Right now where the process of doing a lot of great work. Onto our esteemed author. Wendell pierce was born in new orleans and as an actor and Tony Awardwinning producer. He starred in all five seasons of the acclaimed hbo drama, the wire. You may remember [applause]. You may remember him as a humble man with great attributes. Mr. Pierce was nominated for an naacp image award for outstanding supporting actor in drama series for that role. He is also starred as a player Antoine Baptiste [applause]. And the hbo series and has appeared in several other feature films such as thelma, ray, ray, waiting to exhale and hackers. Since Hurricane Katrina mr. Pierce has helping to rebuild the flood ravaged neighborhood of new orleans. He has recorded that in his memoir and is going to talk about that today. Again, lets welcome mr. Wendell pierce. [applause]. Thank you very much. Thank you mr. Williams. Now this is very exciting for me. Very unique. As mr. Williams said, i am an actor, not an audio
Little conversation with the reader and you address the reader directly in your work. Is that something you think about . Totally conscious. Another big influence on me are my dads side of the family. Every holiday, it would end up that we would be down in the cellar at my great uncles house , at the bar, and everybody would be spinning these funny stories. So the context is, this guy is telling you these stories in a bar, and you are not sure whether to believe him or not. So ill is have that in mind when i am telling a story, even when i tell now i work my stories out on my twoyearold and my sevenyearold. I cant trick them as easily as i can trick everybody else. [laughter] david s. all right, jen, do you want to advance the thing every time . Jen sure. David s. this is a piece from jens where it is a series of panels and she is going to go one panel at a time. Jen this is hillary clinton, pro versus con. On the pro side, we will Keep Health Care reform, saving countless lives, on th
Yourself and mashed in my world, and then you discover, there is a hook in their. There. [laughter] been s. i have always interested in your little biographical tom toles in the righthand corner. What are you thinking about it when you write it . The thought, initially, was the thought derived from pat all oliphant, who to me is the watershed of political cartooning, and he hates me to this day for coining that, and heme that is perfect because invested in it and it was so personal, and it seemed like it was offlimits. Library, i wasa looking through early 20th century american cartooning, and i found out this marginal commentary was part of the andand and i thought i thought, i would give it a try. I put myself in a personally. It is a drawing board. David s. do you have any way of putting yourself in the cartoon and giving a Second Opinion . Tom yes, it is just another dimension. When i draw cartoons and sketches, i always draw them without that in mind. Take that away, the cartoon i
Robust managed care environment, the consultant engagement helped us identify a few key foundational infrastructure elements that we must have in place in order to be successful. And you see those listed here. The first we just talked about, which is having an Enterprise Electronic Health record. The second is organizational intelligence, which is a proprietary software, which is a Cost Accounting system that allows us to cost out services particularly at our acute Care Trauma Center that we will need in order to set contracting rates. The third, which is Network Operations integration, we have several systems throughout our network that are not integrated. As you know, we have a separate medical staff or the at San Francisco general, one at laguna honda and separate credentialing process in Behavioral Health and from a planned contracting perspective, were going to need to centralize and coordinate those functions so that what dealing with payers, there is a onestop shopping as oppose
What is it all about for people who are not familiar . It is a fundraiser on february 28. Second to last day of february. Yeah. And its oscar night. So everyone comes over to the palms, walks the red carpet and then we all hang out in the theater and on the big screen we watch the oscars. Its all to raise money for the Variety Childrens Charity of southern nevada. Youve been working with this event for variety for many years now. How special is this . Very special. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year for variety. For those who arent familiar with variety, variety is a charity here in las vegas. Its been around for like over 50 years, i think here in las vegas. They do a lot for children with special needs. We have three schools here in las vegas that variety founded. The miller school, the variety school. I visit it every year christmas time with a bunch of my friends for christmas. For the christmas party. Its heart warming. The miller school, which this thats tony douglas from