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The first two parts of this series covered the military's plan to get off fossil fuels and its strategy for doing so. Today, a look at what it all has to do with the military's broader mission: protecting Americans at home and abroad.
On the battlefield–"in theater" in military parlance–reducing energy consumption isn't about saving money or the planet, and it's got zero to do with anyone's political beliefs.
"It's not about reducing energy usage and the overall bills, but about saving lives," says Colonel Peter Newell, director of the Army's Rapid Equipping Force (REF). Newell's organization measures the effectiveness of equipment from the viewpoint of the Soldier on the ground in the fight. "At the tactical edge, we don't look at energy efficiency in terms of saving gallons, we count it in lives saved. That's really what we focus on."
Newell explains that from sustaining remote bases, which need energy and water, to supporting soldiers, who are being given increasingly more energy-reliant equipment to carry in their packs, reducing energy consumption and employing technologies capable of recharging multiple items are strategic imperatives. To that end, Newell and the REF have been working with the U.S. Marine Corps Experimental Forward Operating Bases (EXFOB), the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, and the Marine Corps Energy Office, as well as the Project Manager Mobile Electric Power (PM MEP) unit within the Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Force Sustainment Systems and Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), the Army's Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier, which focuses on getting soldiers the best possible equipment, and the Army Logistics Innovation Agency and U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), to find products to support the REF's Energy to the Tactical Edge (E2E) initiative, which is a subset of the Army's larger Net Zero program. The REF is also partnering with the private sector and with universities to find cutting-edge solutions.
Currently the REF is rolling out what it calls Net Zero solutions packages to companies deploying to Afghanistan. The Net Zero program is specifically focused on three types of solutions: soldier power, fixed site (or "spot") power, and mobile power.
One of the solutions we're introducing into the fight is a Swipes – a harness that will have central power and be able to power all the electronics a soldier carries," says Bill Garland, a subject matter expert in energy with the REF. "That prevents soldiers from having to carry additional batteries. Rather than carry two spare batteries for every piece of electronic equipment, soldiers will carry one central battery and one spare, which reduces battery weight by 33 percent, while still providing 100 percent reliability and confidence.
On the mobile front, some of the special mission equipment soldiers are currently issued includes robotic vehicles, and Garland explains that those will now come equipped with battery charging capability provided by 1kw generators, as well as fuel cells and solar panels. For fixed-site power, the REF is introducing systems comprised of battery banks and solar arrays, which will provide both operational energy and energy storage, reducing the size of generators needed at remote bases and making those generators more efficient. "The generators in use at remote bases today are operating at about 30-percent capacity," explains Garland. "They are underloaded, running at poor fuel efficiency and, because they're not operating at capacity, the amount of maintenance needed increases."
The new systems will resolve those issues, and also reduce the number of sustaining missions the larger bases need to make to the remote operating bases.
If you look at Afghanistan – we're drawing down there, but if you're not the guy who has been drawn down, then you're spreading out," Col. Newell explains. "You now have more space to cover, and fewer guys. The same soldiers who have to move fuel back and forth to the remote bases are the ones who are supposed to be working with the Afghan army, securing various areas. These guys are doing the yeoman's work of force, and we're getting more and more requests from commanders to help make outposts and OPs [observation posts] more self-sustaining so that they're not having to go out there and resupply all the time. Resupply is a combat operation, and it takes away combat power that's supposed to be doing other things.
The REF is currently training the 173rd airborne brigade combat team out of Europe, to use its Net Zero solution packages. The 173rd is the first company to be trained with this equipment, and Col. Newell emphasizes the importance of training them long before they get on the ground in Afghanistan. "The timing was ideal in terms of train up and deployment and the fact that they're deploying to a part of Afghanistan that has major energy issues," Newell says. "We had to try to educate them while they did pre-deployment training; it's not something we can go into theater and train on."
Education is crucial," he continues. "The average infantryman doesn't know much about battery management, but if you can go in and shave 20 percent of the weight off his back, that's significant. At the same time, you have to be cognizant of the skepticism there's going to be about anything that's new that you hand a guy who's in the play on a daily basis. That's why it was important to go to the 173rd ahead of time – because if a soldier's not comfortable/confident with something, no matter how great a solution it is, they won't use it.
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Above and beyond the more obvious connection between energy efficiency and soldier's lives on the battlefield–in a nutshell, a soldier with less to carry around has a greater chance of survival, as do soldiers at a remote base that is as self-sustaining as possible–the efforts underway to curb fossil fuel use at domestic U.S. military bases are equally linked to saving soldiers' lives.
There are two ways in which what we're doing is linked to national security," explains Major General Dana Pittard, who heads up Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas, an Army base that is participating in the Army's Net Zero pilot program and aims to have net zero energy by 2015 and net zero waste and water by 2018. "First, there's the security of our bases here – if the grid is cut for some reason, ideally we're self-sustaining and have our own microgrid. That's the goal. Then, operationally, whether it's in Afghanistan, Iraq or wherever, the amount of trucks it takes as far as fuel trucks to sustain those operations is critical. Putting those trucks on the road leaves them susceptible to roadside bombs. So reducing the amount of fuel needed, and enabling our bases abroad to be self-sustaining, saves lives.
For Jon Gensler, a former Army officer and Iraq war vet, now a project developer with Borrego Solar, working on solar installations at various Army bases, there's another reason to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
In late 2007 and early 2008, I personally buried two friends, one at Arlington, one at West Point, both killed in Iraq by bombs that were, with 90 percent certainty, created by Iran," Gensler says. "That country gets about 60 percent of its revenue from the global petroleum trade. Even if we don't contract directly from them, based on the fact that we consume 20 percent of the world's oil we are fueling that market and keeping that regime, a regime that's directly targeting us, in power. The military looks at that and says we need to do everything we can to get off of this stuff. They care about it.
"Any reduction in the use of fossil fuels and you're lowering the risk of casualties," Gensler continues. "You're saving American lives and you're also allowing thousands of soldiers to be repurposed to something that's not driving a fuel truck. So there are operational efficiencies there, too. All of these things come into play.
From that standpoint, it's hard for those in the military to understand the politicization of green technology. "We take a much more pragmatic approach," explains Major General Pittard. "We see conservation and energy dependence as much more of a strategic and operational necessity. We're sensitive to fiscal restraints, of course–anything we do can't cost us too much–but otherwise we leave politics out of it when we're looking for solutions."
I actually think we have a lot in common with greens," Major General Pittard adds. "We want to save the planet too."


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She began her professional career as a lobbyist at the Oklahoma State Capitol for Neighborhood Services Organization. She began tracking legislation for various groups and turned this into a business, which lasted over twenty years. Ingraham taught in the School of Social Work at OU. She is currently a social policy consultant, conducting training for citizens with disabilities, partners in policy making, and older advocates with the aging leadership organization, and she is also an attorney at Ingraham & Associates. She enjoys being able to help people through her legal services.
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Safe to mix tahini with other foods?
Hi. i was just wondering if anyone could help me with this dilemma. ive been eating organically for a while and recently i had to stop eating glutens and 50% of my diet has to be fruits and veggies, FRESH. now, i know tahini is wicked good for you.
but the problem is i know there are certain foods they say not to mix together because of digestion times and etc.
my question is, what foods is it alright to eat with tahini? some people say apples, but i have read extensive information on NOT mixing fruits with other foods, and on top of that eat only one fruit at a time and wait 10 to 20 min before you eat a different fruit.
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Really Caps?? Really?? After the worst loss in recent Capital history in Carolina Monday night, the Caps came back Wednesday and decided to play 1 period of hockey against an Ottawa team that showed up for all 3. Before the Caps decided to start playing, Erik Karlsson and Milan Michalek of the Senators had put the Caps chances of winning on ice. After the game the team began the media circus of coach Dale Hunter calling out and blaming Tomas Vokoun for the loss, and healthy scratch Roman Hamrlik calling out Hunter for benching him. For Dale Hunter it's not a good idea to blame players in the media for a loss as that is the quickest way to lose a locker room. For Hamrlik I believe the writing is on the wall for the veteran and his words have probably made it even more certain that he'll be dealt by Monday's trade deadline. All in all another ugly night for the Caps and their fans to endure.
After 2 straight lackluster losses the Capitals return home to host the last place Montreal Canadiens, in a game they must win......stop me if you've heard that before about this Caps team. I know I've said "must win" before but these next 2 games for the Caps truly are must wins. While not officially eliminated from the playoffs if we drop these 2 against Montreal and Toronto the Caps will be emotionally eliminated. 1 game at a time however so let us focus on tonight and the struggling Caps and Habs. Tonight marks the 3rd meeting of the season between these 2 clubs and first at the Phone Booth in downtown DC. The Caps have a 2-0 record against the Habs this year with goalies Tomas Vokoun and Michal Neuvirth posting shutouts. In fact the Caps have shutout the Habs in 3 straight when you include the final meeting last year when Caps goalie prospect Braden Holtby posted a shutout. Even with all that great news, how can you be confident as a Caps fan in this current team? They've been outscored 12-3 in 3 straight losses suffered at the hands of the Lightning, Hurricanes, and Senators. They are without 2 world class superstars in Nicklas Backstrom who remains out for the forseeable future and Alex Ovechkin who missed Wednesday's game with the Sens and is questionable for tonight's game. The Capitals also continue to plummet further out of the playoffs as they now sit in 10th in the East, 2 points back of Toronto for 9th, 3 points back of Florida for the 8th and final playoff spot, and 4 points back of Winnipeg for the Southeast Division lead. Fair to say Caps fans have lost all confidence in this team, and it looks like the team lost all confidence in themselves.
The opponent tonight is the Montreal Candiens, and luckily for the Caps the Habs are a ball of trouble themselves. Like the Caps the Habs are a very big disappointment this season and look like they'll be on the outside looking in come playoff time. Currently tied for last place in the Eastern Conference the Habs are one of the few teams you could argue are an even bigger disappointment than the Caps, not in my eyes but maybe in somebody else's. The Habs continue to have altercations in practice mostly centering around young defenseman P.K. Subban who has now had run ins with Tomas Plekanec, Mathieu Darche, Louis Leblanc, and David Desharnais so clearly frustration is boiling over in Montreal from the players, front office, and the fan base. Montreal may also be missing one of their top players tonight as Tomas Plekanec is questionable.
On a side note I mentioned Nicklas Backstrom earlier and his injury. The man responsible for that injury is Rene Bourque who as luck would have it is a Montreal Canadien. The Capitals still haven't paid Mr. Bourque back for ending Nicklas Backstrom's season, regardless of Matt Hendrick's attempt to do so. Tonight it's time for someone, not naming any names John Erskine to get Bourque back, not cheaply but drop the gloves and drop Bourque tonight!
As for the goal-tending match-up the Caps will send Michal Neuvirth to the net. Neuvirth had a 31 save shutout against Montreal earlier this year and in 4 career games against the Habs has a 2-1 record with a 2.06 GAA, and a .925 SV%. For the Habs Carey Price minds the crease for the 10th consecutive game. Price suffered a loss to the Caps in that same game that Neuvy had the shutout, and Price has started 11 games against the Caps with a 3-5-3 record posting a 3.11 GAA and a .900 SV%.
Michal Neuvirth G, Washington - Neuvirth has struggled this year and the caps could use him snapping out of it as soon as possible and I believe tonight could be the night.
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BOSTON, Mass. – Despite outshooting the Beacons 35-30, the Holy Cross women's ice hockey team couldn't overcome UMass-Boston's four goals in the second period, falling 4-3 in Boston Saturday afternoon. With the loss, Holy Cross falls to 14-8-0 (11-4-0 ECAC East), while UMass-Boston improves to 10-9-0 (7-7-0 ECAC East).
Holy Cross senior forward Christina D'Ambrogio (Toronto, Ontario) gave the Crusaders an early lead when she netted the only goal of the first period at the 11:21 mark. The Beacons tied the game just 42 seconds in the second period when Alli Greenberg found the back of the net. UMass-Boston took the lead at the 6:37 mark and then went ahead by two goals less than two minutes later. After three unanswered goals, junior Stacey Hochkins (New Boston, Mich.) scored on a power play to bring the score with in one goal. The Beacons' Hannah Davis netted her first career goal, and eventual game winner, at the 16:58 mark to end the period in favor of UMass-Boston, 4-2.
Senior Jocelyn Kratchmer (Watrous, Saskatchewan) scored on a power play at the 15:47 mark in the third period to bring the Holy Cross within one, but the Crusaders couldn't get any closer, falling by final score of 4-3.
Junior goaltender Carly Dominick-Sobol (Syracuse, N.Y.) suffered the loss in net, falling to 6-4-0. UMass-Boston's Leah Hallett earned her eight win of the season, improving to 8-7-0. Dominick-Sobol allowed four goals on 30 UMass-Boston shots, while making 26 saves. Hallett allowed three goals on 35 Holy Cross shots while recording 32 saves.
Holy Cross continues action on the road next weekend, traveling to Nichols on Friday, Feb. 11 and Manhattanville on Saturday, Feb. 12.


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The Fall of Otrar, Ardak Amirkulov (Kazakhstan, 1990): Russian Inferno: The Films of Alexei Guerman
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Frivolous Foreclosure Lawsuit Leads Brooklyn Judge to Order Sanctions Against Bank
A Brooklyn man being sued for foreclosure was led to a legal victory with the help of South Brooklyn Legal Services attorney Sara Manaugh. Not only did a judge find the suit frivolous, but he ordered $10,000 in sanctions against the bank for foreclosing on a property they didn't even own.
Mr. G bought a home in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 2007 with the assistance of two loans from an organization known as "GE Money Bank."
But within two years a foreclosure had been filed by a bank, U.S. Bank National Association, which claimed it had acquired the senior mortgage after the mortgage had been assigned first from GE Money Bank to a trust held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, and then from that trust to a different trust held by U.S. Bank.
SBLS attorneys dug up online records on a database maintained by Wells Fargo, the custodian of both trusts, which revealed that Mr. G.'s mortgage loan was not owned by U.S. Bank — it was still held in the original trust.
Judge Wayne P. Saitta of Kings County Supreme Court wrote, "It appears that the plaintiff never owned the debt which was the subject of the foreclosure action. Plaintiff has submitted no evidence that the note was ever transferred to it. ... Simple due diligence would have revealed that the plaintiff did not own the mortgage upon which it sought to foreclose."
The judge threw out the foreclosure lawsuit against Mr. G and ordered that U.S. Bank pay $10,000 in sanctions for this "frivolous litigation."
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Acer 8940g 250m GTS downclocking:
I have the Acer 8940g with the 250m GTS. It's brand new (not even a week old).
I seem to have performance problems sometimes, it happens without any tasks running in the background, as well when tasks are running - doesn't make a difference. Windows 7 is up 2 date as well as other built-in hardware.
Example of the problem:
When playing, for example World of Warcraft (happens with ALL my other games as well), then my performance drops sometimes - not always - (happens at random like it seems) by 50% and I can only get it back to normal with restarting the PC.
What I have done so far and what I think could be wrong:
I couldn't update the drivers past 187.xx, because the 250m GTS isn't supported by the off. NVIDIA drivers - WHY?!
I checked the GPU under load (WoW) with CPU-Z when the performance drop accured. I will attach screenshots to this thread in order to show what I mean. The clockrate, memoryspeed and shader speed dropps and stays like that untill reboot. As soon as I reboot my computer the speed is up to normal again for hours and hours. What could be causing this?
NVIDIA Drivers 187.66 are installed. I need to know for sure before I go and bring this thing back. It's bad enough not beeing able to update drivers on your own and therefor depending on Acer to do so (tech. support said MAYBE in June/July), but it's worse that the card is downclocking for some reason - even in high performance mode (Win7).
Thank you. If you need more information, please do tell. I will be checking this reg. within the next 48 hours, you guys are my last hope.
Performance DROP and clockrates CPU-Z: http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/7...putakt3fps.jpg
Back to NORMAL after reboot CPU-Z: http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/2...4fpsreboot.png
The way the game runs when performance is stable and at full power (60fps stable all the time): http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/9025/wowfpsnice.jpg
Re: Acer 8940g 250m GTS downclocking:
That sucks. Be patient and someone should be able to help you. Personally, mobile GPUs are hit and miss for me. Some work great, some do not. My old Mobile ATi 9800Pro was a miracle worker.
Just a suggestion: have you tried lowering details/special effects, and seeing if it runs better? also, have you tried running the games with the laptop actually plugged into the wall?
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Hello, thank you for responding. Yes, the laptop is always connected to the wall. I never take it out on cell, it`s more a desktop replacement for me. I had my desktop pc, a very powerful one, but I needed something smaller but not too small. I thought this would be perfect.
About the details, yeah, I've tried that as well. When the performance drops like that, and stays, even lowering details helps minimal to none. The downclock is just too much. I took WoW as an example because that game is not demanding. Usually I get 60fps on high-ultra there - even on 1080p but when that random drop appears, it`s like 20-35fps maximum on all games that had 60fps+ before.
Problem is I`m from Europe/Germany and the vendor doesn't seem to see any reason to take this back, unless I can prove something is wrong with the hardware, which is. What good is a nice and fast enough 250m gts if I can't get the max. out of it.
I remember my Toshiba Laptop with 2x8600m gt never had any problem like this, I guess your right, some work out and some do not. Anyway, the sooner we find out what this is, the better. I can see him saying those "2 weeks to return the laptop" are over and then I am screwed.
I was thinking of going for the Qosmio series this time but that one has the 250m GTS as well.
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I called Acer today.
Yet again I had to wait 45min in the waiting line ( I called 5min after they opened up support today and all lines were already busy the robot of the future said so -,-). Yesterday it was two hours and the day before that it was 2:30h waiting. The support is very friendly , but man, they sure let you wait AND pay (0,99 Euro/Min once you get someone on the phone).
Anyway, she told me to update my BIOS, but told me by doing so I would be doing it on my own risk and that it isn't covered by Acer if something goes wrong, whatever...
I did it and it didn't change a thing. I just had the same problem right now, wanting to logg in a bit in to WoW. So, now she said I would have to wait 1-2 days for the higher level prof. tech. support to contact me. 1) I bet it is going to take far more time then 1-2 days 2) I doubt they will have a solution and 3) I forgot this one.
This just sucks...
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Re: Acer 8940g 250m GTS downclocking:
Sounds like a video driver problem to me.
Go to www.laptopvideo2go.com and download the latest driver and the modified .inf file for it. Extract the driver and then put the .inf file in that directory to replace the old one. This file allows the newest drivers to work on all nvidia cards.
Re: Acer 8940g 250m GTS downclocking:
I said that to the support and my vendor. The vendor trying to assure me, after all these years power pc using, that the video driver couldn't be the cause of this - yeah right. Anyway, I know about the laptopvideo2go drivers, but I am not too sure about using them. I tried those back then with my Vaio and it gave me more problems then actually solving things (Bluescreens etc.).
What is the difference between these and the nvidia ones in detail? I do not understand. If it's just a matter of adding some lines, why would NVIDIA wait on the 250m GTS series?
Thank you, though.
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CHARLESTON — More than 70 students, teachers and administrators from the Kermit K-8 School visited the State Capitol complex Tuesday to learn more about the legislative process. Delegates Justin Marcum (D-Mingo) and
H.K. White (D-Mingo) were on hand to welcome the students into the House Chamber.
"It's always encouraging to see kids interested in the lawmaking process," Marcum said, "Learning about local government is extremely important and I'm glad that I was able to help."
The trip was planned by the school in coordination with Marcum and White. The students spent the day touring the Capitol and were introduced during the House floor session.
"I'm glad Delegate Marcum and I were able to work something out with the school to bring these kids here," White said, "Getting to see the legislative process in motion is something I urge everyone to do."
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In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth …
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Seattle's high-tech industry has minted thousands of millionaires over the years as companies such as Microsoft, Amazon.com, Isilon Systems and aQuantive turned stock options into gold. And there may be more on the way. According to a report by Deloitte, Washington state's ranks of millionaires will grow from 226,000 in 2010 to 534,000 in 2020.
That's not too shabby, but still well below California's 1.3 million millionaires. Washington ranks 14th in millionaires among the 50 states — about in line with the population. (Washington is the 13th most populous state).
More than doubling the number of millionaires could be a good thing for the region if it leads to more capital flowing to innovative ideas, better schools, etc.
But will that actually happen?
Members of the Seattle technology community have been engaged in a serious debate about this in recent months. And one of the frequent sore points often revolves around the lack of angel investment for startup ideas.
You need millionaires — something we have — in order to have angel investors — something that's lacking. And that's where there appears to be a a bit of disconnect in the region. (More on this topic in an upcoming Q&A with L.A. venture capitalist Mark Suster).
In order to help overcome the hurdle, one thing that desperately needs to happen is for home-grown entrepreneurial success stories to emerge. aQuantive and Isilon are some recent examples, but for the region to truly be successful as a major tech hub more of those big hits need to occur.
But it is deeper than that.
There also will need to be a cultural shift in mentality where the ruling entrepreneurial class — the people who've already met with success at RealNetworks, Microsoft, Expedia, etc. — take it upon themselves to support the next batch of entrepreneurs. Is that happening the way it should?
Many in the community say it is not, despite the attempts of organizations such as TechStars to get things rolling. (This was a hot topic at a dinner conversation I attended last night with more than a dozen entrepreneurs and investors). It seems like the region is at a bit of a crossroads.
After all, just because there's a lot of millionaires milling about doesn't really mean there's a culture of entrepreneurship, innovation or investment. (See Connecticut which has the highest concentration of millionaires in the country).
Washington state has a good base from which to start, but the jury is still out. There's opportunity for a new set of angels to emerge, spending a portion of their money on incubating groundbreaking companies that will change the world. Or, the new millionaires could just decide to buy another yacht or mansion.
Adeo Ressi of The Founder Institute addressed this issue in a recent story on GeekWire, noting that the Seattle community needs to do more to get the wealthy investors off the sidelines.
"(There's) a rather anemic group of venture capitalists, and a rather anemic group of angels. And so, if you ask why is that? It seems that you have a lot of entrepreneurs and executives at tech firms that have money, but for some reason they are not being enticed off the sidelines," he said.
What's it going to take to turn Seattle millionaires into angels?


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The Partnership Center Newsletter
March 25, 2013 Edition
In this issue, you will find…
- Letter from Partnership Center Acting Director, Acacia Bamberg Salatti
- Featured Update: The Affordable Care Act Benefits Members of Your Community
- White House Names New Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
- New Open Door Forum Created on the Health Insurance Marketplace
- New CMS Website on the Health Insurance Marketplace
- Secretary Sebelius Using Twitter
- HealthMap Vaccine Finder: Helping Adults Find the Vaccines They Need
- Let's Move Faith and Communities: Upcoming We Can! Webinars
- Medicaid Moving Forward Report Available
- Report Shows Slower Medicaid Spending Growth
- Essential Health Benefits Rule
- Spotlight on Staff: Lisa Carr
- Upcoming Events
- Grant Opportunities
Dear Partners:
Last week marked the third anniversary since President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act. Faith and community leaders like you play an important role connecting members of your congregations and communities to the care they need. Please see our Featured Update for more information about how the Affordable Care Act benefits your congregants and community members right now. Throughout the year, we'll continue our ACA 101 webinar series, which gives you the unique opportunity to interact directly with senior HHS staff and ask any questions you might have about the health care law.
March is also Women's History Month. As HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius shared in her Statement on Women's History Month, "Because of the Affordable Care Act, a new day for women's health has arrived. Thanks to the health care law, millions of women are benefiting from expanded access to preventive services, such as mammograms and prenatal care, at no additional cost. And millions more will soon have access to the Health Insurance Marketplace – open enrollment starts Oct. 1, 2013 – where they can compare health plans based on benefits, quality and cost and choose the one that best fits their needs."
In addition, our friends in the Jewish community begin observing Passover tonight. Last Wednesday, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) and MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger hosted the fifth annual National Hunger Seder in the U.S. Capitol. Joined by Members of Congress, representatives of the Obama Administration, members from a diverse group of faith traditions, and school children, participants discussed the fact that millions of Americans are still going hungry. This is especially true for women and children; according to the United States Department of Agriculture, 1 in 6 Americans live in a household that experiences hunger, including 16.7 million children. To download the MAZON-JCPA Hunger Seder Haggadah or a two-page insert with facts about poverty and hunger in America, click here.
As always, thank you for everything you do to ensure the health and well-being of individuals and families in your community.
Acacia Bamberg Salatti, Acting Director
Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Featured Update:
The Affordable Care Act Benefits Members of Your Community
Last week was the third anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Thanks to the health reform law, new benefits and rights are protecting your congregants and community members right now.
The Affordable Care Act is bringing down costs across the system, holding insurance companies accountable and helping more families get the peace of mind that comes from having affordable health insurance. As the President has said from the start, Americans who like the coverage they currently have can keep it—and the law will give them a better value for that coverage by improving benefits and protections.
Today, insurance companies can no longer drop coverage for sick people or raise premiums at will. A total of 3.1 million young people have gained coverage under their parents' plans and 6.1 million Medicare beneficiaries with the highest prescription drug costs have saved a total of $5.7 billion. Starting August 1, 2012, about 47 million women gained guaranteed access to additional preventive services without paying more at the doctor's office.
And beginning next January, the law will finally end discrimination against people with pre-existing health conditions. No longer will 129 million Americans with health conditions ranging from asthma to cancer have to live in fear of seeing their rates hiked or getting locked out of the market. The law will also end discrimination against women based on their gender.
Even more Americans will gain access to affordable coverage when new Health Insurance Marketplaces open for enrollment on October 1 in every state, giving individuals, families, and small business owners a simple, convenient way to find coverage that fits their budget. With a single application, people will be able to see and compare all their coverage options. There will also be tax credits that could save people money on their premiums right away.
The health care law is providing security for millions of Americans. It's bringing down costs in Medicare, Medicaid, and the private market after years of unrelenting increases. And it's ensuring that millions more middle class Americans and people working their way into the middle class can get the basic security of affordable health coverage.
White House Names New Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
The White House has announced that Melissa Rogers will serve as the Special Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Ms. Rogers previously served as director of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at Wake Forest University Divinity School and as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Ms. Rogers was the executive director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. In 2008, Baylor University Press published a casebook co-authored by Ms. Rogers, 'Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court.'
In 2009, the President appointed Ms. Rogers to serve as chair of his inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In 2011, she was named to a subgroup of the State Department's Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group. Ms. Rogers has testified before the U.S. Senate and House Judiciary Committees. She earned her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Baylor University. We warmly welcome Melissa Rogers to her new position at the White House.
New Open Door Forum Created on the Health Insurance Marketplace
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sponsors regularly scheduled "Open Door Forums" providing an opportunity for live dialogue between CMS and the stakeholder community at large. These forums are intended for all stakeholders who interact with CMS or work with consumers who rely on services that CMS provides.
They provide an opportunity for CMS to share current information about new initiatives and policies related to Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the new Affordable Care Act benefits, and allow participants to ask questions for further clarification. The ultimate goal of these Open Door Forums is to foster strong collaboration and communication between CMS and a diverse spectrum of stakeholders.
To be notified when Open Door Forums are scheduled or when new information is posted to the website, you can subscribe using the link below labeled "Open Door Forum Mailing List Subscription."
New CMS Website on the Health Insurance Marketplace
Starting this Fall, there will be a new way for people to buy health insurance - the Health Insurance Marketplace. The new CMS website will help the public get the latest resources on Medicaid Expansion and Exchanges. The website has many sections, including: Get updates, official resources, explore research, and news and events. To view the website, go to: http://marketplace.cms.gov/
Secretary Sebelius Using Twitter
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently started using the social media tool, Twitter. You can follow the Secretary at @Sebelius. To tweet with agencies and departments within HHS, click on www.hhs.gov and Join the Conversation under Twitter Chatter.
HealthMap Vaccine Finder: Helping Adults Find the Vaccines They Need
By Dr. Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health
February 14, 2013
When we talk about vaccines, most people think of "flu" or "childhood immunizations." But there are actually a number of vaccines available to protect adults from serious infectious diseases and their long-term consequences. Adult vaccines can prevent diseases such as shingles, pneumonia and whooping cough. The HPV vaccine can prevent cervical cancer. And the hepatitis B vaccine also prevents the liver cancer that can develop as a result of chronic hepatitis B infection.
In the past many Americans faced financial barriers to immunization, but thanks to the Affordable Care Act, millions of Americans now have free access to the vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without co-payments or other cost-sharing requirements when those services are delivered by an in-network provider.
Despite the numerous benefits of vaccination, too many adults are not getting the protection that they need. So, starting this month, it will be even easier for adults to find where to get vaccinated. Now, you can just go online and enter an address or zip code and HealthMap Vaccine Finder will locate nearby immunization providers (including health clinics and pharmacies) that offer the vaccinations routinely recommended for adults. In addition to telling people where to get the flu vaccine, the HealthMap Vaccine Finder will now tell consumers where to find providers of 10 other vaccines, including:
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Herpes Zoster(Shingles)
- HPV(Human Papillomavirus)
- MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
- Varicella (Chickenpox)
- Td (Tetanus and Diphtheria)
- Tdap (Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertusis)
- Meningococcal
- Pneumococcal
The new HealthMap Vaccine Finder is an expansion of the Flu Vaccine Finder, and lists more than 50,000 providers across the country that offer flu vaccinations, searchable by vaccine delivery type (nasal spray, shot, etc.) and location. To find out where to get vaccinated in your area, go to vaccines.gov!
Let's Move Faith and Communities:
Upcoming We Can! webinars
We invite you to join Let's Move Faith and Communities for a special series of on-line training opportunities that will equip health leaders to run the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) We Can! program in their communities. We Can! is a science-based national education program that provides parents, caregivers and communities with tools and strategies to help families improve food choices, increase physical activity and reduce screen time.
We Can! offers two core curricula:
- The Energize Our Families: Parent Program is a multiple-session curriculum designed to provide parents and caregivers with the knowledge and skills they need, along with practical tools, to help families maintain a healthy weight. Specific topics include shopping for healthy food on a budget, controlling portion sizes, increasing physical activity in youth and reducing family screen time.
- Media Smart Youth®: Eat, Think and Be Active! is an after-school program designed to help young people ages 11 to 13 understand the connections between media and health and to help youth build media analysis and production skills. The program uses nutrition and physical activity examples to help youth think critically about how media influences the choices they make.
To register for a We Can! webinar, go to our Upcoming Events section.
In addition, earlier this month, First Lady Michelle Obama recognized two winning videos of the Let's Move! Communities on the Move Video Challenge for their terrific work to make their communities healthier. Watch the winning videos and check out Communities on the Move to see what other faith-based and neighborhood organizations are doing across the country to improve the health of their communities!
Medicaid Moving Forward Report Available
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released "Medicaid Moving Forward", a report that identifies recent developments, opportunities available to states today, and upcoming activity that will help states improve and modernize their Medicaid programs. Sections on long term services and supports, new and improved business processes, and Medicaid program integrity will provide valuable tools and insights to states as they continue to build a Medicaid program that gives beneficiaries access to quality, affordable care. To view the report, please visit http://www.medicaid.gov/State-Resource-Center/Events-and-Announcements/Events-and-Announcements.html
Report Shows Slower Medicaid Spending Growth
The 2012 Medicaid Actuarial Report released on March 1, 2013 contains good news. It shows that estimated Medicaid benefits spending will decrease by 1.9% per beneficiary from 2011 to 2012. This decline in per beneficiary spending is virtually unprecedented. Except in 2005-2006, when the cost of prescription drugs for Medicaid-Medicare dual beneficiaries shifted to Medicare Part D, Medicaid spending per beneficiary has never declined from one year to the next in the 47-year history of the program. Health care spending growth has generally been slow over the past few years, but Medicaid spending growth in 2012 is well below spending growth in the rest of the health care economy. To read the full blog, please visit: http://www.healthcare.gov/blog/2013/03/medicaid-report.html, to read the full report, visit: http://medicaid.gov/Medicaid-CHIP-Program-Information/By-Topics/Financing-and-Reimbursement/Actuarial-Report-on-Financial-Outlook-for-Medicaid.html and to read a letter from Secretary Sebelius, please visit: http://medicaid.gov/State-Resource-Center/Events-and-Announcements/Downloads/Markell-and-Fallin-Letter.pdf
Essential Health Benefits Rule
CMS has released a final rule on Essential Health Benefits. The rule outlines health insurance issuer standards for a core package of benefits, called essential health benefits, that health insurance issuers must cover both inside and outside the Health Insurance Marketplace. Through its standards for essential health benefits, the final rule also expands coverage of mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment, for millions of Americans.
Under the law, health insurance issuers must cover both inside and outside of the Health Insurance Marketplace a core package of items and services, known as "essential health benefits." The Essential Health Benefits must include items and services within at least the following 10 categories:
- Ambulatory patient services
- Emergency services
- Hospitalization
- Maternity and newborn care
- Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment
- Prescription drugs
- Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices
- Laboratory services
- Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management
- Pediatric services, including oral and vision care
For more information about this final rule, please visit http://cciio.cms.gov/resources/factsheets/ehb-2-20-2013.html or view the rule at http://www.ofr.gov/inspection.aspx.
Spotlight on Staff: Lisa Carr
My name is Lisa Carr and I am an Associate Director at the HHS Partnership Center. I am in charge of outreach and education on the health care law, the Affordable Care Act. I manage and am the speaker for the Health Care Law webinars, including the tours of www.HealthCare.gov, the Health Care Law 101 webinars and the more focused webinars, such as those on the Navigators and In Person Assisters. I partner with my colleagues at HHS in sponsoring Health Care Law 101 webinars in Spanish. I write articles for the newsletter that you are reading, I write a weekly Stakeholder Update, I give presentations at local and national conferences, and I update the Affordable Care Act and You section of our website (www.hhs.gov/partnerships).
The most exciting part of my job is sharing what the health care law means to people across this country. Over 24,000 have RSVPd for our webinars and over 11,000 people have attended them. We equip individuals to share the information with others, thus multiplying the impact. The health care law is helping millions of people now, from those with pre-existing conditions, to helping people get free cancer screenings, to providing basic consumer protections such as ending lifetime caps on coverage.
We hear stories of those who have benefited from our webinars on the health care law. Before the webinar they were uninsured, had major health challenges, and were concerned about their future. After the webinar, they were enrolled in affordable health insurance that covered their pre-existing conditions and their health and financial future were much brighter.
The health care law has made a big difference so far, but just wait until 2014! Starting on October 1, 2013, people will be able to enroll in the Health Insurance Marketplace. On January 1, 2014, health insurance coverage will begin. To learn more about the Health Insurance Marketplace, sign up for more information and watch the video here: http://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace/index.html.
As we celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act, we look forward to partnering with you to make sure that every uninsured individual has affordable health insurance. New tools and resources are now available to explain the health care law to others. Tweet with HHS Secretary Sebelius to learn more by following her at @Sebelius and view our educational presentations on the health care law at http://www.healthcare.gov/news/brochures/.
Upcoming Events
Interactive Webinars on the Health Care Law
The HHS Partnership Center continues to host a series of webinars for faith and community leaders. All webinars are open to the public and include a question and answer session where you can ask HHS staff any questions you may have. We also encourage you to submit questions you would like to have answered on the webinars to firstname.lastname@example.com.
To participate in one of the webinars, please select your preferred topic from the list below and submit the necessary information. Please click on the title of the webinar and fill out the registration form. After registering you will receive an e-mail confirmation containing information about joining the webinar. Please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have problems registering or if you have any questions about the health care law.
National Webinars
March 27, 2:00 p.m. ET – Tour of HealthCare.gov
April 10, 3:00 p.m. ET – The Health Care Law 101
April 23, 3:00 p.m. ET – The Health Care Law 101 (in Spanish)
Let's Move Faith and Communities We Can! webinars
To register for a We Can! webinar, please click on one of the dates below:
Webinars on "Energize Our Families: Parent Program"
Wednesday, April 10, 6-8pm EDT
The following "Energize Our Families: Parent Program" webinar is geared toward faith community nurses and is being co-hosted by Northwest Parish Nurse Ministries: Saturday, April 27, 1-3pm EDT
Webinars on "Media Smart Youth®: Eat, Think and Be Active!"
Grant Opportunities
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Grants Forecast is a database of planned grant opportunities proposed by its agencies. Each Forecast record contains actual or estimated dates and funding levels for grants that the agency intends to award during the fiscal year. Forecast opportunities are subject to change based on enactment of congressional appropriations.
When funding is available and an agency is ready to accept applications, the agency will issue an official notice, known as a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), which will be available on how to apply.
As always, the final section of our newsletter includes an updated grants listing that faith-based and community non-profits can pursue. All of these grant programs are competitive. It is important to review the funding announcement thoroughly to ensure that the grant opportunity is one that is appropriate to your organization's mission, size, and scope.
Grants Listings
Title: Research and Evaluation on Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals
Description: The U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks applications for funding of research and evaluation related to abuse, neglect, and exploitation of elderly individuals and residents of residential care facilities. Research proposed may be focused at the State, local, tribal, Federal, or juvenile criminal justice policy, and practice levels.
Eligibility: In general, NIJ is authorized to make grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, States (including territories), units of local government (including federally recognized Indian tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and profit organizations), institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), and certain qualified individuals. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee. Foreign governments, foreign organizations, and foreign institutions of higher education are not eligible to apply.
Link to Full Announcement:Link to Full Announcement
Last Day to Apply: May 20, 2013
Grant is administered by the:U.S. Department of Justice
Title: Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series
Description: The purpose of this grant opportunity is to bring together academic institutions/organizations and community organizations to identify opportunities for addressing health disparities through the use of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). The objectives of meetings conducted as part of this award will be to: (1) establish and/or enhance academic-community partnerships; (2) identify community-driven research priorities, and (3) develop long-term collaborative CBPR research agendas.
Eligibility: Non-profit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status are encouraged to apply. The opportunity is also available to various governmental entities, local organizations, for-profit groups and small businesses.
Link to Full Announcement:Link to Full Announcement
Last Day to Apply: October 17, 2014
Grant is administered by the:National Institutes of Health


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Son Volt, "Honky Tonk" (Rounder)
Jay Farrar continues down the road he traversed with 2009's American Central Dust on Honky Tonk, Son Volt's second disc on Rounder. Son Volt—circa now, unlike earlier incarnations—is all about decelerated tempos and a notable de-emphasis on electric guitars.
This one, per the title, is a surprisingly fresh sounding homage to the '50s honky-tonk country homegrown in Bakersfield, Calif. Twin fiddles and pedal steel guitars undergird Farrar's mournful sounding vocals on songs of romance and/or tortured love such as waltz-time opener "Hearts and Minds," the starting-stopping charmer "Brick Walls" and the downbeat ballads "Livin' On" and "Angel of the Blues." The loping "Bakersfield," naturally, touches on a place and time where one hears the "sound of heartbreak from a jail cell" and "hell breaks loose on Saturday night."
The bottom line: This album offers appealing neo-retro textures and beautifully arranged songs, some of which are too sluggish and mannered for their own good.


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News | DV in 3-D: Coordinating a community response
Editor's note: The Vermont Guardian is examining the complex nature of domestic abuse that often occurs in homes, but is hardly contained by their walls. This week, we examine how communities and businesses are responding to domestic violence.
By S.A. Troy | Special to the Vermont Guardian
Posted May 10, 2007
It's a beautiful, sunny Vermont day in May. The last vestiges of winter have faded and in their place daffodils and shoots of grass carpet the earth. Most are drunk on spring, including the birds that flit carelessly by, as the winter's dearth has been supplanted by abundance.
On such a day, it is impossible to imagine what it must be like for someone to leave the person they've loved and lived with for years, who has, in between times of great joy and passion, abused them — psychologically, emotionally, and perhaps even physically.
What a leap it must require, to put one's faith in the community-at-large to help them and their children start over again, often without money, without love, and without understanding.
According to Judy Rex, executive director of the Vermont Center for Crime Victims Services, a victim of domestic violence (DV) who does not have enormous resources will connect with almost every social service society provides. These may include, but are not limited to, law enforcement, health care, family court for filing a Relief from Abuse Order, the state's attorney's office if there are grounds for a criminal case, Vermont Legal Aid for divorce and custody assistance, district court if a criminal case proceeds, victim services such as shelters and compensation funds, mental health services, housing, childcare, and state and federal public assistance for families, all the while confronting the reality that the risk to a victim of DV is highest during and after separation.
Because victims/survivors of DV come in contact with multiple services, Jill Richard, economic justice projects coordinator for the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (the Network), said that without coordination between agencies, often the work of one system undermines the work of another. The goal of coordinated community response (CCR) then is to make sure that the services a survivor receives are informed and supported by each other.
This is not a new concept, nor is it specific to DV. Anyone with a need that requires interacting with multiple service agencies, such as a person with disabilities, benefits by receiving coordinated services.
As it applies to DV, the concept originated in the joint response that began in earnest in the 1980s from police and prosecutors. But according to Sarah Kenney, public policy coordinator for the Network, CCR's scope in recent years has broadened to include issues of economic opportunity as well as general community response.
"We've come a long way with systems, but systems only go so far; the community has to fill in those gaps. The longer I do this job, the more I realize how hard it is to make significant change without doing significant community education. We have to think about the way all of our systems and communities respond to survivors and batterers," said Kenney.
Response in action
For a small state, Vermont has many ambitious examples of CCR in action. As a result of the Violence Against Women Act passed by Congress in 1994 and renewed in 2006, five counties in Vermont have DV units within the state's attorneys' offices, which include a DV prosecutor, a victim advocate, and often a DV investigator who is a specially trained member of law enforcement devoted solely to aiding in DV prosecutions. Rex claims that these teams have had a positive impact on conviction rates, and by having an investigator, often accompanied by a child advocate, visit the victim the next morning after the arrest, the investigation starts immediately.
"The quicker you can move, the more success you have," Rex said. "Now we need special DV units in every county."
In 2006, the Legislature passed a statute making money available to every community interested in creating Special Investigation Units within law enforcement that may be used to focus on DV or sexual violence, or both. While Chittenden County has had one for years, known as the Chittenden Unit for Special Investigation, a unit was created just last year to serve Franklin and Grand Isle counties. And, more are on the way.
Later this year, according to Judge David Suntag, the presiding family court judge in Bennington, the county will have one day a week devoted to an integrated DV docket, meaning that relief from abuses cases heard in family court will be heard along with criminal cases. This should make it easier on everyone, Suntag said, to have resources available at the same place and same time, and to have the consistency of the same judge presiding over both cases.
Another example of coordinated agency response stems from federal funding that began in 1996, as part of the Rural DV and Child Victimization Grant, known as the Rural Project. For the past 11 years, the Network, the Department of Children and Families (DCF), and Vermont Center for Crime Victim's Services, have had extensive dialogues on how to best service children and families where there is an overlap of child maltreatment and DV.
Statistics range, but the consensus according to Amy Torchia, the Network's children's advocacy coordinator, is that when intimate partner violence exists, there is a 30 to 60 percent chance of child abuse as well.
The Rural Project allowed the state to establish an internal DV unit within DCF, a statewide position for a child advocacy specialist at the Network, and four child/youth advocates in four DV programs around the state.
In 2003, DCF finalized their DV policy, which makes it clear that it is in a child's best interest to have all family members be safe. Therefore, any specific DV policy and practice must be based on the following three principles: remove blame for DV from victims, hold offenders responsible for the violence and corresponding risk that violence poses to children, and examine and implement strategies that support victims of DV in providing safety and well-being for their children.
Torchia made clear that children have a range of responses to DV, and DV should not automatically be equated with child abuse or parental negligence. To take a child away from the non-offending parent, Torchia said, may end up being more traumatic for the child. It also makes victims and children less likely to seek help if they know that their family will be broken up. However, Torchia adds, there are situations where it is best to get a child into foster care.
Nationally it's estimated that 3.3 million to 10 million children are exposed to DV in their homes. In 2006, the Network provided services to 1,450 children and identified 9,119 children and youth as having been exposed to DV in their homes. That's 7 percent of Vermont's children.
In the workplace
In 2000, Gov. Howard Dean issued an executive order that recognized the prevalence of DV in the workplace and the need for all employers to maintain a safe, secure workplace. In response to this order, the Attorney General convened a task force that created a brochure on DV in the workplace, a model policy, and trainings for employers.
Assistant Attorney General Amy Fitzgerald runs this program for the office. In the past several years, she has conducted trainings for many public and private employers in the state including Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the University of Vermont, the Vermont State Housing Authority, and most recently Burlington, which is in the process of adapting the model policy as their own.
Perhaps the most vivid example of policy adoption comes from the Burlington Police Department. On April 4, 2007, the civil commission that must review all police department policies approved a policy that takes a zero tolerance approach toward DV offenders on staff.
The brainchild of Police Chief Tom Tremblay, who serves as a faculty member on the National Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against Women, discussed how throughout his 24-year career as a member of Burlington's police force, his mind has been full of images of violence, the majority of which were perpetrated against women by men. He often asks himself what, as a male leader in the community, he can do about this issue.
Using the attorney general's model policy as a starting point, members of the union, Mary McAllister, the department's victim advocate, and the chief drafted a policy that defines a zero tolerance approach toward offenders of DV who are on staff, including prevention and training efforts so that if there is evidence of troubling behavior help can be sought immediately, and a protocol for handling a DV call in which an officer is involved.
Tremblay acknowledged that some questioned the need for such a policy in light of the fact no one in the department in recent history had been arrested for DV. "We must model for the community what we expect," explained Tremblay.
Information regarding private employers and their DV policies is harder to come by. Yet, according to a National Safe Workplace Institute Survey, 94 percent of corporate security and safety directors rank DV as a "high" security problem. The Family Violence Prevention Fund estimates that 74 percent of victims who experience DV at home are also harassed at work, and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control projects that nearly 8 million days of paid work are lost each year as a result of DV, an equivalent of 32,000 full-time jobs.
Locally and nationally, Verizon Wireless is one of more visible companies taking a stand against DV. Laurie Severino, associate director of human resources for the northeast, said that DV is specifically addressed in their code of business conduct that every employee must read and sign every year, and that the language has been included since the company's founding in 2000. The company employs 55 people in Vermont, and 65,000 nationwide.
Because of their national presence, another benefit a survivor at Verizon has is the ability to relocate to another office if safety requires it. Employees also have access to EAP, a 24/7 emergency counseling service, that Severino explained is well versed in how to help victims of DV.
Since its inception, Verizon Wireless has also worked closely with DV shelters throughout New England and the country, providing monetary support as well as refurbished, prepaid cell phones with voicemail that survivors can use in a project known as HopeLine. In 2006, New England's HopeLine collected more than 60,000 used cell phones and donated more than $80,000 and 500 phones to 50 DV agencies.
A national role model
Perhaps one of the most groundbreaking examples of CCR is the Agency of Human Services (AHS) DV Initiative, which sets out to institutionalize a consistent, well-thought out framework for how to assist DV victims who come in contact with the agency as well as for employees who are experiencing DV.
AHS is the largest state employer in Vermont with 3,550 employees and in 2006 provided services to approximately 200,000 Vermonters. Its departments include corrections; the department for children and families; the department of disabilities, aging, and independent living; and the department of health.
Richard said the opportunity for such a project came about five years ago when AHS went through a significant reorganization. A conversation arose at the Vermont Council on DV (the Council) about how it might be possible to use the opportunity of the reorganization to implement a more effective and integrated response to DV.
In 2004, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the four primary statewide players in the DV world — the Network, the Council, the Center for Crime Victim Services, and AHS — that solidified each organization's role in the process: the Network and Council would facilitate the discussion providing its DV expertise, while AHS had the responsibility for determining how best to respond within its structure.
This is a groundbreaking initiative, said Sherry Burnette, AHS trauma coordinator and member of the initiative's task force.
Privately funded by a grant from the Altria Foundation for its first two years, the initiative has completed two phases: It laid the foundation for meaningful, and often difficult discussions by engaging AHS leaderships at all levels and defining general outcomes; and, it created structures that would allow for implementation and each department did a systems assessment of their DV policies.
Some of the report's findings jump out: No department has a department-wide DV policy; every department identified the need for workplace policies to address the needs of employees who are victims of DV and the broader issue of perpetrator accountability and staff safety; and only a handful of divisions have specific policies that address DV.
The next phase, which could easily take years to complete, has each department and division define and implement appropriate DV policies for their clients.
While the secretary of AHS, Cynthia LaWare, has expressed support for this initiative, she has not yet allocated any money toward its implementation. The Altria Foundation funding has expired, and while there are expectations on all levels that this project will continue, Richard acknowledges the process will be slowed.
June Bascom, the department of disabilities, aging and independent living's program development and policy analyst and a member of the initiative's steering committee, admitted that she had limited exposure to DV before coming to the project. Now, she believes it should be one of the agency's top priorities, period.
"When you look at the impact of DV in the news, the percentage of violent crime associated with DV, and its costs to society — people being out of work, lost productivity, etc. ... if you stop and recognize the full impact, DV should be one of the top priorities for AHS. Yet it's easy to forget about, because it can be so invisible on a day-to-day basis if it's not affecting you personally," Bascom said.
But if the initiative succeeds, many believe it will serve as a model for state agencies across the country.
Now through May 31, Vermonters can drop off their old cell phones to Verizon Wireless stores in Burlington and Rutland, and they will donate $5 per phone to each of two local shelters, Burlington's Women Helping Battered Women and Rutland County Women's Network and Shelter.


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Contact Form Hijacking – How to secure your PHP contact forms against header injection
When coding contact forms in PHP, most people don't realize that unless they've taken the necessary measures, it will probably be vulnerable to header injections. This basically means that the attacker can put his own To and From into the email headers using the textarea or inputs in the contact form. Why do people do this? For sending email spam. I found an article on anders.com, it explains this very well. As quoted from http://anders.com/projects/sysadmin/formPostHijacking/:Spammers are constantly being blacklisted and kicked off of networks. Because of this, tricking a non-spamming website into sending spam has become a high priority. One way for spammers to find vulnerable webservers is to test for CGI applications that would allow the spammer to enslave the webserver. Once a vulnerable webserver is found, the spammer can mask the true source of his spam while the enslaved webserver does the bulk of the work.
The article also gives a technical explanation as to how headers can be injected and why it even works in the first place. Look for "I want a more technical explanation with an example!".
The simplest way to protect contact forms against hijacking / header injection would be to strip \r and \n from all inputs that are placed within the mail function. You can use regex for that:
$_POST['name'] = preg_replace("/\r|\n/", "", $_POST['name']);
$_POST['email'] = preg_replace("/\r|\n/", "", $_POST['email']);
$_POST['message'] = preg_replace("/\r|\n/", "", $_POST['message']);
//And then you can safely use the above variables in the mail() function.


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Greg Sargent reports that Brad Ellsworth, a key potential member of the Stupak bloc, is a yes on health care.
Another big get for Dems: Rep Brad Ellsworth, a former Yes vote who shared the concerns of the Stupak dozen and was intensely wooed by both sides, will vote Yes on the Senate bill, his spokesman confirms to me.
"He's a Yes," Jonathan Kott, communications director for Ellsworth, just said by phone. "He will vote in favor of health care reform."
A press release detailing his rationale is forthcoming from his office.
Ellsworth, running for US Senate in Indiana, probably couldn't say no and expect any kind of national fundraising for his candidacy.
Ellsworth's Yes vote is one of the key ones needed by the leadership. That makes it 198-209, 206-212 with leaners. And importantly, under my metrics outlined in a previous post it could make Democrats as close as two votes away from passage.
There are pitfalls, however; the Medicare reimbursement disparity being chief among them. Alec MacGillis has a very good article detailing that. An excerpt:
A long-running tussle in Congress over regional Medicare reimbursement rates has erupted into a last-minute clash that has at least one House Democrat threatening to withdraw his support for the health-care overhaul up for a vote Sunday.
At the heart of the dispute is an attempt by hospitals and doctors in areas with lower per-patient Medicare spending — mostly in the Upper Midwest and Northwest — to reform the Medicare payment system to reward the "high-value" care that they practice, which they argue would help reduce health-care spending over the long run […]
Rep. Peter DeFazio, a liberal Democrat from Oregon, told The Post Friday that unless congressional leaders restore the House language on Medicare payments, he will vote against the bill. "I will oppose the bill unless they fix geographic disparity," he said.
"If they need my vote, they can address it…." he said. "We can shovel money into Louisiana, but our fix is gone … because there are some powerful East Coast senators who don't want it in there."
UPDATE: Just spoke with Rep. Ellsworth's office and confirmed he's a Yes. They're sending over a statement.
UPDATE II: The statement, on the flip. Key line: "After assurance from the Catholic Health Association, Catholic Nuns and pro-life advocates I am confident in my heart that this bill meets my pro-life principles." The nuns gave him cover.
"Like most Americans I was frustrated by this process throughout. Unfortunately many in both parties made snap judgments on whether or not they would support this bill based on politics, not policy. I was sent here to look at all sides of the argument in a thoughtful manner and I knew that the status quo was no longer acceptable. I needed to answer only one question when deciding whether to support this reform: will this bill benefit Hoosiers? Put simply, in my core I know it does."
"There is no issue more important or more personal to every single Hoosier than our health and well-being. My job is to look beyond all the political games, study the bill carefully, and do my best to make the right decision for Indiana."
"After months of meetings and conversations with thousands of Hoosiers, health care experts and pro-life advocates, I am confident supporting health care reform is the right decision for Hoosiers."
"Starting this year, children with pre-existing conditions will never again be denied coverage. Indiana small businesses will get the tax breaks they desperately need to reduce their health care costs and invest those savings in growing their businesses and creating jobs for Hoosiers. And our seniors will see significant savings on their prescription drug bills as we start to close the Medicare Part D donut hole.
"As a pro-life Hoosier, one of my central concerns has been preventing federal funding of elective abortion. Throughout my brief time in Congress, I have held firm to my pro-life principles, even when it meant going against my party, and I am proud of my 100% pro-life voting record on abortion-related issues. I have spent time listening carefully to constituents, pro-life leaders, policy experts and reading all the details of every bill. After assurance from the Catholic Health Association, Catholic Nuns and pro-life advocates I am confident in my heart that this bill meets my pro-life principles and upholds the policy of no federal funding for elective abortions. More than that, it invests $250 million in support services for women facing unplanned pregnancies and over a billion dollars to help families afford adoption services. These investments will reduce the number of abortions in America."
"In addition to meeting my pro-life principles, the plan reduces costs, improves access to affordable insurance options, covers pre-existing conditions, and does not add one penny to the deficit – my five principles for health care reform."


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"I took a class that was a guaranteed easy A," he recalls. Evolutions of Jazz was one of the most popular courses on campus in the late '60s, because the instructor, who grew up in Cairo, Ill., would bring in local musicians to demonstrate and perform. His teacher took Douglas aside one day and said, ""I saw your name on the class list' he knew I'd taken it for an easy A "I have people demonstrate styles, but no one to play Joplin. Would you learn some?' I said, "Sure. Who's that?'" Douglas remembers the professor appraising him knowingly: ""Looks like you'll earn that A after all.'"
This was before The Sting, with Joplin's "The Entertainer" becoming a surprise Top 10 hit from the soundtrack, and before E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime became a bestseller, so Douglas' first problem was finding sheet music to play. A trip to St. Louis proved fruitless. When a friend needed a ride to Chicago, Douglas agreed to drive him and on the way took a quick tour of the Loop. He stopped at the Carl Fisher Store, asked for Joplin and was handed 56 Ragtime Jazz Classics. There were pieces by Joplin in it, which sufficed for the young man in a hurry. As Douglas rushed out of the store, he remembers "a little voice telling me something," but he chose to ignore it.
Toward the end of the weekend, as he was packing up the car, he finally recognized what that voice was saying: "I thought it was probably a good idea to look at the music, better than just sight-reading in front of the class the next day. The first piece I looked at was "Maple Leaf Rag,' and I thought, "Not tomorrow!'"
He eventually picked out the piece he felt would be "the least bloody." He rises and plays the familiar opening to "The Entertainer." He says, "I got through the first phrase before I busted my knuckles."
Since that moment, "From the day I was able to stagger through a piece, I have found people who have thought the music just wonderful." Encouraged by his faculty advisor, Douglas played three ragtime pieces along with works by Schubert, Debussy and Chopin for his senior recital, which was "the first academic concert in which Joplin was played."
Douglas began being invited to Joplin and ragtime festivals in Toronto, St. Louis and Sedalia, Mo. In Sedalia he met the legendary Eubie Blake, who shared a disturbing reminiscence of an enfeebled Joplin in New York City. "We were sitting in the green room," Douglas recalls. "Eubie was a wonderful man, very generous of knowledge and memory. Somebody asked, "Did you ever meet Scott Joplin?' He said, "I was a kid, should have been in knee pants. I was in a joint in New York. The door opened and in came a guy, the doggies was on him so bad he could hardly walk.'" Douglas says Blake remembered the musicians in the club cruelly calling out to "the great Scott Joplin." Eventually, "They browbeat Joplin to the point he felt compelled to play, but his tremors were so bad, by the time he got through the introduction he collapsed." Douglas remembers Blake's silence after telling the story. "It was clear from Eubie's expression it was painful for him."
Before mass-market recordings, "Maple Leaf Rag" was the first million seller in sheet music, and by 1899 Joplin had amassed what would be a millionaire's fortune today, but his phenomenal success is forever shadowed by his ultimate tragedy and by the injustices he suffered because of the color of his skin. Whatever belated appreciation Joplin receives, it still arrives somewhat distorted. Adjacent to the Scott Joplin House, for example, the New Rosebud Cafe is more than a year past its completion date and still unfinished. When it is finally completed, it will be used for special events, programs, meetings and special exhibitions surrounding ragtime and Joplin's life and times. It takes its name from the original Rosebud Cafe run by brothers Tom and Charlie Turpin, two of the most prominent black citizens of St. Louis which was "the Vatican and the Wailing Wall of ragtime," says Douglas. "It was universally known that if you got hired at the Rosebud, you were confirmed."
Douglas tells a story about Joplin and the 1904 World's Fair that relates to the status of the New Rosebud. Joplin was commissioned to write a composition specifically for the Fair. The result was "The Cascades," which Joplin completed before the official opening date of the Fair 1903, not 1904, to commemorate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition. With the Fair opening a year late, Joplin performed the piece in St. Louis. The Fair commissioners claimed Joplin had broken the exclusivity of his contract and struck him from the Fair's official roster.
Then, as now, Joplin was on time, as the rest of the world fell behind.
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The Lady Mocs also brought home some hardware led by SoCon Freshman of the Year Maria Salinas.
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The Lady Mocs anxiously await word on Monday of its inclusion in the 2009 NCAA Regional field. The NCAA select 63 teams including automatic bids. The Lady Mocs fell just short last year of making the field although de Groot did compete as an individual finishing tied for 17th.
"We played a difficult schedule for a reason," said Head Coach Colette Murray. "It prepared us for what is to come and proved we belong."
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Player of the Year: Stefanie Kenoyer, Furman
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Archbishop Müller on Liberals, Stupidity
From the Religion News Service, this transcribed interview of new CDF head Archbishop Müller with the Mittelbayerische Zeitung. (Cathcon, however, doesn't provide links to the original. I would love to check the translation in a language I actually know.) They quiz … Continue reading
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CCTLS 6: Music in the Liturgical Reform
John Paul II offers a look at the intersection of liturgical music and conciliar reform in section 6 of this document. When he writes "music and song," what does he mean, do you suppose? Accompaniment and melody? Music and text? … Continue reading
RDCA IV, 40-48: Word and Dedication
The rest of the rite for the dedication of an altar consists of the Liturgy of the Word (40-42) followed by the extended rituals of dedication and anointings. I won't belabor the particulars until we get to the dedication prayer, which … Continue reading
The World Watches Archbishop Robert Bezák
Who is this guy? Australia's CathNews cites "fury" as it links The Tablet. One blogger (who persists in calling bishops "Msgr") seems to be happy about it. If I follow the whole line of reasoning … the previous archbishop was … Continue reading
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