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Thermablok® Aerogel Insulation
Utilizing aerogel insulation technology developed by NASA - the highest insulating material in existence - Thermablok® is a highly efficient, aerogel-based insulating material that breaks conductive "thermal bridging" and can increase the overall wall R-value of a wall by more than 32 percent, regardless of cavity insulation.
Aerogel, also referred to as "frozen smoke," has been difficult to adapt to most uses because of its fragility. The Thermablok material overcomes this by using a unique fiber to suspend a proprietary formula of aerogel so that it can be bent or compressed while still retaining its amazing insulation properties.
Now available to the building industry, just one 3/8-inch Thermablok Aerogel Insulation Strip® (pat.pend.) added to the edge of each stud before hanging drywall or sheeting is all that is needed to tackle thermal bridging problems and contribute towards maximum R value.
Thanks to its hydrophobic properties, Thermablok will not age, mold, or mildew. Thermablok uses an amorphorus silica (distinctly different from crystaline silica) aerogel insulating material which is environmentally safe and recyclable.
Thermablok aerogel insulation is made up of a composite material consisting of aerogel embedded within a fiberglass type matrix.
Available in plastic encased strips (optional self-adhesive)that attach easily to the stud, Thermablok maintains its R-value over time, under a wide range of conditions. For this reason, Thermablok has made aerogel insulation available for home and commercial use.
What is aerogel?
Aerogel is an advanced material which holds 15 entries in the "Guinness Book of Records" for its unique properties, including lowest density solid and best insulator. Aerogel is a silica-based substance consisting of a loose dendritic network of the atom silicon. Aerogel is manufactured by removing the liquid from a silica alcogel and replacing it with nothing but air, which makes up 99.8 percent of the final product. Some aerogels have a density as low as .001 grams per cubic centimeter (.0005 ounces per cubic inch). Aerogels are good thermal insulators because they almost nullify three methods of heat transfer (convection, conduction and radiation).
The video below, from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, demonstrates aerogel and its properties.
Thermablok Products
Thermablok was developed to meet a real need to apply aerogel technology in residential and commercial insulating material. Thermablok works by addressing the characteristics of thermal transmission, which is at its minimum when conducting through air or a vacuum, and increases through solid objects. Therefore, in a regular wood or metal stud wall, the areas that continue to conduct thermally are the studs, which mechanically connect one side of a wall to the other. Thermablok Aerogel Insulation Strips block thermal bridging at its base – the stud.
On an infrared thermal test of a standard metal stud/gypsum board wall, the studs show up very clearly as the points of thermal conductivity. Thermal bridging is the prime cause of energy loss in a building.
As the Thermablok aerogel material is 95 percent air, and is situated between the stud and the drywall, it breaks the mechanical connection (thermal bridging) exceptionally well.
These findings are substantiated by the U.S Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and J. M. Laboratory, which compared two identical (metal stud/gypsum board) walls: one wall with one strip of Thermablok on each 2 x 4 stud edge (one side only), and the second wall without aerogel strips. "Covering the framing faces on the warm side of the wall assembly with strips of low conductive flexible aerogel insulation improved the R-value of the wall assembly by about 42%." (An additional 3/8" of insulation was added to the wall cavity to stop thermal convection in the 3/8" space created by adding the aerogel strip which added slightly to the R-value.)
NASA named Thermablok aerogel insulating material to its Top 50 list of new products in "Spinoff," NASA's annual premier publication featuring companies that have successfully adapted NASA technologies to everyday products and made them available to everyday consumers.


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Robert Beatty and his daughters built a great CNC mill to help them create custom robot parts. Previously we covered the Beattys' sweet CNC-controlling PC with its custom acrylic and MicroRAX enclosure, but now we get to see it lit up inside with blue LEDs! The whole setup appears complete and looks great. In includes:
• A 220 volt, 3-phase Variable Frequency Drive (VFD)(gray box bolted to wall above) that powers the CNC's main spindle
• A 1.5kw water-cooled, high-speed / high-precision spindle (24,000 RPM)
• A 24″ aluminum cooling tower (just below the VFD)
• A 3-axis gantry system driven by Stepper Motors and precision ball screws
• A large, T-Slot work table with acrylic sides for chip containment
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When the Senate run-off began, former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz challenged Lt. Governor David Dewhurst to five debates. "Why only five?", Dewhurst shot back.
Since the May primary, the two Republican contenders have only debated once. The two have appeared together three times, but rarely addressed each other while speaking.
Cruz's campaign, which has made several public challenges for more debates, claims that Dewhurst is avoiding joint appearances because Cruz is preferred when the two are compared side-by-side.
The Dewhurst campaign is quick to respond that they are ready and willing to look for another opportunity to appear together.
In the latest debate proposal, the Montgomery County Eagle Forum invited both candidates to a joint forum scheduled Thursday.
While Cruz accepted, Dewhurst said he would be unable to attend because of a prior commitment and was represented by Mike Richards, a talk radio host and former state senator from 1980 to 1982.
Cruz spokesperson James Bernsen questioned why Dewhurst would not be appearing after accepting Cruz's televised challenge to five or more debates.
Bernsen said by sidelining this debate and others, Dewhurst was attempting to minimize the number of Texans paying attention to the race, because "as polls have shown, when candidates know both Ted and David Dewhurst, they prefer Ted".
Cal Jillson, a political scientist at SMU, said it is common for frontrunners to avoid debates because they want to avoid making mistakes at a high-profile event.
What he said he hasn't seen is conclusive polling data indicating voters prefer Cruz over Dewhurst when compared side-by-side. According to Jillson, it was more likely that the pressure from Cruz to debate was intended to make it appear the Cruz campaign was "on the move" and a threat to Dewhurst.
Both candidates have been invited to a televised debate offered by Fox 26 in Houston this Sunday. Cruz has accepted; Dewhurst has not yet.
Dewhurst spokesman Matt Hirsch said in response that the invitation wasn't exactly a prime time debate like their Dallas meeting, and that their campaign was still looking for other, more viable options.
"This proposed appearance from Fox was an invitation to appear on a 6 a.m. Sunday TV show, with Cruz for 10 minute segments during a two-hour period," Hirsch said. "We are currently in discussions about debate opportunities in Houston later this month that Fox would be a part of."


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Nike today lifted up the hood on the KOBE 8 SYSTEM's and they are pretty great. You can decide for yourself if you enjoy them or not thanks to the below behind the scenes video and pictures. Sneakerheads, enjoy!
Speed. Precision. Vision. Versatility. Each of these traits is powerful on its own. When you bring them together, they're unstoppable.
Nike Basketball factored in every dimension of Kobe Bryant's formidable game in creating the KOBE 8 SYSTEM, which brings together performance innovations to create Kobe's lowest and lightest performance basketball shoe to date at 9.6 ounces in a U.S. men's size 9. The shoe's provocative graphic snakeskin print was inspired by Kobe's on-court alter ego the Black Mamba, with further inspiration from the Chinese Year of the Snake in 2013.
The KOBE 8 SYSTEM is the result of a close collaboration between Nike Performance Footwear Creative Director Eric Avar, his team and Kobe himself. For his latest creation, Kobe wanted a shoe that acted as an extension of his foot, mirroring his quick performance while staying lower to the ground.


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Where does it hurt? Is it your left side or your right that hurts due to the kidney stone (cue patient jumping up and screaming in agony), or does your whole body hurt? Is the pain in your chest heartburn and indigestion from a pizza you just ate or a heart attack? Accurately sensing the spatial location of a pain stimulus can be difficult, and can lead to patients not getting the proper treatment they may need.
New research undertaken by scientists at Wake Forest University looks into the "where" aspect of pain. Published in this week's edition of the Journal of Neuroscience, their work reveals that the brain's process for figuring the spatial location of pain is highly complex and similar to the process for working out the "where" component for hearing and vision. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) the team mapped out regions of the brain that attempted to decode where a pain stimulus was originating. Twelve healthy volunteers were put inside an fMRI and had two heating elements placed on their legs, between 1.5" and 6" apart. While the fMRI scan was going, one of the elements would be heated to between 90 and 120 oF, then after a brief rest period one of the heating elements was again heated to similar temperatures. The subjects were then asked if the second round of heating occurred at the same or different location as the first.
Prior to this study, conventional medical wisdom stated that only a few brain regions were involved in determining where pain came from. This study showed that other areas—those thought to be used in the emotional aspects of pain—were also used to highlight the spatial locations, in addition to areas previously thought to be involved. "This was very surprising. Pain isn't well understood and better treatments are needed. This shift in direction will be important to move research and treatments in the right direction," said the study's lead author Yoshitetsu Oshiro. It was also found that we rely on past sensory experience to help determine the location of pain, so past injuries can help us pinpoint new ones.


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Prior to joining the Ravens and dating back to 2002 Cameron led offenses ranked 16, 14, 10, 10, 4 and 28 overall and 22, 19, 16, 12, 16 and 24 passing.
Is there any real evidence there that might suggest that Cameron can pilot even an above average offense or passing attack?
Recently on Sirius/XM NFL Radio, Greg Cosell from NFL Films discussed the Ravens offense.
His opinions were anything but flattering.
In so many words Cosell stated that the Ravens passing game is:
• Archaic – their formations are a throwback to the 60's
• Unlikely to be successful with their scheme
• Predictable in that for the most part they run only 2 routes in the route tree
• Unimaginative in that it lacks bunch formations, rubs, drags and crossing routes
• Lacking in diversity and therefore it invites press man-coverage and nearly every catch is contested
• Wasteful in that a very capable third WR, Lee Evans, was on the field for only 8 of the 63 offensive snaps, nearly unheard of in today's pass happy NFL.
Yet indications are that Cam Cameron will be back for a fifth season as the team's offensive coordinator.
Last year he was saved by his head coach and the lockout. Could it be that this year he'll be saved by a lack of viable coaching alternatives?
Successful teams lose coaches late in the league's calendar year and when seeking replacements the pickings can be slim. Teams that have experienced coaching staff overhauls have depleted the more attractive options.
Insanity has been defined as, Doing things the same way and expecting different results.
Cam Cameron is probably returning as offensive coordinator.
See a parallel?
Related topic (link): Why Cameron & Flacco need to be separated


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Should I Build or Should I Buy? Understanding Email Infrastructure in the CloudDaniel Randa
The one question that we hear often at SendGrid is "Should I build my own infrastructure or should I outsource it to a third party?" We understand why this question is asked and appreciate that businesses need to explore all options before deciding which direction to take. Therefore, we created a new resource to help you along.
Our new whitepaper, Should I Build or Should I Buy? Understanding Email Infrastructure in the Cloud provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges facing developers today along with key strategies on how to make the right choice for your business. In short, we've provided the following:
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While we are clearly cloud based email advocates, we want you to make the right choice for your business. Should I Build or Should Buy? Understanding Email Infrastructure in the Cloud was designed to help you evaluate your options and move forward with a decision.
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All Dogs Gym & Inn will host Rally-O trials on July 7, July 8, Aug. 25 and Aug. 26. Call to register.
Care for your pet
Pets are fun but they also need lots of care. Aside from regular check-ups by a veterinarian, there's plenty you can do to keep your pet and the local animal community healthy and thriving. Here are some local options; check your town for more:
• The NHSPCA at 104 Portsmouth Avenue in Stratham, 772-2921, www.nhspca.org, will hold a rabies and microchip clinic on Sunday, March 18, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost is $25 per animal for a three-year vaccine. MicroChip is $35 per chip, which includes implant and registration with HomeAgain.
• Learn about The Energy of Foods for Your Pet from holistic veterinarian Dr. Katherine Evans at the Concord Cooperative Market (24 S. Main St., Concord) on Tuesday, March 27, from 6 to 7 p.m. Call 225-6840 or visit the store to sign up for this free class — reservations are required.
• The Friends of the Manchester Animal Shelter sponsor Fix-a-Pit, a spay/neuter program free of charge to pit bull owners who live in Manchester. Fix-a-Pit will provide city pit bull owners with a free spaying or neutering of their pet, plus a rabies vaccine and a microchip. Call 628-3544. The shelter is at 490 Dunbarton Road, Manchester, manchesteranimalshelter.org.
• Sign your dog up for a canine massage from Tracey Brown, who works primarily through Baker Wells Animal Hospital in Hampton Falls/Seabrook, 978-337-7965, paws-in-hand.com.
• The Humane Society's annual World Spay Day falls on the last Tuesday in February, though the organization also likes to say every day is spay day, and some participants host spay/neuter clinics on different days in February. Visit www.humanesociety.org to find low-cost spay/neuter events and educational events near you or to enter the Spay Day Photo Contest, which runs through February.
Dogsled up Mount Washington
In March, three dog teams from Muddy Paws Dogsled Kennel will climb the Mount Washington auto road to raise funds for the new nonprofit New Hampshire Sled Dog Rescue, History and Education Center. They welcome sponsorships and donations as they attempt to become the first dog team to summit Mount Washington in winter. Only two other dog teams have ever attempted the summit, in 1927 and 1932, according to the musher's blog at nhdogsledding.com/the-summit-attempt. Two guest seats will be auctioned to accompany the teams to the summit — see www.dogslednh.com for the auction, as well as video of the dogs. The mushers will lead the attempt between March 7 and March 9, depending on weather, and they'll reschedule if weather demands. Call 545-4533 to learn more or sponsor.
More dog-sledding:
• Waterville Valley Resort's Snow Dogz program offers two dog sled excursions every Friday and Saturday evening through March. Visit www.waterville.com/village/dogsledding.html.
• Barking Brook Sled Dog Adventures visitors can enjoy a trip into the woods of the White Mountains region behind a team of Siberian Huskies from Barking Brook in Bridgewater, 968-MUSH. Visit www.barking-brook.com.
• Muddy Paw Sled Dog Kennel has a team of rescue and second-chance Alaskan huskies that lead rides on site from mid-December through April, weather and trail conditions permitting. Rides are offered Thursday through Sunday, between 9 a.m. and noon and between 1 and 4 p.m. Visit www.dogslednh.com or call 545-4533.
• A cardboard dog sledding competition will be held Sunday, Feb. 26, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Benson Park, 23 Kimball Hill Road, Hudson. The dog must either pull a sled or be pulled in a sled — a real dog or stuffed animal is necessary to participate. There will also be a demo and Q&A with members of the Boston Snow Dogs dog sledding group. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Check out Rally-O classes:
• All Dogs Gym & Inn, 505 Sheffield Road, Manchester, 669-4644, alldogsgym.com
• American K9 Country, 336 Route 101, Amherst, 672-8448, americank9country.com
• The Barking Dog, 210 Rockingham Road, Derry, 434-2275; 7 Beech Hill Road, Exeter, 773-2275; 209 Londonderry Turnpike, Hooksett, 222-2275, thebarkingdog.com
• Bo-Gee Agility Dog Training and Sports Center, Route 107 Freetown Road, Raymond, 895-0358, bo-gee.com
• Pet-Agree, 12 Donovan Road, Candia, 483-8775, pet-agreenh.com
• Sendaishi Pet Resort, 355 Straw Road, Manchester, 622-9684, sendaishi.com
Local pet-centric businesses have begun offering an alternative to everyday dog training.
Rally-O teaches the obedience skills of traditional training classes but allows for owners to have more fun with their pups, said Carrie James, a dog trainer at The Barking Dog in Exeter. James called Rally-O the American Kennel Club's answer to "stuffy" obedience competitions. The Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) has also developed a version of the obedience-focused sport that allows for owners to reward their canines with a treat at the end of each skill test. Rally-O participants have the option to take classes solely to reinforce behaviors or to enter into the competitive aspect of the activity. The classes and Rally trials are open to all breeds.
"It's practice for [dogs] but in a fun, different way," said Gail Fisher, owner of All Dogs Gym in Manchester. The sport, Fisher said, hones the behaviors owners want to see in their dogs — responding when called, walking politely on a leash and staying put when told.
"It's pretty straightforward behaviors," Fisher said. "Dogs like to be with you, move with you and retrieve things."
An obstacle course is set up in which owners can run through a variety of obedience skills with their furry companions at Rally-O classes and competitions.
"The whole idea is not to give harsh corrections," James said. Dogs and their owners are scored on their performance during each run-through of the Rally-O course. The idea is for the entire course to look like one performance.
Points are deducted (scores start at 100 points) when harsh corrections are used, she added. Owners also lose points for such things as loud commands, not having control of their dog and keeping a tight leash. Up to 10 points can be lost for a lack of teamwork between the dog and its owner, James said. "It's about getting the dog to cooperate with you," she added.
James asks for 31 skills to be tackled by her Introduction to Rally-O students by the end of the six-week session. The first skill is to successfully walk the dog around three small traffic cones with the pup remaining focused and by its owner's side. More than 50 skill stations can be attempted during different Rally-O class levels, Fisher said.
"You practice what your dog already knows to keep their skills sharp," Fisher said, adding the class is a good choice even for those not wishing to take part in Rally-O competitions. "It keeps the dog responsive to you," she said.
More advanced skill tests involve having the dog exhibit the required behaviors without their owners at their side. Those skills include advanced retrieving and going over jumps. Fisher noted that one of the more challenging stations involve having the dog back up next to its owner in the "heel" position.
"It's a very friendly sport," Fisher said. "We're not nitpicking. If your dog has a slightly crooked sit, who cares? You lose points if your dog doesn't lie down, doesn't sit or is out of control. That kind of thing."
Dogs need to have completed some obedience training before taking part in a Rally-O class. Fisher's facility requires that dogs complete a second-level obedience course or receive approval from the instructor to enroll.
"Your dog really does need to be able to walk politely," she said. "Not that we can't teach in Rally class, but it's not designed for that."
Rally-O is a good program for dogs with reactive issues or pups that are neurotic, because it gives them activities to focus on, James said, nodding to a golden retriever in her class. "She does brilliantly," James said. "Her brain needs to be put to use rather than … worry about things."
Sarah Desiderio, of Fremont, and her husband bring their Boxers Oscar and Charlie to James' Intro to Rally-O class.
"It gives them something to do," Desiderio said of why she enrolled her pups in the class. "Especially in the winter, when there's not much fun to do outside."


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Randalls Food Stores, part of Safeway, the second-largest supermarket chain, will no longer sell what the meat industry calls "lean finely textured beef" and the public has come to call "pink slime," ABC News is reporting.
Safeway released this statement today:
Safeway is committed to providing our customers with the highest-quality products. While the USDA and food industry experts agree that lean finely textured beef is safe and wholesome, recent news stories have caused considerable consumer concern about this product. Safeway will no longer purchase ground beef containing lean finely textured beef.
Makers of "lean finely textured beef" and the USDA say that it is not an additive and need not be labeled, and is safe to eat. But critics, including former USDA scientists, contend the ammonia treated "pink slime" — made from low quality scraps once used for dog food and cooking oil — is less nutritious than pure ground beef.
Stores operating under the Safeway banner include: Randalls, Tom Thumb, Vons, Dominick's, Genuardi's, Pavilions and Carrs.
Karen Darnell at Safeway headquarters in Pleasanton, Calif., said the statement applies to all of Safeway's stores in the United States.


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A Short Survey of Rainbows in Art
Maybe it's this week's Newsweek cover. Maybe it's a case of the gloomy Mondays in New York City. Whatever it is, today we want to look at rainbows. Presenting: Art with rainbows, because rainbows are festive and they make us happy. From complicated Rube Goldberg vandal-bike-machines to minimalistic window smudges, from rainbow illusions in strung wire to… erm… pancakes, here's a small selection rainbow-tastic art we've dug up for your ogling pleasure. Enjoy.
Photo credit: Michael Jones McKean via Hyperallergic
We're setting the bar high with this first one. Artist Michael Jones McKean conjured an actual rainbow. The Rainbow: Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms project runs on renewable energy. It uses collected rainwater and a system of tanks and pressurized nozzles to mist up a perfect, DIY rainbow over the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. Ooh. Ahh.


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Women in the military do not want standards to be lowered to help them get into ground combat jobs, advocacy groups and servicewomen say.
"We don't want unqualified women in these positions," said Maj. Mary Hegar, a decorated helicopter pilot who was part of a lawsuit demanding the Pentagon open ground combat fields to women.
Advocacy groups say they want to avoid quotas or even placing pressure on commanders so that no one questions the qualifications of women who enter fields that had previously been closed to females.
"We're not saying there needs to be a woman in every job," said Greg Jacob, the policy director at Service Women's Action Network, which has pushed for allowing women to enter the infantry and other ground combat jobs. "What we're saying is if there's a woman qualified, there is no reason a woman shouldn't be serving."
The Pentagon last month repealed the ban on allowing women into ground combat fields, such as infantry, tanks and artillery. The services have several years to complete the integration.
In response, the services said they were developing gender-neutral strength and fitness tests based on the requirements for those jobs, which include infantry, artillery and tanks. The tests may be administered to men and women as a way of screening men and women who want to enter ground combat fields.
The average Marine infantrymen, for example, carry about 100 pounds of equipment on their backs. They are expected to walk over long distances.
A member of a tank crew needs to be able to lift a 40-pound shell off a rack and place it in the breech of the main gun.
Female officers say it is important that those standards be met by women if they are to enter those fields.
"I don't want to see the standards of military effectiveness be lowered," said Hegar, who was injured when her medical evacuation helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan in 2009.
She exchanged fire with insurgents on the ground before she was evacuated by standing on the skids of a small helicopter that picked up her crew. "There are people who do well in combat and there are people who don't," Hegar said. "It's not a gender question."
Still, some advocates have said the standards and tests being developed by the military may not accurately reflect what is required for the job.
"Why do we need standards other than what already exists?" said Lory Manning, a retired Navy captain and director of the Women in the Military Project.
"The question is whether those standards are rooted in requirements in the job," Jacob said.
Manning said the only tests should be whether men and women can complete the occupational school.
The services say they will be able to link the physical strength tests to specific job requirements.
"There will be people who question: why do you have that standard?" said Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Milstead, the deputy commandant for manpower and reserve affairs.
But he said the Marines will take a careful and responsible approach to assessing the physical standards for the more than 30 career fields that have been closed to women.
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Taking Accountability: DHMC Explores ACOs
November 18, 2012
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By Chris Fleisher Valley News Staff Writer
Lebanon — Diane Flint's 85-year-old patient ended up in the emergency room recently and didn't want to tell doctors about the pain in her abdomen.
As it turned out, she needed her gall bladder removed. Flint has been trying ever since to get this tough, reserved Granite Stater to open up and recognize that she needs surgery.
"I'm trying to educate her on what could happen if she waits too long," said Flint, a care coordinator with Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Manchester. "Being 85 years old, the situation is a lot more critical because of her age."
The conversations Flint has with her patients are perhaps more personal than you'd expect to have with a medical provider, but they are essential to Flint's job and to the experimental model of care that is being pioneered at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and other hospital networks around the country.
Three years ago, when she was working as a registered nurse, Flint might have spent 10 minutes or so with patients to triage a problem and send them onto another physician or nurse. Now, she's focused on getting into "the nitty gritty" of patients' lives, working not only with people who are sick, but also their family members, social workers and occasionally outside agencies that have nothing to do with health care — all in a comprehensive effort to keep patients well.
This past January, Dartmouth-Hitchcock became one of Medicare's first "accountable care organizations," or ACOs, a concept developed at Dartmouth that is one of the major elements of the massive 2010 federal health law known as the Affordable Care Act or "Obamacare."
For more on ACOs, see related story, "OneCare: Profiting Off Patients?"
The ACO model has been in a testing phase for years, but is finally being introduced on a broader scale around the country. Dartmouth-Hitchcock is one of 32 "Pioneer" ACOs launched in January, an initiative the federal government hopes will save $1.1 billion over five years. Dartmouth-Hitchcock also recently proposed a new ACO arrangement with Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington that would involve more than a third of all Medicare beneficiaries in Vermont. (See related story)
The central tenet of ACOs is that doctors and hospitals should be held accountable not only for treating patients once they get sick, but also for helping to keep them out of the hospital and doctor's office to begin with.
By helping patients avoid expensive trips to the hospital, the ACOs are designed to save the health system money. In return, the providers get a reward: If they cut back on costs while still furnishing high quality care, then insurance companies and government programs like Medicare are willing to split the savings with them — and perhaps move away from the fee-for-service mechanism that has been blamed for so much of the rise in health care spending.
"The new model really puts the onus on the providers, on hospitals, physicians to engage patients" in a conversation about their health that extends beyond the examination room, said Elliott Fisher, a professor at the Geisel School of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute. "The kinds of language that you're hearing in delivery systems that are stepping up to this model are continuous healing relationships where the notion is to engage patients wherever they are."
Fisher was a leading architect of accountable care organizations — he coined the term. Studies of ACO-like arrangements have shown mixed results in the savings achieved, but Fisher and his colleagues believe the model shows promise to improve efficiency and lower the cost of care, particularly for patients who find themselves sick enough to require the most expensive kind of care.
And, like the health reform law itself, ACOs have not been without controversy.
Anti-trust regulators have said they will be watching closely for signs of price-fixing as hospitals work more closely together.
There's also been concern about the notion of providing "bonuses" for providers who lower patient costs. The ACO with Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Fletcher Allen, called OneCare Vermont, is structured as a for-profit, a term that hospital officials say is misleading but that has nevertheless alarmed a number of people, some of them health care providers.
"There is nothing wrong with the concept of coordination and consultation, but the moment you introduce a profit motive in health care, down the line, the American propensity for greed will take over," said Ann Raynolds, a psychologist with practices in Quechee and Claremont.
Then there is the question about what role, if any, patients play. Despite the goal of providing them with more thoughtful, cost-effective care, many people have no idea whether they are in an ACO.
Around 90,000 Dartmouth-Hitchcock patients are involved in some kind of ACO arrangement, be it with Medicare or one of three commercial insurers — Anthem, Harvard Pilgrim or Cigna. The only notification Medicare patients in the Pioneer ACO received was a two-page letter sent out last December, and there is no requirement to inform people with commercial insurance.
Some hospital officials, including Dartmouth-Hitchcock CEO (and physician) Jim Weinstein, have said patients need to share some of the responsibility for keeping heath care costs in check.
Despite these concerns, most everyone agrees on one basic assumption — that the current system is unsustainable and hospitals need to step up and find ways of reducing the cost of care.
"I think that the most thoughtful analysts and economists realize that continuing on the current path of cost growth for health care is not going to be sustained," Fisher said. "Change has to come. We need to move to these new models of accountable care."
What Does It Mean For Patients?
Although ACOs can take different forms, the same basic principle applies to all: hospitals agree to take responsibility for the cost and quality of caring for a certain group of patients, no matter what.
In essence, it is an agreement between providers and payers (i.e. insurers) that gives hospitals incentives to find more coordinated, efficient ways of treating patients. Together, the hospitals and insurers (or, in the cases of self-insured plans, the employers) sit down and agree on goals for saving costs and maintaining good care for the patient. The quality benchmarks are based on nationally recognized standards by such groups such as the National Quality Forum.
In the "Pioneer ACO" with Medicare, for example, if Dartmouth-Hitchcock finds a way to hit all 33 benchmarks on quality — as measured by patient surveys and claims data — while lowering costs by a certain amount, then Medicare keeps half the savings and sends the rest to Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
There's some risk involved, too. If Pioneer ACOs fail to meet either quality or cost goals, then there are no savings. They may even lose money if, in the end, patient costs rise.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock has similar arrangements with commercial insurers, each one with its own set of quality benchmarks and cost saving targets. There are some arrangements in which there's no downside risk — meaning, Dartmouth-Hitchcock wouldn't end up paying more if costs rise. But otherwise, these arrangements generally work the same way.
To many, ACOs sound a lot like "managed care," where a network of doctors shared in the financial rewards and risk in caring for groups of patients. But there's one critical difference — patients in an ACO aren't restricted in where they can get care.
If patients see any changes, it should be in getting better and more efficient care, said Barbara Walters, executive medical director at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, who is heading up the Pioneer ACO.
"The patient might have no idea that this is going on," she said. "The patient could just be out there, going about their merry way, getting their care, wherever it is they want to get it."
Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Pioneer ACO includes all its clinics throughout the state, including Lebanon, Manchester, Concord and Keene. But if someone who has been "attributed" — that is, included in the pool of patients for which Dartmouth-Hitchcock is accountable — decides to go to Boston Medical Center, then the cost of that treatment also gets counted against Dartmouth-Hitchcock's targeted amount.
That's an uncomfortable risk for health care providers, says Weinstein, Dartmouth-Hitchcock's CEO.
"Wherever they are, if they go from Manchester to Boston to get a procedure, unfortunately, we're responsible for that cost," Weinstein said in an interview earlier this year. "I don't like that. That's a problem with ACO Pioneer, because patients have to have some part of the responsibility in managing health care."
Not everyone agrees on this point, including Fisher at Dartmouth. He said health care providers need to take responsibility for providing the high quality of care that makes patients want to stick with them.
For too long, the health care system has taken a passive approach to treating patients, waiting for people to come to them after they get sick, Fisher said. If they don't show up, then it's seen as the patient's problem, not the doctor's. That has to change, Fisher said.
"The language of 'noncompliant' patients, 'nonadherent' patients is a language of blame," Fisher said.
Fisher said he's sympathetic to Weinstein's concerns. He hears similar complaints from other providers. But there's a way to address this issue without putting the onus on patients.
"I talk to other ACO leaders and they talk about the green grass strategy," Fisher said. "Our grass has to be greener than everybody else's grass. People want to stay with us."
Needing Data
There are all sorts of reasons someone might seek care outside the ACO network. Perhaps Dartmouth-Hitchcock doesn't offer a particular type of treatment or another provider is simply more convenient.
If Dartmouth-Hitchcock is going to make itself more attractive and encourage people to stay inside the network, then it needs data, Walters said.
"From a provider perspective, I need as complete data as possible to help manage my population and my individual patients," she said. "Especially because Dartmouth-Hitchcock doesn't have every single provider that provides every kind of care that you can think of. We have snowbirds, the people who go down south, I don't know what's happening when they're living down south for three months or six months of the year unless I get back the data on what's happening to them."
What kind of data? Basically, the claims data that Medicare and other insurers collect that says what treatments these people are getting. If Walters sees that a patient has gone outside the system for cancer treatment, for example, then her staff can reach out to that person and find out why he or she didn't go to Norris Cotton Cancer Center. And, if there's some way of making Dartmouth-Hitchcock's "grass greener" — such as offering weekend hours and providing better service close to home — that can become part of the plan.
But getting that information in a timely fashion isn't always easy. Right now, Dartmouth-Hitchcock gets claims information from Medicare monthly, a frequency she said "we can work with." There is one commercial insurer — Walters wouldn't say which one — that won't share claims data with Dartmouth-Hitchcock, but the other insurers do.
Results on how Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Pioneer ACO has fared on overall quality and cost won't be available until sometime next year, according to Medicare officials. But the experience in the commercial market, as well as a five-year project that preceded the rollout of ACOs offers some insight as to how it might go.
A Mixed Bag
Dartmouth-Hitchcock's ACO with Medicare may be in its early stages, but commercial insurers have had similar arrangements in place for several years.
Cigna launched its ACO-like pilot program in 2008, and both Harvard Pilgrim and Anthem had similar arrangements with Dartmouth-Hitchcock in 2010.
Spokespersons for each company said the programs have been successful.
"We both agreed that there was a better approach than the fee-for-service mechanism that has been in place for a long time," said Robert Noonan of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Hampshire.
The Anthem program covers 15,000 patients, or "lives" in the jargon of health care insurance. If Dartmouth-Hitchcock achieves mutually agreed-upon targets for quality and cost, then it gets to keep more than half of the savings, Noonan said.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock hit all its goals for quality and cost-savings from the first year, Noonan said. He declined to give specific dollar amounts, as did the other commercial insurers. But all praised the model as one that made sense.
"The fee-for-service world…a lot of people don't feel good using that system today," said Beth Roberts, vice president for regional markets with Harvard Pilgrim. "They can feel the fragmentation."
Studies of an earlier pilot project that laid the groundwork for ACOs show that success is far from certain.
In 2005, Dartmouth-Hitchcock was one of 10 health care networks across the country to participate in something called the Physician Group Practice Demonstration. As with ACOs, providers were offered financial bonuses if they could slow down spending while providing high-quality care.
The experiment lasted five years. Maintaining quality care was not an issue, but finding enough savings was, according to a report issued last year by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. By the final year, only four of the 10 sites had saved enough money to qualify for the bonus. Dartmouth-Hitchcock was not among them.
Carrie Colla, an assistant professor at The Dartmouth Institute, led a team including Fisher that took another look at the Physician Group Practice Demonstration results. That study, published in September, yielded a more promising conclusion — in finding that the experiment was, in fact, successful in reducing spending for so-called "dual eligibles," or people who qualify for both Medicare, which covers the elderly, and Medicaid, the federal program insuring the poor.
Such patients are among the most expensive and difficult to manage patients in the U.S. health care system, in part because of their high rates of illness, low socioeconomic status and lack of social supports, the report said.
"Our results suggest that while some care management or coordination programs have failed to demonstrate savings, ACOs and similar shared-savings contracts have the potential to improve care for this high-cost group," Colla's report said.
About 60 percent of health care spending in the U.S. goes toward caring for the 5 percent of people who are most sick, Fisher said. If hospitals and other providers, through ACOs, can find ways of bringing down the costs for those people, then this experiment will be worthwhile.
"Sick people are where all the money's getting spent in health care… So you have to find that 5 percent of the population and pay great attention to them," he said.
Remaining Questions
Some people, including Federal Trade Commissioner and Randolph resident Julie Brill, have raised concerns about accountable care organizations.
In July, Brill told a group of Dartmouth-Hitchcock physicians and administrators that when competitors come together to coordinate care, "the concern becomes that more gets coordinated than just care."
Her suggestion was that ACOs could lead to larger, more powerful entities that will raise prices to private payers, such as insurance companies and self-insured employers, because they'll have more of a bargaining position.
"It's a legitimate concern," Fisher said. That said, he's not overly concerned that it will play out that way, especially once ACOs establish themselves.
During the first two years of Medicare's 32 Pioneer ACOs, health care providers will share in both savings and losses in the cost of patient care. By year three, however, the Pioneer ACOs that have shown savings will move to a "population-based payment model," in which providers receive a fixed amount of money per patient each month.
Raising the prices under this model won't help doctors save money, because they're getting paid the same amount regardless of what they do. In fact, Fisher argues, they will have a powerful incentive to keep patients healthy so they don't have to invest in costly treatment.
Fisher's colleague Valerie Lewis, a sociologist, is leading efforts to study poorer people — from the uninsured to Medicaid beneficiaries — and see how they are affected, Fisher said. In an August report published in Health Affairs, Lewis warned that ACOs have the potential to exclude racial minorities, the homeless and others who are "socially disadvantaged," as well as people who have serious health problems.
Flint's experience as a care coordinator offers a window on this last question.
A middle-aged patient of hers checked into an emergency room in southern New Hampshire not long ago complaining of chest pain.
Flint is notified daily when one of her patients ends up hospitalized. When she got the alert about this particular man, she noticed he hadn't been in to see his primary care doctor in nearly two years.
Flint called him and learned he'd lost his job, and thus, his health insurance through a Cigna accountable care program. Flint gave him some information about financial services offered through Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
He likely won't continue as one of Flint's patients, because his loss of insurance means he'll no longer be a part of Cigna's program. Nonetheless, Flint has helped him explore options for how he could keep getting care.
She told him that she'd follow up with him in a week, realizing that he could easily slip through the cracks in the health care system. Flint said she's kept her word.
"Actually, I called him today," she said.
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- Preheat oven to 350˚F.
- Heat olive oil in a large sauté skillet or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add garlic and onion and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add crushed tomatoes and oregano and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10-15 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Lightly whisk together eggs in a shallow plate. Add breadcrumbs to another shallow plate. Dip eggplant slices in eggs and then in the breadcrumbs.
- Place a large nonstick skillet over medium heat and coat lightly with cooking spray. Add eggplant slices and cook until browned, about 5 minutes on each side.
- Pour 1/3 of the tomato sauce into a 12x7-inch baking dish. Layer half of the eggplant slices on top. Spread half of the ricotta over the eggplant. Repeat layers and end with remaining sauce. Top with mozzarella and parmesan cheese and bake for about 40 minutes.


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The pleasures of early autumn are not to be trifled with. It is as if the earth is just coming into its own, growing heavy with dense fruit. I always appreciated the way the weeds sort of explode this time of year. As a gardener, am I allowed to appreciate weeds?
Actually, speaking of the garden, now that the temperatures have dipped below the 90-degree mark, the garden is breathing a noticeable sigh of contentment and relief. The few kale plants which were able to survive the atrocious heat and the onslaught of insects and worms are actually looking healthy enough to harvest from. The mustard greens, bok choy, and tatsoi (like spinach but a little more interesting) are thriving, and even my beets look like they might, someday, if the planets align, produce fruit.
People love to gush about summer produce. I'll admit, the variety is stupefying, and the colors on a summer market table are seductive to say the least. I know I'm not the only one who ends up lugging home more summer produce than I can possibly use in a week. But for all the appeal of the tomato and bright bell pepper, I'm a sucker for fall produce.
Autumn in the garden is a study in contrast. Peppery mustard greens are layered against buttery winter squash. Piquant radishes vie for attention with barely sweet turnips and sugary sweet beets. And one of my favorite things about fall vegetables is that they keep so well for so long. If you have a corner of your house that stays cool, keep your winter squashes, potatoes, garlic, and even apples there and you'll still be set come February. The storing power of this bounty almost seems a consolation prize from nature. We still have to endure winter, but we'll be provided for.
And in the spirit of saving fall vegetables, today I'm actually going to propose that you do just that. Put down the butternut squash and let what is left of the late summer produce have a final moment of glory in the kitchen. At the farmer's market this week, I was able to score a couple of the last eggplants of the season. Eggplants have been somewhat en vogue this summer. And why not? Luxuriously plump, purple, and meaty, eggplants manage to be suave nonetheless. If you've ever tasted baba ghanoush you know what I mean. It's like eating silk, but far tastier.
This recipe is based on baba ghanoush, but without the tahini. I took a summer vegetable and used it in an autumn preparation, paring the ingredients down to allow the eggplant to really take over the dish. The chive oil is purely optional, but it adds a lovely richness to this spare soup. The same goes for the slow roasted cherry tomatoes. Their acidity pairs nicely with the tameness of the eggplant. I might also recommend garnishing this soup with tahini (as it is clearly a fine companion), Greek yogurt, smoked paprika, or crunchy, garlicky croutons.
You may find this soup to be a bit too thick for your tastes. Simply thin it with more chicken or vegetable broth and season accordingly. This recipe is not a flavor-packed taste bud extravaganza, so don't expect to be blown away by flavor. Of course, if the hedonist in you cannot be squelched, I see no reason why a bit of fresh, smoky, crumbled bacon would be amiss here. You might also benefit from smoking the eggplants rather than simply roasting them.
Preheat the oven to 400°F. With a paring knife, pierce in several places:
2 medium eggplants (about 2 to 2 1/2 pounds)
1 head garlic
by peeling off the outermost layers of skin and chopping off the top of the head to reveal the cloves inside. Place the garlic on a small square of tin foil and drizzle over:
2 tablespoons olive oil
Seal the garlic in the foil packet and place it on a foil-lined baking sheet along with the prepared eggplant. Roast for about 45 minutes or until the garlic is soft and the eggplants have turned a deep mahogany color and are soft to the touch.
Allow the garlic to cool enough to handle, and squeeze it until each clove pops out. In a food processor, purée the eggplant and garlic. Remove to a medium saucepan and place over medium heat. Add:
1 1/4 cups chicken broth
Juice of 1/2 lemon (about 2-3 tablespoons)
2 tablespoons olive oil
Salt and black pepper to taste
Heat until piping hot and serve immediately with:
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Makes 1/2 cup
Much has been made of the dangers of botulism from infused oils. The important thing to remember is that these oils are not dangerous in and of themselves and are incredibly delicious. Simply make a little at a time, and store the leftovers in the refrigerator for two weeks at the most. For a more time-consuming but beautifully green chive oil, simply purée the chives with the oil and strain it through a coffee filter. This process may take several hours, but you don't have to stand over it.
In a small saucepan, gently heat over medium-low to medium heat:
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup roughly chopped chives
When the oil starts to simmer and hiss, set a timer for two minutes. After two minutes, strain the oil through a fine-mesh sieve. Use immediately or store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
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Serves 4-6
Preheat the oven to 300°F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil. Toss in a medium bowl to combine:
1 pound cherry tomatoes
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Spread in an even layer on the baking sheet and roast, undisturbed, for about 2 hours or until the tomatoes are shriveled.


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An anti-gay cover of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' Grammy Award-winning marriage equality hit "Same Love" was release this week by Christian Houston-based rapper Bizzle.the Houston Chronicle reports.
Bizzle, who is more known for an e-fight with Jay Z than the merits of his music, offered his response to "Same Love," which made headlines this week after Macklemore performed the song on Sunday night's Grammy Awards with Madonna and Queen Latifah, who officiated the marriages of more than 30 gay and straight couples. Bizzle's track, renamed "Same Love (A Response)," samples the same instrumentals as the original but Bizzle raps his own lyrics, criticizing the original's comparisons between the gay rights movement and the civil rights movement.
Some choice lyrics (via Hip Hop DX):
"You rather fight God than fight sin / The Bible is alright until it calls what you like sin / And I feel so disrespected that you were so desperate / You would compare your sexual habits to my skin / Calling it 'the new black?' Tell me, where they do that? / They hung us like tree ornaments, where were you at? / They burned us for entertainment, you go through that?"
Bizzle also raps that being gay is a choice (via Towle Road):
"Man I ain't choose this! You think you chose that? Well I was born this? Well prove me you were born that."
Towleroad also points out lyrics that suggest Bizzle links gay men to pedophiles:
"You were never oppressed. The devil was a liar / The only thing oppressed was your sexual desire / Keeping your desires oppressed is so lame to you / But when you get married that's what you expect your mate to do / It angers you if I compare you to a pedophile / Because he's sick, right, and you're better, how?"
Bizzle posted the song to SoundCloud. It has more than 33,000 plays and 645 likes. The track was also posted to YouTube. There, it has nearly 16,000 views and nearly 600 likes.


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February 06, 2012
Leadership Suite Designed for Managers from Diverse Groups
Leveling the playing field in the workplace
By Julie Epstein
LOS ANGELES -- Lynn Rothman and Tim Kaiser had similar goals. Like most managers, they wanted to advance in their careers and were faced with the need to develop the necessary leadership skills. However, each leader is always unique, and Kaiser and Rothman also had some specific individual challenges to face. Kaiser is blind, and Rothman has a mild speech impairment. Both eventually found support for the transitions they wanted to make by enrolling in UCLA Anderson School of Management's Leadership Institute for Managers with Disabilities in 2010.
In the recent past, progress has been made in recognizing the value of diversity and the multiple perspectives it provides in the workplace. However, individuals from minority groups may still encounter deeply entrenched misconceptions and stereotypes, which can take time to change. And as Kaiser came to understand, those barriers can even be internal in nature.
"I realized I needed to get rid of the mentality that I have a disability," said Kaiser. "I realized that I can do my job well and that my disability is not actually a hindrance. In fact, it is what has pushed me to work harder and be even better at doing my job. Being part of the institute really helped me come to terms with that. What I was running up against was not accessibility but the nuances of being blind and being a competent leader in an organization. Those were the questions I was struggling with. I was looking for how I could take my job to the next level."
The Leadership Institute for Managers with Disabilities is only the most recent addition to the set of courses called collectively the Leadership Suite and offered through Executive Education at UCLA Anderson. All are designed to enable participants to overcome any unique obstacles to enhancing their career success as organizational leaders. At the same time, organizations benefit from their employees' new skills. The first program founded in 1998 was for African Americans, which was followed by institutes for women; for Latinos; for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups, and finally for managers with disabilities in 2007.
The Leadership Suite was created in response to research that revealed the differences in career arcs experienced by minorities in the workforce. In the early 1980s, William Ouchi, professor of human resources and organizational behavior at UCLA Anderson, and his colleagues discovered that high-performing Asian American managers in several Fortune 100 companies were leaving to accept promotions elsewhere, because they were not being offered vertical advancement. One common contributing problem was lack of access to informal internal networks that influence career success. Later, the results of a leading study by David Thomas and John Gabarro were presented in their 1999 book, "Breaking Through," documenting that executives of color versus their white male counterparts were more frequently offered lateral assignments with responsibility but not authority, resulting in the rate of upward mobility for white males far exceeding that of their minority colleagues. The need to equalize the playing field at work was evident.
The leadership institutes all follow a general structure, which changed over time in response to feedback and has grown from the original five days to five months. Each begins with a kickoff web conference to set expectations and with the taking of assessments by each participant. During the second month, students are assigned preparatory reading and the development of their action journals, along with being introduced to their personal certified executive coach, who they will meet with three times during the training term. An intensive few days of on-campus instruction follows in the third month, and eventually, each participant forms an individual leadership action plan to guide his or her professional growth.
Alissa Brill Materman, now director of the Office of Executive Education, has been involved in the development of the Leadership Suite from the beginning. She also can personally attest to the strength of the programs, since she experienced it first-hand as a participant in the Women's Leadership Institute in 1999.
"We're the only business school in the world to be offering a program like this," explained Brill Materman. "The glass ceiling existed not only for women. If you could be classified as other within your organization, then you couldn't count on those organizations for career advancement. The Leadership Suite enables participants to respond to their different workforce experiences by providing a framework to take charge of their own career development and reshape those experiences, leading to the path they want to pursue."
Both Rothman and Kaiser cited the unique focus of addressing their groups' issues and the personally specific nature of their program's comprehensive leadership development as key to their choice to enroll and to the ultimate value of the training they received. The breakthrough strategies employed help organizations as well, increasing retention rates, aiding succession planning, ensuring more inclusive management teams and enhancing positioning as leaders in corporate social responsibility. As a result, the Leadership Suites count a growing number of prestigious corporations as clients, including Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Wells Fargo and IBM. Rothman explained the related and detailed takeaways she gleaned from her participation.
"My experience in the program was full of insight," said Rothman. "I was able to immediately begin incorporating what I learned into my current role, including obtaining an internal mentor and actively networking within and across the organization's divisions. I identified my areas to concentrate on as softening and adjusting my style of directing others, my handling of emotional interactions and my tendency to favor independent action; also increasing my competency in making quality decisions and dealing with ambiguity; as well as managing up."
Brill Materman said there is ample anecdotal evidence from participants who have reported receiving promotions that they believe are due in large part to attending their programs. These stories mean a lot to her, especially since one of her current responsibilities is to cultivate talent management. Both Kaiser and Rothman had experiences which support these assertions.
After graduating with master's degrees in modern German and modern European history, Kaiser began working for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., which paid for him to attend the institute. Today, he is the director of education initiatives. Despite his disability, he had never felt it was necessary to ask for help, but he said his perspective was greatly expanded by being in the program, significantly by the opportunity to interact with the other participants.
"It was amazing just being with people from all over the country who had disabilities," Kaiser said. "It was so empowering to learn from them. I found I had to deal with some of my own preconceived notions about people with different disabilities that I was not familiar with, which helped me think outside the box and look for alternative ways to interact socially with them. Working with them made me realize how my colleagues had to adjust to work on that level with me. As a result of the program, I now have a bunch of role models there to help me."
The intended positive impact of the leadership institutes is to maximize the professional potential of each participant, strengthening their abilities to think, lead and manage in ways that celebrate their individual attributes. After 30 years as a professional working woman, Rothman believes her participation in the first course she found focused on those with disabilities had an almost immediate effect on her career.
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In the final part of a four-part series we look back to the New Year Rescue that took place early in January 2013 and track the progress of the six bears who joined us at our China sanctuary. In the year that followed, their existence changed from painful daily extractions in tiny cages to rehabilitation and the start of new lives and friendships.
It wasn't exactly love at first sight for Peter (above) and Shamrock (top) – but shared, experiences and the persistence of Peter bear soon saw these two racing round their enclosure enjoying being first friends.
Handsome Peter, the only boy bear among five rescued ladies, was named after Animals Asia Ambassador, actor Peter Egan, who has watched his namesake's progress.
Peter Bear arriving at sanctuary he must've grown into this cage.Thank god he was rescued by https://t.co/YuIn3OPWWK. pic.twitter.com/JSU8qeqYDH
— Peter Egan (@PeterEgan6) March 17, 2013
The first footage of play fights had Peter (the actor!) admitting to one or two tears.
Meanwhile Peter bear and Shamrock's blossoming friendship has gone from strength to strength after years in sad isolation in tiny cages.
Peter arrived in the smallest cage despite being a long, long bear. He was ravenously hungry and staff reported that he ate and ate – polishing off everything offered in seconds. His injuries were considerable – hideously thickened pads with indentations from the bars of his cage, an ulcerated area round his bile extraction sight, and a massively scarred gall bladder. Shamrock fared little better. She was bleeding from her paws, and was covered in wounds – especially on her head where she had banged it against the bars of the cage throughout her years on the farm.
After a thorough medical examination, the two spent a few months alone in personal dens to recover. Shamrock's entry was particularly dramatic as she paused and did her best Neil Armstrong impression while taking a first slow step into her new surroundings. One small step for a bear – one giant leap for bearkind.
Eventually the two bears were introduced. At first they were suspicious and endured a stand-off, but distrust soon gave way to friendship.
Despite this great progress, the two bears still haven't been introduced into the wider bear population at Chengdu. Their obsession for food took a while to calm and for them to stop being overly protective of anything they wanted to eat. But it looks increasingly like an early summer move for this couple. For now they have their own private pad with attached gardens – a true honeymoon period.
When the times come for them to join their new bear friends – they will do so together.
Huge thanks to photographer Peter Yuen for his wonderful photos. You can see his website here and his Facebook page here. Pictures from Animals Asia can be ordered here with profits going towards our campaign to End Bear Bile Farming.


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As Christmas approaches family safety charity RoSPA is warning young families of the danger of lithium button batteries to children.
The festive period can typically see a rise in the number of these small, button-shaped batteries introduced to the home as they are contained in children's toys, musical Christmas cards, remote controls and a host of other electronic items.
"Young children are naturally inquisitive, and explore the world in part by putting things in their mouths."Ita McErlean home safety manager for RoSPA Northern Ireland
RoSPA is increasingly concerned about the danger posed by these batteries, and is aware of deaths having been reported in the UK as a result of them being swallowed by children.
Although a child may not choke, if undetected the batteries can do serious damage to the gastrointestinal system. Lithium batteries react with saliva setting up an electrical current resulting in a build up of caustic soda, which will burn through the oesophagus and other major blood vessels.
Five-year-old Eva McCafferty was one of the children unlucky enough to swallow a button battery. Aged just 14 months, Eva was admitted to hospital with life-threatening symptoms, with the battery having eroded her oesophagus. She required emergency surgery to remove the battery, and spent a prolonged time in intensive care.
Her mother Kathleen said: "We want to highlight the dangers to other families, as we were not aware of how devastating the effects of swallowing one of these batteries could be. We don't want any other children to have to go through what Eva did."
Ita McErlean, home safety manager for RoSPA Northern Ireland, said: "Young children are naturally inquisitive, and explore the world in part by putting things in their mouths.
"As more and more electronic items are introduced into the family home, the potential for children to swallow button batteries increases, and this can lead to choking or poisoning.
"We want parents, grandparents, childminders and carers to be aware of the danger and understand that these seemingly harmless little batteries can cause serious injury to children."
Parents should make sure that toys and other products using the batteries have lockable battery compartments so they are safe for children to use. Be extra vigilant with musical Christmas cards, frameless candles and remote controls – RoSPA advises that children are not given access to these products. Ensure that spare batteries are locked away, and spent ones disposed of correctly.
If your child swallows a battery, seek medical advice immediately. Remember that the saliva in their body will react with the battery, so time is of the essence.
For more information, see www.rospa.com/home-safety/advice/product/button-cell-batteries.


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Reality TV Essay Writing
Reality TV Essay Writing
Today, modern television cannot be imagined without all the reality shows. Several years ago people used to watch soap operas and this was the main entertainment for those staying at home in the evening. Nowadays, I think, soap operas are completely replaced with the reality shows.
So, this phenomenon would be really interesting to investigate in your reality TV essays. Do not forget to define the type of your reality TV essay. The content of essays on reality TV will directly depend on the chosen type. If you have a strong position on this phenomenon, you can write an argumentative essay or persuasive reality TV essays. If you have a favorite TV show, you can write a descriptive essay, giving the details of this particular program.


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|Ken Hitchcock returned to the NHL coaching ranks when the St. Louis Blues hired him to be their new head coach on November 6, 2011 after firing Davis Payne. At that time, Hitchcock was 12th in the NHL in coaching wins with 533. Hitchcock was still under contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets, who had to give permission to the Blues to hire him. He was in charge with the Blue Jackets for parts of four seasons until he was fired Feb. 3, 2010. He had a career record of 534-350-88-70 with the Blue Jackets, Philadelphia Flyers and Dallas Stars. Blues general manager Doug Armstrong worked with Hitchcock in Dallas and with the Canadian national team.
|Hitchcock led the Stars to the Stanley Cup in 1999, and lost in the Final to New Jersey in 2000. Hitchcock helped the Blue Jackets reach the playoffs for the only time in the franchise's history in 2009, but was fired the next season after the team started 23-27-9. He won six division titles and coached in three NHL All-Star Games. He also was an assistant coach for Team Canada in both the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics, and won a gold medal each time. Hitchcock began his professional coaching career as an assistant coach with the Flyers from 1990-93 before spending two-plus seasons as the head coach of the Kalamazoo Wings/Michigan K-Wings, Dallas' International Hockey League affiliate. He took over as head coach of the Stars midway through the 1995-96 season and in his first full season at the helm led them to the Central Division title. That year, Dallas became just the ninth team in NHL history to go from last place to first place in one season. The club's 38-point improvement from 66 to 104 was tied for the fifth-best in league history. Hitchcock spent parts of five seasons in Dallas, compiling a 277-160-60 regular season record and 47-33 playoff mark. He led his teams to five-straight Central Division titles (1996-01), two President's Trophies (1997-98, 1998-99) and two Western Conference championships (1999, 2000) in addition to the 1999 Stanley Cup. He holds Stars franchise records for career wins (277), playoff wins (47), regular season winning percentage (.610) and playoff winning percentage (.588) and in 1998-99 led the club to franchise single season records for wins, points and highest winning percentage with a 51-19-12 mark. On May 14, 2002, he was named Flyers head coach and led the club to a 131-73-50 record during the regular season and a 19-18 mark in the playoffs. Philadelphia posted three-straight 100-point seasons from 2002-06, captured the Atlantic Division title in 2003-04 and also advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals that year. On Mar. 21, 2006, Hitchcock guided the Flyers to a 2-1 win over New Jersey, becoming the fifth-fastest coach in NHL history to record 400 wins (736 games). He also served as an assistant coach for the Eastern Conference in the 2003 and 2004 All-Star Games.


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Retro Game Lab sells reproduced CD-i prototypes
>> Saturday, September 19, 2015
So sometimes I google some classic CD-i terms to see what pops up, now and then I find something interesting to post here at Interactive Dreams. Today I found Retro Game Lab, possibly existing for years, I don't know. They sell reproduction games and even CD-i games like Super Mario's Wacky World and Voyeur 2. it would be cool to see Microcosm popping up here as well!


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Is there any picture of this woman? Does she appear in the game?
- I don't think she appears in the game. Why do you want a picture of her?--Spaceeinstein 19:53, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
- For me, Chan Jaoming, to wank off.--ChanJaoming 06:23, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
Which game mentioned her death?--ChanJaoming 06:23, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, and in which mission ?Nostrein 20:48, March 8, 2010 (UTC)
She isn't dead, no missian sais it, no mission we have to do it. Nicolas112411 13:10, August 3, 2010 (UTC)


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Darien forecast: Rain could trigger coastal flooding
Steady rain overnight and early this morning across southwestern Connecticut threatens coastal flooding later today, the National Weather Service warns.
In a Coastal Flood Advisory issued from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the weather service says the threat is greatest during the high-tide period -- noontime today.
Otherwise, periodic rain is expected throughout the day, as the temperature rises to a high in the mid-40s. It will be breezy, with an east wind 15 to 20 mph, then becoming southeast 9 to 14 mph in the afternoon. Chance of daytime precipitation is 90 percent, the NWS says.
Showers also are likely tonight, mainly before 7 p.m. The temperature will dip to a low in the mid-30s, with a west wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent.
Tomorrow, there is a chance 50 percent chance of showers, with cloudy skies and a high temperature in the upper-40s. By nighttime, there is a lesser chance of showers -- about 30 percent -- as the temperature registers a low in the low-30s.
On Friday, skies will be mostly cloudy, with a high temperature near 45. Nighttime will be partly cloudy, with a low temperature about 30 degrees.
Saturday is expected to be mostly sunny, with a high temperature in the low-40s. Skies will turn mostly cloudy at night, with a low temperature in the mid-20s.
The outlook for Sunday, the weather service says, is partly sunny and temperatures in the 30s.


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Doncaster claimed the point they needed to preserve their npower Championship status following a battling 1-1 draw with Leicester.
Steve Brooker put Rovers in front with a 25-yard thunderbolt in the 50th minute and although they were pegged back by Ayegbeni Yakubu's leveller, the result was enough to ensure that Sheffield United's 2-2 draw with Barnsley was inconsequential.
However, a share of the spoils was not enough to keep Leicester's slim play-off hopes alive and they will go into their final game with nothing to play for.
The visitors started with plenty of attacking intent and Darius Vassell thought he had opened the scoring with the game's first chance.
He fired into the top corner after latching on to captain Andy King's defence-splitting pass but the former England international was flagged offside.
Vassell then cut in from the right before squaring the ball to Paul Gallacher on the left and his shot from the edge of the area went inches wide of the right-hand post.
Yakubu had a sight at goal from close range but the ball became entangled in his legs, which gave Rovers an opportunity to clear their lines.
Leicester continued to dominate and goalkeeper Neil Sullivan was forced into action when Gallacher brought down King's ball over the top but after being forced wide by George Friend and Wayne Thomas, the midfielder's tame shot was easily saved.
Sullivan was again called on to keep out Gallacher's 35-yard free-kick, which bounced awkwardly in front of the Rovers custodian.
However, Doncaster's defence held firm in spite of the pressure and they ended the half on a positive note.
Ryan Mason and Jason Hayter flashed deliveries across the face of goal, but on both occasions, no one was able to add a decisive touch.
Brooker was brought on at the beginning of the second half for the ineffective Jason Euell and within five minutes of his introduction he broke the deadlock in sensational style.
There seemed to be no danger when the striker brought down Sullivan's clearance 25 yards from goal but after shrugging off the challenge of Miguel Vitor, Brooker unleashed a half-volley that rocketed into the top-right hand corner of the net.
Shell-shocked by the opener, Leicester attacked with gusto and Diomansy Kamara should have levelled proceedings when the ball sat up for him from six yards, but the substitute blazed over.
However, Yakubu spared his team-mate's blushes with a cool finish in the 76th minute.
Vassell and Steve Howard worked the ball to the Nigerian and although there was a suspicion of offside, Yakubu slotted home with aplomb.
Mason could have put Doncaster immediately back in front with a volley from just outside the area and although the ball squirmed between Chris Weale's hands, the Leicester keeper had got enough contact to ensure the effort went over.
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Publications Tagged: Organization for Security and Cooperation
- Added August 01, 2002
- Pax NATO: The Opportunities of Enlargement. Authored by LTC Raymond A. Millen.
- The process of NATO enlargement has served to harmonize Central and Eastern Europe with Western Europe in a remarkable manner. That achievement alone has made enlargement worthwhile. Beyond the next round of enlargement, the reorientation of NATO enlargement towards the Middle East and North African regions recognizes future threats. These regions may never receive the full security umbrella of NATO.


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I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what am I missing about news on THOR? on May 04, 21:40
My crystal ball says it has no clue what the movie will do ;) on May 04, 21:57
HAHA nice reply XD Man I never thought [THOR] would be such a toss up. I was so sure it could do IRNM numbers!! {nm} on May 04, 22:02
I'm not sure why people keep comparing it to Ironman - just because of Marvel? Most of those who saw Ironman in theaters, have probably neve on May 04, 22:16
That was my reasoning too. But I don't really buy the whole semi-realistic thing. I feel like Iron Man's suit is on May 04, 23:48
Don't forget Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark was getting a lot of buzz too, I can't remember off the top of my head who plays Thor. {nm} on May 05, 13:15
Just a little piece of advice... It's fine to talk about a movie, but unless you're posting news, best not to tag the stock page. {nm} on May 05, 00:16
Why is price so low ? {nm} on May 05, 10:04
Help me understand on May 05, 12:45
[THOR] is good. It will do well in cinemas/theaters worldwide. Marvel/Paramount/Branagh all good. {nm} on May 06, 03:50
[THOR] was good in 3D. Hopkins/Hemsworth/Portman/Dennings all good castings. Loki gd in teaser. on May 06, 03:54
Then short the stock and move on on May 04, 22:48
oh, I didn't know that. sorry!! {nm} on May 04, 23:42
my female geeky friends have been seeing this multiple times on May 04, 23:05
fanservice? {nm} on May 04, 23:08
giving the fans what they want on May 04, 23:14
Interesting analysis (spoilers) on May 05, 00:03
Kat Dennings can play whateva she wants. ;) {nm} on May 05, 06:36
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More spam. Has a link to a pirate site. {nm} on May 05, 00:36
I just can't believe this is doing so well in Europe. He looks totally unbelievable as a god, he's a pale and clean wimp with makeup. on May 05, 04:44
Who exactly looks believable as a god anyway, though, right? It's a lot to ask of an actor ;) {nm} on May 05, 05:45
Good point! It would help if they could replace the eyeliner and powder with some scars and dirt. {nm} on May 05, 05:53