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Samsung’s new 4K ultra HD Blu-ray player is now available for pre-order at a great price
by Stephen on January 7, 2016
Update: The pre-order link from Samsung is finally up so feel free to click here and check it out
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs aren’t quite yet here but Panasonic, Philips and Samsung most quickly of all are already lending a strong helping hand to the survival of the format and possibly its prolonged success.
Samsung in particular is getting the ball rolling nice and early with the impending release of their brand new UBD-K8500 4K ultra HD Blu-ray player with HDR and all the usual 4K connectivity specs by offering it on pre-order to those who want to be ready for the very moment 4K Blu-ray discs hit the shelves.
That’s right, as of the first day of CES 2016, January 5th, the Samsung Blu-ray UHD player has been available for pre-order from the manufacturer and given the number of studios which are pledging support for 4K discs in this new format, we think there might be some definite consumer interest in this device among those who already own or are thinking of buying a 4K TV some time soon.
In other words, whether you have 4K-ready 4K UHD internet connectivity for streaming content in the resolution, you can augment your list of 4K entertainment options as quickly as possible right now.
The new player and 4K Blu-ray discs in particular might be of particular interest to those owners of an UHD TV who don’t have the sort of internet bandwidth necessary for effectively and smoothly streaming the growing body of movies and programming available in the format by providers like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Vudu and Ultraflix among others. This quantity, about 15 to 20Mbps at a minimum for native streamed 4K UHD video at 3840 x 2160 pixels is currently available to only about 15% or so of U.S households.
Further enticement for the new player, even for owners of 4K TVs with enough internet bandwidth to their home, comes in the form of pledges by studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Sony and Warner Bros to release dozens of 4K Blu-ray discs in 2016 for leading Hollywood movies like The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road, Hancock and numerous other titles from their libraries of content. This selection of disc movies will certainly only grow in the next 12 months but we know of at least 30 titles which can be expected in the first half of 2016 to start with.
The UBD-K8500 4K blu-ray player with HDR
Best of all, at least for some of these studios, many of the movies will also come with HDR contrast augmentation metadata programmed into them –something which will fit nicely with the HDR capabilities of all three new UHD Blu-ray players which we know are emerging soon from Philips, Panasonic and of course Samsung.
As for the Samsung player itself, it’s expected to start shipping out to buyers in the early spring, in March specifically and will is already retailing for a very attractive price of just $399.99, much lower than the first ever Panasonic 4K Blu-ray player which hit the Japanese market in November of 2015 for a whopping $3,300.
As a final enticement, even if the arrival of 4K UHD Blu-ray discs suffers some delays or a lack of cool content in the beginning, the new player can also upscale Full HD Blu-ray discs to 4K-like crispness, along with the upscaling done by any name brand 4K TV through its own internal upscaling engine.
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Will theses players be 10bit or 8 bit?
@Lee: 10-bit. The new UHD BD format is natively 10-bit.
Where is the link to the pre order?
Hello Robert and thanks for noting this and pointing it out. We were going to include the pre-order link but for some reason it was completely non-functional on Panasonic’s site, so we didn’t bother with it. However, we’ll post the link once it’s available, which for now at least doesn’t seem to be the case despite the claim by Panasonic and other sources of it being on pre-order.
The pre-order link is now up from Samsung and we’ve included it at the top of the article. Here it is as well.
http://www.samsung.com/us/video/home-audio/UBD-K8500/ZA
One thing you didn’t mention: the Japanese Panasonic $3,300 product is actually a recorder, not just a player, which will account for part of the higher price. And also why it launched ahead of there being any actual UHD BD software.
Hello David and thank you for pointing out this additional piece of information. Since we only briefly covered the device in a news piece, we didn’t have a chance to go into its functional details but the recording aspect would certainly explain a higher price. However, it still doesn’t fully justify $3,300, given that the players now emerging on the U.S market seem to all be going for around the $400 line. Thus, $2900 for recording capacity? Still seems steep. Then again, we stress that we haven’t reviewed the device for a more solid viewpoint.
I just have a question, since the 4k blu ray players and 4k blu rays are soon to be available to consumers, how come there are no reviews or “FIRST LOOK” on the blu rays, I mean, has anyone actually seen how the picture quality is on screen, have they tested an actual 4k movie? Do they look much better than 1080p. I’ve seen 4k footage like at Best Buy and stuff, but never seen or heard about an actual 4k Movie like supposedly “THE MARTIAN” inserted in a 4k blu ray player and been reviewed. Has anyone seen anything on the internet? thx
Hello Patricio. While we can’t speak for what other sites are doing, we ourselves haven’t quite yet gotten a chance to see these in action. We think that nobody has quite yet in a hands-on review. However, we’re working on doing so as soon as possible and if possible will have a first look review up before the release dates.
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Solar system Earth
What are Fast Facts?
How to use in the classroom
About the same age as the Sun: 4.5 billion years
Avg. distance from the Sun
149,600,000 km (92,960,000 miles)
12,760 km (7926 miles)
5.972 x 1024 kg
Orbital period around the Sun
1 year (365 days)
Number of moons
Earth is the only planet to have liquid water on its surface. Liquid water covers 71% of the surface. Its atmosphere is 77% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with traces of other gases. White clouds of water vapor hide much of Earth's surface.
The southern hemisphere of Earth (image courtesy of NASA)
"Fast Facts: Earth" is a table that lists Earth's age, location, average distance from the Sun, diameter, mass, orbital period around the Sun, number of moons, and distinguishing features. A picture of the planet is included.
FORMATS AVAILABLE:
Printer-friendly web page
Adaptable, at teacher's discretion
Use this resource as:
A source of information. Read the table to find out about this object.
A reading activity. Give each student a planet-themed Fast Facts table. Ask students to locate specific object characteristics, such as the number of moons or the diameters of their respective planets.
A large-number recognition and ordering activity. Have students review several planet Fast Fact tables, including this one. Have students read the tables to find each planet's distance from the Sun. Then ask them to arrange the planets according to their distance from the Sun, from closest to farthest. Students also can arrange the planets according to their mass and/or diameter, from smallest to largest.
A unit conversion activity. Have students change the distances in either kilometers or miles into astronomical units. One astronomical unit (AU) is the average distance from Earth to the Sun, which equals 149,600,000 km, or 92,960,000 miles.
A compare/contrast activity. Have students review several Fast Facts tables for planets. Students match the planets to statements that describe a unique feature of each planet, such as: This planet is closest to the sun, or this is the largest known dwarf planet. Either the teacher or the students can generate the statements using information from the Fast Facts. Students also can create graphic organizers comparing the features of planets and dwarf planets.
An inquiry tool. Have students write down questions they would like answered about the image and the information in the Fast Facts table.
An engagement tool. Involve students in a discussion.
A math activity. Students can use determine the relationship between a planet's distance from the Sun and its period of revolution around the Sun (Kepler's Third Law). (Recommended for grades 10-12).
Use graphing calculators to plot one variable against the other. For example, plot distance from the Sun along the x axis and period of revolution along the y axis (or vice versa). Note that since the relationship is not a straight line, the distance is not proportional to the period. Ask students what they might do to the variables to produce a straight line (or direct proportion).
Have students calculate the square and cube of the distance and the period. Then have students make three new graphs by plotting the square of the distance vs. the period, the period squared, and the period cubed. Follow this by three more graphs: the cube of the distance vs. the period, the period squared, and the period cubed. Ask students to identify which graph resulted in a straight line and what combination is a direct proportion. Answer: The relationship is that the period squared is proportional to the average distance cubed. Hint: To make the calculations a little easier, express the distances in terms of astronomical units (1 AU = 149,600,000 km = 92,960,000 miles), and use years for the periods.
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Rotational Grazing- Paddock Layout and Construction
From: Pasture Management Guide for Livestock Producers,
Iowa State University Extension
Once the decision has been made to develop a rotational grazing system and the preliminary calculations are made, you should have some idea of the basic plan- how many paddocks or pastures will be needed and their approximate size. The challenge now is how to best fit the basic plan to the conditions of the specific site. There are few hard rules for paddock layout, but there are some good guidelines. The most important consideration in layout and design is to design with flexibility in mind.
One guideline often suggested to maximize flexibility in your start-up year of a system is “don’t build or install anything that can’t be easily moved or shifted.” If the site has no preexisting fences or water sites, this ultra-flexible approach may be feasible. But many sites already have some preexisting permanent fencing, water sites, and handling facilities that may be suitable to include in the layout design. There is always the risk however, that too much of the existing fencing will be kept in an effort to economize at the sacrifice of a more flexible or efficient layout. Don’t be afraid to invest in some temporary fencing and water distribution materials in the early years of a rotational grazing system. Many producers are not really satisfied with their first design and are generally glad they did not install it permanently.
Other possibilities for flexibility that should be considered include laying out a few paddocks initially with the intent of further divisions in the future; installing some main fence lines and lanes with permanent fencing materials but using temporary or semi-permanent fencing for all other internal divisions to allow for more efficient hay harvest and fertilization; or using temporary fencing to create variable-sized paddocks as the season and regrowth characteristics dictate, an example being the daily or half-day strip grazing practiced by dairy graziers.
For every site there will likely be several good and workable layouts. Get a good to-scale map of the site, and walk across the site to get a good sense of the general lay-of-the-land, paying special attention to ditches, drainage areas, trees, existing livestock trails, and other features of the site that may influence or interfere with movement of livestock. Consider paddock and lane arrangements by using the list of guidelines.
Guidelines for Paddocks
Paddocks should be as square as possible (no more than 3:1 length:width).
To lessen erosion, avoid aligning paddocks from the top of a hill to the bottom. If possible, make hilltop paddocks, side hill paddocks, and bottomland paddocks.
If pasture forage types vary across the pasture, attempt to confine the different forage types to separate paddocks.
It is more important that paddocks be as equal as possible in forage productivity, than equal in area.
Forage on south-facing slopes grows at a different rate than that on north-facing slopes. If possible, fence slope orientations separately.
Guidelines for Lanes
Avoid orienting lanes up and down slopes. If possible, orient lanes on the contour.
Avoid directing lanes through wet or low areas.
Place paddock gates in the corner of the paddock and nearest the water source.
Make lanes wide enough for free movement of vehicular traffic and easy access to paddocks.
Make paddock gate widths equal to the width of the lane, so the open paddock gate can be used to block animals from unneeded parts of the lane.
It will not be possible to accommodate all of these guidelines in every design. Draw several alternative layouts on paper and select the two or three that require the least amount of fencing. View these in regard to their potential to add additional water sites in the paddocks. A goal should be to have a water site within 800 feet of all areas of the system; a water point in each paddock is considered the best.
Take two or three best designs to the field and view the areas again with the alternative designs in mind. Use flags or stakes on proposed fence lines. Have grazing advisors form Extension, NRCS, consultants, or other experienced rotational graziers visit the pasture to provide additional suggestions or comments. Visit other grazing systems for guidance about mistakes made, precautions, and features that others feel are desirable.
Once a design is chosen, begin assessing the suitability of existing fencing. Use what is still useful, but seriously consider the costs and benefits of new construction. There are many new fencing technologies available, whether permanent, semi-permanent, or temporary. All can be adapted to electrification. Begin to acquire fencing and water distribution materials, and begin installing the layout.
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September 29, 2018 /in News /by Mark
Mark has been hosting a series of monthly concerts Live at Zédel this summer and on the 16th September he presented The New Musical Theatre Showcase which featured new and re-arranged songs from ourselves and also material from Kansley & Lidert, Kate Marlais & Alex Young, Oliver Boito and Webborn & Finn.
The sensational Christina Bennington who is currently starring as Raven in Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical at The Dominion Theatre in London debuted our brand new female empowerment anthem Get Brave as well as the song All She Wants which we debuted back in June with Belinda Wollaston. The always amazing Nadim Naaman (Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera and also co-writer of the brand new musical Broken Wings) performed a re-worked version of the song Tell Me which we originally debuted on our first album You Are Home. The three songs followed each other and told the story of a woman at a crossroads in her life and the choices that she has to make. Check out the videos here:
Christina Bennington – All She Wants
Nadim Naaman – Tell Me
Christina Bennington – Get Brave
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ALL SHE WANTS (ft. Belinda Wollaston) You Are Home – Fifth Anniversary Re-Issue on iTunes and Spotify
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Few Words About AKTL
A.K Khan Telecom Ltd. (AKTL) is a fully owned subsidiary of A.K. Khan & Company Ltd (AKK). A.K Khan & Company Ltd. is one of the oldest and most renowned private sector organizations in Bangladesh established by Mr. A.K. Khan in 1945. AKK in the 1950s under the visionary leadership of its founder Mr. A.K. Khan established Insurance Company, Financial Institution as well as manufacturing industries in Textiles, Jute, Plywood, Tannery, Heavy Electrical Goods, Shipping, and Irrigation. In 1980s the Company started to grow through Joint Ventures (JV) with renowned Multinational Companies in Textile, Telecommunication and Deep Sea Fishing.
AKTL formerly known as AKTD, started its Telecom distribution and supply chain operations business as a SBU under A.K. Khan & Company Ltd. AKTD was converted as a separate entity named A.K. Khan Telecom Ltd. (AKTL) in 2012. Currently, AKTL is engaged in Telecom distribution, Network solution, ISP, ASP, IPBAX, Call Center solution, Security & Surveillance and other communication operations, AKTL received ISO 9001:2008 Certificate by Intertek on the 12th of August, 2014.
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AKTL is the largest distributor of the Robi Axiata Limited in Bangladesh. Operating exclusively in the Chittagong Region, AKTL has a setup of nearly 1,400 employees covering 50,000 point of sales (POS) with 66 offices, showrooms and customer care points... Read More
A. K. Khan & Company Ltd. (Telecom Division) started its operations in 1997 as the national distributor for AKTEL. In 2012 it was converted into a separate entity named A. K. Khan Telecom Ltd (AKTL) as a fully owned subsidiary of A. K. Khan & Company Ltd. (AKK) Today, AKTL is the largest distributor of the Robi Axiata Limited in Bangladesh. Operating exclusively in the Chittagong Region, AKTL has a setup of nearly 1,400 employees covering 50,000 point of sales (POS) with 66 offices, showrooms and customer care points. Its distribution coverage area expands from Mirasharai to Teknaf under Chittagong Region. AKTL is also operating bKash and other banking M-commerce services for Robi Axiata Limited.
A strategic business unit of AKTL, AKTouch is a retail chain of electronic goods in Chittagong. AKTouch provides the latest mobile devices, has great accessibility spread over its 30+ retail outlets with the aim of providing its customer with in depth product knowledge. Read More
A strategic business unit of AKTL, AKTouch is a retail chain of personal electronic goods in Chittagong. AKTouch provides comprehensive product lines of the latest mobile devices, has great accessibility spread over its 30+ retail outlets with the aim of providing its customer with in depth product knowledge, powering them to make the right decision for their mobile needs.
Our offering of Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) solution architecture is designed for multimedia solution under a single platform allowing for flexible deployment...Read More
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AKTL places great emphasis on the quality, reliability and security of the services it offers. It does business in full compliance with the international standards on information quality and security. AKTL is the ISO 9001-2008 QMS certified distributor. The company was certified in 12th of August, 2014.
Security is of paramount importance to AKTL and its customers, and ISO 9001:2008 is the most widely-accepted certification available for supporting information and physical security and business continuity.
Audits are conducted regularly that include tests of security and of the CCTV system.
Access to physical facilities is restricted and physical security processes, such as restricted/named access (access control system) are enforced consistently.
Risks and threats to the business are assessed and managed.
Why Customers love AKTL
AKNET has undoubtedly proven their reliability and market competitiveness. We do appreciate the sincere efforts to develop NUK's website.
-Mashuda Khatun Shefali,
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Few Words From Our Management
“Proper utilization of technology can change the profitability of a business. We have seen its power, and also suffered when it is wrongly applied. Thus, our clients can add value from our expertise”
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About AKTL
A. K. Khan & Company Ltd. is operating it’s Telecom distribution and supply chain operations business since 1997 with SBU named A. K. Khan & Company Ltd. (Telecom Division) known as AKTD. In 2012 AKTD was converted into a separate entity named A. K. Khan Telecom Ltd (AKTL). Today, AKTL is the largest distributor of the Robi Axiata Limited in Bangladesh. Recently, AK Khan’s ISP concern AKNET, Infocom and Enterprise Solution Department has been merged with AKTL to run business operations on the same Enterprise and ISP solution.
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Sheryl Sandberg Says Facebook Totally Doesn’t Have a Teenager Problem
November 22, 2013 at 6:00 am PT
Perhaps you’ve heard: Facebook may — or may not — have a teen problem.
It’s been the talk of the town since Facebook’s last earnings call, when CFO David Ebersman admitted that in the past quarter, the company “did see a decrease in daily users, specifically among younger teens.”
And with twelve little words, the tech media world was sent into a tizzy. Couple that with the recent murmurings that Facebook desperately wants to buy Snapchat — a service popular with youngsters — and you’ve got all the trappings of a full-fledged Facebook teen flight crisis.
I caught up with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg shortly after her recent discussion with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. She was willing to shed a little more light on Facebook’s supposed “teen problem,” along with a few other particular areas of interest for the company — including the Snapchat chatter, mobile ads and the company’s commerce initiatives.
Here’s an edited transcript of my conversation with Sandberg from Thursday:
AllThingsD: There has been quite a bit of chatter over the past few weeks about teens and declining teen usage of Facebook. On Facebook’s last earnings call, we heard [Facebook CFO] David Ebersman note some dropoff among the younger teen demographic, but he didn’t really say much else. Can you elucidate?
Sheryl Sandberg: So I think the reaction to that comment has been blown out of proportion. As we said on the earnings call, overall U.S. teen usage of Facebook remains stable.
The vast majority of U.S. teens are on Facebook. And the majority of U.S. teens use Facebook almost every day.
I feel like I’ve lived this before. When I was first at Facebook just a few years in, adults were getting into Facebook in larger numbers and there were all those memes that popped up — “Oh my God, my mom’s on Facebook!” and that sort of thing. I’m pretty sure “Saturday Night Live” even did a skit on it.
One of the challenges we face right now is that we’re a decade old. That means that we’re not the newest. And often, particularly in our space, newer things are shinier and cooler.
And what Mark [Zuckerberg] has said and what we all believe is that we’re not trying to be the coolest. And we’re not trying to be the newest. We’re trying to be the most useful.
I think if you look at the way teenagers continue to use Facebook, we are useful to them.
That’s the perfect lead-in to my next question on something “new and shiny” — Snapchat. Are you going to acquire the company? Is its rising success a threat to Facebook?
So, what I would say on this is that we are the leader in a growing space. Social sharing, personal sharing, using your mobile device to share is exploding. We and other services are continuing to grow because of it.
That’s what matters. If you are the leader in a growing market, other products grow as well. I’d personally rather be in a growing market — where there are more products and more services — than in a shrinking market.
And I think that we’ve shown that, even as new services come up, we can continue to grow.
So your stance is “maybe you buy them, maybe you don’t — but it’s a good thing that everyone is doing well?”
Well, people are doing more sharing. If they were doing less sharing, we’d be fighting for a piece of a smaller market. There’s a lot of competition out there, but it’s amid a growing market. That means there’s room for us to grow and others to grow as well.
So let’s shift a bit. On Facebook’s last earnings call, we heard David [Ebersman] mention that Facebook’s ad load inside the News Feed wouldn’t increase significantly. That spooked the Street, as shares plunged in after-hours trading. Should investors be worried?
We feel really great about how our business is performing now, and about opportunities for future growth.
Remember that, not so long ago, we had zero ads in the News Feed. And as we’ve made the shift to being a mobile-first company focusing on mobile revenue, we’ve put ads into the News Feed carefully, watching user sentiment all along the way. We’re pleased not just with how it’s driving the bottom line and giving us a strong mobile ads business, but on the impact on how users are continuing to use Facebook.
What David was saying was that our focus going forward was not on increasing the number of ads in the News Feed, but in increasing the quality of those ads. That’s where we think there’s still room to grow.
Including experimenting with new mediums, and working with advertisers to make their ads better?
Yeah, and even just targeting. We have really sophisticated targeting tools that we didn’t have even a year ago — everything from custom audiences to partner categories to lookalike audiences. And while we’ve done a great job getting trials of those targeting tools, there’s a lot of room for more of our ads to use the better targeting tools, and therefore make the ads more relevant to users. So we’re very focused on using targeting to make those ads a better experience for users and have a higher ROI for advertisers.
In that vein, I’m really curious about a particular ad unit that you have only spoken a little bit about: Mobile app installation ads. Can you give me an idea of how those are performing?
We don’t break out revenue on specific ad products, so I can’t tell you that exact percentage. But what I can tell you is that it’s a growing business, and it’s a new and exciting space that we think really is at the very beginning of what’s possible.
We think our mobile app install ads represent one of the only ways that people can get their apps discovered. And the ROI for people developing those apps has been really high, which means we have very strong demand for the product.
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com
Last question. Tell me about the payments and commerce business, something I hear little about. Facebook Gifts, too, which was scaled back.
So on Gifts, we did some experimenting. And what we saw was that roughly 80 percent of the gifts bought were gift cards. So we just decided to focus on what was working.
When you think about e-commerce, we are not a sales platform. People don’t buy and sell on Facebook the way they do on Amazon and eBay.
But we’re a very large player in direct response advertising space. Businesses are using Facebook to promote things to people, and those people are going to their sites and walking in their store doors and buying things. We’re seeing significant increased spend among e-commerce companies.
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Calif. cities eye plan to seize mortgages - The Guardian
CHRISTINA REXRODE
Associated Press= FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — In the foreclosure-battered inland stretches of California, local government officials desperate for change are weighing a controversial but inventive way to fix troubled mortgages: Condemn them.
Officials from San Bernardino County and two of its cities have formed a local agency to consider the plan. But investors who stand to lose money on their mortgage investments have been quick to register their displeasure.
Discussion of the idea is taking place in one of the epicenters of the housing crisis, a working-class region east of Los Angeles where housing prices have plummeted. Last week brought another sharp reminder of the crisis when the 210,000-strong city of San Bernardino, struggling after shrunken home prices walloped local tax revenues, announced it would seek bankruptcy protection.
Now — and amid skepticism on many fronts — officials from the surrounding county of San Bernardino and cities of Fontana and Ontario have created a joint powers authority to consider what role local governments could take to stem the crisis. The goal is to keep homeowners saddled by large mortgage payments from losing their homes — which are now valued at a fraction of what they were once worth.
"We just have too much pain and misery in this county to call off a public discussion like this," said David Wert, a county spokesman.
The idea was broached by a group of West Coast financiers who suggest using the power of eminent domain, which lets the government seize private property for public use. In this case, they would condemn troubled mortgages so they could seize them from the investors who own them. Then the mortgages would be rewritten so the borrowers would have significantly lower monthly payments.
Steven Gluckstern, chairman of the newly formed San Francisco-based Mortgage Resolution Partners, says his main concern is to help the economy, which is being held back by the mortgage crisis.
"This is not a bunch of Wall Street guys sitting around saying, 'How do we make money?'" he said. "This was a bunch of Wall Street guys sitting around saying, 'How do you solve this problem?'"
Typically, eminent domain has been used to clear property for infrastructure projects like highways, schools and sewage plants. But supporters say that giving help to struggling borrowers is also a legitimate use of eminent domain, because it's in the public interest.
Under the proposal, a city or county would sign on as a client of Mortgage Resolution Partners, then condemn certain mortgages. The mortgages are typically owned by private investors like hedge funds and pension funds.
Under eminent domain, the city or county would be required to pay those investors "fair value" for the seized mortgages. So Mortgage Resolution Partners would find private investors to fund that.
Mortgage Resolution Partners will focus on mortgages where the borrowers are current on their payments but are "under water," meaning their mortgage costs more than the home is worth. After being condemned and seized, the mortgages would be rewritten based on the homes' current values. The borrowers would get to stay, but with cheaper monthly payments. The city or county would resell the loans to other private investors, so it could pay back the investors who funded the seizure and pay a flat fee to Mortgage Resolution Partners.
The company says that overall, all parties will be happy. The homeowners, for obvious reasons. The cities, for stemming economic blight without using taxpayer bailouts. And even the investors whose mortgage investments are seized. Mortgage Resolution Partners figures they should be glad to unload a risky asset.
Rick Rayl, an eminent domain lawyer in Irvine, Calif., who is not connected to the company, isn't so sure.
"The lenders are going to be livid," he said. He thinks the plan could have unintended consequences, like discouraging banks and other lenders from making new mortgage loans in an area.
The company says that focusing on borrowers who are current on their loans is a smart way to do business, rewarding those who are already working hard to keep their homes. But, Rayl pointed out, those are also the exact mortgages that investors are eager to keep.
Already, the outcry was heard at the first meeting of the joint powers authority on Friday, even as chairman and San Bernardino County chief executive Greg Devereaux said the entity — which was inspired by Mortgage Resolution Partners' proposal — has not yet decided on a specific course of action.
Timothy Cameron, managing director of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's asset managers group, told the authority that residents of the region would find it harder to get loans and investors — including pensioners — would suffer losses. He also said such a move would invite costly litigation.
"The use of eminent domain will do more harm than good," he said. "We need mortgage investors and lenders to come back to these fragile markets — but this plan will force both groups to avoid them."
But Robert Hockett, a Cornell University law professor who serves as an unpaid adviser to Mortgage Resolution Partners, was unsympathetic. He likes how the plan forces the hand of uncooperative investors, who have sometimes stifled plans to reduce mortgage payments.
"It's kind of like saying a loan shark objects to anti-predatory lending laws," Hockett said.
Theodore Woodard, a 62-year-old retired air conditioner installer, said he'd welcome the help on his five-bedroom home in Fontana. So far, he and his wife have kept up with monthly $3,100 payments, plus taxes and insurance, but it hasn't been easy, and they have watched several neighbors in the well-manicured neighborhood some 50 miles east of Los Angeles lose their homes to foreclosure.
"We've been making our monthly payments, barely making them, but we just pay them and try to survive off what's left," said Woodard, who estimates his house has lost a third of its value since 2004.
In San Bernardino County, the problem is clear. The median home price has plunged to $150,000 from $370,000 in five years. The combined San Bernardino-Riverside metro area has the highest foreclosure rate of any large metro area in the country, at four times the national average, according to RealtyTrac, which tracks foreclosure properties.
Devereaux, who has seen other plans to fix the housing crisis peter out, is cautious.
"I don't know whether this will work or not," he said. "But we do think we have a responsibility to explore it."
Rexrode reported from New York. AP Business Writer Daniel Wagner contributed to this report from Washington, D.C
Double-amputee who lost arm and leg while clearing mines to take on gruelling 135mile ultra marathon through Death Valley - Daily Mail
Chris Moon, 50, from Lanarkshire, is the first amputee ever to attempt the legendary Badwater run in California
PUBLISHED: 12:16 EST, 15 July 2012 | UPDATED: 12:33 EST, 15 July 2012
A man who lost his right arm and leg in a devastating explosion while supervising mine clearance in Mozambique is about to take on one of the world's toughest ultra marathons.
Chris Moon, who suffered crippling injuries in 1995, flew out to the U.S. last night to take part in the 135 mile Badwater run in California.
He will become the first amputee ever to attempt the race, which gets under way tomorrow.
Chris Moon will be lining up next to around 90 of the world's toughest athletes - runners, triathletes, adventure racers, and mountaineers for a 135mile race through Death Valley to Mt. Whitney
The gruelling event pits around 90 of the world's toughest athletes - runners, triathletes, adventure racers, and mountaineers - against one another and the elements.
It sees runners head through Death Valley to Mt. Whitney in temperatures of up to 55C (130F).
Mr Moon, 50, who was born in Wiltshire, but lives in Strathaven in Lanarkshire, has run the race before - in 53 hours - and wants to cut ten hours off his best time.
The 50-year-old, who was born in Wiltshire, but lives in Strathaven in Lanarkshire, has run the race before - in 53 hours - and wants to cut ten hours off his best time
He is running to raise funds for a group of charities - including O2E, which helps disabled and disadvantaged children.
He has been running marathons, ultra-distance races and raising money for charity for the past 15 years - and is the first amputee to run a number of the world's toughest ultra marathons; beginning with the Marathon Des Sables in 1996.
He said: ‘I want to challenge the concept of limitation.
'I want to overcome physical challenges and show that I have not been weakened by the unfortunate things that sometimes happen.
'I run further now than I ever did before I was blown up.
‘I have worked very hard and I want to keep going until I am in my 70s.
‘I am driven by all sorts of things. What is life without aspirations?’
In September 2010 he became one of a handful of people to run more than a marathon a day for 30 days continuously, covering over 1,000 miles.
Mr Moon said: ‘I am excited. I have done the training and I just want to get out there.
‘I am looking to take ten hours off my best time. I know more about running and artificial legs have got a lot better.
Competitors in the Badwater Ultramarathon will cover 135 miles from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney in temperatures up to 55C
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The Italian authorities fines WhatsApp for $ 3 million euros
The Italian Antimonopoly Authority fined WhatsApp service developers for 3 million euros. This information was reported reported by Reuters.
According to the agency, WhatsApp imposed conditions on the users that obliged them to agree to data transfer to Facebook parent company. In particular, they were persuaded that without agreeing on this they would not be able to continue using the service.
The WhatsApp press service commented on this situation the following way: "We are considering this decision and preparing a response to the authorities."
The supervisory authorities of all EU countries demanded that WhatsApp last year to suspend the transfer of Facebook data because of users’ doubts' in agreeing on the conditions.
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503 error means that the server is temporarily unable to process requests for technical reasons (this may be a maintenance, overload, etc.). This is a good method to help Google understand that the website will be unavailable for a limited period of time.
However, it is not recommended to use it for longer than a few hours. According to Mueller, "weeks" does not mean temporary. He also added that the webmasters are misleading Google in this case.
If it's not accessible for weeks, it would be misleading to include it in search, imo. It's an error page, essentially.
- John ☆ .o (▽ ≦ ≦) o. ☆ (@JohnMu) June 8, 2017
We should remind you that John Mueller previously told how not to lose the position in the search engine, if there is a need to temporarily suspend the website (for a day or more) either due to technical maintenance or for other reasons.
Google does not consider a sticky footer as a violation of the rules
In most cases Google does not penalize or lower websites for using a sticky footer. Thus, there is no need to worry about possible problems due to the use of this technique. This information was stated by the Google search representative Gary Illyes on Twitter.
At the same time, Illyes advises to avoid obsession, so as not to cause irritation among users when sticking the footer.
Nah, I would not worry about that, but do not try to make them as less obtrusive as possible. You really do not want to annoy your users.
- Gary "鯨 理" Illyes (@methode) July 28, 2017
It should be recalled that in April the search rep, John Mueller, said that Google does not punish websites for posting end-to-end text and links into the footer of the page. The content of this block is not regarded by the search engine as the main page on the website.
Earlier this month it became known that the location of internal links on the page does not affect their weight.
Google Drive will become a backup tool
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The backup function will be available from June 28 after the release of the new Backup and Sync application, which is the latest version of Google Drive for Mac / PC.
It is assumed that users will have the opportunity to open and edit files located in the cloud. It is still not clear whether they will be able to synchronize information between multiple PCs using Disk as an intermediary.
Since the auto update to Backup and Sync is not planned, the company recommends installing a new application immediately after being released.
The new feature is primarily targeted at corporate Google Drive users.
AdWords launches a new keyword-level bidding interface
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Some phases were also changed a little bit. Instead of the "top of the page" is now replaced by "over all organic results"; instead of "first position" the tab "over all other ads" will be now used.
There was no official launch announcement yet.
Let us remind you that Google AdWords changed algorithm of work of the Optimizer of the price for conversion last week. Earlier this tool could raise the maximum bid for prospective clicks by no more than 30%. Now this restriction is lifted.
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Testers put the product price, which is shown at a discount, and the crossed-out original price on the right side. As a result, users immediately see that the product participates in the promotion. Testing is carried out in the mobile and desktop Google versions.
As noted in Merkle, this format of displaying information about the discount allows you to save space in the ad and show other extensions (free delivery, product rating). In addition, it helps to increase CTR ads and highlight company offers among competitors' ads.
Testing is conducted on a limited scale. Google representative said to the Merkle Company that they are constantly testing various formats to give users the most useful information.
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Save the Children Launches Radio Outreach Program in Haiti
The global humanitarian organization Save the Children is supporting efforts to promote breastfeeding among new mothers in Haiti to ensure the protection of the youngest and most vulnerable survivors of the devastating January 12 earthquake.
The agency has translated internationally recognized public health messages into Creole, which are currently being broadcast on local radio stations.
Critical Awareness Campaign Available to Health-focused Groups in Haiti
Save the Children is making these critical communications available to other health-focused groups that are also working with local communities affected by the disaster. Its health staff in Haiti will translate other public health messages over the coming days and coordinate with partners and communities to spread the word about keeping children healthy in the wake of the quake.
Save the Children also is training midwives, health workers and nutritional educators to reach out to pregnant and new mothers at makeshift camps in Port-au-Prince, Leogane and Jacmel.
"Newborns and infants are very vulnerable during emergencies, especially from diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition. But mothers can take simple steps to protect their baby's health through exclusive and proper breastfeeding," said Kathryn Bolles, Save the Children's emergency health and nutrition director. "Breast milk provides essential nutrients and strengthens a baby's immunity, protecting the baby from other illnesses."
Health Risks from Infant Formulas and Other Supplements
The health messages encourage mothers to exclusively breastfeed babies under 6 months of age, and to continue to breastfeed children until age 2.
Mothers are cautioned against giving babies under 6 months of age anything but breast milk -- including water, infant formula, powdered milk or solid food -- because of the risks from diarrhea, one of the leading killers of children globally, and because of the risk of becoming malnourished, which leaves babies more susceptible to other illnesses
"Mothers may not be aware of the threats that infant formula and other supplements pose to their babies. Tainted water used to mix the formula and unsanitary bottles or cups can cause a baby to get sick with diarrhea, which can kill," said Bolles. "We hope more Haitian mothers will hear our health messages and be encouraged to breastfeed their babies. We also are suggesting mothers seek out support and counseling from organizations like Save the Children if they are having difficulty breastfeeding their baby."
The awareness campaign also seeks to dispel the myths that may discourage mothers from breastfeeding, among them stress or lack of proper food will cause a mother to produce bad milk or no milk. Instead, mothers are encouraged to breastfeed more often, which will allow them to produce more milk for their baby.
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Even before the earthquake, survival rates for young Haitian children were the worst in the Western Hemisphere, with nearly 1 in 10 children dying before the age of 5 from preventable and treatable causes like diarrhea and pneumonia.
Save the Children supports the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations that children should be breastfed exclusively for the first six months of life to ensure their most favorable growth and health. WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF guidelines only recommend "replacement feeding" (breastmilk substitute) when it is "acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable, and safe."
Save the Children has worked in Haiti since 1978 and currently has more than 200 staff in the country.
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Saving Sea Turtles in Hainan
Frederick Yeh is an American-Chinese biomedical engineer who was driven into conservation work on a trip back to Hainan to visit family. He had happy memories of Hainan’s Sea Turtles from early childhood, but was shocked to discover that locals – who were hard up against the realities of a struggling fishing industry – were selling the turtles and no one was doing anything about it.
Check out the report by Jennifer Dunn in Hainan:
Saving endangered Sea Turtles in Hainan
Sea Turtles face threats like fishing nets, pollution and poaching.
Frederick founded the organization Sea Turtles 911.
If you want to know more about Frederick’s work, you can visit seaturtles.org.
Wednesday 23.11.2011 | 14:25
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Miguel rescues Cape Verde’s endangered giant sea turtles
Giant sea turtles in western Africa are threatened with extinction. But Miguel from Cape Verde faithfully patrols the beaches to keep them safe while they lay their eggs.
Miguel makes sure the turtles find their way back to the ocean
DW reporter Carla Fernandes on meeting with Miguel in Cape Verde:
Boavista island on Cape Verde has lovely beaches! When I went there that was all that came to my mind. But this beauty became much deeper when I realized the meaning it has for the balance of an animal species like the marine turtles. Marine turtles prefer sandy beaches to make their nests. So looking at the white sand gain a new meaning: life. It was impressive to see a sea turtle laying her eggs on the sandy beach of Curralito and I was much more moved by this experience than I thought I would be.
Visit the Turtle Foundation’s website.
Here is the Turtle Foundation’s blog on its work on Cape Verde.
Tuesday 13.09.2011 | 12:37
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Merrell promoted to first-team LB
Keith Sargeant • August 16, 2011
Prior to arriving at Rutgers in 2009, Jamal Merrell was a four-year letterwinner at Hodgson Vo-Tech in Bear, Del. (Photo courtesy of Rutgers athletics)
Jamal Merrell hasn’t experienced any game action in his previous two seasons at Rutgers, but by the looks of things the third-year sophomore could be a factor for the Scarlet Knights defense this fall.
On Tuesday, Rutgers coach Greg Schiano promoted Merrell to the first-team strongside linebacker spot following a series of position switches that included shifting Ka’Lial Glaud to the hybrid end/linebacker spot and Manny Abreu to the other end.
“We wouldn’t have done it if we didn’t feel like Jamal was playing very well,” Schiano said. “Not just recently. He did it in the spring and then continued to do it now. Now, he’s young. He makes a lot of mistakes. But he has speed and athleticism and we just have to get him coached up. I think he can be a very good player.”
For Merrell, a Delaware native whose twin brother, Jamil, is a reserve defensive end, the promotion follows a series of position switches that has seen him see scout-team action at d-end and wide receiver since arriving in 2009.
“I’m a wide-range guy so they’ll try me anywhere,” Merrell said, laughing. “I feel like (strongside linebacker) is the best fit for me. That’s the best fit for my speed and athleticism. Getting into the playbook, I feel like I’m well equipped for it.”
Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: Jamal Merrell, Ka'Lial Glaud, Manny Abreu on August 16, 2011 by Keith Sargeant.
Video: Schiano 8/16
Rutgers coach Greg Schiano had plenty to say in today’s post-practice video, offering his take on his team’s 12th practice of the preseason, admitting he’s concerned about the status of running back Jeremy Deering (who continues to be limited from contact with a head injury), discussing several intriguing position switches (including moving Ka’Lial Glaud to the hybrid d-end/linebacker spot, moving Manny Abreu from there to rush end, and moving Jamal Merrell up to first-team strongside linebacker), expressing optimism toward the depth at linebacker (with freshman Kevin Snyder moving up to second-team strongside), and offering another positive endorsement for new offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti.
Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: Greg Schiano, Video on August 16, 2011 by Keith Sargeant.
La Lota leaves team • 4 Comments
Anthony La Lota arrived at Rutgers last September with big expectations, but today told coach Greg Schiano he has decided to quit the football team and focus on academics.
“He just wants to focus on his education,” Schiano said of the 6-4, 270-pound tight end following practice. “He’s focused on his career and things like that. So he decided to stop playing. He came in to see me and we had a good talk.”
Rated by some recruiting analysts as New Jersey’s No. 1 prospect coming out of The Hun School in 2009, La Lota spent his freshman year at Michigan before opting to transfer closer to home two weeks into last season.
La Lota, a Princeton native who was rated as a five-star prospect and the No. 4 offensive tackle nationally by Scout.com, participated with Rutgers’ scout team at defensive end while redshirting due to NCAA transfer rules last fall. But when he reported in this summer, Schiano moved him to tight end, where he was behind co-starters D.C. Jefferson and Paul Carrezola, backup Malcolm Bush and blocking-tight end Beau Bachety on the depth chart.
Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: Anthony La Lota on August 16, 2011 by Keith Sargeant.
Men’s hoops: RU-Florida to air on ESPN2
Jerry Carino • August 16, 2011
Mark your calendar for Mike Rosario’s return to the RAC, because ESPN has. Game time is 7 p.m., changed from 7:30. It’s the Scarlet Knights’ second home game in December that will air nationally (LSU on Dec. 3).
Posted in Uncategorized on August 16, 2011 by Jerry Carino.
Greene comfortable at linebacker again
With each passing practice, Khaseem Greene says he feels more comfortable at his weakside linebacker position. (MyCentralJersey.com file photo)
PISCATAWAY — Khaseem Greene never doubted he could make a smooth transition to linebacker after playing his first years at safety. After all, it was the same position he excelled at for three varsity seasons at Elizabeth High.
But after recording 117 tackles in leading the Minutemen to the NJSIAA North II Group IV championship in 2006, Greene spent a prep season at Avon Old Farms, where he was moved to safety. Greene enjoyed plenty of success in the defensive backfield for Rutgers, recording 77 tackles and a team-best three interceptions last all.
But in a move predicated on Rutgers coach Greg Schiano’s desire to add more speed to the defense, Greene has spent the offseason getting reacquainted to his old position.
“Everybody thought that I’d play linebacker here because I played it in high school,” Greene said. “But actually I had some success at safety in prep school and actually I had a pretty good run here at safety my first three years.”
Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: Khaseem Greene on August 16, 2011 by Keith Sargeant.
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Jamison added to Maxwell Award watch list
With 491 rushing yards through Rutgers' 4-0 start, Jawan Jamison is on pace to become the Scarlet Knights' first 1,000-yard rusher since Ray Rice in 2007. (Photo by Mark R. Sullivan/Home News Tribune)
Not since Ray Rice took his talents to the NFL in 2007 has Rutgers had a running back receive recognition for college football’s top-player award.
Not until Jawan Jamison gained that notoriety, that is.
Rutgers’ redshirt sophomore tailback on Friday was added to the watch list for the Maxwell Award, which goes to the nation’s best all-around college football player.
Jamison, who has a string of five consecutive 100-yard games dating back to last year, ranks fifth nationally with 491 yards rushing for the No. 23-ranked Scarlet Knights.
With a Big East-best average of 122.8 rushing yards per game, Jamison is on pace to become Rutgers’ third running back to eclipse the 1,000-yard plateau since 1975. Rice, who was a finalist for the Maxwell Award and finished seventh in Heisman Trophy voting in his 2,012-yard campaign in ’07, rushed for 1,000 or more yards in all three of his seasons from 2005-07 and Terrell Willis posted consecutive 1,000-yard seasons in 1993 and ’94.
Video: Kyle Flood (9/27)
On the final day of practice before the bye weekend, Rutgers coach Kyle Flood talked about the state of his team, offering thoughts on the status of reserve running back Savon Huggins, the pass-protection skills of Jawan Jamison, the caliber of his scout team, and other items of interest on Thursday:
Carroo not surprised by Nova’s success
PISCATAWAY — As Gary Nova was guiding the Rutgers football team to a shootout victory at Arkansas last Saturday, the least surprised player on the Scarlet Knights sideline may have been Leonte Carroo.
The true freshman from Edison played with Nova at Don Bosco Prep in northern New Jersey, hauling in 44 passes from Rutgers’ starting quarterback during the 2009 and ’10 scholastic seasons as the Ironmen won all 24 of those games en route to consecutive state sectional titles.
So what Nova has done this season – engineering a 4-0 start while proving to be an upper-echelon Big East quarterback – hasn’t shocked Carroo at all.
“I’m not surprised at all because, bottom line, Gary Nova’s a winner,’’ said Carroo, a 6-1, 200-pound wide receiver who has seen most of his action on special teams on the punt-block and kickoff-coverage units this fall. “He was a winner in high school. He always got us out of tough situations. So watching him on Saturday was very exciting. Not only as a teammate, but as a brother watching him lead us to a win was very cool.’’
Carroo has enough tales of Don Bosco’s success to write a book, but when reflecting on his quarterback’s accomplishments one memory stands out.
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Raising the Bar - The Battle for the 2004 NPC Delaware State, East Coast Classic DVD Review
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REVIEW OF THE DVD
The Inside Story of a Life in Bodybuilding
A Video by Mike Pulcinella
At the time of 2003, Dave had not competed in bodybuilding for seven years. His whole family thought he was done. But he wasn't. At the age of 39, he was planning a return to competition.
20 Weeks out
Bear, Delaware
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Right off the bat, the production qualities of this DVD were quite evident. There was mellow music in the background, excellent photo quality, and good narration (also, Mike had a great voice to be a narrator). It seemed sort of "Hollywood" and is a type of feature that is rare in bodybuilding. Training DVDs exist, contest videos exist, and some others of the norm exist, but how many documentaries are there in bodybuilding? Not many at all (other than the docudrama "Pumping Iron"). So this was a welcome addition to my bodybuilding video collection in that it is so unique.
Dave was seen pretty early in the video and was a very thick dude. He was in a t-shirt and also in a tank top and you could see he was close to pro size. Mike mentioned sarcastically that he was conspicuous with his camera. Tell me about it. I had a friend film me training once for some footage which I was going to put on the website and we definitely stood out.
Adam Gamido was the novice entering the same competition as Dave. He was 27 years old and training for the show. Some training footage was shown and Adam was a big guy, but not nearly Dave's size (they were in different weight classes). Dave was suggesting that Adam might drop out of the show when he realizes the difficulty of the diet. Adam explained that he lost a lot of his mass in the marine corps. It is a misconception that the marine corps or the army in general would bring you up - with all the cardio you may exit more fit than you were previously, but I would doubt you will turn out more muscular than before.
Mike asked a great question: "What motivates you guys to work as hard as you do?" and Dave's answer was even better, saying that it would be hard for him NOT to do it. Great answer, and perfectly understandable to other competitors and people who take on difficult tasks out of love.
Victor Delcampo's training was featured next in the DVD. I didn't realize until I researched him on the internet, but he was 5'2 in height. He appeared to be quite a bit taller (possibly due to his imposing physique and overall proportions).
Al Pulcinella (Dave's dad) was interviewed next and said he was very proud of his son's achievements at his previous show. His dad explained that he worries about Dave. This was understandable since comptetitive bodybuilding takes on several risks. For one there is the hard training which can result in torn muscles or other injuries. There is the obvious heavy juice requirements - or at least using steroids, period. Whether they are used at great doses or not varies depending on the individual, but it is just about impossible to be competitive as a natural bodybuilder. On top of this, it is often the amateurs who are the hungriest and most likely to abuse anabolic-androgenic steroids. Not to mention the less obvious time devotion that bodybuilding requires. The nutrition behind it is practically a full time job in itself (how practical is it to eat 6-10 times a day when you work a full time job?). These are all legimitate concerns and I can only assume that these are the types of things his dad was worried about. Some pictures of Dave's father were shown and he was in great shape when he was younger. No doubt his father was pretty big into working out back in the day.
Dave explained that he was going through some injuries and that he would have to figure out a way to get around them in the 19 weeks leading up to the show in a way which would stimulate growth to happen. This didn't make much sense to me as it is not really a bodybuilder's goal to gain muscle leading up to a show, but to burn fat and get shredded while preserving as much muscle as possible. In any case, I knew what Dave meant - you still want to work your hardest going up to a show, and injuries could very well prevent this.
Dave said that he wanted to enter the Delaware show to raise the bar and get all the best bodybuilders in the state to get out of the woodwork and do the show. His plan was to get all the best bodybuilders to compete to BEAT THEM ALL IN 2004!! MUAHAHAHAHA. Now this is what ultimately happened, but what would have become of this documentary if Dave hadn't won? Makes me wonder.
Dave's girlfriend was 24 and also competing in figure competitions (as Mike said, something between bodybuilding and bikini contests).
Another competitor, Vicky, was 44 years old and had been retired for a decade! Her plan was to compete in figure and not bodybuilding, which would require a fair bit of different preparation.
Sammy Segara had won the middleweight class at the Bodyrock in Virginia which is a National qualifier. He would also be 40 that year (same age as Dave). He was planning to compete with Dave, so it would definitely be a competitive field. Some photos were shown in the DVD of Dave and he was looking freaky - very thick. His height and build gives him an extremely powerful look. His torso is long and he looks like he has a very solid foundation (he's probably pretty strong in the basic heavy lifts).
Next up, Dave was watching the 2004 Arnold Classic on Payperview. He didn't want Jay Cutler to win and Jay won! WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP. Dave said it and I agree completely. I would have put Jay fourth after Chris Cormier, Dexter Jackson, and Gunter Schlierkamp. Yep - FOURTH. He was at his all time worst shape. It looked like he was starving compared to his usual performances. This is what sucks about the politics of bodybuilding - when ludicrous shit like this happens. Jay didn't deserve to win. Dave knew it, Chris Cormier knew it, as did Dexter and Gunter, and I knew it, as well as tons of fans. But of course if you are the reigning champ, you automatically win every succeeding time you enter that show whether you deserve to or not. OK, so Jay got a gift in first - there have definitely been times where he entered shows and probably should have won when he came in second. While I disagree that the 2001 Mr. Olympia was one of them, some others would say he was the winner.
Dave's dad said that Dave had not much to gain and everything to lose if he entered the Delaware show. This was pretty much the truth. Why win it once then come second the next year? It would suggest to the fans and the judges that the bodybuilder in question has regressed in terms of physique quality - and who wants that? Apparently, there were IFBB judges who agreed with Dave's dad. I would have agreed as well. Unless a person is competing solely for the fun of it.
Dave was again watching the Arnold classic, seeing Mustafa Mohammad on the stage looking FANTASTIC (hell, better than Jay), only to have come second last! Yet another ridiculous decision at the show. You have to love the 2003 Arnold Classic results: (1) Jay Cutler, (2) Chris Cormier, (3) Markus Ruhl, (4) Dexter Jackson. UMM...Is this a JOKE??? So we're judging by the standard (1) big and shredded, (2) shapely and symmetrical, (3) big and shredded, (4) shapely and symmetrical??? Yeah, makes a lot of sense (sarcasm). There is apples and oranges BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH IN THE SAME DAMN SHOW. Get your head out of your asses, judges. Reminds me of the 2004 Mr. Olympia when Ronnie beat Dexter in the abs and thigh challenge but Dexter had previously beat Markus Ruhl. WTF?? So having wide hanging lats and huge thighs was the excuse they had for Ronnie winning but the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT couldn't be used to defend Markus' victory because it didn't exist - he didn't win, because apparently the judges change their standards to suit the needs of who wins the show. For the record, I DO think Ronnie deserved the abs and thigh challenge because he had a superior taper and greater thighs than Dexter - BUT SO DID MARKUS. Notice how Ronnie didn't win the challenge round in 2005? Why? Because his victory wasn't riding on it, so they were able to judge it fairly. Of course, they also had a different judging panel that year, and that may have changed the results too.
2005 Mr. Olympia Finals & Prejudging (DVD)
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Back to my review of the DVD (LOL), Dave listed the six foods that work (to create the leanest body possible):
1. Egg white
4. Banana
6. Brown Rice
7. Sweet Potato
Brown rice and sweet potato were said to be interchangeable.
Dave said he eats 82 ounces of tuna each day by flushing it down with water. Mike said that the monotony of the diet was what he found most striking in the filming of this documentary. Diet is 80-90% of bodybuilding. Anyone who tells who otherwise is just plainly wrong. Bodybuilders will pride themselves in saying that hard training makes the bodybuilder. This truly is a bunch of shit. Nutrition, steroids, and genetics are the top three factors (the order is difficult to say). Training is dead last on that list. You can train like a koala bear, but if you juice hard, eat big, and have the right genes, you WILL grow. Plenty of bodybuilders (Paul Dillett and Flex Wheeler as just two examples) show this perfectly. While Dave was eating all that food, he really didn't appear to be enjoying it. Now THAT is what makes a bodybuilder - the ability to stay disciplined in the KITCHEN - this takes place in the 23 hours of the day when they are not in the gym. THAT is where it really matters. The gym means nothing compared to the kitchen - never believe otherwise.
Dave said that he was able to gain muscle going into a show during contest prep because he does things so ahead of schedule. This explains his comment about gaining muscle going into a show despite working around injuries. I now realize that Dave wasn't a typical bodybuilder in this manner (many of whom diet 12 weeks out at the very most). He seems to be one who is very intelligent with his contest preparation. Unlike some who don't start their diet until too late and need to take dangerous diuretics to make up for it! Dave said that his body fat was 2.5% but that seemed a bit low to me. Although it is quite possible his body fat WAS that low, it is all a matter of how it looks - and Dave himself said he was "waterlogged". It sounded to me like a typical bodybuilder who is too hard on himself and is delusional about what he truly looks like. Bertil Fox said that he would always see a skinny guy looking back at him in the gym mirror. LOL. While I disagree that Dave was waterlogged, his body fat might very well have been 2.5%, but I've seen others with 3.5% looking just as shredded (Claude Groulx at the 2003 Masters Mr. Olympia Contest for example).
2003 Masters Olympia (DVD)
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It all depends on how it looks on your body. Just because Tommi Thorvildsen outweighed Ronnie Coleman at the 2002 Mr. Olympia Contest by 15 pounds at a shorter height doesn't mean he looked better than Ronnie.
Next up was the night before the show, while tanning lotion was applied with sponge brushes to Dave and his girlfriend while they are almost naked. The tan really helps to bring out muscular definition in competitive bodybuilders. Dave said that bodybuilding causes neuroses and his girlfriend said her neuroses have nothing to do with bodybuilding. LOL.
At the day of the show, Dave got an unexpected shock - HE WASN'T ALLOWED TO DO THE SHOW! Crazy...Dave was obviously devastated. My question is: how the hell did he not know about this earlier? I have to say that I'm the type of guy who is always on the ball - nothing gets passed me. I would have known if I wasn't qualified. My question would then be: how did Dave not know? My guess is that it was some very strange loophole that would have taken a lot of time and research to figure out. He may have even been told by misinformed people that he was indeed qualified. After all, earlier in the DVD he was reading an email from a judge who told him not to do the show - but no mention was made by the judge that he wasn't even qualified to begin with! I couldn't imagine the devastation it must have been for Dave and his girlfriend to have to hear this news in a carb depleted state with such a low body fat. That stuff affects the brain! Don't think for a second it would be easy to be that shredded, because the body functions a lot less efficiently with such a low body fat.
Somebody on stage explained that nobody should have to kill themselves to complete this show (dehydration for example). This was said to possibly be about Dave since the year before he was cramping before the show. Something that NO DVD would ever explain is that there are rampant roids and chemicals behind lots of competitors. It would be sheer speculation to suggest that Dave was on any type of performance enhancing substances or diuretics, but this is also common sense. You don't get painful cramps just because you're thirsty and ate a lot of chicken! I only wish that one day a DVD came out that truly DID explain the steroids behind bodybuilding - could you imagine how well that would sell?? Everyone would want a copy. And it would be "keeping it real" as opposed to most DVDs which laughably suggest that hard training is more important than steroids (LOL!!). OK, maybe I'm a bit bitter about this, I just hate to see people selling supplements with pictures of bodies of people so obviously on steroids and deceiving beginner bodybuilders who will in turn naively purchase these supplements on the basis that it was the supplement (and not the steroids) which caused that growth. Supplements do work, but they aren't even close to being as effective as steroids and that's a fact! Tom Platz said it himself in his DVDs.
Tom Platz Seminar With Posing - The Golden Eagle - Platinum Edition (DVD)
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It was said in the DVD that at the local level the difference in quality between the first place finisher and the last place finisher is significant - this is definitely the truth.
Dave's girlfriend dyed her hair blonde for the show and changed her hairstyle as well as removed the glasses. It was AMAZING how much different she looked. Almost like a different person. LOL. I feel that way sometimes (the difference between having a good haircut and shaving versus having messy hair and a five o'clock shadow). People really do have the ability to look completely different.
Next up was the East Coast Classic Competition. The lineup was quickly shown and Dave appeared to be the clear winner. He was huge and shredded with a good shape. He sort of had a Mike Quinn physique in that he looked like a five foot and eight inch powerhouse. He looked as strong as he was built. This is something that comes with time as muscle maturity does not develop overnight.
There were definitely some other top rate guys at the show, and some appeared to be in Dave's league, but from the footage shown it still seemed to be that Dave was the obvious winner. King Kamali even showed up in full gear to guest pose. LOL.
King Kamali - King of Pain (DVD)
Vicky won her class in the masters division! And some other classes to boot. She was in the shape of her life. Physique aside, she even won the best poser award. Jennifer won her class as well and went on to beat Vicky for the overall.
Dave was announced by his brother to be "in extreme intestinal distress." I have no idea what this could mean, but I would assume that he possibly overdid the dieting and I'll leave it at that. I always admired Lee Haney for his balance. As amazing as he was, he never overdid it. Too much intensity causes high blood pressure and heart attacks - too much intensity might be the difference between winning and getting second. Rich Gaspari was quite possibly too intense and this lack of balance may have prevented him from beating Haney. However, I would say it was Haney's superior structural genetics which gave him the wins over Gaspari.
See Rich Gaspari and Lee Haney battle out for gold at the 1986-1988 Mr. Olympia contests!
1988 Mr. Olympia (DVD)
Check In Depth Mr. Olympia Contest Pages Here.
Victor DelCampo ended up coming second in his class! Not bad at all for a guy who likes to party as much as he likes to bodybuild! Dave ended up winning the whole show!
Isn't it amazing that this documentary turned out basically exactly as Mike probably wanted it too? All the results were there including some drama when Dave wasn't allowed to compete but ended up being allowed in the end. Talk about enough to make for a great story.
In the weeks following the contest Jenn gained 10 pounds and Dave gained 35. This is actually a moderate weight gain compared to some that I've seen before. Many bodybuilders gain 60. I've even heard of weight gains of 35 pounds made in literally just a few weeks after a show. Hopefully Mike trains for health and not just to win contests.
Overall Review:
Overall, this was a great addition to my bodybuilding collection. It worked out surprisingly well - perhaps a little too well. I kind of wonder if any of it was staged because the story unfolded perfectly, just like a Hollywood production. It really helped for viewers to understand what goes on in the minds of bodybuilders and what drives them. I sometimes wonder exactly how much bodybuilding makes up the self esteem of some of these competitors and what it would do to them if they were not looking as they do all the time. I really have no idea what that might be. In any case, this was a great video in that it was extremely unique. It had a great documentary feel to it, just as good as any that I've seen. My guess is that Mike observed what makes a documentary work and was very intelligent in applying the same principles here. I think anyone watching this will feel the same way. Due to its uniqueness, I definitely have to give this DVD my recommendation.
PRODUCER'S COMMENTS
Now here are some comments that were emailed to me from Mike Pulcinella, producer of the DVD:
Matt, Thanks for a wonderful review! I'm so glad you enjoyed the DVD and I'm pleased that through your words, others will now get the news of Raising The Bar.
I had to laugh a bit when you said that things worked out "a little too well" in terms of the story of RTB. You are absolutely right! I had an independent filmmaker swear to me that he thought the contest day drama was scripted. I assure you NOTHING was staged. That was exactly how it went down. My objective was to be as truthful as possible no matter what happened. If Dave and Jenn had not won the show then the DVD would have been about the pain and disappointment of professional bodybuilding, instead of the triumphs.
You are also right when you say that no DVD will show the reality of steroid use in bodybuilding. That is because no one will speak on camera about the subject! I realized early on that there would be a big hole in my documentary if I didn't discuss steriods. But time after time people would run scared or ask me to turn off my camera if the subject was brought up.
Once again, thanks so much for taking the time to review our doc. I will be sure to credit you properly if we use excerpts from it.
Mike Pulcinella
David Pulcinella - Raising the Bar (DVD)
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Forum: Reviews & Comparisons
Topic: What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5
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Re: What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5
The Case of the Bloody Iris and The New York Ripper... now those are good cinema!
I fear all those Japanese exploitation movies have irreparably damaged your taste.
Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975) *½ Second-rate giallo has more nudity than violence (save a little crude gore where sexual organs are shown cut off). When the killer's identity is finally revealed, I thought to myself, 'who is that, again?' It's not a good film, clearly, and for Edwige Fenech fans...
Godzilla (2014) **
Big, loud, and empty blockbuster. At least it's better than the 1998 turd.
Boyz 'n' the Hood (1991) ***
Effective drama of black youth stuck in cycle of gang violence, which the film roundly condemns.
The New York Ripper (1982) *
A serial killer with a penchant for Donald Duck impersonations mutilates attractive women.
Sleazy, misogynist trash, focuses on graphic depictions of sexual violence.
Topic: What asian film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5
THE LEG FIGHTERS (1980) Director: Lee Tso-Nam Great as it is to see a Taiwanese old school indie lovingly preserved on Blu-Ray, this is pretty poor with far too much stupid comic relief (especially from a strange fellow called Ding-Dong who dresses like a Native American draped in bells), an uninsp...
Clear and Present Danger (1994) ***
Best of the Jack Ryan series.
Juliet, Naked (2018) **½ Amiable romantic comedy-drama about a reclusive musician. Entirely forgettable, but hits a few right notes along the way. The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972) *½ Laughably inept giallo with only a nude Edwige Fenech to recommend it. The opening murder was "borrowed" by DePalma...
Captain Marvel (2019) ***
Entertaining Marvel comic blessedly doesn't lake itself too seriously.
Brie Larson is good in the title role. Dig that 90s soundtrack, too.
Overlord (2018) **
US soldiers parachute into occupied France to prepare for D-day, run afoul of zombie soldiers - the creation of a mad Nazi scientist (is there any other kind?). Watchable enough, but gory video game-like violence fails to impress.
Miracle on 34th Street?
A drunken Santa takes out his elves with a crossbow?
Little Monsters (2019) **
Zombies attack an Aussie farm in patchy horror-comedy.
Some laughs, sharp moments.
Uncle John (2015) ***
Impressive, very low key revenge drama. Worth seeking out.
The Lighthouse Golem (2016) *½
Disappointing murder mystery set in Victorian London district.
Overly theatrical, clumsy structuring, poor storytelling.
All the Money in the World (2017) **½
Kidnap drama from Ridley Scott in which world's richest man refuses to pay his grandson's ransom.
Based on a true story, film is never less than watchable, but is as cold and inert as its characters.
Captain America: Civil War (2016) ** If watching gravity-defying superheroes smashing the shit out of each other for 2.5 hrs is your bag, then this is the movie for you. The internal conflict plays second fiddle to awesome spectacle. Marvel fans will love this; I was apathetic, and somewhat numbed b...
Patriot's Day (2016) ***
Tense, tactful thriller about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016) **
Innocuous spy comedy-thriller.
Our Kind of Traitor (2015) **½
Quite good spy thriller, engrossing throughout, though the ending's a little weak, ill-explained.
Based on a novel by John LeCarre, which one assumes is better plotted.
In Darkness (2017) **
Blind pianist overhears the possible murder of her upstairs neighbour.
What starts out as a creepy Hitchcockian suspenser soon turns into a far less interesting (not to mention hopelessly convoluted) revenge drama.
Conclusion is especially risible.
XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2016) ** Preposterous action blockbuster/vanity project for Vin Diesel (who takes smugness to a new level here). I'd be lying if I said a wasn't a little entertained, but a bonafide good movie it isn't. Spinning Man (2017) **½ Did philosophy professor Guy Pearce murder a ...
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) ** Teen zombie flick is an unlikely mix of Shaun of the Dead and High School Musical. Never less than watchable, with spirited performances, and good sense of humour, but repetition sets in far too quickly, with perky song and dance numbers failing to cover up a lack o...
Terminal (2018) *½ Strange neo-noir revenge thriller is very obviously the work of a novice. The director has an eye for neon-lit visuals and sparse set design, but his script is all over the place. The quirkiness becomes wearying, the twists increasingly ridiculous (and unnecessary). Margot Robbie ...
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (2018) **½ Paper thin story contrived purely to hold together a string of bouncy musical numbers (which are generally fun). If Amanda Seyfried was the breakout star of the original, here it's the effervescent Lily James. Final scene brought a tear to my eye, big sook that...
Topic: Do I need to watch the Rambo movies in "order"?
Re: Do I need to watch the Rambo movies in "order"?
As soon as I see it - probably not for a while now - I'll post a quick take in the review thread.
Inception (2010) ***½
Groundhog Day (1993) ****
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Knowing Humans
Study their behaviors. Observe their territorial boundaries. Leave their habitat as you found it. Report any signs of intelligence.
Defending Libervention In Iraq
I do not believe that the duty of a liberty-loving polity to defend human liberty vanishes completely at lines drawn on maps by statists. It was reasonable (but not necessary) for American liberty-lovers to decide to liberate Iraq based on the conjunction of
Saddam's apparent threat to America, consisting of his
admitted nuclear ambitions,
hatred for America (regardless of whether some think it justified), and
support for terrorists who have targeted American civilians;
Saddam's record of aggression, in which he
killed over a million people,
invaded one sovereign neighbor,
annexed another by force,
fired ballistic missiles at two more,
defied UN nuclear disarmament mandates that Iraq was bound to obey as a 1945 UN Charter signatory,
used chemical WMDs in a war of aggression, and
used chemical WMDs in genocidal attacks on his own citizens; and
the existence proofs we had in Kurdistan and Afghanistan that the U.S. military could depose tyranny in even less-modernized Islamic societies and replace it with reasonably stable self-determination.
There are two predictions that could have changed my mind about liberating Iraq if before the invasion we had been given reasonable grounds for believing them. The most important is the prediction that, despite the stability in Kurdish Iraq under U.S. military protection, and despite the surprising success America had in deposing the Taliban, a sectarian civil war would be more likely than not to eventually undermine our effort to liberate the rest of Iraq -- a region much more secular, prosperous, and literate than Afghanistan. This prediction would have needed to be accompanied by evidence that this sectarian civil war was likely to be permanently avoidable under some alternative US course of action that had acceptable costs in terms of what evils Saddam and his sons committed or abetted (both in the region and against the West) during the rest of their tenure.
The other crucial prediction would have been that Saddam in fact had neither a nuclear WMD program nor the capability and intention of reconstituting the pre-1991 program that we found out in 1995 he had so successfully hidden from the West. On my blog I document an intensive but fruitless search for any Iraq Cassandra who credibly registered either of these two predictions. Indeed, the Iraqi people themselves were still failing to make the first prediction a year after the invasion. In an April 2004 CNN/Gallup nationwide poll of Iraqis, 42% "said Iraq was better off because of the war", and 61% "said Saddam Hussein's ouster made it worth any hardships." In a nationwide poll of Iraqis completed in Mar 2004 for BBC by Oxford Research International, "56% said that things were better now than they were before the war".
Was the invasion unconstitutional? Art I Sec 8 grants Congress the power "to declare war" and "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying [that power] into execution". Public Law 107-243 (the Iraq War Resolution of Oct 2002) said "the President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to [...] enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq." In the text of the resolution, Congress explicitly mentions its "war power" when discussing its authority to enact this law. Whether Congress believed it was exercising its Constitutional war power is not even a close question.
Was the invasion not justifiable under international law? Iraq is a signatory of the UN Charter and owes America and all other signatories a duty to obey UN Security Council resolutions. From the end of the 1991 war until US troops started massing on his border in 2002, Saddam had consistently and repeatedly violated his obligations under the terms of the UN Security Council resolutions governing the 1991 cease-fire. The UN Security Council itself said in resolution 1441 that "Iraq has been and remains in material breach of its obligations under relevant resolutions, including resolution 687" -- i.e. the 1991 cease-fire terms. Thus a reasonable case can be made that the 2003 invasion was simply a resumption of the 1991 war, which was indisputably justified under international law.
We have now achieved our two most important war aims: 1) elimination of any WMD capability or international terrorist infrastructure, and 2) deposing Saddam's regime in favor of a federal democratic constitutional framework designed to protect minorities and fundamental human rights. We would have liked to also successfully transition security responsibility to the new Iraqi government, but Iraq's thirst for civil war has effectively exhausted the reconstruction and stabilization efforts we owed the Iraqis for having liberated them. It is now time to accept our partial victory and let the Iraqi people take responsibility for their own future.
Liberty has blessed America with the prosperity required to defend its freedom, and with the worldwide respect that has made such defense so rarely needed. However, modern weapons technology and our high expectations for near-perfect security have combined to make Americans feel vulnerable to those who oppose America's influence on the rest of the world. America has done more to advance the cause of human liberty than any other society in human history, and yet America's foreign policy has fallen tragically short of the standard of conduct on which any libertarian would insist. We are appalled at the loss of life and compromises against liberty that some American leaders have considered an acceptable price for advancing liberty and opposing tyranny. Reasonable and principled Libertarians hold good-faith views on both sides of the question of liberating Iraq, but we all can agree that our candidates when elected will hold America to the highest standards of conduct.
Posted by Brian Holtz at 10:55 PM
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Brian Holtz
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2004/2006/2008 LP candidate for Congress, Silicon Valley. 2006/2008/2010/2012/2014 LPUS Platform Committee. 2007-2009 LPCA Executive Committee. Software engineer at Sun (1990-2001), Yahoo (2002-2010), Kabam (2011-). Purissima Hills Water District director (2009-). Husband of Melisse Lusin, father of 3 wonderful girls.
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DRAFT REVIEW 2011
The draft went reasonably smoothly this year, but there were some things I wasn't too pleased with. Way too many time violations, for one thing. Some of the early ones--maybe all of them--were my fault, as the last-minute test I ran caused the pre-draft lists to reset. But after that, it was simply a matter of setting up a valid list for the next pick as soon as the last one was made, and too many didn't do that.
We also could have done a better job of explaining the contract rules to the newcomers. I don't think it was made clear that the players listed on the Free Agents page of the roster sheet (URFAs who didn't get a bid) had to be signed to a U contract if drafted.
As always, there wasn't much available for any team in need of immediate help. It would have been worse if we were allowed three AMs instead of two; guys like Boesch, Moreland and Jaso would certainly have been stashed last year. Now that the third AM has been voted in, you'll see the effect in the draft after next. I hope that at least we go back to our traditional early May time frame for the draft, so that a couple of players have the chance to come out of nowhere without being snatched a year early.
The one position you can usually find plenty of help at in the draft is relief pitcher, but that wasn't the case this year. Most years you can build a serviceable bullpen from scratch in the draft, but this time around the only guy who was effective over a more than a few innings was Jonny Venters.
The first round:
1. Eric Hosmer, Andover - In a non-DH league, a first baseman shouldn't go first overall unless he's the next Pujols. When drafted, Hosmer looked like he might be all that and a side of onion rings, but he's been pretty ordinary lately.
2. Mike Trout, Southtown - Hard to argue with this one; Trout is behind only Bryce Harper on BA's list of prospects. If the draft had been held a week earlier or later (before Hosmer came up or after he cooled off), Trout would almost certainly have gone first. The only quibble is that he might tie up an AM spot for another year, while Pineda will definitely get a card.
3. Michael Pineda, Chuckanut Bay - Not the top available name on the BA list, but his performance in MLB makes this an obvious pick. I'd have probably taken him #1 if I'd had that chance.
4. Shelby Miller, Maine - Not sure why Miller was picked ahead of Wil Myers or Jameson Taillon, both of whom outrank him on the BA list. Then again, I don't research the AMs as well as I should, which is why I drafted one last year who'd had brain surgery two months earlier. BA does project Miller to arrive a year ahead of Taillon, which is important when you have only two AM spots to play with. (We didn't find out until later that we'll have three next year.)
5. Manny Machado, Belmont Park - Also ranked behind Myers and Taillon, but he's a shortstop, which has considerable value.
6. Brennan Boesch, Lancaster - I think this is the first time we've gone five picks without a carded player being taken; whether this reflects the quality of AMs available this year or the lack of quality carded players, I'm not sure. I'm also not sure his bat is quite good enough to carry his glove this high.
7. Jonny Venters, Portland - It really doesn't pay to draft a reliever this high unless he's going to be a starter someday. But if any reliever was ever going to be worth it, this is the year and Venters is the guy.
8. Matt Moore, Duluth-Superior - See Miller, Shelby. Moore's projected to arrive the same year as Taillon, but coming up with the Rays instead of the Pirates has to be a marker in his favor.
9. Colby Lewis, Madawaska - If you're looking for immediate rotation help, the list starts and ends here. The only problem is, he has to be signed to a U contract. He's certainly worth it this year, but you have to decide now how long to commit, instead of being able to go year to year like you could if he was a Y1.
10. Mitch Moreland, Meridian - This may still be too high to take a first baseman who's a good-but-not-great hitter. But Moreland has improved his numbers, is getting much more playing time, and has added positional flexibility by playing some outfield.
11. Brandon Beachy, Hoth - If Beachy hadn't been on the DL when the draft started, he'd have deserved to go ahead of any of the AM pitchers except Pineda; he was doing better than any of them could reasonably be expected to do when they arrive, and he doesn't tie up an AM slot. Now that he's healthy and picking up where he left off (two runs in 12 innings, 3 walks, 20 strikeouts since his return), this pick is highway robbery.
12. Travis Wood, Green Bay - OK, Colby Lewis isn't the only decent starter in the pool; Wood is about as good, albeit in half as many innings. He's getting knocked around this year, though, so who knows which is the real version?
13. Jordan Lyles, Montgomery County - Good performance in MLB this year gives him a big boost from his prospect ranking.
14. Alexi Ogando, Plainsfield - Should have gone much higher; he gives you a nice relief card this year, doesn't use up an AM, and has been lights-out in the Rangers' rotation. I was starting to think he might fall to me. . .
15. Jake Arrieta, Andover - He gives you some innings, and he's in a major-league rotation, but first round? Meh. However, if you look at my summer league's draft, and consider only the players who were available in both draft pools, he went 16th.
16. Zach Britton, Inyo - I started second-guessing this pick the moment I made it. I had an open AM slot, and I wanted to use it on someone who was already in the majors, as my other AM (Aaron Hicks) doesn't look like he's arriving any time soon. Britton's doing OK, but his K/W stats don't inspire confidence going forward, and anyway, what I really need is a catcher.
17. Danny Espinosa, Montreal - If all Espinosa does is maintain his 2010 rate stats over a full season, this is a very good pick. If he keeps up the improvement he's shown so far in 2011, it's a great one.
18. Wilson Ramos, Montgomery County - This is who I should have taken. Or Arencibia, or Lucroy, but Ramos is doing better than either of them so far this year.
19. John Jaso, Franklin - And this is who I should have taken last year, instead of brain surgery patient Ryan Westmoreland. Not so sure he's such a great pick for the Kites, since he's tanking in real life and they're flush with catchers. It does put them in a position to dump Russell Martin's salary.
20. Philip Humber, Plainsfield - Coming into last season, Humber had pitched 29.2 innings over four brief MLB trials, giving up 37 hits and 17 walks. But history is full of pitchers who were that bad or worse, found a new pitch or new delivery or something, and turned it around the way Humber apparently has. One red flag: his strikeout rate this year is only 5.5 per nine innings, and success at that level can be fleeting.
21. Jordan Walden, Belmont Park - The usual caveats on first-round relievers apply, plus is Walden a better pick than Craig Kimbrel? Their performances this year are close enough that for me, the deciding factor would be the extra 6 innings on Kimbrel's card. Then again, since both are M0's, you might not get to use all those innings. (I note with amazement that the proposal to allow players like this to be signed to Y1 contracts instead of M0 failed handily. Why would anyone oppose this?)
22. Dillon Gee, Ashland - He's in a rotation, pitching well, doesn't tie up an AM, and his card is good enough to take over a spot in a BRASS rotation when he comes up in February. Why didn't I take him instead of Britton? Damifino.
23. J.P. Arencibia, Duluth-Superior - In a non-salary keeper league, you'd probably take Lucroy ahead of Arencibia, since he has a usable card this year. The BRASS contract system makes Arencibia an arguably better pick, since the extra Y year he'll give you later should be more valuable than Lucroy's current card. The Dukes could have used Lucroy this year, as the catchers they had don't cover the position full time, but they picked up Humberto Quintero later to cover that need.
24. Brandon Belt, Diamond - There were definitely better ways to use an AM slot. That's not hindsight talking; Belt was on the DL when the draft started, and had hit .211 with a .609 OPS to that point.
The rest, by team:
Alexandria (Atchison, Collmenter, Herndon, Mortensen, Nava, Ryal, Ty. Walker; reclaimed Pierre) - With no picks until the third round, the Dukes did about as well as could be expected. Collmenter was a nice find (who never would have been picked if we'd drafted in May), Mortensen and Herndon are doing OK in the majors, but neither inspires confidence going forward. Nava has a nice pinch-hitting card.
Andover (Kimbrel, Nova, Perkins, Pestano, Revere; reclaimed Bard, Coffey, Milledge, Thames) - Kimbrel was the first pick of the second round, and could easily have gone in the first. He and Pestano will certainly upgrade the bullpen next year. Perkins too, but in order to get that from him you have to commit to at least a U2 contract. If Perkins tanks in the second half, the entire contract's a waste. Personally, I'd have passed on Perkins and gone for someone without the contract baggage. Daniel McCutchen, whom I picked later the same round, has (in real life this year) a better WHIP and more innings than Perkins, and a Y1 contract.
Ashland (Atilano, J. Castro, C. Coleman, Herrmann, Hultzen, Penny, S. Rodriguez, Texeira, Valaika, R. Valdes) - I like Rodriguez, even though he hasn't shown he can be anything more than a utilityman on a good BRASS team. The rest. . . not so much. I don't think it's a good idea to use an AM spot on a new MLB draftee like Hultzen unless he's in the Strasburg/Harper class. I suppose the innings Penny's munching this year are worth a fourth-round pick and a U contract.
Belmont Park (Baxter, Bourjos, D. Carpenter, Cousins, Craig, De Aza, Gentry, St. Hill, J. Hoffpauir, Mathieson, C. Nelson, Nieves, Br. Petersen, Slama, Stavinoha, D. Sutton, J. Turner) - Lots of back-of-the-draft roster fill, but a nugget or two as well. Bourjos is hitting just enough to be worth playing for his glove, Craig was hitting enough to force a team to find a place for his glove (before he got hurt), and Gentry has the kind of role which could produce a 150-PA supercard by sheer luck.
Chuckanut Bay (Ambriz, A. Burnett, Conrad, Donaldson, Duda, Kohn, Mathis, A. Oliver, Sogard, Ru. Tejada, Valencia; claimed Bonine) - I sure hope Valencia is better than he's shown this year; I have him in another league. Duda is supposed to be a hitter, but hasn't proven it yet. Tejada might turn out to be real good, since he was playing last year at age 20.
Diamond (Deduno, S. Duncan, Guzman, Jansen, An. Laroche, Monasterios, Sale, B. Thomas) - Pretty nondescript lot, not that the Gems need much help. Sale and Jansen will be ace relievers if they ever live up to their hype.
Duluth-Superior (Halman, L. Hughes, R. Lopez, Pauley, Repko, Trumbo, Jo. Wilson, Wise; claimed Quintero) - I don't think Trumbo was such a good idea. For tying up an AM slot, you get one year of substandard 1B production, after which he goes back to the minors when Kendrys Morales returns. Halman might stick, and this year he's on pace for one of those 100-PA flukes.
Franklin (Berg, R. de la Rosa, Goldschmidt, B. Hayes, Laffey, Tr. Miller, Miranda, Moehler, Nippert, Ondrusek, Rhymes, Rodney, H. Rodriguez, S. Shields, Joe Smith, J. Wright) - It's not as bad as last year, when Everth Cabrera went #1, but. . . Fernando Rodney? With the 25th pick overall?? Despite that, there's some upside here. De la Rosa and Rodriguez are 100-MPH throwers, Goldschmidt could make Chris look like a genius (or an idiot), Miranda has a regular job, and Rhymes has a cheap, useful card even if he never gets another. Shields, however, wouldn't have been taken by anyone familiar with the contract rules. If you're short of innings (which is the only reason to touch him at all), you wait until secondary free agency and put in a minimum one-year bid, or even month-to-month, and save yourself more than half a million.
Green Bay (Blevins, Braddock, Kipnis, Lincoln, Morel, Moseley, J. Russell; claimed R. Perez, Sheets; reclaimed Ad. Laroche) - Kipnis is certainly a prospect, but I don't know if it was a good idea to take him when Lonnie Chisenhall was still available. (Chisenhall went on the very next pick.) Chisenhall was rated well above Kipnis by BA, and seemed more likely to get a callup this year (which in fact just happened), thereby freeing up the AM slot next year. Morel and Russell are still being given chances by their respective Chicago teams, but aren't doing much with them.
Hoth (Cain, Dobbs, Enright, D. Hughes, Kotsay, D. Norris, Parra, Sanabia; reclaimed M. Ramirez, C. Young) - It can't be too long before Cain is a fixture in KC; not when the alternative is Melky Cabrera. I don't know what the Marlins have planned for Sanabia, but what he did last year at age 21 is encouraging. Dobbs is another one who could end up costing more than he's worth; you have to give him a U2 and hope he doesn't turn back into Dobbs 1.0 in the second half. Parra. . . I guess if you're short on innings he's worth a U1 contract. Barely.
Inyo (Bray, W. Castillo, Cishek, Escalona, B. Hicks, Jay, Lillibridge, D. McCutchen, Do. Murphy, S. Santos, Viciedo, C. Wells, E. Young; reclaimed Buehrle, Figgins, Franklin, Howell) - Sure enough, all the good catching prospects disappeared before my second round pick: Arencibia, Lucroy, even Conger. So I took a scattershot approach, picking up anyone who's young and either has known potential or is having a good year in MLB this year; toward the end, young was enough. The exception was Donnie Murphy, who has a fluke card and will hopefully win me a couple of games with pinch hits.
Lancaster (Albuquerque, Butera, M. Carpenter, Feldman, Hawksworth, Tomlin; reclaimed T. Buck, C. Carter (Mets), E. Chavez, Encarnacion, Kendall) - A lot here I don't like. Tomlin and Hawksworth don't strike out enough people to sustain the success they're having, and figure to regress. Albuquerque does, but it rarely pays to use an AM slot on a reliever. The other AM pick was Matt Carpenter, and I don't see any reason he got the call ahead of several dozen others.
Madawaska (Beimel, Capuano, Kalish, Litsch, Cr. Martinez, Mesoraco, C. Tatum, R. Thompson, Tolleson, Ja. Turner, Weinhardt, B. Wilson, D. Worth) - You don't hear much about Kalish, but someone in my summer league thought enough of him to take in the first round. If nothing else, he and Worth bolster the defense this year. Capuano gets a U contract, but his card and his performance this year are good enough to warrant it; you just have to decide whether to roll the dice and go for three years. (Patrick settled for two.) Mesoraco and Turner are good choices for the AM slots, and it was good strategy to wait until the 7th round to fill the second one. Once everyone else has filled theirs, you've got your pick of what's left no matter how long you wait.
Maine (Burrell, C. Guillen, Hendrickson, Iglesias, Ka'aihue, Talbot, W. Valdez; claimed A. Moore, R. Paulino, Ro. Tejeda) - With all the U players and free agent claims, Maine might have taken on more salary than any other team. At least none of them are dead weight, except maybe Hendrickson. And that's about all the Lobs are getting out of this draft; I don't think any of the cheaper players are going to make it, other than first-rounder Shelby Miller.
Meridian (L. Anderson, Bourgeois, Lecure, Mayberry, McGee, Plouffe, A. Sanchez; reclaimed Garland) - I like the Anderson pick. He's young, was once a high-rated prospect who's been forgotten; last year in my summer league's draft, that formula got me Neil Walker in the 9th round. For McGee, see the comment on Albuquerque above, plus McGee hasn't actually done anything in the majors. I don't think the Astros want to give Sanchez the shortstop job, but Barmes may force them to. As for Trevor Plouffe. . . has there ever been a worse baseball name? It belongs on a hairdresser in a Mel Brooks movie, fercrissake.
Montgomery County (C. Carter (Oak), B. Davis, W. Harris, D. Kelly, Lugo, Lyles, Manship, E. Nunez, Resop, C. Rosa, Salas, Jor. Smith, Tim Wood, Del. Young) - Salas and Resop will put a big charge in next year's bullpen, and nobody's giving up on Carter yet.
Montreal (Br. Anderson, Donald, Gillespie, Morse, W. Myers, Br. Snyder, Es. Vasquez, Walters; claimed J.D. Martin; reclaimed Navarro) - Wil Myers should be a real good AM pick; he's higher on the BA list than several who went before him and was called the best hitting prospect in the Royals' system even while Hosmer was still there. Lately it seems that every year, one banjo-hitting utilityman breaks out with a big year. Two years ago it was Zobrist, last year Betemit, and now it's Morse's turn.
Plainsfield (J. Bell, R. Cedeno, G. Holland, J. Johnson, Lucroy, Moscoso, Y. Navarro, C. Ramos, Renson, Rizzo, Ty. Ross, Sizemore, Worley) - One reason Kevin wins every year is that he stockpiles high draft picks (two in each of the first 3 rounds this year) and uses them wisely. He and I took turns picking players the other one wanted; he got Ogando and Lucroy, I took Santos, Viciedo and Lillibridge. I'm not crazy about his AM picks, because one's a first baseman and the other hasn't played pro ball yet, but as I've said before, you disagree with Kevin's judgment at your peril. Bell has been a bust so far, but the same could be said about Neil Walker two years ago.
Portland (Cortes, Demel, Germano, Je. Gomez, Jeffress, Marinez, O. Martinez, Sano, Sborz, Taillon, Veras) - Don't see much upside here, except for the AMs. And they're both at least a couple of years away, so those spots will be tied up. At one point it looked like the Marlins might move Hanley Ramirez to the outfield and put Ozzie Martinez at short, but that ship would appear to have sailed.
San Jose (Andino, Cole, Descalso, Ellis, Estrada, J. Herrera, Maya, An. Miller, Pagnozzi, Paul, Sipp, Stewart) - David says he was drafting for need, and there's some immediate help here in Ellis, Herrera and even Andino. I stayed off Ellis because my need for a catcher is next year and beyond, and Ellis was in the minors when we drafted, but the Dodgers just called him up. Sipp was a nice grab in the fourth round, as he's lights-out in MLB this year and has a good enough card that a U contract isn't a waste.
Sierra Nevada (W. Aybar, Barney, Ceda, M. Dunn, Dyson, G. Infante, Luebke, McClendon, Presley; reclaimed J. Guillen) - No picks until the third round, so getting Barney and Luebke there wasn't bad. Hard to believe, but this team is so short at firstbase that it made sense to draft Willie Aybar.
SoCal (G. Blanco, Carlin, Chisenhall, Conger, Inglett, Maxwell, McCoy, A. Russell, Schneider, Slaten; reclaimed Nathan) - Conger was my last hope for a real catching prospect, and Chisenhall is a solid AM who just came up to the majors. The rest of these are among the more useful cards in the draft; spotted properly, Blanco, Maxwell and McCoy add up to a very good outfielder. Don't look for much down the road, though.
Southtown (Doubront, B. Wood; claimed Lind, Zumaya; reclaimed 10(!) free agents) - Who's hoarding all the first basemen? There should be way more than enough to go around, but here we have two teams drafting stiffs to cover the position. (Lind won't be a stiff next year, but he also won't be a Miser, unless Henry outbids everyone.) Doubront has as good a chance as anyone to be a rotation starter eventually, but Wood is at the Last Chance Saloon.
Washington Crossing (T. Bell, Denorfia, Giambi, Harrell, Kirkman, B. Logan, W. Lopez, McKenry, Nicasio, Matt Reynolds, Fr. Rodriguez(LAA), M. Rogers, R. Santiago) - Denorfia went more than a round after my pick of Jon Jay, and I could easily wind up regretting that. But I think Dave will regret using an AM slot on a pitcher who isn't one of BA's top 100, isn't one of his own team's top 7, and isn't exactly tearing up the majors.
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Trump Readies Fed Rate Cut amid Dow Plunge but Is It too Late?
The Dow Jones has plunged by 2 percent in a single session on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern warning towards China. | Source: REUTERS / Lucas Jackson
By CCN Markets: The Dow Jones has plunged by well over 2 percent in a single session on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern warning towards China.
The Dow Jones has dropped by more than $1,500 in the past month. | Source: Yahoo Finance
Ahead of the G7 Summit, President Trump expressed his displeasure on the progress of the trade talks between the U.S. and China, requesting U.S. companies to find an alternative market outside of China.
President Trump said:
“We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States.”
Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, was labeled “an enemy” by President Trump who has continued to place increasing pressure on the central bank to aim for additional cuts on the benchmark interest rate, which could relieve some of the pressure on the declining Dow Jones.
Will a rate cut provide key lifeline for the Dow Jones?
Since July 24, within a month, the Dow Jones has fallen from 27,269 to 25,628 points despite the 25-basis point cut initiated by the Federal Reserve in July.
While a rate cut by the Federal Reserve is likely to encourage other major central banks to initiate rate cuts as seen in stance of the European Central Bank, several high-profile economists have said that the outlook of the global economy has worsened in recent months.
Gita Gopinath, the head economist at the International Monetary Fund, said in an interview with CNBC that global economic growth has subdued, leading the sentiment around the U.S. equities market and the Dow Jones to become gloomy.
“Global growth is subdued, and we describe it as fragile. There are many downside risks. One of the risks we keep flagging is risks on the trade front. The developments that we’re seeing as recently as today give us great concern about what’s going to happen to growth going forward,” she said.
Even if the Federal Reserve eyes an additional rate cut by the year’s end, economists remain unsure whether it would be sufficient to recover the momentum of the market.
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NHS Crisis: what the government can do to help
Andy Millward
“The health service is in crisis.”
That’s what the papers and media outlets scream; all the pressure groups are pushing for your signatures, but from government… nothing. Well, not nothing: the Secretary of State abandoned the 95% target (formerly 98%) for patients to be seen in 4 hours, that what changed. Note that for all the bluster from government about 7-day services, A&E has always operated 24 x 7.
Mrs May’s complacent comment at PMQs was along the lines that “there is a crisis every winter.” There were many more accusations hurled back and forth by the politicians, but ultimately no sign that government would shake off the lethargy and help an NHS systematically starved of funding over many years in every way possible to treat the unprecedented numbers requiring treatment. Politicians were fiddling while Rome burned.
The reality was tougher than the game of words would have you believe. A&E attendances are 5.4% higher in 2016 than in 2015, with emergency admissions up 4.6%, and each figure has risen systematically year on year, such that all A&E departments are operating at more than double their capacity.
“Aintree hospital A&E like a war zone. Closed minors 7 hour wait for Majors. Can’t move in corridors for trolleys and paramedics waiting”
Fact is that it’s a complex scenario, but there is much government could have done to alleviate the winter pressures situation. Here are a few examples:
1) “Delayed Transfers of Care” (DToCs)
These are more commonly known as “bed blockers,” are at record levels: 26% higher this year than last, with 47% more delays due to waiting for homecare or nursing care. We had a few weeks last autumn where social care funding was top of the hit parade, following which it was quietly forgotten and the headlines moved on to another topic. Nothing changed.
There was one suggestion: “NHS trusts in distress could ask GPs to free up time to help them discharge and care for patients,” though GPs are also operating way beyond capacity and, as independent partnerships providing front line primary care services to the NHS, won’t willingly extend their role without financing.
More to the point, if we want hospital beds available we should be ploughing investment into providing affordable high-quality care for the elderly and disabled, and intermediary and rehab beds in community settings. Local authorities are not able to do so since their budgets have been slashed.
2) Primary Care Services & GPs
Memo to the Secretary of State: you promised 5,000 additional GPs in your manifesto, but haven’t yet stopped doctors leaving the profession or country. They are finding more lucrative and less stressful ways to earn a living, and who can blame them in the face of government intimidation. Bullying and threatening them with losing funds is simply going to make the problem worse.
Yes, we need more services in the community and alternatives for non-urgent treatment outside A&E as part of a strategic and sustainable long-term solution – possibly even reopening cottage hospitals plus a 111 service that actually does its job!
But cajoling GPs is not the way to get them (see here and here.) GPs work way harder and longer than ministers already, such that there is an alarming attrition rate from practices that should have set alarm bells ringing in Westminster. Since many GPs are working stupid hours it’s small wonder they don’t want to take on more, but there is a shortfall willing to replace those who retire or move on.
Go to any GP surgery and you’ll find locum doctors filling the many vacancies for salaried or partnership roles. Why? Because they can take responsibility for the service required by their contracts without having the burden of extra demands and legal responsibility for what the Secretary of State might throw at them.
3) Other Staff shortages
This certainly includes staff, including GPs as mentioned above but particularly emergency and trauma specialists – many of whom end up doing back-to-back shifts in crises such as this (illegally in many cases.)
The staff shortages are currently dealt with by employing locums and staff from overseas, many of whom will not be entitled to work in the UK once government plans to curb immigration are enforced, but what do you do about beds? The first thing to happen is that elective procedures are cancelled and, when possible, rescheduled. This is supposed to happen within 28 days but often cannot be delivered.
4) Bed shortages
But these are far from being the only resources that are short in this crisis. The one you will about most frequently is beds, all the more so since wards have typically been closed down while Trusts grapple with the impossible task of breaking even. Sadly, it seems inevitable that even more will be closed as part of the Strategic Transformation Plans (STPs) allegedly undergoing public consultation now.
We’ve all heard about ambulances waiting for hours and A&E full of patients on trolleys (usually just a cliché though I have once seen patients lining an X-ray room), but worst of all is when elective procedures are cancelled. And worst of these, cancer operations are now being cancelled to make room for patients who are sick and need beds instantly.
Problems are stored up for the coming months, in other words – and I am one such victim, having had my ankle operation postponed to February. I don’t blame the Trust, but I do think that money to keep beds open and improve patient flows through hospitals should be available over and above budgets.
Granted that more surgery is done as day cases than ever before, but the purpose of every hospital must be to provide sufficient beds to meet peak level demand – and that means staffing and resourcing them. Some feel the best way to do this is to reopen some of the closed cottage hospitals, many of which were closed since they are not deemed economically viable, but the fact is that without staunching demand all hospitals have insufficient capacity to meet even routine demand, without peaks.
This is a very simple summary of issues that I could discuss in far greater detail. Put simply, we need to return to the days of putting patients first and regarding budget as following need without question. So here are a few solutions:
The NHS should be autonomous and free of government meddling, regardless of which party is in charge. Over the past 24 years I’ve seen more issues caused by government interference than ever were resolved. That said, things have become worse recently in respect of the A&E crisis (see chart above.)
If we were putting into the NHS the median level of funding for healthcare applied throughout Europe, the only issue would be allocation of cash. That means at least 3% GDP higher than we are currently devoting – but also to increase the cashflow to allow for our increasingly elderly population.
We have to train, recruit and retain more staff, the lifeblood of healthcare. That means flexible contracts that allow specialists to be attracted to locations where they are needed, and good financial incentives to British – and overseas students – to train and stay here to senior levels. Note that specialties will vary in supply and demand, so where there are the biggest shortfalls, we need the greatest incentives.
Even so, immigration policy to make it difficult for doctors and nurses migrating to the UK is not going to help the crisis. In the short-term we need to bring in practitioners from overseas, but it should be done in a sustainable way to ensure those countries do not suffer from the effects of a brain drain. Perhaps allowing more doctors here to spread knowledge by working secondments in those countries might help?
Building community solutions is supposedly the work of STPs, but that should be done without closing capacity in hospitals and with a solution to incentivise GPs to come into the field. For that to work requires a new contract with rewards – carrots as well as sticks.
Public health is now more important than ever, which means prevention is vital. Not just anti-smoking and anti-drinking campaigns, encouraging the obese to exercise and other such good works that have a tendency to turn people off. We also need to keep minds active to help reduce the incidence of dementia and cancers.
Whatever happens, it won’t be easy, but starting with a government not in denial and with a clear mission to provide resourcing without asking the impossible of staff will be a step in the right direction.
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The Alchemy of Place and Taste in Santa Barbara Beers
Vox Orbis / 13 Nov 2015 Story Category Fermentation
Pete Johnson
Ben Kinzer
Ted Mills
Photo: Calcium carbonate from Santa Barbara's water left after distilling all night. Credit: Benjamin Kinzer/Pete Johnson
Synopsis by Cultural Anthropologist, Chloé Frommer. Fermentation is a cross-cultural, botanical food and beverage-processing technique that facilitates preservation, detoxification, digestion, and taste. With modernization, the visual appearance, aroma and flavor profile of some fermented products have also developed as very particular, stylized registers. But even before style, meaning was always-already invested in the selection of substances, process and consumption. In the case below, the social, geological and climactic features of Santa Barbara and the West Coast, are becoming more apparent in the fermentation of uniquely local variations on older, European beer styles.
It starts, like it always does, with hops, those exploded-bulb looking flowers of the trellis-climbing plant with the great name, Humulus lupulus. Add malt. Add yeast. Add technique. Add heat. Add time. And through a science that still feels a bit like alchemy one gets beer, Europe’s most famous fermented invention. Styles of beer display their origins: Belgian style (high in alcohol, malty), English India Pale Ale (more bitter from more hops and more alcohol meant it could survive the journey from England to their occupying troops in India), Kölsh (from Köln, Germany, and which is pale, dry, and bitter).
But as I sit here on a much-too-humid-for-autumn October day in Santa Barbara, keeping it local and drinking a beer from one of our many local breweries, it’s true to say that California has its own style of beer, even when that beer comes in many varieties, from light, refreshing lagers to dark, chocolate-y ports. Up and down the coast--and a little bit inland--California is brewing some very interesting beer, and it has influenced the craft brew scene across the States.
“There’s definitely a West Coast style,” says Josh Ellis, owner and head brewer at M. Special brewery, one of the many new breweries to pop up in Santa Barbara county in the last year. “It would be an IPA that finishes drier, has less of a malt backbone, less of a caramel flavor. it’s really about a beer that profiles hops, beginning, middle, and end.”
Hops--which are in the same plant family of the cannabis plant, and share some of the grassy aromas--give beer its bitter taste. The majority of beers use hops--but California *really* likes them. That hop-dominance on the West Coast comes from the abundance, cheapness, and availability of hops from Washington state, where varietals carry location names like Cascade, Mount Hood, Columbus and Chinook. At the beginning of the micro-brewery revolution in the mid-‘70s and early ‘80s, beer-makers starting with the now-defunct New Albion Brewing Company out of Sonoma and the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, the Northern California city north east of the Bay Area, embraced the hop, wanting to put their own spin on things. That’s led to some very strong beers, too, where alcohol content can be twice as much as your average light lager.
California also has a huge amount of breweries--around 550 in total, by Telegraph Brewery’s Brian Thompson’s account--because of the business-friendly environment.
“We don’t have to work with distributors, though we do,” he says. “You can self-distribute. There are fewer restrictions on alcohol limits and marketing.”
Self-distribution has allowed brew-pubs--where beer is brewed on the premises--to be major social gathering places for breweries. You can still grab a Bud Light if you want, but it’s just as easy to try a craft beer.
Pete Johnson, who owns one of Santa Barbara’s oldest brewpubs, The Brewhouse, only sells his beer through his location down near the beach in Santa Barbara. Partly that’s due to owning a different license--self-distributors can’t also sell liquor and cocktails at their bars, which Johnson has always done--and the prohibitive cost of the one that would allow such sales. “Sometimes I feel I’m not part of the brewing community,” he says, noting that when he opened there was only one other brewery in the county--Santa Barbara Brew Co--and now there’s 20.
Though Johnson agrees there’s a hoppyness to California beer, he loves to make all kinds, making small batches of Hefenweizen (a non-filtered beer that contains wheat) or red ales, which gets its color from the kind of malt used and has a sour taste.
Sean Lewis, author of “We Make Beer” a trip across America’s craft beer scene and former Santa Barbara resident, disagrees about how hoppy the Central Coast really is. He says the very hoppy beers are more a San Diego thing, like Stone Brewery.
“Central Coast beer, like Firestone Brewery and Figueroa Mountain Brewery, the things they win medals for, are really traditional style beers like pilsners and lagers.”
There’s also the case of Santa Barbara’s water, which tends to run hard. Brewers like Johnson makes a pilsner-style beer, but holds off from that description because the hard water makes it taste different. With Santa Barbara thinking of water during these years of severe drought, that might be nitpicking. Other brewers never mentioned water when talking brewing.
Photo: Brewhouse's "German Pilsener", in name, process, appearance, and aroma. But lacking the soft water that makes the taste of the original German style. Credit: Ben Kinzer/Pete Johnson
Sean Lewis also thinks that the craft beer revival started on the West Coast because of its geography.
“They were people who were able to go out and see the world a little bit more,” he says. “They were ones who had fallen in love with craft beer overseas so when they came back they started to make it themselves.”
Brewers tend towards the fraternal, and would rather help each other out than try to undercut the competition, which if it exists is healthy. In Santa Barbara most home brewers and owners of breweries are part of the 60-plus member Santa Barbeerians, which shares recipes and makes special beers in small batches for members to try.
Many brewers tend to be or have been engineers and scientists, tinkerers and those who love attention to detail. The Brewhouse’s Pete Johnson was a NASA engineer a long time ago. But he loves his job as a brewer. “
You have to love it otherwise you wouldn’t do it,” he says.
“People’s tastes have changed,” Johnson continues. “When I started out people would say my beer was too hoppy. Now when they taste my beer they say, that’s nice, but do you have something with more hops in it?”
Maví, una bebida refrescante del Caribe
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Maví - A refreshing, Caribbean drink
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Crystal structure determination of Zr(OH)2(NO3)2.4.7H2O from X-ray powder diffraction data,
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Zr(OH)2(NO3)2.4.7H2O, P-1, C1=16, Nc=48, C2=1, XC1 /
DICVOL91, PD, PART, SDP (PATT), SDP+FULLP, FULLP
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Acta Scandinavica 45 (1991) 469-473.
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The structure of solid dichlorodifluoromethane CF2Cl2 by powder neutron duffraction,
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Z. Kristallogr. 197 (1991) 121-130.
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Crystal structure of Pd(NO3)2(H2O)2,
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Co3(HPO4)2(OH)2, P21/n, C1=10, Nc=27, C2=5, XC12+N /
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gamma-BaAlF5, P21, C1=14, Nc=41, C2=2, XC12+N /
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YAO, ...Trial and error guided by the EXAFS results..., YAO
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Indexing: DICVOL-1982
Based on possible space groups, known alumino-phosphate chemistry, and suspected uniaxial pore diameter of 12 Å, possible structure models were manually formulated, and subsequently optimized using DLS-76. A comparison of the patterns computed from these models via POWD12 (Smith & Smith, 1986) confirmed that one model with an 18-ring, alternating Al-P tetrahedral topology gave an excellent match to the experimental data.
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DICVOL, PROFIT+FIT, PART, SDP (PATT), SDP+DBW, DBW
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KNOWN, ARITB, EQUI, SHELX-76 (DM), SHELX-76, ARIT4
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KNOWN, BH, PART, ...MB..., CRYSTALS, NO
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SF6 C2/m C1=8 Nc=17 C2=MM N /
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TREOR, ALLHKL, EQUI, XTAL (DM), XRS-82, XRS-82
The crystal and molecular structure of beryllium hydride,
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Mumbai has largest number of green buildings coming up
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Mumbai has the country's maximum number of environmentfriendly buildings under construction, a survey has shown. The city has 60% more green building projects compared to Delhi and Bangalore, which are second and third on a list released by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). The list has six cities, including Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai.
Mumbai has 319 registered projects that fall in the green building category and are spread over 229 million square feet, according to the IGBC. Delhi is second on the list with 199 projects, followed by Bangalore with 198 and Pune with 197.
The IGBC report says India with more than 2,111 registered green building projects covering 1.54 billion square feet is among the top five countries on the world green map.
A green building is one that uses less water, improves energy efficiency, conserves natural resources, generates less waste and provides healthier spaces for occupants as compared to a conventional building. "These are judged on the basis of material used, sites chosen, ventilation and use of lights, among other things," said a member of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).
Constructing green buildings is costlier. "Earlier, it was 15-18% more expensive than a regular building. Now, the cost has come down to 3-5%," said M Anand, principal councillor, CII. "A green building ought to use minimum quantity of glass. We insist on only 7-8% of glass use. Also, builders are asked to go for high-performance glass that won't reflect much heat."
School bus cleaner arrested for raping 4-year-old student Assault Revealed 8 Days Later After Pain Complaint
Thane: A school bus cleaner was arrested on Saturday and charged with the rape of a four-yearold student under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act.
Badlapur police said the assault took place when the girl was alone in the bus with a friend while it was parked in the compound of an English-medium school eight days ago. The girl, threatened by the accused, had kept quiet, but the horror was revealed when she complained of pain and had to be hospitalized.
Cleaner Sandeep Kerve was arrested from his home after the girl's family approached the police.
On September 6, the girl and her friend left their class room early, at 4.30pm, and went to the school bus to grab good seats. Finding the girl and her friend alone in the vehicle, Kerve took the child to the backseat under the pretext of showing her magic and sexually abused her, according to police.
When the girl cried for help, her friend rushed to the back seat to see what was wrong. The accused told the two girls not to tell anyone of the incident, threatening to kill both of them.
Man may have molested 1-yr-old, both found dead by rly tracks Aman who had kidnapped a one-year-old girl on Friday night outside Borivli station and had taken her to an isolated area near the tracks was knocked down by a train. The child was also found dead nearby. Police suspect the man wanted to sexually assault the infant and are probing if he had killed the child or the baby died in the accident. A DNA profiling of the accused has been sought to check if he had a role in earlier child assaults in other parts of the city. P 2 Fifth accused in July Shakti Mill gangrape case held Ahoney-trap finally led to the arrest of Ashfaque Shaikh (27), the fifth accused in the second gangrape case at the Shakti Mills of a call-centre employee. Shaikh twice gave the slip, but was nabbed on Saturday after he came to see his girlfriend at a lodge near Girguam Chowpatty. "We were tracking his cell phone but lost him as he switched it off. But his call records showed he was in touch with a commercial sex worker at Kamathipura. We questioned her and she promised to help," a police official said. P 3
Another death raises question on city’s dengue preparedness
A41-year-old man from Malwani died of suspected dengue on Friday, adding toconcernscreated by two consecutive dengue deaths in Goregaon this week. The latest death has highlighted how doctors and hospitals areclearly unpreparedtotackle thedenguethreatin thecity.
Devendra Singh's family said he was shunted from three hospitals.Thefamily spentover Rs 65,000 on Singh's treatment, butdoes nothave a clear answer to what killed him. Doctors at Malad's Riddhi Vinayak Hospital, where he was treated last, claimed his dengue report was "equivocal". "He did have classic dengue symptoms. When he came to our hospital, his plateletcountwas18,000(the normal range is 1.5-4 lakh per µl)," said intensivistDr Vinay Goyal.The hospital has stated Singh's cause of death as septicemia shock, multi-organ failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome. The hospital said it did not get time to run confirmatory denguetestson the patient.
Singh, a manager with a cooperative credit society, went to an ayurvedicdoctor after getting fever and rashes a week ago. After two days, he was referred to Bhagwati Hospital, Borivli. Late on Monday, Singh reached the civic-run hospital, where he was given medicines and sent home. By then, his platelet count had dropped below the acceptable range. The hospital told him there were no beds available. A doctor from Bhagwati said the patient did notlook "thatserious".
On Tuesday, Singh went to Shatabdi Hospital, Kandivli, which told him it was not equipped to treat dengue. Neighbours took him to Aditi Hospital, Malad, where he was admitted for two days. His family said he was never given platelets,whilethehospitalsaidhe was given thebest possiblecare. On Thursday afternoon, it referred him forward, and Singh was taken to Riddhi Vinayak, where he succumbed on Friday morning, after breathing with thehelp of a ventilator for three hours.TheBMCis yettolabelit as a confirmeddenguecase.
Lifestyle diseases to cost India $6tn: Study Will Reduce Productivity, Lead To Early Retirement
New Delhi: India's march towards being an economically stable nation is threatened not just by global financial issues. Poor health indicators pose an equally big threat.
The Harvard School of Public Health has, in a study on economic losses due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), estimated that the economic burden of these ailments for India will be close to $6.2 trillion for the period 2012-30, a figure that is equivalent to nearly nine times the total health expenditure during the previous 19 years of $710 billion.
NCDs, chiefly cardiovascular diseases (including heart disease and stroke), diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases, are defined as diseases of long duration and generally slow progression. They are the major cause of adult mortality and illness worldwide.
The Harvard report, which is based on WHO projections of the mortality trajectory associated with NCDs, says ischemic heart disease is going to be the single most costly non-communicable disease in India (causing an output loss of about $1.21 trillion over 2012-30), followed by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
China, the report adds, is estimated to face output losses of $27.8 trillion for 2012-30 – which is more than 12 times the total health expenditure during the previous 19 years of $2.2 trillion. "The economic impact of NCDs is estimated higher in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population," said David E Bloom, the lead researcher.
According to Dr K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, NCDs can impact the economy in multiple ways. "Most of the non-communicable diseases, for example diabetes or heart disease, affect the person in the productive years. They cause reduced productivity and early retirement. Also, they put immense pressure on public health expenditure as in most cases the treatment costs are higher compared to communicable diseases," he said. Reddy added that the increasing burden of NCDs could rob India of the 'demographic dividend' it is projected to reap on account of a predominantly young population. A recent report published by IRIS Knowledge Foundation in collaboration with UN-HABITAT states that by 2020, India is set to become the world's youngest country with 64% of its population in the working age group.
The WHO has suggested 'best buy' interventions (policy measures) for reducing NCDs that include increasing tax on tobacco products and alcohol and ban on their advertising. It also proposes interventions, such as reduced salt intake in food, counselling and multi-drug therapy for people with a high risk of developing heart attacks and strokes, and hepatitis B immunization to prevent liver cancer.
"The implementation of these 'best buy' interventions for reducing NCDs in low-andmiddle income countries (LMICs) could lead to a 10-15 percent reduction in premature death from NCDs (and in their economic costs)," the Harvard researchers have pointed out.
Obama set for showdown at G20 over Syria Host Putin Poses Major Challenge To Attack Plan
St Petersburg: President Barack Obama faced growing pressure from world leaders not to launch military strikes in Syria on Thursday at a summit on the global economy that was eclipsed by the conflict.
The Group of 20 (G20) developed and developing economies met in St Petersburg to try forge a united front on economic growth, trade, banking transparency and fighting tax evasion.
But the club that accounts for two thirds of the world's population and 90% of its output is divided over issues ranging from the US Federal Reserve's decision to end its programme of stimulus forthe economy to the Syrian crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to use the meeting in a seafront tsarist palace to talk Obama out of military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over a chemical weapons attack which Washington blames on government forces.
Obama wore a stiff smile as he approached Putin on arrival at the summit and grasped his hand. Putin also maintained a businesslike expression. It was only when they turned to pose for the cameras that Obama broke into a broader grin. The first round at the summit went to Putin as China,the EU and Pope Francis — in a letter for G20 leaders — aligned themselves more closely with him than with Obama over the possibility and legitimacy of armed intervention.
Putin, Assad's most important ally, was isolated on Syria at a G8 meeting in June, the last big meeting of world powers.
He could now turn the tables on Obama, who recently likened him to a "bored kid in the back of the classroom." Only France, which is preparing to join US military action, rallied behind Obama.
"We are convinced that if there is no punishment for Assad, there will be no negotiation,"French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said. Putin has no one-on-one talks scheduled with Obama but hopes to discuss Syria at a dinner with all the leaders. REUTERS
GOING AFTER ASSAD
THE STRIKE WHAT ARE THE TARGETS IN SYRIA?
Not chemical weapon sites, which could set them off and create a bigger disaster
INSTEAD THEY ARE TARGETING:
Military units that carry out these strikes
Operational headquarters
Rockets and artillery that are used to launch the attacks
Air bases for the attack helicopters
Command and control centres The main attack is expected to be carried out by
Tomahawk cruise missiles
from the four Arleigh Burkeclass destroyers currently in the Mediterranean — the Mahan, the Barry, the Gravely and the Ramage
WHO PAYS WHAT FOR THE MILITARY OPERATION?
Chuck Hagel told Congress they would be asking for 'tens of millions of dollars' which makes it surprisingly cheap. The Libya operation cost $1 billion. John Kerry said Gulf's Arab states have offered to foot the entire bill for the operationSCENARIOS FOR MILITARY STRIKES
Tomahawk cruise missiles hit chemical delivery targets, military units, artillery and rocket bases
Deterrent, limited tactical effect Would not affect war or Assad's future Signal of no tolerance for chemical attacks, Obama's self-imposed 'red line' Cruise missiles cannot penetrate underground bunkers or mobile targets which means some of Assad's arsenal would survive Possible civilian casualties
Wider attack to hit communication nodes, infrastructure, impose a 'no-fly' zone, crater airfields used to ship in conventional weaponry from Russia and China
This would imply a deeper intervention, including suppression of air defences. Involve hundreds of sorties
Would hurt Assad's military capability
Scenario 3 Big sustained attack, going over a few weeks, target leadership, degrade and possibly lead to the removal of Assad. This would need more expensive involvement
Strikes against Syria would open US to charges that it is trigger-happy when it comes to attacking Muslim countries, deepening divide between Islamic societies and the West
If Assad is removed as a result, the world could see cocktail of Sunni jihadi groups in charge
Military strikes in Syria could bring US & Russia on confrontational path
Iran, Syria's biggest supporter, could retaliate, either through terrorist attacks by Hezbollah or through other means like attacking Turkey or Jordan SYRIA FIRE, WEST ASIA INFERNO
Syrian civil conflict has turned into a sectarian strife Sunni and Shia communities seizing on religious symbols, sowing sectarian passions Saudis and Iran support rebel groups for regional supremacy Religious fighters, radicals making a beeline to the region Within Syria, 1,200 rebel groups split along sectarian lines Sunni vs Alawite civil war in Syria merging and growing into Sunni vs Shia tensions in Gulf, re-igniting other violent intra-faith strifes
The Sunni-Shia strife has spiked violence in Iraq and Lebanon
Spreading violence can destabilize not just Lebanon and Jordan, but also Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait and even Pakistan
Sunnis expect Washington to back them
OBAMA'S TIGHTROPE WALK
THE RED LINE TALK
First mentioned by Obama last year for Iran's drive for nukes. Red lines include any development by Iran seen as decision to make nukes or enrich uranium
In Syria, initial talk of strike alluded to red line of 'no chemical weapon use'
On way to G 20 meet, Obama said, "I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line" On Syria, the US not first to call for military intervention France, Turkey, UK for action UK MPs vetoed military strike Obama got Republican support No decision till Congressional debates and votes next week PRO-STRIKE ARGUMENT | Disregard for red lines may embolden Iran to make nukes, Syria to use chemical weapons
WHY THEY DON'T WANT TO STRIKE RUSSIA
Anti-strike, hasn't ruled out support to UNSC resolution authorizing force
One of Syria's main arms suppliers, warned strike will hurt world economy
Strong support to Assad regime. Looking to cement its role as regional superpower
Rebels of Free Syrian Army atop a tank that belonged to forces loyal to Syria's President Assad
Placard with altered image of Obama at a rally in Kiev
AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI | IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER
12% of bottled water sold in Maharashtra of poor quality
New Delhi:The common perception of packaged drinking water manufacturers flouting norms has come true. During 2010-11 and 2011-12, at least one in every 10 samples picked up for quality testing failed. The percentage of failing samples was higher in the Delhi-Noida region and Maharashtra and Goa combined.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha last week, consumer affairs minister K V Thomas submitted details of samples collected from each state and Union territory. During 2010-11, 6,648 samples of packaged drinking water were taken and 805 of them failed. The government agencies also issued 543 warning letters to manufacturers for flouting norms. The data shows that at least 30 licences were cancelled. In Delhi and Noida, 23 of the 190 samples failed and two licences were cancelled. In Maharashtra and Goa, 104 of 729 samples (14%) failed.
Though state governments issue permission to set up water bottling plants, the Bureau of Indian Standards grants product licence. It has the mandate to ensure quality of both packaged drinking water and packaged mineral water.
According to government data, during 2011-12, out of 7,732 samples of packaged drinking water, 720 failed the test. In Delhi and Noida, around 20% of samples were found flouting norms. Similarly, in Maharashtra and Goa, 123 of 989 samples (12%) failed the test. During the period, 547 warning letters were issued to manufacturers and 32 licences were cancelled or not renewed.
However, there was some correction during the last financial year with 8% of samples failing tests. In fact, almost every state reported better results as the number of failed samples was only 607 out of 7,456. But the action taken for flouting norms was higher, with 190 licences getting cancelled.
H1N1 toll 6 times that of dengue, malaria Virus Has Killed 1 In 4 Patients In State This Year; City Better Off
The H1N1 influenza has emerged as the biggest killer disease in the state this year claiming three times the number of lives taken by dengue and malaria put together, and six times if compared individually. Initially termed as swine flu, the virus has also shown a worryingly high mortality rate with almost one in four confirmed cases that resulted in death.
State experts pointed out that mortality in H1N1 cases has been higher when compared with seasonal ailments, mainly malaria and dengue. For instance, around 23% of the patients who contracted the viral infection succumbed to it whereas less than 1% of malaria patients have died during the period. Even dengue's mortality rate stands at 2% despite a clear shift in the seriousness of the infection as well as its manifestation this monsoon.
Pune, Nagpur and Nashik have been the worst affected recording 58, 24 and 25 swine flu deaths, respectively. Mumbai has recorded a single death and around 50 cases so far. The cases remained largely under control during monsoon with less than 15 being officially reported since June. The situation this year was much better for the city with only 10 cases in August compared with 103 during the corresponding period last year.
With no significant changes detected in the behaviour of the virus, experts are baffled as to what could have caused the fatalities. To add to the trepidation is the fact that more deaths have taken place among people with no known medical complications. For instance, out of the 130 deaths, 68 did not have any preexisting ailments.
Dr Abhay Chaudhary, director of Parel's Haffkine Research Institute, said, "The virus is pretty much the same. There may be minor changes as is common with influenza viruses but nothing that can affect the population in a big way." Chaudhary blamed the deaths more on individual patients' immune response to the virus. "The virus per say may not be killing people. It is how their immune systems are responding to it."
The most recent victim of the virus in Mumbai was a 75-year-old resident of Mahalaxmi. She succumbed within a day of being admitted to Kasturba Hospital, exclusively meant to treat infectious diseases. Her treating physician, Dr Om Srivastava, said the case was a typical presentation of how the virus may not be affecting many, but progresses aggressively once it affects someone. "The time taken for the symptom to manifest, develop into the illness, then hospitalization and death seems to have shrunk. For the lady, it took merely four days for it to cause the death."
State health officials claimed the situation is being closely monitored. Dr Satish Pawar, head of the directorate of health services, said the deaths are worrying but adequate screening and treatment measures are in place. "We have enough medicines available. Vaccines, too, are available for the health workforce," he said. Srivastava added that antiviral oseltamivir continues to be "very effective".
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By Jeff Alperin
At cc:Clients, we’ve long used well-targeted, highly relevant news clips as the “hook” to engage readers of the e-mail newsletters we create for our customers.
When we started curating news 10 years ago, we needed to look no further than the web-accessible editions of mainstream print publications – mostly daily newspapers, wire services and weekly magazines. An important part of our job always has been to scour these traditional news outlets and hand-assemble a collection of the most appropriate news clips for each practice group’s newsletter.
For us, careful “content curation” has always been the essential component of our content marketing products.
Ten years later, it’s striking how dramatically the news industry landscape has changed:
The mainstream print media has shrunk – both in the number of publications and, after heavy cuts in the editorial departments, in the number of news articles they produce.
At the same time, there’s more news being produced than ever before – it’s just coming from new sources outside the traditional media outlets. “News” now includes reputable blogs (almost non-existent ten years ago) and news sites that exist only on the Internet. Some of these are highly-reliable publications with professional writers and editors, and some are just a crank with a website.
Broadcasters now routinely re-purpose their stories online, and numerous news websites republish press releases verbatim, without fact-checking.
And, there’s more commentary and analysis than ever before.
As a result, a new challenge has arisen: how to sort through what’s legitimate and what’s just noise. The need for curating content has never been greater.
So, as we begin to provide new distribution vehicles to our customers for our curated news content (e-mail newsletters, blogs, microsites, RSS and XML news feeds, social media posts), we’re also expanding the kinds of news we can incorporate. As we develop the unique Editorial DNASM for each publication, our customers will have even more choices, including the option to add content from notable and reliable blogs, government and trade group press releases, and interesting opinion and analytical stories.
These new news sources make our customer’s client communications even more relevant, interesting, timely and informative.
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