Corn: Corn futures prices ended down 2 1/4 to 4 3/4 cents today and finished closer to their daily lows. The nearby March contract hit a nearly three-month low today. Technical selling, lower wheat and soybean futures prices and a lack of fresh, positive fundamental news hit the corn market today. Weather in Brazil remains favorable for the next two weeks to get the second-season corn crop up and off to a fast start. Rains will ease hot, dry weather stress by late this week in Argentina with a cooler, drier pattern to return next week. USDA today said 941,811 metric tons (MT) of corn were inspected for export, up from 751,419 MT a week earlier and little changed from a year ago. However, the pace of U.S. corn sales needs to pick up, as seasonally the weekly numbers should strengthen.
Soybeans: Soybean futures settled mostly 6 to 7 cents lower today, which was more than a nickel off session lows. Meal futures ended $1-plus lower and also closed well off session lows. Soyoil finished 20 to 21 points lower and low-range. Soybean futures were pressured by uncertainties with U.S./China trade situation, as there are just 10 days until the U.S.-imposed March 1 deadline for a deal. While talks are being held in Washington this week and President Donald Trump has said an extension of the deadline is possible, the dwindling timeline is making traders nervous. March soybeans ended today 6 cents under where they closed on Nov. 30 – the day before the 90-day U.S./China trade truce was agreed to. While China resumed buying U.S. soybeans after the truce, price action signals traders are now factoring in record U.S. and global ending stocks. Any trade deal with China should be temporarily price-supportive, but the market must still deal with the reality of record supplies. The other pressuring factor today was Brazilian weather. Most of Brazil is forecast to see beneficial rains over the next week to 10 days. This will help late-maturing soybeans. But with harvest on a record pace, the rains won't likely increase crop size – only stabilize the Brazilian crop from further losses for now.
Wheat: Winter wheat futures fell 12 ¾ to 16 ¼ cents, with spring wheat down 7 ½ to 17 ½ cents, ending near session lows. March SRW wheat fell 14 1/3 cents to close at $4.89 ¾.: U.S. wheat futures dropped to new 13-month lows on Tuesday, as grain traders monitored bearish technical signals as well as falling prices in the global cash wheat market the past week. Instead of opting for U.S. wheat, Syria's General Establishment for Cereal Processing and Trade bought 200,000 metric tons (MT) of Black Sea-origin wheat in its latest international purchasing tender, a government source said Tuesday. Meanwhile, trading house Agrocorp secured a tender to supply 50,000 MT of wheat to Bangladesh and is expected to draw grain from Russia to fulfil the deal, officials with the state grains buyer told Reuters. USDA reported this morning that only 357,131 MT of wheat were inspected for export last week, down from 562,706 MT a week ago and below 424,231 MT a year ago. Algeria's state grains agency last week bought 600,000 MT of milling wheat at a tender at about $15 per MT cheaper than Algeria's purchase in January.
Cotton: Cotton prices rebounded slightly but finished in the bottom half of the daily price range. March cotton rose 19 points to 70.41 cents. Some light mill buying developed today ahead of the USDA export sales report on Friday. March cotton fell to the lowest for the front contract since November 2017 last week, ahead of first-notice day on March 22. The U.S. dollar fell sharply Tuesday, which may help to increase demand for U.S. cotton. Since the government has re-opened, USDA has released three weeks of export sales numbers and those have shown net sales to China of 68,100 bales, including pima. Total export sales over the same period have been 923,200 bales. Traders are looking for Friday's data for the six weeks ended March 14 to reach 1.5 million to as much as 2.0 million bales. A number at the high end of estimates is probably needed to support a turnaround.
Hogs: Lean hog futures plummeted today, with the April through July contracts settling their $3.00 daily limit lower. As a result, daily trading limits will be expanded to $4.50 tomorrow. April hogs notched new contract lows today. Over the long holiday weekend, there was plenty of news about African swine fever (ASF), but it was a rumor of the disease that spurred today's price plunge. A rumor got into the market that some feedstuff had been quarantined in Canada due to ASF. But our sources in Canada say that Egan Brockhoff, the chief vet at the Canadian Pork Council, says the rumor was a created one that is not true. If so, the hog market should see some corrective price action tomorrow. Meanwhile, another winter storm is headed for the Midwest, which could slow marketings and back up supplies.
Cattle: Live cattle futures closed up $1.275 in the April contract today, which was a contract-high close. June live cattle futures were up 55 1/2 cents. March feeder cattle futures gained $1.15 today, while the May contract was up 42 1/2 cents. More winter weather is expected this week from Kansas through Iowa, further eroding feedlot conditions and boosting cattle futures. Meanwhile, consumer demand for beef remains strong amid a healthy U.S. economy. Also, slaughter totaled 596,000 head last week, down from 620,000 a week earlier and 602,000 a year ago. Boxed beef values were higher at noon today, with Choice up 87 cents and Select rising $1.74. Movement was light at 54 loads.


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Partial Pasture Fence Replacement Approved
Greg Hankins, Editor
[The original version of this story misquoted Jan Johnson's analysis of stable finances. We've made a correction below. The Times regrets the error.]
After months debate, a new $21,470 fence for the Seven Lakes North horse pasture is a go. That amount, however, will replace only the fence along Seven Lakes Drive and the portion along the southwestern perimeter, where the pasture adjoins the Business Village.
The Board of Directors of the Seven Lakes Landowners Association [SLLA] approved the project in a four to one vote during their Thursday, May 28 Open Meeting, with Bob Racine opposed, Mark Gyure abstaining, and Mary Farley absent from the meeting.
A proposal to replace the entire perimeter was rejected in a tie-vote of the previous Board of Directors. The information packet for the meeting referred to the approved project as "Phase 1," but the motion by President Chuck Leach only sought authorization for $21,470.
A round post fence with three round rails will be installed in place of the existing split rail fence, with the posts set at a height of four feet six inches.
Read more: Partial Pasture Fence Replacement Approved
Vote Scheduled on Renters Serving on Committees
A motion to exclude renters from service on committees of the Seven Lakes Landowners Association [SLLA] is on the agenda for the Association's Thursday, May 28 Open Meeting.
President Chuck Leach, introducing the motion, said the question of whether tenants can serve on committee arose during the last Board's term.
Leach said the Association has benefitted from the "advice knowledge, and expertise of some of our long-term renters."
He added that he personally believes long term renters in good standing should be able to serve on any committee, though they should serve in a non-voting capacity only on the Finance, Judicial, and Architectural Review Committees.
Leach said a question had also arisen about the eligibility of a spouse to serve on an SLLA committee when they are not listed on the deed of the property.
To clear up that question, SLLA attorney Roger Knight was consulted.
Knight, who provided his answer in an email to Community Manager Ray Sohl, said if property was acquired by a married couple but only one was listed on the deed, the unlisted spouse was nonetheless a co-owner under North Carolina law, and therefore a member of the Association, and able to serve on Committees.
If the property was acquired by one spouse before the marriage, however, the deed must be altered to include the unlisted spouse in order for him or her to be a member of the Association.
Where tenants are concerned, Knight said the Association could create a tenants' committee or create non-voting tenants' seats on other committees.
However, he wrote, "Tenants are not owners and are therefor not by definition members of the Association and cannot vote in elections or serve on committees."
Knight provided no further explanation of that opinion referencing state law or SLLA legal documents.
According to Leach, Knight said that some Association decisions had been overturned in court because tenants had voted on them.
"I just don't understand giving up talent because someone is not a homeowner," resident Bob Miller said.
"I think it is a shame that the expertise is not accepted," Director Joy Smith said. "I would like the expertise."
"I don't think it matters what any of us think," Leach said. "Now we have a ruling from an attorney."
Although Knight had suggested the options of establishing a non-voting seat for tenants on any committee, Leach made a motion to forward to the Open Meeting a policy to exclude renters from all SLLA Committees, "based on the legal opinion provided."
Director Sandy Sackmann seconded the motion, which passed four-to-three with Smith and Director Mary Farley opposed and Director Mark Gyure abstaining.
Read more: Vote Scheduled on Renters Serving on Committees
SLLA Board Considers Eliminating Lifeguards
This may be the last year for the diving board and lifeguards at the Seven Lakes North swimming pool.
The Seven Lakes Landowners Association [SLLA] Board of Directors discussed whether to discontinue lifeguard service, effective with the 2016 swim season, during their regular Thursday, May 14 work session.
Community manager Ray Sohl argued forcefully for the elimination of lifeguards, based primarily on his contention that having lifeguards subjects the Association to more liability risk than not having them. Sohl also argued that the diving board poses an increased risk of injury and increased liability for the Association.
In the Work Session Meeting packet, Sohl shared the "Community Manager's comments & concerns:
1. Diving boards: Perhaps one of the biggest risks at the pool can be the diving board, which can cause severe injury and even death. According to a study by Columbus, an Ohio-based national children's hospital, more than 6,500 children and teens are treated for diving related injuries every year.
2. Wading pool: The line of sight issues for lifeguards poses a safety concern. The lifeguard stand is across the pool and too far for prompt responses.
3. Lifeguard staff levels: Maintaining adequate swimmer to lifeguard ratios throughout the season is difficult. Lifeguard turnover rates are high, particularly at the end of the season. Not having staff levels as recommended in the Red Cross Lifeguard Manual puts both patrons and lifeguards at risk.
Sohl said the SLLA office had surveyed 40 area swimming pools and found only five have lifeguards. He noted that, of 55 CAS-managed properties with pools, only five have lifeguards. He added that the Association's insurance broker has also mentioned the trend of communities eliminating lifeguards.
The Association has $24,000 budgeted for lifeguards this year. Sohl estimated that running the pool with only one attendant would cost $9,000.
Recreation Director Mary Farley said her committee had unanimously voted to keep lifeguards for this swim season, "Because we have so many children coming to the pool . . . . We feel a lot better and safer for our children to keep the lifeguards."
"If you all decide you want to change your mind for next year, then that's another story," Farley said.
Read more: SLLA Board Considers Eliminating Lifeguards
Board to Vote Again on Pasture Fence May 28
Greg Hankins, Times Editor
The pasture fence is back on the agenda of the Seven Lakes Landowners Association [SLLA] Board of Directors, with a vote on the $40,000 - $45,000 project scheduled for the Association's Thursday, May 28 Open Meeting.
President Chuck Leach put the proposal on the table during the Board's Thursday, May 14 Work Session.
The same proposal for a four-and-one-half foot fence with round posts and three round rails failed in a tie vote of the previous Board in March, with opposition from Directors Steve Ritter, Bob Racine, and Mary Farley. Leach, Sandy Sackmann, and Dave Hill voted for the proposal. [Ritter and Hill's term on the Board have since expired.]
Leach said the fence was needed to protect the Association from the liability, if a horse escaped the pasture, as happened a couple of times in 2014.
Leach said that two fence contractors contacted for bids on the job "said that this is the worst fence they have ever seen along a main road to contain horses."
Once the need to address the aging pasture fence was raised last year, he explained, the facilities committee researched the issue, visiting local horse farms, the NC State Equine Center, the NC Cooperative Extension Service, and a company that manufactures horse fences.
The veterinarian who services the Seven Lakes Stables recommended putting up the "strongest fence you can afford" along Seven Lakes Drive and East Shenandoah Drive, Leach said. Fencing contractors recommended the round post fence with three round rails.
In order to make the cost of the project easier for the Association to digest, Leach recommended having the work done in two phases, splitting the cost over two fiscal years. Community Manager Ray Sohl said the price offered by the lowest bidder a few months ago had increased by five percent.
Once Leach opened the floor for comments from the Board and members in attendance, the debate lurched back and forth between the need for the fence and the need for the stables.
Read more: Board to Vote Again on Pasture Fence May 28
Pine Forest Back on Planning Board Agenda
The 1,650-acre Pine Forest planned unit development is back on the agenda of the Moore County Planning Board.
Developer MHK Ventures, Inc. will appear before the Planning Board during its regular Thursday, May 7 meeting to seek three amendments to its PUD application and land development plan, including:
• Moving the NC Highway 211 entrance to the development further east, closer to Archie Road, which serves as the main access to West Pine Elementary and Middle Schools.
• Moving a proposed private wastewater treatment facility from the Pine Forest property to MHK-owned Dormie Club, a golf resort subdivision located off Beulah Hill Church Road near its intersection with NC Highway 73.
• Using County-supplied potable water to irrigate Pine Forest golf courses until the wastewater treatment facility is handling sufficient volume to produce reclaimed wastewater for irrigation purposes.
Pine Forest stretches along the north side of NC Highway 211 from West Pine Middle School to West End and, if the developer's plans are realized, will eventually include 700 homes, 300 hotel rooms, two-golf courses, and a shopping village.
Read more: Pine Forest Back on Planning Board Agenda
County Answers Question on Single Fire District
[Moore County Public Safety has compiled a list of answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the proposal to consolidate the sixteen existing fire districts into a single district with a single tax rate. The text of that FAQ appears below.]
Moore County Governmental staff has received calls with questions concerning the public hearing scheduled for April 21, 2015 to discuss a single/unified service district. In an effort to help answer the common questions we have compiled the following Frequently Asked Questions.
Question: Is the county abolishing the local fire departments?
No, the county is not abolishing the local fire departments, or establishing a county-wide fire department.
Question: Does the new fire service district affect the insurance districts?
No, we are not moving the 5 mile or 6 mile insurance district lines. We are establishing a single service district for the collecting of taxes at a single rate.
Read more: County Answers Question on Single Fire District
Board approves study of Ramapo Dam
Ellen Marcus, Times Reporter
The speaker identified as Ed Nuti in the story below was , in fact, not Ed Nuti, who is not a member of the Lakes & Dams Committee. The Times regrets the error.
After much discussion about the need for the expense, the Seven Lakes Landowners Association [SLLA] Board, during the March 18 Open Meeting, voted in favor of an engineering study of Ramapo Dam that is expected to cost at least $7,000, as well as a survey that will add an estimated $1,000 to $1,500 to the project cost.
"I would like to add that the motion should include funds for a survey," Community Manager Ray Sohl said. "This has been discussed in the past. We don't have a fixed number for the survey. We are estimating $1,000 to 1,500 for a survey. We cannot nail down the cost until the engineer provides us with requirements after the assessment."
"Then we are looking at a total of $8,000 or $9,000," Member Les Sommers noted.
Read more: Board approves study of Ramapo Dam
Westside Purchases Buffer Strip on Longleaf Drive
Seven Lakes West has acquired a nearly six acre buffer bordering the outside of Longleaf Drive, stretching from near Douglas Drive to near Callis Circle.
Treasurer Mercedes Herdrich told The Times that the acquisition is part of an ongoing effort, lead by the CSI Team, to secure and beautify the community's borders. That committee recently negotiated the donation of a one acre parcel that includes one of the Longleaf Pond dams.
The newly acquired Longleaf buffer totals 5.896 acres, according to a deed filed with the Moore County Register of Deeds on Thursday, March 26. The purchase price was $45,500.
The 100-foot wide strip was carved out of a larger, 96 acre parcel that was clear-cut for timber harvesting last year, leaving an open and not particularly attractive vista from Longleaf Drive to the West End Presbyterian Church and Cemetery.
Read more: Westside Purchases Buffer Strip on Longleaf Drive
Fire District Plan Could Raise Seven Lakes Fire Taxes
[This story originally appeared in the March 6, 2015 edition of the Seven Lakes Times.]
Seven Lakers could see a significant increase in their fire tax rate, if a plan to unify Moore County's sixteen separate fire tax districts is approved by the county's Board of Commissioners.
The Commissioners set the process in motion during their regular Tuesday, March 3 meeting, calling for a public hearing to be held on Tuesday, April 21 on the proposal to create a countywide fire service district. If the district is created, the Commissioners would then create a single fire tax rate that would apply to all unincorporated areas of the County.
Incorporated towns and villages handle their own fire protection, sometimes by creating a municipal fire department, as is the case for Pinehurst, and sometimes contracting with a neighboring fire district, as is the case with the Village of Foxfire and West End Fire and Rescue.
If the plan moves forward, Commissioner Nick Picerno told The Times, a unified fire tax rate would likely be in the range of 7.2 or 7.3 cents per hundred dollars of valuation. Currently, those who live in the Seven Lakes Fire District — which includes all of Seven Lakes North and South and half of Seven Lakes West — pay the lowest fire tax rate in the county, at 4.0 cents per hundred.
In other words, someone who owns a $200,000 home in Seven Lakes would now pay $80 per year in fire taxes. If that rate were raised to 7.2 cents, the homeowners would pay $144 — an increase of 80 percent.
Read more: Fire District Plan Could Raise Seven Lakes Fire Taxes
Smith, Gyure, Lishawa, & Racine Elected to SLLA Board
Members of the Seven Lakes Landowners Association [SLLA] elected three new directors and returned one incumbent to the Board in balloting that concluded at the Annual Meeting on Sunday, March 22.
Bob Racine was elected to a third two-year term. New members include Joy Smith, Mark Gyure, and Greg Lishawa. David Hill, who was appointed in September to fill a vacant seat, did not secure enough votes to remain on the Board, and petition candidate Lawton Baker failed in his bid to secure a seat.
Smith led the vote count, with 292, followed by Gyure, at 290. Racine collected 276 votes; and Lishawa, 269. Baker garnered 193; Hill, 171.
The membership turned down a $25 dues increase recommended by the Board, with 234 voting against the increase and 201 in favor. Board members then approved the proposed FY2016 budget, without the additional revenue the dues increase would have provided.
Assuming that every landowner who cast a ballot voted yes or no on the dues increase, turnout for the election was less than thirty percent of those eligible to vote.
Read more: Smith, Gyure, Lishawa, & Racine Elected to SLLA Board
Plenty of SLLA Projects Pending
York, Lattin, & Shaughnessy Join Westside Board
The Times Interviews Westside Candidates
SLLA Candidates' Night
Seven Lakes West Candidates' Night

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Orlando Club Vows to Re-open
Pulse nightclub owner Barbara Poma vowed to 'keep the spirit alive' of her Orlando club Pulse this week which she said in an interview with NBC that she'd opened 13 years ago to both honour he gay brother who dies from AIDS and to provide a 'safe place to be who you are'.
Talking to NBC News, she also recalled the moment she learned of the massacre at her Orlando club where 49 people were shot to death last weekend.
'It was the most surreal phone call I've ever received,' she said. 'When my manager called me, he just kept yelling into the phone: "We have a shooter. We have a shooter."
'Finally it sunk in, and you can't wrap your head around that.'
The attack provoked the New York Times to come out strongly for gay rights in a highly significant editorial headlined 'The Orlando Attack and Its Global Echoes' in which they noted that 'in at least 74 countries, being gay is a crime. In at least 10 countries, gay sex is a crime punishable by death',.
"The United Nations now needs to extend all human rights protections to cover sexual orientation and gender identity," the Times editorial board demanded.
"That, and the elimination of laws that criminalize being gay, would be a far better tribute to the Orlando victims than displays of rainbow colors and ritual condemnations of yet another hate-fueled attack." (New York Time )
Hook-up app Grindr also addressed the attack's global implications in a defiant statement in which they declared 'We are equal, not afraid.'
"Violence occurs against the LGBT community every day in every corner of the world. A significant amount of Grindr users live overseas, some in countries where being gay is still illegal. For those of us that live someplace with greater tolerance, this reality – and the reality of the violence that unfolded over the weekend – is difficult to imagine," they said.
"The stories we hear from these places haunt us. But for every Orlando or Syria or Indonesia, we keep count and we remember. And we will not stop until every queer identified individual is safe to live as any other," they vowed.
Tech-house star Dubfire also spoke out bravely, issuing a statement on his Facebook page.
"As an American I'm ashamed that our country has repeatedly roadblocked any sensible gun control legislation. And as a Muslim by birth, I'm ashamed and sickened that someone would carry out yet another cowardly act of atrocious violence in the name of religious extremist views," said Dubfire.
"Regardless of the political or social circumstances that allowed it to happen, this is a Muslim problem and Muslims worldwide must band together, condemn these religious fundamentalist views and root this evil out."
"We're living in dark times," he added (Facebook )
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On the heels of launching search engine Bing and its accompanying mobile site, Microsoft today rolled out its latest vertical: Bing Travel.
The site combines elements from Microsoft-owned travel site—previously mentioned Farecast (the site now redirects to Bing Travel)—and sprinkles in some editorial news from MSN Travel (MSN Travel now also redirects to Bing Travel).
Price Predictor. Bing Travel uses Farecast technology to analyze more than 175 billion airfare observations and predict whether the price of a flight is going up or down. It offers people a recommendation of "Buy Now" or "Wait," including a confidence level and expected price increase or decrease over the next seven days.
Rate Indicator. How does someone know if the rate for a hotel is a deal or not? The Rate Indicator analyzes historical rate data from thousands of hotels to determine whether the current price is a good deal, or not a deal at all. People can view a city map with details for each hotel, color coded by Rate Indicator data.
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Comparison Flight & Hotel Search. Bing Travel makes it fast and easy for consumers to get flight and hotel results and pricing for thousands of destinations worldwide. Finding the right flight or hotel is made simple with tools that allow people to refine results: nonstop flights only, specific airlines, hotels within a mile of an address, and many more. After selecting the hotel or flight, Bing Travel makes booking directly with suppliers or agencies seamless.
Fare Alerts. Most airfare price drops last less than 48 hours, so people need to be ready to jump when a fare falls. Fare Alerts will notify people if the fares for their trips drop, allowing them to catch lower fares.
I played around with the site this morning and found the 7-day price predictor and the percentage confidence score most useful. We've been big fans of the fare prediction idea ever since we covered Farecast a couple of years back, so we're happy to see it incorporated with Bing. Bing Travel also lets you adjust your price range and trip times using a slider, which given the sensitivity of the tool, made it slightly difficult to pin down an exact match.
We're curious to hear your thoughts, so give Bing Travel a whirl and lets us know what you do and don't like, and how the web site stacks up against your Hive Five travel site favorites (among which Farecast was already a favorite).


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The holidays are for fun and relaxation. There's no school, no homework, and lots of free time. But a prolonged break from the classroom can cause math brain drain. This means some students will lose the math skills they learned prior to the break. Math is the last thing most kids want to think about during a break, but here are some fun ways to lessen math brain drain.
No child wants to spend their holiday doing boring math problems. But if you make it fun, then your child will enjoy the experience. Playing games together is one of the best ways to do this.
Dozens of games require the use of math skills. Even if the game has nothing to do with math, it could still provide a learning opportunity. Scrabble is one example. Everyone knows it's a word game, but someone has to keep track of the scores. Calculating the value of each word, counting the number of tiles on a rack, and adding the final scores is all math.
Other classic games such as Yahtzee and Rummikub provide a fun way to work on strategy, logic, adding, counting, and probability skills. Chutes and Ladders is another example of a game that encourages counting. Practicing math is much more fun when it doesn't feel like homework.
Counting money can help your child with addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Use your own spare change or paper money for this activity.
Start the activity by putting dimes and nickels on the table. Ask your child the value of each coin and much is there in all. Think of different situations which require the child to perform various math functions. For example, ask how much would remain if two dimes were removed or added.
Sales flyers offer another opportunity to practice math skills. Give your child a flyer and create a pretend budget. They'll have to determine if they can buy what they want without going over budget. You could also use this opportunity to teach your child about sales tax.
Most bookstores carry math workbooks for grades K-12. These workbooks contain engaging and creative activities that are more fun than a stuffy textbook. You and your child could browse the workbooks together, and pick one or two that seem like a lot of fun. In as little as 20 to 30 minutes per day, your child could complete a few workbook activities.
An alternative is to use printable worksheets. Several websites have grade-appropriate worksheets that you can print at home.
Preventing math brain drain doesn't mean ruining your child's holiday break. Find a balance between math time and time for relaxation. Achieving this balance will allow your child to return to school refreshed and ready to learn.


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\section{Introduction}
As summarized by Peebles and Ratra \cite{Peebles:2003}, Padmanabhan
\cite{Padmanabhan:2003}, and others, there are presently three overriding
cosmologic issues involving phenomena for which no generally accepted
theoretical solutions exist: 1) dark matter (non-baryonic, unseen ``normal''
matter), 2) dark energy (small positive cosmological constant or
quintessence), and 3) a vanishing sum of zero-point energies.

We will not deal with 1) here. In \cite{Klauber:1}, I show a possible
mechanism for 3), somewhat related to ideas proposed by others
\cite{Linde:1988} - \cite{Hooft:2006}.
In the course of investigating 2), many of these authors, as well as many others,
such as \cite{Weinberg:1989} - \cite{Ishak:2007}, have
surmised that the zero-point energy which arises from the so-called vacuum
fluctuations leads to a cosmological constant, albeit one that, by the most
straightforward quantum field theory (QFT) calculations, differs from the
observed value by a factor of almost 10$^{120}$ \cite{Weinberg:1989}.

In this article, I show that the vacuum fluctuations, while they give rise
to vacuum energy, do not give rise to the appropriate vacuum pressure needed
to result in a cosmological constant of any magnitude.

\section{Background}
\label{sec:background}
\subsection{Lorentz Invariance of the Vacuum}
\label{subsec:lorentz}
The stress energy tensor for a perfect fluid, which the vacuum is assumed to
be, has the form in the local rest mass frame of
\begin{equation}
\label{eq1}
\left\langle {T^{\mu \nu }} \right\rangle \,=\,\left[
{{\begin{array}{*{20}c}
 \rho \hfill & 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill \\
 0 \hfill & p \hfill & 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill \\
 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill & p \hfill & 0 \hfill \\
 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill & p \hfill \\
\end{array} }} \right].
\end{equation}
Most consider that the stress-energy tensor for the vacuum should be Lorentz
invariant, which means that it must take the form
\begin{equation}
\label{eq2}
\left\langle {T_{\mbox{vac}}^{\mu \nu } } \right\rangle \,=\,\rho
_{\mbox{vac}} \,\eta ^{\mu \nu }=\rho _{\mbox{vac}} \left[
{{\begin{array}{*{20}c}
 1 \hfill & 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill \\
 0 \hfill & {-1} \hfill & 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill \\
 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill & {-1} \hfill & 0 \hfill \\
 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill & 0 \hfill & {-1} \hfill \\
\end{array} }} \right]\quad ,
\end{equation}
and hence,
\begin{equation}
\label{eq3}
p_{\mbox{vac}} =-\rho _{\mbox{vac}} \quad .
\end{equation}
Expressing the equation of state for any perfect fluid as
\begin{equation}
\label{eq4}
p=w\rho \quad ,
\end{equation}
for the vacuum, we would have
\begin{equation}
\label{eq5}
w_{\mbox{vac}} =-1\quad .
\end{equation}
\subsection{Effective Cosmological Constant}
\label{subsec:effective}
In the Einstein field equations, the cosmological constant of scalar value
$\Lambda $ must take the tensor form
\begin{equation}
\label{eq6}
\Lambda \eta ^{\mu \nu }\quad .
\end{equation}
Thus, from (\ref{eq1}), any perfect fluid which might mimic a cosmological constant
must have
\begin{equation}
\label{eq7}
w_{\mbox{perf}\,\mbox{fluid}\,\mbox{CC}} =-1
\end{equation}
\subsection{Constant Vacuum Energy Density}
\label{subsec:constant}
It is well known \cite{Peebles:1993}, and derivable from the Einstein field
equations with a Friedmann metric, that the rate of change of energy density
for a perfect fluid in an expanding universe is
\begin{equation}
\label{eq8}
\dot {\rho }=-3\left( {\rho +p} \right)\frac{\dot {a}}{a}
\end{equation}
where $a$ is the time dependent scale factor of the universe (the ``radius'' of
the universe). One would expect the energy density of the vacuum to remain
constant, and from (\ref{eq8}), it can only do so if the vacuum pressure is equal in
magnitude and opposite in sign from the vacuum density, i.e., as in (\ref{eq5}).

\subsection{Cosmological Observation}
\label{subsec:cosmological}
Recent observation \cite{Reis:1}\cite{Schwarzschild:2007} indicates that
\begin{equation}
\label{eq9}
w_{\mbox{vac}} =-1\,\,\,\,\left( {\,\pm 10\% } \right)\quad ,
\end{equation}
and the data suggests that this value has been constant, or very close to
constant, for at least, a substantial part of the history of the universe.
Thus, these observations support the existence of a cosmological constant.
Further, the observations indicate it has a small, positive value, leading
to accelerating expansion of the universe.

\subsection{Kinds of Vacuum Energy}
There are primarily two known ways in which the vacuum can possess energy,
a) vacuum fluctuations and b) symmetry breaking remnants. Both have been
proposed as possible sources for the observed cosmological constant.

\subsubsection{Vacuum fluctuations}
In second quantization, one takes the classical field theory Poisson
brackets over into commutators. Thus, the field (e.g. \textit{$\phi $}) and its conjugate
momentum (e.g. $\pi )$ do not commute, and this leads to a Hamiltonian
operator with an infinite series of $\raise.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle
1$}\kern-.1em/ \kern-.15em\lower.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 2$} $ quanta terms.
The vacuum expectation value for energy then becomes infinite (or finite,
but extremely large, if a suitable energy cutoff, such as the Planck energy,
is employed). \cite{Weinberg:1989}

\subsubsection{Symmetry breaking remnants}
In the typical Higgs symmetry breaking mechanism, particles gain mass as the
universe cools, and the vacuum gains an energy density (the remnant). This
is simply a constant term arising in the Hamiltonian density after the
symmetry breaking, usually designated as $V$. This remnant energy density is
typically on the order of the energy density of the mass-energy density in
the universe at the time of the symmetry breaking. This is far smaller than
that calculated for the vacuum fluctuations, yet far larger than that
observed.

\subsection{Conclusions for the Vacuum}
Lorentz invariance, constancy of vacuum energy density, and observation all
indicate a vacuum pressure which is negative and equal in magnitude to the
vacuum energy density. Both vacuum fluctuations and symmetry breaking
remnant energy densities are far larger than what is observed, but various
corrective mechanisms have been proposed for both, which presumably might
make either a candidate for the observed cosmological constant.

\section{Determining Vacuum Pressure from Theory}
\subsection{The Common Approach}
Many researchers \cite{Volovik:1} use vacuum energy density relations,
expressed in the form of (\ref{eq8}) or its sibling thermodynamic relation
(derivable from (\ref{eq8})),
\begin{equation}
\label{eq10}
d(\rho V)=-pdV\quad ,
\end{equation}
where $V$ here is volume, to deduce (\ref{eq3}). Further justification is derived from
the Lorentz invariance logic of Section \ref{subsec:lorentz}.

This is then used to justify that both
\begin{equation}
\label{eq11}
p_{\mbox{vac}\,\,\mbox{flucts}} =-\rho _{\mbox{vac}\,\,\mbox{flucts}}
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
\label{eq12}
p_{\mbox{sym}\,\,\mbox{remnant}} =-\rho _{\mbox{sym}\,\,\mbox{remnant}}
\quad .
\end{equation}
\subsection{The Fundamental Theoretic Approach}
\label{subsec:mylabel1}
For the symmetry breaking remnant, Peebles \cite{Ref:1} takes a more
fundamental approach, which does not assume that the vacuum energy densities
we calculate from theory must, \textit{a priori}, have $w$ = -- 1.

Peebles starts with the stress-energy tensor for a quantum field and finds
the energy density and the pressure in the vacuum from that field. From
this, he proves that the symmetry breaking remnant, under the proper
conditions, can give rise to a $w_{\mbox{sym}\,\,\mbox{remnant}} =-1$.

Critically, Peebles does not simply assume that pressure from a vacuum
contribution must equal the negative of the energy density. From fundamental
principles of QFT, he proves it.

\subsection{Lack of Application of Fundamental Approach to Vacuum Fluctuations}
\label{subsec:mylabel2}
No one known to this author applies Peebles fundamental theoretic approach
to vacuum fluctuations, the other form of vacuum energy density. Further,
the assumption that (\ref{eq11}) holds is widespread, in fact dominant, in the
literature.

In the next section, we apply the fundamental approach of Peebles to vacuum
fluctuations, to determine the true relation between pressure and energy
density of the vacuum for these fluctuations \cite{See:1}.

\section{Determining Pressure of Vacuum Fluctuations}
For simplicity, we restrict ourselves to the free real scalar field, with
Lagrangian density
\begin{equation}
\label{eq13}
{\cal L}_\phi =\textstyle{1 \over 2}\left( {\partial _\mu \phi g^{\mu \nu
}\partial _\nu \phi -m^2\phi ^2} \right)\quad .
\end{equation}
It can be shown \cite{Ref:1} that
\begin{equation}
\label{eq14}
T_\phi ^{00} =\rho _\phi =\textstyle{1 \over 2}\left( {\left( {\dot {\phi }}
\right)^2+\left( {\nabla \phi } \right)^2+m^2\phi ^2} \right)
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq15}
T_\phi ^{11} =p_\phi =\left( {\partial _1 \phi } \right)^2+\textstyle{1
\over 2}\left( {\left( {\dot {\phi }} \right)^2-\left( {\nabla \phi }
\right)^2-m^2\phi ^2} \right).
\end{equation}
First, we review the well known calculation of (\ref{eq14}), and then follow similar
steps to determine (\ref{eq15}).

\subsection{Energy Density of Vacuum Fluctuations}
\label{subsec:energy}
The real scalar field and its derivatives are
\begin{equation}
\label{eq16}
\phi =\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}} {\frac{1}{\sqrt {2V_s \omega _{\rm {\bf k}}
} }\left( {a({\rm {\bf k}})e^{-ikx}+a^\dag ({\rm {\bf k}})e^{ikx}} \right)}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq17}
\dot {\phi }=\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}} {\frac{i\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} }{\sqrt
{2V_s \omega _{\rm {\bf k}} } }\left( {-a({\rm {\bf k}})e^{-ikx}+a^\dag
({\rm {\bf k}})e^{ikx}} \right)}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq18}
\phi ,_i =\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}} {\frac{ik_i }{\sqrt {2V_s \omega _{\rm
{\bf k}} } }\left( {a({\rm {\bf k}})e^{-ikx}-a^\dag ({\rm {\bf k}})e^{ikx}}
\right)} ,
\end{equation}
where $V_{s}$ is spatial volume. The first term on the RH of (\ref{eq14}) is
\begin{equation}
\label{eq19}
\textstyle{1 \over 2}\dot {\phi }\dot {\phi }=\textstyle{1 \over 2}\left(
{\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}} {\frac{i\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} }{\sqrt {2V_s
\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} } }\left( {-a({\rm {\bf k}})e^{-ikx}+a^\dag ({\rm {\bf
k}})e^{ikx}} \right)} } \right)\left( {\sum\limits_{{\rm {\bf {k}'}}}
{\frac{i\omega _{{\rm {\bf {k}'}}} }{\sqrt {2V_s \omega _{{\rm {\bf {k}'}}}
} }\left( {-a({\rm {\bf {k}'}})e^{-i{k}'x}+a^\dag ({\rm {\bf
{k}'}})e^{i{k}'x}} \right)} } \right).
\end{equation}
In
\begin{equation}
\label{eq20}
\langle \phi _{\rm {\bf k}} \vert \rho _\phi \vert \phi _{\rm {\bf k}}
\rangle
\end{equation}
where $\rho _\phi $ is an operator represented by (\ref{eq14}), and $\vert $\textit{$\phi $}$_{k}>$
can be any state, all terms with ${\rm {\bf k}}\ne {\rm {\bf {k}'}}$ drop
out, as do all terms in $a({\rm {\bf k}})a({\rm {\bf k}})$ and $a^\dag ({\rm
{\bf k}})a^\dag ({\rm {\bf k}})$. (\ref{eq19}) is part of (\ref{eq14}), so using the
commutation relations
\begin{equation}
\label{eq21}
\left[ {a({\rm {\bf k}}),a^\dag ({\rm {\bf {k}'}})} \right]=\delta _{{\rm
{\bf k{k}'}}}
\end{equation}
that part reduces to
\begin{equation}
\label{eq22}
\textstyle{1 \over 2}\dot {\phi }\dot {\phi }\to \textstyle{1 \over
2}\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}} {\frac{\left( {\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} }
\right)^2}{2V_s \omega _{\rm {\bf k}} }\left( {a({\rm {\bf k}})a^\dag ({\rm
{\bf k}})+a^\dag ({\rm {\bf k}})a({\rm {\bf k}})} \right)} =\frac{1}{2V_s
}\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}} {\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} \left( {a^\dag ({\rm {\bf
k}})a({\rm {\bf k}})+\textstyle{1 \over 2}} \right)} ,
\end{equation}
Similarly, in (\ref{eq14}),
\begin{equation}
\label{eq23}
\textstyle{1 \over 2}\left( {\nabla \phi } \right)^2\to \frac{1}{2V_s
}\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}} {\frac{\vert {\rm {\bf k}}\vert ^2}{\omega _{\rm
{\bf k}} }\left( {a^\dag ({\rm {\bf k}})a({\rm {\bf k}})+\textstyle{1 \over
2}} \right)}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq24}
\textstyle{1 \over 2}m^2\phi ^2\to \frac{1}{2V_s }\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}}
{\frac{m^2}{\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} }\left( {a^\dag ({\rm {\bf k}})a({\rm {\bf
k}})+\textstyle{1 \over 2}} \right)} .
\end{equation}
Since $\left( {\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} } \right)^2=m^2+\vert {\rm {\bf
k}}\vert ^2$, the above three relations summed reduce to the well-known
operator form for (\ref{eq14})
\begin{equation}
\label{eq25}
\rho _\phi =\frac{1}{V_s }\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}} {\omega _{\rm {\bf k}}
\left( {a^\dag ({\rm {\bf k}})a({\rm {\bf k}})+\textstyle{1 \over 2}}
\right)} ,
\end{equation}
which has the non-zero vacuum expectation value (VEV)
\begin{equation}
\label{eq26}
\left\langle 0 \right.\vert \rho _\phi \vert \left. 0 \right\rangle =<\rho
_\phi >=\frac{1}{V_s }\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}} {\frac{\omega _{\rm {\bf k}}
}{2}} \quad .
\end{equation}
\subsection{Pressure of the Vacuum Fluctuations}
\label{subsec:pressure}
In similar fashion, the pressure operator of (\ref{eq15}) reduces to
\begin{equation}
\label{eq27}
p_{1\phi } =\frac{1}{V_s }\sum\limits_{\rm {\bf k}} {\frac{\vert k_1 \vert
^2}{\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} }\left( {a^\dag ({\rm {\bf k}})a({\rm {\bf
k}})+\textstyle{1 \over 2}} \right)}
\end{equation}
and therefore from (\ref{eq25}) and (\ref{eq27})
\begin{equation}
\label{eq28}
\langle \rho _\phi \rangle \ne -\langle p_{1\phi } \rangle .
\end{equation}
In particular, on average, with most \textbf{k}, \textit{$\omega $}$_{k}>>m$, one finds
\begin{equation}
\label{eq29}
k_1^2 =k_2^2 =k_3^2 =\frac{\left| {\rm {\bf k}} \right|^2}{3}=\frac{\omega
_{\rm {\bf k}}^2 -m^2}{3}\approx \frac{\omega _{\rm {\bf k}}^2 }{3}\quad .
\end{equation}
Thus, we have, from (\ref{eq25}) and (\ref{eq27}),
\begin{equation}
\label{eq30}
p_{\phi \,\mbox{flucts}} \approx \frac{\rho _{\phi \,\mbox{flucts}}
}{3}\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,w_{\phi \,\mbox{flucts}} \approx
\frac{1}{3}\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\left( {\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} \gg m}
\right)\quad .
\end{equation}
For lower energies, where $\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} \approx m$, (\ref{eq29}) becomes
(using classical concepts with particle velocity \textbf{v} for
illustration)
\begin{equation}
\label{eq31}
k_1^2 =\frac{\omega _{\rm {\bf k}}^2 -m^2}{3}=\textstyle{1 \over 3}\left(
{\frac{m^2}{1-v^2}-m^2} \right)=\textstyle{1 \over 3}\left( {2m}
\right)\left( {K.E.} \right)\ll \omega _{\rm {\bf k}} ^2,
\end{equation}
where the fourth part above is the standard ``low'' energy (still
relativistic) case. For energies of this level, (\ref{eq27}) becomes much less than
(\ref{eq25}), so effectively
\begin{equation}
\label{eq32}
p_{\phi \,\mbox{flucts}} \approx 0\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,w_{\phi \,\mbox{flucts}}
\approx 0\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\left( {\omega _{\rm {\bf k}} \approx m}
\right).
\end{equation}
Thus the equation of state (\ref{eq4}) for scalar vacuum fluctuations has a range
for $w$ of
\begin{equation}
\label{eq33}
\frac{1}{3}\ge w_{\phi \,\mbox{flucts}} \ge 0\quad .
\end{equation}
This is not the $w$ = --1 value of (\ref{eq7}), and thus these vacuum fluctuations
cannot give rise to an effective cosmological constant, at any level of
energy.

Similar results should be found for a complex scalar field, fermions, and
spin 1 bosons.

\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conclusion}
When one calculates the vacuum fluctuations pressure from fundamental
principles of QFT, in the same well accepted manner as the enormous vacuum
fluctuation energy is calculated, one finds the pressure is not equal to the
negative of the vacuum fluctuation energy density.

The common approach to vacuum fluctuation pressure determination comprises
the following.

\begin{enumerate}
\item Assume vacuum energy density$\rho _{\mbox{vac}} $must be Lorentz invariant, constant in time, and give rise (in principle) to a cosmological constant.
\item Assume the $\raise.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 1$}\kern-.1em/ \kern-.15em\lower.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 2$} $ quanta energy summation in the VEV of the quantized Hamiltonian (equivalently, the time-time component of the quantized stress energy tensor), for example, $\rho _{\phi \,\mbox{flucts}} $, is vacuum energy obeying 1.
\item Conclude that one must then have vacuum fluctuation pressure $p_{\phi \,\mbox{flucts}} =-\rho _{\phi \,\mbox{flucts}} $ (i.e., $w_{\phi \,\,\mbox{flucts}} =-1)$.
\end{enumerate}
On the other hand, the fundamental theoretic approach, which is generally
accepted as valid for determining $w$ for the symmetry breaking vacuum energy
density remnant, applied to vacuum fluctuations, comprises the following.

\begin{enumerate}
\item Use the quantized stress-energy tensor for a given field to calculate $\raise.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 1$}\kern-.1em/ \kern-.15em\lower.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 2$} $ quanta pressure, for example, $p_{\phi \,\,\mbox{flucts}} $.
\item Compare the value in 1 to the known $\rho _{\phi \,\,\mbox{flucts}} $.
\item Conclude that $0<p_{\phi \,\,\mbox{flucts}} <\frac{\rho _{\phi \,\,\mbox{flucts}} }{3}\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\left( {\mbox{i.e.,}\,\,w_{\phi \,\,\mbox{flucts}} \ne -1} \right)$.
\end{enumerate}
The common approach seems to ``put the cart before the horse'' by
encompassing \textit{a priori} assumptions, whereas the fundamental theoretic approach starts
from elemental principles, and does not. Thus, it is submitted that,
contrary to common belief, vacuum fluctuations cannot qualify as a candidate
for an effective cosmological constant (which requires $w$ = -- 1), regardless
of order.

This can mean one of two things. For one, an undetermined symmetry
\cite{See:2} may exist that cancels out the $\raise.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle
1$}\kern-.1em/ \kern-.15em\lower.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 2$} $ quanta
contributions leaving a net vacuum fluctuation energy of zero (which is
Lorentz invariant, constant, and has no cosmological implications).
Alternatively, and less satisfying, the $\raise.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle
1$}\kern-.1em/ \kern-.15em\lower.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 2$} $ quanta energy
density may simply be neither Lorentz invariant nor constant in time.

\section*{Acknowledgement}
I would like to thank P. J. E. Peebles for reading the manuscript and agreeing that vacuum
fluctuation $w\ne $ --1.

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What is the Obstetrics Initiative or OBI?
The Obstetric Initiative (OBI) is an interdisciplinary quality initiative led by healthcare providers dedicated to improving women's health. OBI seeks to engage maternity care providers and hospitals in a collaborative effort to reduce the use of primary cesarean delivery and to improve health outcomes for Michigan women and infants. OBI is a quality improvement project within the Michigan Value Collaborative (MVC). MVC is sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) and aims to achieve the best possible patient outcomes at the lowest reasonable cost in Michigan hospitals.
What is an Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) Hospital?
An OBI Hospital: 1. provides maternity care in Michigan 2. is committed to supporting efforts to safely reduce cesarean deliveries for "low-risk" pregnancies 3. has a designated Obstetric Champion(s). OB Champions are maternity care providers (MD, DO, CNM or CM, and RNs) that are directly involved in labor and delivery patient care and ideally quality improvement (QI). These individual(s) will represent individual hospitals, lead a hospital's OBI participation, and serve as the leader of a team that will work to implement QI efforts.
As a maternity hospital, is participation in the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) voluntary?
Yes, the decision to participate in the Obstetrics Initiative is voluntary. There are criteria regarding attendance of webinars and biannual meetings for participating hospitals.
What does the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) provide to participating maternity hospitals?
Why should my hospital participate in the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI)?
OBI fosters a network of Michigan maternity hospitals with a shared commitment to improving outcomes for moms and babies. OBI provides hospitals and providers a platform for sharing best practices, specifically through targeted connections. OBI will disseminate best practices through educational webinars, site or regional visits, peer-to-peer learning, and mentorship. Additionally, OBI provides your hospital with actionable data on both quality and cost to enable you to improve your labor and delivery practices through obstetric reports. The Resources page of our website serves as a centralized resource for published and OBI hospitals' materials, resources and tool kits that have enabled others to succeed.
What does participation in the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) involve?
Is there is a cost associated with participating in the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI)?
No, there is no cost associated with participating in OBI.
Does participation in the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) require collecting and submitting data?
OBI currently asks participating hospitals to submit survey information two to three times per year. OBI does not have a chart review protocol and does not ask hospitals to collect and submit data. The utilization and outcomes reports are based on analyses of administrative claims data from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Birth Certificate data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Vital Statistics.
Which individual(s) should represent my hospital in the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI)?
Physicians, midwives, nurses, unit leadership, and quality improvement experts, and patients are eligible to represent your hospital.
What is required of the OB Champions in the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI)?
OB Champions will represent individual hospitals, lead a hospital's OBI participation, and serve as the leader of a team that will work to implement QI efforts.
What happens at the semi-annual Michigan Value Collaborative (MVC) Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) meetings?
OBI hospitals are asked to send their OBI Champion(s) or their designee to attend our two semi-annual MVC OBI meetings in April and November. At the meeting, we review new performance data, present collaborative strategies for improving quality as well as network with other OBI hospitals.
What is the relationship between the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) and the Michigan Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (MiAIM)?
OBI is working with the Michigan Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (MiAIM) to coordinate statewide efforts to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. OBI is also a regular participant of MiAIM's Outreach & Implementation Workgroup.
The national AIM program has developed 11 obstetric safety bundles. Mi AIM has been working diligently since 2016 to promote implementation of two patient safety bundles—the obstetric hemorrhage and severe hypertension in pregnancy. OBI is now working to promote the Patient Safety Bundle regarding Safe Reduction of Primary Cesarean Births.
Does participation in the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) require Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval?
No, the Obstetrics Initiative is a quality improvement initiative, not a research program. Moreover, all analyses and reports will be based on de-identified claims data and birth certificate data in aggregate.
How do I know if my hospital is participating in the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI)?
A list of engaged Michigan maternity hospitals is updated regularly on the OBI Hospitals page. Please contact OBI Project Manager, Nina Bobowski (npbo@med.umich.edu) if you would like to join OBI.
How can my hospital find current information on the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) webinars, new reports, meetings, and events?
Maternity hospitals can stay up to date with OBI by subscribing with their contact information on our website, https://www.obstetricsinitiative.org/.
What data does the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) use for their Obstetric Reports?
The Obstetrics Initiative collates data from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan PPO claims, which provides data for 66 Michigan maternity hospitals. We are pursuing data use agreements to use birth certificate data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Vital Statistics (MDHHS) and the Michigan Hospital Association Discharge data. This will provide data on births covered by all payers (including Medicaid) from all 82 Michigan maternity hospitals.
How can I access my hospital's reports?
Click here to log into the registry to view your hospital's obstetric reports. If this is your first time, click "request access" on the page. The Michigan Value Collaborative (MVC) will reach out to your MVC hospital Site Coordinator to grant permission.
The Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) is focused on pregnancies at low risk for cesarean delivery. How does OBI define "low-risk"?
OBI is working to promote vaginal delivery among women at "low risk" for a cesarean delivery. Low-risk women are those who present at term, with a singleton pregnancy in the vertex presentation (not breech).
OBI's Obstetric Reports differentiate between delivery rates for "low" and "non-low" risk groups. What does this mean?
what Cesarean Delivery rates does obi use to monitor performance?
Nulliparous Term Singleton Vertex (NTSV) Cesarean Delivery Rate: Using birth certificate data from the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, the NTSV Cesarean Delivery rate is the percentage of nulliparous women who have a Cesarean Delivery and who are term (>=37 weeks gestation) with a singleton, vertex gestation.
Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Cesarean Delivery Rate: Using claims data for the Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) patients in Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS), the SMFM Cesarean Delivery rate is the percentage of women who have a Cesarean Delivery and who are term (>=37 weeks) with a singleton, vertex, live born gestation and without a relative or absolute contraindications to vaginal delivery.
Will hospital performance data be kept confidential?
A hospital is able to view its own performance data against peers and statewide averages. Hospital-specific performance data is not accessible by other hospitals. Data on outcomes, utilization and payments derived from BCBSM-paid claims is available to BCBSM.
What are the expectations of OBI hospitals with regards to using the Obstetric Reports?
OBI developed these reports so that hospitals could use these data to identify target improvement opportunities, identify and share best practices, and design, implement, and evaluate interventions. OBI encourages OB Champions to use these data to understand and improve their practices, share with hospital leadership and quality improvement, and guide their internal improvement activities.
Which Michigan maternity hospitals are included in the online Obstetrics Initiative Registry?
The Obstetrics Summary Report, Maternal Outcomes Report, Maternal Utilization Report use Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan claims data for the 66 MVC maternity hospitals.
The Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex (NTSV) Cesarean Birth Rate Report (which will be available later this summer) uses birth certificate data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Vital Statistics (MDHHS) and the Michigan Hospital Association Discharge data. The 82 Michigan maternity hospitals are included in this report.
Has the Obstetrics Initiative set a target cesarean delivery rate for participating Michigan maternity hospitals?
OBI has not set a target cesarean delivery rate using either the SMFM low risk stratification or the NTSV rate.
We are unaware of any group that has developed a target rate for the SMFM low risk stratification. The Healthy People 2020 goal NTSV Cesarean Section rate is 23.9%.
Can a hospital verify the accuracy of their hospital's report data?
OBI can work with hospitals to verify the accuracy of their hospital's data.
MVC has partnered with hospitals to validate claims data with great success. MVC can provide hospitals an individual's date of birth, admission date, discharge date, procedure type, and provider National Provider Identifier (NPI). A hospital employee can then use these data to match patients and identify a medical record number or other specific identifier which are not available in OBI claims data.
OBI will share data provided to us by Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Vital Statistics (MDHHS) for your hospital for validation. OBI does not itself hold the Birth Certificate data.
What resources are available to use for learning to use the registry?
OBI has a guide (PDF) for each of our obstetric reports, available on our Obstetrics Report page. In addition, OBI Project Manager, Nina Bobowski (npbo@med.umich.edu) is happy to have a shared-screen tutorial to walk you through how to navigate the registry and run queries.
What is the relationship between the Michigan Value Collaborative (MVC) and the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI)?
The Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) is an interdisciplinary quality improvement project within the Michigan Value Collaborative (MVC). MVC is a collaborative quality initiative (CQI) of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), which aims to achieve the best possible patient outcomes at the lowest reasonable cost across Michigan hospitals. MVC is part of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's Value Partnership collaborative quality initiative (CQI) program. MVC includes 76 participating acute care hospitals throughout the state of Michigan.
What is the relationship between the Blue Distinction Maternity Care Program and the Obstetrics Initiative?
Blue Distinction Maternity Care Program and the Obstetrics Initiative are completely separate. The Blue Distinction Maternity Care program is a national Blue Cross Blue Shield Association program. The Blue Distinction Maternity Care Program requires facilities to apply to be considered for the Maternity Care designation under this Program. This program focuses on vaginal delivery and cesarean delivery episodes of care; routine obstetrical services and follow up care.
Are there any rewards for hospitals or physician organizations (POs) to participate in the Obstetrics Initiative? Is OBI part of the BCBSM Pay for Performance (P4P) Program?
OBI is not currently part of the BCBSM Pay for Performance (P4P) program. OBI is in discussion with BCBSM about potential rewards that may be offered to OBI participating hospitals and physicians in 2019.
How are episode costs determined?
Hospitals will receive risk-adjusted and price-standardized measures of 30-day and 90-day episode payments around hospitalizations for common conditions and procedures. Episode costs are risk-adjusted to account for differences in case mix across hospitals. They are also "price standardized," so measures will reflect utilization rates rather than negotiated prices/rates. Clinical services unrelated to the index admission will be excluded.
An episode of care is defined by four main payment components: a facility index payment, professional payment, post-acute care payment, and readmission payment. These components are further outlined in both the "Episode of Care Payment Components Model" and Technical Document in the MVC registry (will be hyperlinked).
How does MVC risk adjust data?
MVC performs risk-adjustment using observed/expected (O/E) ratios. The numerator in this ratio is the aggregate of all observed payments for a particular hospital. The denominator is the aggregate of all expected payments. This ratio is multiplied by the statewide expected mean payment to arrive at the "risk-adjusted payment" for that hospital.


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Columbiana's Best Friend
Harvey S. Firestone, one of the country's most famous industrialists and entrepreneurs, was born the son of a farmer in the red brick house on a homestead in the era of the horse and buggy. For the first 19 years of his life, he lived as a farmer's son. His early years in Columbiana with his family and the friends of his school-days forged within him a strong tie that bound him to his hometown forever.
This tie would pull him back many times to the boyhood homestead that he cherished, for long weekends in spring and summer, for rest and reflection and to have his friends and neighbors in for dinner. It was at one of these dinners that the idea of doing something special, like a magnificent outdoor recreational park for the people of Columbiana, was born, took root and became a benevolent and lasting legacy for his cherished hometown.
The Vagabonds
Harvey Firestone was great friends with two other revered American industrialists, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Between 1915 and 1924, these three and John Burroughs, a famous American naturalist and essay writer of the day, christened themselves the Four Vagabonds and embarked on a series of summer camping trips. The idea was initiated in 1914 when Ford and Burroughs visited Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The notion blossomed the next year when Ford, Edison and Firestone were in California for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. All of the camping trips were well organized and equipped. There were several heavy passenger cars and vans to carry the travelers, household staff, and equipment. Ford Motor Company photographers also accompanied the group.
The finest little park in the state
In 1935, his gift to the community – Memorial Park, now known as the Harvey S. Firestone Recreational Park — was opened, a 53-acre park with a bath house, a swimming pool, concrete stadiums for a baseball diamond and football field, a rifle range for marksmen, picnic grounds with rustic tables and outdoor cooking facilities, and courts for horseshoes and tennis. He often stood at his "lookout" atop a hill and viewed the construction as it progressed.
Three years after the park was opened to the public, Columbiana lost its best friend and native son, when Harvey S. Firestone died in Miami Beach, Florida. His hometown beckoned him for the last time, and he is buried in a beautiful memorial, along with his wife Idabelle Firestone, whom he married in November of 1895, and several children, in the cemetery across from the park that has become a living memorial to his generosity and to his special affection for his birthplace. Although he made his eventual fortune as the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in nearby Akron, this world-renowned manufacturing genius never forgot his roots in Columbiana and the beloved park he bequeathed to his community.
Firestone Memorial


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Serial 1 electric bicycle brand launched by Harley-Davidson
By: Dave McMahon October 29, 2020
Serial 1 Cycle Company, a dedicated brand formed with Harley-Davidson, Inc., has entered into the e-bicycle market. The new company's first line of products will arrive in Spring 2021.
Serial 1 combines Harley-Davidson's world-class product development capability with the agility of a start-up.
Taking its name from "Serial Number One," the nickname for Harley-Davidson's first motorcycle, Serial 1 Cycle Company combines Harley-Davidson's world-class product development capability and leadership in two-wheel electric propulsion with the agility and innovation of a start-up brand dedicated exclusively to the e-bicycle product and customer.
"When Harley-Davidson first put power to two wheels in 1903, it changed how the world moved, forever," says Aaron Frank, Brand Director for Serial 1 Cycle Company. "Inspired by the entrepreneurial vision of Harley-Davidson's founders, we hope to once again change how cyclists and the cycling-curious move around their world with a Serial 1 e-bicycle."
Serial 1 prototype e-bicycle fashioned as a tribute to the original Harley-Davidson motorcycle known as 'Serial Number One.'
Born as a skunkworks deep inside Harley-Davidson's Product Development Center, the e-bicycle project began with a small group of passionate motorcycle and bicycle enthusiasts working with a single focus to design and develop an eBicycle worthy of the Harley-Davidson name. The decision was made to structure the eBicycle business into a new entity that could focus exclusively on delivering an optimal eBicycle product and experience.
The Serial 1 brand is led today by a team of Harley-Davidson alumni including Jason Huntsman, President; Ben Lund, Vice President, Product Development; Aaron Frank, Brand Director; and Hannah Altenburg, Lead Brand Marketing Specialist.
Combining the freedom and simplicity of a bicycle with the effortless joy of electric power, Serial 1's e-bicycles will allow anyone to ride farther, faster, and with less effort, making an eBicycle the perfect solution for urban commuting and recreational riding. The global e-bicycle market was estimated to be over $15 billion in 2019 and projected to grow at an annual rate of over 6 percent from 2020 to 2025.
"The dynamic, fast-growing eBicycle space is at the forefront of a global mobility revolution," says Frank. "The formation of Serial 1 allows Harley-Davidson to play a key role in this mobility revolution while allowing Serial 1 to focus exclusively on the e-bicycle customer and deliver an unmatched riding experience rooted in freedom and adventure."
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Could you run for us in the London Marathon?
YMCA St Paul's Group is calling on runners to put their best foot forward to raise funds for us in next year's London Marathon on Sunday 23 April 2017.
Local runners who may have missed out on a place in the official ballot are encouraged to apply for a charity place with YMCA, one of the best known and oldest charities in the UK.
YMCA St Paul's Group is part of a national federation overseen by YMCA England which has limited places available in the 2017 event. We would like runners to get in touch to book their place and pledge their support.
Our vision as a Christian charity is where people can come as they are; be met at their point of need and come to know life in all its fullness. Money raised by marathon runners will be spent on on work supporting vulnerable people. We're the largest provider of housing for the homeless in South West London and last year we helped and housed over 500 people, some as young as 16 years old.
There is a £100 registration fee for the race, which is paid up-front but does form part of your final sponsorship total.
The sponsorship target is £2,000, (subtracting £100 for registration, this leaves £1,900 minimum to be split between YMCA St Paul's Group and YMCA England for fundraising; £1,600 to be raised before race day).
If you're successful with your application, we can offer you free membership at our gyms while you train with our Get Started programme to help set your goals.


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Michelle Obama gives Beyoncé's 'Homecoming' the perfect review
Former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama speaks during a panel discussion at Glamour Hosts "A Brighter Future: A Global Conversation on Girls' Education" with First Lady Michelle Obama at The Newseum on October 11, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Glamour)
Michelle Obama has posted a video in homage to Beyoncé after watching the pop icon's new Netflix film Homecoming.
The former first lady spoke in a piece to camera, posted on Twitter, addressing Beyoncé directly.
"Hey queen, hey girl you have done it again. Constantly raising the bar for us all, and doing it flawlessly. I'd say I'm surprised but I know who you are. I've seen it up close and personal. Girl, you make me so proud and I love you."
Obama also said she felt inspired by the film and said: "[I love how Homecoming] is informed by the black leaders, thinkers, and poets who've paved the way for folks like us. I love that it's both a celebration and a call to action."
So proud of my girl! The Queen has done it again. @Beyonce, thank you for always living your truth. #Homecoming pic.twitter.com/NlNkKIwqN6
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) April 18, 2019
"And I love that you're using this film to inspire the next generation of history makers and record breakers who'll run the world in the years ahead. So to you my dear friend, I just want to say: Keep telling the truth. Because you can do it in a way that no one else can," Obama said.
Other tributes to Beyoncé's Homecoming
Actress Laverne Cox also posted a tribute to Beyoncé after watching the film. On Instagram Cox posted a picture of herself in tears, with the caption: "Me watching Homecoming yesterday. Only the Queen could get me to post such an unflattering photo of myself. So many feels!"
Writer and activist George M Johnson also shared his thoughts from the film on Twitter, "create a home where you are. We are the culture," he wrote in a viral tweet.
Beyonce HOMECOMING reminded me that we have to create home for ourselves. Even in the whitest of spaces. Create home.
Even if it's just the head nod when you are the only two Black people in the room of white folk. Create home where you are. We are the culture.
— George M Johnson (@IamGMJohnson) April 17, 2019
In March, Beyoncé and her husband Jay Z paid tribute to their LGBT+ family members at the GLAAD Awards. Beyoncé emotionally spoke about her uncle, who died during the AIDS crisis.
She said: "I want to dedicate this award to my uncle Johnny, the most fabulous gay man I have ever known, who helped raise me and my sister."
Beyonce and Jay-Z are going to receive the GLAAD Vanguard Award on March 28. (Beyonce/Instagram)
"He lived his truth and he was brave and unapologetic at a time when this country wasn't as accepting, and witnessing his battle with HIV was one of the most painful experiences I've ever lived," the singer explained.
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Learn about the WARO land assessment process and view draft land access recommendations.
land previously assessed for the 2015 WARO concession where issues have come up that may mean a change in WARO access is needed for the 2018 concession.
the draft recommendations on WARO land access, including recommended access dates (timings). For the current current North Island (PDF, 1,015K) and South Island (PDF, 846K) concessions, access dates can be found in Schedules 4 and 5 of the permits. These dates are open for comment. Written comment needs to be with the department by 5 pm 16 July 2018 (extended from 30 June 2018). People who have sent in submissions previously are welcome to resubmit.
External feedback received on other aspects of the WARO concession, apart from the land and access dates, will be noted but are not the focus of this engagement as they are more a matter for DOC and WARO concessionaires.
For more information on the draft regional land assessment recommendations, email permissionschristchurch@doc.govt.nz.


Lash Extensions or False Lashes?
A question many brides face - should I get lash extensions or go with false lashes?
From my point of view - always go with false lashes.
Why - lash extensions do look beautiful, however twice this season (and it only started in November for me) I've had to fill in lashes on brides with my temporary ones to replace ones that had fallen out. Even though they'd only had done two days before their wedding!
Another downside is that they get eye shadow drop down on them when your having your eye makeup done, while we do take care to shake off any additional shadow on the brush, there's always some that falls onto the lashes. Which will show up in the photos.
I don't use strip lashes anymore, I think they look fake and a bit tacky to be honest. I prefer individual temporary flare lashes. They look like lash extensions, look a hell of a lot more natural and just make your eyes pop for photography. And the corners won't lift off halfway through your wedding (and yes i have seen that before).
Plus you can take them off that night with ease and not have to live with them until they fall out with your natural lashes.
If you are unsure about having lashes at all, I recommend at least trying them out for your trial and then making a decision, you might surprise yourself.
However - if you are going to go for lash extensions - please use a reputable person with experience. Don't go for the cheapest price as you will be left disappointed and out of pocket. Do your research first. Or ask your makeup artist if she has any recommendations, we know a lot of people in the industry so can guide you in the right direction.