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GIA has announced the release of a comprehensive global report on Polymeric Polyols markets. Global market for Polymeric Polyols is forecast to reach 33.1 billion pounds (lbs.) by 2020, driven by growing demand for polyurethane in the automobile, construction, and furniture industries.
Global market for polymeric polyols is exhibiting rapid growth, backed by increasing demand for polyurethane across major end-use sectors such as furniture, construction, automotive, and refrigeration, among others. Polyols are important raw materials used in the production of polyurethane, coatings, thermoplastic elastomers, adhesives, sealants, medical devices, and artificial leather. Developing countries supported by huge appetite for plastics represent primary consumers of polymeric polyols. Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe are registering robust growth, due to the adoption of expansionary monetary policies for boosting domestic demand.
As stated by the new market research report on Polymeric Polyols, Asia-Pacific represents the largest and the fastest growing market worldwide with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6% over the analysis period. Growth in the region is led by growing population, rapid industrialization and the ensuing high concentration of construction, automotive, and other industries. Eastern Europe and Latin America are also poised to witness rapid growth in the coming years.
Growing emphasis on sustainability is one of the key trends driving growth in the market. Development of a number of innovative and green technologies for polyol production is expected to benefit demand patterns. Of special note is the growing popularity of CO2-based polyol production technology. Against a backdrop where combustion of fossil fuels for manufacturing processes is being replaced by smokeless processes, the concept of using CO2 as raw material for the production of polyols is gaining immense interest. CO2-based polyol technology is relatively inexpensive and makes use of cheaper and renewable raw materials. The resulting high performance polymers produced are cheaper, eco-friendly, and possess low polydispersity indices.
A large number of companies are focusing on the production of bio polyols from natural oils, such as castor oil, corn oil, canola oil, palm oil, rapeseed oil, and soybean oil, among others. Of these, soybean and corn are the most widely used. Soy-based polyols are finding increasing use in rigid foam insulation, carpet backing, structural foams, pickup truck bedliners, and flexible foams. These polyols are cheaper to produce and have wide applications. The polyurethanes derived using soy-based polyols are used in binders, urethane foams, coatings, adhesives, and sealants.
Stringent environmental regulations are driving investments in the production of polyols by recycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and Polyurethane (PU) wastes. Global market for green polyols is forecast to witness strong growth supported by rising consumption in Asia-Pacific and other emerging markets. Polyols demand in these markets is fuelled by increased consumption in major end-user sectors such as consumer durables, transportation, furniture or bedding, carpet, packaging and construction, among others.
Major players covered in the report include BASF Group, Bayer AG, Chemtura Corp, Daicel Corporation, The Dow Chemical Company, Huntsman International LLC, Perstorp Holding AB, Shell Chemicals Ltd., SINOPEC Shanghai Gaoqiao Company, and Stepan Co., among others.
The research report titled "Polymeric Polyols: A Global Strategic Business Report" announced by Global Industry Analysts Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, growth drivers, regulations, issues, challenges, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic industry activities of major players worldwide. The report provides market estimates and projections for all major geographic markets including the US, Canada, Japan, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, India and Rest of Asia-Pacific), The Middle East, and Latin America (Brazil, and Rest of Latin America). Product segments analyzed include Polyether Polyols and Polyester Polyols.
Global Industry Analysts, Inc., (GIA) is a leading publisher of off-the-shelf market research. Founded in 1987, the company currently employs over 800 people worldwide. Annually, GIA publishes more than 1300 full-scale research reports and analyzes 40,000+ market and technology trends while monitoring more than 126,000 Companies worldwide. Serving over 9500 clients in 27 countries, GIA is recognized today, as one of the world's largest and reputed market research firms.
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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal titled "Stress-Busting Smiles" proclaimed "smiling could be good for your health."1
This intrigued me. How?
A recent study suggests that wearing a grin can bring benefits, "like slowing down the heart and reducing stress." 1
Researchers had 170 participants hold a pair of chopsticks three different ways in their mouth. Holding the chopsticks in their mouth made the participants smile even though they were unaware they were smiling. "One way forced people to maintain a neutral expression, another prompted a polite smile, and a third resulted in a full smile that uses the muscles around the mouth and the eyes."1
The participants who smiled had a "steeper decline in heart rate"1 and a faster recovery to stress.
This got me thinking: What brings a smile to my face? Of course my family and friends popped in my head first, but what small things bring a smile to my face?
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The suit also alleges that Alto Gary, the Texans' cheerleader coach, "made threats of imminent bodily harm" to the former cheerleaders. Allred would not elaborate on that allegation and said the former cheerleaders were focused on settling the issue through civil court actions and not criminal complaints.
Former cheerleader Kelly Neuner said the Texans "did not care about my rights as a professional as a woman and as a part of the team. … This organization does so much good work in the Houston community and throughout Texas. However, they should treat their cheerleaders with the same respect and dignity."
Allred said the Texans and their fans owe current and former cheerleaders respect and proper pay for their performance.
"Pay these women what they deserve, and be sure you pay them for every minute they work," Allred said. "Everyone who supports this team while how these cheerleaders are being treated are complicit."
The lawsuit Friday contains many of the same elements as a May 21 case filed on behalf of a former cheerleader who is seeking class action status on behalf of other former Texans cheerleaders.
Allred said the five women she represents would not seek class action status because each has a different claim against the team.
Some contracts require that legal disputes be submitted to arbitration, but Spurlock said there are discrepancies in that regard among different versions of cheerleader contracts and that attorneys hope to proceed through the federal court system.
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The Hidden Valley drops-in from the top of the Lagazuoi mountain at 2,752m, adjacent to the famous Rifugio. The Fanes mountain range can be seen to the right of the run while descending and is just a majestic sight. The valley walls to the left are smaller but scattered with frozen waterfalls, one of which you ski right under. It isn't a water-fall, really, this is water that has seeped through the rock to be frozen on its passage to the valley floor. The colours, shapes and scale are mesmerising. The run twists and turns for 7 km, creating a mysterious and secret ambience. Once at the bottom of the trail, you have the option of taking the horse drag, a great experience, where you hold on to ropes pulled by a pair of horses as they take you along the flat frozen river bed to the next lift. Technical details: refuges skipass: Dolomiti Superski
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Simulation analysis for the number of SNPs per one accurate GRAD classification of maternal inheritance for different fetal DNA fractions and sequencing depths.
Facilitated by the high-sequencing depth of a non-PCR–amplified library of the maternal plasma DNA sample, we investigated if certain base positions in the genome would be preferentially represented at the ends of plasma DNA fragments. In this regard, we showed that plasma DNA fragments carrying the most prevalent 0.5% of plasma DNA ends represented 3.5% of all DNA fragments. Across the genome, 25% of the fragments had at least one identical fragment that shared the same ending sites at both ends. If the cleavage or breakage of plasma DNA was completely random, only 1.45% of the DNA molecules would be expected to have at least one counterpart sharing common ends (details are in Materials and Methods ). Had the sequencing been performed using a PCR-amplified library, then 14% of the fragments would have been wrongly assumed to be PCR duplicates and would have been filtered off.
We further investigated if there would be differences in the preferred ending sites for maternal and fetal DNA in the same cell-free DNA sample. To show this phenomenon, informative SNP loci where the mother was homozygous (genotype denoted as AA) and the fetus was heterozygous (genotype denoted as AB) were identified. In this illustrative example, the B allele would be fetal-specific, and the A allele would be shared by the mother and the fetus. The fetal-specific and shared reads covering one such informative SNP are shown in Fig. 3 . For comparison, the sequencing results of a DNA sample obtained from blood cells and artificially fragmented using sonication are also shown. Clusters of preferred ending positions could be observed among the plasma DNA data. For the plot of the probability of a genomic location being an end of DNA fragments (also referred to as the fragment end probability), three peaks were observed for each of two groups of fragments carrying the fetal-specific allele and the allele shared by the mother. These peaks represent the hotspots for the end positions of fetal- and maternal-derived DNA in maternal plasma, respectively. In contrast, the fragmentation pattern of the sonicated DNA seems to be random without such clusters, and the fragment end probability is similar across the region ( Fig. 3 ).
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As the concept of search continues to grow in scope, I tend to find myself eschewing multiple levels of categorization in favor of larger groups. I'll give you two examples of what I mean.
Think of your inbox. I used to have folders for different systems, folders for different clients, folders for different colleagues, and so on. Now I tend to leave everything in my inbox and use the various search features of my mail client or other search applications to retrieve messages as I need them. I'm not sure if this is due to the fact that the searching capabilities of these applications are better than they used to be or if I'm just more prone to searching for things since that's what all the hip kids are doing these days.
Think of a data driven web site. A retail site possibly. As you drill down into the categories of goods, you'll usually have a breadcrumb trail somewhere on the page. Do we really drill that far down nowadays or do we immediately go to the search box and type in what we're looking for? If it's the latter case, what's the point of having a bunch of piddly little categories like Electronics > Digital Cameras > Memory Cards > 512MB? Why not just dump everything in one big category and let the search functionality take care of the process of finding something?
I like to be able to find something on the fly when necessary and I don't want to have to remember how I originally categorized it. What's the login info for that FTP site? Categorization is tedious at best, and often times the same person will choose different categorizations for a given item at different times. The following is a simple way to implement basic keyword search functionality using SQL Server and nothing but.
Here are our objects we'll end up with:
I'm no cognitive scientist, so I can't tell you exactly how our brains keep track of bits of information. But the things that we need to remember are often very fragmented and defy categorization. I'd venture a guess that our brains are like logs and we make entries into that log. So let's have a table called LogEntries. The most basic column is the actually entry itself - LogEntry varchar(8000):
"Remember that you increased the budget for the Razzmatazz account by $10K."
And when we make that mental note, it would be nice to remember when we made it - DateEntered datetime:
'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss'
But when we remember it, do we actually think of the exact phrase we originally thought of? Probably not. We probably remember something more like "razzmatazz account budget increased". So now we have some keywords (or tags) associated with our entry. Tags varchar(200):
'increased budget account'
CREATE TABLE LogEntries
EntryId int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
Entry varchar(8000) NOT NULL,
Tags varchar(200) NOT NULL,
DateEntered datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT (GETDATE()),
CONSTRAINT PK_LogEntries PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (EntryId ASC)
CREATE TABLE Keywords
KeywordId int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
Keyword varchar(50) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PK_Keywords PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (KeywordId ASC)
CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX IX_Keywords ON Keywords
Keyword ASC
CREATE TABLE LogEntry_Keyword
EntryId int NOT NULL,
KeywordId int NOT NULL,
Hits int NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PK_LogEntry_Keyword PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
EntryId ASC,
KeywordId ASC
CREATE TRIGGER trgInsertLogEntry
ON LogEntries
-- Declarations --
DECLARE @tags AS varchar(200) -- This will hold the tags string (e.g. 'increase budget such 'n' such account')
DECLARE @keyword AS varchar(50) -- An individual keyword from the tags string (e.g. 'increase')
DECLARE @keywordId AS int -- The keyword id from the keywords table
DECLARE @found AS int -- Whether or not the keyword wAS already in the keywords table
DECLARE @entryId AS int -- The entry id of the logentry being inserted (@@identity)
-- Temp table for current keyword data for the newly inserted LogEntry --
CREATE TABLE #kw
kwid int PRIMARY KEY, -- The id from the Keywords table
hits int -- The number of occurrences of this keyword
-- Data from the newly inserted LogEntry --
SET @entryId = @@identity -- Get the newly inserted logentry id
SET @tags = (SELECT tags FROM INSERTED) -- Get the newly inserted tag
SET @tags = LTRIM(RTRIM(@tags)) + ' xyz' -- Add a fake keyword to the end that won't get inserted
-- While there are still keywords in the newly inserted LogEntry's tag --
WHILE (CHARINDEX(' ', @tags) > 0)
-- Get the next keyword from the tags string
SET @keyword = SUBSTRING(@tags, 0, CHARINDEX(' ', @tags))
-- Get the KeywordId from the Keywords table
SELECT @keywordid = (SELECT KeywordId FROM Keywords WHERE Keyword = @keyword)
-- Insert the keyword if necessary
IF (@keywordId IS NULL)
INSERT INTO Keywords VALUES (@keyword)
SET @keywordId = @@identity
-- See if the keyword id is in the temp table yet
SELECT @found = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #kw WHERE kwid = @keywordId)
-- If not found insert it
IF (@found = 0)
INSERT INTO #kw VALUES (@keywordId, 1)
-- If found update the hit count
IF (@found != 0)
UPDATE #kw SET hits = hits + 1 WHERE kwid = @keywordId
-- Update the tags by lopping off the keyword just processed
SET @tags = substring(@tags, charindex(' ', @tags) + 1, len(@tags) - charindex(' ', @tags))
-- End while --
-- Insert the keywords and their occurrences into the LogEntry_Keyword table --
INSERT INTO logentry_keyword
SELECT @entryid, kwid, hits
FROM #kw
The whole purpose behind this exercise is to be able to associate a piece of data with string identifiers. When creating the data we want to be able to say (to ourselves):
Okay, I need to remember that at today's meeting we discussed ways of improving communication within the company. The first way was to blah blah blah...
And then say it more succinctly in keyword form:
meeting ways improve communication within company
That's two things. Two arguments for our sp_logentry function:
CREATE PROC sp_logentry(@entry AS varchar(8000), @tags AS varchar(200)) AS
INSERT INTO LogEntries (Entry, Tags)
VALUES (@entry, @tags)
And now, the last thing we need to do is write our sproc to retrieve our data. This will look quite familiar.
CREATE PROC sp_search(@keywords AS varchar(50)) AS
DECLARE @kws as varchar(50)
DECLARE @kw as varchar(50)
DECLARE @kwid as int
-- Temp table for current keyword data --
CREATE TABLE #kw
kwid int PRIMARY KEY
-- Add a fake keyword that won't get inserted
SET @kws = LTRIM(RTRIM(@keywords)) + ' xyz'
-- While there are still keywords --
WHILE (CHARINDEX(' ', @kws) > 0)
SET @kw = SUBSTRING(@kws, 0, CHARINDEX(' ', @kws)) -- Get the tag from the string
SELECT @kwid = (SELECT keywordid FROM keywords WHERE keyword = @kw) -- Find the keyword id
IF (@kwid IS NOT NULL) -- If found insert the id into the temp table
INSERT INTO #kw VALUES (@kwid)
SET @kws = SUBSTRING(@kw, CHARINDEX(' ', @kws) + 1, LEN(@kws) -- Update the keywords
- CHARINDEX(' ', @kws) - 1)
SELECT le.EntryId, Entry, Tags, DateEntered, SUM(Hits) h
FROM LogEntries le
JOIN LogEntry_Keyword lek ON lek.EntryId = le.EntryId
JOIN #kw tkw ON tkw.kwid = lek.keywordid
GROUP BY le.EntryId, Entry, Tags, DateEntered
ORDER BY h DESC
sp_search 'company meeting'
Yes, this is probably more of an exercise than something you'll put into practice. But the basic idea is straightforward and useful when expounded upon. If you decide to do more with it here are some ideas as well as some things to look out for.
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It's less than four weeks until Hellgate 100K, so last week I decided to test my recovery and legs:
Monday I took off, then on Tuesday I ran easy for about an hour and lifted. Wednesday was my first track workout since before Grindstone. After a 10-minute WU, I ran 3x 1200 with the 800 hill surge in the middle. My goal was to hit splits near to those during the Gstone training cycle. I was very pleased (but tired) at the end:
4:57/8:20, 4:55/8:12, 4:56/8:14. I then ran a few miles over to the powerlines and tested myself on the climb: 1:05, 1:06, 1:08. Whew! Not my fastest, but I am pleased given the leaves covering the rocks.
Thursday I took off and Friday I swam and lifted.
Saturday, while my roadie friends were dealing with temps in the 70s and full sun at the Richmond Marathon, I was running two hours easy on the Rivanna Trail in torrential downpours and temps in the 60s (and humidity!). Props to Quatro and Bill Gentry who ran the Richmond Marathon and toughed out the awful conditions in fine time. Ultrarunners are just plain tough!
Sunday we had a cold front move in and very cold temps in the 30s. I ran about 20 miles on the AT/Rip Rap/Wildcat Ridge trails with Ed Duval. This is my new favorite run. It has very tough climbs, awesome singletrack, and gorgeous waterfalls and rivers alongside the trail. Here are the GPS details. Perfect training for Hellgate with a few rocky, leaf-covered sections thrown in.
Today I am feeling tired but my legs are fine---it was a good week. My next (and last) long run will be the annual Death March in the SNP over Thanksgiving weekend with the VHTRC---one of my favorite runs of the year.
Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Monday, November 17, 2008
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Posted by Sophie Speidel at 8:52 AM
2 comments:
- Footfeathers said...
Ah, I miss the trails there sometimes, especially this time of year. Nice effort you put in this week. Hellgate should be a great adventure for you!
- November 19, 2008 at 10:03 AM
- Sophie Speidel said...
Thanks, Tim.
I checked out your web page...hope things are looking up for you. Running is a great problem-solver, yes?
- November 19, 2008 at 8:04 PM
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The new year brings with it good news regarding a possible fix to the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that has plagued family physicians for the past decade, but as 2013 began, FPs held out little hope that Congress could get its act together and actually do something about Medicare payment reform.
AAFP President Jeff Cain, M.D., right, discusses Medicare payment policies with Rep. Joe Heck, D.O., R-Nev., co-sponsor of a Medicare reform bill, shortly after a congressional briefing announcing reintroduction of the legislation.
In fact, at the start of 2013, physicians were once again looking at a temporary payment patch that would replace a 26.5 percent cut with a one-year freeze in payment, a solution that (then) AAFP Board Chair Glen Stream, M.D., M.B.I., of Spokane Wash., called a relief but no resolution to the ongoing problem. "The current system, with its deeply flawed sustainable growth rate formula, generates an annual, semiannual, sometimes monthly crisis of confidence among elderly and disabled Medicare patients and their physicians," said Stream in a press release regarding the announcement. The AAFP once again renewed its call for a permanent fix to the SGR.
In addition to the annual SGR formula fiasco, physicians also faced a 2 percent cut in payments because of the sequestration deal called for in the Budget Control Act. Sequestration also called for cuts in discretionary funding for vital medical education programs. Vigorous protests by the AAFP and other organizations only delayed the cuts, leaving FPs facing a payment cut as of April 1.
Delivering Parity
At the same time, a program that promised to pay physicians more for seeing Medicaid patients for certain primary care services was slow to get underway.
The Medicare-Medicaid parity program was intended to bring Medicaid payments at least up to the same level as Medicare rates in 2013 and 2014. However, by the middle of 2013, many states were just getting their programs off the ground.
The delayed launch of the program led the AAFP and other organizations to call for an extension for at least an additional two years. "The extension is particularly important because its slow startup -- with many states only now beginning to pay at the higher Medicare rates -- combined with a lack of assurance that it will be extended beyond 2014 has not allowed an adequate enough time to demonstrate the program's effectiveness in improving access," said a November coalition letter from the AAFP(3 page PDF) and several other primary care organizations.
Fixing the SGR
As 2013 got underway, the promise to fix the SGR finally seemed possible. A flurry of bills to repeal and/or revise the formula were introduced, and lower growth than expected in Medicare health care costs led the Congressional Budget Office to revise its estimated cost to fix the SGR downward by $107 billion, leading to what some called a "fire sale" opportunity to fix the payment system.
An initial draft proposal from the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees was closely scrutinized by the AAFP. As proposed, the draft would have repealed the SGR and taken steps to move from a volume-based to a value-based Medicare payment system.
In a letter to the chairs of the two House committees(404 KB PDF), Stream took issue with the use of performance measures as a sole means of improving care, saying, "It is our experience that performance measures can be used to improve targeted areas of health care delivery, but quality improvement is more complicated and more individual than can be reflected in performance measures alone.
"Therefore, while we agree that pay-for-performance should be included in payment reform, we understand that it alone is not sufficient to lead to general improvement in quality. Payment reform needs to include revisions to fee-for-service, especially higher payment rates for primary care and payment for the coordination of care."
The Academy was more supportive of a bipartisan bill reintroduced in the House by Reps. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa., and Joseph Heck, D.O., R-Nev. The bill would have left in place 2013 Medicare payment levels through the end of 2014, and then would have provided annual updates of 0.5 percent for all physician services for the succeeding four years and a 2.5 percent increase in payments for primary care physicians during the same time period to address the undervaluation of primary care services.
As the year progressed, both the Senate and House continued to tinker with SGR reform, and AAFP members kept up their grassroots outreach to ensure primary care wasn't overlooked in any final proposal. The AAFP also provided advice to both the House and Senate on how to structure legislation to revise the Medicare payment system.
In a May letter to the Senate Finance Committee, Stream urged Congress to adopt a payment system that would include a new category of evaluation and management codes to reflect the intensity and complexity of primary care office visits. Stream also urged Congress to encourage the adoption of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model by paying PCMH practices a per-patient, per-month fee to support the management and coordination of patient care inside and outside of the office setting.
"When health care delivery is built on a strong foundation of primary care, efficiency and quality are high," said Stream. "However, a system that pays for health care based only on services provided fosters inefficiency through fragmentation, which can threaten quality as well."
Finally, in early November, the House and Senate released a bipartisan draft proposal that would repeal the broken SGR formula and replace it with alternative payment models more aligned with quality of care, including the PCMH model and accountable care organizations.
The proposal's emphasis on reforming the fee-for-service payment system in favor of a more quality-oriented approach supports a health care system built on a foundation of primary care, said the AAFP in a media statement.
Although the AAFP was concerned that the proposal would freeze fee-for-service payment rates for Medicare for 10 years (2014-2023), physicians participating in alternative payment models, including the PCMH, could receive bonuses of as much as 5 percent each year from 2016-2021, noted AAFP President Reid Blackwelder, M.D., of Kingsport, Tenn.
"The proposal seems to be an attempt to move away from the current fee-for-service system," Blackwelder said. "It's important that we think beyond fee-for-service payments only and consider how payments for quality care need to be structured so we eventually can move away from fee-for-service as a sole payment model," he added.
As the end of the year approached, Congress wrote a three-month extension of the SGR into the budget bill, with the idea that those three months would allow lawmakers to reconcile the House and Senate proposals and get a bill passed. However, neither the House nor the Senate proposal mentions how an SGR repeal would be funded. That question should be answered early this year.
GME Payment
Better funding for graduate medical education (GME) also was very much at the top of the AAFP's wish list for 2013. It was a primary subject for AAFP leaders when they met with congressional leaders on Capitol Hill in February, particularly as it looked as though budget cuts to GME programs would go deep.
Sequestration cuts for primary care programs were expected to be as much as 8 percent, leading AAFP leaders to point out that the cuts would hurt programs that help produce family physicians, thereby undercutting the supply of FPs in the workforce pipeline. "The sequestration cuts may save money in the very short term," Stream said. "But it would be very costly in the long term, especially if Congress is not doing everything possible to improve the pipeline of new family physicians. This means that in the long run, fewer people are going to have access to family physicians, resulting in lower quality and higher health care costs."
The AAFP kept up the drumbeat on GME funding throughout the year, repeatedly calling on members to contact their legislators. In written testimony(5 page PDF) submitted to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education in March, the AAFP reminded lawmakers that the United States faces a shortage of primary care physicians at the same time that millions more patients are expected to gain access to the health care system as a result of health care reform. The Academy called on Congress to provide millions more for programs that provide primary care training opportunities.
Open Payments Rule
2013 also was the year when the final rule on the Physician Payments Sunshine Act was issued. The Sunshine Act requires drug and device manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) to report payments or gifts of $10 or more made to physicians, hospitals and other providers on a yearly basis. The provision also requires manufacturers of these products and GPOs to report ownership and investment interests held by physicians or their immediate family members in the entities.
After tweaking the proposed rule based on comments from the AAFP and other organizations, CMS proceeded with the plan, including creating a website that will compile data for the public by Sept. 30. This database caused some concern for the AAFP.
In May, CMS called on physicians and teaching hospitals to register for the National Physician Payment Transparency Program -- formerly the Physician Payments Sunshine Act -- so they could review data reported on them before it is posted on a public website in 2014. Physicians are not required to register for the program, but those who do will have an opportunity to dispute inaccurate or incomplete information and have it corrected before it is posted.
In response, the AAFP urged CMS to set up an interim review process so physicians and teaching hospitals could review their data before it is sent to CMS. "The AAFP remains very concerned that CMS is creating a data collection mechanism which directly pertains to an individual physician's financial information without first providing physicians with the ability to review and correct the interim data gathered by the applicable manufacturers," said Stream.
AAFP Director Wanda Filer, M.D., answers a question about team-based care posed by Joanne Kenen, health care editor for Politico and moderator of a March 19 policy forum on scope-of-practice issues.
Workforce Issues
Ongoing concerns about workforce issues and scope of practice also were on the Academy's radar in 2013.
At a March policy forum, AAFP Director Wanda Filer, M.D., of York, Pa., strongly emphasized that granting nurse practitioners (NPs) independent practice authority would undermine the concept of team-based collaborative care, while further fragmenting an already disjointed U.S. health care system.
"I have nurse practitioner colleagues and physician assistant colleagues who work right next to me, and they are incredibly valuable for the patients that we all care so much about," said Filer.
Still, physicians' extensive training and expertise best qualify them to lead the health care team, according to Filer. She cited the physician-led PCMH as the best example of a collaborative, team-based approach to care.
In fact, according to a policy brief co-authored by the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, nearly 60 percent of family physicians work with NPs, physician assistants or certified nurse midwives to provide a team-based model of care, which will be increasingly important as millions more people in the United States receive health insurance coverage thanks to the health care reform law.
Then, during a July 17 webinar on scope-of-practice issues, Blackwelder and the executive director of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing agreed that team-based, coordinated care services are the most effective means of achieving improvements in patient care, enhancing access and controlling costs. But Blackwelder also noted that "each member of the (health care) team has unique but not interchangeable skills."
"Surveys show that patients overwhelmingly want coordinated team approaches to their health care needs, with a physician leader," said Blackwelder. Although NPs are critical members of the health care team, they "cannot provide the same level of comprehensive care provided by primary care physicians."
A study released in December backed up Blackwelder's assertion. It found that
- 72 percent of American adults prefer physicians to nonphysicians when it comes to health care,
- 90 percent of adults would choose a physician to lead their "ideal medical team" when given the choice, and
- by a greater than two-to-one margin, adults see physicians and family physicians as more knowledgeable, experienced, trusted and up-to-date on medical advances than nonphysicians.
"This survey puts a face -- a family physician face -- on the message that's being repeated nationwide that team-based care and primary care are critical to the successful transformation of health care delivery in this country," said Blackwelder.
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The UMaine Spin system in not thinking that winning is important in the evaluation of the head basketball coach at UMaine was out in full force today as the University bought ad space in the BDN to list the names of the 250 2012 UMaine Scholar-Athletes who maintained a 3.0 or better grade average.
One of the evaluative tools used to evaluate the Maine Mens Basketball Coach is how many players on the 15 man roster make the GPA List which is an academic average of 3.0 or higher for 2012.
9 of the 15 rostered basketball players made the list of the 250 UMaine Scholar-Athletes that were listd in the Bangor Daily News Today. The names of these Scholar-Athletes were listed in the ad.
9 of 15 is a very satisfactory 60% of the Mens Basketball Team.
The following made the 3.0 or better list.
Mike Allison
Leon Cooper
Ali Fraser
Till Gogler
Luke Hetterman
Shaun Lawton
Jon McAllian
Stefan Micovic
Zarko Valjarevic
Congratulations to those mentioned above. However, two starters and a player who started earlier in the season and then did not get much playing time as the season progressed did not make that list.
The 15 players didn't help Woodward keep his job on the court, which seems isn't that important to the athletic administration evaluative philosphy, but they certainly helped save his job in their 2012 classroom performances.
Also looks like the two seniors are going to graduate on schedule which is another important evaluative tool and all of the players were good college citizens this year as there were no reported negative incidents which is another evaluative tool.
So seeing that the adminsitration doesn't think that not winning not being that important, but 9 GPA Listees, Graduating on Time and being good college citizens being the major evaluative tools then the 15 Maine Mens basketball Players again saved Woodwards job from a buyout of his 2 years left on his exisiting 3 year contract.
I thought that these 3 evaluatve concerns would also be expected if the team had a winning record or even if they didn't have a .500 season, or even if they happened to win a tournament game or didn't win a tournament game for 8 consecitive years.
These important evaluative tools for GPA's, graduating on time and being good college citixens should be expected no matter what the win-loss record was.
This evaluative philosphy is that of D3 progrms who do not offer athletic scholarships and do not recruit all over the world for players.


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May 2, 2006
Ivan Acebo-Choy, San Cristobal Chiapas, Mexico, will be conducting research on Indigenous Painting in Southern Mexico as well as having an internship at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art.; Syud Ahmed, Bangladesh, will be working with a chemist at the University of Wisconsin. Ahmed will be researching Field Chemistry and Nanotechnology.; Nelson Barre, Highland Ranch, Colorado, will travel to Greece, the Mediterranean, and Paris with Duke University in an ancient philosophy course.; Seth Baxter, Fort Wayne, will be working at K and K insurance company and also Subway in Fort Wayne.;
John Brauchie, Tulsa, Ok., Dave Culp, DeKalb, Ill., and Shaun Rico, Phoenix, Ar., will be training in Arizona for baseball and playing in a league in Pheonix and taking classes.; Barton Bridge, Indianapolis, will be working for the Hogan Mayflower Company and will be studying at the University of Copenhagen in the month of June.; Ben Bly, Indianapolis, will be working at the Wabash College Admissions Office and also training with the Cross Country Team.; Kyle Cassidy, Elwood, In., will be working for a bank in Elwood and saving money for off campus study.; Ian Cubie, Gambier, Ohio, will be working at a factory in Mansfield Ohio.;
Andy Deig, Evansville, will be working with Dr. Greg Redding on a research project over German immigration to America. He will be located in Evansville and is a part of the Know Indiana program.; Andrew DeRolf will be doing a Present Indiana Project over Native American Heritage.; Eric Eder, Fort Worth, Tx., will be working at the Lilly Library on the Wabash College Campus.; Rodney Frederick, Farmersburg, Ind., will be the head boys' counselor or Land Program director at YMCA camp in Princeton, In.; Justin Gardiner, Delphi, In., will have a social services internship at the Indianapolis Children's Museum.; Alex Goga will be working for Reemtsma, a German Tobacco company owned by Imperial Tobacco. He will be in Hamburg, Germany, for 2 weeks, Sofia, Bulgaria, for 6 weeks.
Steve Hernandez, Indianapolis, will be conducting research in the Atlantic from the Republic of Honduras in Central America sponsored by the G. Michael Dill fund. The title of his research is: "The Punta Funeral Ritual of the Garífuna People: An Examination of its Organological Resources and Contextual Significance."; Michael Heighway, New Palestine, In., will be working with campus services on the Wabash College Campus.; Drew Howk, Noblesville, In., will be working at the Fort Benjamin Harrison Reuse Authority in Lawrance Ind.; Lee Johnson, Clayton, Mo., will be working at the St. Louis Society, a non-profit organization dealing with children and adults with disabilities.;
Miles Johnson, Bloomington, in., plans on returning to the Culver Summer Naval Academy as a sailing instructor.; John Kasey, Evansville, In., will be the head lifeguard at the Hartke Pool in Evansville,; Nick Kraynak, Speedway, In., will be working at the Wabash College Bookstore.; Kyle Luth, Attica, In., will be working part time at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette shadowing several doctors.; Matt Maher, Greentown, In., is staying in Crawfordsville to lifeguard at Municipal Pool with Michael Belanger. Crawfordsville.; Steve Miller, Indianapolis, will be interning for Partners in Housing Development Co. in Indianapolis. He will be managing building restorations, researching potential buildings, visiting job sites, interacting with disabled and homeless residents. Operated by Frank Hagman '72.
Andrew Newkirk, Shelbyville, In., will be operating his own Landscape business, Newkirk Property Management. He is in charge of landscaping over 20 park department properties in Shelby County.; Richard Roomes, South Bend, In., will be serving as Camp Counselor at the Christian Outreach Camp outside of Branson, Missouri.; Michael Schultz, Crown Point, In., will be playing baseball with the Melrose Park Indians, a semi-pro baseball team out of Chicago. Michael will also be coaching a 15-16-17 olds in American Legion Baseball League Post 20. He will be running his own car detailing/service business out of his own garage as well as working with fellow Wabash Students Ben Thrall, Elmhurst, Ill, and Luke Odom, Energy, Ill, in a pond building business called Ipond.; Jason Siegel, Fort Wayne, In., will be working with Dr. Todd Rowland '85 in Bloomington doing bioinformantics research.; Jason Simons, Logansport, In., has an internship at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis. He will be exploring the roles of the ministry. He will be giving pastoral care, sermons, Christian education, leading mission trips. He is working with Dr. William Placher, who set up the internship.;
Brandon Stewart, Caruthersville, Missouri, will be working for the Financial Aid Office on campus. He is also attending summer conferences in D.C. and going to Toronto for Beta Theta Phi conference.; Garrett Thiel, Lowell, In., will have an internship at a genetics lab located in Covington, In.; Homer Twigg, Indianapolis, Clayton Craig, Morristown, In., and Zach Webb, Anderson, In., will be canoeing all 330 miles of the Wabash River over three weeks as part of the Lilly Present Indiana program. During their time they will be making a travel guide and taking biological observations.
Matt Vest, Trafalgar, In., will be coaching and age group swim team in Trafalgar as well as waiting tables at Applebee's at Franklin, In.; Roosevelt Washington, Indianapolis, will be going back home to work at the Indianapolis Indian's Victory Field and take classes and Ivy Tech.; Trayton White, Bluffton, In., will be a research assistant at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Pathology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Sexton '07 is a Wabash College English major.


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Lost in the dysfunction regarding the quarterback position is the reality that Tampa's prized offseason acquisition isn't where he wants to be.
Asked by caller on WDAE's Darrelle Revis Show whether he's 100 percent, the guy after whom the program is named was candid.
"In due time, I'll get stronger with my wind and my legs," Revis said, via JoeBucsFan.com. "I didn't go through training camp."
Revis is recovering from a September 2012 ACL tear, and he had limited work in preseason practices. He appeared in no exhibition games.
His comments illustrate the importance of preseason to preparation for Week One. Last year, it took Vikings running back Adrian Peterson several weeks to get rolling after tearing an ACL in December 2011. And we saw how rusty Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III was when he debuted on Monday night.
So, yes, if a guy isn't going to participate in the preseason, it'll take some time to get up to speed when the real games start, primarily since the player will be facing guys who have done a lot more to get ready for the season.
Or maybe Revis is simply trying out the ol' rope-a-dope on the Saints.


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Did you know in the last week, most of our visitors came from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and India? This underscores the fact that visitors to the Grammar Gang are a culturally and linguistically diverse group.
When I first started the Grammar Gang with my colleague, Linda Bergmann (from Purdue), I was a Language and Academic Adviser at the University of South Australia. My work with language, at that time, was about clarity of expression (aided by correct grammar and punctuation); appropriate tone or register in writing; understanding the task (essay or report?); introducing sources and referencing; explaining data and research and understanding structure (introductions/conclusions/topic sentences).
These days, my work has taken me to another sphere of influence in language, and that is language for inclusivity in a diverse world. This is linked to the work our team of Aboriginal tutors and I do with computer scientists, engineers and environmentalists in preparing them for professional practice.
To talk about language and diversity is a big BIG subject - way bigger than this post. However - with the help of some friends - I would like to start a conversation to which I hope you will add.
Written and spoken language are key conduits to a respectful environment and the mores and culture around these change over time. It is so very important for students to understand respect and protocols around language. If we don't attempt to get this right we can look a bit silly (at best) or unprofessional and disrespectful (at worst).
For example, where once it was regarded as acceptable to use the term 'Aboriginal tribes', a student would be encouraged to use the expression 'Aboriginal community'. Similarly, in Australia, we tend to refer to 'Aboriginal' and 'non-Aboriginal Australians' rather than names which are based on skin-colour - such as 'black' and 'white'. The acceptability of this can be very different across cultures.
Sarah Landers - one of our tutors at UniSA - developed a resource for students and others to use and here are a couple of slides to demonstrate respectful terms AND diversity in language:
|Landers, S. 2011 'Appropriate Terminology for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People'
|Landers, S. 2011 'Appropriate Terminology for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People'
Sometimes, though, context and history can make 'finding the right words' confusing. For example, the use of the term 'Indigenous' is ambiguous in Australia. Our Federal Government in Australia recognises this word (over the use of 'Aboriginal') because it encompasses Australians from the Torres Strait Islands who would not normally identify with the term 'Aboriginal'.
John Browne, Senior Academic Adviser in the Indigenous Student Support Unit at UniSA points out that South Australians much prefer the term 'Aboriginal' over the use of 'Indigenous'.
He said, 'Anyone can be "Indigenous" to a country if they are born there, but Ab-original denotes the "first Australians" prior to colonisation and since beginning of time'.
'Indigenous' is a more academic or official label implying anyone who was born in Australia, he said.
To make matters more interesting, there were many, many Aboriginal countries (or nations) prior to European Settlement in Australia. Some people may well refer to themselves as Ngarrindjeri; Kaurna or Pitjantjatjara, depending on what part of Australia they come from.
In our experience teaching in the Indigenous Content program, we find students are almost always well intentioned - even if sometimes they don't quite get it right. According to Sarah, using correct and respectful language is everybody's business and she says we all have a role to play in pointing out the right language. There is a simple bottom line: if you are unsure of the correct terminology, ask.
Now - over to you, dear readers. We would like to hear about your experiences with language and diversity - particularly as these things relate to culture. It's a BIG subject and a most interesting one.


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Ryan Chastain led the way for the men with a second place finish in the 1500m with a new all-time PR of 4:01.43, and a third place finish in the 3000m with a new all-time PR of 8:58.26. His 3000m time was also a new Lipscomb Men's Outdoor Track & Field school record.
"It wasn't an easy double for the guys today," said head coach Bill Taylor. "We loaded up at this meet with the philosophy of training through it. Ryan's double was excellent and gave him a taste of what he is capable of. He was less than a second from the 1500m school record as well. Not too bad for a guy training for 5000m."
Freshman Nathan Brame also had a good double, setting a PR in the 1500m (4:05.50, fifth place) and finishing ninth in the 3000m in a time of 9:04.05, while Jeff Hoover followed suit with great performances and PR's in the 1500m (4:09.50, 10th) and 3000m (9:03.99, eighth). Other PR's in the men's 1500m and/or 3000m:
Tyler Youngs 1500m (4:10.37 11th), Aaron Todd 1500m (4:12.60 15th), Cormac Carolan Tolbert 1500m (4:14.21 19th) and 3000m (9:20.51 21st) and Jonathan Williams 3000m (9:12.60 14th). Cormac Carolan-Tolbert also won his heat of the 1500m.
The women had a great day as well. Caitlin Anderson led four Lipscomb women below 5:00 in the 1500m. Caitlin finished 9th overall with a big new 1500m PR of 4:53.13, then came back to finish 6th in the 3000m with a solid time of 10:39.71. Carolyn Latham ran a big PR in the 1500m as well, winning her heat and finishing 12th overall with a time of 4:58.41, then nearly tying her 3000m PR by finishing fourth overall with a time of 10:27.54.
Louisa Van Batavia posted two big PR's with a 4:58.76 in the 1500m, finishing second in her heat and 13th overall, then knocking about 33 seconds off her all-time 3000m PR, finishing second in her heat and 10th overall with a time of 10:47.39.
Jenny Randolph was the fourth Lipscomb woman to break 5:00 in the 1500m at the meet, finishing 14th overall in a time of 4:59.75, then doubling back for 11th in the 3000m with a time of 10:50.49.
Another double PR was posted by freshman Catherine Beals who had her best meet of her collegiate career. Catherine dropped 17 seconds off her 1500m PR, finishing 16th overall in a time of 5:03.50, then dropping 20 seconds off her 3000m PR, winning her heat in a time of 10:46.87 to finish eighth overall.
"Last year we didn't have a single woman break five minutes in the open 1500m all year," said Taylor. "This year we already have four in the same meet!"
Taylor is especially pleased that so many of his athletes are setting new personal records on a meet-by-meet basis.
"The big PRs keep coming for so many of our athletes," said Taylor. "Although we had a ton of PR's today, it was Louisa and Catherine's turn to take tons of seconds off their times.
"I love how this just keeps building. I love how we are getting heat wins and posting top five finishes in the fast heats. It's a sign of where we are going. The thing a coach wants more than anything is to get better every week. We are doing that and we are nowhere near what we are capable of yet. We'll just keep rolling along, building each athlete and this program week by week."
100m: Kayla Frasier 14.87 14th
200m: Valerie Winkler 27.68 19th
400m: Valerie Winkler 1:02.30 9th
1500m: Caitlin Anderson 4:53.13 9th, Carolyn Latham 4:58.41 12th, Louisa Van Batavia 4:58.76 13th, Jenny Randolph 4:59.75 14th, Catherine Beals 5:03.50 16th, Meagan Hoar 5:15.63 19th
3000m: Carolyn Latham 10:27.54 4th, Caitlin Anderson 10:39.71 6th, Catherine Beals 10:46.87 8th, Louisa Van Batavia 10:47.39 10th, Jenny Randolph 10:50.49 11th, Erin Pyles 11:13.27 21st, Meagan Hoar 11:29.40 27th
SP: Kristin Ratzlaff 9.86m 5th, Jessi Marshall 7.30m 8th
Discus: Kristin Ratzlaff 27.78m 10th, Jessi Marshall 24.73m 12th
Javelin: Jessi Marshall 22.43m 10th
100m: Michael Knox 11.51 7th
200m: Michael Knox 23.34 8th, Brock Lutes 23.43 9th, Steven Mason 24.08 14th, Joey Lever 24.16 15th, Clint Carter 24.20 17th, Andrew Jones 25.12 18th, Aaron Todd 25.95 19th
400m: Brock Lutes 51.12 6th, Andrew Jones 51.56 8th, Clint Carter 51.95 9th, Joey Lever 53.44 12th, Jacob Nelson 53.45 13th, Steven Mason 53.63 14th
800m: Josh Baker 2:12.03 20th, Ben Fennell 2:13.18 21st
1500m: Ryan Chastain 4:01.43 2nd, Nathan Brame 4:05.50 5th, Jeff Hoover 4:09.50 10th, Tyler Youngs 4:10.37 11th, Aaron Todd 4:12.60 15th, Cormac Carolan-Tolbert 4:14.21 19th, Jared Carlson 4:14.50 20th, Jonathan Williams 4:14.59 21st, Hunter Hethcoat 4:16.94 16th, Ben Fennell 4:17.19 25th, Paul Wright 4:19.39 32nd, David Wolfe 4:22.01 33rd, Trace Carlson 4:25.33 35th
3000m: Ryan Chastain 8:58.26 3rd, Jeff Hoover 9:03.99 8th, Nathan Brame 9:04.05 9th, Jonathan Williams 9:12.60 14th, Hunter Hethcoat 9:17.44 19th, Cormac Carolan-Tolbert 9:20.51 21st, Jared Carlson 9:20.93 22nd, Paul Wright 9:49.13 25th
4x400m Relay: Lipscomb A 3:28.66 2nd, Lipscomb B 3:37.14 7th
LJ: Steven Mason 5.38m 10th
SP: Alex Jerkins 12.87m 12th
Discus: Alex Jerkins 37.03m 10th
Hammer: Alex Jerkins 31.50m 9th
Javelin: Austin Ray 42.86m 4th
The men's and women's track teams will next compete in the Alabama Relays at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on March 28-29.


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In 1871 Erving, Massachusetts, was just beginning to experience the population growth caused by the growth of Millers Falls on its western edge, where the majority of the early factories of that village were located. The remainder of the town was quite rural, with logging, wood products, and agriculture the major industries. Prominent on this map is the "Erving Castle or Hermit's Cave." There, an imposing cliff formed a natural cave that was inhabited in the late 1860s by John Smith, a Scotsman, who became something of a celebrity for his rugged lifestyle. Local fashionable ladies came to visit him on summer days. He lived there for more than twenty years before being taken into a Montague home, where he died in 1900.
In 1871 the population of the town of Wendell, Massachusetts, was widely dispersed. Dependent on logging or agriculture, there were few other industries. In 1871, more intensive logging was beginning that by the 1890s would almost entirely strip the hills of their trees. Ten years after this map, the village of Farley would be located across from the Erving home of A.R. Albee on the Millers Falls River and the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad.
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by Lou Mancinelli
Improvisation. Acting on the free flow of thought. Such a concept is often associated with jazz, different types of theater and other various art forms. But whether you are playing basketball, and the man the play is designed for has just slipped, or cooking and you are missing a spice, improvisation is present in our everyday lives in ways we may not realize.
In fact, it can also be used to teach self-improvement and conflict-resolution. For the past six years, former New York City and Philadelphia lawyer and Chestnut Hill resident, Tema Feuer Esberg, has done just that. In addition to the teaching, Esberg has over 26 years of experience on the stage and in film.
"It's a great, fun way to hone really important life-skills," said Esberg about practicing improvisation, "like being in the moment, eye-contact, spontaneity and thinking out-of-the-box."
Esberg has utilized her tactics and classes to teach people as far ranging in age as students at Germantown Friends School to adults in her own private classes and to city residents through the city's Mural Arts Program. Often, companies or organizations will invite her in to facilitate large group sessions and build group rapport in cases where communication and teamwork are essential.
This fall, beginning Oct. 11, Esberg will share her techniques with her class, "Intro to Improv," at Summit Presbyterian Church, 6757 Greene St., through the Mt. Airy Learning Tree. The class runs until Dec. 6.
The class, while it has its elements of and is rooted in theater, is more about helping individuals develop their awareness, self-confidence and their ability to excel, even without a set script, and less about teaching students the finer points of theater.
"I feel that improv class helped me to think more outside the box, to really be able to think on the fly," said Abe A., a former student of Esberg's. "As a result, I feel that my speeches have generally been funnier, and my composure has been better. I feel like the theatrics/entertainment quality has improved significantly, as well. I treat my speeches more like performances than just reciting what I wrote. I'm much more confident with freestyling when I've lost my train of thought, to the point that nobody even notices that I've lost my place."
If you have ever seen the popular television show "Whose Line Is It Anyway," you can get a sense of what part of the class might be like a few weeks into its sessions. Students might be given three words like cat, tomato and shoehorn, and asked to create a dialogue with the other students on the spot using those words.
Before that, Esberg begins her eight-week program with simple introduction games. She might ask students to say their name with a certain affected tone, while doing a gesture like twisting the hips, and ask the class to repeat the name and gesture. Or she might give students a neutral sentence like 'the grass is brown,' and have students run from one side of the room to the other and say the sentence loudly and clearly enough so that everyone in the room can hear, and with a certain emotion, whether it be a sad or excited one.
While the activities are simple, they begin to build confidence in individuals, according to Esberg, who graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1991, where she studied religion. After graduation she went on to law school at Pace University in New York City. While at Emory and on the side in New York, Esberg, now 42, enrolled in theater classes.
"A lot of times people may not realize how they are honing their skills," Esberg said. "If you are the type of person who thinks about everything before you do it, or you are someone who is not good at letting go, [these games] help to build rapport, because you have everyone in the class responding to and affirming you."
The games help one begin to notice the type of inflection one's voice has at different times, and how that inflection is related to the timing and tone of one's speech. Students begin to become aware of the physicality attached to their speech.
In addition to the classes she teaches through her company, Eskot Entertainment, and MALT, Esberg has facilitated building group rapport and taught conflict-resolution through improvisation at college orientations, workshops and conferences for schools and organizations.
For example, if you are in a situation where bullying is a problem, you can use improvisational workshops to generate discussion, she said.
At 15, Esberg's career in the theater began near her hometown in Cherry Hill. That is when she was recruited to work with the New Jersey Division of Mental Health Services in its outreach troupe. Esberg, one of only two teens in the troupe, went into the community using socio-drama techniques to facilitate dialogue and conflict-resolution for victims of domestic violence, recovering alcohol and drug addicts, seniors and others.
More than 25 years later, her work focuses on that same thing she fell in love with as a teenager. But it wasn't until the birth of her first daughter, Maya, in 2000, that Esberg began to reevaluate her life. Meanwhile, the idea to pursue her passion for theater had "been in the back of [her] head all these years."
"I became a lawyer because I thought that's what I was supposed to do," Esberg explained. "When I was that young, I didn't realize that I could choose a career I really liked. I thought you had to live according to a more prescribed norm."
So after graduating from Pace in 1994, she practiced law in New York City. While in New York, she took classes at HB studios. When she moved with her husband, Doug, to Philly in 1997, she saw a flyer one day for the Full Circle Theater, a local improv troupe.
After she joined the troupe, Esberg began to meet many individuals involved in the local improvisation and theater scene. Those relationships led to Esberg's appearance in numerous performances in various community theaters like the Stagecrafters' performance of "Wrong Turn at Lungfish" in Chestnut Hill.
In 2004, she began teaching classes in improvisation. Last year, Esberg expanded her knowledge of improvisation when she attended Thomas Jefferson University's Mindfulness Institute. She has also studied the subject at the Omega Institute in New York.
"When I first quit law, I got a lot of big eyes," Esberg said. "People assured me I could always go back. Now, people say to me, 'I wish I could follow my passion.'"
"Intro to Improv" will be given Tuesdays, Oct. 11 to Dec. 6 (except Nov. 8), 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Summit Presbyterian Church, 6757 Greene St. More information at www.eskot.com, www.mtairylearningtree.org or 215-843-6333.


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Occasionally I install applications manually, rather than using
apt or another package manager.
What location (
/home/, etc.) is suggested by "best practices" for the installation of user applications?
That depends, really. If the application has a makefile, (for python apps) uses distutils (has a
setup.py file) or a similar build/install system, put it into
/usr/local/ (default behavior).
If you just need to extract a tarball and run directly (e.g. Thunderbird, Firefox) then put it into
Why? From what I understand,
/usr/local/ has a hierarchy that is similar to
/usr/. So a program expecting to get "installed" into
/usr/ should work fine in
/usr/local/. A program that just needs one directory and will get all files/libraries relative to that directory can get one directory for itself in
It's good to remember that
/usr does not stand for user but rather unix system resources.
As such, I tend to figure that any distribution has the rights to stomp all over over contents of
/usr, and that my specific additions to the system go in
/usr/local, which I preserve before doing an upgrade.
Meanwhile, applications and other things go in
Some people feel comfortable putting stuff in
/home, though I rarely follow that convention.
All that said, I let the distribution package manager do things its way first, and then do the above when hand rolling stuff.
Install unstable programs like firefox devel in /home/user/opt/ makes it a lot easier to remove, and no confusion for other users as to what version they should use... So if it is not a program for global use, install it in a subfolder in your home directory.
Never install programs in /usr/, it is likely to cause chaos, things installed in /usr/ is meant to be for distribution packages only. /usr/local/ is for packages locally compiled. And the srtucture works in exactly the same way! files in /usr/local/ will be prioritized over files in /usr/
/opt/ should be used for installation of pre-compiled (binary) packages (Thunderbird, Eclipse, Netbeans, IBM NetSphere, etc) and the like. But if they are only for a single user they should be put in your home directory.
If you want to be able to run a program installed in a "weird" location (like /home/user/opt/firefox/) without typing the whole path you need to add it to your $PATH variable, you can do this be adding a line like this in your /home/user/.profile
export PATH=/home/user/opt/firefox:$PATH
The folder name should be the one where the executable file you need to run is located.
The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard indicates
From http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html:
The original idea behind '/usr/local' was to have a separate ('local') '/usr' directory on every machine besides '/usr', which might be just mounted read-only from somewhere else. It copies the structure of '/usr'. These days, '/usr/local' is widely regarded as a good place in which to keep self-compiled or third-party programs. The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr. Locally installed software must be placed within /usr/local rather than /usr unless it is being installed to replace or upgrade software in /usr.
I usually have a folder named "Programs" in my home where I install those programs, strange enough (or not) they are all java stuff right now.
It has one great advantage for me, when I reinstall or change computers they get moved with the rest of my home. It has a clear disadvantage, those apps are only available to my user.
Use "checkinstall" to convert your alien package to a deb so that it is uninstallable using the package manager.
Do note that config files will often not be handled as config files (perhaps ignored, or perhaps treated as part of the app), and that pre- and post-install scripts sometimes get bungled, though it will usually warn you when it thinks the deb will have a bad pre- or post-install script.
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Manchester City claimed their first English title for 44 years after Sergio Aguero's last-gasp winner secured the club's first Premier League crown from under the noses of arch-rivals Manchester United, on a dramatic final day of 2011/12.
Separated only by goal difference, the two-horse race gripped fans all over the world, celebrating the competition's 20th year in scintillating style.
Now, with the start of the 2012/13 campaign less than a week away, GiveMeFootball assesses the title credentials of the top six contenders in the Premier League this year. . .
Chelsea have undergone a major recruitment drive this summer, as Roman Abramovich looks to capitalise on the club's Champions League final success last term.
Roberto Di Matteo, now the full-time Blues boss, will have an opportunity to stamp his own authority on the squad, and has wasted no time in strengthening with attacking midfield additions like Marko Marin, Eden Hazard and Oscar, who lit up the Olympics with Brazil.
The departure of Didier Drogba will leave a huge hole in Chelsea's forward line, with £50million man Fernando Torres expected to step up and fill the void, finally proving his worth at Stamford Bridge.
The arrival of a number of quick, nimble players, suggests that Chelsea will change their style of play, trying to emulate Barcelona's fluid, free-flowing football - a far cry from what brought the club FA Cup and European success last season.
If Di Matteo can successfully integrate the new approach, the reigning European champions could be dark horses for domestic glory.
Prediction: 3rd
Arsene Wenger has already warned Arsenal's main Premier League rivals that his squad will be genuine title contenders this season, but the accuracy of that statement surely depends on whether or not the club can keep hold of influential captain Robin van Persie.
The want-away striker, who scored 30 league goals last campaign to claim the Golden Boot, has expressed his desire to leave north London in search of trophies.
Despite recruiting well over the summer, with the exciting addition of Lukas Podolski, Olivier Giroud and Santi Cazorla, Wenger has been unable to convince Van Persie that the Gunners will be in the mix-up come May, even if on paper it appears to be the club's best chance of ending its seven-year trophy drought.
Arsenal were not only weakened by the sales of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri last summer, but their early season form was also affected by the disruptive transfer window which saw a late flurry of activity. 12 months on and the frugal Frenchman has got his business done early, and hopefully that will help the players to find their feet quickly in 2012/13.
Prediction: 4th
Roberto Mancini's relative inactivity in the summer transfer market highlights the strength of the Manchester City squad. The reigning Premier League champions have so far added only Jack Rodwell to their star-studded line-up, but if reports are to be believed, his arrival could soon be followed by Liverpool defender Daniel Agger.
Despite not yet making any marquee signings, City boast a wealth of world-class talent - David Silva, Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero, as well as the returning Carlos Tevez. The Argentine duo could form a formidable partnership in attack, and will play a pivotal part in helping the club to retain the title.
Joe Hart is the last line of a very well-organised defence, marshalled by influential captain Vincent Kompany, who seems to get better with every game. If success is supposedly built from the back, then the Citizens can look forward to a triumphant future.
Prediction: 1st
Sir Alex Ferguson knew he needed to strengthen his Manchester United squad ahead of the new season, and he has done just that. Securing the signature of want-away Arsenal captain Robin van Persie could prove to be the difference between winning and losing the title, but whatever the outcome, the Red Devils still have plenty of reason for optimism.
Even if they don't land last season's Golden Boot winner, United still have Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck and Javier Hernandez in attack, with a midfield supply line from wingers Ashley Young and Luis Nani.
Throw into the mix the addition of creative midfielder Shinji Kagawa - the 23-year-old Japanese international, signed from Borussia Dortmund - and it's clear they'll have no shortage of flair, or threat in the final third. United, as always, will be a big force.
Prediction: 2nd
Tottenham have made a change in the managerial department, with former Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas replacing Harry Redknapp in the White Hart Lane dugout.
The suggestion is that Spurs will need a period of transition, particularly following the retirement of club captain Ledley King, and the impending departure of Luka Modric, but the gamble taken by chairman Daniel Levy could pay off.
Spurs have made positive additions with the capture of Gylfi Sigurdsson and Jan Vertonghen, and will be pushing for Champions League qualification next term, after missing out this year, despite finishing fourth in 2011/12.
As the deal for the permanent signing of last season's loanee Emmanuel Adebayor continues to stumble, attacking reinforcements remain a priority for Villas-Boas. A headline signing will help restore faith in the club's ability to continue challenging in the higher echelons of the Premier League.
Prediction: 6th
Liverpool's decision to sack club legend Kenny Dalglish in favour of a relatively unproven coach, Brendan Rodgers, also shows a conscious change of direction for one of the Premier League's elite. After a prolonged period of underachievement, Anfield owners Fenway Sports Group are looking to bring the good times back to Merseyside.
The feeling is that the club is heading down the right path, with the former Swansea boss renowned for a compelling, easy on the eye, tiki taka style that will be sure to appease Liverpool fans.
Such sweeping changes take time, though, and expectations should not be too high. Providing Rodgers isn't burdened by the need for an immediate impact, he has the potential to succeed.
More consistent performances in the Premier League is a necessity, and the club will also keep their hand in European competition with Europa League inclusion, as long as they get through their play-off with Hearts later this month.
Rodgers will have to be clever with his squad rotation to ensure Liverpool's European commitments don't impact negatively on their bread and butter domestic campaign, with Champions League qualification the number one target.
Prediction: 5th