Ya han pasado las comilonas impactantes y la etapa más ñoña de las fiestas. Ahora vamos de camino a la fase hortera-etílica, con la Nochevieja asomando en 4 días. | What kind of food are you? Your Result: Chips You are chips. You have 2 different taste to you. Sometimes you can be hot and spicey, other times sour or sweet. Some people like it when you quiet, or lade back. But other people like it when your out there and loud. But try not to be too loud. Some times you can burn people. | |
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Durante el viaje a la República Dominicana recolecté los sonidos de los dominicanos, de la calle, de la naturaleza y de ese buen rollo que se extiende entre la gente. Así nació Ron Brugal Sound System (http://www.ronbrugalsoundsystem.com), una mesa de mezclas, para crear tu propio remix del villancico “Los Peces en el Río” con loops de sonidos auténticos que grabé allí y felicitar la Navidad de una manera diferente: ¡como lo hacen los dominicanos!
CAGA TIÓ SOLIDARIO
Desde el día 21 hasta el 24 de Diciembre, de 8.30h a 17.30h obsequiaremos con un bolso banderola del Bicing o de la Semana de la Bicicleta a las personas abonadas que se dirijan a la Oficina del BICING (Pl. Carles Pi i Sunyer, 8-10, bjos. Promoción válida hasta agotar las existencias).
Los bolsos han sido elaborados por RAVALTEXT, empresa dedicada a la inserción laboral de personas con riesgo de exclusión.
Christmas History: Facts and myths surrounding the celebration of Christmas and the history of seasonal holiday traditions.
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Your score: 65%
You have 13 correct out of 20 questions.
Not bad, but you're not quite in the major league yet.
Edward Scissorhands - You are a creative person with a sensitive side. More apt to read a book than page through a magazine, your friends often marvel at the topics of conversation you come up with. You might at times get frustrated with the social scene, but hey, if you can get a cute kleptomaniac like Winona Ryder to fall for you, all is well!
Jack Sparrow - You're a trickster, relying more on wit and negotiation rather than weapons and force. You will fight if necessary, but only if all other efforts fail. You have a knack for adventure and a charm about you. People tend to fall for you and say they should know better.
President Obama is committed to working with Congress to pass comprehensive health reform this year in order to control rising health care costs, guarantee choice of doctor, and assure high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. The Administration believes that comprehensive health reform should:
- Reduce long-term growth of health care costs for businesses and government
- Protect families from bankruptcy or debt because of health care costs
- Guarantee choice of doctors and health plans
- Invest in prevention and wellness
- Improve patient safety and quality of care
- Assure affordable, quality health coverage for all Americans
- Maintain coverage when you change or lose your job
- End barriers to coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions
Siguiendo el consejo del anónimo que parece no estar a gusto en este blog, pero entra a criticar de vez en cuando (cuánto tiempo que perder y qué mal uso de Google, por cierto) voy a hacer el Ego test que me sugirió en este comentario:
Specialty care is the pride of the American health-care system. In fact, it dominates the system: only about a third of all physicians in the United States are primary-care physicians, compared with roughly half in most other industrialized countries.
Yet the overall health of Americans is relatively poor. In 2000 the United States ranked 23rd in the world for male and female life expectancy. Many people—even public-health experts—attribute this to disparities in health care among racial, ethnic, and income groups, and to the self-destructive behaviors of individuals. But none of these explanations really adds up. Even the white American population has a lower life expectancy than the population of any country in Western Europe. As for behaviors, the American population smokes less than people in most countries and is less likely, on average, to drink alcohol. And while it is true that residents of the U.S. states with the most social inequality have the poorest health, international comparisons suggest that differences in social inequality alone are not to blame.
Why, then, is the American health-care system so bad for our health? There is no single or simple answer, but a large part of the story—and a part that is commonly overlooked—is precisely the predominance of specialist care over primary care.
Primary care deals with most health problems for most people most of the time. Its priorities are to be accessible as health needs arise; to focus on individuals over the long term; to offer comprehensive care for all common problems; and to coordinate services when care from elsewhere is needed.
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In short, primary-care physicians do at least as well as specialists in caring for specific common diseases, and they do better overall when the measures of quality are generic.
The Primary Solution
"Care has to be person-focused over time. Now, instead of focusing care on meeting peoples' needs, professionals define the needs -- usually in terms of having a specific disease -- and then forget about the people while dealing with the disease".
"For health care reform to be successful, the system must focus on providing more primary care to more people."
"Instead of referring so much unnecessarily to (sub)specialists, we have to reserve (sub)specialist care for things that (sub)specialists are really needed for -- the less common and complicated things -- and take much better and more care of most health needs within a primary care setting."
Q. You have studied a lot and published a lot on other countries and their use of primary care in improving outcomes and lowering costs. If you had to pick a country for the United States to learn from in terms of how their health care system functions, what country would that be? A. That is a difficult question because no country has it perfect. But I think in terms of coming a long way in a rather short period of time in an industrialized -- rather than a developing -- country, Spain could provide some important lessons. Spain changed its health policies in the mid 1980s. It systematically moved from two-hour-a-day consultations to health centers -- a process that started in the most deprived areas of the country and spread over a period of 10 years to the whole country. They are basing their primary care health centers on the four principles of primary care. Spain probably now contributes relatively more primary care research than the United States does, given its smaller population size.
Q. How would you rate their outcomes? A. Their outcomes are better than ours. They do less than we do, but they have better outcomes at much lower costs.
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El éxito de la campaña ha superado las expectativas de todos y ha sido posible gracias al apoyo que nos habéis brindado todos los colaboradores. ¡MUCHAS GRACIAS!
Esto es solo el principio
Como ya he hablado por aquí bastante sobre la campaña*, os remito a una entrada anterior para saber de qué va el tema y me espero un momento a que os pongáis al día:
Y casi mejor, porque de los varios modelos que se reparten, el que me ha tocado a mí es muy fino y mono pero viene sin CD de drivers ni instrucciones de instalación, y aunque en la web de Tractis te faciliten los drivers según modelo, me ha ido de perlas la guía de instalación publicada en Criando Cuervos ayer.
Pero en estos últimos 12-15 meses he acumulado una cantidad tal de quejas, incidencias y reclamaciones, más las que no he llegado a hacer por estar cansada, que no me extrañaría nada haber pasado 15 horas en total hablando con operadores de Movistar.La Fundación Española de Ciencia y Tecnología (FECYT) usó esta tanda de preguntas para evaluar el grado de conocimiento científico-tecnológico de la población en general. Se trata de una serie de 10 afirmaciones —unas verdaderas y otras falsas— sobre las que tendréis que manifestar acuerdo o desacuerdo....Y sí, son preguntas muy básicas y he sacado un 10/10 ;D
Los estudios de percepción social de la ciencia y la tecnología tienen, en la FECYT una corta pero ya consolidada historia. A las encuestas realizadas en los años 2002 y 2004, se une ahora la de 2006. En este volumen, además de los resultados, se presenta una serie de análisis temáticos que complementan los ya desarrollados en años anteriores.
