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Apr 18, 2012, 10:47 AM EDT
First, this report is believable because it’s hard to see how Dwight Howard could bounce back from a herniated disc in his back quickly enough to be a force in the playoffs.
Second, it comes from WKMG’s Dave Pingalore, the guy that said Dwight Howard wanted Stan Van Gundy out the day before Van Gundy confirmed it and the entire situation blew up. (Via Ball Don’t Lie.)
Pingalore says that Howard will not be back, and he still doesn’t like Van Gundy.
Local 6 Sports Director David Pingalore has learned through NBA and Orlando Magic sources that Dwight Howard does not want to play for head coach Stan Van Gundy any longer. According to his sources, Howard is still upset with Van Gundy confirming Pingalore’s report from earlier this month that Howard went to Magic management asking for Van Gundy to be fired…
Howard would also likely sit out the postseason, according to the source.
First off, this story is just oddly written — somebody clearly wrote it for Pingalore, but next time just have him write it nor ghost write it for him. If he hadn’t already broken a story, we would have discarded.
But like I said, it’s believable — nobody thinks Van Gundy lasts the summer because Orlando is desperate to keep Howard (and teams that bend over backwards like this for their stars always get… oh, wait). Secondly, it just seems very unlikely that Howard can come back in any condition that is really going to help the Magic. But the back injury and Van Gundy are not necessarily related issues for Hoard.
Right now, every team in the East is trying to figure out if there is a way they can play the Magic in the first round.
Jul 7, 2015, 11:31 AM EDT
Teams aren’t allowed to discuss deals during the moratorium period, which is still going on.
Jul 7, 2015, 10:52 AM EDT
KG will be back for a record 21st NBA season.
Jul 7, 2015, 10:40 AM EDT
Cleveland just added Mo Williams, but Smith (and Matthew Dellavedova) will likely be back.
Jul 7, 2015, 9:55 AM EDT
The 12th overall pick hasn’t practiced with the Jazz, and remains unsigned. But the GM says “No worries.”
Jul 7, 2015, 9:15 AM EDT
Okafor had some impressive moments.
Jul 7, 2015, 8:30 AM EDT
This is the kind of thing that all that new television revenue should go to.
Jul 7, 2015, 8:00 AM EDT
All I have ever argued about LeBron’s legacy is that you can’t compare it right now to Magic or Jordan or Bird or whoever because he’s still playing at the peak of his game.
Jul 7, 2015, 12:17 AM EDT
Bonner claims a Spurs strength-and-conditioning coach supports the theory
Jul 6, 2015, 11:04 PM EDT
This rookie knows how to finish at the rim.
Jul 6, 2015, 10:04 PM EDT
Cleveland fills its biggest need with its second-best roster-building mechanism
Jul 6, 2015, 9:15 PM EDT
Peter Feigin makes another threat
Jul 6, 2015, 8:15 PM EDT
Guard will make $2.5 million
Jul 6, 2015, 7:38 PM EDT
In Utah, he counts as a veteran
Jul 6, 2015, 6:44 PM EDT
This is a solid signing, but the Mavs need more help at the guard spot.
Jul 6, 2015, 6:01 PM EDT
This trade could work for both teams if the Clippers can flip Haywood’s contract again for a big man.
Jul 6, 2015, 5:01 PM EDT
West left $10.6 million on the table to go to a contender.
Jul 6, 2015, 4:36 PM EDT
This signing was never in doubt.
Jul 6, 2015, 4:12 PM EDT
Signing Terry would go over well with the fan base in Dallas
Jul 6, 2015, 3:25 PM EDT
Skilled forward was No. 35 pick in 2010 NBA draft
Jul 6, 2015, 2:40 PM EDT
Can the Spurs keep Patty Mills and Boris Diaw, too? Ginobili must still negotiate a contract
- Report: Kevin Garnett to re-sign with Timberwolves 2
- Report: Mo Williams signing with Cavaliers for most of their MLE 20
- Report: Cavaliers, Clippers discussing Jamal Crawford for Brendan Haywood trade 26
- Reports: David West agrees to veteran minimum deal to play for Spurs 76
- Report: Marc Gasol, Grizzlies reach deal on five-year, $110 million contract 10
- Manu Ginobili tweets he’ll play next season 5
- Who is left: 15 best free agents still on the board 14
- Report: Detroit Pistons sign restricted free agent Reggie Jackson for five-years, $80 million 38


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But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:26 NKJV
Have you ever wondered why Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt? I know she turned into a pillar of salt because she looked back. What I mean is why was it not sulfur, or magnesium, or potassium, why salt?
Matthew 5:13 says: “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Lot and his wife lived in a place of terrible wickedness. They lived there and became inured to it. When they lived, Jesus hadn’t walked the earth and there was no such thing as a Christian. But they could still tell the difference between good and evil. They lived in the place so long they became accustomed to the depravity and lost their saltiness. Instead of being an example of a better way, they became a part of the evil. They didn’t take part in the wickedness, but they didn’t provide a contrast and provoke the people to examine their ways.
“Well,” you say. “Jesus associated with sinners.”
He did, but He didn’t make His home with them. He mingled with them, talked to them, and healed some of them, but He didn’t make His home among them. After a certain amount of time with them, He would separate and spend time with God and refresh Himself. Restore His saltiness so when He was among them, the people would see a difference. When He came back to them after being away and spending time with God or the disciples, they could sense His presence, just like when salt is sprinkled on something you can taste it.
I think God decided on salt for Lot’s wife as a reminder of how we’re supposed to be. She wasn’t salt while she was alive so, she would be salt in death. Let’s remember to evaluate ourselves and keep our saltiness.

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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Obama not fit to be Commander in Chief !
Barak Obama while in Germany had the chance to to visit American troops wounded defending American freedom without reporters or cameras being present. He instead chose to speak to a crowd of Germans with all the cameras rolling.
Navy pilot John McCain who spent five years being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton in North Vietnam had a chance to go home early. He instead refused a chance to walk out ahead of his fellow POWs.

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23 mars 1992
Ministre de la Santé
Hon. Donald Orchard (Minister of Health): Yes, Mr. Deputy Chairperson. Prior to the opening statement, I want to make two apologies to my honourable friends the critics from each of the respective opposition parties. First of all, I think it is fair to say we were not necessarily going to be starting Estimates until after next week, so I have only just received before walking in here the departmental supplementary on the Estimates, which I will distribute to my honourable friends.
The second thing is I have a copy of my statement that I will make in my opening remarks. Page 1 is a covering letter, so it starts at page 2. I will apologize ahead of time for any potential typographical or other errors, because as my honourable friends have been working on their statements, so have we been working on this one. I assume all responsibility for any of the errors that may well be in there and will attempt to correct them if I catch them during the opening remarks. Mr. Deputy Chairperson, with the will of the committee, I will commence.
I am pleased to present today the working Estimates of the Manitoba ministry of Health for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1993. I will be asking this committee to support my request of $1 ,860,688,400, an increase of$ 101,166,2000 5.7 percent over the Adjusted Vote of last year.
Once again, I wish to pay tribute to the many dedicated workers throughout the health care system. Thousands of dedicated people within the system can be commended for their willingness to put foremost the well-being of the Manitobans whom they serve.
In particular, I want to especially commend those committed professionals who have continued to give of their time, effort and creative ideas to facilitate the process of change that the health system is experiencing. I know I can count on them and on all the other dedicated members of the system to continue to support the reform needed to maintain and enhance Manitoba health as the best in Canada and one of the best, if not the best, in the world.
Also, Mr. Deputy Chairperson, I would again like to thank the community groups, professional associations, universities, volunteer agencies and individuals with an interest in the health of Manitobans whose counsel continues to make contributions to decision making as we continue to build on the partnerships which are a key feature of the ministry's activities.
Since I became Minister of Health, I have announced a number of significant initiatives such as the development of goals for health and health care; the Health Advisory Network; the establishment of Manitoba's own bone marrow transplant program at the Health Sciences Centre; reform of the mental health system, establishment of a Quick
Response Team to investigate emerging issues in health services; the Health Services Development Fund; 'Health Human Resource
Planning, including among other initiatives a National Nursing Symposium and a physician human resource strategy in conjunction with other provinces and the federal government; $3.7 million linear accelerator for the Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation; $2-million joint federal-provincial heart health project in partnership with the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Medicine; Strategic Health Research and Development Fund; the introduction of Healthy Public Policy; World Health Organization Collaborative Study on Quality of Life in Cancer Care, a grant of $1.2 million over four years to the Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation; Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation;
the Substance Abuse Strategy, including establishing a Women's Centre for Substance Abuse; the Urban Hospital Council; strengthening Continuing Care services and a large number of other program policy, legislative and organizational changes.
In addition to these and other accomplishments, we have been able to significantly increase the Health budget each year that I have been Minister of Health, over 9 percent in 1988, almost 7 percent in 1989, 6.4 percent in 1990, 5.4 percent in June of 1991 and this year, as I have already mentioned, the increase will be over 5.7 percent. This represents an increase of over half a billion dollars in the four years that I have been the Minister of Health.
Now, Mr. Deputy Chairperson, I do not intend to dwell on these achievements, and I would prefer not to open a sterile and lengthy debate with members opposite, should some of them once again try to suggest that an increase of over $1 01 million in 1992 is somehow a cutback or that the list of achievements somehow represents under funding.
Instead, I would prefer to build on the expressions of support I have received from members opposite about the approach we are taking to restructure the health care system.
That is the kind of positive and supportive co-operation we will need if we are all to work together to protect and improve the health status of Manitobans in the years to come, because let me declare at the outset, as long as I am the Minister of Health, the health status of Manitobans and the interests of patients are my first and foremost concern.
That is the principle that has guided me since before I became Minister of Health, and that is the principle that will guide me in the future. That is the principle that is guiding me now as we launch into the most comprehensive and far-reaching reform of any health system in Canada, and I repeat quite deliberately, the most comprehensive and far- reaching reform and restructuring of any health system in Canada.
Mr. Deputy Chairperson, I do not say this to boast. I say this because I want to convey to you the immensity and complexity of the tasks we have undertaken, and I want to convey to you the enormity of the challenge faced by Manitoba's health care system, the same challenge faced by every jurisdiction of every political stripe in Canada. Before I go into details regarding our approach to restructuring, I would like to give you some idea of the order of magnitude of the challenge and what other jurisdictions are doing about it, so that our approach can be better understood in the context of what is happening elsewhere.
Provincial governments across Canada are struggling with what is widely viewed as a health cost crisis. There are concerns in some parts of the country that Canada may no longer be able to afford our system of universal medicare or that there will be no alternative but to reduce health services to Canadians. We do not hold that view, and I will come back in a few moments to tell you why we do not hold that view.
The cost crisis is as real in Manitoba as anywhere else in Canada. Canada and Manitoba spend the highest amount per capita of any publicly funded health care system in the world. In fact, we spend the second highest amount per capita next to the United States of any system in the world, but here is the paradox. There does not appear to be very much of a relationship between health care expenditures and the health status of nations or provinces.
The United States spends the most per capita on health care, $2,354 in 1989, but their life expectancy is among the lowest of the industrialized nations. Their infant mortality rate, a very powerful indicator, is over 10 per 1,000 according to 1987 data. Japan which spends among the least, some $1,035 in 1989, has the highest life expectancy and an infant mortality rate at five per 1,000 in 1987. That is less than half that of the United States, and all indications are that their health status is just as high. For example, the Japanese have among the lowest death rates for heart disease in the world. Canada spent almost
$1,700 per man, woman and child in 1989 and our health status is high.
Life expectancy at 76.8 years for 1987 is just behind that of Japan and Sweden, but there is little evidence that it is our high expenditures in health care which have contributed to our health status. In fact, Great Britain, Spain, Greece and New Zealand all have equal or better life expectancies than Canada even though they spend less than half per capita than Canada.
Mr. Deputy Chairperson, we know that throwing more money at the health care system will not lead to better health. We know that many of the determinants of health, such as healthy lifestyles, environmental factors, socio-economic factors go beyond the health care system. Emerging research is also beginning to discover that ever-escalating expenditures can actually have a negative effect on health. In fact, a growing body of research is showing that our health status improves in direct correlation to the wealth and prosperity of our nation, that the best health program is the availability of secure employment in a growing and vibrant economy. The best health program is a secure job.
We see over and over again in economies that are growing that do provide those secure jobs with relatively high incomes to the citizens of their nation that health status improves.
Japan had the lowest life expectancy post-World War II, and with the industrial revolution that Japan has had since World War II, they have gone from amongst the lowest of the industrialized nations in life expectancy to among the highest.
What the growing body of research is saying is that what is more important to the improvement of one's health status, longevity, infant mortality and other indicators of improved health status is a healthy economy providing secure jobs so that the individuals in those countries can buy better housing, better food, better recreation and enjoy better lifestyles. The high tech, expensive institutional and medical approach, characteristic of the North American, Canadian and Manitoba systems needs to be revisited.
Again and again, nations have demonstrated that they have improved the health status of their citizens through provision of services beyond the formal health care system, such as clean drinking water, effective sewage disposal, better diet, better housing, all of the underpinning social amenities that we take for granted in this country and in North America and the free world, but those are all products not of a health care system with increased spending, but of a vibrant economy which has created the wealth to enable the individual citizens of that country to buy better water systems, buy better sewage disposal systems, buy better diet and food, buy better housing and buy better recreation for a more perfect lifestyle.
If the economy and the provision of secure jobs is important, how ought we to approach that, Mr. Deputy Chairperson? Today's economy is going through a tremendous shift because we are facing global competition. We are no longer competing in Manitoba with Alberta, with North Dakota. We are competing with Europe. We are competing with Japan. We are competing with the Pacific Rim. We are competing globally.
When we compete globally, how do we survive? How do we create the jobs that can allow our citizens to buy the amenities in life that improve their health status, as a growing body of expertise would say, in a greater amount than our formal spending on health care? How do we do it?
Well, we are going to accomplish secure jobs that provide good economic returns for the individual citizens of our country when we can produce goods that can be effectively and competitively sold on the world and global markets and when we make sure that more of our dollars go toward doing the research and development spending, the retraining and the restructuring needed to make us competitive, rather than an even greater share of our provincial dollars going toward illness care, illness instead of health.
Even if we wanted to go down that road of greater and greater spending for less and less resulting health, we are no longer in a position to do so. Over the past 10 years, Manitoba's spending on health services has increased by 178 percent. In other words, total health costs have far more than doubled. That is not just the result of inflation. The consumer price index has increased only 71 percent over that same period, and Manitoba's population has increased by only 6 percent over that period.
Since Manitoba's taxes are already among the highest in Canada and the province faces severe deficit problems, we just cannot afford to let health costs continue to spiral. No province and no part of Canada is immune to the health costs crisis. Across Canada, provincial governments of all political parties are wrestling with the danger that escalating health costs may make Canada's health system unaffordable. In some
jurisdictions the problem is even more acute, and the response by some governments appears drastic compared with Manitoba's approach.
For example, the government in Newfoundland is actually reducing funding, especially to hospitals, closing 440 active treatment beds. The New Brunswick Premier has suggested the province consider installing user fees, making people pay part of the cost of health services directly. Although they have not yet proceeded with such fees, they too are reducing funding and closing hospitals.
Nova Scotia is closing hospital beds and converting other hospitals to community health centres. They are also limiting the number of specialties hospitals can offer. The government of Quebec is examining a variety of user fees including charging people for visits to a doctor or for room and board while in hospital. They have also discussed making the cost of health services a taxable benefit.
The government of Ontario has put a cap on doctors' earnings and is actually reducing the amount of money the province gives to support hospitals and other health care institutions by limiting increases in budgets to less than the rate of inflation. This is resulting in the closing of hundreds of hospital beds in all parts of the province.
In Saskatchewan, according to MHO Inc., a 1.5 percent increase in hospital funding resulted in major reductions in hospital-based services with a growing emphasis on preventative and community-based services.
In British Columbia, the province has identified a target of 25 percent reduction in hospital beds and is moving to limit payments to physicians as part of an overall strategy to transfer resources to preventive and community-based care.
In other words, the health cost crisis is a truly national problem. No government in Canada has any alternative but to strive for improved management of health services as the only means of ensuring that we will be able to continue to afford our national health care system.
In Manitoba we reject the idea of user fees for hospital or medical services. This government and the people of this province are committed to the basic concept of medicare as a system that provides universal access to health services to all our citizens. I know the members opposite share our views, and they agree with our commitment to reject user fees.
We do not believe that simply reducing government funding for health services is the answer either. Reductions in spending increases that are not backed by an overall strategy for change just disrupt the system and place the quality of our health services in jeopardy.
Closing hospital beds or removing other institutional services without developing lower cost but equally effective alternatives as a part of an overall strategy is not an acceptable strategy for Manitoba. We have to find better and more effective ways to provide health
services to Manitobans, and we have to manage the changes in our health services system in a way that will contribute to improved health for all Manitobans.
Over the past four years, since I have become Manitoba's Minister of Health, I have been working to find the answers to that challenge. I have sought advice from every part of what I have called the health services community in Manitoba, from physicians, nurses, and other care providers, from advocacy groups like the Canadian Mental Health Association, and seniors’ organizations across the province.
Throughout these consultations I have made two things very clear. The first is that I do not believe the challenge we face in Manitoba is simply a matter of health costs. I have explained that I am not the minister of health costs, I am the Minister of Health. It is my job to find ways to preserve and improve the health and quality of life for all Manitobans.
So as I have sought answers to keep to the challenges we face, I have never asked only how can we keep costs down, I have also asked how can we improve health services and the health of Manitobans.
The second point I have made very clear throughout these consultations is that I do not believe that the government or any other single group can answer the challenge alone. It is not just a government problem. It is not a doctor's, or a nurse's or a hospital's problem, it is a problem that affects everyone in Manitoba.
The only way we can succeed is to form an effective working partnership in which all parts of the health services community and all parts of the community at large playa positive and responsible role in discovering ways we can make health services both better and more affordable without compromising the spirit of medicare.
There have been some disagreements. Some in the health services system have been tempted to focus on protecting their own turf rather than finding the better ways of providing health services that Manitoba needs.
We face difficult adjustments as people learn to look at the whole health system rather than focusing on their own institution or their own fields of practice. We need to learn new ways of thinking, to abandon the old ways where the bed is the symbol of power, where the threat of loss of professionals is the second symbol of power, or traditional union thinking is the third symbol of power, or frightening the public with the spectre of loss of services, it is a fourth symbol of power. Because these symbols of power have nothing to do with the improvement of the health status of Manitobans, or with keeping the interests of patients first and foremost.
We are fortunate in Manitoba, there is a remarkable degree of agreement among Manitobans, and especially those Manitobans who work within health services. We all believe that we can make health services both better and more affordable in this province.
We all agree that there is need for a fundamental shift towards more effective programs
of health promotion and prevention of illness, of disability, and a stronger focus on achieving improved health status for the people of Manitoba.
Working together, we have laid the foundations for a restructuring action plan that would let us do exactly that. The strategy calls for careful management and planning. It calls for some hard choices and adjustments within the health services system. It provides for a greater role for patients and their families in health care decisions, along with the systematic efforts to make sure that individual Manitobans have the information they need to play that role. It is based on a fundamental change towards a much clearer focus on the health needs of individual Manitobans, rather than on the interests of various professions or institutions.
In Canada, when we have spoken of health services, we have tended to think of hospitals and physicians. A more balanced view-one that takes all of the determinants of health into account-would see health services as being composed of a wide continuum of services from educational and preventative initiatives through programs of community support, through a range of other possible health services, all the way up to the high technology environments of modern teaching or tertiary hospitals. There is no question that a truly effective health services system must have all of these services to respond to the very health needs of our population, but they must be rebalanced to more appropriately meet those needs in Manitoba and the rest of Canada.
We need to strengthen development of preventative and community-based parts of that continuum of services. For example, too many Manitobans have been placed in mental health institutions, who, with appropriate community-based services and supports, could have remained in their homes, and could have enjoyed far richer lives. That is why I implemented Manitoba's partnership for mental health-phase II.
For example, thousands of other Manitobans, primarily senior citizens, with appropriate community supports, can remain in their own homes and avoid hospital or personal care home admission, can retain their independence and continue to live in their own homes with their own families in their communities. That is why we have increased spending on home care from less than $45 million a year in 1988 to almost $68 million in this year's budget-34 percent more in only four years.
The imbalances in Manitoba's health services system with their unintended bias towards the highest cost, the most intrusive health services, has operated across the entire spectrum of our health services with little evidence that this contributes positively to the overall health of our population. We have a pattern of people moving from community hospitals to the even higher-cost teaching or tertiary hospitals. There is no certainty that the bulk of this movement contributes to better health outcomes. It is certain that it contributes to higher health costs.
So, Mr. Deputy Chairperson, one of the fundamental foundations of Manitoba's strategy for restructuring our health services has to be supporting the full continuum of services, so that we can shift more of our total services from high-cost institutional settings
towards lower cost and more affordable programs of prevention and support services and home care to help people avoid illnesses and avoid delay or reduce their need for institutional care. The basic logic we have been describing here, of a shift towards lower costs but equally effective health services, is not news to those who have been involved in health services in Manitoba, and I know the members opposite would agree with that logic.
Common sense would tell us that if we expand our programs of community-based services so that these services are available to many more people in Manitoba who might otherwise have had to be hospitalized, or have had to stay longer in hospital, the incidence of hospitalization and/or the average length of hospital stay should go down, and hospital and total health care costs should be reduced. Historically, that has not been the way the health services system has worked in Canada. Instead, each new service that was developed and provided as an alternative to high-cost medical or institutional care has tended instead to be an addition to the existing set of services. Hospital usage and hospital cost did not come down proportionately as alternative services grew, either here in Manitoba or elsewhere in Canada.
Clearly, it was not enough simply to add new services and assume that these resources would result in a lower increase in overall system costs. The real need is to manage all of the elements of the continuum of health services to ensure that they work effectively together to meet the needs of the population. Because that is true, our action plan for restructuring the health system addresses the need for overall strategic management of health services in the province.
Mr. Deputy Chairperson, the restructuring of the health system, not the health care system, the health system, will be accomplished in the context of sound principles, and they are as follows:
Foremost in consideration, improved health status of Manitobans and protect the interests of patients and families; It must be consistent with goals for health; The highest priority will be assigned to providing services to those individuals or groups who are most at risk or in need of services; The integration of institutional and community health services along a continuum of care, ranging from prevention through treatment to palliation and rehabilitation, in the context of healthy public policies;
Services shall be planned, developed and delivered in the context of appropriateness, cost effectiveness, efficiency and efficacy, in terms of outcome and value for money based on current scientific evidence;
Restructuring will involve a phased approach to ensure appropriate alternative services are put in place to accommodate the shift;
The focus for restructuring will be on the most appropriate locus and level of care to enhance accessibility in communities where families live and work;
Patient empowerment through education and enhancement of patient choice will be a major feature of restructuring; and
Monitoring and evaluation of impact on patient care and health status outcomes will be by external evaluators, including medical consultants.
Mr. Deputy Chairperson, these are sound principles and a sound vision, and I have made the commitment that we will be guided by those principles and that vision as we restructure the system. But, Mr. Deputy Chairperson, principles are not enough. Making changes in a system as complex as the health care system requires the development of strong foundations on which to build.
Mr. Deputy Chairperson, when I became Minister of Health, I recognized the importance of building these foundations. That is why we established our goals for health and health care. That is why we restructured the ministry to integrate the role of Manitoba Health Services Commission with the ministry's community health services along a continuum of care, instead of the two solitudes that existed between community and institutional services.
That is why we established a number of important mechanisms to build partnerships and to build consensus among the many stakeholders, such as: the Health Advisory Network;
the Urban Hospital Council; Regional Mental Health Councils; the Westman Integrated Strategy for Health Project; the National Nursing Symposium; community consultation on substance abuse; joint workshops with Manitoba Health Organizations incorporated to develop strategies and objectives for improving the health status of Manitobans; a range of partnership policy documents-Mental Health, Phases I and II, Health Promotion, Continuing Care, et cetera-collaboration with MHO to develop mechanisms for a rural equivalent of the Urban Hospital Council.
That is also why we have established a number of committees of key stakeholders to take a comprehensive look at particular programs and disease entities across the entire spectrum of services ranging from Healthy Public Policy through health education, early detection, treatment, rehabilitation, continuing care and palliation.
That is why we have established the Health Services Development Fund, a unique funding mechanism that provides health care institutions and others in the health system with the flexibility to make the transition to a more balanced system.
That is why we have implemented the Healthy Public Policy Steering Committee. That is why we established the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation, to give us the sound scientific basis for our planning, which makes Manitoba unique in Canada in its ability to engage in fundamental restructuring. That will continue to keep the interests of the patients and the health status of Manitobans as the foremost consideration. Mr.
Deputy Chairperson, these are solid foundations on which to build.
I would like now to turn to our action plan for restructuring and rebalancing the health care system. Number one, the first and foremost component of our action plan will be to strengthen and develop appropriate alternative services including: strengthening resources to the continuing care program, including the development of ability to respond more quickly to emergency home care requirements; an array of community mental health supports, including the Mental Health Crisis Mobilization Team; opening appropriate personal care beds; opening acute care beds in community hospitals close to where families live and work; redirect acute and long-term psychiatric beds in the system consistent with Mental Health Reform.
Number 2, the second major component will be to develop mechanisms to put the individual and the patient first and foremost through public education and patient empowerment. For example, we have seen that our approach to mental health reform is demonstrating that patient empowerment through mental health advocates including patients, former patients and their families, is leading to more appropriate services.
I know that informed choices and decisions of individual health care consumers can be a powerful force that will lead to better and more affordable health services. That is why I am committed to ensuring that there are realistic alternatives, that individuals have the best and most current scientific evidence and information about the existence and implications of those alternatives, and most importantly, that individuals have the right to choose.
That is why we will be working with Dr. John Wennberg and others at Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Centre, at the Centre for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, to provide patients and their families with effective information about the nature and value of various medical interventions. For example, testing in the U.S. has demonstrated that when information about prostate surgery is made available to patients in the form of an interactive video program, many patients, over 40 percent, choose not to accept this routine procedure. The videos are prepared under the guidance of leading medical experts and are an exceptional example of creative medical leadership in health reform.
We will provide similar information resources on a variety of subjects, some of which will be developed here under the guidance of leading Manitoba physicians and based on Manitoba analysis of the health outcomes of various alternatives. People need information in order to be able to control their own lives. Ensuring that patients and their families have clear and accurate information about the available health services and about the nature of common medical interventions is a key part of the action plan to empower patients.
A good example of informing Manitobans about the true risks and benefits of interventions is the recently released report by the committee on breast cancer screening regarding mammography screening. There appears to be no evidence that widespread mammography screening leads to reduced incidence of breast cancer, nor that it contributes to improved health outcomes for individuals who are affected.
There is also significant uncertainty as to the longer term health impacts that frequent exposure to X-rays may have on otherwise healthy women who are subjected to this procedure. Therefore, our approach will be to fully inform Manitoba women and health care professionals about the latest information on this issue.
In particular, we will continue to work closely with the medical profession to encourage all women to use breast self-examination to detect irregularities or other possible early symptoms of breast cancer. Manitoba Health will sponsor the development and dissemination of an educational program on breast cancer, including a video tape, to provide women and their physicians with the most current medical analysis of the risks and value of mammography and other screening techniques.
Mammographic examinations will continue to be available to all women who, for whatever reason, be it family history, perceived breast irregularities or simple concern, feel themselves to be at risk of this disease. Manitoba Health will establish an ongoing advisory group of leading health experts to monitor advances in breast cancer screening to ensure that practice here reflects the highest possible standards worldwide.
At the end of the day, I believe the patient or potential patient must have information about all the alternatives and about the implications of each. Then she, in concert with her family and her family physician, must make the choice as to the best means of screening for this disease, and mammography will be available for those who choose to use it either as a regular part of a check-up or in response to other symptoms or concerns. But mammography will not at this time become routine in Manitoba. There is simply no basis in medical research to make it so.
The third component of our action plan for restructuring the health care system involves reforming the hospital system. There is growing scientific evidence that Manitoba has more hospital beds in total than are necessary to meet the needs of our patients.
For example, British Columbia has identified that up to 25 percent of their beds could be reduced through more appropriate admissions and lengths of stay. In addition, disproportionate shares of total beds are in our teaching or tertiary hospital sector, the highest cost part of the health care system. The relatively very high cost and rapid rate of increase in cost of hospital services is a major concern.
In addition, hospital resources and the highest technology hospital resources in particular, are relatively heavily concentrated in Winnipeg. Residents of rural or northern Manitoba make significant use of these urban resources, not simply in cases where that is appropriate, but because in many instances there are few alternative services in the form of rural or northern institutional or community-based services.
In part, this overdependence on hospital care reflects the gradual unbalancing of health services that has occurred in Manitoba and Canada since the 1960s, with its growing concentration on these highest forms of service. Our heavy reliance on hospital-based services has also reflected the relative underdevelopment of other aspects of the health
services system in Manitoba and a lack of knowledge of existing alternatives among patients and service providers.
One of the greatest sources of pressure on hospital facilities and hospital services is from patients who do not need to be there. Research done in other jurisdictions indicates that up to 40 percent of admissions to hospitals are inappropriate. That is, the admissions were either not necessary or would have been unnecessary if alternative services were available.
Preliminary indications in Manitoba are that up to 36 percent of admissions to our teaching hospitals from rural or northern areas were for less complex routine admissions, the kind that would normally be expected to be in community hospitals or as outpatients.
Our action plan will see the reallocation of hospital resources toward a more appropriate and effective range of services including reduced reliance on teaching hospital beds, transferring some beds to community hospitals and establishing long-term care beds in community institutions.
The management approach we are using to address the question of numbers and kinds of hospital beds has been to engage representatives of the hospitals themselves in identifying services they are now providing that could more
appropriately be provided in a lower-cost hospital, an alternate institution or in the community.
Once these services have been identified, resources will be moved from teaching hospitals to urban hospitals, to community hospitals or long-term care facilities and from institutions to the community-based services where that is appropriate. In the process, each hospital and each kind of hospital will define its role more clearly, and this will lead to improved quality of services and to a reduction in duplication and inefficiencies in the system.
It is not and cannot be simply a question of closing hospital beds. The reduction in bed numbers cannot occur in isolation. Alternative services appropriate to the person's needs have to be available to replace those institutional services, but where there are lower costs but equally effective ways of providing services, resources will be reallocated to ensure that those alternatives are provided.
Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, the rebalancing of the system will be done in consultation with health care professionals on the basis of the best scientific evidence available. We will implement ongoing evaluation and monitoring in conjunction with outside medical consultants to ensure that appropriate patient care is not affected.
Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, we will take the same approach when we look at waiting lists and priorities in the hospital sector. The ever-escalating demand in Canada and Manitoba for more and far more complex procedures with little scientific evidence of improved health status illustrates the need for clear medical and scientific guidelines and
protocols that hospitals and physicians can follow in making appropriate decisions relating to urgent referrals and scheduling within the health care system.
To meet that need, I have established the Appropriate Access Review Group. This group includes the medical vice-presidents of Manitoba's two teaching hospitals, the executive director of the Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, the medical vice- president of Victoria General Hospital-all leading Manitoba physicians-and the executive director of the Evaluation and Audit Secretariat of Manitoba.
The group's work will be assisted by Dr. C. David Naylor, the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at Sunnybrook Health Centre in Toronto, together with representatives of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation and the Department of Community Health Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba and a leading Winnipeg cardiologist.
The group's mandate is to develop better mechanisms for managing urgent referrals scheduling in the Manitoba health care system, focusing in particular on orthopaedic surgery, cardiovascular surgery, angioplasty, oncology and cataract surgery. Within six months, this group will have reported and recommended protocols based on protection of patient health status, consistency, appropriateness, equitable access.
Another aspect of the action plan for hospital reform will review the way hospitals are funded. The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation is producing a report on hospital funding to be released shortly. Throughout the next year, my ministry will work with the hospital sector to develop mechanisms to strengthen funding accountability and to redirect funding more precisely to the range and mix of services provided by hospitals.
That is also why in this throne speech there was reference to the Health Status Improvement Fund. The fund will be implemented to provide an important incentive for continuous quality improvement, also known as total quality management in the hospital sector. TOM has been endorsed by the Canadian Council of Health Facilities accreditation as an integral component of effective utilization management.
Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, the fourth component of our action plan for restructuring will look at health human resource requirements and allocation. One of the greatest strengths of Manitoba's health services system has always been the outstanding quality of physicians who practise in this province.
Manitoba's physicians have been and continue to be among the most skilled, dedicated and best equipped in the world. Theirs is a crucial role in our efforts to improve the quality of health services in Manitoba. Physicians in Manitoba and across Canada have been among the leaders in our shared efforts to provide a range of appropriate health services to meet the needs of our people.
Physicians themselves are also a very significant element in total health costs, directly through the fees they are paid under medicare and indirectly through their control of
access to hospital and other health services resources. Any serious effort to achieve better and more affordable health services must also involve the medical profession.
Our action plan has three key goals for its interaction with the medical profession in Manitoba. They are: to ensure that Manitoba has an appropriate number and mix of physicians to meet the needs of people in all parts of the province; to provide compensation to physicians in a manner that is fair and that reflects the health services needs of Manitobans and the values we share as a community; to support the leadership of the medical profession in its effort to continually enhance the quality and the health outcomes of medical practice throughout Manitoba.
The number of physicians in Manitoba and across Canada has been growing far more quickly than our total population. Health Ministers of Canada have identified this growth as a significant contributor to rapid increases in total health costs.
Between 1968 and 1988, the number of physicians in Canada increased at about twice the rate of population growth for the same period. During the last decade alone, the number of physicians in Manitoba increased by over 20 percent, while the population increased by only 6 percent. At the same time, paradoxically, we have had shortages in rural and northern Manitoba and shortages of particular specialists.
Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, Manitoba, in concert with the other provinces of Canada, has developed a strategy to manage the total number of physicians. Our provincial action plan also includes measures to ensure that there is an appropriate number of rural physicians to meet the needs of all parts of the province. The thrust of the overall strategy is to slow the growth in total number of physicians.
At the same time, we will be working closely with the profession to ensure adequate medical services in rural areas. This represents a challenge, both to the profession and to medical training in Manitoba. We will continue to use a variety of incentives to encourage doctors to set up practices outside of Winnipeg, but the reality is that if we are to provide appropriate health services to the people of Manitoba, more physicians and a more balanced mix of physicians must choose to go where the need is, to rural and northern Manitoba.
Government will do its part in ensuring that appropriate facilities exist to support rural practice and that the financial rewards are commensurate with the value of the contribution physicians can make to these parts of the province, but we also look for leadership from the profession in meeting that challenge.
Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, we are in discussion with the Faculty of Medicine to establish new funding mechanisms to achieve deliverables related to rationalizing the number, mix and allocation of postgraduate medical education positions in the context of identified Manitoba population health needs, including reduction in funded positions, reallocation of funded positions between areas of practice to address specialty mal-
distribution, establishing programs to train generalist specialists for non urban-based practice, rationalization-regionalization of subspecialty training programs.
Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, another critical group, the nursing profession, including registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, playa key role in both institutional and community-based health care services in Manitoba. Both the training and range of career options for nurses are evolving rapidly in Manitoba and across Canada. We are told there is a significant change underway in the mix of nursing skills required in the health services system.
The number of people registered and employed as nurses in Manitoba has been growing faster than our population over the past two decades. In part, this reflects the rapid increase in hospital spending and medical activity. It also reflects a gradual broadening of the scope of practice open to nurses as more community-based services and preventative programs are developed.
But there is a very significant uncertainty in efforts to forecast nursing requirements arising out of changes in the nursing mix that are being adopted in major care institutions.
There is an additional set of uncertainties arising from the wide range of new career opportunities and new requirements for the skills that nurses can bring to bear throughout the growing system of alternate health services in Manitoba.
In light of this uncertainty, our action plan calls for the development of a five-year nursing resource plan. I have asked the main employers of nurses in both health care institutions and community-based programs to provide information on their current nursing staff and their five-year projections of requirements for nurses, including specific information on the mix of RNs and LPNs they expect will be required.
In addition to providing sound base line data, this nursing resource survey will provide us with a forecast that can be used in developing longer-term training strategies. The forecast will be monitored against real trends as these emerge to ensure that our education strategies continue to be responsive to Manitoba's evolving needs. I am committed to ensure that the nursing profession and its unique perspective play an active and creative role as full partners within the ministry's partnership for health.
There are thousands of people who earn their living as service providers within Manitoba's health services system. The restructuring of the system towards a better balance among all of the services on the continuum of services that are so central to our shared vision of Manitoba's health services system of the future will no doubt affect some of them and their careers and options In a significant way. For some, Including a wide range of therapists, the result will be a need for more of the skills they have to offer. For other employees in health services, the shift away from our over concentration on institutional services may require new skills and a new orientation.
The services providing professions that have played the most dominant role in health services, physicians and nurses, will face different and evolving requirements and
opportunities in the health services system of the future in Manitoba. The men and women who are employed in Manitoba's health services system have always performed to a standard that is amongst the highest In the industrialized world.
As resources are redirected down the spectrum to more appropriate health services, there will be employment impacts that may affect some of these men and women. Clearly health services managers of government have an obligation to redeployment and retraining as a fundamental challenge to assuring that our human resource strengths are focused on reform strategy.
Number 5, Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, I would now like to touch on the final major component of our action plan to restructure the health system. The final component has to do with technology assessment and management.
Medical technology, and diagnostic technology in particular, has had an amazing growth in recent years. Emerging technologies have led to huge and rapid investment especially but not exclusively in the hospital sector. While Manitoba hospitals and others throughout Canada and internationally have invested in technology, a number of serious management issues that affect both the quality and the affordability of health services need to be addressed. For example, between 1976 and 1988 costs of medical imaging went from $16 million to $68 million, an increase of over 450 percent. This has occurred with limited protocols and no outcome evaluation. There is little evidence that this technology growth has contributed significantly to health status.
The action plan will address these issues. That is why the Health Services Development Fund is providing the financing for an evaluation program to establish protocols for access to the MRI scanner at St. Boniface General Hospital. The study will relate use of this high-cost technology to patient benefits and will focus on appropriate choices among various kinds of imaging technology. This is also why we have established a review of the demand for additional CT scanners and why we are continuing to develop guidelines for the purchase, operation and evaluation of CT scanners.
Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, in conclusion, this action plan will lead to the kind of restructured health system that Manitoba needs to improve the health of our citizens. We will provide an array of appropriate alternative services. We will ensure that the patient is put first and foremost. We will empower Manitobans to make informed choices. We will ensure that we have the right number and mix of service providers. We will have the appropriate kind of technology, and we will restructure and reform the hospital system towards a more appropriate rebalancing to meet the real health needs of Manitobans.
Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, I am not naive. I know that even though the best minds and the leading health professionals in Manitoba and elsewhere, even though the public have all said, yes, this is the right approach, these are the right principles, the best scientific evidence supports what you are doing, even though we have this support, there will be some who will find it hard to resist the temptation to play pure politics to protect their turf, to frighten the public with misleading statements about service cuts, people
dying, the like, to put pressure on the government to back down, to accede to narrow interests.
But, Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, I urge those people to resist the temptation because we will not back down. Instead, I urge everyone to join in the partnership which puts the interests of patients and the health status of Manitobans first and foremost.
Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, I have been told elsewhere that Manitoba is leading Canada in health reform, and I know that is true. We are unique in our ability to restructure our health care system, to rebalance from illness care toward health. Let us all work together for this unique achievement, and it is what Manitobans expect of us and what they deserve.
Mr. Acting Deputy Chairperson, I present my Estimates for the fiscal year 1992-93.


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- Calories: 281.8
- Total Fat: 8.3 g
- Cholesterol: 62.2 mg
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Slow Cooker Barbeque Ham w/ "Roasted" PotatoesSubmitted by: JENARAGON
IntroductionThis is an adaptation of a higher-fat recipe. It's easy and tastes great. Serve with a tossed salad for a balanced meal. This is an adaptation of a higher-fat recipe. It's easy and tastes great. Serve with a tossed salad for a balanced meal.
1/2 cup calorie-reduced ketchup
2 tbsp cider vinegar
2 tbsp dark-brown sugar
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp plus 1 tbsp vegetable oil
1/4 tsp dry mustard
3-1/2 lbs fully cooked fat-free boneless ham
3 lbs potatoes, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
1/2 tsp black pepper
2. Score surface of ham, making diamond shapes 1/2-inch deep. Place ham in a 4- to 5-quart slow cooker and brush with barbecue sauce.
3. In large bowl, mix potatoes and remaining tablespoon of vegetable oil. Add rosemary. Place potatoes around ham in slow cooker. Cook for 2 hours on HIGH or 5 hours on LOW, brushing ham generously with sauce once every hour.
4. Remove ham from slow cooker and set aside. Stir parsley, salt and pepper into potatoes and serve with ham and remaining sauce.
Number of Servings: 12
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JENARAGON.

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It was that place where we used to go for the Kingfisher photo shoot. The place was discovered after many explorations on that location. That day we were observing the movement of this little yet beautiful bird, and then from our hiding place I took the shot…
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Nirupam Roy is a school teacher by profession. His story of coming to the world of photography is quite fascinating. In one summer he planned a family trip to Orrisa, India. There he realized the necessity of a camera to capture the scenic beauty of the place surrounded by several sea-coasts. At the same time he wanted to photograph his family, especially his son Arkapravo, and bought his first camera Canon SX 40 HS. After returning home, he has fallen in love with photography passionately. Photography completely changes his whole attitude towards nature and human being. It gives him a sort of peace to his weary mind, as if a blessings from Almighty.

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The head of the Indian Health Service met Wednesday with the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council in Pine Ridge to discuss steps the agency is taking to prevent future patient abuse in the wake of a former doctor being convicted of child sexual abuse years after tribal members reported him to the IHS.
"I expressed my sincere regret that children were victimized by those entrusted to care for them and have made it absolutely clear that sexual assault and abuse will not be tolerated in the Indian Health Service," Michael Weahkee, IHS principal deputy director, said in a news release.
The doctor, Stanley Patrick Weber, was sentenced to more than 18 years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty last fall of sexually abusing boys in his care on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana in the 1990s. Weber now awaits a September trial at the Rapid City federal courthouse to face accusations that he committed similar sex crimes against Native American boys on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
"These two communities were impacted by the actions of a former IHS employee," Weahkee said.
The meeting in Pine Ridge was closed to the public and Weahkee is not giving interviews, an IHS spokesman said when asked if the Journal could attend the meeting or speak with him.
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Wednesday's meeting — also attended by Kevin Meeks, IHS deputy director of field operations, and James Driving Hawk, acting Great Plains area director — follows a similar meeting Weahkee had last month with leaders of the Blackfeet Nation.
"I want to thank the leadership of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Blackfeet Nation for their partnership as we work to re-establish trust with our patients," Weahkee said.
Weahkee said IHS has created new professional standards and stronger requirements for IHS employees to report suspected sexual abuse. The agency has also created a centralized system that maintains records on the qualifications and practice history of employees.
There are also three current or planned investigations into the IHS, Weahkee said.
The White House announced Tuesday that it created a task force to investigate how Weber was able to sexually assault children in his care and how to prevent future abuse, while the Department of Health and Human Services is reviewing the effectiveness of the actions IHS has already taken. Finally, the IHS is hiring an independent contractor to review whether laws and policies were followed in the past, and what future improvements it can make.

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I am not a huge fan of birds (except for owls and peacocks, I love those guys). Don’t get me wrong, I love hearing them chirping outside my window, and they are very pretty, but that is where it ends. I have been poop-bombed before, and I never want it to happen again. I don’t care if it is a sign of good luck, I just don’t like getting crapped on.
In Florida there were so many beautiful birds that I spent hours taking pictures. At one point, I even braved the poop-laden walkways of the rookery to get some of my shots.
One of the most interesting birds I met was a white peacock. I had no idea these things even existed!
And of course the more traditional peacock, so pretty!
I think this guy is called a spoonbill, but I really have no idea.
I don’t know what this guy is called, I just thought he looked very cool.
Loving the hair!
I had been trying to get a good shot of this guy for a few minutes, and by the time he turned around to look at me, he looked a little annoyed.
I love the blue on his beak.
One of the birds in the rookery was making a weird sound like “yep yep yep” I think it was the white one. I wish I had recorded some audio, it was a very strange sound.
All these pretty birds, and no poop bombs, that is what I consider a sign of good luck!

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Packed with a lovely almond flavor and dusted with powdered sugar, delicate Almond Snowball Cookies are a family favorite Christmas cookie and perfect for holiday gift-giving. Sub earth balance for vegan
These buttery melt-in-your-mouth cookie balls go by many names in recipe collections, including Mexican Wedding Cakes. They always contain finely chopped nuts and are twice rolled in powdered sugar. This holiday favorite is one of Betty's Best!
Powdered Sugar Icing Recipe - Tablespoon May want to add a pinch of salt or a dash of cream of tatar or increase the vanilla, if it is too sweet for you. Ingredients 1 cup powedered sugar 1 tablespoon milk (or water) teaspoon vanilla
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KINGSVILLE, Texas – After entering the 2019 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the 24th and final spot of the 200m dash, freshman Philip Landrum finished well above that mark in the preliminary round Friday evening (May 24).
Competing in the fastest of the three heats, Landrum placed 15th at the national meet after crossing the line in 21.48. The Wichita, Kan. native was the second-fastest freshman in the field.
The race capped off a successful freshman campaign for Landrum, who placed 14th in the 60m dash at the Indoor National Championships after capturing the indoor MIAA title in the same event. Landrum also climbed the podium at the outdoor conference meet after placing third in the 100m dash earlier this month.
Three Tigers will wrap up the national meet Saturday, beginning with junior Alexcia Deutscher in the javelin throw at 11:30 a.m. Kolt Newell will compete in the high jump beginning at 5:30 p.m. while the gun is set to go off in Brett Meyer’s 1,500m finals at 5:45 p.m.


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Tuesday, July 01, 2014
Broward Health Co-Hosts Community BBQ For National HIV Testing Day
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Trudy Love, Early Intervention Prevention coordinator of the High Impact Prevention program, and Claudette Grant, site manager of Broward Health Comprehensive Care Center.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – In recognition of National HIV Testing Day, Broward Health Comprehensive Care Center and the Comprehensive Care Center at Broward House co-hosted the High Impact Prevention Program (HIP) Community BBQ on June 27. Held at the L.A. Lee YMCA Family Center, this community outing was a collaborative effort to build awareness for confidential HIV/AIDS testing and other measures available to the community to prevent HIV infection.
Trudy Love, Early Intervention Prevention coordinator with Broward Health Comprehensive Care Center, and her HIP outreach staff provided HIV/AIDS testing information to the more than 150 attendees and educated those visitors about the many benefits of establishing a medical home at a Broward Health community health center. By the end of the day, 62 guests were tested, causing organizers to call the event a success.
“The HIP Community BBQ shows that Broward Health’s High Impact Prevention Program is proactive about informing residents of their HIV/AIDS status. It is important to get tested, because early treatment can ensure longevity,” said Claudette Grant, site manager of the Broward Health Comprehensive Care Center.
Other community partners that participated in the event included the Broward Sheriff Office (BSO) Outreach Department, BTAN, Care Resource, Broward House, The Black AIDS Institute, Reed’s Catering, Broward County Health Department and the School Board of Broward County.
Broward Health, providing service for more than 75 years, is a nationally recognized system in South Florida that offers world-class healthcare to all. Broward Health includes Broward Health Medical Center, Broward Health North, Broward Health Imperial Point, Broward Health Coral Springs, Chris Evert Children’s Hospital, Broward Health Weston, Broward Health Community Health Services, Broward Health Physician Group, Broward Health International, Broward Health Urgent Care and Broward Health Foundation. For more information, visit BrowardHealth.org.
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Slots Machines – The Symbolism Behind Their Slots
Slots are currently among the easiest casino games around. They are simple to learn, simple to master, plus they don’t need much strategy or thought. You simply go over the reels with the mouse, spin the reels, watching the money flow into your bank account. Unfortunately, there are not many good online slots games. Many casinos are suffering from a lack of traffic among others just want to profit from the slot craze, which is fine.
The reason that slots games are so easy to play is basically because the slots use random number generators. When a player hits the spin button and chooses lots, that number is random, and the ball will land where it is positioned on the slots machine. That is why slots games are so fun to play. If you’re after a way to pass the time before you go to work, or before your kids go back home from school, then playing slots is probably the best option for you personally.
However, slots games are also very boring because there are no symbols representing the worthiness that you are betting on. Without symbols, it might be impossible for players to find out what their winnings would be because there would be no chance for them to know in case a number was the expected value or not. In addition, without the symbols, the chances of winning can be very slim. You will have a much better potential for winning at slot machines that have symbols on them.
Slots games that use progressive jackpots have certain icons that indicate how much more the person who wins will earn once they hit their first spin. In case a player hits their first spin and wins, they will earn a higher sum of money. Likewise, should they hit their second and third spin, they’ll earn even more money. Subsequently, the progressive jackpot gets larger with each win, until the day it eventually breaks one thousand dollars in payback percentage.
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One more thing which makes slots games interesting is the color combination that is found in slots. The icons applied to the reels have different colors depending on whether it is regular reels or perhaps a progressive reels. This may make the game look attractive, especially when the icons of regular reels are light-colored and the ones of the progressive reels are dark-colored. Slots machines are known for their flashy icon treatment. You will notice that many slot machines were created with a specific color scheme.
As well as the icon treatment, the reels of slots games also differ according to the payout percentages. For example, if you visit a progressive jackpot on the reel of a machine that awards regular payments, you will be sure that the machine is giving a lot more than the expected total each winning player. You can also be sure that because the jackpot is increasing, the probability of winning are receiving higher.
Finally, the symbols on the reels can also attract you. A great deal of slot machines feature colorful icons that attract one to try their reels. Although some of these symbols may not be particularly useful, it is possible to they are visually attractive and that they can help you find out what the symbols stand for. Once you learn more about how exactly these icons and symbols work, you may find you could quickly identify which of the slots is paying down well.


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Israel Risks New Turkish Ire with Recognition of Armenian Genocide
The session resulted from a rare confluence of political forces — an effort under way for decades by some on the left to get Israel to take a leading role in bringing attention to mass murder, combined with those on the right angry at how Turkey has criticized Israel over its policies toward the Palestinians.
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Fifty Years of Brasília
21 April 2010
The 21st of April is the birthday of Brasília, and this year marks fifty years since the city was inaugurated. As cities are not usually built to order, fixing a birthday for them is a matter of historical speculation, but Brasília belongs to that small class of cities — which also includes, inter alia, Herod’s Caesarea, Constantine’s Constantinople, Aigues Mortes, Canberra, Islamabad, and Naypyidaw — that were, in fact built to order, and since it was built to order in modern times there is a great deal of documentation available, as well as precise dates, that chronicle the rise of the city. The black and white photographs of Brasília have a haunting quality to them, a palpable emptiness.
I previously mentioned Brasília in The Rational Reconstruction of Cities, where I was concerned with the difference between cities that emerge organically from a particular social, economic, ecological, and climatological circumstances in contradistinction to planned cities. Of course, most cities are a mixture of planning and organic growth. The same is true with Brasília: it began as a planned city, but in so far as the city has taken on a life of its own that is underdetermined by the planners, it has since grown both organically and inorganically.
It takes time for a planned city to begin growing organically, as it is usually built to a certain assumed population size and time is needed for the population to catch up with the initially empty city. It is only after the population has caught up with and then surpassed the intent of the planners that a more organic growth pattern is likely to emerge. If a planned city never exceeds its intended population, it remains largely in its originally planned form.
Cities are like the maps that describe them in both prescribing a reality and being prescribed by reality. I tried to explain what I meant by this in A Theory of Maps. It seems to me that there are classes of facts that are partly constituted by human actions and partly constituted by matters outside human control. The classical distinction between realism and alternatives to realism like constructivism or nominalism force us into a dichotomy between objects of the world being independent of us (realism) or dependent upon us (idealism, constructivism, etc.). I suggest that there are degrees of dependence, and that some objects are partly dependent and partly independent of us. In the terminology I used previously, in so far as they are partly constituted and partly independent, cities are ontogenic.
In A Theory of Maps I used the examples of timetables and schedules as constituted facts that create realities, although not without exceptions and qualifications. Cities, as we all know, are constituted by a great many schedules and timetables, as well as other contrived facts that begin as an idea in the mind of an urban planner and may someday issue in actual concrete living conditions for a mass of residents. Planned cities like Brasília are the most obvious and complete example of this, but even planned cities are not entirely governed by their plan, and therefore not entirely contrived.
In Life and Landscape I argued that the landscape a people comes from shapes the life and character of that people, and this way of life in turn shapes the ideas of that people. Thus ideology is a highly derived form of geography. As I noted above, cities emerge from particular social, economic, ecological, and climatological circumstances. All of these factors contribute to the structure and function of a city. We have very little control over ecological and climatological circumstances, other than moving to another area, but we have more control over social and economic circumstances, but not absolute control, as social and economic circumstances also emerge from the landscape.
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Fans of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) made two things resoundingly clear in the first of Churchill Downs’ three Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”): there is no definitive favorite on the road to the big race on the first Saturday in May and it is possible that the winner of this year’s 136th renewal of American’s Greatest Race is not yet on the radar screen.
While 2009 2-year-old champion Lookin At Lucky was favored among 23 individual horses when KDFW Pool 1 wrapped up its three-day run Sunday, Feb. 14 at 6 p.m. (EST), it was the mutuel field – which represents all 3-year-olds other than the 23 horses in the pool – that was the heavy overall favorite. The “all others” bet closed as the heavy 3-2 betting choice and the mutuel field now been the favored betting interest each year since the Derby Future Bet was unveiled in 1999.
Should a member of the mutuel field win the Kentucky Derby, as Mine That Bird did in 2009, the win payout for a $2 wager on the “all others” betting interest (#24) will be $5. Lookin At Lucky, who bids to give Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert his fourth winner of the famed “Run for the Roses”, closed at 8-1 and would return $18.20 to his KDFW Pool 1 backers if he wins the Derby. Buddy’s Saint, the Remsen (GII) winner and the pool’s third betting choice at 10-1, will return $22.40 to his fans with a victory in Derby 136.
A total of $466,048 was wagered during the first-ever three-day Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool – all pools had lasted four days prior to this year. The Pool 1 total included $385,995 in win betting and $80,053 wagered on exactas.
The Kentucky Derby Future Wager provides an opportunity for fans to wager weeks in advance on contenders for the Kentucky Derby (GI) – which will be run at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 1 – at odds that could be more attractive than those they would receive on Derby Day. All KDFW pools also include exacta wagering. The Derby Future bet is a $2 minimum “win” wager. The minimum wager for a straight exacta, which requires the bettor to select the Kentucky Derby’s top two finishers in the exact order of finish, is $2, while the minimum for exacta boxes and wheels is $1.
Others horses that attracted strong support during Pool 1 included the Bill Mott-trained Drosselmeyer, Hopeful (GI) winner Dublin and Kentucky Jockey Club (GII) winner Super Saver – all of whom closed at 20-1. Eskendereya, a recent allowance winner at Gulfstream Park, closed at 22-1; and Rule, winner of Saturday’s Sam F. Davis (GIII) at Tampa Bay Downs, who was a 24-1 risk at the conclusion of wagering. Todd Pletcher, looking for his first Derby victory, trains Super Saver, Eskendereya and Rule.
More information on the Kentucky Derby Future Wager is available online at www.kentuckyderby.com, the official Web site for the 136th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and definitive online resource for information about the Kentucky Derby experience. Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager is set for March 5-7, while the year’s final pool is scheduled for March 26-28.


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As the US focuses on ‘extreme competition’ with China, conflict is just a step away
- Competition will most certainly intensify as the US sees a last chance to bring down a rising China
- Despite American assurances that it is not seeking conflict, when competition becomes extreme, a clash seems all but inevitable
The second-largest economy in the world is simply too big to hide. And it is impossible for Beijing to bide its time when Washington takes it as its primary strategic competitor.
According to Yale professor Paul Kennedy, this will be a situation that has not existed since the 1880s, when America’s economy overtook Britain’s. For the entire 20th century, the American economy was about two to four times larger than that of any other great power.
When China emerges as the world’s largest economy, as former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd pointed out, it will be the first time since George III (1738-1820) that the world will have a non-English-speaking, non-democratic, non-Western state as its largest economy.
It is hard to believe the Capitol building – the supreme seat of American democracy – would be violently attacked by a mob of supporters at the call of former president Donald Trump and false allegations of election fraud.
But while a few nuclear subs might indeed complicate decision-making in Beijing, they are not necessarily game-changers. For Australia, balancing is probably an art too delicate to learn. Historically, most of the wars that Australian soldiers fought are other people’s wars which they joined as junior partners.
This time, the Morrison government has obviously decided to risk taking America’s side in a military conflict with China. Given Australia’s inevitable reliance on US and British nuclear technologies in the decades to come, the Morrison government has left succeeding Australian governments hostage to its decision.
Even with some British and Australian help, time is not on America’s side. The Pentagon’s war games over Taiwan showed the US losing repeatedly to China. Of course, this is no reason for China to be complacent, but should a conflict occur in China’s periphery, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has all the advantages of being on home turf.
Today, America’s armed forces are considerably smaller and older than they were in the 1980s. The PLA is just the opposite. By 2019, the PLA Navy had about 350 ships, outnumbering the US Navy’s around 293 ships. Although quantity is not quality, it has a quality all its own.
Nothing speaks of a country’s security assessment more than its defence expenditure. For three decades, China’s military expenditure has stayed below 2 per cent of GDP. It speaks volumes about China’s self-confidence about its security challenges.
If China feels threatened to the extent that it has to increase its defence spending, the second-largest economy could easily afford to double the defence budget; but can the US double its military spending, which is already three times larger than China’s?
The pendulum of US foreign and defence policy traditionally swings between assertiveness and pullbacks. The question is when will an America in retrenchment swing back, or will it swing back at all? The US pull-out from Afghanistan was justified as a means for America to focus on competition with China. Only time will tell if this is a wise decision.
But if it is a boneheaded strategic blunder, then it is a monumental error more consequential than the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghan wars combined. It will doom America’s hegemonic status, held since the late 19th century, for good.
Senior Colonel Zhou Bo (ret) is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and a China Forum expert


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Central Pasco Activities
With year round beautiful weather Central Pasco residents enjoy plenty of outdoor fun. The Land O’ Lakes Community Center at US 41 and School Road features a community center building, softball and football fields and a playground. This is also the site of the annual Central Pasco Chamber of Commerce Flapjack Festival, Jellybean Jamboree, and the Haunted House at Halloween. The Recreation Complex on Collier Parkway is a full featured park with soccer, baseball, football, gymnasium, swimming pool, tennis, and racquetball courts and a playground.
For more outdoor adventure, take
your bike or jogging shoes to the Suncoast Parkway Trail. The Suncoast
Trail is a paved recreational trail that runs parallel to the Suncoast Parkway
in Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando counties. This 400-foot-wide corridor
provides a safe route for bicycle and pedestrian commuting and serves
as a connector between public lands, parks and greenways. The first major
trail connection came about in September 2003 when the J.B. Starkey Trail
was linked to the Suncoast Trail. This connection allows users to easily
access the 8,000 acre J.B. Starkey Park for hiking, biking, horse riding
and camping. The trail encounters rivers, wetland interpretive and wildlife.
As well, you will find rest areas and viewing areas for your relaxation
J.B. Starkey’s Flatwoods Adventures, located in Odessa, features a wilderness adventure on a real working cattle ranch. Experienced guides will take you for a ride on a range buggy through flatwoods, sand pine ridges and pastureland with a stop at a 450 foot long boardwalk, through a cypress swamp.
For saltwater activities, 30 miles to the west you will find beaches, boat ramps, fishing piers, five gulf front parks and much more. Land O’ Lakes hosts several events throughout the year starting with the Business Expo, Golf Tournament, Fall Harvest Arts & Crafts, and the Land O’ Lakes biggest event is the Flapjack Festival.


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Get to the Market Theatre in Newtown really fast for “Sizwe Banzi is Dead” [Last show is on Sunday]. Last night we saw an exhilirating performance of this South African classic first performed in 1972. I saw it first about 20 years ago when this country was a very different place and the tragedy of it all resonated so deeply [I was a total drama school groupie then and let me ‘fess up here to always having had a penchant for the dramatic]. It’s an outstanding piece about identity, about what it means to be a man, about dignity, and about what’s in a name. Then it was also more a piece about the bleakness of being a black man under Apartheid, of having every aspect of your life circumscribed by cruel and petty laws and even more cruel and petty enforcers. Interestingly the play has not dated at all and yet the response to it now is so different. Last night in a packed Laager Theatre you could have been mistaken for thinking the piece was written as comedy – the audience laughed and laughed,and so did I, totally transported to Styles’ photographic studio in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth and held rapt by his stories about his time at the Ford Motor Company.
It got me thinking how our laughter, as South Africans, has changed. In the 80’s there was little to laugh about when you saw a play like this – it was bitter humour. In the 90s we started to laugh but at all the wrong things. I remember seeing a play at the Market about rape and political rot and being shaken by the audience’s laughter at what I thought were the most dramatic parts. Last night the laughter was joyful, compassionate. Not a laughter of forgetting though. An interesting shift in an audience that comprised multiple generations. But enough of that – and back to the stage.
An enthusiastic knock on the door brings Sizwe Banzi and his story into Styles’ “strongroom of dreams” where his death and rebirth unfold through a series of chance encounters.
There’s a fantastic video clip of John Kani performing the play – sadly the embed code was removed – so you need to watch it on on You Tube. Click here to see it.
Styles photographic studio called to mind an old favourite, Dambudzo Marechera’s House of Hunger. In the novella Solomon the township photographer is a rich man because he can, for a fee, obliterate “the squalor of reality” with his photographs. His customers, who have little hope of ever leaving the township with its “hunger-scoured hovels” holding them in its “spidery grip” are able to realise their dreams of escape through the illusions he creates – “Photographs of Africans in European wigs…The background of each is the same … waves breaking upon a virgin beach…”
Sizwe Banzi is Dead is a beautifully written play [the work of John Kani, Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona] and was performed so deftly by Arthur Molepo and Omphile Molusi [this under the enormous pressure of having the legendary John Kani who in addition has always performed the role of Styles] in the audience watching. BTW he gave the actors an incredibly warm and generous response when they emerged.
I blush to say it but when I first saw the street posters I thought “Can’t the Market Theatre come up with something more original. Isn’t Sizwe Banzi dead?”
I am now a believer. And totally back in love with the theatre. A good live performance will that do that to you. Try it.
** And thanks to BASA for my tickets. I love your work


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