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Hello all, I need help figuring out which part of the sichuan peppercorns I bought to use. From what I've read, I think I'm supposed to use the hulls rather than the black seeds. Toast the hulls and grind them up, correct? This is for use in my fave dish, mapo tofu. Thanks for your help!
(Well, that didn't work. I guess I don't know how to upload a photo. Nuts. Maybe I don't need a photo? Maybe just tell me whether to use the hulls or the black seeds, or both?)
By liuzhou
While there have been other Chinese vegetable topics in the past, few of them were illustrated And some which were have lost those images in various "upgrades".
What I plan to do is photograph every vegetable I see and say what it is, if I know. However, this is a formidable task so it'll take time. The problem is that so many vegetables go under many different Chinese names and English names adopted from one or other Chinese language, too. For example, I know four different words for 'potato' and know there are more. And there are multiple regional preference in nomenclature. Most of what you will see will be vegetables from supermarkets, where I can see the Chinese labelling. In "farmer's" or wet markets, there is no labelling and although, If I ask, different traders will have different names for the same vegetable. Many a time I've been supplied a name, but been unable to find any reference to it from Mr Google or his Chinese counterparts. Or if I find the Chinese, can't find an accepted translation so have to translate literally.
Also, there is the problem that most of the names which are used in the English speaking countries have, for historical reasons, been adopted from Cantonese, whereas 90% of Chinese speak Mandarin (普通话 pǔ tōng huà). But I will do my best to supply as many alternative names as I can find. I shall also attempt to give Chinese names in simplified Chinese characters as used throughout mainland China and then in traditional Chinese characters, now mainly only used in Hong Kong, Taiwan and among much of the Chinese diaspora. If I only give one version, that means they are the same in Simp and Trad.
I'll try to do at least one a day. Until I collapse under the weight of vegetation.
Please, if you know any other names for any of these, chip in. Also, please point out any errors of mine.
I'll start with bok choy/choy. This is and alternatives such as pak choi or pok choi are Anglicised attempts at the Cantonese pronunciation of the Mandarin! However in Cantonese it is more often 紹菜; Jyutping: siu6 coi3. In Chinese it is 白菜. Mandarin Pinyin 'bái cài'. This literally means 'white vegetable' but really just means 'cabbage' and of course there are many forms of cabbage. Merely asking for bái cài in many a Chinese store or restaurant will be met with blank stares and requests to clarify. From here on I'm just going to translate 白菜 as 'cabbage'.
So, here we go.
Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis
This is what you may be served if you just ask for baicai. Or maybe not. In much of China it is 大白菜 dà bái cài meaning 'big cabbage'. In English, usually known as Napa cabbage, Chinese cabbage, celery cabbage, Chinese leaf, etc. In Chinese, alternative names include 结球白菜 / 結球白菜 ( jié qiú bái cài ), literally knotted ball cabbage, but there are many more.
This cabbage is also frequently pickled and becomes known as 酸菜 (Mand: suān cài; Cant: syun1 coi3) meaning 'sour vegetable', although this term is also used to refer to pickled mustard greens.
Pickled cabbage.
By liuzhou
Perhaps the food-related question I get asked most through my blog is "What's it like for vegetarians and vegans in China. The same question came up recently on another thread, so I put this together. Hope it's useful. It would also, be great to hear other people's experience and solutions.
For the sake of typing convenience I'm going to conflate 'vegetarians and vegan' into just 'vegetarian' except where strictly relevant.
First a declaration of non-interest. I am very carnivorous, but I have known vegetarians who have passed through China, some staying only a few weeks, others staying for years.
Being vegetarian in China is a complicated issue. In some ways, China is probably one of the best countries in which to be vegetarian. In other ways, it is one of the worst.
I spent a couple of years in Gorbachev-era Russia and saw the empty supermarkets and markets. I saw people line up for hours to buy a bit of bread.. So, when I first came to China, I kind of expected the same. Instead, the first market I visited astounded me. The place was piled high with food, including around 30 different types of tofu, countless varieties of steamed buns and flat breads and scores of different vegetables, both fresh and preserved, most of which I didn't recognise. And so cheap I could hardly convert into any western currency.
If you are able to self-cater then China is heaven for vegetarians. For short term visitors dependent on restaurants or street food, the story is very different.
Despite the perception of a Buddhist tradition (not that strong, actually), very few Chinese are vegetarian and many just do not understand the concept. Explaining in a restaurant that you don't eat meat is no guarantee that you won't be served meat.
Meat is seen in China as a status symbol. If you are rich, you eat more meat.And everyone knows all foreigners are rich, so of course they eat meat! Meat eating is very much on the rise as China gets more rich - even to the extent of worrying many economists, food scientists etc. who fear the demand is pushing up prices and is environmentally dangerous. But that's another issue. Obesity is also more and more of a problem.
Banquet meals as served in large hotels and banquet dedicated restaurants will typically have a lot more meat dishes than a smaller family restaurant. Also the amount of meat in any dish will be greater in the banquet style places.
Traditional Chinese cooking is/was very vegetable orientated. I still see my neighbours come home from the market with their catch of greenery every morning. However, whereas meat wasn't the central component of dinner, it was used almost as a condiment or seasoning. Your stir fried tofu dish may come with a scattering of ground pork on top, for example. This will not usually be mentioned on the menu.
Simple stir fried vegetables are often cooked in lard (pig fat) to 'improve' the flavour.
Another problem is that the Chinese word for meat (肉), when used on its own refers to pork. Other meats are specified, eg (beef) is 牛肉, literally cattle meat. What this means is that when you say you don't eat meat, they often think you mean you don't eat pork (something they do understand from the Chinese Muslim community), so they rush off to the kitchen and cook you up some stir fried chicken! I've actually heard a waitress saying to someone that chicken isn't meat. Also, few Chinese wait staff or cooks seem to know that ham is pig meat. I have also had a waitress argue ferociously with me that the unasked for ham in a dish of egg fried rice wasn't meat.
Also, Chinese restaurant dishes are often given have really flowery, poetic names which tell you nothing of the contents. Chinese speakers have to ask. One dish on my local restaurant menu reads "Maternal Grandmother's Fluttering Fragrance." It is, of course, spicy pork ribs!
Away from the tourist places, where you probably don't want to be eating anyway, very few restaurants will have translations of any sort. Even the best places' translations will be indecipherable. I have been in restaurants where they have supplied an "English menu", but if I didn't know Chinese would have been unable to order anything. It was gibberish.
To go back to Buddhism and Taoism, it is a mistake to assume that genuine followers of either (or more usually a mix of the two) are necessarily vegetarian. Many Chinese Buddhists are not. In fact, the Dalai Lama states in his autobiography that he is not vegetarian. It would be very difficult to survive in Tibet on a vegetarian diet.
There are vegetarian restaurants in many places (although the ones around where I am never seem to last more than six months). In the larger cities such as Beijing and Shanghai they are more easily findable.
Curiously, many of these restaurants make a point of emulating meat dishes. The menu reads like any meat using restaurant, but the "meat" is made from vegetable substitutes (often wheat gluten or konjac based).
To be continued
By liuzhou
It is possibly not well-known that China has some wonderful hams, up there with the best that Spain can offer. This lack of wide -knowledge, at least in the USA, is mainly down to regulations forbidding their importation. However, for travellers to China and those in places with less restrictive policies, here are some of the best.
This article from the WSJ is a good introduction to one of the best - Xuanwei Ham 宣威火腿 (xuān wēi huǒ tuǐ) from Yunnan province.
This Ingredient Makes Everything Better
I can usually obtain Xuanwei ham here around the Chinese New Year/Spring Festival, but I also have a good friend who lives in Yunnan who sends me regular supplies. The article compares it very favourably with jamon iberico, a sentiment with which I heartily agree.
Xuanwei Ham
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By liuzhou
I have just returned home to China from an almost two week trip to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. To get there I first travelled by train to the provincial capital, Nanning. The local airport only does domestic flights, whereas there are direct flights from Nanning. The flight time required that I stay overnight at the Aviation Hotel in Nanning, from which there is a regular direct bus to the airport.
The trip to Nanning is about an hour and a half and passes through some nice karst scenery.
After booking into the hotel, I set off for my favourite Nanning eating destination. Zhongshan Night market is a well known spot and very popular with the locals. I had forgotten that it was a local holiday - the place is always busy, but that night it was exceptionally so.
It consists of one long street with hundreds of stalls and is basically a seafood market, although there are a few stalls selling alternatives.
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MENTAL health nurses at the Royal Children's Hospital are threatening to walk off the job over a staffing dispute with management that follows a string of assaults.
The two unions representing mental health nurses at the new $1 billion hospital say adolescent inpatients have attacked several nurses this year. Some have allegedly been kicked and punched and attacked with four inch nails, the Australian Nursing Federation says.
The nurses are concerned that staffing levels are not being increased sufficiently to safely manage the planned opening of four new beds in the unit this month. The expansion will take the ward from 12 to 16 beds.
Acting secretary of the Victorian branch of the ANF Paul Gilbert said although the hospital had agreed to boost nurse numbers during the day, it was refusing to increase those rostered on to the night shift from three to four.
He said if the hospital started opening the new beds on Thursday without an extra nurse rostered on to the night shift, some nurses would exercise their right under the Fair Work Act not to work because they believed it posed an unacceptable risk to their health and safety.
"The likelihood is that those nurses will exercise their right not to go to that ward for their shift," he said.
Mr Gilbert said hospital management had told him patient assaults on nurses had increased since the ward opened earlier this year. He did not have figures, but had heard anecdotal reports of assaults.
"We welcome the expansion of this much needed mental health service for children and teenagers, but extra patients require extra nurses, particularly in such a complex health environment," he said.
Assistant Secretary of the Health and Community Services Union Paul Healey said he had heard of about nine assaults on nurses at the hospital's mental health unit this year and said his members were also concerned about safe staffing levels. However, he said his members were happy to continue negotiating with the hospital rather than walk out on Thursday.
Mr Gilbert said the nurses' concerns were exacerbated by the design of the new ward which separated patients into various areas, creating more opportunities for nurses and patients to be left alone.
Executive director of nursing at the hospital Bernadette Twomey would not answer questions about how disruptive the action would be or how many assaults had occurred but said the four beds would open gradually so the hospital could monitor the impact before changing the nursing roster.
"It's important to note additional nurses are always made available on this ward in response to increased patient acuity and that won't change. We are committed to ensuring the safety of all members of staff, as well as patients, wherever they are in the hospital," she said.
Julia Medew is Health Editor at The Age.

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Investing errors come in all shapes and sizes. Some mistakes are timeless, such as not investing at all, while others are specific to events and circumstances.
For instance, economic and investing conditions over the past few years represent something of an extraordinary time, beginning with the stock market plunge in 2008.
"While the wounds are still very fresh as far as 2008 goes, let us not forget that was really almost a once-in-a-generation type event.
"And because it is still so fresh in people's minds, people think it is going to happen again in the very near future," says Michael Gayed, CFA, co-portfolio manager of the ATAC Inflation Rotation Fund.
Scarred by the downturn, many investors scaled back on the amount of risk they're willing to take while others spiked up the risk level in their portfolios as a result of low interest rates.
Investing error No. 1: Trying to live off interest
To kick-start the economy, the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates at record lows. Though Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is pushing everyone into riskier assets, retirees and near retirees don't have to oblige him.
"You have people trying to live off of interest income and dividends — which, to me, is a very poor strategy," says Larry Swedroe, principal at Buckingham Asset Management and author of the book, "Think, Act and Invest like Warren Buffett."
"Just think how foolish it would be if you have some 99-year-old woman who's got a million dollars, and in today's environment, she's getting 1 percent or 2 percent on her money, so she has $10,000 to $20,000 to spend, and she won't touch her principal," he says.
It's no different for a 65-year-old, according to Swedroe. With planning and the right investing strategy, retirees should be able to withdraw 3 percent or 4 percent from their portfolios per year.
Investing error No. 2: Chasing yield
Chasing yield is the other side of the coin. Investors interested in safe, fixed-income products have cast wide nets to find higher yields than those available with Treasury securities or bank CDs.
People "start buying risky assets like junk bonds or things that aren't really safe investments. They're equities, but they throw off more cash, like real estate, master limited partnerships or dividend-paying stocks. But these are not substitutions for safe, fixed income," Swedroe says.
"If you get a repeat of 2008, well guess what: While my bond portfolio is going up because it owns only the safest bonds, your quasi-bond portfolio is dropping 25 (percent), 30 (percent), 40 (percent), 50 percent," he says.
To avoid the yield-chasing trap, income investors should work with a financial planner to develop a safe withdrawal strategy. Traditionally, the bond portion of a portfolio should be a safe haven from risk.
Many products being sold these days introduce unnecessary elements of risk that some investors may not be aware of. For instance, investments that promise "upside potential with downside protection" may deserve a hard look. That category includes structured CDs, structured notes and equity-linked annuities.
"Wall Street is wonderful in creating products to respond to perceived wants and needs out there in the marketplace. If they can rip you off for 5 percent of your objective every year by providing downside protection, they're only too happy to sell you that. And you probably won't understand it," says CFP professional Frank Armstrong, founder and principal of Investor Solutions Inc. in Miami.
Investing error No. 3: Basing strategy on new tax laws
The "fiscal cliff" negotiations at the end of 2012 threw some not-unexpected tax law changes at high-income households.
"Changing your entire investment strategy to account for a reasonably small change in the tax law doesn't make sense," says Armstrong. "Generally, it's a mistake to let the tax tail wag the dog. We don't want to go back to the bad old days when we invested in tax-sheltered stuff just to avoid taxes or defer them down the road."
Instead of scrambling and reacting to events largely out of their control, investors should focus on events within their control and work to minimize short-term gains and emphasize asset allocation strategies, according to Armstrong.
Investors shouldn't be penny-wise but pound-foolish when it comes to their money. Instead, they may reap more rewards by looking closer to home.
"In general terms, people aren't saving enough, and I think that's a huge mistake," Armstrong says. "Notwithstanding the ineptness of our government, the one thing that you can control is how much you save and how you invest it. And you ought to concentrate on those issues and stop worrying about the clowns in Washington (D.C.) to the extent that you can."
Investing error No. 4: Avoiding slow economies
Recent research has shown that stock market returns are negatively correlated with a fast-growing economy. For investors, that means that focusing all their energies on quick-growing BRIC countries — that's Brazil, Russia, India and China — and avoiding recession-struck Europe can backfire.
It did backfire last year if you eschewed European companies. Vanguard's European Stock Index fund gained nearly 21 percent last year despite flat gross domestic product growth forecast for the year.
"That's another example of chasing recency. The year before, in 2011, Europe got killed, and people sold and it turned around," says Swedroe.
By contrast, the Chinese economy grew 7.8 percent in 2012. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index, the largest stock exchange in mainland China, finished the year up about 3.2 percent.
Investing error No. 5: Reacting to news
Investors who sold European stocks or mutual funds may have been tuned in a little too closely to the news.
"If you take yourself back to January last year, the fear was obviously that you would have an implosion in Europe," says Gayed. "Did not happen. End of last year, the fear was the fiscal cliff would cause a collapse. Did not happen. And all throughout that, (Standard & Poor's 500 index) had its best year since 2009 despite all of the doom and gloom that is out there."
"The biggest mistake that people make is they are not respectful of price movement within the market and instead get too nervous listening to overconfident pundits," he says.
Instead of watching the news, pay attention to the market and what the market expects. It may not have the same expectations as Nouriel Roubini or other high-profile forecasters.
"Ignore all forecasts. You're going to be subject to confirmation bias and put a lot of weight on the ones you agree with and ignore the ones you don't agree with," says Swedroe. "It makes you overconfident."
Tuning out the noise gets difficult as volatility roils markets and the global economy drags. These are interesting times to be an investor, and it can get confusing with the cacophony of news and forecasts and ever-shifting opinions from all sides.
The best advice is timeless: Have a written investing plan and a preconceived strategy. It won't cure all your problems, but it may help you avoid a few basic investing errors.
This story was originally published by Bankrate.


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In Search of the Novel: Ten Novels
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
According to Charlie Gordon, who tells his own story through his journal, he is a mentally retarded adult. He works in a bakery as a janitor, but he is ambitious and hard working. He yearns to have friends and to be smart, like his fellow workers. As such, he is a perfect candidate for an experimental brain operation that promises to increase radically human intelligence. Already tested on Algernon, a mouse, the procedure promises wonderful success. Both mouse and man become brilliant. But Charlie the man now must question his new self and what it is to be a person and to be happy. He confronts the cruelty that marred his childhood. Soon, Algernons intelligence diminishes, and Charlie has to face the inevitable reversal.
The story of Charlie Gordon, a profoundly retarded adult transformed briefly into an intellectual giant by medical science, first appeared in 1959 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The one element of science fiction is the transforming operation, performed first on the mouse Algernon and then on Charlie. The story was expanded into a full-length novel in 1966 and then made into a movie titled Charly. As Charlie Gordon tells his story through his journal, we glimpse the world of the retarded. According to Mark E. Hillegas (Saturday Review, March 1966), Keyes offers compassionate insight into the situation of the mentally retarded; how they feel, how they are treated by parents, friends, institutions. We also see Charlies evolving life in his changing style. As critic Robert Scholes writes (Semiotics and Interpretation, 1982), "Charlie acquires a competence in grammar, an extensive lexicon, and a rich, vigorous syntaxand then gradually loses all these, as his mental powers fade. He also becomes an impatient, aggressive, arrogant, and unlovable man as his powers increase But as he loses his mental competence he regains the affection of those around him "
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Kentucky Opera's black tie gala, Carnevale … La Vie Parisienne, was last Saturday evening at the Marriott Ballroom and David Roth, the general director, was a happy camper.
The event began with wine and spirits tasting and an enormous silent auction focusing on wine and wine related items. This was followed by dinner and entertainment by Kentucky Opera Studio Artists. These young vocal artists were enchanting and the arias chosen for them had the audience in the palm of their hands. Noel Bouley was particularly commanding and held the audience enthralled. Luis Prada and Ruth Adkins sponsored the artists for the evening entertainment.
Doris Abdallah and Christy Kramer were the co-chairs of the Carnevale Committee which consisted of Wendy Anzalone, Bridget Bush, Shannon Budnick, Henry Eng, Frank Hil, Nancy Schrsder and Leslie Buddeke Smart. Thomas O'Brien III is the president of the Board of Directors.
There was a live auction featuring rare wines and luxury items and the evening finished up with dancing at Chez Maxim's Lounge in the ballroom.
The 1905 Paris theme, La Vie Parisienne was inspired by the Opera's final production of the Brown-Forman 2011/12 Season, The Merry Widow. The ballroom had a turn-of-the-century flavor of Art Nouveau in Paris. The opera set designer did a fabulous job.
The Opera's Studio Artists sang arias and ensembles from Franz Lehar's romantic comedy with other musical delights. Charmed by the entertainment were Sarah and Jim Haynes, Peggy and Louis Heuser, Lee and Angela Leet, Sam and Mary Michael Corbett, Paul Gabel, Libby and Jim Voyles, and Bonita and Frank Philpot.
Partygoers had the opportunity to bid on fun and festive silent auction items. It had something for everybody including a $5,000 total body makeover donated by Louisville Dermatology Clinic. (I think it would take more than that for most of the crowd!)
After a delicious dinner there was a live auction of dinners in private homes, trips and hard-to-find wines.
Sponsors of the evening were Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Blue Grass Motorsport, Brown-Forman, Kindred Healthcare, Hilliard Lyons, YUM, Riverpoint Capital Management, GE, US Bank, Thomas Nance Photography, First capital Bank of Kentucky, In Bloom Again, The Event Company, LG&E, Fifth Third Bank, Welch Printing Company and Underwired Magazine.
New this year was a raffle for a one-week stay at Maison Rose, the most beautiful house in the prettiest village (St. Jean) of Dordogne, France, for 6. Second prize was a wonderful dinner for 8 with French food and drink at the beautiful Cherokee Triangle home of Tanja Eikenboom and Rick Albrink. Tanja is Dutch but spent much of her youth on her grandfather's plantation in Indonesia. She is a superb cook.
The Opera printed just 30 $500 raffle tickets and at last count, all of them were sold for a tidy $15,000 benefitting Kentucky Opera.
The next opera is Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m and Feb. 19 at 2 p.m. at the Brown Theater.
For those friends of the late Ronnie Doggett, owner of Tin Horse Antiques, there is news of an auction of his treasures.
Garth's Auctions in Delaware, Ohio will be selling the inventory and private collection of Ronnie on February 3-4. You may contact them for a catalog or email email@example.com.
Art Gala
St. Francis High School has announced that Gaela Erwin, famed Louisville painter and the school's Artist-in-Residence, will again create a special work of art for the school's scholarship fundraiser and art gala on February 3, at the Henry Clay.
Funds from the event's Live and Silent Auctions go to the independent, private school's scholarship fund, including its New American and Talented Minority Youth scholarships. 40 percent of St. Francis High school students receive financial aid scholarships.
This year Erwin is creating a pastel portrait of St. Francis sophomore, Kinsey Morrison. Kinsey has gained recognition as a motivational speaker after surviving three life-threatening illnesses, including cancer and heart failure. Today, Kinsey excels at school, plays forward on the St. Francis field hockey team and is active in community service.
Last year Erwin painted another of her students, Noor Ambure, a refugee from Somalia. The portrait raised $3,000 for the school's scholarship fund. Noor is a recipient of one of St. Francis' "New American†scholarships which seek to make an excellent college preparatory education accessible to immigrants.
Imagine 2012 will showcase art and jewelry in many forms, including works from well-known and popular artists both here in Louisville and around the world. WAVE 3's Kevin Harned and Cox Radio personality Vicki Rogers will emcee the event.
The live auction will feature such big ticket items as overseas trips and use of a Porsche for a weekend. Guests have the choice of two ways to attend the evening. They can arrive at 6:30 p.m. and enjoy a seated dinner and participate in both the Imagine 2012 Live and Silent Auctions, or come later at 8:30 p.m. for the silent Auction and Dessert Reception.
Tickets for Live and Silent Auction Dinner are $150 per person. Dessert Reception tickets are $75 per person. Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. with the Dessert Reception following at 8:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased through the school's reservation line at 502.736.1044 or by emailing email@example.com.
Valentine Dinner Dance
The Kentucky and S. Indiana Stroke Association is hosting The Heartstrings Valentine Dinner/Dance on Feb. 10 at the Louisville Boat Club.
Mrs. Billy Duncan Williams (Lou Ellen) and Dr. and Mrs. Gregory Pittman are chairing the evening in support of the Kentucky and Southern Indiana Stroke Association.
There will be short program in honor and memory of the late Betty Sprigg who was a volunteer for the stroke Association.
Tickets are $75. VIP Tables of 8 at $1,500 include preferred seating and table favors.
Cocktails begin at 6:30 p.m. with complimentary drinks provided by Absolut Vodka, Four Roses bourbon and Lovers Leap Winery. Dinner is at 7 p.m. There will be dancing to the music of THE REMEDY.
For added fun there will be complimentary sweetheart photos provided by Fun Time Photo Booth.
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — One proposed Middlebury retirement community is about to undergo Act 250 review and another is well into that process, which could soon culminate in almost 240 new units of senior housing being erected in Addison County's shire town.
Act 250 is a state environmental review process through which development proposals must satisfy 10 separate criteria. Those criteria include potential impacts on municipal services, traffic, water supply and area wildlife. Both the proposed Eastview at Middlebury project and the Lodge at Otter Creek have already received conditional approval from the local planning commission.
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
NEW HAVEN — A battle over what some believe could fundamentally change a Vermont tradition — the annual town meeting — raged in New Haven last week as citizens there voted for the third time in a little more than a year on how they will consider future spending questions.
At a special town meeting on May 25, New Haven voted to continue voting on the general fund budget, the road budget and all other monetary items by Australian ballot. That result, by a tally of 43-58 paper ballots, overturned an article approved on Town Meeting Day in March that reinstituted the tradition of a voice vote for budget issues.
By HARRIETTE BRAINARD
SALISBURY — The children of Salisbury Community School have had a special treat this May with the month-long residency of the No Strings Marionette Company.
The husband-and-wife team of Dan Baginski and Barbara Paulson have spent about 10 days during the month of May bringing stories to life by not only performing puppet shows for the students, but also by helping children from kindergarten through the sixth grade create their own puppets and performances.
The artist-in-residency program will culminate on Friday when the students stage a series of puppet shows at the school beginning at 6:30 p.m.
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President Barack Obama's first two weeks since winning reelection show just how quickly second terms can veer off course.
Between the David Petraeus scandal, the congressional Republicans' calls for a "Watergate-style" probe into the Benghazi attack and the violence in Gaza that threatens to escalate into full-scale war, public attention already has been diverted from Obama's big goals for his next four years — even from urgent negotiations to avert the fiscal cliff and from a possible opening for compromise on immigration reform.
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This is a story that previous two-term presidents know well: four more years to reach high and cement a legacy, but also four more years for potential missteps and devastating external events to sidetrack an administration.
( Also on POLITICO: Washington gives thanks, politically)
"I'm more than familiar with all the literature about presidential overreach in second terms," Obama said last week during his first post-election news conference. "We are very cautious about that."
There's a lot of literature to get familiar with — and more than enough lessons even aside from the abuses of power that led to Richard Nixon's resignation. The history of second terms has divided the presidential failures from the defining historical figures Obama longs to join.
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"Even though people talk about second-term curses and think about Clinton and Monica or FDR and court-packing or Bush and Social Security privatization, the most important thing to know about a second term is we have very few presidents who are considered great who didn't have a second term," said Doris Kearns Goodwin, the presidential historian who's friendly with Obama. "Reagan's place in history was, in part, created in that second term, with the Soviet Union and taxes. If Lincoln hadn't had a second term, he wouldn't have won the Civil War. If [Franklin] Roosevelt hadn't had a second term, he'd be remembered as the president who didn't end the Depression."
Obama survived many of the challenges in his first term that other presidents faced in their second terms. He started with an economic downturn, and now signs point to a recovery. He pushed through several signature pieces of legislation and survived the fights in Congress and the Supreme Court over the law that's most associated with him. He's already seen his agenda rejected in the midterms and his party lose faith in him — and get it back.


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Stayed behind for Sunday's game against the Atlanta Falcons. For quotes and a first-hand account, read beat writer Jerry McDonald's game story and notebook. Here's my take on what I watched before covering the 49ers-Giants game at Candlestick Park.
The Raiders were more than prepared for this game coming off their bye week. Even so, they lost their first game after a bye for the 10th straight season.
Yet, few can fault the Raiders for coming out flat Sunday. They had the ball late in the game, with the score tied, and well within Sebastian Janikowsk's field-goal range.
Then came Carson Palmer's ill-advised pass for Denarius Moore that was intercepted by cornerback Asante Samuel and returned seemingly for a backbreaking touchdown.
The Raiders showed moxie by responding with a long drive to tie the game. Their only sin was leaving too much time on the clock, 40 seconds, for the Falcons to mount a game-deciding drive.
Moral victories don't mean much in the NFL. Yet, the Raiders can take from this game the knowledge that are talented enough to hang with the best teams in the league.
— Beating teams such as the Falcons entails cutting down on the mistakes. On Sunday, the Raiders had plenty, certainly far too many.
They committed 12 penalties for 110 yards, whereas they were called for 19 for 143 yards in their first four games combined. The Palmer interception and fumble, as well as a Darren McFadden fumble, certainly didn't help, either.
— Tight end Brandon Myers went the first four games without a dropped pass. In fact, he caught 16 of the 17 passes thrown his way in those games.
On Sunday, Myers was unable to hang on to a pass from Palmer in the end zone late in the second quarter. A Raiders official asked if I am sure the ball wasn't deflected.
Based off the replays I saw, it didn't appear as if the ball was deflected, though the defender's arm no doubt distracted Myers.
Either way, I'm sure Myers will tell you that he should have caught the ball, which arrived at the chest region and in position for him to get his hands on the ball.
— McFadden rushed 27 times for 70 yards. He now stands at 271 yards on 84 carries through five games, an average of 3.2
In McFadden's defense, he played hurt most of the game and had two sizable runs negated by penalty. Still, it's puzzling how Mike Goodson amassed 59 yards on four carries and seemed to get past the line of scrimmage with relative ease.
Coincidence? Who knows.
— Saw a Tweet before the game that said Janikowski converted a 64-yard field goal in pre-game warm-ups. Given that, it's a tad surprising that coach Dennis Allen bypassed a chance at a 58-yard attempt in the first quarter.
Allen no doubt didn't want to give the Falcons the ball at their own 48 if Janikowski missed the attempt. As it turned out, Shane Lechler's punt went into the end zone, resulting in a 28-yard difference in field position.
You make the call on that one. It says here, Janikowski is on the team because he has the ability to make such kicks. It's for other teams to punt in that situation.
— Sure, the Raiders are 1-4, a spot where few teams emerge and make it to the playoffs. However, the Raiders are about to embark upon a three-game stretch in which they have a realistic shot at evening their record.
They host the Jacksonville Jaguars (1-4), play the Kansas City Chiefs (1-5) on the road, then host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2-3) in the next 15 days.
If the Raiders reach 4-4, the playoffs remain a distinct possibility. Losing any of the next three games puts a damper on the Raiders playoff aspirations.
— The Raiders went their first four games without notching an interception. To a man, the Raiders said they were on the verge of breaking through.
Sure enough, the Raiders intercepted Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan three times Sunday. Michael Huff, Joselio Hanson and Tyvon Branch each picked Ryan once.
— The Raiders made the Falcons one-dimensional by shutting down their running game from the outset.
Michael Turner and the two other running backs amassed only 30 yards on 14 carries. Time and again, the Raiders stuffed the Falcons on short-yardage plays, including a couple of times near the goal line.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State students and University and State College officials will once again kick off the fall semester with the seventh annual Living in One Neighborhood (LION) Walk on Monday, Aug. 25.
After a short orientation at 5:15 p.m., participants will split up into 25 to 30 groups consisting of a student, a law enforcement officer, a borough official and a representative from the University. Starting at 6 p.m., the groups will walk door-to-door to greet residents, both students and non-students in State College and distribute bags with helpful information and resources.
Officials scheduled to participate in the walk include Penn State President Eric Barron, State College Mayor Elizabeth Goreham, Vice President for Student Affairs Damon Sims and State College Borough Manager Tom Fountaine.
"One of the goals is to encourage a healthy dialogue between residents in the community," said Centrice Mulfinger, assistant to the manager for Community Engagement in State College. "We encourage residents to engage with their neighbors."
The LION Walk is a collaboration among Student Affairs, the Off-Campus Student Union and the Borough of State College. This year's overall theme is "be a good neighbor" and encompasses past LION Walk themes including increasing personal safety and reducing high-risk drinking.
"We want to hone in on the fact that good neighbors will be respectful of others in the community and everyone contributes to improving the quality of life in the neighborhoods," Mulfinger said.
More than 100 volunteers are expected to visit more than 700 homes in the Highlands, College Heights and Holmes-Foster neighborhoods. "The overall mission is to enhance the town and gown relationship that exist in the community and to be engaged in the community," Mulfinger said.
In addition to The Lion Walk, which originated in 2008, University and borough representatives work together on multiple projects including The Partnership: Campus & Community United Against Dangerous Drinking and the Off-Campus Housing Fair.
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Country music superstars Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts are headlining the third annual "Bayou Country Superfest" to be held in Baton Rouge over the 2012 Memorial Day weekend.
Also on the list of performers slated for the two-day music festival at LSU's Tiger Stadium are Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Dierks Bentley, Sara Evans and Little Big Town.
Festival organizers announced the lineup Wednesday, saying tickets will go on sale Oct. 20. The festival dates are May 26-27.
"The stars have truly aligned for the third Bayou Country Superfest, confirming the event as one of the 'must-see' festivals in America," said Quint Davis, the producer-director of the festival, in a statement.
Two-day tickets range from $80 to $500, and single-day tickets cost between $50 and $250, depending on the seats.
"Dust off your boots and get ready for another great time in Tiger Stadium with some of country music's biggest stars, because this year's festival promises to be the best so far," said Melvin "Kip" Holden, mayor of Baton Rouge.
The 2011 festival drew more than 75,000 fans.
Bayou Country Superfest, produced by Festival Productions BCM, LLC, a subsidiary of Festival Productions, Inc.-New Orleans, is a co-production with AEG Live and is produced in association with The Messina Group.
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Construction on New Black Box Theater Set for Spring
Construction is slated to begin next month on a $4.5 million, 10,500 square-foot black box theater on Duquesne University's campus. The theater will be located on Seitz Street, next to the School of Music. A groundbreaking ceremony for the campus community is scheduled for Tuesday, April 1.
The upper level of the red brick-and-glass structure will include a main entrance and lobby, a theater seating up to 160, a rehearsal hall and a mobile ticket counter. The theater's lower level will feature dressing rooms, set building shops, costume storage, mechanical/electrical rooms, offices and a green room.
A black box theater is a relatively small, flexible, simple performance space that typically features a large square room with walls and floors that have been painted black to avoid clashing with scenery or costumes. The new theater will have portable risers and seats to allow set designers and show directors to configure seating to each event.
The new theater will be used by Duquesne's Red Masquers, Spotlight Musical Theater Company, School of Music ensembles as well as performance and production classes.
"In keeping with the University's commitment to sustainability and good environmental stewardship, the new theater will be fitted with energy-conscious lighting controllers and an efficient white roof that may provide a decrease in the building's cooling costs," said Rod Dobish, executive director of facilities management.
The theater is expected to be operational for the 2015-2016 academic year.
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Hope College will host the acclaimed Brubeck Brothers Quartet (BBQ) on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The Brubeck Brothers Quartet is a jazz group featuring two members of one of America's most accomplished musical families, Dan Brubeck (drums) and Chris Brubeck (bass and trombone). Guitarist Mike DeMicco and pianist Chuck Lamb, complete the quartet.
Both Brubeck brothers received a Grammy nomination for their "Trio Brubeck" recording. Drummer Daniel Brubeck has performed with a range of legendary jazz artists and toured extensively with his dad in the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Chris Brubeck is a composer, orchestral arranger, lyricist, and performer, displaying his multiple talents on three instruments. An award-winning composer, Chris Brubeck has been called "...a 21st Century Leonard Bernstein" by John von Rhein of the "Chicago Tribune."
The quartet has performed at concert series, colleges, and jazz festivals across North America and Europe including the Newport, Detroit, Ravinia, Las Vegas, Sedona, Spokane and Monterey jazz festivals. The quartet's hour-long concert at Sierra Nevada Brewery has been broadcast on the nationally syndicated program "Sierra Center Stage."
The BBQ was chosen to kick off the New Year with an hour-long, coast-to-coast live broadcast on "Toast of the Nation" on National Public Radio.
The group's new Koch release, "Classified," has already earned this rave review from All About Jazz: "Once again the BBQ attains that rarefied level where music is both relaxed and expressive, and their joy in its creation is contagious. There's really nothing out there that comes close to their unique brand of inventiveness."
"Classified" also features the Imani Winds, who performed at the Hope College Great Performance Series in 2006.
With Chris Brubeck's compositions as a vehicle, the BBQ has joined with chamber groups to collaborate with musicians from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Russia National Symphony Orchestra.
The Brubeck Brothers Quartet's debut Koch recording, "Intuition," impressed the national jazz media and spent several weeks in the top-10 radio charts while earning enthusiastic reviews from "JazzTimes," "Downbeat," "Boston Globe" and many other respected publications.
"'Intuition' was measure for measure one of the hardest swinging sets of the year," said the "Philadelphia Inquirer." Although the quartet's style is rooted in "straight-ahead" jazz, the ensemble's concerts reveal an inherent ability to explore and play odd time signatures while naturally integrating the influences of funk, blues, and world music.
Additional information about the quartet may be obtained online at www.brubeckbrothers.com.
Tickets are on sale at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, and cost $12 for regular admission, $10 for senior citizens, and $6 for children 18 and under. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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MINNEAPOLIS -- A Detroit Lakes, Minn., roofing company has agreed to pay $71,500 to seven black, Hispanic and American Indian employees to settle racial harassment and retaliation charges brought against the company by a former employee, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
An investigation by the EEOC's Minneapolis Area Office revealed that employees were frequently subjected to racial epithets, racial jokes and hostile treatment by other employees at Herzog Roofing, a commercial, industrial and residential roofing company based in a town of 8,000 in northwest Minnesota, the EEOC said. The harassment was largely perpetrated by supervisors and, despite complaints to Herzog senior management, the misconduct did not cease. Following an investigation of the discrimination charge, the EEOC determined that there was reasonable cause to believe the company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition, the EEOC found that Herzog retaliated against the employee who brought the initial complaint by firing him after he reported the unlawful treatment.
"We are pleased that Herzog worked cooperatively with us to resolve this charge," said Julie Schmid, acting director of the EEOC's Minneapolis Area Office. "Herzog now understands that it is not enough for an employer to have an anti-discrimination policy. The employer must enforce the policy and take preventive and corrective action to effectively fulfill its statutory obligation to maintain a workplace free of discrimination, including harassment."
In addition to paying a total of $71,500 to a class of seven harassment victims, Herzog will provide anti-discrimination training to all of its employees and additional training on harassment and retaliation to all supervisors, managers and owners. Herzog will redistribute its anti-harassment policies and procedures and monitor its supervisors' compliance with equal employment opportunity laws.
The EEOC's Minneapolis Area Office is part of the Chicago District Office, which has jurisdiction over Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the commission can be found on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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Recirculating – Air Cooled Chiller (with Tank and Pump) CAVCS1004TZ
Standard Features
- U.L. Listed, and EPA Compliant, eco friendly R410a refrigeration condensing unit
- Single refrigeration circuit. Copeland scroll compressor with crankcase heater
- Air cooled, high ambient, vertical discharge, condenser for 100°F ambient;
- Fan cycle control provides head pressure control down to 0°F ambient
- Weather proof electrical panel with single point power connection to compressor contactor
- 24 vac control circuit with component sequenced terminal strip for easy troubleshooting
- Remote control panel with electronic thermostat, digital temperature indicator lighted switches
- Stainless steel brazed plate evaporators with hot gas bypass capacity control and solenoid valve
- Externally equalized thermal expansion valve with liquid line solenoid valve, filter drier, sight glass
- Copper water lines with FPT connections and insulated with 1/2" closed cell insulation
- Water flow safety switch locks out compressor in no flow condition
- Internal bypass loop prevents compressor dead heading
- Lifetime polyethylene reservoir with cabinet mounted fill port and external level gauge
- High head, cast iron centrifugal pump with nominal capacity of 2.4 gpm/ton at 100 ft. hd.
- Cabinet mounted CHWS outlet pressure gauge and analog temperature gauge
- Powder coated welded steel frame with laminated polyethylene panels
- Warranty: One (1) year parts, five (5) year compressor limited warranty
- Leak checked, pressure tested and run tested under load prior to shipment
Options & Accessories
- Receivers for 90% refrigerant storage
- Heated and insulated receiver for ambient temperatures below 30°F
- Nonferrous piping in lieu of copper for de-ionized water or corrosive fluids
- Condenser coil coating for corrosion protection in coastal areas and caustic environments
- Voltage and phase monitor in 2 through 7.5 ton
- Cabinet mounted, glycerin filled refrigeration pressure gauges
- Sanitary, double wall, evaporator for potable water
- Inhibited propylene glycol concentrate in 5 or 55 gallon containers
- Closed system reservoir
- Startup & training by Factory authorized technician
- Factory authorized contractor for installation
- Castors for portability
|Electrical Data
|Power Supply: 460/3/60
|114 Amps
|16.7 Amps
|Fan Motor:
|2 @ 2.8 Amps
|Pump Motor
|3.0 Amps
|Total Circuit:
|22.5 Amps
|40 Amps
|Physical Data
|66"L x 44"W x 74"H
|Ship Weight:
|1470 lbs.
|Minimum Clearances:
|30" All Sides 60" above Top
|Noise Rating:
|77 dBA @ 10 feet
|Fans CFM:
|8800 cfm @ 125°F
|Tank Capacity:
|75 Gallons ( Atmospheric )
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The latest chatter among the political classes is whether or not the Republican party can regain control of the Senate. There are currently fifty three Democrats and forty five Republicans in the Senate enjoined with two Independents who caucus with the Democrats. This makes the control numbers fifty five to forty five. The math is simple – a net change of five seats and the Senate will be tied while six has Nevada's Reid relinquishing his leadership post to McConnell of Kentucky.
Can it be done? According to many pundits the polls are indicating a done deal. Probabilities of 65% to 75% and even 80% are currently be tossed around as the chance of a change. The probabilities are based on their analysts' interpretations of the current polls.
But before you either celebrate or toss in the towel be warned – these are July polls at the beginning of the campaign season with high rates of undecided voters.
With the caveat in place we generated our own prediction by running the polls for November's senate race through our model. This model runs sample elections a million times analyzing all of the likely or even possible outcomes.
Our results – while slightly different from those currently touted – do not bode well for President Obama and the Democrats in the Senate. If the November election were held on July 31 the Republicans would have a 54% chance of taking control of the senate while the Democrats have only a 26% of retaining control.
But 54% is only part of the story. These probabilities add to only 80%. In fact the most common outcome of the model is not a Republican takeover but a tie – fifty Republican and fifty Democratic Senators come January 2.
It is easy to argue that if the change occurs it is a result of the policies of the White House, or a change in voter attitudes, or simply Presidential fatigue in the sixth year of an administration. These are the easy conclusions to make. An alternative is to look at the individual Senate races.
November will see thirty five senate races. Of these twenty one are held by Democrats and fourteen are held by Republicans – a lopsided ratio already putting the Democrats at a disadvantage. If races were decided by a toss of a coin then the 60% to 40% ratio of races would have us expecting the Democrats to lose as many as nine seats while gaining at most one. While the idea of regression to the mean is interesting and surely has some influence, races are not decided randomly.
The second possibility is that of the thirty five races eight seats are open – seven retirements and one resignation. These eight are split five Democrats and three Republicans – another lopsided margin. Two of the Republican seats are in Oklahoma and Nebraska – both strong Republican states and thus unlikely to switch. The only open red seat that might possibly switch to blue is in Georgia where the daughter of the popular Georgia Senator, Sam Nunn, is in the race to replace Saxby Chambliss. While this opens the race up as a possible swing the polls are showing her chances presently as a long shot. Thus all three red vacancies are likely to remain red.
But of the five blue seats that have no incumbent the only safely blue seat is that being opened by Carl Levin's retirement in Michigan. The other four are all in play. In fact recent polling has the Republican Party picking up the seats in South Dakota and West Virginia with a toss up in Iowa.
As for the rest of the class, there is one incumbent who stands to lose his reelection bid – Pryor of Arkansas. Joining him in the south are Landrieu of Louisiana and Hagans of North Carolina who while polling ahead are still in tight races. Another red state with a Democratic incumbent senator is at the other geographical extreme. Begich of Alaska is in a tight race to retain his seat. The four at risk blue seats are completed by Udall of Colorado who is currently in a dead heat.
While the Republicans have a shot at between one and all four of these seats, there is only one seat on the other side of the aisle that is at risk. It is – surprisingly – the seat of Minority Leader McConnell in Kentucky. And while polling close it is leaning for the incumbent.
What does all of this say about 2016? Little perhaps but not much. Control of the senate in the upcoming Congress will be determined by a half dozen races in a half dozen states. As for the White House in two years, these states are most likely to maintain an ideological course in voting for either a Republican or a Democrat for the next President. Instead the 2016 elections will be determined by the candidates that are running in 2016 – including an entirely different class of senators. And instead of having control be decided by six states all fifty will have the opportunity to make the choice for the White House known.
J. Brian Adams
J. Brian Adams, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Penn State Harrisburg.


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Green Living at Play
When it comes to leisure time, Lincoln's great outdoors is the greenest option. Its parks, trails and outdoor activities lead to a quality of life that can't be beaten. Turn off the electronics and play in nature for FREE.
Lincoln Parks and Recreation has a goal of providing a park within a half-mile of every home, and maintains 125 parks in the city. Bring your canine companion with you for some fresh air at two designated dog parks or strap on a helmet and take on one of our two skate parks. Also, watch for Lincoln's Earth Day celebration in April that is held at Antelope Park each year!
Check out all of Lincoln's parks!
Whether you're on an exhilarating bike ride or successfully beating rush hour traffic, trails in Lincoln offer unlimited adventure potential. There are 128 miles of trails in the City to explore and plenty of activities on them.
- Sign up with friends and family for Trail Trek in the summer
- Glide along on a Great Plains Bicycle Club organized ride
- Volunteer for an Adopt-a-Trail group to keep a path in Lincoln litter-free
- Improve your endurance on the trails and take part in one of 11 official Lincoln Track Club runs
Event Recycling
It's simple to recycle the paper, bottles, cans, cardboard and even the food at events you attend around town. Any business, group or individual in Lincoln can borrow portable recycling or compost bins for events at no cost. Contact the Recycling Office at firstname.lastname@example.com or 402-441-7043 for more information.


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Editor's Note: This is the third and final article in a three-part series detailing one family physician's commitment to building a patient-centered medical home practice in Lakewood, Colo. Parts one and two of this series appeared previously in AAFP News Now.
Visitors to Belmar Family Medicine(www.belmarfamilymedicine.com) in Lakewood, Colo., likely sense that this medical practice is different the moment they walk through the door and enter into a warm and inviting environment.
No sterile white walls here. Warm colors mark the walls, and soothing artwork, including a water sculpture, greet visitors. Tropical plants backlit with soft lighting are tucked into corners of the outer office. Patients and their families help themselves to hot coffee or tea at a strategically placed drink station, and classical music plays in the background.
Beyond the front desk, clinic hallways sport a myriad of framed certificates and awards signifying that this practice, owned by Tracy Hofeditz, M.D., has been recognized for its performance in providing high-quality patient care, which is a result of the transformation to the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of care the practice began in 2007.
Since then, Belmar has received level three PCMH recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), but he is always striving to make his practice better.
Improving the Patient Experience
Although Belmar Family Medicine works hard to put the patient at the center of the practice, the only way to know for sure that patients embrace the enhanced services they began receiving since the practice embarked on its expansive change effort is to ask them.
But, as Hofeditz discovered, asking for patient feedback sometimes produces unexpected results.
- Although Belmar Family Medicine earned level three patient-centered medical home (PCMH) recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance in 2009, the practice continues to add new components to enhance patient care.
- Most recently, the practice hired a care coordinator to work with patients diagnosed with diabetes, and it continually urges patients to take responsibility for their own care.
- Maintaining a PCMH practice is an ongoing task, but doing the extra work means extra revenue for the practice and higher quality of care for patients.
"It's been hard for me to receive patient satisfaction survey results because I've worked so hard to be an excellent physician," says Hofeditz. Despite some stinging remarks on surveys -- produced twice yearly -- the experience gives the Belmar team an opportunity to tend to problems highlighted by patients.
Most often, it's practice processes that cause patients distress. And sometimes the fix is fairly simple. For example, in an effort to help patients access care more easily, Belmar improved its long-established same-day scheduling policy by adding more same-day "urgent care" slots and by offering extended hours two days a week. In addition, staggering lunch breaks for staff members allows the office to remain operational right through the lunch hour.
The practice has not moved to weekend hours, but that option remains on the table, as does re-establishing group visits for patients with chronic ailments, such as diabetes.
As part of its ongoing patient outreach, Belmar also began offering private patient portals via its electronic health record system in 2009. The practice upgraded the site in 2011. Still, according to Belmar's practice manager, Judy Hewitt, only about 10 percent of patients seen in the past 18 months have signed up for their personal portal through Belmar's website. "We have about 300 patients enrolled, and we'd like to increase that number," she says.
Diane Cardwell, M.P.A., A.R.N.P., vice president of health care solutions for TransforMED(www.transformed.com), the AAFP's nonprofit health care transformation subsidiary, has guided many practices like Belmar through the maze of change that today's health care system demands, and that includes helping practices improve patient portal enrollment. She agrees with Hewitt that it can be challenging.
"I make sure everyone in the practice is using the portal, because if staff members experience it, they will promote it," says Cardwell. A patient portal system can save everyone in the office time by enhancing communication with patients; for example, the portal can be used to trigger patient appointment reminders and to send test results directly to patients.
And if staff members also are patients at the practice, remind them to set up their own patient portals, Cardwell adds. "If I use it as a patient, I'm much more likely to promote it."
Another of the new additions to Belmar's buffet of services is its "Passport 2 Health" program, which serves patients with diabetes. The health-coaching program consists of five 60-minute private sessions between the patient and Belmar's patient care coordinator, Mackenzie Bell, M.P.H.
"We're trying to empower patients to take care of themselves and take a role in their health care," says Bell. "That's the point of care coordination."
She talks to patients about living with a chronic disease, coaches them on the importance of physical activity and good nutrition, and impresses upon them that healthy living must be a lifelong habit. "It's my job to educate patients about possible outcomes if they don't control their disease," says Bell.
"I'm also the annoying person who calls them when they're overdue for labs or if we haven't seen them for a while," she adds.
Creating a 'Partners-in-Care' Mindset
Patient-centered care is so important to Hofeditz that he deleted the phrase "noncompliant patient" from the office vocabulary and replaced it with the TLC (tender loving care) list.
"To call a patient noncompliant is an easy way for physicians to give up their responsibility to provide better care," says Hofeditz. "We define our TLC list as high-risk diabetic patients who have not met goal on certain measures or who have not followed up. Those patients are called weekly by the care coordinator until they schedule their visit to come in for recommended care.
"We want to be a pain in their tails until they commit to being a better partner in their care." Hofeditz calls this method "activating patients" and says it is an important tool in the national quest to provide better health care at a lower cost.
But for this family doc, the end goal also is personal. "I want patients to engage, or I want them to leave my practice," he says.
Then, appearing surprised by his own words, Hofeditz quietly adds, "I want patients to take responsibility for their health and not leave it all on my shoulders."
Belmar Family Medicine Shares Its PCMH Blueprint
Tracy Hofeditz, M.D., is eight years into his patient-centered medical home building project. Winnowing down all the steps he's taken into one short list looks something like this:
- Recognize and accept the need to change.
- Look outside the practice for organizational help.
- Enlist the help of a coach to discover practice weaknesses.
- Build and nurture the practice team.
- Implement a daily team huddle.
- Join a chronic disease registry.
- Measure quality and compare your outcomes to those of other practices.
- Embrace electronic health records.
- Invite patient feedback via a survey instrument.
- Hire a care coordinator.
- Implement a mental health outreach program.
- Insist on continuous improvement.
Implement the above steps, and your practice is on the way to increasing practice revenues and improving the quality of patient care, says Hofeditz.
Dealing With Ongoing Medical Home Maintenance
Most recently, Belmar Family Medicine entered the maintenance phase of its PCMH building project, and practice manager Hewitt is deeply involved in the practice's renewal process.
According to her, the initial NCQA application process took 80-100 hours, and she laments that the renewal process for the more rigorous 2011 standards was equally time consuming.
Still, says Hewitt, the work was worth the effort because official recognition as a PCMH practice will continue to open new streams of revenue, such as incentive payments from insurance companies and grant funding for practice improvement projects from any number of outside organizations.
"If you think you're already doing the (PCMH) work, why not get paid for it?" asks Hewitt. "Document your efforts, prove your quality and start looking around for resources to tap into."
Hofeditz agrees. "As family physicians, we must learn new ways to increase the value of our care and demand reimbursement consistent with our value." This work of practice transformation can and must be done by small practices, he says. "I challenge physicians to embrace these changes and see for themselves. It's not easy, but neither was medical school."
Finding a PCMH Project in Your Area
Physicians interested in participating in a PCMH pilot program but who don't know what's available in their area should start by contacting their AAFP constituent chapter, says TransforMED's Cardwell.
Talk to major payers, too, because if they're not engaged in any pilots yet, repeated interest from physicians with whom insurers contract could encourage them to take action.
Cardwell also recommends checking in with TransforMED. "We have a map with all of the projects we're touching," says Cardwell. Take advantage of TransforMED's Delta-Exchange network(www.transformed.com) (it's free to AAFP members) and post a query on the network asking for suggestions from physician colleagues who practice nearby.
Lastly, says Cardwell, the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative(www.pcpcc.net) offers resources on all of the ongoing PCMH projects nationwide. And if nothing is available in your region right now, don't despair. "Learn everything you can about existing PCMH pilots, and you'll be poised to jump into the next available PCMH slot in your area," she notes.
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TQ7236 : Whitestocks Farm, Bedgebury Road, Goudhurst, Kent
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Wealden Hall Houses
Wealden Hall Houses were timber framed farmhouses built by wealthy Yeoman farmers from the late 1300's to the mid 1500's (late Mediaeval to Tudor times). Originating in the South East, in the Weald of Kent and Sussex, they spread to other Southern counties around England. They remain most prevalent in the South East, particularly in areas surrounding Maidstone. The buildings can be identified by their distinct front jettied first floor end bays. read more here Link
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Lake House in Portugal Paying Tribute to Modern Architecture
Frederico Valsassina Architects designed a lake house in Aroeira, Portugal. The residence displays a modern architecture, consisting of volumes with different functions and emphasizing the indoor/ outdoor interaction: "We wanted a home that understands the autonomy of different spatialities – social / private, day / night – with the creation of a terrace adjacent to the pool. Taking advantage of the conditions of deployment of the lot, both in terms of topography and its limits, the position of the villa emphasizes the creation of dominant visual axis in the direction of the immediate surroundings of the lake. Indeed, the service areas protect strategically, social areas, occupying the most disadvantaged local deployment. Investing in the gradual transition between the inside and outside, the terrace is assumed as a natural extension of the living area, promoting ongoing dialog with the environment and flexibility in the proposed appropriation of different spaces". Find any distinctive features which make this home inspirational?


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"Salem" carries a warning: Witches are real, but they are not who or what they seem to be.
The drama, which will premiere April 20 on WGN America as its first original series, explores what really fueled the town's infamous witch trials while exploring the dark and supernatural truth behind them.
Set in the late 1600s, "Salem" revolves around an epic romance and "bolder new vision of witches," producers said. In this case, the witches are the witch-hunters.
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