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We examine Medicare costs and survival gains for Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) during 1986–2002. Like Cutler and McClellan, we find overall gains in post-AMI survival more than justified the increases in costs during this period. Since 1996, however, survival gains have stagnated, while expenditures have continued to increase. We also consider changes in expenditures and outcomes at the regional level. Regions experiencing the largest expenditure gains were not those realizing the greatest improvements in survival. Factors yielding the greatest benefits to health (aspirin, beta blockers, and reperfusion) were not the factors that drove up costs (multiple physicians), and conversely.
In a series of important papers, David Cutler, Mark McClellan, and their coauthors have argued persuasively that the benefits from many technological innovations more than justify the rising costs of health care. 1 While they recognized the presence of waste in the U.S. health care system, the policy message is clear: don't kill the golden goose of future medical advances in pursuit of short-sighted cost savings.
Cutler and McClellan summarized research for five diseases, but the most striking evidence came from the rapid decline in mortality following heart attacks or acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Briefly, they found that between 1984 and 1998, the costs of treating heart attacks rose by ten thousand dollars in real terms, but life expectancy increased by about one year. In short, technological innovations in the treatment of cardiac disease provided terrific value for the dollar; in this case, the rising costs were "worth it."2
In contrast to the studies by these authors and others studying the benefits of technological advances in health care, 3 there is another set of studies that call into question the assumption that spending more on medical care leads inexorably to improved outcomes. These have focused on differences in costs and outcomes across regions. 4 Fisher and his colleagues, for example, have found that Medicare patients in regions with higher levels of health care expenditures do not experience better health outcomes, nor do they gain better access to care or report greater satisfaction. More recently, a study using state-level data demonstrated a negative association between quality of care and health care expenditures. 5
This paper strives to reconcile these two seemingly contradictory sets of findings by returning to the original analysis on AMI mortality and expenditures by Cutler, McClellan, and their coauthors, but with an expanded dataset that stretches from 1986–2003. We first ask whether the survival gains observed in the earlier data have continued into the current century: have recent increases in health care costs still been worth it? We then ask whether regions experiencing the most rapid improvements in health outcomes were also the regions experiencing the most rapid increase in costs. Were there specific regional characteristics, such as early adoption of low-cost highly effective treatments such as β Blockers, aspirin, and reperfusion, or a reliance on care by multiple medical specialists, that may have been associated with unusually rapid survival gains or with unusually low increases in expenditure? In the final section of the paper, we suggest a simple fra mework that reconciles the two prevailing views of health care technology.
The Medicare Part A hospital claims data from 1986–2003 were merged with the Medicare Denominator File through 2003 to create a longitudinal cohort of fee-for-service enrollees age 65 or over coded with a new acute myocardial infarction. 6 During 1986–1991 the sample of Part A data was 20 percent of the fee-for-service Medicare population, rising to 100 percent since 1992. Patients with a code of "old MI," or those identified from the panel data as having had an AMI previously, were excluded from the sample. 7 Overall there were 2,872,050 valid AMI events. For pedagogical reasons, we find it helpful to present our results in terms of survival, or the percentage of AMI patients surviving to one year following their AMI. Expenditure data are available only through the end of 2003, so one-year survival and expenditure data are analyzed from 1986–2002.
The primary analysis follows Cutler and McClellan by using just the Medicare Part A hospital expenditures, correcting for inflation using the US implicit price deflator 8 and expressing all results in 2003 dollars. Both expenditures and survival rates are determined for the same one-year horizon. We also provide secondary analysis using a smaller sample of Part B expenditure data: a 5% sample in 1993–1997 and a 20% sample from 1998–2002.
To adjust for both secular and cross-sectional differences in health status, we adjust survival rates and expenditures for a variety of comorbidities (diabetes, diabetes with complications, pulmonary disease, liver disease, liver disease with complications, dementia, non-metastic cancer, metastatic cancer). Also included were age-sex-race effects consisting of 5 age categories (65–69, 70–74, 75–79, 80–84, and 85+) interacted with sex and with two race variables (black and nonblack), and the type of MI (inferior, anterior, subendocardial, and other).
The regression analysis explains survival and expenditures as a linear function of demographic variables, comorbidities, type of AMI, and year categorical variables. 9 All estimated survival and expenditure measures are expressed in terms of the representative patient with average characteristics during the entire period of analysis using the ADJUST command in STATA 9. Thus the regression adjusts for changes over time in the severity of the disease, demographic changes in the Medicare population, and general increases in the price level.
The regional unit of analysis is the Hospital Referral Region (HRR), which was constructed in the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care to reflect the actual hospital migration patterns of Medicare patients for tertiary care. 10 There are 306 HRRs in the United States, and each must include at least one hospital that performs cardiac surgery and neurosurgery. Each zip code in the United States is assigned to an HRR depending on what hospital the majority (or in some cases, the plurality) of Medicare enrollees seek their hospital care, so the HRR may cross county or state boundaries. Individuals were assigned to HRRs depending on their zip code of residence, and not whether they were actually admitted to hospitals in those HRRs.
Region-specific measures of annual survival rates and cost measures were constructed from the estimated linear regressions mentioned previously that control for comorbidities and demographics. These region-year-specific measures are interpreted as the risk-adjusted survival rate and expenditures for the representative Medicare AMI patient in that region and year. Regions will differ both with regard to their initial adjusted survival and expenditures, and with respect to changes over time in these variables, but our approach will, as far as possible, ensure that the results reflect regional practice patterns rather than regional differences in patient characteristics. These adjusted measures are used both in the cross-sectional analysis (using just 2002 data) and the longitudinal analysis that examines changes over time 1986–2002.
There are a variety of approaches to treating patients with AMI, and as we show below, regions differed dramatically in their adoption of treatment strategies such as aspirin, β blocker use, and reperfusion, as well as their reliance upon multiple physicians per patient. We hypothesize that regional differences in the diffusion of new treatment strategies will be associated with survival gains and expenditures increases during 1986–2002. Note that we conduct our hypothesis tests at the regional level rather than at the individual patient level. Unobservable aspects of specific patients will lead to unmeasured confounding factors and resulting biases. Differences across region, on the other hand, are small with regard to the average severity of heart attacks, but large with regard to treatment strategy.
In the regression analysis, we focus on two region-level dimensions of care. The first is an index of low-cost highly effective treatments for AMI: aspirin at discharge, β Blockers at discharge, and reperfusion within 12 hours of admission (whether surgical reperfusion or thrombolysis). Aspirin reduces platelet aggregation and is known to reduce the risk of mortality following AMI. 11 Beta blockers are an inexpensive drug that by blocking the beta-adrenergic receptors reduces the demands upon the heart, and have been known since the mid-1980s to be effective in reducing post-AMI mortality by 25 percent or more. 12 Compliance in the use of β Blockers has lagged among many regions, even as late as 2000/2001. 13 Reperfusion encompasses either thrombolytics, "clot-busting" drugs designed to improve blood flow in the blocked arteries, or percutaneous transmural coronary angioplasty (PTCA) within 12 hours of the AMI, again with well-established reductions in the risk of death. 14
Measures are the percentage of patients in each region deemed ideal for treatment who actually did receive treatment, and are based on chart reviews from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project (CCP) survey, and reported in the Dartmouth Atlas of Cardiovascular Care. 15 These data are available only in 1994/95, but these were years marked by a remarkable divergence in the adoption of these treatments. For example, β Blocker prescription at discharge among ideal heart attack patients was 20 percent in San Antonio, TX, 42 percent in Orange County, CA, and 82 percent in Rochester, NY. Thus 1994/95 data allows us to identify early and laggard adopters. 16 Regional quality is determined by the number of quality measures for which that region is above the national median. The quality measure ranges from 0 (below median for all 3 measures) to 3 (above median for all three measures).
Our second dimension of care is the average number of different physicians treating the patient within one year following the AMI, averaged across all patients in the Hospital Referral Region in 1994/95. This measures both the degree of reliance on specialists, as well as a marker for the continuity of care. There are potential gains from the specialization of medical knowledge, but there are also "network" costs associated with a larger number of interactions necessary among physicians coordinating care. 17 For example, when there are 4 physicians treating a given patient, there are 4×3/2 = 6 possible interactions (whether communication among physicians or potential for drug regimen interactions). With 8 physicians the number of interactions rises to 28, or a 367% increase in the number of potential interactions. Their potential adverse effects are illustrated in a recent Newsweek column written by the wife of a severely ill man:
… the cardiologist told me that Doug was doing reasonably well, and I naively took solace in this mild pronouncement. That is, until a lung specialist zipped into the room, put his stethoscope to Doug's chest and said 'He's not getting any better. He's worse. He may die. Any questions?' I was too stunned to be coherent.
Later a nephrologist informed me that Doug's kidneys were failing and he needed dialysis. I told this doctor what the prior two specialists had said, hoping he could reconcile their conflicting reports. Instead, he plied me with questions about their findings that I could not answer. 18
In other words, the apparent lack of communication among the specialists could attenuate (or even offset) the advantages of specialization. 19
We hypothesize that regions where quality measures were adopted early would experience the greatest improvement in survival with small influences on Medicare expenditures. By contrast, we hypothesize that a larger number of separate physicians should have uncertain effects on survival (depending on whether the network effects overwhelm the gains from specialization) but are likely to be associated with more rapid increases in expenditures during the period. We are not estimating a traditional economic "production function" in part because we do not have sufficient data on inputs in each year 1986–2002. Instead, we test whether characteristics of regions in 1994/95 are predictive of productivity growth; that is, whether survival gains are high relative to expenditure growth over the period 1986–2002.
To quantify the importance of these two region-level measures (quality treatment and number of different physicians), a least-squares regression is estimated at the HRR-level. The dependent variable is the risk-adjusted change, 1986–2002, in one-year survival, one-year expenditures, or one-year log (or proportional) expenditures. The index of quality is entered flexibly with separate categorical variables for the quality index from 0 to 3, and for quartiles (or 25th percentile groupings) of the average number of different physicians per patient, with all estimates reported using the ADJUST command in STATA 9.
Exhibit 1 displays the association between 2002 Medicare Expenditures and adjusted 2002 one-year survival for the 56 larger HRRs with at least 250 cases of AMI in the base year of 1986, along with the predicted regression line. There are very wide differences across regions: in Knoxville, TN adjusted one-year survival was 69.7 per 100 AMI patients, with adjusted one-year expenditures equal to $20,720. By contrast, risk-adjusted survival was 65.6 per 100 AMI patients in New York City, with expenditures of $47,133. In the entire sample of 306 HRRs, the (weighted) correlation coefficient between survival and expenditures is −0.33 (p < .001).20 As in previous studies, there is no evidence that higher levels of expenditures are associated with better outcomes.
Focusing on just Part A (inpatient) expenditures could be misleading because some regions could provide a greater fraction of care through Part B (physician) expenditures. However, the correlation between total (Parts A and B) expenditures and survival is similar (ρ = −.36, p < .001), largely because Part A and Part B expenditures are themselves so highly correlated (ρ = .77, p < .001). In sum, these results are at least consistent with the interpretation that U.S. health care is on the "flat of the curve" where spending more does not yield additional health benefits; indeed it seems to imply (from the least-squares regression line) that more spending yields worse health outcomes.
Exhibit 2 displays two measures of year-specific survival rates. The first is for the period 1984–94 from the original Cutler and McClellan study, converted to survival rates. 21 The second series is based on our own data analysis from 1986 through 2002, using data on survival through the end of 2003. There is a close correspondence between the two series during the overlapping years. What is perhaps most surprising is the flattening of mortality following 1996, a result also found in Medicare claims data during 1996–99 by Ash et al. 22 This may appear puzzling, given both continued diffusion of treatments such as beta blockers, and continued technological developments such as stents, cylindrical wire mesh inserted in the arteries to maintain blood flow following angioplasty. However, by the mid-1990s the diffusion of aspirin – perhaps the largest contributor to improvements in survival during this period – had begun to slow, while a meta-analysis of stents during this period did not show significant mortality effects. 23
Exhibit 3 displays the corresponding trend in average Part A Medicare annual expenditures, and total expenditures, during the period 1986–2002, and the corresponding combined Part A and Part B expenditures from 1993–2002. While the rise in Medicare expenditures slowed during the late 1990s, largely because of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, they have since resumed an upward trend.
As a simple benchmark, we note that Part A expenditures increased by $12,399 during 1986–2002 (in $2003). At the same time, expected one-year survival has risen by 9.8 per 100 AMI patients. Using the adjustment in the Cutler et. al. 1998 study to transform one-year mortality to expected life years, the average cost-effectiveness ratio is $23,723 per life-year which in 2003 dollars means that the health care costs over the entire period were "worth it" in the sense of meeting standard cost-effectiveness criterion. Since 1996, however, the cost effectiveness ratio for Part A expenditures was just under $300,000, a number well above traditional cost-effectiveness hurdle and thus no longer "worth it."
Still, we are left with a puzzle; why does the cross-sectional data tell such a different story from the time-series patterns from 1986 to 2002? A better understanding of this puzzle can be gained by considering region-specific changes over time in survival and expenditures, to which we turn next.
One simple hypothesis is to ask whether regions that experienced the greatest cost increases during 1986–2002 also experienced the greatest gain in survival during the same period. We consider this question using both graphical and statistical approaches. Again, in the graph we include only regions with at least 250 AMI patients in 1986, while the statistical analysis uses all data at the HRR level, weighted by the number of AMI patients in 1986.
Exhibit 4 shows the average real dollar increase in one-year expenditures per patient between 1986 and 2002 on the horizontal axis and the average increase in survival (per 100 patients) on the vertical axis. Every region benefited from the technological revolution in the treatment of heart attack patients. But some regions experienced much greater benefits than others. As well, every region experienced an inflation-adjusted increase in expenditures, again with some regions experiencing greater increases than others.
If simply spending more on health care improved survival, we would expect a positive association between survival and expenditures, with regions lining up from the Southwest to the Northeast of the graph. However, if anything the association is reversed; regions experiencing the greatest increase in expenditures during 1986–2002 tended to lag behind in survival gains.
The graphical result is born out in statistical correlations using the entire data set. The correlation coefficient between growth in survival and in expenditures is −0.21 (p < .001). These dollar increases in expenditure reflect both changes in reimbursement rates across regions, and in the quantity of care provided. Focusing just on the quantity of care, we created an index of the billing weights from the inpatient diagnostic-related groups (DRG). This index is not affected by either regional differences in reimbursement rates or changes in reimbursement rates. Again, the correlation coefficient is −0.14 (p = .02). Finally, the correlation between the proportional growth rate in expenditures and in survival is −0.04 (p = .49). At best, there is no association between expenditure growth and survival gains.
Exhibit 4 suggests large differences in regional productivity. Highly productive regions in the upper-left quadrant of Exhibit 4 are those that experienced rapid growth in survival but below-average growth in expenditures. Low productivity regions in the lower-right quadrant of Exhibit 4 experienced above-average cost increases with below-average survival gains. Can our two variables from 1994/95 – the quality index and the average number of different physicians – predict which regions ended up in the high or low productivity quadrants of Exhibit 4?
Regression results are shown in Exhibit 5A (for the quality index) and Exhibit 5B (for the specialization index). Exhibit 5A demonstrates a significantly greater improvement in survival among regions that had by 1994/95 adopted high quality treatment strategies for heart attacks, from 8.1 per 100 patients in the lowest quality regions to 12.5 per 100 patients in the highest quality regions (p = .01). Expenditure grew more slowly (by $2,262) in the highest quality regions compared to the lowest-quality regions, although the result was marginally significant (p = .06).
Exhibit 5b shows the equivalent associations according to quartiles of the average number of different physicians visiting each patient. There are wide differences in the average number of physicians per patient, ranging from 4.8 different physicians per patient in Portland, OR to 9.2 different physicians in Philadelphia. Here the pattern is different; the improvement in survival is lower in regions with the highest number of different physicians (a survival gain of 8.7 per 100 AMI, versus 11.2 in the lowest areas, p = .06), while expenditure increases are substantially higher, by $3,331 (p = .001).
Note that Exhibit 5a controls for the average number of different physicians, while Exhibit 5b holds constant the quality index. The cumulative effect of varying both quality and the average number of physicians is large in magnitude and highly significant. The "highest productivity" regions (those with the best quality and lowest average number of physicians) are predicted to experience better survival growth (7.0 per 100) and lower cost increases ($5,593) than the "lowest productivity" regions.
The last two decades have seen dramatic progress in the treatment of heart attacks among the elderly. Between 1986 and 2002, the average 1-year survival rate following AMI increased by nearly 10 per 100 elderly AMI patients at an estimated cost of less than $25,000 per life year saved. But underlying these numbers is tremendous heterogeneity across time and space: there was little improvement in survival after 1996 despite continued growth in costs, and there was substantial variation in survival gains across regions and over time, with regional gains that were (if anything) negatively related to costs.
These facts and others like them have generated a debate over the value of additional expenditures on medical care. On the one hand, aggregate trends in patient's outcomes suggest that the technological innovations were "worth it." In contrast, the apparent lack of any strong association between costs and patient outcomes or quality of care across regions suggests that aggressive cost-control policies may benefit society by eliminating unnecessary medical care being provided to patients in high-cost regions. 24
One approach to reconciling the two views in this debate is "flat of the curve": Changes in patient outcomes over time reflect valuable technological change in medicine, but incremental spending across regions (beyond some minimum) provides little benefit or could even harm patients through medical errors or iatrogenic disease. 25 But "flat of the curve" explanations are not sufficient to explain the patterns we find. Simple overuse of unnecessary treatments cannot explain why high spending regions are less likely to provide inexpensive but effective treatments as found in the Fisher studies and Baicker and Chandra. Similarly, the "flat of the curve" hypothesis is not consistent with our findings that areas with lower gains in survival and higher cost growth lagged behind in adopting relatively low cost, non-invasive, treatments.
We suggest a different approach. Local regions where patients receive their care differ along numerous dimensions and thus each develop their own local constrained "production function" relating expenditures to health outcomes. 26 The bottom curve in Exhibit 6 shows a representative constrained production function in 1986. During the period 1986–2002, the constrained production function shifted to one of the upper curves showing the relationship between spending and survival in 2002. But the nature and magnitude of this upward shift may vary over time, just as it varies across regions. For example, in our hypothetical regions shown in Exhibit 6, the early adopter of effective care moved from A to B, the more efficient lower-cost equilibrium, while the region relying on multiple specialists but lagging in the adoption of effective care moved from A to C, the higher-cost less effective equilibrium. Note that this model reconciles the cross-sectional evidence: there is a negative correlation between spending and survival, as can be seen by comparing points B and C. But it also reconciles the time-series evidence: on average, everyone is better off, but the regional gains are not correlated with regional expenditure increases.
A key assumption is that uneven diffusion of cost-effective innovations is a key factor driving differences in patient costs and outcomes. 27 Support for this view comes from Heidenreich and McClellan, who concluded that the vast majority of the increase in 30-day survival following AMI between 1975–95 was the consequence of low-cost treatments such as aspirin, β Blockers, ACE inhibitors, and thrombolytics. 28 Furthermore, both observational and clinical trial evidence suggests that use of these non-invasive treatments reduces the incremental benefit of more expensive treatments such as invasive surgery. 29 Therefore, adoption of such innovations may have caused a reduction in health care costs for many patients and thus resembled more closely those advances -- such as seen in computers -- that both reduce costs and improve quality.
The policy implications of this new approach are also quite different. In the "flat of the curve" approach, expenditures in high-cost regions could be reduced without an obvious adverse impact on outcomes. However, our new model does not preclude the possibility that sharp cutbacks in the low-efficiency high-cost regions could adversely affect quality of care. 30 Instead, policies should be directed towards improving productivity; restructuring hospital resources, improving the efficiency of physician treatment patterns, and accelerating the diffusion of highly effective treatments. Put more simply, the benefits of health care expenditures depend upon how one spends the money. 31 It is reassuring that our views are in concordance with those of Cutler and others, who also recognize the potential excess costs arising from marginally efficient modes of care and problems of coordination. 32
It is important to note that our new view does not apply solely to "low tech" effective treatments such as aspirin and beta blockers, but applies equally to any highly effective treatment, whether high-tech or low-tech. Indeed, we have found in earlier research that regional rates of high-tech surgical treatments such as angioplasty and back surgery are uncorrelated with per capita Medicare expenditures. 33 This paper has not examined diffusion in surgical interventions, but preliminary results suggest that this was not the primary cause of expenditure growth during this period.
The benefits of health care technology are often substantial. However, as health care costs continue to rise, squeezing consumers, producers, and the federal budget alike, principles of accountability, that each incremental dollar should provide something of real value to patients, become increasingly important as a guiding principle. That some regions were able to implement technological innovations at remarkably low cost is a reminder that waste and inefficiency is not an inevitable byproduct of technological growth. Thus efforts to develop measures of quality and efficiency that can encourage hospitals or provider groups to adopt low-cost highly effective care, while discouraging incremental spending with no apparent benefits, may allow us to keep the golden goose of technological progress alive and well nourished.
We are grateful to NIA Grant No. PO1-AG19783 for financial support, to Amitabh Chandra, David Cutler, Mark McClellan, John E. Wennberg, and two anonymous referees for helpful and constructive comments, and to Weiping Zhou and Daniel Gottlieb for expert research assistance.
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Our cheeky title for this event comes from Macedonio himself, who, within one of the fifty-some odd prologues to Museum, refers to the book as "The Best Novel since both It and the World Began." Which is plan brilliant. Because it is one of the best novels ever written. It's amazingly playful, innovative, and thought-provoking, but it's also one of the most heartfelt love letters ever.
I'll be moderating tonight's event, which will feature superstar translator Edith Grossman (who is also the author Why Translation Matters), Margaret Schwartz (who translated Museum), and Todd Garth (author of The Self of the City: Macedonio Fernandez, the Argentine Avant-Garde, and Modernity in Buenos Aires). With such great panelists, and such an amazing subject (Macedonio may well be the quirkiest of all quirky writers), this is sure to be a spectacular event.
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An up-and-coming African American artist has been murdered on Sheriff Joanna Brady's turf in Cochise County, Arizona. Unfortunately the victim happens to be in the Washington State Attorney General's Witness Protection Program. As the most recent hire in AG's Special Homicide Investigation Team, J.P. Beaumont gets the call. He reluctantly heads to Bisbee, Arizona where he tangles not only with Joanna Brady and a contract killer but with some of his own personal demons as well.
When two top-drawer and independent minded investigators collide head-on, you can't expect the result to be sweetness and light. After all, sometimes having two lead detectives on a single case is one detective too many.
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"An ok job"
Probably not. Having two narrators did not work very well for me.
I didn't like the two narrators together, Gene Engene is a more laid back and slower paced in these books and I just didn't think he and Brushs' styles compliment each other.
It was an okay way to pass the time if you had nothing else to listen too.
I would not buy another Jance book with two narrators.
"How Does She Do It"
The author is a disciplined writer. I have read all of the Brady series and most of the Bo series. The quality of her stories is always maintained.. She does the detailed work necessary for a good murder . You know when you pick up a Jance book you have a good listen coming up. The narrator is perfect for these stories. Like Jance, when you see Eugene, you are in for a quality read. I have his voice tagged as Bo and anyone else will my do. So, enjoy the book!
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"Light Reading, Book 16 in Beaumont Series"
I do love J.P. Beaumont, and Gene Engene, but this listen left me wondering ... "Are they getting more sappy? Or am I getting a little tired of them?"
A good story, solid writing, but definitely a "light" mystery. This is the first time J.P. and Joanna Brady (new character to me) were partnered, as two different Jance series overlapped. Clever. But I am hoping that when I go back to the regular Beaumont series (without Brady), I will regain my former and greater appreciation of Ms. Jance's books.
"LOVE JA Jance but hated the two narrators!!"
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Love this series but it was all I could do to get through this book. The story was good, but the dual narrators were terrible. I won't listen to another dual narrator book.
"Major disappointment!"
The use of two narrators was off-putting and made the story line too hard to follow. I never made it past the first couple of chapters. Not impressed with Stephanie Brush - lack of depth and no gift for voices like C.J. Critt and Deborah Monk.
No, but I will be more cautious and listen to the sample and hope it gives me a hint of what to expect.
He was ok, but since I didn't make it past Ch. 2, I really can't say.
didn't get that far in to the book.
"Narration Kills Book"
C J Critt as narrator
Stopped Listening. Too many variables with narration.
A single narrastor
Sop using multiple narrators.
"Liked the Combination"
Thoroughly enjoyed the pair-up of Joanna Brady and J.P. Beaumont. I feel that this was one of the best J A Jance books and I have read a great many of them. I did have a problem with the dual narrators, though. Some of the voices were excellent and others were like chalk on a blackboard.
"Joining two series"
I have never liked the narrator of the J P Beaumont series. To my ear, the narration is flat. I think this book would have been better with a single narrator.
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Started slow but picked up. Not sure if I will listen a second time. Do love the Joanna Brady books but just not sure.
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Go behind the scenes of the top-secret setting of The Imitation Game A remarkable look at day-to-day life of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II Bletchley Park looked like any other sprawling country estate. In reality, however, it was the top-secret headquarters of Britain's Government Code and Cypher School--and the site where Germany's legendary Enigma code was finally cracked. There, the nation's most brilliant mathematical minds--including Alan Turing, whose discoveries at Bletchley would fuel the birth of modern computing--toiled alongside debutantes, factory workers, and students on projects of international importance. Until now, little has been revealed about ordinary life at this extraordinary facility. Drawing on remarkable first-hand interviews, "The Secret Lives of Codebreakers" reveals the entertainments, pastimes, and furtive romances that helped ease the incredible pressures faced by these covert operatives as they worked to turn the tide of World War II.
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The Washington Depot-based After School Arts Program has announced that fifth and sixth grade students at Reed Intermediate School will perform with dancers from Pilobolus Dance Theater on Friday, December 19, at 7 pm. "Pilobolus Performs with Newtown" will feature members of the unique American modern dance company offering performance and demonstration with students who have been participating in an after school program since late September.
Newtown High School will present Lend Me a Tenor, Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23. Written by Ken Ludwig, Lend Me a Tenor is a comedy that takes place at the Cleveland Grand Opera Company in 1934. When the general manager attempts to welcome a famous tenor for a one-night-only engagement, problems ensue. Performances on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are at 7 pm, and Sunday is a matinee at 2 pm. Tickets are general admission and will be sold at the door. Ticket prices are $7 for students and faculty, $12 for adults, and $10 for seniors. The performances will be held in the Newtown High School auditorium, located at 12 Berkshire Road.
Newtown High School is set to host its fall drama, Lend Me a Tenor, Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23.
Lend Me a Tenor, written by Ken Ludwig, is a comedy that takes place at the Cleveland Grand Opera Company in 1934. When the general manager attempts to welcome a famous tenor for a one night only engagement, problems ensue.
Ticks are general admission and will be sold at the door. Ticket prices are $7 for students and faculty, $12 for adults, and $10 for seniors.
Before Scott Driscoll of Internet Safety Concepts offered an "Internet Safety for Parents of Teens & Tweens" presentation at C.H. Booth Library during the evening of Wednesday, October 29, he gave presentations for Newtown Middle School students.
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The Newtown High School Marching Band & Guard are headed for the USBands National Championships on Saturday, November 15.
Competing in Class V Open, the competing bands will take the field at MetLife Stadium in Rutherford, N.J., with Newtown slated to compete at 8:27 pm.
The National Championship features the best of the best from across the United States. Newtown Band Director Kurt Eckhardt said he believes his band could be in the top five.
Each of Newtown's four elementary schools held Veterans Day ceremonies or events on Tuesday, November 11.
Before a flag ceremony was conducted at Head O' Meadow Elementary School, Principal Barbara Gasparine announced her gratitude over the school's loudspeaker for all who joined the school for their celebration of Veterans Day.
All of the students at Head O' Meadow made their way outside for the start of the event, with classrooms of students huddled together and veterans and their friends and family standing closer to the flag in front of the school.
"We are here to pay tribute to those great people who went to war so we can live free," said Reed Intermediate School (RIS) student Rushil Jerfy, introducing the November 11 Veterans Day Program at the school, Tuesday morning. Rushil then led the fifth and sixth grade students, staff, and honored guests — veterans representing four of the five military branches — in saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
Newtown High School celebrated Veterans Day with a luncheon offered to visiting veterans followed by an assembly in the school's auditorium.
The assembly had a number of speakers share their thoughts on Veterans Day and highlighted the veterans for their service.
Newtown Selectman Will Rodgers was one of the first to speak at the assembly, and he encouraged the high school's youth to befriend the young servicemen and women. While Mr Rodgers said the students can learn a lot from the armed forces members, he also said the service men and women can learn from the high school students. In the wake of the events of September 11, 2001, Mr Rodgers said "an entire class of people" spent their formative years in Iraq or Afghanistan and can learn from the students who have not.
St Rose of Lima Preschool will hold its Fall Open House for parents and prospective students on Wednesday and Thursday, November 19-20, from 9 am to 11 am both days. Faculty, administrative staff, current parents, and admissions representatives will be available to conduct guided tours and provide information about the three, four, and five-day preschool programs. Interested parents and their children are not required to RSVP, but it is appreciated.
Members of the Newtown Middle School Student Council are collecting donations for the council's yearly food drive to support Women Involved in Newtown's (WIN) Thanksgiving Baskets campaign. Along with donating to the campaign in general, the NMS Student Council also plans to have enough donations to support one adopted family through the program. The collection, to which the public is invited to help, continues until November 21.


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Progress in technology has brought microelectronics to the nanoscale, but nanoelectronics is not yet a well-defined engineering discipline with a coherent, experimentally verified, theoretical framework. The NCN has a vision for a new, 'bottom-up' approach to electronics, which involves: understanding electronic conduction at the atomistic level; formulating new simulation techniques; developing a new generation of software tools; and bringing this new understanding and perspective into the classroom. We address problems in atomistic phenomena, quantum transport, percolative transport in inhomogeneous media, reliability, and the connection of nanoelectronics to new problems such as biology, medicine, and energy. We work closely with experimentalists to understand nanoscale phenomena and to explore new device concepts. In the course of this work, we produce open source software tools and educational resources that we share with the community through the nanoHUB.
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Computational and Experimental Study of Transport in Advanced Silicon Devices
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In this thesis, we study electron transport in advanced silicon devices by focusing on the two most important classes of devices: the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and the MOSFET. In regards...
Device Physics and Simulation of Silicon Nanowire Transistors
28 Jun 2013 | Papers | Contributor(s): Jing Wang
As the conventional silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) approaches its scaling limits, many novel device structures are being extensively explored. Among them, the...
Direct Solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation in Nanoscale Si Devices
28 Jun 2013 | Papers | Contributor(s): Kausar Banoo
Predictive semiconductor device simulation faces a challenge these days. As devices are scaled to nanoscale lengths, the collision-dominated transport equations used in current device simulators...
Electron Phonon Interaction in Carbon Nanotube Devices
28 Jun 2013 | Papers | Contributor(s): Sayed Hasan
With the end of silicon technology scaling in sight, there has been a lot of interest in alternate novel channel materials and device geometry. Carbon nanotubes, the ultimate one-dimensional (1D)...
Exploring New Channel Materials for Nanoscale CMOS
28 Jun 2013 | Papers | Contributor(s): Anisur Rahman
The improved transport properties of new channel materials, such as Ge and III-V semiconductors, along with new device designs, such as dual gate, tri gate or FinFETs, are expected to enhance the...
Modeling Quantum Transport i Nanoscale Transistors
28 Jun 2013 | Papers | Contributor(s): Ramesh Venugopal
As critical transistor dimensions scale below the 100 nm (nanoscale) regime, quantum mechanical effects begin to manifest themselves and affect important device performance metrics. Therefore,...
Nanoscale MOSFETS: Physics, Simulation and Design
28 Jun 2013 | Papers | Contributor(s): Zhibin Ren
This thesis discusses device physics, modeling and design issues of nanoscale transistors at the quantum level. The principle topics addressed in this report are 1) an implementation of...
Physics and Simulation of Quasi-Ballistic Transport in Nanoscale Transistors
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Two-Dimensional Scattering Matrix Simulations of Si MOSFET'S
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"We love staying in this unit at the Kihei Kai Nani in south Kihei. It is an end unit which provides extra windows and light and also a nice cross draft. Although there is a/c we have never had to use it. The unit over looks the pool but is screened by greenery for privacy. You can watch the sun rise each morning over Mount Haleakala from your lanai. You are just across the road from safe, sandy, Kamaole II beach (with a life guard) or minutes away by car from secluded beaches. The unit has all the usual kitchen appliances as well as a dish washer and microwave oven for you convenience. The unit is always spotless and the on-site manager is always ready to help in case of a problem. This unit is on the second floor so it avoids the heat of the top floor and has the added security of not being on the ground floor. There are lots of beach toys, boogie boards and beach chairs plus umbrella. There are also many restaurants close by as well as good food markets."Guest: Nola P. Date of Stay: February 2015 Review Submitted: June 19, 2015View listing
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Oklahoma basketball: Q&A with San Diego State's Jamaal Franklin
Now that you're consistently in the tournament, is the next step to start winning consistently?
"Of course it's always a thing to win. Nobody comes to the tournament expecting just to be happy to be here one game and lose. So, we are coming here trying to win games just like the best teams in this tournament, and we feel we're one of the best tournament and we can win a lot of games."
The Sooners have blown some leads late this season. Do you feel like you're going to be in this game no matter how much they may be up or you may be up?
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Onaway boys, Rogers City girls win Presque Isle Championships
May 23, 2015 POSEN—Joe Traynham ended his high school running career on Friday the way he had finished so many other races before. He went out on to. more »»
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May 22, 2015 POSEN—The Vikings rolled Au Gres-Sims on Thursday, winning 14-1 and 19-4 and claiming sole ownership of the North Star League Little Dipper title. more »»
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May 22, 2015 Mike Babcock said all the right things Thursday during his introductory press conference as the new coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. more »»
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May 21, 2015 HALE—Taylor Chojnacki pitched a perfect game and the Posen softball team made quick work of Hale on Wednesday, downing the Eagles, 14-3 (5 innings) and 18-0 (3 innings. more »»
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Alpena's Day qualifies for state track finals
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- The Detroit Pistons are starting to show their potential with Allen Iverson, beating two of the NBA's best teams in less than a week.
Iverson scored 23 points and Rasheed Wallace had 10 of his 21 points during a fourth-quarter surge that gave Detroit a 96-89 victory over Cleveland on Wednesday night that ended the Cavaliers' eight-game winning streak.
Detroit handed the Los Angeles Lakers their only defeat, beating them by double digits Friday night on the road.
"It's early, but it's exciting," Iverson said.
Wallace wouldn't go that far.
"It's not like we set out and said, 'Oh, these are the NBA's hottest teams.' We're just trying to make ourselves better," said Wallace, who had a season-high 15 rebounds. "We really don't care about what the other teams are doing at that moment.
"We just want to make ourselves better for June," he said.
If the Pistons can keep playing tough defense against stars, as they did against LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, they'll improve their chances in the playoffs.
James was 8-of-21 and missed all four of his 3-point attempts but made enough free throws to finish with 25 points to fall just five below his league-leading average.
"That happens in this league," he said. "You have good games and bad games."
Bryant missed 18-of-30 shots last week against the Pistons.
The Cavs are a half-game ahead of the Pistons in the Central Division.
Detroit lost its first two games after acquiring Iverson from Denver on Nov. 3 but has won four of its last five.
"It's way too early to know anything about them," James said.
It looked as if the Cavs were going to beat the Pistons the first time they saw them with Iverson, going on a 21-6 run to take the lead in the first quarter and taking 13-point leads in both the second and third.
But Wallace gave the Pistons the lead for good midway through the fourth with a pair of 3-pointers in a 36-second span and made another long jumper to give them a 95-82 lead with 2½ minutes left.
"Sheed hit those long 3s and AI did a great job of getting to the hole," James said. "They really turned it up in the second half, and it caught us off guard."
His coach agreed.
"They played a great second half and we didn't respond," Cavs coach Mike Brown said. "It was like a bunch of their players got together at halftime and said, 'Let's bear down and take this game away from the Cavaliers,' and that's just what they did. They brought us to a complete standstill.
"That's the first time I've seen us that discombobulated all year," Brown said.
Detroit's Richard Hamilton scored 15 points, and reserve Rodney Stuckey and Tayshaun Prince each added nine points. Cleveland's Mo Williams scored 25 points, Zydrunas Ilgauskas had 13 points and Delonte West added 11.
Game notes
The Cavs put Wally Szczerbiak on the inactive list, excusing him to address a personal matter, and activated Darnell Jackson. Brown said he didn't know when Szczerbiak will return. ... The Central Division rivals don't meet again until Feb. 1 at The Palace. ... Ilgauskas made the seventh 3-pointer of his career and attempted two from beyond the arc in one game for the first time in his 11-season career. "I've hit two already this season, so I went for another one," he said. "I'll probably never take two in the same game again." ... Kid Rock sat in the front row at The Palace, which had numerous patches of empty seats in the upper level in another sign of the Motor City's economic woes. ... Former Piston Ben Wallace said he was surprised Chauncey Billups was dealt to Denver. "I guess that's the end of the era now," he said. "It isn't the same team now."


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S.1267 - Strengthening America's Trade Laws Act112th Congress (2011-2012)
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Artichoke bottoms stuffed with beef, rice and spices and stewed in a rich tomato sauce until perfectly tender.
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