosko, Paul Coughlan,
Eight To Five On Cleveland is an urban thriller based in Queens New York. It's cinematic style is reminiscent of the American thriller films of the 1970's. Modern 'legal' financial predators leave people susceptible to their own bad habits. Maybe Donde's
El Gordo (Spain, 10)
Directed by: Xavier García
Written by: Xavier García
Cast: Jesús Puchol, Teresa Folch, Raquel Marín, Jordi Vidal, Oriol Fabró
The Fat is the perfect man. At 32 years old still living with his mother is single and has no job. Bring all your life waiting for a stroke of luck that is about to come. One day a girl pursued by a mysterious man crosses Fat life. She has something that Fat has always dreamed. The Fat is a lucky man.
Ella's wedding day (Israel, 11)
Directed by: Dana Lerer
Written by: Dana Lerer
Cast: Oded Leopold, Eldar Brantman, Dana Lerer
It's Ella's wedding day.
The sky is blue, the guests are on the way, but An unexpected encounter with a strange bell boy makes her question her choices and forces her to explore new frontiers with herself as a last act of freedom and control.
Eodipus (USA, 4 Min)
Directed by: Ronit Pinto
Written by: Ronit Pinto
Cast: Sam Long, Kathi Moore, Natalia Castro
Eodipus is about the dysfunctional relationship between mother and son. The mother disrupts his life with her invasive, boundary-lacking behavior. The fish and the squid represent the subconscious mechanisms people use to attack and/or react to each other. In the end, it is fight or flight. Embark, on this new kind of horror.
Erased (USA, 4 Min)
Directed by: Alison Corsie
Written by: Alison Corsie
A woman reflects on her relationship and must decide whether to stay or leave.
Eros (USA, 26)
Directed by: Shu Zhu
Written by: Shu Zhu
Cast: Jamila Meloche, Mary Ashley
Eros is a surrealist psychological thriller about a girl's devastation, suffering and obsession when she is bewitched by 'eros' and falls in love with her new neighbor. When she discovers her lover's secret erotic life, a hidden side of her is awaken.


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Site of the Week – I Can Smell Your Brains Has Gore Girls and More
When local genre scenes move onto the Internet, anything can happen. In the case of I Can Smell Your Brains, everyone wins. The site has rounded up an almost supernatural amount of interviews, articles, and yes, pin-up girls, in the last year — especially remarkable, considering that it's their first year. The screenings, parties, and general mayhem ICSYB sponsors are geared to enliven Phoenix and its satellite cities, a fast-growing area with a burgeoning appetite for cult film.
"We wanted to do something different, give some monster and exploitation junkies another spot where we point out the entertaining bits in the flicks we love. Like a magazine, except we can add stuff daily," says co-creator Danny Marianino (aka Danny Northside). "Our interview section is so diverse: From a raging Iron Sheik and Honky Tonk Man video interview to our latest with Gidget Gein of Marilyn Manson (written by porn star Hollie Stevens), we cover it all."
As for serving the local scene, ICSYB has hosted screening parties that cherry-pick the cult classic canon: Frankenhooker, Dawn of The Dead (featuring Q&A with guest Ken Foree), Killer Klowns form Outer Space,
and many others — mostly screened on 35MM. "But this year," Marianino
adds, "we started 'I Can Smell Your Brains Cinema' where we either show
unknown new releases that rule (such as The Quick and The Undead and Bikini Bloodbath) or straight up classics like Street Trash. We work with the directors or writers themselves and make an event of the evening."
You'll come for the genre updates like the DVD Pulse, but you'll stay for the Gore Girls. Every month ICSYB features horror hotties like Mel Vicious and Heidi Hellfire
in a photo spread and interview, drawing heavily from Phoenix's
Renegade Roller Derby crew. With over 12 Gore Girl features in the bag,
the next logical step is a calendar, right? "You called it for sure,"
Marianino confirms, "For next year we are picking the best of the girls
and doing a calendar."
Still in its infancy, ICSYB shows no signs of fatigue. "Coming up we are showing Kamal Ahmed from The Jerky Boys two films God Has A Rap Sheet and Raptorious, as well as Rotten Cotton Clothings latest Black Devil Doll, and New York Blood
(star Vinny Stigma of Agnostic Front will also do a Q&A),"
Marianino says, "We do it cause we love it and it brings our community


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Zones: 5a to 8b
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
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This hybrid (E. perralderianum x E. pinnatum ssp. colchicum) is a spreader at the rate of 5-6" per year, making it the perfect woodland groundcover. The glossy dark green foliage (evergreen from zone 7 south) is topped in early spring with leafless stalks of small bright yellow flowers with maroon markings inside.