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A good analogy might be that when you analyze a credit card company that is growing very, very fast, and that has opened new accounts, you don't see the bad debt because that debt is covered up by new loans. The true nature of the past lending decisions only becomes obvious when the company's growth falls off.
One way to think about the Chinese economy is by comparing it to the bus in the movie Speed with Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper. In the movie, a bus was wired with explosives that would blow up if the bus's speed dropped below 50 miles an hour.
Since China is manufacturer to the world, that manufacturing business comes with a lot of fixed costs. Factories, equipment need financing, and they are mainly financed by debt – another fixed cost. The high level of fixed costs doesn't afford China an economic slowdown, but when it happens, the consequences will be dire. High fixed costs are great when revenues are rising as income grows at a faster rate than sales. But they are devastating to profitability when sales decline: costs decline at a slower rate than sales and you start losing money, fast.
TCR: Interestingly, there's clearly a slowdown in the U.S. and Europe, China's two biggest markets, so you would assume that China's export industries would have suffered a fairly sharp decline since the go-go days before the crash. That has to be putting pressure on their growth. How important to the Chinese is it that the U.S. and the European economies recover and Western consumers get back into the game?
VK: I think a return of U.S. and European consumers is extremely important to the health of the Chinese economy. Some analysts think China's internal demands can overcome the demand decline from U.S. and European consumers, and I think it is possible in the long run. But in the short run, I don't think that's possible. Let me explain the reasons for that.
Chinese consumers represent one-third of a 5-trillion-dollar economy. If you look at the size of the U.S. and European Union together, they are equal to a 30-trillion-dollar economy, and the consumers there constitute about two-thirds of those economies.
So on the one hand, you have U.S. and European consumers representing 20 trillion dollars in purchases, versus Chinese consumers at about 2 trillion dollars. In other words, U.S. and European consumers are 10 times the size of the Chinese consumers. As a result, a very small change in consumption in the U.S. and Europe has to be overcompensated by a huge increase in consumption in China, and that is going to be very difficult to do, especially considering that the Chinese currency is kept at artificially low levels. That, of course, diminishes the purchasing power of the Chinese consumer. Over time the Chinese consumer will play a larger role in the economy, but it's going to take a decade, not months – not even a few years.
TCR: You're pretty bearish on the outlook for China; do you have a theory about what might trip them up? What's the thing that readers should be watching for that would suggest things are starting to unravel?
VK: It's very difficult to know exactly what's going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back. It could be a slowdown in the Japanese economy, or a double-dip in the U.S., or some other factors that are not apparent to us today. It could be just the simple fact that the Chinese government is trying to put the brakes on the economy and mistakenly does too much.
I don't trust government-reported statistics, thus I'd watch numbers that the Chinese government is less likely to fudge: electricity consumption, which was down during the global recession, same-store sales of American fast food restaurants in China, tonnage of goods shipped through railroads, and, though they may lag, sales by American and European companies in China.
TCR: If you look at inputs like copper imports and even copper stocks in Shanghai, by all appearances China is at least pretending that it's business as usual. In fact, I think in August they imported 22% more refined copper than they did the year before. But if this is just to build bridges to nowhere, then it supports the idea that this is not going to be sustainable.
VK: That's right. That is the problem with looking at this kind of data, because a lot of it is going to building things that have a negative return on capital. Therefore, you look at the data and the data does not really tell you that much – until it does. Because, basically, it's the government's involvement that is driving a lot of the demand.


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Colombian photographer Mafe Gordillo, currently based in Barcelona, shares photos from her project "SintesiS AditivA" ("Additive Synthesis").
Space is space on it's own, human is human on it's own, and the sum of these two elements gives us a manipulated environment in which functionality steps away from meaning and where besides of motion you can still perceive life, because far from and anthropocentric view, a being is the essence of space, that once interpreted and modified, looses its selfness and transforms into and appendix longing energy to accomplish it function and mean something.
Precisely, this absence of life, once space has been treated is the matter I'm interested in shooting, showing how environment stops been sovereign on itself and requires a soul to be pragmatic and to symbolize, besides it communicative capability remains intact.

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For those who might have missed it, here is the Rustic-Glam Thanksgiving look I created for Bright Bazaar. A mix of natural textures and seasonal colors with a little bit of sparkle.
I found these birch barks at my local flower warehouse and just knew I had to use them for the centerpiece. I placed cylinder vases in each and added tealights to one and holly branches to the other. The effect was magical; the warm glow of the candles accentuated the color of the berries. I scattered dried Rosehips scented with Blue Spruce Oil to bring festive fragrance to the table.
Sources to get the look:
Gold votives: Crate and Barrel | Gold triangles tumblers: Dwell Studio from Global Views | Vintage spools: Trohv | Rust Iron chair: Trohv | Wrap Me Around You throw: Dormify | Squirrel Nut Jonathan Adler: Trohv | Silver Placemats + Napkins: West Elm | Metallic Thread Placemats (overhang): West Elm | Table runner: Crate and Barrel | Flatware: DvF | Dinner plates: Home Goods | Dessert Plates: West Elm | Dried Rosehips scented with Blue Spruce Oil: Trohv | Amethyst side plates: Ikea | Small Carafe: William Sonoma | Tall Carafe: Pottery Barn | Iron Blackbird: Trohv | Tea cups + saucers: vintage/thrifted
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Outdoors report: Dec. 26
Updated 8:30 pm, Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Tides are expected to be below normal today with stiff northwest winds. Expect fish to be concentrated in guts and channels.
Lake Conroe
Black bass are fair on watermelon red spinnerbaits and Rat–L–Traps in 15–30 feet of water. Crappie are fair on minnows and blue tube jigs. Catfish are good on stinkbait and frozen shrimp.
Fayette County
Black bass are fair on electric blue Carolina rigged Finesse worms in 10–16 feet of water and on spinnerbaits along the outside edges of grass. Channel and blue catfish are good on stinkbait and shrimp over baited holes in 14–18 feet of water.
Lake Somerville
Black bass are good on silver spinnerbaits.White bass are good on silver spinnerbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows and chartreuse tube jigs.
Upper and lower Texas coasts
Winds will be north 25 to 35 mph this morning, gradually deceasing north-northeast 15 to 25 mph by the evening. Winds will then be north to northeast 10 to 15 mph on Thursday. Seas in deep water will be 9 to 13 feet this morning, decreasing at 6 to 9 feet tonight, and 3 to 6 feet on Thursday. Skies will be partly cloudy.
Tuesday's beach-water temperature at Galveston was 63 degrees.
Today's tides
Highs 12:09 a.m., 5:09 p.m.; lows 8:45 a.m., 9:43 p.m.
High 4:23 p.m.; low 7:45 a.m.
Thursday's tides
Highs 12:44 a.m., 5:35 p.m.; lows 9:15 a.m., 9:38 p.m.
High 4:53 p.m.; low 8:18 a.m.
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I have a 22r engine in my toyota pickup 1984 and I just did the oil pump seal, timing chain drivers side guide, timing chain cover seal, water pump seal, valve cover seal, crank shaft seal(front main), belts and adjusted valves.I put it all back together and it has a dead spot for lack of a Better term. And won't start.I didn't touch the timing chain at all what could have happened? Again this is a 1984 Toyota pickup with a 22r engine.
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Back in June, when I was in Denver for a little pre-BEX activity, I had a chance to get to know the good people of Denver and partake in some of the beer that they are so darned proud of.
More beer is brewed in Denver per capita than in any other city even though their brew history only dates back to 1988 when Wynkoop Brewing Co. opened. Wynkoop is owned by Colorado's (current) Governor, John Hickelooper, who is the first former brewer to be elected governor since Sam Adams in 1794. Beer is big business for Colorado, not just a tasty one, with the industry contributing around $486 million a year to the state's economy. And while I'm on the subject of taste, don't forget that Denver was selected as the top micro-brew beer city in the nation in 2011 by readers of Travel + Leisure magazine.
You'll need to spend a lot of tasting time in Colorado to visit the more than 140 breweries across the state. Or, just plan on visiting Denver for the 4th annual Denver Beer Fest, a 9-day celebration of all things beer. Over 150 beer-centric events are scheduled, including:
- Denver Beer Crawl: This pub crawl will showcase a dozen Colorado beers at many of Denver's finest bars, tap houses and breweries. I've done a pub crawl in Denver and can highly recommend this experience. I made it to five brew pubs before I ran out of steam, leaving behind a long list to visit on a return trip.
- Rare Beer Tastings: Once-in-a-lifetime tastings of unique beers that will not ever have the opportunity to be consumed by the masses due to small quantity batches.
- Meet the Brewer Nights: An opportunity to meet the people that craft your favorite brews.
- Firkin nights: What in the heck is a Firkin? It's an original cask conditioned beer. On a Firkin Night, the one-of-a-kind barrel of beer is tapped and everyone drinks it until it is gone. Quite enjoyable, but it can never to be exactly replicated again.
- Tap Takeovers: A local brewery takes over all the taps at a bar or restaurant.
- Beer-paired Dinners: Just like wine pairings only with beer, it's a chance to see how food and beer can bring out the best in each other. The dinners are a multi-course fixed-priced.
- Beer Competitions: Beers are paired off against each other, often with the bar patrons voting for their favorites, until there is only one left standing. It's a chance to see in your favorite beer has wide spread enjoyment.
- Beer Education: special programs or lectures that discuss different aspects of beer tasting or brewing
- Pub Crawls: On foot or by bike, you'll have a chance to visit multiple bars as you crawl the city.
- Brewery Tours: Special theme-tours.
- Beer Games: The usual bar games with a special twist – trivia nights, quizzes, contests, and special events.
The Denver Beer Fest overlaps into the Great American Beer Festival (GABF), the "Super Bowl of Beer," held at the Colorado Convention Center October 11-13. This event is considered the most prestigious and coveted beer competition in America. It holds a is the world's largest beer celebration with a Guinness World Record last year (2011) for the most beers ever made available for tasting at a single event – some 2,400 different brews from 500 breweries.
For those out of state beer fans, don't worry, you won't miss all the fun. Head to your local market and pick up a Denver Pale Ale or a Tundrabeary Pale Ale. Or maybe a Dry Dock Double IPA or a Cherry Bomb Belgian Stout. And if you can't find any of the tasty craft brews that come from Colorado, remember that Colorado's Anheuser-Busch makes Stella Artois, Becks, and Bass Pale Ale (along with Budweiser, Michelob, and others). So grab your favorite, or try something new, and follow the Denver Beer Fest on Twitter, hashtag #DenBeer.
Location: Various spots around Denver
Dates: October 5-13th, 2012
Tickets: Vary depending on event.
NOTE: 21 and over only. And remember to drink responsibly and always have a designated driver.
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AT&T revealed late last week that the HTC Inspire 4G would soon be on the receiving end of a maintenance update, and now it appears that that new software has begun rolling out. On its official Inspire 4G update page, HTC lists information for the update to software version 3.20.502.52, which includes Sense 3.0, a task manager and several other enhancements. HTC's full changelog for the update is as follows:
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The update is now rolling out over the air, and Inspire 4G owners can check for it by heading into Menu > Settings > AT&T Software Update > Check for updates. HTC has also provided the update as a 350MB download from its website for manual installation. However, users that opt to update manually will need the HTC Sync software installed on their PC. Using the manual method will also delete all of the data on the phone. Whichever route you decide to go, we'll be waiting in the comments section to hear all about what you think of Sense 3.0 and the other tweaks included in the update. Don't leave us hanging!
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By AMY GAREIS News-Herald Staff Writer
CADIZ – Det. Sgt. Joe Mullet of the Holmes County Sheriff's Office led discussion about identifying meth labs during the April 28 safety meeting at Puskarich Library.
Roughly 40 oil and gas, government and transportation officials attended the monthly meeting headed by Harrison County Sheriff Joe Myers.
Mullet noted that meth labs were portable and could be contained in a two-liter pop bottle, but the drug is volatile and could explode.
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A novel of a Southern woman trapped in the past and two brothers divided by the Civil War, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Good Earth.
Lucinda Delaney is a southern belle ruled by a vision of life that no longer exists. The Civil War has come and gone and her side has lost, yet she is determined to proceed as if nothing has changed—a denial that stokes the flames of her irrational angers. Despite her returned husband's devotion, Lucinda is sure he is having an affair with one of their slaves. After all, his Union-sympathizing brother, Tom, did just that, scandalously running away with the woman and settling into contented family life in Philadelphia. Over the years, her racist feelings and fears only intensify, and when it's time for her own daughter to marry, her chief concern is the color of the children. The Angry Wife is a memorable and impassioned dissection of prejudice, as well as a riveting portrait of post–Civil War America. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate.
"[Buck] did for the working people of twentieth-century China something of what Dickens had done for London's nineteenth-century poor." —Hilary Spurling, author of Pearl Buck in China
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her books are set. In 1934, civil unrest in China forced Buck back to the United States. Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women's rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. In addition to her highly acclaimed novels, Buck wrote two memoirs and biographies of both of her parents. For her body of work, Buck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, the first American woman to have done so. She died in Vermont.


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To create leading healthcare institutions, physicians and hospitals must be aligned in multiple areas over a sustained period of time. However, today the historical basis for a working relationship between physicians and hospitals has broken down due to increased competition aimed at offsetting reimbursement cuts. This breakdown, coupled with the increasing demands for quality, efficiency, coordination and the payment changes outlined in healthcare reform, has left many organizations wondering how to best rebuild physician-hospital alignment.
Recently, individual economic tools such as employment have been presented as the "silver bullet" solution, but often fail to achieve full alignment. Equally misguided is the belief that communication and dialog will be enough to create a durable relationship between physicians and hospitals.
Instead, forming durable, collaborative partnerships requires understanding the needs of both parties and the use of a variety of tools and strategies to meet those needs and to align the hospital and its physicians. Given that the success of the hospital's mission depends on physician alignment, it is incumbent on hospital administrators to define the new collaborative tenor of the relationship between hospitals and physicians and their overall alignment strategy.
As illustrated by Exhibit 1, there are three major elements required for full physician-hospital alignment. The Physician-Hospital Alignment Triangle includes:
- Clinical Activity Alignment
The correlation of the patient care approach, expectations of quality and service, and consolidation of activity in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of a patient
- Economic Alignment
The correlation of physician and hospital financial returns
- Alignment of Purpose
The correlation of vision, values and energies; creating a shared belief in a single vision/mission, a common culture and an active involvement in the future direction of the organizations
Alignment in one area is not enough to be successful in the current high-pressure environment. The post–healthcare reform environment requires much greater integration
of the continuum, which in turn requires alignment on all three elements of the Physician-Hospital Alignment Triangle.
Unfortunately, most hospitals and healthcare systems are far from full physician alignment. To systematically study the physician-hospital alignment at hospitals and healthcare systems across the country, the authors have developed a quantitative diagnostic tool. This tool, the Physician-Hospital Alignment Diagnostic, allows hospitals to test their specific situation and alignment against others across the country. Over a period of only a few hours per hospital, a healthcare system or independent hospital can determine where it ranks on physician alignment, the areas of weakest alignment, the urgency of the situation and the tools that others have used to improve each area of alignment.
The Current State of Physician-Hospital Alignment
Our research into physician-hospital relationships across the country shows that most hospitals need to improve the relationships with their physicians in at least one area.
The need for greater alignment has been raised throughout the industry. What is new is a quantitative model to measure the gap in alignment and compare that across organizations.
The Physician-Hospital Alignment Diagnostic is a quantitative tool developed to systematically assess the alignment between hospitals and physicians. The diagnostic has three components:
- Measure of Physician-Hospital Alignment. The first component is a quantitative measure of the alignment between a hospital and its medical staff along Clinical Activity Alignment, Economic Alignment and Alignment of Purpose. Each area of alignment is scored up to 50 points (mean score = 27) for a total alignment score of up to 150 points (mean score = 81). Higher scores indicate greater alignment.Through a short series of detailed quantitative questions assessing the indicators of physician-hospital alignment, the diagnostic creates a systematic assessment that can be compared to other organizations and situations across the country.
- Measure of Urgency. This component creates a quantitative assessment of how the market, competitive, physician and internal hospital characteristics all interact to create a level of urgency.Urgency of the situation is scored up to 50 points (mean score = 30), with the higher scores indicating greater urgency.
- Strategies to Improve Alignment. Paired with the assessments of alignment and urgency are specific recommendations for the strategies that best improve alignment in the areas with the lowest scores for each hospital.
The purpose of the Physician-Hospital Alignment Diagnostic is not to provide a single answer to as complex a challenge as physician alignment, but rather to provide the tools to diagnose the situation and narrow the set of strategies for further investigation and discussion.
Taking a sample of 40 hospitals to measure physician-hospital alignment reveals some interesting results.
- Total physician alignment varies less than alignment on each of the three major elements (clinical activity, economic and purpose).
- Hospitals typically have much stronger alignment in one element to offset weaker alignment in the other two elements.
- Hospitals typically do not have above-average alignment in more than one element.
- Hospitals that employ large portions of their medical staff do not necessarily have greater alignment on clinical activity and purpose elements.
- A hospital's physician alignment takes on the characteristics of the senior team and strategies used.
- Hospitals with charismatic leadership teams and strongly articulated visions have greater alignment of purpose.
- Hospitals with strong financial focus typically deploy strategies that more directly impact economic alignment.
- Hospitals focused on efficiency and quality typically have greater clinical activity alignment.
- Organizations with stronger-than-average physician alignment often have higher-than-average urgency for alignment.
- Physician-hospital alignment requires effort that is not typically expended unless there is a market requirement.
- Few organizations have both above-average alignment and low urgency for alignment. Those that do are very dominant in their markets.
Strategies to Improve Physician-Hospital Alignment
The findings for these 40 hospitals, which are similar to other hospitals in the database, show the variability of physician-hospital alignment and that, on average, many hospitals are far from garnering the highest score in all areas.
There are many approaches that organizations use to align physicians. Our research has identified 20 distinct strategies of varying levels of impact that are being used to effectively
align physicians today. These 20 strategies can be categorized into four groupings. (See Exhibit 2.)
The first grouping of strategies relates to business services. The business services category includes strategies that are geared toward strengthening the relationship on the business aspects of the physician practice and hospital operations. As such, this grouping of strategies strongly influences economic alignment. Strategies in this grouping include:
- Management services organization: practice support services to optimize efficiency of billing, back-office and contracting functions
- Real estate: leasing real estate or other hard assets from physicians
- Information infrastructure: IT services are included, such as those to promote increased communication among physicians and the hospital (e.g., common electronic health record)
- Payor contracting organizations: vehicles for managing payor contracts for physicians (e.g., IPA, PHO)
- Clinically integrated physician network: structures that, through common information exchange and quality standards, allow better collaboration for patient management, potentially resulting in improved payor contracts
The second grouping of strategies is contracts. The contracts category includes strategies that are built on a contractual relationship for specific physician clinical, managerial or investment services and are typically targeted toward a combination of improving clinical quality, operational efficiency and programmatic development. As a result, this grouping of strategies strongly influences clinical activity alignment. Strategies in this grouping include:
- ER call pay: on-call arrangements to ensure adequate physician coverage for emergency departments and inpatient departments
- Physician recruiting: financial support during the initial start-up period to recruit physicians new to the market where there is a designated community need
- Medical directorships: stipends to oversee specific programs, services and departments, and to achieve certain metrics
- Clinical co-management and professional service agreements: joint management (or full management) for a management fee by the physicians and hospital of a service line or even the entire hospital to improve quality, operations and program development
- Joint ventures: jointly investing in a business venture
The structured communications category is the third grouping of strategies and, as the name implies, includes strategies that are built on a highly structured process for communicating between hospital executives and physicians. Because the topics are about strategic intent and direction, this grouping of strategies strongly influences alignment of purpose. Strategies in this grouping include:
- Blogs and one-way communication: digital and group-focused such as CEO blogs, newsletters, announcements, etc.
- Two-way direct communication: one-on-one and digital two-way communication such as emails to individuals, social media and individual meetings
- Town hall forums and retreats: large-group discussion settings where there is some two-way communication
- Physician advisory council: group discussion settings where there is significant, direct two-way communication
- Direct physician leadership: a chief medical officer, physician CEO or other forums of direct physician participation in the leadership of the organization
The fourth grouping of strategies is employment. The employment category includes variations of strategies that meet the legal definition of employment. Because these strategies can be applied in a variety of ways and often incorporate many of the other strategies as part of the employment agreement, this grouping can strongly influence all three elements of the Physician-Hospital Alignment Triangle. Employment strategies include:
- Individual contracts: customized employment agreements with an individual or group of physicians
- Standardized contracts: similar expectations and cultural norms for all employed physicians
- Single-specialty group employment: grouping a whole department or specialty of individual physicians into a group format, usually with group incentives
- Multi-specialty group employment: creating the culture of a single group across all specialties employed
- Organizational integration: a single team—one culture, outlook, vision and mission across all the employees (physicians and administrators) of an organization
In states with prohibitions on the corporate practice of medicine or where similar statutes prohibit direct employment of physicians, an aligned physician foundation that employs or contracts with the physicians and holds a professional service agreement with the hospital approximates employment for alignment purposes.
Multiple Strategies Needed
As discussed above, each of these four categories of physician-alignment tools is not uniformly suited to drive alignment in each area of the Physician-Hospital Alignment Triangle. Instead, particular strategies need to be used depending on the specific situation. Physician-hospital alignment is a situation where a one-size strategy does not fit all. To
narrow the discussions, hospitals and health systems that want to improve alignment in one or more areas should consider using various categories of strategies based on the
relationship shown in Exhibit 3.
Having narrowed the investigation to one or two groupings of strategies, the organization should determine which strategies to deploy to create the right amount of impact for the situation.
As shown in Exhibit 4, there is a range of risk and impact in the strategies within each category. As expected, the strategies that have a higher impact on physician-hospital alignment also carry greater risk to the relationship if implemented poorly. It is important, therefore, to balance the risk with the need for impact in any given situation.
Understanding both the alignment gap and the urgency of the situation is important for determining how aggressive an organization needs to be with its alignment strategies. The Physician-Hospital Alignment Diagnostic measures both the alignment gap and the urgency of the situation to assist leaders in assessing the situation. Those in situations where there is low alignment and high urgency should focus their planning on the high-impact strategies, whereas those in situations where there is high alignment already and the urgency is low should carefully consider the risks of various strategies and begin with strategies that have lower risk even though they also have lower impact. The goal is to apply the appropriate strategies with the right balance of impact and risk to create the alignment needed for each situation.
Case Study 1—Hospital A
Hospital A is a 227-bed hospital (ADC of 166) that provides strong community care to a growing, affluent, suburban market with no dominant competitors. The hospital has a private-practice physician model and above-average financial indicators, with an operating margin of 5.9%.
Exhibit 5 shows the scores for a typical hospital compared to those of Hospital A. This hospital has strong alignment of purpose, but average alignment in clinical activity and economic areas. Moreover, market indicators suggest that the urgency of creating stronger physician alignment is lower than average.
Detailed investigation of Hospital A shows that hospital leadership has been actively working to create a common vision with its physicians. This common vision has led to direct physician leadership in setting the strategic course of Hospital A. However, while Hospital A has kept up with the national trends, it has not been overly aggressive at using the strategies that might advance clinical activity or economic alignment. For instance, Hospital A does not employ any physicians, pays only limited amounts for ER call and has only a very limited number of other contractual and business service activities which involve its physicians.
With the relatively weaker alignment within clinical activity and economic elements, Hospital A has embarked on investigating the strategies to strengthen these two areas of alignment. However, in this market, the urgency for change is lower than average. As such, Hospital A has been investigating moderate-impact strategies with lower risk in the contracts and business services categories.
Today, Hospital A has made extending the electronic medical record to all physicians on the medical staff its key priority on its way to building off of a strong alignment of purpose to create a clinically integrated physician network. This will allow Hospital A and its physicians to deliver better care coordination and allow the physicians and hospital to contract together, creating increases in economic alignment.
Additionally, to improve clinical activity alignment, medical directorships are being reevaluated to ensure they advance the vision of the hospital's operations, and a clinical co-management relationship in cardiology is under development.
Case Study 2—Hospital B
In contrast to Hospital A, Hospital B is a 300-bed hospital (ADC of 188) and a sole community provider in a low-growth market. The hospital's physician model is private practice with selected employment in key specialties. With an operating margin of 3.8%, the hospital's financial and quality indicators are in line with national averages. Hospital B has stronger-than-average economic alignment with their physicians. (See Exhibit 6.) Their urgency of alignment is lower than others in the sample, which is mostly a factor of the hospital's sole provider status.
Further investigation shows that Hospital B uses multiple economic tools—real estate leases, strong information system connections, employment, call pay and medical directorships—to economically align physicians with the hospital. As a sole community provider in a flat market, the hospital needed to mitigate the economic threat posed by physicians developing their own facilities and diagnostics to compete with the hospital. However, the strategies that led to strong economic alignment did not lead to the same levels of clinical activity alignment or alignment of purpose.
To further improve physician alignment, Hospital B needs to deploy the specific strategies targeted at clinical activity and purpose. Moreover, since the urgency is lower than average, Hospital B can carefully plan these changes and implement lower-risk strategies to improve the clinical activity and alignment of purpose over time.
Physician-hospital alignment is a key component of the future success of every hospital and health system. There is not a single strategy to create full alignment, and even with
the use of multiple strategies, full alignment is an elusive goal. Making progress toward the goal of much fuller alignment and even physician integration requires that organizations understand the elements of alignment and how various strategies impact these elements. Those that most accurately assess their situation and adeptly apply appropriate strategies will be the leaders in their markets.
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This was an experimental concept drink when I first started; I made a coconut simple syrup that has such an amazing flavor, then started adding the coconut cream and frozen bananas.
This cocktail has original roots as a gin based drink but later changed gin to brandy popularly known as the "Brandy Alexander". The first printed appearance of the alexander was in the 1915 book, Recipes for Mixed Drinks by Hugo Ensslin. Some believe that it was created by a New York bartender named Troy Alexander. There is other printed evidence that the cocktail may have had a different beginning. In the October 3rd, 1915, edition of Philadelphia Inquirer, the article mentioned, "The head bartender has even gone so far as to invent an Alexander cocktail, which he is reserving to be served during the World Series." So it was believed that the bartender created the drink in honor of Philadelphia pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander.
Recipe: Makes 1 6 oz Cocktail
- 2oz Zaya Aged Rum
- 1 1/2oz Coconut Cream or Coconut Milk (the cream will give you a richer taste)
- 1oz. *Coconut Syrup
- 1/2 Frozen Banana (or approx 2oz)
- Grated Nutmeg
In your mixing tin add frozen banana first, muddle until smashed up, then add all the other ingredients except nutmeg with ice and shake for 8 seconds if using large cubed ice (if using chip ice shake for 4-5 sec for proper dilution). Pour into a martini or coupe glass and grate fresh nutmeg over the top.
Coconut Syrup
- 2 parts Coconut Sugar
- 1 Part Hot water
Add sugar and hot water together, stir until dissolved.


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Stotra collection for warding of dangers
Collection made by
Sengalipuram Anantha Rama Deekshithar
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(Here is a wonderful collection of verses from various stotras which would ensure absence of dangers and diseases forever , to the one who chants them.)
1.Balambikesa Vaidhyesa , bhava roga harethi cha,
Japen nama thrayam nithyam , maha roga nivaranam,
1.If you chant daily the three names, Lord of Balambika,
The God who is a doctor and God who cures ,
The sickness of Samsara , then even great diseases would be cured.
2.Nithyannadhana niratham, sachidananda vigraham,
Sarva roga haram devam, Subramanyam upasmahe.
2.I worship Lord Subrahmanya , who is busy giving food as charity daily ,
Who has a form of divine joy and who is the God curing all diseases.
3.Panchapakesa japyesa , pranatharthi harethi cha,
Japen nama thrayam nithyam , Punar janmam na vidhyathe,
3.If you daily chant the three names the lord of five rivers,
Lord of manthras and God whose name if chanted,
Removes all diseases , then you would not have rebirth.
4,Raksha Panchanadhi nadha, dhaya sindho, Maheswara,
Anadha nadha, Bhakthanam abhayam kuru Sankara.
4.Please provide protection your devotees. Oh Sankara ,
Please protect Lord of five rivers, Ocean of mercy .
Oh great God ad Lord of the orphans.
5.Sumeenakshi sunderesow , bhaktha kalpa maheeruhow,
Thayor anugraha yathra, thathra soka na Vidhyathe.
5,The Goddess Meenakshi and Sundaresa are like wish giving tree to devotees,
And wherever they bless , there , sorrow would not exist.
6.Sri Kanda Parvathi Nadha thejini poora nayaka,
Ayurbalam sriyam dehi. Hara may pathakam hara.
6.Oh Lord with blue neck , Oh consort of Parvathi , Lord of Thiruveezhimalai temple ,
Give me strong life span and prosperity , Destroy all my sons oh Lord Shiva.
7.Gauri vallabha Kamare , kala koota vishasana ,
Maam udhara aapadaam bodhe tripuragnantha kanthaka.
7.Oh consort of Gauri, Oh l killer of Manmatha , Oh Lord who swallowed Kala koota poison,
Oh Lord Who destroyed the three cities , Oh killer of Lord of death, please save me fro ocean of dangers.
8.Gauri pathe namasthubhyam ganga Chandra kala dhara,
Asesha klesa duritham Haraasu mama Sankara.
8.Oh consort of Gauri wearing ganges and crescent of moon,
I salute you, Oh Sankara with speed destroy my worries.
9.Mahadevam mahesanam maheswara umapathim,
Maha sena gurum vandhe maha bhaya nibarhanam,
9.I salute the great deva, the great god , the great Easwara ,
The consort of Uma, He whose Guru is Lord Subrahmanya ,
Who completely remove all great fears.
10.Mruthyunjayaya Rudraya neelakandaya Shambhave ,
Amruthesaya sarvaaya, Maha devaya they nama.
10.I salute the one who won over death , the angry god , the one with blue neck,
The Shambhu , the lord of nectar , the sarva and the great God.
11.Sriya kanthaya kalyana nidhaye nidhayerdhinaam,
Sri Venkata nivasaya , Sri Venkatesaya Mangalam.
11.Auspiciousness to the Lord of Venkata mountains, who is the Lord of Lakshmi ,
Who is the treasure of good , who is the treasure to his devotees who lives on Venkata mountains.
12.Kalyanadbutha gathraya, kamidartha dhayine,
Srimad venkata Nadhaya , srinivasaya mangalam.
12.Auspiciousness to Lord Srinivasa who is the lord of Venkata mountain,
Who has a wonderful auspicious form and who gives wealth that is desired.
13.Mangalam kosalendraya, mahaneeya gunabdhaye ,
Chakthavarthi thanujaya .sarva bhiumaya mangalam.
13.Auspciousness who is the king of all places , who is the son of the emperor ,
Who is the king of Kosala country , who is the ocean of great qualities.
14.Krishna karothu kalyanam , kamsa kunjara kesari ,
Kalindhi jala kallola kolahala kuthoohali .
14.Let good be done by Lord Krishna , who was the line to the elephant called Kamsa ,
Who desired to play in the waves of the waters of the Kalindhi river.
15.Sri Ramachandra srithaparijathja, samastha kalyana gunabhirama ,
Sitamukhamboruha chanchareeka, nirantharam mangala mathanothu.
15.Let lots of auspiciousness be permanently given to us by Ramachandra ,
Who is the wish giving tree to all those who depended on him ,
Who is very pretty with good qualities and was the bee which hovered round the lotus face of Sita.
16.Kanchanadri nibhangaya, vanchithartha pradhayine ,
Anjana bhagya roopaya , Anjanryaya mangalam.
16.Auspicious to Anjaneya who had a body like the Meru mountain,
Who granted what was desired and who is the form of luck to Anjana.
17.Peethambaram kara virajitha sankha chakra ,
Khoumodhaki sarasijam Karuna samudhram,
Radha sahaya madhi sundara mandhahasam,
Vathaleyasamanisam manisam hrudhi bhavayami.
17.I always think in my mind that Lord of Guruvayur,
Who dressed in yellow silk , who shined holding ,
The conch and the wheel in his hands ,the mace and the lotus flower,
Who is the ocean of mercy , who was with Radha ,
And had a very pretty slow smile.
18.Runa rogadhi daridrya papakshu pada apamruthyuva,
18.Let my loans , diseases , poverty , sins ,hunger , untimely death,
Fear , anger , worries in the mind be destroyed forever .


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February 05, 2007
Print advertisement created by 1861 United, Italy for Mr Hot Pepper, within the category: Food.
Advertising Agency: The Voluntarily United Group of Creative Agencies, 1861 United, Milan, Italy
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Today's energy-efficient wood-frame houses are the most expensive, the most comfortable, and very likely the least durable residential structures ever built in the United States. Over the past 20 years, moisture-caused problems in new houses have skyrocketed. Homeowners complain increasingly of window condensation and mold indoors; of mildew, staining and peeling of exterior coatings; and of rot in windows, doors, trim, siding, sheathing and framing, all within a few years of construction. Historically, and perhaps unwittingly, the architects, builders and occupants of wood-frame houses relied upon natural infiltration and exfiltration of air as a means of controlling indoor relative humidity and keeping walls dry. Differences in temperature, vapor pressure and air pressure across a house's envelope provide the driving force for moving air through random leaks in its walls, foundation and attic. As a result, warm, moist indoor air is constantly flushed out and replaced with cooler (and usually drier) outdoor air. Once inside, the cooler air is heated and its relative humidity lowered.
This newly warmed and drier air absorbs water vapor inside the house, then carries it outside as it escapes through gaps in the envelope. Reliance on natural leakage of air through random holes in wood-frame houses worked well for centuries. But the rapid evolution of building materials and construction practices created houses whose envelope became progressively tighter and tighter. In the 1920s, for instance, insulation began to be added to walls on an expanding scale. This hindered the movement of air and conduction of heat through a wall. To protect the insulation from being wetted by rain seepage, builders applied rosin paper or building felt over sheathing - at the time, boards on the diagonal - and further reduced airflow through walls. The trend toward building tighter, and therefore colder, walls continued through the 1940s and '50s as builders switched from lath and plaster to gypsum wallboard on the inside and from lumber sheathing to insulation board or plywood on the outside.
The introduction of electric heat; high-efficiency, low-draft furnaces; power-vented, sealed combustion appliances; and heat pumps brought about the demise of the active chimney. As a result, large volumes of moisture-laden air were no longer routinely being expelled from inside a house, and less replacement air from outside was being drawn inside through leaks in the envelope. In the 1970s and '80s, widespread adoption of insulating windows and doors, continuous vapor retarders and air-infiltration barriers, coupled with extensive use of caulks, sealants, gaskets and tapes, further reduced the amount of air and heat flowing through a house's envelope. The upshot is that the walls of older houses - defined here as those built before the energy crisis of the 1970s - tend to be leakier, warmer and more forgiving of getting wet, while those of newer houses tend to be tighter, colder and less forgiving. When the walls of an older house get wet, they are soon dried sufficiently by air and heat from inside the house flowing through them.
In contrast, the passage of air and heat through the tight walls of newer houses is drastically reduced. As a consequence, tight walls that get wet tend to stay wet longer and, in some cases, accumulate enough moisture for mildew, mold and wood-rotting fungi to go to work. How Houses Get Wet Energy-efficient houses can be wetted by ground water, piped water, condensation and precipitation. In some cases, water naturally contained in green framing members at the time of construction is at fault. Ground Water Soil surrounding a house's foundation and floor slab always contains water in both liquid and vapor form. Liquid water can seep into basements and crawl spaces through shrinkage and settlement cracks, joints, utility cutouts and other penetrations in foundation walls and floors. It can also be drawn by capillary suction from soil into the micropores inside concrete and masonry.
Water vapor in soil can diffuse through foundation walls and floors. After reaching an exposed surface, the water evaporates, sometimes leaving behind a telltale crystalline efflorescence. Evaporating water increases the relative humidity inside a basement or crawl space, which in turn can raise the moisture content of sills, girders, joists and subflooring to mold-susceptible levels. Entry of liquid water into basements and crawl spaces can be eliminated by installing perimeter drains, sealing cracks and other points of entry, applying waterproofing to the exterior of foundation walls, backfilling with free-draining soil, grading soils so that they slope away from the foundation, and installing gutters and downspouts along eaves. Movement of water into a basement or crawl space via capillary suction or vapor diffusion through walls is controlled by applying dampproofing to a foundation's exterior. Capillary suction and vapor diffusion through the floor is prevented by installing a vapor retarder - usually polyethylene sheeting - under the slab or over exposed soil in a crawl space. The circle of dampness that sometimes shows up around the base of a foundation owes to capillary movement of water from the soil through the footing and up into the wall.
Known as rising damp, this can be stopped by placing polyethylene over the footing before walls are cast or built. Sills, girders and other framing members in direct contact with concrete and masonry are prone to mold and rot because capillary water can travel unimpeded from the soil through the foundation directly into the wood. This can be prevented by inserting a capillary break of metal or plastic between wood and concrete and masonry. Piped Water As we all know, the pipes inside a house occasionally leak. Forceful plumbing leaks are typically discovered and fixed immediately. Although wood may be temporarily saturated as a result, it dries out before fungi can get established. Slow, persistent leaks hidden inside walls and floors, however, can go undetected for long periods and can elevate the moisture content of wood to fungus-attractive levels. Condensation dripping from cold-water supply lines onto wood often leads to rot, especially in damp basements and crawl spaces. Prevention entails insulating cold-water pipes.
Condensation The benefit of tight walls in a wood-frame house is a marked increase in energy-efficiency and occupant comfort. The downside is that tight walls substantially lower the rate of natural ventilation. While it is not uncommon for an older house to experience three to five or more air changes per hour, the replacement rate in an energy-efficient house may be as low as 0.5 to 1. As a result, water vapor generated by occupants' activities and released from other interior sources lingers longer indoors and is carried into walls, floors, ceilings, attics, basements and crawl spaces on convection currents of air flowing through joints between materials; penetrations in walls, floors and ceilings; and other hidden air-leakage paths.
When warm, moist air entering into these spaces is cooled below the dew point, the excess moisture (the amount above 100 percent relative humidity) is deposited as condensation on framing, sheathing and other cold surfaces, creating conditions favorable to mold and wood-rotting fungi. Water vapor diffusing into these spaces can do the same. Significant sources of indoor moisture usually include soil moisture migrating through foundations and floor slabs, showering and bathing, humidifiers, clothes dryers that are not vented to the outside, indoor storage of firewood, and backdrafting of gas-fired appliances. Seemingly minor sources, such as occupant respiration and perspiration, cooking, dishwashing, floor mopping, plants, aquariums, and seasonal release from building materials, when considered in total, can make a sizable contribution. In northern climates, condensation within walls, floors, ceilings, attics, basements and crawl spaces can occur during both the heating and cooling seasons.
Condensation on the inside of windows and within walls, floors, ceilings and attics happens mostly during the heating season and usually because of excessively high indoor relative humidity (above about 40 percent). Water condensed from warm, moist indoor air entering into these spaces is deposited as frost or ice, which later wets framing and sheathing to fungus-favorable levels when it melts. In summer, water vapor held in hot, humid outdoor air entering into basements and crawl spaces can condense on cooler framing and subflooring, creating conditions irresistible to fungi. In southern climates, condensation is a problem primarily during the cooling season. Here, the culprit is hot, humid outdoor air that seeps into walls, floors, ceilings, attics, basements and crawl spaces cooled to below the dew point by air conditioning. Framing and subflooring in crawl spaces under air-conditioned rooms is especially at peril. Condensation-caused problems can be kept in check by reducing indoor relative humidity in the following ways: eliminate potential sources of moisture; seal potential air leakage paths; place vapor retarders against the warm side of walls, ceilings and floors; vent clothes dryers, heating appliances, and kitchen-range and bath exhaust fans directly to the outside; provide the needed ceiling insulation and roof and attic ventilation; and dehumidify. Precipitation Siding, trim, windows, doors and other exterior wood products are routinely exposed to dew, rain, and melted snow and ice. Because these products are almost always finished with a film-forming paint or solid-color stain that repels liquid water, the underlying wood is generally wetted only superficially. However, liquid water can be driven by wind or drawn by capillary suction into uncoated wood inside joints and overlaps to wet products internally from the ends or back. Absorption of water into end-grain surfaces is especially rapid. Because water enters wood as a liquid, but leaves it as a vapor, exterior wood products get wet much faster than they dry.
Once wet, exterior wood products on energy-efficient houses take even longer to dry because of the reduced airflow through tight walls and their generally lower temperature. As a consequence, some tight walls accumulate enough moisture to cause mildew, extractive staining, and coatings failure or rot in exterior wood products, sheathing and framing. A film-forming coating on the surface of exterior wood retards the escape of water vapor outward into the air. The housewrap and sheathing behind exterior wood slows its movement inward, while the vapor retarder deeper in the wall essentially stops it altogether. Rather than drying out exterior wood completely, heat from the sun drives some of the water to the back of the product during the day. The process is reversed at night when warmth from inside the house pushes the water back to the product's face. That is why a blister under a coating, when pricked, is often found to be filled with water early in the morning, but empty in the late afternoon. The sun can drive water vapor through the housewrap, where it is absorbed by the sheathing and transferred to the framing. Through repeated wettings, enough water eventually accumulates in exterior wood to raise its moisture content to the point where the coating mildews, stains, blisters, cracks and peels, or the wood rots. Plywood, OSB and dimension lumber behind exterior wood can temporarily store only so much water before they, too, become susceptible to rot.
Precipitation-caused problems can be avoided in new construction by installing siding over furring strips applied over sheathing and housewrap. This creates a vented air space behind the siding into which water driven by the sun to the back of the siding can evaporate harmlessly. Lap siding already in place can be retrofitted with thin plastic shims, called siding wedges, that are inserted into the overlap between courses. The gap opened by the wedges reduces the potential for water to be sucked into the overlap by capillarity and allows air to reach and dry out the back of the siding, as well as sheathing and framing. Design features that promote water shedding include steep roof pitches, flashing in roof valleys and at roof and wall intersections, chimney crickets, wide eaves, door and window flashings with built-in drip edges, beveled horizontal trim, and sloped windowsills. Gutters and downspouts prevent water running off of a roof from cascading directly down walls or splashing back onto walls from a lower roof, deck or the ground. The ends and back of siding, trim, windows, doors and other exterior wood products should be finished with a water repellent. The exposed surfaces of these products should be finished with opaque film-forming coatings that combine high water repellency with high permeability to water vapor. Exterior wood should be at least 8 inches off the ground to reduce wetting by splashback. Green Wood Energy-efficient houses are sometimes framed with green timbers or green dimension lumber.
Normally, water in the wood is slowly and harmlessly released to the air inside the house or to surrounding materials as members dry, eventually escaping to the outside. Under certain circumstances, however, water in green wood can give rise to window condensation, facilitate growth of mold within walls or permit members to rot. The total water given off by a green timber frame can count in the hundreds of gallons, with the greatest release occurring during the first heating season. Severe window condensation that damages sashes, sills and walls will sometimes be the result. Solutions include using partially air-dried timbers and dehumidifying a house during the first heating season. Because green dimension lumber (S-GRN in the grade stamp) is wet when solid-piled and banded and does not dry during shipment and storage, it is often infected with live mold, and sometimes with active wood-rotting fungi, when received at the job site. Once sandwiched between the sheathing and vapor retarder, the drying of infected lumber is hindered, allowing fungi to flourish inside walls. This can be avoided by using kiln-dried lumber (S-DRY or KD19), whose moisture content is too low to support fungal growth. Other Causes of Failure The switch from leaky, warm, forgiving walls to tight, cold, less forgiving walls is not the only reason for the lesser durability of some new houses. Declining technology transfer, dubious designs and poor construction practices share the blame.
Although the principles and practices of designing and constructing durable wood-frame houses are well established and thoroughly documented, this information is either not reaching some practitioners or is being ignored. Inadequate instruction on the proper use of wood in architecture, engineering and construction programs in vocational schools and colleges; curtailment of outreach services provided by state cooperative extension agencies and industry trade associations; and the demise of the apprenticeship system in the United States have left many architects and builders unaware of the new considerations surrounding the proper use of wood in today's tight-walled houses. Dubious designs that undermine the durability of energy-efficient houses flow directly from the decline in technology transfer. The architect who is unaware of the importance of designing a wood-frame house to shed water cannot knowingly incorporate the proper details into his or her plans. Hence, the recent prevalence of questionable architectural trends, such as the narrowing of eaves and a reluctance to use gutters. Devolution of the roofed porch into the open deck and the popularity of complicated roofs with multiple intersecting planes, valleys and dormers promote the wetting of walls by splashing.
Designs that sandwich wood between materials of low permeability can trap water and encourage mold and rot. This inherently risky approach was used in some houses in the 1990s, when exterior insulation and finish systems (EIFS) were introduced into residential construction. With EIFS, rigid foam panels are glued to plywood or OSB sheathing, then skim-coated with synthetic stucco. Touted as being impervious to water when correctly applied, many EIFS installations leaked around doors and windows. The foam prevented wet sheathing and framing from drying to the outside, while the vapor retarder blocked drying to the inside. Sheathing and framing rotted quickly. All wood-framed walls will eventually get wet during their lifetime; they must be designed to dry either to the inside or the outside. Even good house designs can be defeated by poor construction practices that allow excessive moisture to build up inside or permit water to intrude from outside. Most poor construction practices stem from declining technology transfer.
The builder who is not told of the importance of back- and end-priming wood siding prior to installation is unlikely to realize intuitively the benefit of this priming. Much of the workforce building houses today is transient and lacking in some of the training, skills, knowledge and experience necessary to construct durable houses. Some builders continue to commit such basic errors as venting clothes dryers and bath and kitchen exhaust fans into attics, basements and crawl spaces; blocking soffit vents with insulation; and omitting flashing and caulking around doors and windows. The most important consideration in ensuring the durability of energy-efficient wood-frame houses is to use design features and construction practices that keep wood as dry as possible and promote the drying of wood that does get wet. Experience has shown that the moisture-caused problems plaguing new houses can be largely avoided by:
Employing design features and construction practices that promote water shedding;
Installing wood siding on furring strips;
Back- and end-priming exterior wood products;
Finishing exterior wood products with opaque, film-forming coatings of high permeability;
Designing wood-frame walls to dry either to the inside or the outside;
Applying a vapor retarder to the warm side of walls and ceilings;
Using kiln-dried (S-DRY or KD19) framing lumber;
Using caulks, sealants, gaskets and tapes to seal potential air-leakage paths;
Employing design features and construction practices that limit migration of soil moisture into basements and crawl spaces;
Dehumidifying basements and crawl spaces during the cooling season;
Venting clothes dryers, bath and kitchen-range exhaust fans directly outdoors;
Keeping indoor relative humidity below 40 percent during the heating season;
Augmenting low rates of natural air exchange with mechanical ventilation;
Providing adequate roof and attic ventilation.
As evidenced by Norwegian stave churches, Asian pagodas and the colonial meeting houses of New England, wood-frame houses designed, constructed and maintained in accordance with these principles can last for many centuries. n Stephen Smulski, Ph.D., is president of Wood Science Specialists Inc. in Shutesbury, Mass., a consulting firm that specializes in solving performance problems with wood products.


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|Summary: Electrical wiring projects in Bozeman MT are best performed by a Licensed Electrical Contractor, or a Certified Electrician to ensure that the project is installed according to local and National Electrical Codes. Installing new or replacement electrical parts or equipment may require a permit and inspections.
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Electrical service panel installation, fuse box replacement, electrical repairs and upgrades. Adding a new circuit, or replacing a bad circuit breaker for your home in the Bozeman MT area, whatever your electrical projects may be, large or small, the qualified electricians and electrical contractors will be sure to assist you for a safer and more enjoyable home. Be sure to ask about a Home Electrical Safety Inspection.
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A certain law of physics dictates that only one object can occupy a given space at any given time; and it does so by pushing away all other objects. Now picture in your mind seven little objects, all attempting to occupy the same sink at once, they are our children brushing their teeth… with all the excitement of an undertaker.
I wish I could state that my children rush to the sink in giddy anticipation for the clean feeling of clean teeth. I wish I could tell you how they line up, youngest to oldest and the older ones help their younger siblings with great-big smiles. I also wish I could show you the clean and dry sink after they were through, free of puddles and toothpaste. However, as Wife feels it would be a sin for me to tell my readers complete lies, so I will leave the above as the unfulfilled wish that it is.
Consequently, for the health of my soul, the truth is that our children dislike brushing their teeth, though I am sure by now you gathered as much. I understand that they dislike it because, unlike their father, they hate going to bed; and brushing teeth is the first step toward their dreaded mattresses. Yet since they are obedient children, I get no fight as they slump into the bathroom.
The children gather around the sink like sparrows in a birdbath, splashing around and generally making a mess. And like sparrows, there is always one who simply has to stand in the middle, getting in everyone's way; that would be #7. Quite often, Wife has walked into the bathroom to find the two year-old standing on top of the sink looking down on his siblings like some kind of Olympian god. He's been dethroned enough times now that he has given up his elevated position, now he would rather clean his teeth in solitude… at the bathtub. The rest of the children simply fill the void of #7 by squeezing together tighter.
Wife's second in command, #1 does her utmost to take charge of the bathroom sink, shouting out orders and berating her siblings. I often hear her dealing out to each child their ration of toothpaste (much to the irritation of her sisters) and requesting a sister to help the youngest brother… who was already at the bathtub. While #3 and #4 squabble over the footstool, #2 dawdles about trying to be invisible. Finally #1 ends up helping #7.
In the end, everyone has brushed their teeth and the boys are mostly dry, which is more than can be said for the bathroom floor. I find the oddest part about the nightly ritual is that we have a second bathroom, which is completely ignored.


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5. And of course, the famous musical chairs.
Also, for advanced players: "i makria gaidoura". You'll know what we mean once you see it.
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Well, well, well. Look who's not in Costa Brava. (We're talking about us.) While we wallow in despair and most likely self-medicate with massive amounts of wine and/or a copious amount of carbohydrates*, you sit back and enjoy some travel-y related content from the interwebs, courtesy of yours truly.
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INDIAN TRAIL – After 55 hours of rehearsal time over the course of five months, a group of 50 fourth- and fifth-graders from Porter Ridge Elementary School proudly presented the school's first full-length musical stage production: "Disney's The Jungle Book KIDS."
The auditorium stage at nearby Porter Ridge High transformed Wednesday, March 21, into a jungle – complete with singing and dancing monkeys, elephants, trees, bees, panthers, bears, tigers and one lost little boy. All of Porter Ridge Elementary's teachers, administrators and students showed up to support the production.
"The Jungle Book KIDS" is a trimmed-down version of the original stage play, adapted specifically for elementary-aged students. The play generally runs about 40 minutes long, and the vocal arrangements are specially designed to suit children's voices.
Porter Ridge Elementary music teacher Bridget Burrows organized and directed the show, along with fifth-grade teacher Angela Gaio and art teacher Katie Riedinger. "We've never done (a musical) before," Burrows said. "(The students) learned about stage direction and projection of their voice. They're learning how to read, not just to read it, but interpret it in how they're supposed to act and behave."
For the four lead roles – Mowgli the boy, Bagheera the panther, Baloo the bear and Shere Khan the tiger – Burrows chose fourth-grader Aniyah Moore and fifth-graders Sami Bellai, Caleb Chipman and E.J. Collins. Beginning in October, all the show's actors met after school on Mondays and Thursdays from 2 to 3:15 p.m. to rehearse for the play.
From the beginning, the students and their parents understood the show would require more dedication than anything the school had previously presented.
"I've performed with Ms. Burrows before, but this is our first musical we've ever done," Caleb said. "Having a big part, it put a lot of, I'm not gonna say 'pressure,' but responsibility on me."
Burrows considered choosing "101 Dalmatians KIDS" for the musical, but ultimately stuck with "The Jungle Book KIDS" because of the originality. "I love the music," she said. "The storyline is fun. It's easy to follow, it's funny. This was something different (that's) good for both genders, boy and girl, to get into."
Thanks to a $500 grant from the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, the school was able to purchase the CD (which includes the instrumental performance tracks), director's guide, student script books and the rights to perform the play.
No costumes were purchased for the production. Each costume was made from donated material, like sweatpants, sweatshirts and felt, all sewn together. Riedinger, along with a student's parent, created the costumes. She also constructed the set, with the help of some of her art students, who painted some of the props and background scenery.
A combination of sources were used to choreograph the show. Burrows and Gaio did most of the choreography themselves. Some of the dances were modeled from watching the DVD that came with the director's guide, and one student choreographed almost an entire dance sequence for the monkeys.
Burrows used a casting template from the director's guide to choose the right student to play each part. Students were required to attend an audition, which included reading lines from the play, performing a short dance routine and singing part of a song. Students could choose to audition for a certain role, but Burrows ultimately chose to place them where she felt they fit best.
E.J. originally auditioned for Baloo, but was cast as Shere Khan instead. Playing the main villain was a bit of a challenge. "It was kind of hard because you have to have a lot of bass in your voice, and you have to try not to smile when something (funny) happens to you," he said. "I kind of had trouble with that, trying not to laugh."
For Caleb, playing Baloo was just like playing himself. "I was never out of character," he said. "I'm always like this."
He did say learning where to stand on stage and when to perform a specific action could be difficult at times.
Two more performances were planned for Thursday and Friday, both at 7 p.m. After the first show, Burrows was confidant the students would triumph through the other two presentations.
"They're awesome," she said. "Even on their worst day, they're the most well-behaved kids. They listen. They take instruction. They really fell into their characters. I couldn't be more proud of these kids and all of their hard work."


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Dear Editor,
A simple thank you seems so inadequate to the community of Hodgenville for their support of the Harp Twins concert event. Even though this event happened in a two day span; months of time, energy, and preparation went before the event.
I would like to thank the generous and big hearted people of LaRue County for making the Mike Coffey benefit horse show a big success.
Thank you to the LaRue County Saddle Club for the use of their club grounds. A big thanks to the LaRue County Beef Cattle Association for all their help and hard work. Thank each of you that donated and bought items for the silent auction, cake auction and each of our raffles. Thank you for attending and riding in the show.
The LaRue County Relay for Life Leadership Team would like to publicly thank the LaRue County Girls Volleyball Team and the LaRue County Football Team for their outstanding efforts to jumpstart the 2016 Relay for Life fundraising effort.
A few people already know this, but for several months I have been working on a book about the Lincoln family centered upon a look at their neighbors in what is today LaRue County. History, both written and oral, has left us with a slanted interpretation of life here in the early 19th century. We have a collective impression of a rather primitive society, which is far from the truth. There was, in fact, a wealth of social and economic diversity here 200 years ago, much as there is today.
I feel honored to serve as Judge/Executive in Kentucky's best county. It's rare for me to endorse a candidate for office and I do so only after careful consideration and measurement of that individual. In the race for Governor the choice is clear: Jack Conway.
To the good people of Hodgenville, this is a note to let you know how much we enjoyed our visit to your lovely town during the Lincoln Days Celebration. It's always good to see old friends and meet new ones. Thank you for your hospitality. We made it home in good time and we hope to see you next year.
Gwen Tibbs and grandkids
Heidi Muller
Bobby Rankin
The Goodyear Blimp flew over Lincoln Days on Sunday afternoon during the Railsplitting Competition. It was a welcome sight to see after a dreary, rainy Saturday and a windy, messy Friday.
The Lincoln Days Board works year-round to produce the festival, but the weather is something that is beyond our control. It was a welcome sight to see sunshine, blue skies and a blimp, but what was even more welcoming and even more appreciated, is the enduring community spirit that brought people out to support our vendors, exhibitors, musicians, entertainers, and event participants.
It is election season again, where the never ending commercials bombard us with a myriad of negative information. There is little, if any, positive information. That is my purpose, to speak to the good things that our elected officials do.
We would like to recognize the staff of Hardin Memorial Hospital for their personal and professional care during our recent stay. Special thanks to the Birth Place, ICU, Rapid response team and the Elizabethtown Physicians for Women. When someone goes to the hospital for the birth of their child, they don't expect to utilize so many departments.
We would like to say THANK YOU to the community and all those involved in making the Ten Year Old Strikeout Cancer benefit ball tournament a huge success. Our family cannot begin to express the gratefulness and gratitude we have for our family, friends, and the community. Josh, the kids, and I are truly humbled by the outpouring from everyone involved with making it happen.
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