Dispelling Myths of Raising Funds for Long Term Care | HBH ...

It?s been our privilege to work with many fine health care organizations.

Raising funds for long-term care presents special challenges for reaching beyond the families whose loved ones are residents in a long term care facility. The general public has many misconceptions about the topic. We?re experiencing this on a personal level in my family now.

Gladys, our 94-year-old, remembers the ?home? in the small town where she grew up as a place where people went to die.? We?re gradually dispelling this myth with tours of some contemporary residences, where she is fed excellent food in welcoming surroundings and meets other elders in similar circumstances.

Other myths are that the ?home? or the ?State? will take the family home and leave the remaining spouse homeless and bankrupt.? Not true.? However, Long Term Care Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Elderly Waiver and all the financial arrangements are a mystery to most people.? And Elder Care is becoming more expensive as memory problems becomes an issue for many.

Ideally, nonprofit facilities make up the difference between reimbursement (which in Minnesota is regulated by the state) and actual costs through philanthropy that provides the extras like 42-inch beds instead of 36-inch beds ? which, to me, look like a child?s bed.

However, it takes a lot of coaxing to gain community interest in philanthropy for long term care. It?s best to start with families who are pleased with their loved one?s care.? Beyond that, community relations and educational activities are key for both marketing and future philanthropy. They bring family, friends and the community into the building and in contact with the elders who live there and plant seeds for volunteerism and philanthropy. ?Special events (?friend-raisers? and fundraisers) are key to introducing new people to a type of charity that has been a well-kept secret.

It takes quite a long time to dispel a misperception, but just last weekend, Gladys spoke warmly of the nice place she visited with us last spring.? If someday she decides she wants to move from her house, she knows what she can expect. And I know that philanthropy makes it possible.

-Dianne

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Texans clinch AFC South with 29-17 win over Colts

Houston Texans linebacker Bryan Braman (50) celebrates with Johnathan Joseph, left, after blocking a punt and returning it for a touchdown in the second quarter of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Houston Texans linebacker Bryan Braman (50) celebrates with Johnathan Joseph, left, after blocking a punt and returning it for a touchdown in the second quarter of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Houston Texans running back Arian Foster (23) rushes for a gain as Indianapolis Colts cornerback Vontae Davis, right, defends in the third quarter of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Houston Texans linebacker Bryan Braman (50) blocks a punt by Indianapolis Colts' Pat McAfee (1) in the second quarter of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Houston. Braman returned the block for a touchdown (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer) MANDATORY CREDIT

Houston Texans inside linebacker Tim Dobbins (52) recovers a fumble by Indianapolis Colts Mewelde Moore at the goal line as Texans' Danieal Manning (38) gestures in the second quarter of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)

Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson (80) catches a pass as Indianapolis Colts cornerback Darius Butler (20) defends in the second quarter of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)

HOUSTON (AP) ? The Houston Texans have a message for the Indianapolis Colts:

Now we own the AFC South.

The Texans are division champions for the second straight year after beating the Colts 29-17 Sunday. Andre Johnson gained 151 yards receiving and a touchdown, Bryan Braman scored a special teams score on a blocked punt, and Shayne Graham kicked five field goals.

The Texans (12-2) grabbed their first AFC South title last season after the Colts nosedived without injured quarterback Peyton Manning. Manning is gone to Denver and rookie Andrew Luck couldn't do much against the inspired Houston defense.

The Colts (9-5) had won three straight games and needed a win to clinch a playoff berth a year after going 2-14 in 2011. Before that, they took the division seven times since Houston entered the league in 2002.

Thanks in great part to three sacks from J.J. Watt, Houston bounced back six days after an embarrassing 42-14 loss to New England on national television. The Texans will have home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs if they win out.

Luck threw for 186 yards with two touchdowns in the return to his hometown. He had led the Colts to a rookie-record six wins on drives in the fourth quarter or overtime this season, and he got the Colts within six points late in the third quarter.

But Houston's defense shut him down after that, and the Texans used Arian Foster to eat up the clock. Foster ran for a season-high 165 yards to leave him with 1,313 yards rushing, giving him his third straight year with at least 1,200.

Watt increased his AFC-leading sack total to 19 ? ? the NFL record for a season is 22 1-2 ? and finished with 10 tackles. He also forced a fumble for the third straight game.

Luck was sacked five times playing behind a makeshift offensive line missing center Samson Satele (ankle) and right tackle Winston Justice (biceps).

Johnson, who has 11,008 yards receiving in his career, scored on a 3-yard reception to make it 10-0 in the first quarter. The Texans didn't score a touchdown on offense after that, but were helped by Braman's special teams effort.

Braman blocked his second punt of the season, recovered it and returned it 8 yards for his first career touchdown to make it 20-3 just before halftime.

Vick Ballard had 60 yards rushing on a Colts drive that ended with an 8-yard touchdown reception by Dwayne Allen to cut Houston's lead to 23-17 in the third quarter. Ballard finished with a career-high 105 yards rushing.

Houston couldn't do anything on its next drive and punted. But Indy sputtered, and interim coach Bruce Arians even drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on a punt, giving Houston the ball at the Colts 39.

Graham added a 46-yard field goal to push the lead to 26-17 and made his fifth field goal with about a minute left.

Rookie T.Y. Hilton and Luck connected on a 61-yard touchdown pass just before halftime.

Watt's forced fumble on Mewelde Moore on the Houston 1 was recovered by Tim Dobbins early in the second quarter, robbing the Colts of points. And the Colts stalled inside the red zone again and had to settle for Adam Vinatieri's 26-yard field goal to cut Houston's lead to 10-3.

The Texans had set the tone as they got to Luck early, sacking him twice on the Colts' second drive. Antonio Smith got to him first, and Watt put a move on backup tackle Jeff Linkenbach and took him down for a 15-yard loss.

On offense, Johnson was dominant. He put Houston up 10-0 when he waltzed into the end zoen for a 3-yard touchdown reception. Johnson kept things going earlier in the drive when he caught a pass, lost it and then grabbed it again just before it touched the ground for a 10-yard gain on third-and-9.

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Sandy May Delay Broadband | Public Safety Communications

Eric Eyre, Staff writer, Charleston Gazette (West Virginia)

Superstorm Sandy caused ?significant damage? to a new fiber-optic Internet network being built in West Virginia with $126.3 million in federal stimulus funds, according to a letter released by the state Office of Technology on Wednesday.

The damage has prompted state officials to consider asking the federal government to extend the deadline for completing the high-speed broadband project. The state now has until Jan. 31 to finish the work, or risk losing any unspent funds. ?

The extension would likely allow Frontier Communications to build more fiber to public facilities. The state also would have time to construct additional wireless towers that serve a statewide emergency communications network.

?We are assessing damage,? said Gale Given, chief technology officer for West Virginia state government. ?We know of fiber damage and have to visit towers to check them.?

In a Nov. 20 quarterly update about West Virginia?s high-speed Internet expansion, state Homeland Security chief Jimmy Gianato made no mention of any damage to the fiber network or towers. Gianato?s son, Adam, is working as a tower inspector on the broadband project in Southern West Virginia.

Gianato sent the report to the National Telecommunications & Information Administration, which is overseeing the stimulus project.

The third quarter ended on Sept. 30, a month before the storm hit, but the federal report asks state officials to declare whether they expect any ?challenges or issues that may impact planned progress? in the upcoming quarter ? October through December. Gianato did not report the storm damage.

Gianato did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Given said Gianato told her Wednesday afternoon that he had ?just become aware? of the storm damage to the new fiber network at the time he wrote the Nov. 20 report and ?had no information on the scope of the damage.?

In 2010, West Virginia received $126.3 million in federal stimulus funds primarily to buy routers and bring fiber-optic cable to more than 1,000 ?community anchor institutions? ? schools, libraries, county courthouses, health centers, State Police detachments, 911 centers, state agencies and other public facilities.

The state is also spending $50 million from the grant to upgrade the state?s wireless tower network that serves first responders ? police, firefighters and paramedics.

At a meeting last week, Gianato told state lawmakers that radio service through the microwave tower network wasn?t interrupted during Sandy.

Given said Wednesday that the state plans to conduct a ?physical inventory? of the state?s 96 tower sites.

Last summer, state officials overseeing the broadband expansion project announced that $9 million would be left over from the $126.3 million grant.

In October, the state Office of Technology solicited ideas for spending the excess funds. Telecommunications firms submitted numerous project proposals, and state officials started evaluating the projects several weeks ago.

The state has put that review on hold, Given told the companies in a letter sent out this week.

Given wrote that federal and state officials ?both agree it is important to repair the damage before the remaining funds are allocated to additional projects.?

Federal officials also recently announced that grant recipients ? including the state of West Virginia ? could petition to extend broadband project deadlines to Sept. 30.

If West Virginia doesn?t receive an extension, the state risks having to return millions of dollars in unspent stimulus funds.

?If necessary, we plan to seek an extension of the grant to ensure we are able to repair the damage done by the storm,? Given wrote. ?Once the need for additional repairs has been assessed, the grant implementation team will reassess the funds available and notify you of their intent to proceed.?

Given said state officials haven?t discussed whether to ask for an extension through Sept. 30 ? or an earlier date.

The U.S. Department of Commerce Inspector General and West Virginia Legislative Auditor are reviewing the state?s use of the $126.3 million grant. ?

Copyright ? 2012 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.?

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New chemical reaction could explain how stars form, evolve, and eventually die

ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2012) ? University of North Dakota scientist Mark Hoffmann's version of Star Search goes a long way -- a very long way -- out into the universe.

Hoffmann, a computational chemist, and his colleagues Tryve Helgaker, a well-known Norwegian scientist, and co-authors E.I. Tellgren and K. Lange, also working in Norway, have discovered a molecular-level interaction that science had puzzled over for decades but had never seen.

That discovery, it turns out, may redefine how science views chemical compound formation. It also answers questions about what goes on in places like white dwarfs, the super dense cores of stars nearing the end of their life cycles.

"We discovered a new type of chemical bonding," said Hoffmann, known globally for his pioneering work in the theory and computer modeling of chemical compound formation.

"That's a pretty bold statement, but I'm not kidding you! It's a brand new type of chemical bonding, not previously known to science."

Hoffmann and his colleagues have rewritten the chemical rule book for assessing what happens in the night sky. It's about answering timeless questions such as how stars form, evolve, and eventually die.

Their work also provides the secret for how some compounds form in the distant universe. This momentous discovery appears in an article in a recent issue of the journal Science.

"Our discovery addresses one of the mysteries in astrophysics about the spectrum of white dwarf stars," Hoffmann said. "White dwarfs have an unusual spectrum that has been thought to result from polymerized hydrogen and helium which, of course, do not occur on Earth.

"It's possible out there because the magnetic fields on white dwarfs are several orders of magnitude larger than anything that can be generated on Earth."

The closest white dwarf, Sirius B, is a faint twin to the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius A. It's about the same size as our sun, but much denser; its average density is 1.7 metric tons per cubic centimeter, or about 3,000 pounds compressed into a box the size of a sugar cube.

Hoffmann and his team described a magnetically induced bonding process between materials. "There was speculation that this phenomenon should exist, but no one had the proof, and no one -- until the team I'm on described the process -- had the theoretical structure and the computational tools to address this," he said.

On Earth, even the boldest military experiments generate a peak of maybe 1,000 Tesla -- a measure of magnetic force (refrigerator magnets generate a thousandth of one Tesla). But on Sirius B, for example, magnetic fields are on the order of 200,000 to 400,000 Tesla, enough to challenge the electronic interactions that dominate the chemistry and material science we know on Earth.

Such vast magnetic fields directly alter the way atoms come together, and can alter the chemical reality we know on Earth.

"What we had before we discovered this was basically a paper-and-pencil model of what goes on in the universe. Compared to what's out there in places such as white dwarf stars, the magnetic fields we can generate here -- even with the strongest magnets -- are pathetic."

So how did they do it?

"We computationally modeled the behavior that we theorized, based on universally applicable physical principles," Hoffmann said.

The team's computer model supported their theory. Now it's up to astrophysicists to test the model by old-fashioned observation of the stars.

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Unions target Senators Warner, McCaskill on fiscal cliff

Three major national unions are targeting Democratic Senators Mark Warner of Virginia and Claire McCaskill of Missouri ? and two Republican congressmen ? with a barrage of ads warning against cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid as part of any "fiscal cliff" deal.

The ads mean to hammer home that the negotiations could to lead "more than just a deal of high, large concepts here in Washington DC," National Education Association (NEA) Government Relations Director Mary Kusler told Yahoo News by telephone Thursday. "It will impact real people and communities."

The commercials, underwritten by the NEA, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), show a literal take on seniors coping with reduced health funding ? a shrunken walker, a tiny hospital gown, half a pair of eyeglasses, an empty prescription drug bottle.

"Call Senator Warner and tell him: Don't make a bad deal that cuts our care," the narrator says in the ad that will run in Virginia.

The ads target Warner, McCaskill, Montana Representative Denny Rehberg (a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee) and Ohio Representative Pat Tiberi (a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee).

Why those lawmakers?

Kusler noted Warner's "outspoken advocacy for a very large deal" that the unions worry may "put something on the table in terms of cuts (to entitlements) that will really impact individuals." "We want to make sure that he realizes that there's a lot of people watching the decisions that he's making."

Organized labor has grown "concerned with some rumblings coming out of Senator McCaskill," Kusler said, pointing to a recent St Louis Post-Dispatch article in which the senator pushed for a large-scale deal and said the details of the accord "are less important than the fact that we can reach a compromise and would be $4 trillion in long-term debt reduction. That means everybody's going to hurt a little and everyone is not going to get their way."

"The details are exactly what matter in this entire discussion," Kusler said. "This is a discussion about the programs that impact the lives of working Americans, and seniors, and students."

The two Republicans are "leaders in their party on the issues of funding and taxes," and have shown a willingness to "put policy in front of party" and "vote independently on criticial issues," Kusler said.

The organizations unveiled the ads even as negotiations between President Barack Obama and his Republican foes in Congress appeared to be barely inching towards an agreement to avert the "fiscal cliff" ? a package of automatic tax hikes and deep government spending cuts triggered January 1. Experts warn those measures threaten to plunge the economy into a new recession.

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