Examining the Tuscaloosa April 2011 Tornado in ArcGIS Online, Part 5 – Video
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Landmark Studies Document the Power of Energy Education
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ATLANTA, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- APOGEE Interactive, Inc., a 20 year leader in providing online energy education and analysis applications for utilities, announced today the results of three studies conducted over the past two years investigating the impact of energy education and competitions on energy use. Researchers set out to document changes in usage where the Apogee online energy education tools are integrated into the utility's billing and/or metering system. Results were an impressive range of energy reductions from an average of almost 4 percent for users of online bill analysis self-assessments to over 20 percent when competition and social media were included. These studies, conducted by industry visionary Joel Gilbert, P.E., and lead investigator Lei Wang, Ph.D., used the industry-standard methodologies for calculating energy impacts.
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The first study sought to answer, "Do customers performing an online energy audit use less energy as a result?"This study, conducted with a major east coast investor owned utility and confirmed as accurate by their M&V consultants, produced some eye-opening outcomes. It considered hundreds of thousands of billing records for more than ten thousand customers comparing a control group to the treatment group of customers using Apogee's online audit. Conclusion: Across all sizes of customers, savings was a remarkable 4 percent.
A related and interesting finding of this study, which has major implications for utilities with energy efficiency or demand response program goals, was that users of the online energy audit were 5 times more likely than the general population to participate in the utility's energy efficiency programs.
According to study director and Apogee Chief Software Architect, Joel Gilbert, the findings merit serious consideration as utilities contemplate programs intended to balance cost-effectiveness with impact."The slogan goes, 'An educated consumer is your best customer,' and that is what our research confirms. The cost of a self-audit is pennies compared to hundreds of dollars for an in-home visit by a professional auditor," explained Gilbert.
Another study, performed with a large investor owned utility in the southeast, quantified impacts resulting from in-home energy audits conducted onsite with professionally trained energy auditors. In this case, annual energy use before the audit was compared quarterly for a period of one year following the audit. Progress reports showing the impact of having made changes to the home or behavior post-audit were mailed to customers. On average, a 7 percent reduction in energy use was documented.
The last study, performed with a municipal utility in the southeast, looked at a school-to-school competition to reduce energy use in the school facilities through behavior alone. This 2 year competition using interval meter data for the 13 schools enabled students, teachers, and administrators to consistently track an astonishing 12 percent year-on-year weather-adjusted reduction in kWh using nothing more than behavior students and teachers turning things off when they were not needed. The three best performing schools topped 20 percent energy savings. Prize money was computed as a portion of the energy cost savings produced for the school as a result of lower energy bills.
Overall, Gilbert and Wang found that energy education, fueled by inexpensive communication and accelerated by competition, are the low-hanging fruit of the energy efficiency challenge.In an age where dependence on foreign oil threatens our national security, and escalating energy costs weaken customers' ability to pay their bills, it is imperative utilities do all they can to leverage low-cost and effective means of changing customer behavior.
Study authors Gilbert and Wang will conduct a webinar sharing details of these studies and answers to questions about their findings and future plans on Tuesday, April 10th at 2:00 PM Eastern. There is no cost to participate, but the event is limited to the first 100 registrants. Click here to register.
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U.S. Preventive Medicine Announces Strategic Development Collaboration With Qualcomm Life
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DALLAS and JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --U.S. Preventive Medicine today announced a new strategic development collaboration with Qualcomm Life Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, for functionality enhancements to Macaw, the company's award-winning mobile health & fitness app, as well as for accelerated integration with the numerous wireless devices, monitors and sensors that are part of Qualcomm Life's 2net Platform and wireless health ecosystem.
Macaw powered by The Prevention Plan, was launched in December 2011 as a full-feature app combining calorie, nutrition and activity tracking, health assessment, education, and game theory to motivate healthy behaviors. Enabled by Qualcomm Life, Macaw is designed to become the ultimate digital health monitor, integrating with wireless devices, monitors and sensors, as well as other popular health and fitness apps, creating a dashboard of health metrics all in one convenient app.
"The mobile health marketplace is exploding with health apps and wireless devices, all providing unprecedented data about a person's individual biometrics and health status. The challenge is that consumers can easily become overwhelmed with data. Through our collaboration with Qualcomm Life and integration with the 2net Platform, we are building Macaw to serve as the ultimate personal health monitor to collect all the disparate data and present it to the user in a meaningful, actionable way," said Christopher Fey, founder, CEO and chairman of U.S. Preventive Medicine.
According to Rick Valencia, vice president and general manager of Qualcomm Life, "U.S. Preventive Medicine has a proven track record with The Prevention Plan, of helping consumers improve their individual health risks and lead healthier lives. Qualcomm Life is pleased to be working with U.S. Preventive Medicine on the development of Macaw to translate this success to the mHealth environment. Through our strategic collaboration, Qualcomm Life and U.S. Preventive Medicine can transform consumers' health data into actionable health intelligence that may enable them to live healthier, longer, more fulfilling lives."
Unlike other available health and fitness apps, Macaw is based on the clinical science of preventive medicine and is universally designed for people who exercise regularly as well as those who are novices when it comes to physical activity. Macaw currently syncs with the Fitlinxx Actiped+ all-day activity monitor, and WorkSmart Labs' weight loss and fitness app, Noom Weight Loss.
Additional features for members of The Prevention Plan include:
Macaw was named "Hot for the Holidays" by CTIA and "Top App" by industry experts and consumer voting at the recent "Mobile Apps Showdown," a competition held in conjunction with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Free download of Macaw is available at the App Store and Android Market. Follow Macaw on Facebook (Facebook.com/ThePreventionPlan), Twitter (@MacawApp) and YouTube (YouTube.com/MacawApp). View the video on YouTube.
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U.S. Preventive Medicine (www.USPreventiveMedicine.com) is leading a global preventive health movement focused on saving lives and money by keeping people healthy and better managing chronic conditions before they progress. Innovative products - The Prevention Plan web-based health management platform, and Macaw mobile health & fitness app - are based on the clinical science of preventive medicine: primary (wellness and health promotion to keep healthy people healthy), secondary (screening for earlier detection/diagnosis) and tertiary (early evidence-based treatment to reduce complications and disability). The company is accredited in wellness and health promotion by NCQA (the National Committee for Quality Assurance) and disease management by URAC. More information can be found on Facebook (Facebook.com/pages/US-Preventive-Medicine), Twitter (@USPM) and YouTube (YouTube.com/thepreventionchannel).
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Tuloso-Midway grad put USA ahead of coaching career
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There's a story on the brim of the boonie Coach Steve Snyder sometimes wears to football practice.
It's patriotic story of sacrifice and service. It's told in the patches firmly sewn in place U.S. Army. Airborne. Snyder.
At the height of the U.S. war on terror, Snyder put his teaching and coaching career on hold and enlisted in the Army National Guard, eventually serving a year-long tour of duty in Iraq.
He finished college and was already working as a coach at Saenz Elementary School in Alice when he was deployed to Iraq in 2006. It was a huge sacrifice, but Snyder said serving his country in its time of need was a privilege, and most importantly, his responsibility.
"It was just something I felt I had to do," he said about enlisting later in life. "Pretty much everything that was going on in Iraq I felt the need to help out. I felt like my country needed me."
In Iraq, the 1992 Tuloso-Midway High School graduate was a gunner in an Airborne infantry unit. His role was to man 240 Bravo and 50-caliber machine guns in a turret on military vehicles. He didn't have to perform a combat jump, but he did assist in removing prisoners of war on helicopters.
Snyder said by enlisting at a later age, he was able to serve as a leader and mentor to younger troopers, a role he gladly embraced.
"I believe I helped," Snyder said. "I feel like my country needed a helping hand. It needed leaders to help our soldiers. I met up with guys just like me who had already been to college and had their degrees and still wanted to help. Their objective was just like mine to help our soldiers."
After high school, where he was a quarterback and free safety for the Warriors, Snyder went to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. After graduating, he began coaching at Coastal Bend Youth City, a charter school in Corpus Christi.
When the U.S. war in Iraq began to intensify, Snyder felt compelled to act. He enlisted in 2004 and after training, his first deployment was as part of Operation Jump Start, a mission in which national guardsmen assisted U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in guarding the U.S.-Mexican border.
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High School Coaching Legend Morgan Wootten Names 2012 McDonald's All American® Players of the Year
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