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The ACCME's recently announced series of changes, initiated by the ACCME board of directors, are intended to simplify the accreditation process. We applaud the ACCME leadership for proposing these changes as they serve to clean up vestigial requirements that predate the 2006 Criteria for Accreditation, remove requirements that seem superfluous, and recognize the electronic world in which we live today that made some requirements no longer necessary or appropriate.
Please note: These changes are in a proposal format at this time; they must be vetted, commented on, and finalized before they are ready for implementation by the CME community. The ACCME emphasized that no changes should be implemented by CME providers at this time.
Summary of Proposed Changes by Criterion or Policy
The ACCME did not propose changes to any criteria not discussed below.
The Standard Criteria
Criterion 1:The provider has a CME mission statement that includes all of the basic components (CME purpose, content areas, target audience, type of activities, expected results) with expected results articulated in terms of changes in competence, performance, or patient outcomes that will be the result of the program.
Proposed Change:The requirements for a CME mission statement would be changed to require only discussion of expected results and remove requirements for purpose, content, audience, and types of activities.
Discussion:The emphasis on the revised accreditation system appears to be focused on changing behavior and results. It allows CME providers to shape their mission in any way that suits them as long as the expected results of their program are explicit.
Criterion 4:The provider generates activities/educational interventions around content that matches the learners' current or potential scope of professional activities.
Proposed Change:Deleted in its entirety.
Discussion:This criterion was redundant, provided the professional practice gaps of learners had been clearly articulated.
Criteria 12:The provider gathers data or information and conducts a program-based analysis on the degree to which the CME mission of the provider has been met through the conduct of CME activities/educational interventions.
Criterion 13:The provider identifies, plans, and implements the needed or desired changes in the overall program (e.g., planners, teachers, infrastructure, methods, resources, facilities, interventions) that are required to improve on ability to meet the CME mission.
Proposed Change:Criteria 12 and 13 would be joined to provide a more logical flow of overall assessment of the CME program and changes to improve the program.
Criterion 14:The provider demonstrates that identified program changes or improvements that are required to improve on the provider's ability to meet the CME mission are under way or completed.
Criterion 15:The provider demonstrates that the impacts of program improvements that are required to improve on the provider's ability to meet the CME mission are measured.
Proposed Change:Criteria 14 and 15 would be deleted in their entirety.
Discussion:This change consolidates the existing Criteria 12, 13, 14, and 15 into a single requirement covering the key information for program analysis and planned improvements. The ACCME wants to focus on the core concept of the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle and eliminate the criteria that are redundant.
Accreditation with Commendation
The ACCME proposes to delete three criteria and add three (or perhaps more) new criteria. But it is important to note that they also propose to allow CME providers some flexibility to select the Engagement with the Environment criteria that are applicable to their unique CME environments. While the ACCME hasn't stated how this would be accomplished, they propose to require a minimum number of criteria to be addressed in this subset of criteria (let's say five out of seven) but give the provider the choice of which five to address. Again, this area will be open to a number of comments and we won't know the results for a while.
Criterion 16:The provider operates in a manner that integrates CME into the process for improving professional practice.
Proposed Change:Deleted in its entirety (but reflected in new Engagement with the Environment criteria; see below).
Discussion:The ACCME believes that C16 is redundant with Criteria 2 and 3 in that if gap analysis is managed correctly the professional practice gaps will become the basis for the activity.
Criterion 18:The provider identifies factors outside the provider's control that impact on patient outcomes.
Proposed Change:Deleted in its entirety.
Discussion:In the past, it was often difficult to distinguish between barriers or factors that have an impact on quality, patient safety, and physician change. Often methods or content to address the barriers of C18 were consistent with those of C19. Moreover, a complete gap analysis would already have uncovered the barriers to quality and patient safety.
Criterion 22:The provider is positioned to influence the scope and content of activities/educational interventions.
Proposed Change:Deleted in its entirety.
Discussion:In our opinion, this criterion was unnecessary. Other documentation in the self-study or the new performance-in-practice abstracts will clarify whether or not the CME provider is positioned to influence the scope and content of its CME program.
Proposed Additions
New Engagement Criterion:The provider routinely demonstrates and promotes interprofessional collaborative practice in the operation of its CME program and in the design and implementation of its educational activities.
Discussion:This new criterion is institutionalizing the concept of collaboration in CME activities. It speaks to "routine interprofessional collaborative practice" and seeks to ensure that CME providers are working together in the best interest of quality and outcomes. While "interprofessional" needs further definition, we believe that it embodies both collaboration between nurses, pharmacists, and physicians, as well as between various specialties—depending on the mission of each provider and the identified needs for the activity.
New Engagement Criterion:The provider routinely incorporates patient data (for example, data from registries or electronic health records) into the process for identifying professional practice gaps and educational needs.
Discussion:In our opinion, this new criterion may be the most challenging of the new guidance for some providers, but it also creates an expectation that CME providers should be connected to real patient outcomes data in the way they plan CME. It introduces the reality of EMR and the ability of some providers to access current information. For providers without access to such information, it offers other methods such as morbidity and mortality data and registry information that will require more due diligence. While this proposed criterion appears to be challenging for accredited medical education companies in particular, it will require them to develop processes to access real patient clinic data through public registries, collaborative partners, or other EMR data gleaned from their course directors and faculty.
New Engagement Criterion:The program of CME conducts assessments of the individual's professional competence and performance and designs and implements individualized learning activities to address the needs that were identified through the assessments.
Discussion:This advanced criterion will require that CME providers measure competence through mechanisms that are more sophisticated than commitment-to-change questions, and demonstrate that outcomes analyses results were used to develop additional CME interventions that reflected the findings of the original outcomes assessments. This criterion will move CME stakeholders toward maintenance of certification, new and creative online methods for learners to assess their own needs and individually tailor CME to those personal gaps, and toward using CME as a tool to correct critical performance gaps such as in remedial CME.
Changes to the Standards for Commercial Support
Standard 4.3:Educational materials that are part of a CME activity, such as slides, abstracts, and handouts, cannot contain any advertising, trade name, or product-group message.
Proposed Change:Prohibit the use of corporate logos in any educational materials.
Discussion:This change is consistent with the recommendations of all organizations that have previously reviewed areas of potential bias in CME.
Standard 6.4:"Disclosure" must never include the use of a trade name or a product-group message.
Proposed Change:Prohibit the use of a corporate logo in the disclosure of the receipt of commercial support.
Discussion:This change is a parallel action to the one above.
Other Proposed Policy Changes
• Joint sponsorship: The phrase would be changed to "Joint Providership," which in turn will impact a revised Joint Providership Accreditation Statement.
Discussion:This change serves to clear up confusion between the words "sponsor" and "provider."
• Enduring materials: The ACCME proposes to eliminate all special language requirements for enduring materials, such as principal faculty and their credentials, medium or combination of media used, method of physician participation, estimated time to complete the activity, dates of original release and/or update, and termination date.
Discussion:The ACCME felt these requirements predated the 2006 Criteria for Accreditation and were inconsistent with learners' current familiarity with electronic media.
• Internet CME: Similarly, the ACCME proposes to eliminate the special language requirements for Internet CME, such as listing special requirements prior to the beginning of the activity, hardware and software requirements, provider contact information, policies on privacy and confidentiality, and copyright information.
• Journal CME: The ACCME proposes to eliminate special requirements for journal CME, including the requirement to communicate required information prior to the journal activity, but that is supplanted by the general Standards for Commercial Support requirements to inform learners of disclosure information before the start of the activity.
Discussion:This change simplifies ACCME policy and removes special requirements as stated for other types of CME activities listed above.
• Regularly scheduled series: The ACCME proposes to eliminate the requirement for describing their monitoring system.
Discussion:This change recognizes that processes for compliant CME practices for all types of activities include RSS without a need for special documentation. In our opinion, this proposed change is unclear and will need to be adjusted or clarified as the monitoring of hospital or medical school departments' application of the criteria is essential to demonstrating compliance.
• Initial application for accreditation: The ACCME is proposing to eliminate the requirement that the initial accreditation interview be conducted at the offices of applicant, but is leaving in place the requirement for an activity review for initial accreditation.
Discussion:This process removes rote processes and stickers in favor of the provider stating the responses to questions the answers to which demonstrate the evidence of compliance. There will be mechanisms to paste in information, and there will be several attachments to complete each file abstract. Same amount of work, but different format.
Analyzing the Changes
While these changes will simplify and consolidate the process of accreditation and reaccreditation, they also will require some additional sophistication be added to the skill sets required to truly manage one's CME program. These skill sets were articulated by the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, and they can be found on the Alliance Web site: acehp.org.
For example, performance-in-practice will now be demonstrated through a template to be provided by the ACCME. This format removes the label system and the need to cull a mountain of paper to assemble documentation. Instead, the format asks providers to assess and summarize how they complied with the applicable criteria. This will require abstracting, systems thinking, and understanding of educational interventions, etc. Members of providers' staffs who merely copy and paste lengthy needs assessments from proposals to commercial supporters will now need a detailed working knowledge to truly comprehend the needs, or be engaged in selecting educational formats appropriate to the goals of the activity, or the analysis of outcomes of their education instead of just summarizing data. It will also require providers to demonstrate in a succinct manner their understanding of each criterion and to demonstrate their compliance with it.
The new emphasis on promoting interprofessional practice in the operation of the provider's CME program requires a proactive approach on a systemwide basis. As providers seek to collaborate and share best practices across clinical and management operations, patient care will be improved.
Likewise, routinely incorporating patient data into the process for identifying professional practice gaps will require providers to consider the sources of relevant patient data from registries, electronic medical records, or the best way to incorporate informatics to support decision-making.
Similarly, assessing individual learners' performance gaps and designing boutique CME experiences for individuals is available to all types of CME providers, but providers will have to optimize their creativity to develop systems and processes to enable this process to occur. This process naturally occurs in maintenance of competence processes conducted by all specialty boards as a part of recertification, as well as in AMA PRA-defined Performance Improvement (PI) activities.
Six Recommendations
As we said at the beginning of this article, the new accreditation system is at the 'proposal-and-comment' stage and probably won't be implemented until late 2014 or early 2015. But in the meantime, it is prudent to give some thought to the skills and processes that your organization will need to develop. Here are some of our recommendations:
1. Consider a strategic planning meeting with your CME committee or advisory board. As a primary component to the needs assessment in planning CME, you should include in the discussion ways in which your organization can access patient data.
2. As the ACCME moves toward individualized learning, have you considered designing CME activities that fulfill specialty board requirements for MOC?
3. In what other ways can your organization address the individual practice gaps of your learners? Will new technology be required to facilitate that process? Do you have the outcomes measurement tools in place to quantify the individualized changes that have taken place after engaging in CME?
4. Identify areas of personal growth that will position your staff, as educational professionals, to be more engaged in the process of CME. For example, do you know how to synthesize lengthy needs statements into clear, 25-word expressions of the professional practice gaps as expressed by physician planners? Do you know how to review a gap analysis, how to write learning objectives, and how to design outcomes questions that will measure improvement in competence and/or performance? Do you know how to rewrite learning objectives submitted by faculty so that they express what the learner is expected to be able to do in their practice after the CME intervention? Find a trainer or coach to help you plan personal education to hone those skills.
5. What about interprofessional education? Is that type of education indicated in your organization's purpose and mission? If so, are you currently providing education that is only intended for physicians or nurses or pharmacists, or have you thought about how to use your CME/CPD as a tool to hone an effective care team that meets the needs of patients and their families? In other words, it's not just about offering a lot of education for different professionals; it's about how those professionals interrelate to advance the quality of care!
6. In terms of your CME/CPD mission statement, while we don't advocate changing anything as yet, it is not too early to start thinking about the outcomes of your CME process. What do you want CME to achieve for your learners and their patients? How will the outcomes of your education advance quality and patient safety? How will your activities be planned to effect real and meaningful outcomes? What does that change mean in terms of the training needs for your staff and planners? Do you have the skills onboard to effect those outcomes? If not, what budget will help you achieve that goal and where will those funds come from?
To help you plan a course of action, identify your personal action steps as you consider the coming CME changes. To assist this process we have developed a worksheet that you can download from http://passinassociates.com/downloadmmm.
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Banking Aka Bank Shot
A bank shot or banking play occurs in court bocce when the bocce ball is played to bank off the backboard or sideboards.
Bocce derives from the Italian word for ball. It is sometimes spelled bocci or boccie. The word bocce can be used to refer to the sport itself, to the bocce ball used to play the bocce game, or as a verb for playing, e.g. "Let's bocce."
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Dead Ball
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A foul is a violation of bocce ball rules, typically a foot line foul (see below). This term is not to be confused with the raffa bowling technique (raffa translates into English as "foul").
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Hitting Aka Spocking, Popping, Shooting, or Raffa
A bocce bowling technique in which a forceful underhanded throw is played to strike other balls or the pallino with enough force to move or scatter them.
In Team/Out Team
The in team is the team with the ball closest to the pallino. This is also known as having the advantage or holding the point. The out team plays until they become the in team or run out of bocce balls to play in that end.
Pallino Aka Jack, Pill, Cue Ball, Pallina
The pallino is the small bocce ball thrown at the beginning of each end that is used as a target for the bocce balls. The team closest to the pallino at the conclusion of each frame scores points. The pallino may be struck and moved with a bocce ball.
Pointing Aka Rolling, Lagging, or Puntata
These bocce ball terms refer to the basic bocce play in which the bocce ball is rolled underhand with the intention of reaching the pallino or increasing strategic advantage rather than striking the pallino or other Halex bocce balls.
Volo refers to a high or arcing type of throw in which applied backspin compels the ball to stop wherever it lands. The volo bocce technique is considered illegal in court bocce to avoid damaging the court surface.
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Originally published on Father's Day, June 20, 2010. You can bet I will be re-publishing every year as a tribute to my Pop.
I wanted to take a minute or two and write about my Pop. Based on the fact this is a blog about baseball, I think you'll find it is appropriate content for Midwestropolitan.
Last week he came down to visit so he could watch my son play in an all-day baseball tournament. Like my dad before me, I coach my son's team.
It was fun to watch my dad in the bleachers and listen to everything he would say to my son and his teammates.
You see, my dad can't just watch a little league game. The coach in him is way too difficult to suppress. I think he only made it an inning or two until he couldn't contain himself from sharing helpful hints to all of our players.
Watching him made me thankful. He was a big influence in my life in terms of instilling in me the love for the game of baseball. A gift that I will have with me for my entire life.
Watching him also started me thinking about all of the things he did for me as my coach.
My dad started as my coach when I was eight years old. We didn't have your typical season.
Back in April, I shared a post on, Average Adam: Thoughts of Your Every Day Average Guy, the improbable completion to my first little league season. We lost every one of our regular season games, but wound up winning the league tournament.
Read Little League Legacy to catch up on all of the details.
Needless to say, my dad helped me learn quickly that baseball, like life, is filled with triumphs and trials.
Now that I am a coach myself, I marvel at his patience. He never yelled at umpires, players, coaches, or parents. He never got too caught up in the competition, never made it about him over the kids. He just coached.
He coached me, my brothers, our neighbors, our friends, and anyone placed on one of his teams. There were no favorites. Everyone was coached.
It may not sound like much to some of you. If it doesn't, go out to your local little league field and watch some of the coaches. You will realize how rare the traits I listed above truly are.
As I grew older, I developed into a decent ball player. There were plenty of regular season and all-star games. He never missed any of them.
Inevitably little league ended and I moved on to high school baseball. My dad didn't stop coaching me. He never over stepped his boundary as a parent with my high school coaches.
When I would find myself in a slump, he would take me to the batting cage and simply suggest I alter small things with my hands or my stance. Even though the adjustments were slight, they almost always worked.
During my games I became pretty adept at ignoring all of the noise and chatter from the stands. There is one exception. I could always hear my dad very distinctly. It could be a huge at bat with dozens of people yelling something. It didn't matter. The only person I could hear was my dad.
"Relax in there number 10. Find your natural rhythm. Now you see him Jason. Watch the ball. You can do it."
I came to rely on it. He was always my coach.
At 33 years old, I am only reaching the tip of the ice berg in terms of understanding this crazy game of life. One thing I do know, I appreciate all of the sacrifices my dad made for me.
Thanks Coach.
Happy Father's Day.


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It used to be that most of the business world understood that simple, clear business writing was a powerful skill. We needed to communicate, explain and convince people in memos, proposals, plans and reports. Simple sentences worked better. Clear and concise worked better.
Maybe I care more about writing than the next person because I've spent so much of my career dealing with business plans: writing them for years, then getting them funded and, more recently, reading them. I read more than 100 business plans a year. They're shorter than they used to be, for sure; but the qualities that make something readable—including good writing, spelling and grammar, are as important as ever.
But writing has been diluted, for sure, with the forward march of email, websites—and now Facebook and Twitter and text and rushed communications with two thumbs while trying not to bonk the other people sharing the sidewalk. So writing, spelling and grammar seem out of style; but still, some writing comes up all the time. The business plan is just the most obvious example. Beyond that:
- In email
- In blog posts
- In comments to blog posts
- In social media updates
- Plans, memos, reports
- In text or sms messages? I'm not sure about that one. What do you think? The obvious abbreviations are so tempting ... but does that have to spread into the rest of our writing. I forgive "idk" in a text but not in a memo (it stands for I don't know).
So here are some of my suggestions for minding the writing without ignoring that it's relegated to many kinds of in-between and compromise contexts, like text and on smartphones. And with business plans too, of course.
- Use short simple sentences. Use periods more often to end sentences. Separate your points into shorter sentences.
- Get to the point fast. Put the headline first—then explain. People skim emails and memos. Don't bury the main point in a dumpling-like mass of explanations.
- Stop using apostrophes to show plural. Apostrophes are for contraction (don't) or possession (Ralph's or Mary's opinion). Stop putting an apostrophe every time you have a plural noun. It's balls and bats, not ball's and bat's.
- Then and than have different meanings. Then is time and sequence, as in first we do this and then that. Than is comparison, like more than and less than.
- Simple words are better. Avoid jargon and buzzwords. Don't incentivize people when you can motivate or encourage them instead. Use things; don't utilize them. The phrase "outside the box" is inside the box. Are we really all engaging all the time?
- Although it does take an extra effort to hold down two fingers at once or add a keystroke to capitalize words, it looks better. Capitalize your words like you learned in second grade.
- Don't write long emails with multiple topics and points. Make each email have its own topic and subject line. Your recipients will get your point faster and better than way.
While it's apparently true that we live in a world of video, and books and print media are in a decline, technology has also put writing into almost every obscure corner and extra little piece of time in our lives. Not just for business plans. In all cases, let's do it well.
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medias surged. Social media furnishes easy communication between businesses
and their clients that is why everybody is just hooked up with it. But even
so, i think writing should somehow maintain the very most essential standards
and that is concise, simple, and with fairly good grammar. I think you have
successfully pointed out the good points to take when writing.
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post with us. I'm hoping to read more related to this topic.
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in this day and age where people would rather send a text message jam packed
with abbreviated words and other ghastly monstrosities our language skills
are in decline. I cringe at basic English mistakes, for example - their and
there, whole and hole.
Human connection beats digital communication hands down any day!
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drastically throughout the years. One thing that has helped and maybe
hindered some is social media.Knowing when and how to use it to the full
potential or over usage is sometimes a downfall. Any tips on how to draw the
line for social media communication?
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First off make sure the pressure gauge is good though I bet it's not.
Then, you either have a leak between the well and the tank or the pump is pulling the well down. If you shut if off for a few hours does it come back?
I have a 340 foot deep well with a 1 hp red jacket submersible pump newly installed in 300 foot down. Originally, there was 5 hp myers submersible pump placed 320 foot down, however, this was supplying several homes- this pump no longer works. This well is on my property and all that was using this pump have dug their own well. I had a well guy come out to tell me what size pump I would need to supply only my home. He said a 1 hp pump should be sufficient so I bought a red jacket 1 hp pump. This pump was set 300 foot down into the 340 foot well and new electric was run to service just my home (it was originally on a separate electric pole just for the pump). All new lines were ran through the well to the holding tank and all new electrically wire were placed.
Once electric was connected, we tested the pump to check the pressure in the house. The pressure was good. After one evening of use- the next morning we had good pressure and it gradually sloped off to almost nothing!!!! It seems to have a lot of air in lines and spit and sputters til it is to a drizzle....
I've checked the lines under the house for a leak and found nothing. The holding tank is registering 100 psi but yet I have no pressure in the house.
What can be the issue???
Thanks for in advance for any answers or solutions to my problem....
First off make sure the pressure gauge is good though I bet it's not.
Then, you either have a leak between the well and the tank or the pump is pulling the well down. If you shut if off for a few hours does it come back?
Perception is 3/4 of reality
I was thinking the gauge was bad. I will replace it. I can shut the water off and wait a few MINUTES and it will come back but I do get air in the lines- it spits, sputters and gurgles then good flow then spits and sputters then good flow till it run to almost a drizzle. I was thinking leak too.
Well, you may be able to set the pump a bit deeper. You didn't say what diameter your well case is but it it's an 8" case the extra 30 or so feet you drop the pump will give you some more reserve. Ultimately though you probably want a driller out there to run some tests for static and recovery. From what you are telling us it sure sounds as though the pump is pumping the well down
Perception is 3/4 of reality
I wonder why a 5hp pump supplied seven houses and a 1hp wont keep up with 1 house?.... but set it much lower. Find out the recovery and restrict the output to match.
I can't see that well being that low; it is on a natural spring but you never know. The reason the other pump went out was because there was a leak in the line one of the home owner neglected to fix and the pump was ran to death and eventually quit.
This is why; since the well is on our property, we installed our own pump and electricity and had them to install their own- best solution for everyone. Now we are all responsible for our own, of course, I would never have a shared well this was done prior to our purchase and we got such a good deal we didnt care if we had to eventually dig our own well.
That 5hp pump was massive and we pulled it ourself (which we were told couldn't be done) but we did it and installed and wired our own pump in.
I really think our problem is in that tank (I hope) and if we fix the gauge and pressure switch the pressure will be right. We dont run out of water- it is just high to low to no to high to low pressure (as if the pump dont know what to do). If this is not it than I will have to get a pump guy out here to help me.
All the new wells there could have dropped your static water level and now you are pumping from much deeper and that gets into the pump you bought. Pumps come in two parts, motor hp and wet end gpm. So you may have an undersized pump on the gpm side and it can't pump from lower but, the switch pump etc. can't add air to the water. Air says the water is down to the pump's inlet or you have a leak that is introducing air into the water.
Do you have a check valve at the pressure tank? If so it will prevent you from seeing the effects of a leak between it and the pump.
If you have a galvanized tank it could be part of the problem or the switch nipple is blocked with rust/dirt and it is causing the pump to lag instead of seeing the actual pressure as it falls to the cut in setting. You should check the air pressure in the tank to be 1-2 psi less than the turn the pump on setting. Do all that when you replace the bad guage.
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Ok- I have replaced the gauge and it shows 44 psi. I checked the air and it registers 28 psi. I don't see a pressure valve at the tank.
Water pressure in the showers and bathtubs are great- the gauge doesn't drop more than 1-2 psi when on,however, when I turn on the outside hose I have very low pressure (which is the furtherest water point from the well)- the pressure gauge drops to zero and quickly bottoms- the well recovers within 2 minutes and it is back at 44 psi.
It seems like half the house has pressure and the other half doesn't. Yet I have watched to gauge drop to 3 psi and quickly recover after spigot was turned off.
My showers don't lose pressure no matter how long running yet, I'm not getting good pressure at my kitchen sink or bathsink in one bathroom however the other bathroom which is on the same side of the house has great pressure.....
When looking under the house I noticed the pvc piping goes from 1in to 3/4in to 1/2in to 3/8 in and some parts is copper which is 3/8in and then goes back to 3/4in at a newer part of the house (I didn't do the plumbing nor did I live here when it was done).
What do you'all think could be going on??
[QUOTE=Gary Slusser;264339]All the new wells there could have dropped your static water level and now you are pumping from much deeper and that gets into the pump you bought.
I forgot to add the other homes wells are not dug yet.
Sounds like you have a plumbing nightmare in the house that restricts flow in some odd way.


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World-renowned astrophysicist Dimitri Mihalas passed away in his sleep at his home on November 21, 2013 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Mihalas retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2011. Dimitri, to his friends and family, has donated his body to the University of New Mexico Medical School and his library to New Mexico Tech.
Dimitri was born on March 20, 1939 in Los Angeles, California where he grew up. He received his B. A., with Highest Honors, in three majors: Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy from the University of California at Los Angeles at age 20. Four years later he received his Ph. D in Astronomy and Physics from the California Institute of Technology. He then joined the faculty of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. In the following three decades, he was a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Chicago, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was also a pioneer in astrophysics and computational physics and remained a world leader in the fields of radiation transport, radiation hydrodynamics, and astrophysical quantitative spectroscopy for most of his career. His broad knowledge and immense contributions earned him election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1981 (at age 42, fifteen years earlier than the usual age of entry) and many other distinguished awards. He was a laboratory fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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A gathering, "Remembering Stirling," open to colleagues and friends is scheduled for 5:45 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 15, at Fuller Lodge.
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Colgate was born Nov. 14, 1925 in New York City. He attended the Los Alamos Ranch School until 1942 when the school closed in the run-up to the Manhattan Project. Colgate served two years in the Merchant Marines before attending Cornell where he earned bachelor's (1948) and doctoral degrees in physics (1951). He worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1952 to 1965; his career at both LANL and LLNL totaled 50 years.
Colgate came to then Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in September 1976 where he worked in various groups in Theoretical (T) Division. He was named a Senior Laboratory Fellow in 1987. From late 2008 to the present, Colgate was a Lab associate Fellow in T-2. Colgate was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. More recently, Colgate and Hui Li, of T-2, were co-principal investigators of a LDRD project that involved experimental work at New Mexico Tech involving astrophysical phenomena and turbulence.
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Jon Jones has no interest in fighting Lyoto Machida again
I firmly believe that honesty is the best policy, although that method is sure to make people not like you, but Jon Jones has finally realized he has enough haters to the point where he has diminishing hostility returns on his comments. Jon Jones is the LeBron James of MMA, and we have to accept that. The dude is unbelievable, and if there wasn't a Burger King munching, bumblebee-obsessed Brazilian hosting BBQ parties for gangsters from West Linn, Oregon wanting to go down in weight and not up, we'd have more than one challenger for Bones' crown that no doubt weighs heavy on the champion's head.
At UFC on FOX 4 Lyoto Machida was named the man to take on the winner of Bones/Hendo, and although many people are as excited as hell about this (me included), Bones doesn't really see the logic of the matchmaking; from a business or sporting perspective. This is what he had to say to ESPN on the subject:
"I don't want to fight Lyoto Machida," "He was my lowest pay-per-view draw of last year."
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Jones doesn't even know if he would accept the fight with Lyoto:
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"I don't think it's appropriate to be talking about fighting anybody but Dan Henderson," "I'm clearly focused on Dan Henderson. I'm not overlooking Dan."
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- Boston crews are continuing to clear streets. Call the Mayor's 24-hour hotline at 617-635-4500 to report a storm-related issue.
- A snow emergency parking ban remains in effect, this is where you can NOT park in West Roxbury.
- Boston Public Schools are closed today, as is Catholic Memorial.
- Trash/recycling is on normal schedule starting Monday. Crews may be working slowly due to wintry conditions. Please clear a space at the curb for crews to safely collect trash/recycling.
- Tonight Somerville Brewing Company's Slumbrew will be offering a free tasting at Porter Cafe. All brewers' nights are 5-7 p.m., and include free tastings from the featured brewer.
- On Wednesday enjoy Spanish wine and tapas from Masona Grill at Blanchard's. Spanish wine is hot! Sometimes quite literally, it is easy to grow grapes that will make high alcohol wines in a warm climate, it's also in reference to the amazing growth in Spain's wine exports to the United States and these wines are delicious and balanced, defying the long time reputation that great Spanish wines were few and far between. Blanchard's is conducting a seminar with Patrick Mata, co-founder of Ole Imports, where you will taste your way through Spain's incredibly diverse wine regions, we will touch on the classic and esoteric alike. Aside from the wine quality, one of the most admirable aspects of Ole Imports is their attitude concerning social responsibility. Light Tapas prepared by Masona Grill will accompany the wines. Tickets are $25 per person and $20 per person with a purchase of two or more tickets. Buy tickets here. 7-8:30 p.m.
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Kenny Kadji added 18 points and Trey McKinney-Jones had 12 for the Hurricanes (16-3, 7-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who trailed by 12 in the first half before getting a 22-6 burst spanning halftime.
National scoring leader Erick Green led the Hokies (11-9, 2-5) with 30 points and Jarell Eddie had 14, but Virginia Tech's other scorers struggled after a fast start. The loss was the seventh in the last nine games for Virginia Tech.
Trailing by 12, however, Larkin led Miami back into it with 11 points in the big run spanning the halves, and the Hurricanes took a 38-34 lead with 16:43 left. The Hokies seemed on the brink of getting run out of their own building, but Green hit three 3-pointers in a span of under 2 minutes and Virginia Tech led again, 43-41.
Just as Cassell Coliseum whipped into a roaring frenzy, McKinney-Jones hit a long 3-pointer, and Larkin and Rion Brown followed with 3s after a bucket by Cadarian Raines for the Hokies. Two free throws by McKinney-Jones and a dunk by Kadji capped the 13-2 run and the Hokies were again playing catch-up.
They got within 60-53 with two minutes left, but Larkin calmly dribbled the clock down then swished a long 3-pointer from the top of the key with 1:47 to play—his fifth 3 of the night. He finished 9-for-14 with three steals, three assists and two blocks.
Green and Brown each scored eight points during a 22-8 spurt that gave the Hokies a 28-16 lead with 5:57 left in the half, but a 3-pointer by Eddie and a free throw by Green was all Virginia Tech could manage the rest of the half.
Miami closed the first half with a 13-4 burst, including nine points from Larkin, to get within 32-29.
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Annual, perennial herb
Stem decumbent to erect, < 2 m
Leaves simple, cauline (sometimes also basal), opposite or whorled, entire, sessile or basal ± petioled; stipules 0
Flower bisexual, radial, parts in 4's or 5's, except pistil 1; sepals fused, persistent; petals fused, persistent or deciduous, corolla generally without fringes or scales on inner surface, sinuses between lobes generally unappendaged; stamens epipetalous, alternate corolla lobes; ovary superior, chamber 1, placentas parietal, often intruding
Fruit: capsule, 2-valved
Seeds many
Genera in family: ± 80 genera, 900 species: worldwide; some cultivated (Eustoma , Exacum , Gentiana )
Reference: [Wood & Weaver 1982 J Arnold Arbor 63:441487]
Annual, glabrous
Leaves basal and cauline, opposite
Inflorescence: cyme or flowers solitary in axils or on branches
Flower: parts in 4's or 5's; calyx tube < lobes; corolla < 2 cm, narrowly funnel-shaped, lobes spreading, < tube, subentire, with fringes or scales on inner surface near base, sinus appendages 0, nectary pits 0 (nectaries on lower part of corolla tube); ovary sessile, style indistinct or 0, stigma 2-branched, persistent
Species in genus: ± 250 species: ± worldwide, especially temp to alpine, except Africa
Etymology: (Latin: little Gentiana )
Reference: [Gillett 1957 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 44:195269]
Plant 580 cm
Stem erect, 1, often with long branches near base, simple or with shorter branches above
Leaves: basal withering early; lower cauline < 45 mm, spoon-shaped to elliptic-oblong, crowded, upper cauline < 60 mm, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, generally << internodes
Inflorescence: pedicels generally < 2.5(5) cm
Flower: calyx 510(18) mm, lobes 16 X tube, linear to lanceolate; corolla blue to rose-violet or white, lobes ovate-triangular, a fringe of hairs across each
Chromosomes: 2n=18
Ecology: Wet meadows, bogs
Elevation: 15003500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, High Cascade Range, High Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, White and Inyo Mountains
Distribution outside California: to Alaska, e N.America, Baja California, e Asia
Flowering time: JunSep
Synonyms: Gentiana a. L. var. acuta (Michx.) Herder
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OURAY – Learn how to protect your trees from the fir engraver beetle infestation that is killing off white firs in and around Ouray at an upcoming outreach session at the Ouray Community Center.
The exact date of the outreach session has not yet been announced, but it is expected to be sometime in late September, said Ouray resident Barbara Uhles, who is helping to spearhead the event.
Over the past several months, Uhles, Ouray Beautification Committee Chair Gail Jossi and City of Ouray Community Development Coordinator Ann Morganthaler have been researching ways to deal with Ouray's mounting fir engraver beetle problem.
At the upcoming outreach session, this group will present its findings and share recommendations for bark beetle treatment and mitigation techniques that have proven successful in other communities.
Foresters with the Colorado State Forest Service and U.S. Forest Service are expected to present detailed information about the beetle infestation and about distinguishing between the white fir from the very similar Douglas fir (both of which grow in the area), and how to identify an already-infected tree from one that might be dying of drought-related causes.
Names and contact information of contractors who spray trees to protect them from beetle infestation and cut down beetle-killed trees will be provided.
Timing is critical when treating trees for fir-engraver beetles, with a window occurring during a two to three week period in late June/early July, after the beetles' eggs hatch inside an already-infested tree and before the insects swarm in search of a new host. Spraying a tree can protect it from infestation but can't save a tree that is already infested.
Douglas fir trees are also being threatened, and can be protected from beetles by attaching pheromone patches to the perimeter of a property where the trees grow. "You need 20 for a half-acre," Uhles said.
The patches must be put out in April. Uhles hopes to get the word out to part-time residents to put a plan in place to protect their trees before they leave the area for the winter.
"It's critical that anyone with firs on their property come to this meeting so they know how to protect them," Uhles said.
One simple way to protect trees on your property is to keep them as healthy as possible by keeping them well-watered. "Usually beetles infest a tree that is already in distress," Uhles explained. "The sad news is, once a tree has the beetle in it there is nothing you can do; it's already dead. There is so much involved in saving the ones that are okay; we need to save those."
Ouray's problem with the fir engraver beetle first came to light last spring, when residents were dismayed to discover large numbers of dead and dying fir trees on the steeply forested mountainsides that ring the town.
USFS Forester-Silviculturist Todd Gardiner of the Ouray and Norwood Ranger Districts informed the Ouray City Council in May that the culprit is the fir engraver beetle.
The insects, specific to the species of white fir that grows in this area, and only one-tenth of an inch in size, bore through the bark and feed in the cambium layer of the tree between the bark and the wood. Once established, they create egg galleries that eventually girdle the tree, so that water and nutrients don't flow to its upper reaches. The affected tree dies from the top down.
Although fir engraver beetles are not as aggressive as the spruce beetle and mountain pine beetle that are attacking huge swaths of densely forested terrain on Wolf Creek Pass and the Front Range, increasingly warmer and dryer climate conditions around Ouray have lately helped the tiny bugs to thrive and multiply, Gardiner said.
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Several programs exist to encourage alternative modes of transport to and from the Capitol Complex. Details on all of these programs are listed in the tabs below.
Metropass is a subsidized bus program that allows card holders to get unlimited access to regional buses and trains. You will find general information on the Metropass Program below.
The Metropass Bus Program is available to all state and legislative employees who work in buildings under Admin's custodial control. Employees may participate by obtaining a Metropass Bus Card. Bus card sign-up is administered by Admin Plant Management. A non-transferable picture identification Metropass bus card can be used for unrestricted bus rides on any regional bus route. The card is valid for one year from the program start date and can be used for peak, express and downtown zone fares.
Rates for fiscal year 2014 are listed below (effective August 1, 2010):
Note: State employees are typically covered through a pre-tax payroll deduction. Non-payroll deduction legislative employees pay $45.00 monthly.
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Note: Health employees have their own Metropass program
Employees in all of the following roles who meet the work location requirements may participate:
Employees must sign up at the Admin Plant Management in Suite G-10 of the Administration Building. Applications are accepted Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and no appointment is necessary. For additional assistance call 651-201-2300.
Following completion of your application, identification photographs will be taken at that time. A permanent pass will be issued within one month of having your picture taken. You will be contacted when the permanent pass arrives and is ready to be picked up.
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Are you one of the over three million Minnesotans who enjoy bicycle riding? Have you considered bicycling to work? Bicycling to work can save you money -- spent on gasoline, vehicle maintenance, parking and vehicle insurance. It also provides healthy low impact aerobic exercise and protects our state's air quality.
Bike racks and lockers are provided to state employees who wish to bike. Racks and lockers are located in the following locations:
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Note: Metro Transit also rents bike lockers in several metro area locations, including both downtown Saint Paul and downtown Minneapolis. Call them for more information at 612-373-3333 or visit their website.
Bike lockers are fully enclosed and secured and can be rented on an annual basis. The annual rate is $50. The advantage to renting on an annual basis is that you are assured of the same locker location for the upcoming bicycling season.
Call 651-201-2300 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday to check on locker availability. If a locker is available, we can either send you an application form or you can pick one up at our office. If nothing is available, your name can be put on a waiting list and you can be contacted once an opening arises.
There are a limited number of preferential car pool parking spaces in Lot X (Sears) serving employees in the Transportation (DOT) Building and State Office Building (SOB). Please contact your human resources office for more information.
Ride-matching services are available for van and car pool program participants through a partnership with Metro Transit. For more information, visit their website.
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Russell Brand on Sarah Palin Relevancy: All About the Vagina!by Hilton Hater at .
She didn't even last one term as Governor of Alaska. She failed in her bid to become Vice President of the United States. At this point, she's merely a Fox News contributor and the mother of a reality TV star.
So why does Sarah Palin remain so newsworthy? Russell Brand has a theory.
"The reason that Sarah Palin has been so long tolerated is that latent inquisition around her vagina," Brand laughed yesterday during a Q&A session at the Television Critics Association press tour. "People want to f-ck her, don't they? That's why they tolerate the other stuff... The dick don't lie!"
The comedian, whose Brand X talk show has been picked up by FX for seven more episodes, was also asked about the recent Chick-fil-A controversy.
"Didn't Chick-fil-A say that they're racists now? Oh no, homophobic. I get mixed up with the prejudices. I forget who I'm supposed to hate."
We're gonna assume that many Republicans, following Brand's take on Palin, won't be as confused. They likely know where to direct their hatred at the moment.
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Russell, folk like you seeking to be relevant don't have the values to even be taken serious but by other non-relevant looser haters. What a shame you really could be a serious talent, but no, go for the gutter lines to please the extremist liberal crowd . No doubt this makes you a hit at those parties. That's all it takes to fulfill your simple needs.


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Rebecca and Barry confirmed for Resi 5 DLC
Playable characters in new Mercenaries Reunion mode.
According to this week's edition of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu (seen by IGN), classic Resident Evil characters Rebecca Chambers and Barry Burton are making a comeback as playable characters in Resident Evil 5's Mercenaries Reunion mode.
Mercenaries Reunion will be available as DLC for owners of the original Resident Evil 5 or as part of the Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition which hits stores on March 12.
Gold Edition (also via DLC) will also feature the Lost in Nightmares and Desperate Escape episodes in which players join Jill Valentine and BSAA Agent Josh Stone.