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I am currently using hugo orthodontics, pricing is good, decent service and progress so far.
My braces are coming off in a month, I have had them on for two years now. My mother's medical aid paid for it. Dr Milstein in Edenvale is currently doing mine. Really great doctor.
My little brother went to Dr Kaka he is based in Emerentia, he had his Braces done about two years ago. My mother paid for his ones, she paid it in R500 monthly installments. Usually everytime he went for a checkup.
My brothers teeth came out perfect and my teeth looks to be the same.
I must stress that this is the second time I have had braces as the first doctor I went did a terrible job. Please do your research and make sure the orthodontist you go to is a good one. The first orthodontist I went to put braces on for me for a year. I was in grade 8,after five years, this was my metric year, my tee...
First year University, I decided to go see a proper orthodontist, Dr Milstein. All good so far with him.
It's an expensive and painful process especially for the child wearing the braces.
Make sure you do your homework, ps the first orthodontist I went to was based in Krugersdorp, her name was Liezel as far as I can remember.
I hated having braces. Especially in highschool. Could never fully give it my all in rugby and water polo. Was always scared I would get injured with these braces.
Had them for just over 2 years. Thankfully they are out.
Allow me to hijack this thread.
Have any of you guys used any of the following orthodontist?
Please let me know if you have used any of them, and what you think about them. I've already made an appointment with str8teeth in February, which is too far so I'm going to cancel the appointment. The other turn off is that the orthodontist is only available once a week in the Midrand branch.
I basically want to have braces on, with an orthodontist in the Midrand area.
Be careful of a dentist that offers orthodontict treament as an addon. You want to go to an orthodontist (they are specialists for a reason).
Orthos are very very busy, keep your appointment in feb, the likliehood you will find someone to take you sooner is unlikely. You only need to visit once a month, so if he is only there one day a week, it shouldn't be an issue.
My daughter is with Hugo at the moment.They are very affordable and extremely professional.
Noted, and thank you. I'm still waiting for their email though.
Hi. Im based in Midrand and need braces aswel. Which one did you decide on? And was it affordable?
9 months later and i can already see a big deference. Im sure you can get cheaper but the same professional service at Hugo i doubt.They definitely know what they do and like i said they affordable.
Im just past the 2 year mark. Had the lower jaw surgery 2 months ago and Im hoping that I only have a few months left.
No complaints about the treatment or costing, Hugo Ortho definitely somewhere I would recommend. I go to the floracliff one, not sure how the other one is.
For anyone going to the surgery, I strongly recommend Dr Kluge in pretoria. Did my 2 wisdoms and the surgery at the same time.
I need a highly recommended orthodontist in Cape Town area. I am currently with Hugo and they are superb. Unfortunately they don't have a practice in the Western Cape and I am relocating there.
I have had my braces for almost 6 months now.
Please be so kind as to refer me to an affordable and professional orthodontist in Cape Town area?
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Of all the books, magazines, newspapers and other reading material that made its way across my desk in 2007, perhaps the most meaningful was discovered in the most unlikely location: The supermarket checkout line.
Just past the tabloids blaring headlines about the latest celebrity scandal stood a small stack of olive-colored brochures with a simple title: "Lessons From Our Founder: The Publix Philosophy as Lived by George W. Jenkins."
Having lived for 25 years in Lakeland, home to the corporate headquarters of Publix Super Markets Inc., I know a great deal about Jenkins, but I have always wanted to learn more about the man who was arguably one of the most innovative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
Founded by Jenkins in 1930 in Winter Haven, Publix has gone on to become the largest employee-owned supermarket chain in the country, with 2006 retail sales of $21.7 billion in 926 stores. The work force at the Fortune 500 company totals nearly 150,000 people in five Southeastern states.
Publix has grown so large that today it even operates five food-processing plants and eight large distribution centers in Florida and Georgia.
None of this would have happened without the vision of one man: Jenkins.
n "Giving is the only way to get."
n "Respect the dignity of the individual."
n "The customer is queen (and king)."
n "Do the right thing."
The famous Publix guarantee - "to never knowingly disappoint customers" - is more than a marketing slogan; it stemmed from the way Jenkins treated everyone around him and permeated every aspect of his life.
"Some companies are founded on policy. This is wrong," Jenkins once declared. "Philosophy, the things you believe in, is more important. Philosophy does not change frequently - and is never compromised."
The native of Warm Springs, Ga., lived by that philosophy, and his store's founding principles, until the day he died in April 1996 at age 88. The last week of his life, he was seen visiting one of his stores and talking to Publix employees.
Then-Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles spoke for every Floridian when he said: "George made a tremendous contribution to our business climate, but perhaps more importantly, he was a true civic leader who had a deep dedication to improving our communities."
The former broom pusher and stock clerk at Piggly Wiggly, where he made $15 a week, opened his first Publix store with $1,300, money he had saved to buy a car. His 27-by-65-foot shop with five employees barely earned $500 its first year, but by 1935, Jenkins owned five stores.
Things that we take for granted while grocery shopping today - electric-eye doors that open automatically; fluorescent lighting; air-conditioning; wide aisles; frozen-food cases; open-air dairy cases; and a paved parking lot - were all introduced as part of Jenkins' innovative supermarkets in the 1940s and 1950s.
Few companies in Florida produced more millionaires. By making every employee eligible to own company stock, Jenkins set clerks and "stockboys" on the path to becoming rich. One woman who worked her entire career in a Publix Danish Bakery retired a millionaire.
The really rich folks, however, were those who got to know "Mr. George," as everyone at Publix called him, on a personal level. There was never a more giving or caring human being in all of Lakeland or in all of Polk County.
Virtually every educational institution in Polk, and many throughout Florida and the Southeast, received significant financial donations from Jenkins and his charitable foundation. In many ways, he was Bill Gates before there was Bill Gates.
Lakeland Christian School, where I earned my high school diploma 26 years ago, has been the beneficiary of Mr. George's largess through the years. So has Lakeland's Florida Southern College, where my sister received her undergraduate degree in 1997.
Few people in Lakeland could say that they were not the product of Jenkins' continued investments into their lives - a fact that makes him an example for everyone who aspires to any position of leadership in any role of life.
At the core of that example is Jenkins' humility. "One of the most important lessons I've learned in my business career is that no man puts together an organization on his own," he once said.
Whether building a company, a real estate department, an economic development agency or a professional association, leaders today will find no better role model than the late George Jenkins.
Every time I pass through the checkout line at my neighborhood supermarket, I am reminded of that truth.
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With less than a week before the contracts for workers at General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler factories in the US expire at midnight on September 14, the United Auto Workers is continuing to conceal the content of its negotiations from workers.
The Wall Street Journal and the two Detroit dailies have reported, however, that the auto executives have responded positively to a proposal from the UAW to reduce health care costs by fundamentally changing the way workers in the United States get medical benefits.
According the scheme, first outlined by UAW President Dennis Williams at the union’s Detroit headquarters three months ago, the UAW wants to establish a so-called health care co-op for the companies’ 141,000 hourly workers and possibly another 100,000 salaried employees. The co-op would be modeled on the UAW Retiree Me...
According to Williams, the pool of over 1 million beneficiaries would give the union leverage to negotiate better terms with health care providers so costs could be reduced without cutting benefits or forcing workers to pay more.
The UAW must think that auto workers have no memory at all. The union executives made similar pie-in-the-sky predictions in 2007, when they first proposed that a retiree trust fund be established as a Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Association or VEBA. Then-UAW President Ronald Gettelfinger said the fund would be sol...
The major beneficiary of the VEBA, however, has not been retirees, who have faced increased costs and inferior care, but the auto corporations and their richest shareholders, who dumped their obligations at a fraction of the cost. In exchange for betraying the retirees, the UAW executives gained control of one of the l...
From the beginning, the companies underfunded the trust by at least $36 billion with tax deductible cash and stock payments to the UAW, then wiped their hands clean of any further obligations to workers who had made them billions.
The first thing the UAW trustees did was to eliminate coverage for dental and vision care and some prescriptions and to sharply increase costs for retirees desperately trying to live on a fixed income. While some coverage was eventually restored, primarily because the fund benefited from the meteoric stock market rise ...
“I’m not happy with the VEBA—it stinks,” Tim, a retired Ford worker from Sharonville, Ohio told the World Socialist Web Site. “They changed my insurance without even telling me. All of a sudden bills were coming in the mail. I called and asked them why, and they told me my insurance changed. Now my co-pays for blood te...
Jim, a retired GM worker from Dayton, Ohio, added, “After you stand on an assembly line for 30 years your body wears out you break down all over. You get constant medical bills and you have to live on your little pension, Social Security and Medicare benefits.
“For years, autoworkers were willing to forgo any wage increases above their guaranteed three percent in order to get health care to live longer. It was a trade off. They are simply robbing us of years and years of sacrificed wage increases.
Indeed, the UAW will have a direct financial incentive to slash benefits to retain a larger investment pie. All of the UAW trustees—which include the current bargaining team for the UAW, Dennis Williams, Cindy Estrada (GM), James Settles (Ford), and Norwood Jewell (Fiat Chrysler)—are counseled by Wall Street advisors, ...
What’s driving cost? The heart medicines, insulin, doctor and hospital visits that keep retirees and their spouses alive. As the Free Press notes, the UAW has found a remedy for that. “Williams also says VEBA administrators and the UAW have learned a good deal about containing and occasionally reducing costs of care…re...
The conspiracy of the UAW and the companies to take the attack on health care to the next level—to current auto workers—is certainly being closely coordinated with the Obama administration, which has made the cutting of health care costs a principle domestic imperative. The main purpose of “Obamacare” has been to shift...
In particular, a central plank of the Obama administration’s “Affordable Care Act” is the Cadillac Tax, which will go in effect in 2018. The tax penalizes companies, employing nearly a third of all US workers, for supposedly overly generous benefits.
Autoworkers fought and won the right to such benefits in the 1940s and 1950s. Now the UAW is ganging up with the auto bosses, Wall Street and the Obama administration to destroy employer-paid benefits and to dump workers into a UAW-run insurance plan, with little more than a voucher.
The Department of Justice's family separation agreement is an imperfect compromise.
Honduran six-year-old Anthony walks to school on September 10, 2018 in Oakland, California. He and his father Juan fled their country, leaving many family members behind, and crossed the U.S. border in April at a lawful port of entry in Brownsville, Texas seeking asylum. They were soon separated and spent the next 85 d...
On Wednesday, Department of Justice lawyers and attorneys representing families that were separated at the border filed a notice in court announcing an agreement that would wind down the legal battle over Trump’s since rescinded family separation policy.
The agreement is imperfect, continuing to deny families some of the rights to which they would be entitled if they had never been separated in the first place. It will, though, at least restore some of those rights that were taken when the Trump administration unlawfully separated them at the border.
• Parents who have remained in the United States and whose children were taken from them will be able to have failed “credible fear” interviews reviewed, and have new evidence presented. They will also receive “due consideration” for the “psychological state of the parent at the time of the initial interview” in how re...
• Parents whose children passed a credible fear interview but who failed their own will be allowed to go through asylum proceedings with their children. The same will be true of children who failed to pass credible fear interviews when their parents succeeded. Going through proceedings together would be standard practi...
• Parents will have the right to be with their children during new credible fear interviews and provide testimony on their behalf. The children will also be entitled to have a lawyer present. This would have been standard practice if the families had never been separated unlawfully.
• Lawyers for these families will offer their clients the opportunity to waive these rights and expedite their own deportations. This would be the opposite of what happened initially, when government officials used separated children as leverage to pressure parents to sign waivers authorizing their own deportation.
• Parents who have been deported won’t be able to return to the United States to go through immigration proceedings with their children in the manner described above, unless granted an exception by the Justice Department.
• Families are surrendering any additional right to seek further civil claims, including on statutory grounds, over the circumstances of their unlawful separation.
The agreement still needs to be ratified by Judge Dana Sabraw, who this summer ruled that Trump’s family separation policy had been a violation of families’ due process rights and enjoined the government to end the practice and reunite separated families, a process that is still ongoing. After vocal public outcry, Trum...
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