The Rehoboth Art League is running a monthly series of pairings where members are invited to submit recent work to be displayed in the gallery with works from the collection. When I first heard about it, I glanced through the works and found nothing inspiring. About a week ago, I got an e-mail reminder saying that they were still taking applications for December, so I took another gander. This time two of the works stood out.
So, then I went through my framed work from the past 2 years and opened .jpgs on my computer along with the two images from the collection–about 12 total images on screen. I left it open for a couple hours while I worked on some crochet projects and paperwork. One by one I dropped out images and enlarged the remaining ones until I had my final selection.
These two works come together as depictions of street life, titled appropriately to indicate the urban setting. However, it is their perspectives of the city that differ the greatest. Leach's perspective is scenic of a corner at an intersection. Metz on the other hand is a macro work of still life. Although both highlight a study in forms where multiple rounded organic shapes in the foreground contrast against strikingly sharp, linear angles and planes in the backgrounds.
The tones differ as well. The feel of Leach's painting is decidedly warm and friendly with subdued earthy tones and a brown-colored street. Metz's photograph depicts a much starker street in the black and grey tonal blacktop aggregate. Metz's street also has a much higher contrast in color with the bright candy floating across the surface to further differentiate the tonal variance.
The differences in feeling originate with the medium: Metz's more modern work is a digital photograph and Leach captures a nostalgic moment in the traditional oil painting. The cooler emotional response to Parking for Candy Only could also be to the lack of human and canine pedestrians that are present on Corner Market and David.
Coming back to the perspectives of each, we can explore the points of view. In Leach, the reflections on the windows and the streets allow the viewer to examine different parts of the work. Also, the direction of each person's face and canine gait allows us to ponder the various perspectives of the piece. Metz's digital photographs, though, require three different frames to explore the various angles of the subjects. Each photograph allows the viewer to ponder a different perspective.
I am proud to say that of the 4 photos I submitted to the fall art show, one was indeed selected and hanging at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center! CAMP is in downtown Rehoboth on Baltimore Ave and now that the parking meters are down it is the perfect time to check out the beachside town. You may remember this photograph from the Summer Streets exhibit in Newark this past summer. I chose this photograph because it was a favorite.
I look forward to seeing you at the CAMP Art Show!
I've been think a lot about the ideal of perfection and making mistakes. I was sharing a story with another artist on Facebook about how I never delete any photograph that I take. Never ever. I often will flip through old files and see something new in a picture that had previously not met focus, or something that I can manipulate into some great digital art, or sometimes a little heavier post-processing can add a selling touch. All of the images above never were posted in their original state; they were the rejects. Until now.
**Fear of making mistakes can cause us to never take action at all and never try.
**Everything is an opportunity to learn and to grow.
I can honestly say that some of my favorite photographs were not a result of me walking outside, turning on my camera, pushing the shutter button once, and uploading that image as a final print. Never ever. Looking at my mis-takes is precisely how I learned photography. I have not taken any coursework on photography or cameras. With the shutter, aperture, ISO, and other settings I took a lot of mis-takes to learn, and I would say that the same true for those with a degree. I believe that mis-takes aren't even mistakes because they are exactly as intended. It's up to us to change our perspective to see what we can learn from our rejection of something we created!
Shot in the afternoon sun, shadows of beams and rays of light onto a brick wall.


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Advocates' Consumer Co-Chair Joan Claybrook, President Jackie Gillan, Insurance Co-Chair Bill Vainisi, Mrs. Bonnie Lautenberg and Advocates' Board Member Andrew McGuire present a Highway Safety Hero Award to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Families affected by motorcoach crashes join Mrs. Bonnie Lautenberg and Advocates' President Jackie Gillan to present the inaugural Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Highway Safety Leadership Award to Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety Releases Report Showing Major Public Health and Economic Benefits of Enacting Highway & Auto Safety Laws
Safety Group Celebrates 25 years of Promoting Life-Saving Laws and Programs Resulting in Safer Vehicles, Safer Drivers and Safer Roads
Announces Creation of Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Highway Safety Leader Award for Congressional Courage in Advancing Safety
June 18, 2014 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) today released a new report showing that federal and state auto safety laws enacted over the past 25 years have saved at least 131,900 lives and over $2 trillion in economic cost savings. The report, Advocacy for Safe Cars, Safe Driving, and Safe Roadways-25 Years of Saving Lives and Reducing Costs from Traffic Crashes, was commissioned to commemorate the safety group's 25th anniversary. Since 1989, Advocates' unique alliance of consumer, health and safety groups and insurance companies and agents has been highly effective in advancing laws, programs and policies that have made America's roads safer.
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The report, authored by Dr. Ted Miller at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), reviews a sample of federal and state laws enacted with significant involvement and leadership by Advocates during the past 25 years. The report assessed the impact of the laws on the reduction of highway deaths and injuries and mitigation of crash costs. Among the laws reviewed are adult and child occupant protection statutes, impaired driving laws, prohibitions on the use of cell phones while driving, laws mandating motorcycle helmets, and novice teen graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws.
The report analyzes several critical legislative and regulatory initiatives in the past 25 years that have resulted in life and cost savings. These include passage of federal and state laws directing vehicle safety standards requiring electronic stability control to prevent rollover (over 2,000 lives saved per year), front seat airbags (40,652 fatalities prevented) and safety belt use (29,228 deaths avoided).
In 1989, when Advocates was formed, there were 45,582 traffic fatalities in the U.S., while in 2012 33,561 people died in motor vehicle crashes according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
"When Advocates was created 25 years ago, it was viewed as an experiment about how to effectively advance safety policies and whether a public interest and insurance industry partnership could be successful and sustaining," said Joan Claybrook, President Emeritus of Public Citizen and Consumer Co-Chair of Advocates' Board of Directors. "The joint forces of these two groups have proven that consumers and insurers can work together and can achieve important gains in curbing this public health epidemic. I am proud to be part of Advocates' history of achievements and see this coalition as a blueprint for tackling future safety challenges in Congress and state legislatures."
The cost savings resulting from the passage of highway safety laws is stunning according to the findings in the report, with government savings amounting to $100 billion. Dr. Miller also concludes that absent action by Advocates and its partners, costs associated from crashes would have topped $650 billion in 2013 alone.
Bill Vainisi, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Allstate Insurance Company and Insurance Co-Chair of Advocates' Board of Directors said, "Prevention is key to saving lives and saving money for consumers. In addition to averting tragic fatalities and injuries, Advocates' work has helped to reduce crash costs, and American families are the ultimate winners. Insurance companies are proud to be a part of this unique and effective organization. Bringing together such a diverse group to fight for safer vehicles, safer drivers and safer roads has resulted in safety victories that simply could not have been achieved by either group working alone."
At a reception celebrating Advocates' 25th Anniversary today on Capitol Hill, Advocates will announce the creation of a new biennial award, the Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Highway Safety Leadership Award, to honor the former New Jersey Senator's legislative legacy in advancing highway safety laws. Mrs. Bonnie Lautenberg will present the inaugural award to the four Congressional champions of the Motorcoach Enhanced Safety Act, provisions of which were enacted in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), Pub. L. 112-141(2012). These Members are Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Representative John Lewis (D-GA) and Representative Ted Poe (R-TX). Mrs. Lautenberg noted, "Throughout his career in public service, Frank was passionate about improving public safety on our nation's roads whether it was fighting drunk driving, or preventing the spread of bigger, more dangerous trucks, or securing funding for highway safety programs. The Democratic and Republican recipients of the award named in his honor exhibited the same two traits Frank had in every safety battle he took on – dedication and determination. Our family is honored to have such an award commissioned to celebrate Frank's many traffic safety and lifesaving contributions."
Additionally, Advocates will present "Highway Safety Hero" awards to other Members of Congress, federal and state leaders and citizen activists who have advanced safety initiatives as well as American Honda Company for their work in advancing pedestrian safety.
List of Award Recipients

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Neifert: The overall user experience that people have when interacting with a device has moved from the underlying hardware to the software. The emphasis has shifted to enhance the user experience. Opening a window on your desktop used to be simple. Now there's shading and fancy graphics, so the same window that used to come up in 5 instructions may now take 500. It looks a lot nicer and in some cases that changes the user experience. But from the processing side, the focus stopped being on single-thread performance as the megahertz started burning up too much power. They branched out into multicore to solve that, but changing the software to accommodate that has been a big struggle. Changing the hardware to isolate that properly has been a struggle, too. Some of the processing that been done on computers is difficult to migrate over to mobile devices. A lot of the innovation on the desktop is now taking place in the embedded space. If you want to see the leading-edge design techniques, that is where you have to look.
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LPE: Are we better off with many cores or multiple processors?
Martin: Multiple heterogeneous processors are the way to go, particularly in the mobile domain. With clusters of servers you may have many homogeneous tasks you want to map. The desktop is a bit of the orphan here. If you move to cloud computing and the highly mobile devices and ever-smarter phones, you wonder if people will worry about even having a tethered desktop. That means the innovation may be in the big server farms and the mobile devices, and the desktop may gather dust.
Neifert: It will be replaced by a docking station that you plug your mobile device into.
Martin: That's right. Or as we have seen, some companies are combining mobile devices and a laptop together. The use cases are extremely interesting because there is no single use case. For a mobile device that has an advanced graphics processor, the game player may burn up battery by hammering that all the time. The music lover may be using MP3 decoding and get significantly longer time out of the battery. That drives significantly different use models and processor choices.
Rohatgi: There are a lot of different vertical markets. It ranges from digital still cameras to anything with a battery. There is a use case for multiple processors. Networking and cloud computing are very large markets. In the embedded space, what has happened is there are a lot of people in the SoC space. The hardware itself is heavily commoditizing. Even the operating system is commoditizing. The differentiation is how you pick and choose your IP. If it comes down to cost in a mobile phone, from the top up they don't have a feature list or a use model. The discussion begins with, 'What can you fit in a 7 x 7?' Based on something like that, what kind of IP can you fit in there and still have a useful device? In the volume mobile phone market, the direction is to shrink the die as small as possible. It may be a 6 x 6 or a 5 x 5. In that case, I would choose multicore rather than multiple processors.
McDermott: In cell phones the issue used to be standby and talk time. People could self control that. If you talk more your battery goes down. People are starting to experience that if you want to play games you have to deal with this. We're starting to deal with the apps developers. You used to have specialized OSes and applications. With the proliferation of open source you don't know what could be running on there. It can run any app. We're reaching out to the app developer to write code that is attentive to the power effects. There is an amazing learning curve through people writing a good game experience in a power budget that's acceptable. You need to get the apps to be power-efficient.


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Based on the author's analysis of in-depth interviews and relevant research literature, this booki nvestigates and explores the experiences, problems and pressures faced by black and ethnic minority women managers in the United Kingdom. To date, research addressing the issues of black managers has been almost exclusively American, predominantly black African-Americans, and the overall amount of published research has been limited. Indeed, studies of black and ethnic minority professional women, especially in corporate settings, have been virtually excluded from the growing body of research on women in management. This book has been written to fill this gap.


This might have been my favorite reading so far. I read with Honor Moore, Mensah Demary, and Cortney Lamar Charleston and it was at the Nuyorican! A place I used to go when I was in my twenties and listen to Poetry slams. You can see the issue and read my story in The Common here. They have a brand new website, so check it out.
Thanks so much, Job, and to Kate Schmier, Sandra Hong, Jonathan Segol and my amazing agent, Duvall, for coming out. Thank you Jennifer Acker for being such a bright literary light, accepting my story, asking me to read and creating such a lovely community. I always have a good time at Common events.
And, reading gets easier each time I do it. This time I didn't even have to sip my tiny flask of whiskey.


Since at least the 1970s, frog populations have been in decline. A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that at least 3.1 percent of frog species have gone extinct, and another 6.9 percent may disappear within the next century. John Alroy, a biologist at Macquarie University in Australia and the study's author, computed extinction probabilities for species of frogs around the world by building a statistical model based on sighting frequency and last date of sighting. Frogs are at risk for a number of reasons, including epidemics caused by pathogens like the fungus B. dendrobatidis; deforestation; invasive species; and climate change.


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I know that, she does think of me.
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Появились изменения и пользователю высылается новый собранный образ. Чтобы пользователю не потерять данные своей БД ему надо будет сделать экспорт/импорт БД или достаточно будет скопировать/вставить содержимое каталога БД?
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Next Monday, Neil MacGregor, the former director of the British Museum, begins a 30-part series on religion on Radio 4, Living with the Gods. The radio show aligns with the exhibition of the same name that is set to open at The British Museum on 2 November. MacGregor reflects on his former role as director of the museum and what to expect from the radio programme.
A 5 star review, courtsey of The Guardian, on the new exhibition at Tate Modern that opens today, 18 October. The exhibition, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not everyone will be taken into the future, is the first time these artists will have a major UK exhibition for their instillation art.
The prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year award has been awarded to a photojournalist who captured a criticially endangered black rhino lying dead with its horn cut off. The photograph beat out 50,000 other entries from 92 countries and will be shown in an exhibition at the Natural History Museum opening 20 October.


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Boys Don't Cry
Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Hilary Swank, Peter Sarsgaard
Based on a true story, the film focuses on the brief life of Teena Brandon (Hilary Swank) who becomes Brandon Teena and claims a new male identity in the rural town of Falls City, Nebraska. There, Brandon successfully pulls off portraying a man unbeknownst to the women he's dating, eventually falling in love with Lana (Chloe Sevigny).
He also befriends Lana's friends John and Tom. At first, Brandon's new friends like him and treat him as a buddy. But when Brandon's sexual identity is revealed, the deception triggers a spiral of horrific violence that ends in homicide.
Director: Kimberly Pierce
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Having a parent in the military can be so tough on little ones. They don't really understand why mom or dad has to be away for so long, and missing special events like birthdays can be especially painful. When one dad, a member of the U.S. Air Force, missed his young son's birthday celebration by a day, he decided to make up for it by giving him a present that he'll never forget! Be sure to grab a tissue when you watch what happens when Alec opens it.
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Irish Winners at Wimbledon
Eddie Ryan's Monthly Sports Column
This year's Wimbledon Tennis Championships will be the 129th running of the famous competition. To date just only three Irish people, have ever won the coveted All England Singles Championships.The first Wimbledon Championship was staged on 9 July, 1877. The lawns at the venue were arranged so that the main court was in the middle, with the others courts arranged around it, thus leading to the the 'Centre Court'.
The name was retained when the Club moved to a new site in Church Road in 1922. There was only one event in the first ever Wimbledon.The Gentlemen's Singles title was won by Spencer Gore, from a starting field of 22 entrants.
About 200 spectators paid the princely sum of one shilling each to watch the final. Gore who also played cricket for Surrey, had a rather unusual motivation for winning the title. He needed the winners purse, in order to raise money for the purchase of a horse drawn roller!
At around the same time, a little girl named Helena Rice was happily playing tennis with her sister, in their large family garden in Marlhill. Situated near New Inn in County Tipperary, it would provide the ideal setting for Ireland's only ever Wimbledon Ladies Singles champion.
Lena as she came to be known, would go on to join the local Cahir Lawn Tennis Club. This provided another important step in her tennis development.
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The most important factor in growing a hosta is owning a hosta...we are all well aware of the tough nature of a hosta plant. The most important factor in growing a hosta well, however is soil preparation, soil preparation, and soil preparation. Nowhere has this need been better demonstrated, than in the garden of Van and Shirley Wade of Belleville, Ohio.
Let me preface my remarks by saying that some areas of the midwest and northwest have naturally near perfect soils. These folks are most certainly skeptical of people such as myself that spend time extolling the virtues of soil preparation. Many others are satisfied with the way their hostas grow, and for them (at least until seeing the Wade garden) felt that they were doing a good job growing hostas.
Begin by remembering that the most important part of the hosta plant is what? Oh, course it's the leaves...right? This illustrates the common misconception that the most important part of something is that which we can see. In hostas as well as almost all other plants, the most important part is the root system...the underground network that provides moisture, nutrients, and anchors the plants in the ground.
We must first examine what the roots would like to be happy, because as the saying goes...happy roots are healthy roots and lead to healthy plants. Probably the most important factor in soil preparation is pH. Ph is defined by scientists as the percentage of hydrogen ions in the soil. In lay terms, pH is the acidity or alkalinity of the soil. The scale of pH in soils runs from 1 to 14, with 1 being the most acid and 14, the most alkaline.
Most garden plants, hostas included, prefer a pH near 6.0, which indicates a soil that is slightly acid. Many native soils in the south have a natural pH of 4.0, while soils in the midwest have pH's in excess of 8.0. While these numbers may seem relatively close, each number represents a ten fold increase in the acidity or alkalinity.
By example, the pH of the native soil in my garden is 4.0, which is 100 times as acid as the desired pH of 6.0. A good analogy is the use of a dilute solution of cleaning bleach that can be used with the bare hand. Imagine making the solution 100 times as strong, then sticking your hands into the solution...look ma...no skin. Begin thinking of your hands as roots of your hostas. As the solution becomes more acid (or alkaline), the root hairs, which absorb the nutrients and water are burned, rendering them unable to perform their primary function. Having the wrong pH consequently negates much of the effect of watering and fertilizing.
Due to the chemical effects of pH, as the soil acidity drops, certain essential plant elements are no longer available to the plants, while other chemical reactions render some soil elements toxic to the plants. Similar chemical reactions occur when the soil alkalinity is excessive...the reason for very few hosta growers in certain areas of the western United States.
Interestingly enough, pH is quite easy and inexpensive to counteract. Most state departments of agriculture offer soil testing for a nominal fee (free in some states). I recommend having a soil test taken ever few years. If you are uncertain about how to get a soil test in your area contact your county cooperative extension service.
I do not however recommend the home soil test kits. While some of these kits do a decent job of determining the soil acidity, they do not measure the buffering capacity of the soil. For example, two different soils of a pH 4, may take entirely different amounts of lime to raise the pH to 6.0. It is not unusual to need amounts from 10 pounds to 200 pounds to change identical pH's in different soils.
In areas of acid soil, powdered agricultural lime does the trick, while in alkaline soils, sulfur (usually used in the form of amonium sulfate) will work to drop the pH.
In using lime, it is critical that the material be mixed into the soil profile. When applied to the surface of existing landscapes, the soil neutralizing effect which takes 6 months to complete will only be effective as the lime moves through the soil at the rate of 1/2 inch per year. This poses two problems...if enough lime is added to change the soil profile all at one time, the surface pH will be too alkaline, while just below the surface, the soil remains acid. Ideally in established plantings, a small amount of lime can be applied every year until the entire soil profile has been raised.
Obviously the optimum scenario would involve having a soil test performed and add the correct amount of lime or sulfur when the beds are prepared. After this time a monitoring of the soil pH every couple of years would be adequate, with small amounts being surface applied as needed.
Many of the garden centers in the acid soil belt have begun to push pelletized lime. Pelletized lime (which I call yuppie lime) is lime that can be spread without turning you or your BMW a gritty shade of light grey. The lime particles have been glued together with a water soluble binder. While pelletized lime can be surfaced applied, a good rain is necessary to dissolve the pellets so that the lime can begin to take effect. Remember that the smaller the lime particles are ground, the faster the lime will work to change the pH.
Many folks make the mistake of using pelletized lime to the rototill into the beds. Since lime works on the "reach out and touch someone" principle, the lime cannot reach out to neutralize acid particles since it is too busy holding hands with thousands of other lime particles. Pelletized lime should always be dissolved on the surface prior to incorporation. I don't mean to degrade pelletized lime, as it is has two advantages...it is much easier to spread, and it pumps much more money back into the economy of the folks who produce and sell the product.
We often hear the advice to plant your hostas in an area that is moist, but well drained...hmmm. Have you ever bothered to think about this advice. Okay, let's begin with moist. Moist is the term that describes a soil condition which is somewhere between wet and dry. That was simple enough, so how about "well drained". On the surface this seems to be a contradiction, for if the area is well drained it should be dry...right?
Wrong, well drained simply means that the excess water drains from the soil, leaving the soil with adequate air space. While we are all familiar with the need for water in the soil, very few gardeners realize the need for air in the soil. Without air in the soil, there is not root growth or development.
If root growth is not taking place, then growth of the hosta also ceases or occurs at a very minimum level. With a lack of root growth, the roots are not able to absorb water or nutrients, even though both may be available in the soil. If excess water is available in a poorly drained soil, the plant could drown and suffer from drought at the same time.
In the world of ideals, which rarely exist outside the classroom, a good soil should be composed of 50% solids (soil particles), and 50% pore space. The soil pore space should be equally divided into 25% air space, and 25% water space. In a typical clay soil on a typical building lot, the total pore space is usually between 25 and 30 percent. Due to compaction and a lack or organic matter, this soil would probably be lacking in both air and water pore spaces. What this means when translated into English, is that the less pore space in the soil, the less the plants will grow.
Most parts of the United States are blessed with clay type soils. While these soils are cursed in both wet weather and dry, the soils are quite valuable for holding moisture and nutrients. Instead of cursing the soils, we need to spend time learning to modify and work with these soils to create an ideal environment for our hostas to grow.
One of the easiest ways to convert these less than desirable soils to productive growing environments is through the incorporation of organic matter. Organic matter is basically something that used to be alive. For most gardeners, this could mean a variety of materials from peat moss to compost to manure.
The act of simply digging into these compacted soils does wonders for adding aeration. The incorporation of organic materials insures that the compaction does not re-occur. The English practice of double digging has long been realized as an important factor in producing some of the lovely and lush English gardens. Due to the intensive labor intensive investment required, it is not often used in this country. In double digging, the top 12 inches of soil are removed and piled to the side. The 12 inches of soil below this layer are dug and mixed with large quantities of organic matter. Then the first layer is reapplied, after also being mixed with organic matter.
Probably the most used and overrated organic amendment is peat moss. On top of being outrageously expensive, peat moss is not very satisfactory at adding aeration to clay soils. Have you ever tried to add peat moss to a soil, then find it again a few days later? Where did it go? Notice that when you open a bag of peat moss it is compacted tightly, reminiscent of the vacuum packed bags of coffee. Is this really going to do us any good in eliminating compaction? Am I saying that peat moss is worse than nothing...no! I am only saying that there are much much better materials available. Save the peat moss for sandy soils which need such ingredients to hold more moisture.
One of my favorite soil amendments is composted leaves. Composted leaves are usually quite abundant in most areas of the country, and are usually free. In many large cities, the towns have large stockpiles that can be accessed free by residents. Other desirable organic materials includes animal manures, compost from your own compost pile, municipal composts, and a variety of other lumber byproducts.
The lumber industry used to have a disposal problem for many of its byproducts, but that was only until they met the gardening industry. Age old piles of sawdust quickly disappeared, when gardeners realized what a wonderful organic amendment was sitting untouched. While old sawdust is becoming much scarcer, a new product which has taken the south by storm...composted ground pine bark. This product, which differs greatly from the shredded mulch makes a wonderful soil amendment. Since it is slow to decompose, but low in nitrogen robbing cellulose, it is wonderful for adding aeration to clay soils.
There are new organic products entering the marketplace almost daily, from Zoo Doo to Mushroom Droppings to Kricket Krap. The key with any organic amendments is to have an adequate and economical supply. The organic amendment is also much more beneficial if it is high in beneficial microorganisms. I would encourage each of you to experiment with many of these different products and draw your own conclusions. For years, some gardeners have extolled the virtues of bone meal, blood meal, cottonseed meal, and the list goes on. What is important to remember is that the only thing that two gardeners ever agree on, is what the third gardener does wrong.
While organic products help greatly in holding moisture, and somewhat in increasing drainage, something more is needed in poorly drained soils. My preference is a material called pea gravel or #78 washed stone. This small washed gravel is spread over the newly tilled bed to a depth of 1/2 inch. The material is then tilled or spaded into the bed to help create the ultimate in permanent aeration. There are a number of new materials on the market to serve similar purposes including chicken grit, isolite (very expensive), and my favorite Stalite. Stalite (marketed under the name "Perma-till" is an expanded (popped like popcorn) slate material which looks like pea gravel but each particle is filled with air space.
Many gardeners have tried to use sand to accomplish the same results of adding drainage, but often wound up with disastrous results. In a clay based soil, sand and clay particles tend to interlock, resulting in a soil with much worse drainage than before. Here in North Carolina, the combination of clay and sand has made us the national leader in brick production. Only when a sand/clay mix becomes more than 70% sand, does drainage improve. The only exception is very organic soils. In these soils, a coarse washed sand will benefit the mix.
When blending organic amendments into the soil, it is important that the necessary nutrients be added at the same time. As you know, there are 16 essential elements for plant growth. Of these, the three that are typically added through fertilizers are nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. On a bag of fertilizer, these are the three numbers across the front of each bag. In each bed, I add at least 100 pounds of slow release fertilizer (we use a 21-7-21) for each 1000 square feet of bed area to be prepared. While many of the micronutrients are critical for plant growth, I recommend that these only be added after a soil test. These micronutrients can be extremely toxic if added in too great a quantity.
Nitrogen is probably the most visible element in plant growth. Slow and pale green growth is usually a sure indication that a plant is suffering from nitrogen deficiency. Any time large quantities of incompletely decomposed organic material is added to a planting site, additional nitrogen is beneficial. The bacteria which work to decompose organic matter, use nitrogen as a fuel. If the nitrogen is not adequate, the bacteria will fight the plants for the rights to the nitrogen.
Phosphorous is deficient in many areas around the country. Unlike nitrogen which is very mobile through the soil, phosphorous is not. Unless phosphorous is incorporated into the soil, it will take years of surface applications to get adequate amounts of phosphorous into the root zone. Most folks get enough phosphorous with their choice of a complete fertilizer. If however your soils are deficient in phosphorous, you may wish to supplement with a superphosphate (0-16-0) or triple superphosphate (0-46-0).
Many gardeners, especially the "organic" types, prefer the use of rock phosphate. This raw form of phosphorous is very slowly available in the soil. If rock phosphate is finely ground, and used in combination with a highly organic soil, it becomes a very valuable and long lasting phosphorous source.
Potassium is the final element in the puzzle. Potassium is also available in most commercial fertilizers. Like phosphorous, it moves slowly through the soil. Unless a soil test reveals that your soil is particularly low in potassium, the amounts provided in a standard fertilizer will be sufficient. In sandy soils, supplemental amounts of potassium are often needed. These can be applied in the form of potassium sulfate, potassium chloride, or potassium magnesium sulfate...the type depends on the native soils of the area. Consult your local extension service for specific advice. Let's see some BIG hostas next year!


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Wednesday, March 2nd 2016. | Transportation
If you want to know more about the fee charged on the Congestive Charge Zone for the motor vehicles, you have to read Facts about Congestion Charge. The people have to pay the fee if they operate the motor vehicles within CCZ on Mondays to Fridays between 7 am to 6 pm. During the Christmas day and New Year's Day, public holidays and weekends, there is no charge in CCZ. Get other interesting facts about Congestion Charge below:
Facts about Congestion Charge 1: the introduction of congestion charge
On 17th February 2003, the congestion charge was introduced. The operation of Western Extension was canceled and began to operate in February 2007 and January 2011.
Facts about Congestion Charge 2: the aim of congestion charge
The congestion charge is applied in CCZ because the government wants to reduce the high traffic flow in the central area. Moreover, the government will use the charged fee to increase the transport system in London.
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Facts about Congestion Charge 3: the standard charge
The non exempt vehicle which travels within CCZ has to pay £11.50 for the standard charge. The ANPR or automatic number plate recognition will be used for the enforcement. The penalty for congestion charge is around £65 and £195. Find facts about bicycle here.
Facts about Congestion Charge 4: TfL
The responsibility of the charge is under the control of TfL or Transport of London. IBM has operated it.
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Facts about Congestion Charge 5: the gross revenue
The gross revenue was around £2.6 billion for the first 10 years after the first introduction of congestion charge.
Facts about Congestion Charge 6: the investment
Around 46 percent of the revenue was invented for improving the bridge and road, public transport, cycling and walking areas.
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Facts about Congestion Charge 7: the bus networks
The bust networks are also enhanced after the government invested £960 million for the revenue earned from congestion charge.
Facts about Congestion Charge 8: the traffic volume
The traffic volume in CCZ was reduced around 10 percent after the congestion charge was implemented for 10 years. It was the report from TfL. Check canal facts here.
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Over the past decade, the traffic speed in CCZ has been reported slower even though the traffic volume is decreased.
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The area within London Inner Ring Road is covered inside the congestion charge zone.
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We are deeply grateful for the Reverend Billy Graham and his life in ministry, which stands as a testament to the power of Christ, evangelized honestly and authentically by a man so gifted for that purpose.
To millions, Reverend Graham was the world's most famous and influential Christian leader. Montreat, however, was home; he and wife Ruth chose this valley to raise their family and to rest and retreat from the rigors of their very public lives. Here in the valley, on those occasions that he ventured into town, Reverend Graham's reputation as a neighbor of humility and warmth had long preceded him.
We join so many in mourning the loss of this wise and humble servant, and we give special thanks for Reverend Graham's presence in Montreat. We offer our prayers especially today to his friends and family.
For more information about the details regarding the memorial and celebration of Reverend Graham's life, please visit www.billygraham.org.
For more information about Reverend Graham's relationship to the Montreat Community, visit www.phcmontreat.org.


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First of all I have an apology to make. I managed to reformat my hard drive over the holidays, wiping away all of my notes for this blog. In particular I was contacted by a reader about an enhancement to gcc's inline assembler support which I have now totally lost. 🙁 So, dear reader, wherever you are, I apologise, and if you contact me again I will make sure that the extended asm enhancement gets mentioned in the next blog post.
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Welcome to a new blog about changes and new features in the GNU toolchain (compiler, assembler, linker and debugger). My intention is to post monthly updates highlighting what is new in these tools so that developers can keep abreast of the developing technologies. This first post covers changes made to the development versions tools in October and November of this year. Earlier posts in this series can be found in my live journal blog here, but future posts will continue on this site.
Note – these features have not yet made it into released products like Fedora or RHEL, so if you want to play with them now, you will have to download the sources from the FSF and build your own toolchain.


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Born in Havana, Pedrito settled in NYC by 2000, where he received the Thelonious Monk Award for Afro-Latin Hand Percussion.
Martínez was a founding member of the highly successful, Afro-Cuban/Afro-Beat band, Yerba Buena, with which he recorded two albums and toured the world. Pedrito was featured in the film documentary, Calle 54. And his singing and percussion playing were featured in the 2011, Academy Award-nominated, Chico and Rita.
His career as a leader began in 2005 forming the Pedrito Martinez Group. Their Grammy-nominated first album was chosen among NPR's Favorite Albums of 2013 and The Boston Globe Critics Top Ten Albums of 2013.
Habana Dreams, PMG's second album, generated accolades to include #1 Latin Jazz Album in NPR's Jazz Critics Top Jazz Albums for 2016 and being named anong Boston Globe World Music Albums for 2016.
He has recorded or performed with Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, , Bruce Springsteen, and Sting and has contributed, as a percussionist and vocalist, to over 50 albums.
Regular visitors to PMG gigs have included Roger Waters, Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks, John Scofield, Steve Gadd, Steve Winwood and Taj Mahal, to name a few.


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Syria accidentally shot down a Russian military plane
Posted: 5:52 AM, Sep 18, 2018
A Russian maritime patrol aircraft with multiple personnel on board was inadvertently shot down by Syrian regime anti-aircraft artillery on Monday after the Syrians came under attack by Israeli missiles, Moscow has confirmed.
The Russian military said Tuesday that while Syrian air defenses shot down the aircraft, Israel was to blame for putting it in the line of fire, Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti reported.
"As a result of the irresponsible actions of the Israeli military, 15 Russian servicemen were killed, which is absolutely not in keeping with the spirit of Russian-Israeli partnership," said Russian Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, spokesperson for the Russian military, according to RIA-Novosti.
A US official with knowledge of the incident said Monday that the Syrians were trying to stop a barrage of Israeli missiles when the Russian aircraft was hit. A second official confirmed that Israel was responsible for the missile strikes on Syria.
An Israel Defense Forces spokesman declined to comment on the reports.
Anti-aircraft system 'sold to Syria by Russians'
Russian state news agency TASS reported that a Russian IL-20 military aircraft disappeared over the Mediterranean on Monday. TASS, citing the Russian defense ministry, said the aircraft went off the radars during an attack by four Israeli F-16 aircraft on Syrian targets in the province of Latakia, where Russia has based much of its military presence, including aircraft.
The Russian military said Israel notified the Russian side about the planned operation only a minute in advance, and that Israeli controllers would have seen the Russian plane, which was coming in to land, RIA reported.
The US found out about the incident because Syrian forces broadcast an emergency search and rescue radio call on an international frequency. The US then got a direct message from another country about the type of aircraft and circumstances of the incident.
The US official with knowledge of the incident would not identify that country, but it is likely that Russia is the only nation that would know exactly what type of aircraft was shot down.
A spokesman for the Pentagon told CNN that the missiles were not fired by the US military but would not speak as to who was behind the strikes.
The aircraft was shot down by an anti-aircraft system the Russians sold to the Syrians several years ago, the US official said. The Syrian air defense network in western Syria is very densely populated with anti-aircraft missile and radar systems.
In February, the two-man crew of an Israeli F-16 ejected from their aircraft when a missile exploded near them, damaging their aircraft as they finished conducting a mission against Syrian forces.
An Israeli defense official told CNN earlier this month that Israel has struck Syria 200 times in the past 18 months to prevent the deployment of Iranian weapons in the region.
Demilitarized zone in neighboring Idlib
The incident occurred on the same day that Russia announced a joint agreement with Turkey to create a demilitarized zone in Syria's Idlib province, which neighbors Latakia, potentially thwarting a large-scale military operation and impending humanitarian disaster in the country's last rebel stronghold.
Speaking alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin at talks in Sochi on Monday, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the creation of a 15-20 kilometer (approximately 9-12 miles) demilitarized zone will prevent a "humanitarian crisis" in the northwestern province.
All heavy military equipment tanks, ground-to-air missiles and mortars of all the opposition groups will be removed by October 10, the leaders said. The zone, which will be patrolled by Turkish and Russian military units, will become operational from October 15.
Erdogan described the agreement as a "solution" to the issues in the region.
In recent weeks, Syrian and Russian planes have conducted scores of airstrikes in Idlib in the run-up to an anticipated offensive by Russian-backed Syrian forces to retake the last part of the country under armed opposition.
Last week, UN officials said that more than 30,000 people fled the province in anticipation of the government offensive.
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Residents have long been fed up with the mounds of rubbish being dumped on Scenic Hill, but one family decided to take matters into their own hands. On Sunday morning the Brown family drove up to Scenic Hill with their four wheel drive and a large trailer in tow to pick up rubbish. They were in no short supply; within a few hours the family had managed to fill their trailer to the top with large hunks of plastic, cardboard boxes, and even a mattress that had been left behind to fester. Dad Rob Brown said he was fed up with the rubbish gradually piling up over the months, so he decided he would do his bit to make Scenic Hill beautiful again. "I cruise through here a fair bit," Mr Brown said. "It's a beautiful spot." He started at the lookout, then headed back to the top of Pioneer Park and then back down the trail to Collina Oval. He said he was "knackered" by the end of it all, but was happy to see Scenic Drive back to its picturesque state. Mum Sarah Brown said she jumped on the idea of cleaning up the rubbish when her husband suggested it to her. "It's not nice having rubbish out here, especially because there are animals out here that could swallow it," she said. "Council aren't too quick about dealing with this kind of thing, so we don't mind helping the community." Son Cody Brown was all too happy to come along and help his mum and dad out. Cody even brought his own little shovel, which he used to great effect. The family got the idea to clean up Scenic Hill when resident Sue Fordham complained about the rubbish on the Griffith Community Noticeboard Facebook page. "Scenic Hill is not very scenic when it's got rubbish all over it," Ms Fordham said. "I saw the rubbish and it made my blood boil." Ms Fordham said she had seen the rubbish accumulate every Wednesday evening, when she drives from the city centre back to her home. She said she was "disgusted" to see people leaving piles of rubbish every week, but she has never been able to catch the culprits in the act. A little bit of her faith in humanity was restored, however, when the Brown family put up their hands to clean up the area. Ms Fordham was so impressed that she picked up some gloves, rubbish bags, and tongs, and joined the Brown family in their clean-up efforts. She took care of some of the smaller bits of rubbish, and she cleared up the Hermit's Cave and the Chapel. Her dog came along and it seemed to enjoy the day out.
Residents have long been fed up with the mounds of rubbish being dumped on Scenic Hill, but one family decided to take matters into their own hands.
On Sunday morning the Brown family drove up to Scenic Hill with their four wheel drive and a large trailer in tow to pick up rubbish.
They were in no short supply; within a few hours the family had managed to fill their trailer to the top with large hunks of plastic, cardboard boxes, and even a mattress that had been left behind to fester.
Dad Rob Brown said he was fed up with the rubbish gradually piling up over the months, so he decided he would do his bit to make Scenic Hill beautiful again.
"I cruise through here a fair bit," Mr Brown said.
He started at the lookout, then headed back to the top of Pioneer Park and then back down the trail to Collina Oval.
He said he was "knackered" by the end of it all, but was happy to see Scenic Drive back to its picturesque state.
Mum Sarah Brown said she jumped on the idea of cleaning up the rubbish when her husband suggested it to her.
"It's not nice having rubbish out here, especially because there are animals out here that could swallow it," she said.
Son Cody Brown was all too happy to come along and help his mum and dad out.
Cody even brought his own little shovel, which he used to great effect.
The family got the idea to clean up Scenic Hill when resident Sue Fordham complained about the rubbish on the Griffith Community Noticeboard Facebook page.
"Scenic Hill is not very scenic when it's got rubbish all over it," Ms Fordham said.
Ms Fordham said she had seen the rubbish accumulate every Wednesday evening, when she drives from the city centre back to her home.
She said she was "disgusted" to see people leaving piles of rubbish every week, but she has never been able to catch the culprits in the act.
A little bit of her faith in humanity was restored, however, when the Brown family put up their hands to clean up the area.
Ms Fordham was so impressed that she picked up some gloves, rubbish bags, and tongs, and joined the Brown family in their clean-up efforts.
She took care of some of the smaller bits of rubbish, and she cleared up the Hermit's Cave and the Chapel.
Her dog came along and it seemed to enjoy the day out.
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Someone said that "life is in the details." I take that to mean that we really only see the big picture of life when we look at the past or the future. In the present moment, we only see the details. I see the computer screen, I feel my fingers typing, I see my orange cat sleeping on the desk. I know I am hungry for lunch and need to take a shower and go out and run some errands this afternoon. I live in the details.
In a novel I read recently, the author described the French press in the kitchen whistling away to tell them the coffee was ready. Anyone familiar with a French press knows that it doesn't whistle at all — it simply sits there until someone pushes the plunger and pours the coffee. This small error caught me up short. Another error of language that I noticed recently in a novel was simply a mistake in terminology in different parts of the country. I know that in southern California, people use "the" before the number of a highway, as in "the 5." I drive up and down I-95 between Pennsylvania and North Carolina quite often, and I can assure you it is never referred to as "the 95," as this author did.
While these are small errors, they always make me pause and wonder if the author just didn't do his or her research, or was in a hurry, or thought it just didn't matter. Of course, it also speaks to the importance of an editor.
I also do some freelance editing, and I am always on the lookout for small mistakes that can hurt the credibility of an author.
How important do you think these small errors are, either as a writer or as a reader? As a reader, do they catch you up short and interrupt the flow of the story?
I agree – a good book can turn bad for me with a technical error. I was enjoying a book set in the south until the author put the main character in a kayak and had the romantic interest leap in behind her with his oar. Anyone who kayaks knows this is virtually impossible, and they are paddles, not oars. Unfortunately, it bothered me enough to doubt everything else in the novel.
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News Briefs: TMA returns to court over concerns about the No Surprises Act's arbitration process
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The Texas Medical Association (TMA) has gone to court for a second time in less than a year over the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process that's part of the No Surprises Act.
The TMA in late February prevailed in a federal case over a 2021 interim final rule (IFR) that established procedures for the IDR process. This time, the dispute is about an August final rule that updated those procedures, but not in a way that the physician association and other provider groups deemed satisfactory.
Following the earlier court decision, the final rule excluded IFR provisions that set forth the qualifying payment amount (QPA) as the overriding criterion in deciding out-of-network payment disputes between providers and health plans. The QPA is the insurer's median in-network rate for a given service in a given market.
But the TMA wrote in its latest court filing that the updated provisions in the final rule will "have the same effect" as the guidance in the IFR. Among the association's concerns are that the final rule instructs arbitrators to:
Start the decision-making process by considering the QPA before taking into account additional information submitted by either party
Dismiss additional information that is already accounted for in the QPA, which may preclude from consideration factors such as patient acuity and complexity of service
Court ruling increases Medicare payments for 340B drugs but leaves unanswered questions
A recent court decision meant hospitals were in line to receive an immediate and substantial increase in Medicare payments for drugs purchased through the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
A federal judge issued a Sept. 28 opinion stating that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must increase the payment rate from average sales prices (ASP) minus 22.5% to ASP plus 6%, effective immediately. HHS had been planning to implement the increase at the start of 2023 after the Supreme Court in June unanimously ruled that the department inappropriately reduced the payment rate beginning in 2018.
"The prospective portion of the 2022 reimbursement rate shall be vacated because it is defective," wrote Judge Rudolph Contreras, an Obama appointee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. In addition, he wrote, implementing a higher rate right away "will not cause substantial disruption."
Still pending when hfm went to press was a decision on what sort of remedies hospitals will receive, given that payments dating back to 2018 are now considered unlawful underpayments.
The expansion of information-blocking rules under the 21st Century Cures Act has arrived
Hospitals and health systems were among industry stakeholders impacted by expanded rules on information blocking that took effect Oct. 6.
As defined in 2016 legislation known as the 21st Century Cures Act, information blocking refers to practices that interfere with access to, exchange of or use of electronic health information (EHI). Among the goals of the legislation are to enhance patient access to health data and improve interoperability.
Since April 2021, EHI in the context of the regulations has been limited to elements contained in the United States Core Data for Interoperability (version 1). But going forward, EHI can mean any electronic protected health information included in the HIPAA definition of a designated record set, such as billing records, claims and case management records.
Enforcement remains uncertain. When hfm went to press, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services still had not announced the penalties for providers that violate information-blocking rules.
UnitedHealth Group closes Change Healthcare purchase after a favorable decision in an antitrust case
UnitedHealth Group (UHG) completed its $7.8 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare after a federal judge ruled against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in an antitrust suit. In addition to the cash price, UHG assumed more than $5 billion in debt as part of the deal.
"The court concludes that the government has not met its burden of proving that the transaction is likely to substantially lessen competition in the relevant markets," Judge Carl J. Nichols stated in a Sept. 19 written opinion.
Change Healthcare will be integrated with Optum Insight, a UHG subsidiary company that offers first-pass claims-editing services. DOJ had sought an injunction to stop the combination, arguing, in part, that it could create a monopoly in the market for first-pass claims-editing solutions.
However, the court noted that UHG previously had reached a formal agreement to divest ClaimsXten, Change Healthcare's first-pass claims-editing product, to a private equity firm for a reported $2.2 billion after completing the acquisition. Evidence at the trial established that the firm would invest substantially in the ClaimsXten business, wrote Nichols, a Trump appointee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
A national provider directory could be in store as CMS seeks feedback
CMS has sent out a request for information (RFI) on the feasibility of establishing a government-run national directory of healthcare providers and services.
Current directories are fragmented and limited in usefulness, according to CMS: "Directories often contain inaccurate information, rarely support interoperable data exchange or public health reporting, and are overall costly to the healthcare industry."
The RFI cites data showing that physician practices spend $2.76 billion per year on directory maintenance. Moving to a single streamlined platform could mean annual savings of $4,746 for the average practice and $1.1 billion collectively.
A national directory, developed and maintained by CMS and enabled by an HL7 FHIR application programming interface, "could serve as a 'centralized data hub' for directory and digital contact information containing the most accurate, up-to-date and validated data in a publicly accessible index," the RFI states.
Various stakeholders could benefit from such an arrangement, according to the RFI: "In addition to helping patients locate providers that meet their individual needs and preferences, a modern healthcare directory should enable healthcare providers, payers and others involved in patient care to identify one another's digital contact information for interoperable electronic data exchange."
Comments on the RFI can be submitted at regulations.gov through Dec. 6.
Government report puts numbers behind ongoing concerns over drug price increases
More drugs increased in price over the past year compared with recent years, and generally by higher amounts, according to federal data.
More than 3,800 drugs increased in price in January or July 2022, according to a report from the office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The number was about 400 more than in any year going back to 2016.
List-price increases in 2022 were nearly $150 per drug in January and $250 in July. Both averages were greater than in any year going back to 2016. Percentagewise, however, the increases of 10% in January and 7.8% in July were lower than in many recent years.
Among individual drugs, the largest 2022 increases in dollar amounts were $25,000 each (to $424,000) for TECARTUS and YESCARTA, both manufactured by Kite as CAR-T cell therapies to treat blood cancers. The largest percentage increase — more than 1,100% — was seen for Greenstone's Fluconazole, a pill used to treat fungal infections. It increased from $2 to $28 per dose.
Price increases between July 2021 and July 2022 for more than 1,200 drugs exceeded the inflation rate of 8.5%, the report found, with an average increase among that subset of 31.6%. ASPE used the finding to tout passage in August of the Inflation Reduction Act, which requires that manufacturers of Medicare Part D drugs pay rebates if their price increases exceed inflation starting in FY23.
2 Medicare funding programs get last-minute extensions
A short-term federal spending bill that cleared Congress in September included a continuation of funding for the Medicare-Dependent Hospital (MDH) program and designated low-volume hospitals. Funding for both would have expired Sept. 30 but now can be sustained at least through mid-December.
The MDH program is for hospitals that are in designated rural areas, have 100 or fewer beds and have at least 60% of inpatient days or discharges attributable to Medicare beneficiaries. The low-volume payment adjustment is available for hospitals with fewer than 3,800 Medicare Part A discharges based on their most recent cost report.
Drafted bills in Congress would extend the programs permanently, and advocates hope such a bill can be attached to a longer-term FY23 spending package that Congress will need to pass before the end of the year.
Study findings illustrate the impact of a QPA-like benchmark in arbitration
A new study offers context as to why federal regulators are seeking to emphasize the qualifying payment amount (QPA) in arbitration cases under the No Surprises Act (see the lead news item above).
As published in Health Affairs, researchers with the health insurer Elevance Health and Bentley University examined billed charges for out-of-network care in California, which in 2017 implemented rules prohibiting surprise billing. The state does not use an arbitration process, with payment instead based on the median contracted rate for similar services in the market — which essentially is the definition of the QPA in the federal process.
Looking at nonemergency inpatient hospitalizations where patients received care from out-of-network providers, the researchers reported that out-of-network charges in California dropped by $752 (24% below trend) compared with charges in seven states that had no surprise-billing laws.
Mayo Clinic tops global list of 'best smart hospitals'
U.S. hospitals claimed most of the top spots on the second-annual list of the "World's Best Smart Hospitals" as compiled by Newsweek and Statista and published in September.
The list ranks hospitals based on their use of AI, digital imaging, telemedicine, robotics and electronic functionalities.
Mayo Clinic's Rochester, Minnesota, campus ranks first, followed in the top five by Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), Cleveland Clinic and The Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City).
The rest of the top 10 includes Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston), MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York City), Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset (Sweden) and Houston Methodist Hospital. The list totals 300 hospitals, with the U.S. taking 87 places.
is a senior editor with HFMA, Downers Grove, Ill. ([email protected]).
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