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Obama Gets Personal With Finance
At a first-ever White House summit of its kind, the President shares a few life lessons on saving, investing in yourself, and managing debt.
No President has mastered the art of energizing voters on the Web as well as Barack Obama. Arianna Huffington, editor of the Huffington Post, told The New York Times after the 2008 election that "were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be President."
Is it any wonder, then, that with the economy threatening to slide into a double-dip recession and his approval ratings dropping below 50% again, the President would look to cyberspace to try to reboot the conversation? On June 8, the White House invited 23 journalists from leading personal-finance sites for a first-of-its-kind summit. The goal: translate important issues for the economy out of Washington-speak and into practical, pocketbook terms that everyday Americans who get their financial information online can understand.
"We want to make sure that we've got a good line of communication with all of you," Obama said. "I think the public is going to be more sophisticated about … their own personal economic situation because of their ability to access information from your sites in a much more personalized way."
Music to our ears. A parade of senior officials, from outgoing chief economist Austan Goolsbee and National Economic Council director Gene Sperling to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Consumer Financial Protection watchdog Elizabeth Warren, shared forecasts for slower-than-wished-for, but sustained and steady, job growth and economic expansion. They championed innovation and entrepreneurship, including the development of alternative fuels. And they averred, as Warren put it, that "we're here for regular folks on the other end of all these financial transactions who aren't players in the system." (You can read on-the-fly Twitter commentary live from the summit at #pfos.)
But Obama owned this stage. Kiplinger.com asked him to reveal the one piece of personal financial advice that he had found most useful in his own life. "Don't spend all your money," he joked, eliciting scattered laughter. It was a throwaway line. But then he seemed to dig deeper for an answer to a question rarely, if ever, asked of presidents. Turns out he has four pieces of advice that we at Kiplinger espouse all the time:
1. "Save a little bit out of whatever you earn, and the magic of compounding interest applies." This one came from his grandmother, who worked her way up from secretary to a bank vice-president, Obama said. (See our own take on The Magic of Compounding.) He quipped that he and First Lady Michelle had tried to apply this rule to their own personal finances, but "not always successfully."
2. Beware of debt. Student loans dogged the Obamas "because we're part of a generation that ended up going to college taking out huge amounts of debt." (See The Dark Side of Student Debt.) Combined, they had $120,000 worth of debt upon graduation, "and it took us ten years to pay it off. And we were lucky, because we had gone to good law schools [and] we knew that we could earn it [back]." He lamented the "quadruple whammy" that "a lot of young people are going through with college debt, and then to try to get your first home started, and then you immediately have to start saving for your kids' college education, and you may have to also be helping out your parents in their retirement." (See The Basics of Credit and Debt.)
3. "Spending discipline is important." What Obama termed the "deleveraging" wrought by the 2008 financial meltdown "has been very painful. I think it woke everybody up, and our economy as a whole has to get back to producing more and not just spending more. And what applies to the nation as a whole I think could serve as good advice for individuals." (See Knight Kiplinger's classic column, The Invisible Rich on the biggest barrier to becoming rich -- spending like you're rich before you really are. )
4. "Spend on things that are going to increase your productivity and your income over the long term." Investing in your future is the first tenet of Knight Kiplinger's Eight Keys to Financial Security. "Our first starter home was a condo that cost $180,000, and we were able to comfortably make payments; that was still a good investment," the President said. So was law school, he added. (See Five Advanced Degrees Still Worth The Debt.)
Here, he couldn't resist a dig at "the other side," those who say "investment is just another word for spending. Well, no, actually, there is a distinction … between spending on things that are going to make you more competitive and over the long term increase your wealth, and spending on things that you'd like to have but aren't really improving your life over the long term. And that's an important distinction that we as a country have to make."
Obama entered the room apologetic. "I hope that this (summit) has not been too stodgy." No issue there when he left. "Stay in touch," he said.
Doug Harbrecht is new media director for Kiplinger and was former White House correspondent for BusinessWeek during the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.


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A few days ago i was sent this amazing illusion (thanks Karen). The illustration below appears to show green and blue spirals…..
But in fact the apparent green and blue are exactly the same colour! Don't believe me? Well, I put the image into photoshop and changed all of the other colours to black and you get this…..
I find that utterly jaw dropping. What do you think?
Update: A few people have pointed out that you can have the creepy experience of the illusion vanishing as you zoom in in the image!
Update2: Another great version of it here.
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To the editor: Ask your local Senator to stop giving over to corporate control of our economy.
U.S. officials are currently meeting in an upscale casino in Auckland, New Zealand to negotiate a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. It's being promoted as a "free trade" agreement, but actually TPP looks to provide even more rights to corporations to further increase off-shoring of jobs, require us to import food that does not meet U.S. safety standards and would even ban 'Buy American' procurement.
This is the biggest international economic pact in decades and would further erode our economy and safety standards here in the U.S. A couple of months ago it was between 9 countries — now there are 11, and it's open for more to sign, even China. It would expose the U.S. to corporate attacks before foreign tribunals demanding compensation in our tax dollars, simply because they don't like our laws that seek to protect workers. So much attention is being paid to the so-called "Fiscal Cliff", while at the same time shady deals are being negotiated that would truly harm our economy. Sadly, these negotiation taking place with little or no attention paid by our media sources.
Senator Sherrod Brown (D- Ohio) has introduced the 21st Century Trade Agreements Act to stop "trade" agreements which put foreign corporations before American people. During this lame duck session of Congress, our Senators should co-sponsor that legislation. Please contact Senator Ayotte or Shaheen and urge them to support Sherrod Brown's act.
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To the editor: Winston Churchill once said "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." At the 14th annual Festival of Trees event on Nov. 29, our community joined in affirming this statement.
Our committee wishes to thank the generous underwriters, decorators, tree farms, school volunteers, tree deliverers and gift certificate, cookie and food donors, as well as the thousands of attendants who helped make this year the most successful ever.
Together, we raised over $25,000 (a record) for the Chamber Children's Fund.
We wish we could recognize each person individually, but have the happy problem of our list being quite long! You know who you are and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Be sure to put the Thursday after Thanksgiving on your calendar for next year's event!
Jan Russell, Bonnie Galinski and 2012 Festival of Trees Committee Members
To the editor: I would like to thank Temple Israel for graciously hosting the Interfaith Thanksgiving Service this year. It was an uplifting evening of inspired dance, songs, readings and meditation closing with a chance to mingle with many faith communities while enjoying tasty food and beverages supplied by Temple Israel. The good will continues as the money donations will benefit SHARE, a program within Dover Cooperative Ministries that gives aid to those needing assistance with heating expenses and other necessities.
Erin Pender
To the editor: On Dec. 3, the Somersworth Hilltop Lions Club #13 hosted their 31st annual Senior Citizen Christmas party. Thank you to all the seniors who came and enjoyed their choice of turkey or ham dinner with all the fixings, dessert and beverage.
Each senior was given a small gift. They were entertained by Best Mix Entertainers, the dance Studio 109 of Rochester and a very special guest this year, Santa Claus, who gave everyone a candy cane. The seniors were delighted.
We would like to thank the folks who supported us. The Somersworth Housing Authority staff, who sent out brochures, got the busses in line and helped serve our guests. The Somersworth Housing Authority Maintenance dept. who set up the gym every year, the youth at Safe Haven and workers from UNH who volunteer at Safe Haven.
We want to thank Hannaford Brothers and Super Shaw's of Dover for their generous donations.
Last, but never least, the members of our club who baked, cooked, served, help set up, take down and clean up after the party.
When we work as a TEAM we can do anything! P.S. A special thank you to Santa Claus for taking the time to visit.
Our thanks to all and Happy Holidays!
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LETTER- <i>Senior</i> had every right to exist in Arizona
I am the founder and publisher of Senior Magazine in Arizona and have spoken with Ted Richards although briefly ["Senior Magazine: Garrett mystery solved?" April 22, 2008.]
He should remember me but obviously doesn't for some reason. I placed ads in his magazine once or twice. Several advertisers bought advertising space in all Senior Magazines. Senior Magazine was licensed by Gary Suggs of San Bernadino, California, and I paid a monthly fee for my license, as did Mr. Richards.
When Gary Suggs passed away, the several licenses continued publishing on their own. Some survived and some didn't. Mr. Richards has no more legal claim to the name Senior Magazine in Arizona then I do to the name in California.
Tommy Garrett did in fact appear on the cover of Senior Magazine. Not a claim, a fact. 250,000 copies of the issue with Garrett's face were printed and distributed.
I had no knowledge of Mr. Garrett's alleged crimes at the time that I allowed his picture on the cover. Jane Pauley, Bill Clinton, Harrison Ford, Pat Summerall, Bob Newhart, Mohammed Ali, Tim Russert, Al Pacino, Sally Quinn, Clint Eastwood, and Colin Farrell amongst many others also appeared on my monthly covers.
I would be happy to answer any additional questions you might have at my personal email address.
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Founder & Publisher, Senior Magazine Arizona
The Hook recently learned that Richards died last October.–editor


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But Tortorella, who has 24 years of coaching experience and won a Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004, still vowed to be demanding of his charges and hold everyone -- including scoring stars Henrik and Daniel Sedin -- accountable. "We have a really good leadership group ... but we have not won the Stanley Cup," he said. "Theres going to be more asked of (the players), and that starts from the twins right on down." Gillis indicated that Vigneaults tenure with the Canucks had run its course after seven seasons. "You have a shelf life as a coach in the National Hockey League," said Gillis. "And, occasionally, a different voice is necessary. "I think John just has a different voice than Alain. Alains a very good hockey coach. Johns a very good hockey coach. But they approach it from different places and they approach it in different ways, and I felt it was necessary to make a change." 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But Kesler suggested Tortorella will not necessarily coach the same way that he has in the past. "Hes going to adapt once he figures us out," said Kesler. Henrik Sedin said Tortorella can help the Canucks become a better team. The Sedins are entering the option year of their contracts and hope to work out a new deal with the Canucks this summer. Henrik Sedin indicated the choice of Tortorella as coach will not change their desire to stay. The Canucks captain expects negotiations to begin in the next week or so. "If you produce and you play the way you can as a player, I dont think it matters what coach you have," said Henrik Sedin. ' ' '


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"Ask any knitter, and she will tell you: it is bad luck to knit a sweater for your boyfriend." - The Daily Knitter
Chapter 1: The Girl in the Boyfriend Sweater
It happened in seconds.
In New York City everything moves so quickly. Seldom does time slow down enough that you're able to recognize the carefully worked seed stitch on a hand-knit, dark blue, Merino wool sweater; especially on a girl blazing past you at rush hour speed.
But I saw it. It was my sweater.
I had spent months transforming ten balls of extra-fine Merino wool into a stunning gift for my boyfriend. He obviously never cared how much time I spent picking up stitches and making sure each knit and purl were perfect. Obviously, he never cared how I tailored the sweater just for him, taking clandestine measurements when he wasn't looking or was dozing beside me. I spent all of my spare time on this beautiful sweater, sneaking in hours when Dennis wasn't home in order to make sure it was a surprise.
"Why was she wearing the sweater that I knitted for him?
If I had taken the subway one more stop, I may never have gotten off in front of the Layton Imperial Hotel. But it was the first nice winter day in weeks, so walking seemed like a great idea. Snow was turning into an oozy mess at the curbside, the morning New York sun blazed brilliantly as it came up above the buildings, and even – big surprise for a January day – I heard birds chirping! They were tricked out of their winter slumber by this gorgeous day. Tricked, just like me.
Dennis was supposed to be in Seattle on business. Dennis – Mr. Cool, Calm, and Collected –looked me in the eyes and said, "Jane, I'll be home by Friday night. It's just a quick trip to the West Coast for business." God! And I believed him! I believed almost everything he said; after all, why shouldn't I? He was the handsome advertising executive who had not only asked me to move in with him, but also provided a home and all the Tribeca amenities a 25-year-old girl could ask for during the past three years.
Yet, there she was, with her tousled hair and slight grin. She looked tired, and happy, and – god dammit! – cozy in the sweater. Her evening dress draped down her slender legs from underneath the sweater. She was stunning, even when wearing a knit sweater and an evening dress, and she walked by so confidently and self-assured.
He spent the night with her. And he gave her my sweater to wear home in the morning. How many times had Dennis lied? Was this the first time? Did our history together mean nothing?
Was there ever really a history to mean anything in the first place?
I wanted to yell at her, but I found I couldn't move. After she walked past, my eyes were stuck to the pavement. Morning commuters jostled past me, some elbowing me aside, – "Watch out! Jeez!" – but I barely noticed. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't breathe. I felt cold, cold and alone, cold and mocked by the tricky January sun. Go away sun!
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FUMA spanker: Indicted but not extradited
Fugitive Fork Union Military Academy child abuser Gregory A. Moyer, who was arrested in Mexico April 16 and returned to the United States, refused to waive extradition in Houston April 21.
In the next step to getting Moyer back to Virginia, the Secretary of the Commonwealth will formally request Moyer's return from Texas on behalf of Governor Mark Warner. Fluvanna County Commonwealth's Attorney Jeffrey Haislip says that paperwork is in the works.
In the meantime, a Fluvanna grand jury indicted Moyer April 26 for failure to appear in court May 10, 2001, a Class 6 felony that could add another one to five years to Moyer's jail time.
Moyer was convicted in 1997 on 14 counts of taking indecent liberties with minors at FUMA, where he was a well-respected teacher, but one with a passion for punishment.
With at least two cadets, he formed a secret society for activities such as paddling, running, and tree climbing– in the nude. Moyer spanked the nude youths and in turn was spanked by them. The photos and copious notes Moyer took on these extracurricular activities eventually led to the charges and his conviction.
All but three and a half years of his 28-year sentence were suspended, and days before he was to appear in court and begin serving the sentence in 2001, after years of appeals, he disappeared.
For almost three years, Moyer taught science at the prestigious Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Again, he was well regarded by his students– until he suggested they do some Internet research on a book he'd written. When the students discovered articles from the Hook about their professor's lurid past, they contacted authorities.
Moyer is being held in the 1200 Baker Street Jail in Houston. Once the court there receives the governor's warrant, he can be returned to Virginia almost immediately, says Dana Fernandez in the Harris County clerk's office.
Once he returns, Fluvanna Commonwealth's Attorney Haislip will ask the judge to impose the suspended portion of Moyer's 28-year sentence.
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Ingredients: 1 roll pastry - 6 apples - 3 white peaches - 1 tbsp caster sugar - 1 tbsp lemon juice - the rhubarb jelly - slivered almonds
Peel and cut into small pieces 3 apples.
Peel and cut into small pieces as fisheries.
Put the apples and peaches in a saucepan. Add the powdered sugar and lemon juice.
Cover and cook over low heat for about fifteen minutes.
Pour into a colander and drain.
Mix and allow to cool.
Butter your pan and cover with the pastry. Cut the puff up the mold. Prick the bottom of the pan with a fork.
Peel the remaining apples, cut them into quarters, remove the cores.
Cut into thin slices.
Cover the dough with fruit compote. Arrange the apples in rosettes.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for about forty minutes.
Remove from the oven and brush the pie with rhubarb jelly.
Finish by sprinkling with flaked almonds.


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Tol'Barad is (has) a PvP zone.
I like PvP.
I like PvP so much that after getting to 85, all I have done on Gnomeaggedon is PvP.
I did try leveling via Battlegrounds with Squidly, but what I found was soul destroying. One SotA involved one player boarding a Demo (me), 2 players fighting the Horde (ineffectively) and 12 players… don't know what they were doing, but they weren't near the action. After 4 similar BGs I gave up and quested with Squidly.
As I mentioned earlier, I PvP'd with Gnomeaggedon once I hit level 85… for 2 weeks straight. Heaps of the 15 man's led by Staylaughing/Sen'jin from QueueQ.
We averaged about 50 honor each battle, but they were fun and it was an honor being a part of the crew helping Qesta/Frostwolf achieve Battlemaster.
There were also a few Alterac Valleys thrown in, at about 100 honor per battle they are still about the best honor, although the Horde did force many a turtle.
Randoms were reasonable honor, 45 for a loss, 100 for a win, 200 for the 1st win of the day.
Call to Arms weekends were a write-off – no bonus honor for the Alliance, just for the Horde – not going to happen!
I have run a great mix of BGs growing to love the new ones.
I have singlehandedly gained the Horde Slayer achievement for my (old) guild.
I have collected a full set of the honor PvP gear, via, believe it or not… PvP.
Which is where Tol'Barad gets my blood boiling, gets me cursing my non-PvPing mates and sending frustrated twitters to Blizzard.
Prior to New Years Eve, I ran a few TB's that while losses, were still fulfilling. There was lots of fighting, you know player vs. player, Alliance wasn't quite grasping the idea that two nodes wasn't enough and were madly racing from node to node.
Still, I thought it had potential.
WTF is Tol'Barad?
Just in case you aren't aware of what exactly Tol'Barad is, here's an overview.
Tol'Barad PvP zone is associated with, but separate to Tol'Barad the PvE zone.
Approximately every 2 hours (from the end of the previous battle), the zone come up for grabs. Winning the zone opens another set of PvE daily quests, and currently a bucketload of honor.
Actually, it's a shitload of honor, but I'll get to that.
The objective is simple… The attacker must cap (via force of bodies, similar to EotS), all 3 bases. As soon as the 3rd base completes capping (and 3 bases are held), the battle is won for the attacker.
The defender has a simpler task, prevent the capping of all 3 bases while there is time on the clock. Done properly, this may lead to a longish battle with lots of PvP (although if you don't let them cap a base, extra time isn't added).
In reality, as long as the defenders can hold one base through the timer, they will maintain control of TB.
Of course this is a part of the problem. The first few TBs I ran, we lost because the Horde just held on long enough, each time, every time.
Which leads to the current solution:
Trading Tol'Barad
Every two hours the defenders… don't defend, they give it away.
Here, take the PvP zone… it's not like we want to fight over it!
Two hours later, it's turned over once again.
Two hours is plenty of time to complete all your dailies and there is an added bonus if you are lucky enough to be one of the FEW attackers in the game.
Yeah, well Blizzards new PvP zone balancing system, which matches the quantity of combatants on each side, means that if only 5 defenders show up (they are giving it away, so why join up right?), then only 5 attackers can participate.
Have I mentioned that I like to PvP… I'm in a queue that will never be fulfilled, because there are people there that don't want to PvP.
So we have a PvP zone that no one can get into, in which people rollover rather than fight, that awards a shitload of honor for practically nothing!
How much honor?
Assuming you don't have the Win Tol'Barad quest (worth 89 honor), you receive about 100 honor for a loss (about the same as a win in a random BG), but for a win you get 1,800 honor.
1,800 honor!
The equivalent of:
9 (first) random BG wins
18 random BG wins
9 Alterac Valley wins
18 wins in another selected BG
18 random BG losses
Comparing AV wins to a TB win…
1 x 10 minute TB win = 9 x 30 minute AV wins (wins which aren't gaurranteed). 10 minutes, vs 4.5 hours… by which point you could have signed up for a TB loss (100 honor) and another win (1,800 honor).
So 4.5 hours will get you:
Alterac Valley = 1,800 honor (wins assumed)
Tol'Barad = 3,700 honor.
Combatant balancing to the rescue.
Luckily the game is balanced, so if only 5 defenders appear, then only 5 attackers can join and only 5 people get the 1,800 honor… right? RIGHT?
Remember that screenshot from Cataclysm launch post of mine, of the flight trainer drowning in customers?
That's what the bridge into Tol'Barad looks like when we are attacking (and I'm sure it's the same for the Horde).
You see if you time it so that you are on the bridge as the last base caps, you too will receive the honor, for doing nothing but run back and forth on a bridge!
Why this really pisses me off
I worked hard for 2 weeks, in the battlegrounds, doing what you do in BGs… fighting to win, defending against people that want to win… FIGHTING!
Some of the pieces of PvP gear cost 2,200 honor, just over one Tol'Barad, that you don't even need to participate in! Or, alternatively, 22 AVs or 44 of the other BGs.
I did it the hard way and I'm pissed off!
If Blizzard intends this, just send the whole frickin PvP set to every character in the game.
It pisses me off even more that there are some players that absolutely hate PvP, that are "joining in" TB to get the honor, to get the PvP gear.
One friend of mine would run screaming from a level 1 Gnome that tried to duel him. He hates PvP with a passion. Yet, every 4 hours he is in the queue, taking the place of someone THAT WANTS TO PVP!
Pissed off!
If the Tol'Barad "honor" bought lesser versions of PvP gear, similar to Wintergrasp Marks, of a quality similar to crafted PvP gear, I wouldn't be so pissed, but it isn't, and I am!
14 pieces of gear
2750 total honor
439 games played (at 50 per win) vs 13 Tol'Barads
Gnomer and Out!
PS: I know this has now been fixed and the honor is more in the vicinity of 400… still, is one Tol'Barad worth 8 normal Battleground wins? Don't answer that.. it isn't and gaining TB gives many more rewards… daily quests giving access to gear… a boss to kill… blah blah blah
PPS: Yes I have left my Guild, Armaggedon's Coming!. What's worse is I left in in the paws of a Warlock (she is still a bunny to me). I am now a member of Streakers, who I have mentioned before.
/wave Streaker readers!
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The creation of Irish chef Joseph Sheridan, who first invented the coffee cocktail on a dreary night back in the 1940s to rouse tired, chilly American travelers, the Irish Coffee recipe has since become a staple of bar menus around the world. It's a comforting blend of whiskey, coffee, brown sugar and fresh cream that warms you to the core.
¾ cup fresh-brewed coffee
1 Tbsp. brown sugar
1 ½ oz. Irish whiskey
Heavy cream
Tools: coffee brewer, whisk (or electric frother)
Glass: toddy
Garnish: roasted coffee bean
Pour fresh hot coffee into a preheated glass. Stir in the sugar and dissolve. Pour in the whiskey and stir. Lightly whip the cream so it's still pourable, then top the coffee by pouring the cream over the back of a spoon so that it floats. Do not stir after adding the cream, as the true flavor emerges by drinking the coffee and whiskey through the cream. Garnish.


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Heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos (15-1 MMA, 9-0 UFC) has opened as a small favorite over former titleholder Cain Velasquez (10-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC), and recent middleweight title challenger Chael Sonnen (28-12-1 MMA, 6-5 UFC) has opened a solid favorite over light heavyweight Forrest Griffin (19-7 MMA, 10-5 UFC).
Noted and influential oddsmaker Joey Oddessa shared the "Oddessa Line" with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
Both fights are slated for the UFC's Dec. 29 pay-per-view event, which could serve as UFC 155.
The event is expected to take place in Las Vegas as the UFC's traditional year-end blockbuster show.
Dos Santos, who took the title from Velasquez in just 64 seconds at UFC on FOX 1 this past November, is a -150 favorite; Velasquez is a +120 underdog. That gives Dos Santos an approximate 60 percent chance of winning the fight.
Since defeating Velasquez, Dos Santos scored a second-round TKO victory over Frank Mir (a replacement for suspended Alistair Overeem) for his 10th consecutive win. Velasquez, meanwhile, needed less than a round to punch out Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva in May.
"I opened JDS at the highest market price out there, and this is a great example of where the market price does not necessarily reflect an oddsmaker's opinion as to who is going to win the fight," said Oddessa, suggesting Velasquez has a better chance to win than the odds, which are dictated by the betting public, would indicate.
Sonnen and Griffin, meanwhile, meet in a rematch. The vets first fought nine years ago at "IFC: Global Domination" in Colorado, where Griffin earned a first-round submission victory. It was each fighter's ninth pro fight.
Heading into the rematch, Sonnen is 5-2 in his past seven fights, and both losses came to UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva, which prompted a move up a weight class. Griffin, meanwhile, recently edged Tito Ortiz for his third win in four fights.
"One guy (Sonnen) wants to continue fighting, and the other guy may still have question marks in his head regarding his career," Oddessa said.
For more on the UFC's year-end show, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Transcend…and even ADHD can disappear
Research: Transcending is an extremely effective treatment of ADHD
ADHD can be caused by a number of things. Often it is simply a symptom of stress disrupting the normal functioning of the prefrontal cortex of brain which is diagnosed as ADHD. However, sometimes there are deeper, more structural problems: ADHD can be linked to insufficient blood flow to the brain, and an abnormally low EEG coherence.
Irrespective of what may be causing the problem, transcending can help, because it essentially restores the brain to its natural setting which effectively treats all three problems at the same time: the prefrontal cortex, blood flow, and EEG coherence. More detail below.
Exceptional research: 3-6 months of TM leads to significant reduction in ADHD symptoms.
In 2011, a study confirmed the effect of TM on ADHD in children. Despite the fact that it was only a small-scale pilot study, the results were so impressive that they were announced on several American television channels, as for example in this news item:
In this study, children in the age of 11 to 14 years old with serious ADHD symptoms were randomly divided into a group that was immediately taught TM and a control group that had to wait 3 months before it was taught the technique. The TM group showed a significant reduction in ADHD symptoms after only 3 months of TM practice, while no improvement was noticeable in the control group. After the control group was taught TM, a similar improvement occurred in that group after 3 months, while the first group continued to improve.
This is clearly visible in this graphic that shows the evolution of Theta/Beta ratio of brainwaves in children over a 6 month period. This ratio is unusually high in ADHD patients but is close to normal after 6 months of TM practice. The students were able to focus better, were better able to control their impulses and improved their organisational skills as well as their problem-solving skills. Their school results improved, and they showed less stress, anxiety and fewer anger outbursts.
It is easy for children with ADHD to learn and practice TM, and they enjoy doing it.
A technique can only be effective if the children can actually do it. In the case of TM, this turned out to be no problem, as the children enjoyed practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique. In response to the question "how much do you enjoy your TM practice" the average answer score was 5.3 on a scale of 0 (not at all) to 7 (a lot).
The study was published in Mind & Brain, The Journal of Psychiatry (2011, Vol 2, No 1). Click here to read the full publication online (English, go to p78).
Curing ADHD: What exactly does Transcending do?
Transcending activates the body's own healing power, causing built-up tensions to disappear, even our deepest stress (see PTSD), and causing the full brain potential to be revived.
Stress and the prefrontal cortex
Under stress the prefrontal cortex is disabled, reducing control over impulsiveness
The prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain right above the eyes, is responsible for our higher thought functionality, such as impulse control, long-term planning, moral thought, and deciding whether something is right or wrong. This part of the brain is sometimes also referred to as the CEO, or the Managing Director, of the brain, as most decisions are made there. The prefrontal cortex is that part of the brain that sets human beings apart from animals.
Normal functioning of the brain
In a normal functioning brain, the flow of information will be as follows: Information comes in through the senses, is sent to the prefrontal cortex and is processed there, and decisions are sent to the motoric part of the brain, which will direct the relevant muscles to respond..
Functioning of the brain under stress.
The mechanism whereby the prefrontal cortex is disabled when under stress, exists to protect us
In a state of stress this information flow changes. Information no longer passes by the prefrontal cortex, but is sent directly from the senses to the motoric parts.
There's a good reasons why the brain is designed this way: for our survival. When, for example, we cross the road while a car is approaching, we wouldn't want to be in a state where we would first need to think about a response. We would need an immediate, impulsive response to jump away. There is no time to think. The mechanism whereby the prefrontal cortex is disabled exists to protect us.
However, this mechanism was not designed for situations of chronic stress. When someone is constantly exposed to stress, the prefrontal cortex is permanently disabled. The thought process is then automatically reduced to short-term thinking, to impulsiveness. Many ADHD symptoms are linked to the inability to control impulsiveness. Essentially these are therefore linked to stress.
Transcending revives the frontal brain
The experience of transcending, however, further activates the prefrontal cortex
Transcending causes the body to enter into a deeper state of rest, allowing the body to remove even the deepest tensions, and causes the frontal brain to become more active. This can be measured for example through neural imaging scans, which can measure the blood flow to the brain. The activity in the thalamus (related to bodily functions) drops, which is an indication for relaxation, while activity in the frontal cortex increases. ADHD patients generally have an abnormally low blood flow to certain areas of the brain. TM practice creates an increased blood flow.
In the long term, after several weeks of TM practice, the prefrontal cortex will become more active even outside of mediation, and children often notice that they become less impulsive.
EEG Coherence
Any time part of the brain is active, electric activity occurs that can be measured through an electroencephalograph (EEG), a device that will display these electric impulses over time in the form of a wave.
These EEG wave shapes of the different parts of the brain are then sent to a computer that (in real time) measures to what extent the different wave shapes overlap (i.e. show coherence). If the brain waves are fully coherent, this implies that the different parts of the brain are connected to each other. They function as one whole.
ADHD = abnormally low EEG coherence, Transcending = increased EEG coherence
In ADHD patients, the EEG coherence is abnormally low, which is another way to objectively measure that the brain is unable to function normally. TM practice increases the EEG coherence. Transcending in essence is an experience of unity, and this causes the brain to starting functioning normally (as one whole) again. This can be measured in real time, as is shown in below video:
These changes in brainwaves remain unique to the experience of transcending as achieved through the TM technique. With other meditation and relaxation techniques this degree of high coherence has not been measured.
The more someone experiences a high EEG coherence, the more the brain gets used to this state, as a result of which EEG coherence increases also outside of TM practice, as is demonstrated in below research.Ref.International Journal of Neuroscience, 2006
This graph shows the evolution of average EEG values in 50 students over the course of 12 months. It demonstrates that there is no difference in EEG coherence during TM practice in the case of someone who has been practicing TM for 2 months and another person who has been practicing for 12 months. Transcending isn't something that one gets better at the longer it is practiced. As it is a fully natural process, one will start transcending from the first session. However, we do note differences during activity, outside of TM practice: EEG coherence becomes more and more stabilised.
The same was observed in the ADHD study. The below graph shows lines between the different areas of the brain that are coherent to each other. The coherence was measured at the start of the study, and again at the end, and the 2 were combined. The resulting lines therefore indicate an increased coherence (outside of TM practice) each time after a period of 3 months.
The result is clear, in the control group there was no difference after three months, while the TM group showed a clear increase in EEG coherence. Once the control group learned TM after 3 months, they too show a strong increase in EEG coherence after 6 months.Ref. Mind & Brain, The Journal of Psychiatry (2011, Vol 2, No 1)
Even though TM is proving to be both an enjoyable and an effective treatment, we nevertheless encourage you not to stop your normal treatment. Many ADHD patient soon notice that they will spontaneously require less medication, but it is very important for this to happen in small steps, in consultation with one's doctor.
For more specific questions about the effect of TM on ADHD, go to: Doctors answer questions about TM and ADHD
How can a simple technique do so much?
600 studies confirm the effect of TM with:
- Less stress
- How TM works
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Emotional stability
- Insomnia
- Impulsivity
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Better Health
- General Health
- Atherosclerosis
- Hypertension
- Cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Fibromyalgia
- Becoming Younger
- Addictions
- Quitting Smoking
- Alcoholism
- Drug Addiction


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Methods of Childbirth
Vaginal delivery is the most common and safest type of childbirth. When necessary in certain circumstances, forceps (instruments resembling large spoons) may be used to cup your baby's head and help guide the baby through the birth canal. Vacuum delivery is another way to assist delivery and is similar to forceps delivery. In vacuum delivery, a plastic cup is applied to the baby's head by suction and the health care provider gently pulls the baby from the birth canal.
Vaginal delivery may not always be possible. Caesarean delivery (C-section) may be necessary for the safety of you and your baby, especially if one of these complications is present:
Your baby is not in the head-down position.
Your baby is too large to pass through the pelvis.
Your baby is in distress.
Most often, the need for a cesarean delivery is not determined until after labor begins. Once a woman has had a cesarean delivery, future deliveries are often also done by cesarean. That's because surgery done on the uterus increases the risk of it rupturing during a future vaginal delivery.


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Mission Control Center
With a gentle push from springs in the docking module, Endeavour backed slowly away from the International Space Station at 12:34 p.m. Central time today, as the two spacecraft soared 240 miles over the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia.
As Pilot Jeff Ashby slowly backed Endeavour away, Commander Kent Rominger and Expedition Two flight engineer Susan Helms exchanged final wishes for Endeavour's planned return to Earth, and a continued safe journey for the station crew. Once Endeavour was at a distance of 450 feet from the station, Ashby initiated a three-quarter circle flyaround of the station as Mission Specialist Yuri Lonchakov activated a large-format IMAX camera in Endeavour's payload bay to photograph the station.
At 1:28 p.m., with the flyaround complete, Ashby fired a separation burn, initiating Endeavour's final departure from the orbiting complex, now equipped with a new Canadian-built robotic arm and communications antenna, installed by Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski and Chris Hadfield during two space walks. During eight days of joint operations, the two crews also transferred more than three tons of supplies, equipment and scientific experiments to the station.
On board the station, the Expedition Two crew – Commander Yury Usachev and Flight Engineers Jim Voss and Helms – will enjoy some time off this afternoon following a busy week on orbit. Early Monday morning, they will support the docking of a replacement Soyuz spacecraft that will serve as the station's "lifeboat." The Soyuz and its crew of three – Commander Talgat Musabayev, Flight Engineer Yuri Baturin and American businessman Dennis Tito -- is scheduled to dock at 2:52 a.m. Monday.
Endeavour's crew will go to sleep shortly after 4:30 p.m. today, awakening at 1:41 a.m. Monday to begin what should be their final full day on orbit. Endeavour is scheduled to return to the Kennedy Space Center, weather permitting, at 8:03 a.m. Tuesday. The primary activity for the crew on Monday will center on Endeavour's return to Earth, with Rominger, Ashby and Flight Engineer John Phillips verifying the performance of Endeavour's flight control surfaces and steering jets. Hadfield, Parazynski, Lonchakov and Umberto Guidoni will begin stowing away much of the equipment the crew has used over the past 11 days on orbit. All seven crew members are scheduled to participate in a press conference, talking with media in the U.S., Canada and Italy, at 10:01 a.m. Monday.
The next mission status report will be issued Monday morning or sooner if events warrant.
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Personal Chef International Code of Ethics
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Remember: 1-4 Whites Having Sex W/Animal, Committing Child Molestation Or Incest W/Family – Glax Haas Psychologist Dr.Louis Sidney Jacobs, " Savage Caucasus Mountains Behavior Alive."
Did you know that there is a relationship between the often perversely violent psychotic episodes most often demonstrated by white people and days with sharp surges in ground level ultraviolet light radiation and that white on black racial attacks surge on these days too? Infact, a new study released by the Glax Haas Institute reports that when ultraviolet light surges in cities with already high ground level ozone black people are more likely to be discriminated against by whites and, too, that whites are more likely to have uncontrollable psychotic episodes that most often result in the mass killings of their families, neighbors, friends, co-workers, random others and or people of other races.
On the week when Stephen Kazmierzcak shot and killed numerous people on the campus of Northern Illinois, according to Glax-Haas data, Dekalb and surrounding cities, such as Chicago, were experiencing sharp surges in ground level Ultraviolet light.
Increased amounts of Ultraviolet light were also present on the day Houston mother Andrea Yates smothered her five children another report finds.
"On days with sharp surges in ultraviolet light, white people are more inclined to molest, harm and murder their children, go on shooting sprees that often take the lives of many, indulge in road rage and commit acts of racial violene," says Glax-Haas researcher Dr. Louis Sidney Jacobs. "It is a slow mental deterioration that can reach a violent, disturbing and perverted climax on a day with a sharp surge in ultraviolet light. We can expect that there will be (another) day when white people wont' be able to control their behavior at all."
(SEE) The Allison Gough Melanoma Execution: Will Middletown Yakub Muslim Press Ultraviolet Light Burning Of Narcissistic Girl Who Had "Everything Going For Her – Good Looks,Lots Of (White) Friends & A Full, Active (Racist & Selfish) Life (Following In The Path Of Her Conscienceless & Morally Degenerate Forefathers)?"
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Here is a photograph which shows you the building work that is being carried out at Balhousie Castle creating an extension to the cafe.
On current plans it will be completed by the end of April but may not be open for a few weeks after that.
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census, periodic official count of the number of persons and their condition and of the resources of a country. In ancient times, among the Jews and Romans, such enumeration was mainly for taxation and conscription purposes. The introduction of the modern census—a periodic and thorough statistical review—began in the 17th cent. The first efforts to count people in areas larger than cities at regular periods were in French Canada (1665), Sweden (1749), the Italian states (1770), and the United States (1790). The first British census was taken in 1801. The Belgian census of 1846, directed by Adolphe Quetelet, was the most influential in its time because it introduced a careful analysis and critical evaluation of the data compiled. Most industrialized countries now take a census every 5 to 10 years.
Scientific census-taking in the United States began with the decennial census of 1850, when the scope and methods were greatly improved by making the individual the unit of study. In 1902 the Bureau of the Census was established in the Dept. of the Interior; the following year it was transferred to the Dept. of Commerce and Labor and remained in the Dept. of Commerce when the Dept. of Labor was separated (1913). In addition to being a vital source of statistical data about the nation, information from the U.S. census is also used to allocate federal resources.
The government was criticized and also sued for undercounting the homeless and minorities in the 1990 census. In 1996 the Supreme Court ruled that the decision to adjust the count is left to the discretion of the secretary of commerce. The government proposed remedying the problem of undercounting through the use of statistical adjustments to the 2000 census, but the Supreme Court ruled (1998) against the plan, and the traditional head-count method prevailed. In 2001 the government again decided to use unadjusted census figures. About 3.3 million people, largely minorities, were estimated to have been missed by the 2000 census; a smaller number were thought to have been counted twice. Unadjusted census figures are generally believed to favor Republicans in the drawing of districts for the House of Representatives.
See W. S. Holt, The Bureau of the Census (1929, repr. 1974); F. Yates, Sampling Methods for Censuses and Surveys (4th ed. 1980); M. J. Anderson, The American Census (1990); S. Roberts, Who We Are: A Portrait of America Based on the 1990 Census (1994).


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I'll try to give an overview of the available resources for networking with Ecere.
First, Ecere has built-in networking functionality that might be interesting:
- A Socket class, that works with both TCP/IP and UDP sockets. The Service class is used when writing a TCP/IP service. Useful for implementing a particular or custom network protocol. There is a quick overview on the wiki . That thread is similar to this one, with a list of all the resources available for networking. Of particular interest to you might be the threads/threadsAndListBoxes sample, which teaches threading and networking together. UDPSample is a very nice short and sweet sample for UDP, or just getting started with the Ecere sockets. games/Othello is a nice and simple sample of how to use the Ecere Socket classes. Ecere Chess uses them as well, but is a bit more complex game (though the networking code is similar).
- The Ecere Distributed Component Object Model, or Ecere DCOM: This lets you invoke methods of objects living on a server, remotely. With EcereDCOM you can write network applications without writing a single line of networking code. This is done by declaring your class with 'remote class', and importing the module that declares it from the Client side with 'import remote'. The best sample to start on this would be net/DCOMSample: it implements a very simple chat client. There are some outstanding ASCII values/case sensitive issues regarding the project file name and ordering of the files in the project that have yet to be resolved with EcereDCOM: beware. games/ruff and games/scrabble are fully networked using EcereDCOM.
- Built in HTTP as file objects: anywhere an Ecere API takes in a file name, a URL starting with "http://" can be passed in. This applies e.g. to the FileOpen function, which will return a File object. Thus any HTTP URL can be opened as a File. HTTPFile and HTTPFile::OpenURL can be used directly as well for more options.
- Ecere includes 'NetworkClientFile' as well, a class meant to be used to access a file on a server, with seeking support. It was originally developed for buffered video playback. We should probably move this class outside of the runtime library into extras. samples\net\networkFile contains the Server code as well as the Client sample on how to use this functionality.
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USA TODAY High School Sports selected six active high school basketball coaches in each state and Washington, D.C. after more than a month of conversations with local media and other state/school officials with expertise.
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It will be a family affair at the Perth Glory this season, with coach Alistair Edwards luring another of his sons to the A-League club.
Reading midfielder Ryan Edwards has been loaned to the Glory on a season-long deal, with the 19-year-old joining his brother Cameron at the club under the guidance of their father.
Perth have also signed Sidnei Sciola Moraes on a one-year deal, with the Brazilian impressing during a recent trial in Perth.
Former Socceroo and newly-appointed Glory coach Alistair Edwards said he was thrilled to secure the services of Ryan, not so much because it's his son, but because he's one of Australia's rising stars.
"Ryan has been playing with the under-20 national team for the last four years and was a part of the recent World Cup campaign as well," Edwards senior said.
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"He's attacking and brings a lot of energy to the team and he's grown up in an environment where he fits into our philosophy 100 per cent.
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For me, it's always been Auntie Mame, a fictional grande dame with a collapsible foot-long cigarette holder, a houseboy/chauffeur named Ito and the habit of getting up at "the crack of noon." Patrick Dennis wrote the original book in 1955, based on his aunt, and it went on to become two films, (the 1958 version won Rosalind Russell an Oscar nomination for best actress) and a musical — whose feisty, fun songs I belt out whenever I feel blue.
"Open a new window, open a new door", was one of Mame's mottoes. When she loses much of her money in the 1929 stock market crash, she urges her family to open their gifts early, singing "Haul out the holly…we need a little Christmas, right this very minute!" She loves her dear friend, the actress Vera Charles, but not so much she sheathes her rapier wit: "If I wore my hair natural like yours, I'd be bald." Mame's indomitable cheer, insatiable appetite for fun and adventure and open-armed embrace of the unconventional make her my heroine. Here's a design website with some images of Mame's apartment, after dozens of its impossibly glamorous changes throughout the 1958 film.
For British journalist and author — great-grand-daughter of Sigmund Freud, and daughter of painter Lucian Freud — Susie Boyt, Judy Garland has been her lifelong touchstone, an avatar of glamour and hard work, of doing whatever it takes and, for this self-admittedly stiff-upper-lipped Briton, an open vein of accessible emotion. "They say once Judy has you she has got you for life, and it's true," she writes", and her memoir is "My Judy Garland Life", which she describes thus:
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I went along to the Science Museum Lates night because it was exploring the science behind music. I was imagining exhibits about the power of sound waves, or perhaps some music, and maybe some machines. What I got instead was a metaphorical punch in the heart courtesy of a remarkable man called Professor Nigel Osbourne, Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University. You can see a YouTube clip of him talking here and here.
The billing in the programme looked cool: 'Music, Neuroscience and the Real World' and I hustled Robbie and Petra from Live Magazine, who'd come down to cover it, down to the ground floor so we made sure we got in. We were led down to the basement and into a room with round primary-coloured cushions on the floor and a jolly looking chap standing at the front. He used the microphone to tell us he didn't want to use the microphone, putting it one side with a comment about not wanting or needing a 'digital advantage' and began a fascinating, moving half an hour which we heard about children he'd worked with in war-torn Sarajevo, in northern Uganda, in the world's most densely populated place, Balata camp in Palestine, and along a disputed border of Thailand and Myanmar.
He interspersed stories about these traumatised children with facts about how trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder have a physiological effect on breathing, heart-rate and movement – and how music can counter these negative effects. It can alter the heart-rate, and slow the over-charged heartbeat of a traumatised person. Singing exercises the lungs (you use 100% of the lung capacity when you're singing, as compared to 60% when exercising hard) negating the shallow, irregular breathing of someone suffering from PTSD, and music can deal with the hyperactivity or lack of response that's common in children suffering in this way. We're hardwired for sound, he said, banging a cupboard. We respond to noise, react to it, get information from it. Music, he said, probably exists as a response to our need to move to sound.
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As America's health care system moves into a payment arena that makes new money, such as bonuses, incentive payments and shared savings, available, the way physicians get paid is changing, opening up a whole new world of payment opportunities and pitfalls.
Take Deborah Higer, M.D., for example. Higer runs a solo practice in Mount Shasta, Calif., a small town with about 3,000 residents. After nearly 15 years in practice, she decided late in 2011 that it was time to move to an electronic health record (EHR).
It cost her close to $50,000 to implement the system, and she borrowed nearly half of that amount assuming that federal money -- available through CMS' Medicaid EHR meaningful use program -- would soon flow back into the practice to pay off the loan.
Higer and the nurse practitioner (NP) whom she employed both attested as meaningful users in January 2012, and both earned incentive checks through the California Medicaid program called MediCal. But Higer was shocked when her employee walked away from the practice after refusing to sign a legal document that would assign the money to Higer.
- Physician practice owners and employed physicians are struggling with disbursement issues around meaningful use incentive payments and other types of bonus money now available.
- Practice owners need to get everyone in the practice on board by deciding how to allocate quality-based payments coming into the practice.
- Physicians entering into an employment agreement need to have a complete understanding of the activities and metrics that affect their compensation.
"It took time to implement the EHR; it didn't happen overnight," said Higer. "Everything in the practice slowed down, and I saw fewer patients during that implementation period. Expenses still had to be paid, including employee salaries," said Higer, noting that her NP shouldered none of those financial burdens.
The experience temporarily shook the practice's financial stability. "I'm running the practice off of credit cards right now," said Higer.
Jane Cho, manager of medical practice affairs at the California AFP, investigated the situation on Higer's behalf and discovered that the NP acted within the legal limits of the California program.
"There was no loophole as we originally suspected," Cho told AAFP News Now. "She (the NP) got the money as an eligible provider. It was perfectly legal -- but not OK -- because a small practice put up all the upfront costs," Cho added.
"In Dr. Higer's case, we are unaware of any legal way to recoup her money," said Cho. However, the CAFP is exploring ways to help other members avoid similar trauma.
Cho made it clear that the CAFP supports family physician participation in the federal EHR incentive programs. "We've seen California providers receive about $743 million in incentive funds. However, we're realizing that with the money comes added responsibilities around auditing, documentation and validation."
Another Point of View
Higer's experience represents just one side of a dilemma that could snag not only physician owners but employed physicians, as well.
One family physician, who asked to remain anonymous, told AAFP News Now that it only made sense that physicians who do the hard work should expect to receive some of the additional revenues earned.
"We already are stretched to the limit most days. We are caring for more elderly patients with multiple, chronic illnesses. We have less time than we want and need with each patient. As reimbursement changes, physicians are going to be even more discouraged if hospitals and employers are the only ones capturing these incentives," she said.
This physician said she had been engaged in ongoing discussions with her current employer about how meaningful use incentives would be handled. "Unfortunately, my employer tried to argue that I did not pay for the EHR, and somehow that excludes me from sharing incentives. There was some vague agreement that as new contracts are explored in the future, this would be a topic of discussion."
Consultants Weigh In
Employed physicians, soon-to-be employed physicians and physician practice owners likely would all benefit from up-front conversations about how money coming into a practice from incentive programs is disbursed.
Mark Estroff, C.P.A., a principal at the Atlanta office of PYA GatesMoore, a Tennessee-based health care consulting and accounting firm, said that the employer -- whether a small family medicine practice or a big organization such as Kaiser -- should be the recipient of enhanced payments earned by employees.
"We're assuming the practice is going to get the money and is entitled to it. The question then becomes how you reallocate that money back to the physician," said Estroff. "And here is one of my famous accounting answers: It just depends.
"Ten years ago, money didn't follow quality the way it does now. A growing part of physician compensation is a quality component and pay-for-performance incentives," said Estroff.
He noted that a pure production-based compensation model is becoming somewhat old-fashioned in the new world of health care payment. "If I'm the owner (of a practice), I need to arrange compensation for non-owner providers, as well," said Estroff. "I need everybody from co-partners to NPs to get on board by offering them financial incentives."
On the other hand, physicians entering into an employment arrangement should have a complete understanding of the activities and metrics that affect their compensation. Barbara Stahura, M.P.A., a senior consultant at PYA GatesMoore offered several recommendations to employed physicians.
"If joining an existing practice, physicians need to find out what's available from an incentive perspective," said Stahura. They also need to understand how they could end up on the losing end if they're not participating in quality programs. If they don't have knowledge about the quality programs in which an organization is participating, physicians should ask to be brought up to speed right away.
Employed physicians also should have an understanding of the events that have already taken place within any organization they are considering joining. Ask pertinent questions, said Stahura -- for example,
- is the practice using an EHR;
- have any of the physicians achieved meaningful use, and if so, under which program;
- what components of the practice are measured, how often and with what measurement tools; and
- is the practice participating in any external quality program, such as a patient-centered medical home pilot or an accountable care organization?
Inquire about any shared savings that may be on the horizon. It's also important for a prospective employee to know if that money will be put back into the organization, and if so, what portion is earmarked for technology improvements.
"However the money gets disbursed, it has to be within a legal framework," said Stahura. "But if I were young and looking to do this, hearing the right answers to the right questions would tell me that I am considering joining a forward-thinking, well-run practice."
The Legalities of Employment Contracts
Sidney Welch, J.D., M.P.H., is a partner specializing in health care practice at the Atlanta law firm Arnall Golden Gregory, LLP. Welch said a physician can ask for bonus and incentive payments to be included in any employment contract. "After a physician has determined an organization's revenue sources and the role he or she will play in generating those revenue sources, it may lead a physician to negotiate a payment that reflects those amounts in his or her own employment agreement," said Welch.
"At least inquire about it, and if it's not possible to have immediate access to that revenue, then maybe the agreement with the employer is that it's considered over time."
And what about a contract that was signed in haste or a situation that has drastically changed and left a physician feeling underpaid and underappreciated?
"You can always amend the employment agreement," said Welch, but amendment provisions usually require the agreement of both sides. It will mean a sit-down conversation with the employer, and when the physician has that chat, it's very reasonable for the employer to expect to hear a business case with real facts and figures as to why an adjustment is being requested, said Welch.
Bottom line, be prepared. Know what you're asking for and be able to state the economic factors to justify your request. Step back, put yourself in the employer's shoes and consider how you would react to the request if you were sitting on the other side of the table, particularly if the employer practice and its owners have made a financial investment in an EHR.
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