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The Malibu City Council on Tuesday voted to explore an ordinance that would seek to give the city more of a voice in what chain stores can set up shop in the Civic Center area.
In a 3-2 vote, the council agreed to direct city staff to draft an ordinance to require a conditional use permit for any new chain businesses in shopping centers with more than 10,000 square feet in the Civic Center area, with Mayor Lou La Monte and Mayor Pro Tem Joan House dissenting.
The council also directed staff to hold a town hall meeting to allow the community to give input and for an online study to take place on the city's website.
The draft ordinance exempts grocery stores, real estate, gas stations, banks and insurance offices. If approved, the ordinance would have to ultimately go before the California Coastal Commission because changes would need to be made to the city's Local Coastal Program.
In March, the Malibu City Council directed city staff to draft a retail diversification ordinance as part of an effort to address residents' concerns, including maintaining Malibu's character in existing and planned development in the Civic Center and Trancas areas.
At the meeting Tuesday, City Attorney Michael Jenkins, who stood in for Christi Hogin, said any draft ordinance could not violate state and federal laws, or seek to regulate commercial rents.
"We have to decide if the municipal purpose we have is a legitimate one," Jenkins said.
La Monte said he has a desire to preserve Malibu, but not at the expense of the free market, state and federal law and other factors.
"I'd like it to be 1979 again. I'd like to look like what I did in 1979," La Monte said, getting some laughter from the council chamber.
House said she supports the city taking a hard look at its commercial zoning to make sure it is what the city wants and to set design standards.
Councilman John Sibert said he has been part of the conversation about protecting local businesses for the past two years and believes it is time to do something.
"I had hoped we could bringing folks like the chamber and the community to try to find a middle ground. What we ended up a lot with was a repeat of the 2012 election," Sibert said.
He said the city's demographics have shifted significantly over the years.
"We have developed a culture of not shopping in Malibu," Sibert said.
Councilman Skylar Peak said he wants to figure out a way to preserve the existing small businesses.
"Are we going to be a town or a shopping destination with homes around it?" Peak said. "… This community and this town was built on these small businesses," Peak said.
Peak said he does not want to see more chains come into Malibu.
"I think our community needs to preserve its character and not change for the worse any more than it recently has," Peak said.
Councilwoman Laura Zahn Rosenthal said she believes the city needs to use zoning and ordinances, as well as look to citizens to come up with a solution.
She said that she is in favor of requiring a conditional use permit for new chain businesses in the Civic Center area.
"The criteria for this CUP would be developed during one more town hall meeting," Rosenthal said, adding that residents could give input on the city's website through a Granicus survey.
"It is the Civic Center that I am most concerned about. It is not being dictated by us, the residents. Much of it is being dictated by the visitors," Rosenthal said.
She echoed Sibert's observations about the climate in Malibu.
"I think that things have become very polarized and that is very disappointing to me also," Rosenthal said.
She said the amount of undeveloped land in the Civic Center, which is commercially zoned, concerns her.
"I'm afraid of what's to come. We don't know yet what's to come. There is a lot of commercial land in the pipeline," Rosenthal said.
Attorney David Waite, who is representing several commercial property owners in Malibu, said that two reports about the retail climate in Malibu show that "there is not a proliferation of formula retail in Malibu."
He pointed to analysis that shows that only 8.5 percent, or 34 out of 400 businesses, are formula businesses.
Don Schmitz, speaking as the president of the Malibu Chamber of Commerce, said the organization represents 366 member businesses.
"Don't go to the stick, go to the carrot," Schmitz said, pointing to the "Shop the Bu" campaign.
He said not a single member has been supportive of the ordinances.
"We will put our resources behind connecting the residents in this community with the businesses," Schimtz said.
David Reznick of the Malibu Bay Co. said the premise that all local business are good and all chains are bad is inaccurate.
"These stores employ many locals and locals eat there," he said, adding that he recently saw many Malibu High School students eating as he walked by the recently opened Chipotle.
Norm Haney asked why the city is trying to fix something that he sees as not broken.
"Let the people in Malibu decide what they want. They vote with their dollar," Haney said.
Shahnaz Fattahi, owner of Subway in Malibu, said he is beginning construction this week on Malibu Wok, which will offer Chinese food.
Fattahi asked that the council stick to the city's zoning ordinance already in place.
"My only wish from you guys is don't over do it," Fattahi said.
Jo Giese, a Malibu Public Works Commissioner, questioned why a small minority, namely the Preserve Malibu group, has attracted so much attention from the city.
"I don't want one penny of the tax money I pay to go toward fighting the many lawsuits that will come from this ordinance. Don't waste the city's money either," Giese said.
She also asked that the Preserve Malibu group start up a legal fund to pay for the lawsuits.
Lucile Keller, representing the Malibu Township Council, said the issue has gone on for too long.
"We urge the council to adopt the current draft ordinance under consideration," Keller said.
Former Malibu City Councilman Jefferson "Zuma Jay" Wagner, who is a business owner, said there is a way to put in guidelines that will not violate property owners rights.
Many people in the community have expressed with great enthusiasm and with great resolve this is not going to go away. As electives you have to remember that is why you are here," Wagner said. "You need to move something forward and that is what many in the community are expecting."
Brian Eamer said Preserve Malibu is not going away.
"All the Preserve Malibu folks have a united idea and that is to protect. Malibu is a rural community. It is not high-end retail," Eamer said. "We want the council to protect us."
Jae Flora-Katz of Preserve Malibu said she supports the idea of a formula ordinance, not an outright ban of chain stores.
"That's not going to happen. They are not going to be banned," she said. "… Citizens get input. It's not the big, bad, scary monster."
She also contested the report that said there were 400 businesses in Malibu.
"There are 100. That's based on a city inventory," Flora-Katz said.
She encouraged the council to take action.
"Nearly two years later, what has the city done on this issue?" Flora-Katz said. "… We have saved some leases. We have rallied. We have gotten thousands and thousands of signatures."
Malibu Planning Commissioner John Mazza said the citizens will take action to preserve the character of Malibu if the council does not.
"You want to do something that makes sense that you can correct if it is wrong," Mazza said.
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NORMAN — State and local health departments are sending out summer activity warnings. In recent weeks, we've received rabies, mosquito and teen driver warnings.
On rabies, the health department says it has been notified of 41 cases of rabies in Oklahoma thus far this year. Those include 25 skunks, nine cows, five dogs, one horse and one fox. (The fox was in the Chickasaw National Recreation Area last week.)
Officials recommend vaccination shots for dogs, cats and ferrets. They are required from the time an animal is four months old.
Shots also are available and recommended for sheep, horses and cattle. The earliest visible symptoms of the rabies virus in animals include aggression or very passive behavior.
On mosquitoes, Cleveland County said Oklahoma had a record year for West Nile Virus. There were 178 cases confirmed among Oklahomans, including 15 deaths. No cases have been reported thus far in 2013. Health officials recommend an insect repellent containing DEET on any exposed skin, especially if you are outside between dusk and dawn.
Other precautions include repairing or installing window and door screens. Prevent standing water so mosquitoes don't have a place to breed. Empty and refill pet water bowls daily, and clean leaves and debris from rain gutters.
Lastly, health department officials say traffic crashes, the leading cause of death among teens, increases in summer months. Travel to and from summer jobs and social activities have more teens on the road and at risk. Teens also lack the experience needed to be more cautious on the road.
In Oklahoma, nearly 4,600 teens — ages 16 to 19 — were injured, and 55 died from motor vehicle injuries in 2010.
Authorities recommend teens take time to buckle up, watch their speed, don't drink and drive, focus on the road, follow curfew and limit the number of passengers. Teens also should not drive too late in the evening. The fatal crash rate of 16-year-olds is nearly twice as high at night.


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---- — Students have long departed for the summer, but area schools are still bustling with activity.
Planned maintenance and school renovations are underway across the county.
"We have our usual summer maintenance list," said Jane Simard, business administrator for the Derry School District. "But there are no major projects on tap for this summer."
Within a week of school ending, a walkway paving project at West Running Brook School in Derry was completed. Simard said Derry schools customarily will do painting, carpet replacement and electrical work every summer.
While Derry is in relatively good shape, other districts wish they could do more.
In Londonderry, voters rejected a $4.5 million district-wide renovation and construction bond at Town Meeting in March.
"We've had to put many of our projects on hold," Londonderry business administrator Peter Curro said. "It's frustrating, but no is no."
Curro said district officials had hoped to do major repairs to the roof at Londonderry Middle School and paving at Matthew Thornton School this summer. Instead, they will settle for replacing the gym floor at North School and doing a minor roofing project at the high school.
Those projects and other smaller renovations will cost about $500,000, Curro said.
That's the same amount they will be spending in the Timberlane School District. Facilities manager Jim Hughes said replacing modular classrooms at Timberlane Regional High School is the most extensive project he will tackle this year.
"We'll be removing old units and bringing in new units," he said.
Hughes said many of the projects being done are by subcontractors, but his staff tries to do as many projects as possible by themselves.
"It saves the taxpayers a lot of money," he said. "Anything my people can do will cost about two-thirds less."
Windham schools were set to have a routine summer, but after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the School Board voted to spend up to $178,000 to upgrade the security systems.
"We are completely redoing the entryway at Golden Brook School for security reasons," business administrator Adam Steel said. "Sandy Hook motivated us to get that done quicker than we had originally planned."
Steel said the way the building was designed, there would have to be a staff member watching the door at all times. Steel said extra security cameras were being installed at schools around the district.
In Salem, three schools will see major renovations.
Fisk, Soule, and Haigh schools will see $16.2 million in renovations starting this summer. None of the schools have had a significant renovation done in more than 50 years.
At Fisk and Soule schools, the repairs include creating kindergarten classrooms, installing fire safety sprinkler systems, upgrading the heating and ventilation systems, and removing asbestos. Those repairs will cost $15.8 million.
The other $369,000 will go toward roof, ceiling, security and fire alarm improvements at Haigh School.
In Hampstead, both schools will undergo some significant changes. Hampstead Central will have a portion of the pitched roof replaced. Hampstead Middle School's exterior will be painted and a new water treatment system installed. The total cost of projects at the two schools will be about $160,000.
"Our budget was less than what it typically is," facilities director Michael Hall said. "We have a long list of things that need to be done, it would be good to have money to do them all. But I'm doing the best that I can."
School officials said projects are spread out throughout the summer to plan around activities going on at the school.
"We know we have just seven or eight weeks to get these things done," Hughes said of Timberlane's projects. "So, we have to just schedule things accordingly."


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ELYSIAN — The body of Clifford Coonrod, a 72-year-old Janesville man, was recovered Friday afternoon from a vehicle he had driven through the ice on Lake Elysian earlier in the day.
The Waseca County Sheriff's Department said in a news release it had received a 911 call at 1:21 reporting that Coonrod had failed to appear at a lunch appointment. The caller said the lunch group had gone to Lake Elysian, where they planned to fish, and found open water with tracks leading to the water and no tracks returning.
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Paper money has a unique place in the history of the United States. The lack of bullion experienced by the British colonies in North America created an ideal setting for the first authorized government-backed issue of paper money in the western world.
In 1690 the Massachusetts Bay Colony approved the issuance of the first paper money in North America and the first to be issued directly by a government in the West. Other colonies followed Massachusetts' lead until paper money became common in the colonies, and was mostly successful, despite attempts by the British government to suppress its use.
The American Revolution witnessed a vast expansion in the issue of paper money by provisional State governments as well as the new Continental Congress as they attempted to cover the costs of the war.
Over-issuance caused the collapse of the currency so that, by the end of the Revolution, the American public had lost confidence in paper money. Continental paper was eventually redeemed at one cent on the dollar, three decades after it was issued.
In 1789, the Constitution prevented the individual states from issuing paper money - and the Federal government was reluctant to issue paper money, due to past experience.
Thus Federal treasury notes were only issued during emergencies such as the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War. However, the continued lack of sufficient silver or gold coinage made paper currency necessary for the economy to grow. Banks chartered by individual states and corporations provided the answer by issuing paper money, now known as obsolete notes.
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In 1863, the National Banking Act was introduced to replace the obsolete state-chartered banknotes with a reliable, standardized series of notes issued by national banks backed by government bonds deposited with the Treasury.
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I decided last Saturday that winter officially had ended.
With no small amount of satisfaction, I wheeled the snow blower into the shed after preparing it for summer storage.
Likewise, all of the ice-fishing gear was stashed.
The weather was so pleasant I even rolled the boat out to get it ship-shape for the first opportunity to pursue ice-out crappies.
I charged the batteries, refilled the lower unit with fresh lube, even slapped on the water muffs and fired it up. She's all ready to go.
Then on Sunday, yet one more day of remarkably nice weather, I rolled out the motorcycle and lawnmower and prepped them for the summer season, as well.
A change of oil, a splash of fresh gasoline and they're ready to go, as well.
I even tempted fate a bit by taking the bike out for a quick spin around the block, in spite of expired license tabs and enough sand still on the roadway to make taking a corner very exciting.
Oh, foolish me.
Just a couple days later, Mother Nature was treating us to an impressive display of wind and snow, all accompanied by some awesome lightning.
The wind moaning through the barren trees outside the window, the gusts sending the bathroom vents rattling and clanking and finally, the heavy, wet snow that blanketed my driveway the next morning, rendered my declaration of winter's demise a bit premature.
Trout fishermen probably had sense enough to bundle up in their ice-fishing garb for yesterday's season opener.
Just in case they were wondering what that strange light was that came and then quickly went, it is called sunshine.
Those of you who believed you were lucky by getting drawn for a permit to hunt during the first five-day session of Minnesota's spring wild turkey season that begins on Wednesday may not have been so lucky after all.
Ditto for those holding tickets to the B season because things aren't looking just a whole lot better for you, what with the extended weather outlook predicting highs only to be in the 40s with a little wind and rain thrown in for good measure.
Arguably, the silver lining in all of these recent storm clouds is that the dry weather pattern that has gripped much of the area for the past year seems to have abated somewhat.
Dry sub-soil and thirsty lake basins are getting a welcome drink.
While it's unwise to look a gift horse in the mouth, the precious moisture could just as easily have arrived in the more agreeable circumstances — gentle rains and 60 degree temperatures.
Yes, I'm a native Minnesotan, so I should have known that there would be a price to pay for my audacious belief that winter was history, that spring was here to stay.
In typical Minnesota fashion, spring will get here in due time. But probably not before taking two steps forward, then one step back.
Not that it will make any difference, but if you'd feel better having someone to blame for this malingering winter, maybe I'm your guy.
After all, I was the one who recklessly put the snow blower away so soon.
John Cross is a Free Press staff writer. Contact him at 344-6376 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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apropos, whatis and makewhatis
This month's column looks at three very useful and related commands, apropos, whatis and makewhatis. To understand why these commands are so valuable, it helps to grasp the underlying philosophy that continues to guide evolving versions of Unix, including Linux. That philosophy remains one of creating small, portable, specialized programs that perform one task well, and that can receive input from, and redirect output to, other programs.
This philosophy has created a proliferation of small, powerful, but extremely limited programs. Just do a directory listing of /usr/bin, and you'll see what I mean. And that's not all of them. You could sit down and run every one of them to see what they do. Or you could begin reading the hundreds of man pages available describing these commands. No matter which method you use to learn the commands, in the end, you'd still probably forget most of them due to the sheer volume. So how do you know which of the hundreds of programs available can do the job for you? Or which of the commands will be best suited to your particular needs? apropos and whatis come to the rescue.
Apropos, as defined by the dictionary, means "apt; relevant; suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the subject under consideration." These definitions, particularly the last one, are totally apropos. apropos will list programs with a one line synopsis of each program based on a keyword search. whatis is similar, but even more constrained; i.e., the actual command is given as the argument, rather than a keyword, so there is less output.
Before we look at how apropos can help us, we need to ensure that the database apropos uses exists and is up-to-date. Enter makewhatis. This command creates the whatis database files used by both apropos and whatis. They are located in each ../man directory and catalog the manual files in each of the individual cat? and man? subdirectories.
To create the whatis database files, you need to invoke makewhatis as the root user. Non-privileged users normally do not have write permission in the ../man directories to create the whatis database files. A second clue to the nature of makewhatis is its location. makewhatis is usually found in the /usr/sbin subdirectory, indicating its classification as a system administration program. Ordinarily only root's PATH environment variable contains the sbin directories. makewhatis may be invoked by root's crontab file and run on a recurring basis, and you may wish to include it if it isn't already there. But that is beyond the scope of this article. If you can log in only as a non-privileged user, or are sure your whatis database files exist, you may want to skip ahead to the next section. If you begin to see <keyword>: nothing appropriate, you'll need to have your system administrator run makewhatis.
Running makewhatis for the first time will take several minutes, so be patient (go have a cup of coffee). Run by itself, makewhatis will create the whatis database file in /usr/man. To ensure that all the man locations are cataloged, use the -w switch. This will read the file /etc/man.config and use the man paths it specifies. Or you may add paths following the -w switch and they will be used as well. If you are want to know which paths will be cataloged, type man --path, and you will see where /etc/man.config believes your manuals are. If you have other paths, they should be added to your man.config file.
Another makewhatis option is -c. This switch, when used alone, will catalog only the ../man/cat entries listed in man.config. Other cat subdirectories may be added following the -c switch, and they will also be cataloged.
You may, however, want only to update the whatis databases with newly added commands. Use the -u switch to update the database files. This switch reads the time of the whatis database file and adds those manual pages created or updated since.
If you want to know what makewhatis is doing, add the -v switch, and you will see each man directory entered and each command as it is added to the list. Each switch used with makewhatis should be separated by a space and preceded by a hyphen; the switches cannot be combined. makewhatis does have one weakness: if your system does not have sufficient RAM and virtual memory, makewhatis will fail. If you get an error message—and you are running makewhatis as root—add more swap space and try again.
This was an awesome article for me, as I am learning linux and found the sheer number of commands a little overwhelming. This article really give people like me a tool to help teach myself.
thanks again!
Oh, and can anyone understand what the heck the guy before me (magical enema ?) is even saying?
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Do they have some thing similar to "apropos, whatis and makewhatis" on windows systems...
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Adam C. - artistic director of C. Classical Music Society was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and has enjoyed a successful and varied musical career. He received his first exposure to the viola at age eleven, while attending a magnet school. Soon after, General Mills Foundation awarded him a scholarship that enabled him to attend the Mannes College of Music Pre-College Division in New York City.
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I power/cover disruptive innovators reinventing healthcare.
As a healthtech startup, you can't help but get excited when Bob Kocher (Venrock) or Esther Dyson speak about the opportunities in healthcare given their impressive track records. Both spoke during this past week's StartUp Health Summit.
One of Bob's main points was that the opportunity in healthcare is so big that most startups are thinking too small and his firm is putting their money where his mouth is (e.g. Castlight). Esther has proven time and again to be very prescient — just go back and watch her old interviews on Charlie Rose over the years to see how accurately she predicts the future. She interrupted attending the JP Morgan presentations to visit with the StartUp Health Summit. Paraphrasing, she said companies like those in StartUp Health are the future. Rather than trying to steal share from the companies presenting at JP Morgan, startups should focus on creating the new market space, and the market will move to them…not the other way around .
While the opportunities are massive, what's the biggest obstacle to healthcare transformers? It's the "preservatives" — the incumbent healthcare players. That is, the preservatives are trying to protect the status quo, rather than focusing on how to sincerely address the Triple Aim (improve outcomes, reduce cost, improve patient experience). In every healthcare organization I've talked with, whether they are a provider, pharma, or health plan, there are transformers internally who know what to do but are stymied by preservatives.
The same is true politically. There are those who call themselves "progressive" or "conservative." Unfortunately, it seems that 80 percent of politicos are actually preservatives just doing the bidding of lobbyists trying to protect the status quo. The preservatives are costing thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of unnecessary wasted dollars. The real leaders in healthcare will see through them and get them out of the way of progress.
One of the transformative organizations pushing for change is Oliver Wyman. Oliver Wyman is a leading consultancy that has setup a Health Innovation Center that recently published a paper entitled The Volume-to-Value Revolution (PDF) with the input of an advisory board (PDF) of CEOs ranging from large public companies to emerging companies (disclosure: I'm on the Health Innovation Center Advisory Board). In that paper, authors Tom Main and Adrian Slywotzky make the case that new patient-centered population health models will cause more than $1 trillion of value to rotate from the old models to the new and create more than a dozen new $10 billion high-growth markets (see also Patients Are More Than A Vessel For Billing Codes). Each of these markets creates large opportunities for healthtech startups. Naturally, legacy vendors are optimized for the old models (see Why It's Good News HealthIT is So Bad) while startups optimize for the new models.
Most industries compete on value. U.S. healthcare does not. But that is about to change.
Healthcare innovators are already redefining healthcare value, putting patients first and inventing with little regard for current constraints. They have ignited a powerful, self-funding upward spiral by focusing first on healthcare's big opportunities, transforming the value equation, generating large savings, and fueling smart reinvestment in the next wave of innovation. [Introduction, "The Volume-to-Value Revolution"]
In addition, the necessity for change and the accompanying opportunities are causing many healthcare incumbents to establish venture arms. See Strategic Healthcare Investors' Investment Thesis for more.
Everyone is getting into each other's and new businesses. Industry incumbents would be well advised to learn from the mistakes of incumbents in other disrupted sectors. As I observed earlier, providers are making newspaper industry mistakes.
The changes the industry faces will be neither smooth nor linear. A period of intense turbulence will produce more losers and winners than any industry transformation in recent memory. Cross-industry competition (healthcare versus retail versus technology versus others) will erase traditional boundaries and generate exciting new value propositions for patients, payers, and physicians.
For example, just this past week, Walgreen Walgreen's has made it clear they'll compete with healthcare providers and insurance companies. Competition, as newspapers learned, doesn't come from obvious places.
The consumer empowerment taken for granted from everything from buying cars to planning travel is finally arriving in healthcare nearly 15 years later than most industries.
Consumers, long passive, will have a new role. Employer incentives, retail access, and new technology options will encourage them to engage, demand information, and push for value. Baby boomers reaching the age of peak healthcare need will kindle the fire and Millennials focused on nutrition and fitness will keep it burning. The industry's metamorphosis from a supply-driven market to a more dynamic one driven by demand will happen more quickly and erratically than we expect. Inevitably, mental models will lag behind market reality, and conventional organizations will fight a rearguard battle, hampered by collapsing margins and eroding market share. [Introduction, "The Volume-to-Value Revolution"]
Walmart recently validated the domestic medical tourism I wrote about awhile back. Their Centers of Excellence program encourages their insured employees to go to the top facilities in the country for free (including travel expenses). The employees have to pay if they choose to go with organizations that haven't demonstrated a willingness to have a fixed price while producing some of the best outcomes in the world. Love them or hate them, Walmart has a huge ripple effect. Overnight, every facility in America that does cardiac, spinal, or transplant procedures is now competing with Mayo, Cleveland Clinic and other top providers. Sticking to old models and tools endangers the traditional healthcare player.
By 2014, as many as 85 million consumers with $600 billion in purchasing power may be shopping for their own healthcare on public and private exchanges. Many will be making their own decisions about coverage for the first time. Consumers will shop not just for insurance, but also for their preferred population-health manager and standalone services, such as basic procedures and retail clinics. [pg. 18, "The Volume-to-Value Revolution"]
Many are predicting half of hospitals will close by 2020. In Denmark, nearly 70 percent of hospitals closed as they made the shift from a reactive, sick-care model to proactive care model. More clinicians than ever will be needed. They'll simply have a mainframe-to-smartphone like shift as outlined in healthcare's age of agility. Unfortunately, the average hospital is one of the most dangerous places with over 100,000 hospital-acquired infections causing death every year. Hospitals are almost always the most expensive place to deliver care so smart health systems are developing new models with a fresh start — what I call the Xboxification of Healthcare.
One of the reasons providers are choosing cloud-based systems over on-premise software is the resource-intensive deployments required with legacy systems. We've seen a small clinic get their cloud-based system fully setup and ready to use in 30 minutes without any onsite people. In contrast, in that same amount of time, one might be able to order the server that gets shipped to that clinic. They will then require onsite installers, trainers, etc. and have a dramatically higher cost base to run that system.
For entirely rational reasons, those older systems were optimized for internal workflows and maximizing billing since that is what has been rewarded historically. To think that those traditional systems will then work perfectly well in the ascending "No Outcome, No Income" era borders on delusional. The reality is hitting right away. A recent article in a HIMSS publication quoted a leading thinker in healthIT, Shahid Shah, outlining 9 major gaps in existing EHRs. He listed "sophisticated patient relationship management (PRM)" as the first major gap. It's my opinion that as integral as EHRs have been to fee-for-service, PRM will be to fee-for-value. The old model relegated patient portal functionality to be little more than a marketing checkbox. In the new model, PRM functionality becomes a linchpin. In other words, patient portals have been like pre-Google Google web search (low value afterthoughts on web portals). As Google demonstrated, with the right circumstances, there was huge value ignored by the established players. Likewise, if PRM is viewed as an afterthought, that will increase the risk to providers during this transformative period. Being flat-footed in a time of great change is extremely risky.
The New York Times reported this past week that the public hospitals are already changing the way they compensate their doctors. The first performance measure they listed was how well patients say their doctors communicate with them. These doctors are used to easy communication in the rest of their life with email, text, Facebook, etc. Suddenly, the hospital IT departments are going to start hearing from doctors asking why they can't have tools that are as easy to communicate with their patients in the other areas of their life. It's a rare occurrence to hear a doctor say how user-friendly and patient-focused their EHR is. Of course, it's about more than just technology. The technology simply enables new models. Despite many doctors' fears, often the changes are for the better as was mentioned by Dr. Bob Margolis, founder and CEO of HealthCare Partners, and one of the physician leaders who has demonstrated extraordinary outcomes:
You get to the tipping point, where the physicians go, 'Wow, life is a whole lot better.' You know, I only have to see 20 patients a day and I go home at night and I feel like I really helped them'—as opposed to, 'I saw 45 patients, worked until 10 o'clock because I had to then do all my paperwork, I'm tired and I can barely pay the bills because Medicare and the commercial insurers are cutting back on my reimbursement.'
Oliver Wyman's report projects that patient-centered care and the shift to value will eliminate $500 billion in low-value-add activities. One has to be in major denial as a healthcare leader to think that we aren't entering a deflationary era in healthcare. Just watch Bill Gates' TED Talk on state budgets if you have any doubts. This is exactly the reason the state of New York has moved aggressively to change care and payment models. While doing that, they recognized new models require new technology and didn't expect they'd get it from legacy providers. This is why the New York Digital Health Accelerator was established. The good news for proactive health systems is that one can thrive in a deflationary period if they shed old assumptions.
A leader at Virginia Mason in Seattle shared how Starbuck's pushback on costs caused them to look at their entire care proces:
"90 percent of what the hospital was doing was of no value." As it turns out, the best way to treat most back pain is with physical therapy. That insight led to new processes, including same-day visits (as opposed to 31-day waits), reduced use of imaging tests and prescription drugs, and the addition of psychological support. Within three months, 94 percent of Starbucks employees with back-pain complaints were back at work within a day.
Even today, many EMR vendors will justify the price tags that reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars on the basis of increased billings. That game is nearly over and those hospitals will be saddled with systems optimized for the old models. This past week there were articles in the New York Times and Washington Post stating that EHRs have "failed". I'd dispute that. EHRs have done exactly as they were designed — maximize billings. That's how they are pitched so it should be no surprise that costs haven't been lowered.
It has been said that "when the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight."
Below, I have excerpted and paraphrased some more of Oliver Wyman's insights from the Volume-to-Value paper illustrating how each of the three anticipated waves of disruption will shift hundreds of billions of revenue from one set of players to another:
Wave 1: Patient-Centered Care (2010-2016). "If we simply mainstreamed today's best-in-class models of patient-centered, population-health management, the U.S. health system would eliminate nearly $350 billion of low-value-add activity and shift another $600 billion from provider-centered care models to patient-centered care models." [...] "Five percent of Americans account for 45 percent of healthcare spending—$1.2 trillion. These 15 million unhealthy Americans at the top of the healthcare pyramid are at the heart of the near-term healthcare affordability crisis and the unfortunate victims of our fragmented, illness- focused healthcare system." [pages 5 and 7, "The Volume-to-Value Revolution"]
Wave 2: Consumer Engagement (2014-2020). In Wave 2, another $150 billion in low-value-add activities is squeezed out, while $400 billion of additional value will rotate to the new retail value chain.
Wave 3: The Science Of Prevention (2018-2025). Wave 2 will help Wave 1's great population managers become even more effective and will devastate provider-centric players who have lagged the market. Wave 3 will make the most highly evolved and adaptive population health managers more powerful and will significantly constrict the Wave 1 players who don't continue to accelerate innovation.
I once heard someone say, "There's a lot of big brains working on small problems." They were commenting on the brainpower working on the 8,000th social media app versus where they should be applying their brains. That is, there are three areas that demand as many big brains as possible — healthcare, education, and energy. As a skier, I often say that healthtech startups are the double black diamond in whiteout conditions of startups: super challenging and exhilarating but not for the faint of heart.
Good news how the Danes used the power of the market to shutter 70% of hospitals, after all, the country is a bastion of wild west capitalism and has never heard of central planning!
You mean, as opposed to the U.S. political deadwood who have been in office for 50+ years and love to hog all the taxes for their friends?
Superb post. One of the best I have read in terms of identifying the current environment, and the opportunity in the future. As the CEO of a cloud-based healthcare company, we constantly straddle the world as it is, versus the world as it could be. It is easy to dream, but will the customer buy that dream today? What is the cost of bringing innovation to a market which has been slow to change? Will healthcare transform over a long period of time because of the entrenched systems and philosophies, or will some scrappy young companies be able to drive real change more quickly? This is definitely a piece that I will share within my organization.
Well written. The current systems promotes waste and inefficieny, educating patients and making them responsible will be the tigger needed to reform.
Great and timely analysis. In all Informedika customer focus group discussions with ACO management and physicians we are observing a major shift going on now away from fee-for-service to rewarding quality outcomes. Not surprisingly, state and even county government helping this by "running out of money" and promoting cost-cutting measures which ultimately means everybody starts fighting for treatment quality provided at the lowest cost.
EMR systems failed by succeeding – these systems were designed to maximize providers billing potential while ultimately helped moving the HC closer to the clinical and financial cliff. Healthcare IT MUST step up now and change the landscape to be able to empower doctors to provide quality of service and this is the only way to continue practicing medicine, even from the business perspective. Chronic disease management is largely missing from EMR. BI, analytic, proactive wellness and preventive medicine – these are the directions fro the new technology. The exchange of the data will come from the tech, not from entrenched EMR solutions designed for exact opposite (build the walls around the data so that physicians cannot easily switch).
It was extremely hard to fight with super-large entrenched vendors in HIT. But the good news: the tide is changing. If your product starts to make sense to doctors – you are in business. My advice to start ups: create a product that appeals directly to physicians, earns them money while promoting quality of care, and create a grass-routes following. Physicians are still at the top and the industry will never be run by bureaucratic measures. It still boils down to the relationship between the doc and the patient.
Best article I have read that summarizes the opportunities in the healthcare. This should be required reading by all of Congress.
I believe the first section of the article will be the biggest obstacle. Can the transformers overcome the preservatives? It must happen.
Many of us outside of the box entrepreneur minded startup CEOs will define true improvement in healthcare, cost savings within mHealth/HIT and most important increase in consumer/patient engagement and overall healthcare experience. I invite networking with like minded folks.
It is time to lead change and improvement in healthcare!
#improvehealthcare #mHealth #improveHCAHPS #patientexperience @HCXPINC
I spoke to a number of hospital CIOs and asked them about what made their work challenging .. what made healthcare IT unique? it was mentioned that there are big challenges BUT this [healthcare] is the place where you can really cast your vision from an IT standpoint. This is the place where you have an opportunity to see how far agile development methodology can go. This is the place where you can play with the most advanced technology, or at least think about it.
And as you said .. this is the place where engineering can make a difference. We're excited to see the growth of this industry.
Healthcare costs are skyrocketing. The #1 expenditure of Medicare is joint replacement. Patients harmed by failed implanted medical devices are ill-served by lawsuits after-the-fact. The healthcare industry has defended status quo by loading the FDA with conflicted panel members, limiting voting rights of patient representatives, eliminating clinical trials and registries. Only the thousands of harmed patients now requiring taxpayers to cover longterm care (since profit was proprietary but accountability was not part of the business plan) is prompting disruption. Are you listening, Congress?


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Tee Helsel's grand slam highlighted a six-run seventh inning, and Brett Abell pitched a six-hit shutout as Missouri Southern decked Pittsburg State 9-0 Thursday afternoon in the MIAA Postseason Tournament.
The third-seeded Lions (32-19) advance to the winner's bracket final at 11 a.m. today against top-seeded Missouri Western. The Griffons beat Central Oklahoma 9-3 in Thursday's first game.
The Gorillas (28-23) and Central Oklahoma play an elimination game on Thursday night.


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An interview with Hamill ahead of the December 31st Hershey (PA) Stars on Ice show: http://blog.pennlive.com/go/2012/12/...hy_hamill.html
An interview with Hamill ahead of the December 31st Hershey (PA) Stars on Ice show: http://blog.pennlive.com/go/2012/12/...hy_hamill.html
"Randy [Starkman (1960-April 16, 2012)] lived by the same motto as the rest of us. The Olympics isnt every four years, its every single day. He just got it." --Canadian Olympic kayaker Adam van Koeverden
The chance to see Kurt & Dorothy do a duet....that's a pretty good reason to pay those prices!
Keeper of Nathalie Pechelat's bitchface.
What a great interview. Gotta love Dorothy.
"I hit him with my shoes... if he had given me the medal like I told him to, I wouldn't have had to hit him!" -- 8-year-old Rhoda Penmark in "The Bad Seed"
I really like the interview. Very candid...and not b*tching about the good ol' days and how skating sucks now. She totally gets it's a more athletic sport and it needs to be to evolve the sport and keep it Olympics-worthy. Still the balances the positives and negatives about that. She seems like a cool chick.
I really enjoyed reading that interview.
Loved the SOI show, especially Dorothy's duet with Kurt Too bad more folks won't get to see it
Can't skate but love to watch
Great interview. Thanks for posting.
The skaters she is talking about (as those skating in the show with her) are not all that young. I agree with her about today's young skaters, the technical difficulty, and decreased artistry as a result of it, and I like it that she is not blaming anyone or anything; just stating a fact.
I only got to see Dorothy skate once as a professional and was amazed at her carriage, and wonderful run of the blade. She has wonderful basics. I always admired her for doing a 2Lz at the 2000 Winter Goodwill games! (Hope I got the year right)
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John Lis is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. He did his graduate research at Brandeis University and received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1975. His postdoctoral work focused on Drosophila gene regulation and chromosome structure at Stanford University, during which time he was supported by a fellowship from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. Dr. Lis joined the faculty at Cornell in 1978. His research program has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, including a MERIT Award, March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, Cornell Biotechnology Institute, and a Proctor and Gamble University Exploratory Research Grant.
The regulated production of a mature mRNA in eukaryotes requires highly coordinated molecular interactions and biochemical processes that involve the participation of hundreds of proteins. Our lab is focusing on the molecular mechanisms that govern the regulated transcription and processing of these mRNAs using as a primary model system the highly-inducible heat shock (HS) genes. Over the past 2.5 decades, our laboratory has applied, and in some cases developed, strategies such as protein/DNA crosslinking, DNA footprinting, and transgenics to probe the structure of promoters and genes and their activities in living cells [Lis (1998)]. We are continuing to use both well-established and new technologies to identify protein factors that participate in the HS gene mRNA production, and to define with high temporal and spatial resolution in vivo protein/nucleic acid and protein/protein interactions during the process of gene activation.
The second stage of our analysis is to deplete or inactivate specific transcription factors or particular surfaces of these factors in vivo and then to reexamine the consequences on HS promoters and genes.
Our past studies have shown (Guzman and Lis, 1999) that a rapidly-acting conditional mutant can be an invaluable tool in assessing the mechanistic role of a particular transcription factor in vivo. We are using a variety of fast-acting conditional mutants that encode Drosophila proteins that we hypothesize are critical for both establishing the potentiated promoter and for its activation. We are assessing the roles of these proteins in regulating chromatin architecture and function of the heat shock promoter (using the methods described above) in the seconds or minutes following the conditional disruption of a particular protein. Likewise, drugs that rapidly inhibit particular active sites of proteins believed critical for transcription and its regulation are also being used to evaluate the primary functions of these proteins in regulating chromatin architecture and function of the heat shock promoter (Ni et al. 2004)
While fast-acting conditional mutations provide an established means of evaluating a protein's role in a biological mechanism in vivo, inhibitors that bind particular protein surfaces could provide a much finer dissection. We are selecting RNA aptamers that bind to a specific protein surface and inhibit its function. These RNA aptamers are produced by cycles of selection and amplification from large RNA pools (our latest contains 1016 RNA molecules that have a random 50-mer in their centers) to isolate small RNA molecules that bind to specific protein components. Our goal is to overproduce selected RNAs in cells or in an organism to provide a way of inactivating specific protein domains and thereby assess their function and mechanism of action in vivo. These aptamers provide several advantages as specific inhibitors, including (i) like an antibody, they can be made to order specifically for a particular protein, (ii) like a small organic molecule, they are able to rapidly target a specific protein domain within cells, and (iii) like a conditional allele, they are able to exert their effect in whole organisms, but (iv) also are targetable to specific tissues, cells, or stages of development. We have succeeded in selecting RNAs that bind tightly to a specific protein in vitro, and have demonstrated their effect in vivo (Shi et al., 1999). We are currently selecting RNAs designed to interfere with specific steps in transcription and its control (Fan et al. 2004).
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In this three-volume set, Dr. John H. Gerstner provides a systematic theology of the writings and sermons of Jonathan Edwards. Edwards, a minister in Northampton, Mass. during the eighteenth century, was one of the forerunners of the age of Protestant … Learn MoreHardcover Please check back soon to purchase this item.
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The Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms
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Georgetown — - Reverend Stella Lucille (Cooper) Mosqueda, passed away on December 31, 2012 surrounded by her family in Georgetown.
Stella was born in Franklin Furnace, Ohio on March 9, 1931. She traveled to Cuba on her 21st birthday as a missionary, where she met and married her husband, Reverend Ignacio Avila Mosqueda, who preceded her in death. Throughout her life, Stella worked tirelessly for the Lord as both a minister with the Assemblies of God and as a nurse.
She is survived by her children, Cecilia Joy Marquez (Mosqueda), Cristina Jill Mosqueda and Caroline Gregan; grandchildren, Beth Smith, Allison Parker and Hannah Gregan; great-grandchild, Annaka Smith; additional family members, Juan Marquez, Kate Scarcella, Doug Gregan, Kyle Smith, and Nic Parker; brothers, Delbert Cooper, Glenn Cooper, Oscar Cooper, and Gary Cooper. Stella has gone on to a better life.
ARRANGEMENTS: She will be honored at a memorial service on Sunday, January 6 at 3 p.m. in the New Life Christian Assembly of God Church, 966 Main Street, Haverhill. Following the service, all gifts of flowers will be delivered to local nursing homes in her memory. Arrangements by the Driscoll Funeral Home, 309 So. Main Street, Bradford. For online guestbook, please visit www.driscollcares.com