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On the Christian calendar, Lent is the 40-day period from Ash Wednesday to Easter. When it was first observed in the fourth century, its focus was on self-examination and self-denial in preparation for Easter, and Christians used fasting (abstaining from eating food) in the early years as a visible demonstration of this process.
Over the centuries, Catholics have relaxed some of the strict fasting rules. Today, only Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all Fridays during Lent are considered fasting days. On these days, Catholics over the age of 14 are to refrain from eating meat. (Historically, this practice was meant to help unify people who could afford meat with poor people who couldn't.) In addition, on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, those between the ages of 18 and 59 are to eat only one full meal and two smaller meals and aren't to eat between meals.
Orthodox Christians are far more rigorous in their observance of fasting during Lent, believing that regular fasting is a crucially important discipline for one's spiritual growth. Meat, dairy products, and eggs (which historically were considered more luxury foods than ordinary breads) aren't allowed, with some additional restrictions on certain days. They can only eat fish (which was historically considered less of a luxury than red meat) on the feasts of the Annunciation and Palm Sunday.
In addition to refraining from eating, Lent is often a time when Christians give up something pleasurable (furthering the focus on self-denial), be it chocolate, meat or — shudder the thought! — coffee.
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By now, most manufacturing managers fully understand the business case for conserving energy in the production process. However, many still struggle with finding the right energy-conservation strategies.
The biggest challenge continues to be striking the proper balance between the twin corporate mandates of cutting energy costs and meeting customer-focused metrics such as high product quality and on-time delivery.
The inherent need for precision when building products to specifications adds a level of complexity to the energy-management equation.
No matter what you're making—an electronic circuit, a wooden piece of furniture, a plastic toy, or a massive piece of metal equipment—parameters such as the amount of time or the temperature at which each operation is performed are crucial to delivering products that customers are willing to buy. And maintaining those exact parameters requires the use of specific amounts of energy.
Manufacturers' quest to be cost-efficient energy users has become even more complicated in recent years as utilities have instituted billing practices that penalize heavy energy consumers. These programs are especially harsh on those who consume large amounts of energy during times when demand on the power grid is highest, which historically has been right in the middle of most manufacturers' workdays.
Importance of energy management
Navigant Research argues that efficient energy management will soon be as important as product quality in determining manufacturers' competitive position within their respective industries. That importance, according to Navigant, is reflected in the compound annual growth rate for industrial energy management software and services.
At its current growth rate, the global market for industrial energy management solutions will nearly double over the next 7 years, going from $11.3 billion in 2013 to $22.4 billion in 2020, according to a recent Navigant study.
Naturally, the large industrial automation equipment suppliers, such as Rockwell Automation, Siemens, Invensys, and Schneider Electric, among others, will be major beneficiaries of this rapid growth. However, Navigant believes there are potential opportunities for other players as well.
For instance, major IT companies like IBM and SAP, with expertise in handling large data sets and sophisticated real-time business analytics, could make inroads, along with smaller niche players who are able to offer unique products and a special level of customer service.
When it comes to the niche players, Navigant argues that their ultimate success will be tied to their ability to link their unique solutions to the energy-management ecosystems already being built by the larger players.
Seattle-based Powerit Solutions fits Navigant's profile of a smaller vendor that's poised to prosper from the impending industrial energy management boom.
"Our technology is aimed at providing energy management solutions for industrial users," Patty Solberg, product marketing director for Powerit Solutions, said in a recent interview.
Powerit offers software applications that address three aspects of industrial energy management:
- Peak-demand management
- Automated demand response
- Automated participation in real-time pricing programs.
Powerit has packaged its solutions in one software suite called Spara DM (Demand Manager).
Avoid pricing penalties
The peak-demand management application, called Spara Demand Control, helps companies avoid the pricing penalties associated with using large amounts of energy when there's heavy demand on the power grid. And it does so without forcing users to lower production throughput, Solberg said.
"We have more than 180 installations of demand-management technology across North America, with a proven track record of reducing peak demand charges in industrial facilities anywhere from 10% to 30%," she said. "That translates to a reduction in utility bills of 5% to 10% or more, depending on the size of the facility and its specific demand charges."
Spara Demand Response, the second application in the Spara DM suite, equips companies to become active participants in a utility company's demand-response program. Under a demand-response program, an industrial user can reap substantial financial benefits by agreeing to severely limit consumption during periods in which there's extreme stress on the power grid.
The benefits can be discounts on energy bills, or they can be cash rebates if the user engages the services or a company that specializes in aggregating power and managing energy curtailment programs for groups of users.
It's nearly impossible for manufacturers to achieve the full benefits of a demand-response program without the aid of sophisticated technology. That's because these programs require users to reduce consumption whenever the utility announces a "demand-response" event.
Shorter notice
While utilities, through their own use of technology, typically can predict when a demand-response event will occur, there are times when program participants get little advance warning of the need to cut power usage. Most utilities try to give users at least 24 hours to respond to a demand-response event. However, the reality is that as the world's appetite for power grows, the instances of shorter notices—sometimes only a matter of minutes—are becoming more frequent. And those short notices can cause major problems for manufacturers who are trying to maintain production schedules while holding the line on energy costs.
That's why manufacturers wishing to participate in demand-response programs need solutions like Spara Demand Response. The application allows for mapping energy consumption across an entire production network, providing the insight necessary to determine which operations can be idled to accommodate any demand-response event without jeopardizing critical production schedules.
Finally, Spara Dynamic Pricing helps companies make intelligent choices about cutting energy use if their utility operates a dynamic pricing program, which causes prices to change constantly based on market conditions. These programs typically offer users even less warning of price changes than they would get from a demand-response event. Under dynamic pricing, the price of energy could change multiple times in one day. However, companies that participate in these programs find them worthwhile because they can yield rate discounts of 20% to 40% when compared to traditional metered rates.
Spara Dynamic Pricing currently is the least used of Powerit's three applications because utilities have been somewhat slow in rolling out dynamic pricing schedules. "Today, we're seeing a lot of interest around demand control and automated demand response," Solberg said.
Regardless of the specific applications being used, the setup and configuration of the Spara technology is the same.
There's a connection to the facility's utility meter, which allows for tracking the amount and cost of energy consumed. Then, in consultation with the plant's manager, Powerit connects the system to various machines throughout the plant.
"We're always connected to the utility meter," Solberg explained. "That's the baseline. We need to know the facility's overall consumption because that's what the utility bill is based on. Then we look at every machine that consumes energy to determine which loads it makes the most sense for us to control. We don't always control just production loads. Sometimes we might control the office HVAC in order to offset a production peak."
The implementation includes setting constraints within the Spara system so that any scheduled power shutdowns will be overridden if the system determines that action will disrupt a critical production run. Once configured, Spara functions like what Solberg describes as "an omniscient plant manager," making real-time decisions on energy use that always strike the optimum balance between production performance and energy cost.
How the technology works
After the initial installation, Powerit will experiment by reducing loads on certain machines and then monitoring to see how that impacts both peak demand levels and production efficiency. If the effect is positive, those settings stay intact; otherwise, they are changed and monitored again.
The loads selected for initial monitoring vary by type of facility. However, in line with Navigant's theory that small vendors must have special expertise, Powerit has established a strong presence among food and beverage manufacturers and metal foundries.
"We do have a lot of foundry customers," Solberg said. "Metal-melting furnaces are common loads to control in those facilities."
Foundries typically have multiple furnaces feeding various casting lines. Without a demand control solution in place, those furnaces operate independently of one another, and it's not unusual for one or more of them to run longer than necessary, which means they are wasting large amounts of energy.
A demand-control application can, in effect, operate multiple furnaces as if they are a single unit. It allows a plant manager to easily determine which furnaces should be shut down, and for how long, to avoid peak demand charges while also protecting production schedules.
With Spara technology those decisions are made automatically, based on the constraints that are set during system implementation, Solberg said.
"Because you have multiple furnaces feeding a casting line, there will be some natural buffers built in," she said. "If three furnaces are feeding a single casting line, you can power down the furnace that will be last to feed the line to avoid peak demand. Then, you can power that furnace up again in time for it to meet its schedule for feeding the line."
Rochester Metal Products is among the foundries that have benefited from the use of the Spara DM platform.
Based in Rochester, Ind., Rochester Metals supplies products to customers in numerous industries, including manufacturers of air compressors, and medical, automotive, heavy construction, and marine equipment.
Rochester Metals adopted the Spara platform after learning that its utility was implementing a new peak-demand pricing structure. The system is connected to all furnaces used in Rochester's melting process.
When the system recognizes a peak-demand period, it can immediately determine which furnace is not needed at that given moment, and it sheds load from that furnace first.
Same usage; much lower bill
Before adopting Spara DM, Rochester Metals' typical monthly peak demand was 21,000 kW. After testing the system for a month at 18,000 kW, with no impact on production, the setpoint was adjusted to 17,000 kW. Again, there was no production loss, so the setpoint was moved to 16,000 kW, which is where it remains today with no production loss.
"In reality, the amount of kilowatt hours they're using hasn't changed," Solberg said. "What's changed is how, and when, they use those kilowatt hours. That has created a significant decrease in their utility bill."
Powerit helps customers configure its applications to tap into its inherent intelligence for selecting the right loads to control for cost-efficient energy management. However, some users have made adjustments to their production processes to take further advantage of the technology.
"On the first pass, the savings we offer generally don't involve touching the process flow," Solberg said. "But the system does allow operators to see everything that's going on in a plant from an energy consumption standpoint. That gives them the power to tweak things to really optimize energy usage."
Early this year, Powerit introduced a cloud-based version of its platform that Solberg said will further enhance customers' ability to analyze and optimize energy use.
The new solution, called Spara Hub, offers the typical benefits associated with cloud-based applications, such as faster deployment and streamlined maintenance. But the real advantage, according to Solberg, is "the additional functionality we can deliver as a hosted solution."
Operating on a hosted platform will allow Powerit to develop one method for connecting its applications to utility networks as well as to the technology platforms of the larger industrial automation equipment suppliers.
Standard connections
"The platform lets us build standard connections to utilities and power aggregators for bringing pricing information back to our customers," Solberg said. "We're also partnering with major automation vendors to embed our software capabilities into their ecosystems."
Ultimately, Solberg believes having the Spara solution in the cloud will make it easier to show manufacturers the true value of an industrial energy management strategy.
"If a company has a metering system that shows their consumption patterns, they can redirect that data to our hosted platform, where we can do a quick analysis on their potential energy savings," she explained. "We can do that analysis without a hosted platform, but we would first have to install hardware at the customer's site and do a fair amount of engineering work to get the data we would need."
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Québec and Montréal, they received furs from the Montagnais, Algonquin, Huron and Ottawa, who travelled various rivers from the King's Domain, or came down the Ottawa River from Lake Timiskaming and beyond. But most important to the later trade was the route the French themselves developed to the west via the St. Lawrence, Ottawa and French rivers; by the 1740s they had extended it to the head of Lake Superior and thence to the prairies.
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These are all the News & Announcements posted in April, 2010.
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Wireless Printing
Good news for laptop users! The Logan Library now offers wireless printing. If you have a Windows laptop and connect to our wireless network, you can print to our new color laser printer. Black and white printouts are $.10 and color printouts are $.25. Visit our wireless internet page for more information.
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Wednesday, 21
Staff Reading Pick
Here is another reading pick from the Logan Library Staff.
Book: The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger.
Recommended by: Joseph, Nonfiction Librarian
In this interesting little volume, Lacey and Danziger take us into a medieval world which is at times both very alike and very different from our own. Using a contemporary calendar to guide the reader through the months of the year, and with doses of humor and trivia along the way, we are introduced to the daily life of royalty, churchmen and, more often, the ordinary man and woman. We learn how they worked, how they played, how they talked, and even how they ate. The Year 1000 is an accessible overview of the period and a surprisingly entertaining read.
Want more reading suggestions? View previous staff picks.
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Introducing LibraryThing for Libraries
We are pleased to announce that we have upgraded our catalog by adding LibraryThing for Libraries. This catalog enhancement will help you find more of the types of books that you like to read. Here are some things you will notice in the catalog:
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The Brixton Brunch
July 18, 2012 by Becca
I have been to the Brixton four times in the last week. The reason for my frequency is because the place is right around the corner from my new house, but also it seems to be playing host to some fabulous events, like last night's Picture Perfect Evening hosted by Urban Daddy and Samsung and planned by the ladies of BrandLinkDC.
Another reason for all the visits: the rooftop is amazingly huge—with two bars and dozens of barstools around the perimeter, plus a bird's eye view of Nelly's patio. But after all that rooftop drinking, I was still wondering about the food—would it live up to the ambiance and rooftop?
I'm British. This place is trying to be British. So when I arrived for brunch on Sunday, I wanted a real English breakfast: thick slices of ham, runny eggs, burnt toast and luminous mushy peas. I wanted enormous cuts of roast beef and fluffy Yorkshire puddings. I wanted thick, salty chips covered in malt vinegar.
And I wanted it all to be amazingly filling even if it did taste slightly bad. This is, after all, the English cuisine.
But the Brixton is also the newest venture from the Hilton brothers—the duo who also own Marvin, Blackbyrd, Patty Boom Boom, ESL, and other wildly popular D.C. haunts. So, that fact instantly raises the level of expectation for the quality of the food. Marvin was one of my favorite brunches a few years ago and somewhere both Bitches regularly dine.
Our group arrived when the place opened, at 11, because we hadn't made a reservation and we were worried that it would be packed. It wasn't, there was no one else inside except the staff when we arrived, and yet the hostess told us that she couldn't seat a table of eight.
I was perplexed and challenged her. "Well, can we sit on the second floor?"
"No, it's not that we're full, it's that we can't push the tables together," she said.
Huh? Excuse me? Half of our group took initiative, went to the second floor, and started pushing tables together for our party of eight.
Then she said, "Fine, OK, we can push some tables together down here on the first floor."
OK, great, so they're not attached to the floor? Awesome. We pushed together enough tables to seat our party of eight. A party of eight isn't that big, really, and wouldn't you be happy that such a large party walked in your doors right when you opened? What a bizarre policy.
The service had the same punk, hipster kind of attitude that seems to permeate all of the Hilton brothers' establishments. Clearly, these people are all brought into the brothers' inner circle, as they act like they are personal friends with Thievery and, therefore, far too cool to be serving your coffee.
But even though their noses were slightly turned up, the staff was on point with the delivery of our drinks. Our coffee cups were never empty—although the coffee was rather bland.
The mimosa ($8) was good, but there was no bottomless option so I had just one. They did have a selection of breakfast cocktails, like a Shandy and a Snakebite. We ordered the Pimm's Cup, which was rather enormous.
While we waited for the final straggler of our group, we ordered the French Toast for the table to share. It was divine: a sticky toffee French toast! Fluffy and moist with the perfect amount of toffee sauce. It was sprinkled with salted nuts. What a great take on French toast.
The brunch menu is small, but it does offer some standard brunch fare along with some lunch items—those being the classic English dishes like fish and chips.
The late arrival to our brunch party was a vegan, and the only option for her on the menu was the herb and local lettuce salad, which just sounds like a plate of lettuce to me. But, it arrived with some seasonal vegetables sprinkled on top, including some beets, which were great, and was covered with a light house vinaigrette. Unfortunately, however, not substantial enough at all for a veggie.
My Benny—a Pastrami Salmon Eggs Benedict—was very tasty, though the muffin was a bit hard to cut; was it old? The basil Hollandaise had a green tint and was divine. The side of greens didn't have a taste to them, but offset the dish perfectly. It would have been too much with chips.
The fish and chips won the presentation award. We all wowed when it arrived—three massive filets of fried haddock served with thinly cut, slightly burnt chips (I'm not a fan of these types of fries, ones that are too skinny and overcooked), and a side of mushy peas! Love the attempt at authenticity with the luminous mushy peas and malt vinegar.
The duck confit omelet looked plain upon presentation but was actually very, very good. The eggs were cooked perfectly and were filled with a generous portion of duck. It was also filled with spinach—a nice surprise that cut the richness of the duck fat and the eggs.
On the average side was the sweet potato 'hash' served alongside the omelet. I may not know the exact definition of hash, but what appeared on my plate was a huge pile of sautéed onions spiked with a few slices of sweet potatoes. It tasted fine—but I wasn't going to eat more than a few bites either. It seemed like this pile of onions would have been more appropriate on a steak or a hamburger.
I wish the side dish would have followed the example of the spinach in the omelet—a nice green salad would have been the perfect thing to counterbalance the duck.
The Brixton burger was amazing and garnered rave reviews. They serve it at dinner, too: aged cheddar, house-made pickles, and shallot marrow jam on a Challah bun. They Brixton is a bit stingy with the ketchup, but everything else was perfect. The meat was really thick and juicy, the bun perfectly toasted, and it's topped with a big leaf of fresh lettuce.
While we were eating they dropped a basket of bread on the table, which was great, if it had arrived thirty minutes prior.
The Bitches say: B- A popular British bar with a great patio on U Street. Brunch has huge potential, but they definitely have some kinks to work out.
The Brixton
901 U Street N.W.
Washington, D.C.
The Brixton serves brunch on Sundays.


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Michiganders Wendy and Josh Rougeau got sick of waiting on the adoption process to deliver up a bundle of joy, so they plunked down $2,000 for this billboard that advertises their baby-wanting. How's it working out?
So far, so good! "We've had a lot of contacts in the last 24 hours, so we've taken some good notes," Josh Rougeau told Fox News' Detroit affiliate. Added Wendy Rogeau, "I do kind of jump a little bit every time the phone rings and it's not a number that I recognize, but I try not to get too overly excited." In addition to the billboard, which appears on the I-75 expressway, the couple's also been spreading the word with business cards, flyers, and t-shirts.
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tdj_tx Is there such a thing as a Buffalo Wing Dog?
Foodbme Is there such a thing as a Buffalo Wing Dog? There is if you make one using the recipe you outlined above!
tdj_tx I think that if you left the vinegar out you would get something close to the Port Jervis sauce. Having never eaten the Port Jervis version I can't really say. Is there such a thing as a Buffalo Wing Dog?
seafarer john We really enjoyed your video and the sandwich looks great. However, Newburgh is not all that far from Port Jervis and the sandwich is constructed differently in Newburgh: first the hot dog on a steamed bun, then the mustard, then the sauce, then a mere sprinkling of onions. I doubt it really makes much difference in the taste except that yours has a whole lot more onion, but, it all winds up the same way - all over your hands and chin and a warm feeling all over... Cheers, John
Zilla I read through a bit of this thread and this sounds like Michigan Sauce to me. A couple that I know live here in San Antonio and they make it as a hot dog topping. They are from upstate NY. Apparently nobody in Michigan knows anything about it.
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Integrate Your Website and Blog into Location-based Campaigns
Social media and location-based marketing gain momentum from cross-promotion with more traditional online marketing like your website and blog. Yes, believe it or not, having a website and a blog are now considered mainstream, but they can provide some advantages that your social media presence cannot.
While Facebook and Twitter provide access to hundreds of millions of potential customers, you are limited in what you can do by their user interfaces, functionalities, and, ultimately, terms of service. To that end, it's easier to connect with customers on your website or blog. After all, you own your website and blog and control all the content.
The advantage of incorporating your LBS campaign into your website provides a few benefits to your company, including these:
Increased website traffic: It can allow customers to check in right from your website, which is a great boon if you're running a business that doesn't have a brick-and-mortar location.
Reviews and other helpful information: Customers can see tips and comments from other customers. These can serve as the mini-equivalent of Yelp reviews or more formal social commerce functionality that you get from ratings and reviews.
Hot tips and deals: You can alert your customers to specials that you want them to have access to before the general public gets that information. This could involve a multiple-step customer activity such as finding a code on your website or blog and entering it after customers check in.
Custom badges: Incorporate custom badges that let customers know that you are on a particular LBS (or several).
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Over the past few years, Ive had it on my to do list to write and deliver and full-scale SQLServer training course and not just an hour long bite size session at user groups and conferences. To me, SQLServer development is not just knowing and remembering the syntax of commands. Sometimes I semi-jest that i have "Written a merge statement without looking up the syntax", but I know from my interactions on and off line that I am far from alone in this. In any case we have an awesome tool in the internet which is great at looking things up.
When developing SQL Server based solutions, of more importance is knowing the internals of the engine. SQL Server is a complex piece of software and we need to be able to understand to a fairly low level ( you can always dive deeper ) the choices that it makes and why it makes them in order to deliver performant, reliable, predictable and scalable systems to our customers and end-users.
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A blueprint for high-volume, high-quality lung cancer screening that is detecting cancer earlier—and helping to save lives
Adversity is the touchstone of virtue, or so the saying goes. And Shakespeare said misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. Are health care industry players learning to play nice, to stop battling for limited capital long enough to share the data that might help build a Peaceable Kingdom? Health plans, purchasers, consumers, and providers are searching for a cure for an industry sick from escalating cost and demand.
Large employers and many plans believe performance information is the magic bullet, but it will only help cure the system if they help each other. Some physicians do feel threatened by the demand for data, but many stakeholders believe a collegial effort to gather and disseminate quality information is the only way to strengthen the system and improve the nation's health.
"We're being forced to work together now," says Ron Hunt, MD, medical director at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia in Columbus. He's talking about purchaser demands that HMOs produce quality data to reduce the frequency of medical errors and create effective practice guidelines. "Money is limited. The demand for health care is far greater than the supply."
Purchaser insistence on quality is good for medicine, says Hunt. In December, one of the plan's biggest purchasers brought the medical directors of several of its East Coast health plans together in Washington, D.C., to share information and focus on best practices. The group discussed the effective use of report cards, the evolution of quality indexes, and population health management, among other topics.
"We were directed to ask each other questions and share what we know," says Hunt. "Some of us are competitors, but this collegial approach was fantastic. Without cooperation in sharing data and knowledge, market pressures could crush us all."
Double digit inflation, growing numbers of uninsured, an aging population — pressures on the system are enormous. Health care spending is projected to reach $3.1 trillion in 2012, up from $1.4 trillion in 2001, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Uninsured Americans received about $35 billion in treatment in 2001, with federal, state, and local governments covering as much as 85 percent of the cost, according to the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured in Washington, D.C.
One big reason for rising costs is the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions associated with aging, like diabetes and heart disease. About 17 million people have diabetes, costing $44 billion in direct medical costs and $54 billion in disability, work loss, and premature mortality a year, according to the American Diabetes Association. About 1 million people are newly diagnosed each year.
These are scary numbers, but the good news is they are creating what former California Commissioner of Health Molly Joel Coye, MD, calls "the business case for quality."
"Signs of a business case for quality are emerging, fueled by cost pressures, the increased availability of data, informed consumers, and public- and private-sector purchaser initiatives," she says.
Political and economic pressure on HMOs to supply performance data from providers to employers is increasing, say industry officials. Purchasers are demanding it in order to get their business, and consumers are becoming increasingly savvy. "The idea of sharing performance data to improve quality has been evolving for a long time," says Peter Kongstvedt, MD, a consultant Cap Gemini. "Increasing technological capability is in everyone's best interest. What's changing is that plans' ability to produce data is improving."
Not a moment too soon. In November 2001, Coye lamented the adversarial nature of our health system, and its effect on quality. In an article in Health Affairs titled "No Toyotas in Health Care: Why Medical Care Has Not Evolved to Meet Patients Needs," she wrote that "the structures, incentives, and forces at work in the U.S. health system produce exactly what we should expect in the quality of care for chronic disease: highly variable patterns of care, widespread failure to implement recognized best practices and standards of care, and the persistent inability of provider systems to achieve substantive changes in patterns of practice."
The systemic malaise Coye described persists, of course, but some plans are learning to work together, even if they do compete for business. The Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) united several health plans to encourage hospitals, through financial incentives, to implement patient safety initiatives promulgated by the Leapfrog Group, a coalition of 132 employers, with 32 million employees, that is pushing hard for urban hospitals to adopt computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) technology.
Market pressures inherent in the business case for quality can also run upstream. Collegiality between competing health plans can be demanded by those on the receiving end of the cash flow. James Nuckolls, MD, is medical director of the 180-physician Carilion Medical Group in Galax, Va., which is part of the Carilion Healthcare System.
Last year, Carilion Healthcare System presented its five biggest health plans — together representing more than 70 percent of its commercial lives — with an ultimatum. If they worked together to develop a single set of quality measures, the health care system would offer them all an across-the-board discount of 15 percent. The plans met and created a single set of measures.
The idea was the health system would save money if it didn't have to report varying sets of data to each of its plans. "We took a chance. These guys covered nearly all the business in the area," says Nuckolls. "We knew we'd either lose altogether or create a new playing field."
It helped that Carilion is the largest provider in the area, but in the end, what mattered most was each plan's willingness to take a risk. "We knew that if we could get these guys to work together, we all could win," says Nuckolls.
Carilion notwithstanding, it isn't physicians making quality data a priority and it's not consumers, says Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD, professor of political economy at Princeton University. Large employers and their coalitions are the drivers of change.
"Some large employers are pushing hard on this," says Reinhardt, "but the American people haven't caught on as to how to use quality information. They remain the weak link in the process of improving the quality of care. Employers may supply the data, but most people won't use them. And the issue makes many doctors very nervous."
Physicians are indeed nervous, says Michael Barrett, senior analyst with the health care research team at Forrester Research. "I have my doubts as to whether any real collegiality can exist in the current environment. The short-term effect of increased demands for quality data may very well be even more tension between doctors and payers. Nobody wants to be rated. It's a recipe for combat, not collegiality. Which is not to say we shouldn't do it anyway."
Barrett's research shows that employers — at least large employers — are starting to "do it anyway." A September 2002 Forrester survey report, titled "Firms Press HMOs to Buy Provider Quality Data" states that "large employers have started to demand competitive quality ratings on health providers. Employers will spur the market, but health plans will remain the primary purchasers of data, while government gears up to be a major player in 2003."
Forrester found that 36 percent of human resource executives at companies of more than 1,000 employees intend to identify high-quality caregivers to employees by 2004 or sooner (compared with 21 percent of companies with 1,000 employees or fewer), and 38 percent expect health plans to supply the information that they will give to employees. Twenty-eight percent of the human resource executives at companies of more than 1,000 employees are either investigating or implementing hospital scorecards prepared by Leapfrog.
"What we're doing, what we're about, is unifying the demands of employers to health plans and providers," says Suzanne Delbanco, Leapfrog's executive director. "Plans see their role changing. They are having an increasingly important role as information intermediaries, disseminating quality data to members."
Some health plans are unhappy about the idea of sharing quality data with their payers and consumers. But those plans may begin to disappear. In fact, the shifting role of health plans is perhaps the most significant change occurring in the industry right now, says Jeff Margolis, president of the TriZetto Group, a health care information technology company. And it all relates to data. "It's the health plans that weave together the consumer, provider, and employer groups," says Margolis. "They already have huge amounts of data about providers, but it's been wielded behind an iron curtain, used to make decisions about whom to pay and how much to pay. Now they have to learn to share that data with purchasers, providers, and consumers."
Rather than rationing care to control cost, effective health plans are evolving into information brokers, says Margolis. They help set prices, create quality profiles, develop practice guidelines and treatment protocols, and can "pre-screen the health information consumers seek on the Internet," he says. "Today, many health plans continue to use an archaic level of communication with employers and providers."
Employers and health plans are, in fact, breaking down their boundaries to communicate about which providers are meeting performance measures. Payers and plans are creating pools of cash to reward physicians who meet performance measures. A coalition of large employers and health plans in Massachusetts, Kentucky, and Ohio is paying money directly to physicians for meeting certain performance standards. The program, named Bridges to Excellence, will reward individual physicians on a per-patient basis by paying cash bonuses to physicians if they computerize their medical records, implement prevention and patient education programs for chronic diseases, and demonstrate better outcomes of care for diabetes.
A physician will receive $100 per patient if he or she becomes a member of the ADA's Diabetes Provider Recognition Program. Doctors must prove that they've met performance standards for controlling blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, and other dangerous indicators in most of their diabetic patients.
PBGH implemented a data-based quality initiative in 2002 that brought together Aetna, Blue Cross of California, Blue Shield of California, Cigna, Health Net, and PacifiCare Health Systems. In addition to aggressively promoting CPOE, the plans have developed a common set of standards for measuring performance. Called the Pay for Performance initiative, it uses a common scorecard to measure the performance of physician groups.
Physicians and hospitals are rewarded with bonuses of at least 5 percent of the billed amounts for providing quality health care and for avoiding medical errors. By the end of this year, all six HMOs will have the Pay for Performance process in place. "In a highly competitive marketplace, these plans are willing to come together to do the right thing, measure and reward quality of service and quality of care," says Beau Carter, executive director of the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), a coalition of state health plans. "The first obstacle is overcoming the distrust built up in the system between health plans and doctors."
Another obstacle is paying for all this. Are health plans willing to invest in the technology necessary to mine and disseminate the data needed to sustain a business case for quality, at a cost of millions of dollars per system? Technology to reduce medical mistakes and improve patient safety is the top spending priority for the health care industry's chief information officers, but not necessarily their bosses, according to a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) survey released in February.
As for where all this is headed, today's consumers may not be engaged in or even impressed by quality improvement initiatives, as Reinhardt contends. An Oct. 11, 2002 Harris Interactive poll found that fewer than 1 percent of consumers changed their provider or plan in 2002 because of quality ratings. Only 3 percent said they were even considering such a change. But that's today. Who knows about tomorrow?
"The number of Americans who use the Internet to find health care information has been on the rise, with online health and medical information playing a growing role in people's interactions with their doctors," according to a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project ("Counting on the Internet"). "Most Americans expect to be able to find reliable health care information online, which helps explain why such information plays a growing role in the decision-making of health seekers."
Communicating and sharing interests with purchasers and consumers is "a brave new world for health plans," says Margolis. "It's more complex and demanding in many ways, but employers want to get out of the middle. It's up to health plans to help them do that."
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A few weeks ago, I was all scheduled to attend the Houston, Oklahoma City and Albuquerque Family History Expos and had some issues that came up preventing me from going. But now I am scheduled to fly up to Colorado Springs for the 4th Annual Expo. Here is a clip from Holly Hansen about the upcoming Expo:
Family History Expos is returning to Colorado for our 4th Annual
Expo. This year it will be held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 1-2,
2012 at the Crowne Plaza. Many of you are already registered and we
look forward to seeing you there. We have a fantastic program prepared
for you. Details available online at http://www.familyhistoryexpos.com/.
If you have not taken time to register yet, I recommend you do so now
in order to save money, as the price will go up at the door.
For those of you who are members of societies, genealogy clubs,
library groups, historical associations, and other interested groups
please share this announcement with your membership. We want to be sure
everyone who may benefit from this event has a chance to hear about it
and attend if they'd like to. So, please take time to tell your family
history friends and neighbors about this event.
Here are a few more highlights:
Family Roots Publishing
– Leland K. Meitzler : Founder of Heritage Quest in 1985, Managing
Editor of "Heritage Quest Magazine" until 2006, and Managing Editor of
"Everton's Genealogical Helper 2006-2009." Leland writes a daily blog at
GenealogyBlog.com and runs Family Roots Publishing Co. He is a popular tour conductor and entertaining lecturer, having given over 2,000 genealogical presentations.
Over 2000 great genealogy guidebooks can be found on the Family Roots Publishing website.
Regional guidebooks for most countries, American states, and Canadian
provinces are located here! Guides on writing, and recording genealogy,
photography, DNA research, genealogy dictionaries, computer use,
immigration, migration, and on & on are found here!
Creative Continuum – Tom Underhill : Publisher, senior designer and author of nine books at Creative Continuum,
a book design and publishing company specializing in high-quality,
short-run books, Tom and his company have recently produced more than
400 family history heirloom books, printed more than 10.5 million pages
and scanned more than 13,000 photographs.
A family owned and operated business that's been around for more than 13 years, Creative Continuum
specializes in short run books, family history book publishing,
calendars and other publications, typically printing and binding fewer
than 500 books. You'll find the Creative Continuum website
filled with answers to your questions about publishing your family
history and other short run books, calendars and publications.
Colorado Genealogical Society Computer Interest Group – The mission of the Computer Interest Group:
To inform and update members as well as the larger genealogical
community about the use of technology, especially software computer
programs and emerging resources, in genealogical research.
There will be additional vendors with a variety of products and services. To check out all exhibitors visit our website at: https://www.familyhistoryexpos.com/viewexhibit.aspx?exid=69&eid=52&past=0.
If you have questions don't hesitate to contact us. We look forward to seeing you in Colorado Springs June 1-2, 2012.
Holly T. Hansen


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Even though it has a population of only 3 million and despite having important natural resources (oil, iron ore, fish) at its disposal, Mauritania is still one of the poorest countries in the world on the Human Development Index, according to the United Nations classification system. Around 42% of the population lives on the brink of poverty.
The lack of commitment from the State, the worsening of conditions and factors of production, recurring climate impacts, inconsistent policies and bad governance are some of the factors which are retarding development and thereby contributing to an increase in poverty.
This contradiction between the significant availability of natural resources and the persistence of high levels of poverty, especially in rural areas (where 50% of the population lives), is why civil society in Mauritania is pushing for political, economic and social reforms, in order to reinforce democracy and good governance, assist in the fight against poverty and promote solidarity among its citizens.
Oxfam in Mauritania
Oxfam has been working with civil society in Mauritania since 1983 on the following programmes:
Good Economic Governance: we are supporting the structural development and training of civil society organisations so that they can act as real agents of change in the areas of politics, practice, ideas and beliefs. We are contributing to the definition of an economic model based on a sustainable and fair management of national resources and which generates added value in both rural production methods and the extractive industries.
Good Political Governance: We are working with civil society organisations to reduce inequality and to promote the rights of vulnerable groups.
Livelihood: we are working with poor and vulnerable groups, contributing to the development of farming, animal husbandry and fishing to increase their potential, reinforce economic alternatives and reduce poverty.
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November 2009
Carlton first ball tonight
Game 3 recap
Pettitte wasn't sharp but made the pitches when he had to. Threw 104 pitches, 59 for strikes, 45 for balls which is not a good ratio. Owner of the most postseason wins, he wasn't fazed when the Phillies scored three in the second. He dominated the Phillies lefty power bats and that was the key.
Cole was a mirror of himself from a year ago through three innings. Then, the Yankees drove him from the game in the fifth inning. That was a mirror of his 2009 season…big innings come quickly.
Pettitte had given up just two home runs in his previous 66 World Series innings but Jayson matched that. Werth now has 7 postseason homers this year, one shy of the record shared by Barry Bonds (2002) and Carlos Beltran (2004).
The two teams, leaders in homers in their respective leagues, totaled six homers, one shy of the WS record set in 1989, A's (5), Giants (2).
Phillies have now lost two straight. Last time they did that in the postseason was 2007 when the Rockies swept them in three games.
Steve Carlton will throw out the ceremonial first ball. Jamie Moyer, whose child-hood hero was Lefty, will catch the ball. Delivering the first game ball to the mound with a member of the Boys & Girls Club will be Tony Taylor.
Other Phillies Alumni expected to be at the game include Robin Robert, Mike Schmidt, Senator Jim Bunning, Jim Eisenreich, Darren Daulton, Ricky Bottalico, Ricky Jordan, Rheal Cormier, Mike Lieberthal, Greg Gross and possibly Pat Burrell.
Postseason Memories
Greg "The Bull" Luzinski played for the Phillies from 1970 through 1980 and played in the 1976-77-78 NLCS and 1980 World Series. The Bull hit safely in his first 13 postseason games. His 2-run homer, his fifth post-season HR, led Phillies to 3-1 win over Houston in Game 1 of the NLCS in 1980. The 58-year-old is a fixture at all Citizens Bank Park games in Bull's BBQ located at the east end of Ashburn Alley.
What is your favorite memory of October baseball as a child?
"It surly wasn't the Cubs, which were my favorite team !!! I guess the Yankees domination of the World Series."
As a player, what was the biggest change between the regular season and postseason?
"The intensity level and winning 3 out of 5 series….as we failed in the early 70's it got even tougher year-by-year and the expectations mounted."
What is your fondest personal postseason memory?
"Getting two game-winning hits in the Houston NLCS, a homer off Bob Forsch in game 1 and a pinch double off Joe Sambito to drive in Pete Rose. As a team, winning the World Series and seeing Tug McGraw strike out Willie Wilson."
Where were you when the Phillies won the World Series last October?
"I was watching the game on a TV in Bull's BBQ. Tried to walk over to the rail at Section 104 by the BBQ to watch, but couldn't get near the rail!!!!"
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After an unseasonably long cool spell, summer is finally here. In. Full. Blast. School is out –for Josh, anyway; Zoë still has a couple more weeks. And then she'll have her graduation (from Nursery!).
While I absolutely hate the humidity and the heat (and the high electricity bills!) that summer brings, I am looking forward to shorts and tank tops and shades and sandals. I am looking forward to finally going to the beach. I am looking forward to getting together with my in-laws and having Josh and Zoë play with their cousins again. I am looking forward to picking blueberries. I am looking forward to taking LOTS of pictures.
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However, despite this quarter's substantial year-on-year fall, the value of new orders overall for 2011 so far is only marginally less than 2010, down to €4,455 million from €4,475 million last year.
Likewise, revenue for the third quarter saw a small year-on-year change, up to €975 million from €953 million in Q3 2010, while Siemens' renewables pre-tax profits in the third quarter 2011 were almost half of the €122 million they were last year, down to €68 million.
This drop means Siemens' renewables profit margin for Q3 2011 was 6.97%, down from 12.8% in Q3 2010.
Tumbling quarterly profits have impacted on annual renewables profits, which were €246 million for the nine months ended 30 June 2010, but just €152 million for the first three quarters of this year, despite an increase in annual revenues.


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Tommy Mottola discovered Mariah, Shakira and Beyonce and he's about to tell the world how he did it.
The music mogul has signed a deal to write a book tentatively titled "The las Starmaker," detailing his rise from a failed singer to the top of the music industry. The book is due out in early 2012 from Grand Central Publishing.
"It's time to tell his story," a friend of Mottola told the New York Post. "The music industry is virtually over. Cream will always rise to the top. But the days of starmaking are over. Kids today only want one song, not the album, and they don't know who the artist is."
Mottola is likely to dump on Walter Yetnikoff, who brought him into CBS Records, and then famously turned on him, trashing him in his 2004 memoir, "Howling at the Moon."
Mottola will also address the widely held perception thathe was a jealous svengali over Carey. His pals told the Post that Carey, who was quite young at the time, came from a "confusing upbringing. Sudden success is enough to intoxicate anybody and to distort the perception of anybody and anything around them."
Mottola will relate how he signed Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez and then found a song for them to sing as a duet, which was the beginning of their love affair.
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Opening Day Scheduled for February 19th Against Bethune-Cookman
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. – As preparations continue for their 52nd season of competition, the Cal State Northridge Matadors released their 2010 schedule Tuesday afternoon.
Full 2010 Northridge Schedule (PDF)
Friday, February 19th is when the first game of the 2010 season will take place for the Matadors as they travel to Compton, Calif. to face Bethune-Cookman in the inaugural game of the MLB Urban Invitational. CSUN will return to the MLB Urban Youth Academy the very next day to face Southern before completing tournament play at UCLA in a Sunday afternoon match-up against the Bruins.
For the second straight season Northridge has a schedule laden with games at Matador Field; 30 of the 56 regular season games will take place on CSUN's diamond beginning with their home opener against Pepperdine on February 26th.
CSUN will compete in a total of 56 games throughout the season – 25 against Big West opponents, nine games against teams from the West Coast Conference, four games against Big East competition, and three games against opposition from the Mountain West Conference.
Northridge will also compete in their first exhibition game since 2007 when Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) visits the campus on March 1st as part of their West Coast tour.
The Matadors will face five teams for the first time in the program's history – Bethune-Cookman, Southern, Connecticut, East Carolina, and Seattle University – and play in only four games outside California as the team is scheduled to travel to Seattle for a four-game series from March 19-21 and Las Vegas for one game against the UNLV Rebels on May 18th.
CSUN will then travel to San Diego to face the Toreros (Feb. 23) before alternating home games with Pepperdine in a three-game series (Feb. 26-28) beginning in Northridge.
After their exhibition game against Waseda University, CSUN will host a four-game series against Connecticut (Mar. 5-8) and battle East Carolina (Mar. 10) for one game before facing Loyola Marymount (Mar. 12-14) and UNLV (Mar. 16).
Northridge will then hit the road and travel north to compete against Seattle University in a four-game series (Mar. 19-21) that includes a doubleheader that Saturday.
The Matadors will then return home to open a season-long, seven-game home stand beginning with a series against Sacramento State (Mar. 26-29), a team CSUN has not faced since 2002, and ending with three games against UC Irvine (Apr. 1-3) that take place during the inaugural weekend of Big West Conference action.
Five non-conference games against Pepperdine (Apr. 6), Cal State Bakersfield (Apr. 10-13), and San Diego State (Apr. 13) will fill CSUN's bye week until they return to Big West competition against the visiting Cal Poly Mustangs (Apr. 16-18).
After their series against Cal Poly, CSUN will enter a portion of their schedule that includes ten of thirteen games on the road beginning with a three-game series at Pacific (Apr. 23-25).
A short home stand against UC Davis (Apr. 30-May 2) will bring the Matadors back to Northridge before hitting the road once again for games at UC Santa Barbara (May 7-9), UC Riverside (May 14-16), and UNLV (May 18).
Games against Long Beach State (May 21-23), San Diego (May 24), and a non-conference match-up against UC Riverside (May 25) will comprise the Matadors' final home stand before CSUN travels to Cal State Fullerton (May 28-30) for their final Big West series of the season against the Titans.
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These are all the News & Announcements posted in February, 2014.
Friday, 28
Staff Reading Pick
Book: Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
Recommended by: Karen, Assistant Director
What happens when you have to make a choice between two terrible outcomes and what are the ramifications of your choice in your life ahead? Rose McKenna was helping out in the lunch room of her child's elementary school when she had to make such a choice. This book was intriguing and made me think of ethical and legal issues long after I put it down. Great read!
Want more reading suggestions? View previous staff picks.
Posted By Logan Library at 11:27 AM / Category:Staff Picks
Monday, 24
Forthcoming Items
Can't wait for the next book by your favorite author? Want to discover some new items the library will be acquiring before they even arrive? Check out the library's New Titles Coming Soon lists! These are purchased titles released within the next three months which we anticipate will be in high-demand. If you see an item you would like to reserve, you can place a hold on it immediately. The lists are updated regularly so check back often!
Posted By Logan Library at 8:42 AM / Category:New Titles
Friday, 21
Lady Lyric Turns 100
You're invited to the library to view a community-produced video history of the Caine Lyric Theatre. This year the theater celebrates a century of fine performances.
When: Saturday, February 22, 11:00 AM
Where: Lake Bonneville Room
Posted By Logan Library at 2:38 PM / Category:Events
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BOSTON, Mass. – The MIT men's track and field team took on top competition over the weekend at both the Terrier Classic hosted by Boston University, as well as its own home Coed Invitational on Saturday. The Engineers had some quality performances in the two non-scoring meets, including a pair of NCAA Provisional qualifying marks.
Kyle Hannon, who earned a spot in the NCAA Division III Championship as a freshman, began his quest to return to that level in the mile. The sophomore placed 31st overall and sixth among Division III runners with his time of 4:15.73, coming in just under the provisional mark for the National Championship. Teammate Logan Trimble was also impressive in the event, as his time of 4:17.57 was good for 35th overall.
Patrick Marx was the other Tech harrier to submit a Championship-level performance, as he was the top Division III finisher (10th overall) in the 800m with a time of 1:53.84. Three other Engineers came in under the two-minutes mark in the event as well, as David Way (1:57.87), Dawit Zewdie (1:58.18) and Logan Daum (1:58.32) all placed among the top 40 overall.
Tech displayed its quality depth at 1000 meters, with Richard Prevost leading a group of three MIT runners in the top 20 in the event. Prevost came through in 14th place with a time of 2:32.27. Stephen Serene was just two places behind him at 2:32.92 and Justin Bullock's time of 2:33.97 put him in the 19th position.
Back at their home venue, the Engineers took to the field events in the MIT Coed Invite on Saturday afternoon. Jackson Wirekoh leapt past his closest competitor in the triple jump on his final attempt by just three-quarters of an inch, as his jump of 42-2.75 feet was good for the event win. A number of MIT pole vaulters were in action, as Nathan Peterson was one of three Engineers to get over the bar at four-meters. Peterson was second with a vault of 14-1.25 feet. Cyrus Vafadari cleared a height of 13-1.50 feet for fourth place and Davey Hunt (12-7.50) took sixth overall. Matthew Falk finished second in the high jump, as the junior cleared 6-2.00 feet.
The Engineers will welcome regional powers, Williams College and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, in a tri-meet next Saturday, February 5 at 12:00 p.m.


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