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Baccano
Hmm… Where should I start this story? How should I start this tale? Who are the main characters and what their roles are. No, it’s not that I’m trying to be a screenwriter or playwright, but after watching Baccano, you start to ponder those questions because a story with a fascinating plot and a hell lot of characters involved that includes a pair of thieves, alchemists, gangsters, mafia, Camorrista, hired killers, informants and even more, it may seem everything just came straight out from the movies.
The main story’s timeline is set in America during the 1930’s period but as we go along, we’ll learn that it is essentially split into 3 different year periods. The way the story is shown may be confusing and overwhelming at first because bits and pieces of the plot are shown from all over and just about anywhere. For the first few episodes, you may feel puzzled and baffled as the events do not make sense nor are they connected. But if you are patient, you will be rewarded as you go along and at the end when you put together all the jigsaw pieces, you’ll understand the big picture as a whole. Interesting. Due to the ‘messy’ back and forth snippets and clips of the story, I won’t really go into detail into each episode but only the important events that happened in chronological order. If I could remember them. For those wanting more information can go to good ol’ Wikipedia for details about the characters or Star Crossed Anime Blog for a summary of all the episodes.
As mentioned, the many characters of the series are the ones that make it colourful and lively. You could probably guess from the opening credits as they display the names of the characters that will appear throughout the series (17 of them). However I feel that there are more characters to that and the reason why they aren’t shown in the beginning as I feel it will be a dead giveaway to a certain little plot (I also noticed that those other ‘unshown’ characters are from the Daily Days – an information company). It will be interesting to see how many of these characters come together as they set off events from one another. Also said earlier, it is set in the United States so the characters are of different nationality and not your typical Takashi or Haruka to begin with. Heck, you may be forgiven to think that this isn’t an anime production (the drawing and art isn’t that obvious to the conventional anime style) in the first place till they start speaking Japanese. Non-Japanese people speaking Japanese? Odd. Oh wait. This series is an oddity in its own way. Come to think of it, it would be even odd if it was dubbed in English and the characters speaking in American accent! Oh, my stereotype thinking of animes. Anyway, here is a brief description of the main characters:
Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent – These pair of bungling and idiotic thieves are the reason why you should watch Baccano. They provide comic relief to the entire series with their eccentric and flowery talk. Even if they seem annoying (especially Miria sometimes being an echo to Isaac or confirming with him), they are a pair that will be very hard to hate but love so much so you can’t help but root for them. They also have a peculiar habit of stealing odd stuff (like the heavy museum door?) and you have got to love some of their reasoning to rob. Listen to this one, the reason why they rob from the rich isn’t because they want to be Robin Hood but rather to prevent internal fighting for inheritance! And they think they’re doing a hell of a noble duty. Oh yeah. Really love them alright… Just like how they’re depicted as cards in the opening animation, they’re a pair of jokers.
Maiza Avaro – The bespectacled bookkeeper of the Martillo family in Manhattan and the leader of original alchemist immortals.
Firo Prochainezo – A skilled fighter and a new addition to the Martillo family. Is seen close with his mentor Maiza most of the time.
Keith, Berga and Luck Gandor – The mafia brothers running a small business in Manhattan. Keith being the eldest and the leader, Berga the second-in-command and Luck the charming and social one responsible for plotting out strategies. Say, doesn’t Luck look very much like Bleach’s Aizen?
Szilard Quates – A dangerous old guy that one must not mess with if you know him well. One of the original alchemist immortals, Szilard seeks to recreate the immortal formula for his own nefarious ends.
Ennis – A homunculus created by Szilard via his cells (how he does it and even made a female one still boggles me). Initially a loyal servant of Szilard but develops her own emotions.
Ladd Russo – A sadistic hitman of the Russo family who enjoys and seeks thrill in killing people. You can tell he loves his ‘job’ very much as he even dances in the pool of blood of his fallen victims. In happiness.
Lua Klein – Ladd’s fiancee and the only reason she’s staying alive is because she is to be killed by Ladd’s hands. What?
Chane Laforet – The mute knife fighter and daughter of Huey Laforet, a traitor who is currently being imprisoned for treason.
Jacuzzi Splot – Though the leader of his own gangster, the most evident trait about him is that he is a cry-baby! When the going gets tough, he starts crying. But when his members are in danger, he will summon enough strength to fight for them. Has a large sword tattoo over his face.
Nice Holystone – Jacuzzi’s girlfriend and partner in crime and expert in the explosive area. She wears an eye-patch to hide the right eye she lost via an explosive experiment. That empty are is useful because she keeps her tiny bombs in it.
Eve Genoard – The daughter of a wealthy family with a quiet personality. She is searching for her missing older brother.
Dallas Genoard – Eve’s brother and a small time thug going around causing mischief with his small group after his family’s fortune were robbed by Isaac and Miria.
Czeslaw Meyer – A young boy and one of the original alchemist immortals. Due to a torture and painful experiment by his guardian, he doesn’t trust anyone and wants to devour other immortals to avoid being devoured, especially Maiza.
The timeline of the main story is split into 1930, 1931 and 1932. I also feel that 1711 is also an important date as this is where it all started. Though this date won’t be shown with such frequency in every episode (besides the halfway episode) and just sparingly. There are other years as well but they serve more as a prelude to these main ones.
1711 – Where it all began on the Advenna Avis ship
A group of around 3o alchemists managed to summon the devil and obtain an elixir for immortality. The devil imparts several conditions like they can only find each other using their real names (the logic for this still baffles me) and if they ever get tired of living, they can devour themselves by placing their right hand over the other’s head and wish from the heart ‘to eat’. That same right hand can also impart knowledge of the devoured to others. However the devil only gives the knowledge to make the elixir to Maiza and in the event if they want to recreate it, they will have to ask him. Maiza concludes that nobody else should acquire this elixir as it would bring disastrous results. Everyone agrees except Szilard. Because of that, Szilard starts devouring one by one the alchemists and ultimately Gret, Maiza’s brother whom Maiza has passed on half of the elixir’s knowledge. Though Szilard is thrown off the ship in a struggle, the surviving alchemists decide to scatter themselves throughout the world after realizing the threat they possess if they stayed together.
1930 – The new immortals
Szilard is successful in creating the elixir of immortality. I guess after 200 years, there has to be some reward for his patience, right? However his underling Barnes who was in charge of making the elixir, the building caught fire and he only managed to save 2 bottles. Worse, Barnes encounters Dallas and his thugs as they steal his precious cargo. Szilard devours Barnes and has Ennis to hunt down the responsible party. Firo bumps into Ennis and you could say he starts to fall for her because he goes to great lengths trying to return her sleeve button she dropped. So when Dallas and co are being rounded up back to Szilard, it seems the elixir isn’t with them anymore. Szilard instils some fear in Dallas and co by devouring one of his friends and soon makes them partial immortals (they cannot be killed and their wounds heal but will still die of old age) and has them to go look for the elixir. Meanwhile the elixir bottles are being passed around Manhattan, exchanging several hands a few times and making those possessors who drank it immortals. They include Isaac, Miria, the Gandor brothers, Firo and his Martillo family members (they drank it thinking it was alcohol to celebrate Firo’s entry into their family).
Eventually Szilard manages to find Maiza and confronts him. At this point, Szilard has already devoured 2/3 of the original immortals and is going to devour Maiza. Szilard for an old guy can move and attack faster compared to Maiza. Crippled Maiza could’ve been done for if Isaac and Miria’s ill timing didn’t cause a commotion (the car they stole slammed into Szilard). Szilard orders Ennis to rid of the thieves but her previous meeting with them has caused her to hesitate and obey his orders since Ennis have become friends with Isaac and Miria. Szilard saw her betrayal coming because that was how all his past creations turned out. Ennis teaches Firo how to devour Szilard and in that instant, Firo did exactly what he is supposed to do and ends Szilard’s life. Firo heals dying Ennis and confesses his love for her. Everyone continues their celebration and as for Dallas and his gang, the Gandor brothers decide to punish them for killing their comrades during their rounds to retrieve their elixir by cementing their bodies in an oil barrel and dumping them to the bottom of the Hudson River. Hey, they won’t really die for a long time, right?
1931 – Onboard the Flying Pussyfoot
This is where half of the characters will meet. The transcontinental train, the Flying Pussyfoot will be making its way across the States towards Manhattan. Isaac and Miria board the train to meet up with Ennis after their failed California gold digging. They meet and befriend Jacuzzi and Nice (their gang are onboard to steal the explosives in the cargo) along with Natalie, the wife of Senator Beriam, her daughter Mary and Czeslaw. Ladd and his gang in white suits (so that they could see the blood colour of their victims tainted on it. Sick!) and the Lemures, a group of loyal cult followers of Huey in black suits under the guise as an orchestra band with Chane also boards the train. Isaac and Miria tell scaredy cat Jacuzzi about some urban legend called Rail Tracer that devours the passengers on the train. Jacuzzi starts believing it and coincidentally the white black suits start to hijack the train. Both sides soon plunge the train into a bloody carnage. Seems the Lemures are holding Natalie and Mary to a hostage to get Beriam to release Huey. But that is just a ploy so that they can obtain the immortality elixir and would even get rid of Chane once their mission is done. When the hijack begins, the assistant conductor, Claire Stanfield (funny, he has a girl’s name?) decides to assume the role of the mysterious Rail Tracer and kill the black and white suit perpetrators while ensuring the safety of the other innocent passengers after he learns that his conductor mentor has been killed by them before the train journey began. Claire is a highly skilled assassin previously known as Vino, the reason why he moves so swiftly like a ghost, in and out and even under the train with much flexibility and mobility. He is also the adoptive brother of the Gandors.
Czeslaw meets Ladd and acts like an innocent kid though he wants him to kill everybody onboard. Ladd is sceptical and because Czeslaw thinks he is invincible, Ladd blows his brain to bits! But Czeslaw is an immortal and in no time regenerates. Unknown to them, Claire saw all these events unfolding. Ladd also comes into contact with Jacuzzi and co but decides to put his kill on hold he wants to get rid of the black suits first (Ladd wants to kill Jacuzzi’s gang for since his uncle’s men were attacked by them though Jacuzzi insisted it was retaliation for killing some of his). A stowaway, Rachel (from Daily Days) has a close encounter with Rail Tracer and freaks out when he whispers to close into her ear (you’ll find out much later the freaking thing he said was something about ticket inspection and her having a free ride). Czeslaw too has a close encounter with the Rail Tracer and since he revealed himself as an immortal, Claire proceeds to continue torturing Czeslaw by biting his fingers off and scrapping his hands off the tracks! Meanwhile Beriam visits Huey in prison and tries to convince him to tell his followers to back down. However Huey is confident that Chane is loyal to him as he telepathically communicates with her.
Apparently trains at that time don’t move so fast so it’s no surprise that even when someone is running or fighting on top of the coaches, they won’t fall off. Ladd fights Chane while Jacuzzi takes on a Lemure underling. Ladd and Chane’s fight isn’t progressing anywhere as both are equally matched. Till Claire pops up and decides to side with Chane after hearing their side of the story. Claire even proposes to Chane to marry her. He wants her to get off the train and carve her answer on the coach. Ladd fights Claire but makes Ladd ‘jump off’ the train when he pretends to hold Lua hostage. Jacuzzi wins his fight against Lemure since the latter was using a flame thrower that exploded when he fell onto the tracks. Isaac and Miria save Czeslaw from underneath the train (Czeslaw panicked when he saw Isaac’s wound heal and thought he was going to devour him) and in some crazy events, the trio are swung up via some rope and safety. Jacuzzi and Nice manage to unload the cargo into the river and Chane is seen floating atop one of them. Claire sees Chane’s answer wanting him to find her and she will do the same (though her intention is to kill him). When the train arrives at its destination, Isaac and Miria are happy to see Ennis. Because they forgot to get her a present, they give Czeslaw to her as her little brother. Czeslaw finally meets Maiza but couldn’t have the heart to devour him. Instead he cried and hugged him that he wanted to see him so much.
1932 – The search for Dallas
Eve is worried about her missing brother and enlists the help of the members of the Daily Days, Elean and Nicholas to help search. Also, the Runorata family are also searching for Dallas so the Don and head of the family has his subordinate Gustavo to go look for him. After learning that the Gandors may have something to do with Dallas’ disappearance, Gustavo kidnaps Eve in hopes of luring Dallas out. Of course due to the guard’s incompetency, Eve escapes and is rescued by Elean. Once she learns the Gandors may know something about Dallas, she storms over unheeding the dangers she may pose to herself. They are interrupted when Gustavo barges in and sprays bullets into the brothers. However they regenerate and beat him unconscious. Then Don arrives and shoots Gustavo in the head for doing several unnecessary stuff. Luck reveals Dallas being cemented at the bottom of the river so Don makes a deal with Eve that he will rescue Dallas in exchange for allowing him to examine Dallas in his lab (for his immortality thingy). By 1933, Eve watches the river being excavated.
Also in this time period, we see Nicholas and Elean along with Rachel relaying information to the president of Daily Days of what has happened during the events on the Flying Pussyfoot like how Rachel got her leg injury (after rescuing Jacuzzi and his gang) and the possible conflict between Gandors and Runoratas on Dallas’ case. The odd part about the president isn’t the fact that he always remain unseen behind his desk of mountain of books, but rather he knows lots about the information and situation even before his employees could finish explaining. What’s more, he knows pretty much more about the details than his employees. It’s like as though he is the author of this story. Nah. This show can’t be breaking the fourth wall.
And on a short time trip into the future in 2001, we see Isaac and Miria continuing their robbing spree (stealing handphones to avoid the problem of kids never talking to their parents face to face anymore? Yeah, how considerate). Then it hit them that they looked the same over half a century ago. Their conclusion? They must have been born this way! Oh goodness! See why you got to love this pair! Yeah, it never occurred to them that they are immortals and perhaps not in the near future. Or forever.
The OVAs
Well, if you buy the DVD, there are 3 additional episodes that reveals a little more about some of the characters and the aftermath of some of the events. We have also this new character called Graham Spector. He’s another eccentric and psycho guy. Wearing a worker suit and wielding a large spanner as his weapon, this poetic guy wants to find out who injured Ladd and made him fall off the train (currently Ladd is serving his time in prison though he remains his actions to kill were in self defence). So a short flashback how Graham and Ladd met and fought. Though Ladd won, he spared Graham because he thinks they’re both alike. Yeah, birds of the same feathers. Graham plans to capture Jacuzzi and obtain the reward from the Russo family. And to draw him out, he kidnaps to kidnap Eve, which unknown to them is Chane. Before that, Chane has become friends with Jacuzzi and his gang, since they treat her very nicely. Graham leaves a note for Jacuzzi to turn up alone and to bring lots of money in which he did. However he just didn’t bring the money but notes that if he turns him in, he will get a huge bounty reward instead. Jacuzzi’s other pals turn up claiming that they didn’t contradict the note and walked here by themselves (“I walked all the way from Mexico and ended up here”?).
Elsewhere we see Claire meeting up with Rachel and Czeslaw (the latter revealing to the former about his immortality). Czeslaw really freaked out when he realizes Claire is that Rail Tracer! Claire wants Rachel to give advice to best way to confess to a girl (Chane). Claire obtains information from Nicholas (after threatening him) about Chane’s whereabouts and walks right into Graham’s warehouse in the middle of Chane and Graham’s fight. Claire ignores Graham and proposes to Chane once more. Chane is confused and unsure because the only person she loved was Huey though she was never sure he loved her back because he never said those 3 magic words. She also remembers how she traded her voice so that she will never betray him in exchange for his secrets. Graham fights Claire and is shocked to learn that he is the one who injured Ladd. Graham backs down and leaves after acknowledging that only Ladd can beat him. Claire proposes to Chane again and to start off as friends. She nods a yes.
Other events we see such as Isaac, Miria, Firo, Maiza and the Martillo family making a huge domino and celebrating after its knockdown success, Natalie rewards Rachel with lots of money but she uses it to buy lots of train tickets but throws them all away to compensate her free rides (yeah, that Rail Tracer thingy must’ve traumatized her), Eve sees an empty barrel after its extraction from the river and a short flashback how Jacuzzi tattooed his face to cheer down and out Nice on the aftermath of the explosion that damaged her face . We also see the whereabouts of some of the original alchemist immortals like Elmer Albatross who visited Huey in prison as the latter wants Elmer to find and make Chane in which he doubts is possible; Sylvie Lumiere who was Gret’s girlfriend and the only one who drank the elixir much later in life. Currently she is working as a singer and wanted to devour Firo for Gret’s memories but concludes that it would be safe in Firo’s hands; Ronny Sukiart the reincarnation of the devil who has been asked by Elmer to watch over Maiza and is thankful he kept his promise to do so as a human and not a devil. However Ronny notes that he does so because he was merely curious to see how the events unfold.
The story never ends
Just like the early and final scenes on how the Daily Days vice president Gustav St. Germain and his little girl assistant Carol contemplating on where the story starts or ends, there will never be one simply because, it is fun that way. Say what? I just found out that the light novel in which the series is based on is still ongoing. As I skim through briefly the plot, it seems there will be more characters (especially the remaining alchemist immortals) and different stories in different timelines. There are also outcomes of some of the characters like Chane and Claire married and Jacuzzi and Nice having a great grandson.
Besides Isaac and Miria (whom are my personal favourites), Ladd, Graham and Claire are the other most interesting characters in this show because of their screwball personalities. Claire may be an ex-assassin but at times he too proves that inside he is human and falls in love. Just like Graham, you just got to love his smooth speeches. It’s mind blowing that he likes to use this scare tactic of putting his victim’s face close to the rail tracks while threatening them. However some of the characters didn’t really do much such as Lua. I felt her presence could really do without and that her only ‘role’ was a prelude and setting to make Ladd and herself fall off the train during the climax. So maybe her appearance in the opening credits was just a trick to keep viewers on their toes to wonder how each of them will play a significant role. I also find Keith and Berga to fall under this category since Luck is the one doing the talking most of the time on behalf of the brothers. Heck, Keith doesn’t even have a single line in this entire show!
There is a question that I am wondering. Can an immortal devour himself? You know, placing your own right hand over your own head and eat yourself. Not possible? So what happens if there is only 1 immortal left after the rest has been devoured? Ah, I found out that’s when the devil will eat up the last remaining one and obtain all the knowledge devoured by all of them along the way. Wait a minute, a devil needs to do this? I thought he is supposed to be omniscient in a way? Then about Dallas’ case at the end. If he wasn’t found to be in the barrel, what happened to him? Was he there in the first place?
One thing I want to mention is the amount of blood and gore in this show. If you are not used to seeing animated human flesh tearing up to their bones or body parts flying off in all directions and then coming back together in one piece like as though nothing happened, you may want to stand by a paper bag just in case. It is definitely very graphic and not intended for younger audiences. Heck, when you have mafia and gangsters in your story, it’s not like the producers had kindergarten kids in mind while they’re making this show. The next episode preview is narrated by Isaac and Miria and as usual, displays their idiocracy, much to our delight of course. The OVA’s narration is done by Graham and is equally poetic to his style of speaking. The odd thing that still bugs me is that on the final episode of the OVA, they still put “What’s next on Baccano” (a cue for the next episode preview), assuming that there are some more episodes to continue after that but as far as the series is concern, it ends there.
The opening theme is entitled Guns’ & Roses by Paradise Lunch. It is totally instrumental but it is very jazzy and catchy. Now I could understand why this show and Durarara!! have their opening animation so similar in terms of the main characters being introduced here and short clips of certain scenes being played in the middle of it. They’re both made by Brains Base and thus it is no wonder when I watched Durarara!! a year ago, I was wondering why there were so many Baccano trivia. Yeah, even Isaac and Miria made a cameo appearance there! Not only immortals, but crossing dimensional gates into other animes as well like Tsubasa Chronicle. Haha! The ending theme is Calling by Kaori Oda and is a slow ballad while the view is a gloomy track and which probably goes nowhere. Here you can probably see the full list of the main characters in the series.
Overall, I find the entire series to be very intriguing and interesting. Even it was mystifying with the different timelines shown and the many characters, it was done in a good way that kept me glued to the screen all the way. It also made me read up a lot of info and do some reading up on the characters and their roles to better understand everything. If they ever produce a sequel and retain this format, I’d be willing to watch it. But don’t wait too long because I’m not an immortal.
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Redress Schemes for Property Management Work etc (England) Order 2013
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Redress Schemes – Lettings Agency Work and Property Management Work
Enactment Citation
Enabling Power
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, s 87(1), (2)
SI 2013/3192: Provision is made for approved redress schemes for dealing with complaints by consumers against lettings agents and property management agents, who must be members of such a scheme. Procedures covered include applications for approval of a scheme, conditions a scheme must meet to be designated as a government administered redress scheme, and procedures for the withdrawal of approval or designation from a scheme. (Updated from draft: 17 December 2013)
Legislative background
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 provides that the Secretary of State may require lettings agents and property management agents to belong either to an approved redress scheme or to a government administered redress scheme.
A redress scheme is a scheme which provides for complaints against members of the scheme to be investigated and determined by an independent person.
The Order requires schemes to make satisfactory provision for:
how agents can join, leave or be expelled from the scheme
the types of complaints which may be made under the scheme (including complaints about the failure to comply with any provision of a code of practice approved under the Leasehold Reform and Urban Development Act 1993, s 87, and non-compliance with the provision of a voluntary code of practice or other such document)
the ombudsman’s duties and powers in relation to investigating and determining complaints, apologies, explanations, compensation and such other actions in the interest of the complainant as the ombudsman may specify)
the enforcement of any requirement to provide redress which has been imposed on a member of the scheme (which may include expulsion from the scheme)
how complaints can be made about the redress scheme itself
the provision of information to other redress schemes or to any person who regulates lettings agency work and property management work (for example, so agents who do not belong to a redress scheme can be identified)
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U.S. Charges 19 in Chinese ‘Birth Tourism’ Scheme in California
February 2, 2019 April 30, 2019 Staff 883 Views 0 Comments
Nineteen people have been charged in three “birth tourism” schemes that operated in Southern California to bring pregnant Chinese women into the United States in order to secure birthright citizenship for their children, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles said on Thursday.
The 17 cases unsealed on Thursday are the first federal charges brought against operators and customers of birth tourism businesses, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Three defendants were arrested on Thursday morning, while the 16 others named in the indictments unsealed on Thursday are “fugitive defendants,” the prosecutors said.
The defendants are accused of links to three “birth houses” operating in Southern California that catered to wealthy women from China and were dismantled by federal agents in March 2015.
The indictments charge that Chinese customers were coached on how to pass U.S. Consulate interviews in China by falsely stating they would stay in the United States for only two weeks and to trick U.S. Customs at entry ports by wearing loose clothing to conceal their pregnancies, prosecutors said in the statement.
“These cases allege a wide array of criminal schemes that sought to defeat our immigration laws – laws that welcome foreign visitors so long as they are truthful about their intentions when entering the country,” U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement.
“Some of the wealthy clients of these businesses also showed blatant contempt for the U.S. by ignoring court orders directing them to stay in the country to assist with the investigation and by skipping out on their unpaid hospital bills,” Hanna said.
The U.S. Constitution grants citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil, and immigration experts say there is nothing inherently illegal about women coming from abroad to give birth to children in the country.
But law enforcement officials in Southern California in recent years have sought to crack down on the burgeoning cottage industry of maternity tourism, in which foreign nationals, typically from China, apply for U.S. visas under false pretenses and overstay them so that their children can attain birthright citizenship.
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How Do You Bring Brand Publishing’s Blurred Lines Into Focus? (Hint: Not By Twerking)
By Natalie Burg November 12th, 2013
If content marketing had a theme song, it would probably be “Blurred Lines.”
Is it advertising? Journalism? Media? Something in between? Ask 10 content marketers, and you’d probably get 10 different answers, hedged with a lot of qualifiers. Everyone wants to create great content, but few people want to take ownership of the rules that govern branded content and the ethical quandaries that complicate it.
The Wall Street Journal would never do that.”
At the Contently Brand Publishing Summit, we found a few brave souls from the biggest names in brand publishing to discuss how the industry can bring those blurred lines into focus.
The Authenticity Sniff Test
“It’s all about authenticity,” said Rod Kurtz, Editor-at-Large for AMEX Open Forum. “Good, authentic stories is what’s going to drive [brand publishing].”
But what does authenticity have to do with ethical lines? Neil Chase, Vice President of Content at LifeLock, explained how an inauthentic, self-promotional piece of content can so easily ring untrue with readers, undermining the authority of the brand, as well as the publication in which it appears.
“If the Wall Street Journal all of a sudden has a sponsored content story on the front page, you’d look at it and say, ‘Really? There is a sponsored content story on the front page and they got paid to write this story about great purchases at Target?'” Chase said.
As a result, branded content requires a sniff test to determine whether it’s authentic: Does the content feel right? Does it seem to belong?
However, the sniff test is only the first step in drawing ethical lines. Chase recalled that authenticity was only one criteria that content was required to meet during his time with Federated Media. In addition to being authentic, he said, it had to be transparent.
New lines, drawn with “graceful transparency”
Robin Riddle is now the Global Publisher for the Wall Street Journal’s Custom Studios. When working for a brand that has built its name on ethical reporting for more than a century, it’s crucial to make sure that the lines you draw are visible from far away.
“You want to produce products that are commercially driven … because that’s the reality of the industry,” said Riddle. “But they have to be clearly signposted. The mantra and ethos that we work to is graceful transparency.”
That means, Riddle explained, that the identity of each piece of content is made abundantly clear. Sponsored content is definitely marked as such, and so is news content. Because, ultimately, a publisher is not a good home for branded content if it’s own brand deflates.
“What we’re never going to do on the editorial side, on the new newsroom side,” said Riddle, “is put the brand out to risk.”
Applying the old publishing lines to the new
Upholding a standard of transparency is important to brand publishing for the same reasons that it’s been important to the advertiser-supported news industry for decades. Should a publisher cover a negative breaking news story about a major sponsored-content partner? And if they do, should they temporarily suspend their sponsored posts until the news blows over? These were questions asked of the panel, but they are essentially the same questions that newspapers have been asked about their advertisers for decades.
The mantra and ethos that we work to is graceful transparency.”
On the flip side, how does a brand handle negative stories about itself? If you’re committed to the idea that the best content is pure storytelling, said Managing Editor of GE Reports Tomas Kellner, then brands must report the bad with the good — even if that’s a tough idea to swallow.
“One of the elements of a story is conflict,” said Keller. “Nobody wants to read a story where nothing is at stake.”
Adhering to that principle may never have been more difficult than when GE was faced with the nuclear crisis in Fukushima. When an earthquake triggered a nuclear meltdown within GE reactors in Japan, GE Reports was faced with a tough decision: to publish or not to publish?
The 1971 reactors were theirs. A whistleblower emerged saying he had tried to tell the company they weren’t safe. Every news outlet was reporting the story. GE could have quietly weathered the storm. But instead, their publishing arm went to work, sending reporters to their own nuclear facilities in North Carolina to dig into the story.
” You cutback on the spin and tell the story straight as it is,” said Keller. “We laid it all out and used GE Reports as a platform to really tell our story.”
That involved pulling archived blueprints of reactors, contacting retired engineers, creating schematic designs of the reactors and writing stories about the facilities. And through honest, investigative journalism-style digging, the GE Reports writers ended up finding a paper trail to prove the very whistleblower who had pointed the finger at GE had, in fact, signed off on the safety of the reactors himself.
You cutback on the spin and tell the story straight as it is.”
It’s a lesson that the ethos that traditional media has abided by for decades — authenticity, transparency, and a commitment to investigative journalism — can bring the blurred lines of brand publishing into focus. Though brand publishing seems new, it’s actually quite old. After all, as Kellner noted, long before he became a corporate journalist for GE, Kurt Vonnegut held the same position for the company.
“All of us who think we’re pioneers in content marketing, that we created this stuff,” said Chase. “No, we’re just doing it better and faster. At least faster.”
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The power of the circle growing wider
BY JUDY VAN RHIJN For Law Times
Talking pieces, symbolic centerpieces, and opening rituals may sound like something out of an incense-filled prayer meeting, but they are finding a place in the resolution of the most modern disputes. The circle process is being taught and used among those who see that listening, and not just talking, is the key to resolving conflicts and building constructive ongoing relationships.
The modern form of the circle process has evolved out of the First Nation tradition of using sacred circles to solve community problems. It was developed adapted, concept in the mainstream justice system by Barry Stuart who spent 20 years as a judge in the Yukon.
Stuart has recently co- authored the book Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community with Kay Pranis and Mark Wedge, a book on circle philosophy and practice, published by Living Justice Press. It explains the structured parameters of the circle that allow spontaneous dynamics to develop.
In Toronto, the most prominent advocate of the process is Peacebuilders International (PBI), which has taken and adapted Stuart’s learnings. Eva Marszewski is the founder and executive director of PBI. She was recently the recipient of the 2006 Law Society Medal and the YMCA 2006 Peace Medallion Award.
Although the circle process has evolved from aboriginal practices with spiritual significance, Marszewski has removed this aspect from the process.
“I don’t use anything of religious significance like smudging or sacred eagle feather,” she stresses. “It is too open to misunderstanding and it’s inappropriate for me to use it. It’s like the white man taking over sacred practices.”
The circle process involves gathering all the interested parties into a circle to discuss an issue. It is the facilitator’s job to determine if the circle is an appropriate process and then make the circle safe and respectful.
“It’s not a benign technology,” says Toronto mediator and circle facilitator Joyce M. Young. “Victims can be re-victimized. You must know what to do when there’s an upset.”
The group gathers around a centerpiece that has some significance to the group. Often each participant is asked to add something, or the facilitator might ask for a specific contribution. When Young convened a meeting with an extended family that had not been in a room together for four years, she asked each person to bring two family photos for the centerpiece.
“When they came together the centerpiece was a visual record of their family history,” says Young. “It was very powerful.”
The process starts and ends with an opening statement, for which many facilitators use a reading, then the participants pass around a talking piece, which denotes who will be speaking.
“A talking piece completely shifts the usual pattern,” says Marszewski. “If you get people to talk spontaneously, the conversation goes across the middle of the space. Apart from a round of introductions around a boardroom table, it is never in sequence. The most verbal peopIe take charge, and the longer it goes on, the more entrenched it becomes that the talkers talk and a the listeners listen.
Marszewski often uses a toy microphone.
“It makes a funny noise that people think is hilarious, but people are used to seeing people with a microphone have the floor.
For young guys I might use a basketball, and when young children are involved, I use a stuffed toy. For judges I use a so fancy pen. The fancier the better. Then they’re all interested to see it and hold it.”
This process is gaining. acceptance after the notable success of a PBI pilot project with youth in Toronto’s downtown St. Jamestown and Regent Park areas. Of 48 completed cases, 27 were resolved.
There’s a need for all parts of the legal system to become aware of the process, so when it’s proposed for a client their lawyer knows what it means and what it’s going to look like. It’s not flavour of the month but it’s a new tool and a good one
Young instigated one circle process in a housing project at Regent Park, which started. with the issue of garbage in the courtyard and quickly moved to drug dealers and gang-related violence. The circle involved tenants, staff, police, a private security firm, and a lawyer who attended on one occasion to explain legal rights. The process allowed the tenants to take control of their own living conditions.
Young is now training people in the building to facilitate the process.
Although circles have mostly been used for aboriginal and criminal justice issues, they are now being used in many other areas.
“It has a lot of application in schools, workplaces, organizations, families, and communities,” says Young.
She uses different types of circles to suit the situation – sharing circles, problem solving circles, teaching circles, sentencing circles, and healing circles – finding them effective to open up lines of communication that have been closed, sometimes for years.
Young believes that the effectiveness of the process is due to “deep listening.”
“People tend to speak very truthfully. The circle invites deeper conversation. It is more reflective and not defensive,” she says. “People are affected by what they hear.”
The most recent PBI initiative involving the circle process is the Youth Circles Project, which was launched on Feb. 28. It is a new youth justice diversion project focused on cross-cultural conflicts, bullying, and gang- related violence funded through the Youth Justice Renewal Fund of the federal Department of Justice.
It has jurisdiction to deal with matters covered by the Youth Criminal Justice Act and also authority under the Safe Schools Act to deal with suspension and expulsion.
The project aims to train 45 volunteer lawyers working pro bono as youth circle “keepers” and pair them up with 45 mental health workers and 45 other community members such as elders and victims or their representatives, who will help youth maneuver through the legal justice system. There is also a comparable program through the Canadian Mental Health Association in cases where there is a youth offence and a mental illness problem.
“There’s a need for all parts of the legal system to become aware of the process, so when it’s proposed for a client their lawyer knows what it means and what it’s going to look like,” says Y oung.
“It’s not flavour of the month but it’s a new tool and a good one.”
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Protests Erupt After Harrowing Footage Leaks From Inside Myrskaa Nanodome
By Lina Ambre
NEW CALDARI - State Peacekeepers have been forced to draft in additional troops, after protests erupted on New Caldari Prime, Nonni I, Malkalen V and the Jita IV - Moon 4 - Caldari Navy Assembly Plant, as well as in several other locations across the State earlier today.
The unrest across several of the most populated systems in the State comes after the release of unauthorized footage from within the Myrskaa quarantine zone, which appears to show conditions of extreme squalor, indicating a breakdown in basic services, amenities and law enforcement.
The footage, which is believed to have been recorded by the combat holocam of a State Peacekeeper or Marine, shows streets piled with biohazard containment bags, human effluent and refuse, burned out military and civilian vehicles, ordnance riddled buildings and roads, and a number of burning administrative offices. The most disturbing parts of the footage show evidence of a number of mass graves filled with countless bodies, which appear to have been excavated in parks and public areas across the city.
Narrated by a muffled voice speaking traditional Napanii, the footage also explains that those inside the quarantine zone were cut off from the outside world completely on February 16th, and that there has been no contact or issue of orders from the Caldari administration since the confirmation of the presence of Kyonoke almost a month ago. The unidentified voice also claims that the death toll inside the nanodome has skyrocketed, with more than eight and a half million deaths confirmed since the quarantine lockdown.
The holovideo, which was passed to the Scope anonymously, has sparked outrage among the Caldari people, with an estimated two billion State citizens across The Forge, Lonetrek, and The Citadel engaging in industrial action and refusing to work in protest. These mass protests mark the largest insurrection among Caldari workers in the history of the State, with many of those refusing to work turning out in peaceful pickets, calling for action to resolve the situation on Oijanen II.
On New Caldari Prime one protest turned violent, when a motorcade carrying Home Guard CEO Sunmenas Ikydoishin to a CEP session was pelted with rocks and raw fish. The incident and ensuing riot resulted in more than a thousand arrests, along with the use of tear gas and non-lethal riot control weaponry by State Peacekeepers.
Reports indicate that Ikydoishin was unharmed in the melee, and that the session with the Chief Executive Panel will commence as planned this evening.
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Cancun couple become hospitality entrepreneurs thanks to Airbnb
In 2015, while Diego searched for work as a chef in Cancun, Mexico, he suggested to his wife Mariana that they list a room in their house on Airbnb to make some extra income. Mariana, who worked in a local hotel, was skeptical and worried about her privacy, but she agreed to give it a try. As it turns out, they loved interacting with visitors and helping them shape their trip to the city—as well as the financial boost they got from hosting them.
“Receiving our first guests from places like Germany and France was awesome,” Mariana says. They loved hosting so much that they decided they wanted to help others share their homes, as well. “This would be a great way to be more economically independent,” she says.
Mariana and Diego, Property Managers of Seahorse RentalsThat single room became the cornerstone of Seahorse Rentals, a thriving property management company that the couple built almost entirely on Airbnb. It has allowed Diego and Mariana the flexibility they sought as they raise their young child (with another on the way). They quit their day jobs soon after starting the company and became full-time hospitality entrepreneurs.
Seahorse now operates 37 listings, including two properties that the couple bought and others that they manage for friends and neighbors. It employs three people, all local residents, who help with maintenance and guest relations. Well over 90 percent of Seahorse’s business comes through Airbnb. Diego and Mariana embraced the platform early on because its reach allowed them to attract guests without having to do any outside advertising. Due to their consistently excellent guest reviews, Mariana and Diego quickly built up a network of referrals on Airbnb—both of potential guests and of other local homeowners seeking a company to help them host their own property.
Mariana believes they could not have accomplished such fast success by listing on any other platform. “I just got another call from someone who got recommended to us to manage her house,” Mariana says. “We have so many referrals now that I had to ask her how she got our number.”
If Mariana and Diego have an issue, they know Airbnb’s host guarantee helps them get back the full value for any damage done to their properties, which gives them peace of mind as they continue to grow the business.
“The support and service and safety they give us is unbelievable,” says Mariana. “Every time we think of listing our properties elsewhere, we think, ‘Is it even worth taking that step?’”
Between 2016 and 2018, Seahorse Rentals’ revenue nearly tripled. In the peak month of December it reached nearly 500,000 Mexican Pesos (roughly $25,000) in 2017 and 2018. Seahorse has partnered with local tour companies to offer discounted rates to their guests—as well as personalized shopping and chefs’ services for the guests who want them. Mariana says Airbnb’s presence has helped galvanize a new kind of tourism in a region of Mexico that was best-known for all-inclusive resorts.
“We can see a huge impact downtown,” Mariana says. “A lot of restaurants were starting to close because most of the hotels are all-inclusive.” When people arrive at an Airbnb, she adds, “They really get to know the place they’re visiting.”
Mariana says they want to continue to grow Seahorse through Airbnb but more slowly because they do not want to sacrifice their personal touch. They plan to only add about three properties to their portfolio each year. “You need to put a lot of attention into each one to make sure it’s all working well for the guests,” Mariana says.
That attention to detail has paid off in unexpected ways. Mariana and Diego have become friendly with many of their frequent guests, and last year Mariana visited with their first-ever Airbnb guest during a trip to Germany. “We don’t get to see every guest, but we have some kind of bond with them just by messaging with them,” Mariana says. “And going forward, we don’t want to lose the essence of what we do.”
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Kira32 in
Canary Islands, ES
♡Bless you and enjoy hosting♡
Diego-and-Mariana0 in
😊gracias
Heather699 in
Petit Valley, Trinidad and Tobago
Hi thanjs for this story.
I began in April this tear, renting one room in my home. How long did you rent your one room before you were able to expand?
=) we rented it for about 3 months. keep it up.
=) we rented it for about 3 months. you can look for us on insta gram as seahorserentalsmx =) will let you know more
Ann72 in
@Diego-and-Mariana0 Love this story! Which listing has the open patio? And which one has the yellow beds? Too many to click through :), but I'll save one or two to my Worldwide wish list.
Hinemoa1 in
Rotorua, New Zealand
Wow what an inspiration, this lovely couple have given me so many ideas about how I could expand my own Airbnb business. Thanks for sharing your story!!!
An inspiring story! What a great job you guys are doing!
Matilda-and-Dennis0 in
Sanma Province, Vanuatu
Thank you for great inspiration!! We hope to follow suite...
Philip386 in
Appreciate for the inspiring story, i believe we can follow their story and think of how to expand our Airbnb listing :)
Weis-Ks0 in
Ipoh, Malaysia
Good and thanks
Helen427 in
@Diego-and-Mariana0
Beautiful spot to be living and sharing.
Where is the bed linen from?
Those bedspreads are nice, how do you keep them immaculate?
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Since her early years, Skylynn has appeared in Vine and Youtube videos of her famous half-brothers Nash Grier and Hayes Grier. She was so cute that even short appearances in the screen made her very popular. The little star is only 8 years old (2017), but she already has her numerous fan audience.
In 2014, her older brother Nash appeared with Skylynn in her first video Meet My Sister.
Uploading Vine videos, the girl had over 1 million of fans and followers till the time she reached 5 years old.
It’s hard to say yet what Skylynn’s religious beliefs are, because she’s too small. But her brother Nash is Christian. (Source: New York Magazine, 03/12/2014)
As we already mentioned, Skylynn Floyd is just too little, so long time will pass until we get to know about her sexual orientation. She’ll decide upon it when she grows up.
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“This Time Around” – Colour Picture Book
On September 22, 2018 September 21, 2018 By DanLisMusicIn Listen to this, Opinion, ReviewsLeave a comment
For a retro, bluesy, and soulful tune, check out "This Time Around" by Colour Picture Book.
“2pm For Breakfast” – TIMI TEMPLE
TIMI TEMPLE's flippant tune "2pm For Breakfast" is a delightful song about waking up in the afternoon and not giving a f*** about it.
“Celestial I” – AEONN
Don't be fooled--the dark, synthetic texture at the beginning of AEONN's composition "Celestial I" is just the beginning of the rich timbres to come.
“New Land” – Axel Rigaud
The fusion of jazz saxophone with electronics and synthetic percussion is the driving force behind Axel Rigaud's tune "New Land".
“Overexposed” – The Golden Leaves
"Overexposed" by The Golden Leaves is a punchy track that features a grooving, dark sound.
“All A Waste” – Ollie Thorpe
With rich and yet angular chords, and vocals that can really cut through a mix without being shrill, Ollie Thorpe's track "All A Waste" is emotive and fluid.
Elijah Bisbee – “Night”
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Elijah Bisbee's composition "Night" is a serene picture of the night landscape that many of us have stared fondly at.
Maximé – “De Droom”
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“Nebula” – Alessandro Paganelli
Alessandro Paganelli's work "Nebula" is a floating, atmospheric tune that is not an overdone film score--rather, it has moments of true delicacy, intimacy, and poise.
“Please Stay” – Maximilien
Maximilien's work "Please Stay" builds a powerful drive on an arpeggio, leading to a period of calm in the middle and ending with a cascade of sound. The result is idiosyncratic but marvelous.
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“Connector” – Airtime
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“Murmurings” – Android Invasion
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“In My Dreams” – Max DeVincenzo
Max DeVincenzo's new release "In My Dreams" is a lush, verdant landscape that is very carefully balanced in the mix, and very tight rhythmically.
“Hold On” – Caezar
"Hold On" by Caezar features a dance-like beat, fused with synths reminiscent of the 80s and Ed Sheeran-like voices. Unlike Mr. Sheeran, Caezar has a lighter, less boxy approach to its mixing, and the singing is lighter and less ornamented.
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Classic Scorecards: Pete Rose Passes Ty Cobb
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Pete celebrating his record breaking hit while standing on first base
Sixteen years before this date became a rallying cry it was fixed in my brain as the day that Pete Rose passed Ty Cobb for the most hits all time. On September 8th he tied Cobb at Wrigley field by going 2 for 5 on a day that he wasn’t even supposed to play. Late in his career Pete only batted left handed, and never faced left handed pitchers. On September 8th Cubs starter Steve Trout was supposed to take the hill. The night before his start he fell off his bicycle, and had to miss the start. That meant that Pete was in the lineup just two hits short of tying the record. I remember seeing this game on TV at my old house in town. Reggie Patterson started the game in place of Trout. Pete wasted no time by getting a hit in the first inning. He also picked up a hit in the 5th that tied Cobb for the most hits all time. Pete batted twice more in the game, and came up empty. The game was delayed for over two hours in the 8th, and finally suspended in after the ninth inning. It was declared an official game despite ending as a 5-5 tie. Pete did not play the next night in Cincinnati, and went 0-4 against Lamarr Hoyt on the 10th to set up the big night. Continue reading →
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Ryan Kerrigan is now a Washington Redskin
Ryan Kerrigan pestering Denard Robinson
During his time at Purdue Ryan was very fun to watch. He left with a lot of records, but he really seemed to do it the right way as well. How he flew under the radar during the recruiting process is a great reason why I don’t follow recruiting. One of the best defensive ends ever at Purdue was not really highly thought of as a recruit. He was highly thought of when he left though as he was drafted 16th overall by the Washington Redskins tonight. It will be fun to watch him represent Purdue well in the NFL. Continue reading →
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…And Then Lose Game Two of the Doubleheader
Matt Jackson warms up prior to the game
The Silverhawks were not so lucky in the second game of the doubleheader. The offense never got going, and they were shutout again. The Tincaps scored the same two runs that they scored in the first game, but this time got the W. This game was hard to watch as a Hawks fan. They led off the game with a double by Mike Freeman in the first, and added a triple by Chris Jarrett in the second, but could not get another hit. That was due to a strong pitching performance by Matt Jackson. He pitched five innings only giving up the two hits and striking out five.
Closer Adam Dominick warms up before going in the game
The Tincaps relievers were good as well. Yefri Carvajal pitched a scoreless 8th, and Adam Dominick pitched a scoreless ninth to close out the game. Not only did they not give up a run, they did not give up a hit.
Silverhawks pitching coach Wellington Cepeda makes a mound visit to talk to J.R. Bradley during Saturday's game
This was my third trip to the Cove this season, and the third time I have seen J.R. Bradley pitch for the Silverhawks. Sadly it was also the third time I have seen him lose as well. He really did not pitch badly. He just didn’t have the defense behind him yesterday. If you can to almost six innings only giving up two runs you should have a shot at the win. He did not though.
Zach Walters flips the ball to Mike Freeman in between innings
This game will be remembered by me more for the weird top of the sixth inning than anything else. I had three Silverhawk errors on my scoresheet, but the official scorer only gave them two. The inning started with an error by Silverhawks third baseman Matt Helm. After a fly out to left Wande Olabisi hit a ball to second baseman Zach Walters who was near the bag. After a moment of indecision he flipped the ball to shortstop Mike Freeman who was on the bag. The ball was wide of the bag, and hit off the edge of Freeman’s mitt. I gave Walters an error on the throw. Reading the official log of the game I see where it was just scored a fielder’s choice with no error given. To me that is a play that should be made. In my mind the batter gets a fielder’s choice, and the runner that was on first before the hit only makes it to second because of the error. I kept my sheet how I had it. I am way too easy usually when it comes to giving errors, but this definitely was one. Another error by Helm allowed the second run of the game to score. This was rough for Bradley who was pulled after the third error of the inning, but when he received no run support from his team it would not have mattered.
During the game a ball was hit by Zach Walters just a section over to my right. A grown man took the ball from right in front of a little girl after it landed. I went many years without getting a ball at a game, but I would never take one from a kid. The little girl moved over a section and started crying just a few rows behind me. A Silverhawk usher made his way through the construction zone to try and find a ball he knew was hit there earlier in the game. He found the ball and surprised the little girl with it. That made here day, and showed once again why I love going to games at the Cove. He went out of his way to make her happy. They really are trying to give the fans the best experience possible. If you have the time make your way out to the Cove to see what they are doing this year.
Here are some of the pictures that did not make the main portion of the post:
Roberto Rodriguez pounds a ball into the dirt. The Silverhawks had a rough time getting good wood on the ball in game two
Ramon Castillo is easily thrown out at second after a failed hit and run
Rabbits love carrots
Here are my scorecards for game two:
The Tincaps game two scoresheet
The game two scoresheet for the Silverhawks
Posted in Arizona Diamondbacks, Baseball, Fort Wayne Tincaps, Midwest League, Minor League Baseball, San Diego Padres, South Bend Silverhawks. Tagged Fort Wayne TinCaps, Matt Helm, South Bend Silverhawks, Zach Walters
I Finally Get to See the Silverhawks Get a Win…
The young fans ready to attack the eggs on the field prior to the game
This was my fourth Silverhawks game of the year, and the first time that I saw them win. I really wanted to go because it was a beautiful day, and besides that it was another doubleheader. When I walked into the stadium I realized that I may have made a mistake. On the way in I saw a young kid crying, and his mother up in arms over how they were charging to get into the game. Because of the charge her daughter would not be able to attend the Easter Egg hunt. Of course we all know that you have to pay to get into games, or at least I thought everyone did. The field was full of kids when I sat down, and then I realized that I was about to be surrounded by them. I moved as far towards the left field wall as I could, and had a peaceful Saturday. Continue reading →
Posted in Arizona Diamondbacks, Baseball, Fort Wayne Tincaps, Midwest League, Minor League Baseball, San Diego Padres, South Bend Silverhawks. Tagged Fort Wayne TinCaps, Midwest League, South Bend, South Bend Indiana, South Bend Silverhawks, Stanley Coveleski Regional Stadium
This Week’s Promotions: 4/25-5/1
After a few weeks of good promotions to start the season things begin to slow down next week. I actually did not find anything for Tuesday even. As the Independent Leagues start up in late May things will pick up again.
Monday 4/25:
Chicago Cubs – Cubs washed cap
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Classic Scorecards: 1965 World Series Game 7
Last summer I read a great book about Dodgers Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy. In the book she detailed just how bad Koufax was hurting near the end of his career. She really went into detail about the 1965 season, and how much pain he must have been in every time he took the hill. The Dodgers tried to protect him by going to a five man rotation. Of course today this seems normal. After throwing a complete game in Spring Training his arm turned black and swelled up. He was told that he would be lucky to pitch once a week, and that he would eventually loose the use of his arm. Newspapers were predicting the demise of Sandy. Of course he went on to throw 335 innings and strike out a record 382 men. He also led the league in wins and ERA. He also threw a perfect game in September. I guess pain is what you make it. When asked about throwing in pain Koufax just said “my heroism is greatly overstated.” With this in mind it makes it even more improbable that Koufax was pitching in game seven against the Twins. He sat out game one because it fell on Yom Kippur. He the pitched game two, and lost to Jim Kaat. With the series tied at two he pitched a complete game shutout in game 5. With his arm troubles many would have predicted that this was the last time Koufax would pitch in 1965. The Dodgers had another great arm on full rest in Don Drysdale so he would probably get the ball. Manager Walter Alston rolled the dice though and put Koufax on the mound on only two days rest. Continue reading →
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Vojko Zadkovic
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Bachelor of Business Administration, Specialized for Catering and Tourism (4 years)
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I was born 70 years ago in Croatia and had a very interesting life. My father fled the Communist regime in 1956 to Germany and I, my mother and sisters were permitted to join him in 1958, I lived and went to school in Germany for 6 years and later worked another 5 years there, I finished my high school and university in Croatia and worked for 4 years in a travel agency. Then I had the opportunity to go to Nautical college in Bakar/Croatia and acquired the license of a Captain in the Mediterranean and Fist Mate worldwide. I sailed worldwide for 11 years on Croatian and Swiss vessels and worked in Libya and Algeria as a port Captain for my shipowners for 4 years. In the meantime I had married and have 2 children, a son and a daughter. By the late 1980 politics in former Yugoslavia became too violent and I applied and emigrated to Canada. It was a difficult start as for most immigrants initially, but I got a job with the Federal Government as Toronto Airport and have done very well here in Canada and enjoy my life very much, including to continue working as a tour guide.
University of Rijeka, Diploma 1st degree Economist Specialized for Tourism and Catering
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ASUS Claim Triple Threat With PadFone
By Mike Wheeler
Smartphone turns into tablet
Comes in at just under $1000
Has Ice Cream Sandwich operating system
ASUS has launched its PadFone, which is an all-in-one Android device that acts as a smartphone, a tablet and can be converted into a netbook.
A ‘triple threat’, the 4.3-inch PadFone (smartphone), features a 9.2 millimetre profile that fits into the back of the 10.1-inch PadFone Station (tablet/pad), which can then be plugged into the optional keyboard dock to experience the ASUS PadFone as a netbook.
ASUS devised the PadFone to eliminate issues experienced by smartphone and tablet owners. Offering one-stop storage and shared 3G network access, the smartphone provides the processing power and storage of the PadFone. Users will not need to sync data between devices and only require one data plan, and eliminating the use for wifi connectivity.
Equipped with the latest Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system and Qualcomm’s fourth generation Snapdragon S4 8260A Dual-Core 1.5 GHz processor, the ASUS PadFone also has a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED capacitive multi-touch panel with 540×960 screen resolution and pixel density of 256ppi, while the PadFone Station has a 10.1-inch WXGA 1280×800 TFT capacitive touchscreen.
Both the PadFone and PadFone Station displays feature scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass with HCLR film. ASUS’ DynamicDisplay technology is said to ensure seamless transitions when switching between phone and pad modes, automatically adjusting display layout and continuing content when the PadFone is placed in the PadFone Station.
It includes 32GB internal eMMC flash storage with an additional free 32GB ASUS Webstorage for three years. A microSD expansion slot also allows users to further the PadFone’s memory, currently up to 32GB with a software update in the near future offering up to 64GB. Achieve more with the PadFone’s 1520 mAh Lithium battery that supplies up to 63 hours of extended talk time. Charge the PadFone via the PadFone Station dock for expanded usage and up to 102 hours of extended talk time. Answering telephone calls in pad mode is made easier with the included nifty Bluetooth Stylus pen which doubles as a headset, complete with vibration and LED light indicator for incoming calls. The Bluetooth Stylus even has a reminder alarm that sounds when it is left behind, up to 10 metres away from the PadFone.
This device is fitted with an 8 megapixel camera, back-illuminated CMOS sensor, F2.2 aperture and 5-element lens for photography and HD 1080p video recording under low light conditions. Tuned by ASUS audio specialists, the PadFone Station’s sound output transmits audio through its built-in speakers.
Cased in a shield of coffee coloured concentric circles, the design is derived from the concept of Zen – merging traditional thought and culture with the newest, most advanced technology that is the very essence of Zen. A smart sleeve houses the entire PadFone package – the PadFone, PadFone Station and Bluetooth Stylus, which includes a SIM card slot, a holder for the stylus pen and a cleverly hidden cleaning cloth in the sleeve. Additionally, the versatile sleeve can be tilted at a low angle for typing and a high angle for reading and viewing.
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The BASH Bug and You — Lessons in Providing Patches
24 Sep 2014 | 2014
There is a truism in information security, and it is that everything will eventually be found to be vulnerable.
I believe the lesson here should be, ‘plan to patch.’ It is tragically common in the embedded device space that vendors don’t take this advice. There is still an awful lot of embedded industrial control systems equipment being manufactured today which has no way to even apply update.
Today’s big news story in the infosec space is the ‘Bash bug’. In a nutshell, the bash bug is a mistake in command-line processing. A lot of embedded industrial control components will end up being affected. Basically, any industrial control system that runs embedded Linux, and which features a protocol that ends up calling GNU utilities will likely be vulnerable. Primarily the vulnerability will affect webservers that allow configuring and reading interesting information from a device, and protocols such as potentially CoDeSys which may end up calling other applications by using a shell for some vendor’s products.
Legally speaking, any control system vendor which sells a device running GNU software has to provide a notice with the device informing the end user what software is in use (and that the source code to said software is available from the vendor). Unfortunately not all vendors play nice by providing this notice. The only real way to know what is vulnerable is to test it.
Digital Bond Labs has a nice test environment with a variety of equipment in various forms of hackedness. One such device is Wago’s 758-870 series PLC. The product runs Linux and includes a version of bash that is vulnerable, as demonstrated above. It also runs an embedded webserver which executes cgi scripts (even calling execve() during some webapp command executions), so we will likely find a way to exploit the bash bug on these systems. Although, this system already has documented backdoor accounts, and Wago has already decided that they will not produce firmware updates for this product, so exploiting the bug here really has no point.
I think that the lessons we can draw from both the Bash Bug and Heartbleed is simply that vendors need to consider security upgrades in their product design. Bugs such as the Bash Bug provide a potential way to gain command-line access to some of these embedded systems. This access may be the only thing preventing unauthorized access to or even unauthorized cloning of a vendor’s product. Vendors owe it to themselves to protect their intellectual property, and owe it to customers to provide patches when the inevitable happens.
Be sure that whatever product you are rolling out to your control systems environment can at least have upgrade applied. Worrying about when you can apply a patch is a much better problem than worrying whether your IDS/IPS rule can be evaded because the patch will never come.
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Fedde Le Grand And Dannic Vs. CoCo Star – Coco’s Miracle (Original Mix)
by: Chad Downs Aug 30, 2017
Dance music legend Fedde Le Grand has re-cemented his all-star status in the global dance scene with “Coco’s Miracle,” a mash up of sorts, released on none other than Spinnin’ Records. “Coco’s Miracle” takes hard-hitting percussion and mallet instruments, constructing a deep house single with it, creating a sensual experience with the vocal paired with the beat.
The track is also a rework of sorts of Coco Star’s seminal track”I Need A Miracle,” released in 1996. Star has been in a protracted and shady legal better to regain control of the the topline almost since the song’s release, with Le Grand’s rework a measure of support for the embattled artist.
Says Fedde,
“It’s been amazing to have the opportunity to rework this iconic vocal, giving Coco the credits she deserves. I’ve always loved the vocal and I’m so happy with the versions Daan and I’ve been able to create. It’s a smash on the floor and I love the Club Mix as the Original alike, there’s really something for everyone.”
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Tags: Coco Star, cocos miccle, dannic, Fedde Le Grand
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Legendary Signs Rights Deal With Frank Miller For ‘Sin City’ TV Series; Robert Rodriguez In Talks
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EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Television has closed an agreement with Frank Miller to turn his seminal Sin City franchise into a television series. A deal is close with Robert Rodriguez, which would reteam the duo that co-directed the stylish and memorable 2005 film.
Miller and Rodriguez are expected to be executive producers with Legendary Television. Also to produce is Stephen L’Heureux, a producer of the 2014 sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and Silenn Thomas, who heads Miller’s production company.
The deal on the table is for Legendary to guarantee a first season of the show, contingent on setting it up with a network or streaming platform. The deal with Miller also calls for a hard-R animated series for a Sin City prequel based on Miller’s graphic novels.
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Frank Miller, left, and Robert Rodriguez in 2014 Agf/Shutterstock
The prospect of Miller and Rodriguez reteaming to creatively guide this anthology series ought to get fans excited. It is unclear whether they would co-direct. If you recall, when director Rodriguez set up the original movie, he felt that Miller’s visual sensibility in transferring his groundbreaking graphic novel creation to the screen was so vital to the film that he installed Miller as a co-director. Rodriguez even withdrew from the DGA when that guild refused to bless the union. The film received a Palme d’Or nomination at Cannes.
It’s the latest genre deal for Legendary, which recently set a deal for the Boom! Studios’ graphic novel Grass Kings, and the studio also received a series order from Amazon for Paper Girls, which Legendary is producing with Plan B.
Miller’s Sin City is a series of neo-noir comics that originally appeared in Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special and continued in Dark Horse Presents #51-62 from May 1991-June 1992 under the title of Sin City, serialized in 13 parts.
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Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus
Dr Helen Gordon, Dermatology Registrar, Greenlane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. DermNet NZ Editor in Chief: Adjunct A/Prof. Amanda Oakley, Dermatologist, Hamilton, New Zealand. Copy edited by Gus Mitchell. July 2019.
What is subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus?
Subacute cutaneous lupus (SCLE) is a subtype of cutaneous lupus erythematosus. It presents as a widespread non-scarring photosensitive rash.
Drug-induced subacute lupus erythematosus
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Who gets subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus?
SCLE affects about 10% of all lupus patients.
Patients can be of any age, sex, or ethnicity. However, it is more often diagnosed in middle-aged women.
In North America, it is more common in Caucasians than other ethnicities.
It can be associated with other diseases, including Sjögren syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn disease.
What causes subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus?
SCLE is due to genetic and environmental factors.
Genetic factors
SCLE is associated with a group of alleles called the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-A1, B8, DR3, DQ2, DRw52, C4null ancestral haplotypes. Other genetic associations include:
Deficiencies in the complement proteins C2 and C4
Polymorphisms in the TNF-alpha promoter gene.
Immune tolerance is lost, or autoimmunity develops through exposure to an environmental trigger, such as exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UV) light or photosensitising drugs.
Exposure to UV results in increased expression of the Ro/SS-A antigen on the surface of keratinocytes, binding the antibody and leading to the disease.
Up to 65% of cases of SCLE are drug-induced. The incubation time widely varies from a few days (such as in chemotherapy agents capecitabine and paclitaxel) to years before the onset of the rash (eg, a case was reported to arise five years after starting a thiazide diuretic).
The drugs most commonly associated with SCLE are:
Thiazide diuretics
Calcium channel blockers.
Other drugs which may cause SCLE include:
Anticholinesterase (ACE) inhibitors
Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibitors
Leflunomide
Inhaled tiotropium bromide
Naproxen.
What are the clinical features of subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus?
SCLE most often presents as a non-scarring papulosquamous eruption.
Typically, there are annular plaques with raised erythematous borders and central clearing.
The plaques coalesce to form polycyclic patterns.
They may or may not have an overlying scale.
Sometimes, there are peripheral vesicles, crusting, and bullae.
The rash is typically symmetrically distributed on the sun-exposed sites of the neck, the upper trunk, and the outer arms.
The face is usually unaffected.
Lesions resolve with post-inflammatory hypopigmentation; this re-pigments over time.
Other lupus-associated findings in patients with SLCE include:
Diffuse non-scarring alopecia (50%)
Livedo reticularis
Periungual telangiectasia.
Drug-induced lupus can be indistinguishable from the non-drug induced form of SCLE. Specific features of drug-induced SCLE include:
Being usually present in older patients
Association with a likely drug
Malar rash
Involvement of the leg
Bullous, targetoid, or vasculitic variants.
What are the complications of subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus?
Around 50% of patients with SCLE meet the American College of Rheumatology criteria for the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
A pregnant woman who are Ro/SS-A antibody positive has a risk of delivering an infant suffering from neonatal lupus erythematosus (8–10%) and congenital heart block (1–2%).
How is subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus diagnosed?
SCLE can be diagnosed clinically, supported by the results of blood tests and a skin biopsy.
Around 60% of patients with SCLE are ANA positive after conducting an antinuclear antibodies test (ANA test).
More than 80% are Ro/SS-A antibody positive.
La/SS-B antibodies, dsDNA, anti-histone, and Sm antibodies are less common.
Histology on biopsy can resemble other forms of cutaneous lupus.
There is a lymphocytic interface dermatitis with basal layer degeneration.
Epidermal atrophy and apoptotic keratinocytes are more prominent than in discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE).
Perivascular and periadnexal lymphocytic infiltrate, follicular plugging, basement membrane thickening, and dermal mucin are less prominent than in DLE.
Direct immunofluorescence reveals a granular deposition of IgG, IgM, and C3 along the dermal-epidermal junction in approximately two-thirds of patients (the lupus band test).
Drug-induced SCLE and non-drug induced SCLE cannot be distinguished on histology.
What is the differential diagnosis for subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus?
Differentials include other types of cutaneous lupus:
SLE.
Other skin conditions that may be considered include:
Erythema annulare centrifugum
Other forms of annular erythema
Tinea corporis.
What is the treatment for subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus?
Sun protection is crucial.
Seek shade when outdoors.
Wear covering, sun-protective clothing.
Apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen to uncovered areas.
Topical therapy
Topical therapy may include:
Topical calcineurin inhibitors (tacrolimus ointment and pimecrolimus cream).
Oral therapy
The main treatment for SCLE is an antimalarial drug, such as hydroxychloroquine. Antimalarials are less effective in smokers.
In approximately 25% of cases, another agent is required, such as:
Oral corticosteroid
Oral retinoid (acitretin or isotretinoin)
Mycophenolate
Thalidomide.
What is the outcome for subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus?
SCLE generally responds well to treatment, although it may flare up again each summer.
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THE COCA-COLA COMPANY ANALYSIS
1. COMPANY OVERVIEW
The Coca-Cola Company is currently the worlds largest beverage company. Coca-Cola
owns or licenses more than 400 brands, including diet and light beverages, waters, juice and
juice drinks, teas, coffees, sports and energy drinks. It has ownership interests in numerous
bottling and canning operations. Coca-Cola sells finished beverage products bearing the CocaCola trademarks in more than 200 countries. Examples of well-known brands they own include
Coke, Sprite, Fanta, Vitamin Water, Minute Maid, Bonaqua and Powerade. As December 31,
2006, Coca-Cola operated through eight segments: Africa; East, South Asia and Pacific Rim;
European Union Latin America; North America; North Asia, Eurasia and Middle East.
1.2 History and Growth
Coca-Cola originated as a soda fountain beverage in 1886 selling for five cents a glass.
Early growth was impressive, but it was only when a strong bottling system developed that
Coca-Cola became the world-famous brand it is today.
1894 A modest start for a Bold Idea
In a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi, brisk sales of the new fountain beverage called CocaCola impressed the store's owner, Joseph A. Biedenharn. He began bottling Coca-Cola to sell,
using a common glass bottle called a Hutchinson.
Biedenharn sent a case to Asa Griggs Candler, who owned the Company. Candler thanked him
but took no action. One of his nephews already had urged that Coca-Cola be bottled, but Candler
focused on fountain sales.
1899 The first bottling agreement
Two young attorneys from Chattanooga, Tennessee believed they could build a business around
bottling Coca-Cola. In a meeting with Candler, Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead
obtained exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola across most of the United States (specifically
excluding Vicksburg) -- for the sum of one dollar. A third Chattanooga lawyer, John T. Lupton,
soon joined their venture.
1900-1909 Rapid growth
The three pioneer bottlers divided the country into territories and sold bottling rights to local
entrepreneurs. Their efforts were boosted by major progress in bottling technology, which
improved efficiency and product quality. By 1909, nearly 400 Coca-Cola bottling plants were
operating, most of them family-owned businesses. Some were open only during hot-weather
months when demand was high.
1916 Birth of the contour bottle
Bottlers worried that the straight-sided bottle for Coca-Cola was easily confused with imitators.
A group representing the Company and bottlers asked glass manufacturers to offer ideas for a
distinctive bottle. A design from the Root Glass Company of Terre Haute, Indiana won
enthusiastic approval in 1915 and was introduced in 1916. The contour bottle became one of the
few packages ever granted trademark status by the U.S. Patent Office. Today, it's one of the most
recognized icons in the world - even in the dark!
1920s Bottling overtakes fountain sales
As the 1920s dawned, more than 1,000 Coca-Cola bottlers
were operating in the U.S. Their ideas and zeal fueled steady
growth. Six-bottle cartons were a huge hit after their 1923 introduction. A few years later, opentop metal coolers became the forerunners of automated vending machines. By the end of the
1920s, bottle sales of Coca-Cola exceeded fountain sales.
1920s and 30s International expansion
Led by longtime Company leader Robert W. Woodruff, chief executive officer and chairman of
the Board, the Company began a major push to establish bottling operations outside the U.S.
Plants were opened in France, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Belgium, Italy, Peru, Spain,
Australia and South Africa. By the time World War II began, Coca-Cola was being bottled in 44
countries.
1940s Post-war growth
During the war, 64 bottling plants were set up around the world to supply the troops. This
followed an urgent request for bottling equipment and materials from General Eisenhower's base
in North Africa. Many of these war-time plants were later converted to civilian use, permanently
enlarging the bottling system and accelerating the growth of the
Company's worldwide business.
1950s Packaging innovations
For the first time, consumers had choices of Coca-Cola package size and
type -- the traditional 6.5-ounce contour bottle, or larger servings including 10-, 12- and 26ounce versions. Cans were also introduced, becoming generally available in 1960.
1960s New brands introduced
Following Fanta in the 1950s, Sprite, Minute Maid, Fresca and TaB joined brand CocaCola in the 1960s. Mr. Pibb and Mello Yello were added in the 1970s. The 1980s brought diet
Coke and Cherry Coke, followed by POWERADE and DASANI in the 1990s. Today
hundreds of other brands are offered to meet consumer preferences in local markets around the
1970s and 80s Consolidation to serve customers
As technology led to a global economy, the retailers who sold Coca-Cola merged and evolved
into international mega-chains. Such customers required a new approach. In response, many
small and medium-size bottlers consolidated to better serve giant international customers. The
Company encouraged and invested in a number of bottler consolidations to assure that its largest
bottling partners would have capacity to lead the system in working with global retailers.
1990s New and growing markets
Political and economic changes opened vast markets that were closed or underdeveloped for
decades. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Company invested heavily to build plants in
Eastern Europe. And as the century closed, more than $1.5 billion was committed to new bottling
facilities in Africa.
The Coca-Cola bottling system grew up with roots deeply planted in local communities. This
heritage serves the Company well today as people seek brands that honor local identity and the
distinctiveness of local markets. As was true a century ago, strong locally based relationships
between Coca-Cola bottlers, customers and communities are the foundation on which the entire
business grows.
2. MISSION AND VISION STATEMENT
2.1 Current Mission
The world is changing all around us. To continue to thrive as a business over the next
ten years and beyond, we must look ahead, understand the trends and forces that will shape our
business in the future and move swiftly to prepare for what's to come. We must get ready for
tomorrow today. That's what our 2020 Vision is all about. It creates a long-term destination for
our business and provides us with a "Roadmap" for winning together with our bottling partners.
(The Coca-Cola Company, 2013).
Coca-Colas Roadmap starts with their mission, which is enduring. It declares their purpose as a
Company and serves as the standard against which they weigh their actions and decisions.
1. To refresh the world in body, mind and spirit
2. To inspire moments of optimism through our brands and our actions
3. To create value and make a difference everywhere we engage
2.2 Current Vision
Coca-Colas vision serves as the framework for their Roadmap and guides every aspect
of their business by describing what they need to accomplish in order to continue achieving
sustainable, quality growth.
People: Be a great place to work where people are inspired to be the best they can be.
Portfolio: Bring to the world a portfolio of quality beverage brands that anticipate and
satisfy people's desires and needs.
Partners: Nurture a winning network of customers and suppliers, together we create
mutual, enduring value.
Planet: Be a responsible citizen that makes a difference by helping build and support
sustainable communities.
Profit: Maximize long-term return to shareowners while being mindful of our overall
responsibilities.
Productivity: Be a highly effective, lean and fast-moving organization.
2.3 Current Objectives
The main objectives for the Coca-Cola Company are to be globally known as a business
that conducts business responsibility and ethically and to accelerate sustainable growth to operate
in tomorrows world. By having these objectives, it forms the foundation for companies in the
decision making process.
2.4 Current Strategies
The Coca-Cola Company aims to be globally known, they do this by targeting different
areas across the globe with different products, gaining their brand name and popularity. All the
bottling partners work closely with their customers such as convenience stores, grocery stores,
movie theaters and street vendors to create and use localized strategies developed in partnership
with the Company. Their competition with other beverage companies are also narrowed down as
they own various brands that could be possible competition. For example, the Company sells
Coke without the competition of other popular soft drink brands like Sprite and Fanta because
the Company owns those brands as well. The Company often reviews and evaluates their
business plans and performance to improve their earnings and analyze their competitive position
in the market. They make decisions in realigning their business models to match the objectives of
the Company by using strategies and tactics in the analysis of their performance.
2.5 Improved Mission statements
(a) At Coca-Cola we're committed to achieving business and financial success while leaving
a positive imprint on society delivering what we call Performance with Purpose.
(b) Our mission is to be the world's premier consumer Products Company focused on
convenient foods and beverages. We seek to produce financial rewards to in8vestors as
we provide opportunities for growth and enrichment to our employees, our business
partners and the communities in which we operate. And in everything we do, we strive
for honesty, fairness and integrity.
2.6 Improved Vision statements
(a) The Coca-Cola Company responsibility is to continually improve all aspects of the world
in which we operate environment, social, economic creating a better tomorrow than
today."
(b) Our vision is put into action through programs and a focus on environmental stewardship,
activities to benefit society, and a commitment to build shareholder value by making
Coca-Cola Company a truly sustainable company.
Why it is improved:
It is our vision to be the best and leading provider of food and beverage (F&B) products
in the world, to facilitate the people and we emphasis on consumer rather more than competitors.
We are among the top ten food and beverage companies in the world by continually challenging
present conventions and always staying a step ahead of the competition.
It is our mission to be the number one F&B company in the world by providing our
customers with the highest product quality in terms of taste, experience, and satisfaction. We will
ensure this through an unwavering dedication to the continuous development of our products and
processes ensuring that we remain best in class. We will strive to hire the most competent and
dedicated employees whose work ethic will set the standard in the industry.
paymasters, as we strongly believe that human resource is the only asset that truly appreciates
over time. We will also be a responsible social corporate citizen, and strive to enhance the
quality of life in the markets we serve.
3. SITUATION ANALYSIS
3.1 External assessment
3.1.1 Opportunities
It is highly difficult for the new entrants to enter in the soft drink industry because of
some factors such as brand image and loyalty, bottling network, advertising expense, retail
distribution and fear of retaliation. Coke has significant opportunities within global supply
chain to encourage and develop more sustainable practices to benefit consumers, customers and
suppliers. While, it is still in the premature stages of exploring these opportunities and dedicated
to the economic vitality and health of the farming communities our supply chain engages.
Coke can diminish the fear of substitute by diversifying (related or unrelated) by offering
substitute products. Focusing on its advertising and differentiation can increase its profits. Coke
promotes and support sustainable agriculture not only because it makes good business sense.
World population is expected to grow at 8 billion 2025, and 9.2 billion by 2050. Nearly
99% growth will take place in developing countries. Changing consumer lifestyle; by becoming
health conscious and preferring substitute products. Coke can relatively diversify and offering
health conscious products.
Bottled water consumption in increasing day by day, 11 percent growth is reported.
Pepsi is the major and primary rival of the Coca-Cola in the soft drink industry, Pepsi is
2nd in revenue behind the Coca-Cola, and also hit Coca-Cola in some markets. Its primary
competitor PepsiCo is highly diversified by providing big range of food products.
Coca-Cola also faces the tough competition from local brands in all over world such as
in Central and South America Kola Real also known as Big Cola in Mexico is giving tough
competition to Coca-Cola etc.
Large numbers of substitutes are available in the market such as water, tea, juices coffee
Coca-Cola is facing different regulations and policies set by government in different
Low growth rate in carbonated drinks, which is recorded less than one percent in primary
market of Coca-Cola.
Changing consumer lifestyle; by becoming health conscious and preferring substitute
products. Different studies has been conducted and found other drinks and Coke harmful if
consumed excessively.
Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM)
A competitive profile matrix (CPM) categorizes a firms main rivals and its particular
strengths and weaknesses in relation to a design firms strategic position. In CPM, an
organization assess itself as well its rivals by giving rating and weights to the critical/key success
factors. It then recognizes its strategic competitive place with its major rivals. A firm which
obtains superior weighted points would have the stronger competitive place than its rivals. We
will be using weighted rating system for the construction of CPM. Some of the important steps
involved in the construction of CPM are given below:
1. In the first column, list down all the key success factors of Coca-Cola (usually from 6
to 10).
2. In the second column, assign weights to each factor ranging from 0.0 (not important) to
1 (most important). Greater weights should be given to those factors which have greater
influence on the organizational performance. The sum of all weights must equal 1.
3. Now rate each factor ranging from 1 to 4 for all the firms in analysis. Here, rating 1
represents major weakness, rating 2 shows minor weakness. Similarly, rating 3 indicates
minor strength whereas rating 4 shows major strength. It means that weakness must
receive 1 or 2 rating while strength must get 3 or 4 rating.
4. Calculate weighted score by multiplying each factors score by its rating.
5. Find the total weighted score of all the firms by adding the weighted scores for each
variable.
Competitive Profile Matrix of Coca-Cola Company
The competitiveness of a Company can be assessed on the basis of its general strength rating. If
the dissimilarity among firms overall rating and the points of lower-rated rivals is greater than
the firm has greater net competitive advantage. Alternatively, if the dissimilarity among a firms
overall rating and the points of higher-rated rivals is larger than the Company has net competitive
Conclusion: In the above matrix, it demonstrates that Coca-Cola is the market leader and
dominates its rivals with highest points of 3.74. Pepsi is the runner up with 3.42 points and
Cadbury Schweppes is the weakest rival among these three with the score of 2.80. This Matrix
also shows that Coca-Cola is strong in all the aspects of rivalry and has strong position in the
market place.
External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix
External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix is a strategic-management device which is
frequently use for evaluation of current business environment. The EFE Matrix is a superior
instrument to prioritize and visualize the opportunities and threats that a Company is facing. An
external factor in the EFE Matrix comes from social, political, legal, economic and other external
The EFE Matrix can be developed in five steps:
1. In the first column, lists down all the opportunities and threats. EFE matrix should
include 10 to 20 key external factors as identified in the external-audit process.
2. In the second column assign weights to each factor that ranges from 0.0 (not important)
to 1 (most important). The total weights must sum up to 1.00 (It should be noted that the
importance of weights depend upon the probable impact of factors on the strategic
position of the Company).
3. In the column three, rate each factor (ranging from 1 to 4) on the basis of Companys
response to that factor. (Here, 1 shows poor response, 2 shows average response, 3 shows
above average response and 4 shows superior response).
4. In the column four, calculate the weighted score by multiplying the each factors weight
by its rating.
5. Sum the weighted scores for each variable to determine the total weighted score.
External Factor Evaluation Matrix of Coca-Cola Company
By adding the weighted score of various opportunities and threats of Coca-Cola Company, we
get the total weighted score of 3.05. Here it should be noted that the highest possible total
weighted score of a firm is 4 whereas the lowest possible total weighted score is 1. The total
weighted score remains in the limit of 1 to 4 regardless of the total number of opportunities and
threats. Similarly, the average total weighted score is 2.5. If the total weighted score of a
Company is 4, it means that the Company is effectively taking advantage of existing
opportunities and is also able to minimize the risk. On the other hand, the total weighted score of
1 show that firm is not able to take advantage of current opportunities or avoid external threats.
Conclusion: In the case of Coca-Cola Company, the total weighted score is above average, which
means that the Coca-Cola Company strategies are effective and the Company is taking advantage
of existing opportunities along with minimizing the potential adverse effects of external threats.
3.2 Internal assessment
3.2.1 Strengths
Worlds leading brand Coca-Cola has strong brand recognition across the globe. The
company has a leading brand value and a strong brand portfolio. Coca-Cola is one of the leading
brands in their top 100 global brands ranking in 2006. The value of the Coca-Cola was $67,000
million in 2006. Coca-Cola ranks well ahead of its close competitor Pepsi which has a ranking of
22 having a brand value of $12,690 million. Furthermore, Coca-Cola owns a large portfolio of
product brands. The company owns four of the top five soft drink brands in the world: CocaCola, Diet Coke, Sprite and Fanta. Strong brands allow the company to introduce brand
extensions such as Vanilla Coke, Cherry Coke and Coke with Lemon. Over the years, the
company has made large investments in brand promotions. Consequently, Coca-Cola is one of
the best recognized global brands. The companys strong brand value facilitates customer recall
and allows Coca-Cola to penetrate new markets and consolidate existing ones. Coca-Cola
Company has a large scale of operation with revenues in excess of $24 billion. Coca-Cola is the
largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups
in the world. Coco-Cola is selling trademarked beverage products since the year 1886 in the US.
The company currently sells its products in more than 200 countries. Of the approximately 52
billion beverage servings of all types consumed worldwide every day, beverages bearing
trademarks owned by or licensed to Coca-Cola account for more than 1.4 billion. The companys
operations are supported by a strong infrastructure across the world. Coca-Cola owns and
operates 32 principal beverage concentrates and/or syrup manufacturing plants located
throughout the world. In addition, it owns or has interest in 37 operations with 95 principal
beverage bottling and canning plants located outside the US. The company also owns bottled
water production and still beverage facilities as well as a facility that manufactures juice
concentrates. The companys large scale of operation allows it to feed upcoming markets with
relative ease and enhances its revenue generation capacity. Robust revenue growth in three
segments Coca-Colas revenues recorded a double digit growth, in three operating segments.
These three segments are Latin America, East, South Asia, and Pacific Rim and Bottling
investments. Revenues from Latin America grew by 20.4% during fiscal 2006, over 2005.
During the same period, revenues from East, South Asia, and Pacific Rim grew by 10.6% while
revenues from the bottling investments segment by 19.9%. Together, the three segments of Latin
America, East, South Asia, and Pacific Rim and bottling investments accounted for 34.8% of
total revenues during fiscal 2006. Robust revenues growth rates in these segments contributed to
top-line growth for Coca-Cola during 2006.
Company received negative publicity in India during September 2006. The Company
was accused by the Center for Science and Environment (CSE) of selling products containing
pesticide residues. Coca-Cola products sold in and around the Indian national capital region
contained a hazardous pesticide residue. These pesticides included chemicals which could cause
cancers, damage the nervous and reproductive systems and reduce bone mineral density. Such
negative publicity could adversely impact the companys brand image and the demand for CocaCola products. This could also have an adverse impact on the companys growth prospects in the
international markets. Sluggish performance in North America Coca-Colas performance in
North America was far from robust. North America is Coca-Colas core market generating about
30% of total revenues during fiscal 2006. Therefore, a strong performance in North America is
important for the company.
Summary in points:
1. The Coca-Cola Company operates in over 200 countries and product line has over 400 brands
is the worlds largest beverage Company.
2. Long history has built excellent brand recognition.
3. Partnership longevity with established sporting events including the Olympics.
4. Industry leader in market capitalization with $112 billion.
5. Return on Equity yielded 30 percent in 2006.
6. Leader of dividend yields of 2.6 percent. The Company has had 43 consecutive years of an
annual dividend increase.
7. Joint venture between The Coca-Cola Company and Nestle has resulted in the establishment
of Beverage Partners Worldwide (BPW).
8. Coca-Cola has formed a strong partnership with McDonalds, with McDonalds becoming their
largest customer.
1. Product line is limited to beverages.
2. A failed $16 billion acquisition of Quaker Oats hinders long-term growth.
3. Negative publicity in India because of water issues has led to poor brand image and hindered
growth there.
4. Lack of management willingness to place foreign products into American markets.
5. Marketing deficiencies due to turnover in leadership and a 16 percent decrease in advertising
spending.
6. Coca-Colas inventory turnover is only 5.4 compared to PepsiCos 8.0.
Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) Matrix
Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) Matrix is a strategic management instrument for
assessing main strengths and weaknesses in useful areas of a Company. IFE matrix also gives a
foundation for recognizing and assessing associations among those parts. The IFE matrix is
utilized in strategy formulation. Steps in the construction of IFE Matrix are given below:
1. In the first column, lists down all the strengths and weaknesses. IFE matrix should
include 10 to 20 key internal factors.
2. In the second column, assign weights to each factor ranging from 0.0 (not important) to 1
(most important). Greater weights should be given to those internal factors which gave
greater influence on the organizational performance. The sum of all weights must equal 1
3. In the third column, rate each factor ranging from 1 to 4. Here, rating 1 represents major
weakness, rating 2 shows minor weakness. Similarly, rating 3 indicates minor strength
whereas rating 4 shows major strength. It means that weakness must receive 1 or 2 rating
while strength must get 3 or 4 rating.
4. In the fourth column, calculate weighted score by multiplying each factors score by its
rating.
5. Find the total weighted score by adding the weighted scores for each variable.
Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix of Coca-Cola Company
The total weighted score ranges from 1 to 4 (where 1 is low, 4 is high and 2.5 is average)
regardless of the total number of internal factors used in the analysis. If the total weighted score
is less than 2.5 it indicates that the organization is weak internally. On the other hand, the scores
above 2.5 show strong internal position. An internal factor could be included twice in the IFE
matrix if the factor is both strength and weakness.
Conclusion: In case of Coca-Cola Company, the total weighted score is above than average, it
means that the Company is strong internally.
4. STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
4.1 Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT) Matrix
Business owner's challenge is to create products and services the customer values and the
means to produce and deliver those products and services in ways that are exceptional compared
to the competition. To address these challenges, a company must define business objectives and
address operational issues based on its current situation and the factors that impact its financial
and operational goals. Such decision-making processes are frequently supported by structured
brainstorming, which, in turn, can be supported by a SWOT Matrix.
The advantages of the SWOT methodology, such as its appropriateness to address a variety of
business issues, make it a desirable tool to support some brainstorming sessions.
However, to significantly impact company performance, business decisions must be based on
reliable, relevant and comparable data. SWOT data collection and analysis entail a subjective
process that reflects the bias of the individuals who collect the data and participate in the
brainstorming session. In addition, the data input to the SWOT analysis can become outdated
fairly quickly.
- Popularity
SWOT Matrix of Coca-Cola
- Word of mouth
- Well known
- Lack of popularity of many Coca-
- Branding obvious and easily
Colas brands
- Most unknown and rarely seen
- A lot of finance
- Result of low profile or non-existent
- Customer loyalty
- International Trade
- Changing health-consciousness
- Health issues
- Many successful brands to pursue
- Advertise its less popular products
External - Legal issues
- Health ministers
- Buy-out competition.
- More Brand recognition
- Competition (Pepsi)
Strengths: Coca-Cola is an extremely recognizable Company. Popularity is one of its superior
strengths that is virtually incomparable. Coca-Cola is known very well worldwide. It's branding
is obvious and easily recognized. Things like, logos and promos shown on t-shirts, hats, and
collectible memorabilia. Without a doubt, no beverage Company compares to Coca-Cola's social
popularity status. Some people buy coke, not only because of its taste, but because it is widely
accepted and they feel like they are part of something so big and unifying. At the other end of the
spectrum, certain individuals choose not to drink coke, based solely on rebelling from the
world's idea that coke is something of such great power. Overwhelming is the best word to
describe Coca-Cola's popularity. It is scary to think that its popularity has been constantly
growing over the years and the possibility that there is still room to grow. If you speak the words
Coca-Cola, it would definitely be recognized all around the world. Money is another thing that
is a strength of the Company. Coca-Cola deals with massive amounts of money all year. Like all
businesses, they have had their ups and downs financially, but they have done well in this
compartment and will continue to do well and improve. The money they are earning is
substantially better than most beverage companies, and with that money, they put back into their
own Company so that they can improve. Another strength that is very important to Coca-Cola is
customer loyalty. The 80/20 rule comes into effect in this situation. Eighty percent of their profit
comes from 20% of their loyal customers. Many people/families are extremely loyal to CocaCola. It would not be rare to constantly find bottles and cases of a product such as coke in a
house. It seems that some people would drink coke religiously like some people would drink
water and milk. This is an improbable feat. Customers will continually purchase these products,
and will probably do so for a very long time. If two parents were avid Coca-Cola drinkers, this
will be passed down do their children as they grow loyal to the Company. With Coca-Colas
ability to sell their product all over the world, customers will continue to buy what they know
and what they likeCoca-Cola products.
Weaknesses: Coca-Cola is a very successful Company, with limited weaknesses. However they
do have a variety of weaknesses that need to be addressed if they want to rise to the next level.
Word of mouth is probably a strength and weakness of every Company. While many people have
good things to say, there are many individuals who are against Coca-Cola as a Company, and the
products in which they produce. Word of mouth unfortunately is something that is very hard to
control. While people will have their opinions, you have to try to sway their negative views. If
bad comments and views are put out to people who have yet to try Coca-Cola products, then that
could produce a lost customer which shows why word of mouth is a weakness. Another aspect
that could be viewed as a weakness is the lack of popularity of many of Coca-Colas drinks.
Many drinks that they produce are extremely popular such as Coke and Sprite but this Company
has approximately 400 different drink types. Most are unknown and rarely seen for available
purchase. These drinks do not probably taste bad, but are rather a result of low profile or nonexistent advertising. This is a weakness that needs to be looked at when analyzing their
Company. Another weakness that has been greatly publicized is the health issues that surround
some of their products. It is known that a popular product like coke is not very beneficial to your
body and your health. With todays constant shift to health products, some products could
possibly loose customers. This new focus on weight and health could be a problem for the
product that are labeled detrimental to your health.
Opportunities: Coca-Cola has a few opportunities in its business. It has many successful brands
that it should continue to exploit and pursue. Coca-Cola also has the opportunity to advertise its
less popular products. With a large income it has the available money to put some of these other
beverages on the market. This could be very beneficial to the Company if they could start selling
these other products to the same extent that they do with their main products. Another
opportunity that we have seen being put to use before is the ability for Coca-Cola to buy out their
competition. This opportunity rarely presents itself in the world of business. However, with
Coca-Colas power and success, such a task is not impossible. Coca-Cola has bought out a
countless number of drink brands. An easy way to turn their profit into your profit is too buy out
their Company. Even though this may cost a vast amount of money initially, in the long run, if all
goes to plan, it results in a large profit. Also, the Company will no longer need to worry about
this product being part of the competition. Brand recognition is the significant factor affecting
Cokes competitive position. Coca-Cola is known well throughout 90% of the world population
today. Now Coca-Cola wants to get there brand name known even better and possibly get closer
and closer to 100%. It is an opportunity that most companies will ever dream of, and would be a
supreme accomplishment. Coca-Cola has an opportunity to continue to widen the gap between
them and their competitors.
Threats: Despite the fact that Coca-Cola dominates its market, it still has to deal with many
threats. Even though Coca-Cola and Pepsi control nearly 40% of the entire beverage market, the
changing health-consciousness attitude of the market could have a serious effect on Coca-Cola.
This definitely needs to be viewed as a dominant threat. In todays world, people are constantly
trying to change their eating and drinking habits. This could directly affect the sale of CocaColas products. Another possible issue is the legal side of things. There are always issues with a
Company of such supreme wealth and popularity. Somebody is always trying to find fault with
the best and take them down. Coca-Cola has to be careful with lawsuits. Health minister could
also be looked at as a threat. Again, some people may try to exploit the unhealthy side of CocaColas products and could threaten the status and success of sales. Other threats are of course the
competition. Coca-Colas main competition being Pepsi, sells a very similar drink. Coca-Cola
needs to be careful that Pepsi does not grow to be a more successful drink. Other product such as
juices, coffee, and milk are threats. These other beverage options could take precedent in some
peoples minds over Coca-Colas beverages and this could threaten the potential success it
presents again.
4.2 Strategic Position and Action Evaluation (SPACE) Matrix
The Strategic Position and Action Evaluation (SPACE) Matrix is one of the important
tools to assess the company and its environment.
It is relatively easy to understand and use method as a decision aid. It has four quadrants and
each quadrant indicates which strategy a firm should adopt i.e. competitive, aggressive,
conservative, or defensive in a current position. These four dimensions are the most important
determinants of a firms overall strategic position. Each dimension holds many factors from
EFE, IFE, and SWOT Analysis etc.
However, as pointed out by Radder and Loew, there are some drawbacks in the method. For
example: While the method is applied, the factors included in each dimension are considered of
equal importance. Whilst the factors may be considered of equal importance (as a hypothesis)
one has to take into consideration the fact that most of the time, the factors under each dimension
does not have equal weights. Hence, the final result may show some differences and this will
affect the outcome of the method, i.e. the appropriate strategy of the company under evaluation.
Strategic Position and Action Evaluation Matrix of Coca-Cola
SPACE Matrix calculations
ES Average Score = -1.83 + Average FS Score (+5.00) = +3.17
CA Average Score = -1.50 + Average IS Score (+5.00) = +3.50
According to the graph above, we noticed that the Coca-Cola Company falls into the aggressive
quadrant of the SPACE matrix. It is located at the coordinates of +3.50 for x-component and a ycomponent of +3.17. It shows that the company has an admirable position to use its IS in order
to take advantage of external opportunities, overcome weaknesses, and avoid threats.
Conclusion: In this position Coca-Cola has set of possible strategies such as market
development, product development, market penetration, forward integration, backward
integration, horizontal integration, horizontal diversification, concentric diversification and
conglomerate diversification depending on detailed conditions that face the company.
4.3 Grand Strategy Matrix (GSM)
Grand Strategy Matrix is famous tool for alternative strategies in addition to SPACE
Matrix, and SWOT Matrix. All the firms can fall one of the GSMs four strategy quadrants.
GSM evaluation is based on two dimensions i.e. market growth and competitive position. Each
quadrant provides the set of possible strategies in which company falls such as quadrant 2
contains market development, market penetration, horizontal integration, divestiture, and
liquidation strategies. Quadrant 3 contains the set of retrenchment, related diversification,
divestiture, unrelated diversification and liquidation strategies. Quadrant 4 contains the set of
diversification, joint ventures and unrelated diversification strategies.
The model allows better implementation of strategy because of the intensified focus and
objectivity. It conveys a lot of information about corporate plans in a simplified format.
However, it may not be as simple as it seems, upon application to real life due to the unforeseen
factors and also complications in the business world. In addition, the relationship between
market share and profitability differs in different industries.
Another issue about this model is that, the grand strategy options are mostly concern on cash
related issues but not values of the firm.
Grand Strategy Matrix of Coca-Cola
Conclusion: As figure identify that Coca-Cola comes in the 1st quadrant. The company
management must focus on current market and achieve growth by adopting product
development, market development and market penetration strategies. The company has abundant
resources and competitive advantage through which it can achieve growth by adopting the
backward and forward integration strategies. Coca-Cola can also adopt the related diversification
strategy to reduce its risk with broad portfolio or product line. Coca-Cola can afford to take
benefit of external opportunities in many areas. It can also take risks being aggressive when
necessary.
5. LONG-TERM OBJECTIVES
Willing continue to intensify and expand it Research and Development (R&D) capacity to
further enhance its competitive edge in the industry.
To ensure profitability and benefits of its shareholders and consumers.
To gain customer loyalty by fulfilling consumer preferences.
9. STRATEGY EVALUATION AND CONTROL
Performance measurement is the process whereby an organization establishes the
parameters within which programs, investments and acquisitions are reaching the desired
Coca Cola links the mission and vision to its operations and functions in a very good
way. The whole performance is managed in a very well manner in order to get best out of it.
Managers and employees are highly involved in the system to take decisions which results in
employee loyalty.
Goals of the company are formulated at the higher level, than head of the departments
make their own goals accordingly, and then comes the unit office, then functional heads which
generate reports, in the end supervisors and employees also set their goals. All these
incomparable policies lead to the success of Coca cola globally.
After the goals and strategy has been formulated, performance is measured in
order to check the implementation of strategy and goals. Monthly review is done to check
the implementation results. During review periods no changes in the goals can be changed.
During the mid-year stage goals can be further refined or altered and new policies can be
designed to achieve the organizational level goals. At the final stage the performance is matched
with the standards and goals of the organization. If there are positive results with increase in
overall productivity, the individual performance of the employees is evaluated and the
rewards are then given on the basis of performance.
9.2 Critical Success Factors
Product quality and taste is a key success factor for Coca-Cola. These both attributes
are very important to get high customer base.
Product diversity and innovation is one of the most important critical success factors
for Coca-Cola. Changing customers needs with time should be recognized by the
company in order to keep its customers satisfies.
Market share and size of the firm is also a critical success factor. Due to the high
market share, Coca-Cola has been able to negotiate with large distributers and thus
making the product available in most of the regions. In order to remain competitive its
highly important for the company to maintain effective distribution channel.
Company image leads to the brand loyalty which is very important for the success.
Brand loyalty in return increases the market share.
Global expansion plays a very vital role in the companys success. Brands that are
globally present are usually preferred by the customers.
9.3 Balanced Scorecard
For performance measurement at smaller units, balanced scorecard should be used:
Firm financial growth in
Annual sales growth
terms of profitability
Net profitability
Reduce cost of production
Value creation, satisfaction,
High market share, leading
position globally
Consistent decrease in cost of
Internal Business
Efficient production with
waste production
production, increased
Brand expansion
Number of new markets
Learning and growth
New products and processes
Employee training and
added in the company
Reduced rate of employee
The Coca-Cola Company has a very rich history and spread over the world, the study in
this analysis especially the particular SPACE matrix tells us that Coca Cola Company should
pursue an aggressive strategy. Coca Cola Company has a strong competitive position in the
market with rapid growth. It needs to use its internal strengths to develop a market penetration
and market development strategy. This includes focus on Water and Juices products, and catering
to health consciousness of people through introduction of different coke flavor and maintaining
basic coke flavor. Further company should integrate with other companies, acquisition of
potential competitor businesses, innovation in branding and aggressive marketing strategy can
bring long term profitability.
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Post Feminism
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The term postfeminism (alternatively rendered as post-feminism) is used to describe
reactions against contradictions and absences in feminism, especially second-wave
feminism and third-wave feminism. The term postfeminism is sometimes confused with
4th wave-feminism, and "women of color feminism" (e.g. hooks, 1996; Spivak, 1999).
The ideology of postfeminism is often recognized by its contrast with a prevailing or
preceding waves of feminism. Postfeminism strives towards the next stage in gender-
related societal progress, and as such is often conceived as in favor of a society that is
no longer defined by gender binary and gender roles. A postfeminist is a person who
believes in, promotes, or embodies any of various ideologies springing from the
feminism of the 1970s, whether supportive of or antagonistic towards classical
feminism.
Postfeminism can be considered a critical way of understanding the changed relations
between feminism, popular culture and femininity. Postfeminism may also present a
critique of second-wave feminism or third-wave feminism by questioning their binary
thinking and essentialism, their vision of sexuality, and their perception of relationships
between femininity and feminism.
Second-wave feminism is often critiqued for being too "white", too "straight", and too
"liberal", thus resulting in the needs of women from marginalized groups and cultures
being ignored. However, since intersectionality is a product of third-wave feminism, the
references to such as postfeminist are open to challenge and may be more properly
considered feminist.
History of the term
While postfeminism was first used in the 1980s to describe a backlash against second-
wave feminism, it is now used as a label for a wide range of theories that take critical
approaches to previous feminist discourses and includes challenges to the second wave's
ideas. It may also be used to invoke the view that feminism is no longer relevant to
today's society.[1]
Over the years, the meaning of postfeminism has broadened in scope, encompassing
many different meanings, as is the case with feminism. Within feminist literature,
definitions tend to fall into two main categories: 1) “death of feminism”, “anti-
feminism”, “feminism is irrelevant now” and 2) the next stage in feminism, or feminism
that intersects with other “post-” philosophies/theories, such as postmodernism, post-
structuralism and postcolonialism.
In 1919, a journal was launched in which "female literary radicals" stated "'we're
interested in people now—not in men and women'", that "moral, social, economic, and
political standards 'should not have anything to do with sex'", that it would "be 'pro-
woman without being anti-man'", and that "their stance [is called] 'post-feminist'".[2]
The term was used in the 1980s to describe a backlash against second-wave feminism.
Postfeminism is now a label for a wide range of theories that take critical approaches to
previous feminist discourses and includes challenges to the second wave's ideas.[3]
Other postfeminists say that feminism is no longer relevant to today's society.[4] Amelia
Jones has written that the postfeminist texts which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s
portrayed second-wave feminism as a monolithic entity and were overly generalizing in
their criticism.[5]
The 1990s saw the popularization of this term, in both the academic world as well as the
media world. It was seen as a term of both commendation and scorn. Toril Moi, a
professor at Duke University, originally coined the term in 1985 in Sexual/Textual
politics to advocate a feminism that would deconstruct the binary between equality
based on "liberal" feminism and difference-based or "radical" feminism. There is
confusion surrounding the intended meaning of "post" in the context of "postfeminism".
This confusion has plagued the very meaning of "postfeminism" since the 1990s. While
the term has seemed on the one hand to announce the end of feminism, on the other
hand it has itself become a site of feminist politics.[6]
Currently, feminist history is characterized by the struggle to find out the present
situation—often articulated as a concern about whether there is still such a thing called
"feminism"—by writing in the past. It is here that the meaning of "post" as a historical
break is troubling, for "post" offers to situate feminism in history by proclaiming the
end of this history. It then confirms feminist history as a thing of the past. However,
some claim that it is impossible that feminism could be aligned with "post" when it is
unthinkable, as it would be the same as calling the current world a post racist, post-
classist, and post-sexist society.[6]
The early part of the 1980s was when the media began labeling teenage women and
women in their twenties the "postfeminist generation". After twenty years, the term
postfeminist is still used to refer to young women, "who are thought to benefit from the
women's movement through expanded access to employment and education and new
family arrangements but at the same time do not push for further political change",
Pamela Aronson, Professor of Sociology, asserts. Postfeminism is a highly debated
topic since it implies that feminism is "dead" and "because the equality it assumes is
largely a myth".[7]
According to Prof. D. Diane Davis, postfeminism is just a continuation of what first-
and second-wave feminisms want.[8]
Research conducted at Kent State University narrowed postfeminism to four main
claims: support for feminism declined; women began hating feminism and feminists;
society had already attained social equality, thus making feminism outdated; and the
label "feminist" was disliked due to negative stigma.[9][10]
Examples of postfeminist work
In her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women, Christina
Hoff Sommers considers much of modern academic feminist theory and the feminist
movement to be gynocentric. She labels this "gender feminism" and proposes "equity
feminism"—an ideology that aims for full civil and legal equality. She argues that while
the feminists she designates as gender feminists advocate preferential treatment and
portray women as victims, equity feminism provides a viable alternative form of
feminism.[11] These descriptions and her other work have caused Hoff Sommers to be
described as an antifeminist by some other feminists.[12][self-published source][13]
Some contemporary feminists, such as Katha Pollitt or Nadine Strossen, consider
feminism to hold simply that "women are people." Views that separate the sexes rather
than unite them are considered by these writers to be sexist rather than feminist.[14][15]
Amelia Jones has authored post-feminist texts which emerged in the 1980s/1990s and
portrayed second-wave feminism as a monolithic entity and criticized it using
generalizations.
One of the earliest modern uses of the term was in Susan Bolotin's 1982 article "Voices
of the Post-Feminist Generation", published in New York Times Magazine. This article
was based on a number of interviews with women who largely agreed with the goals of
feminism, but did not identify as feminists.[16]
Susan Faludi, in her 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American
Women, argued that a backlash against second wave feminism in the 1980s had
successfully re-defined feminism through its terms. She argued that it constructed the
women's liberation movement as the source of many of the problems alleged to be
plaguing women in the late 1980s. She also argued that many of these problems were
illusory, constructed by the media without reliable evidence. According to her, this type
of backlash is a historical trend, recurring when it appeared that women had made
substantial gains in their efforts to obtain equal rights.[17]
Angela McRobbie argued that adding the prefix post- to feminism undermined the
strides that feminism made in achieving equality for everyone, including women. In
McRobbie's opinion, postfeminism gave the impression that equality has been achieved
and feminists could now focus on something else entirely. McRobbie believed that
postfeminism was most clearly seen on so-called feminist media products, such as
Bridget Jones's Diary, Sex and the City, and Ally McBeal. Female characters like
Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw claimed to be liberated and clearly enjoy their
sexuality, but what they were constantly searching for was the one man who would
make everything worthwhile.[18]
Representations of post feminism can be found in pop culture. Postfeminism has been
seen in media as a form of feminism that accepts popular culture instead of rejecting it,
as was typical with second wave feminists.[19] Many popular shows from the 90s and
early 2000s are considered to be postfeminist works because they tend to focus on
women who are empowered by popular cultural representations of other women.
Because of this, postfeminists claimed that such media was more accessible and
inclusive than past representations of women in the media; however, some feminists
believe that postfeminist works focus too much on white, middle-class women.[19] Such
shows and movies include The Devil Wears Prada, Xena: Warrior Princess, The
Princess Diaries, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Another example is Sex and the City.
Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City is an example of a character living a post
feminist life. While her character attempts to live a sexually liberated lifestyle,
Bradshaw is stuck endlessly pursuing the love and validation of a man. The balance
between Bradshaw's independent life as a successful columnist and desire to find a
husband exemplifies the tension of post feminism.[20] Many of these works also involve
women monitoring their appearance as a form of self-management, be it in the form of
dieting, exercise, or--most popularly--makeover scenes.[21] Postfeminist literature--also
known as chicklit--has been criticized by feminists for similar themes and notions.
However, the genre is also praised for being confident, witty, and complicated, bringing
in feminist themes, revolving around women, and reinventing standards of fiction.[22]
Examples can also be found in Pretty Little Liars. The novels explore the complexity of
girlhood in a society that assumes gender equality, which is in line with postfeminism.
The constant surveillance and self policing of the series' protagonists depicts the
performance of heterosexuality, hyperfemininity, and critical gaze forced upon girls.
The materialism and performance from the girls in Pretty Little Liars critiques the
notion that society has full gender equality, and thus offers a critique of
postfeminism[23].
In an article on print jewelry advertisements in Singapore, Michelle Lazar analyses how
the construction of 'postfeminist' femininity has given rise to a neo-liberal hybrid
"pronounced sense of self or 'I-dentity'". She states that the increasing number of female
wage earners has led to advertisers updating their image of women but that "through
this hybrid postfeminist I-dentity, advertisers have found a way to reinstall a new
normativity that coexists with the status quo".[24] Postfeminist ads and fashion have been
criticized for using femininity as a commodity veiled as liberation.[25]
Angela McRobbie, Professor for Communications at Goldsmiths, University of
Gender studies
Lad culture (British)
Rosalind Gill, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at King's College,
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1919); 2:3 (1919), n.p., SL." ("SL" in small capitals & abbreviating "The Arthur and
Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College,
Cambridge, Massachusetts", per id., p. 285 (Abbreviations Used in Notes (Libraries)))).
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Modleski, Tania. Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a
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Feminism, Ethics, and History, or What Is the "Post" in Postfeminism? Misha
Kavka Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring, 2002),
pp. 29–44.
Post-Feminism: An Essay
By Nasrullah Mambrol on October 25, 2017 •(0)
It must first be stated that there is no agreement about how postfeminism can be defined and
consequently definitions essentially contradict each other in what they say about the term. At
its most straightforward, the prefix ‘post’ in this context appears to mean ‘going beyond’ or
‘superseding’: it could therefore be seen as a confident announcement that feminism has
achieved its key aims and that there is full equality for all women and a blurring of the
boundaries between traditional ascriptions of gender. Given that a brief scrutiny of our current
social formation does not support this view, we might, however, imagine that a post-feminist
position is one formulated due to dissatisfaction with existing feminist politics and is to be
located in an entirely new area or set of propositions altogether. Part of this dissatisfaction
might be an awareness that even in its heyday, second wave feminism did not achieve its aim
of speaking to the majority of women.
Either of these definitions seems possible and the notion of superseding or going beyond has
been widely utilised in popular culture, and to some extent in academic discourse. Given that
‘feminism’ remains within the term post-feminism, albeit problematised by the prefix of ‘post’,
this illustrates that ‘feminism is portrayed as a territory over which various women have to
fight to gain their ground; it has become so unwieldy as a term that it threatens to implode
under the weight of its own contradictions’ (Whelehan 2000: 78). The ‘post’ is not the end of
feminism: actually feminism is constantly to be picked over only to be rapidly set aside again or
dismissed as old hat. For Myra Macdonald, ‘post-feminism takes the sting out of feminism’
(1995: 100); it removes the politics and claims the territory of self-empowerment.
There are some more complex and challenging definitions of the term and according to
writers such as Sopia Phoca who co-produced an introductory guide to it, ‘post-feminism is
considered as a different manifestation of feminism – not as being anti-feminist’ (quoted in
Ashby 1999: 34) and as being associated with the development of post-Lacanian
psychoanalysis, French feminism and post-structuralist theory, suggesting perhaps a
permanent fracturation between second wave-style personal politics and ‘high’ theory. Ann
Brooks (1997), however, would argue that it is not a question of depoliticising feminism, but
of marking a conceptual shift between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ – from a model based on
equality, to debates around the revivified and theorised concept of difference. For Brooks
the term ‘post-feminism’ ‘is now understood as a useful conceptual frame of reference
encompassing the intersection of feminism with a number of other anti-foundational
movements including postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialism’ (Brooks
1997: 1).
Other critics would argue that the ‘post’ prefix added to modernism, structuralism or
colonialism seems to unproblematically connote the ‘going beyond’ both spatially and
chronologically that has occurred in modern theory; yet Brooks asserts that post-feminism
used in this theoretical context signifies feminism’s maturity. She reflects that rather than
‘post’ meaning going beyond or breaking with, in these contexts it means ‘a process of ongoing
transformation and change’ (Brooks 1997: 1). Other kinds of ‘rebranding’ for feminism of
course include the use of ‘third wave’ feminism where again the prefix is used to imply key
shifts in the meaning of ‘feminism’ itself and in this theoretically-informed definition of post-
feminism there might be seen to be common ground between third wave and post-feminism,
although third wavers would certainly reject any suggestion that feminism is over. Brooks
herself acknowledges the way post-feminism is associated with a negative portrayal of
feminism in the mass media – particularly in the way the rhetoric of post-feminism is
summoned in the backlash against feminism (see also Faludi 1992).
One of the reasons it is argued that the move to post-feminism is essential is because of the
influence of postmodern thinking which refuses the ‘grand narrative’ of gender difference,
so that it becomes increasingly impossible to lay claim to the identity ‘woman’, because of
the impact of ‘difference’ theories and the contestation of knowledges about how ‘woman’
is constructed. Ann Brooks’s version of post-feminism puts ‘woman’ under erasure; of course
one could argue that this denies any political agency to a feminist who cannot lay claim to
that identity, ‘modernist’ as it is, suggesting as it does a retreat to the self and ultimately the
individualist framing of identity so favoured by enlightenment liberalism. The category
‘woman’, no matter how unsatisfactory as a means to summon up the wealth and diversity
of women’s experiences and identities, allows at least a space to lay claim to a wealth of
shared experiences (gendered pay differentials, the impact of sexual violence, the
relationship of nation to gender for instance) which permits a collective oppositional
response to injustices against women.
For critics who are still happy to call themselves ‘feminist’ without any prefixes, such a model
of feminism does not readily allow for an acknowledgement of some highly productive shifts in
feminism since the 1970s. Feminist politics has not remained static, and many of the central
issues, so radical in the 1970s, are now accepted as part of mainstream politics. As Sylvia
Walby notes, ‘Who would now call someone who believes in equal pay feminist? Yet before
1975 this was not law and was controversial’ (1997: 163). Rene Denfeld, in her critique of
second wave feminism, The New Victorians, bears this out when she points out that while the
next generation has problems with the epithet ‘feminist’, they have no problem supporting the
principles of equal pay and educational opportunities (Denfeld 1995: 4). For Denfeld this
change from broad support of feminism to scepticism and alienation is a response to a change
in the terms of second wave feminism itself: ‘It has become bogged down in an extremist
moral and spiritual crusade that has little to do with women’s lives. It has climbed out on a
limb of academic theory that is all but inaccessible to the uninitiated . . . feminism has become
as confining as what it pretends to combat’ (Denfeld 1995: 5). Denfeld is pointing to widely
aired anxieties that feminism has become just one more arcane theory – stemming from what
she perceives to be a majority of cultural feminist writers creating and delivering women’s
studies curricula in American universities, containing an alleged anti-male agenda. It is as if she
actually doesn’t want to dismiss feminism but rather to take it ‘back’ from whoever she feels
has stolen it. The irony is that ‘post-feminism’ from both Phoca and Wright’s and Brooks’s
perspective is in many ways just such another ‘inaccessible’ theory for the uninitiated.
Tania Modleski is more concerned that while ‘woman’ is being put under erasure in the
debates about difference, conceptual shifts such as the ‘men in feminism’ debate (a debate
about whether men should call themselves feminists or be feminist critics independently of
women) might make women disappear from feminism altogether. Talking about one particular
anthology of ‘male feminist’ criticism she observes that ‘[i]n an unusually strong post-feminist
irony, the final essay of this volume which banishes women from its list of contributors is a
complaint about the way heterosexual men have become invisible within feminism!’
(Modleski, 1991: 12). Modleski’s dissection of post-feminism in the critical sphere in many
ways anticipates Susan Faludi’s arguments in Backlash where it is the appropriation of the
language of feminism which is seen to be used against itself in popular culture. Modleski’s
combination of questioning theory and using examples of popular film, television and news,
suggests that this appropriation goes much deeper and, she would argue, drives us straight
back to male-centred discourse and critical authority.
There is still the accusation that second wave feminism failed to cede the hegemony of white
middle-class heterosexual women to other groups of women, and there is clearly some truth in
this claim. But nonetheless it is clear that many feminists (particularly at the level of grassroots
politics) did acknowledge the common links between different sites of oppression; and the
growth in political and critical perspectives by women of colour, working-class women and
lesbians suggests that for them the struggle is not over. One can think of key voices in black
American feminism, such as bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins who emphatically lay claim to
‘feminism’ as a term which still has political resonance, and this suggests that not all
proponents of feminist discourse are ready yet to cede the ground to post-feminism, but
would rather address the gaps, in the belief that there might be some consensus about what
feminism can do.
Ann Brooks (1997) gives a fairly comprehensive account of what ‘postfeminism’ means in a
theoretical context; for those still struggling with French feminism, post-structuralism and
Lacan. Phoca and Wright (1999) offer a crisp and concise account, liberally using illustrations
and graphic narrative. Modleski (1991) and Faludi (1992) offer challenges which provide
illuminating comparison.
Postfeminism vs. the Third Wave
Alison Piepmeier
Riposte to:
Introduction: Waves
Alison Piepmeier examines the differences in postfeminism and third-wave feminism.
In reading the essays on postfeminism in this section of EBR, I’m struck by the
imprecision of the term. Some of the essays - like Stobb’s - seem not to be discussing
postfeminism per se, but just younger feminist negotiations with the conditions of life in
the early 20th century. Others, like Guertin, use the term postfeminism but without a
particular sense of its significance; this piece seems more to be discussing feminism in
general, or perhaps third wave feminism - I find the discussion of cyberfeminism
fascinating, but I don’t buy that it’s equivalent to postfeminism. Helford, Yaszek, and
Mazza seem to be engaging with the idea of postfeminism in ways that I find most
interesting and useful; they’re identifying something other than third wave feminism,
and they’re considering the significance of the “post” rhetoric as it applies to feminism
in an era of backlash.
The term “postfeminism” always makes me wary - it’s a suspect term, a catchphrase
from the early ’90s that was used to suggest that we no longer need feminism, that
we’re past it. I don’t hear it that much anymore, but when I do, it’s often
problematically used in a way that suggests it’s synonymous with third wave feminism.
Now, speaking of imprecise and suspect terms, third wave feminism is right there with
them - it’s a highly contested term that loosely defines a generational and political
cohort born after the heyday of the second wave women’s movement. Although I’ve
edited a collection of essays that both embraces and interrogates the term,Catching a
Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (Northeastern University Press, 2003)
others - like Bitch publisher Lisa Jervis - have argued that it’s time to get rid of it
altogether.
The controversies surrounding the use of the term “third wave feminism,” however, are
different from those surrounding “postfeminism.” When feminists debate the third
wave, generally they’re trying to determine if there’s enough of a generational divide
between older and younger feminists to warrant a whole new label. The question seems
to be, have we moved far enough from the social issues that propelled the women’s
movement in the 1960s and ’70s to be able to suggest that there’s a new wave? The
rhetoric surrounding postfeminism, by contrast, tends, as Lisa Yaszek notes, “to
describe the contemporary moment as one in which the goals of feminism have been
achieved” and “to invoke a `blame-the-victim’ mentality.” Often arguments made from
a postfeminist perspective rely on what Elyce Helford identifies as “the belief that
personal choices and `bootstrap’ efforts can bring a woman (and hence all women)
empowerment and equality.” While the third wave says, “We’ve got a hell of a lot of
work to do!” postfeminism says, “Go buy some Manolo Blahniks and stop your
whining.”
Postfeminism relies on competitive individualism and eschews collective action; it
obscures or makes invisible the many ways in which women are often fearful, subjected
to rape and other kinds of violence, and politically and economically underprivileged.
The third wave, however - in texts from Third Wave Agenda to Manifesta to Colonize
This! - grapples with women’s intersectional identities and demands an end to all the
forms of oppression that keep women from achieving their full humanity.
Postfeminism and the third wave, then, are entirely different entities. Rebecca Walker’s
1992 essay, “Becoming the Third Wave,” articulates these differences powerfully; the
essay documents the virulent and persistent sexism of the early 1990s and calls young
feminists to rally to the cause, and the final paragraph of the essay consists of this
I am not a postfeminism feminist. I am the Third Wave.
Reading that always makes me want to make a fist and say, “Hell, yeah.”
So, thirteen years after Walker’s declaration, are we not finally past postfeminism?
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News: April 2009
Posted on April 1, 2009 by Webmaster
LAST MONTH IN TUCSON
In the photos above you’ll see Dennis McMillan catching a quick chat with Elmore Leonard after his big interview, and Don doing a spur-of-the-moment tribute to Ernest P. Worrell. The Tucson Book Fair offered lots of photo ops — more pics to follow in months to come.
TOUR ON PALM SUNDAY
If you can’t wait for the set of walks on each and every Sunday in May, Don is slipping on his gumshoes for the usual four-hour tour beginning at noon on Sunday April 5. Just show up with a tenspot, like it says on the Tour Page. And since Palm Sunday is the anniversary of Charles Willeford’s death, now twenty-one years ago, Don will be sure to add-in the Powell Hotel on the walk, the place Willeford was staying in San Francisco when he was working on his first novel.
ACE ATKINS AND DEVIL’S GARDEN
We’ve been blurbing it like hell for months now, so don’t miss the official launch party for the new Ace Atkins novel Devil’s Garden in “M” is for Mystery, San Mateo, Thursday April 2 from 7:00-8:00p.m. — a superb fictional recreation of the Fatty Arbuckle case in the St. Francis Hotel, with a Pinkerton’s op named Samuel Dashiell Hammett working the streets — without close second the best handling of Hammett as a character in a novel that Don has ever read. Drop in and get your copy of the novel signed on the official publication date. As Elmore Leonard put it, “Keep an eye on Ace Atkins, he can write rings around most of the names in the crime field.”
Plus Don will be signing copies of the new edition of the Dashiell Hammett Tour book for anyone wanting it John Hancocked. And the rumor mill has it that other local crime writers are planning to show for this one, including Mark Coggins, who just did a snazzy review of the tour book on The Rap Sheet — and while you’re surfing that site don’t miss the interview with Ace they’ve got posted.
HAMMETT FLASH MOB
After San Mateo signing wraps up, Ace and Don will be shooting up to San Francisco straight for The Ha-Ra Bar in 875 Geary Street, between Hyde and Larkin, to talk Hammett and the hard-boiled with anyone who wants to show up. Think of this as a reprise of the old Maltese Falcon Society which Don launched many years ago, only without the bulky trappings. No membership fees. No entrance fees. Just bring money to buy your official poison from Carl the Bartender and hang out and talk crime movies and novels until the city makes the place shut down. So, 9:00 or 9:30p.m. and straight ahead for four hours or so. Books signed if you’ve got ’em, opinions liquored up and spilled on the floor. Big fun.
BORDERS ON UNION SQUARE
If you can’t make the Ace signing in San Mateo, you get another chance 7:00p.m. April 3, when the Borders on the n.w. corner of Union Square will host the exclusive San Francisco signing for Devil’s Garden — in the next block up from where the notorious Fatty Arbuckle party rocked the St. Francis. Putnam’s is only parachuting Ace in for these two days, so seize your chance to get the novel signed while it’s hot off the presses, in the city the action takes place — immediately after the Borders event Ace is off to L.A., then starts working his way back east via Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale and Murder by the Book in Houston and other points of interest. Don will be sitting in on that one, too, so if you want any and all editions of the tour book signed, come on down.
AND LATER ON PALM SUNDAY
After guiding the Hammett tour up and down the mean streets on Palm Sunday, Don is quick-stepping over for a talk and signing for the Dashiell Hammett Tour in City Lights Books — Sunday April 5 starting at 5:00p.m. The previous edition of the tour book came out under the City Lights imprint, of course, and has been climbing in price for the last few years — Ace tells Don that he had to shell out about fifty bucks for a copy when he was researching Devil’s Garden. And now you can get the best edition to date, the first one ever in hardcover, for only $19.95.
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Dolby Atmos: Coming To A Club Near You
I came across this interesting article by Ean Golden on DJ Tech Tools, that outlines Dolby’s new Atmos sound format. I have always been interested in these kinds of technologies, even though I have some doubts about their effectiveness. Have a read and let me know what you think. The following article has been re-blogged in its entirety:
Since night clubs are all about the music experience, it’s surprising that more time has not be spent on evolving the fundamentals of sound. While loudspeakers, speaker placement, and the quality of bass has improved dramatically over the years, the stereo format still remains king. With Native Instruments’ new Stems idea taking off, has the time finally come to explore new sonic territory? Dolby thinks so, which is why they are rolling out Dolby Atmos (multi-dimensional sound) in clubs.
Dolby Atmos: The Essential Low Down
Here is what we know, and can tell you now:
There will soon be a series of clubs equipped with Atmos sound systems around the world
Producers can put a dimensional “Panner Plug-in” directly on their tracks and designwhere the sound should be placed, or move it around on multiple axes.
The Dolby Atmos panner plug-in currently is AAX compatible
There is a Dolby-designed DJ software that plays back these special files and allows DJs to isolate and move parts around the room in real time.
This software is compatible with Pioneer CDJ-2000 NXS and DJM-2000NXS mixers – so DJs can play songs on a familiar control surface.
All mixing, panning, and effects are done internally, in the computer.
There will probably be a series of shows featuring this new technology with artists that have begun mixing their material in the format.
Dolby Atmos Club Ecosystem Requirements
Plug-ins placed in the mix record metadata for movement and position.
A fairly large file containing all the musical “objects” and their associated metadata for that song
A DJ software that can play back these files and send the movement information to the club’s Atmos system
A web of speakers around the room and on the ceiling, which playback the producer’s vision
In theory, the magical part is that the mix always sounds consistent from studio to club – regardless of size – thanks to clever spacial algorithms that can make sure the position and loudness of all objects stay constant. It’s important to consider that this represents a fundamental shift in thinking around music delivery. Producers would no longer be mixing music down to a stereo image, but instead placing objects in the room, with Dolby processors rendering the final results.
Why Build Dolby Atmos For Nightclubs?
Dolby is hoping that this Atmos experience will provide a richer creative pallets for producers and a more dynamic live experience for club-goers. With sounds coming from all directions, it should be a more immersive and exciting experience. With many clubs still running in mono, and most patrons in various states of alteration, we can’t help but wonder: will anyone even notice it’s in Atmos?
What Is Atmos?
What is Dolby Atmos, and how is it different from Surround Sound? In short, Atmos is a multi-dimensional format that allows film creators (and soon, music producers) to place objects anywhere in the room – including above the listener. This format can be translated to any other sized room, including small or big clubs. They do this with sophisticated software, hardware, and custom speaker installations that cover the entire room.
With a Dolby Atmos-enabled room, you can hear parts not only separated (like the vocals coming from just overhead) but in theory you can also hear parts moving around the sound space (hi-hats could rotate around the room).
“Dolby Atmos is not based on channels, but on audio objects. What is an audio object? Any sound heard in a film or song—a child yelling, a helicopter taking off, a hi-hat clanging, a bass line thumping—is an audio object. Artists using Dolby Atmos can decide exactly where those sounds should originate and precisely where they move as their experience unfolds.”
There are already many notable albums that have been mixed in Atmos and can be played back at home on Blu-ray including Roger Watters: The Wall – but this is their first foray into dance music technology.
My Personal Opinion
The concept of spacial multi-dimensional sound in clubs is intriguing, I have heard many demos in the studio and here at a San Francisco club, and yes, it’s a pretty interesting experience. With so much space, a producer has the ability to really separate sounds and not have them fighting for the same sonic/stereo territory. Of course, the downside is that this totally eliminates years of dance music production techniques, including:
Layering of sounds to create masking or harmonics
Mastering and compression to induce rhythmic pumping
If successful and adopted, this would create a completely new language of mixing that would need to be developed and evolve in its own direction. For example, techno produced for Atmos might become something completely different as the fundamental elements can take on such different sonic roles. One idea: the kick and bass have fundamentally always shared the same speakers with synths, putting limitations on which sounds could occupy the lowest frequency range. Now, with dozens of speakers backing up the standard club system, a producer can (theoretically) be more generous with his musical palette and frequency spectrum.
Ultimately this is very audacious undertaking, and it remains to be seen if all the required elements (clubs/DJs/music/promoters) line up, but we are excited to see any new experiments in sound that push the boundaries of Dance Music Technology.
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Creating and editing
How to request that files are uploaded into a step
How to request a file
Process Bliss allows you to ask the person completing a step to upload a file. There is the option to make this file upload required, so that it's mandatory to upload a file for the step to be completed.
Here's a video to show you how.
To set this up, edit the relevant template or task (the screenshots below will show editing a template).
On the step, click the "Add attachment" button in the bottom left-hand corner. This opens the step 'wizard' which allows you to add more information to the step.
In the Request section, select the "File" button, or drag and drop it upwards onto the step.
This will add a 'Browse' button to the step, next to a label called 'Upload file'. This label can be edited by hovering over this File section and then clicking on it.
You can also select the checkbox to make the person completing this step upload a file before this step can be ticked off. Press the tick icon to save.
Once the template is published, and a task created from it, a file can then be uploaded by the individual carrying out the task.
The icon of an up arrow above a tray represents that a file can be uploaded. The red star next to it indicates that it's required.
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January 2019 CD of the Month: Aukai’s Reminiscence
Echoes January CD of the Month: Aukai's Reminiscence
by John Diliberto January 6, 2019
There are some musicians who live in a world of quiet refinement. It’s a state of musical being where every emotion is trimmed, shaped, and polished on a pottery wheel of imagination. Artists that come to mind in this space are Ludovico Einaudi, Keith Jarrett, Harold Budd and Ólafur Arnalds.
This is also a place where Markus Sieber lives. The East German born musician crafts his music with an reverential, but joyful respect for stillness, making sure each note is deserving of its rupture of silence. I first fell in love with his music the self-titled debut album as Aukai, but he was already in this space with the duo, Mirabai Ceiba, with his partner, pianist, harpist and singer Angelika Baumbach. As Aukai, Sieber sheds the vocals for a sound that is folk music transformed through ambient space.
The central voice of Aukai’s new EP, Reminiscence, like his debut, is the ronroco, a relative to the charango, with a sweet, sharp sound. He plays it on all but one track of Reminiscence. On “Harvest,” he plucks it in cycles that draw you deeper and deeper into his pristine web.
With Aukai, Sieber orchestrates an idiosyncratic chamber group, much like the Penguin Café Orchestra, where instead of horns, guitars and drums you have ronroco, violin, accordion, harp, glockenspiel ocarina and harmonium. He’s accompanied on several tracks by cellist Anne Müller who has played with Agnes Obel, Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds. With this very spare instrumentation, Aukai can conjure up a cinematic crescendo on “La Joya” or a dark, menacing mood on “Reframe” with a minimal piano motif that references Arvo Pärt before surging drums lock into Sieber’s insistent ronroco pattern.
“Closed Eyes Flashback” is a sequel to “Closed Eyes” from his previous album, Branches of Sun. The original is light, airy and pastoral, but “Flashback” is darker and more ruminative with Baumbach’s harp standing in for Sieber’s ronroco.
Reminiscence is an album of perfect miniatures. There’s only one track that dips over the three-minute mark and the entire CD clocks in at 25-minutes. But it is a 25-minute gem, cut with intricate facets and almost antique moods, a refined work from an earlier time.
Because of its length, we’ve decided to add Aukai’s previous album, Branches of Sun, as a bonus to members of the CD of the Month Club. It’s an equally beautiful album and would have been a CD pick if it hadn’t been so close in time to his previous CD of the Month in 2016.
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NERC Doctoral Training Partnership award
The outcome of the Natural Environments Research Council (NERC) call for Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) was announced late on Monday 4th November. I am delighted to be able to report that The Open University (OU) has been funded through the DTP scheme as part of the “Central England NERC Training Alliance” (CENTA). Having co-developed the OU contribution to CENTA with our research centre director Prof. Simon Kelley I am also somewhat relieved by this positive outcome.
The CENTA group comprises four other universities in addition to the OU (University of Birmingham, University of Leicester, University of Warwick, and Loughborough University) and two partner organisations (British Geological Survey and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology). CENTA will host studentships across the range of NERC science with particular focus on four key science themes:
Anthropogenic impact and environmental sustainability
Evolution of organisms and ecosystems
Organisms, ‘omics and biogeochemistry
Opportunities to join the PCRG here at the OU through this scheme will be adverstised shortly. If you are interested in PhD projects in any of the above areas keep an eye out for further details of CENTA projects and opportunities over the next few weeks.
To find out more about CENTA visit the DTP website by clicking here.
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The British Invasion Revisited Part2
The response of the Kingdom of Benin against British Interference in the affairs of a sovereign and independent nation was a legitimate self-defense in accordance with the peremptory norms of customary international law otherwise known as "ju cogens". If Britain could go to war just because of Jenkin´s ear, why should not the ancient kingdom of Benin protect her national interest against uninvited guests whose greed and grab in other parts of sub-sahara was already well known? We must pass judgement in the light of prevailing circumstances at that time. We must therefore unhesitatingly reject the British interpretation as massacre the events of 1896 which led to the British aggression of 1897.
The reputation of major Edward Lugard preceded him in Africa, because of what Major Lugard did in India and Uganda, and what he and George Goldie did in ilorin, Bida, Borgu and what other British soldiers perpetrated in Yorubaland which were then matters of public knowledge. The King of Benin was right in his suspicion of British intentions which were definitely to lure the noble Kingdom of Benin into the so-called British protectorate and therefore loss of the sovereign rights which Benin had enjoyed for about 2,000years.
At that time as it is now, the kernel of European policy in Africa was devious and self-seeking. Independent African nations should be nothing but vassal states of Europe.
The various European Navies were then the instruments of colonial policy. Hence the navigation Acts of 1649 and 1660,the staple Acts 1663 and the plantation Act 1673.
They now advocate for us ,using the world Bank , the IMF, the devaluation of our currencies, the exact opposite of the economic and monetary policies that ensured and helped their own growth and good quality of life for their own people. The colonial policy in French speaking African countries is even more worrying. It is escapulated in French; "plus ca change ,plus ciest la meme chose"-"THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME" In short what makes the French decolonization special was that it was never decolonised !CAVEAT The Political & Spiritual Purpose of the Holy Land
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I end this monograph with a quotation from Sir Alan Burns, a former Governor General of Nigeria, in his book -History of Nigeria(4th Ed at 277 ) "No European nation has the right to assume sovereignty over the inhabitants of any part of Africa and claims put forward by the various governments at the Berlin Conference in 1885 took little account of the rights of the people who lived in the Territory claimed.
culled from 100 years after the invasion of Benin by Richard Akinjide, a former attorney General and Federal minister of justice. He is senior advocate of Nigeria .
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Ready, set, go! Pinewood Derby thrills
By Amanda Valentovic on February 3, 2019 Comments Off on Ready, set, go! Pinewood Derby thrills
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange Cub Scout Pack 107 turned the St. Cloud Elementary School Gymnasium into a racetrack Jan. 26 to host the annual Pinewood Derby race, giving the Scouts a chance to show off how fast their handmade wooden cars could roll down a wooden track. Eighteen winners were crowned — three in each of the five divisions of the pack and three overall winners. Design awards were also handed out those who created the cars with the best paint job, best original design and best individual design in each division.
“We handed out the cars right around Thanksgiving,” Troopmaster Mark Wickham said in an interview with the West Orange Chronicle at the event. “The maximum weight has to be about 5 ounces and there’s other depth and size requirements.”
The cars are made out of a block of pine with wheels attached. Beyond that, Scouts have the freedom to make the car into whatever they want. One was modeled to look like a banana, another was painted entirely in blue and gold and some were named after video games.
The cars are rolled three at a time down a sloped track and timed. The cars that crossed the finish line first in the first round advanced to the next round, and so on, until the three fastest cars were left, earning trophies for their creators. The design awards are not necessarily given to the fastest cars, but are reserved for the best-looking wooden vehicles.
“It’s not really so much about racing,” Wickham said. “It’s about making something. We’re giving them the skills to build something with their hands.”
Cub Scout Pack 107 is based at Gregory Elementary School and opens enrollment at the end of the school year for students in kindergarten through fifth grade and continues through the summer. Wickham said meetings start in September.
Photos by Amanda Valentovic
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The conquest of Borneo Island, 1941-1942
The capture of Tarakan Island, January 1942
The capture of Balikpapan, January 1942
The capture of Bandjermasin
The Invasion of British Borneo in 1942
When talking about Dutch Borneo 1941-1942, we often forget those less-known battles and places in Borneo, which were, although generally playing a minor, almost non-important role in the Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941-1942, also scenes of fierce and bloddy battles betwen the Japanese and Dutch-British troops. Not much has been written about these terrible jungle battles in Borneo in 1941-1942, so I am hoping that this small section here will be helpful to those people who are seeking information about this forgotten part of the history of World War II in the Southeast Asia, whether you are a WWII researcher or just a person searching for their lost relatives.
The map of the Dutch East Indies 1941-1942
The map is courtesy of Graham Donaldson
The Japanese occupation of Samarinda, 1942
Samarinda was a small, sleepy town in 1942 with several small oil fields in the vicinity, on the east side of Borneo Island, several miles north of Balikpapan. In the town of Samarinda was stationed a small Dutch KNIL garrison under command of KNIL Captain G.A.C. Monteiro. The garrison consisted of:
• KNIL Infantry Company
• Motorised Detachment with 2 armoured cars
• Artillery Battery (3 x 75mm L/30 guns)
• Machine-Gun Squad
• Mortar Platoon
• Mobile Auxiliary First Aid Platoon
The town of Samarinda was occupied by the Japanese troops after the battle of the Netherlands East Indies was already over. There was also a small river fleet of small ships with KNIL troops armed with ant-tank rifles etc., that made advancing for the Japanese very difficult.
Note The armoured cars were open-topped motor cars fitted with armoured plates ("Overvalwagens").
The mystery of Samarinda II airfield
The Samarinda II airfield was probably one of the most extraordinary places in the whole Dutch East Indies in 1941-1942. Before the war, the Dutch KNIL Army prepared a dozen of so called "secret airfields", to where the planes would be transfered in case of war, so that they wouldn't be caught on the ground and destroyed by a sudden Japanese air attack. The Samarinda II airfield was one of these airfields and it was located deep in Borneo jungle, between the towns of Longiram and Melak.
The KNIL garrison at Samarinda II airfield was under command of KNIL Major G. du Rij van Beest Holle and numbered approximately 500 men. The garrison consisted of following units:
• Anti-Aircraft Battery (4 x 40mm guns)
• Anti-Aircraft Machine-Gun Platoon (AAMG)
• Militie Detachment with 5 independent squads with approximately 75 men
The KNIL Air Force at Samarinda II airfield consisted of several Martin bombers, Brewster Buffalo fighters, Lockheed Lodestars, flying in the vicinity, keeping contact with HQ on Java Island and staff. The Samarinda II airfield commander was KNIL Air Force Major L.C.A van Dam. On the airfield were stationed following units:
Ie Vliegtuiggroep (1st Group)
• 1-VI.G.I (Bomber Squadron) with 11 WH-3 Glenn Martin bombers, commanded by KNIL Air Force Captain W.F.H. van Rantwijk
Ve Vliegtuiggroep (5th Group)
• I- 1.VI.G.V. (Fighter Squadron) with 4 B-339D Brewster Buffalo fighters, commanded by KNIL Air Force 1st Lieutenant P.A.C. Benjamins
• II-1-VI.G.V (Fighter Squadron) with 4 B-339D Brewster Buffalo fighters, commanded by KNIL Air Force 2nd Lieutenant J.N. Droog
A Dutch Glenn Martin bomber is loaded with British bombs during the type's service in the Far East.
The Japanese Air Force discovered the Samarinda II Air Base on 24 January 1942. In the next days this air base was constantly attacked by Japanese Navy Zeros. They were welcomed by 5 Dutch Brewster Buffalos. Two Dutch Brewster Buffalos were shot down and both pilots killed. It is Interesting that one Japanese Navy Zero plane survived its crash at Samarinda II airfield almost undamaged, so that the Dutch pilots could inspect this famous Japanese fighter closely for the first time.
On 28 January 1942 two other Dutch Brewter Buffalos were shot down and the Dutch command agreed to evacuate this air base, but it was decided that the airfield garrison would stay there because USA had promised to deliver 1000 fighters!! Most of the KNIL troops were captured by the Japanese. There were however small parties that went to fight on in the jungle, but they were all overwhelmed and usually executed by the Japanese. The Japanese also payed the Dajaks (native people who were extremely violent towards the Dutch) to search for KNIL soldiers and to kill them.
After all this was over a small group of 15 KNIL soldiers from Samarinda II Air Base separated themselves from the main group to fight a guerilla war. This didn't exactly work out well. They were found in early June and all shot except two soldiers. In April 1942 they went underground with the Dajaks until they were turned over by the same natives to the Japanese. The Japanese let them live. The local representative of state in Longiram went inland with some KNIL soldiers, but they were soon forced to seek protection with the Dajaks. They turned them over and all were executed. In Samarinda four local representatives of state weee beheaded. The KNIL detachment in the city itself reached Samarinda II Air Base, but lost most of the native soldiers due to desertion.
There was no resistance when the Japanese troops arrived at Samarinda II Air Base. The ground commander received orders from the AKH on Java on 8 March 1942 to capitulate the next day, and not to destroy any weapons, equipment, or the airfield. The air commander flew to Samarinda to turn over the airfield to the Japanese on 9 March 1942. The Japanese troops finally arrived at Samarinda II airfield on 19 March 1942.
The Japanese did not use the Samarinda II airfield, as the supply situation was very difficult (about 160 kilometers from Balikpapan through pretty difficult terrain). They did take that which was useful, and left a small infantry detachment to keep one landing strip cleared for emergency use.
The Japanese occupation of Pontianak, January 1942
Dornier Do-24K
In Pontianak was a Dutch Naval Air Station with Naval Air Group GVT-1 with 3 Dornier Do-24K flying boats. The Dutch KNIL Army garrison in Pontianak was under command of KNIL Lieutenant Colonel D.P.F. Mars and numbered approximately 500 men. Dutch forces in West Borneo consisted of the following units:
• West Borneo KNIL Garrison Battalion
• Stadswacht Infantry Company (ca.125 men) in Pontianak
• Anti-Aircraft Battery (2 x 40mm guns) plus some AA machine-guns
• Stadswacht Detachment (ca. 50 men) in Singkawang
• Stadswacht Detachment (unknown strength) in Sintang
They transported themselves with small boats and one larger freighter. They moved towards the town of Sambas. The town of Pontianak was finally occuped by Imperial Japanese troops on 29 January 1942.
Note KNIL Lieutenant Colonel D.P.F. Mars was Dutch territorial commander for West Borneo area (Territoriaal Commando Westerafdeling van Borneo)
The Japanese occupation of Tambelan Islands, December 1941
Some sources mention the Tambelan Islands in the Karimata Strait as the first bit of land of the Dutch East Indies Archipelago occupied by Imperial Japanese Forces on 27 December 1941. This remains, however, a bit dubious. Few other documents indicate that the first Dutch territory attacked was Terempa Island in the Anambas Group. It was the first step in a concentrated effort to eliminate the string of auxiliary seaplane support bases operated by Dutch Naval Aviation. According to these sources the Terempah Village on Terempa Island was heavily bombed and strafed by Japanese aircraft on 14 December 1941. Among the casualties were 40 dead, mainly Indonesian civilians and 100 wounded with a great deal of material damage. Much of the village was virtually destroyed. The remaining villagers were evacuated by the Dornier flying boats of the Naval Air Group GVT-3 to Tandjong Pinang in the Riouw Archipelago shortly afterwards.
The Japanese occupation of the Anambas Islands, January 1942
The Anambas Islands were occupied by the Imperial Japanese troops on 26 January 1942. They were used as an advanced naval base and according to some references also as a seaplane base for the Malaya and Dutch East Indies Campaigns. The Natuna Islands were probably taken shortly afterwards.
Japanese troops landing at Natuna Islands, Borneo, December 1941.
The Japanese occupation of Singkawang, January 1942
The town of Singkawang was occupied by Imperial Japanese troops on 27 January 1942.
The Japanese occupation of Pemangkat, January 1942
The town of Pemangkat was occupied by Imperial Japanese troops on 27 January 1942, after they had carried out an amphibious landing in the vicinity of the town.
The Japanese occupation of Sambas, January 1942
In Sambas was a Dutch Naval Air Station with Naval Air Group GVT-4 with 3 flying boats Dornier Do-24K. The town of Sambas was occupied by Imperial Japanese troops on 27 January 1942.
The Japanese occupation of Ledo, January 1942
The town of Ledo was occupied by Imperial Japanese troops on 27 January 1942.
The Japanese occupation of Singkawang II airfield, January 1942
The Dutch KNIL Air Force had built a secret airfield near the town of Ledo, which is named in Allied sources as Singkawang II airfield. There had been stationed some Dutch air force units in December 1941, but they were soon, after the first Japanese air strikes, withrawn to Sumatra Island. The airfield commander was KNIL Air Force Captain C. Terluin and it had the following units on the airfield:
• 2-VI.G.I (Bomber Squadron) with 11 WH-3A bombers, commanded by KNIL Air Force Captain R. De Seneport Domis
• 1-VI.G.V (-) (Fighter Squadron) with 5 B-339D fighters, commanded by KNIL Air Force 1st Lieutenant A.A.M. Van Rest
The Singawang II airfield, located near the town of Ledo, was occupied by Imperial Japanese troops on 27 January 1942.
The Japanese occupation of Ngabang, January 1942
The town of Ngabang was occupied by Imperial Japanese troops on 31 January 1942.
The Japanese occupation of Sintang, February 1942
The town of Sintang was occupied by Imperial Japanese troops on 16 February 1942. In the city was stationed a Stadswacht Detachment (unknown strength).
There had been no real rapport between the imposing Dutch and various indigenous people of Borneo, although organised with the view of colonial exploitation, this did not allow for the pride and dignity of the many tribes involved. Dutch Borneo was better administrated than Sarawak, but the government organisation, limited as it was, took slight notice of the customs and lives of the local people.
During the Second World War when the Japanese military moved into the area there was an uprising at Putussibau in central Borneo, near the Sarawak border, and the local people murdered the Dutch administrator. Lieutenant Davijd, of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, was stationed at Sintang on the Kaupas River, west Borneo, and went to the troubled region under orders to rectify the unrest.
He sorted out the problem at Putussibau and on returning received the bad news that Dutch troops had capitulated to the Japanese. He refused to surrender, went back to Putussibau with three European Non-Commissioned Officers and a civilian. There during mid March 1942, Lieutenant Davijd formed a guerilla group and held out at Putussibau for three difficult and desperate months.
By the end of June the Japanese sent a force of 200 troops against the tiny stronghold, Davijd, seven men and two women escaped, intending to cross a high mountain range and arrive on the east coast of Borneo 270 miles away. As the journey came to the source of the Mahakam River the ten refugees heard that Samarinda had fallen to the Japanese.
Lieutenant Davijd moved his minuscule column back to the upper reaches of the Kaupas River, where they settled down until October. Then the party was set upon by Punan Dayaks, killing all the men and bringing two women prisoners, plus the lifeless bodies of the men, to the Japanese occupying Putussibau.
Here, in an example of Japanese unpredictable behaviour that one warrior should show to another, the dead men were buried with full military honours. And so ended one Dutch attempt to, not only carry out guerilla operations, but to escape from colonial Borneo now occupied by an imperial Asian force.
The Japanese occupation of Sampit, March 1942
The town of Sampit was occupied by Imperial Japanese troops on 6 March 1942.
The Japanese occupation of Pangkalanboeoen, March 1942
The town of Pangkalanboeoen was occupied by Imperial Japanese troops on 9 March 1942, when Dutch KNIL garrison surrendered at the Kotawarangin airfield, near the town of Pangkalanboeoen.
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Celebrity News August 26, 2017
Ryan Reynolds' Hilarious Birthday Wish for Wife Blake Lively
Blake Lively hit the big 3-0 Friday, and being married to prankster Ryan Reynolds guaranteed her at least one funny birthday surprise.
Reynolds, 40, posted a pic on Instagram, captioning it, "Happy Birthday to my amazing wife" — but it was a picture of himself with most of Blake's face cropped out!
Happy Birthday to my amazing wife.
A post shared by Ryan Reynolds (@vancityreynolds) on Aug 25, 2017 at 8:20pm PDT
Reynolds is just as silly on Twitter, with Lively outing him for making up his hysterical observations about their kids. "He may as well work for the 'Enquirer.' When he says ‘my daughter,’ he’s never, ever talking about her," she told Glamour in the September 2017 issue. Everything is a completely made-up scenario. He’ll run them by me sometimes just to make me laugh. But oh, I’m so in love with him when he writes that stuff. I mean, I’m in love with him most of the time, but especially with that."
They have a funny relationship — in the best possible sense!
Lively went on to explain to "Glamour" she said "most of the time" because "if I say, ‘I’m so in love with him all the time,’ then you get that eye-rolling, ‘Oh, her life is so great, she’s so perfect.’ So it’s, like, my defense mechanism.”
Seems Ryan's kids aren't the only ones he makes up stories about on Instagram:
Happy Birthday to my big brother, Jeff. Seems like just yesterday you were changing my diapers, even though it was well over a week ago.
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A Robust Year for Law Firm Mergers in 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 2, 2020 – Law firm mergers experienced a solid year of growth in 2019 according to the merger research team at Fairfax Associates.
In 2019, we tracked 59 completed mergers (meaning the effective date of the merger occurred during 2019). While this is lower than the 71 mergers in 2018, it is higher than the historical average of 54 mergers per year when compared to our data over the last 10 years (from 2009 to 2018).
Eighty-five percent of all the mergers in 2019 were small and involved firms where at least one firm had between five and 20 lawyers. This is a higher percentage than in 2018, when seventy percent of the mergers involved firms between five and 20 lawyers. There were 10 cross-border combinations that took place in 2019, slightly below the 15 cross-border mergers that occurred in 2018.
The three largest mergers of the year were all domestic: Foster Pepper with Garvey Schubert Barer in Seattle (92 lawyers), Burr & Forman with McNair in South Carolina (84 lawyers), and Arent Fox with Posternak Blankstein & Lund in Boston (55 lawyers).
There were five mergers apiece in California (including two in San Francisco and one in Los Angeles), Florida (including three in Miami), and New York (including three in New York City); three mergers apiece in Georgia, Illinois and Washington, D.C.; and two mergers each in Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Washington State. Fifteen additional states experienced one merger apiece.
Half of the 10 cross-border combinations involved Dentons – in Chile, Australia, Honduras, Morocco, and Uganda. Greenberg Traurig had two combinations – in Mexico City and Milan. The remaining three international mergers took place in Dublin (Clark Hill), Oslo (Littler), and Singapore (K&L Gates).
Looking forward, 12 mergers have already been announced for completion in in the first quarter of 2020 and unlike the activity in 2019, five of these are significant domestic combinations involving firms with over 100 lawyers. Three of the mergers involve firms based in Minneapolis. The largest is the merger between Faegre Baker Daniels in Minneapolis (c. 750 lawyers and consultants) and Drinker Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia (c. 650 lawyers and consultants). The other mergers are: Lathrop Gage in Kansas City (240 lawyers) and Gray Plant Mooty in Minneapolis (155 lawyers); Taft Stettinius & Hollister in Cincinnati (474 lawyers) and Briggs Morgan in Minneapolis (135 lawyers); and Dentons’ combinations with Bingham Greenebaum Doll (178 lawyers) in Indianapolis and Cohen & Grigsby (144 lawyers) in Pittsburgh.
Based on our role advising a number of the larger mergers completed in 2019 as well as mergers announced for 2020, we continue to see ongoing interest among firms in strategic growth and a desire to build depth and scale. We anticipate comparable merger activity in the coming year, including among larger firms, as firms continue to look for ways to build their competitiveness, gain market position, and expand services for clients.
Fairfax Associates collects data from published reports, press releases and direct reports from law firms. Mergers are reported where the acquired firm has five or more lawyers. Upon routine verification of the data, some historical numbers may have been updated since previously issued reports, and the number of mergers contained herein may change as additional mergers are announced.
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Orange County Sheriff's Office still investigating into Tigger hit
Tigger hit incident at Disney World
Feb 16 - Potential charges against "Tigger" bounced: District attorney
Jan 16 - Orange County Sheriff's Office still investigating into Tigger hit
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Jan 10 - Teamsters Union comments on Tigger incident
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The article "Teamsters site suggests Tigger pardoned" was later proven to be factually incorrect.
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Investigation is still underway by the Orange County Sheriff's Office into the hit Tigger unleashed on a tourist at Walt Disney World on January 6.
The status of Walt Disney World's separate investigation is unknown.
Yesterday Captain Mark Strobridge confirmed with Wikinews that the investigation was on-going. "The Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating the case and is not prepared to provide details at this time." They are not commenting to the press on any details.
The Walt Disney Company (Canada) Ltd. has not replied to Wikinews' multiple requests for comment. The Monaco family has not talked to the press since an exclusive CBS The Early Show appearance a week ago Monday. They had originally talked to a FOX News affiliated channel.
Two Sundays prior, video broke internationally of Disney employee Michael J. Fedelem as Tigger, hitting teen Jerry Monaco Jr. in the head. The New Hampshire tourist and his father both claim the hit was unprovoked. They claimed Jerry Jr. needed medical attention and prescription medicine that night. In contrast, most Internet pundits critical of the video have suggested that the hit was relatively weak. Fedelem himself claims the swat was indeed provoked, after the Monaco Jr was pulling on his costume, trying to suffocate him.
The Teamsters Union Local 385 website appears to suggest that not all character cast members are unionized. Fedelem is known to be unionized, as he is mentioned on the website regarding a separate matter.
Hit becomes punchline
Tim MacDonald of The News and Tribune joked that, "in addition to her Majority Whip", new US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi "might want to consider hiring the DisneyWorld employee in the Tigger costume to keep her Democrats in line."
Meanwhile, a British columnist riffed on how Tigger let the boy off lightly. Brian Reade commented "most Brits feel that, simply on the grounds he's called Junior, it's a shame the guy in the Tigger costume wasn't called Charles Manson."
A columnist suggested that "Tigger does more parenting before 9 a.m. than some parents do their entire lives", in an article advocating discipline. Doug Powers contined that, "If the boy was taken to the hospital for that, Lord help him if he's ever in a pillow fight. The poor lad would be in traction for a month."
This article features first-hand journalism by Wikinews members. See the collaboration page for more details.
Brian Reade. "TIGGER LET JUNIOR OFF LIGHTLY" — The Mirror, January 11, 2007
Tim MacDonald. "MCDONALD: Hear me roar" — The News and Tribune, January 11, 2007
Doug Powers. "Disney's Tigger: 'Parent of the Year'" — WorldNetDaily, January 15, 2007
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PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc addressing the meeting. Photo: VGP
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One of the founders of elite women’s club The Wing publicly criticized New York City’s openly gay City Council Speaker for sharing a picture of a shirtless man on social media.
Audrey Gelman, who co-founded The Wing with Lauren Kassan in 2016, tweeted a screenshot of a recent Instagram post shared by Corey Johnson, who has served on New York’s City Council since 2014 and as City Council Speaker since 2018.
Johnson’s post, shared just after midnight on Friday, depicts an unidentified man who isn’t wearing a shirt. [UPDATE: Johnson is dating the man in the picture, his office confirms.] Gelman tweeted her screenshot of the photo approximately eight hours later, calling out what she perceived to be a sexist double standard.
“Corey Johnson, the NYC Council Speaker, posted this photo on social media at midnight,” Gelman wrote. “If a woman elected official did this, they wouldn’t have a job in the morning.”
Tags: All Rights, Exclusivity, Free Speech, Gay, Hate, Homophobia, Interference, Judgement, LGBTQ, Lifestyle, New World Order, Privilege, Representation, Ridiculous, Tired, Women In Charge
Mario Lopez apologizes for 'ignorant' comments about parenting and gender identity
TV personality Mario Lopez has apologized for comments made during a recent podcast appearance in which he said it was "dangerous" for parents to allow their children to pick their gender identities at young ages.
"The comments I made were ignorant and insensitive, and I now have a deeper understanding of how hurtful they were," Lopez said in a statement to CNN. "I have been and always will be an ardent supporter of the LGBTQ community, and I am going to use this opportunity to better educate myself. Moving forward I will be more informed and thoughtful."
The former "Saved By the Bell" star made the remarks last month on a podcast hosted by conservative personality Candace Owens.
In the discussion, Owens brings up what she calls one of the "weird trends" of Hollywood parents allowing their children to pick their gender identity.
We need to stop telling people how to feel. We all have a right to an opinion and forcing ridiculous notions down sober people's throats isn't going to fix your children. We are supposed to guide our children into making the best decision not agree with it because it makes parenting easier. Geez, maybe he feels like a girl because Uncle Harry has been secretly diddling him. I wanted to be many things. Zero is the total that bled into my life. The more society makes people apologize for an opinion the more they will hurt us. This is all going to look ridiculous in the future when it blows in our faces. 31-Jul-2019
Tags: All Rights, Apology, Bullying, Celebrity, Environment, Exclusivity, Fight a Real Enemy, Free Speech, Interview, LGBTQ, Misrepresentation, Parental Crime, Politics, Preference, Ridiculous, Self Interest, Supremacy, Treatment, Weird, Wrong
Alleged Capital One hacker went by alias 'erratic'
Federal authorities in Washington state said they caught the person who hacked into Capital One’s computers and made off with the personal information of more than 100 million people.
Paige A. Thompson, 33, aka “erratic” online, is charged with computer fraud and abuse after authorities said she took advantage of a misconfigured firewall to access the bank’s credit card customer data, the Department of Justice announced Monday.
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Bishop says if a pregnant woman enjoys anal sex, the baby will be gay
A bishop has claimed if a pregnant woman enjoys anal sex, this will transfer to the baby and it will be gay.
The shocking revelation came from The Most Reverend Metropolitan Neophytos (Masouras) of Morfou of the Church of Cyprus on Tuesday (23 July).
In a short video posted to YouTube, he said the lack of spirituality and knowledge of Christ and the Orthodox religion creates homosexuals.
And the ‘fault’ lies with the parents, who ‘pass on’ the ‘sickness’ of homosexuality, the bishop claimed.
Basically, when a woman enjoys anal sex or any ‘abnormal sexual contact’, ‘a desire is created, which is then transmitted to the unborn child’.
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Texas Gov. Celebrates Signing Antigay Legislation With Chick-fil-A
Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed what was dubbed the essentially anti-LGBTQ "Save Chick-fil-A" bill into law. If it weren’t enough that Abbott signed the bill over a month ago, late last week he thumbed his nose at LGBTQ people even more and participated in a TV ceremony celebrating the bill’s signing while he and his team were surrounded by Chick-fil-A food and beverages. He then tweeted the moment out to his supporters.
“No business should be discriminated against simply because its owners donate to a church, the Salvation Army, or other religious organization,” Abbott said.
“No business should lose a government contract because of their religious beliefs. The save Chick-fil-A legislation that I’m about to sign is a victory for religious freedom in Texas.”
Dominican man launches legal case against country’s anti-gay laws
Man who threatened to kill kids & gays at San Diego Pride is also a repeat bank robber
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This daycare rejected a child because of her lesbian parents
When Brittney Ready and her wife Stacey enrolled their youngest daughter Callie in the daycare program of Parkview Christian Academy of Waco, Texas, they hoped their child would continue being raised in the Christian faith, just like they’d done at home. Instead, Callie was rejected because her parents are lesbians.
In a public Facebook post, Brittney wrote that the school called she and her partner in when they had an opening for their daughter.
Brittney said, “With excitement we went in this afternoon ready to see the place and get her started. The director was super sweet and welcoming to us and Callie! We go to leave with paperwork in hand only for the administrator to call us into his office to let us know that he heard that Stacey and I are “mates” (first off we aren’t animals) and because of that they cannot welcome her (Callie).”
When Brittney asked why her child was no longer welcome, the administrator reportedly said, “bylaws are bylaws” and that the school’s Christian faith disallowed the school from accepting Callie.
Tags: Education, Humiliation, Hypocrisy, Judgement, Lesbian, LGBTQ, Lifestyle, Magic Splatter, Parental Burden, Politics, Privilege, Religion, Ridiculous, Stereotype, Supremacy, Threat, Treatment
Porn deemed a public health crisis by Arizona politicians
Some legislators gave pornography a new title: public health crisis.
The Arizona State Senate voted Monday to declare pornography a public health crisis, but beyond stating such on their resolution, no further action is set to be taken.
The bill states that "pornography perpetuates a sexually toxic environment that damages all areas of our society," proceeding to list that "potential detrimental effects on pornography users include toxic sexual behaviors, emotional, mental and medical illnesses and difficulty forming or maintaining intimate relationships."
More Than 300 Catholic Clergy in New Jersey Have Been Accused of Sex Abuse, Report Says
Delaware man accused of raping woman after posing as ride-share driver, police say
Man filmed himself sexually assaulting 16-year-old several times, plotted to kill girl
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School Bus Driver Receives No Jail Time After Raping 14-Year-Old Student
There was no doubt after his guilty plea that the former school bus driver had raped a 14-year-old girl.
But because there was only one victim, and the accused had no prior arrests, the judge in the case said the man didn’t deserve to be sent to prison. Instead, Jefferson County, New York, Judge James P. McClusky sentenced the man, Shane M. Piche, to 10 years’ probation, according to the Watertown Daily Times.
The punishment did not sit well with the victim’s mother.
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17-year-old charged with murder in fatal stabbing of Brooklyn teen
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jackson is captured in astonishing video deposition squirming, giggling and quoting Bible verses as he's questioned about molesting boys in unearthed footage
Squirming in his seat, Michael Jackson is asked directly on camera whether he's a pedophile in newly unearthed video footage obtained by DailyMailTV.
The King (Perv) of Pop is quizzed by lawyers about allegations of child sexual abuse in what's understood to be the only time he was ever filmed being questioned on the subject during his life.
The iconic singer, who at the time was 37, appears nervous and laughs, giggles and jokes his way through questions about molesting children in the astonishing footage dated March 1, 1996.
GLORIA ALLRED I Have No Doubt ... MICHAEL JACKSON MOLESTED KIDS
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Aja claps back at critic saying they're not 'black enough'
Drag queen Aja hit back at someone on Twitter criticizing them for lip syncing a Nicki Minaj song with multiple uses of the n-word.
The exchange started with Twitter user @JuryFights posted a video of Aja’s performance this morning (22 October).
‘Not gonna lie this performance made me MAD uncomfortable,’ the user wrote. ‘For someone who doesn’t pass as black to lipsync to a song with the majority of the lyrics being the n word just doesn’t sit right with me.’
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SNL (shitgate)
Among those throwing shade on West’s comments was Bakari Sellers, an African-American lawyer and politician from South Carolina.
“Idiocy is the willingness to sell out your culture for trinkets,” Sellers wrote. “@kanyewest doesn’t understand reality. The same hat he is wearing is responsible for Jeff Sessions and taking us back a decade in Criminal Justice reform. @kanyewest is a clown who wants to sell albums. I’m good.” 30-Sep-2018
...and nobody cared. Sorry, Janet. 30-Sep-2018
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'Big Brother' Producers Step in After Contestant Is Accused of Inappropriate Behavior
Sources close to production have revealed to THR that all parties involved have been spoken to and JC Mounduix will remain in the house.
Big Brother producers have responded to contestant JC Mounduix being accused of inappropriate behavior.
On Wednesday night, during the show's 24-7 live feeds, Mounduix was involved in two separate instances of sexual harassment and misconduct.
While contestant Haleigh Broucher was using the restroom, Mounduix opened the door and would not close it after Broucher insist that he do so. When Mounduix refused to listen and tied the door open, Broucher yelled out loud for production to step in and stop him.
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Gay Trump supporter who brandished knife at Kathy Griffin show doesn’t feel he did anything wrong
Carl Pacheco says he was just hoping to have a good time when he showed up to Kathy Griffin’s recent show in Houston in a bright red “Make American Great Again” hat, a t-shirt with pictures of Trump’s face on it, and carrying a knife.
Richard Nunez and his wife, Michele, also attended the show. Afterwards, they got into a heated altercation with Pacheco in the parking lot, OutSmart reports.
“We were one of the last few to exit the hall,” Richard Nunez explains, “and made a comment to ourselves like ‘Whaaat is he wearing?’ and ‘Is that for real?’ and he responded with a comment similar to ‘Do you want a political debate?’”
“As my wife entered the vehicle, she closed the passenger door and rolled down her window,” Nunez continued. “She made a derogatory statement to the Trump supporter and he made another derogatory statement right back.”
In a video that was uploaded (and since deleted) from YouTube, Michele Nunez can be heard saying, “Hey, asshole, f*ck Trump!” To which Pacheco responds, “F*ck you, f*cking c*nt!”
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Frontier Airlines Suspends Pilot Accused of Threatening Trans Girl
Since a group of parents declared it was “hunting season” on transgender people in response to news that a 12-year-old trans girl used the women’s bathroom at her school in Achille, Okla., the school shuttered its doors over the violent threats and her supporters held a silent demonstration. Now Frontier Airlines has suspended a pilot who allegedly threatened the young girl known only as Maddie, according to Oklahoma TV station KOCO.
The pilot was accused, along with several other adults, of threatening to do harm to Maddie simply for using the women’s restroom once when she couldn’t access the faculty bathroom, as she was told to do.
While the airline would not name the pilot involved with the incident, it released a statement confirming the pilot was suspended August 13 and condemning his actions.
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An American doctor experiences the NHS. Again.
Posted byDr. Jen Gunter August 20, 2016 August 21, 2016
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WIth my cousin
Two years ago I wrote about my experience in a London emergency department with my son, Victor. That post has since been viewed > 450,000 times. There are over 800 comments with no trolls (a feat unto itself) and almost all of them express love for the NHS.
I was in England again this week. And yes, I was back in an emergency department, but this time with my cousin (who is English).
This is what happened.
My cousin loves high heels. As a former model she makes walking in the highest of heels look easy. However, cobblestone streets have challenges not found on catwalks and so she twisted her ankle very badly. Despite ice and elevation there was significant swelling and bruising and she couldn’t put any weight on her foot. I suggested we call her doctor and explain the situation. I was worried about a fracture. I hoped to arrange an x-ray. If it was broken we would arrange the needed care and if it wasn’t broken I could bandage it just as well at home.
“No,” she said. She’d have to ring for an appointment. It was Friday around 11 a.m. The chance of getting into her GP by the end of the day was apparently non-existent. She would have to wait until Monday. Even is she were lucky enough to be seen that day there was no x-ray in his office so it would be a trip to see him and then a trip to the hospital. She was shocked when I suggested she call and just ask if he could order the x-ray. Apparently, that’s not how it’s done. In person or nothing.
As a gynecologist I will admit feet are not my strong suit, but no medical degree was needed to say she needed an x-ray. She also has some health issues that could impact healing from a break or the timing of surgery (hopefully that wouldn’t be needed, but you never know), so a timely diagnosis was more important for her than it would be in the situation were reversed and it was my ankle.
“We’re going to the emergency department I said,” and off we went to Sunderland Hospital.
Getting to the actual emergency room (ER) from the parking area required a background in orienteering. There was loads of construction and we had to go down hallway after hallway with Hogwarts’ worthy twists and turns. I managed to find a wheelchair, a unwieldily apparatus that only works in reverse. On purpose. This is to stop wheelchair theft, which is apparently a serious problem at Sunderland Hospital.
My cousin was triaged immediately. Within two minutes a nurse checked her ankle, gave her codeine, and then sent her off to an urgent care clinic. She wasn’t even registered in the ER. A porter wheeled her to the urgent care clinic in another building some distance away, which required a trip outside.
“What if it rains?” I asked the porter.
“We get wet. This is the North,” he said. “Of course it rains. Almost every day.”
Apparently no one complains.
The urgent care clinic had a few people ahead of us. It took about 10 minutes to check in and then no more than 15 minutes to be seen. A lovely nurse named Leslie triaged my cousin and agreed an x-ray was in order and made the arrangements. My cousin did not need to see a doctor or a nurse practitioner to get an x-ray. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that happen in the U.S.
The x-ray and radiology report took 10 minutes. Then a nurse practitioner (also very nice) did an appropriate history and exam. The diagnosis was a torn ligament (sprain) and possibly a small fracture of the lateral malleolus (outside ankle bone). A orthopedics consult was needed. She could have a bit of a wait and be squeezed into fracture clinic that afternoon or she could have a cast and come back to Saturday fracture clinic. The clinic didn’t start until 2 p.m. and we were done in urgent care by 1 p.m. so she opted to wait. She was seen around 2:15 pm. An orthopedic consultant did an exam and recommended a tight support bandage and gave her exercises and guidelines about how to follow-up if she wasn’t meeting milestones.
My cousin was at the hospital for four hours, but over an hour was an unavoidable wait for fracture clinic and about 30 minutes of transport back and forth between the ER, urgent care, and fracture clinic. To receive this care all my cousin had to do was provide her name and birthdate. No copayments, no preauthorizations, no concerns about the radiologist or orthopedic surgeon being out of network. The nursing triage was wonderful and actually doing nursing (I hate seeing nurses relegated to charting). The nurse practitioner clearly knew what she was talking about and had reviewed the films with the radiologist. The surgeon only did the part of my cousin’s care that needed a specialist. It was a great use of resources.
Everyone I spoke with at the hospital loved the NHS, and honestly it showed. While the hospital was a veritable maze and in need of the updating that they appeared to be doing, the equipment was all fine and the people, i.e. the things that really matter, were great. Everyone from the porter to the orthopedic consultant was hard-working, knowledgeable, and friendly. What more could you ask for? I asked a few people what they would like to see changed? The only real issue was people who show up for care that is clearly not even semi urgent never mind emergent. Might a tiny user fee change that? Did we have user fees in the U.S.? Did they work?
Non-emergent care provided in the ER is obviously not the best use of health care funds, but in reality it’s a tiny drop in the health care bucket. Extra emergency room doctors and nurses and the not needed CT scans and other testing that may be generated are nothing in comparison to things like chemotherapy, or HIV medications, or bone marrow transplants. We do have user fees in the U.S. in the form of copayments. Even low copayments can cause some people to delay necessary care. They also don’t seem to deter people who don’t need the emergency room but want to go. I’ve sat in the ER with Oliver waiting for a bed while he struggled with pneumonia and overheard many examples. A man bragging that he tells the ER staff he has chest pain so he gets seen first. He was happy to pay his $100 copayment to be seen promptly at his convenience. He had nothing even remotely urgent. I’ve listened to a mother who waited hours for a diaper rash. Not a bleeding diaper rash, just a rash. Her physician had a free 24/7 pediatrics advice nurse that went unused (we had the same pediatrician, so I knew). She could have saved $40 and most of her Saturday, never mind the exposure to Oliver’s influenza, with a phone call. If you want to change ER utilization, and yes it’s a worthy goal even though it’s not the major cost driver, it’s education and outreach that are needed not penalties.
When I think of copayments I think of a 60-year-old woman with breast cancer three years post surgery and chemotherapy now in remission. She developed a cough and a fever so received a chest x-ray to look for pneumonia. The radiologist found something not quite right, a spot that was especially concerning given her breast cancer history. She needed a CT scan to see if this is a bit of scaring or if her cancer has metastasized to her lungs. When I asked her why she hasn’t yet had the CT scan she told me she couldn’t afford her $100 copayment. It will take her two months to save the $100 so she can get the CT scan to find out if her cancer has returned. She looked at me in the eyes for just a moment and then a mixture of embarrassment and fear that my eyes might tell her what she doesn’t want to know caused her to look away. And what if her CT scan is equivocal and she needs $100 (or more) for the copayment for a lung biopsy? If that’s not a circle of Hell I don’t know what it. You want to know what’s worse? I’ve heard a variation of this story more than once.
Dear U.K., the NHS is awesome. Try to treat it a little better. Maybe teach kids in school how to use the health care system (hey, why not NHS ed alongside drivers ed or sex ed?). Have safe sex. Stop smoking. Try to lose weight if you need to (obesity causes 30% of cancers). Wear lower heels for dancing. And for crying out loud stop stealing wheelchairs. The next time anyone mentions privatization or user fees tell them in America there are people trying to save enough money for the copayment for the CT scan that will tell them if their cancer has returned or not.
Thank you NHS for taking fantastic care of my cousin, of my son two years ago, and of everyone else.
To the British government, stop trying to mess it up.
Posted byDr. Jen Gunter August 20, 2016 August 21, 2016 Posted inEthics, health insuranceTags: health insurance
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Where is that woman who didn’t have $100 for that test? I’d gladly donate it to her. Heck, if she’s not too far away, I’ll go pick her up!
Just a wee point… I’m a Brit who lives & works in the USA. Love your articles.
Hospital ER nurses (in the US) do order & medicate (per policy) for extremity injuries before an md sees them 🙂
Dr. Jen Gunter says:
Glad to hear! I’ve rarely seen it and then only for Tylenol for fever. I think it’s ER dependent. Wish it was done more!
rskurat says:
Not at my hospital. Only PAs & NPs, but we’re behind the curve onpretty much everything else as well.
N. Pennington says:
Your lucky you were not still in the US the come out and ask have you got insurance ? If not have you got enough money? If not the ambulance drives off leaving you in the middle of the road we have a saying if you live in a glass house don’t throw stones ?
Jan Lee-Mann says:
Absolutely agree with your comment. These tourists come over to England, have an accident and then automatically assume they are going to be treated for FREE! They should have insurance to cover their treatment, pay up front and then get reimbursed in the states. We could not get free treatment as tourists in the U.S.A.
As you say “people in glass houses etc.” free loaders!!!!
katie suleiman says:
The NHS has been so badly abused, planned trips to the UK for births, surgery, etc then the mental health system clogged up with people wanting letters of support for a bigger council flat or house pretending to have mental health problems when it’s clear, that after a couple of appointments and not being provided with a letter, they discontinue therapy. I work in the NHS and believe me, I am well and truly fed up, I’ve been covering two roles for the past 3 years, then get a part time support admin who promptly takes sick leave and continues to do so every 2 weeks. Those left in the NHS are there for loyalty and patients, but there comes a time when you have to ask yourself, ‘Am I a fool?’ covering someone else’s work, while managers make lame excuses to avoid confronting the malingerers, and let’s face it, the malingerers are better protected legally, than the loyal employees who cover their work and end up with serious stress. One previous admin support, once she received her contract, showed up 3 days in 4 months and knew every trick to take it as far as she could and get paid in excess of 300,00 pounds for doing nothing and of course, annual leave added on to that. Sadly, I will be leaving after 15 years, it’s an open house for scammers and abuses loyal staff.
Cecilia Mary Gunther says:
I lived in London for a while (also in high heels) and had to take a child to the emergency room once – it was very well organised but OH MY – I do agree – that place was a maze and we ended up in an UNMARKED corridor of blank doors – totally lost. Thank fully we had brought snacks and a drink or we could have starved to death in there trying to find our way out. We have a similar set up in New Zealand. I honestly live in fear of having an accident or getting sick here in America.
rekster says:
“I honestly live in fear of having an accident or getting sick here in America.”
A real fear. As a retired emergency nurse my advice is avoid illness as much as you can here in the US.
I’d avoid it in the uk, my uncle went in to an NHS hospital with a chest infection, he died of mrsa. You can’t even complain here because the nurses are reconstituted angels.
jim bunting says:
Here in Toronto, we have a system of coloured lines on the floor of the hospital hallways, that lead to different departments. Also different wall colour schemes in different departments. Typical staff to patient directions …….Imaging is on the 4 th floor, when you get off the elevator, follow the green line.
I have seen this in a number of hospitals here in the US as well. But, strangely not in all new ones. Hmm.
Ina MacAllan says:
We have that in English hospitals too (only the weight of traffic usually wipes out sections of the lines over time so I get lost anyway). But I’d rather the hospital prioritise care than paint.
The Vegan Mystic says:
I cut my hand open on a smashed ceramic at 6.30 am one morning. Solihull Hospital could not have been a friendlier place. The nurse was very open minded and non judgemental about me self-Reiking whilst I was being stitched up!
Robyn Daly says:
The US is the richest country in the world yet the only developed country without universal healthcare. I grew up in Australia, lived in England for many years, and now live in the US. US healthcare is shameful. I am so grateful that my husband was a veteran so I qualify for Tricare and can afford the copays. I had a couple of friends who died because they couldn’t afford to get help, and others who deal with life-threatening conditions and chronic pain themselves because they just can’t afford to go to a doctor or the ER. The Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) has helped many, but sadly the for-profit medical insurance industry is still in charge of healthcare in the US. 😦
Lisa Egan (@lisybabe) says:
We don’t have drivers ed in schools in the UK.
We leave school at 16 and you can’t start learning to drive until you’re 17. (In England it’s now compulsory to stay in some kind of education or training until 18, but that’ll be in a sixth form college, further education college, or workplace apprenticeship rather than at school.)
angilinab says:
Nitpicking much? Out of everything she said, drivers ed is what you took from it?
Angilinab: What am I supposed to do? Write a line by line breakdown saying “yes, I agree with that. Yes, I agree with that,” up until I got to the point where I noticed something that the American didn’t realise about the British education system?
That seems like a dramatic waste of both my time and the time of anyone reading the comment.
Jonathan Anstey says:
It’s not compulsory to stay in education until the age of 18.
Moose Tetrino (@TheMooseTetrino) says:
Yes. It is. In England at least, you must stay in some form of education until you are 18. And has been for at least five years. https://www.gov.uk/know-when-you-can-leave-school
In England it is, and has been for years. https://www.gov.uk/know-when-you-can-leave-school
The students that are 18 this year are the first year for whom these guidelines affected. Although it has been the law for years it is only the class of 2016 whom were not allowed to leave education to work until 18. For the class of 2015 it was 17 and for the class of 2014 it was 16. The law is now fully in place which is also why there is an increase in the number of apprenticeships that are available as people now have to stay in some form of education.
Phyllis James says:
Compulsory to do 6th form ?!!?
It is now (see Zoe’s comment just above about the timescales for the introduction of it). In England only. The other home nations you can still leave full time education/training at 16.
Kate Lester says:
Is there any logical reason why we can’t get that in the US? It’s all about money and greed, isn’t it?
Diana Sandberg says:
Stephen Holmes says:
They prefer to call if “Freedom”.
Not just. It’s also about ideology that dictates that organizing things by putting them into the hands of a state run agency is inherently inefficient, while markets will always deliver. It is about an ideology that judges it more unacceptable that someone might get something they don’t deserve, than that someone might go without something they need.
It’s the moral hazard argument…
And I believe they use a similar false argument about voter fraud.
jerrychicken says:
Thats the nail on the head, right there, I have American friends and I have heard that argument so many times and from the outside looking in, its so selfish.
Spot on re: getting something one doesn’t “deserve”.
I know someone without health insurance at the time who, about six years ago, needed an emergency appendectomy. A middle-class guy. It ended up costing him, out of pocket, around $17K. Yes, he paid, he had the savings. Afterwards I said something like “wow, after that you should be in favor of public universal health care” The response? “No way, I don’t want to pay for any scumbag’s coverage.” Scumbag = poor or otherwise socioeconomically distasteful to him.
It was more desirable to him to forgo coverage completely, even for himself, than to have people he didn’t think deserved health care get it for free. That’s a very common attitude here in the U.S., especially if you start adding race into the mix (see “sociologically distasteful” above).
Alex Knisely says:
See: British Rail, et seq.
Plectrumm says:
We have so much ground to make up in regards to administering healthcare…that being said, our problems are political in nature. The actual care is negotiated from the insurers perspective, which is skewed toward profit not results (Medicare shows you all you need to know). Insurance has no federal regulator, even after the largest provider on earth failed during the credit crisis. Legislatures talk big, until the big money starts threatening to withdraw funding, then they resume being the lying cowards they truly are!
Reply to “retired”…where do you draw the line? Motorbike accidents, heart attacks caused by obesity and poor diet, people falling off horses, twisting their ankles in skyscraper heels – ALL self inflicted. You’re opening up a moral quagmire penalising “drunks”. Alcohol misuse may also be an illness.
Marie Dyer says:
I so agree with you about educating people in how to use the NHS/A&E. people need to learn how to treat minor injuries/problems at home, and use the ER for actual emergencies.
sweetsound says:
I’ve had moderate to severe pain in my foot since March, yet because the x-ray showed no breakage (that they saw) I’ve been wait listed for a foot specialist. Three months ago. The pain is not getting better or going away. I agree that the ER should not be used for non-emergency situations, but I can kind of see why people do it. I’d be happy to pay a fee if they could just get me in in a reasonable time frame.
You can pay a fee and see a specialist privately. Has your GP requested a scan?
Hi Pat, no just the x-ray, which was inconclusive. Sounds like I should call my GP back and ask about the fee and scan?
retired says:
Yes but why should we pay a fee when we pay 40 % tax plus other contributions towards the NHS ? Waiting lists are a major issue in the NHS, which dampens the good quality of specialists and training we have (I know as I worked in the system and the large majority of Drs are great !). Our time is mainly wasted on Saturday nights on drunks and associated activities eg fighting, etc, which are self-inflicted… my suggestion .. first time free .. after that, they pay for visits which are alcohol-related. It needs to be fair to others who genuinely need the system.
Gegenbeispiel says:
Retired: total rubbish. “We” don’t pay anything like 40% tax. Most UK people pay only a marginal rate of 20%, the first GBP10000/year or so are tax-free, you have to get GBP40000 or so to start paying 40% on the income above that.
You must be rich to spout nonsense like your comment. You need to be levelled down, radically so.
Hayley Stevens says:
Luckily we have the 111 system here in the UK so if you’re not sure if you need to see your GP or go to A&E you can call them for advise. They’ll explain if you can look after the condition or injury at home, arrange an ambulance if it’s required and they’ll even phone ahead to let the A&E know you’re coming. So if you’re reading this and you’re from the UK and you ever find yourself not sure what the appropriate action is – call 111. Don’t believe the headlines that it’s a rubbish service – it has helped my family a number of times.
Peter Lockhart says:
Just like to agree wholeheartedly with this. In Scotland its called NHS24. I have a long term condition and sometimes I’m not sure about going to hospital or not so I phone NHS24. Always get a good service and they’ve phoned ambulances and had doctors waiting for me to arrive. Sometimes they just give advise such as taking pain killers or ice packs or just putting my feet up but it always works. The NHS is our greatest treasure and anyone who thinks we should gp for a private system really needs to read up and think about how it would be if you had a long term condition that insurance couldn’t cover. I’ve also have mental health issues and had great treat!ent. The length ofvtgime I had to spend in hospital would have bevway beyond my mrans if I had to pay. I’ve also been told that when my mental health deteriorates just get to e ward. A bed will be found. Knowing that is a great comfort.
cuttydarke says:
NHS 24 is brilliant. It’s a great way to deal with those marginal calls. I phoned it a few times when my kids were small and a couple of times they were able to tell me that the problem wasn’t severe and saved us a trip to A&E and exposing other kids to whatever virus my kids had. And once they got an ambulance to me in 5 minutes because it was serious and my daughter needed a night in hospital on a drip to recover. From the point of view of a worried parent all those incidents looked exactly the same.
American who moved to the UK a year ago-
Agreed on the 111 service- it has been fantastic. They helped when I thought I was having heart palls again and the GP followed up that week with a phone call to make sure things were still okay.
I’m thinking that gent above makes a lot more money than I do, because taxes and NHS fees are seperate payroll deductions. As an immigrant, I’m in the 12% payroll bracket which is the highest charged for anyone in the UK for NHS. Some folks are on lower ones. It is still less than the 22% of my income I paid the last year I was in the USA to health care for just myself.
My tax bracket is seperate, and since I’m not in the top quarter of earners I’m in the 20% payroll deduction lot (You have to make over £40k to get taxed 40%, and that is more than the average salary of someone who has worked 20 years). My US taxes last year were 25% 😦
So God bless the NHS and the kindly staff they have; they have been nothing but amazing so far.
Jeremy Pascoe says:
You do not pay a 12% payroll tax for the NHS. National insurance is not ringfenced at all ie its just general taxation and is to pay for all social security benefits and government pensions as well.
Sarah Morris says:
Agree with the 111 number. I had a deep cut on my leg that was not healing. I had some anti-bios from the my local GP, but just 2 days before the follow up appointment I woke up with my leg in pain and sweating. I tried some codine but it just got worse. Called the 111 number and they asked if I could get down to the emergency doctor (it was about 2am now). Jumped in a taxi and went to the emergency doc. They were waiting for me, took one look and got driven round to the A&E who admitted me right away into hospital. Got given morphine for the pain, then sent for x-ray, then admitted to the high dependency ward and later the infectious disease ward. I was told it was a close thing to either loosing my leg or worse involving a 6ft deep hole. A week later I was discharged to a thing called Hospital at Home where for 2 weeks, 7 days a week, twice a day folks came round to give me IV drugs and look after my leg. I had 3 follow up’s , including one where I was given massive box of drugs and dressings to take home. I’m now healed, my leg is coming on fine and I’m back at work. Cannot praise the NHS highly, and of course, all free. Yes, I’ve paid through my taxes, but I doubt 10 years worth at 100% of what I’ve paid would have covered the costs. Yes, the Sussex hospital is a maze where to pass through you go up in a lift, then down further on, and it’s been a building site since I’ve lived here in Brighton (16 years) as it’s been added too, then upgraded, but they fixed me, no problems. Love em!!!
Agreed. They were absolutely brilliant when my father had a non-responsive incident a couple of months ago. They gave very good advice and arranged for him to get an appointment at the Sunday afternoon clinic later that day, just to be sure there was nothing more serious going on.
She doesnt seem to know that that was Nhs England and that the Westminster English gkvt only regulates health in England. Scotlands Nhs is separate.
Good thing Sunderland is very much in England then…
I live in London but have lived in the US: I love the NHS and it’s no surprise that there was a homily to it on the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.
Tay Carlton says:
Actually, it was surprising, given that the UK Secretary of State for health didn’t want the homily and has written a book about privatising the NHS.
Pól says:
I used to work in an A&E(ER) as a receptionist, in the NHS, and I was struck by the other European Union nationals who came to reception to pay, only have to explain that’s not how we do it here.
When I needed to use the Public Health Service in France, I had to pay for the ambulance, unheard of in the UK, and for each appointment at the hospital afterwards, apart from some of the costs that were covered by my EHIC.
When I went back to Ireland, where I was born, my parents’ GP gave me a “Health Card” prescription, which meant I didn’t have to pay for it, like a pensioner back in Ireland.
The NHS is a treasure the British do not realise that they have.
Hi , we do know what we have , it’s just the government f*****g things up for us . They want to save money on the situation but don’t realise how much it will cost .
They decided to close A&E departments down ( ERs ) and gave the Drs and Nurses their P45 ( leaving cards ) .
The government now only have A&E departments open around Westminster ( House of Commons ) in case an MP gets a cut finger .
( With greatest respect and partially sarcastic ) .
Addendum – partially sarcastic to the government NOT to you . 🙂
They have to close a and e because the staff refuse to modernise their contracts or processes. Stop blaming the government when it is clearly the staff who are the problem.
Loren Pechtel says:
I blame the government because the poor performance is because they accept it. It’s the expected problem when you have the same guys setting the standards and paying for compliance with those standards–it makes it so easy to turn a blind eye to problems.
Cindy Perlin, LCSW says:
Great post. Thank you!
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Pete Williams says:
Thank you for writing about your experience of the NHS emergency system. The NHS is far from perfect but most of our big issues are politically created. I’d personally hate to work in a system where I’d need to consider a patient’s ability to pay before discussing investigations and treatment options with them. If you need a full body CT because of multi-system trauma you’ll get it, usually within 30 minutes of the request.
Keep spreading the love for the NHS!
Dr Pete (Emergency Physician)
andywilliamsongreen says:
I remember reading your last column about the NHS. Thanks for this one too. I’m a dual national US & UK. I grew up in the UK and have always lived here. I inherited PKD from my American mother, who came to the UK in 1967 after marrying by British dad. I’ve now had two kidney transplants – the second from my US cousin, whose flights and loss of earnings were paid for by the NHS as it’s cheaper to do that that keep me on dialysis. I don’t believe I could ever live in the US, as it would be impossible to afford the necessary insurance and immunosuppressant drugs as a freelance musician: all treatment is free under the NHS. I often wonder how much happier a place the US would be if it wasn’t full of people doing jobs they hate because it’s the only way to afford health insurance. Is that how it is?
Thanks for writing this.
RickS says:
So your friend was part of the issue if you did turn up at an A&E.
A&E depts are for life threatening injuries only, unexplained chest pains, head injuries, excessive loss of blood, ambulance cases, etc.
Your mate should have been taken to a minor injuries unit. They deal with sprains, breaks, fractures, superficial wounds.
You are right though education of the masses is key though it’s somewhat pointless just doing it in school as emergency services on the NHS have changed over the years. From the availability of NHS direct (a helpline you can call to be advised by nurses over the phone) to the instantiation of minor injuries units, it all changes.
Confused about A&E and when to use it? Take a look at this: http://6qg7i41tyj019gihpa2y01a1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/AE_Torbay-883×575.jpg
dansmith17 says:
It varies from city to city, because in many major hospitals you will have a minor injuries unit co-located with the AE. There are often Minor Injuries Units as stand alone units in much smaller towns with smaller hospitals.
doobarz says:
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Another interesting take on the NHS by an American doctor.
iainglencross@hotmail.com says:
No mention of the Ottawa rules for suspected ankle fracture, but I very interesting article. Thank you. Iain ,
Kat Thomas says:
Delighted that you had such swift, skilled and friendly care, which is quite typical in the NHS. And you could have speeded it up further by going directly to Urgent Care as your first stop – you’re right about the need for more education on how to use the system most effectively to maximise use of resources. You tend to learn your way around the system as your kids grow up, and a bit of explanation in (high) school would make that easier for everyone.
That varies from place to place. Our Urgent Care Unit in Cambridge only accepts patients via GP or A&E (as in Jen’s cousin’s case) referral.
I’m really glad you’ve had another positive experience of the NHS and the hospital.
I’m not sure your cousin has done justice to her GP though. Almost all surgeries have emergency appointments either with the doctor or nurse or at least telephone triage. It seems unfair to say it’s impossible, without even trying. And of course an x-ray wouldn’t be ordered on the phone. X-rays come with radiation risk and should only be ordered if appropriate. The best orthopaedic surgeon wouldn’t be able to make an appropriate assessment on the phone.
Not at 11am in the morning, they don’t. Usually you have to phone on the dot of 8.30am to get an emergency appointment for that day. So if you missed that on Friday, Monday would be your next chance.
This was actually one of he bits I found most interesting about the differences, between the two systems. The U.K. has discouraged GP’s setting up their own mini labs, and radiology units it’s more efficient to have a single unit at the hospital than buy 100 x-Ray machines that are at every GP surgery but are rarely used.
However why not have the ability to bypass AE and go direct to X-Ray based NHS 111 assessment, sometimes it will need medical assessment first but some cases will be straightforward.
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Gail Smith says:
Over the years I have had 8 operations, all provided by the wonderful NHS, and I am so grateful for the care and kindness I have been shown. My mum had terminal bowel cancer, and the care provided by G.P.’s, hospital staff, district nurses etc. was nothing short of incredible. To arrive at a hospital ward with a heavy heart, and seeing a nurse sitting next to mum holding her hand, was so amazing. Mum wanted to die at home, and thanks to the brilliant district nurses and doctors, that wish was granted. I have a fond memory of mum’s G.P. visiting our house, and sitting on our patio, gently explaining to myself and my sisters that they would make sure she had the best care possible. It’s not perfect, there are problems. However, we really are fortunate, and people who abuse the system need to realise that they are wasting money that is needed for those who really need help.
leonduveen says:
Reblogged this on Mantonite – A Worksop Liberal and commented:
Before anyone else tells us the NHS is failing or that the don’t already have a 24/7 NHS, read this post from an American doctor, especially the bits about “copayments” and what it means to those who need care ut can’t afford to pay (and those who can afford it so abuse the system).
No, the NHS is not perfect. I work in it so I know there is waste and inefficiency, but before we start tearing it to pieces we need to understand what the alternatives are, if they are any better and, most importantly, are they better value for our taxpayer money.
To judge from this story, we should be very grateful for what we have!
Sungirl DreamingEvurr says:
I fear you missed the glaring point that is the main problem. Your cousin couldn’t get to see her GP.
I have ended up in A&E because my GP refused to help me and brushed me off, even complaining that when she took my blood pressure she would have to deal with the fact that it was sky high (missing that it was high because of the stress about the problem I had got to her for).
I have what I believe to be a ganglion in my hand and I am constantly tired…. but to get a GP appointment is too much to deal with only to be brushed off with no support.
Our NHS is awesome, once you get into the system, but getting that appointment, past the bulldog receptionist on the end of the phone, is a nightmare. If you work full time and can’t take time out of work to get to an appointment it is nigh-on impossible.
We need more GPs, solve that, and you solve so many other problems.
Yup–this is actually showing the problems with the NHS, rather than showing it works. They went to the A&E because it’s the part of the system that does work. If it’s not an emergency it’s way too slow even on things where that’s totally not acceptable.
Loren Pechtel: Wrong. They would have gone to A&E or Urgent Care anyway from the GP, because GPs don’t have X-ray devices.
Sungirl: I doubt if more GPs would solve the problem. The real solution is to fine or disqualify employers who will not give staff time off to attend GPs/hospitals during the workweek. You MUST be able to take time off work to care for your health, and that time must never be used as a promotion or job security criterion. Any employer who violates that should be forced into bankruptcy.
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Dave Hulme says:
Got to “mess it up” before they sell it to their mates and future employer’s
That is so, so true…. exactly what the Minister for Health, Jeremy Hunt and his cronies are up to. If you are not already, join the group 38Degrees, an organisation which up to par on the NHS. They very recently reported on a ‘secret’ paper concerning the NHS and .Jeremy Hunt.
There was a documentary on TV whereby investigators found out about covert meetings with USA Health Care companies and Insurance providers…. Thankfully they disrupted it royally! ….
If they were to go to the British public and asked could they agree to pay an extra £1 in their taxes or pensioners (like me) a £1 less, they most certainly would. Hell I’d take a £5 less. I am so passionate about the NHS and so is my husband who is on dialysis 3 times a week.
telescoper says:
Reblogged this on In the Dark and commented:
Remember that story a couple of years ago by an American doctor about her experiences of the NHS? Well, here’s a sequel…
I’m an American living in the UK (8 years) and I think the NHS is great. I broke my arm quite badly several years ago and had excellent treatment (2 surgeries) and rehab and never paid anything. I can’t imagine how much that would cost in the USA. My sister was over for a visit once and managed to forget her insulin at my house when we were away for a weekend. Got an evening appt to get a script (they did charge but were hugely apologetic) and picked up the insulin the next morning (again paid £7 and got major apologies for having to pay). I’m really quite proud to work in this country and contribute to such a fair and practical system. I really hope the current political climate keeps the NHS working the way it does (or even improves it…!)
Meanwhile in Birmingham my mum has been waiting for the hospital to remove he thyroid as its crushing her windpipe since October 2015… That’s 10, that’s right TEN whole months… Brilliant… In pain and can barely breath for 10 months…
Rachel Henderson says:
I hope and wish that the delightful government of our strange little group of nations reads your post – and sees what really happens – and maybe, just maybe, realise that the NHS is probably the best thing to have in this country ever. Of course there are problems and issues and things that need sorting – but – without it, lives are lost, people are made bankrupt. Healthcare, free at the point of use, is what no-one ever ever moans about paying taxes for – and long may that continue.
Strange to think that in the late 30s Hollywood would have as a film idea, a health service where the community put in a few cents a week to support it. It was one of the Dr. Kildare films entitled Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) where one of the rich in the community ‘poo-poohed’ the idea from these young doctors until (IIRC) his own son needed urgent medical attention which was offered.
sabremeister says:
Reblogged this on Arranging Reality and commented:
The view of an outsider. And not just any outsider, one who knows how other systems work and how crap they are compared to ours.
I live in the UK and have the greatest respect and gratitude for the NHS. I don’t know how widely known it is that they also have a phone number (I think 111) where anyone can ask for advice, 24/7, for any worries. I’ve used it twice in 8 years and had the most competent, most scrupulously detailed, most time-efficient response. I had an accident 9 years ago and the level of care was outstanding, top specialists brought in for each potential problem, every possible angle covered, excellent after-care advice, excellent care for the ensuing problems, in each department where I needed to go. It’s true that, in 20 years in different parts of UK, some GPs and GP surgeries were less pleasing than others. My current one is stellar. But specialist care is outstanding, and GPs are worked very hard, they try their bests, and some or perhaps most of them manage to remain wonderful. It pains me to see how the system is hassled, because it is wonderful and it should be greatly celebrated and helped.
Dr Blessing says:
Thank you Dr Gunter
Anna King says:
Thank you for spreading the news about our amazing NahS and the fantastic people who work there. ❤️
Jonathan Kent says:
What I’d like people in the US to understand is at least part of why we have a welfare state, of which the NHS and pensions, disability benefits and help for people out of work are a part.
Between the August of 1940 and May 1941 we endured the Blitz. Just about every city in the UK (save Oxford and Cambridge) was bombed. Coventry was pretty much destroyed. London was hit time and again. Just under 40,000 civilians died. That’s the equivalent of a 9/11 every fortnight for eight months.
That wasn’t the end of the bombing. Even towards the end of the war it became more terrifying in the shape of V1 and V2 rocket attacks. More than 100 rockets fell on the four parishes around where I live in Sussex in the middle of the countryside. Again London in particular suffered. Famously the present Queen’s mother is supposed to have said that the fact that Buckingham Palace was hit allowed her to look the East End in the eye.
And just as the home front was endured together people from all walks of life fought together from Malaya to the North Atlantic, made friends and became comrades.
The NHS and the rest of the welfare state was our way of recognising that we had endured that we had endured that conflict together, rich and poor alike. In 1945 Churchill was unceremoniously turfed out of office in the general election and a Labour government started work on the welfare state, arguably the greatest political achievement of the last century, an extraordinary act in extraordinary times.
I know the United States (apologies for the sweeping generalisation) likes to think of itself as a nation of rugged individualists forged in the revolution and the trek westwards and that has shaped the nation’s character. Well we have achieved our best through working together, not alone. Our struggle to build a better nation was a collective one.
The NHS is our greatest monument to that principle. That’s why we love it. It treats us all the same, rich and poor alike, because no life is worth less than another despite a world apparently determined to act as though it is.
Thank you for appreciating it. It’s there for our friends and guests too.
How strange. Someone seems to have started slicing onions.
TROLL alert !!
“Our struggle to build a better nation was a collective one.”
Thank you so much for this comment. Yep, we Americans are “all about the bootstraps.” Sadly, too many of our citizens can’t afford “boots” much less bootstraps. We’re too busy trying to protect what we have rather than taking a look around us and realizing that we too “could build a better nation” if we would only come together as one.
Moosmom says:
Here here , my British heart is as proud as yours . We brits do know what we have and most of us respect it greatly. The fact that it does not discriminate rich or poor makes me very very proud of our NHS .
It’s an awful legacy which people pay for with their lives everyday. It’s 1941, it’s 2016 and a socialists ideal shouldn’t be the basis for whether you live or die.
If it’s an awful legacy then why on earth is it consistently found in polls to be the thing of which Brits are most proud? We have great healthcare and we don’t have to worry about whether our insurance will pay out. Moreover it has been maintained by successive governments of both the left and right.
Frank Ch. Eigler says:
@Jonathan Kent:
“why on earth is it consistently found in polls to be the thing of which Brits are most proud?”
because it’s a major subject of propaganda? because they don’t have much of a choice?
photoblogger says:
Oh you’d rather live and die by free market capitalist rules, where insurance companies decide on your treatment?
Utter bullshit. What you call “modernise” is really “make compatible with market fundamentalist capitalism”. The latter is responsible for the Greater Depression 2008-forever and is a complete, unrecoverable failure, to be scrapped ASAP (and have its adherents re-educated).
Market fundamentalist capitalism (which often masquerades as “libertarianism” but is strangely reluctant to liberate the capitalist-owned means of production, distribution and exchange) must be trashed, wrecked and replaced by egalitarian socialism.
I’ve just come back from Addenbrooke’s A&E in Cambridge – had really wonderful service there
dippy1337 says:
“obesity causes 30% of cancers”
Could you provide a source/citation for this?
I see research linking *reduced activity* to health issues, which is different from linking *obesity* to health issues. Also, is that 30% of all *varieties* of cancers, or 30% of all *instances* of cancers?
This statistic seems to be all kinds of problematic.
Dr Gunter. Thank you. I so hope our government listen to. Sadly they seem to believe the only way to improve our still wonderful NHS is to give some of it’s funds to wealthy health care corporations to distribute to their wealthy shareholders.
korhomme says:
I can see the family resemblance! I trust your cousin is mending well.
What you describe is what should happen most of the time in the NHS. Alas, politicians have got involved – particularly the Tories – and are intent in wrecking it with their neo-liberal market-driven ideology. But it’s still far better than anything the US has to offer, isn’t it?
Sharon McCormick says:
The vast majority of us DO love, appreciate & respect our NHS. Everyone I know who works in the NHS are very passionate & proud of it too. 😊
“To receive this care all my cousin had to do was provide her name and birthdate.”
In the end, who paid?
“Dear U.K., the NHS is awesome.”
Based on only two anecdotes, that may be reaching.
Willthebear says:
I paid, as does anyone who pays National Insurance.
A couple of weeks ago I was admitted with breathing difficulties. On that occasion, I relied on other people’s payments.
I am fine with this as a system.
Of course, all beneficiaries of a wealth transfer scheme are usually “fine with this as a system”.
Julian Cavalier says:
Next time come out with me (consultant level nurse practitioner) in my rapid response ambulance and see how we treat at scene- avoiding ED, hospital all together. We admit, prescribe, offer a full range of tests and diagnose. We see life threatening through to end of life. Complete autonomy and very positively received by all.
DAVID ASHFORD says:
It’s actually become worse for many in the US.
The days of a $ 100 deductible for the ER are long gone. My wife works in medical diagnostics, and we get our coverage from her employer. Two years ago, we did have a $ 100 deductible for the ER, we had a $ 29 co-pay for our family physician, & $ 49 for a specialist. Now we have a $ 4000 deductible per person (up to a family maximum of $ 8000) that has to be satisfied before the insurance pays a penny. The last time I went to the doctor I was told that it might be an idea to have some tests done. I told the nurse who was going to schedule the tests that I couldn’t afford to have them done. She told me that the nurses at the practice and the hospital that ran the practice were in the same situation; they had all been moved to high deductible medical plans, and would not be able to afford the out of pocket expense in getting treated at the hospital group they worked for.
KlokTok says:
It is incredible what the staff of the NHS do for us all, despite the attacks on their funding and contracts. Imagine what could be done if the government were not trying desperately to make them fail, so that they have an excuse to privatise!
I’m so glad to live in Scotland, where our NHS has a bit more protection than England’s, and is better funded and better preforming (despite Westminster’s constant attempts to force the situation otherwise).
I honestly can’t imagine living in a country without social healthcare. I find it insane that the USA clings so strongly to their outdated and failed system of health for the wealthy.
For 90k a year as an qualified doctor and 40k for a nurse, plus gold plated pension, never a minute worked that you don’t get paid for, cheap housing, cheap mortgages – bursary grants other students can only dream of, guaranteed pay rises regardless of your performance – and the knowledge that if anyone tries to take any of it away, you can go and strike and socialists will give you unconditional support. We are so lucky to have the staff who work in the NHS, all 1.5 million of them. (Shakes his head)
What cheap housing, cheap mortgages? They don’t exist. Bursaries don’t exist any more either.
Phil Woodford says:
It’s great to see such positive support for the NHS from an American doctor. It is a fabulous system. The dubious presentations at ER are not really anything to do with education though. Of course, there are hypochondriacs and no amount of preaching is going to convince them they don’t need attention. And then there are a lot of genuine people who come up against the frustrations of the NHS. It is very hard to get a timely appointment with a GP. Services are overstretched, triaging over the phone is very officious, the appointment allocation system Kafkaesque. ER – or A&E, as we’d call it in Britain – is a way of circumventing all this. I say this because in defending the great principle of the NHS, it’s important to be honest about its shortcomings.
I have quite a lot of sympathy for US-style individualism but I think it misses two really important points re. health care:
First, healthcare is a public matter. One person’s choices affect other people. Recently there was a severe measles outbreak in Wales where people died, because over the last few years a lot of people had chosen not to have their children vaccinated against measles. It’s in ALL our interests for life-threatening and other illnesses not to be allowed to be widespread.
Second, none of us (except legit billionaires) can be sure we can cover our own medical expenses. Serious, long-term illnesses can easily cost six, seven, eight figure sums over a life time. Thankfully, most of us will never need that sort of treatment, but we don’t know who will. That’s why we have insurance. In the US that’s private insurance, in the UK it’s national insurance (and, if people choose, private insurance on top of that). The choice is between private, for-profit insurers, or public, not-for-profit insurers. I know which I would rather trust to make decisions in the best interests of my long-term health.
I broke my ankle while living in London but on holiday in Ireland. I had x-rays, diagnosis, back plaster cast (couldn’t get a full cast since I had to fly back from Ireland) and doctor note with instructions to get full cast as soon as I returned, given it was partially displaced and the back plaster cast was already on twice as long as it should have been… but when I got back to the UK, I was told I had to go back to A&E, after an hour and a half wait, I was told it would take two weeks before I could get an appointment at a fracture clinic to get a real cast. Fortunately I had private medical so was able to get seen more quickly. I imaging it’s better outside of London, but I for one regret paying National Insurance for unacceptable service when I actually needed it. Give me the US (pre Obamacare because I know things have changed since I have been living in the UK) where I would have been seen immediately and the cost really isn’t that much more when you take into account how much you pay in NI contributions annually!
Noval says:
How many years wait is there for a CT scan in the UK for a post-diagnosis cancer patient with a spot on her lung? And you say a US $100 co-payment is cruel? Rubbish.
There is a maximum wt of 4-6 weeks ! Usually is within 2 weeks ! So the notion that there is years of wait in uk is rubbish!
A friend of mine is still waiting for a consultation with oncologist 8 weeks after being told there is cancer ‘somewhere’. So it’s a lottery nhs
Steve Dannell says:
The major issue with the NHS is with lack of joined up thinking and underinvestment. I needed 3 different scans (ultrasound/MRI/CT I think) to try to get to grips with some pain I was getting in my stomach and other symptoms. 6 week wait for the first, a week to look at the scans, another 6 week wait for the second, 2 weeks to look at that, another 6 weeks for the third. 5 months later I get the all clear, had I had cancer, the wait might have killed me or at least meant I lost the benefit of catching it early. I’m sure the French would have done all 3 scans on the same day within 2 weeks.
Also their IT systems are terribly inefficient. I’ve just missed an appointment with a specialist nurse because a letter went missing in the post. I asked the nurse who requested the appointment 3 days before whether there was anything on her system about it as I should have had notification, and despite the fact that the appointment was at my home surgery and they were notified a week before, it wasn’t on their system, apparently they only add it afterwards so when I looked online I couldn’t see it and neither could she. Get into the 20th or 21st century, book appointments by phone or email, and send email reminders if the patient consents.
I’m very glad to have the NHS, but it’s not perfect. It frustrates me that it could be better.
Jacqui Killick says:
agreed….. I have a letter here dated 19th August, advising me of my CT scan booking on Sunday 4th September 7.40am
Steve dannell, I work in the NHS and have been getting some information to help my brother in Law who sounds like he is being investigated for similar symptoms, the ultrasound, CT and MRI are looking for different things, and differential diagnosis both in US and UK will be look for the most likely cause, and rule it out then work down list of possible other causes. So do ultrasound first makes sense as if it had found what they had suspected you would not have need the others.
I still think 3 x 6 weeks waits is too long, my BiL had something closer to 2 weeks, 1 week, 2 week, but what both of you have faced poor response in explaining what is happening and why.
IT I agree with you, we wasted a fortune trying to end up with a single super system for all of England and should have just got on with putting in improved IT locally.
Aran Woodfin says:
First, read carefully, the patient was not post diagnosis cancer but awaiting new diagnosis as a previous cancer patient HUGE difference.
Secondly, What on earth led you to believe that CT scans for something as almighty serious as cancer check would take a month let alone years through the NHS? No one I know of who has had experience of cancer has ever had to wait long and most definitely NOT even close to A year let alone years.
And no cancer patient in this country has to be concerned about having to pay for any of their diagnosis or treatment at all, let alone beforehand. How would you feel having to cough up cash you don’t have while you cough up what might be your life? It is cruelty and people HAVE DIED for it!!!
Your exaggeration makes me shudder because it is that kind of blithe disregard of context and perspective that sets the NHS in jeopardy from those who would prey on the sick to make profit.
bri65 says:
THANK YOU for correcting the bad information that “Noval” wants to peddle. That’s part of the con game run on the American people for decades. Those who fight tooth and nail against a rational system of health care for the U.S. lie with impunity, and too often their lies are taken up as gospel.
It’s a two week wait maximum on the nhs for cancer diagnosis and treatments to start.
I’ve recently been through it myself.
Buttfarts says:
Do tell, how many? 🙄
My mum waited 12 months for a cancer diagnosis for bowel cancer. She was losing weight and couldn’t keep good down. They said she wasn’t looking after herself and asked us not to bring her back. That’s the NHS I know. When I complained I was told “this sounds like we need to get our solicitors involved”. All I wanted was answers.
IE Atkisn says:
My husband when getting a check up for a constant cough and suspected lung cancer was sent for a CT scan almost immediately I suggest you get your facts right before such inane comments. ANY money when you have none IS cruel. Not everyone is well off and remember that America does not have unemployment and disabled benefits. Its a supposedly civilised country with very uncivilised practises. Just be bloody grateful for NHS.
Rob Howard says:
The United States absolutely does have unemployment benefits as well as disabled benefits.
Penelope Casadesus says:
YESSSS!
Thabo Miller says:
2 weeks or less. There is a target that is religiously stuck to
2 weeks or less, once your doctor decides the chance of it being cancer is above a certain level and agrees to order the scan. Sadly, it can take months of repeat GP visits to convince the gp to do that, as my family sadly found out. I don’t blame the GP, as he told me afterwards he has a small budget and has to prioritise, but in another country like Australia, where money isn’t the same issue, the scan that showed the cancer would have been ordered months earlier.
Susan Caldwell says:
What a load of old cobblers, there is NEVER years of waiting for a CT scan in the UK. I’ve had 2, neither for suspected cancer and the longest I waited was 4 weeks for one and only 2 for the other. As another poster commented a scan is usually performed within 2 weeks if cancer is suspected. My youngest son had suspected bowel cancer and received an appointment within 3 days to see the consultant and 1 week for his scan and colonoscopy. My ex husbands 3rd wife has recently died from cancer in the US, actually she killed herself because she was terminal and they couldn’t afford any more treatment. Their insurance no longer covered her and they had sold everything including their home to pay for treatment. They even had to buy oxygen, she had lung cancer caused by working as a fire fighter on oil rigs and at home, no compensation was ever forthcoming. So before you slag off our NHS any further, ask yourself this; when have you ever heard of someone blowing their brains out in a motel room because they could no longer afford treatment and they where in agony in the UK.
Bongo Wynne-Woodhouse says:
wife has had a brain tumor, she has a scan once a year, if she is feeling unwell due to the problems it has she contacts her doctor at the neurological center who makes the request, it then takes 10 days or less, we would struggle to find this $100 co payment rubbish that YOURE advocatin, but please carry on, you seem to be doing so well over there…..
Erm… It’s a 2 week wait? National guidelines? Is that ok?
elfinkate says:
You would likely be seen within two weeks if cancer was suspected. I recently had symptoms that suggested possible cancer and was seen within a week.
1 week wait in my experience. CT scan and biopsy done 7 days after my dad visited the GP. The results were given two days later.
sheila pearson says:
whilst this experience was shared(internet) at the same time there was another younger cousin (not a model) hidden away in a small room in a council house waiting to die from a recently diagnosed aggressivebrain tumour. query family communication/priority ???
Theresa Knott says:
When I had suspected cancer I had “two week turn around” written on my notes answers@linkedin.com was guaranteed to get all scans and teats results within two weeks.
People sometimes wait months for non urgent treatment like hip replacements but not for time sensitive stuff.
Nigel Strudwick says:
How about telling us about your sources for such a ridiculous statement? Or could it be the old “socialised medicine” paranoia? As commented, plenty of people cannot afford $100, be glad you can. I lived in the US for a number of years and was horrified to see people not getting treatment as they could not afford it, or benefit concerts for musicians who got cancer, etc. The most ridiculous comment is ever heard out there was, when I mentioned that musicians often had to raise money like this was “they should have considered their career choices”.
Anchi says:
I would be surprised taking into account the pre history off the example mentioned if she wouldnt be seen there and then ( as she was already at a hospital) it would be less than a week if not on the day
For a ‘suspect cancer’, any cancer, anywhere, in any age group, the maximum wait allowable by government legislation is 2 weeks. And there is a drive now to make that 2 weeks to treatment so the scan would probably be within a few days. Any fairly of a service to meet this deadline is met with an investigation and financial penalties to the provider. I have never heard of the deadline being missed. And I have worked in the NHS for over a decade. Clearly $100 is nothing to you but it is a lot to many people both here in the UK and in The USA.
Chris Hammond says:
Possible cancer imaging is performed under a rapid access 2 week wait pathway. This includes follow up.
What a great post. So nice to hear positive messages about our wonderful NHS. I have had cause to use the NHS on numerous occasions throughout my life (although thankfully rarely In an emergency). Recently I had to rush my elderly father to A&E with chest pains and breathlessness. We were of course seen immediately but what pleased me was the way the receptionist cut through the bureaucracy. Her words to me were, “I need a few details but I’ve got a triage nurse on her way now so don’t worry…” Absolutely fantastic. My father was having an ECG within 5 minutes of walking through the door. He made a full recovery after a few days in hospital by the way.
I get so tired of hearing people complain about the NHS. We all know it’s not perfect but it’s pretty damn good!
Hey, if you want we can do a ouija board and tell my mum that. 6 times we took her to a&e, six times they pushed her back out home. It was only once I got really rude with them that they did what they should have done and made a diagnosis. Bowel cancer, we had been taking her to a&e for 12 months (the 6 times), the NHS admitted if she had been dealt with quicker she’d have survived – if that was a car I’d be wanting the head of the mechanic who screwed up – but in the NHS you don’t even get a sorry. This has nothing to do with underfunding or the government, this was the staff and their lax approach. It isn’t holly city I there, the staff don’t give two figs and if it’s near to home time you have no chance of getting anyone to step up. This isn’t isolated, the problem is that the naysayers are discredited on sites like this by the army of NHS and socialist supporters who see the idea of the NHS and the gravy that comes with it as more important than any patient. I’ve never met anyone who has had a good experience with the NHS, yet I come on here and various people describe a health service I have never seen. As a general rule it takes 3 weeks to see a gp, 3 months to get a referral and if you get an appointment lasting more than 5 minutes it’s a miracle. A&E is a place where you can wait 5 hours despite there being no activity what so ever. Staff hanging around, talking and laughing. Getting anyone at the NHS to take any responsibility is impossible and the devolved trusts make that harder too, the governors of hospitals are out of touch and when I tried to engage unobtainable. In short they aren’t interested in the patient, we exist so they can pay themselves on the back. I pay 4K a year for this. It’s not worth 4 pounds.
Don’t forget we were paying the Yankee for 50 years they said it was for them helping us in the war ?well the
Germans had a real good time in Us ports sinking your ship they called it the Happy time? Then the Japanese took out most of your ships then and only then did the US decide to come into the war so we had been fighting for years before thatwas helping them realy. The Russians told the US it was the US war as well as Russian. And they paid nothing to you. But our lads were getting killed for nearly two years befor the Us decided to come in then for the firs year while our lads were still being killed fighting Germans , Italians, and and Japanese while the gi was living it up here in England one reason we had no money after the war and on top of that paying money to you for a war that was yours and ours the Yankee did very well out of this war that’s why they have rockets now and also plans and other things for aircraft they stole from Germany any way I hope everything turned out OK for you
margaret Diamond says:
Here Here on that! Yes the Germans did not have to pay war reparations after the war…. in fact they had their country rebuilt by other nations. The Brits had to repay – after the war – the cost of the armaments which had been sent by the US while they – the Brits – were the only ones fighting the Germans. I think the cost of the war ….to the Brits …was something like $6,000,000 a day but I may be wrong on that. From an almost 90 year old who lived in the UK during WW2.
jim beam says:
Wrong: Germany paid billions! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reparations_for_World_War_II
Ruck Foster says:
I agree, the Anericans acted selfishly, late and without any concern about their allies. Their claimed development of the Atom bomb was a lie, the concept was put in place at Birmingham University in 1937 and the accelerated development was by German scientists smuggled out of Penemunde and other German sites into the USA.
Britain paid for the “lend – lease” programme for more than 30 years whilst Gremany, under the “Marshall Plan” was rebuilt at no cost, the same in Japan.
Although living in Australia, I grew up in the UK in the 1940 – 1950s where the NHS struggled for funding because of the payments to the USA.
We are now in a position where Americans generally, have little or no knowledge (or care) about the rest of the world with most thinking that they “own” it!
To be honest I also have seen both sides I was taken to one Hospital and no one saw me for two days so I got dressed and started to go home then Doctors sergion and nerses and matrons seem to come out of the wood work to try to get me to stop in. And the next time a few months later I was put in Bolton Royal Hospital within two days they had done tests put a camera into me sent me through two scanners like big washing machines then told me they couldn’t find anything wrong with my heart but they found two small stones in my Pancreas they took them out and the small stones that I saw on the camera pictures turned out to be as big as base balls all this was done in two days of going in? So I have seen the bad and the good.
How is this barely coherent mess relevant to the post? Do you pay any attention to what is appearing in the screen as you type? Over half your comment is a single sentence. If you want people to take you seriously, learn basic concepts such as punctuation and sentence structure.
GOLD!
ladybirdathome says:
I think you are on the wrong thread, unless the Russians are going to take over the NHS?
All of which has absolutely nothing to do with how the NHS is funded, nor how fantastic it is! Maybe I’ve missed your point?!
.. add to that millions of slaves who worked for free ..
Sandy Robertson says:
What’s any of this got to do with a post about how good the NHS is?
lifeofabionicwoman says:
Really interesting, sounds like you’ve had great experiences with the NHS.
Those wheelchairs are all over the UK and a pest!
I’ve got friends in America who say they oppose free health care there because they refuse to pay for those who suffer from addictions or the unemployed. Which makes no sense to me. We do pay for the NHS via our tax, as it should be.
Also inyerstingly all medical care is free in Scotland, which is a different NHS to England. Prescriptions and dental check ups etc.
There is a big difference between the NHS in England to here (Scotland), I have Avascular Necrosis in way to many joints – I waited 3 weeks from when I told my surgeon at 26 I wanted a hip replacement to getting it – people in England walk about with a collapsed femoral head for 2 years plus.
A friend in Chicago bought glucose testing strips here for £18 (she would have gotten them free if she was Scottish), costs her over $200 at home. Which is insane. I hope one day America figures out a better way – because as your story suggests with the copays there must be people dying.
Also – worth pointing out that a lot of people visit the ED out of normal GP working hours. And I’ve had xray’s booked over the phone – this may just be Scotland though.
GlasgowRose says:
2 years ago, here in the US, I was diagnosed with MS. After having a severe allergic reaction to the first medication, that required hospitalization for anaphylaxis shock, my doctor prescribed a different infusion medication. My insurance company (an accountant or clerk probably), refused to cover the treatment. Without insurance, this would cost me $5,200, every other week. After 4 months of plodding through the absolute hell that is dealing with insurance companies here… Appeals, denials, paperwork, 2nd & 3rd opinions, etc… I was lucky enough to be approved by the pharmaceutical company to get the medication I needed at no cost. I still had to pay for the day long process of the infusion which was almost $800, every other week, for months. I received NO treatment for those months and my MS got dramatically worse. Over the course of 18 months of treatments, no treatments, hospitalizations, PT, OT, and in home visits for steroid infusions, I spent every penny of my savings & retirement savings and racked up insurmountable debt. Those 18 months cost me almost $80,000.
But I was “lucky!” I had savings and retirement funds. I have a large family that helped me and a group of friends who held fundraisers for me.
I have family in Scotland, have been there many times and seen how the NHS works there. Someone complained about the “supposed” amount of time to wait for procedures… 4 MONTHS with NO treatment at all because of the US system.
No one should have to hold raffles in order to receive needed medical treatment!
I apologize for the lengthy and rambling nature of my comment. Because my MS worsened so much while not being treated, it now affects me cognitively and I don’t communicate as well as I used to.
The NHS is something to be enormously grateful for. The alternative here is a hellish, system that financially ruins those who can pay for it, and kills off those who can’t!
Absolutely, most bankruptcies in the US are related to medical care. I have had expenses that are comparable to an average income. I have only avoided bankruptcy due to saving since my 20s.
This is for Margaret but for some reason it won’t let me reply to her so I’m replying to message above hers:
That “research” that showed that most bankruptcies were related to medical expenses was garbage. What they actually showed is that most bankruptcies involved at least one medical bill. That’s hardly news.
A Google search for “percent of bankruptcies due to medical bills” lists a number of studies. I have read through some of them and don’t find the same “garbage” that you do.
Here’s a recent article from The Wall Street Journal on a study by a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston. http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2015/07/01/the-future-of-personal-bankruptcy-in-a-post-obamacare-world/
Here’s a highlight from his research: “Massachusetts residents who file for bankruptcy protection these days have way less medical debt compared to the rest of the country. The typical Massachusetts person or couple who filed in 2013 had $3,041 in medical debt, while people everywhere else had an average of $8,594 in medical debt.
In fact, he found that Massachusetts is the only state where medical debt isn’t the leading cause of personal bankruptcy. (A loss of income is the No. 1 reason, he found.)”
Katkimjac says:
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NHS rise again, and to the British government stop trying to mess it up!
Heather Barber says:
The only education provided to our young people about driving in the UK is at most one session where the police come and speak to yr 11 pupils about not texting/not drinking. There is no driver ed provided in school; all driving lessons (and tests) are paid privately by the young person, or probably their parents.
Also whereas the NHS may work quickly in an emergency, or for a life threatening situation,you wait many weeks for routine appointments
Bob go and stick your head up your ass if you want to talk like that I’ll give it you back also I was writing this on iPad if you to you , writes what it wants I did try to edit it but it wouldn’t let me so now piss off arsshole l worked with 22 SAS and the 101st Us airborne and the 6 th Gurkha Rifles and even when crush Malaya was on the Indo Chinese never tried to talk down to us
Your writings are evidence against the effectiveness of the NHS’ ability to properly care for the mentally infirm.
Get off the internet and onto your meds.
>”l worked with 22 SAS and the 101st Us airborne and the 6 th Gurkha Rifles”
That’s no credit to your writing or thinking ability.
Yvonne Van Heerden says:
Correct, the emergency care is second to none BUT routine appointments you wait anything from a couple of weeks to several months and it is in this instance that the NHS falls extremely short of the mark. What I find disgusting is that I was born in England BUT because I married someone with a vaguely sounding foreign surname, reception staff in particular regard you as immigrants in the UK for the health care. I now carry my birth certificate, and passport with me just to prove a point and always make a point of noting the duty manager’s name and contact number should I need it because this lessons in manners and not to jump the gun still have to be hammered home quite frequently!!!
Don’t worry, it’s just as crap if you have a British sounding surname.
Your passport and birth cert. don’t matter, the criterion for NHS non-emergency coverage is legal permanent residence in the EU/EEA , not UK citizenship. The best document to carry is an EHIC card , https://www.gov.uk/european-health-insurance-card , even within the UK. A UK driver licence older than 6 months will do, too.
All NHS England hospitals (except A&Es) are now supposed to ask you about NHS eligibility, regardless of your appearance or surname. But I’ve never been asked for documents.
I’ve waited weeks for routine specialist/GP appointments here in the States. What’s your point?
Ann Weston says:
I had Blue Sheild PPO coverage (the best you can get from Blue Shied) in the Silicon Valley of California a few years ago. This area is hardly an unpopulated or under-serviced area for medicine. Their doctor directory for a GP was 10 pages of names, the first 6 pages of names/addresses were not accepting any new patients. The next 4 pages had no GP with less than an 8 week wait to see a new patient (for any reason). Then even that doc had a 2 hour backlog of patients, (meaning you got there for your appointment and waited 2 hours), and then were seen for 15 minutes before being told that is all the time they have. Complete garbage, and it costs a pretty penny to get even that much.
HMO’s like Kaiser are better at this sort of thing and dealing with your coverage (because they don’t work their GPs like rented mules and every department is interconnected). But unless you live in a metropolitan area, even this can go badly.
We pay 5x the international developed world price for this care and it still sucks.
Chris Rogers says:
Dear Ms. Gunter,
Glad you appreciate the UK’s NHS, which is a marvel to behold, and is indeed replicated in quite a few nations, among them Hong Kong, who’s own Health Sevice is very much like that it the UK, as is the obvious want of repair/updating of many premises.
Having had the benefit once of health care insurance, I used it a few times, but eventually worked out that public provision hospitals were superior to pay hospitals, that is the service itself was/is superior and at a far lower cost burden than anything the private sector can offer.
Hence, it was with sadness that Bernie Sanders was denied running for the US Presidency, for its likely, had he won, you chaps too State-side would finally moved to a comprehensive and free at the point of service health care system.
Again, many thanks for highlighting that the UK, despite serious cash shortfalls, has a great health service, one that cares about the patient and not their wallet, which I, and many millions are hugely proud of and will defend to our last breath as they say.
UKFX says:
What you fail to realise is that we don’t dislike our NHS but we are frustrated with how it used to be compared to how it now. Fewer hospitals, fewer doctors and nurses, fewer open A&E departments, increased waiting times. But it’s not just that, it’s the fact that almost half of new NHS contracts have been given to private health companies. Many politicians have stakes in said private health care companies. How can we trust that the NHS isn’t going to end up completely privatised in 20 years time when we already know that most politicians lie and some of them have shares in said private healthcare companies? Virgin already has its claws in the NHS and millions of patient medical records were given to Google for their Deep Mind project.
If you lived in this country and stopped comparing it to other healthcare systems, you too would be immensely angry with the way the NHS is heading.
Tons of A&E (ER) departments have been closed, as the cost of people’s lives. Women have given birth outside of A&E departments because they were not allowed in. Maternity units have been closed.
NHS managerial staff (which is said to have been in overabundance for years and a huge waste of money) being fired get paid ludicrous paypackets (sometimes in the millions) only to be hired again later with outlandish salaries.
Many high tier staff in the NHS get luxury accommodation, dining and travel expenses, all paid for by the tax payer. This has been uncovered before but has anything been done about it? No.
GP surgeries have not grown with the population and the changes required by the people. To get an appointment at my local doctor surgery, I have to walk there and wait outside for it to open at 8am to ask on the day for appointment. You can ring at 8am, but the chances of getting through while everyone else is calling is very, very slim. What do older people do? Walk long distances to get an appointment that could be set 5 hours later? What about in Winter? Not only this but in both GP surgeries and hospitals, temporary staff is running rampant. Foreign loocums with poor English paid outlandish daily rates because the Government doesn’t want to hire English staff in permanent placements.
The NHS is going to hell and as Type 1 Diabetic which had naively been generalised along with Type 2 Diabetics, I’ve seen my healthcare be limited because overweight people have drastically increased the strain and financial burden on the NHS. My Diabetes is autoimmune, not insulin resistance (which is so common mostly due to obesity). I am aware Type 2 Diabetes can exist without being overweight, as genetic precursors can do almost anything, but overweight people have spiralled Type 2 Diabetic number because fat acts as a hormone which reduces the effectiveness of insulin. Type 1 is very different. Why must I be limited because a bunch of fatties ruined it for others?
It’s easy for someone to have a few good encounters with the NHS to sing praises about it and to tell people to stop complaining, but you don’t have the right. You haven’t seen how things have changed. You havent seen the plethora of closures and cost cutting. The shortages of nursing staff. The foreign replacements, (some of which are ridiculously rude and careless).
You can praise what you want but you can’t tell what to do when you know almost nothing about what goes on in the background.
Greed is why the NHS is dying and because many big businesses in the UK pay zero tax (of which would easily cover the annual NHS costs) the NHS is in huge debt and is no where near as advanced as it could be. Greed is why many people die. Greed is why US hospitals suck. Greed is why families fall on hard financial times. It cost money to walk into the ER in the US.
Your country is a joke as is ours and is greed is the root of all its problems. As an overpaid gynecologist you probably understand nothing about what I’ve written above.
Dee Bliss says:
As the the mother of a daughter with Type II diabetes, I am beyond disgusted by your ignorant comment “Why must I be limited because a bunch of fatties ruined it for others?” My daughter has suffered physically and emotionally from this disease for approx 15 yrs. You’re no martyr just because you have Type I diabetes. No one in their right mind would choose to have Type II diabetes. I’m glad that the medical profession doesn’t share your attitude. Here in Canada she is getting excellent care at no additional charge. I say “additional” because I have been paying taxes for exactly this type of universal health care for more than 40 years.
I didn’t say ALL Type 2 Diabetics were fat.
I have sympathy towards those who have a genetic tendency towards type 2 Diabetes, but obesity has drastically increased the number of Type 2 Diabetics on the face of this earth, by a massive number – there is simply no denying that. It has been proven that excessive weight reduces insulin sensitivity and can trigger Type 2 Diabetes. So before crying victim and defending your daughter, realise that what I’m trying to say is that many cases of Type 2 diabetes wouldn’t exist if people looked after their health and weight better and therefore such cuts to certain equipment may never have happened (or Diabetes health care may be better in general). Read things properly before you moan at people you dumb Canadian.
I have an autoimmune disease. Also, I’m in the UK and I am talking about the NHS, not Canadian healthcare systems.
Again, read first before you comment.
I have removed the insults from your reply. That’s not acceptable.
Please don’t do that again or I will spam your comments and they won’t show up again.
It is possible to disagree and also be civil
Excuse the typos. Was typing on a smartphone.
You have some interesting comments there, just a couple I wanted to reply to:
Closing A and E departments, this is something people care very much about, but as and senior clinician who has been both an A+E charge nurse, patient safety lead and risk manager I can tell you that the reason we have less ( but larger A+Es) and smaller A+Es got closed or merged was for very good evidenced based safety reasons. The simple truth is that as we have improved our ability to treat patients with more complex treatments we need to ensure our care settings
1) Getting the patient throughput to be safe, a small A+E seeing only around 20-30k patients per year could not sustain the skill sets in its clinical staff to be fully safe, this is very true with paeds and rarer problems, if you only see one septic child a year your just not going to be as quick of the mark or as practiced as staff in larger centres who may see 1 a month or more. That’s why we shut small departments all the evidence said it was harming people.
2) The new gold standards of treatment need massive 24hour infrastructure and incredible levels of specialist expertise avaliable 24/7, that the small acutes hospitals and A+Es just can not provide. When I started in A+E if you had a stroke there was little we could do, now we can treat you with clot busting drugs, but to do it you need 24hour instant access to CT and the consultant to initiate the treatment, that can only be provided in a larger unit. Small units just can’t sustain the 24 hour immediate access to senior clinical staff. Another example is how we treat heart attacks, 10 years ago we gave you a clot busting drug that could be delivered in any A+E, now standard treatment is immediate primary angioplasty (major surgery on the blood vessels supplying the heart muscles) but for that you need 24 hour access to a consultant level vascular surgeon who specialises in heart surgery and a whole angio suite on call and ready to go immediately.
As for a the lack of professional staff, this is very much about the demand of a modern health system for more and more qualified staff. Entry to nursing is now degree level, most specialist nurses or practioners will have a post grad qualification or masters), consultants are now so specialised that you may only have a few hundred in the country focused on a particular speciality. The more advanced and better we get the more demand we have for higher and higher qualified staff. Just think we need around half a million qualified nurses to run the NHS, each takes 3-4 years and a degree to qualify at the most basic level, every one of them need to have further educated constanty through their working lives just to stay current at a basic level. But we need significant numbers to go on and do masters etc….. Every one of them will also need to accept that they will work in a profession that pays only an average wage and can break you physically and emotionally. We need nurses from across the world because we just can’t work out how to pursued the number of bright people we need (to keep the half a million workforce) that going to uni and training for three years to qualify, then spending your work life doing shifts, see people suffer, getting PTSD from the images in stuck in your head, having pain from a damaged neck and maybe just maybe being human, making a mistake, killing someone and living with it forever, is all worth 22-28k a year……it is worth it all, but it’s very much a damed hard to sell to a clever talented 18 year old. So please bless the staff who come to work for our NHS, they could go to the states and earn 2-4 times what we pay them.
The truth is our county could afford to pay more into the NHS, but we the tax payers make the choice to vote for politicians who keep the funding of the NHS lower than all comparable healthcare systems. The NHS manages because of the dedication of the clinical and support staff and the skill and knowledge of those senior managers you seem to dislike ( my CEO is responsible for a budget of around a billions pounds and the healthcare of almost a million people, he earns less that 150k a year and will be dismissed if he fails to achieve all his quality and financial benchmarks) . We do make the NHS work with the money we have by keeping staff pay as low as we can and being as focused as we can on up stream healthcare (primary and community), which is the most efficient way of supporting good health.
I agree with what you’re saying and I understand, but closures could have and should have been avoided because demand needs to coincide with demand from a growing population. More money could have been put in, but wasn’t.
Hospitals and GP surgeries are, as you already know, overflowing. The money is there, yet it’s not being put in the right places. Yes you’re right, the people are to blame. I was furious when the Tories got voted in a second time. Those savers and penny pinchers voted them in for their own selfish reasons. However now, there is a campaign to remove Jeremy Corbyn, which I honestly think (once you see past all of the propaganda online and in the news) that he is the last hope for everyone in this country – treating everyone as one. Of course, if you treat everyone the same, many heartless, selfish, poisonous people will see that it doesn’t align with their agenda and will chose someone else. People are people. They are no different from anyone else. There is no person above or below another. It’s this kind of primitive thinking which plagues the civilised world.
I dislike managerial staff because it’s been said repeatedly that there is an overabundance of them and they cost a huge amount of money. I couldn’t care less if he earns less than 150K. Is this a sob story? That’s a ludicrous sum of money for someone handling the books, whereas Nurses, as you’ve already pointed out earn a paltry sum. This is part of the problem in this world, stature/position defines the money earned, not the effort or skill that is required in a job.
“Keeping staff pay as low as we can”. Wrong. You lower the pay of all the important workers, while keeping grossly inflated salaries for those at the top. Just like a business or a bank. It is not the most efficient way of supporting good health. If they lowered everyones salary by a smaller amount across the NHS, it would be far less damaging to workers and the NHS as a whole. Of course some variation to that would be needed, as a blanket approach wouldn’t be a great idea, but you see where I’m going with this. It has to be fair for all, not just a select bunch. I don’t care if Mr. Less-Than-150K isn’t getting his fill, but that is a disgusting sum of money to earn on an annual basis, when so many people across this country, both in and outside of the NHS, do far more difficult tasks.
You almost sound as if you’re defending the crown against peasantry. But hold on a moment? You’re from overseas. You type as if you work within the NHS, in which case this page is self-serving. Do you live in the UK or in the US? What’s the deal? Perhaps I missed something?
Well argued and said UK/FX
Greed yes, but it’s the greed of the staff and their refusal to modernise. In short they are killing their own sacred cow. Outsourcing is the only way to circumnavigate the militant and disruptive staff. I’m all for it.
Do you work for “sir” Richard Branson, Chris? Or for the Koch Bros? Everything you write sounds as if you’re a paid propagandist (shill) for profiteers and exploiters.
Modernising to fit predatory, exploitative capitalism is a waste of time. What’s neede is to wreck and scrap it, replacing it by socialism.
@gegenbeispiel
“as if you’re a paid propagandist (shill) for profiteers and exploiters”
Stop making me love profiteers and exploiters.
Frank: judging by your comments here, you’re definitely in bed with profiteers and exploiters already. Whether it’s a loveless or loving relationship is a matter of complete indifference to me.
I’ve just read this and your previous piece having been reblogged. I’m delighted your experiences of the NHS were positive, as are most of mine and most people’s in the UK . I was reminded of a number of things. About four years ago at a conference in the US I went for dinner with a number of people and an American started to relate a story about visiting London and his young daughter suffering a head injury on a barge stop at Camden locks on a Saturday evening. Those of us from this side of the pond were waiting for a horror story and getting our excuses ready. In fact we heard a tale of efficiency, speed and good care and allowed the mum to stay in the children’s unit over night. Like you he wondered about payment, checking his credit card limits etc. When he was told there was no charge he was staggered.
The negative propaganda about the NHS often trotted out in the US and parts of Europe is simply untrue in my experience.
Yes the system is under pressure in the south East because of population growth and other factors but in general it works pretty well.
A point not often made is the economic benefits to the country, reducing people’s fears about provision, helping employment mobility and reducing the cost of employment. Most people in the US would be better off with an NHS.
And before anyone asks I am not in healthcare
Why wasn’t the American family charged? The NHS isn’t supposed to be free for US citizens? I don’t mean to be rude- I was just under the impression that people outside the EU had to pay to use our health system, is that not the case?
commandermaxil says:
afaik, they do pay, but the fee is very small, especially in comparison to american costs. im happy to be corrected, but that’s my understanding of the current protocol. i also think emergency medical care — say, if you were hit by a car — is either free or heavily subsidised
Nick Cooper says:
NHS emergency care for non-UK residents is free and always has been. Treatment for a pre-existing condition will be charged if there is not reciprocal agreement with the patient’s home country, but it will invariably be far cheaper than in the latter. NHS prices are significantly lower than those charged for the same procedures in the US.
NHS EMERGENCY treatment is free to all. In this case, funding streams are hotel taxes, air passenger charges, VAT on restaurant meals, etc. That’s true whether the provider is a hospital A&E, ambulance or GP.
Non-emergency treatment for non-EEA or Swiss residents is charged, since 2015, with a 50% markup.
Danikat says:
My understanding is that emergency care is free to everyone, and follow-up care is free at the point of use with a claim to your insurance company or a bill to you later on. Unlike the US system where you’ll be asked for a ‘copayment’ (upfront fee) as soon as you arrive in A&E (before they take any details or begin the examination), which seems to be at least $100, just to ensure they’ve got something out of you in case your insurance won’t cover the treatment.
Helen Frisby says:
Couldn’t agree more … We have this amazing healthcare don’t abuse it .. Take care of it and and all its brilliant staff as they do you !
obesitynation1 says:
Your lucky you didn’t go to North Middlesex Hospital. If your cousin went there, she would have definitely went home in a coffin.
Patients are very lucky, if they get seen within 12 hours, and when they are seen, the service is worse than a third world country hospital.
ED doc says:
It’s a challenging environment to work in. Frequently >900 patients/ day through the door, and higher acuity patients than any other hospital I’ve worked. Agree it is not perfect, but unfortunately what happens there happens everywhere – just not plastered over the media.
I believe it will improve, the measures are being put in place.
The staff there really are some of the best, they are just overstretched and burnt out.
Also, nobody ever died of a sprained ankle, so I doubt her sister would have died.
If you honestly think that serice there is worse than in a third world country, then you’ve obviously never been a patient in a government hospital of a third world country like the Philippines.
Harrt says:
Couldn’t she have gone to A&E or a Walk-in centre, she would’ve been seen without making an appointment then
Found this after a friend posted a link on Facebook. I think you’ve misunderstood something. You say non-emergency care isn’t the best use of the ER. It’s not the ER here. It’s A&E: accident and emergency. It’s fine to go to A&E with an injury that needs an x-ray, though personally I live near a hospital with a minor injuries clinic and would go there instead.
You mention people who turn up for things that aren’t urgent and how a user fee would fix that. That is just not how we roll here.
Actually, if you read the piece again, the author was advocating NOT going with any user fee because they really don’t work in the US. She had been asked, by people at A&E because she was an American and a doctor, if, as has been suggested, such fees might work.
And her cousin was taken to the injuries clinic.
In USA ER is A&E, just different language. People go to ER in just the same way as we go to A&E but with more paperwork, and a bill at the end. Waiting rooms more or less the same mix of different degrees of ill & injured and people UK or USA need to learn what options there are for seeking medical help. GPs too need same sort of tirage/option menu for people because they are being stretched by trivialities that, because there are fewer doctors now, are an underuse of their skills.
You are their perfect patient because you would head to the right place and you are lucky it is an option you have nearby.
Dr Gerber actually advocates NOT instigating a user fee because it doesn’t work effectively in US, at all. It has been seriously suggested, by Hunt circles in government if I remember, that a fee be charged and that is why the author was asked about it when she talked to people as she & her cousin went through the process. While I sincerely hope we don’t change our roll, the NHS is under the worse threat it has ever faced partly because people are even talking about fees at all.
Apologies, can’t find edit. Dr Gunter. Sorry.
rharrisonauthor says:
Had a similar experience with my son when visiting family. The cost didn’t even come up to the deductible.
Asi Zer says:
To me I’m not quite happy with the NHS.
The health practitioners are most of the time not competent, just as examples,every time they have to check in their books and even though they give wrong medications,last time the nurse didn’t even know how to write gelatine on her laptop to check!!! Something online.
The appointments are too far.
Very often they treat you like if you’re asking for charity if you ask the GP for a refferal letter despite the fact that both me and my husband are tax payers.
I twisted my ankle last year and unfortunately my friend had a brokend ankle at the same time.We called the ambulance and we’ve been waiting for it about 2 hours until a friend of her drived us to the A&E and I can promise you,it didn’t take neither 10 nor 15 minutes but about 2 hours at least.
Most of the people I know are complaining from HIS,I wonder how can someone be so happy with it.
They check in books because medication is changing all of the time, and differs from individual to individual. Would you rather they guessed just to look good?!
Perspective is how someone can be so happy with it. Emergency care here in the USA is expensive, and there’s usually a long wait. 2 hours would be short for some ERs.
Think about how bad ours must be if we won’t shut up about how awesome yours is, flaws and all. I know people who have died because they didn’t have the money to see a doctor.
I don’t think the NHS is perfect. But I think it’s better. I think that shooting for perfection is hurting us. We say, “Oh, it’s not perfect, so why bother doing it?” Then we do nothing and nothing gets better. People aren’t willing to try something to improve our system. The ACA was a good idea, but it was hamstrung by a Congress who want it to fail, so that they don’t have to fix our broken system. Now they can say, “Well we tried, and it failed.” Then go back to letting people die for want of a routine well check.
‘the nurse didnt even know how to write gelatine’ this may shock you, but it’s the 21st century, and people with spelling difficulties, language disabilities and dyslexia are allowed to be a part of society. i can only type properly because of spell check, and even then it’s difficult.
they have to check their books because that is protocol. they literally have to do that. it’s a basic rule of patient care.
louloureads says:
I’m sorry that you feel the NHS has let you down. A twisted ankle is not really a fantastic reason to ring an ambulance or attend an emergency department, though, so this isn’t really the best example of poor care. As your post indicates that you had access to a friend with a car, perhaps that would have been a better place to start? Ambulances are for medical emergencies. I imagine that the reason it didn’t turn up promptly is because it was diverted to a severe asthma attack, a road traffic accident, a cardiac arrest, or something else life-threatening. The same with taking 2 hours to be seen in the ED. (I recently waited 1.5 hours for an ambulance after suffering from a head injury with temporary loss of consciousness–I was told to ring an ambulance by 111. They rang me regularly while I was waiting to check that my condition wasn’t getting worse, and I believe they were diverted to an emergency, hence the delay).
Also, we double-check medications etc in formularies prior to administering them in case of prescription error, interactions with other medications, or other contraindications to administration. These vary from patient to patient and it would be impossible for anyone to learn every interaction/side-effect/dose per kg for every medication. I’m glad you’ve seen such good practice so often. It would be terrible to be on the receiving end of a drug error just because a nurse was embarrassed to check a dose.
Having read back what I’ve written, I have assumed that you knew from the off that your ankle was twisted rather than broken. Your post does suggest that, but of course if you thought it was broken an ED or walk-in centre would be appropriate. Perhaps not quite life-threatening enough for an immediate ambulance, though!
Great post and probably one of the few people on here who has told the truth.
Lucy Elliott says:
The Nhs is great. I was treated by the same hospital in Sunderland for over 11years for severe glue ear. And thanks to their care I did not lose my hearing which was the alternative. Their orthodontic dept sorted out my overbite with the minimum of fuss. Both problems are things my parents would never have been able to afford to be treated otherwise. We must fight for our nhs.
Major Smoke says:
So, England has what, 38m people? Their budget is shared with Europe and much of their security is provided for by NATO? They benefited from hundreds of years slavery, imperialism, pillaging of the entire worlds resources and through their egregious interference throughout the world created the conditions for both WWI AND WWII….they tax everything at 17.5% every time it’s sold and tax both sides of the transaction (which makes it really a 34% tax) and they charge insanely high road taxes and even tax your right to watch television on pain of imprisonment for failure to pay. The government gobbles up so much tax money that much of the population is forced to live in tiny homes, use public transportation because they can’t afford cars and spend their lives in garish drudgery and helplessness knowing they will never live any better than their parents….and likely far worse.
But, hey….healthcare is free.
I lived there 3 years. Under NHS my wife nearly lost 2 children due to virtually untrained and/or foreign doctors nearly killing them due to absolutely inane, unsafe practices taken straight out of the 1950s, Orwellian procedural requirements that leave the patient without appeal and filthy hospitals rife with disease and infection. I myself would have been forced to live for a year with a serious hernia due to intolerably incomprehensible wait lists had I not had the financial means to go private and get the same surgery the next day with the same doctor! The NHS literally told me to go home for a year to wait it out!
Anyone who has been there for more than a short vacation knows how difficult it is to accomplish any task once NHS employee union mandated tea time hits…and suddenly all employees literally just leave….regardless of the situation, to go have a cuppa. (What? You’re newborn is bleeding and you cant stop the blood loss? Don’t worry, well be back in 30….minutes.) This happened!
Emergency rooms are filthy, blood spattered, dirty and often under neverending construction. Doctors and medical personnel don’t use sharps precautions or gloves and often go from patient to patient with blood and bodily fluids on their hands and clothes spreading disease. Wait times are ungodly. If you’ve heqrd of Canadian NHC wait times get ready for some truly mind boggling waits as NHS times often extend into years even for brain cancer. Pregnancy wards are shared with large groups of women and there is no privacy unless you pay for a private room. Strangers will wander into the wards gaping at women as they change and women have no redress. If they dont have your birthing room ready, no muss no fuss, you can just have it in the hall or elevator, they dont mind (watch your step). Mental patients are free to disrobe and walk the streets nude in frigid weather (pun intended) as employees charged with caring for those patients get their mandated tea breaks and nevermind the result…(sorry, we lost your mum, dont worry, the police found her on the M1…there were a few inappropriate gender violations but I’m sure she’ll be fine… eventually).
Oh, and their doctors are sk well trained that they only have to go to school for five years….that’s undergraduate included…(though standards may vary as many get their degrees in former colonies such as Pakistan, India, Indonesia…but I’m sure the standards are the same….dont be racist!)
But since I went there…let’s march onward. If you are not white, English and a member of the upper crust then you don’t get the same treatment. Ask any Pakistani, Indian or North African about thier experiences…anyone of color is treated as subhuman. As a Mexican my wife has darker skin than many Africans. Because of this she was often confused as being Pakistani and as a direct result was spoken to and treated often as a dog by pugnacious, ill-mannered, racist staff to the point that she was often told to go back to Pakistan if she didn’t like it how they treated her or our children. If she spoke up they would send security to try to humiliate her into silence.
Oh, and with cameras in every hall and corner you can feel safe and secure as strange men view you from central security offices downtown…dont worry, they would never record your most intimate, vulnerable moments and put them online…it would violate their standards and practices and may result in a warning (oh, and it has been so effective at halting terror attacks…or rather, ensuring you get ticketed for parking violations.) Everyone knows you need extra video cameras inside hospitals to ensure you cue appropriately and don’t complain about mistreatment.
Last not least, don’t forget about doctor death who killed hundreds of his patients without the NHS ever having caught on despite the literally hundreds of complaints against him, or that nurse who killed off the elderly for decades…or any of the other numerous murderers practicing their trade of death within the NHS over the decades….the NHS caught them…..eventually (or was that the Royal Police?).
3 years under the NHS and every day I thanked God and my embassy that I had the option to go private once I could show that NHS practices did not conform to military standards of care (which everyone knows are quite low). Of course I had to go through the NHS circus each time we needed care but in ALL cases we ended up going private care to get our healthcare because at NO TIME did the NHS ever offer better care or support. Oddoy enough, private care was with the very same doctors but when they are paid more than just 10lb Stirling per month per client suddenly their behavior (and the wait time) improves.
Oh, and before I forget, even Mexican National healthcare has higher standards and practices then the British NHS and most Mexicans will agree that American healthcare is way better. I can say this because I lived there too and so has my wife who was raised there and is of Mexican origin. She hates British NHS. Their system is well and truly broken and does NOT provide a high standard of care. Instead, it minimalizes human beings down to mere numbers and costs and ensures that those who exceed the maximum allowable treatment cost…die.
Don’t believe the hype.
Nor should people believe the diatribes.
Gilgamesh Jones says:
Uneducated bollocks.
Yes, USA healthcare is better…for those who can afford to pay! Of course some of the issues you list are true. I recently had to go private for something as I moved a couple miles and my new area refused treatment I’d had for years from my old GP. But it’s mostly due to the governmental gradual privatisation, closing A&Es, too many overpaid managers, but I find it hard to square my experience of our NHS with the notion that it’s a racist organisation who treats those of colour badly – you only have to walk into any hospital to see patients and staff of every race and colour. At the same time you criticise employment of staff from other countries, hinting their qualifications might not be up to standard – pot, kettle, black, possibly? In case you’re unaware, doctors and nurses cannot just come to the UK and work without undergoing rigorous checks. I had a broken finger missed by a nurse, but she was clearly black British born and bred not a newbie so any person can make mistakes. Yes, I agree the NHS has problems, but I can’t help feeling your post reeks of a superiorattitude that quite possibly would put the backs of staff you encounter well and truly up. I have a buddy in LA who is quite successful yet pays hundreds of $ monthly on health insurance yet always pays a fee to see his GP. Trust me, he’s not happy.
I haven’t lived in the US but I lived in Australia for many years and their healthcare, which is a mix of the US and UK systems is massively superior. They have the safety net of an nhs style system, but it’s fully integrated with the private system. So if you choose to go private the nhs equivalent pays the cost that would have been incurred had to you gone nhs to your private doc, you just top it up. What this means is that many more people can afford private care, so the nhs works better too because less people use it.
Also, once you earn above a certain income you are forced to pay for private healthcare, or you pay more tax. It works. There is also (above a certain income threshold) a small fee to visit a gp, although there are fee free gp’s around if you can’t or won’t pay.
Privatisation isn’t always bad- there are blood test centres and x ray centres on every high st in Oz, run by private companies. There is competition between them, so you have a choice to go to the best one. Also, you don’t pay, the govt pays the fee to them directly. So there’s no need to go to hospital for x rays, if your gp wants one you literally walk down the road, walk in, wait 5 mins, and walk back up to the gp. It’s all so much easier.
One of the major problems with the nhs is that docs have no fear of being personally sued. So you get stupid situations like gp receptionists asking what’s wrong and deciding whether you get to see a doctor. My doc in oz wouldn’t believe me that that happens in the UK, because the receptionist isn’t medically trained, but it does, all the time. So then whether you get an appt often boils down to how pushy you are, and how much you exaggerate they symptoms. The old lady with a kidney infection who rings up and complains her back hurts doesn’t get a look in.
gracescrimgeour says:
The UK has a population of 60 million, not 38 million. It’s hard to believe you actually lived here for 3 years without realising that.
Christopher Mace says:
Factual check:
1. UK Population is 64.1m, not 38m.
2. 17.5 x 2 = 35, not 34.
3. VAT rate is 20%, not 17.5%.
4. VAT is not charged at both ends, it is deductible, so the amount payable depends on mark up, but is usually 2-3%.
5. Road Tax rates are based on car emissions so are often not “insanely high”. My new Audi A4 costs £30 a year in road tax.
6. Car ownership rates are comparable to other European countries and only just below rates in Canada. Last survey showed 520 cars owned in the UK per 1000 people, refuting your claim that “most” people can’t afford a car.
7. Around 2% of UK GDP is spent on the military – in line with most other NATO countries showing that the UK contributes to this organisation rather than your assertion that we just take.
8. UK budget is not “shared” with Europe – especially regarding healthcare spending. There is no EU wide taxation rate.
9. Rate of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) is higher in the USA than the UK (6.4% vs 10%).
10. Waiting times for cancer patients are not “years” – 94% of suspected cancer cases are diagnosed within 2 weeks and 98% of diagnosed cases start treatment within 4 weeks.
There are others, but I think I’ll leave it there.
Americans love to try be the best at everything, don’t they? I hate that.
I’d be interested to know WHEN he lived here. You give an accurate picture of 2015, he sounds like he is talking about the worst of the 1970’s.
Fuzzygoth says:
errr … are you sure it was this country you were in? personally anytime myself or my family and friends have had cause to use the NHS the service has been timely, caring and in nice clean facilities with stringent safety procedures. Yes the NHS has problems but in my experience and the experience of the majority of my family and friends what your listing is not among them. Frankly I love my nhs free and the point of service medical care and it’s comforting to know its there if I ever need it even if I am unemployed, homeless or working. Just sayin.
Tom A says:
This is hiliarious.
The population of England is 53 million, and the whole of the UK 63 million. You make a schoolboy error in your first sentence and then go downhill from there.
Well said. Despite the eye-watering cost charged by big pharma, I did finally get Harvoni treatment for hep c on the NHS and hope to be cured soon. Thank you NHS and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Hannie says:
Woohoo! I hope you are better and all clear soon!
Thanks Hannie. I was alarmed in 2009 to find my sudden problems were due to hep c which I probably had for 25 years before symptoms appeared. My consultant advised against interferon as it was “a rough ride” with low cure rates. When better meds arrived I had to wait as costs meant they must ration to the sickest patients which I understand, but they monitored my liver and in the end I got the meds. Whoopee indeed!
“To the British Government: stop trying to mess it up.”
“To the American writer: don’t fall into the trap laid by people who claim the government is out to ‘destroy’ the NHS or to privatise it. It’s not true. The government, like all post-war governments, is committed to the provision of a national health service. Sometimes that involves making hard choices, using private as well as public contractors, and so on, but it is not ‘messing it up’.”
If only that were so. If it were, we would wouldn’t have the appalling Jeremy Hunt, who is on record calling the NHS “a 60 year mistake”, in the government at all, much a less as Minister of Health, in charge of the NHS.
Gennaro says:
I am utterly disgusted by the NHS and how badly health system works. Me and my family have had so many bad experiences I could write all day about them. However, last week I had exactly the same problem as your cousin: I badly sprained my ankle (even without high heels). On Tuesday afternoon I sprained the ankle while on holiday and my father in law bandaged it. On Wednesday night I took off the bandage to notice massive bruising. On Thursday morning I phoned the GP. I was told they were short on staff and asked if the visit was “aboslutely urgent”. I sort of confirmed, and got an appointment at 2pm. The doctor referred me for X-Rays at the hospital to check if there was any fracture. I was at the hospital by 4, and within maybe a half hour the X-Rays were done. I waited a further 10-15 minutes for the receptionist to verbally tell me the results (there was no fracture). All this has been quick and efficient, although now a further 4 days have passed, I need to go to my GP again to get my full X-Ray report. Furthermore I still might have some ligament damage, I might need some bandage or a splint. Nobody has told me anything, a visit with an orthopedist might have helped but I don’t seem to have such an option…
Graham R Rice says:
We do ourselves an injustice every time we say the NHS is the best in the world. It may have been at one stage but no longer. We have rested on our laurels and things have slipped. The author does herself no favours peddling left wing claptrap about the government wanting to destroy the NHS. Nothing could be further from the truth, any government that did that would be committing electoral suicide. The Americans went into Iraq (twice) and Afghanistan and left a bigger mess than there was before they started, it is the American support for rebels in Syria that is prolonging the agony there. I don’t like Assad any more than the next guy but he is the country’s legitimate head – only the Syrian people have a right to say he should be removed. American sabre rattling in Crimea caused the Russians to move in there and now they’re trying to tell the Chinese what to do about the South China Sea dispute. I’m not a fan of Donald Trump but if his rhetoric is to be believed then he’s going to stop America wandering around the world interfering in everybody else’s business.
Adrienne Lawley says:
Actually the NHS was voted number one for the provision of healthcare worldwide in 2015 by a leading Washington think tank
Dr Gunter. Stop listening to idiots. We are perfectly happy with NHS. Government gives it lots of money..our money …it could do better..but the improvement has been huge
Elizabeth Hinds says:
Thank you for your article. Well said. Thank God for the NHS. It is very few places in the world that although there is a waiting time, you can give your name and DOB, get your treatment without paying a penny. We take the NHS for granted. When things are handed to us we thing we have a right even when we haven’t contributed to its existence.
As someone born in another country, well travelled and lived in the UK most of my life I have experienced the ER in the USA three times and I tell you what my travel insurance had to be verified and the agents contacted, card details taken for surcharge before I could be seen. The service in the US was great but money talks.
Don’t moan about the NHS, yes there is always room for improvement but for a FREE service to ALL we must not complain. Love my NHS one of the most courteous and loving service I’ve ever experienced.
It is NOT a free service! We all pay for it via NI contributions!!
I had my little boy at an NHS hospital two years ago. I started contractions on and off on the Saturday and he finally arrived by C-Section on the Wednesday.
I’d been into the delivery wing twice in those five days because of the pain I was in and because at one point the contractions just weren’t getting any closer together.
I was seen by a student midwife and a midwife. The student midwife (Carla) was trying to put the trace on my bump to check for my boy’s heart beat but she was struggling to find it. The midwife (Helen) took over and did some extra tests. They got the trace in place then went to get a doctor. At that point I knew something didn’t line up. The midwife at my normal check up earlier in the day had checked to see if he was back to back but had ruled that out. When the doctor came back they did an ultrasound. It turned out that my boy was breech.
After chatting through the choices it was decided between us that C-Section was going to be the better option even with the risks that it carried.
I’m grateful for the NHS because of the level of attention and care I was given.
Rosie the anaesthetist’s assistant was super friendly and kept me calm especially when the anaesthetist was putting the injections in my back to make me go numb. She and Chris (my husband) held my hands and talked to me through it.
The line up of doctors and theatre nurses were all female minus the surgeon who was a guy and even then he literally came in for the bit he was needed, wished my boy a happy birthday and left again. It sounds sort of silly but this somehow made me feel more comfortable.
The NHS has it’s faults I know that. I had a couple of hiccups through my visit but we were taken care of and our midwife team were amazing.
I had my son in the US and my daughter in the UK and the comparison is miles apart. My son cost my mom’s insurance some ridiculous amount. I was required to stay four days in hospital (per day cost for my son and I), pumped up on pain meds that I didn’t ask for so that meant I couldn’t even hold my son, plus additional cost because we filed one wrong document with the insurance company so we had to front up that cost ourselves. I can’t comment as to whether the nurses or maternity doctors provided me with any useful guidance as a first time mum because I was so drugged up. I do remember that they were more concerned about a ‘switched at birth’ scenarios when we were leaving the hospital even though my son and I had a matching ‘security’ name tag on which they put on him the second he came out.
My daughter? Same procedure (C-section), 1 1/2 days hospital stay, I could stand up and walk the next day because they relied on me as to whether I needed pain meds which meant that I could actually take care of my daughter straight away, the maternity nurses helped me with breastfeeding and answered were helpful with any questions I had before I left and a home visit from the midwife a few times the first week to make sure that mum an baby were OK and conduct the necessary newborn tests right there at home (pin prick test, weight check etc). This is all cost me $0.00.
Really? It cost you £0? Were you living and working here? Were you paying NI contributions?
If not, then we (British public) paid for you via our NI contributions.
Sarah, NI contribs are no longer ringfenced for the NHS and State Pension – I’m not sure if they ever were. Both are funded by general taxation: income tax, VAT, company tax, NI …
christinpruestel says:
I do have to admit. Every time I’ve been to the A&E in the UK (I am originally from Germany) I had to wait at least 5 to 6 hours.
I think you’ve been very lucky the few times you’ve gone.
Still pro NHS though. If a privatisation is needed please follow the German model rather than the US model.
True. You can’t make an appointment at eye hospitals in London and you usually have to wait 2 to 4 hours.
I am glad you received good care in an NHS A and E unlike my daughter last week with a brain trauma injury sat in a waiting room on a chair for five hours before receiving a CT scan to diagnose the brain bleed that she had. And then put in majors room in a bed that was also housing the departments medical needs equipment etc before moving again to another room housing similar equipment. People in corridors on trolleys, a bed was found after moving again to a ward 16 hours later. A 18 year old girl put in a ward with 90+ ladies. Many of the staff were rude and unkind not caring of the elderly. Not being provided with simple care such as having water to drink. Soiled incontinence pads on the floor underneath where patients sit. I could go on but I’ve got to go back to the hospital to shower my daughter which doesn’t come under nursing care it’s seems. She’s on a different ward now but I’m not impressed with the care and lack of information given to us about her BTI.
bjf says:
Has anyone heard of Mid-Staffordshire scandal? In which only recently poor care caused hundreds of extra deaths per year at just one hospital.
tapati says:
I was well into the second season of Doc Martin before I realized what I was NOT seeing that would be common in U.S. medical dramas–discussions about how the patient couldn’t afford suggested treatment or an ambulance ride to the hospital. That takes up so much time and energy and sometimes causes heartache as care is avoided for far too long because of high co-pays. It was startling to realize that if the doctor said you needed a treatment, you simply got the treatment–no matter how modest your income. Medical costs never destroyed lives or inheritances. Refreshing! I’m sorry we don’t yet have single-payer medical care here. Insurance companies continue their price-gouging and employers have total control over which plans to offer, if any.
Sadly, while agreeing with most of your post, it’s untrue that medical costs in the UK never destroy inheritances. My dad had dementia last eight years of his life in Scotland, and though because he’d been a WW2 volunteer for merchant marine convoys he qualified for a charity home superior to the usual bog standard, it still cost him several hundred pounds a week. His house was sold and his bank account stripped. They stopped when he had £23.000 left as I believe that’s the rule. A chunk of that went for funeral and other costs so the inheritance my mom wanted to leave me, including a house, ended up being £18,000. In order to have a decent retirement I had to sell my apartment and move into sharing rented accommodation with a friend.
Dan McIntyre says:
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An American Doctor’s view of the NHS…
As a person living with several chronic health conditions and disabilities and as a person who works within an NHS hospital in the north of England, this is heartening to hear.
Thank you for writing this. The majority of hospital staff, certainly where i work, do take great pride in trying to provide the best care possible for patients.
panzerbjrn says:
Lovely post, it’s great to hear when things work out.
However, “To the British government, stop trying to mess it up”, this would mean that the British people would have to stop voting for governments whose goal it is to sell it off.
Manjit Hothi says:
I am have excellent service by the NHS for the last 17 years. The doctors, surgeons, nurses are my superheroes. I am still alive due to their dedication and care
Sadly but you have only seen NHS as a user not employee in particular physicians. There is increasing abuse of serviceand staff all the time. NHS may care care for the patients but not staff. I am sorry but Small co paymentis a must in healthcare to cut down service abuse
You are joking aren’t you. I have never seen an organisation which protects its staff like the NHS, they basically have a zero tolerance policy on complaints, zero tolerance policy on being unhappy with the service and what you call abuse is caused by staff refusing to take responsibility for the service they get. You will find contrary to opinions on most forums (which have numerous NHS staff on them), there are a ton of people genuine unhappy and at their wits end with the NHS. If the NHS protected its patients like its staff then we would truly have a good health service. They don’t and it’s not
Holly H says:
My son recently injured his ankle – just a minor sprain – but after a week it had not healed. Got a same-day appointment at the doctor who referred him for an xray; xray also booked for later the same day at the local hospital and all sorted before 6pm and all for free – something I am still getting used to having grown up in Australia…
The NHS is amazing and needs to be supported.
Mike W says:
I have to recommend the NHS 111 service. I used this recently and after a short discussion, including the person I was talking to, obviously a nurse, speaking with me on hold to a doctor while I waited, I was recommended to go to the local A&E department who sorted me out in a matter of hours. They were surprised I had never used the hospital before despite living in the area 28 years!
I sympathise with the view that too many people turn up at A&E without needing to, but when I tried to book a follow up appointment with my own GP as recommeded by the hospital I was told it was a 6 (six) week wait for an appointment with my own doctor or just over 2 weeks with another in the practice. This is why people go to A&E who shouldn’t.
Nothing but praise for my experience with the NHS front line staff. All wonderful.
Roberta Sorensen says:
I went to England to visit my daughter and have always been an advocate for a single payer system in the US. I got very sick and was taken to a London hospital. The care I received in the ER was excellent and I was sent to a ward of about 8 people which was a nightmare. I literally provided my own care, including getting up, going out to the nurses station to tell them I thought I was supposed to be hooked up to oxygen . Oops, they had forgotten. I was caughing and my nose running. I had to wait for nearly an hour for them to find a box of tissues. At one point I went to the desk to ask for directions to the bathroom and the person I asked said “that isn’t my job” when it was right behind me and all she had to do was point. I could go on with several more nightmarish stories. I would have left but they kept saying I had a potential “life threatening” problem ( they thought I might have a blood clot) and needed a scan. I waited all day and finally went to the desk to ask when the scan was scheduled. Finally they wheeled me to the lab and when I asked the tech if they had been busy, he responded that there had been very little traffic that day. But…. I had a “life threatening condition”! After the scan, a doctor came and told me I had an infection and gave me anti-biotics. I very pointedly said I was flying to Venice the next day … Was that a problem. I was told it was not a problem. So the next day I flew and by the time I got there I was sicker than I had been and spent my time in Venice in bed. When we returned to London, mail from the hospital was waiting for me . It listed Pneumonia as the diagnosis. PNEUMONIA! I should never have been advised I could fly! So, how do I feel about the NHS and the possibility of a similar system in the US.? I will give you one guess.
Bad experiences happen in all medical systems – I doubt whether it’s tax financed or via insurance has anything to do with it. My late buddy, a famous record producer in USA with good insurance was in hospital with cancer and told me staff vanished at night and he had to get water for other patients. This stuff happens here too, so I doubt it has anything to do with how the system is financed.
Ashley Gayton says:
Thank you for the lovely comments I am a vascular theatre nurse and love my job and the NHS and hear day by day people saying bad things about nurses and the NHS it’s very inspiring to hear some one praise is and say thank you. Your kind words are very inspiring and make us in the NHS proud of the work we do. I thank you for this .
Kind regards SN Gayton
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June Reece says:
This is a good story. Sadly there are very many stories of poor care being given also where patient health is not foremost ….. the NHS needs much more investment to make it the system it deserves to be, but where will that money be found….
Beautiful fairy tale. I had the same problem with my ankle. Wait 5 hours in A&E and left without any help….
In April of this year I went to my GP with with stomach pains, weight loss and other symptoms. I had blood taken and was called back the next day to say my results were unusual and the doctor would like me to have an ultrasound scan. I had that scan within a week, it was inconclusive so I was booked for a pet scan the following week. Ten days later I saw a haematology doctor who, after looking at my scan pictures immediately booked for a biopsy and I was admitted into hospital that day. I had a large tumour in my abdomen extending into my chest. I was in hospital for twelve days while various forms of cancer were ruled out. Some of the tests can take time to culture cells etc. Four weeks after being my pet scan I was diagnosed with gastrointestinal stromal tumour and immediately prescribed Glivec, which I have been taking since. The tumour started shrinking almost straight away and two weeks after starting treatment I was able to return to work. I see my oncology specialist every four weeks and have recently had a CT scan to see how my tumour is shrinking, but to me Glivec is a wonder drug and has given me my life back.
I did some internet research into Glivec and understand it costs the NHS around £21,000 per year for my medication, but in the US can cost up-to $92,000 for the same drug!
Apparently the NHS get a huge discount because they buy in bulk.
It seems to me in the US, people’s health is put after profit, and lots of money is being made from sick people. In my view people of the UK have a lot to be thankful for, and people who complain about the NHS haven’t really had to use it for something life threatening or serious. Yes there are mistakes made sometimes, and that will happen with 60 million potential patients. But when you need it the NHS is there. No questions about whether you can afford it or even deserve it.
Many countries could learn a lot, but where would all the profit go!
Ken Turner says:
If you get a chance then try and arrange to go out as an observer with the local ambulance service and you will then see problems – a nursing home putting in an emergency (999) call for an ambulance to a “sick person” with the call graded to a “Red 2” which is serious – on arrival patient is sitting in room eating breakfast and we have to wait before removing her
Or the calls to 20yr olds with “chest pains” which triggers a R1 response when the pain is only there when they cough and the diagnosis ends up as a minor chest infection which should really be dealt with by their GP
The only problem with the NHS is the government, its trying to tn NHS in the san thing as US.
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My mother in law went in to A&E and they were so concerned with her symptoms they kept her in overnight and ordered a high contrast MRI for the next day. Brain tumor diagnosed and removed by 11 hour surgery within a month at kings college London. 3 months later and she is completely recovered and dancing around the room. The care we received was absolutely top notch and they certainly saved her life (They gave her ~2 months until she would have been paralysed from the neck down). From the day of getting the MRI results to the outstanding treatment and aftercare I won’t hear a bad word said about the NHS. Sure stuff can go wrong in any organisation especially one as big as the NHS but lets face it, the people that work in it and the institution itself are both utterly wonderful.
you are lucky. My mother was misdiagnosed by the NHS 6 times and is now dead. Worst still I was verbally abused when I challenged the lack of treatment. It’s a poor service, she’d have been better off going to the vets.
The NHS is hugely overstretched and chronically underfunded (thanks to the bloody Tories). At such a time personal responsibility should be paramount. Just because she wanted to wear 5″ heels she needed an expensive trip to A&E, removing vital funds for patients genuinely ill.
True, the NHS is being run down by the Tories as a prelude to privatisation.
However, a patient’s lifestyle is not a reason to give or refuse treatment. So she wanted to wear heels? So what?
In the past, us doctors have been very good at moralising; it’s high time we moved on.
110 billion pounds isn’t underfunding and 1.5
Million staff isn’t under resourced. Chronically mismanaged with too many staff taking their cut and holding the NHS to ransom would be a better description.
Stupid, Chris, really stupid.
If the UK were spending the same GDP fraction on health as the US, with a UK workforce of around 30 million you’d expect around 4 million healthcare staff. Even with the smaller fraction that the UK does spend on the NHS, you’d expect around 2.5 to 3 million UK healthcare workforce total.
The Author says:
Really great insights between your experience of the NHS and American hospital copayments, Dr Gunter. Thanks for writing about this
Miles Forsyth says:
As before there is a reassuring story that the NHS helped someone successfully and I’m very pleased to hear that. Amongst the debate and rhetoric it is really only that those who need good care, receive good care, that matters. That Dr Jen and Family once again received effective and prompt NHS care is indeed something the UK is proud of and we’re proudest when it works well and delivers the best, appropriate care.
Last time around I think I offered a recount of my wife’s experience as a Brit (albeit with travel insurance so we were ‘insured’) on vacation and most definitely requiring the ER whilst in the US. She’s a senior nurse with lots of experience and quite frankly she was blown away (positively) by the quality of care. She has discussed many times, since, with other Brit healthcare professionals who have vacationed in America and had need of healthcare whilst ‘over there’, and they all report similar or if not better standards of treatment than when compared with the NHS.
So the debate is really, if the anecdotes are of value, about the difference between a socialist system (NHS, paid for by taxation) or a private, capitalist system (paid for directly, via insurance or otherwise). And here some clarity is needed if a comparison is to be made. We Brits do pay a lot of tax. I’d warrant more than Americans if we were to compare like for like, job for job. (Without just directly comparing income filtered through the fluctuating exchange rate). I don’t know if the insurance premiums on top make such like for likes more equal. Sorry, I’m ignorant of how it works in the US, in detail. It sounds shocking that many can’t afford the excess payment even with insurance. It sound shocking when the NHS can’t afford the best or most appropriate treatment and the patient over here suffers too. Both systems are flawed since you can’t always afford the best care when spare cash is limited
We know that Capitalist systems can be cruel. It favours the haves over the have nots, and as such, when compassion intervened and created Socialism – such that the haves contribute to help the have nots – a nicer world was created, by intention if not necessarily reality. I’d say that, in my opinion, it does seem immoral to put capital profit (at a significant level anyway) above people’s health or life. Let’s close that door in agreement. The US system would be fairer if its insurance system and healthcare providers were at least non-profits, perhaps.
The ‘problem’ however, is that a state-funded healthcare system needs profit in order to thrive. Businesses (and individuals) pay tax on profit, or when value is added (in effect, a form of profit again). When not enough profit is made, not enough tax is generated and systems like the NHS struggle to deliver a service with relatively less resources as its relative income becomes less. People are paid decent salaries to make decisions about where that limited pot of money should be spent and where healthcare is concerned there will never be enough in all of the right places. Often decision-makers are pushed into making less than ideal decisions, cost usually governs and someone (or more) inevitably suffers as a result.
My point is really that the priorities and conclusions each side of the pond are probably different. If we’re considering healthcare for the most needy, then the NHS is a winner. If we’re talking about quality of equipment and pharma then the US may fare better, if one can pay. When my wife returned from ER in the US we were given a prescription with a list of drugs to assist her recovery. I have to add that their purchase, at direct cost at that time was comparable to the standard equivalent NHS prescription charges we’d have comparably paid over here. These were branded drugs not generics. I won’t labour the point, but they’re not necessarily like for like, pharmacologically speaking. I like and am grateful for the NHS and yes, I understand that its Nurses do often take on more responsibility than their comparable opposites in the US. Yes, this is often a good thing, but it was motivated by saving money (Nurses generally, but not always, paid less than a Doc). But ultimately both systems require money. It is a misconception that the NHS is ‘free’. It struggles right now and many are falling through its net and suffering here too.
Social systems done well require profit just as any other system does to make it work. How much profit and where it is dividended and distributed is a fair point, perhaps beyond this blog, but please be aware that, at its core, I don’t think it is Socialism good, Capitalism bad, or vice versa, necessarily. Good healthcare costs money, period. The debate comes down to who should pay, how much and whether it’s fair that I pay for your treatment or if I can’t afford to pay for my own is it right that others should contribute to mine. It’s collectivism versus individualism. Sort of. They’re different and both have merits. It’s about balance. But without good business sense in other sectors and in healthcare there’s neither. And that’s a factor which also should be discussed.
Keith Elstob says:
Thank you for the endorsement of our wonderful NHS, the legacy of a leftist, post WW2 government.
Unfortunately, now that our government is more right wing and of the ‘ I’m alright Jack’ mentality they obviously have plans to privatise it by Stealth.
This will obviously result in a more Americanized culture which will take our country back to the dark ages.
mikeparker says:
My problem with the NHS is that I put a lot of hard work into keeping healthy, and yet when I need to see a doctor I am at the back of the queue because “i’m not dying”. I understand a huge amount of NHS funds go on (a) Fixing lots of age-related issues due to our increasing aging population and (b) Fixing problems with smoking, obesity, general bad diet, lack of exercise…
Last year I had stomach pain that wouldnt go away and it took nearly a YEAR to see a specialist (My appointment got repeatedly cancelled and that was only after an ultrasound, CT scan and gastroscopy (each with several months wait between). During this year I had to stop playing sport because it was too painful, and I lost sleep due to pain, I was on pain medication.. my work performance also suffered. I am otherwise perfectly healthy. It was a pretty bad year because the NHS failed to help me. Yes – I wasn’t dying, it wasn’t cancer, but seeing a specialist fixed the issue within weeks. It feels a bit unfair that I put in the effort and am at the back of the queue.
Which is exactly the problem with systems like the NHS. The emergency stuff normally is done well. The urgent stuff tends to be done well once it has been determined to be urgent. The routine stuff is done well. Anything that doesn’t fall into those categories, however, gets whatever’s left and it’s never enough.
Am Ang Zhang says:
Wow! Again!
Sharron Blezard says:
My daughter just finished her undergraduate course in the UK. For three years she received excellent healthcare through the NHS–as an American student on a visa. i am grateful for the care she was provided there. Even though we have an excellent insurance plan in the US (we are fortunate), the system is much more complicated here–and expensive. No system is perfect, but the NHS is doggone good.
I would suggest your limited experience with the NHS may not make you an expert. I lived in the UK for years and was repeatedly appalled at the flaws in their health care system, which is far from free when you consider the tremendous tax burden applied to residents of all socioeconomic classes to fund it. Also, I have never experienced emergency care in the US the way it is characterized in this post. My children have had extensive emergency care and never have we been asked for a co-pay or preauthorization at the point of service.
I guess in the USA it varies from hospital to hospital. I was on vacation in LA many years ago and had to be rushed to ER by a friend. I was charged for everything: exam by a doctor (pay); injection of needed meds (pay); writing prescription (pay); the meds themselves (pay) ; pharmacy fee for dispensing (pay). I left with my wallet empty. The NHS doesn’t do that to USA visitors to A&E. There are failings in all healthcare systems but I don’t think ours are due to the fact that it’s free at point of use. Of course we pay in tax, but most people use the system. Better off folk can go private if they wish. I don’t see the system as some kind of creeping communism as some in America do.
PS: at one point it was thought on my USA visit that I’d have to be kept in hospital overnight. My buddy had to ring a very wealthy guy we both did work for and get him to agree to pay my potential bill before they’d consider it.
Amanda, The tax burden is by no means ‘tremendous’. The part of my tax contribution that goes to the NHS is much, much smaller than the private insurance premiums paid by every (insured) American I know. My parents (now dead) and siblings live in the USA. 25 years ago I watched my semi-conscious mother denied entry into a hospital because she was in no condition to tell them who she was insured with and I, visiting from the UK, had no idea. Had my sister not come dashing across the parking lot with her papers I guess they would have let her stop breathing. I relive that episode all the time. Also,, when my dual national daughter was living and working in the USA for 9 months she fell ill with a kidney infection. She was not registered with a doctor as she was travelling around and would have had to cough up over $2000 on the spot for emergency room care, which she did not have. If my sister had not found a small charity that treated her on the basis of a day of her paltry pay, I do not know what would have happened.
I grew up in the USA, but have lived in the UK for 43 years. At least here you do not have to panic when you fall ill unexpectedly, as I did a couple of weeks ago (detached retina). I just went and got treated.
Partridge says:
It is outrageous, I pay 4K, it’s an awful service with rude arrogant staff.
The tax burden is far from “tremendous”. It is tiny in comparison to what US premiums for poor-quality healthcare insurance are, unless you’re in a top tax bracket – and in that case, your income does need to be redistributed.
Mikki Townshend says:
I’m from Newcastle and work near Seattle as a private practice PT . My Dad has Stage IV prostate cancer and his care has been jaw droppingly amazing. I always tell my British friends and rellies how lucky they are not to be in our system.
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Cynic says:
BULLSHIT. The English take home a mere fraction of what they earn to pay for this.
Jeanne Jackson says:
TROLL alert!
You can’t say troll alert whenever someone writes something you don’t like or in this case gives a view of the NHS you don’t like. I’d actually say you are more of a troll as you continually try to discredit people who say it as they see it (and probably have a more balanced view than yourself).
Bullshit yourself. Up to about $100,000 there’s no significant difference. In US states with a high income tax rate like New York an American can actually pay higher taxes than a Brit.
As an American living in Northern Ireland for 11 years, I have not found the NHS to be efficient in any way. A&E wait times are uncivilised. I’ve had two visits to A&E before being diagnosed with gallstones. In severe pain and throwing up, I waited 5 and 7 hours to see a Dr. Then, 4 weeks wait for an ultrasound to confirm the gallstones. I’m now on a waiting list for gallbladder removal surgery…the wait? 12-18 months. I’ve lost 25 pounds and I’m skin and bones due to fear of eating anything that might cause another attack. The NHS is not working for me. The surgeon who discussed my scan results, in an NHS hospital, told me the wait to remove my gallbladder would be 12-18 months and actually said he could do the surgery in two weeks for £4600 if I went to a private clinic he worked in.
You seem to be really unlucky, mine was dealt with in a week. I would fire off a missive to your local health authorities. Might not work but its worth a try.
Since the 1990’s the 4 countries of the U.K. Have developed in a more semi-independant way and the Healthcare is one of the major areas of difference.
England made much more effort in driving long waits out of the system,
Maximum 4 hour wait to admission or discharge in A&E. 95% target
Maximum 18 week wait for non-emergency surgery
Maximum 2 week wait for diagnostics for possible cancer diagnosis
After the extra investment 2000-2010 these targets were all being met in England every month, with less money since then they are being missed consistently, but not by much e.g. 90-92% of patients being seen in 4 hours.
Scotland, Wales and NI prioritised things differently, England kept co-pay for prescription charges and eye tests, the other 3 abolished them, Northern Ireland has more integration between Health and social care than the other 3 countries.
The truth no one wants to hear. The facts are that the NHS is terribly inefficient and it is the staff who are behind it. Refusing to modernise and refusing to support the population over their salaries. be sure though, the government are not trying to close the NHS, most of us
Wish they would. Or at least give the working man of the the U.K. The option to opt out and take our 4K a year elsewhere.
Oh, Chris, take your 4k elsewhere? Our family insurance in the US comes from my wife’s employer. Last year their share of the medical insurance bill for our family was $ 17,700. In addition to that, my wife also pays $ 400 per month. For that we have insurance that we can’t afford to use as we have to pay out $ 4,000 per family member before the insurance pays a penny.
You say that the NHS workers don’t care as they choose their salaries over the patients. Compared to countries that have exclusively private medical systems, NHS salaries are ridiculously low.
Have you considered buying private top-up insurance? It is not expensive in the UK, as any catastrophic or emergency treatment is covered under the NHS.
Thanks for that David. I suggest Chris watch Michael’s Moore’s ‘SICKO’ on YouTube. Its shocking.
“watch Michael’s Moore’s ‘SICKO’ on YouTube. Its shocking”
… just as it was intended. But appreciate the honesty in not calling the work a “documentary”.
Sicko? A propaganda piece with little regard for the truth. Think Cubans can get to those clinics he was showing?
I love the NHS I just hate our local A&E. I waited 6 hours to be seen after having fallen very heavily on my knee, bruising appeared within minutes and I was sat crying the whole 6 hours even though I was in high painkillers. I also have many ither problems that they were aware of.
My 80 year old mother sat for 13 hours with a suspected DVT!! Was not offered food or drink, the machine didn’t work in a&e reception, and was finally seen at 1am yes 1 am after waiting for 13 hours 12 of them alone as she didn’t tell us she was there, trying to be independent!!
It’s days like this that the system makes you rant and rave and swear. Not at the staff isn’t their fault but the hospital not spending enough on staff.
Great article (read it in The Independent). My only struggle was your use of USofA terms and jargon that is different to the UK’s. e.g. exam vs examination, ER (Emergency Room) vs Accident & Emergency Department, co-payments vs (I’ve no idea at all!), user fees vs (again, no idea), charting nurse vs (I think) Chartered Nurse (it’s a qualification, granted under a Charter from the Queen). Otherwise, wonderful.
Fully, wholeheartedly agree about people abusing the NHS.
The downside of a free health service is people know it’s there and can be a little reckless about health choices safe in the knowledge they won’t have to pick up the bill.
And yes, a fair number of our hospitals are old, even ancient by American standards, added to and extended over decades and areas repurposed so the hospital ends up with an illogical layout, porters probably walk miles whilst using navigation skills second only to London famous black cab drivers.
That said, I recently had to use the NHS, more so in the last few months than in all my life prior to developing a health issue. Just shy of four months from being taken to a+e, through several appointments, tests, then a little op. I don’t know if four months would be excessive in the states but knowing how stretched the NHS is, I’m not complaining, especially when I know the operation alone would cost me (or my insurance) tens of thousands in America. Cost to me? Not a penny.
Yes, the NHS is overstretched and seriously underfunded, and I’ll even go so far as to say it’s far from perfect, but I wouldn’t want to go without it.
The NHS is wonderful but it also has it’s down points, there are waiting lists in the UK to see specialists, some 6 months upwards to see the specialist needed, granted we don’t pay for this but waiting times do exist. Some people do take the NHS for granted, I for one are extremely grateful and especially from a financial point of view that we don’t have to pay hundreds and thousands of pounds for out health treatment. That being said there is also the other half, the background of the NHS or behind closed doors that people don’t see…the primary care side, GP, dentists, ophthalmics etc. Dentists and ophthalmics are business’ who provide the services for the NHS and then have to claim the money back from the NHS. In some areas there are people can’t get an appointment with a GP for 3 weeks upwards, if that’s an urgent appointment you have no choice but to go to a&e. Back to the dentists and ophthalmics side of the NHS, the NHS use a third party company who manages and pays the dentists and opticians however due to the amount of job losses since this company took on the contract the businesses such as the opticians are being paid late or aren’t being paid at all as there isn’t enough staff to cope with the work demand in the third party company and many more issues… that is the side of the NHS that isn’t seen and it’s a sure fine way to begin privatising the NHS which will happen sooner rather then later. I would recommend anyone in the UK to get healthcare insurance.
May I reply as a Brit who blacked out in the bathroom of a Florida bar and had to experience your ‘paid for’ services in the US?
I had fantastic travel insurance but spent more time with the lovely lady from the ‘getting paid’ department than I did with a nurse or doctor.
The difference in medical care was marginal at best. I waited four hours in Miami’s eye emergency room. The food in Lower Keys medical centre, was inedible. Given this was being charged to an insurance co.pany why wasn’t it outstanding?
As you rightly say, NHS hospitals are rarely refurbished but the quality of the staff is second to none.
I have once had surgery in 24 hours and yesterday had surgery in a matter of hours. I have not had to pay anything beyond my taxes.
The lovely person at my Florida hospital was shocked when I said I had full cover (well $10M). Jx
Prof. Rod Griffiths [CBE BSc Mb ChB MA FRCP FFPH all that just so you know.] says:
I’m probably a bit late reading this. I’m a retired public health doctor in the UK, just for background. What you say is all true. Another side of the US / UK health care equation comes up in the movies. There are a load of US movies where the plot simply could not work in the UK, because they hinge on the unafordability of US health care. As Good As It Gets, the Jack Nicholsen film is a good example, there are two people who’se life is turned upside down by the costs of health care.
Maybe you’d already spotted that, but if not you might find a use for it some day.
The classic meme on that is if ‘Breaking bad’ had been set in the UK. https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/if-breaking-bad-had-been-set-in-the-uk?utm_term=.xvjJ5NDa7#.sw5PkX4vm
Esther Graham-Yooll says:
My NHS story is a short one. I was an American with permanent residency (with husband, a UK citizen) in England from 1974 to 1989). We, of course, used the NHS for many minor and one major incident – with positive outcomes. We did pay for “pop-up” insurance which, when wanting to see a consultant (specialist) and felt the need to “jump the queue”, knowing that while inequitable, the NHS depends on this to lighten the load of resources.
In 2015 after becoming non-resident for the past 25 years, we were visiting the UK when I got an injured foot (lots of walking with grandchildren!) and our son took me to his local hospital in Kent (County). Directed to the non-urgent department, I stepped up to the desk and said I’d been living overseas for the past 25 years. No problem,said the cheerful clerk. Just give me your name and birthday. A moment later she said had found me in the system.
I got the appropriate treatment a few minutes later and went on my way.
Now I ask you, American Taxpayer, why can’t the US come up with a system for healthcare that the United Kingdom has had since 1948? Yes, 1948.
That’s Heartwarming.
I’d swap tomorrow. Pay for what I get or pay for someone else and I don’t treated or get value for money. Only a blind, drunk, unemployed, destitute, crack addict would think the NHS is a good alternative to any other healthcare.
Oh, Chris, do you really want that?
Our medical insurance costs well over $ 20,000.00 per year. If I see my GP, that’s $ 25.00, a specialist is $ 50.00. This does not cover everything that they may want to do. So, if you see an orthopedist, the charge covers the consultation & some X-Rays, but an injection would be an additional bill.
I also am responsible for the first $ 4,000.00 in medical expenses before the health insurance begins to pay towards the care.
A simple appendectomy, with no complications & a 2 day hospital stay in my state averages between $ 38,000 & 45,000. It is always a joy to get any form of hospital treatment, as you get a bill from everyone; the admitting doctor, the surgeon, the anesthetist, the hospital for room & board & any medical supplies. Adding to this joyous experience is that insurers have a list of doctors & facilities that you are allowed to use. If you use the wrong one, the insurer doesn’t have to pay. When you are in a hospital, you can’t always choose who provides services, so there are many times that patients had thought that all the cost would be picked up by insurance, but discover that the anesthetist or other practitioner wasn’t on the list, and has sent an enormous bill.
We are lucky, as we get our insurance through our employer, who pays part of the insurance premium. If I had to buy my own coverage it would be much more expensive.
I don’t deny that the NHS has waiting lists, but top up insurance to get bumped to the front of the queue is not particularly expensive. This is because the NHS covers any emergency treatment.
I’d go back to the NHS in a heartbeat; it’s just such a shame that it is being systematically starved of funds.
Chris: why don’t you move to Somalia then, or somewhere similar with a nonexistent welfare state? See how you get on, we won’t miss you.
laura jones says:
It is so lovely to hear someone praise our hospital service. Thankyou! We are extremely privileged to have the NHS in this country. It saddens and frightens me with what is happening to it. Without it I dread to think what would have happened with my premature twins. I have experienced first hand a hospital in Mali, West Africa and for all the complaints we may have against the NHS experiencing something like that truly makes you appreciate what we have. Unfortunately our NHS is under threat and this is seen throughout the country with cuts everywhere including my local hospital the Horton General where they wish to downsize the maternity unit to a midwife led only, with no consultants or theatre staff, and thus also losing the scubu dept. There are contingency plans for other cuts to the other acute services in a town who’s population is growing vastly. If by any means people could help support us and raise awareness of this it would be greatly appreciated. http://www.keepthehortongeneral.org (please delete if not allowed).It makes me very frightened for the future that we may have a private healthcare system such as the US. Hearing stories such as that of the lady who couldn’t afford the $100 makes me very upset. I too would gladly give it to her. Once again thankyou for writing such a fantastic positive article on our NHS.
I’m based in Blackheath, SE London and have joined the SAVE OUR HORTON F/B page. Also I tried to donate to your Crowdfunding page but was unable to do so. I am such a passionate supporter of the NHS. Jeremy Hunt and his team (some of who have an ‘interest’ in private health care) are having secret meetings re our NHS. Did you happen see a TV crew discover a secret meeting with US Health Insurance providers and Health companies. They were royally disrupted and looked rather sheepish as they left the building… Its disgusting what our government is doing by stealth.
In psychology its called the ‘drip drip’ method as used in advertising.
If you can, watch on You Tube Michael Moore’s ‘SICKO’ about European Healthcare, you will be amazed what other countries offer although I would draw the line at having my washing done as in France!!
Good Luck with your campaign.
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I live in the USA and I’m a Britt let’s compare eggs with eggs here … NHS is free healthcare for all USA health care is for those with insurance or money
– how I long for the NHS it is so simple and if I want speed I use my UK medical care
In the USA insurance / cost of medication – form after form after form -and drugs for everything ( I’m not even sure I need)! private healthcare in the UK is fantastic as was that in Singapore
Care wise has been pretty equal
Agreed and, even with insurance, you sometimes have to make medical decisions based purely on finances. Should you get the CAT scan or pay the mortgage? It should be drummed in to the heads of the Brits that a major cause of personal bankruptcy in the US is medical debt.
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The NHS has its good points and its bad points as anyone living in the UK will tell you. One of the biggest problems the NHS has is a lack of funding for people with mental health and crisis care in places like A&E is failing more and more, which often results in people taking their own life because they cannot get the help (despite asking) what they need.
Mental health wards are getting shut because of a lack of funding, Crisis phone lines closing down and the removal of home based support for people with diagnosed mental health conditions.
I’ve had both good experiences and bad. Bad being sent home aged 13 with a broken leg, because there was a lack of swelling after a fall on my way to school there was no need for an x-ray, despite the fact I couldn’t put weight on it. 4 days later and having hardly moved off the sofa I was taken back to A&E, where an x-ray was performed and I was told I had broken my Tibia, and a plaster cast was put on.
Good experiences, I’ve seen my mum who died from renal failure be treated with respect and dignity in hospital, especially A&E, but I also watched her die in pain because of staff shortages after 4 months on a renal ward when she developed the rare complication calciphylaxis.
I’ve personally been so desperate for mental health support I have opted to go private to The Priory, because the NHS has let me down again and again.
If you can try and watch the London Ambulance Service documentary which started last week, it can be found on BBC iPlayer, it will give you an insight into how pushed our NHS is.
And this is down to DELIBERATE lack of funding on behalf of Jeremy Hunt, Health Minister and the Conservative government backing it. They and opposition MP’s have interest in American pharmaceutical co. An arm of Pfizer just got fined £84,000 for grossly overcharging the NHS for epilepsy tablets by 2006% yes 2006% !! thats how lucrative the americans see us! !
I waited years for hep c treatment (thankfully now had it and cured) because rationed due to big pharma charging £858 per pill for Harvoni, and it required 56 pills to cure me.Nearly £900 a day for two months. Obscene. I know development costs a lot but that is an unjustified gouge.
Jeremy Hunt was the author of a book, published about 10 years ago in which he advocated privatisation of the NHS. No surprise as to what he and the government are now doing—cuts to a level that make things unsustainable, then bingo! the case for privatisation is made.
And it wasn’t 2006%, it was 2600%.
Can you please explain why 110 billion pounds is underfunding ? I think waste is the issue and that is driven by poor management and that is at a local level.
You fix waste by cutting waste. if you try to fix it by cutting funding you almost always cut meat rather than fat.
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a jansen says:
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/10/hunger-filth-fear-and-death-remembering-life-nhs
UK health care spend per capita is on the low end for western countries, and is less than half of what the US spends.
http://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0006_health-care-oecd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita
For me, a large part of the problem has been the enormous increase in the number of managers & administrative personnel, at the expense of front line clinicians, doctors & nursing staff. This is to be expected due to the disastrous PPI adventure under Blair, and the continued outsourcing of NHS functions to for-profit companies under the Tories.
The real funding is 4.5 billion Chris spread over 2016/2017.
No it’s 110 billion a year. The NHS has never had so much money or staff or staff pay. Seriously, I have to believe it would be better run if it was run by McDonald’s. The decision to stop Services is a local one and mostly underpinned by the decisions of local staff. The only thing I do have an issue with the government on is devolved trusts, clearly you get no economies of scale – the most basic silly example of NHS waste is the local branding, as I put it, I don’t pay money to Poxy Lawn medical centre, I pay it to the NHS, now run it like a company, that way you wouldn’t waste money on branding for something that clearly doesn’t need branding and stop wasting millions on the design and print of local branding.
I’ve posted before but just wanted to mention what happened today and tell you how it shocked me. The NHS finally gave me Hsrvoni which cured my hep c. Today was my day for a final blood test that will certify me as cured. I have been repeatedly assured I do not hsve cirrhosis. Today a student was sitting in so my results were pulled up to explain stuff to her. In the midst of showing why I was not cirrhotic the hepatology team person suddenly announced I’d been misdiagnosed and that I WAS cirrhotic and must be monitored for evermore!
There was no real explanation, just numbers and so on which a layman like myself cannot understand, and little sympathy for how shocked I was. I’m baffled because the person who did my last ultrasound elastography only months ago said there was no cirrhosis just fibrosis.
I’m extremely worried and disappointed as presumably if the student hadn’t been present my tests wouldn’t have been examined again and I’d have been discharged and none the wiser.
My wife suffers from kidney reflux and on dialysis since October 2016. Soon she will be on home dialysis using the newest technology on dialysis, the NXstage portable hemodialysis dialysis. Next week both of us will go on training for a week on how to use the NXstage portable hemodialysis machine. Hopefully next month my wife will be using the NXstage machine independently at home. Thank you NHS for free healthcare! (btw, NXstage machine is new to the NHS so not all hospitals in the UK are using it at the minute)
Nhs isnt free…have you forgotton we pay this in our national insurance contributions…
Don’t wear high heels. …… that’s not what the NHS is for
Re: your experience in A&E in London.
TRUMPet. This is not most folks experience of the NHS. Your cousin was given pain relief, triaged and diagnosed within…..what? 15 minutes?
Ahah ahahaha. Hilarious. What “other medical condition” did you tell them a fracture would would have impact on? Just so I can use it in future. Only after sitting in A&E more than 4 hours.
Our NHS is wonderful but cut out the BS when you’re telling your “story” NEVER in the history of the NHS has this happened unless critical incident or someone telling lies.
I used to be a consultant ‘in administrative charge’ of an A&E Dept.
What Dr Jen describes was entirely normal; and what she says did happen in the NHS.
Mark Catlin says:
Reblogged this on Declaration Of Opinion .
I personally love the NHS but it is under staffed and underpaid. They draft a lot of foreign nurses in from places like Spain and the Phillippeanes because we do not have enough nurses in the U.K.
GP surgeries in my opinion are not open long enough hours for patients to try and get to them and they also have appointment waiting lists as long as a month into the future as well as only being available Monday to Friday.
Despite these GP surgeries being over subscribed and causing issues that lead patients to attend the ER for non emergency issues we also have a free helpline for people to call if they cannot get to see the GP but are sensible enough to not crowd the ER. This is called NHS 111 and they will ask you a series of questions about your general health and then some more specialist questions about the problem you are calling about. If it appears that you need to be seen urgently they will arrange for a local on call doctor to call you back and they usually then offer you to come down to the local hospital or specialist emergency clinic that are available on some parts of the country.
There should be no excuse for people wasting the time of the doctors and nurses in the ER when we have had these options put in place for many years now.
theswampman says:
My experience with the NHS has been quite extreme: In 2 occasions I went to see my GP for severe pain in the abdomen and colic episodes, he said he had no idea what was going on, that it was probably something from “digestion issues” to “bowl cancer” (I’m quoting) and sent me back home with painkillers until new tests could be arranged (never happened). The colics kept on happening, the days the pain was too much to handle my flatmates had to call an ambulance (twice), which never came, so, covered in sweat and feverish I had to crawl to Whitechapel hospital feeling like dying, to wait in a room with dry blood stains on the walls. After waiting for my turn I got my belly explored, no doctor asked me any question regarding my health, no X-Ray, no CAT scan, no ecography, nothing at all. Just painkillers and a “good luck”, this while routine happened twice. Something was going terribly wrong, the pain of these episodes were rising dramatically, so I had to do something. The day I had enough I filled a suitcase, told my boss I was out, called the landlord to say my goodbyes and took a flight to Madrid, Spain (my hometown) where I was rushed to ER, diagnosed Gangrenose chronic appendicits through a CAT scan in just a couple hours, went through surgery on the spot (4 hours cleaning the mess), got a good 15 cm of my intestine removed, got a remarkable amount of stitches in my body, spent 14 days at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital recovering, lost 9 kg (I’m pretty skinny by nature) and saved my life, because I was very close to sepsis according to chief surgeon. So, my thoughts on NHS? It doesn’t treat immigrants or lower classes as well as natives or the wealthy ones, and I’d rather have a Spanish butcher than an English doctor to treat me (I mean…come on, appendicitis…a VET could see that coming!), which is surprising considering Spain is a way poorer country than the U.K.
I considered suing the NHS, but I felt sorry for them. I hope someday the Government will take it seriously so everybody in the UK could benefit from a real health care system, whatever class, race, age or economic situation they live through.
I considered suing the NHS, but I felt sorry for them. I hope someday the Government will take it seriously so everybody in the UK could benefit from a real health care system, whatever class, race, age or economic situation they live through
gedstar75 says:
I’m proud of our NHS. It is the best in the world. People complain about it because they have never experienced other countries health care systems. Where else in the world can you be seen for just about any ailment in a single day. Then treat accordingly no matter what the cost and for free! Some of us here in the UK are complacent about the health care we receive. Often these are the ones that abuse it and take it for granted.
I live up the road from sunderland in newcastle. Here we have the RVI. One the the best hospitals in the world. Alone with the research labs, Newcastle is pioneering some of the most significant medical advancements in history. Recent cures for some cancers and also the most important developmemt in the cure for HIV to name a few. Im certainly proud and thankful for what we have in the UK. Thank you for a great post. A superb reminder of how luck we are here. And next time you are over, come to Newcastle. Far better than Sunderland lol
Love & Peace xx
Our NHS isn’t free as we pay for it in our wages that’s what our national insurence is.. so it may seem free to people who live abroad but it’s not. Each country has differnt ways of paying for their hospitals. Our government are cutting back on this service which is wrong as we still pay never the less its as important as education.
Yes people like most of us here who are earning pays taxes and NI contributions. However, people who are unemployed never paid taxes and contributed to the NI still receives treatment from the NHS for free. Unlike in America, those who have no medical insurance won’t get the treatment they needed.
All my children grew up under the care of orthodontics through NHS. Dental braces were fitted on them and i never paid anything. My wife goes on dialysis 3x a week she is being picked up by ambulance at home and returned on ambulance every session again I paid nothing. My daughter has special needs but I never paid anything for the medical investigations done on her. Her educational needs are provided for free by the government. She gets school transport for free also. That is why my family and I are very grateful to our NHS and to our Government. For me, NHS is perfect healthcare. We love NHS!!
So you love the NHS because the UK government made.someone else pay for your expensive family needs. Well yes, there are always some “winners” who are net beneficiaries of the subsidies. By definition though most are not like that. They pay more than they receive in service.
Frank it’s medical needs of my family not our personal needs. Regardless of the economic status and race of the patient the NHS treat patients accordingly and equally. FYI, my wife and I works for the NHS. We pay taxes and contributes to the NI but we never complain about NHS treating patient who never paid taxes and contributed to the NI. All I say is we love NHS because it is perfect!!
@Mike, “my wife and I works for the NHS […] it is perfect”
Please forgive me for taking your assessment with boulder of salt or two then.
Tom Collier says:
Why burden Sunderland ER with a minor injury such as this, there are four Walk in centres around Sunderland where she could have received the exact same care. Why not educate yourself before lecturing British people how to appreciate our NHS, we already know dude.
I just wanted to say I loved reading this. And i will be looking at your previous/future posts as well.
soph says:
Couldn’t agree more, we hear all the bad sides of the NHS but non of the good sides. I got diagnosed with cancer at aged 30 and was treated immediately. I could not fault any one I was in contact with. After reading a simular article as I was in the middle of treatment the thought of going through all of the treatment and then being left with a bill to worry about, (if yoy had no unsurance or the fees to pay,) while trying to recover would have been agony. The only thing I can think of that would be good to be changed is more help for NHS staff aso they work such long hours while doing an amazing job!
My daughter has a mental illness: can you imagine needing treatment for such a condition and having to worry every time a new bill comes through the letter box?
Lost in the 90's says:
There is a system in place that we use called Nhs 111 you call them they triage you over the phone and tell you how you should proceed with care it ranges from take over the counter medicine to them sending out an ambulance. That is the perfect system to avoid wasted trips and resources
It takes an outsider to make us realise what we have!
paulchronicles says:
NHS is unfortunately hanging on by just a thread Pity really !
I’m a med student. This is an ophthalmology series I just started. Feel free to share and follow to stay updated 🙂 https://paulchronicles.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/ophthalmology-series-case-4/
The NHS is not a free service, we all pay for it via NHS contributions. It’s amazing how many people think the NHS is great, ‘considering its free’.
If you stop to think that you’re actually paying for that service, is it still so great?
This article only tells us that they received the right kind of care for their circumstances – I wouldn’t expect anything less!
Myself and my family have experienced some awful care in A&E departments since moving to the North East of England from Scotland. There clearly is a problem with NHS England, I’ve never seen anything like it. On one visit, we waited 10 hours to be seen with our 4 year old and it was a further 2 hours before we left the hospital.
Tom Connor says:
Nice article, thank you.
Nurse Laura says:
Thank you for the insight on healthcare that is so different than what we have in the U.S. I’m glad its not my decision to determine how care should be delivered. As a nurse I recognize that there are advantages and disadvantages. I am thankful that I have reasonably good health insurance with reasonably low co pays. I am thankful that I have never had to push off treatment due to cost concern. I am thankful that I live near quality hospitals. I am thankful that my family is usually healthy and do not need specialists. Thank you for the hard work that you do for your patients.
Paul Westlake says:
Jen, I have read your post a few times since you posted it, just about everything that has been said in your post is true as are many of the statements made by others. My third son Loz married a wonderful girl Lisa from San Francisco, they both lived in the UK and she has citizen status after a few years of marriage they had a wonderful baby called Huck, who has many ailments. The first three years of his life in the U.K. all of his conditions treated by the NHS without question (he has dual nationality)
The pull from Lisa’s family to return to the US was understandably huge and the inevitable has happened and the have moved out in the early part of this year(not enough room here to explain how much we miss them all). However for me the most shocking thing is that this small defenceless child who obviously cannot earn his own money yet needs health insurance – at a cost of some 300 dollars a month plus copayments. This is crazy, we all know you need medical care mostly when you are young and as you approach the end of life.
It will always be impossible to change your health system for reasons which we are all aware, however I consider it my duty as a citizen to protect the imperfect NHS, I pay a lot of tax and i’m happy to do so, I am not a church goer but do believe that you should treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, simple motor which has taken me a long way in my life.
Thank you for your kind words about our health system, in my mind it is the best in the world; simply because it has always been free at point of use, if we lose that then we are much poorer as a nation.
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Irena Salander says:
Oh go eat a bag of dicks.
I’d love to see how awesome you think it is when it takes 20 years of pestering to diagnose you with PCOS. Or when you’re waiting over a YEAR for psychological assessment and that’s before the inevitable waiting list for treatment, which will only be for 6 sessions and if you’re not cured, too fucking bad. Or when every complaint you have is related back to said mental health problems (including what turned out to be fucking tendon damage).
This is why I have a big problem with UHC. They set it up to work reasonably well for the average patient. All too many people aren’t the average patient and the system fails them badly. Not to mention the excessive waits for quality-of-life issues.
A few weeks ago I had three tonic-clonic seizures in succession, was rushed to an NHS hospital, triaged and apparently seen immediately (awareness is a bit of an issue in such circumstances so I go by what I am told) and had a head CT immediately. I spent 5 days in hospital during which I had a further chest CT, 3 12 lead ECGs, EEG, contrast brain MRI, a liver scan, many blood tests and consultations with a neurology specialist. Having ruled out anything more serious which might have exacerbated my epilepsy of many years I was put on a transition to Keppra from my previous AED. My seizures seem back under control. As usual I paid absolutely nothing beyond my taxes, my prescriptions are free and I am back at work. The question I have for people from the US is how many people there would be fearful of the financial harm of such an adventure, let alone the stress such an intense situation carries already? Yes, many people with less threatening issues wait a few hours in A&E and that night I probably contributed to some of them having to hang around a bit in that hospital as did the people with heart attacks and other life-threatening emergencies but, having worked around the world including the US, I can assure everyone the same is true everywhere.
Would have been fair if you had included how much specialists make in NHS vs what you earn in the US as a specialist! A large part of our high costs is all the high earning professionals in our system who would not give up their plush life too easily.. and are highly organized (AMA) with well-paid lobbying efforts. Be honest, are you willing to give up your lifestyle to be in a system like the NHS?
Yes, I am aware there are other highly paid professionals as well.. pharma executives, hospital owners and executives, PBM executives.. but you are one of them. Please tell us how US could be more like UK once you have done something to push your own AMA to allow that!
ImmigrantInBritain says:
I think it’s another post to keep NHS. A lot of people complaining about NHS. It will be shut down anyway. Any of such a stories will not going to help to keep it. NHS is absolutely corrupt organization and should be shut down. Everything is very slow and huge discrimination going inside. It has lack of efficiency. It is just one story from million. You been lucky enough to solve everything fast and media picked your story to promote as good NHS practice, but in reality nothing happens like this. Everyone is very personal. If they will decide that they don’t like you because you are black, gay/not gay/put yours you will not going to receive proper service. If all doctors will be independent and private than they will have to work hard and only those who really deserve will be rewarded. Now rewarded those who have better relationships with management.
IMMIGRANTINBRITAIN ? You may be an immigrant bu I think you may be being paid to write this by the very unsavoury UK Taxpayers Alliance, a very nasty lobby indeed, or by the equally nasty Conservative Party.
David Peltz says:
That’s the best comparative description of the two systems I’ve read, despite it opposing my previously held view. Thank you.
A [very sad] update on NHS charging: in OCT2017 the UK Conservative government changed the regulations to start charging “overseas visitors” for all non-ED (non-A&E or non-ER) NHS hospital treatment, with even privately insured patients required to pay up front or, in the case of clinician-determined urgent treatment, within 2 months of discharge (far too short to be reimbursed by most US insurance providers). Punishment for non-payment is deportation (“administrative removal”) or being reported to UK Immigration for future visa and entry denial together with engagement of debt collectors, who may or may not have mob connections.
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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Shakespeare) by Dr. Joseph Suglia
CONTRACT, OATH, AND THE LETTER IN THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Shakespeare)
Was Shakespeare a hater of Jews?
It is impossible to reconstruct the thought processes of dead author, as it is impossible to reconstruct our own thoughts. All we have are the plays. The question, then, ought to be revised:
Is The Merchant of Venice an Anti-Judaic play? There are certainly disobliging and unflattering references to Jews in the text. There are disobliging and unflattering references to Jews in other Shakespeare plays, as well. Confer Much Ado about Nothing and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, for instance.
The frequent charges of Anti-Judaism that have been leveled against The Merchant of Venice perhaps derive from the play’s presentation of a relationship between Jewishness and the calculation of interest, or usury. But more specifically, the play stages a relationship between the making of an oath and the accrual of a debt.
The debt that is owed to Shylock–a “pound of flesh”–is guaranteed by an oath. The pound of flesh is not, according to The Merchant of Venice, a metaphor for money. It refers literally to the flesh “nearest the merchant’s heart”:
And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off
Nearest the merchant’s heart [IV:i].
The oath prevents Shylock from translating the debt into figurative terms, despite Portia’s urgent offer to give him three times the sum (“Shylock, there’s thrice thy money offered thee” [Ibid.]). The debt of the “pound of flesh” must remain literal, not figurative–the phrase must refer to the excised human flesh, not to money.
If Antonio is compelled to liquidate the sum of money owed to Shylock, “the Jew” is not similarly coerced. Portia’s injunction to forgiveness–“Then must the Jew be merciful” [Ibid.]–is groundless according to contract law. There is nothing, no contractual obligation, no force of law that compels Shylock to be merciful and to forgive the debt: “On what compulsion must I? tell me that” (Shylock) [Ibid.]. For the hateful Christian Anti-Judaist, “The Jew” is one who clings to the letter of the law and not the law of forgiveness. Justice and mercy may not coexist. To show mercy would be, according to Shylock, to disregard the letter of the contract. Nothing, according to Shylock, obligates him to forgive the debt or to be merciful. The contract, however, which Shylock follows to the letter, requires repayment of the debt within three months. Such is a way in which Christian Anti-Judaism is staged in The Merchant of Venice.
The law is transcendent and submission to it is mandatory, both for the Christian judge and the Jewish creditor:
It must not be, there is no power in Venice
Can alter a degree established:
’Twill be recorded for a precedent,
And many an error by the same example
Will rush into the state. It cannot be [Ibid.].
If the oath is binding, it is because it is based upon a transcendent law. But what is the source of the transcendent law? What gives it its force? And what compels one to follow it? The law, according to Shylock, has a divine origin:
An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven.
Shall I lay perjury on my soul?
No, not for Venice [Ibid.].
I charge you by the law,
Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar,
Proceed to judgment; by my soul I swear,
There is no power in the tongue of man
To alter me. I stay here on my board [Ibid.].
The law is beyond all human power and representation and demands absolute submission from humanity; it must be followed. Human language, “the tongue of man,” is powerless against it, even though the word of the divine is written in the form of a contract, another instance of “the tongue of man.” Divine law demands absolute fidelity and inscribes itself in the contract which is written in the tongue of man. The contract–again, written in human language–is binding because of its divine provenance. Here we encounter a Shakespearean version of the natural-law argument. The naturalism of the moral law is evident in the contract itself, which “the Jew” knows inside and out, inwendig and auswendig. Both Christian AND Jew are obligated to follow the law of Venice, which is theological in origin.
Portia’s response to all of this theological nonsense is a reductio ad absurdum argument. Dressed in the garb of a man, Portia will take Shylock’s desire for a “pound of flesh” to the limit:
Tarry a little: there is something else.
This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood–
The words expressly are “a pound of flesh”;
Take then thy bond, taken then thy pound of flesh,
But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
Are by the laws of Venice confiscate
Unto the state of Venice [Ibid.].
“The Jew,” according to the stupidity of conventional Anti-Judaism (and is there any Anti-Judaism other than the conventional version?), ignores the spirit of the law in favor of the letter. “The words expressly are ‘a pound of flesh’”: By literalizing his statement, Portia is able to undermine Shylock’s project to exact (and extract) from Antonio what these words denote. There is an absolutely unified relationship between words and what they mean. The codicil to the contract will state that “the Jew’s” property and land will be confiscated if the penalty is not carried out to the letter.
Shylock, of course, refuses to carry out the penalty; he refuses to punish the debtor, Antonio. Soon thereafter, the stage direction is given: “Exit Shylock.” Shylock disappears rather early in the play (Act Four: Scene One). The earliness of this disappearance is particularly strange for a Shakespeare play, given that the Shakespearean villain usually remains until the final act. Shylock’s fate will be a forcible conversion to Christianity, thus firming the play’s staging of a vehemently Anti-Judaic stance.
The question still remains unanswered: Is The Merchant of Venice an Anti-Judaic play? My impression is that it is. The Merchant of Venice shows a rabid hatred of Jews, as it stupidly identifies Judaism with literalism and the literalization of metaphors. The Merchant of Venice is about the literalization of the metaphor and the becoming-metaphor of the letter.
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Alman, Josh
Limits on the Universal Method for Matrix Multiplication
In this work, we prove limitations on the known methods for designing matrix multiplication algorithms. Alman and Vassilevska Williams [Alman and Williams, 2018] recently defined the Universal Method, which substantially generalizes all the known approaches including Strassen's Laser Method [V. Strassen, 1987] and Cohn and Umans' Group Theoretic Method [Cohn and Umans, 2003]. We prove concrete lower bounds on the algorithms one can design by applying the Universal Method to many different tensors. Our proofs use new tools for upper bounding the asymptotic slice rank of a wide range of tensors. Our main result is that the Universal method applied to any Coppersmith-Winograd tensor CW_q cannot yield a bound on omega, the exponent of matrix multiplication, better than 2.16805. By comparison, it was previously only known that the weaker "Galactic Method" applied to CW_q could not achieve an exponent of 2. We also study the Laser Method (which is, in principle, a highly special case of the Universal Method) and prove that it is "complete" for matrix multiplication algorithms: when it applies to a tensor T, it achieves omega = 2 if and only if it is possible for the Universal method applied to T to achieve omega = 2. Hence, the Laser Method, which was originally used as an algorithmic tool, can also be seen as a lower bounding tool. For example, in their landmark paper, Coppersmith and Winograd [Coppersmith and Winograd, 1990] achieved a bound of omega <= 2.376, by applying the Laser Method to CW_q. By our result, the fact that they did not achieve omega=2 implies a lower bound on the Universal Method applied to CW_q. Indeed, if it were possible for the Universal Method applied to CW_q to achieve omega=2, then Coppersmith and Winograd's application of the Laser Method would have achieved omega=2.
@InProceedings{alman:LIPIcs:2019:10834,
author = {Josh Alman},
title = {{Limits on the Universal Method for Matrix Multiplication}},
annote = {Keywords: Matrix Multiplication, Laser Method, Slice Rank}
Keywords: Matrix Multiplication, Laser Method, Slice Rank
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Statistics Tell a Louisiana Story
Tracking Trends in the Bayou State
November 2000 Louise S. Durham, Explorer Correspondent
The oil patch is a happening place these days -- and a lot of the activity is directed toward acquisitions, mergers, downsizing and the like.
Combine this focus with lowered company head-counts, and it's not surprising that explorationists often have little opportunity to examine exploration activity on trend or to consider the overall significance of exploratory developments.
With this in mind, M. Byron Miller, research geologist at the Louisiana State University Basin Research Institute, took on the task of reviewing exploration trends in Louisiana. He presented his findings at last month's Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies annual meeting in Houston.
Oil prices spiraled downward from an average $20.61 per barrel in 1997 to $14.44 per barrel in 1998 before rebounding in the latter half of 1999 to a per barrel average $19.32. Miller noted that during this three-year period, the average annual drilling rig count in the United States declined 34 percent, dropping from 943 rigs in 1997 to 625 rigs in 1999.
The average annual drilling rig count for Louisiana declined 27 percent during this time, with 194 rigs drilling in 1997 and only 141 rigs in 1999, according to Miller. Simultaneously, permits for wildcat wells in the state declined 25 percent, with a total of 141 wells permitted in 1997 versus 106 in 1999.
"A review of the locations of the wildcat wells completed as discoveries in the past three years shows the majority of the discoveries have occurred on the margins of highly productive areas," Miller said, "and many of the discoveries are located along the Louisiana coast in state-owned waters bordering the federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico."
This coastal area is the locale of the still-relatively unexplored transition zone, which until recently had not been adequately imaged in the subsurface using sophisticated
3-D seismic technology.
Miller asserts the decline in wildcat well permits is only indirectly related to lower commodity prices, saying it's more likely the result of a rotation away from successfully explored or highly developed trends and toward less mature areas.
The Austin Chalk trend is a striking example. Wildcat permits for the trend tallied 42 in 1997, dropping to six in 1998 and none in 1999.
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When the chalk play in Louisiana kicked off in the early 1990s, operators were quick to snap up both small and vast leaseholds, hoping to duplicate the earlier Texas success stories, such as Pearsall and Giddings fields. But the deep, hostile environments of the Louisiana deposits proved too daunting for many players, and the bloom was soon off the rose.
Still, several new fields were established and extensively developed in the trend, and Miller attributes the sharp decrease in wildcat permits to an aggressive and successful effort to identify and delineate the productive areas.
The Wilcox sands in the Bayou State's central regions long have been a popular drilling target, particularly for the smaller independents who dominate this area.
The Wilcox trend is a mature hydrocarbon play, where prospects are generated by traditional subsurface mapping techniques, using a minimum of geophysical data, according to Miller. Drilling targets typically are about 3,000 feet.
It sounds almost like a slam-dunk for the typical seasoned oil finder who plays this turf. Yet the number of wildcat well permits decreased 55 percent in three years, ranging from 27 in 1997 to 17 in 1998 and down to 12 in 1999.
"Small operators exploring with a minimum of modern technology are particularly vulnerable to oil price fluctuations," Miller said, "and the Wilcox trend is an example of rotation away from a mature area that is most likely a direct result of the decline in oil prices."
He noted the shallow Frio trend in the central and south central part of the state had the largest increase in the number of wildcat permits, with two wells permitted in 1997, one in 1998 and 24 in 1999. A single operator, Maoco Inc., permitted 20 wells at drilling depths between 2,400 and 3,000 feet.
According to Miller, prospects in the shallow Frio trend are generally seismically-generated bright spot targets less than 5,000 feet deep. Reservoirs typically are stratigraphically trapped dry gas accumulations with limited areal extent.
"Exploration for shallow Frio targets is technology dependent and price dependent," Miller said, "and sufficient seismic data coverage and sophisticated processing techniques are necessary to identify prospects.
"The high exploratory costs and the small gas accumulations allow for little price latitude in the full cycle economics."
He also identified both the Hackberry trend in southwestern Louisiana and the offshore state waters as other areas of strong interest for operators.
Hackberry trend wildcat permits numbered 10 in both 1997 and 1999, with 16 wells permitted in 1998. Recent exploration in the trend has yielded success rates exceeding 80 percent due to the successful application of 3-D seismic data analysis, according to Miller.
"Both oil and gas reservoirs have been identified by bright spot analysis of 3-D seismic data," he said, "and this technology has dramatically rejuvenated exploration interest and success in the Hackberry trend."
Regarding the offshore state waters, Miller noted this is an area of much exploration activity where there have been several successful wildcats in the Breton Sound and Main Pass areas.
"These are small bright spot-related plays in the Cib Carst section at depths of approximately 8,000 feet," he said, "and 11 successful wildcats have been drilled in the area in the past three years."
Political Battlefields
Despite the fact that industry activity in general looks fairly positive, there are oil patch jitters aplenty over what the future holds for E&P activity of any kind in the Bayou State, given the attitude of the lawmakers.
Charles Goodson, president and chief executive officer of PetroQuest, speaks what's on the minds of many oil finders.
"LIOGA president Don Briggs and some of the other companies and I met with the speaker of the House the other day, and he demanded to know why activity hasn't picked up here as much as everywhere else," Goodson said. "We told him it's state government, state regulations.
"They've built a brick wall around the state with all the fees."
And it could get worse.
Seeking to cover a roughly $270 million shortfall in the state budget, this year's legislative session focused on business -- and particularly the oil and gas industry -- as a primary target to try and wrest more revenues.
Indeed, between the House and the Senate, 10 bills were introduced to try and levy a hydrocarbon processing tax or even to change the Constitution so the tax could be levied in the future. These were only part of a barrage of anti-industry proposals that, if passed, would have substantially escalated the cost of doing business in Louisiana for every segment of the oil and gas industry, according to Briggs.
Among the numerous proposals were bills to repeal the depletion allowance and to increase the natural gas severance tax.
When all was said and done, the anti-industry solons were voted down -- for the time being. LIOGA chairman Bill Fenstermaker cautioned, "We can't afford to rest on our laurels."
In fact, the oil and gas industry did not emerge completely unscathed from the recent legislative skirmish.
The Oil and Gas Incentive Program, which was instituted by Louisiana in 1994 to encourage drilling and was structured to be a win-win arrangement for both the state and the industry, was not renewed and subsequently expired July 1, 2000.
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Fictionist had the opportunity to ask author C.C. Hunter a few questions!
Fictionist had the opportunity to ask author C.C. Hunter a few questions! Hunter’s new book, This Heart of Mine, came out February 27. In lieu of writing a hefty summary, check out Hunter’s book trailer below:
Want to hear more? There’s an excerpt of This Heart of Mine at the end of our short Q&A! Check it out!
1. Do you think the line between YA and adult is blurring further? Why or why not?
Hmm… Good question. I think certain things are becoming blurred, but I also think there are certain tropes and themes in young adult (YA) novels that will never go away.
I think a lot of adults started reading young adult novels because the genre was less guideline specific than say regular romance. In YA, you can have a romance, but you can also deal with a wide span of other life issues. In a way, young adult is similar to women’s fiction in that the novel could include anything as long as it tells a story and holds the interest of a core audience. A good question is, has the genre changed because writers and publishers are now aware that the audience includes both teens and adults? Maybe a little. As I write, I’m aware that my audience spans across the age boundaries. While I get into the mindset and skin of young adult, I attempt to approach subjects in a way that will appeal to teens and adults alike.
One could also ask if the genre is changing because our young adults are changing. Today’s teens are educated in all kinds of issues. From drugs, depression, death, sex, homosexuality, transgender issues, and eating disorders. You name it, most teens know about it and deal with it in some aspect of their lives. Writers no longer have to avoid certain subjects and some don’t. I think the biggest change happening is not that the books are dealing with some of the tougher issues, but that the characters are aware of the issues. Even a book that does not deal with some of the harder subjects, it will probably have a reference to them because these issues are the norm for young adults.
I while I believe the blurring is happening, I think there are core threads and themes found in most young adult novels, and I think a lot of writers try to stay true to them. It’s not just the age of the protagonist that makes a YA. It’s the theme of first times. First loves, first kiss, first sexual experiences. It’s the theme of change, self-discovery, and finding one’s independence. However, there will always be writers willing to write for a certain audience. If the market moves toward the sweeter-themed and less issue oriented books, writers will be there to produce them.
2. What do you think is the biggest problem or obstacle facing the YA publishing/writing community today?
First, the publishing industry is changing. But the biggest problem in the YA industry may be the blurring that you are seeing in books. Writing books that teens can relate to, but subject matters that appeal to a larger audience. Some of the more popular books out today are dealing with hard issues and deciding where to cross the line and where not to cross the lines can be hard. Then again, teens are and have always been a tough audience.
3. What’s the easiest way to brighten your day?
To have a good writing day. One where I get so deep in the story that the characters practically write the book for me. And knowing I have a good dinner and glass of red wine waiting on me at the end of the day helps, too.
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Boral chief’s signature bet on the US becomes his worst nightmare
Boral's 2017 acquisition of US building materials industry peer Headwaters was billed as chief executive Mike Kane’s signature move. But now, Kane's big bet on the US construction market has become Boral's worst nightmare.
On Thursday evening as Australian institutional shareholders were packing up for the day to head to Christmas drinks, Boral dropped its bombshell: serious financial irregularities had been found inside its North American Windows business. The irregularities relate to inventory levels, raw materials and labour costs.
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As Friday unfolded it became clearer that profits inside the business appear to have been inflated by design rather than a processing error.
More broadly the situation calls into question the financial controls inside the company at a time when investors have little tolerance for financial snafus.
Meanwhile Kane, who declared himself "gutted", told investors the president of Boral Windows David Decker has been "isolated" from "financial and operating issues as we continue our investigations".
The impact on profit will be up to $44 million and at this stage is being treated as a one-off. The impact on Boral’s reputation and that of its management could linger longer. "In 46 years in business I have never seen anything like this," Kane said.
Inevitably there will be questions raised about Kane’s future in the top job and whether the problems found in this division could be more widespread.
But for now at least Kane says he is staying put. Up until yesterday there had been an expectation he would remain in his position for another 18 months.
His potential internal successors are considered to be Boral's chief financial officer, Ros Ng and president of Boral Australia, Wayne Manners.
On Friday morning investors delivered their own assessment of the damage, driving the stock down more than 6 percent by lunch.
Given the situation is now in the hands of forensic investigators it is difficult to provide certainty on the earnings impact, and whether that would extend beyond one year.
The impact on profit is being treated as a one-off. The impact on Boral’s reputation and that of its management could linger longer.
Analysts prodded Kane on whether there is a risk that earnings from the prior year (the 2018 financial year) had been overstated or whether the problems had been confined to the period between September 2018 and October 2019, as nominated by Boral.
Kane said Boral was trying to understand what happened and whether the misreporting was based on what he described as "mismanagement or misconduct".
He explained that the Windows division had been sitting on a separate financial platform outside of the main Boral shared services and finance functions in the United States.
Ng, who alongside Kane fronted investors on Friday said KPMG had conducted an external audit on the Boral North America operations for 2018-19 but hadn't found any issues.
But she also admitted that an internal audit by Boral back in 2017 had raised ‘flags’ in the windows division.
So how did the misreporting go undetected?
According to Kane, there are three lines of defence in any situation. "The first line is local management and management on the ground. Clearly that failed in this case. Senior Boral in North America is the second line. Obviously it was not detected".
He added that "if an effort is underway to disguise the misreporting it is difficult to detect."
It was management inside the Windows division that pointed out the problem ahead of an impending audit.
Kane has vowed to seek redress. The situation is complicated by the fact that Headwaters had only acquired the Windows business shortly before Boral’s takeover in 2017.
But according to a statement from Boral on the timeline of these irregular financial events, they occurred well after the Headwater acquisition was completed. In other words, they happened under Boral's ownership.
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A history of politicians messing in military tribunals
By Tom Temin | @tteminWFED
The sacking of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer will go down as one of the strangest episodes in the strange, ongoing case of Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher.
The ostensible reason Secretary Spencer is gone is that he attempted to freelance a deal with the White House to ensure Gallagher, a decorated SEAL, could keep his gold Trident pin. Spencer’s White House negotiations were unknown to Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Yet both Esper and Spencer wanted to end a Navy review board into Gallagher’s future status.
Gallagher was accused of war crimes that occurred during one of his deployments to Iraq. A court martial acquitted him, except on the charge of posing with a corpse. His sentence included a demotion.
That didn’t end the case, however. Navy Rear Admiral Collin Green had ordered a Trident Review Board for Gallagher — the pin is colloquially called the Trident — to see whether Gallagher would be expelled. The pin has nearly talisman-like meaning. SEALs sometimes push their pins into the wooden coffins of comrades killed in action. The pins go below along with the comrade. The living are entitled to acquire replacement pins. (I found them for 10 bucks on eBay.) But to have it revoked as a way to say, “You’re no longer a SEAL,” that’s a serious deal.
The Navy Times reports Gallagher was ready to voluntarily give up the pin and told his lawyer to draft a letter to that effect. His stated reason was to honor the integrity of the SEALs by removing himself from ongoing controversy. But just after giving that instruction to his lawyer, Spencer told Gallagher he could keep his pin.
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In negotiating privately with the White House, Esper felt Spencer undermined his authority. What a mess. Spencer’s offense wasn’t his position on Gallagher, but rather that he pursued it without buy-in from his boss.
My question is, if Esper, Spencer and President Trump all agreed that Gallagher stay in the SEALs and keep his pin, why fire Spencer over trying to get that done? Esper himself, the AP reported on Sunday, ordered the Navy to let Gallagher retire at the rank to which President Trump had restored him. And ordered the Navy to stand down the review board.
But there’s a larger question. Namely, in the context of civilian control of the military, where do you draw the line in the proper authority of the uniforms? Military justice in the Gallagher case proceeded, albeit in a flawed way, towards a conclusion by a jury. The Gallagher case was one in which the mythic heroism of elite warriors called to operate in ambiguous circumstances on the nation’s behalf collides with the realities of rules of engagement and the requirement for integrity of the justice system. And with the fact that an individual can be both supremely talented and deeply flawed.
Gallagher was acquitted of shooting random civilians and stabbing to death a prisoner who was receiving medical attention. Fellow SEALs testified that he did it. Some witnesses changed their stories on the stand. Regardless of the narrow verdict, Navy people who understand these things felt the case needed a more definitive ending.
Not that the civilian leadership doesn’t have the Constitutional right and occasional duty to countermand the brass, but I believe in this instance, President Trump and others erred in publicly overriding the uniforms.
In the still-difficult case of Army Lieutenant William Calley, President Nixon didn’t try to overturn a conviction, instead ordering the man at the center of the My Lai, Vietnam, massacre to house arrest. Still, Nixon was dinged by Calley’s defense team for prejudicing the case and interfering with military justice. The Calley case went through subsequent military and civilian court rounds before his initial murder conviction was upheld. My recollection is that the My Lai massacre — and there was no doubt about the fact of a massacre having taken place at the hands of U.S. soldiers — drew enormous and divisive debates among politicians and the public. Long story short, Calley was out of prison by 1976.
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Chelsea Manning wasn’t convicted of murder but rather of sending 750,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks, in violation of the Espionage Act. Again, a big debate over whether Manning is an activist and whistleblower or traitor. This time it was President Obama intervening. He commuted her 35-year sentence to seven years. At the time of Obama’s decision, Manning had already spent close to seven years in prison and her release occurred in the early days of the Trump presidency.
These cases are messy from military, moral and legal standpoints. If military legitimacy as we understand it in the United States is to be preserved, the politicians have to be judicious in how they get involved. It takes a deft hand to know when to intervene and when to let military justice run its course. This feels ham-fisted.
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10 Best Things to Do for Couples in Paris
Paris’s Most Romantic Places
Paris is often considered one of the most romantic cities in the world, and couples on honeymoon or on a weekend getaway can find many things to do here. The superb, timeless look of the city’s architecture offers a prime environment for couples in love.
Amorous strolls along the banks of the River Seine, a museum fully dedicated to French romanticism, shopping in covered passageways and dining in a top-notch restaurant on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower are just a few of the exciting things to do for a couple in the City of Lights. Follow us for a virtual tour through Paris’s most romantic places.
Walk along the Canal Saint-Martin
Wander a picturesque area of Paris
Stretching for almost 2 km between Rue du Faubourg du Temple and Rue Lafayette, the uncovered part of the Canal Saint-Martin is an iconic place in Paris. Bordered by the Quai de Valmy and the Quai de Jemmapes, it’s a lovely, trendy walkway for a romantic stroll in the shade of the chestnut trees that line the two sides of the canal. This quaint area hosts typical French cafés and restaurants, which adds to that iconically romantic Parisian atmosphere.
Sijainti: Porte Saint-Martin, 75010 Paris, France
Indulge yourself with a romantic couple’s spa
Enjoy a soothing treatment with your loved one
Is there something more soothing and pleasing than a spa session for 2 during a getaway in Paris? Most of the best places in Paris to enjoy such a delightful treatment are in upscale hotels. Pop Up Spa at the Four Season George V is the cream when it comes to spa treatments for couples. Another first-class venue is the Spa Valmont at Le Meurice. Last but not least, you can trust Spa Le Bristol by La Prairie. Their treatments are pure bliss.
Explore the Musée de la Vie Romantique
Discover the romanticism à La Française
The Musée de la Vie Romantique (Museum of the Romantic Life) is in a 19th-century mansion at the foot of Montmartre Hill. The first floor of the museum is dedicated to George Sand’s romantic life and to her liaison with Chopin through objects, sensuous letters and paintings. The second floor showcases paintings, sculptures and rarities depicting love and romanticism. This quirky museum has a café and a compact garden in which you can take a relaxing break in serene surroundings.
Sijainti: 16 Rue Chaptal, 75009 Paris, France
Aukioloajat: Tuesday – Sunday from 10am to 6pm (closed on Mondays)
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Watch a classic movie at the Grand Action Cinema
A lovely experience in a vintage French cinema
Everyone remembers their first date at a cinema – the shivers of excitement when the lights are turned off and the feeling of being cast away with your loved one in the dark. You can retrieve these sweet feelings by going to watch a classic movie at the Grand Action Cinema, a short stroll south of Notre-Dame Cathedral, in the centre of Paris. Far away from the modern multiplexes, this independent cinema retains a charming, vintage décor and atmosphere, with classic movies shown in their original versions.
Sijainti: 5 Rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris, France
Aukioloajat: Daily from 1pm to 11.30pm
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Wander through the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Get away from the crowds in a beautiful public garden
The Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is a great place for a romantic stroll. Established at the end of the 19th century in the northeast of Paris, it’s famous with couples for the Temple de la Sibylle, a viewpoint at the top of an island in the centre of an artificial lake. Secluded and offering beautiful views of the city, it’s a serene place to stop during your promenade. A pleasant restaurant with an outdoor terrace sits near the suspension bridge that leads to the island.
Sijainti: 1 Rue Botzaris, 75019 Paris, France
Aukioloajat: Daily from 7am to 9pm
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Shop in glass-roofed shopping galleries
Experience the charm of Paris’s intimate covered passageways
Step back into the past in Paris’s quaint shopping galleries from the 18th and 19th centuries. The glass-roofed arcades with splendid mosaic tiling are real architectural wonders. The most beautiful of them include Galerie Vivienne on Rue de la Banque, Passage du Grand-Cerf on Rue Saint-Denis and Passage des Panoramas on Rue Saint-Marc. Housing a wide variety of small boutiques, quaint cafés, and restaurants, they are hidden gems in the City of Lights.
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Watch the sunset from Montmartre Hill
Enjoy one of the most beautiful views of Paris
Erected at the top of Montmartre Hill and overlooking the city, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris is among the city’s most iconic landmarks. The square right in front of the basilica is a great place to watch the sunset over the City of Lights. You then can go to dine or have a drink in one of the many cool cafés and restaurants nearby. Montmartre is a quaint neighbourhood with a strong artistic, bohemian touch.
Sijainti: 1 Parvis du Sacré-Cœur, 75018 Paris, France
Stroll along the Seine River at dusk
Take an amorous walk in a timeless urban setting
The banks of the Seine River offer a quaint place for romantic strolls at dusk. One of the favourite segments for such a promenade stretches between the Pont Neuf and the Pont de Sully, along the left bank of the river. The Arab World Institute, Notre-Dame Cathedral and many other historical buildings dot the journey. You can also opt for route with more landmarks and views between the Eiffel Tower and the Pont de la Concorde. In any case, you’ll enjoy a moment in a stunning, timeless setting.
Dine by candlelight at Le Jules Verne
Spoil yourself with a delicious dinner and a unique view of Paris
A dinner at Le Jules Verne, the first-class restaurant on the Eiffel Tower, can be the climax of your stay in Paris. Ask for a window table and enjoy the view of Paris at night while you sample the delicious French dishes and wines on offer. With top-notch service, comfortable settings, delectable food and breathtaking views, a dinner by candlelight at Le Jules Verne is a memorable, unique experience. Prices are in line with the overall quality of the venue and booking ahead is highly recommended.
Sijainti: Avenue Gustave Eiffel, 75007 Paris, France
Aukioloajat: Daily from 12pm to 1.30pm and from 7pm to 9.30pm
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Have a drink at the Terrass Hotel Paris Rooftop Bar
Raise your glass to the City of Lights
End the day at a stylish rooftop bar that offers spectacular views of Paris and of the Eiffel Tower. Wines, skilfully mixed cocktails and spirits are available at this popular venue on the panoramic terrace of the aptly named Terrass Hotel Paris, which sits at the foot of Montmartre Hill. The terrace is heated and you’re provided with blankets in winter, so you can enjoy a drink here at almost any time of year.
Sijainti: 12-14 Rue Joseph de Maistre, 75018 Paris, France
Aukioloajat: Daily from 3.30pm to 1am
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Toxicodendron succedaneum
Köhler's Medicinal Plants plate 272
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Toxicodendron
T. succedaneum
(L.) Kuntze, 1891
Rhus succedanea L.
Toxicodendron succedaneum, the wax tree,[1] Japanese Hazenoki tree (Sumac or wax tree) or sơn in Vietnam, is a flowering plant species in the genus Toxicodendron found in Asia, although it has been planted elsewhere, most notably Australia and New Zealand. It is a large shrub or tree, up to 8 m tall, somewhat similar to a sumac tree. Because of its beautiful autumn foliage, it has been planted outside Asia as an ornamental plant, often by gardeners who were apparently unaware of the dangers of allergic reactions. It is now officially classified as a noxious weed in Australia and New Zealand. It is one of the city tree symbols of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan.
The larvae of the moths Eteoryctis deversa, Caloptilia aurifasciata, Caloptilia protiella, Caloptilia rhois and Callidrepana patrana feed on T. succedaneum.
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Chemistry[edit]
The plant produces hinokiflavone, a cytotoxic biflavonoid.[2] Its stems are also a commercial source of fisetin, extracted in China.[3]
Uses[edit]
It is used to produce lacquer. In Vietnam, the lacquer is used to produce lacquer paintings, known as sơn mài, from resin of the tree.
In East Asia, in particular in Japan, traditional candle fuel (also called Japan wax) was produced, among other sumac plants, from Toxicodendron succedaneum crushed fruits rather than beeswax or animal fats. Japan wax is a byproduct of lacquer manufacture. It is not a true wax but a fat that contains 10–15% palmitin, stearin, and olein with about 1% japanic acid (1,21-heneicosanedioic acid). Japan wax is sold in flat squares or disks and has a rancid odor. It is extracted by expression and heat, or by the action of solvents. The fatty-acid methyl ester of the kernel oil meets all of the major biodiesel requirements in the USA (ASTM D 6751-02, ASTM PS 121-99), Germany (DIN V 51606) and European Union (EN 14214).[4]
It is used as a medicinal plant in India.
The fruits are edible though their consumption is not recommended because of the general toxicity of the plant.
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Wood sample at Jardim Botânico, São Paulo, Brazil
A very common wild tree in Hong Kong
Detail of flowers
^ "Toxicodendron succedaneum". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
^ Lin, YM; Chen, FC; Lee, KH (1989). "Hinokiflavone, a cytotoxic principle from Rhus succedanea and the cytotoxicity of the related biflavonoids". Planta Medica. 55 (2): 166–8. doi:10.1055/s-2006-961914. PMID 2526343.
^ Gábor, M.; Eperjessy, E. (1966). "Antibacterial Effect of Fisetin and Fisetinidin". Nature. 212 (5067): 1273. doi:10.1038/2121273a0. PMID 21090477.
^ Mohibbeazam, M; Waris, A; Nahar, N (2005). "Prospects and potential of fatty acid methyl esters of some non-traditional seed oils for use as biodiesel in India". Biomass and Bioenergy. 29 (4): 293–302. doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2005.05.001.
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Wikispecies: Toxicodendron succedaneum
APNI: 189633
FoC: 200012739
GRIN: 101867
iNaturalist: 362794
IPNI: 71802-1
ISC: 47426
IUCN: 135819278
NZOR: 0799c6f8-a88b-499d-b7ef-53171331fec5
NZPCN: 4412
Plant List: tro-1301242
PLANTS: TOSU
POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:71802-1
Tropicos: 1301242
Rhus succedanea
Wikidata: Q38424157
APDB: 5897
EPPO: TOXSU
GRIN: 31713
NZOR: 70f325c1-8ee3-4715-b405-c54b45fba0e2
PfaF: Rhus succedanea
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Buran, The First Russian Shuttle
Did you know that there was a space shuttle built in Russia, which has made a few successful flights but then the research project was closed due to lack of funding after the collapse of Soviet Union?
The BURAN orbiter was the first reusable manned space vehicle in Russia. The BURAN orbiter is the space airplane which may descent from an orbit and land to an airdrome. The BURAN was Russian first vehicle capable not only to put pay-loads into Space, but also to provide their orbit maintenance and repair as well as return to the Earth.
The BURAN predecessors could execute only separate roles: VOSTOK and SOYUS vehicles were intended only for crew flights, PROGRESS – for cargo delivery onto the orbital station. Put into the orbit by a rocket carrier of the average size they had modest transport potentials. Whereas the cargo flow on the Earth-orbit line increased and the development of a reusable vehicles of large carrying capacity has become inevitable.
The BURAN orbiter is able to put up to 30 tons into Space and to return up to 20 tons of payload to the Earth.
The availability of a cargo compartment of impressive sizes on the vehicle permits to transport orbital station modules or large structures up to 17 m long and 4,5 m in diameter and not only 2-4 crew members but up to 6 passengers can be accommodated in a crew cabin.
Expendable space vehicles perform a ballistic or sliding descent in the atmosphere and parachute landing. The necessity to provide a space vehicle return from the Space and to bring it to the airdrome forced the designers to decide many complex problems.
The gliding descent from the orbit through dense layers of atmosphere has stipulated the necessity to use a principally new reusable thermal protection system designed to sustain 100 flights. For the BURAN orbiter three kinds of thermal protection have been developed:
– “carbon-carbon” material with maximum operating temperature up to 1650 degrees C for the components with the highest thermal load -the fuselage nose and wing leading edge,
– ceramic tiles for parts heating up to 1250 degrees C,
– flexible material for surface parts with the temperature not higher than 379 degrees C.
All of them surpassed by strength the materials used in the USA Space Shuttle construction.
The main differences between the space aeroplane Buran and Suttle-orbiter are follows:
– the automatic landing of Buran from orbit onto airdrome;
– the absence ot the main rocket engine on the orbital aeroplane. The main engine was placed onto a central block of a carrier-rocket ENERGIA which is able to launch into an orbit 120 tonns of payload against 30 tonns for Space Shuttle;
– the hight lift-drag ratio of the space aeroplane Buran is 6.5 against 5.5 for Space Shuttle;
– the space aeroplane Buran returned 20 tonns of payloads against 15 tonns for Space Shuttle orbiter from an orbit to an aerodrome;
– the cutting lay-out pattern of thermoprotection tiles of Buran is optimal and longitudinal slits of tile belts are orthogonal to the flow line. Sharp angles of tiles are absent. The tile belts of the Buran fuselage and fin have an optimal position.
On the photos you can see how the shuttle Buran was transported by the biggest сargo airplane in the world, AN-225 “Mriya”.
Here is Buran is being mounted to the main rocket.
And then transported to the launch site.
Here is Buran is ready to take off.
This is the Buran development team.
And here are the videos of the first Buran take off and landing.
It could be a very successful project of Russian Space Exploration era in general, if the Soviet union lasted a little bit longer or if the modern Russian could find a way to fund it.
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Это не тот Буран, что теперь аттракцион в Парьке Горького?
second video is same as the first one
Is this the same story like the Tupolev TU-144 which was a clone of the Concord? 😉
TU-144, felw its first commercial flight a year earlier that the Concord, so, the Concord is a clone of the Tupolev 🙂 Forget about the cliches, as you can see, the Buran was a little bit a lot different and better than the Shuttle.
Umm, no, the Tu-144 cloned the Concorde, Western Certification took longer, and we didn’t work construction crews 24 hours a day building it.
How did that moon trip work out? Every get the rockets to fire correctly?
First of all I’d like to congratulate you for such a cool blog !
I’m a guy from Barcelona who is living in Omsk. Really enjoying to read something about Russia from another point of view (so alike to mine).
On Google Earth you could take a look on a Buran shuttle which nowadays is exhibited in Moscow city center.
The coordinates are: 55º43’44” North / 37º35’48” East
PS: vasily is right, second video is the same. However, better to watch these and other Buran videos on youtube.
Soviet spies must have infiltrated NASA.
or CIA agents must inflitrate USSR space programme, don´t be silly.
Braad Spitt
@Xavi:
yeah, Google Earth is one of the coolest things on the web!!
Here’s a direct link to your coordinates on Google Maps.
This is where my house lives! 🙂
W. Shedd
Keep up the good work – an excellent collection of photos of Buran. Should make note of the fact that the Buran never had it’s life support systems installed and its only flight was unmanned. There was another unmanned flight scheduled for 1993 which never occurred. All in all, it was quite a good engineering achievement, even if it was never fully realized.
Should also mention that the Энергия (Energia) rocket was the most powerful that the Soviet Union ever developed, and second in power and liftoff capabilities only to the old US Saturn V.
there really cool pictures
http://www.buran.ru/htm/pilots.htm Some people might find this interesting also
To those who say that it was clone of concorde stolen from NASA, Ieven if it was stolen, read the part about differences, it was better then “chellenger” space shuttle from any point of view. Actuallu “chellenger” just blew up one day, and “Buran” still exists.
“Buran” project was stopped no because of soviet union falling apart, but because of unrentability. Space shuttle technology costs to US far more than “Progress” technology for russia. Still “Progress” is the most relyable spacecraft in the world.
Levon, not to be mean, but the comment about the “”Challenger” just blew up one day, and the “Buran” still exists” is mean, and like comparing apples to oranges. The Challenger and her crews made multiple trips to space, the Buran never took a crew to space.
another big problem about buran was that the heat shield wasn’t replacable. unlike the tile lined underbelly of the US Shuttle, buran had those glued on strips…..another main reason the Buran was never launched a second time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_cosmonauts
True, the Buran Tiles dis not resist the heat as planned. Some parts of the aluminium structure did melt during reentry. For a second flight the general structure would have to be modified.
Luckily nobody was onboard during the near-fail reentry.
Wow, it was only launched once? What a waste, and cool your jets (pardon the pun) Levon, no one insulted your precious shuttle.
The really interesting part about Buran was that the Sovs slavisly copied the gross characteristics that made Shuttle shuch an iffy vehicle.
Wings for the prime example. The wings were a design comprimise forced on NASA by the Air Force for cross range capability for an orbital flight. Absent the polar orbit there simply isn’t a reason to haul wings up to orbit.
Location of Buran and it’s fuel tank for another. Excellent idea to locate your crew next to the fuel so in case of catastrophic failure the crew compartment is vaporized and not thrown clear, as it would be if the vehicle were mounted above the tank.
I swear you’d think Shuttle was part of a vast conspiracy to bankrupt the Soviet Union. The diff being that we could afford such blunders, the Soviets not so much.
chihpih
Russian scientists & engineers were / are superiour to American counterparts but were / are unable to develop a lot of their ideas due to lack of funding!
Saying Russian (or Soviet) engineers are better than their American counterparts is a useless comparison. By your own admission they lacked and lack the ability to translate the brilliant ideas into real world projects where their brilliance can be proven.
It’s in the real world where brilliant engineering happens, not on paper.
Not y’all fault of course – you’d been set up for failure, which is a damned shame.
Joe H
Yeah, we know, we know. Americans invented everything. Everyone else just copies American stuff. Like Sputnik for instance.
You just cannot stand the idea that someone else in the world might do something better than you . . . well, not YOU exactly, but, you know, an American, and that’s as good as if you had done it yourself.
The US lost its scientific and technological superiority a long time ago. You’ve lost most of your manufacturing, and your economy is in shambles. China now supplies most of your manufactured goods now, and most of your new financing. Soon the entire US will be owned by China. Hope you’re practicing your Mandarin.
But I admit that America is number 1. Number 1 in exploiting the rest of the world, number 1 in starting unprovoked wars, number 1 in killing, torture, secret trials, secret jails, secret “renditions,” number 1 in health care . . . oh, sorry, that should be number 80, number 1 in business and government corruption, number 1 in waste, number 1 in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
And of course, the US is definitely number 1 in telling the rest of the world how it doesn’t measure up to ‘merka.
johnsky
Yeah, the US can be a bad investment at times.
Accumulated, the US is owned by Canada, EU, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and China.
But don’t tell the Americans that… shhhhh… they still haven’t realised their version of capitalism means they were for sale.
Oddly enough the Buran’s areodynamics were a direct copy of the U.S. Space Shuttle. Nice work!
A clear ripoff of the American shuttle. Russians couldn’t ‘develop’ technology they didn’t steal first. Don’t feel insulted though, you are in good company with the likes of Japanese, look at them now, they can actualy create better stuff than the Americans. But they had to engage in serious industrial spying and stealing to get there. So let’s thank the KGB for this shuttle, or a bribed government contractor. There is nothing brilliant about stealing other designs, hence in this case their wasn’t any ‘brilliant’ engineering to talk of and resources have nothing to do with it – get real people.
MarcT
Getreal should really get his/her facts straight, because you really haven´t a clue. Not really your fault as you´re the product of a brainwashed megalomanic society, puffed upo by it´s own importance. Einstein and Werner von Braun are two of a huge list of “stolen” technological leaps not attributable solely to “America”, and remember, incidentally, to be truly “American” an idea would have to be from a native of the country…but that´s an unending topic of its own, now isn´t it!?
Think about these:
Spain built the first submarine;
China had municipal drains 5000 years ago;
The French enforced Democracy invented by the Greeks;
Baseball comes from cricket and American football from rugby;
American english is not your own creation;
Shall I go on or do you humbly admit to being shallow and uniformed?
The first gyrocopter (primitive kind of helicopter), was designed and built by a spanish engineer – Juan de la Cierva. The first american autocannon was, in fact, a licenced copy of a spanish Hispano Suiza HS.404 autocannon.
Colour TV was invented in Mexico, and first commercial emmisions were made in germany during 1936 olympics.
By the way, Sikorsky was RUSSIAN.
Simon Sharwood
I’m pretty sure that one of the Buran fleet ended up in Sydney, Australia, as a tourist attraction.
Not many people went to see it though and it was onsold somewhere else.
you all need to shutup (the americans and the russians) and go design the next generation (after this dumb orion craft) spacecraft.
we basically need a nuclear reactor cooled by space.
figure out how to pressurize it and let’s go … some of the nuclear submarine heat dissipation solutions should be cross transferrable.
maybe a quantum reactor of some sort?
worldpeace,
>Russians couldn’t ‘develop’ technology they didn’t steal first.
May I know where did Russians steal the technology of the first space ship in the world? Maybe from some aliens?
Robbed some unlucky UFO, he-he.. 🙂
May I know where did Russians steal the technology of the first space ship in the world?
The Germans, actually. But you knew this.
Some of us are doing just that.
sobaka
When I was in living in Moscow in the early 90’s the poor old Buran was an attraction at Gorki Park. I can remember if kids could clomb on it but basically it was a gutted out hull.
4emist
TU-144 has not been stolen from concord, u should know
All engineering is in some respects borrowed – we none of us work in isolation.
All this nonsense about “stealing technology” is getting out of hand. A big part of engineering is sometimes just seeing that something can be done. This is called “reverse engineering”. It is much easier to reverse engineer something made in the US than something made in the former CCCP. The Soviet Union did a much better job of shrouding their technology from prying eyes.
The Soviet Union (and now Russians) have a superior rocket and missle technology to the United States for at least 50 years. Some of that is due to the old adage “their Germans were better than our Germans” but men like Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy and Sergei Pavlovich Korolev existed before and independently of their German counterparts.
Russian missle technology and anti-ballistic missle technology continue to surpass US technology. So how are they stealing American ideas?
There is a great deal of ignorance in the US regarding the former Soviet Union and Russia. You would be wise to be not among the ignorant and do a little fact checking before dismissing Buran out of hand. As was pointed out, even NASA sees that the Space Shuttle program was a costly boondoggle and that reusable rentry vehicles aren’t really as cost effective as they might appear – as least not yet.
natrium42
Article is a bit incorrect. Buran only made one space flight (one orbit) instead of “a few” as you state. Additionaly the US Shuttle is now capable to land automatically with the addition of a special cable; see article http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060629_newtools.html
and cool your jets (pardon the pun) Levon, no one insulted your precious shuttle.
I just dont like when somebodey shows just “one side of medal”.
As a matter of fact we all should agree what is beeing buil in military labs In US, Russia and China(remember Huangyangtan mistery?). Also when analising the history we see, that a big part of modern technology, from microvawes to nuc bombs was invented in germany, or because of germany and WW II.
P.S. as there is no gravitation in space the regular pen does not operate there. NASA spend 20 years, and bilions of dollas, while invented a pan wich is able to opereate in space(you can buy it in numerious TV shops). And some CNN or something reporter told a russian astronaut about this and asked how do the russians soled this problem. Astronaut said:
_ -well, we use a pencil.
wadz
One fact not mentioned: One main reason the Program was cancelled was that the storage building for the shuttles roof collapsed upon it damaging it enough they didn’t have the money to repair it. By this time they didn’t have the money to fly it either, but still, it was a nail in the coffin. Also, Russia didn’t tell the wider world for at least 2 years afterwards.
>The Germans, actually. But you knew this.
To think that is the same as think Americans stole the first a-bomb technology from the same Germans. There are too much difference between some experimental data seized in faschist labs and practically fulfilled project.
As far as technology being stolen from one side or another, the fact is most of these technologies could not have been built without help from the countless other ” little technologies ” developed over mankind’s history.
Watch the old British Tv series Connections and Connections 2 ,these 2 series will give you an idea of that.
Even the atom bomb could not have been finished without the help of TNT ( Nobel was the father of modern explosives ) dentonator caps, capacitors, cathode ray tubes (crt’s), etc, etc.
So every little advancement in human enginneering is built upon by other peoples contributions.
Where the genius comes from is in knowing how to apply what has been developed so far and twisting it, the old saying ” necessity is the mother of invention ” comes to mind, to suit one’s pursuit.
Oh and by the way I do like Russian tech for it’s ability to do what is required and leave out all the bells and whistles. The less to go wrong the better, work with what you have and make it better or simpler to use or repair.
This coming from a Canuk tool and diemaker of Boeing & automotive experience.
>Then one day that wonderful superior country ceased to exist. Ironic, isn’t it?
Nothing ironic, just the fate of all wonderful and superior in this world. All outstanding die one day, mediocrity lives forever. The USSR was an outstanding power, modern Russia is just a mediocre bourgeois state as same as most states in the world.
>It has far more Nobel prizes for science, and much more important it has been far more successful in delivering technology to people than Russia
I completely agree with the last statement in this phrase. That’s right! And yes I give America credit for first landing men on the moon.
So let me repeat the propaganda I hear since my childhood days – it’s not worse than one you hear since your childhood days 🙂
In 2002 the Buran was in Sidney, on display:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021209113356/http://www.meniscus.net/buran/
Later it was sold, and shipped, and was stranded in Bahrain:
http://suzymchale.com/kosmonavtka/buran.html
>Nothing ironic, just the fate of all wonderful and superior in this world. All outstanding die one day, mediocrity lives forever. The USSR was an outstanding power, modern Russia is just a mediocre bourgeois state as same as most states in the world.
In what way do you think that USSR was outstanding compared to the USA? USSR was in many ways better then what Russians had before, but compared to the West the USSR wasn’t too impressive. There was nothing wonderful about that economically backward dictatorship. They had a strong military, I will grant you that. In early years of space exploration they were ahead of the Americans. In almost everything else, Western nations were superior, often by a great deal.
As for the American atomic bomb, it wasn’t stolen from the Germans the way the USSR stole it from the Americans. Two scientists (one of them was Albert Einstein), who knew that the Germans were investigating uranium and nuclear reactions wrote a letter to the US president and asked him to start a nuclear weapons program. No actual technology was stolen from the Germans, the Americans had start from zero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein-Szil%C3%A1rd_letter
technology was stolen by the americans during the closing weeks of the war from several places, including te labrynth of a underground Rocket Factory and several labs. one of whcih was the first nuclear reactor that failed due to highly unbalanced Amounts of U-32. the way the german scientists had descided to balance quantities required tons of U-32 that simply does not exist. after this was discovered by americans the US scientist chose the only other way which was to use Grams of U-32. i consider this to be stolen technology because the US scientists did not have a reactor and where headed down the same route the germans took, after seeing their results the americans took the other option.
hazzamanazz
Just a note to those who don’t know cold war history: besides everything you can say about Soviet Union technology, Buran was a copy of the US Space Shuttle, that’s true.
But Buran flewed to space by remote control (radio), something the americans never do it!
And they try until today to do so, but never been able to.
One note about the BURAN. It was too have EXTERNAL hookups for the Cosmonauts, so they could work outside longer.
If either nation ( USA or Russia) have any vision, we would builr a REAL space station in the USA, and use the ENERGIA booster to get it into orbit.
I’d say “Russian engineers have seen an American shuttle before they begun their project” and “they knew what is it intending for”. Only those two statements can be derived from the open information about both projects, Russian and American.
If you want more information in english/french you can go here:
http://en.buran.fr
If you want more informations on Buran in english/french you can go here:
Обычный человек
The Shuttle is copied from the Buran.
who says,russians has not able to reach any mileston?i think after collapse of cccp,russia is now ready to re start his travel to new skies.i don`t know about current progress about buran project,but i still believe on that the russia has secret sapace programe to beat any challange from usa.if china successful test their capability to destroy orbital settlite,from the tech, borroing from russia,so russians might be far mor advanced from china!!!.my name is zafar,karachi.pakistan,pro cccp,russian
Kyle Dailey
I watched a tv about the Buran a few years back, and it said the Buran could launch 2 atomic bomb from orbit and return to USSR. After thinking about that again, I was wondering if that was even true.
The Russians invited the first space shuttle; they started their program in the late 1960’s, the Americans started the mid 1970’s.
The Russians have and continue to big the best space crafts in the world, there is no question. It is the best with the best engineers without the waste less US spending they spend on their engineers.
I am an American and can speak for Russians and Russian technology as I have study Russian history British and American history at Oxford University.
If you don’t know, go visit Russian and visit the space museums and compared what the Russians have and done compared to the Americans. I am not impressed with the US Discovery Shuttle or the American Shuttle project, they Russians build every we have but better.
All the landmarks were done by the Russian, we just visited the moon, remember the Russian’s orbited it before we landed on the moon.
[quote]I am an American and can speak for Russians and Russian technology as I have study Russian history British and American history at Oxford University.
If you don’t know, go visit Russian and visit the space museums and compared what the Russians have and done compared to the Americans. I am not impressed with the US Discovery Shuttle or the American Shuttle project, they Russians build every we have but better. [/quote]
Scott, you aren’t an American. I can tell by they way you talk…for exsample, “I am not impressed with the US Discovery Shuttle or the American Shuttle project, they Russians build every we have but better.” Yeh, that’s not even close to ‘Bad American English’. Don’t you know how many Shuttles we, meaning you and I, American’s have? Forget it. By the date on these posts, nobody reads this. I just hope we never have a cold war again. Please don’t pray, do real stuff to help make the world a better place.
I just want that everybody distinguish Russia from the Soviet Union.
Soviet Union was 250 million population, but current Russia is just a part of it, claimed itself an ancestor of USSR.
Huge amount of the work on this project was done in the parts of USSR which are not Russia now. Missile and aircraft capacity of USSR was (and sufficiently still be) located in Ukraine.
Population of USSR was almost 300 millions, nowdays Russia has less then half of it (143). It is not correct to say that Soviet Union was “Russia”, the same as not correct to say that EU is Germany.
russia was first in space russia was first on moon russia will be first on mars thats the truth
The Russians invited the first space shuttle, they started their program in the late 1960�s, the Americans started the mid 1970�s.
I am an American and can speak for Russians and Russian technology as I have studied Russian, British and American history at Oxford University. Remember, who came to the US like a big baby to tell the US about the Iron Curtain in 1947?
If you don�t know, go visit Russia and visit the space museums and compared that what the Russians have done to the Americans. I am not impressed with the US Discovery Shuttle nor the American Shuttle project, the Russians build their first shuttle version in 1967, it was smaller than the Buran but it was a rocket booster like the Energia Buran which way before the US shuttle in 1975.
All the landmarks were done by the Russian, the US only visited the moon, remember the Russian�s orbited it before we landed on the moon and they landed a probe on their before the US did in 1966. They also landed a probe on Venus back in back in 1965. They bult the first space orbital station in 1971, the US was 1973. The list goes on
but it is clear that NASA is going broke in today’s space
If any of you heard the News on CoasttoCoast radio last month October with George Noory about the 50th anniversary on the space race Sputnik, NASA is going bankrupt and does not have the funds to complete the International Space Station as Russia was suppose to complete 40% of the station as they are planning their moon space station for 2015 on top of that. They may either need to help the complete the station or the station will go into limbo without the Russian�s to fix the US contract to finish it. The US Space shuttle is an outdated program that even the X-43 program went bankrupt and the US shuttle is just too expensive. A shuttle that takes a crew of 5 people to operate where the Russia space shuttle can fly unmanned and also dismantle its wings in space and attaching into the space station as a counterpart to the station. The Russians have flow more manned space missions that the numbers are impossible to beat that even the current Soyuz rocket has an 95% prefect record (has flown more than 520 missions). I just find it interesting when Russia was in the down in the 90�s but they still preformed their space missions and building nuclear arsenals but now they regained their superpower status again officially when it is expensive to improve military capability and continue space flights, how did they do it?
Is the Space Station a Money Pit? Russia to fill US space flights for the US Space Station completion contract because a lot of funding on NASA
NASA a ticking collapse
The US is on an economic plunge as many of us can admit this, not just housing, high gas prices and bad inflation rates but our country is falling where Russia is greatly improving. You see our problems with immigrations and corporations continuing to outsource for cheaper labor overseas because the US labor is too expensive, we can�t even afford to fix our immigration problems not just the borders but the internal problems. What is unique about Russia is they don�t have an immigration problem at all, everyone who is not a Russian citizen has to have an entry visa, everyone and anything.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2007/10/09.html
The US is on an economic plunge (a recession leading to a depression) as many of us can admit this, not just housing, high gas prices and bad inflation rates but our country is falling where Russia is greatly improving. You see our problems with immigrations and corporations continuing to outsource for cheaper labor overseas because the US labor is too expensive, we can�t even afford to fix our immigration problems not just the borders but the internal problems. What is unique about Russia is they don�t have an immigration problem at all, everyone who is not a Russian citizen has to have an entry visa, everyone and anything.
Swaminathan Balaraman
Great Scott, another thing to add. most of the books and encyclop.. feature that US is the first to send satellite and BAE is the 1st to have Concorde in civilian supersonic craft. its absolutely wrong. Tu-144 of Russia may look like Concorde. but the technology inside is different. Russian version is more advanced like it has canard and the passenger seating capacity is more than Concorde. the engines are very much superior to Concorde. even the paris air show crash of Tu-144 is becos of French man where they spied on tu-144 with a mirage which has clandestinely taken photos of tu-144 canard. because of its superiority tu-144 is taken for research by NASA in late 90’s (i think 1994) after that Boeing came forward with sonic cruiser which has canard. even the shuttle Buran engines are shortlisted for US space shuttle Orion. this proves that American’s accepted the technology of Russians.
Another good example was the “spiral project” by Russians in late 1960. Even though Russia is currently under problem as its doomed by US using gorbachev as a tool, but it will come up. Russia will surely come up and Tupolev people ha a new supersonic civil aircraft design Tu-224.
007India
Great Scott, another thing to add. most of the books and encyclop.. feature that US is the first to send satellite and BAE is the 1st to have concorde in civilian suspersonic craft. its absolutely wrong. Tu-144 of russia may look like concorde. but the technology inside is different. russian version is more advanced like it has canard and the passenger seating capacity is more than concorde. the engines are very much superior to concorde. even the paris airshow crash of Tu-144 is becos of french man where they spied on tu-144 with a mirage which has clandestinely taken photos of tu-144 canard. because of its superiority tu-144 is taken for research by NASA in late 90’s (i think 1994) after that boeing came forward with sonic cruiser which has canard. even the shuttle buran engines are shotlisted for US spaceshuttle Orion. this proves that american’s accepted the technology of Russians.
Collossal Collinss
The summary on the argument about the �greater space power `between United States and Russia .
All countries on the surface of the earth Spy on America with greed,jealousy and hate, for example The soviet union,China ,Japan,Korea,The Arab world and todays Russia have naturalised spies in the USA that feeds them with informations on what the President of America does with his wife in his bedroom ,talk less of meetings on programmes that takes more than a couple to hold.
What ever the Americans want to do is known to their competitors before the nursery stage.
That led to a lot of abandoned projects in Russia because they act on tip off of new American endevour without Having the kind of foundation America lays down before embaking on such project.
Russia made technologies are in no anyway to be compared to that of USA not to talk of Space Technology.
The Gentle man That says Russia orbitted the moon that America only landed on it is another example of the falling standard of education in europe and a dent to the status of oxford institution you are suppose to know that landing on an outer space surface is far greater a technology to hovering around it because the physics required to launch a rocket on the earth surface is different from that you are required to lift a rocket from the face of the moon this a 50 years technology wide apart between the russians and the Americans in space technology.
For those who say that the Buran wasn’t a copy of the US space shuttle, you can’t deny the similarities; it definitely wasn’t independent research. As far as the Tu-144 being a copy of the Concorde is debatable. However, the aeronautic innovations of the XB-70 definitely had an influence on both, including the T-4. Surprisingly, no one mentioned the Tu-160 which has a striking resemblance to the US B-1B, or MiG-23’s F-111 likeness. Any one think a MiG-25 looks like an A-5 Vigilante (the prototype had duel rudders)?
While it’s no child’s play building the Buran space shuttle or the supersonic passenger plane Tu-144, the successes of these aircrafts shouldn’t be determined by how much more payload it can carry or how many months earlier it was built before their European or American counterparts.
Although the Tu-144 was delivered 2 months ahead of the Concorde, the Tu-144 was a failure because it did not achieve it’s objectives – that is to carry passengers safely and economically. The original aircraft could not fly at supersonic speeds without employing the afterburners and it was much heavier than the concorde due to design deficiencies in the wings as well as in the cooling systems. All these created extra payload problems which severely affected range and operational economics – resulting in the pre-mature retirement of the aircraft. Tu-144 only carried out passenger service for no more than 1 year. While the Concorde had its share of problems, the plane carried out passenger services successfully for over 25 years.
In a similar fashion, the Buran space shuttle also failed dramatically in that it carried out one and only unmanned test mission. It was never to be put to use again despite claims of being able to carry heavier payloads or other better performance characteristics over the NASA space shuttle. The U.S. space shuttle remains in service as of today after carrying out 122/123 successful launches in 28 years.
Another obvious mention are in the passenger jets. While the European and Americans are having great successes rolling out new jets one after another, the russians have dropped out of the picture entirely despite claims of superior engineering. The russian passenger jets have been questionable from the get go, and even the Russian national airline Aeroflot purchases exclusively from Airbus and Boeing for their jumbo jet needs.
My intention here is not to point out who has better engineers. Russians, Americans or Europeans alike have great engineers. But as history tells us, the sole intent of the Russian/Soviet government was to show that they can build better air/space crafts than other countries and nothing else – and to certain degree they proved their point. But their program failed one after another because their technology was only good enough for comparison use. From practical standpoint they seldom succeed which I think should be the greatest and utmost objective. The Europeans and Americans meanwhile have accomplished this. Their vision wasn’t to be better than their neighbors, but to better the lives of mankind through viable means of transportation and space research projects.
Although the Tu-144 was delivered 2 months ahead of the Concorde, the Tu-144 was a failure because it did not achieve it s objectives – that is to carry passengers safely and economically. The original aircraft could not fly at supersonic speeds without employing the afterburners and it was much heavier than the concorde due to design deficiencies in the wings as well as in the cooling systems. All these created extra payload problems which severely affected range and operational economics – resulting in the pre-mature retirement of the aircraft. Tu-144 only carried out passenger service for no more than 1 year. While the Concorde had its share of problems, the plane carried out passenger services successfully for over 25 years.
My intention here is not to point out who has better engineers. Russians, Americans or Europeans alike have great engineers. But as history tells us, the sole intent of the Russian/Soviet government was to show that they can build better air/space crafts than other countries and nothing else – and to certain degree they proved their point. But their program failed one after another because their technology was only good enough for comparison use. From practical standpoint they seldom succeed which I think should be the greatest and utmost objective. The Europeans and Americans meanwhile have accomplished this, which is to better the lives of mankind through viable means of transportation and space research projects.
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B-70 aka Concord – are not quite quals to Tu-144, bu som elements[many]of construction, copied, yes.
You have your own propaganda in US< so please dont even go there. You all brainwashed
Looks is not everything. To make an aerodynamically flyable model is the easiest thing out there. So yeah they look alike, so what? The more important are the engines, electronics, materials etc and performance numbers that go in favour of the Russian machine.
By the way for over 10 years US Atlas rocket launched by Russian RD-80. US enjoys “inferior” Russian rocket technologies so much that they actually licenced it. And by 2020 are ready to make its own version of the engine.
Russians:
– 1st sattelite
– 1st man in space
– 1st man is open space (space walk)
– 1st space station
– 1st probes on Moon, Mars and Venus
– 1st robotic space rover (Lunokhod)
– 1st and largest Hydrogen bomb
– Behind the whole stealth tech is the Russian Petr Ufimtsef.
– Vladimir Zworykin is a father of television technology.
– Alexander Popov is a father of radio
– Igor Sikorsky with a 1st helocopter
So yeah I think they did pretty good.
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All technology is partly stolen and influenced by the doings of others work and others existing technologies.
The USA was having huge problems with their propulsion systems in the 60’s untill they got Bill Pickering, a New Zealander, to help them with the basic concepts of rocketry fuels and propulsion. They were still using the concepts of Von Braun, captured in the late stages of the ww2. Pickering was responsible for re-desinging the fuel systems and concepts. After that, they started to get airborn, and the ‘space race’ was on….
Right from when as a child in the 60’s, the west said that the soviets were backward and evil.! Truth is, they were scared of the Soviets advanced technology. They felt they had to decry them with propaganda, afterall, no one will admit that the enemy has Anything better than us…[Except Napoleon who said, “Know (understand and admit all about) your enemy”.]. Unlike the western nations, [USA], who had to economicaly fund a class of bouergoise profit takers and suppliers and contractors; the soviets could, and did, put all the state funds they wanted to into whatever projects they desired to. No allocating a large percentage of the money spent for the profit motive, but putting ALL the money into development. [ Also contractors aim for only a satisfactory result, say 80%. As long as their paymasters NASA are happy. That way they can then get more contracts to do more work perfecting the systems, to the 100% level, next year.]The soviets aim was politicaly goal driven, not aimed at further future work. This lasted untill the system collapsed and the money ran out. If the money had been available, the BURAN would still be flying.
The cold war and the space race is Over!
I am sickened to see the Billions being spent on ego satisfying space exploration.! Sure, we have all benefited fron the spin off tech from that. [Such as the internet / microwaves cookers etc !]
But if the money had been targeted into the spinoff techs as goals, we would still have these things, and probably even more and better.
We desperastely need to find, now,
cheap, clean, sustainable, Energy – such as developing nuclear fusion.
Clean water.
Sustainable Agriculture.
These need to be our GOALS, not a space race to mars or anywhere else. We can’t just hope that these goals may be possibly found along the way to getting into the outer cosmos. We need to find them first, and now.
And whoever international alliances and corporations do these will become the ultimate winners in the capitalistic realm. Superpowers in the money stakes. And with that will come political power…..[Remember when the gas was turned off by the Ukranians, and half northern europe froze?]. That was then.
Forget race, nations and borders, it is all lnternational corporations now. The McDonalds effect…..
Even if as many as 100,000 of the superior ‘select elite’ were sent as colonists to space, that still leaves a huge market here behind them, to serve and gain profit from.
Are we to become like the ancient Aztecs? A world of slaves, lesser mortals, who exist for, and work for, and worship our superior “Gods” , who dwell in space…. while our earth is ruined and we suffer because we have put all our efforts into creating ‘Them’.
Thanks for the great photos.
yeah yeah yeah, which shuttle had a long career?
Buran was the first UAV ever.
I have one question about photo of the Buran with development team. Maybe somone of you know the names of these pilots and engineers. please contact with me via e-mail: astronautic@poczta.onet.pl Thanks in advance for your help: Jaroslaw.
thanks for bringing this interesting story.
For those interested, the Buran-OK-GLI is now in Technik Museum Speyer, in Germany, near Manheim.
I visited it few days ago.
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Justice Jallow, CRC Chairperson
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CRC Set For Consultation With Gambians In Diaspora
By MUHAMMED S. BAH
The Constitutional Review Commission (CRC), has announced that they are on track to carry out external public consultations with Gambians in the Diaspora.
According to a press release issued by the Chairperson of the Commission Justice Cherno Jallow, the CRC is well poised to embark on external public consultations to incorporate the views and aspirations of Gambians living outside.
Justice Jallow stated that significant progress has been made in preparation for the consultations which he said, will cover countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and United States of America; that in Africa, two counties will be covered, namely Senegal (Dakar) and Mauritania (Nouakchott).
Disclosing the Countries to be covered in Europe, the release stated that amongst them, are the United Kingdom (London), Germany (Berlin), Sweden (Stockholm), France (Paris) and Spain (Barcelona); that in the United States of America, the cities to be visited are New York City, Washington DC, Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis and Charlotte, and in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia (Jeddah) will be covered.
“The calendar for the external consultations is expected to be published shortly and should provide advance notice to Gambians in the Diaspora, to enable them make appropriate plans to engage the CRC” Chairperson disclosed; that more details on the dates and specific venues of the meetings will be announced soon.
The release indicated that the CRC in its quest to be inclusive, and recognising the importance of the youth population as tomorrow’s leaders, engaged students through School consultations; that to date, thirty Schools throughout the seven administrative regions of the country, have been consulted and the level of participation and engagement was high and impressive.
It should be noted that the CRC is tasked with the responsibility to draft a new Constitution, and by so doing, to review the 1997 Constitution, seek the opinions of Gambian citizens at home and abroad through consultations, make appropriate proposals and draft within a period of eighteen months, a new Constitution that will stand the test of time. The Commission will prepare a report in relation to the Draft Constitution which will include the processes adopted by the Commission, in developing the new Constitution and the rationale for the provisions enshrined therein.
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Episode 55 — 40 Golf Ball Flush
By JulyDiaz, September 25, 2013 in Nocturnal Emotions with Har Mar Superstar
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Location: Under a roof
Former frontman of the band Freedom Fighters and new bar owner Frank Bevan reunites with Har Mar to talk about their early touring days on this week’s Nocturnal Emotions! Frank tells us about opening Lake Street, a Midwestern-themed bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn along with fellow musicians Bobby Drake, Eric Odness, & Rob Pope, and the special things that come with it such as having the best toilets in town. Then, Frank & Har Mar create a number of reality show inspired movies including a buddy cop film where two friends open up a Waffle House in Cancun and they also play a game of Let Me Ruin Your Favorite Song with David Lee Roth’s “Yankee Rose.”
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by Fred Burwell in Peregrinations, Tales from a Misinformed Dictionary Tags: comedy, entertainment, fiction, humor, language, wordplay
Phonolite: From the ancient Phoenician, phoenolyte. Posited by archaeo-climatologists as a complicated temperature scale measuring temperature via the digestive tract of domesticated ungulates and the quality of light as witnessed through the prismatic spectrum.
Unlike his ever-trading brethren in nearby Phoenician cities, herdsman Itthobaal Milkherem (translation: Joe Smith) preferred a quiet life wandering the meadows, ruminating with his flock of cows. One day, while searching for his absent mind, Itthobaal concluded that by listening closely to the sounds of cud chewing and comparing the chorus of masticatory melodies with the varying qualities of light, he was able to determine whether he felt hot, warm, cool or cold. Later that night in their hut, after he expounded upon his new theory, Itthobaal’s wife scolded him. “You don’t need a scale to tell you that, you silly shepherd!” she said.
But Itthobaal was convinced that in phoenolyte, he’d made a discovery for the ages. And so one day he set out on a pilgrimage, spreading his newly coined word which people found useful as conversation filler, even if they had no idea what it meant. The musically adventurous plucked the scale on their lyres, but the music sounded more flatulent than tuneful and left the musicians cold, even on a hot day. However, Itthobaal spread the news near and far, culminating in a visit to the famous Oracle of Delphi where he set up a ballpark hot dog stand and lived the rest of his life in obscurity because no one had invented baseball yet.
Intriguingly, wandering nomads, known for their concern about properly maintaining body heat, used the phoenolyte scale intermittently through successive centuries, eventually wandering (nomadically) as far away as the Falkland Islands, where penguins preferred it over the confusion created by the constantly in-fighting firm of scientists, Kelvin, Celsius and Fahrenheit.
The phonolite scale, as we call it today, remained regrettably lost in the so-called mists of thyme, until rediscovered by audio archaeologists sifting through thousands of hours of tapes recorded by Falkland military herbologist and amateur sound technician, Sir Fernando Lemmingwild-Hough, whose parents met during the infamous Falkland Island war between Argentina, Great Britain and Herb Wadsack, a character from a simulated computer game. Once they decoded the unusually complex penguin dialect, linguists discovered a previously unknown, long forgotten temperature scale. After a decade of peer-reviewed journaling, they passed on to archaeologists what they mildly referred to as “this ersatz pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo claptrap.” The archaeologists passed it on to cultural anthropologists, who passed it on to top level government scientists, who passed it on to low level climatologists who had enough on their hands with global warming. Plus, as devotees of heavy metal, they refused to use the scale because the name “phonolite” made them think of “easy listening music.” And so, Itthobaal Milkherem’s intriguing theory is today no more than an obscure historical footnote, although there’s a colony of penguins on the march who think otherwise.
Actual meaning: a rare, light-colored (usually gray or green) volcanic rock composed of feldspars and nepheline. The name in Greek means “sounding stone.”
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by Fred Burwell in Peregrinations, Tales from a Misinformed Dictionary Tags: entertainment, fiction, humor, language, wordplay
Virustatic: 1) a he-man so muscle-bound and manly that he becomes entirely incapable of moving. 2) a virulent variety of static disparaged by some and hailed by others for inconveniently disrupting radio and television transmissions.
Gurp was the youngest son of the once world-renowned former wrestler and gubernatorial candidate, Ferd Ferdelance. After a long-suffering youth in which he witnessed his father’s downfall, Ferd was determined not to make the same mistakes and wind up a lonely cleaner out of cages at the Minnetonkan Herpetarium. But what to do instead? “Why am I here?” he pondered. “What am I here for?”
He lifted weights, barbells, bookcases, buckets of sand, bags of bilbos, boxes of Special K, whatever was handy. Soon he sported bulging muscles rippling up and down his arms and legs and ears. His chest expanded exponentially. His shoulders broadened broadly. His nose grew several inches and was capable of lifting a 40 pound dog all on its own. Gurp kept hoisting and heaving until one day he lifted his house off of its foundation, carried it to the city park, where he beat his chest in triumph and then discovered that he had become virustatic. One by one his fingers froze in place. Gurp could no longer lift anything, not even a speck of dust. His tongue was so muscle-bound he could no longer speak. He couldn’t even bat an eyelash at one of the growing crowd of attractive women staring at him. He just stood in the one position, a haven for passing pigeons and scolding squirrels. Passersby couldn’t help thinking of the Tin Woodman in the Wizard of Oz at the time of his discovery in the dismal forest by the Dark Prince of Hollywood. Some joker poured a little oil in Gurp’s oversized ear, hoping to loosen him up, but the stuff just dripped into a slick puddle at his feet.
Meanwhile, in a nearby office building, an aged secretary named Mildred plugged in an antiquated coffee-maker and one of those newfangled toaster ovens at the same time(she liked her morning cottage cheese warmed up), causing an immediate and complete breakdown in communications networks throughout the known world and a few other places, too, such as Akron, Ohio. Ever on the spot, Washington officials proclaimed a national emergency over a bizarre condition their top scientists were calling “Virustatic.” “Stay calm!” they assured the populace in their initial broadcast. “All will be well! Stay tuned! This is not a test!” But of course not a soul heard them. Deejays tapped their microphones in bewilderment and then listened to them, as if hoping something might hatch. Soap opera stars, used to live TV, slipped on their soapy tears and no one cried. Newscasters cast news into the wind, which threw back dead air.
After two days of panic, a wiseacre garage attendant named Slim Jim Flimm, walked into the city park, sidled up to the new statue (Gurp), pulled out two old-fashioned television rabbit ears from his deep pockets, and employing his pocket blowtorch, welded them to Gurp’s muscular head. Instantly, all of the radio and television networks revived, saving the lives of thousands of despondent broadcasters. Authorities had no explanation for the mysterious Virustatic onslaught (in Germany they called it “Virustaaaaticgottfriedsonglutenjammer,” in Italy, “Virustaticcisalami”) or its sudden resolution.
Now most days, rain or shine, Slim Jim Flimm hunkers down by the smiling statue, shares a sandwich with the head-nodding pigeons and a quiet laugh with Gurp, who at long last seems to have found some purpose in life.
Actual meaning: tending to check the growth of viruses.
Petrifaction: 1) when someone is frightened out of their wits, hair standing on end, goose bumps approaching the size of hummingbird eggs, saucers as big as eyes 2) The “PetriFaction” is a politically motivated anarchistic coterie whose sole purpose is to create such unreasonable and unknowable terror as to paralyze any and all governmental bodies.
Fearless Ferd was a professional wrestler acclaimed for his unruly yard-long mop of hair and his uncanny ability to win every wrestling match that came his way, from sumo wrestlers to mountain gorillas to the arithmetical problem puzzling the professor down the street since 1972. So fearless and courageous was Ferd that he had never known a moment of petrifaction in his life, except perhaps once when he found himself surprisingly vulnerable to post nasal drip (he much preferred “pre”). Thankfully, the pontificatory press and his fervent, though as it turned out, fair-weather, fans never got wind of this tragic failing, and as he grew more and more powerful, he found himself increasingly interested in politics. One day (fortunately during an election year), he decided to run for governor of Minnetonka under the aegis of the “Ferdelance Party,” named, not as it was commonly supposed, after Ferd himself, but after his pet venomous viper, Ferdelance, whom he nominated as his running mate (allowed under an extremely obscure Minnetonkan law created as a sub-attachment to a bill passed in 1857).
Little did Ferd know that moments after his initial speechifying, his very own political machine became infiltrated by powerful members of the notorious PetriFaction, a group so nefarious, so unencumbered by charity and good will, so egregiously vocabulary-challenged, that no one had ever actually heard of them. Through highly negative campaign tactics, which included fear-mongering, gossip-mongering, fishmongering, and costermongering, as well as subliminal advertising and sublime televangelizing, the PetriFaction created such a paralytic state-wide gridlock that Ferd cruised to an amazing 96.2% election tally. However, when the dust settled and the graft graphed, it was the vituperative viper, Ferdelance, who actually became governor. The sneaky snake’s first step was to appoint Formerly Fearless Ferd as Chief Visionary Director of Cleaning out Cages (CVDCC) at the Minnetonkan Herpetarium, a lost soul, forever paralyzed by his new-found petrifaction. His only solace, as he darted in and out of cages, valiantly avoiding reptilian zeal, was a lonely late night hotdog slathered with mustard and grape jelly and then turned inside out with the bun tucked tidily within.
Actual meaning of petrifaction: A process of fossilization or petrifying, turning organic material into stone.
Prairie Hill – Free on Amazon 10/25-10/26 (read excerpt here)
by Fred Burwell in Peregrinations, Prairie Hill Tags: ebooks, fiction, free ebook, nature, prairies
My novel, Prairie Hill, is available for free on Amazon.com Thursday and Friday, October 25 and October 26.
Click on the cover photo or the link above to find reviews, further information, and to purchase the book. Amazon Prime members may also borrow the book for free even after the two-day promotion. Prairie Hill is also available at the UK and other Amazon sites.
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Below is an excerpt from Prairie Hill, featuring Jimmy Lathrop and Jenny Diggles meeting with their friend the old farm woman, Hulda Bjorklund, at her home.
Hulda ushered me and Jimmy into her ramshackle farmhouse and plopped us down on a wood bench behind the kitchen table. “I baked us two kinds of bread,” she said, “wheat and white. Try the honey on the wheat and the jam on the white.”
She plunked down a couple of sticky looking jars. The honey was thick and dark gold, almost brown, and spread on with bits of honeycomb still floating in it, reminding me of ferns in amber. I looked over at Jimmy, who’d tasted some and had a strange look on his face, like he’d seen a ghost. I turned back to Hulda. “I never had honey like this before,” I said.
“From last year,” she said, pushing the jar toward me. “Pile it on. There’s more jars. Still got me a couple beehives and them bees make me honey for the table and wax for candles. Daddy used to keep bees and he taught me how. That honey’s got a lot of clover in it of course, but the bees add in some from the Catalpa trees out back, which gives it that flavor and color. The jam’s from last year’s strawberry patch.” She poured us some lemonade.
“From last year’s lemons,” I said, catching Jimmy’s eye.
Hulda pushed Jimmy’s shoulder and pointed a finger at me. “That girl’s the dickens only most people don’t have a clue.” I was trying to figure out what was so different about Hulda today. More relaxed and not so tired from pushing a mop and making beds, I guess. But then I realized I’d never seen her out of her light blue polyester work suit. She wore a shiny blouse patterned with sunflowers, and knit pants, and she padded around in fluffy red slippers. “You all alone in this house?” I asked and at that moment heard a loud bark, which made us all laugh.
“That’s Ollie wanting to be let in. He’d like to join us I expect.” She stood up. “Yeah, it’s a big rambling old place. Grandpa added on to it when his family grew. He was a tough old buzzard and every one of his kids skedaddled except Daddy, who took over the farm. He and Ma only had me and my brother Emil and that boy left home when he was in his twenties. Emil never cottoned to farming the way I did and Daddy always said I shoulda been born a boy. I worked the farm with Daddy and what help we could afford until he got too old and we just sold off parcels after the highway come through. Ma died about ten years ago and I’ve lived here alone except for Ollie who’s eleven but still thinks he’s a pup.”
Hulda’s kitchen looked homey, if a little shabby, too. She had an old white enamel refrigerator and an even older gas burning stove and she’d covered the table with a green checkered oil cloth. There was a pump painted fire engine red next to her deep kitchen sink. Hulda caught me looking at it. “Still works,” she said, “but it’s just a keepsake. We got running water from our well. The city run their lines through here when they built the industrial park, but I never hooked up.” She pulled open the back door and let in Ollie, who trotted up to us, toenails clicking on the worn linoleum, tail wagging, nose checking us out and then seeking crumbs on our plates. I noticed Jimmy was being real nice to the dog, petting him just right, scratching under his chin, like he must have known and loved a dog once. “He’s a big old mutt,” Hulda said. “One of them puppies from an unfortunate love affair between pure bred collie and something only God could love.”
I suppose like me Jimmy wondered what we were doing there. Hulda didn’t seem to have any purpose beyond being social. She took us through the house which seemed snug enough – though you could tell she only occupied a few rooms out of many. “There’s enough space, Ollie could be king of his own castle, but he likes hunkering down at the foot of the bed in my room.” Ollie padded after us, occasionally sidetracked by an interesting corner, returning with a cobweb on his nose which made him sneeze.
“When was the house built?” Jimmy asked.
“Oh, the middle part goes back nearly 150 years. My great grandfather Olav settled here and built it out of logs – you’d still see ‘em if you took off the siding. It’s one of the oldest houses still standing ‘round here. The barn’s new, though, only a century or so!”
Jimmy paused in front of a row of framed photographs and I came over for a look. The first showed a group of people in Sunday finery, standing in front of the house, a horse and buggy to the side. There was another of the barn with a wind engine next to it and a wagon with a heaped up load of hay spilling over and a couple of guys with pitchforks standing on top looking proud, and then there were two portraits, a stern-looking patriarch and a grim-faced woman in black. “Great grandpa and grandma in old age,” Hulda said, and then pointed at a sepia-toned wedding photo probably taken at the turn of the century. “Them’s my parents,” she said, “and that there is me.” She nodded at a tinted black and white photo, a slim teenager surrounded by a patch of nodding sunflowers. In it, young Hulda held a bouquet of wildflowers.
“Lupine, spiderwort, goat’s beard,” I said, loving the names.
“You could find them all round about, missy,” Hulda said.
“It’s a beautiful photograph,” said Jimmy. “The guy behind the camera knew what he was doing.”
“My brother Emil,” Hulda said. “He was always taking pictures and messing around with them chemicals that bring ‘em out.”
“You were pretty, too,” Jimmy said, musing.
Hulda shook a fist at him. “Just ‘cause I never married don’t mean I weren’t as pretty as a daisy!”
“No, I never meant that. It’s just…”
“I’m an old bat now and it’s hard to picture.” Hulda chuckled. “Never you mind. Come on you two. I want to show you the barn.”
We traipsed outside after Hulda changed into more serviceable shoes. “You never know what might leap up at you,” she said. “They used to cast nails and horse shoes in there before I was born.” We followed her across the side yard to a grassy slope leading up to the barn doors, which hung ajar. Once inside it took some time for our eyes to adjust to the dim haze. Dust motes whirled in the patchy light filtering through clouded windows and thin cracks between the boards.
“Go ahead, take a gander around,” Hulda said.
Jimmy climbed a wooden ladder up to the open loft heaped with stacks of dingy hay bales. He startled some birds which winged it out of the loft doorway. “Barn swallows,” he said. “They’re nesting.”
I heard gentle cooing coming from the far end of the barn. “Pigeons, too,” I replied. Jimmy answered with a darned good imitation and I laughed when a pigeon flapped rather dolefully over to the loft.
We explored some more, peering into abandoned stalls for cows and horses. I closed my eyes and tried to imagine the scents of animals and their sounds – munching hay, snorting, neighing and mooing, feet stamping on floorboards. We glanced at countless tools I didn’t know the use for, broken machinery, and rusty buckets and lanterns hanging on walls or propped in corners. The place held a dry, musty and dusty smell that I kind of liked. I led us into a separate room and gasped when I saw stacks of seed catalogs. The newest ones on top dated back before I was born. I’d have to ask Hulda if she’d lend me some. “It’s silly, but sometimes I dream that I find an old shed or barn with a drawer full of seed packets from fifty years ago – and the seeds still germinate,” I said to Jimmy.
There was something kind in his dark eyes, like maybe he knew what the heck I was talking about. “That’s where they’d be,” he said, pointing at long rows of hand-made bins, sun-faded seed packets nailed up to show what would go where. Every bin was empty.
Tales from a Misinformed Dictionary – A couple of critters, the Shalloon and Muscat
Shalloon: 1) a shalloon is a subspecies of North American loon. Shallow lakes are its preferred domicile. 2) a shalloon is an odd-shaped balloon which resembles a nearly flat bowl. Long-suffering parents use them as a corrective for toddlers who constantly beg for traditional round or oblong balloons.
Luna laughed more than your typical loon, even more than her fellow shalloons of shallow Lake Walloon in Walloomsac, Maine. The Walloomsac shalloons are well-known, though not well-loved, for their riotous laughter. She was not the funniest, perhaps, but certainly the giggliest loon ever to glide along the tickling, rippling waves of the lake. One day, over one thousand balloons appeared, looking like shallow cereal bowls without the cereal, floating silhouettes in an orange sunset sky. Some days before, a throng of cheering children set them free as a promotion for a new corndog restaurant in Wadsac, New Jersey. As each balloon drifted down, the loon population of Lake Walloon snatched them in their beaks and popped them. Luna had trouble catching one, since she was laughing so hard. Then all of a sudden she grabbed what appeared to be a tasty-looking flapjack – she loved flapjacks with or without maple syrup. She bit down hard and there was a sudden hissing noise sounding like one of those angry swans that visited Lake Walloon now and again. Instead of flapjack Luna held flattened rubber. She guffawed, she chuckled, she let out a hoot and then the wildest, loudest loonish laughter ever heard in those parts, or for that matter, anywhere else. It was the only time in history – as far as we know – that two kinds of shalloons got together.
Actual meaning: A lightweight twilled fabric of wool or worsted mainly employed for linings of coats and uniforms.
Muscat: a muscat is a rare subspecies of muskrat known for its powerful ability to mimic musical modes, combining eerie vocalizing with a percussive tail. Uniquely, the muscat of Muskellunge, Idaho, offers the most impressive muscatorial specialty of all – scat singing. In fact, for centuries jazz singers have journeyed to Muskellunge in often vain hopes of catching the melodious scatting of this elusive beast, which sings only on the fourth Monday of the fifth month every sixteen years every other century. The word scat, contrary to popular belief, does not derive its original meaning from certain mammalian emissions or for the common epithet hurled at bothersome cats, but from the wondrous music of the muscat of Muskellunge, Idaho.
On Monday, May 25, 2122, renowned jazz artist Bebop Horne slipped and slid down the banks of the Muskellunge River in Muscatoomi, Idaho. Clambering up the sides of a disused beaver hutch, he hunkered down and waited patiently for hours and hours. At last, just before dusk, and after slapping polyrhythmically at the ever-increasing clouds of gnats, Bebop heard something stir, musically that is. At first it was a ground beat, half-diminished, followed by an intense fusion of diatonic boogie with augmented chromatic syncopation. He sat there, ignoring the gnats, spellbound. The following day, slathered from head to toe in calamine lotion, Bebop Horne composed and then recorded his tribute to the muscat, improvising on the famous old 20th century standard, “Muscat Man,” originally created by the master scatter, Scatmo Riff, and released on his seminal LP, Jamming the Wild Muscat. By late July, “Muscat Man 2122” reached #1 on the newly created Adult Contemporary Heavy Scat Chart, making Bebop Horne a trillionaire, while the muscats stilled their voices once again for the next two hundred years.
Actual meaning: A musky-scented grape, white, red or black, used for wine, raisins and as a table grape. Also, the capital of Oman.
Tales from a Misinformed Dictionary – Sudorific
Sudorific: Sudorific evolved from two words, “suds,” meaning the lather one creates from mixing soap with water, and “orifice,” meaning a mouth, or some such bodily cavity, or in layman’s terms, “opening.” Thus, the earliest definition of sudorific was “soap suds in mouth,” occasionally useful as a threat to the wayward child. However, as the centuries passed and the word “terrific” fizzed into popularity, “sudorific” came to mean “truly outstanding suds.” Both definitions continued in use, then gave way as a slang term gained currency in street talk, i.e.: “incredibly cool beer, dude.” German psychologist, Helmut Himmelspachendorfindoppelgangerfenstermacher coined the related term, “pseudorific,” after downing fourteen sudorific beers at the Schweinhund Cafe in Heidelberg. Pseudorific means, loosely translated, “Something one expects to be remarkably good, but is a pale imitation. Like sweet smelling soap with dud suds. Or flat, sudless beer.”
Mickey O’Hara was in trouble. He’d come to work in the mailroom under the influence, although no one could figure out just what influence he came to work under. But one look at his strange, shambling gait as he stumbled into a movable mail bin, sending it careening into his supervisor, Ned Shned, and his condition was obvious. “Oops, sorry, man,” said Mickey.
Ned was immediately aware of the sudorific bubbles leaking out of Mickey’s ears, a sure sign of sudorific imbibing. Ned was about to send Mickey home to sleep it off, when he thought better of it. He was extremely tired of pseudorific sudorific bubbles and pseudorific sudorific beer. The real stuff was unfailingly scarce since the economy went down some tubes or other only to spew out a month later as a confounding morass of political pabulum. Now everything was black market. You couldn’t buy a bar of soap worth its salt (unfortunately the pseudorific types were made of nothing but salt, which irrigated the skin – or was it irritated, Ned could never remember which). You couldn’t buy a beer without gagging on its pseudorific flavor, which always reminded Ned of strained sock juice. He pulled Mickey aside and pretended to be examining the postmarks on a batch of envelopes. Feeling damp around the edges, Mickey whipped out a Kleenex to wipe the suds off his shoulders. They both felt the intensely curious stares of the other workers in the room. Even the mail sorting machines seemed passingly interested. Ned Shned spoke first. “Uh, Mick, uh, where did you, uh, you know…”
“You mean?”
“Well, I…”
“Or you could…”
Hannah Holepunch, the office manager, known for her ability to slice four hundred pages at a time with the paper cutter, came to the rescue and as always, cut right to the quick. “Stop this dilly-dallying, higgledy-piggledy, wishy-washy, mollycoddling, comme ci comme ca speechifying,” she cried, although no one had the faintest idea what she meant. However, the two men immediately stopped hemming and hawing. “WHERE’S THE SUDS?” Hannah asked. “Tell me right now or I’ll stick you in a padded envelope and mail you to a padded cell where you’ll never see the light of day again.”
Mickey turned nearly as white as one of the envelopes in Ned’s hands, although he was sure that only in fiction does anyone ever actually turn white as a sheet, and of course this wasn’t fiction, but reality…wasn’t it? “On the outskirts of town there’s a little night spot,” he said.
“No there isn’t,” said Hannah. “That’s the beginning of an old song. Don’t you fool with me.”
He tried again. “Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a…”
“That’s another song! Tell me or else!”
He tried once more. “In a little border town, way down there in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.”
“You’re getting closer, but that’s still a song.”
When Hannah wielded her staple gun, Mickey finally caved in. “O.K. Go left on Central Avenue, down Pleasant two blocks and enter the second green door in the non-descript yellow shack with blue shutters shaped like one of the great pyramids.”
“You call that non-descript?”
Mickey nodded. “You got it. That’s where the suds are, the most sudorific suds ever found in this here land.”
“Music to my ears,” said Hannah, flying out of the room. Letters fluttered, packages fell, and a leaning tower of postcards toppled, as the room emptied, leaving Mickey alone. A strange gleam lit his eye as well as the small silver flask he pulled from his pocket. Was the gleam pseudorific or sudorific? No one ever found out. No one ever saw Mickey again, though rumor has it he’s fallen in love in a little border town in West Texas at a little night spot on the edge of…”
Actual meaning: causing or inducing sweat.
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“Demarginalizing the Intersection & Race of Sex” Article Review
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In the article “Demarginalizing the Intersection and Race of Sex” by Kimberle Crenshaw, it is shown how the intersectionality of Black women affects them, as well as diminishes their designation in society as a whole in relation to race and sex. In the versions of Sojourner Truth’s speech “Aint I A Woman?” by Frances Gage, Truth shows how society discriminates against women and Black people, however, she also reveals how it is viewed as two separate categories, which diminishes a Black women’s stance in either one. In the version by Marius Robinson,
Truth is shown to Through the use of sarcastic tone and rhetorical questions. She further distinguishes how Black women are not applied to either category, thus proving Crenshaws ideas of intersectionality amongst Black women as prominent in society.
The differences between Robinson and Gage coverage of Crenshaws’ speech are particularly obvious in the style of their articles. Robinson tends to make the article more personal and close to the original version of the speech as the author represents the speech from the first person. Robinson lets Crwnshaws speak for herself in the article. He quotes Crenshaws reputedly and emphasizes her key ideas on the inequality of man and women and the inferiority and intersectionality of Black women that influences their lifestyle and self-perception. The author is sarcastic and very emotional in the presentation of Crenshaws; speech. In contrast, Gage uses the third person narrative, but Gage’s style is less emotional and the author conducts the detailed analysis of the speech with the accurate presentation of the key ideas of Crenshaws’, including the idea of intersectionality of Black women as the milestone idea of the speech.
At the same time, Gage and Robinson convey the idea that there are also gender-related biases which lead to the Black women intersectionality. Gage and Robinson tend to convey the idea that Black women are marginalized by the mainstream culture because they are outsiders because they are Black, but they are also marginalized by the African American community because they are women. Hence, they cannot stand on the equal ground with whites and African American men. Instead, they are outsiders. Both Gage and Robinson convey accurately the idea of the marginalization of Black women and uncover the social construct of that marginal position of Black women as Crenshaws conveys in her speech. In this regard, the similarity between Gage and Robinson derive from the nature of Crenshaws speech. The development of these ideas reveals that Gage and Robinson caught the main point of Crenshaws’ speech.
Nevertheless, Gage and Robinson tend to empathize different aspects of the speech which either author considers being the most important. The ideas conveyed by Robinson are very important but the author tends to omit some elements which are very important for Crenshaws’ speech. Robinsons lack of some important aspects which are actually crucial for the full and adequate understanding of Crenshaws’ speech. In this regard, the aspect of slavery is particularly important because slavery uncovers the ground of the racial inequality and helps to understand better reasons for the marginalization of Black women not only within the society dominated by the white majority but also within the African American community. To put it more precisely, African American men in the time of slavery also mistreated women because of the persisting gender inequality and this trend survived slavery and persisted throughout decades. At the same time, Robinson tends to show Crenshaws critique of a lack of the appeal to reason and facts but the focus on emotions of the audience mainly. This is why Robinson conveys the speech from the first person. He just makes a brief introduction to the speech and conveys the speech from the first person with the focus on the emotional aspect of the speech and arguments drawn by Crenshaws. The focus on the emotional side of the speech implies that there are a few logical arguments and poor appeal to the reason. Truth turns out to engage emotions of the audience and this is her main target in the speech, according to Robinson.
In this regard, both version of the speech are quite effective. They focus on the key ideas of the speech. Robinson pays more attention to the direct presentation of the speech from the first person, whereas Gage tends to conduct the analysis of the key points of the speech. In this regard, Gage is more analytical in the presentation of the speech that makes it more effective in terms of understanding the key points of Crenshaws speech. In such a way, the author makes clear the key ideas of Crenshaws. The delivery of the speech is emotional in Robinson’s coverage and this way of presentation is more attractive for those, who are interested in the direct perception of the speech because the author conveys the speech much closer to the original speech compared to Gage. Robinson’s article is less analytical and it is focused on the raw nerve of the speech instead.
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At the same time, Robinson does not necessarily talk about women and Black women hand in hand that is very important for the understanding of the key ideas of the speech. Gage is more objective and detailed in this regard in the depiction of the speech. In such a way, Gage makes the speech more effective in terms of accuracy since he reveals that Crenshaws emphasized the idea of the gender inequality in society that was particularly strong in the African American community.
The first line of speech shows that he just addresses Truth as an emancipated slave and not a woman that divides the two. This idea is pivotal but Robinson tends to omit this important idea. Instead, Robinson opens the speech with the emphasis on the gender difference and womanhood of Truth. In Robinson’s version of the speech, she states how she stands for “women’s rights” and not black women’s rights. In such a way, she does not focus on the racial background as the reason for the divide and intersectionality of Black women.
Robinson presents the speech of Crenshaws, where she speaks mainly about the sexes mainly with disregard to their racial background. In such a way, Robinson achieves the effect of presenting Crenshaws as feminist rather than African American feminist. Gender inequality turns out to be prior to her, while racial inequality is either omitted or insignificant in Robinson’s version of the speech. Robinson focuses on womanhood as the reason for the inequality and raises the problem of the suppression of women’s rights: “Why children if you have women rights give it to her and you’ll feel better” (Robinson). In such a way, the author talks about women rights and even if they were given, it would still alienate Black women because of the discrimination against Black people.
Robinson also Relates to Crenshaws critique off intersectionality by limiting the moral of the speech to women and not encompassing the specific Black women aspect. This is another evidence of the priority of gender inequality over racial inequality in the speech delivered by Crenshaws in Robinson’s version of the speech. This aspect is very important because it creates the overall impression of the speech as the speech encompassing the problem of gender inequality and oppression of women with little attention to the problem of Black women, while their intersectionality is rather the result of the traditional gender inequality that affects both white and black communities.
In this regard Gage’s speech is more specific and refers to intersectionality as the milestone idea of Crenshaws’ speech. Gage builds up the analysis of the speech and focuses on the idea that Black women face the double problem which involves not only gender inequality but also racial inequality since Black women turn out to be outsiders in the white and African American community. The difference in Gage’s version is very important for the development of effective understanding of the original message of Crenshaws.
The language used by Robinson and Gage is also different. Gage argues that the way the words are written are used to describe a black woman, i.e. slave talk. Robinson is more personal in the coverage of the speech since he presents the speech from the standpoint of Crenshaws and uses Biblical references Crenshaws used to enhance the emotional impact on the audience. In such a way, both authors use the language to convey their vision of the speech and the key points they would like to emphasize in the speech and which they consider being the most important in the speech.
Thus, Robinson and Gage depict Crenshaws speech but they do it in quite a different way that leads to the different perception of the speech. Robinson is more emotional and focuses on the gender inequality. In contrast, Gage focuses on intersectionality and racial inequality that emerge from slavery.
Original Anti-Slavery Bugle, 1851: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/1851-06-21/ed-1/seq-4/
Dialect-removed version of Gage’s account (1989): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp
Phillips-Anderson, M. “Sojourner truth, ‘Address at the woman’s rights Convention in Akron, Ohio,’ (29 may 1851).” Voices of Democracy, vol. 7, 2012, pp. 21- 46.
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Stargate Birthdays – April 3rd
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Robin Mossley
Robin has been in two episodes of Stargate SG1 first as Malikai in Window of Opportunity and then as Dr. Reimer in the episode Morpheus. He has also guest starred on Andromeda,
Reaper, About A Girl, Psych, Hope Island and Sanctuary. IMDB
Lawrence Dane
Lawrence appeared just the once on Stargate SG1 as Major General Bauer in the episode Chain Reaction. He has also appeared on Sofia, Absolution, Queer As Folk, Undercover Grandpa, The Hunger, Flashpoint, Airwolf and Street Legal. IMDB
Martin Blaiz
Martin played a NID guard on the Stargate SG1 episode 48 Hours and also appeared on Seven Days, First Wave, The Outer Limits and Touched by a Killer. IMDB
Catherine played Mary on the Stargate Universe episode Sabotage and also a Tech Sergeant on the Stargate SG1 episode Prometheus. She has also been on Rockpoint PD, Traffic, TRON Legacy, The 100, Continuum, Godzilla and Van Helsing. IMDB Twitter
Posted by jarrak at 9:10 am Tagged with: Alessandro, April, Birthday, Catherine, Lawrence, Martin, Robin, Stargate
Alessandro Juliani
Alessandro played Katep in the SG1 episode Moebius (1&2) and Eliam in the episode Scorched Earth. He also starred on Battlestar Galactica as Felix Gaeta and also appeared on Smallville,
Fringe, Cedar Cove, Almost Human and recently on The 100 as Sinclair. IMDB Behind The Voice
Lawrence appeared just the once on Stargate SG1 as Major General Bauer in the episode Chain Reaction. He has also appeared on Sofia, Absolution, Queer As Folk, The Hunger, Flashpoint, Airwolf and Street Legal. IMDB
Posted by jarrak at 9:32 am Tagged with: Alessandro, April, Birthday, Lawrence, Martin, Robin, Stargate
Stargate Birthdays for April 3rd
Robin has been in two episodes of Stargate SG1 first as Malikai in Window of Opportunity and then as Dr. Reimer in the episode Morpheus. He has also guest starred on Andromeda, Reaper, About A Girl, Psych, Hope Island and Sanctuary. IMDB
Alessandro played Katep in the SG1 episode Moebius (1&2) and Eliam in the episode Scorched Earth. He also starred on Battlestar Galactica as Felix Gaeta and also appeared on Smallville, Fringe, Cedar Cove, Almost Human and recently on The 100 as Sinclair. IMDB Behind The Voice
Posted by jarrak at 9:50 am Tagged with: Alessandro, April, Birthdays, Lawrence, Robin, Stargate
Lawrence appeared just the once on Stargate SG1 as Major General Bauer in the episode Chain Reaction. He has also appeared on Queer As Folk, The Hunger, Flashpoint, Airwolf and Street Legal. IMDB
Robin has been in two episodes of Stargate SG1, Dr. Reimer in the episode Morpheus and Malikai in Window of Opportunity. He has also guest starred on Andromeda, Reaper, Psych and Sanctuary. IMDB
Alessandro played Katep in the SG1 episode Moebius (1&2) and Eliam in Scorched Earth. He also starred on Battlestar Galactica as Felix Gaeta and also appeared on Smallville, Fringe, Cedar Cove and Almost Human. IMDB Behind The Voice
Posted by jarrak at 8:19 am Tagged with: Alessandro, April, Birthday, Lawrence, Robin
TV Spot – Alessandro Juliani
It was great to see Alessandro Juliani back on the small screen last night in a decent guest role in “Framed” the April 4th episode of Motive. He played a gallery owner (Serge Bisson) who was neither the victim or the killer of this story but for a small role he looked good and gave a nice performance.
Alessandro is perhaps best known for playing Felix Gaeta in Battlestar Galactica but he also guest starred in the Stargate SG1 episode “Scorched Earth” and “Moebius 1&2” as well as a recurring role on Smallville.
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Posted by jarrak at 10:43 am Tagged with: Alessandro, BSG, Eliam, Katep, Moebius, Motive, Scorched Earth, SG1, Smallville
Many happy returns of the day to Alessandro Juliani who was Eliam in the Stargate SG1 episode Scorched Earth and Katep in the SG1 episode Moebius. He also played Lt. Felix Gaeta in Battlestar Galactica and Garin in the web series Riese.
A Happy birthday to Lawrence Dane the veteran actor who played Major General Bauer in the Stargate SG1 episode Chain Reaction, he also appeared in Highlander, Flashpoint and the original Mission Impossible television series.
Happy birthday to Robin Mossley who guest starred in two Stargate SG1 episodes, Malikai in Window of Opportunity and Dr Reimer in Morpheus. He’s also been in Andromeda, Psych, The 4400 and Sanctuary.
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A Jedi Needs Not Games To #Fail: Ableism, Fat Hatred, Heterosexism, and Misogyny in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Annalee is a gamer and general-purpose geek. She can be found on Twitter as @leeflower.
Like most feminist gamers I know, I have learned to give myself permission to love problematic things. If I didn’t, I’d pretty much have to give up on video games entirely.
The fact that I’ve grown accustomed to the whiff of garbage that comes with almost every game on the market doesn’t mean I can’t smell it, though. So while I’m having a heck of a lot of fun playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, I am also slapping my forehead a lot and going “really Bioware? Did you seriously just- I mean, really?”
Because boy howdy does this game have some issues. Minor spoilers ahoy.
Ableism.
On pretty much every world you visit in SWTOR, there’s at least one sort of stock mob-usually some kind of aggressive animal-standing around to attack you on your way from one quest area to the next.
Then there’s the prison world of Belsavis, where mobs of escaped prisoners rove the landscape between you and every objective. Lest you get the impression that all of these prisoners are, as the story suggests, the very worst of the worst criminals the republic has to incarcerate, some of them are helpfully labeled for you as “lunatics” and other charming ableist slurs. Because people with mental illnesses are totally the same as vicious animals, amirite?
(Also, Seriously? The great Galactic Republic, shining beacon of justice and equality, has no facilities for people with mental illnesses who are a danger to others, and instead throws them in with the general prison population? What?).
Fat Hatred
When you create your character, you have a choice of four body types. For a guy toon, your options vary from lanky to football coach. When you play a woman, your choices are bratz doll, barbie doll, she-hulk, and one that I guess passes for plus-sized in mass-media land.
Here’s what I mean-these are the two “plus-size” models, side by side:
Yeah, so apparently Even Longer Ago in a Galaxy Not Quite As Far Away, ‘plus’ was a bra size. Because everyone knows fat women can’t be heroes, amirite?
As you zoom about the galaxy, you’ll encounter many fat guys. They’re soldiers, wardens, shopkeepers, spies, smugglers, community organizers, and Jedi. You’ll see not a single flippin’ fat woman anywhere. They just don’t exist.
And if erasing fat women from the galaxy wasn’t enough, the protocol droid on my ship helpfully informs me every once in a while that he’s put my crew on a diet. My crew of athletic guys and one skinny woman; all of whom spend their time sprinting across strange planets, getting into fistfights with monsters, and kicking the forces of evil in the face. God forbid these folks exercise their own discretion about how much fuel their bodies need. Not when BioWare can get in a cheap shot at fat people and call it a “joke.”
After the great strides BioWare made towards including gays and lesbians in Dragon Age, SWTOR has felt like a big step backward. All romance options are heterosexual, and if any of the non-player-characters are in same-gender relationships, they never mention it. Heterosexual relationships, on the other hand, appear quite regularly.
Back in 2009, there were reports of people being banned from the game’s official forums for questioning why words like “gay,” “lesbian,” and “homosexual” were on the censored words list. Banned, that is, after being rudely informed by a BioWare staffer that those words “don’t exist” in Star Wars. Classy.
(I guess we all just imagined Juhani the lesbian Jedi from the original Knights of the Old Republic, then?).
Last September, they changed their tune, releasing a statement saying that same-gender romances will be available as a post-launch feature, and citing the “design constraints” of a fully-voiced MMO as the reason they weren’t able to include it at launch. I took that as fair enough-they hadn’t committed the resources for the extra dialogue they were going to need, and it was going to take some time to fix it.
That is, until I encountered the first character that would have been a romance option if my toon were male. If you’re playing a dude, she initiates a relationship, and you have the choice to take her up on it. If you’re playing a woman, there’s an entirely separate, fully-voiced conversation in which she awkwardly asks to adopt you as her sister.
So, in fact, they spent extra time and effort to remove the same-gender romance option. I’m not sure heterosexism really counts as a “design constraint,” BioWare. But I guess a statement reading “We made a horrible mistake and are working as hard as we can to fix it, and we apologize to all our players for the bigoted, hostile statements we’ve made in the past about this issue” would have taken a little more courage than they had on hand.
LOL slavery, amirite? [TW for violence against women]
If you play a Sith Warrior, one of your companion characters is an accomplished treasure hunter the Sith have enslaved. Your dark side options involve [Trigger Warning] torturing her with a shock collar and either making her watch you have sex or forcing her into a threesome (it’s not clear which).
I know, I know: dark side Sith are supposed to be evil, so slavery, torture, and sexual harassment/assault are just part of their alignment, right? Bullcookies. Any writer worth hiring is creative enough to come up with dark side options that don’t involve turning slavery and violence against women into a punchline.
(h/t Club Jade for that link).
If you pre-ordered the game, your character starts out with a handful of mostly-useless toys, like a flare gun and a droid that buzzes around. Oh, and a holographic burlesque dancer.
A woman dancer, of course. I imagine some of the guys playing the game might start feeling vaguely gross and uncomfortable if they had to run the risk of seeing a mostly-naked dude shaking his thang every time they entered a populated area. I imagine this because that’s exactly how I feel about that flippin’ hologram.
And since we’re talking about feeling vaguely gross and uncomfortable, let’s talk about the slave bikini.
For the most part, I have been quite impressed with BioWare when it comes to armor options for women. Unlike most games (where full-body armor magically morphs into a bikini when you equip it on your woman toon), all but one piece of armor I’ve found in the game has looked perfectly sensible and protective on my lady knight (the exception was a piece of low-level armor that magically lost a midriff when I put it on, but kept its sleeves and neckline). Women characters start off wearing pants and a shirt (PANTS! It’s amazing! It’s like they know that most women don’t do their butt-kicking in bathing suits, or something!).
But of course, it’s Star Wars, and you can’t have a Star Wars property without some kind of reference to Leia’s slave outfit. So if you’ve got the extra in-game cash to burn, you can buy it and equip it on your character.
Well, if you’re playing a woman, that is. Unlike every other garment in the game, which can be equipped onto either available gender, the slave outfit is ladies only. Also, I say “your character,” but really, I mean “your companion,” because so far, every time I’ve seen it, it’s been a player with a dude character, who’s equipped the bikini on their female non-player companion character.
At first, I thought maybe they included it as a joke, and just didn’t account for people actually wanting cheesecake enough to take massive armor penalties to have it. Sadly, I was mistaken. Because rather than making people live with the consequences of forcing their companion to walk around in metal underwear, they decided to make Leia’s slave outfit armor.
In fact, it’s not just armor; it’s orange-grade armor, which means it’s some of the best armor you can get. You can have your character walking around in a bikini that protects her as well as anything else she can put on.
So no, it’s not a bad joke gone wrong. They actually incentivized using it. The fact that I have to put up with other players reducing their companion characters to sex objects is no accident at all. And of course there’s no version for guys. Like the bikini itself, that gross feeling that comes with being subjected to someone else’s demeaning fantasy is reserved for ladies only.
There are a lot of things to love about this game. It’s well designed and well-paced, with engaging stories and gorgeous graphics. The mechanics are smooth and easy to learn, and the details are delightful. As a gamer and a Star Wars fan, I’m having a heck of a lot of fun with it. I don’t even want to know how many hours I’ve clocked playing since launch.
As a queer woman and feminist, however, I’m having to close my nose. Because there is an undeniable whiff of garbage.
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This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged fail, Gaming, star wars on 2012/03/14 by Annalee.
Geeks and non-geeks
I’m having a great time at DrupalConSF!
A question for the NodeOne folks passing out Drupal: The Card Game…
Which one of these people is the “non-geek”?
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged conferences, drupal, fail on 2010/04/19 by lizhenry.
Quick hit: PAX’s Girls and Games fail
Our dedicated linkspam spies have dug up a lot of critical takes on the “Girls and Games” panel at PAX East 2010, which sounds like it was a how-not-to for discussions of women in geek communities. Here’s the blurb from their own schedule:
According to the ESA, more than 43% of video gamers are female, making women the single largest untapped market segment in the gaming industry. Look at the milestones crossed and the hurdles to come as developers and publishers reach out to this previously overlooked demographic. Are current strategies effective? What does this mean for the game industry as a whole?
Panelists Include: Brittany Vincent [Editor-in-Chief, Spawn Kill], Julie Furman [Founder, SFX360], Jeff Kalles [Penny Arcade], Alexis Hebert [Community Relations Manager, Terminal Reality], Padma Fuller [Product Marketing Manager, Sanrio Digital], Kate Paiz [Senior Producer, Turbine]
Critics include:
The Border House and While !Finished: “Putting up with sexism and not rocking the boat may be the best thing to do as an individual to get ahead, but frankly it does fuck all for other women in the industry.”
Fineness & Accuracy: “Virtually no mention was made at any point of institutionalized sexism, or of the ways that banter and trash-talking with imagery of rape and sexual violence… functions as a signifier to the demographic that is overwhelmingly more likely to be targeted by perpetrators of real rape and sexual assault that they are not welcome.”
Laser Orgy: “Obviously those present in the room were already feminist allies, but the confusing part for me was that the questioners (both male and female) seemed much more open-minded than the panelists. The five ladies wrote off GameCrush.Com as something we should ‘expect’ of gamer culture and ignore — and most of the other problems facing women got the same treatment.”
gaygamer.net: “Thankfully the audience asked many intelligent and both general and more focused questions. Unfortunately, the panel seemed at a loss to answer them in any satisfying manner (for the most part, a few exceptions applied).”
The volume of criticism has attracted a response from Brittany Vincent: “First off, I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I let you all down, as a female gamer, and as a panelist. It brings me to tears to think that you all were so disheartened by this missed opportunity.”
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged cons, fail, Gaming, Linkspam, panels, pax, penny arcade on 2010/04/07 by Mary.
Women in FLOSS, tell Bruce Perens you exist
Unicorn check-in time for women in open source!
Bruce Perens seems to think that women aren’t passionate about open source software:
What I meant was that there are more women who hold technical jobs than there are women who so love the technology that they will work on it whether they get paid or not. That seems to be an especially male thing.
I told him I was, and he confused me with Yuwei Lin and then told me I (she?) was an outlier.
How about we all head on over there and tell him that a) we exist, b) we ARE passionate about open source, and c) yes there IS a problem, even if he doesn’t see it.
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This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged fail, floss, free software, invisibility, Open source, unicorns on 2009/08/27 by skud.
Quick hit: How not to get yourself invited to a girl geek dinner by me
My friend @orenmazor tweeted this:
way to increase visibility for the girl geek dinner by challenging the male geeks to figure out a way in http://is.gd/2Cc3F
The guy in question (Will Armstrong) first talks about how awesome the girl geek dinner will be. Okay, great. Then he whines because as a guy, he’s not invited. Okay, less great, but understandable. And then he offers a contest, “with the winner having yours truly as your guest at girl geek dinner and getting a featured blog post on startup ottawa.”
Uh, seriously awkward? Insulting? Worst way to ask for a date ever? Over-inflated ego much?
Certainly, I’m not impressed, and if I see this dude at the dinner (I’m hoping no one invites him), I’m going to be seriously tempted to pour a water pitcher over his head. And it’s putting me off the startup blog, too, with that “hey, the easiest way for women get on our blog is to pimp themselves to Will” vibe.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged fail, girl geek dinner on 2009/08/27 by terriko.
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Watch Jack White Tear Through Two Songs on ‘The Tonight Show’
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With his second solo album, 'Lazaretto,' out today, Jack White made a stop on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' last night to play two songs from it. You can watch him perform the title track above, complete with a staggering guitar solo, violin jam and female co-vocals.
This was White's second 'Tonight Show' appearance this past month. A few weeks ago, he joined guest Neil Young in cutting a record of Young's performance right there on the spot. That quick bit of turnaround followed White's pressing of the world's fastest record a few weeks earlier on Record Store Day.
After some personal ups and downs and taking time out to settle some ongoing beefs, it's great to hear White back in action. In addition to the above performance of 'Lazaretto,' he also turned in a scorching version of 'Just One Drink,' which you can watch below.
He also sat down with Fallon to talk about all the cool things you can do with the Ultra LP version of the new album. That clip is below too.
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Developmental, Replications May 20, 2016 January 26, 2018
A classic finding about newborn babies’ imitation skills is probably wrong
By Christian Jarrett
Pick up any introductory psychology textbook and under the “developmental” chapter you’re bound to find a description of “groundbreaking” research into newborn babies’ imitation skills. The work, conducted in the 1970s, will typically be shown alongside black and white images of a man sticking his tongue out at a baby, and the tiny baby duly sticking out her tongue in response.
The research was revolutionary because it appeared to show that humans are born with the power to imitate – a skill crucial to learning and relationships – and it contradicted the claims of Jean Piaget, the grandfather of developmental psychology, that imitation does not emerge until babies are around nine months old.
Today it may be time to rewrite these textbooks. A new study in Current Biology, more methodologically rigorous than any previous investigation of its kind, has found no evidence to support the idea that newborn babies can imitate.
Janine Oostenbroek and her colleagues tested 106 infants four times: at one week of age, then at three weeks, six weeks, and nine weeks. Data from 64 of the infants was available at all four time points. At each test, the researcher performed a range of facial movements, actions or sounds for 60 seconds each. There were 11 of these displays in total, including tongue protrusions, mouth opening, happy face, sad face, index finger pointing and mmm and eee sounds. Each baby’s behaviour during these 60-second periods was filmed and later coded according to which faces, actions or sounds, if any, he or she performed during the different researcher displays.
Whereas many previous studies have compared babies’ responses to only two or a few different adult displays, this study was much more robust because the researchers checked to see if, for example, the babies were more likely to stick out their tongues when that’s what the researcher was doing, as compared with when the researcher was doing any of the 10 other displays or sounds. Unlike most prior research, this new study also looked to see how any signs of imitation changed over time, at the different testing sessions. According to the researchers, this makes theirs “the most comprehensive, longitudinal study of neonatal imitation to date”.
Following these more robust standards, Oostenbroek and her team found no evidence that newborn babies can reliably imitate faces, actions or sounds. For example, let’s take the example of tongue protrusions. Averaged across the different testing time points, the babies were no more likely to stick out their tongue when the researcher did so, as compared with the researcher opened her mouth, pulled a happy face or pulled a sad face. In fact, across all the different displays, actions and sounds, there was no situation in which the babies consistently performed a given facial display, gesture or sound more when the researcher specifically did that same thing, than when the researcher was doing anything else.
Based on their results, the researchers said that the idea of “innate imitation modules” and other such concepts founded on the ideal of neonatal imitation “should be modified or abandoned altogether”. They said the truth may be closer to what Piaget originally proposed and that imitation probably emerges from around 6 months.
Oostenbroek, J., Suddendorf, T., Nielsen, M., Redshaw, J., Kennedy-Costantini, S., Davis, J., Clark, S., & Slaughter, V. (2016). Comprehensive Longitudinal Study Challenges the Existence of Neonatal Imitation in Humans Current Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.047
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cathy East says:
perhaps original results say more abt the caregiver who unconciously watches the baby and notices such actions like sticking out toungue then mimics them back to baby and thinks the response timing means they immitated because they are already in many ways receptive to this child and so receptiveness holds the key and impact. maybe a way to find out and do more research on a caregivers own receptability to their child etc?
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Meghan Markle (Duchess of Sussex) – Health Diagnosis. A Pregnancy that threatens the live of Meghan and the life of one of her babies – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions February 9, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Today – February 9,2019 We are starting our new book : “The rich also cry….. ” with Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions about :
1.Meghan Markle;
2.Jacques de Molay (last Grand Master of the Knights Templar);
3.David Pecker (chairman and CEO of American Media,publisher of National Enquirer, Star, Sun) – if we find a fresh photo of him
Photo : February 7, 2019. Time – after the photo.
Meghan Markle’s Health Diagnosis :
Now – I see increased eyes pressure. In the future, there will be often allergic reactions at the eyes – as lacrimation. She has a slight Flu and inflamed throat, constriction in the left artery – ear and neck. For this moment- the more serious diseases of Meghan Markle are in the thyroid gland, the heart – they will influence to the one of the two fertilized eggs . There is also inflammation of the Bile (gall). She will feel pain in the heart, on the back – over the waist – the muscles and the left pelvic area. There is an old disease at the left kidney and now – very strong gases. I see pain (without disease) at the right thigh.
In her there are shaped two fertilized eggs – the one is located at left (slightly up) in this moment, and the other one is almost on the middle. As whole – the both eggs are coming from the left side – they are well separated. The egg located in the middle and down low will be risky. There is a disease in the heart – she must have a treatment and to stay calm.
I see treatment, at first – she will feel better, but then – there will be problems again. The crises will repeat another four times. The Pregnancy will be very heavy. In the future – I see Meghan Markle in a mountain area on holiday.
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King Felipe of Spain – Negotiations between two parties (groupings) fails before the Elections. Internal war. The future of Spain – procedures about the split (separation) of the independence of one region (area). Health Diagnosis of the King of Spain – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – May 4, 2016, 10 am.
Photo – May 3, 2016
The Elections in Spain will try to unite the nation. I see two teams – both equally strong with influence, power and money, which are going to the Elections. They try to unite twice and the negotiation fails. The decision – Elections – begins internal war.
The left grouping – has more luck. It has no law participation on its side, but the emigrants, the refugees and foreigners are in help. I see weaker financing for the campaign (the Elections). Many, many nerves, obstacles – by the Prosecution and the law. They start very strong campaign, then they see that are loosing the interests of the people. Follows a candidacy like a launch into Space, then again lack of interest, until one energy company stays behind them as financing – then, there is a meeting with the king – promises -only promises. The Judiciary stays with them, but it does not remains with them. The good is, that I see, that there will be no court cases against the leaders of the party.
The Second party – is staying from the right side of King Felipe. It immediately begins preparations and a fight for the Elections. It does not deal with internal war. Their money are separated between two leaders. They both are for one event – the winning of the Elections – as one whole. Ahead is going this one from left – with a smaller face – oval chin, lightly snub nose, younger. A lot of money are givven by that party, behind them is staying an intelligence service. There is a loss and winning of the Elections.
For now, King Felipe is worried by and for the Syrian refugees, he tries to be unifier of the nation. He limits and reduces the resolving of certain tasks for the time after the Elections. I don’t see him to take a position.
The separation of two parts of Spain will cause problems in the future. To the one part are givven money, but the smaller one is ahead of procedures for independency.
Clairvoyant Health Diagnosis of King Felipe on May 3, 2016 :
Pains on the waist, at the right side of the waist and the left side of the pelvis – on the back of the body. A cold muscles on his shoulders. Sick throat, a cold. Flu , which has affected the left lung, the heart, the throat and the urinary tract. In the future, the pains by the waist are going in the right leg and he will treat neurosis in the heart.
In the future – Year 2016 – Spain will be subordinated to God (…Allah) and the Climate Change – the Summer, November and December 2016.
1. Catalan leader puts declaration of independence on hold to allow time for talks
11 OCTOBER 2017 •
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/10/spain-braced-possible-catalonian-independence-declaration/
2. If Catalonia goes independent, these places could be next
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/06/if-catalonia-goes-independent-these-places-could-be-next.html
The Basque Country
One region of Spain that is certainly watching events in Catalonia with interest is the Basque Country, an “autonomous community” situated on the north coast of Spain…
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…….. Part of the business this year will go bankrupt – this is business connected with foreigners in Belgium. I see new experiments connected with new diseases of the pharmaceutical industry. The new experiments must affect the movement and the bones of the people. These, that will not be affected will have a gene of alien animal that moves on jumps.The secret of the longevity and eternity – it is still working on that. It is working about a people which are not fed with earthy food, but with chemicals and minerals……..
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Since 1 September the loss of almost 4,000 jobs has been announced at companies across Belgium. The closure of the Caterpillar plant at Gosselies, near Charleroi (Hainaut) accounts for more than half of the job losses announced since the start of the month. Jobs cuts have also been announced at insurance companies and now at Douwe Egberts in Grimbergen.
http://www.expatica.com/be/news/Flanders-4000-job-losses-since-announced-1-September_772254.html
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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 493 results 493
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University of St. Michael's College. Principal's Office fonds
CA ON00347 3
This fonds contains the records of the Principal of St. Michael's College. Records include course planning and scheduling documents, correspondence, documentation of student activities at the College, staffing and staff activities, College administration documents, and other materials.
University of St. Michael's College. Principal's Office
Student Publications fonds
This fonds consists of publications created by the students of St. Michael's College. This includes yearbooks (for St. Michael's College, the University of St. Michael's College, and some of the books from St. Michael's College School), the Mike (student newspaper), and literary collections featuring students and faculty of USMC.
Fonds consists of 3 series: Yearbooks, Student Journals, and The Mike.
University of St. Michael's College
University of St. Michael's College. Museum artifacts fonds
This fonds contains artifacts relating to St. Michael's College, including dishes, commemorative ephemera, medals and trophies, sports memorabilia, and college memorabilia.
SMCSU fonds
This fonds contains the records of the St. Michael's College Student Union (known earlier in its history as the St. Michael's College Students' Administrative Council). Included are minutes of meetings (1936-1986), financial records, and photographs of student events and council members.
St. Michael's College Student Union
Abbyann Lynch fonds
Fonds demonstrates Lynch’s professional output over the course of four decades. The body of records primarily represents her written work, while there are also audio-visual recordings of lectures and presentations. Items include: published articles, typed and hand-written speeches and lectures, professional reports, newspaper articles about Lynch, recordings of lectures and presentations, recordings of television and radio appearances.
Lynch, Abbyann Day, 1928-
Laurence Edward Lynch fonds
Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Laurence Lynch throughout his studies and career as a scholar, professor, advisor, and principal at the University of St. Michael's College. His records consist of handwritten and typewritten drafts of essays and theses, including those of Lynch and his colleagues and students, on topics in Philosophy, History, Religion, and Psychology. His records also include copies of addresses and talks; teaching materials, including lecture notes, research notes, syllabi, and reading lists; pamphlets, calendars, and academic handbooks from St. Michael's College, the University of Toronto, and other North American universities; correspondence; materials relating to committees and organizations; files relating to grants; and administrative reports and notes.
Lynch, Laurence E.
Thomas Langan fonds
This fonds contains essays, research, course material and ephemera belonging to Thomas Langan. The files contain six dominant themes including: essays and journal publications, materials from educational committees, course outlines and reference materials, research notes, correspondences and miscellaneous materials. Essays and journal publications include subjects such as: education, philosophy, Christianity, socialism, world events and identity. Course materials focused on philosophy, religion, world issues and technology. Correspondences are primarily focused on professional and academic contacts from other universities or journal publications.
These materials document Langan’s career as an active community member, an academic and a philosopher.
Canadian General Hospital No. 4 (University of Toronto) fonds
This fonds consists of 3 accessions of records from the Canadian General Hospital No. 4. See accesion-level descriptions for more details.
A1980-0021: Correspondence among Charles Kirk Clarke, William Belfry Hendry, James Alexander Roberts and others concerning the hospital unit, together with memoranda on the unit's history and personnel; war diary, in three volumes, recording daily activities of the hospital in Salonika; albums of photographs of the unit's activities in England, in Salonika, and en route to those places (1915-1918). This fonds also contains one photo print of the Hospital (1942).
A1988-0014: Panoramic view of the Canadian General Hospital No. 4 taken in England. (1 photoprint)
A2016-0043: This accession contains a selection of x-rays done on soldiers at the Canadian General Hospital No. 4 during, and shortly after the First World War. The x-rays are mounted in an album, which patient names and wound descriptions listed on the back of each image. The accession also contains 4 detailed autopsy record books. The autopsies appear to have been completed at Basingstoke, England, where Hospital No. 4 was relocated from its original station in Salonika, Poland. Neither the x-rays or the autopsy reports appear to be complete.
Canadian General Hospital No. 4 (University of Toronto)
Rudyard Fearon Papers
1977- ongoing
Includes early poetry Jamaica, 1972-1974; Canada, 1974-1977; ongoing poetry, 1977-present; correspondence; photographs; print and ephemera.
Fearon, Rudyard
University of Toronto. Institute of Medical Science (IMS) fonds
This fonds contains 4 accessions from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine. Institute of Medical Science (IMS). See accession-level descriptions for details.
University of Toronto. Institute of Medical Science (IMS)
Kay Armatage fonds
This fonds documents various facets of Prof. Armatage’s career as a filmmaker, senior programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival, and a professor of Cinema Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Toronto. The academic activity files in Series 1 give an overview of the breadth of her interests, achievements and promotions. Lecture notes and other course materials in Series 2, along with comments on student works found in Series 3, document her teaching role. These will be especially useful to researchers interested in understanding the early beginnings of both women studies and cinema studies and how these developing academic disciplines were being taught to students. Prof. Armatage’s role as a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival is documented in her extensive notes found in notebooks where she recorded critiques of films she was screening. These are found in Series 4. The extent of her filmmaking is documented in Series 7 and contains preserved original film elements to several of Prof. Armatage’s films, along with a limited amount of related documentation on the making of these films. Unfortunately, this fonds does not contain release prints for these titles.
This fonds has only a small amount of records relating to her published academic works as well as files relating to conferences she organized and associations in which she was active. These can be found in Series 5 and Series 6.
Armatage, Kay
University of Toronto. Department of Art History fonds
This fonds contains 2 accessions of records from the Department of Art History. See accession-level description for more details.
University of Toronto. Department of Art History
University of Toronto Libaries. Circulation Department fonds
This fonds contains 1 accession from the UofT's Circulation Department. See accession-level description for details.
University of Toronto Libaries. Circulation Department
University of Toronto. Department for the Study of Religion fonds
1960-2011University of Toronto. Department for the Study of Religion
This fonds contains 2 accessions of records form the Department for the Study of Religion (DSR). See accession-level description for more details.
University of Toronto. Department for the Study of Religion
John Hawkins fonds
Fonds consists of compositions and arrangements by John Hawkins, program notes, correspondence, teaching materials and biographical documents, sound recordings, and video recordings.
Hawkins, John
University of Toronto. Division of University Advancement fonds
ca. 1900s - 2010
This fonds contains 9 accessions from the Division of University Advancement. See accession-level descriptions for more details.
University of Toronto. Division of University Advancement
University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC) fonds
This fonds contains 1 accession of records from the University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC). See accession-level descriptions for details.
University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC)
Morris Wolfe Papers
Contains files relating to the life and work of writer and editor, Morris Wolfe.
Wolfe, Morris
University of Toronto. Real Estate Operations fonds
This accession contains 5 accessions from the University of Toronto's Real Estate Operations office.
University of Toronto. Real Estate Operations
University of Toronto. Office of Convocation fonds
This fonds contains 35 accessions
A2008-0006: Official Convocation Roll Book 2007 consists of Diplomas Upgraded to Honours, In Absentia Graduates, Spring and Fall Convocations. User copy available.
A1992-0011: Amendments to convocation rolls for 1988 as recorded in January, 1989, and for 1991 as recorded in January, 1992.
A1992-0017: Official Convocation roll book
A1993-0005: Official Convocation roll book and changes processed in 1992. Unofficial printed set in print room.
A1994-0005: Convocation Roll for the year 1993 and approved changes from 1952 to 1993; Unofficial printed set in print room
A1995-0002: Amendments to the Convocation Roll book vols. 1969 to v.1996 processed in 1997. No changes were made in vols. 1970-1977; 1979-1981; Convocation Roll Book 1997.
A1996-0002: 1995 convocations and changes from 1956-1995; lists of diplomas upgraded to honours and in absentia graduates included. Unofficial printed set in print room.
A2002-0002: Official changes to Convocation Roll Books processed in the year 2001 relating to vols from 1970 to 2000 including re-issued diplomas in Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and Juris Doctor (JD) for graduates in 1939 -2000.
Official University of Toronto Convocation Roll Book for 2001 with amendments. NB: Trinity College programme was not received.
A1997-0001: Convocation Roll Book for 1996. Unofficial printed set in print room.
A1999-0002: Convocation Roll Book 1998 and amendments as recorded in February 1999 with reference to rolls 1973 to 1998.
A2000-0002: Amendments processed in 1999 to Convocation Roll vols. 1970 to 1998 and Convocation Roll Book 1999.
A2001-0008: Amendments processed in 2000 to Convocation Roll volume 1969 to vol. 2000.
A2001-0020: Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings and statistical data prepared for "Student Statistics" publications, for the federal and provincial governments, university officials, academic divisions, other institutions on various categories relating to students, teaching staff, alumni, women, enrolment, withdrawal and other data required to allocate university entitlement to operating grants, basic income unit and fees. Some statistical data relate to information from 1843.
A2003-0001: Official Convocation Roll consists of Amendments (1952-2001), Diplomas Upgraded to Honours (1982-2002), In Absentia Graduates, Spring and Fall Convocations (2002).
A2004-0004: Official Convocation Roll 2003 consists of Diplomas Upgraded to Honours, In Absentia Graduates, conferring of degrees in the Spring and in the Fall Convocations including conferment of honorary degrees, the installation of the 31st Chancellor and the graduation ceremony in Hong Kong. Some copies are annotated; User copy in the Print Room.
A2005-0009: Official Convocation Roll consists of Diplomas Upgraded to Honours, In Absentia Graduates (01), Spring (02-03) and Fall Convocations (04). User copy in the print room.
A2009-0004: Amendments to Convocation Roll Books vols. 1982 to 2007 processed from January to December 31, 2008 ; the changes are listed by the year of graduation.
A2009-0005: Official Convocation Roll consists of In Absentia graduates, Diploma Upgraded to Honours, Undergraduate and graduate faculties, affiliated colleges and federated universities, Asia Pacific [Hong Kong], Spring and Fall convocations. User copy available.
A2010-0004: Official Convocation Roll consists of In Absentia graduates, University of Toronto undergraduate and graduate faculties, affiliated colleges, and federated universities. User copy available.
A2011-0001: Amendments to Convocation Roll Books vols. 1962-2010 processed from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010. The changes are listed by the year of graduation to facilitate filing.
A2015-0001:Amendments to Convocation Roll Books vols. 1967-2014 ( 1967-2014) processed from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014. The changes are listed by the year of graduation to facilitate filing.
A2016-0010: Official Convocation Roll consists of In Absentia graduates, University of Toronto undergraduate and graduate faculties, affiliated colleges, and federated universities.
A2017-0007: Amendments to Convocation Roll Books 2016
A2018-0008: Official roll (unbound) 2017
A2019-0024: Convocation Roll Books, In Absentia Graduates, Diplomas Upgraded to Honours from 2000, and Convocation Roll Books Amendments Processed in 2013.
University of Toronto. Office of Convocation
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Papers
CA OTUTF MS COLL 00130 2B Annex
The collection consists of a small group of documents and letters by or about Rousseau, the bulk of which are notes on the history of women taken by Rousseau from a variety of books. He appears to have compiled these notes acting as secretary to Louise Marie Madelaine (Fontaine) Dupin, who had hoped to write a book on the history of women (the work was never completed).
John Arthur Sawyer fonds
Fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, lecture notes, drafts of articles and addresses, documenting the career of John Sawyer at Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, and the University of Toronto, at the last especially as chair of the Commerce Programmes, with the Faculty of Management Studies, and as Director of the Institute of Policy Analysis. Also includes a revised (2012) copy of Professor Sawyer's memoirs.
Also included are 4 word-processing files:
-MEMTWO.DOC - Memoirs of a Statistical Economist's Random Walk through Academic Life (Revised edition March 15, 2012)
-RSMHIS31.DOC - The Rotman School: An Historical Perspective 1901-1998
-BOOKCH4.DOC - From Commerce to Management: The Evolution of Business Education at the University of Toronto
-CV.DOC - Curriculum vitae
Sawyer, John A.
Germaine Warkentin fonds
Records in this fonds document several aspects of Professor Warkentin’s career in the Department of English. There is extensive correspondence with colleagues and Canadian writers including James Reaney, Jay MacPherson, David Staines, William Blissett, Margaret Stobie, George Woodcock to list only a few (Series 1 and 6). There are also records relating to her teaching including lectures, course outlines and research files on Canadian authors – see series 4, 6 and 7. Her research interests and editing activities are documented in records found in series 1, 5 and 6 including correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, bibliographies, reviews and grant applications.
Also includes material relating to 1966-67 Survey On Married Women with Children in Graduate Studies and the Canadian Federation of University Women. Includes correspondence, clippings, reports and notes.
Warkentin, Germaine
University of Toronto Communications fonds
This fonds contains 52 accessions for the University of Toronto Communications, and its predecessors. See accession-level descriptions for more details.
University of Toronto. Strategic Communications and Marketing
Thomas Barr Greenfield fonds
The fonds is divided into two series.
Series 1 contains course notes, correspondence, addresses, articles, manuscripts, notes, minutes, and photographs relating to the activities of Thom Greenfield as a professor of educational administration at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and as a gay activist, especially in relation to "Gay Fathers of Toronto", of which he was one of the founders.
Series 2 contains professional materials that relate to Greenfield's appointment at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (correspondence with students and faculty, letters of reference, memoranda, and manuscripts), editorial work related to Greenfield's position as Associate Editor of "Curriculum Inquiry," manuscripts and correspondence related to the organization "Gay Fathers of Toronto," manuscripts for "The educational programs and purposes of the Batchewana Band: a management audit,"and personal correspondence and manuscripts relating to finances, politics, and family.
Greenfield, T. Barr (Thomas Barr)
Annesley Student Government Association fonds
Fonds consists of minutes, constitutions and regulations, reports, correspondence and other records of the Annesley Student Government Association and its successor the Annesley Addison Student Government Association.
Annesley Student Government Association
Victoria College (Cobourg, Ont.). Board fonds
Fonds consists of minutes (including extracts), notes and drafts, reports and other records of the Victoria College Board. Also includes minutes of the annual meetings of ministers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church to elect Board and Officers of the College, 1862-1866. Fonds also consists of records of committees of the Victoria College Board, including the Building Committee.
Victoria College (Cobourg, Ont.). Board
Victoria College (Toronto, Ont.). Women's Literary Society fonds
Fonds consists of the records of the Women's Literary Society (Ladies' Literary Society) including constitutions, minutes of meetings, financial records, and song books.
Victoria College (Toronto, Ont.). Women's Literary Society
Emmanuel College (Toronto, Ont.). Continuing Education fonds
Fonds consists primarily of records related to the continuing education programming offered by Emmanuel College. Included are workshop and course descriptions, calendars and agreements as well as program evaluations and planning documents. Fonds also includes the records of the Emmanuel College Continuing Education Committee which is responsible for the overall planning of the programming offered. Fonds contains the minutes of the meetings and reports from the Continuing Education Coordinator. The fonds contains three series.
Emmanuel College (Toronto, Ont.). Continuing Education
Richard Seymour Kelly fonds
Fonds consists of photocopy of a certificate re R.S. Kelly's teaching performance at Victoria College from President Rev. A. McNab, 1849: photocopy of manuscript titled "A Course of lectures on astronomy", 1851 (O/S).
Kelly, Richard Seymour
Doris Jean Dyke fonds
Fonds consists of correspondence and other records re teaching and other activities at Emmanuel College, 1976-1998; published lectures, article and review, 1989-1993; publicity material, programmes, photographs and other records re conferences, concerts, 1988-[2001?]; correspondence, reviews, publicity material, photographs and other records re "Crucified Woman", 1986-1992; course descriptions, [200-?]; published lectures, article and review, 1989-1993; curriculum vitae, 2001; and photographs of travels, conferences, students, Emmanuel faculty, and other subjects.
Dyke, Doris Jean
George Wallis Field fonds
Fonds consists of the following series: records relating to research, 1934-2002; records relating to courses, 1950-1980; records relating to students, 1962-1993.
Field, George Wallis
Charles Bruce Sissons fonds
1920-1965; 1931-1961 predominant
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Sissons, Charles Bruce
Frederick Carson Stokes fonds
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Stokes, Frederick Carson
Edward Wilson Wallace fonds
193? - 1941
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Wallace, Edward Wilson
John Wilson fonds
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Brown, George Williams
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John Line fonds
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Line, John
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Little, William Jackson
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International Aerospace Discussion
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Re: International Aerospace Discussion
Postby SaiK » 05 Dec 2014 19:31
awesome!! excellent narration.. poor on-board cameras.
Postby NRao » 06 Dec 2014 18:46
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Postby brar_w » 06 Dec 2014 21:53
An informative talk given by Alton Remig, Currently the head of the Skunk Works (A position previously occupied by the likes of Ben Rick, kelly Johnson etc) on Future Trends, Opportunities & Challenges at the Nexus of Aviation, Aerospace and Energy
[youtube]3fOzcNda0Cw&list=UUQUxcIsXCZuwCa34u1J5COw[/youtube]
GE's proposal/roadmap for Future Korean fighter .
Typhoon, Meteor launch :
http://vimeo.com/114340275
From the Indian Military Aviation Thread:
Bajwa saab, even in the US (ignoring drones), there are just the two fighter aircraft companies : Boeing & LockMart.
This despite spending more on their air force and navy than next x countries put together
As far as the companies that can on their own bid as PRIMES for a fighter you have the big tree in Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. At any given time it is tough for more than 2 to be actually producing a fighter, so you would have collaborations across the board between these three. Northrop for example has a sizable work-share on both the F-18E/F program and the F-35 program (in dollar volume the latter is a HUGE work-share). Boeing had a sizable share in the F-22A and the ATF proposal, while Northrop had their own proposal ( out of the OEM's that exist as of TODAY) in the YF23 and NATF competitions. BaE could most likely do so as well, but they cannot be treated at the same level as the big three since their US devision is structurally separate form the European devision and as an independent company lacks any fighter experience (although they bid as a prime for previous 5th generation efforts).
The current state of affairs in the Prime Contractors capable of making a complex fighter is due to consolidation post the Cold-War and that was particularly accelerated with the ATF and especially the JAST/JSF competitions. McD was acquired by Boeing and with it also their Phantom Works devision which is now Boeing's go to devision for advanced capability (aircraft and weapons). Lockheed acquired General dynamics and with it tremendous fighter building interests through their Fort Worth facility (the California devision of GD went to Boeing). So while the number of physical companies with experience and capability to bid as PRIMES for advanced fighter aircraft has shrunk from the cold war days, the individual companies have grown in size, capacity and capability through the consolidation that occurred in the 90's and beyond. Ultimately, the Pentagon takes a back seat and lets the market dictate how the M&As pan out, interfering only when there is some strategic loss in capability etc. Such was the case when in the late 90's (97 or 98) the merger between Northrop Grumman (itself formed by a merger in the early to mid 90's) and Lockheed Martin was opposed by the Pentagon. Consolidations occur when the projected demand is insufficient to support all the players in the market. It became tough to sustained 3 or 4 or 5 design teams for fighter aircraft, when you did not have a threat that warranted huge expansion or en mass replacement of legacy fighters or strategic bombers. Without work, these companies could only flourish through consolidation and that is what they did. Northrop grumman had its own strategic acquisitions and has now taken a lead in Unmanned Vehicles, Lockheed has a lead in fighters but both Boeing and NG have plenty of fighter work on their hand (The Super Hornet project is bigger than the Eurofighter project so far, and Both Boeing and NG have 5th gen fighter workshare in the F-22 and F35 programs respectively) to keep well funded fighter design teams even on their own.
The major driver for consolidation has been the ability for companies to predict future investment trends. The fact that post-cold war the services could not afford the sheer number of fighter programs most definitely played a part. Furthermore, the writing was clearly on the wall that advanced aerospace programs would involve a very tight knit collaboration between traditional airframe OEM's and those working on electronics, sensors, computing etc. All the big players beefed up their electronics and sensor portfolio. Unmanned systems were to exponentially increase in demand over the next decade and as such a lot of acquisitions were focused on positioning companies to be more competitive there. If for some reason, there is a totally 180 degree change in fighter demand projections, you would see companies like General Atomics, BaE USA, perhaps even smaller players like Textron, or heck even MUSK invest billions to build up capability to be competitive for future work. This is unlikely to happen because fighter projects would most likely be overshadowed by other projects and the fact that in order to be a strong international fighter jet OEM, one needs a lot of time and money to be able to gain market share in international markets (for sustainment and diversification purposes). Foreign markets are a tough nut to crack.
US defense forces flourished post 1950's due to competition driven choice and are languishing for last decade because of consolidation in the sector.
Competition spurred by demand. You do not need (nor can afford) to have 5 different fighters being operated all catering to a high capability demanded by each service and or requirement. Boeing's work-share in the F-22 and F-18E/F (where it was a prime) has given them plenty of money to keep their fighter R&D flowing as they prepare for the next round of competitions.
No one needs a Mach 3 fighter operating at 60K feet, a All round Air superiority fighter operating between 30-50K feet, and a strike fighter for A2G, a dedicated harrier replacement and a Naval interceptor...Had that need still remained you would have had potentially more programs to fight for, and consolidation may not have looked as attractive as it did when they consolidated. The era of having a large portfolio of manned fighter is gone (the golden age of fighter development) replaced by an era of having a lot of airframes in the Unmanned category.
been the only capable supplier as Boeing has very limited experience in stealth planes (plenty of designs but nothing in production from Boeing).
Boeing was involved in the F-22/ATF, Boeing/Lockheed NATF, McD/Northrop ATF, NATF (McD is now Boeing Owned), J-UCAS/ as an independent Prime, B-2 Bomber, JSF/JAST competition as a prime. They also acquired McD that was a prime for all of those stealth aircraft and through its Phantom Works had considerable R&D and S&T pipeline injection over the years. Furthermore, research and development particularly in the sphere of S&T is not project or even OEM specific. Things like stealth, RAM, coatings, embedded electronics etc are all worked and developed independent of program demand. Even otherwise, some of the coatings for stealth on the ATF (F-22 bid) were Boeing patents. Boeing through its phantom works has presented to the Pentagon, both through purely internal efforts (Bird of Prey) and through program funded projects, the capability to produce advanced stealth aircraft's. Of course the real deal is often in the lab and need not be brought out in public every time. It could be argued that the Boeing of Now is much stronger than the Boeing that bid for the JSF with the X-32. McD has given them a tremendous experience in advanced aircraft, materials and prototyping through the phantom works.
Interestingly while Northrop grumman (considered the leader in stealth) pursued a "stealth representative" (not stealthy but something that could be made stealthy if sent into production solution in the X-47B, Boeing invested its own money on top of the funding it received from the joint office to develop a fully stealthy vehicle in the Phantom Ray. Also Boeing was working on internal funds and money received under the 2020 bomber (NGB) program and this was what they proposed (next to the vide) (again lockheed let them take a lead)
Boeing's Experience in stealth is good enough for Lockheed Martin to take a back seat and let them be the PRIME for the most important stealth project for the US over the next 30-50 years (LRS-B) Boeing has also decided (for now) to go it along for the FA-XX and F-X efforts, while Northrop Grumman has also for now decided to at least enter by itself for the USAF's F-X competition. Northrop grumman has also decided to independently pursue the LRS-B competition which is a contrast to what they did for the B-2, when they partnered with Boeing that at the time had a ton of bomber experience. Lockheed incidentally, has gone in as a partner with Boeing and has let them take the position as the Prime (and thus the largest work-share if they win). The T-X competition is also showing similar patterns with All three deciding to bid independently or through collaboration with foreign OEM's (Boeing with SAAB, Northrop with BaE and Lockheed with KAI)
The JSF program was always going to be a "winner takes all" kind of a thing, because neither the Marines, nor the USN (and pretty much nor the USAF) could afford to develop independent 5th generation aircraft and still have cash left with them to make sizable procurement for fleet replacement purposes. Boeing lost out because they had a poor design on many levels and did not manage the program as well as the Skunk Works. McD lost out because they undervalued the importance of STOVL and showed a disregard for the USMC requirement of not going hot air upfront. One must remember that the JSF program was WON by SKUNKS and the design was further developed and the program transitioned onto Forth Worth which was primarily the General Dynamics devision (or what would have been GD back in the day).
Edit: Northrop Grumman as a Principle Partner on the F-35, has a work-share that in dollar amount is 50 Billion( as a comparison Dassault Rafale's overall program spent (not all of this goes to Dassault btw) is at 64 Billion USD as of 2013 - which shows how respectable NG's work-share is on the JSF) So yes, they are very much in the fighter business, just not as a prime which means little since their fighter business is healthy and projected to sustain those values for the next decades. They are also the Principle partner on the Super Hornet, were a tier 2 partner on the ATF (eventually through their Westinghouse devision) and are an independent PRIME for the T-X, and are going to be submitting designs as a PRIME for future programs. So even though they are not a PRIME at the moment, they have the capacity to act as a prime on a fighter, on a bomber (which they are doing) and on unmanned systems.
Northrop Grumman's F-35 Facility:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqTuPTBSvY
They are not looking to exit the airframe market anytime soon and have in fact become more aggressive in independently pursuing projects (B-3). They have a very strong heritage in Aviation, especially in naval aviation and even lockheed highlighted Northrop's involvement since it itself has no naval aviation (fighter) experience. The design, S&T and R&D pipeline required to reach the ATF, JAST/JSF level was achieved through dedicated funding in stealth and other components over the 80's and 90's. The technology superiority that was achieved in this areas was due to these very investments made decades ago.
Just a few years after the Su-27PMU first flew (1989), Lockheed flew the PAV1 (1990), and soon after that Northrop/McD flew the Spider and Black Widow. They as a company achieved this in the early 90's, and have since grown as a company and have a very good future ahead of them. Don't expect them to have lost any capability because of not winning PRIME on the ATF or the JSF...They are a very confident lot at Redondo Beach ( have a few friends who have worked for their electronics devision over the years and speak of the company as a whole) and are proud of achieving this 23 years ago:
[youtube]UdIM5xbEcl0&index=68&list=WL[/youtube]
Fighters are a different form of investment compared to many other components. programs in the design and development phase stretch over a decade if not more, and production itself goes into decades. Bombers on the other hand require teams to be maintained by the Pentagon, since you may only need one project every 3 decades or so but need to sustained very high end investment. So if you look at the now cancelled NGB it was supporting 2 to 3 independent teams (3 became two towards the end of that program), and the LRS-B publicly is supporting at least 2 teams that we know of. The focus has shifted to Unmanned aviation, because that is what all OEM's see as a major component of airframe acquisition and developmental programs in the next half a century. You'll see more number of programs, with shorter developmental timelines and all this would require a very different skill set. General Atomics is a player here, and as this company grows in this aspect of its business it can scale up its ambitions to compete in other non-traditional aspects of airframe development and production. The Pentagon is more interested in how many teams can work on advanced airframes, be it fighters, bombers, unmanned etc and as long as that number is healthy they will let the market dictate the course these companies take. You do have GA and BaE that can "step up" if there is some magical increase in demand for manned aviation in the next 3-4 decades, but beyond the LRS_B and JSF, most of the combat aircraft (weapons enabled) demand is projected for Unmanned aviation and this is where most of the major primes would concentrate their resources.
Northrop Grumman Celebrates First APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar Engineering, Manufacturing and Development Delivery
This is the third AESA radar cleared for the F-16. The -80 is operational and the RACR is also available and on order (south korea)
^^ Edit: On my previous post about Boeing's R&D on stealth I totally forgot to mention this (Picture courtesy Stephen Trimble)
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Postby Victor » 15 Dec 2014 00:06
This is going to be common pretty soon and change the whole J&K, Maoist equation if we use it. I like this guy.
Postby alexis » 15 Dec 2014 10:24
This can be used by terrorists against us too!
Postby Philip » 16 Dec 2014 13:15
Both the Korean and Japanese projections/concepts for their future fighters are undergoing change. The Japanese have realized that a "heavy" fighter which has longer range/endurance is better than a fast lighter fighter when facing superior numbers.It can also carry more missiles,launching them while retreating too. The 25DMU design is the latest avatar,with 6 Med-range AAMs in internal bays.The Koreans are examining upgraded F-18SHs as an option,looking at the cost of developing a new fighter on its own.
Philip wrote: Both the Korean and Japanese projections/concepts for their future fighters are undergoing change. The Japanese have realized that a "heavy" fighter which has longer range/endurance is better than a fast lighter fighter when facing superior numbers.It can also carry more missiles,launching them while retreating too. The 25DMU design is the latest avatar,with 6 Med-range AAMs in internal bays.The Koreans are examining upgraded F-18SHs as an option,looking at the cost of developing a new fighter on its own.
None of the technologies being spoken off for 6th generation fighters are compatible with light, zippy, sleak fighters. Expect 5.5 generation efforts to mirror 6th generation efforts.
The big defining feature for 6th generation fighters would be the ability to carry out front end offensive ops which the fifth generation fighters can do only in a limited fashion. One of the most succinct explanation of the concept of operations for the 5th generation fighters (f-22 and f-35) in the USAF's roadmap was given by Sect. Wynn (retd.) at the ASC a few months ago. Basically the current 5th generation fighters are operated in a concept where the goal is " To be the last shooter in an offensive enterprise, and be the first shooter in a defensive enterprise" (A direct quote). The Aim with this is for the stealthy assets to penetrate into enemy territory, seek to maintain that level of stealth and penetration and launch their weapons only as a last resort. The goal is that of a "scout" where they transfer through LPI/LPD comms targeting information to legacy and other 5th generation jets that stays behind the Forward Edge of the Battle-space. This is due to many reasons. Firstly, they do not want to loose the tactical advantage of having penetrated the enemy's OODA loop or the physical edge of battle-space. Furthermore, with 6 AMRAAM's or future AMRAAM class missiles, and 4 for the F-35 (for now), there are magazine depth issues, because replenishment is not as easy when it comes to securing the stealthy advantage after the bad guy knows someone is in the area. An F-15C with a METEOR class missile for example can be the shooter, while the F-22 with its distributed sensors, ALR-94 and closely coupled with the comprehensive Passive suite on the F35 can be the scouts. The weapons being spoken of in the roadmap i had posted a few days ago clearly aim at taking into consideration the magazine depth issues. The CUDA that is a response to a SACM program of the USAF and DARPA is clearly meant to concentrate on magazine depth while not looking at increasing the range beyond what an Aim-120C possibly delivers now. The tradeoff being carry 12 missiles that can shoot at 50 Km as opposed to 4-6 missiles that can shoot at 100 km. The advantage obviously comes from their confidence to develop a "Hitile" and the fact that medium range generally translates to greater PK's. In the end they would probably carry a mix of CUDA's and conventional AMRAAM class missiles (whatever they call it) so your magazine depth may be 8 CUDA's and 2 Long range missiles or a different mix.
The ultimate solution for the magazine depth would be through Directed Energy Weapons, and given how much focus both AFRL and DARPA is giving to them (ABC solution for fighter aircraft flew this year) expect a 50-100 KW class DEW on a 6th generation fighter (proper 6th generation fighter not the USN FA-XX program). To get that sort of a fighter, one would need power and cooling, both of which are maxed out at the moment. Power is somewhat easy given the patents that Lockheed Martin (and the DOD) holds for the F-35B. All they have to do is take out surplus power from the engine, use a gear shaft and instead of driving it to a fan drive it to power the generator. Of course for a fighter this would mean a lot of surplus power which kind of explains why the USAF is currently running an AETD/AETP program for a 45,K pound thrust class Variable cycle engine for an F-22 replacement that (F-22 has 70K thrust). Very large and powerfull engines would mean very large aircraft with a LOOOOT of fuel. Pacific is also VERY large so lots of range and lots of sensors to cover it. My guess would be an ideal aircraft that is larger than the F-111, not a super cruiser, but ELO, ability to fire DEW therefore stay in the fight for a lot longer. So essentially, a design similar to an F-35 but much bigger, twin engined, and with 6th generation advances in sensor fusion, stealth and other capabilities.
One of the interesting Tid bits that came out from the Lockheed Martin's limited release on the data on the CUDA was that they are concurrently working on a more conventional AMRAAM class missile just like Raytheon and Boeing (Both of these firms have a solid variable ducted ramjet missile that was tested by DARPA last year) and that for both that missile and the CUDA, they are looking at increasing or improving on the Max speed of the missile to get it to the target quicker.
The only proposal out of the general RFI submissions that looks somewhat like that was the northrop grumman proposal:
Ultimately the way nations like Japan and South Korea can maintain a strong conventional deterrence is through holding a qualitative advantage. Here the biggest area to exploit is integration and training. This area is the least talked about by journalists and bloggers, while the most spoken off by tacticians, strategists and those planning the future. On his departing address recently Mike Hostage, one who isn't known to mix his words was clear on the transformational impact of LVC and that it wasn't a "nice thing to have" , but an absolute NEED to have given that you cannot exploit 5th generation and other advanced weaponry at places like Red Flag for various reasons. Ultimately it is a process of getting pilots in 5th generation, having tactics developed for 5th generation that are being hammered out by a diverse group and having the ability to modify them to one's own force structure. This is an edge that Japan would enjoy since they have access to most of the Western World and can factor in best-practices and exploit generational shifts in training, LVC and other integrated networks. Same applies for the ROKAF. Integrating 5th generation fighters into an air-force, integrating it with 4th generation, incorporating weapons advances to develop best collaborative strategies is no easy task...and many times harder then simply ordering X number every few years. Those that have the right investments, and have a lead in terms of getting these machines out to the tacticians would enjoy a sizable qualitative advantage that would only broaden as they take these lessons learnt and incorporate them into the next generation of aircraft.
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Under pressure, Lockheed opens up about secret weapons unit
(Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's No. 1 weapons supplier, has rarely felt the need to blow its horn about its secrecy-shrouded crown jewel - until now.
"Skunk Works," Lockheed's business for developing weapons outside the company's main chain of command, is starting to lift the veil in a sign of fierce pressure to win new orders and protect its brand as military budgets shrink.
The pride of Lockheed, Skunk Works has been celebrated since it developed the first jet fighter in 143 days during World War Two to battle the Nazis. But its logo was kept off buildings and employees were barred from saying where they worked.
Now, the company has published a glossy brochure with a 10-point “Skunk Works 2015” agenda focused on keeping costs down, working closely with government, and building prototypes. Its officials are meeting in small groups with all 3,300 employees, or "Skunks" as they are known, to underscore the importance of staying competitive.
Over the past year Skunk Works has invited a few journalists to its most secure facilities, including Palmdale, a site in the high desert 60 miles (100 km) from Los Angeles, where new products range from next-generation unmanned systems to a hypersonic aircraft twice as fast as its Blackbird SR-71 spy plane that could fly across country in just over an hour.
Most of the 100 buildings and 3 million square feet of floor space at the site are off-limits, and photography and audio recordings are strictly forbidden, but a tour last month offered a glimpse of some projects.
In one building, Lockheed is using the world's largest gantry machine and 3-D printing to build aircraft. Across campus, Lockheed has a giant airship that could deliver cargo to remote areas, and a compact nuclear fusion reactor that could revolutionize power generation.
PRESSURES MOUNT
The decision to go public with Skunk Works, albeit modestly, reflects the unprecedented pressures Lockheed faces from tight budgets, nimble smaller competitors and shareholders who prefer dividends and share buybacks to long-term projects.
Challenging Skunk Works are such newcomers as Space Exploration Technologies Corp, or SpaceX, which operate more like commercial firms than legacy weapons makers. Their costs are lower due to a younger staff - the average age of SpaceX's engineers is 27, while Lockheed expects half its employees to retire in the next five years - and their ability to leverage commercial orders.
Defense consultant Jim McAleese said Skunk Works needed to win orders and cut costs given lower profits in the aeronautics division, where margins fell by about 10 percent last quarter. Aeronautics sales fell 6 percent to $14.1 billion last year.
Skunk Works has survived over the years because it is not only an advanced research arm, but also makes money by managing a few signature programs, including the F-22 stealth fighter and other classified programs, general manager Rob Weiss told Reuters. He gave no numbers.
Bucking an industry trend, Lockheed is boosting internal R&D spending by 5 percent this year after a 13 percent increase to $697 million in 2013, its highest percentage of sales ever, CEO Marillyn Hewson told analysts in October. She said the rate would rise again in 2015.
The Skunk Works outlook could dim if Lockheed loses out on the few big programs up for grabs: a new bomber, a carrier-based drone, and a new Air Force training jet, analysts say.
Skunk Works officials say they also need to be more open to strategic partnerships, such as those it has with GenCorp unit Aerojet Rocketdyne and Boeing Co, and new business models, such as fee-for-service deals.
Pentagon officials often say they see Lockheed's Skunk Works and Boeing Co's Phantom Works as models for rapid development of weapons and ensuring U.S. military superiority.
Deputy Vice President Steve Justice, who has 30 years with Skunk Works, said its historical focus on speed and affordability was more relevant than ever given the tough budget climate. The proof, he said, came in recent requests from the Navy and others that want to set up similar groups.
The world’s largest gantry for automated fiber placement is seen at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in this undated handout photo provided by Lockheed Martin.
JLENS being inflated (Time Lapse)
NASA has decided to provide Sead-Funding for the Skunk Works Hypersonic SR-72 propulsion concept for an unmanned ISR vehicle.
NASA launches study for Skunk Works SR-72 concept
NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to study the feasibility of building a hypersonic propulsion system for a concept intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft dubbed the SR-72 using existing turbine engine technologies.
The $892,292 contract “provides for a parametric design study to establish the viability of a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) propulsion system consisting of integrating several combinations of near-term turbine engine solutions and a very low Mach ignition Dual Mode RamJet (DMRJ) in the SR-72 vehicle concept,” the award document says.
A spokeswoman for Lockheed’s Skunk Works development laboratory declined to comment on the contract award..
If the study is successful, NASA wants to fund a demonstration programme. Lockheed would test the dual-mode ramjet in a flight research vehicle, and try to find solutions to issues like engine packaging and designing the thermal management system, Bartolotta says.
Also found an interesting video describing the 71's TurboRamjet J58 engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ao5SC ... 75&list=WL
Postby Singha » 20 Dec 2014 20:31
Looks like same ideas will be used by 40yrs newer tech.
Given that the LRS-B (Long Range Strike) is being developed as a constantly evolving "capability' rather than a platform as per most reports, this could be a 2030-2040 option for an element of Long Range strike with the 2025 bomber being the stealthy, mass produced Long range strike bomber. As has been mentioned in the media, this was an internal lockheed concept that they have been developing for a while and now they have secured funds to further study it and if anything positive comes out of that they may even get a shot at building an air vehicle in the future.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/f ... sr-72.html
The SR had much older tech. The A-12 first flew nearly 53 years ago with the 50th anniversary of the SR's first flight is incidentally on Monday (22nd December 2014). It was an amazing era for "speed", you went from flying P80 (First real operational jet fighter for the USAF) in 1944 to flying the A-12 in 1962. The J58 power run was around 1958 iirc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EhdaPo5W8
alexis wrote: ^^
da $h!t needs lot more precision, range, and controls than the shown demo. real life scenario no terrorist on the mountain will consider him/herself as lame duck!
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Stories from the fastest jet ever flown
Postby deejay » 23 Dec 2014 18:26
@brar_w both your above(^^^) links leading to strange places for me. No Blackbird on those!!!
deejay wrote: @brar_w both your above(^^^) links leading to strange places for me. No Blackbird on those!!!
brar_w wrote: Blackbird Diaries: Stories from the fastest jet ever flown
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Postby Ashtram » 23 Dec 2014 21:29
Interesting!! - Direct to Geostationary Orbit
Russia test-launches new space eco-rocket Angara right into geostationary orbit
http://www.rt.com/news/216663-angara-he ... er-launch/
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Postby KrishG » 23 Dec 2014 22:14
Ashtram wrote: Interesting!! - Direct to Geostationary Orbit
Angara A5 is a VERY powerful rocket. It's capabilities are currently limited by it's launch site (Plesetsk). This site is way north. For GSO orbits, the closer you launch to the equator, the bigger the advantage (because of additional velocity imparted by earth's rotation).
The Russians are building a new cosmodrome at Vostochny which is further south, almost at a similar latitude to Baikonur. And they plan to build a new upper stage for the rocket based on GSLV's upper stage. All this is a few years away but make no mistake this still is a damn powerful rocket. Currently, it's only second to the Delta-4 H when it comes to payload to LEO.
We are still a good 8-10 years away from building a rocket of this class.
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Postby Shreeman » 25 Dec 2014 01:26
what makes lawn darts give up their ghosts (err pilots) even when no one shoots at them?
NRao wrote:
Thanks for correcting that. Have been catching up on a lot of reading and on the topic of the SR, it was amazing that it was something that the Kelly Johnson presented as an unsolicited proposal.
Since Monday was the 50th anniversary of its first flight, here is a nice write up on it including pictures
SR-71 Blackbird: A Fast History
Darpa/Northrop Grumman Team Boost Chip Speed (Aviation Week & Space Technology - Defense Technology Edition Nov 17, 2014 ( Subscription )
The Guinness Book of Records has recognized the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (Darpa) Terahertz Electronic program for creating the fastest solid-state integrated amplifier ever measured. After five years of work and steps through 670 and 850 GHz, a Darpa/Northrop Grumman team succeeded last summer in demonstrating 10 dB of low-noise amplification at 1 THz (1 trillion cycles/sec.) and 9 dB at 1.03 THz.
The result eclipses the previous record of 850 GHz that was set in 2012.
Darpa program manager Dev Palmer says that applications for the new technology are in the early stages, “because until now the work has suffered from a lack of high-power sources.” However, terahertz opens up a previously inaccessible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, between radiofrequency (RF) and infrared bands. An early application could be high-rate data links. (This is because in terahertz bands, a 150-GHz bandwidth is relatively small, but still large in absolute terms; 1 GHz is equivalent to 1 billion cycles/sec.) The technology would also move critical military communications out of overcrowded RF bands.
Terahertz also has potential applications for remote imaging, yielding resolution close to infrared but with a much greater ability to penetrate smoke or obscurants. The indium phosphide high-electron-mobility transistor components developed by Darpa and Northrop Grumman are described as “the size of a grain of kosher salt” and are produced on wafers half as thick as human hair.
A version of this article appears in the November 17 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Postby Gerard » 26 Dec 2014 23:41
Russia test fires Yars intercontinental ballistic missile
“On December 26, 2014 at 11:02 am, Moscow time, the solid-propellant RS-24 Yars mobile ground ICBM with a multiple warhead was test fired from the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome by a combined combat crew of the RVSN and Aerospace Defense Forces,” the official said
Falcon 9 landing in a test flight:
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(@4:22, watch the cattle in the foreground)
The autonomous ship it is expected to land on:
must have an appropriate landing surface.
nik wrote: ^^ That is heartening news to hear from folks with first hand experience.
Now will IAF close the year with a big bang 200 MK1 jet order - to be delivered in 4 years flat? Things will move fast when the ball lands squarely in HAL's court - or they will risk dissolution.
Continuing on the 'lame' canard pitch for Rafale\Gripen, have thrust vectoring been considered for LCA. Here is why this is of interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dy ... F-16_VISTA and http://theaviationist.com/2013/09/10/vista-f-16/ - last comment is key Thanks to its centre and the side stick installed in the front cockpit the F-16 VISTA can be re-configured after the take off to fly like a delta wings aircraft, like a canards one or like a large cargo airplane.
The weight penalty is an unknown factor though the paddle arrangement is better than Su-30 ball joint as quoted -This system is the cleanest mechanical design, aerodynamically speaking, and also reduces the nozzles’ radar signature (http://critical-me.blogspot.com/2007/12 ... a-was.html), maybe we can substitute it for the ballast - wishful thinking.
VISTA was an easy way to run tests and get data on TVC. The eventual design did not use Paddles like some other USAF/NASA test beds such as the X-31 and the F-18 HARV for TVC. It used a full 360 degrees Asymmetrical Nozzle capable of 20 degrees deflection. The Nozzle itself (Pitch/Yaw Balanced Beam nozzle) was something that Pratt and Whitney pitched to the DOD in the 80's.
The aircraft has demonstrated a steady angle of attack of as much as 86 degrees and a transient angle of attack of up to 180 degrees.
From way back:
EVERY WHICH WAY YOU CHOOSE
Source: International Defense Review, 1994-04-01 (Janes/IDR Subscription)
TEXT: Pratt & Whitney's multi‐directional thrust‐vectoring nozzle will provide agility enhancements for fixed‐wing fighters. If, as proclaimed by a 1980s airshow sticker, ``happiness is vectored thrust,' then US aircraft‐engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney (P&W) has every reason to be pleased with itself. The company's government‐engines & space‐propulsion division in West Palm Beach, Florida, is working on a retrofittable three‐dimensional (3‐D) thrust‐vectoring nozzle design with great promise.
P&W's Pitch‐Yaw Balanced Beam nozzle (PYBBN) is a lightweight, low‐cost design foreseen primarily as an enhancement for the F100‐PW‐229 engine, but which provides a common replacement/retrofit upgrade option for all F‐15s and F‐16s (the F100 engine powers all in‐service F‐15 aircraft, and many F‐16s; Saudi Arabia selected the ‐229 for its F‐15 buy, while Taiwan ordered the PW‐220 for its F‐16s in 1993).
Based on the current F100 nozzle, the PYBBN is of a similar size and weight (adding only 150lb to the total), but enables the pilot to carry out axisymmetric, multidirectional thrust vectoring of his aircraft in flight. A convergent‐divergent design (see figures on p.59), the PYBBN has only three functional changes over the present nozzle, but due to the use of more advanced materials, for example, has over 10% fewer parts ‐ a maintenance and endurance plus. One of the company's strengths is its alloys and other materials research and engineering. The exit area of the PYBBN, as can be seen at right, can perhaps best be described as a metal lattice which opens wider and closes to a narrower aperture as required, and vectors by up to 20° in any direction virtually instantaneously, as IDR was able to ascertain. Vector slew rate is in fact 45°/s (thus the variation between the maximum 40° position change is less than one second); vectoring can not only be used to affect pitch and yaw (up/down, side‐to‐side) but, as a result of the combination of these, can be operated diagonally and circumferentially. Mainly during 1992, P&W has conducted over 80h (650+ vectoring cycles) of tests at all power levels ‐ some 10% of test time in afterburner ‐ and including vectoring during transients and with simultaneous jet‐area changes. The design is mounted on an F100‐PW‐229 engine for static tests at sea level and, while it has been tested up to rate of motion of 45°/s, is thought capable of 80°/s (and possibly as high as 200°/s) at maximum power. As indicated, vectoring of 20° in any direction has been achieved, both during engine transient conditions and with simultaneous jet‐area changes. The PYBBN needs fewer reinforced load‐bearing structures (which add to aircraft weight) and also reduces control‐actuation loads, because of its ``balanced‐beam' design. This uses air available in and around the nozzle as a counterbalance to the forces exerted on the front and rear of the flap assembly (see figure opposite). Other advantages of the PYBBN for fighter aircraft include: reduced drag, both during manoeuvres and at cruise speeds; greater range and speed; greater pitch/yaw control; early nose‐wheel lift off. Furthermore, since the engine becomes de facto part of the control system of the aircraft instead of just an impeller, control surfaces will be able to be reduced, thus further lowering both drag and radar signature and hence increasing platform survivability. At the heart of the design is the operation of the synchronization rings which, when moved axially (= symmetric translation of effectors/actuators), change the ratio of the exit and throat areas to each other; when moved asymmetrically (= asymmetric translation of actuators), they vector engine thrust in the desired direction. The design is thus dependent on high‐precision engineering of the control approach that modulates the nozzle throat and thrust‐vectoring mechanisms. It was on such classic engineering skills that the Harrier vectored‐thrust engines depended; today the advanced computing power is also available to reduce reaction time in control functions and to monitor and if necessary moderate manoeuvres to keep them within the performance capability of the rest of the system ‐ the airframe, for example. This the early Harriers lacked and it made them very tricky to operate. However, the debate on how much of the control function should be turned over to black boxes still continues in the industry, with P&W believing that it has the currently correct mix of mechanics/electronics. It was this consideration that influenced the choice of actuation systems for the vectoring nozzle ‐ pneumatics for the throat and hydraulics for the vectoring mechanism, both ultimately governed by digital electronic controllers. The choice of precision mechanics in the right place allows maintenance and repair much further forward in the field. P&W (a subsidiary of United Technologies) tested vectoring‐nozzle technologies during the Short Take‐off and Landing/Maneuver Technology Demonstrator (STOL/MTD or SMTD) program, using a PW‐220‐powered F‐15 testbed in a series of evaluations from 1984‐1991, and is also incorporating similar technology in the Pratt & Whitney F119‐PW‐100, which was selected for the US Air Force's F‐22 next‐generation fighter (see IDR 2/1992, pp.116‐121). SMTD flight‐testing began in March 1990 and was completed in August 1991 after 250h of nozzle flight; operations tested included not only STOL and 20° pitch vectoring, but thrust reversal of 60% and thrust reversal at supersonic speeds (up to Mach 1.6). Results shown were 33% improvement in pitch, 53% improvement in roll, 29% reduction in take‐off roll, and 72% reduction in landing roll. Response time registered was one second. This program demonstrated the principle of 2‐D vectoring, which is to be used for the F119; 2‐D vectoring affects pitch only but still allows great performance improvements in STOL (the SMTD test bed was able to achieve nose‐wheel lift at 30kt instead of 90kt). It also improves agility by means of augmenting control‐surface functions. P&W's 2‐D nozzles can be distinguished from the 3‐D PYBBN by their rectangular, rather than circular exit area (see pictures above). A production‐ready version of the multi‐directional PYBBN is expected to be flight‐tested, with joint NASA/US Air Force/Pratt & Whitney/McDonnell Douglas effort, in the fourth quarter of 1994. It will be operated by an integrated flight/propulsion control system developed under the SMTD program mentioned above. The flight controller manages all control‐surface and nozzle functions, analyzing inputs from throttle, rudder and stick and determining how a manoeuvre can be effected most efficiently and safely. Additional computing power will enable a greater degree of flexibility in flight‐control changes. P&W PYBBN program manager Roger Bursey stresses that the nozzle is designed for full flight‐envelope operation. The evaluation will be conducted by a team formed by NASA, the USAF, McDonnell Douglas and P&W. The test‐bed aircraft, once again an F‐15, but powered by ‐100 engines, made its first flight in June 1993. It is expected that these engines will be replaced with F100‐PW‐229s later in 1994. Known as the ACTIVE2 flight‐research aircraft, it is, in the words of company officials, ``going to be the hottest airplane out there ‐ the premier flight‐test vehicle for NASA and the air force through the end of the decade.' An important feature of the PYBBN are the independent controls of the throat exit (exhaust) area ‐ the convergent actuator is independent of the divergent actuation system even while vectoring, so that if one were to fail, the other enables the aircraft to carry on and land safely. This safety redundancy extends to all critical controls and functions. It was earlier estimated that flight testing of the PYBBN would start as early as late 1993, a whole year earlier than will actually be the case. P&W engineers stress that they could have got a development nozzle into the air earlier, but decided to wait for a number of reasons: they wanted to be sure that their design was ready for a USAF program known as PACIR3 and also ready for production for single‐engine aircraft. To that end, redundancies in the actuator and servo systems had to be increased, and high MTBF (mean time between failure) rates of flight‐critical systems had to be achieved. Aircraft‐supplied hydraulics, which run the divergent systems (aft of the throat) are already dual‐redundant where required; the throat (convergent) systems employ selective redundancy, such as drive cables and electronic devices. The ACTIVE aircraft will retain its canards, in order to act as a test‐bed to simulate other aircraft, such as the F‐15E and F‐18 updates.The canard and re‐configurable flight‐control law software allows for ease of duplicating stability and handling characteristics of other aircraft designs, including destabilization of the existing aircraft to demonstrate the full benefits of thrust vectoring for flight safety. Notes 1. The F100‐PW‐100 was selected for the F‐15 in the early 1970s. Later, the derivative PW‐200 was developed for the F‐16; the ‐220 of the early 1980s improved safety, reliability and durability; the 29,000lb‐thrust ‐229 is its 1990s' successor for F‐15 and F‐16 aircraft. 2. active=Aircraft Control Technology‐Integration Vehicle. 3. pacir=Propulsion Aeronautical Control Integration Research.
Unfortunately Janes has not archived illustrations and photos from this 1994 article. From what I remember from the time the MATV and VISTA was brought up, Lockheed that needed to signal a willingness to incorporate TVC into what would have been the original F-16E, or F-16U (The original F-16 for the UAE, which the UAE only wanted to buy if the USAF committed to procuring as well) which they did not given the feedback they received from the customers at that point. Of course the AVEN and many other technologies developed or lessons learnt went into the F-22 and F-35 programs.
Boeing, Airbus, Korean Air Join To Bid For KF-X
SYDNEY – Airbus and Boeing are jointly attempting to unseat Lockheed Martin from South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter program, offering technology from Europe that could not be supplied from U.S. sources, industry officials say.
With Korean Airlines as the local partner, the pair are likely to be proposing the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet as a base design for the KF-X.
The defense ministry’s procurement office, the Defense Acquisition Program Agency (DAPA), issued a request for proposals for KF-X development on Dec. 23.
The Boeing-Airbus KF-X proposal should be an economical alternative to a fighter design of the defense ministry’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) that Korea Aerospace Industries has been expected to build with technical assistance from Lockheed Martin.
The U.S. limits the technology that its companies can transfer abroad. South Korea lacks technology in many fields, such as active, electronically scanning radar. But Airbus, as an airframe company, is probably involved in the Boeing bid as a supplier of stealth know-how that the U.S. company is not authorized to provide.
A budget of 8.6991 trillion won ($7.9171 billion) approved by the finance ministry this month must be intended to pay for development of the ADD KF-X. But parliament has not yet authorized that spending or the launch of full-scale development, nor can it do so before it votes on the government’s 2016 budget next December. In the meantime, KAL looks likely to submit the cheaper alternative, based on the Super Hornet, to DAPA in response to its request for proposals.
Industry officials previously told Aviation Week that Boeing was proposing the Advanced Super Hornet, an update of the F/A-18E/F with a weapons pod and conformal tanks. Other industry officials said Boeing was working with Korean Airlines. Now different officials say that Airbus is also on the team.
This is not the first time that Boeing has offered non-U.S. technology to South Korea. When proposing an advanced F-15 version called the Silent Eagle for the separate F-X Phase 3 fighter program, Boeing suggested technology transfer from Israel Aerospace Industries, an industry official says. Lockheed Martin won F-X Phase 3 with the F-35 and in return is supposed to back KF-X development.
With a 7 Billion Dollar budget, they can pretty much self-fund GE for all its plans for the F414 if they choose the engine.
Postby brar_w » 02 Jan 2015 06:44
DARPA Projects to Watch in 2015
Postby NRao » 02 Jan 2015 07:55
Never seen such bad helo pollution:
Jump start:
It gets the job done!
Want a sexier launch? Watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZIGKwhQ8dw#t=60
Musk @ MIT
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Postby Manish_P » 04 Jan 2015 10:54
Good video of a pair of French Air Force Jaguars in very close formation
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Japan's ATD-X first flight delayed by software glitch
Postby Shreeman » 14 Jan 2015 08:11
Hwat, is the miltary market for these moskwitoes?
A few interesting videos from youtube:
Postby pankajs » 16 Jan 2015 21:53
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 910659.cms
Russian firm seals $1 billion deal to supply US rocket engines
MOSCOW: A Russian manufacturer on Friday announced a $1 billion deal to supply engines for the US Antares rockets making deliveries to the International Space Station.
Russian producer Energia said in a statement that it had signed the bumper deal to build 60 engines with private US firm Orbital Science, which has a $1.9 billion contract with NASA to supply the space station.
Deliveries of the new RD-181 engines would start in June, the statement said.
Postby Austin » 20 Jan 2015 13:06
Shrouded in Mystery, New Bomber Makes Waves
WASHINGTON — In late spring or early summer, the US Air Force will decide who will build its next-generation bomber. Yet, despite all the hype and public interest, the program remains shrouded in mystery.
The Long Range Strike-Bomber (LRS-B) program is stealthy, literally and figuratively. Few details are actually known about the bomber's capabilities or design. But the program's impact is already being widely felt throughout the Pentagon and its industry partners.
The half a dozen analysts and experts interviewed by Defense News for this piece all agree on one thing: the LRS-B has the chance to shape American military aerospace for the next 20 years. Whichever competitor wins will reap a windfall of development money; the loser could find itself out of the military attack airframe business entirely.
And while the program appears to be on track, Congress is waiting in the wings for any sign of cost overrun or technological problems.
"This is crunch time," said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the Teal Group. "It's the biggest single outstanding DoD competition by a very wide margin. That makes it important in and of itself."
Known Unknowns
The program is targeting a production line of 80-100 planes. It will replace the fleet of B-52 and B-1 bombers. It will be stealthy, capable of carrying nuclear weapons, and optional manning has been discussed. A down-selection will be made this spring or early summer, with initial operating capability planned for the mid-2020s. Nuclear certification will follow two years after that.
The target price, set by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, is $550 million a copy. To keep the price down, the Air Force is looking to use mature technologies that are available now, rather than launching new developments. At the same time, the program will have an open architecture approach for future technologies.
Unless there is a secret competitor still unknown — highly unlikely, but like many things with the program, impossible to rule out — there are two teams are bidding for the contract. One is Northrop Grumman, which developed the B-2 stealth bomber. The other is a team of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Together, those companies represent three of the top five defense firms in the nation.
Breaking down the rest of the program is a master class in the classic "known unknowns" phrase coined by Donald Rumsfeld. What equipment will it carry? Will it be in a flying wing shape? What is more important, stealth or speed? Will the planes, like the B-2, be so classified that they cannot be stationed abroad? If so, does that affect the range vs. payload tradeoff?
A source with knowledge of the program said the Air Force is likely looking at something smaller than a B-2, perhaps as small as half the size, with two engines similar in size to the F135 engines that power the F-35, so enhancement programs can also be applied to the bomber.
"They should go bigger [in terms of airframe], but Gates threw that $500 million figure out there without thinking through the overall effect and requirement," the source said.
Retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula, former deputy chief of staff for ISR, agreed that the focus on the $550 million figure may end up hurting the bomber's capabilities by driving the discussion from what the plane does to what can keep the price down.
"One of the biggest concerns is that this is going to turn into a cost shootout, and whomever can produce a 'technically acceptable' airplane at the lowest cost will be the winner, without any judgment or look at the ability for growth, the ability to connect to new technologies," he said. "That is a big concern amongst folks out there who are involved in this evolution."
And then there are the theories that the bomber is further along in its development cycle than it appears. Last year, J.J. Gertler, an analyst with the Congressional Research Service penned a memo noting that the bomber's budget profile looks more like a production than a research and development program, hinting that much of the technological development and testing has already occurred behind the scenes.
One analyst noted that some of that work could be based on technologies developed for the previous bomber recapitalization, which was canceled in 2009.
Mark Gunzinger, a retired Air Force official and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, argued that the mystery around the jet isn't a bad thing.
"We don't know performance specifics in terms of range, payload, low observability, what weapons, what missions, radar capabilities — all these specific performance details," he said. "Nor should we. Those should not be announced publicly. It is a black program and those kind of details now would do nothing but give our potential enemies more time to develop countermeasures."
Industrial Impact
One of the larger unknowns is how much weight the Air Force — or higher ups at the Pentagon — is putting on industrial base impact. The answer to that question could seriously affect on which of the Boeing/Lockheed or Northrop teams win.
Deptula said industrial base considerations "absolutely" need to be part of the calculus.
"It has been a factor in other segments of our defense architecture, and one could make the case that in the aerospace industry, it is perhaps even more important than in the shipbuilding industry," he said.
Asked about that topic on Jan. 14, William LaPlante, the civilian acquisition head for the service, indicated that while industrial base concerns are something the Pentagon is aware of in a broad sense, that is not specifically one of the criteria for the bomber program.
"There is a bigger picture of just making sure we understand when will [different programs] have a downselect, what will come out of that — it's almost like a game theory thing to understand the implications," LaPlante said. "It's at the strategic level. Occasionally you might put it into a single competition. I don't think that's the case on the LRS-B."
The stakes are high for all three companies, Aboulafia said. After this contract, the next attack airplane will be a new fighter in the 2030s, and then a follow-on bomber sometime after that.
If Northrop loses, the chances of it still having the infrastructure to compete for a jet 15 years from now, or on a bomber longer out, seem slim. Losing the contract now would essentially end that part of their business.
Boeing, too, is coming to the end of its time as an attack aircraft manufacturer, despite the company's best efforts to keep the F/A-18 Super Hornet line humming. While the KC-46A tanker remains a Boeing program, it, and many other products from the company, are commercial derivatives rather than a brand new design.
Awarding Northrop the bomber would spread out the US Air Force's three top recapitalization priorities among three companies. On the flip side, giving the contract to the Lockheed/Boeing team would mean that Lockheed Martin, the producer of the F-35, essentially has full control over Air Force combat aviation production.
Analysts are divided as to who would be favored if the industrial base is a high priority. On the one hand, an industrial base angle should benefit Northrop, as it would spread the major programs among competitors.
"If you want Northrop to stay in the game as a prime, and you don't want to see the entire combat air forces at Lockheed, you have to go with Northrop," noted the first source familiar with the program.
Aboulafia, however, questions whether there is truly enough work available to spread among the three firms.
"That presupposes the Pentagon has this illusion that there can be three military airframers, and that's living in a fantasy land," he said, adding that strengthening the two military primes in Boeing and Lockheed would be "appealing" to DoD.
Aboulafia also points out that the contract could have major implications for one long rumored transaction among aerospace analysts — the potential sale of Northrop's aerospace group to Boeing.
"If Northrop loses, it could tip things to being bought by Boeing because it would not have a new airframe to build," Aboulafia said. "If Northrop wins, it could make them a more attractive target, and do the same."
Once the primes are settled, the subcontractor battle is likely to be just as fierce, Aboulafia noted.
Spokespeople for both teams expressed confidence that they were offering the better option to the Air Force.
Another thing to keep an eye on is the fight over the engine. If F135-maker Pratt & Whitney wins that competition, it would give it a stranglehold on the US military engine market. Whether the Pentagon be OK with that, or look to award a contract to General Electric instead, is another known unknown.
Challenges Ahead?
Right now, the program is humming along, with strong support from inside the Pentagon.
Last week, outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel threw his weight behind the new bomber in a speech at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.
"I think the Long-Range Strike Bomber is absolutely essential for keeping our deterrent edge," Hagel said. "We need to do it. We need to make the investments. We'll have it in the budget. It's something I have particularly put a priority on."
That commitment was echoed by Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James at a Jan. 14 speech.
"When we roll out the FY16 budget, the budget line will be similar to what you saw in '15 projected into '16," James said. "We're on track for our competition, it remains a top priority and it is truly the future of our bomber force."
But some foresee challenges ahead as the bomber moves from a black, hypothetical program to one actually bending metal — and one that can become a high profile target for government spending watchdogs and the nonproliferation community.
"As the F-35 gets spun up, LRS-B will become a new target, especially with the arms control people," said the source with knowledge of the program. "This a big airplane, and it will cost a lot."
Several experts agreed that the larger threat to the program comes from internal budgetary pressures, as the bomber will be competing not just with other service priorities, but with programs like the Navy's Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine replacement, something Rebecca Grant of ISIS Research says the Navy is positioning as a "national asset" on Capitol Hill.
"The black program status makes it harder in my opinion to build support for the bomber," Grant said. "With new [Senate Armed Services Committee] leadership, the program will come under additional scrutiny as the first big budget wedges appear this year and beyond. So the USAF had best have its act together on why the bomber they pick is the right bomber now, in the hands of the right manufacturer."
Congress could also interfere with the program in another way. The loser could protest the award, which could set up not only a battle at the Government Accountability Office, but a public relations fight. High profile contract protests often result in each company tapping its preferred congressmen to lobby on its behalf.
According to public data analyzed by the non-profit OpenSecrets.org, Lockheed ($4 million), Northrop ($3.9 million) and Boeing ($3.1 million) were the top three contributors to congressional campaigns and affiliated political action committees from the defense sector in 2013-2014. All three companies also rank in the top 25 of US companies in terms of dollars spent on lobbying.
Drawing a direct line from dollars spent on campaigns and lobbying and results for certain programs is always a bit risky, especially given the breadth of each company's portfolio. After all, Boeing and Lockheed traditionally work against each other, while both companies work with Northrop on different programs.
But those figures illustrate how strong the ties are between industry and members of Congress, even before the key issue of industrial base in various districts comes into play. After all, representatives will always rally around whichever side will bring jobs to their constituents.
While Boeing and Lockheed each have their own local supporters, Northrop may be able to call on the California and Florida delegations following its decision to expand facilities at Melbourne International Airport, on Florida's Space Coast.
While a company official did not confirm that Northrop plans to work on a potential LRS-B in Florida, Sen Bill Nelson, D-Fla., told media in May that the company plans on using the facility for that purpose.
Nice article except the part about the "market guy" (Richard Aboulafia) calling for some sort of merger among Boeing and Northrop's integrated frame division. Northrop was not allowed to merge with Lockheed earlier, and if they try to spin off just their airframe division it is likely to also face stiff resistance from the regulators. Besides, they are already doing very well in unmanned systems and are in fact leading the other two in larger projects and are most likely to win the UCLASS program as well. Their production work on the JSF is second only to Lockheed itself, and they have had a lead on the principle for the F-18 program as well. They have positioned themselves as indispensable partners in advanced airframe projects thanks to their integrated approach to design, and as such they can probably get a lot of concessions as there really isn't another principle that the prime contractors can seek that brings such levels of expertise in integrated systems to the table. Although this program would be extremely important for them given that they are sort of the incumbents (Boeing could claim as well) but they have a host of other things on their table and plenty of planned things in the unmanned domain. The thing about the Long range Program is that if they have the intention to pick a company this year, they ought to have had designs on the pole by 2013 and must have had prototypes in the air by last year before sending out the final RFP's. Unlike the analyst or his employer, the US department of defense measures industrial strength through the amount of air-frame work you have currently going and what processes you are adopting to achieve a level of expertise in advancing techniques. There is no separate account to see how many fighter design teams are working as these are the same teams that would work on a potential fighter, or a potential next generation bomber, or an unmanned vehicle etc etc. You have the same challenges to solve there in materials, thermal management, aerodynamics, electronics, weight management, RCS management etc. This is the biggest myth flying around and no doubt perpetuated by interested parties. Boeing is going to benefit and play the " only one fighter manufacturer left" card when the F-18 orders dry up (soon)..yet when it comes to the next round of competition they would no doubt take a 180 degree position and claim to have the largest expertise on the matter having designed the F-22, F-18, B-2, X-32, YF-23, X-36, X-45 to name just a few.
Here is a fairly decent history on the last time there was a competition in the Long Range strike mission -
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/lockhe ... 1534057907
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FYI (article): The future of crime-fighting is family tree forensics
By Arcadia, January 4, 2019 in The Chat Board
Arcadia 18,118
Beekeeping Professor
From Wired https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-crime-fighting-is-family-tree-forensics/?linkId=61773240
“IN APRIL, A citizen scientist named Barbara Rae-Venter used a little-known genealogy website called GEDMatch to help investigators find a man they’d been looking for for nearly 40 years: The Golden State Killer. In the months since, law enforcement agencies across the country have flocked to the technique, arresting a flurry of more than 20 people tied to some of the most notorious cold cases of the last five decades. Far from being a forensic anomaly, genetic genealogy is quickly on its way to becoming a routine police procedure. At least one company has begun offering a full-service genetic genealogy shop to law enforcement clients. And Rae-Venter’s skills are in such high demand that she’s started teaching her secrets to some of the biggest police forces in the US, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Identifying individuals from their distant genetic relatives, a technique called long-range familial searching, is a potent alternative to the types of DNA searches commonly available to cops. Those are typically limited to forensic databases, which can only identify close kin—a sibling, parent, or child—and are highly regulated. No court order is required to mine GEDMatch’s open source trove of potential leads, which, unlike forensic databases, contains genetic bits of code that can be tied to health data and other personally identifiable information.
Currently, there aren’t any laws that regulate how law enforcement employs long-range familial searching, which hobbyists and do-gooders have turned to for years to find the biological families of adoptees. But some legal experts argue its use in criminal cases raises grave privacy concerns. They expect to see a legal challenge at some point, though probably not in the next year. In the meantime, GEDMatch is becoming even more powerful, as it grows by nearly a thousand new uploads every day.
GENETIC GENEALOGY ALONE isn’t enough to make an arrest. Investigators have to do confirmatory DNA testing, by retrieving bits of genetic material from the suspect, usually pulled from his or her trash, and comparing them to DNA found at the crime scene. But legal scholars worry that the widespread adoption of long-range familial searches will expose vast numbers of innocent people to genetic surveillance.
GEDMatch, which currently houses 1.2 million profiles from folks who’ve had their DNA analyzed at places like 23andMe and Ancestry, can now be used to identify at least 60 percent of all Americans with European Ancestry, regardless of whether they themselves have ever been tested. That’s according to two recent analyses by genetics researchers, who expect databases like GEDMatch to grow so big in the next few years that it will be possible to find anyone from just their DNA, even if they haven’t voluntarily put it in the public domain.
“You can’t claw back the profile of your third cousin once removed who you don’t even know exists,” says Erin Murphy, a law professor at New York University Law School and an expert on familial DNA searches. If someone gets ensnared in a long-range familial search, she says, they’re going to have very little legal recourse. “These searches throw into sharp relief how current privacy protections under the 4th Amendment are insufficient to contend with what technologies are available to police in 2018.”
There’s not a lot of data yet on whether the general public believes police should have access to non-criminal genetic databases. But initial surveys suggest that the majority of Americans are most supportive of such searches when they’re used to go after violent offenders. Approval drops from 80 percent to less than 40 percent for pursuing people who’ve committed nonviolent crimes.”
OKBud 32,087
cylon lover
Balls to that.
Arctic Mama 37,643
And this is why I’ll never submit to those suckers voluntarily. Hard pass.
RootAnn 11,636
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2 minutes ago, Arctic Mama said:
Me, too, but they're saying it doesn't matter because there is already enough out there to get close to identifying you if they get your DNA (say, from your trash) to match up with the database of a 2nd cousin who did submit it. (I know my mom did one, so it almost doesn't even matter if I do it!)
Ravin 29,644
Hive Mind Queen Bee
LocationHere and There
Honestly, this falls under "not a reasonable expectation of privacy." The basic principle of standing for search and seizure applies here. If I stash dope in my sister's house, I have no standing to prevent police from searching it and seizing it, or to suppress it as evidence against me even if they do so without my sister's consent and in violation of her rights.
Likewise, I have no standing to prevent police from checking crime scene DNA against a database my second cousin once removed consented to store her DNA and share information about. You simply have no rights over someone else's information. To change that would require a fundamental overhaul in our most basic cultural notions of private property and personal autonomy.
scoutingmom 2,214
I have my DNA up, and it has really helped my genealogy research. If some 3rd cousin once removed or something is a seral killer, I'd be happy if my dna helps get them arrested.
Bluegoat 28,464
Yeah, I have a serious problem with this. The level of surveillance that is possible now is extremely deep and invasive, and it's all stuff that is either not considered private or which people are willingly giving over. Any group that wanted to combine this types of information would have an unprecedented amount of information and control over groups and processes.
People see a lot of these technologies as personally empowering, but realistically, and materially, they aren't for individuals. They radically empower those who can crunch the numbers or control the infrastructure though.
It's quite interesting that this is happening at a time when many people think more individualistically than anyone or any culture ever really has before.
Scarlett 24,523
10 hours ago, scoutingmom said:
Exactly. I don't understand the objection. Unless you have a desire to protect a criminal who is related to you.
23 minutes ago, Scarlett said:
I jealously guard my right against unlawful search and seizure, and access to genetic information and DNA that can be searched and linked and used in an investigation WITHOUT my consent or an overriding warrant is something I’m entirely against, even if I am not the target.
Information is power, and this sort of thing doesn’t empower the people it is gleaned from, it exposes them to increased legal scrutiny and risk. They are being searched against every time a DNA sample is entered into this system for query. Nope. Existing laws are now adequate to protect against this sort of medical/genetic data being abused or misused.
Edited January 4, 2019 by Arctic Mama
4 hours ago, Arctic Mama said:
Well, obviously we feel very differently about this issue. Shrug.
KungFuPanda 28,881
If law enforcement can find people this way, criminals can too. It won’t always end well.
6 hours ago, Scarlett said:
Or if you want to avoid being denied health insurance because Great Aunt Bertha had diabetes.
lulalu 650
11 minutes ago, KungFuPanda said:
Exactly. Too risky on too many levels and in too many ways.
Selkie 17,838
Apprentice Bee Keeper
Genetics and true crime are both interests of mine, so I've been reading a lot about this over the past several months. I am totally in favor of it. It's amazing that these decades-old cold cases are being solved, and murderers who thought they were scot-free are finally getting the punishment they deserve. Hopefully, this technology means that crimes with DNA evidence will be solved much more quickly from here on out, so there are fewer predators roaming around.
maize 69,116
Maizgyver
We just need to make health coverage universal.
Personally I am happy if there is a tool that will catch folks like serial killers and rapists sooner. I'd be really upset if someone raped and killed my daughter when the DNA information needed to catch the person three years ago was available but wasn't used.
Yes with every advance there is potential for both good and evil uses. Hopefully we can maximize the good and limit the evil.
There are no rollbacks.
There was vigorous debate in this country over the privacy rights of already convicted violent felons afa dna collection and keeping a database.
But now, any price anyone has to pay* is assumed to be automatically worth it, to catch a small number of criminals.
While rape kits languish on shelves for upwards of a decade.
Gee whiz, where could the about-face have originated?
*By which I mean that any objection whatsoever is dismissed out of hand. Greater good, dontcha know.
3 hours ago, KungFuPanda said:
Dna won’t be what brings down the health care system.
2 hours ago, OKBud said:
Yeah, I find the change in people's attitudes really a little shocking. It's very "well, if you don't have anything to hide, why object if they ......" So, sure, who cares about clearly finding a loophole to get around already existing laws.
And it's true, it is difficult to imagine this is really about solving crime.
Well, the city I grew up in had a police officer who worked with evidence plant false DNA for several years in order to "solve" crimes where there wasn't enough evidence to convict. Eventually, he was caught & convicted himself. I believe he considered himself a do-gooder.
Seeing what is going on in China right now with facial recognition, license plate tracking, and people being punished for their views or political sympathies makes me a bit apprehensive about what Big Brother will do with every bit of data out there.
I remember reading about how good video editing is getting. The top notch places can take your physical and voice likeness and make a real-looking video that is completely faked. The pros couldn't spot the fake--leading to fears of actual "fake news" in the next 5 or so years as prices come down for the tech or even better software becomes mainstream.
My tinfoil hat gets worn more and more often these days. I'm not fond of change & some of the discoveries and tech breakthroughs I read about make me wish for the good old 80s.
ETA: DNA evidence can be faked
Edited January 5, 2019 by RootAnn
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6 hours ago, maize said:
Abysmal healthcare isn’t the point. People using your genetic information in ways you never authorized is. I completely understand why people do it and are interested, but I still feel that giving a private company control of your information (and paying them for the privilege) is short sighted. HIPAA privacy laws do not apply to these commercial dna testing companies. Their customers have no recourse, or even knowledge, if third parties use the information in seedy ways. They have no control if the company sells. Kids who aren’t even old enough to consent are having their DNA handed to these companies.
Yes, and the thing is, it's not really just a private issue, it's a collective problem. If my cousin decides to do it, it affects me. If 60% of people decide to do it, it affects all of us. It's not just a matter of individual freedoms when it equally impacts others, who no longer have the choice. This is exactly the reason we have regulation of this kind of thing.
36 minutes ago, Bluegoat said:
How would you regulate it?
Forbid me from accessing information about my own DNA via testing?
Forbid me from putting my own DNA information online?
Does a cousin who may share 12% of my DNA have higher standing than me in determining how my personal data may be made available?
I'm not forbidden from broadcasting my family's address all over the internet if I want to even though that impacts everyone who lives here.
I would think the way to go would probably be restrictions on the creation of databases holding the information, who can access the information, and so on.
Would it be WISE to do so?
We can do a great many things.
5 minutes ago, OKBud said:
Wise or not, should the government impose restrictions on me posting my own information?
Different people are going to have different opinions on what is reasonable or wise.
In any case, presumably your immediate family has some influence over you. THis is more like broadcasting your cousin's address.
And yet I'm allowed to do that as well. I'm not aware of any law that would prevent me from posting every address in my address book online.
1 hour ago, Bluegoat said:
I think restrictions on when and how law enforcement can access databases makes sense.
And I'd happily pass laws forbidding the selling of such information to insurance companies.
I'm pretty involved in genealogy so I'm all in favor of those databases.
14 minutes ago, maize said:
I think we're getting a bit tangled in the metaphor here. ...and, ftr, there definitely ARE rules against posting anyone you want's address in sundry places in the US. As well as more nuanced rules detailing who can do it, where, and for what reasons. But this is exactly what we're talking about. It can be something we suss out, rather than a whole-sale-have-at-it, boys!
Clearly, again, we are allowed to do a great many things that are not necessarily wise. I would think it'd also clear that new technologies require new approaches, but evidently that's an unpopular opinion out in the world, if not here in this little corner.
This country routinely engages in national conversations about privacy (I was told off on this forum once actually for defending the sex offender registry lol).
The intersections of law enforcement, healthcare, and privacy are very near to being completely unmanned right now. And once the cat gets loose, there's no calling it home.
Any one person's personal curiosity about their family's DNA should not trump the privacy rights of others, no. That is a point on which we disagree.
57 minutes ago, OKBud said:
What would be your reasoning for prioritizing your right to privacy over my ownership and control over my personal information?
It's hard to think of anything else really analogous to DNA because it is simultaneously very individual and very shared.
ChocolateReignRemix 1,038
Hive Mind Level 6 Worker: Scout Bee
Regarding the first bolded, there are no laws restricting posting someone's address online. You cannot target someone for harassment but an address is public information. The same applies to any other public records (ex. arrest records). Various websites and social media platforms do have their own terms of service that may differ.
To the second bolded, while a relative's DNA is related to yours, legally it is not your DNA. There is no valid legal reason for not allowing others to share their DNA for their own purposes. It would be legally viable to restrict who may access that information or what they may use it for to some extent (ex. insurance companies as they already fall under federal and state privacy laws and regulations). New laws would have to be passed re: law enforcement as information voluntarily provided has no expectation of privacy (and again, they cannot access your personal DNA without a court order).
I personally have no issue with law enforcement using a voluntarily provided DNA database to cross check DNA samples left at crime scenes.
One of the best legal examples is a shared living space. If you and I are on a lease together, you are able to give the police permission to search any common areas or areas under your personal control. You generally do not have the right to give the police permission to search a personal space of mine (ex. my bedroom in a shared apartment). There are some exceptions and if one of us is the owner of the space then the other has no right to grant permission for a search.
However, if you provide legal access to the shared living area and the police find something that give them additional probable cause (say they smell marijuana smoke coming from my bedroom or or I left a bedroom door open and they can see something illegal in plain view), that can give the police the right to either search or probable cause for a search warrant, depending upon the exact circumstances.
Shared DNA is similar to a shared legal space, and if it provides evidence for further investigation, the police must then proceed using the normal legal procedures with probable cause.
11 hours ago, maize said:
I am not saying anything whatsoever about anyone's right to their own personal information.
Government entities, corporation's, stranger's, ex-husband's, etc right to it, otoh, IS what I'm talking about.
The fact that people see criticizing governmental (etc) access to private medical information as an *attack* on their personal freedom, rather than a defense of it, is absolutely bizarre to me.
ETA, I _do_ want you to have ownership of your *personal* information. That's the point.
Edited January 6, 2019 by OKBud
6 hours ago, ChocolateReignRemix said:
Shared DNA is similar to a shared legal space
It's more like anyone with Diabetes can allow the police (etc) to see the medical records of anyone else with diabetes.
Or we could say it's like a distant relative you've never met can give permission for law enforcement to search the public and private areas of your home. Or for blood relative you want nothing to do with...
You can leave a lease and a house and any given set of roommates behind and never think of them again.
Terrible analogies as they are not remotely comparable. Again you are treating DNA as if it is completely individual and it is not.
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JurisM first impressions
danielreedersccv
There has to be a better way.
I installed JM standalone on my Mac and it synced all my references from the Zotero server just fine.
But there's no one-page tutorial on how to get started that I can see.
Installing the standalone has somehow redirected the Zotero for Word 2011 plug-in to the JM library, and if JM standalone isn't open it doesn't go back to connecting to Zotero, so I'll need to fix that.
The JM interface for setting document preferences is really confusing. There's explanatory text that perhaps makes sense if you already understand what the different interface items are intended to do... but made absolutely no sense to me.
Attempting to install the Word to JM connector generated an error in Firefox saying it's not compatible with FF 47.
This is my worst case scenario for trying to get BlueBook compliance in a citation manager -- a parallel system that breaks my existing setup, and that I can't really recommend to my project leader because the interface is user-unfriendly.
I respect the energy that Frank has put into this project, I really do, but there just has to be a better way of handling the different citational needs and practices of lawyers and legal researchers.
adamsmith
I'm not familiar enough with all of the details of Juris-m to help with all of this but
you shouldn't need to install this. Since juris-m is standalone, word integration ships with it and you shouldn't install anything in Firefox (or are you getting that message in juris-m Standalone?).
I'm sure Frank would love to improve this (and/or help in this specific case), but this feedback is too vague. What are you trying to do exactly that isn't working and/or which items do you not understand?
That's certainly no good and shouldn't happen. I'd imagine all it takes to fix this, though, is "Reinstall Word components" in the Cite tab of Zotero
fbennett
@danielreedersccv,
Sorry to hear you've had a bad experience, and I hope you are able to find a tool that better serves your purposes.
@adamsmith
I am not trying to give any specific feedback on problems with JurisM. I used it for long enough to establish that, given the interface, it's not realistic for me to recommend this to my colleagues and senior staff.
My feedback is really for Zotero.
Specific problem:
This is what appears when the Zotero for Word 'Add citation' function is activated for the first time when JM Standalone is running:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/01otv60l91jvpjd/Screenshot 2016-08-22 18.15.56.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7exxjq0b874pvid/Screenshot 2016-08-22 18.12.15.png?dl=0
If I close JM Standalone, clicking 'Add citation' causes Word to hang completely. Reinstalling the Word connector does fix the problem, until the next time JM Standalone is opened.
General problem:
There has to be a better way of doing legal citations without needing to install a fork of Zotero maintained by a single person, even if they are as committed and skilled as Frank Bennett.
I compared the citations Zotero inserted for legal books and periodicals, and it got them mostly correct, apart from inserting abbreviations from Medline instead of Bluebook.
All I need there is the ability to specify what list of abbreviations to draw from - Medline or something else.
Similarly, most legal citations are preceded by some kind of signal indicating what kind of support is drawn from the cited text -- again, these are highly conventional and could be drawn from a list.
In closing, again, I really want to emphasise that I'm not wishing to criticise Frank's efforts - for some people JurisM will be a powerful tool that does exactly what they are looking for. But for me, I'm a more mainstream academic who sometimes works with legal publishers and just needs the 80-20 solution.
This is what appears when the Zotero for Word 'Add citation' function is activated for the first time when JM Standalone is running...
This is a Juris-M issue, not a Zotero bug.
(It should be documented, but it's not worth addressing the behaviour itself—Juris-M processes standard CSL styles normally, and has a data model that extends, but does not modify, that of official Zotero, so for non-legal, non-multilingual references, there is very little difference between the two.)
There is this plugin, but it seems not to work with official Zotero so someone would need to resolve the compatibility issue.
@fbennett
If I close JM Standalone, clicking 'Add citation' causes Word to hang completely.
this part doesn't seem right, though?
As for abbreviations, some thoughts that may (or may not) help. Generally I wish this worked more smoothly in Zotero, but it's not super high priority for anyone:
- Frank's abbreviations add-on does work with regular Zotero. You could see if you find it easy enough to use
- You can turn off automatic journal abbreviations in Zotero's Word add-on; Zotero then falls back to the content of the journal Abbr. field of the item, which you can easily edit.
- It's technically possible to supersede Zotero's built-in abbreviations list with a separate JSON file, but again, you may not find this user friendly enough.
There has to be a better way of doing legal citations without needing to install a fork of Zotero maintained by a single person
It's certainly still the hope that some/most of the functionality Frank has been working on will make its way back into Zotero, but that's very likely years out.
Frankly, the reason there is no better way is lack of commitment/engagement from the legal profession. As long as no one puts serious funding behind this (the way the humanities and library sciences have done with Zotero, say), lone rangers like Frank are the only way this will move at all.
shamsulfalaah
Hi. I am using Juris-M for my citation because I have to use the New Zealand Law Style. Searching for resources by ISBN and DOI etc, is fine in my Zotero, however, the Juris-M does not find - I think this function in my Juris-M is not working.
Can anybody suggest me any solution? Thanks in advance.
It's working here. Can you post an ISBN or DOI that fails for you?
August 22, 2016 edited August 22, 2016
Constitutional Theocracy
Do you think that this might be resolved if I uninstall juris-m and try again?
True, but with only months left to go for the Zotero 4.0 codebase, and with work to adapt Juris-M to Zotero 5.0 only just beginning, it's probably best left alone.
@shamsulfalaah,
That ISBN works here as well, in JM for Firefox. Are both of your trials (for Zotero and for JM) done with a Firefox plugin, or is one or the other done in a Standalone version?
I use the standalone version for windows. Thanks its working now with the firefox plugin. Thank you so much.
That's good to hear.
I'll test ISBN/DOI fetches with the Standalone version next time I get a chance, but (if I remember correctly) it's possible that there are just network proxy issues at your location that don't play well with Standalone.
Frankly, the reason there is no better way is lack of commitment/engagement from the legal profession.
That's the point of my feedback - in their current state I can't recommend Zotero/JurisM for lawyers and legal academics, and without them seeing the potential in Zotero, they're not going to invest in it.
Unfortunately, they don't just see an incorrect abbreviation as wrong, they see it and who- or whatever produced it as *bad* -- so the threshold for 'seeing potential' is a bit higher than other markets. And this is why I finished my own law degree and went into communications research. :P
Well, thanks a lot for your feedback, then. :-)
We'll take it from here.
Of course. All the best.
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Women’s World Cup: US wins Group F, defeats Sweden 2-0
Posted 2:56 pm, June 20, 2019, by Joshua Ellis, Updated at 02:58PM, June 20, 2019
LE HAVRE, France — The U.S. women’s national team defeated Sweden 2-0 to finish the group stage game of the 2019 Women’s World Cup with a perfect 3-0 record.
Lindsey Horan scored the fastest goal of this year’s tournament in the third minute off a corner kick and Tobin Heath made it 2-0 in the 66th minute with a goal from a sharp angle that was later ruled an own goal from Sweden’s Jonna Andersson.
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Posted 9:00 pm, February 9, 2014, by Bryan Polcyn, Updated at 10:20PM, February 9, 2014
MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- He is responsible for one of the largest thefts of prescription painkillers in Wisconsin history, but did the feds give him a sweetheart deal?
It's hard to fathom how Christopher Schultz got away with it for so long, stealing thousands of pills from the pharmacy where he worked -- month after month, for years -- but it's what he did after he was caught that outraged friends and relatives of the man who became his scapegoat.
Until the fall of 2012, Christopher Schultz was an Aurora pharmacist at a store on Silver Spring Drive in northwest Milwaukee. According to state and federal court records, he used his access to painkillers as a source of personal income -- as much as $100,000 per year. At the height of his scheme, Schultz was stealing up to 6,000 pills every month, mostly hydrocodone, which police say sells on the street for roughly $8 per pill. That's a street value of $48,000 per month. Schultz sold those pills to a friend, who ran them from Milwaukee to Chicago. There, the friend sold the pills to another man, who then distributed them to wealthy Chicago lawyers. It was an illicit pipeline of prescription painkillers that flowed for at least three years, possibly longer.
By the time Aurora Healthcare finally discovered the discrepancies in its accounting system, the US Drug Enforcement Administration says Schultz had diverted more than 155,000 pills onto the black market. It's one of the largest prescription drug thefts in Wisconsin history.
"These things just don`t happen in our profession very often, to this extent," says James DeGiacomo, a retired pharmacist. The discovery was especially difficult for DeGiacomo to accept, because he was Schultz's boss.
"I had absolutely no clue that any of that was going on," he says, shaking his head in disbelief. "I trusted him. I was duped. I feel terrible about it, but I had no idea."
Schultz was fired. His pharmacy license was revoked. And he was facing substantial prison time. That's when he decided to help the government as a confidential information. But he didn't just flip on anyone. He helped the feds nail one of his longtime friends, a man we've agreed to identify only as 'Benjamin.'
"When he was up against it, he did something that nobody else thought, that none of my friends would do to each other," says Tony, a close friend of Benjamin's who is upset at Schultz for setting him up.
He says it didn't make sense to give Schultz a deal, because he wasn't giving up a bigger fish. Tony says Schultz was the big fish.
"The feds just couldn't get their heads around the concept that Chris was the top guy," Tony says.
In a letter to FOX 6 News from the Oshkosh Correctional Center, Benjamin describes himself as the "middle man," a recreational drug user who developed a problem and needed to fund his habit. He admits it was "poor judgment" and writes, "I have always accepted my fate in this."
What Benjamin has a hard time accepting is that Schultz - the actual pill thief - got a lighter sentence than he did. Benjamin is serving two years in a medium security state prison. Schultz is serving 15 months in a minimum security federal prison camp.
"Not fair this gentleman gets less than my son," says Benjamin's mom. "Especially because he was stealing from a pharmacy for years and years and years."
After the sentencing hearing in federal court on December 19th, Schultz walked away from the courthouse. The judge gave him more than a month to get his affairs in order before reporting to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on January 22nd. The man he helped the government snare got no such accomodation.
"They took him in handcuffs," recalls Benjamin's mother. "He couldn't even turn around and say goodbye to us. It was heartbreaking. The worst day of my life."
Of course, both men are now convicted criminals. But DeGiacomo says Schultz's crime is especially egregious, because of his education.
"He is well aware of the statistical spike in hospitalization and even deaths that have occurred recently due to prescription narcotic diversion," DeGiacomo says. "He added to the problem and that is despicable."
Just a few months before Aurora discovered Schultz's ongoing diversion of painkillers, the Silver Spring pharmacy was robbed at gunpoint by Daniel Lee, who also committed three other armed pharmacy robberies.
Lee got around 12,000 pills from the Aurora pharmacy. It's unclear how many he got in the other three, but likely far fewer than the 150,000 Schultz pilfered. But Schultz got just 15 months in prison. Lee is serving 65 years.
"Because he used a gun," Tony says. "And Chris just used his diploma."
Last fall, FOX 6 reported that the US Attorney was recommending Schultz be given probation. We based that on the minutes of a plea hearing, which indicated that "counsel does not object to the recommendation of probation." A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office, Dean Puschnig, now says that interpretation was incorrect. He says the minutes referred to the recommendation of the probation department. Puschnig says prosecutors never recommended that Schultz be spared prison time.
Aurora Pharmacy declined to answer specific questions about how Schultz was able to get away with the pills thefts for so long. Instead, the company issued a brief statement, which reads:
"Aurora Pharmacy has worked closely with authorities on the apprehension and conviction of this criminal. This theft from our organization has helped us to identify and implement processes to deter criminals in the future." --John Gates, vice president, Aurora Pharmacy
Topics: Aurora, Aurora Pharmacy, DEA, U.S. Attorney's Office
it is absolutely ludicrous that a company could not find a discrepancy like this sooner. someone other than this individual should have lost a job over that. but for him to get a deal for anything less than flipping on the entire “pipeline” is likewise ludicrous. our judicial system is so broken, with all the corruption and misplaced/misguided agendas, and has been for quite some time. every aspect of our government needs to be purged and have it’s proverbial heart resuscitated. if this does not happen “yesterday” it will be much, much too late, and the country will be lost forever to the lawless(in the name of the law), and the immoral(in the name of morality). we are in the midst. wake up America!
Just like priests ,pedophiles,cashiers,distribution employees,they all do a job,heck even people who sell their kids food stamps and wic,they all look like they are “normal”not crazy or criminal yet they are who they are taking hand over fist ,appearance is optional wake up!!!
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Geomarine
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The team at Geomarine Limited have combined decades of knowledge, experience and capability with an innovative approach to problem solving.
Our core philosophy centres around business excellence, investment in our people, responsibility to our community, teamwork, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit. Through this we strive to bring the best service to our customers by delivering quality products while developing excellent long term relationships.
As a part of the Garenne Construction Group, we benefit from significant parent company support and a wealth of experience from all areas of the construction industry to complement our own capabilities.
We encourage our teams to work both efficiently and effectively, to strive for continuous improvement and to act in a co-operative and reasonable way with our partners, clients, employees and the community at large. We believe that the key to success is to dovetail our core philosophies with the values of better than best safety and environmental practices, right first time quality delivery and a proactive ‘get it done’ attitude.
We work hard to address principles of environmental protection, pollution prevention and reducing environmental impact related to the day to day activities of the business.
Our people are our greatest asset and receive substantial investment in professional development, training, education and experience. All practical steps are taken to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all employees and others who may be affected by operations under our control. We support innovative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit so that we continue to be ambitious, forward-looking and action-focused.
Geomarine has a long tradition of getting involved in community projects including sponsorship of a range of local sporting clubs, charities and activities and are very proud to encourage young people to work in the industry by way of offering a bursary to AS/A Level students and Degree students starting their first year at university.
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After graduating with a degree in civil engineering in 1978, Mr Gilmour joined a UK contracting company before moving to Guernsey 32 years ago to work QE2 marina, Fish Quay and the two roll-on roll-off facilities in St Peter Port Harbour.
Ian, along with colleague Wedd Osmond established Geomarine in 1998 which has become the largest civil engineering contractor in the Channel Islands
Outside of work, Mr Gilmour is the treasurer of the Channel Islands Group of Professional Engineers which promotes engineering in the islands and encourages and assists young people into engineering as a career and also sits on the ICE review board interviewing and assessing applications to become members of the ICE.
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How to Buy US Digital PSN Games in India
By Rishi Alwani | Updated: 8 December 2015 15:39 IST
Every now and then, we have readers emailing us asking why the Indian PlayStation Network (PSN) does not accept debit cards from banks such as HDFC and SBI. While Sony has been dragging its heels on ensuring widespread support for cards issued from all Indian banks, there is a way for you to still get your digital purchases, such as PSN-only games like Everybody's Gone to the Rapture or PS+ subscriptions.
Indian PSN does not even have prepaid cards for PS+ or store credit, but thankfully, US PSN does and it is available via sites like Amazon.com and PlayAsia. Spend a few minutes on your browser and your console, and you'll have all you need as long as your card works online. This guide has two steps, first for creating a US PSN account, and then for purchasing game codes or US PSN store credit via Amazon.
Step 1: Make A US PSN Account
On your PS3, PS4, or PS Vita, sign out of your existing account.
Select Create User
Ensure your region is set to the United States, fill in details as applicable.
Next, you'll be asked to put in address. Select a state and input a ZIP code. From our experience, we were able to sign up just fine with a fictitious street name.
After this, you'll be asked to put your credit card details (which you should skip unless you have a credit card from a US bank), choose your PSN ID, and opt-out of marketing emails.
Verify your account by replying to the email sent your address, and you now have a US PSN account.
(Also see: Top 5 PSN Games You Should Play Right Now)
Step 2: Buying PSN codes on Amazon.com
Log on to Amazon.com and create an account if you don't have one.
You will need to provide a US shipping address. Unlike PSN, you can't get away with a fictitious one. You can provide a random address based on US landmarks, information for which can be found a search away, or if you use a global shipping service like Borderlinx or ShopAndShip, you can use the US address provided to you as a legitimate shipping address.
Head over to the PlayStation section of Amazon's digital games, pick out what you want. Indian credit and debit cards work fine for purchase as long as you have saved a US address. You should receive your codes almost immediately. These are just a string of numbers, so you don't need to get them shipped. Claim the code on your console via the store section or on your browser.
Keep in mind that you can't use the same email address as your Indian account. Also, DLCs and season passes are region locked, i.e. they will only work with games from the same region. This means that if you have a game disc bought in India, then the DLC you bought for the game also needs to be from India, and not via your US account. All other content (meaning games) downloaded to your PS3 or PS4 will be playable by all accounts on it, and you don't need to use your US account to play, just to purchase the games.
Did this method work for you in buying US digital PSN games? Let us know via the comments.
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DISNEY INFINITY MONSTERS UNIVERSITY HOMEWORK HERO WALKTHROUGH
Now turn around and jump over barrier behind the PNK house to go up the ramp there and jump into the scream can in the air next to the Half Pipe. The good news is that it’s pretty enjoyable to watch the characters eat dirt, about the first times. On the opposite side of the half pipe is another one in the air, go up the dirt ramp from against the fence and jump into it. The fifth is by the ledges going straight up the corner after the normal bricks. Head down the path to the left of the trees and approach the statue. Your reward is the Slithering Cycle. Time to learn all about packs and tools, all just to equip the Toilet Paper Launcher you were probably already holding.
Go into your Toy Store menu and buy the “Give ’em a Hand Launcher” that just unlocked, no need to actually go over to the floating cube. The “simulator monster” is up ahead by the steps, on the left side. Take some time to get the hang of the half pipe by just going back and forth without jumping; the bike turn around automatically at the top, so there’s no need to try and move it manually. Smash them all to complete the mission. There’s a couple more missions unlocked now if you jump down off the building and head over to the south side of the campus. To the left of the fountain is a blue and yellow building you’ll need to climb, to get to the top you go back a short distance and to the left where there’s a covering part of the building sticking out across the path, go to the outer edge of that and jump and climb up the pillar next to the hedge.
You can roam the campus freely but the next mission is over near the fountain, Squishy wants to talk again. Just do the same thing you did in an earlier mission, jump up the fronts and knock down the two large banners. Go around the corner, sneak up on the student there, and then throw into the last two windows to finish the mission.
Return to Terri and Terry once you’re done to get another mission. At the eastern end of the School of Scaring is a button infiniyt can scare to cause a couple of pillars to push out of the wall and form a Wall Jump. To get up onto University Hall you have to go around the south side of the building not the back of it and scare the button there, it’ll cause a large platform to pop out of the wall and allow you to jump up ledges to the bottom of a chimney, once you reach it shimmy around to the left and then drop onto the roof.
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Talk to Art outside the Library after unlocking the buttons. Jump down and head north to another wire going across the road, again climb the lamppost to get up to the two banners on there.
Night falls on Fear Tech so the students will now be carrying torches which doesn’t really mean much but you can see them easierhead east to the far end of campus and then north along the backs of the buildings. Wander over to the building to the east of the fountain and pick up the first of the Scare Cards out front, the second is up on the side of the building, you can simply jump up and grab hold of the bits sticking out of the wall to jump up the side of the building.
Go up the normal brick jump and then there’s another just before the climb up to the top.
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One’s at the front, one in the middle and two more of into the yard. You’re going to want to get into the orange semi-circle behind it in order to scare successfully, to get there first go up the steps of the building north of the fountain and go to the left along the front until you’re right behind the simulator.
Go around the side and jump up some more ledges sticking out of the wall to get to the very top and go back to the front of the building where the flagpole is. Jump down behind it and start sneaking, if it spots you go back up the steps again and it should have stopped the alarm.
This also unlocks Bike Park Dual Pool when complete.
Talk to Mmonsters Carlton after helping out Randy. Make any customisation you like, such as changing the Wall from “Gloomy Grooves” to “Befitting Brick”. There’s a couple more missions unlocked now if you jump down off infiniyy building and head over to the south side of the campus. September 7, at 8: A yellow sort of SpongeBob looking student has this mission over by the dorms to the right of the main building.
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Head over to the first student, he’s found near the student union building where you first customised a character.
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Another mission that you have to guess that you even have. This mission is given to you automatically once you complete the Statue Upgrade mission.
The four canisters over the half pipe are by far the hardest. There’s one on the steps of the School of Scaring, two in front of the building to the east of the fountain, and another two in front of the other building east of the fountain.
Four is behind you near the wall of the campus, five is behind the building you did Doomed Dorm on, six is just outside the main gates, near the tunnel. Take some time to get the hang walktrhough the half pipe by just going back and forth without jumping; the bike turn around automatically at the top, so dsney no need to try and move it manually. Talk to the Spongebob looking monster behind the buildings to the east.
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After that head towards nonsters Scream Tunnel. The second flag is on the opposite side of the fountain, to get up there climb onto the ledges sticking walkthrogh of the black parts of the building, then shimmy to the side at the top to continue going up another black piece of the building all the way to the roof. Launcher to “decorate” the football monument on Fear Tech’s campus. Scare the students closest to the football before switching back to the Toilet Paper Launcher and covering the statue.
The “simulator monster” is up ahead by the steps, on the left side. The banners on the front count for four, there’s five bits of toilet paper on the pointy green bits on the roof.
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Life sucks and then you fight a supervillain in the new Arkham-indebted Spider-Man game
Image: Christine Le/Insomniac Games/Marvel
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Note: This review contains very minor spoilers.
Every few minutes, Marvel’s Spider-Man delivers a jolt of pure, liberating pleasure. It comes whenever you’re just swinging around the game’s sprawling, three-dimensional New York City. With a single button, rhythmically held and released, you soar around buildings and above busy streets, doing backflips, catapulting yourself upward and onward with each new blast of webbing. You’re not weightless, which is part of the fun: Gravity governs the character’s movements as much as you do, and if you pick up enough speed—slingshotting yourself skyward or swan diving towards the asphalt below—the controller will pulse to convey the wind’s resistance to your aerodynamic physique. To paraphrase the game’s version of famous Spidey skeptic J. Jonah Jameson, the city is your playground. To play in it is to feel, if only for a blissful moment, like maybe you are Spider-Man.
The feeling lingers but the high only comes in spurts, and that’s by design. Because no sooner are you getting into, ahem, the swing of carefree hang time than along comes something to interrupt it: a message from Aunt May, reminding you of an important appointment; a call on the police scanner, announcing a crime in progress that you should probably thwart; a rocket whizzing by your head, an invitation to clobber the gang of henchmen up to no good on a nearby rooftop. What the team at Insomniac Games understands is that being Spider-Man doesn’t just mean feeling the wind in your hair. It also means feeling harried, hassled, over-scheduled. It means feeling like Peter Parker, the kid under the mask, whose social and professional lives inevitably suffer under the demands of his moonlighting crime-fighting. Remember Uncle Ben’s wise words about power and responsibility? Marvel’s Spider-Man gives you the powers, like running vertically up the side of skyscrapers and stopping a speeding car in its tracks with the quick-time tap of a button. But it also gives you the responsibilities, some more mundane than others.
Though John Paesano’s sweeping score often recalls the one from last summer’s likeminded MCU starring vehicle, Marvel’s Spider-Man has no direct link to any movie series; it spins an original story, set in an NYC where megalomaniacal mogul Norman Osborn is mayor and the aforementioned J.J. Jameson hosts a cranky podcast. The version of Peter Parker you control is a 23-year-old college graduate, scraping by as a lab assistant by day and cleaning up the streets by night (and, often, by different parts of the day). Right from the start, the game foregrounds the man side of the Spider-Man equation; the first obstacle placed in your path is a notice that your rent is severely overdue. The main storyline involves a turf war that opens up after you take down The Kingpin, who’s only the first of an entire rogues’ gallery of supervillains you’ll battle. But the game makes sure to alternate web-slinging missions with secret-identity concerns, like dropping in for a surprise birthday party for Aunt May and doing research (a.k.a. basic puzzles) at the lab. There’s even a passage that lets you snap photos as Mary Jane Watson, depicted here as Parker’s estranged ex-girlfriend and an investigative reporter.
The whole gang-warfare angle is just one aspect that seems lifted wholesale from the Arkham Batman games. Anyone who’s logged some time with that series will instantly adjust to the frantic combat system, the X-ray vision setting (there “detective mode,” here Spidey sense), and the surplus of side quests and scavenger-hunt items scattered across the map. Though blatantly imitative, some of the conventions actually make more sense when applied to the Spider-verse. Doesn’t the friendly neighborhood webslinger fight more like a launched pinball than the Dark Knight ever did?
Likewise, while the gameplay can be as repetitive as it occasionally gets in the Arkham franchise (oh look, yet another gathering of lackeys, standing around and waiting to be pummeled), that actually plays into Spider-Man’s vision of Parker as an exhausted multi-tasker, facing the daily grind of his double lives. There are times when the constant calls to action even work on your conscience; I’ll confess to feeling a silly twinge of guilt in one moment, when I picked up a call of an armed robbery in the vicinity at the exact moment I was stepping into a building, thus preventing any intervention. Accidentally or not, the game is constantly reminding you that it’s impossible for Spider-Man to be everywhere at all times, to answer every cry for help ringing out across Manhattan.
One might wish that the storytelling were a little less linear. As in the Arkham games, the “open world” isn’t as open as it looks; most of the buildings exist only as connection points for your grappling hook, er, webs, while most of the locals offer only a chore to accomplish or a face to punch for XP. (Admittedly, it’s a more populated metropolis than Rocksteady’s ghost-town Gotham.) More crucially, it’d be nice if Marvel’s Spider-Man found a way to give players an actual choice about how to balance the Spider against the Man. For as much as the game shows how the superhero gig gets in the way of everything else (Parker is “a chronically late genius,” according to his boss, whose story arc may not even surprise those who don’t know the character), it offers few tough decisions or divergent paths. Even if you rush immediately to work instead of knocking out some vigilante pro-bono assignments along the way, you’ll still be late. At the same time, you’re not confronted with the consequences of ignoring the public need, in the way Parker is when he fails to save some people in a burning building in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2. But then, maybe that’s an approach better suited to a Telltale take on the character.
What this new Spider-Man game gets is the spirit of Spidey, his world of friends and foes, and the impossible gymnastics—in all senses of the word—involved with maintaining an alter ego. The boss fights and goon squad smack-downs are set to a spot-on barrage of wisecracks, the comedy routine Parker performs like a neurotic pep talk to himself. And the vision of New York squares cleanly with the cornily affecting one presented in the comics, the cartoons, and the films: “I’m walking here, but also you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.” In the game’s most sublimely, hilariously human ordeal, you finally get evicted from your apartment and have to race all across town in search of the garbage truck containing your belongings, squabbling with the sanitation officer on the phone over which pizza place the driver might have stopped off at for a bite. The best superhero games put you right into the shoes (and spandex) of your favorite superheroes. In the case of Spider-Man, that means burying you under problems of all shapes and varieties, from facing down the Sinister Six to finding a couch to crash on after you’re booted from your digs.
Sam Raimi’s bright, fun Spider-Man doubled as a valentine to a post-9/11 New York
Homecoming sends Spider-Man back to school and revives his appeal
Batman’s move to the big city upset the balance of Arkham Asylum
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Talking Kites All Over the World
By DEB NICKLAY,
Third-grader Amber Francis runs to get her kite in the air Wednesday during Talking Kites All Over the World, an event sponsored by the International Education and Resource Network, at Clear Creek Elementary School in Clear Lake.
JAKE RAJEWSKY/The Globe Gazette
Third-grader Carter Mayland flies his kite Wednesday.
Third-grader Maggi Wolfe flies her kite Wednesday.
CLEAR LAKE — The flight of 550 kites in the Clear Creek Elementary School playground on Wednesday carried farther than you might think.
While Kaley Meyer was running to lift her kite creation into the air, the hands of children from as far away as Russia, Australia and Israel were doing the same.
“They are really pretty when they are up in the air, and that’s happening all over the world,” the 9-year-old said of the kites.
The event — Talking Kites All Over the World — is a project coordinated by International Education And Resource Network, or IEARN.
IEARN is a resource site for a number of collaborative projects designed by people all over the world. Talking Kites All Over the World was designed by Adi Yekutieli, an Israeli artist who believes the creation and the flying of a kite is a “symbol of dialogue, brotherhood and understanding,” he said on the IEARN website. Many of the countries involved have been torn apart by war.
Kelli Mason, technology integration coach for Clear Lake schools, is a member of IEARN and suggested teachers learn about the projects.
“These are all part of a global collaboration project,” Mason said. “It gives our kids a larger sense of others in our world.”
Art teacher Becky Brandt felt the Talking Kites project fell in line with Clear Creek’s mission this year of “Be a Buddy, Not a Bully,” and “Follow Your Dream.”
Brandt and others spent about a month helping students in all grades create their kites.
Their work was rewarded, according to Ava Ollenburg, 9.
“It makes me feel together with others more,” she said.
Students were encouraged to color their kites with their own dreams. For Eric Heitland, 9, that meant several things.
“Well, there is ‘Real Steel’ here because I want my friend PJ and I to be the first ones to build a Real Steel robot. This, he said, pointing to a long yellow line, is “a spine, because I want to be a urologist someday.
“And this,” he said, pointing to another drawing, “is Bigfoot. Just because I like Bigfoot.”
Children videotaped the flying of kites throughout the day. Once done, all participating countries will post videos to websites so everyone across the world will be able to see the results in each country.
Kacey Zickefoose, 9, slightly out of breath, displayed her kite filled with sayings and pictures.
One of the slogans said this: “I like to fill up everything because I don’t want an empty life.”
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Here is a breakdown of the projects and estimated costs to be included in Clear Lake CSD's $18 million in general obligation bonds.
North Iowa Crime & Courts
Mason City man pleads not guilty to strangling his son's mother
A Mason City man, accused of domestic abuse with strangulation, submitted his written plea of not guilty this morning before his arraignment hearing this afternoon.
Logan’s lift: Mason City comes together to raise $3K for child with disabilities
It took less than 24 hours for the community to lift up a Mason City family.
Mason City man arrested on unauthorized credit card usage
A Mason City man was accused of charging over $3,500 to a company credit card without authorization 32 times between September and December 2019.
'He is a real asset:' Mason City man named Resident of the Year for his generosity
Marvin Hesse considers himself a “common old fart," but to the people of Pilgrim Place, he is so much more.
Structure fire in Clear Lake causes $200,000 in damages
A structure fire in a three-story house caused more than $200,000 worth of damage, but no one was hurt.
Obituaries for Mason City and North Iowa
Kim Martin
North Iowan trains state's first wild peregrine falcon
Lowell Washburn's first-person tale of training Iowa's first wild-hatched peregrine falcon.
Geraldine A. Klunder
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Steven McAnulty
Auburn, AL. 9/97 - 1/01 Ph.D. Exercise Physiology
Dissertation Advisor: L. Bruce Gladden
Dissertation Title: Effect of Exercise Induced Hyperthermia on
Indices of Oxidative Stress
Auburn, AL. 9/93 - 9/97 M.S. Nutrition and Food Science
Thesis Advisor: Jean Weese
Thesis Title: Formulation of a Non-Caloric Syrup
Auburn, AL. 1/78 - 3/81 B.S. Nutrition and Foods
Teaching Specialties
Biochemistry of Exercise
Nutrition and Athletic Performance
Online Course Health Promotion Seminar (Developed as new class 2011)
Online Course Health Risk Appraisal (Developed as new class 2010)
Health Risk Appraisal
Health Promotion Seminar (Developed as new class 2002)
Concepts in Fitness and Performance Evaluation
Physiological Assessment and Program Management Lab
Nutritional Aspects of Exercise and Sports
Introduction to Nutrition
Nutrition and The Life Cycle
Advanced Nutrition I
Diet and Public Health
HP 4701 Seminar in Health Promotion
HP 3200 Health Risk Appraisal
Professional Affiliations / Organization
National American College of Sports Medicine
Southeastern American College of Sports Medicine
International Society of Exercise and Immunologys
Exercise and hyperthermia
Exercise and oxidative stress
Exercise immunology
Steven R. McAnulty, Lisa S. McAnulty, Scott R. Collier, Tacito P-Souza Junior, and Jeffrey McBride. Tai Chiand Kung-Fu practice maintains physical performance but not vascular health in young versus old participants.Physician and Sports Medicine, 2016. Feb 26 DOI: 10.1080/00913847.2016.1158623
de Camargo Smolarek A, Ferreira LHB, Mascarenhas LPG, McAnulty SR, Varela KD, Dangui M, de BarrosMP, Utter AC, Souza-Junior TP. The effects of strength training on cognitive performance in elderly women" [ID102126] Clinical Interventions in Aging. Dove Medical Press. 2016:11, 749-754.
Cesar Abad, Steven R. McAnulty, Marcelo Barros, Andre Almeida, Rubens Santos-Junior, Andre Smolarek,Tacito Souza-Junior. Lactate Response to Brazilian Jui Jitsu Matches Across Time. 2016;19(4):12-20 J. of Exercise Physiology Online.
Lesley Somerfield, Steven R. McAnulty, Jeffrey M. McBride, Jennifer J. Zwetsloot, Melanie D. Austin,Jonathan D. Mehlhorn, Mason C. Calhoun, Juliane O. Young, Traci L. Haines, and Alan C. Utter. Validity of urine specific gravity when compared to plasma osmolality as a measure of hydration status in male and female collegiate athletes. J Strength Cond Res. 2016 Dec 18. PMID:26694503
Nikolaidis, M., Kersick, C., Lamprecht, M., and McAnulty, S.R. Editorial on the special issue "Redox Biology of Exercise" Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. (2012). Article ID 407978.
Steven R. McAnulty, Worley S. Lynch, David C. Nieman, Lisa S. McAnulty, Fuxia Jin, and Dru A. Henson. Effect of Mixed Flavonoids, Vitamin C, and n-3 Fatty Acids on Oxidative Stress After Exhaustive Cycling (2011). International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism 21:328-337.
Steven R. McAnulty, David C. Nieman, Masha Fox-Rabinovich, Valerie Duran , Lisa S. McAnulty, Dru A. Henson, and Michael J. Landram. Effect of n-3 fatty acid and multivitamin supplements on plasma F2-isoprostanes and antioxidant capacity after exhaustive exercise in trained cyclists. (2010). Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 42(9):1704-1711.
David C. Nieman, Dru A. Henson, Steven R. McAnulty, Fuxia Jin. n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids do not alter immune and inflammation measures in endurance athletes. (2009). International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. 19:536-546. (Ranked in top 1% of all submissions in past 25 years).
McAnulty, S.R., L. McAnulty, D.C. Nieman, J.D. Morrow, A.C. Utter, D.M. Vinci, C.L. Dumke and D.A. Henson. Influence of Carbohydrate Ingestion on Oxidative Stress and Plasma Antioxidant Potential Following a 3-H Run. Free Radical Research (2003). 37(8):835-840.
D.C. Nieman, J.M. Davis, D.A. Henson, J. Walberg-Rankin, M. Shute, C.L. Dumke, A.C. Utter, D.M. Vinci, J. Carson,A. Brown, W.J. Lee, S.R. McAnulty, L.S. McAnulty. Carbohydrate Ingestion Influences Skeletal Muscle Cytokine mRNA and Plasma Cytokine Levels After a 3-H Run. Journal of Applied Physiology (2003) 94:1917-1925.
Nieman, D.C., C. Dumke, D.A. Henson, S.R. McAnulty, L.S. McAnulty, R.H. Lind, and J.D. Morrow. Immune and Oxidative Changes during and Following the Western States Endurance Run. International Journal of Sports Medicine (2003) Sep;24(7):541-7.
Utter, A.C., J. Kang, D.C. Nieman, D. Vinci, S.R. McAnulty, C.L. Dumke, L. McAnulty. Ratings of perceived exertion throughout an ultramarathon during carbohydrate ingestion. (2003) Perceptual and Motor Skills 97:175-184.
Palmer, Z., D.C. Nieman, D.A. Henson, S.R. McAnulty, L. McAnulty, N.S. Swick, A.C. Utter, D.M. Vinci, and J.D. Morrow. Influence of vitamin C supplementation on oxidative and salivary IgA changes following an ultramarathon. European Journal of Applied Physiology (2003), Mar;89(1):100-107.
McAnulty, L., Gropper, S.S., McAnulty, S.R., and Keith, R.E. Iron depletion without anemia is not associated with impaired selenium status in college-age women. (2003) Biological Trace Element Research 91(2):125-136.
Nieman, D.C., D.A. Henson, S.R. McAnulty, L.McAnulty, N.S. Swick, A.C. Utter, D.M. Vinci, S.J. Opiela, and J.D. Morrow. Influence of vitamin C supplementation on oxidative and immune changes following an ultramarathon. Journal of Applied Physiology 92(5):1970-1977, May
Title: Professor, PhD, Human Exercise Science, Graduate Faculty
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Shopping with PRIDE
Trade magazines are great. Packed full of lies yet unvarnished in so many ways. Here are some interesting facts about gay consumers, brought to you by a wine company that’s an official SF, LA and Houston PRIDE sponsor (parentheticals are my comments):
-77% of the gay community believe in "indulging themselves" and 57% prefer to "buy top of the line" (one can’t help but wonder how "Indulging" was defined?)
-63% of gay and lesbian customers said they are willing to pay more for products from companies that are "gay and lesbian friendly". (37% presumably were Log Cabin Club members who prefer to pay more for products from companies that hate gays and lesbians.)
-The gay community represents 16.5 million affluent, loyal, trend-savvy consumers with $450 million in buying power.
The message: "Buy our wine, put a rainbow flag near it, and raise the prices through the roof! What a bunch of suckers."
(Coming soon: a review of the Gay Shame 2002 awards)
Kalahari Surfers - "Vol 1: The '80s"
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Gossypiboma
To be information literate is as easy as sewing on a button and as hard as closing in surgery
Posts Tagged 'Big Pharma'
Pharmaceutical flimflam: drug advertising in medical journals is a global issue
Published September 19, 2009 Facts & Figures 1 Comment
Tags: advertising, Big Pharma, research
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~ Stephen Leacock, Garden of Folly (1924) ‘The Perfect Salesman’
A recent systematic review in PLoS One demonstrates quite effectively something that shouldn’t surprise any intelligent high school student: pharmaceutical advertising in medical journals often provides “poor quality information.” This strikes me as the authors’ excessively polite way of saying that drug ads, even those that appear in authoritative periodicals widely read by physicians, are unregulated, manipulative, meretricious and mendacious. Selling the latest SSRI is not really different from shilling shampoo, with the difference, of course, that there is superior evidence of shampoo’s efficacy.
Othman N, Vitry A, Roughead EE. Quality of pharmaceutical advertisements in medical journals: a systematic review. PLoS One. 2009 Jul 22;4(7):e6350. PubMed PMID: 19623259; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2709919.
The article, buffed to a high scholarly polish with any hint of libellous language or ethical disdain well suppressed, warrants close reading. Here are some highlights:
Advertising in medical journals is one of the techniques used by pharmaceutical companies to promote their products to medical doctors. During the first four years of a new medicine on the market, pharmaceutical companies may gain approximately US $2.43 for each dollar spent on medical journal advertisements for a medicine. The return on investment has been reported to increase to more than US $4 after that period.
We found that pharmaceutical advertisements in medical journals usually provided brand and generic name and indication. Other essential information required for rational prescribing including contraindications, interactions, side effects, warnings and precautions were less commonly provided. The majority of references cited to support pharmaceutical claims were journal articles. However, less than two-third [sic] of the claims were supported [emphasis mine] by a systematic review or a meta-analysis (110/1375, 8%) and randomised control trial (455/1500, 30%).
This review noted that references used to support pharmaceutical claims were often of low quality. The inappropriate use of references in journal advertising suggests that the availability of references does not always guarantee the quality of claims.
Information on medicines is essential to help doctors ensure the optimal use of medicines. However, studies show that doctors who use journal advertisements as a source of information may prescribe less appropriately. In addition, reliance on journal advertising for information is associated with increased costs of prescribing. Even doctors who think that they obtain their knowledge from the scientific literature can be influenced by promotional sources without being aware of it. As information provided in journal advertising has the potential to change doctors’ prescribing behaviour, our review indicates that ongoing efforts including complaints and recommendations by researchers, health professionals and policy makers to improve the quality of advertisements in medical journals are crucial.
Governments may need to take more proactive action such as engaging independent experts to help in designing regulation for journal advertising where self regulatory codes are limited. In addition to that, effective regulatory system may complement pharmaceutical litigation to ensure accuracy and reliability of information in journal advertising.
Our review found that the low quality of journal advertising was a global issue. Poor quality advertising has been observed in developing countries and post-Soviet Russia where controls might be weak and limited as well as in developed countries which have stricter regulations.
Globally, pharmaceutical advertising in medical journals often provides poor quality information. The impact of this problem on doctors’ prescribing behaviour might be even greater in developing countries and post-Soviet Russia where access to industry-free medicine information is limited. The results from our review suggest the need for a global pro-active and effective regulatory system to ensure that information provided in medical journal advertising is supporting the quality use of medicines.
It is the most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ~ Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1889)
Would Nietzsche have taken Prozac?
Published August 29, 2009 Facts & Figures Leave a Comment
Tags: Big Pharma, headache, migraine, Prozac
My existence is a dreadful burden: I would have rejected it long ago, had I not been making the most instructive experiments in the intellectual and moral domain in just this condition of suffering and almost complete renunciation — this joyous mood, avid for knowledge, raised me to heights where I triumphed over every torture and all despair. On the whole, I am happier now than I have ever been in my life. And yet, continual pain; for many hours of the day, a sensation closely akin to seasickness, a semi-paralysis that makes it difficult to speak, alternating with furious attacks (the last one made me vomit for three days and three nights; I longed for death!). F. Nietzsche, Letter to Dr. O. Eiser, January 1880
Would Nietzsche have taken Prozac? The intensity and frequency of his migraine attacks would certainly make him a candidate for modern preventive therapy. [1] Virgina Woolf, Miguel de Cervantes, Lewis Carroll, and Peter Tchaikovsky might also be given the nod. According to a review article published in the May 2009 Mayo Clinic Proceedings [2] preventive therapies are commonly underused in patients who may be appropriate candidates and who may benefit from treatment. The American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention survey states that 38.8% of migraineurs “should be considered for preventative treatment.” However, the Mayo Clinic article makes no mention whatsoever of Prozac and goes on to praise the anticonvulsant topiramate for headache prevention.
There seems to be a great deal of confusion about the best preventive medications for migraine. Prozac (fluoxetine) is just one of many drugs that have been and are being tried on suffering patients, everything from feverfew to ergotomine to botulinum toxin. Research is ongoing, of course. But despite gaps in the literature and promising evidence for some of the competition, Prozac is commonly prescribed for migraine prophylaxis. [14] A little casual investigation reveals that hard evidence to support its use is, in fact, lacking. Moreover, what evidence there is comes from a few studies done more than a decade ago.
The two most relevant Cochrane reviews are inconclusive. Cipriani, et al. (2005) found statistically significant differences in terms of efficacy and tolerability between fluoxetine and certain other antidepressants, but concluded that the clinical meaning of these differences was uncertain and that no definitive implications for clinical practice could be drawn from them. [3] Moja, et al. (2005) found that selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Prozac were no better than placebo for preventing migraine. [4]
One of the leading headache textbooks, the aptly named Wolff’s Headache, takes no heed of the Cochrane information and confidently asserts the prophylactic efficacy of Prozac. The studies it cites are from the early 1990s. [5,6,7] Curiously, in its own review of Prozac for migraine prevention, the US Headache Consortium cites completely different studies from the same decade. [9,10] The Consortium’s guideline [8] cautiously approves the use of Prozac based on some favourable outcomes from the cited studies.
Borkum’s Chronic Headaches (2007) barely mentions fluoxetine prophylaxis. [11] Another text, Migraine and Other Headache Disorders (2006) merely nods in the direction of SSRIs, [12] admitting that the mechanism by which antidepressants work to prevent headache is uncertain (p. 319). The editors of The Headaches (2006) also make a brief mention of the 1994 Saper study [7] which “found fluoxetine 20 to 40 mg/d more effective than placebo in the last month of a 3-month study.” [13] In his chapter on chronic migraine in Advanced Therapy of Headache (2005) Silberstein asserts that Prozac is “coming into wider use for daily headaches” (p. 104). [14]
But here is the summary from BMJ Clinical Evidence:
Compared with placebo SSRI antidepressants may be no more effective at reducing headache symptoms (very low-quality evidence).
Compared with amitriptyline We don’t know whether SSRI antidepressants are more effective at reducing headache duration (very low-quality evidence).
I could go on …
So why is Prozac being prescribed to thousands for relief of their migraine headaches? Beats me. Especially when harms associated with the use of Prozac are well described. (See the alerts published on the FDA website.) What would Nietzsche do?
David Healy’s warning is still relevant:
Since the development of anesthesia, physicians have been prepared to do harm to a few patients in order to benefit a majority of patients. The de facto Hippocratic Oath has always been: Do no harm to a majority of your patients. In the case of the SSRIs, the clinical trial evidence indicates that we may benefit some patients. None of this evidence shows us what proportion of patients benefit from SSRI treatment and what proportion are harmed by it. In the case of anesthesia, much less than 1% of takers are at risk. In the case of the SSRIs, there is a serious risk to far more than 1% of takers, but neither society nor the psychiatric profession has expressed a view as to what constitutes an acceptable minority of harmed patients. [15]
1. Hemelsoet D, Hemelsoet K, Devreese D. The neurological illness of Friedrich Nietzsche. Acta Neurol Belg. 2008 Mar;108(1):9-16.
2. Buse DC, Rupnow MF, Lipton RB. Assessing and managing all aspects of migraine: migraine attacks, migraine-related functional impairment, common comorbidities, and quality of life. Mayo Clin Proc. 2009 May;84(5):422-35.
3. Cipriani A, Brambilla P, Furukawa T, Geddes J, Gregis M, Hotopf M, Malvini L, Barbui C. Fluoxetine versus other types of pharmacotherapy for depression. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2005 Oct 19;(4):CD004185.
4. Moja L, Cusi C, Sterzi R, Canepari C. Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for preventing migraine and tension-type headaches. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD002919.
5. Silberstein SD, Lipton RB, Dodick DW. Wolff’s headache and other head pain. 8th ed. New York: Oxford; 2008. p.353.
6. Bussone G, Sandrini G, Patruno G, et al. Effectiveness of fluoxetine on pain and depression in chronic headache disorders. In Headache and depression: serotonin pathways as a common clue (G Nappi, G Bono, G Sandrini, et al., eds), pp. 265-272. New York, Raven Press;1991.
7. Saper JR, Silberstein SD, Lake AE, et al. Double-blind trial of fluoxetine: chronic daily headache and migraine. Headache 1994;34:497-502.
8. Ramadan NM, et al. Evidence-based guidelines for migraine headache in the primary care setting: pharmacological management for prevention of migraine. US Headache Consortium. Available from: http://www.aan.com/professionals/practice/pdfs/gl0090.pdf
9. Adly C, Straumanis J, Chesson A. Fluoxetine prophylaxis of migraine. Headache. 1992;32(2):101-104.
10. Steiner TJ, Ahmed F, Findley LJ, MacGregor EA, Wilkinson M. S-fluoxetine in the prophylaxis of migraine: a phase II double-blind randomized placebo-controlled study. Cephalalgia. 1998;18(5):283-286.
11. Borkum JM. Chronic headaches: biology, psychology, and behavioral treatment. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; 2007.
12. Lipton RB, Bigal ME. Migraine and other headache disorders. New York: Informa Healthcare; 2006.
13. Olesen J, Goadsby PJ, Ramadan NM, Tfelt-Hansen P, Welch KMA. The headaches. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006.
14. Silberstein SD. Chronic migraine without medication overuse. In, Purdy RA, Sheftell FD, Rapoport AM, Tepper SJ. Advanced therapy of headache. 2nd ed. Hamilton ON: BC Decker; 2005.
15. Healy D. Let them eat Prozac. Toronto: James Lorimer; 2003. p. 380
Dying is unequivocally the major cause of death
Published July 24, 2009 Gossyp Leave a Comment
Tags: aging, Big Pharma
Milton Berle once said you know you’re old when you order a three-minute egg and they ask for the money up front. My baby boomer generation is deep in crow’s feet; and in keeping with the relentless demographics of aging in our society, interest in some, any, pharmacological fountain of youth is growing.
PharmaGossip, blogging with a sense of humour from the UK, has posted a splendid send-up of Big Pharma propaganda to the anxiously aging. Basing itself on a report from an industry blog called BNET Pharma, it skewers the questionable drug marketing practices we have come to loathe and vituperate.
Here’s how it begins:
Phoni told the WSJ that it did not know about a study published last week in Nature that claims the life expectancy of mice was increased 9 – 14 percent if they took Heapamunee, a drug Phoni markets to suppress the immune system so that organ transplants won’t be rejected.
A Phoni spokesman called it an “interesting preclinical study” and said that the company had only just become aware of the findings.
“Phoni have only just acquired Heapamunee as a result of our hostile takeover of Whyus,” said Phoni’s President of Global Marketing, Rich Pillager, “and so we’re still working out just what assets we need to strip out of the company before we shut it down. However, following the Nature study, our marketing team is already up to speed on the case.”
Rich Pillager is a wonderful creation, worthy of Martin Amis in his eighties heyday. You can be sure that the Rich Pillagers of the world are working night and day concocting “anti-aging” drugs while convincing us that becoming superannuated is a disease that can best be treated with their magical elixir in a capsule.
PharmaGossip also makes fun of Aubrey de Grey (“Aubrey de Nutcase”), a death-defying British gerontologist and self-advertiser, only slightly altering a real quote of his: “Dying is unequivocally the major cause of death in the industrialized world and a perfectly legitimate target of medical intervention.”
De Grey strikes me as the kind of bloke who reads the obituaries every day and can’t understand why people die in alphabetical order. “It’s time to break out of our denial about aging,” he admonishes. I didn’t know I was in denial. Like Woody Allen, I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it happens. But I see how it’s pharmamarketing’s prime directive to feed my fears about that clean-sweeping scythe. Is it really true that when you get old your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist? Not at all. Stupidity, greed, deceit, and sheer, undiluted wankery know no age barriers.
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UP government to set up residential schools named after Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Paying tributes to Vajpayee on his first death anniversary here, the chief minister said the BJP stalwart's views inspire everyone even today
August 16, 2019, 17:53 IST
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday announced that the state government will set up residential schools named after Atal Bihari Vajpayee in all 18 divisions and a memorial in Bateshwar, the former prime minister's native village in Agra.
Paying tributes to Vajpayee on his first death anniversary here, the chief minister said the BJP stalwart's views inspire everyone even today.
"He worked on transparency in politics. He had dreamt of 'akhand bharat' and by removing provisions of Article 370, the government has paid homage to him," Adityanath said.
He said the countrymen have immense respect for Vajpayee.
"He never considered anyone big or small. He used to say that he is not afraid of death but of earning a bad name," Adityanath said.
Announcing a number of projects named after the former prime minister, the CM said residential schools will be set up in all 18 divisions, besides a 25-foot-tall statue at the Lok Bhawan on Vajpayee's birth anniversary on December 25.
"The state government is also setting up a memorial in his name in Bateshwar," he said, adding that Rs 5 crore have been allocated for a 'Centre of Excellence' in DAV college in Kanpur.
Adityanath said the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow has been named after Vajpayee. The work to set up a medical university in Lucknow is underway and a satellite centre of KGMU is being set up in Balrampur, from where Vajpayee had contested elections in 1957.
Earlier, deputy chief ministers Dinesh Sharma and Keshav Prasad Maurya also paid tributes to Vajpayee.
Several BJP leaders, including Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit, Cabinet Minister Suresh Khanna, UP BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh were also present at the prayer meet.
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Why didn't the US and USSR jam each other's early-warning radar?
Radar jamming refers to rendering a radar system ineffective by saturating it with noise, typically by bombarding it with a high-intensity signal on the radar's operating frequency(es) in order to drown out any genuine returns in a sea of noise.
Early-warning radars are radar installations designed (as the name indicates) to provide an early warning in case of attack; during the Cold War, both the US and USSR deployed large networks of these radars to detect incoming bombers or missiles and give them time to retaliate.
Given that blinding these radars would have placed the blinder at an enormous advantage over the blindee (by, e.g., rendering the blindee unable to detect or react in time to an incoming first strike), why were there no US or Soviet attempts at jamming each other's early-warning radars?
Showing your hand too early would just let the opposition develop counter-measures, so this would only make sense at the start of a nuclear war. We haven't had one (yet) so there was nothing to be gained by doing it. – KillingTime Nov 21 '18 at 18:28
KillingTime is right. Read news about ukranian/syrian wars (e.g. at strategypage.com). One important aspect for the US is to learn what Electronic Warfare tools Russia uses, to develop counter-measures. EW eavesdropping is also one major mission for EW planes which fly near potential enemies countries (specially near military exercises). Wartime can not depend on the same tools as peacetime, otherwise the enemy will never be surprised. – Luiz Nov 21 '18 at 19:05
Who says they didn't..? – Bob Jarvis - Reinstate Monica Nov 25 '18 at 1:43
Same reason I don't remove all the security cameras from the bank just in case I want to rob it someday. – Owen Nov 26 '18 at 3:14
John Dallman definitely has the right of it, but I wanted to chime in with a small bit of additional information. The early warning system that the russians used, the Duga Radar (eventually known as the "Russian Woodpecker"), had an enormous range of operating frequencies. It would randomly hop between different channels, sometimes interrupting legitimate broadcasts, presumably in an attempt to subvert jamming attempts and avoid crowded signal bands. This is why it got the name "woodpecker"; people's radios would randomly start emitting a sharp "tap tap tap" noise.
As John answered, jamming the enemy's system is effectively a declaration of attack, and would have caused an all-out attack on both sides. But in addition to that, jamming the Duga network would have likely required jamming every single radio station, including the ones the allies were attempting to use.
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This and rs.29 's are right answers. It is not easy/cost efficient to jam radar which was built to counter contemporary jamming techniques. – hamilyon Nov 23 '18 at 8:21
The short answer is "Mutual Assured Destruction." If you jam the other side's radar effectively, the natural assumption is that you're attacking, so they'll attack in response. So you will set off a nuclear war with your first serious jamming attempt.
Under normal circumstances, you want the other side's early-warning radar to be working well so that they can see you are not attacking. There was at least one incident when a nuclear war nearly started accidentally owing to an early-warning system (not radar) malfunction.
The only time jamming makes sense is when you've already launched an all-out surprise attack. You start jamming just after the point when you believe the enemy will be aware of the scale of your attack. That handicaps their ability to take defensive precautions, a bit. But that's the most use it can be. Overall, a comprehensive, and thus expensive, jamming system is unlikely to be worth its cost.
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But to be honest, at that scale, the precision of the early-warning is almost irrelevant... if it was an attack so large that it was deemed "necessary" to jam the early-warning, it is basically the apocalypse. – Nelson Nov 22 '18 at 2:43
Super duper nitpick. The system you link for the 1983 incident was not a radar system. It was an optical system that used infrared to look for the exhaust of ICBMs. The point stands, though. – Fake Name Nov 22 '18 at 5:49
I'm an agnostic, but God bless Stanislov Petrov. – Ian Kemp Nov 22 '18 at 10:10
The short answer is that they knew it would be MAD. :P – Hanky Panky Nov 22 '18 at 10:20
@d-b: It's kind of hard to persuade politicians to allocate lots of money to make a chunk of electromagnetic spectrum unusable to everyone, worldwide, when the threat that could come from its use isn't present yet. – John Dallman Nov 22 '18 at 18:45
Radar jamming is not trivial
First of all, early warning radar (EWR) operate at very low frequencies, for example 7-19 MHz for Duga. For comparison, usual low frequency acquisition radars like P-19 operate in UHF band (300 MHz - 3 GHz). This is the reason why they need such large receivers and transmitters (rule of thumb, lower the frequency, bigger the antenna). Usual jamming aircraft would have difficulty even determining have they been "painted" by low frequency radar, not to mention the part where they had to transmit at the same frequency. Also, jamming techniques could be reduced to two groups:
Brute force jamming where you simply emit stronger signal at same frequency towards receiver. To do this, you would need to know emitting frequency of the radar (not easy, because as we mentioned before, it is not easy to detect low frequency radar) which might do "frequency hopping" while emitting. Also, your jamming platform is bound to be discovered, and likely destroyed if it emits for prolonged time interval - it is quite simple to triangulate the position of a jammer. Another concern is that during the arms race both sides developed various anti-jamming techniques like filtering signal from certain azimuth, aforementioned frequency hopping, or even shaping the signal to avoid random patterns from the jammers.
False targets is much more devious technique where you would attempt to create decoys for targeted radar system, either electronically or mechanically. Electronic false targets are usually created by jamming aircraft and ships, but unlike brute force jamming, they do not attempt to blind the radar, instead creating fake returns that resemble real targets. Again, because of low frequency, doing something like that is not easy. Mechanical decoys are smaller and cheaper than real radar targets (in this case nuclear missiles), but through various reflective techniques they do have similar radar return. One thing that is hard to mimic is missile speed and height. Usually, decoys would be deployed from the nuclear missile itself to overcome this.
Anyway, any successful jamming technique had to be kept a secret - otherwise the opponent could develop counter-measures or simply be frightened enough to launch first. The downside of this is that you could never be sure that your jamming actually works in the real world. Unlike conventional weapons, there were no proxy wars to test nuclear weapons.
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Yeah... Hollywood made jamming look super easy...... – sofa general Nov 21 '18 at 21:47
False target jamming for an early-warning radar would probably go down as the dumbest idea ever in the (then not very long anymore) history of all mankind. – Jörg W Mittag Nov 21 '18 at 21:58
@JörgWMittag Indeed, unless you were actually launching an all-out nuclear attack and using the false targets as decoys to complicate ABM interception. – reirab Nov 22 '18 at 5:22
@JörgWMittag the decoys would make intercepting the actual missiles a lot harder. For that reason bombers were at one time also given decoys they could deploy that would fly their own missions, hopefully confusing air defenses into sending interceptors after them rather than the actual aircraft. – jwenting Nov 22 '18 at 7:17
A friend owned a medium-large dog, a male. We went for a walk one day, following a fence between her yard and her neighbor's, also between her dog and her neighbors male dog. As soon as they saw each other, they growled, bared their teeth, ears back, eyes wide open, frothing. They carried on this way until we reached a gap in the fence. Both dogs gave a start, became mute and immediately backed up so that the fence was between them again and commenced threatening each other with assured destruction.
That, in a nutshell, was the cold war. There had to be a fence that prevented the US and the USSR from killing each other. I wouldn't be surprised if we were sharing each other's radar technologies, in secret of course, just to be sure both had the latest and best and neither could be absolutely sure that their missiles wouldn't get past the other's defenses.
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Your friend's dog has been on the Internet for quite a while now. – Dmitry Grigoryev Nov 22 '18 at 13:18
Either that or more than two dogs have exhibited similar behavior, @DmitryGrigoryev. The entire point of the aphorism is that "this is predictable and not unique". – Beanluc Nov 25 '18 at 19:54
How will they jam each other's radars without getting detected? They don't share a land border. No jammer is powerful enough to jam a radar across an ocean. The jammer will have to be placed in a ship and will give away the location once it starts operating.
Unless they were actively planning on launching an attack (or anticipating an imminent "hot war"), there was no real reason to do so. In reality, given how destructive such a war would be, both sides had a strong incentive to avoid outright war with each other.
Another answer (correctly, in my opinion) pointed out the very real possibility that such an action would cause the other side to assume that there was an ongoing (or imminent) attack, so this would risk the other side retaliating by launching missiles. Even if the other side didn't retaliate with missiles, they would almost certainly retaliate in some other way. At a minimum, they'd probably try to do the same thing to the other side, which would in turn leave them equally vulnerable to an attack (possibly even by some hostile third party who might seize the opportunity to frame the other superpower for the attack).
By way of example, think about the Cuban Missile Crisis: what a lot of people forget about that is that placing the missiles there was in retaliation for the U.S. putting missiles in Turkey.
The point being, something that would result in a minor theoretical advantage in a hot war that neither side really wanted anyway would almost certainly result in concrete retaliation (if not outright war).
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One World Play Project, a California-based B-Corporation, has partnered with Chevrolet since 2012 to donate One World Futbols (soccer balls) to children in the developing world. Without this program, play for these kids would be a rarity or impossibility. GreenSportsBlog told One World Play Project’s inspirational and green (the balls are ultra-durable and thus kept out of landfills) story in a recent post. And that story will continue as the One World Play Project-Chevrolet partnership has been extended for three more years.
One World Play Project announced on Monday that Chevrolet will continue to support its donation and distribution of Chevrolet-branded One World Futbols for the next 3 years. To date, the partners have donated 1.5 million ultra-durable (never needs a pump; never goes flat, even when punctured) balls to disadvantaged kids around the world. By the end of 2018, that number will have increased to 2 million balls distributed.
While the ball distribution numbers are impressive, the lives impacted tally is even more so. On that score, One World Play Project and Chevrolet have done phenomenal work: An estimated 45 million lives have been touched to date; in three years time, that number is projected to grow to 60 million.
From the Green-Sports perspective, the metric to watch is keeping balls out of landfill. Per One World Play Project, a standard ball needs to be replaced at least every month while a One World Futbol can last for years. Thus, One World Play Project calculates that, for each 1 million One World Futbols put into play, at least 2.4 million fewer balls will end up in landfills over the course of two years.
The impact of the One World Play Project/Chevrolet partnership on kids’ lives and the environment is significant
No matter the metric, One World Play Project sees tremendous value in its Chevrolet relationship. “We are thrilled with Chevrolet’s ongoing support for our mission to make it possible for young people around the world to have the opportunity to play and thrive,” said Neill Duffy, Chief Catalyst at One World Play Project, “our partnership is testament to the power of a shared values approach to doing good and doing well.”
A group of girls playing with a One World Futbol in Peru, some of the 45 million children touched by the One World Play Project/Chevrolet partnership. (Photo credit: Operation Blessing Peru)
In addition to the continuation of the Chevrolet futbol/soccer ball distribution program, One World Play Project will launch a highly durable One World Cricket ball later this year. By some measures, after soccer, Cricket is the most played game in the world.
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thesustainableinvestor says:
Great post greensportsblog! I had not heard of One World Play Project. From a quantitative standpoint, how does one measure “lives touched”?…e.g. your above statement “an estimated 45 million lives have been touched to date; in three years time, that number is projected to grow to 60 million.”
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Hello thesustainableinvestor,
Our ball donations always go to organizations, not to individuals. We use an average of a 30:1 ratio of child per ball for our donations, depending on the specific plans of our recipient partners. We hope this helps clarify!
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I hope this becomes a HUGE story. It deserves it!
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Reblogged this on Relan and commented:
We love this partnership between the One World Play Project and Chevrolet. Together, they are providing soccer balls to kids around the world and in turn, keeping an estimated 2.4 million soccer balls out of landfills each year.
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British aid worker killed in Kaduna identified
By Ifeanyi Ibeh with Agency Report
22 April 2019 | 8:40 am
The woman killed during the recent attack on Kajuru Castle has been named by the British high commission as Faye Mooney.
The 29-year-old British aid worker was killed by kidnappers along with a Nigerian during Friday evening’s attack in which three other people were abducted, Kaduna police and the British high commission said.
Mercy Corps, the non-governmental aid agency Mooney worked for, paid tribute to her.
“Faye was a dedicated, passionate communication and learning specialist,” said chief executive Neal Keny-Guyer in a statement posted on social media, adding that colleagues were “utterly heartbroken”.
Mooney had “worked with Mercy Corps for almost two years.
Her family, in an interview with The Guardian (UK), said she was a bright and intelligent woman with a “deep love for life and people” who had never been happier.
“She was on holiday with her boyfriend Matthew Oguche,” they said.
“Faye was an inspiration to her family, friends, students and work colleagues. Her bravery and her belief in a better society took her to places others feared. Faye did what she wanted; nothing held her back.
“Permanently against the grain, Faye was unconventional to the core. Her family and friends are so proud of who she was and of everything she achieved in her short but purposeful life. Her memory will always be cherished.”
Kaduna state police said the kidnappers attacked the resort with guns.
“Some suspected kidnappers armed with dangerous weapons gained entry into a recreational resort called Kajuru Castle, shooting sporadically and in the process shot dead two persons, including an expatriate lady, and took away three others,” a Kaduna state police spokesman said, without naming the other person killed.
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Tunisia arrests 2nd Morocco suspect in Bardo attack: ministry
Tunisia has arrested a second Moroccan suspect over a deadly attack in March on the Bardo museum in Tunis, detaining him at the border with Libya, the interior ministry said Thursday.
Noureddine al-Naibi was arrested on Sunday at the Ras Jedir border post on suspicion of indirect involvement in the attack, ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui told AFP.
He said the suspect was using a forged passport.
Last week, a young Moroccan man was arrested in Italy for allegedly helping in the March 18 attack carried out by two Tunisians who gunned down 21 tourists and a policeman before they were killed.
Abdelmajid Touil, 22, a migrant smuggled into Italy by boat in February, has insisted on his innocence and is fighting a Tunisian request for his extradition.
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Catamaran and Snorkeling Adventure in Puerta Plata in the Dominican Republic
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An afternoon skimming over the water on a catamaran takes you into a world commonly enjoyed by famous folks and millionaires. And that’s exactly what many of us are looking for when we book an island vacation in the Dominican Republic to escape our cold winters. Indeed, the catamaran provides a boating adventure you’ll think of often once you’re back to your day-to-day life.
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Beach at Playabachata Resort in Puerta Plata in the Dominican.
On my visit to the Domincan, I stayed in Puerta Plata. One of thirty-one provinces in the Dominican Republic, Puerta Plata is home to the first beach areas developed for tourism. Indeed, miles of caramel colored sandy beaches spread out along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. And, since Puerta Plata resorts have been established longer than Punta Cana on the Caribbean side of the island, you’ll find a price point to suit your budget.
While price was important in my choice, I also found Puerto Plata a great destination due to its offering of more adventurous activities such as windsurfing, diving, and parasailing. And that’s exactly where the Freestyle Catamaran day adventure came in, since not only could I get the unique experience of the catamaran boat, I could also try snorkeling.
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Boarding the Catamaran FreeStyle II boat in Puerta Plata, Dominican.
The name, catamaran, simply means “logs bound together,” and comes from the Tamil word, kattumaram. Indeed, the Tamil people from South India have been using catamaran boats since the 5th century. They were seldom used in the west though, until the 1800s.
As indicated by the name, a catamaran is a boat that has two hulls of equal size. In other words, the body of the boat is made up of two identical parts put together in a parallel formation. This type of construction creates a boat that’s very fast, so much so that in 1882 on Lake Ponchartrain in Louisiana, Nip and Tuck, the winner of the catamaran class, beat the fastest sloop’s time by over five minutes!
And I can guarantee that once the sails are raised it feels like you’re flying through the immense world of blue sky and water!
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Boarding a catamaran boat in the Dominican Republic.
It’s easy to be an adventurer when you visit an all-inclusive in the Dominican Republic. Once I signed up for my tour with Sunwing, I just showed up in the lobby of my resort, the Playabachata, at the required time and boarded the bus for a scenic ride through Puerta Plata. Of course, since we were also picking up people from other resorts, it was also an opportunity to see which ones I might want to stay in on my next trip.
The bus took us to the bay of Playa Dorada, where the sand is so deep and soft you sink nearly up to your ankles. The catamaran, named FreeStyle II, is 54 feet long, so large enough to hold a number of passengers. It floated onto the beach while we watched, but we still had to wade through a few inches of water to reach the stairs that dropped down from the middle of the boat. Once everyone was on board, the stairs were pulled up to become part of the catamaran’s floor.
And we were off to the picturesque bay of Sosua to snorkel in the largest living coral reef on the Dominican’s North shore.
Snorkeling on the Bay of Sousa
Sousa in the Dominican Republic.
While feeling the wind in your face and the splashes of cool Atlantic water on your body were fun, I was really waiting to try snorkeling. The calm, crystal clear waters of our destination in the bay of Sosua, make it perfect for new and experienced snorkellers.
However, you should know how to swim, since the water is well over everybody’s heads! While I can’t, that didn’t stop me.
But first things first, which of course with snorkelling is putting on your mask and safety jacket. Then to the second, which is taking some quick lessons to figure out how to breathe through the mask underwater. And finally, the third — walk down the ladder (which was lowered again) and step off into the water to try out your new skills.
Linda Aksomitis ready to go snorkeling in the Dominican Republic.
See the Coral Reefs in the Dominican
Some things, of course, don’t go as planned. I immediately found myself rolling over and over and floating away in my safety jacket, while clutching at any part of the catamaran I could reach. So, much to my dismay, it was back on the catamaran.
All wasn’t lost though, since one of the crew generously took me and two other passengers back into the water with a lifesaver to hang onto, which he pulled around for us. So, it was on to applying the lessons I learned on the catamaran.
My first few attempts to stick just my face in water and leave the short air tube above the water resulted in some spitting and coughing as I gulped down a few mouthfuls of salt water.
Young women at snorkeling in the tropical water — Photo by Patryk_Kosmider
However, I soon realized that if water went in my ears (which hurt!) that it also entered the breathing tube. Epiphany! Keep your ears above water and you’ll also have air to breathe.
So, I spent the next 20 minutes or so, watching the amazing variety of colorful fish and corals around me. It felt like I was immersed in a fish tank!
Sails on a catamaran boat in the Dominican Republic.
The catamaran moved a couple of times around Sousa Bay to give everyone lots of time to see the fish and corals with their snorkeling gear. Then, it was back on the ship for lunch and drinks while the crew raised the sails.
And we were off, skimming across the water, listening to the flap of the canvas overhead.
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Ratings: “Jeopardy: The Greatest Of All Time” Slips For Tuesday’s Episode, Still Wins Night
The deciding “GOAT” match endured a viewership loss.
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by Brian Cantor Jan 15, 2020, 1:39 pm
Awareness that Ken Jennings could secure victory in “Jeopardy: The Greatest Of All Time” did not prevent a ratings decline for Tuesday’s episode.
The decline did not, however, affect the show’s standing as a dominant performer.
According to fast national data posted by Showbuzz, Tuesday’s episode drew a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating. It averaged 13.51 million in overall viewership. The numbers trail the 2.2 rating and 15.55 million viewer mark garnered by last Thursday’s episode.
They nonetheless convincingly ranked as the best of the night. “This Is Us,” the #2 show in adults 18-49, drew a 1.4. “NCIS,” the #2 show in viewership, attracted an audience of 10.00 million.
The competition from “This Is Us,” of course, may have contributed slightly to the live+same-day “Jeopardy” decline. None of last week’s episodes faced a show with its degree of young adult popularity.
Jennings seized his opportunity to clinch the competition Tuesday, bringing an end to the tournament after four nights. Across the four episodes, “The Greatest Of All Time” emerged as the season’s top-drawing non-sports or awards program. It was an undeniable success for ABC.
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by Niki King | Mar 23, 2017 | Caregiver Burnout, Uncategorized | 2 comments
Know the signs of burnout and intervene before the problem escalates…
If there’s one thing healthcare leaders can agree on, it’s that a good registered nurse (RN) is hard to find. But sometimes, the bigger challenge is keeping them on-board once they’ve been discovered.
Between the constant pressure to do more with less and the long hours and heavy workload expected of nurses, it’s no surprise that nurse burnout is prevalent. “Nurses are at risk for burnout due to the demands of the role of a nurse today,” said Rusty McNew, RN, regional chief nurse executive for the Texas region at Tenet Healthcare Corporation.
The dangers of burnout and fatigue, both physical and mental, go well beyond job dissatisfaction or frustration for nurses. The Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked nurses fifth of all occupations in 2010 in the number of workdays missed due to occupational injuries and illness, and as many as 20% of nurses are estimated to suffer from a substance abuse disorder. Can you believe what I just said? I think this is much higher as I have seen it with my own eyes being the Director of Nursing and many home health agencies.
But there are strategies to stop burnout in its tracks and avoid nurse turnover, and HR can help.
Burnout-Busting Policies
Human resources leaders are in an excellent position to prevent burnout by setting hospital policies that discourage dissatisfaction from brewing in the first place.
One example is the use of overtime and time off. It’s not uncommon for some nurses to avoid taking vacations and to volunteer to cover shifts at every opportunity.
Instinct might be to think of these people as model healthcare workers, but they might be the most burned out, said Suzanne Waddill-Goad, RN, assistant professor at the college of nursing at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and author of Nurse Burnout: Overcoming Stress in Nursing, who also runs a healthcare consultancy.
“Sometimes, nurses know no limits,” Waddill-Goad told me in a telephone call. “They take on work that will consume them.” Although society often equates being busy with success, taking on too much is sometimes a coping mechanism for those who are burned out, she said (and can be a sign of employee drug diversion).
Without time to relax and recover away from work, jobs become more difficult, stress causes fatigue, and physical and mental tolerances weaken, which can lead to burnout, said Waddill-Goad. If you are a caregiver and you see you are burning out, Please do yourself and your patients, family and friends a favor and go on a healing retreat with Lightworker Nurse Niki King at www.HealingTheNurse.com … It is time to take care of you and to finally understand why you are doing this to yourself. The reasons are far deeper than you might think. It all goes back to why you are here on the planet believe it or not!
Unfortunately, this kind of overwork is common in healthcare.
“There are nurses working six days a week … What kind of impact does that have [on] safety? I find it to be concerning — not only for employee safety, but for patient safety,” said Waddill-Goad.
Setting policies that grant healthcare workers permission to take time for themselves, like a cap on overtime or preventing unused vacation time from being carried over to the following year are ways to make it clear that your organization takes burnout seriously. Employers should be sending nurses on a mini vacation to recoup and regenerate like at www.HealingTheNurse.com.
Know The Signs
While there are many signs of burnout, a change in appearance should be an obvious symptom that something is wrong, said McNew.
“My scrubs don’t always fit me, and I always look like I just got out of bed,” he said. “But, if it becomes exaggerated … that’s when the red flag goes up.”
Other common symptoms of burnout include a sudden change in attitude at work, general disengagement, and absenteeism. It’s important to distinguish between an employee having a bad day and an employee who is disengaging, but when in doubt, it usually pays to check in and make sure everything is all right.
The most important step toward keeping nurses engaged is to talk to them, said McNew and Waddill-Goad. An HR department that fosters a culture of openness and encourages clinician leaders to engage regularly with their departments will have a leg up here.
Find out what issues nurses are struggling with. For example, if asked, night shift workers might complain that there are no food options other than the vending machines late at night. That could leave them hungry for employment opportunities where they can get a slice of pizza or a healthy entrée at 3:00 AM.
What about concerns around a specific nurse who seems to be disengaging?
It’s even more important to open up lines of communication in such times said McNew, who can relate a personal experience he had where he kept a talented nurse on-board by asking her to share the obstacles she was facing in the workplace that were causing her to burn out.
“[She] was working a number of hours, and was the sole supporter of her family,” he said. The nurse lived a bit farther away from the hospital than was convenient and was raising two teenage children on her own.
“Her work started to slide a little bit … her appearance was just a little bit different … but the biggest thing was her joy for work and her overall [attitude].”
McNew remembers seeing the nurse’s facial expressions while she was working and knowing that something was wrong. He decided it was time to open a dialogue with her. He kept his conversation with the nurse professional and mostly focused on work, but it sounded like “there were a lot of issues at home,” he said.
“There’s a certain amount of stuff you can talk about and give guidance on as a … manager,” he said, but at some point, personal situations must be turned over to a professional who can serve as an objective third party. McNew suggested his employee talk to Tenet’s employee assistance program.
Through guidance from the EAP, the nurse was able to resolve her personal issues, and was better able to tackle frustrations at the hospital and re-engage at work. by Lena Weiner HealthLeaders Media March 20, 2016
Not all interventions will be as successful as McNew’s, but between sending employees the right message by setting policies that fight burnout and creating an open dialogue with nurses and their leadership, nurses can be more engaged and energized at work. Niki King “Lightworker Nurse” stands firm in her belief you should send your family member who is a caregiver or nurse to www.HealingTheNurse.com retreats.
Niki King on March 22, 2017 at 4:15 am
All caregivers and Nurses should really take the time to get away to regenerate and heal themselves… If you’re not ok, they’re not ok! Head out to our next retreat in Bali …we are waiting for you.
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Bride-to-be slammed for asking guests to help pay off $60k student debt
A bride has divided opinion after revealing that she plans to ask her wedding guests to donate money to pay off her student loans as a wedding gift.
The bride-to-be explained in a Reddit post that she'll be tying the knot soon and hoped to chip away at her student loans by asking guests to gift her money to pay them off.
"I was thinking of doing a link to my Venmo account or something along those lines, where wedding goers could instead make a contribution towards us paying off the loans," the bride-to-be wrote.
woman hand holding money bank note dollar with piggy for saving money wealth and finance (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
The kicker? She seems to be expecting more than $60,000 in wedding donations.
She went on to ask if the donations would be considered a part of her taxable income, but other Reddit users were far more interested in the sum she had in mind.
"Unless you're like Gossip Girl status super high society $60K is an outrageous expectation," one wrote.
"I think you might be expecting too much in gifts," added another.
"I don't know your crowd or how many people are attending, but expecting $60K in gifts is an enormous amount. I would really lower your expectations just so you're not counting on more."
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They also took issue with the bride's plan to outright ask wedding guests for money, especially if she really intended to send out a link to her bank account to friends and family.
"There's nothing polite about asking your guests for donations to your house/honeymoon/student debt," one said.
"Instead, don't have a registry at all and you will receive money. You may get the stray 'thing' that your aunt or someone thinks is super cute, but you will mostly receive money for gifts. And with that money, you can pay off your debt."
However, others argued that 'honeyfunds' – where couples ask wedding guests to give money towards their honeymoon as wedding gifts – are becoming increasingly popular, so why couldn't the same logic apply to money for student loans?'
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"In a lot of circles 'honeyfunds' or asking for 'no boxed gifts' is becoming completely standard, not rude," one person said, though they added it's still impolite to mention on the wedding invitation.
Instead they suggested letting guests know via a wedding website or old fashioned word of mouth.
Though the bride-to-be has yet to update Reddit on what she decided, one thing is for sure: weddings and the etiquette that surround them are way, way too complicated.
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Royal Tour drama sees flight abort landing twice as Prince William jokes he was flying the plane
By Karishma Sarkari| 3 months ago
A mid-air drama has hit the Royal Tour in Pakistan.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's RAF flight has been forced to return to Lahore after two aborted landings in Islamabad due to storms.
The flight was meant to be a 25 minute journey, which became a terrifying two hour experience for those on-board thanks to the electrical storm.
Prince William joked he had been flying an RAF plane after landing in Lahore had to be aborted twice due to bad weather (AAP)
Prince William and Kate Middleton were on board, along with their staff and members of the press pack, who tweeted about the experience as soon as they safely reached the ground.
According to multiple reports, Prince William went to the back of the plane where the press where to make sure everyone was OK before joking that he had been flying the aircraft.
"If I'm honest ... that was the most nervous I've ever felt in a plane," ITV's royal correspondent Chris Ship tweeted about the experience.
While Getty photographer Chris Jackson re-tweeted a video of lightning around the plane, captioned: "I hate flying".
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"Drama on the royal flight... thunderstorms over Islamabad meant we had to abort two landings and have returned to Lahore," Emily Andrews from The Sun wrote.
"A storm over Islamabad and mid-air turbulence has seen the Cambridge's RAF Voyager turn back to Lahore, after circling Pakistan's capital for an hour and failing to land at Nur Khan and Islamabad International," Telegraph journalist Ben Farmer wrote.
"Phew. Landed! But in Lahore," People magazine's Simon Perry wrote.
Adding: "A terrifying electrical storm hit as we tried to land at Islamabad. Lightning seemed to be crashing around the right wing. Despite the best efforts of the pilot of William and Kate's RAF Voyager plane we couldn't couldn't land there."
The Cambridge's had spent the day in Lahore on multiple royal engagements as they near the end of their four-day tour of Pakistan.
The Cambridges are nearing the end of their four-day tour of Pakistan (Getty)
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Top 10 Fantasy Anime Movies [Best Recommendations]
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What makes fantasy anime interesting? Is it the mythical and unusual characters? The elaborate, out-of-this-world setting? Or does the interest come from the storylines themselves? Perhaps it is a combination of all of the above elements. Whatever the case may be, the fantasy genre in anime has been popular for many years, captivating the audience with tales that take them far away from their day-to-day lives.
The fantasy genre covers a wide array of options, from the supernatural and thought-provoking to the technologically-advanced. Because of its popularity, there are a number of fantasy movies to choose from – some of them much better than others. This list is to help you sift through those choices. We’re going to be looking at movies that touch on important topics, have beautiful visual graphics, and create interesting characters, all while taking the audience member on an epic journey.
10. Kyoukai no Kanata Movie: I’ll Be Here – Mirai-hen (Beyond the Boundary: I’ll Be Here - Future)
Air Date: Apr. 2015
A sequel movie to the anime series Kyoukai no Kanata, this movie offers a two-part story based off a light novel. The first part simply recaps the plot from the anime episodes, while the second part offers a brand new story in Mirai and Akihito’s adventures. Mirai-hen takes place a year after the events of the recap. Akihito must fight a new threat that is after Mirai. Meanwhile, Mirai has lost her memories and does not remember anything about herself or the events in her life, including anything about Akihito.
Mirai-hen is a great addition to the original animated story of Kyoukai no Kanata. It is also an excellent fantasy story in its own right. Each character in this series has an important place in the story, which is delved into even further in the film. Even supporting characters will grow and change throughout the course of the story. Kyoukai no Kanata continues its beautiful animation style into Mirai-hen, lending a fantastical element to the setting. Full of both laughter and tears, this movie is worth watching, especially if you loved the anime series.
9. Sennen Joyuu (Millennium Actress)
Air Date: Sep. 2002
When a studio’s buildings are about to be torn down, a former employee and reluctant cameraman decide to make a documentary to honor the studio’s closing. And what better subject than the retired star actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has since retreated from the spotlight? As the older woman tells her story to the two men, Chiyoko’s roles blend seamlessly with her life, and friends and colleagues form into the characters on screen. The story of a woman’s life, Sennen Joyuu is a beautiful and thoughtful tale.
This film is fantasy in the way that its story is told. While Chiyoko’s characters might be acts, as they blend into her life story it is difficult to see where one person ends and another one begins. Part of the reason that this is so effective is because of the gorgeous animation rampant throughout the movie. Sennen Joyuu may follow more of a historical narrative, telling the tale of Japan’s cinematic history. However, its ability to place the audience so effortlessly into Chiyoko’s whimsical life makes the movie a vital part of this list.
8. Little Witch Academia
Air Date: Mar. 2013
Do you like Harry Potter? Then you might enjoy this funny anime! Little Witch Academia follows the story of Atsuko Kagari, an average girl who wants to become a witch like her idol Shiny Chariot. She enrolls in Luna Nova Magical Academy, but soon finds it much more serious than she had imagined. Atsuko is soon labeled a bit of a rebel, due to her magical ineptitude and childish obsession with Chariot. But when a dragon is let loose on campus, Atsuko is given a chance to prove herself to everyone.
Little Witch Academia is a cleverly cute movie about fulfilling dreams against all odds. Atsuko and her friends are interesting and funny, playing off of each other well. The animation is lovely to watch, unique in its own way. And overall, a story about witches and friendship can never go wrong.
7. Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale (Sword Art Online the Movie - Ordinal Scale)
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Air Date: Feb. 2017
One of the most recent releases on this list, Ordinal Scale is a long-awaited return to the popular Sword Art Online series. Four years after the events that brought Kirito and Asuna together, a new system called the Augma has been released, and it is more popular than ever. The Augma uses Augmented Reality (AR) technology to incorporate games into the real world, with its most popular being a product called Ordinal Scale. While Kirito is reluctant to join his friends in Ordinal Scale at first, he eventually decides to give it a try. But similarities between Ordinal Scale and the old world of Sword Art Online make Kirito and his friends start to question the new game…
For fans of Sword Art Online as it was in its first season, Ordinal Scale brings back many of the best aspects from the series. Kirito and Asuna are able to grow and change as characters, both together and separately. As always, the animation style is fluid and beautiful, especially during the fight sequences. The plot ties well into the past series, bringing back characters from all of Kirito’s exploits and tying in themes from the original game of Sword Art Online. Well worth the watch, Ordinal Scale is full of surprises.
6. Bakemono no Ko (The Boy and The Beast)
Air Date: Jul. 2015
In a blend of two completely different worlds, Bakemono no Ko tells the story of a young boy named Ren and a warrior named Kumatetsu. Ren has no family to return to after his mother dies and his father disappears, so he turns to the streets. Kumatetsu is next in line to become the lord of the beast realm, Shibuten, but he is so unfriendly that he would never be seriously considered unless he could find a disciple. When the two strangers find each other, they soon realize they are more similar than either of them would have guessed.
This movie is a heartwarming tale in which two complete strangers change each other’s lives. The way that Shibuten and Shibuya are linked together so effortlessly speaks to the fluidity of this fantasy, even as it alludes to the way that Ren and Kumatetsu are linked. The majority of this story relies on the characters and their development, which is why it succeeds so well. Ren and Kumatetsu are both such interesting characters that they hold the story up on their own. With so many touching moments, Bakemono no Ko is really an excellent movie, one that thoroughly deserves its place on this list.
5. Paprika
Air Date: Nov. 2006
One of the most fantastical and mysterious movies of the fantasy genre, Paprika is a blend of supernatural and technological achievements. When a new technology called the DC Mini is developed, Dr. Atsuko Chiba uses it to become Paprika and enter others’ dream worlds. As Paprika, she can see their deepest thoughts and emotions, allowing her to more effectively work through emotional and psychological problems. But when a DC Mini prototype is stolen, Paprika must find the culprit before they wreak havoc upon the very fabric of the dream world.
Paprika is an important addition to this list because of the number of issues it deals with throughout the film. This is certainly a more mature feature, dealing with deep human conditions and fears like depression and rape. The psychedelic animation style is extremely well done, and really adds to the mystical and horrific suspense of the story. While it may not be for everyone, Paprika is an excellent fantasy film if you’ve ever wondered what the dream world might look like.
4. Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo (Children Who Chase Lost Voices)
Air Date: May 2011
Asuna Watase has always been drawn to the mystery of strange sounds that seem to be coming from another world – particularly when those sounds are coming from an old crystal radio on a mountainside. When she is attacked by an unusual monster, a mysterious man rescues her and bids her to keep silent about the whole endeavor. However, when the man goes missing, Asuna finds her curiosity unable to abide any longer. Asuna goes searching for answers, and soon finds herself in a world she never knew existed, embroiled in an adventure she never could have imagined.
This film is probably one of the most beautifully animated on the list. One of Makoto Shinkai’s earlier works, Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo is a story that draws its audience in through mystery and suspense. Viewers learn the secrets of Agartha alongside Asuna – something which makes this fantasy movie far more compelling. Each of the characters change and develop through their problems, bringing them to a point where they can accept and find peace within themselves. Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo is something that everyone who loves fantasy should watch at least once.
3. Howl no Ugoku Shiro (Howl’s Moving Castle)
Sophie Hatter, a plain woman who works in a hat shop, is content with her life as it is. But when Sophie meets the mysterious wizard Howl, her life will change forever. She is cursed by a jealous scorned witch, turning her into an old woman. Sophie decides to find the wizard and his unusual moving castle, and sets out on an adventure that will concern the fate of the whole kingdom.
One of Studio Ghibli’s best works, Howl no Ugoku Shiro tells an epic tale of how one ordinary woman can change the world. Perhaps the best part of Sophie’s story is that she does not change too much, at least in terms of her abilities. As she learns about the world and changes as a person, she continues to be the same friendly and caring soul that she was when she started out on her quest. And it is these traits within her that cause her to succeed on her various endeavors. Howl no Ugoku Shiro is a beautiful film, with compelling characters and storyline, that shows off what a great fantasy protagonist is like.
2. Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki (Wolf Children)
When Hana falls in love with a mysterious man in one of her college classes, she never would have guessed that he was actually a werewolf! Despite her initial surprise, Hana remains with him and eventually they start a family. Unfortunately, Hana’s werewolf lover soon dies, leaving her with two unusual children who can turn into wolves. Hana decides to take Ame and Yuki to the countryside, hoping that they will be able to live a more normal life together.
A story of a single mother raising her children on her own, Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki is gorgeous and powerful. The animation perfectly captures the feel of the movie, giving Hana and her children more life. The growth of Hana, Ame and Yuki throughout the film allows the audience to connect to the story even more. This movie deserves all the accolades – especially when it comes to the fantasy realm.
1. Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke)
The top fantasy anime movie on our list is also one of Studio Ghibli’s greatest works. Mononoke Hime is about a young prince named Ashitaka, who is cursed by a boar after he defends his village. Banished to wander alone, Ashitaka sets out to find a cure for his curse. When he arrives at Tartara, he discovers a conflict between the people of the town and the spirits of the forest. Ashitaka then encounters the Princess San, who lives with the wolf spirits of the forest. The cursed prince continues to learn more about the spirits of nature and the push of civilization, as he struggles to unite the two before his curse takes full hold.
Mononoke Hime shows themes that are relevant and important, even today. Ashitaka’s desire to unite nature and civilization in peace is one of the biggest issues humanity faces. This film is beautiful and compelling in its animation style. Its tale is capable of making the audience think about wider issues in society and within themselves. All the while, people are immersed in the world Hayao Miyazaki has created. Despite the darkness that surrounds Ashitaka, he is able to struggle on, searching for a solution to bring hope and wholeness to the world once again.
Fantasy anime creates a new world for viewers to step into, giving them an opportunity to take a step back from life. And this genre has many elements that help build it up, including interesting and unique characters, an otherworldly setting, and a compelling storyline. But what makes the mark of a truly great fantasy story is its ability to make the audience think more deeply about themselves and the world around them, even as they are watching something that is nothing like this world.
This list is our compilation of the best fantasy anime movies. These are all films that offer the elements of fantasy while making viewers ponder wider questions about life, love and the state of society. So how did we do? Have you seen any of the movies on this list? Did we miss any that you feel ought to be included? As always, we love to hear from you!
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Pi Zero W Impersonates IPhone, Becomes Terminal
Al Williams
There’s something to be said for economies of scale and few things sell more than cell phones. Maybe that’s why [NODE] took inspiration from an iPhone slide out keyboard case to create this Pi Zero W-based portable terminal. This is actually his third iteration, and in the video below he explains why he has built the new version.
By housing the custom bits in a 3D-printed frame that is size compatible with the iPhone, [NODE] manages to leverage the slick slide out keyboard cases available for the phone. The iPhone in question is an older iPhone 5, so the cases are inexpensive, compared to the latest generation. On the other hand, the iPhone 5 is recent enough that it shouldn’t be hard to find a compatible case.
The circuitry itself is pretty straightforward: a battery, a charge controller, and an LCD display. The only complaint we could see was the lack of a control key on the keyboard.
Being a terminal, we would have appreciated bringing a serial port out. On the other hand, there is a full-size USB connector so you could plug in a serial cable. There’s also a micro port for charging and a small HDMI connector, which means you could use an available HDMI device as a full-size screen if you like. Although you can see a prototype, [NODE] is still refining the 3D printed parts and plans to release them soon. Having seen the prototype, you can grab the dimensions of your target phone and duplicate something similar if you’re up for a challenge.
[NODE] clearly likes portable Linux systems since we’ve seen him cobbling together slightly larger laptops before. Of course, everyone loves the Pi and that’s why we’ve also been keeping our eye on the ZeroPhone. Of course many like to play games on their phones. If you’d rather play on a real iPhone, there’s always this simple method.
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, Cellphone Hacks, Raspberry PiTagged iphone, keyboard, raspberry pi, Raspberry Pi Zero W
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18 thoughts on “Pi Zero W Impersonates IPhone, Becomes Terminal”
Ivan Belous says:
Reminds me an good old Nokia N900
Gravy_enthusiast says:
Which reminds me of Maddox’s similar rant many moons ago :)
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
Cool build though :)
Same, they were brilliant, you can still buy them now and then, but they are now collectable so expensive. This Pi hack is a great substitute, but no self respecting Qeng Ho would accept anything less than a full HUD these days….
“On the other hand, the iPhone 5 is recent enough that it should be hard to find a compatible case.” I think you’re missing a “not” somewhere in that sentence…
moosepr says:
would probably benefit from this!!
https://hackaday.io/project/20322-picb-tft
Tis cool for sure, but seeing linux with slider keyboard really just makes me sad that Nokia/Elop/Microsoft killed the Linux N-series line, a cool terminal but not a flagship grade phone or tablet. People worldwide clamored for even the de-keyboarded(vs the dev loan only N950) Maemo6/Meego Linux N9, but the ink was dry with the selling of Nokia’s soul to MSFT, then the company, and then the platform did truly burn to ashes.
Android uses a hacked kernel which is approaching convergence with mainline but it is not real linux until I can port a QT built app or even just x11 without needing to chroot.
Betelgeuse (@Betelgeizs) says:
True, I also truly miss maemo. I used to own N800, it was such a fun system to work with, in true linux spirit.
Also, I want to add, if you have an app purely written in Qt you can probably “easily” compile it for android.
bitsquirrel says:
Not being able to port a Qt or X11 app to Android has nothing to do with the kernel. X11 apps need an X server.
Qt apps are actually much easier to port than X11 apps, as Qt is designed from the ground up to work on different platforms with different display APIs. Qt apps can already be ported to Android.
Steven Gann says:
I just miss physical keyboards on phones.
The keyboards were nice but they always came with so many compromises in other aspects of the design that I can’t bring myself to miss them, at least after the dawn of the smartphone era.
CRImier says:
Could you please elaborate? I’m thinking of making a small standalone keyboard using the N900 plastic parts you can get from China, and a custom PCB, and I’m trying to understand if others would be interested in that as well.
Xbox 360 chatpad (touches finger to nose).
They are still available. I have two at the moment.
KnightFire says:
Sadly I appear to be one of the few Western Canadians to own a Psion, I’m seriously considering this:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gemini-pda-android-linux-keyboard-mobile-device-phone/#/
But am a wee worried due to the Spectrum Vega+ debockle.
localhost says:
This is a hack: it makes something do what it wasn’t designed to do. These keyboard weren’t designed to be used with a Pi in a 3D-printed enclosure.
It looks like my Nintendo DS-based SSH terminal (which is also a hack since the DS wasn’t meant to be used as a terminal), but at least this one has a real physical keyboard instead of a virtual one displayed on a touchscreen. Resistive touchscreens are much better than capacitive ones anyway so an on-screen keyboard on a DS is actually usable (even Nintendo developed a text-based chat program for the DS which featured a very small keyboard). Also, having two separate screens for terminal and keyboard means it looks like a laptop for cats. No, that doesn’t mean cats can use it.
This build has one defect, though: the keyboard has its own battery and has to be switched on and charged independently. Removing that battery, leaving the power switch to “on” (if there is one) and powering the keyboard directly would be a better solution.
dfgre says:
Resistive touchscreens better? riiiiiiiight.
Wireless keyboard is a great idea, if you want your password leaked.
Hash says:
Check out Noodle Pi. 19mm thin, with hi-res screen, battery, charger, camera, keyboard dock for mini backlit keyboard+trackpad. Completely DIYable in minutes without any tools. http://noodlepi.com
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Are There Better Things To Hurl Into Orbit Than A Sports Car?
Jenny List
We’ve been having a lively discussion behind the scenes here at Hackaday, about SpaceX’s forthcoming launch of their first Falcon Heavy rocket. It will be carrying [Elon Musk]’s red Tesla Roadster, and should it be a successful launch, it will place the car in an elliptical orbit round the Sun that will take it to the Martian orbit at its furthest point.
On one hand, it seems possible that [Musk]’s sports car will one day be cited by historians as the exemplar of the excesses of the tech industry in the early 21st century. After all, to spend the millions of dollars required to launch the largest reusable space launch platform ever created, and then use it to hurl an electric vehicle into orbit round the Sun seems to be such a gratuitous waste of resources, an act of such complete folly as to be criminal.
Surely even given that there is a reasonable chance of a first launch ending in fiery destruction it must be worth their while canvassing the universities and research institutions of the world with the offer of a free launch, after all there must be a significant amount of science that would benefit from some cost-free launch capacity! It seems a betrayal of the famous “Why explore space” letter from the associate science director of NASA to a nun who questioned the expenditure while so many in the developing world were starving.
But on the other hand, first launches of rockets are a hazardous endeavour, as the metaphorical blue touchpaper is lit on the world’s largest firework for the first time. Satellites are expensive devices, and it would be a foolhardy owner who entrusted their craft to a launch vehicle with a good chance of a premature splashdown.
Launch of first Arianne 5. Not where you want your pricey satellite.
First launches traditionally carry a ballast rather than a payload, for example NASA have used tanks of water for this purpose in the past. SpaceX has a history of novelty payloads for their test launches; their first Dragon capsule took a wheel of cheese into space and returned it to Earth. We picture Musk looking around a big warehouse and saying, “well, we got a lot of cars!”
There is a fascinating question to be posed by the launch of the car, just what did they have to do to it to ensure that it could be qualified for launch? Satellite manufacture is an extremely exacting branch of engineering, aside from the aspect of ensuring that a payload will work it must both survive the launch intact and not jeopardise it in any way. It’s safe to say that the Roadster will not have to function while in orbit as the roads of California will be far away, but cars are not designed with either the stresses of launch or the transition to zero gravity and the vacuum of space in mind. Will a glass windscreen originally specified for a Lotus Elise on the roads of Norfolk shatter during the process and shower the inside of the craft with glass particles, for example? There must have been an extensive space qualification programme for it to pass, from vibration testing through removal of any hazards such as pressurised gases or corrosive chemicals, if only the folks at SpaceX would share some its details that would make for a fascinating story in itself.
So the Tesla Roadster is a huge publicity stunt on behalf of SpaceX, but it serves a purpose that would otherwise have to have been taken by an unexciting piece of ballast. It will end up as space junk, but in an orbit unlikely to bring it into contact with any other craft. If its space-suited dummy passenger won’t be providing valuable data on the suit’s performance we’d be extremely surprised, and when it is finally retrieved in a few centuries time it will make a fascinating exhibit for the Smithsonian.
Given a huge launch platform and the chance to fill it with a novelty item destined for orbit,the Hackaday team stepped into overdrive with suggestions as to what might be launched were they in charge. They varied from Douglas Adams references such as a heart of gold or a whale and a bowl of petunias should the rocket abort and the payload crash to earth, to a black monolith and a few ossified ape remains to confuse space historians. We briefly evaluated the theory that the Boring Company is in fact a hiding-in-plain-sight construction organisation for a forthcoming Evil Lair beneath the surface of Mars, before concluding that maybe after all the car is a pretty cool thing to use as ballast for a first launch.
It may be reaching towards seven decades since the first space programmes successfully sent rockets beyond the atmosphere with the aim of exploration, but while the general public has become accustomed to them as routine events they remain anything but to the engineers involved. The Falcon Heavy may not have been developed by a government, but it represents every bit as astounding an achievement as any of its predecessors. Flinging an electric vehicle into orbit round the Sun is a colossal act of showmanship and probably a waste of a good car, but it’s also more than that. In hundreds of years time the IoT devices, apps, 3D printers, quadcopters or whatever else we toil over will be long forgotten. But there will be a car orbiting the Sun that remains a memorial to the SpaceX engineers who made its launch possible, assuming it doesn’t blow up before it gets there. What at first seemed frivolous becomes very cool indeed.
Posted in Current Events, Featured, RantsTagged car, electric car, Elon Musk, Falcon Heavy, space, SpaceX, tesla, Tesla Roadster
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151 thoughts on “Are There Better Things To Hurl Into Orbit Than A Sports Car?”
I contemplated offering my 1994 Citroen bx break as a swap with the roadster. But no,i would miss it beyond measure. Although a roadster would buy me all bx-ses in existance… hmmm.
No says:
Citroens are made to hover over bumpy roads, not to orbit the sun ;-)
I would never ever offer my 2CV – never!
I remember back in 2002 my parents had to pay a hunded bucks to get rid of our Citroen AX.
An AX is not a BX. I bought mine for 1k six years ago but prices are rising slowly again as with every old car at a certain age.
Tore Lund says:
The AX is a nice car with incredible fuel economy. I have a neighbour that a few years ago parted with her old AX and got another old AX.
“Satellites are expensive devices”: So are Teslas.
“well, we got a lot of cars!”: He must not have been looking at the Tesla 3s. (Am I allowed to use the plural when referring to the Tesla 3?)
Alex Williams says:
A typical satellite costs between 50mil and 400mil, the tesla roadster can be bought for about 0.05mil – I would say there’s a difference.
Yes. I was being snarky.
raukk687 says:
doh, they strip out anything that looks like html tags…
RÖB says:
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Are you sure positive they strip out HTML tags?
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Elliot Williams says:
I bet Musk gets a discount on them…
Tesla’s are around 100 Grand, a satellite of equal weight is around 100 Million, that’s 1000 times more expensive.
And it’s Elons car so don’t forget the second hand price drop.
CRJEEA says:
Although there is the celebrity connection factor.
andarb says:
Perhaps he plans to someday retrieve the vehicle with a future mission, as a “test run” for something else. Two birds, one stone.
default_ex says:
I’m seeing in our future a witty CL ad after the successful recovery of the Tesla. “Astronomical milage” and “runs good in harsh conditions” being selling points.
slight radiation damage, one carefull owner, never raced or rallied.
Allen Richter says:
Definitely taken off-road.
Andy66 says:
Odometer may not be accurate
Olsen says:
With the self-driving features, it’d make a “great” rover.
No lowballers, I know what I have.
Perhaps shipping it ahead of his move?
I see a new space race happening, who will steal the first car in orbit?
That’s what GTO stands for, right?
Grand Theft Orbit
Doug Leppard says:
Agree fully. What a good laugh and bragging rights.
Andrew Yeomans says:
Is there room for Russell’s teapot too?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
Brian Benchoff says:
There absolutely may be a teapot in the trunk of the Tesla.
dcfusor2015 says:
Wouldn’t surprise me, Elon does have a sense of humor (remember the RUD video with Python music?).
I like this joke I saw someplace:
Koenigsegg or Thrust SSC – fastest car ever!
Elon – Hold my beer…
richfiles says:
Elon’s beer can probably hold itself on little tiny thrusters. :P
Tom Walton says:
That’s the real tragedy – an opportunity to prove Russell right may well be being ignored. I feel a Change.Org petition coming on…
Nitori says:
What about a a Commodore Vic-20?
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=7455
Can you prove it isn’t in the glove box, wrapped in bubble-wrap?
macegr says:
Starman’s towel is in there, not much room left
jimrm says:
The largest space launch platform ever created? Did you forget about the Saturn V? It could lift over twice as much as the Falcon Heavy.
Buckaroo says:
Beat me to it. If successful, the Falcon Heavy will be the highest boost rocket currently in use, but they’ve got a long way to go before they top the Saturn V. Maybe the BFR, but that’s a long way down the road (hell, maybe they’ll beat the SLS to launch).
Chris friberg says:
No need to be more powerful. Theyre launching a car that has more technology in it than anything NASA ever built.
Bump,
This bugged me to; most news sites are saying the most powerful ever, the correct ones say the most powerful in service. I understand the copy and paste news sites getting it wrong, but I expect Hackaday to be better than that.
Saturn V
N1 (never successful)
Energia (maybe)
Energia definitely was more powerful and the full inline version Vulkan would have dethroned the Saturn V by a good margin.
http://www.buran-energia.com/energia/vulcain-vulkan-desc.php
Energia 100 Tonnes to LEO
biosehnsucht says:
Shuttle’s payload to orbit was actually pretty abysmal if you wanted to launch something other than the shuttle itself (i.e. a satellite or station module in the shuttle’s cargo bay). As a way of getting people in and out of orbit, it was a lot of wasted mass for the purpose, and as a way of getting satellites and such to orbit, also inefficient …
But shuttle gets to claim the entire orbiter as “payload” by some metrics, so ranks highly in terms of payload mass to LEO.
Agreed, more powerful but for what? Nothing.
Jenny List says:
Oops, apologies, yes. Failure of reading the blurb rather than going back through the specs, sorry.
Mike Szczys says:
Point taken, I added “reusable” to that claim. Thanks.
Pax says:
tanks of oxygen & escape/command module for re-entry are something that could be usefull for future manned missions.
co2 scrubbers & even rolls of ducktape would be more usefull.
This would be about as useful as a barge in the ocean filled with food, life vests and a other supplies.
Even if it exists, you’re probably so far away from it that it’s pointless.
BNBN says:
But if you can swim few hundred miles/fly a few billion km… free food!
Devadath P R says:
ok…….wait ,did you say 3D printers will be forgotten in a few hundred years?WTF? Injection molding is far more likely to disappear
Why not both disappearing? Hopefully we can figure out some synthesis method that isn’t really additive or subtractive.
RunnerPack says:
“Diamond Age”-style synthesizers would be cool.
The 3D printer or whatever that *you are toiling over* will be forgotten.
Joshua Lind says:
I work at an injection molding plant (making mostly plastic medical parts) and I had a short discussion with one of the mold techs and brought up that same exact point. Injection molding may actually be on the way out, not soon soon, but soon enough.
ThisGuy says:
When it comes to large scale production, there is currently no competition. Injection molding wins without breaking a sweat. I doubt the economics will ever make injection molding obsolete. The speed with which you can churn out plastic parts using an injection molding machine makes it nearly impossible to beat using any other process. Injection molding allows a plant to spit out 2 million food packaging containers every day. Or tens of thousands of plastic buckets, hundreds of thousands of coffee maker shells, etc, etc.
The sheer speed of the process when producing million piece runs of something is what makes injection molding work. 3d printing processes will find a place in the lower number runs, but it will never push injection molding out of the market.
ehud42 says:
Why not build a frame to accommodate a bunch of cube state style modules, put minimal centralized solar/battery/communication infrastructure and then donate the space to high schools to build cube stats? Let the schools / kids know that for free they are getting a chance to blow up something. And if it doesn’t blow up, then their payload gets to space! Win-win!
This would have been a great idea, but would be a lot of lead time; 3,000 pounds of cubesat is a lot, and would need to be built, tested, flight certified, etc.
Also if it was going to LEO rather than near mars then it’d need much more weight.
I wonder if they reached out to Universities and Research organizations that had built satellites but ran out of funding for the launch, though they probably couldn’t launch that many at once due to orbits and such. I’ll assume they looked into it.
It’s been done before…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWMPe3wF9jQ
And this is how we get Loc-Nars!
huntdesigns says:
You beat me to it, This idea of car in space is not new!! Great that he’s making it real…
Too bad you cant even get close to doing some sort of lifting body landing on mars like in the video. There is a remake with modern CGI that gets the final and braking chute looking much less confusing.
Matt Cramer says:
Nicely done, but it was rather amusing to see the animator edited it so you didn’t see the chute until it was already deployed. Building a CGI model of the chute deploying would have been a nightmare.
George Kapotto says:
I think the car is a great idea. It has a random(-ish) payload distribution and Musk wants to get into mars colony ships at some point. His rockets will need on-board controllers that can handle an asymmetric loads without lots of pre-calculation and ground input. The car may represent a practical initial test of the flight control mechanisms.
And onward for some speculative thinking…
Many of the less resilient vehicle components (such as the battery) may have been removed or replaced with dummy parts. If all goes well the car is destined for an orbit that is intersects Mars’ orbit. Since the payload is nowhere close to the maximum capacity, it is not inconceivable that Spacex has loaded enough fuel for an orbital insertion maneuver around Mars in 8 months or so. Although getting permission considering the contamination risk of a crash might be challenging. Finally, once Spacex gets to Mars, there will be a need for test landings. It would be convenient if there was a test object already handy to validate the landing process. And then, once you re-installed all the more fragile elements carefully shipped carefully at a later date, this could be the first functioning sports car on Mars.
Ostracus says:
At the least we’ll find out what happens to EV materials long term when exposed to space.
I know that’s the main reason I’ve not yet bought one.
Have a look at fuel savings. My EV (second hand) paid for itself in less than two years on fuel savings alone.
I’ll wait for Elon’s vacuum test to be done before investing :-P
Who exactly would you have to contact to get “permission” to land on Mars? Is there an owner of Mars out there I’m unaware of?
aquaba says:
International treaty, spacex is us company, therefore us gov is the one to force them to comply . I would guess at this level it is a matter of talking with high level nasa people and finding a sight out of the way. Politically I doubt anyone will say no to a free (non taxpayer) mission to mars.
I understand the point of this article but that’s not how private property works ;)
FW says:
Made my day.
Modzer0 says:
It’s a clever ballast load for the rocket, nothing else. It would normally be a big concrete block or a tank of water. The rocket has to have a ballast payload, and at least with the roadster it’s novel and attention getting.
Precisely. The main goals of a first test flight are to (1) make sure the rocket doesn’t explode, (2) make sure the rocket actually ends up where it’s supposed to be, and (3) ensure that there aren’t any other issues that would destroy the payload, such as vibration. A joke ballast doesn’t add much to the cost of the mission, and offers a much better payoff in terms of publicity.
And using something that was not very symmetric and not really designed for space flight may help make this a worst-case scenario.
I also share my disappointment with those who thought a teapot would be a great payload. But now, Elon Musk could declare after the launch that only he knows for sure if there is an invisible teapot orbiting the sun. That might be an even better joke.
Well, in addition to a few points in the history books. The first sports car in space, and the fastest sports car in the solar system.
If he says he knows for sure that means there is a teapot orbiting the sun because the only way he could be sure is by putting one there.
There are millions of tea pots orbiting the sun. (think about it)
:-/ slightly missing the point
Vinny says:
I read on twitter that there will be a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on Tesla’s glove compartment.
Elon knows his audience all too well
Fracking geeks!!
What, no towel?
Keep calm, there will be a towel.
On a whim, I dare a private company or university to send a satellite with no radiation hardened or military spec parts. And without Boeing or NASA mess of subcontractor markup, pointless oversight, and ridiculous made-up specs.
I double-dare you to do that.
I dog dare you to do that!
I’m fairly certain cadets at the US Naval Academy have already meet your dare, in regards to satellite construction is concerned, as had many other universities, and amateur groups. Eschewing radiation hardened components is a judgement call ,my recollection is the Navy Academy didn’t because not using them was part of their overall experiment. Most projects begin with “made-up spec”. Most projects proceed with oversight, only a matter of personal opinion if it’s pointless. Whenever there are subcontractors their is going to be markup, again it’s personal opinion if it’s excessive. In the event Musk’s launches ever allow free rides to orbit alongside paid rides the free payload will have to meet similar mad-up secs as government launches now demand. That’s good business practice if it’s a government or private space agency providing the launches.
Bunsen says:
This happens all the time with cubesats. Aside from some exotic high-efficiency solar cells, the electronics can usually be entirely sourced from Digi-Key. Commercial electronics work fine for short missions in low orbits. Rad-hard parts only become necessary if you want long (many-year) lifespans and/or high altitudes.
Couldn’t Elon find a Tesla employee named Russel to donate a teapot?
Tyranis Khan says:
The official launch music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lERqGULWxs
Marke3 says:
I expect the new mileage claims in the brochure will be pretty impressive…
Soon Enough says:
Someone has too much money to waste.
Richard Collins says:
Elon Musk is from the future. He’s a time traveller.
He’s a conman, hat’s for sure.
RobM says:
Not sure if typo, or really clever…
Greenaum says:
I say we send him to space. Whether he wants to go or not.
Great way to hide murder evidence…
Just saying… Do not actually believe it.
alksfsaadfdjflkj@alsdfdkjf.com says:
Hackaday is the last place I would see a post about “why” someone would do something. Maybe a comment but not a post.
Because it will generate lots of clicks for advertisers.
No it wo… shit.
bty says:
beautiful launch, mind blowing simultaneous landing of the boosters, thank you Elon, for giving us this absolutely epic event, giving us our long term dreams and opening up new frontiers ! <3
so did the center core make it to the landing platform ?
CityZen says:
Not quite, unless you count the shrapnel. Apparently, it ran out of propellant and hit the water at 500km/h, missing the boat by 100m.
Robert Mateja says:
That landing was so COOL! History made in front of my eyes, priceless.
evilmadscience says:
Just what we need, more space junk. We should consider launching Elon Musk into orbit. Now that would be cool.
Orbiting between Earth and Mars it’s not really an issue, is it?
chandwki says:
People always have to have some cynical bullshit to say about literally anything.
Jelly?
Even a tank full of distilled water, or other potential supplies, plus solar panels and a beacon etc., would have been more reasonable. If you are going to leave crap in orbit around the Earth or the rest of the solar system you may as well make it useful and reusable crap. I see Musk’s stunt as thoughtless egomania and nothing more.
PuceBaboon says:
” If you are going to leave crap in orbit around the Earth or the rest of the solar system you may as well make it useful and reusable crap.”
That’s why we’ve placed lawyers and politicians into space.
Establishing depots is part of “How not to end up a famously dead explorer. 101”
New rockets typically get tested with boilerplate models of their eventual payload. Those literally are weights shaped like the payload to come. That’s no different than what’s done now, except that this is a good joke. I don’t see people objecting to the conventional method of testing new rockets, so it’s a bit odd so many people are getting their panties in a bunch now.
Besides, a supply of whatever on this trajectory is as useless as this car. You won’t ever get to it again. So why not have some fun?
Maybe the car will turn out to be really useful to someone one day.
I hope they did not forget to cancel the insurance,
Now Safelite can do an April Fools Day commercial. Send up a Safelite themed Dragon capsule with e tech to repair a space debris chip in the Tesla’s windshield. “Safelite Repair, Safelite in Space.”
B^)
I wonder if in 20 years we will see a HaD article about the teenagers on the Mars Colony who managed to get the capsule to land so they could charge it up and do donuts….
Saabman says:
The reason for the Tesla in space I thought was rather obvious yet very few people seem to have thought likewise.
Purely and simply cheap advertising.
Space x, Tesla and Elon Musk just got way more attention than any overprice ad during some “sporting” event. And they got to test their new rocket as well.
And they used an old car, so if it burned up on the launch pad, far less egg in their face. And they still get a global advertisement, maybe even more eyes watching. They could spend 50 years of advertisement budget on this one gimmick, it is not like people have stopped talking about the first soft moon landing Luna-9 in 1966, or have they ?
One comedian said that Neal Armstrong could have been set for life, when he stepped onto The Moon, if he instead said, “Coca-Cola!”
Whatnot says:
Will be funny if the car hits something 500 years from now and the car insurance company forgot to cancel the coverage :)
Every news item (and reddit headlines) mention how it’s a nice and clever marketing combination with advertising for Tesla while testing a rocket.
Not sure where you find that majority that didn’t think of that, Afghanistan? (sorry, I went with a funny at the risk of sounding a bit sneering. Humor first!)
MalibuJack says:
A Tesla Auto in space makes sense, you have higher end consumer electronics and materials, manufactured using relatively inexpensive manufacture processes. It’s already an integrated system and capable of carrying a test payload, a space suit. All of which can be tested for survivability in space under harsh conditions for as long as possible. If any or all of the technology survives the trip, it answers a ton of questions about what is really necessary and the costs.
Perhaps the amateur radio community should petition Elon Musk to finance the construction of a constellation of amateur radio communications satellites and putting them into orbit. Yea I know that isn’t the publicity stunt Musk is looking for, but putting a Tesla car in a solar orbit, isn’t going to sell Tesla cars, so he should stick to terrestrial exhibitions of his cars, and use earth orbits of practical satellites to promote his space launch capabilities.
James Analytic says:
Maybe for GPS or some sort of telemetry type auto function maybe? Now for communications… I almost want to say that may be why Steve Job’s died (not sure if assassinated on some days) from cancer. The conspiracy is that he wanted to start his own telecommunications satellite network like unique HD formatting, though with a unique carrier signal. That was the next system he wanted to invest in.
John Rockefeller says:
He does charity projects, but Starlink doesn’t really count as one. Look it up.
RandyKC says:
In orbit for a billion years?
I heard the wait-lists were long but that’s the longest wait-list I’ve ever heard.
Freman says:
Hey Elon, if you’re throwing away perfectly good teslas… My driveway is available as your dumping ground…
fdf says:
It sounds like a contest – just make big enough returnable spaceship that costs less than Tesla and here you are :)
That is the largest misuse of the word ‘just’ I’ve seen for a long time. :-D
You know how this stuff is: The minute the stupid thing leaves the planet it depreciates!
Once it rolls over a million miles I think it will need a new set of tires. And just finding a charging station is going to be tough.
darkspr1te says:
I wonder if the satnav aboard is guiding it?
That could be really interesting, I wonder how far out its sat nav could work.
fm` says:
The most expensive car commercial ever!
I wonder what the point of this post was, as it doesn’t really SAY much of anything. But then I see the number of comments and remember that clicks = money and it’s obvious. But since I’m already here, I figure a proper comment is in order.
One thing you need to remember is that getting into space isn’t the rarity it was even 5 years ago. Between SpaceX and the other up-and-coming launch providers, there’s no shortage of affordable rides to space for cubesats and the like. Especially if you are a school, in which case NASA has programs to get your payload into space at low or no cost.
So why gamble with the satellite your school spent so much time and money to build? No launch is 100% guaranteed, but given the 50/50 shot of blowing up that Elon was giving the Heavy, I’d rather wait it out if it was my payload.
But perhaps more to the point, they are a private company and can do whatever the hell they damn well please. Way to go SpaceX, that was a hell of a show yesterday.
I saw the news on this on a few channels and oddly enough only the Chinese news actually had a SpaceX guy to talk about it, and he did mention that the car would be exposed to a lot of things like temperature changes and radiation and solar wind and aging and that that would cause wear and tear when he was asked about the ‘millions of years in orbit thing
Anyway the point is that if you want to now then you should contact SpaceX themselves and not hope on others in the media to ask relevant questions.
Way back when during the shuttle program they retrieved a satellite that had test materials. Finding out what long-term exposure did to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Duration_Exposure_Facility
Most of that damage was due to atomic oxygen in low earth orbit. In deep space, things will last longer.
jafinch78 says:
Ozone?
foxpup says:
This combined with the Boring Flamethrower is a real window into Elon’s psychology. He’s doing calculated “wild” things to help feed his cult of personality so his loyal minions and investors stay inspired. This guy is building an empire fore himself. He hopes to dominate the auto, transportation, energy, and eventually communications industries when he starts using all this lifting capacity to provide superior cell phone service to the entire planet. (It’s NOT all about Mars) All this combined with cryptocurrencies could synergise into an industrial machine the world has never seen, bigger than the steel/coal/railroad synergy of age-old. We could be looking at the worlds first multi-trillionaire and we would all be his minions. (not me, business partner and friend, maybe, but not minion) This guy is brilliant, kind of like another dynamic, tweeting, extremely influential multi-billionaire I can think of of whom I’m also fond of.
I’m still not convinced that isn’t David Bowie, freeze dried or otherwise, in that space suit or some other recently deceased. Some might pay big bucks to be the Star-Man as a final “resting-place”
jedi says:
I was thinking the same thing.. but another thing i was thinking is if I would have sent the Tesla into space, there would be an RTG or something to keep the battery charged, and a few other minor additions to make it do useful satellite things. but there’s not exactly a lot of trunk space in that car. He said the battery would last about 12 hours. if the battery is just powering the radio I would expect it to last much longer than that, unless they downsized the battery.. and if it’s not the real David Bowie inside, i would think there would be sensors and something to transmit data inside. i wonder if they deflated the tires, are the batteries gonna get all puffy, and how much does it cost for the common man to buy one of those space suits? i’ve got more questions than answers.. having this thing live stream 24/7 and have some means of charging the batteries, and its own website to visit, like watchingpaintdry.com or whatever, seems that would have more entertainment value than a 4 hour YT stream replaying over and over, by random channels, advertised as ‘LIVE’. would be cool if he would pop the trunk and deploy some satellites, or send one to the moon that can function as a self driving/remotely driven lunar rover.
Daren Schwenke says:
“battery would last about 12 hours”: Probably just due to the temperature drop they will cease to function… if they are there at all.
“i wonder if they deflated the tires”: The extra 15 psi you gain from surface to orbit wouldn’t matter much. Then again, you will have a rather good solar collector with the carbon black in them so they may explode from heat if not deflated. My money is on run-flats and no valve stems.
iqra2095 says:
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M Kelsall says:
Escape velocity, that’s the fastest any production car has gone… ever..
G Yates says:
It has been disappointing but not in any way surprising to see all the whining from the cave dwellers complaining about SpaceX. It helps explain why post Apollo we have seen little advancement in Space Exploration involving humans. Little did I suspect that when, as a kid, I saw Armstrong leave that famous footprint that 50 years later we would have not escaped what is the Earths upper atmosphere.
Elon Musk has done more in a decade, on minimal funding, than the incumbents have managed to do with trillions of dollars of public subsidy over decades.
To this end he requires a few key things to keep moving forward:
• A steady supply of the best of the generation STEAM grads wanting to buy into the Mars dream and be every bit as passionate and enthusiastic as he is.
• Public understanding and support to offset the strongly biased and often negative press that comes from the incumbents that are seeing their safe income bases rapidly eroding.
• Investors to help when necessary to keep progress occurring in the face of the occasional clash with the laws of physics.
The Tesla launch has generated some of the most surreal iconic images of the generation which wove in a tip of the hat to other generational heroes such as Bowie and Douglas Adams. The vehicle has become a monument to a pivotal test flight that drew a new line in the sand on what is possible and marked it with a far richer imagery to which the general public can buy into.
• Tesla motors has just got some of the most mind blowing material for an ad campaign.
• Kids contemplating science know which super kewl boss they want to go and work for.
• Politicians probably want to give this guy some respect as there may be some public blowback if they fail to do so.
• Billions of people on the planet now know who Elon Musk is.
• Most importantly don’t ever write off any of Elon Musk’s so called “crazy ideas”. Most sadly like Armstrong you may find yourself on the wrong side of history.
And so this brings us to the most important goal which seems to drive Musk. In a word Humanity 2.0, the Mars backup drive. Those who deride him as an aspiring mega-industrialist fail to understand his driving goal and it’s implications. Perhaps they should just smile and thank him for seeing to the security and longevity of the human race by providing an option to avoid the Great Filter. Little chance of this given both the general level of ignorance of science that exists these days and the willingness of the most ignorant to scream the loudest in the media.
Sad to see this community fan that flame.
Don’t forget a few people needed to be shot dead at NASA and ODNI as well as some other international agencies as well as others in leadership positions exposed for partying with the kiddos and in some cases where the Vatican has came out in the past… murdering the kidnapped children they’d molest off the street. I think some of the kills are public or at least were at one time… and I’m not talking about the crazy female astronaut murders either.
Marc T says:
A source of inspiration?
Episode “The 37’s” – A 1936 Ford truck is found floating in space.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_37%27s_(episode)
Now that is public engagement. 14,130,345 views of the 4 hour silent video of Starman Live on the SpaceX Youtube channel. I doubt that launching a concrete mass simulator would have attracted such a large audience as a chillin’ dude in a sportscar cruising off to Mars achieved…
launching the tesla is the perfect choice hands down because:
– it is extremely cool unlike launching a concrete block to space
– it does not cost much (since it is elon’s old roadster collecting dust)
ABOUT SPACE JUNK
calling the car in space is ‘junk’ is stupid, it should rather be called ‘gem’
and space junk orbiting the sun can’t cause any problems , only space junk orbiting the earth will
since the car orbits the sun it won’t hurt.
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Randolph, NY: New Rural Mill Location
Danielle Myers’ Petrichorpaper is moving to the countryside and will be offering artist residencies starting in Summer 2017. See all the details and help support the project at
Pennsylvania, USA: Fiber Art International Exhibit
Pittsburgh’s Fiber Art International 2016 runs through July 31 at Society for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, and will then travel. More information is available at http://fiberartinternational.org.
“From Pulp to Fiction” Article
An article on University of Cambridge’s Research page tells of a project called “Mapping Paper in Medieval England,” tracking the earliest uses of paper in the country. Take a look for a fascinating overview of this historical exploration of “our love affair with paper:” www.cam.ac.uk
Helen Hiebert Retrospective: Website and Catalog
The Secret Life of Paper is a retrospective exhibition of Helen Hiebert’s work at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center (KBAC) April 8-29. A companion website for those who cannot make the exhibition is available at http://helenhiebertstudio.com/products/the-secret-life-of-paper/. A special catalog is being produced in conjunction with the exhibition. Find out more and order a copy here: http://helenhiebertstudio.com/products/retrospective-catalog/
If you are in the area, mark you calendar for a lecture at Western Michigan University on April 6th at 5:30 p.m. and Opening Reception at the KBAC on April 8th from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. For more information visit http://kalbookarts.org/.
Papermaking Expertise Needed for a Program in Haiti
Haiti Partners is a non-profit with the goal of “helping Haitians change Haiti through education.” We develop schools that help children realize their potential while driving community development and lifelong learning. We currently run one school of our own and we partner with six more. We’ve been building our curriculum at the school and adding adult programs in entrepreneurship at the same time. We’ve been investigating possible social businesses that can put our families to work in this poor area, and can support the school financially. And lately we’ve been generating a lot of excitement around the potential of making handmade paper and associated products. Many among our supporters and networks in the US have expressed interest in helping us sell products.
A few months ago we tested some very low-tech papermaking methods, and discussed the venture with several Haitian retailers and wholesalers of craft goods engaged in business development. Although currently no one is creating paper/cards/ bags to sell locally, these products were available in the past and individuals have received our ideas positively.
We created a job description for someone to help us develop an artisan papermaking social business at Children’s Academy in Haiti. We are willing to help with room and board and a stipend. We already have a man and woman team of trusted Haitian colleagues, both in their 20’s, ready to receive training and help get things set up. Read more details at https://haitipartners.org/childrens-academy/artisan-paper-social-business-in-haiti-seeks-entrepreneurial-paper-making-partner/ We have a great facility in the mountains 20 minutes south of Port au Prince, complete with diesel powered electricity. We also collect rain water into a 50,000 gallon reservoir.
We’re really excited about papermaking, and putting the service hours of our parents to productive use in creating a product that has a simple elegance and a potent message. Please spread the word about this opportunity.
Appreciatively,
Jodie Kitchens
jodie@haitipartners.org
PORTFOLIO ARTISTS ANNOUNCED
Thirty intergenerational artists have been selected to participate in Hand Papermaking’s 12th limited-edition portfolio, partnering as equals to explore the interdependence and reciprocity of a constructive relationship between generations.
The fifteen collaborative teams are Tom Balbo & May Babcock, Velma Bolyard & Genevieve Lapp, Melissa Jay Craig & Katharine Delamater, Michael Durgin & Yang Changhe, Sue Gosin & Lara Henderson, Joan Hall & Sarah Rose Lejeune, Mary Hark & Ibrahim Mahama, Tana Kellner & Emily Chaplain, Tom Leech & Lindsey Fromm, Julie McLaughlin & Johan Solberg, Catherine Nash & Radha Pandey, Peter Sowiski & Flora Shum, Peter Thomas & Jillian Bruschera, Bernie Vinzani & Emma Sovich, Gibby Waitzkin & Jennaway Pearson.
This latest addition to Hand Papermaking’s series of distinctive portfolios is being compiled and overseen by guest curator Tatiana Ginsberg. Steve Miller is the designer. Mina Takahashi is the editor.
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FLORIDA: USA: Islamic World Papermaking Workshop
Islamic World Papermaking, with Radha Pandey at Florida Atlantic University’s Jaffe Book Arts Center, Boca Raton, Florida, Thursday & Friday March 17 & 18, 2016
Experience Islamic papermaking and learn the techniques first hand by making paper and participating in the dyeing of dried sheets, surface sizing, and burnishing.
Radha Pandey is papermaker and letterpress printer from New Delhi, India. She earned an MFA in Book Arts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2014. During her time at the Center, she studied fine press printing, bookbinding and calligraphy, with a special focus on traditional Western, Japanese and Islamic world papermaking techniques taught by Tim Barrett. As part of her studies, she traveled to investigate Islamic papermaking techniques in India between 2012 and 2014, and has since undertaken her own research on the essential tools of Islamic-style papermaking, including moulds and chapri (‑flexible mould surface) weaving.
For registration details, visit www.library.fau.edu.
Austria: Classes at PaperWasp
PapierWespe (PaperWasp) offers workshops in English and German taught by paper specialists in downtown Vienna. Upcoming classes include…
Bamboo, Light, Paper, April 23-24, with Anna Rubin. Create bamboo armatures to support airy paper sculptures.
Papers from Native Plants, October 15-16, with Beatrix Mapalagama. Create papers from beer hops, straw, long flax fibers, and more.
PapierWespe is located at Klimschgasse 2/1, Vienna, Austria. Call (0676) 77-33-153 or email office@papierwespe.at or visit www.papierwespe.at.
CCCCBPA Exhibit Catalog
The catalog for the exhibition “Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially Engaged Art” is still available. It includes essays by papermaking expert Gail Deery; socially engaged artist Jillian Bruschera; social practice curator and theorist Stuart Keeler; craft historian and theorist Jenni Sorkin; and exhibition curators Jessica Cochran and Melissa Potter. The book features full color reproductions and texts by artists Kiff Slemmons, Laura Anderson Barbata, The People’s Library, Combat Paper, John Risseeuw, Julia Goodman, and many others. For more information contact mpotter@colum.edu or purchase the catalog here.
Texas, USA: Residencies at SSAC
Artists experienced in papermaking are invited to apply for the opportunity to spend up to three months working in the Paper Studio at the Southwest School of Art & Craft. Artists are expected to provide their own transportation and materials. Housing may be available, but is not guaranteed. Collaborations will be considered. For further information contact SSAC, 300 Augusta, San Antonio, TX 78205, (210) 224-1848, www.swschool.org.
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Karia, glancing back as she pushed through the brush, crashed into a clearing. She fell, her left shoulder slamming hard into the ground and almost knocking the wind out of her. She lay still for a moment.
Battling the feeling of fear tingling at the back of her neck, she lifted her head and listened. Hearing Narek crashing through the brush was no problem. She needed to figure out how close he was. When the rustling stopped, she knew.
“Oh, poor Karia,” he called out, taunting her. “Left your shoe wedged under this root, did you? It’s hard to run with just one shoe, isn’t it? You stay right where you are, and I’ll bring it to you!”
Now she heard only an occasional crack and a gentle swish of leaves. She decided that meant he was now moving more slowly, deliberately, following her trail. From the start, she had pushed directly into the bushes and shrubs and vines instead of sticking to the paths. She knew she could fit through places Narek could not, and more importantly, slip through small spaces between the vegetation without leaving much of a trail.
It’s not that Narek was large. Karia was thin. Thin to an extreme. She wasn’t particularly tall for her age, but since she had also shot up in the last year or so, and was now taller than most of the boys her age, she felt too tall. Combined with her thinness, she felt very awkward and clumsy. In her mind, she was a stick.
But that wasn’t all. She was pale. Not just fair, but pale. Her dad had taken to calling her Tsilinki. It was a play on the pet name he had for her as a child, Tsil. Her mom told her once that it was short for an Inamali word, Tsilinakaya, and that it meant something like “hope.” She wasn’t sure why her dad called her Tsil, but it was his special word for her and she liked that. On the other hand, tsilinki was the name of the grain her family grew – a pale plant with only a hint of green, which grew up straight and tall, rod-thin, to five or six, or sometimes even eight feet, before it ever started filling out and coloring, budding and setting grain. A pale, thin stick.
Thanks, Dad. She hated her new nickname.
At the beginning of this chase her slimness worked out for her. She fit through the gaps in the brush, and was confident she could elude Narek. Then the brush closed in and she had to press her way through. It snagged on her dress and tugged at her long auburn hair. It had snatched off one of her shoes, and more than once she accidentally let a branch snap back across her nose – my ugly little sharp nose – or into her very blue eyes, which were starting to water a little. No, she wasn’t crying. Her eyes were watering. At least, that’s what she would say. Karia did not cry.
But the worst part was that she was now leaving a clear trail for Narek to follow, and he seemed to be catching up.
She rolled onto her stomach so she could push herself up onto her hands and knees, unconsciously digging her fingers into the sandy soil. Still looking down, she silently cursed herself for letting Timbal kiss her when he found her the last time the three of them played hide-and-seek. She whispered a curse at Narek for spying on them. Losing her temper, she loudly cursed Timbal for telling Narek he could have a kiss if he caught her this time. At least, she tried to. She didn’t recognize the word that came out. But she had no time to think about it.
“What was that?” Narek called out. “Did you call for me? I’m coming, Karia!” He laughed.
Her fear had turned to anger and now embarrassment burned into determination. She had to escape, but where? And how? Already the bottom of her right foot was bruised and throbbing. Her shoulder was sore and she was still trying to catch her breath.
She could not run. She needed to find a place to hide.
She lifted her head and looked around, and her fear returned. For this was the one place in the forest that she dreaded more than a kiss from Narek.
She was looking down a dirt lane wide enough for a horse-drawn carriage, hard-packed and rutted as if from past use, now covered with silt, dirt and dust from misuse. It ran no more than a hundred feet, ending abruptly in trees and brush at one end, where she was, and at the opposite end. All along the lane on her left grew a neat, orderly hedge, several feet thick, with tiny round waxy leaves and, in spring, fine white flowers that had a sour scent. It was late summer now, and the flowers had become tiny beads of green, some already ripening into the yellow berries that the birds left alone. She had sniffed one once, crushed it and sniffed it again. It smelled sour, like the flowers. I wouldn’t eat them either.
The hedge even had a wide opening and a stately gate sculpted in some kind of grayish-white metal that did not rust, attended by two square lamps in similar patterns – like interlocking vines – and apparently wrought from the same material. Beyond the hedge, where there should have been at least a cottage – if not a manor house, judging from the majesty of the gate – was only forest.
And now she recognized the feeling at the back of her neck for what it was – not fear of Narek catching her, but that feeling that always crept up her neck near the hedge. The hedge and lane by themselves would have been strange; the sensation on the back of her neck told her there was dangerous power here – though how she knew that, and why Timbal and Narek had never felt it, she did not know.
Here on her hands and knees, she saw something she had never noticed before. A short distance up the lane, on her side of the gate, she could see a space to crawl under the hedge. A dark space – a place she could hide. It looked inviting.
She did not question why she had never seen it before. She did not wonder why the place that had repulsed her in the past now seemed to draw her. She reasoned, quite simply, that she needed a place to hide and had found it.
Swiftly Karia crawled to the space and under the hedge, the shadows growing deeper as she crawled. She was about to question how she could still be crawling under the hedge for so long, when suddenly she was not under the hedge anymore. She was inside a room.
Amazed, still on her hands and knees, she looked up and around. The room was perhaps eight feet square and equally high, the walls white with plaster or whitewash. Narrow windows very high on the walls bathed the room in light. A doorway in front of her opened into what looked like a parlor beyond.
She wanted to explore – even felt compelled to look around – but she also felt wary. The feeling at the back of her neck was acute, and had spread to a tingling in her scalp.
She looked left to a desk made of thick, dark wood, carved with winding knots of snakes and with a lighter colored writing stand atop it. She could tell it was carved as well, but the carving was so fine and intricate it was difficult for her to make out what it was from where she was. A quill was still in an inkwell, as if someone had stopped writing just a moment ago. Behind the desk was a bookcase set into the wall, its top shelf filled with a large number of books, some quite big. Because of the desk, Karia could see only the top shelf, but she had never before seen so many books, or books so big.
She turned to the right, and saw there was a coat rack on the wall.
Odd, she thought. Who would use an entryway as a study?
Her eyes scanned almost to the corner when she saw something that took her back from curiosity to fear again. The rest of the coat rack had been empty, but there, on the last peg – or was it the first? – almost to the corner, nearly touching her right shoulder, was a deep brown robe, edged in red, and a very broad brown cap. The kind of robe and cap only a great sorcerer wore.
The stories she had been told as a little girl flooded back to mind. A sorcerer wanders the forest, she remembered Grantik, the dry goods shopkeeper, saying. It wasn’t the first or last time she heard that. He eats little children, his wife added, seeming to find pleasure in Karia’s reaction. Never play in the forest, her mom told her. It’s dangerous. When she pressed her mom, she would only say, There’s magic there, Karia. Somehow not knowing anything more specific was even more scary – and tempting. And now she was growing up, and she was old enough to start thinking they were just stories adults used to keep children in line, and keep them from playing in the forest, where some had gone lost.
But no – what they said about sorcerers and magic was no story. She knew that now.
All that flew through her mind and she was now terrified. She spun on her knees and launched herself toward the hole she came in through, and saw only a whitewashed wall hurtling toward her. She realized in a split-second that the wall was actually standing still and she was hurtling, but not in time to stop before the hurtling, whoever was doing it, came to an end. A sudden, painful end.
And everything went black.
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'The Legend of the Magnificent Seven' is a fanedit of Antoine Fuqua's reimagined vision of the western classic based on Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai'. In this legendary retelling, seven gunslingers that consist of a bounty hunter, a gambler, an outlaw, a sharpshooter, an assassin, a native warrior and a tracker come together to aide a small town from being overrun by the ruthless corporate mogul Bartholomew Bogue. What starts out as just a job prospect for these men turns into something more meaningful as they discover what they have inside themselves to make them legends.
Batman: The Killing Joke - The Book Cut Featured Hot
FanFix August 12, 2016 8055 0 1 0 6
The Killing Joke is one of the most widely popular Joker stories and has been referenced by both Tim Burton and Heath Ledger in how those versions of the Joker were brought to life. The story sees the Joker try to carry out one of his most devious plots, all to make a point that it takes only one bad day for a person to snap. While the Joker carries out his nefarious plot, Batman struggles with the idea that he and his arch-nemesis are locked in a battle that will ultimately lead to one of their deaths.
Rosemary's Baby - Hell a Cometh Swift Edition
FanFix October 24, 2014 1501 0 1 0 0
This edit of the 1968 masterpiece tightens up the pacing and eliminates some of the parts that are too "In your face". I've also removed some of the stuff that I just didn't get and had to look up online to understand (Mostly the rape scene). So anything that was only understandable if you had read the book is now gone.
Serenity Chronicles III: Revelations
Extended Edition October 01, 2014 3901 0 1 0 9
Extended Edition
This is the most complete version of the film Serenity. All deleted scenes have been added back in and whenever possible, they have been scored with music from the score composed by David Newman.
Serenity Chronicles II: War Stories
TV-to-Movie September 02, 2014 2186 0 1 0 6
TV-to-Movie
The second chapter in the Serenity Chronicles finds the Firefly crew harboring two Alliance fugitives and looking for any job they can find to keep their ship flying. The more time they spend hiding from the Alliance, the more Simon Tam fears for his sister River's mental stability as she begins to show signs of aggression that could endanger everyone on board.
Desperation will take the crew of Serenity down a dark and dangerous road. A high risk gamble to help River and a heist job for the most ruthless gangster in the 'verse will lead the crew to question their own morals - even if it leads to their demise.
Serenity Chronicles I: Firefly
TV-to-Movie July 18, 2014 3997 0 1 0 9
The Chronicles of Serenity follows the story of Malcolm Reynolds, a soldier who fought for the losing side of the Unification War. After losing his faith in the bloodiest battle of the war, he takes to the skies in a firefly-class transport ship seeking whatever jobs he can get to keep flying. Enter a ragtag crew and some passengers with secrets of their own and you have the beginning of an epic 3-part adventure that mixes Sci-Fi and Westerns like never before.
Superman: Up, Up and Away Edition
FanFix April 29, 2014 2785 0 1 0 3
Sent to Earth from a dying planet to later grow up and become its savior, Superman is given an epic treatment by director Richard Donner. The Up, Up and Away Edition tightens up the pacing of the film while still retaining the overall story that was told when Christopher Reeve proved a man could fly back in 1978. Since most edits of this film combine Superman I and II as Richard Donner was intending on telling one large story, this edition focuses primarily on Superman I. Witness Kal El's journey from boy to man and from man to Superman without the appearance of the three Kryptonian outlaws, constant bickering between Lex Luthor and his henchman Otis, why Clark shouldn't use the word "swell," a complimentary pimp, a voice over of Lois' inner thoughts, and without the need to turn back time. Richard Donner presented us with a classic tale for the ages. This edition tinkers with the film ever so slightly so you can get up, up and away sooner with the man of steel.
Moonraker Plot, The
This edit of Moonraker tries to eliminate a lot of the silliness that was prominent in what is considered one of the cheesiest Bond films of all. A few quick cuts has now made Jaws seem more threatening, Bond a little more clever since now he isn’t saying something stupid every 30 seconds (“Play it again, Sam!”), and some of the eye rolling scenes have been scrapped. I have also completely rescored the cable car fight and the speed boat chase as well as added additional sound effects to those scenes.
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Author: imaanlondon
Imaan Retreat 2014: Fri 29th – Sun 31st August 2014
March 24, 2014 by imaanlondon, posted in News & Events
Our Community – Our Pride and Strength / ‘Mujtami’na – Fakhrina wa Quwwa’
Salaams All
It’s back! Imaan’s Retreat 2014. By popular demand and due to overwhelming success we have decided to hold it again this year. The energy, the spirit, the joy and the warmth experienced from the previous retreat demonstrated that there clearly is a need for this kind of event for our members.
This year’s retreat is entitled ‘Mujtami’na – Fakhrina wa Quwwa’ – Our Community – Our Pride and Strength. Community is a vital aspect of Imaan. We believe the community that we are creating needs to be celebrated. To be proud of it and build upon it so it is stronger community.
The retreat will be held between Friday 29th to Sunday 31st August 2014 at the same venue as last year, in the gorgeous Peak District, taking advantage of all that it offers – space, nature, creativity, spirituality and togetherness.
The retreat centre proved to be a safe and inviting space located in the heart of the Peak District, in Northern England, a 2 hour train journey from London and 1 hour journey from Manchester. The focus, as last year, will be on providing opportunities to replenish, reboot and boost our Imaan (faith). The program will consist of outdoor pursuits (last year’s nature trail was a blast involving the lovely locals in ‘helping’ some teams win!) arts, craft and group-based activities, all designed to raise our imaan and consciousness of our identity as LGBTQI Muslims. The day’s activities will be framed around prayer times and acts of worship.
Volunteers for all aspects of the retreat are most welcome – for leading prayers, waking folk up for Fajr, facilitating and leading arts and crafts sessions. Those with a creative and artistic talent will be harangued to perform at the popular and much loved ‘Imaan’s Talent/No Talent Show’!
Five full scholarships and five part-scholarships will be available for those needing financial assistance with the cost of the retreat, but proof will be required of neediness and will be granted on this basis. With regards to cost, the retreat is priced at £150.00 for two nights accommodation at the retreat centre, with all meals from Friday lunch until Sunday lunch being included, alongside unlimited tea and coffee. Rooms are spacious and comfortable, sleeping either two, three or four attendees. Single gendered rooms are available.
The forms can be downloaded from below. For more details, please email shobbir@imaan.org.uk
Imaan Medical Disclosure Form 2014
Imaan_Retreat_RegistrationForm_2014
Imaan_Scholarship_Form_2014
Press statement: Muslim leaders should discuss sexual minority issues with empathy
Imaan is deeply disappointed with Birmingham Mosque Chairman, Dr Mohammad Naseem’s comments about the mosque’s withdrawal from hosting a BBC3 discussion on gay Muslims. The debate was to address whether it would ever be okay to be gay and Muslim, and Naseem defended the mosque’s decision by comparing being gay to being “a compulsive murderer, gambler, paedophile etc.”.
Notwithstanding Naseem’s claim that he was misquoted, we wish to highlight how his logic is used by many Muslim leaders throughout the world to justify often deadly persecution of sexual minorities. Among other things, Imaan supports numerous sexual minority asylum seekers fleeing violent persecution from their countries of origin, frequently justified in the name of Islam.
Naseem says, “There are people with homosexual tendency in Muslim countries but they respect the law and control their desire as others do.” From the cases we have encountered, compliance often has less to do with “respect” than with abject fear for their lives. We have also come across numerous cases of violent homophobia and transphobia within the UK – whether against Muslim or non-Muslim sexual minorities.
For this reason, we congratulate Asifa Lahore, a long-standing member of Imaan, for his courage in sharing his personal story and initiating this pertinent question – when will it be okay to be gay and Muslim?
We believe that the Qur’an upholds sexual diversity and does not condone persecution of any minorities, but we respect alternative readings by Muslims who dispute the presence of such a pluralistic message. We are also sensitive to how these differences in opinion can be distorted and used to misrepresent Islam in the Western mass media due to prevailing anti-Muslim attitudes. Thus, we appreciate Naseem’s difficulty in balancing his personal conscience and public voice.
We are thus encouraged by Naseem’s belief that sexual minorities should enjoy full human rights in the secular sphere. We also commend his position that homosexuality should be further studied by “specialists in the fields of zoology, botany, genetics, sociology etc.”, and that the debate should continue between them and religious leaders.
In that spirit, we implore him and other Muslim authority figures to listen to Muslim sexual minorities, in Britain and elsewhere, who believe their sexuality is a gift from Allah. Far from being a code of criminal laws, the Qur’an exhorts humanity to appreciate equality, diversity, and to debate contentious issues with decorum and mutual respect. We call on Naseem and the Birmingham Mosque to continue this dialogue in the spirit of this adab (Islamic etiquette). We would be happy to meet with Naseem to discuss the plight of Muslim sexual minorities who feel alienated or isolated from their Muslim communities.
Demystifying Shariah Law – Workshop – London – Saturday 19th April
Ever questioned, doubted or feared what Islam says about being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or even just questioning? Come to Imaan’s London workshop on Saturday, 19 April 2014 for a full-day session on crucial aspects of Islamic interpretation for the lay (and gay!) Muslim.
Please commit to attending the full day (10am – 5pm) because the discussions build systematically through each session. Venue details to be announced ASAP – we will keep all those who register informed!
The workshop’s objectives are:
• To give an overview of how sharia laws are formulated, and how these laws vary between different Muslim societies.
• To critically examine the impact of certain interpretations of Islam on women and sexual minorities.
• To share thoughts on how Muslim sexual minorities can be protected from discrimination and harm.
• To share information on current issues in Islam throughout various Muslim societies.
To register, complete this reply form and return it to shanon@imaan.org.uk and naeem@imaan.org.uk by Friday, 4 April 2014. This information will also help us tailor the workshop to fit your needs and expectations.
1. Please tell us your age and gender (this information will help us create an environment that is as inclusive as possible).
2. How would this workshop help you? (E.g. in your work, studies, close relationships, spiritual journey, etc. – please elaborate.)
3. Please tell us what areas of Islam and sexuality you have questions about.
4. Are there any other specific areas you would like the workshop to focus on?
We hope you will come prepared to share in knowledge, faith and fun!
‘Diversity: The Gift of Islam’: Joint Conference to by held by the Muslim Institute and Imaan
January 23, 2014 March 24, 2014 by imaanlondon, posted in News & Events
Saturday, 10 May to Sunday, 11 May 2014 10:00am to 4:00pm
We are pleased to announce an upcoming conference jointly organised by the Muslim Institute and Imaan, the British lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) Muslim organisation. The conference will take place in London on May 10th and 11th 2014.
This conference aims to explore the Islamic ethos of respect for diversity, specifically in the context of Muslims in plural societies. Imam Malik ibn Anas, the great classical scholar of Islamic jurisprudence, once asserted to the Caliph Harun al-Rashid, ‘Diversity of opinion is Allah’s gift to the ummah’. This is the starting point for our conference, to explore how Islam can provide a space that includes and respects diversity of opinion and the plight of vulnerable minorities within Muslims communities. Through our plenaries, workshops and informal discussions, we hope to live out and extend the Islamic values of critical inquiry, justice, community-building and learning. We hope that the cross-pollination of ideas and experiences amongst our panellists and participants will inspire us to incorporate them in the various aspects of our lives.
A joint conference of this kind is a natural collaboration for the Muslim Institute and Imaan. The Muslim Institute emphasises the diversity and plurality of Islam and Muslims to promote dialogue, cooperation and collaboration between Muslims and other cultures, with the creation of a thriving, dynamic and forward-looking Muslim community as one of its key objectives. Similarly, one of Imaan’s core aims is to promote the Islamic values of peace, social justice and tolerance through its work, and aspires to bring about a world that is free from prejudice and discrimination against all Muslims.
Thus, the coming together of the two organisations is an exciting opportunity to bring together a variety of scholars, leaders and activists to share how diversity can be embraced in practical, do-able ways in contemporary Muslim societies. Topics covered will include overcoming sectarian divisions among Muslims, upholding gender equality and justice, the treatment of Muslims sexual minorities, and re-engaging young British Muslims on Islam.
The two-day Conference will stress the Islamic ethos of respect, justice and tolerance, focused on the humanisation of all minorities, and will be independent from any political affiliation. The Conference Registration
Fee is £30 per person (with a £15 Concessionary Fare for students, asylum seekers and the unwaged). These fees will be used to cover Speakers’ and venue costs and will include lunch on both days.
To register, please complete the registration form and email to tawseef@imaan.org.uk or samia@musliminstitute.org.
For further information or queries, to volunteer your skills, experience or time for the Conference, please do not hesitate to contact us on the above details.
2014 MI-Imaan Conference Registration Form
Imaan General Election 2013
October 9, 2013 October 9, 2013 by imaanlondon, posted in News & Events, Press & Media
Imaan is pleased to announce the commencement of its 2013 general board
of trustees’ election. For the next term, eligible members of Imaan will
elect the board of trustees to represent the respective positions
beginning in January 2014.
The election process will proceed as follows:
Nomination period
– At this stage all nominees must complete and return the nomination
forms to the independent returning officer. There are two forms
available for nomination.
– “Nomination form 2013.doc” is to be
completed by those candidates who wish to stand for the currently
existing positions on Imaan’s board of trustees.
– “New position
form 2013.doc” is to be completed by those who wish to propose a new
position/role that does not currently exist on Imaan’s board of
trustees. Please note that any new position that is proposed will need
to be approved at the following AGM after which another election process
will be undergone for it.
All completed forms must be given to the independent returning officer.
– At this stage all eligible candidates that have applied to stand for a
position on the board of trustees will be announced. The membership
will then begin to put in their votes for their respective candidates.
All votes must be given to the independent returning officer only.
The voting period will be open for duration of four weeks from commencing.
– At this stage, once the independent returning officer has tallied all
votes, the successful candidates for the respective positions will be
announced. At the next Annual General Meeting, the newly elected board
members will be declared in.
Independent Returning Officer
All forms, votes, and queries regarding elections must be directed to the independent returning officer. Imaan takes no responsibility for lost or mislaid nomination forms and the deadline will be strictly enforced.
Details of the independent returning officer:
Name: Michelle Defontaine
Affiliated to: Positive East
Email address: returningofficer@imaan.org.uk
Current positions on the Board of Trustees:
– Chairperson
– Secretary
– Treasurer
– Women’s Officer
– Welfare Officer
– Two positions for Member’s Representative
Nomination period starts – 9th of October 2013
Nomination period ends – 30th of October 2013
Voting period starts – 8th of November 2013
Voting period ends – 7th of December 2013
Results Announced – 19th of December 2013
New board declared in at AGM – 18th of January 2014
find details for the election and the roles and responsibilities for
the current positions in “Election Procedure.doc” and the constitution
“Constitution 2013.pdf”.
For any further information regarding
the elections, please only contact the independent returning officer:
returningofficer@imaan.org.uk
If you would like to make a difference, then InshaAllah we would love to see you get involved!
Please be advised to read Imaan’s constitution before nominating or voting!!
Election procedure
Nomination form 2013
New position form 2013
Imaan Announces 2013 Retreat – ‘Benaa Majtamaa – Building a Community’.
January 13, 2013 by imaanlondon, posted in News & Events
Benaa Majtamaaa
In 2012, Imaan took a vital and ultimately, highly successful step in building an LGBTQI Muslim community in the UK. Our 5th International Conference was attended by over 70 people and through a number of historical milestones over the course of this wonderful four-day weekend, we began to tentatively formulate a community, mujtamaa, an Ummah of our own.
As a result, in 2013, we wish to provide an opportunity to strengthen this ummah, build upon the success of the previous year and collectively increase our love, spirit and imaan (faith). Consequently, we are holding a retreat-weekend, entitled ‘Benaa Majtamaa’, ‘Building a Community’. Held between Friday 30th August to Sunday 1st September at a centre in the Peak District, we hope that our retreat will be invigorating and energising, allowing existing friends to re-connect and for new friends to become a part of our collective and to understand why the Imaan family is such a special entity.
The retreat centre is a safe and inviting space located in the heart of the Peak District, in Northern England, a 2 hour train journey from London and 1 hour journey from Manchester. With less focus on sharing knowledge through lectures and workshops, the retreat is for the soul. The retreat also exists as an opportunity to withdraw from the strain of every day demands and routine. Instead, we have a program of outdoor, art, craft and group-based activities, all designed to raise our imaan and consciousness of our identity as LGBTQI Muslims.
Five full scholarships and five part-scholarships will be available for those needing financial assistance with the cost of the retreat, but proof will be required of neediness and will be granted on this basis. With regards to cost, the retreat is priced at £150.00 for two nights accommodation at the retreat centre, with all meals from Friday dinner until Sunday lunch being included, alongside unlimited tea and coffee. Rooms are spacious and comfortable, sleeping either three or four attendees. Single gendered rooms are available.
The Forms are available here:
Imaan Medical Disclosure Form
Imaan_Retreat_Registration_2013
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March 8-11, Austin Texas
See 4-Day Schedule
Energizing Health House at Coopers BBQ
New Visualization Tool Unveiled by Energizing Health at SXSW Predicts Dramatic Fiscal Cost of a Census Undercount
HomeNew Visualization Tool Unveiled by Energizing Health at SXSW Predicts Dramatic Fiscal Cost of a Census Undercount
The Mayor’s Census Undercount Revealer powered by Energizing Health uncovers hundreds of millions of federal dollars lost over 10 years if the 2020 Census Count is incorrect
March 8, 2019, Austin, TX – Tomorrow at Energizing Health at SXSW, January Advisors alongside Energizing Health will unveil the Mayor’s Census Undercount Revealer. This new data visualization tool is designed to predict the significant fiscal cost of a Census undercount in 2020.
The tool will be unveiled during a session entitled “Big Data and Innovations for Marginalized Groups” in which panelists will include chief data officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, Mona Siddiqui, and the City of Albuquerque Mayor, Tim Keller. In this session, panelists will discuss open data, including the 2020 census data, and review visualization tools that may both increase federal funding for marginalized communities and gage the social impact of undercounting.
This tool will empower community-based organizations, civic leaders, philanthropy, venture and startups to work together to use big data to fuel innovations for healthier communities.
“Many people don’t fully realize the long-term implications of an inaccurate census count,” said Jeff Reichman, principal at January Advisors. “If we don’t count even one percent of people, it will result in billions of dollars lost in federal funding. This leads to a lack of government resources which directly impacts our community’s most vulnerable populations. These numbers don’t even represent the worst-case scenario, which is possible given the political climate.”
To demonstrate the use of the visualization tool, Reichman and his team at January Advisors, a data science consulting firm, calculated the estimated federal dollars lost over 10 years due to an inaccurate census count for 18 cities being represented at SXSW at the Civic I/O Mayors Summit. The event unites mayors, futurists and business leaders on all sides to collectively develop innovative solutions for the entrenched societal and governmental issues facing their communities.
“Based on past census records coupled with the current political discourse, it is an inevitable truth that cities across the nation are facing an uphill battle to ensure the accuracy of Census 2020 data,” city of Austin mayor, Steve Adler. “This tool is the perfect example of an innovative resource civic leaders and community activists can leverage to identify regions at-risk for a census undercount and will allow communities to take actionable steps to further engage and clarify preconceived misnomers surrounding the census count.”
To calculate the potential federal dollars lost over 10 years, the tool pulls data from the Census Planning Database courtesy of the 2010 census. Additionally, data surrounding the federal dollars lost per capita per state is sourced from George Washington University’s Institute of Public Policy’s report on “Estimating Fiscal Costs of a Census Undercount to States.”
City Name 1% of Population Federal Dollars Lost Per Capita Federal Dollars Lost in 1% Undercount (over 10 years)
Albuquerque, NM 6,436 $1,121 $72,150,250
Atlanta, GA 5,788 $708 $40,982,155
Austin, TX 11,178 $1,161 $129,773,097
Columbia, SC 2,598 $809 $21,017,254
Dallas, TX 16,187 $1,161 $187,930,838
Dayton, OH 2,291 $1,206 $27,624,033
Findlay, OH 556 $1,206 $6,703,551
Louisville, KY 3,259 $929 $30,280,198
Madison 3,174 $1,338 $42,465,845
Mesa, AZ 5,827 $887 $51,682,031
Miami, FL 5,101 $946 $48,258,393
Orlando, FL 4,925 $946 $46,588,797
Plano, TX 3,499 $1,161 $40,627,570
Reno, NV 2,860 $628 $17,958,288
Rochester Hills, MN 1,313 $954 $12,530,695
Santa Fe, NM 1,037 $1,121 $11,629,366
South Bend, IN 1,464 $929 $13,596,472
Tacoma, WA 2,609 $39 $1,017,627
Energizing Health at SXSW is a four-day event focused on creating opportunities for innovation, collaboration and the activation of initiatives aimed at eliminating systemic barriers and building healthier communities.
The SXSW Mayor’s Census Undercount Revealer tool will be available to cities across the country in the coming weeks. To learn more about the SXSW Mayor’s Census Undercount Revealer, visit https://imagine.health/census.
About Energizing Health
Energizing Health is an organization launched in 2014 dedicated to collaborating with community, civic and industry leaders to create opportunities around new and better ways to keep people healthy. By convening educational summits including Energizing Health @ SXSW, the Health Equity Hackathon and Impact Pediatric Health, among others, with community members, policy makers and entrepreneurs, we reach populations that have been marginalized by discrimination and poverty.
About January Advisors
January Advisors is a data science firm. We work on projects in housing, education, Census 2020, environmental advocacy, social services, criminal justice reform, legal aid, disaster recovery, workforce development, opportunity zones, economic development, and smart cities.
Christine Rashman
crashman@piercom.com
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Shifting the competition between the intramolecular reshuffling reaction and the direct oxidation reaction during the oxidative folding of kinetically trapped disulfide-insecure intermediates
Mahesh Narayan, E. Welker, Celestine Wanjalla, Guoqiang Xu, Harold A. Scheraga
The oxidative folding pathway(s) of single-domain proteins can be characterized by the existence, stability, and structural nature of the intermediates that populate the regeneration pathway. Structured intermediates can be disulfide-secure in that they are able to protect their existing (native) disulfide bonds from SH/SS reshuffling and reduction reactions, and thereby form the native protein directly, i.e., by oxidation of their exposed (or locally exposable) thiols. Alternatively, they can be disulfide-insecure, usually requiring global unfolding to expose their free thiols. However, such an unfolding event also exposes the existing native disulfide bonds. Thus, the subsequent oxidation reaction to form the native protein in a disulfide-insecure intermediate competes with the intramolecular attack by the thiols of the macromolecule on its own native disulfide bonds, resulting in a large population of intermediates that are reshuffled instead of being oxidized. Under stabilizing conditions, disulfide-insecure species become long-lived kinetically trapped intermediates that slowly and only indirectly convert to the native protein through reshuffling reactions. In this study, trans-[Pt(en)2Cl2]2+, a strong oxidizing agent which has not traditionally been used in oxidative folding, was applied to shift the competition between reshuffling and oxidation reactions in des [58-110] and des [26-84], two long-lived disulfide-insecure intermediates of RNase A, and oxidize them directly under stable conditions to form the native protein. Such a successful direct conversion of kinetically trapped intermediates to the native molecule by trans-[Pt(en)2Cl 2]2+ may be helpful in facilitating the oxidative folding processes of multi-disulfide-containing proteins in general.
https://doi.org/10.1021/bi030141o
Disulfides
Sulfhydryl Compounds
Pancreatic Ribonuclease
Narayan, M., Welker, E., Wanjalla, C., Xu, G., & Scheraga, H. A. (2003). Shifting the competition between the intramolecular reshuffling reaction and the direct oxidation reaction during the oxidative folding of kinetically trapped disulfide-insecure intermediates. Biochemistry, 42(36), 10783-10789. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi030141o
Shifting the competition between the intramolecular reshuffling reaction and the direct oxidation reaction during the oxidative folding of kinetically trapped disulfide-insecure intermediates. / Narayan, Mahesh; Welker, E.; Wanjalla, Celestine; Xu, Guoqiang; Scheraga, Harold A.
In: Biochemistry, Vol. 42, No. 36, 16.09.2003, p. 10783-10789.
Narayan, M, Welker, E, Wanjalla, C, Xu, G & Scheraga, HA 2003, 'Shifting the competition between the intramolecular reshuffling reaction and the direct oxidation reaction during the oxidative folding of kinetically trapped disulfide-insecure intermediates', Biochemistry, vol. 42, no. 36, pp. 10783-10789. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi030141o
Narayan M, Welker E, Wanjalla C, Xu G, Scheraga HA. Shifting the competition between the intramolecular reshuffling reaction and the direct oxidation reaction during the oxidative folding of kinetically trapped disulfide-insecure intermediates. Biochemistry. 2003 Sep 16;42(36):10783-10789. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi030141o
Narayan, Mahesh ; Welker, E. ; Wanjalla, Celestine ; Xu, Guoqiang ; Scheraga, Harold A. / Shifting the competition between the intramolecular reshuffling reaction and the direct oxidation reaction during the oxidative folding of kinetically trapped disulfide-insecure intermediates. In: Biochemistry. 2003 ; Vol. 42, No. 36. pp. 10783-10789.
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N2 - The oxidative folding pathway(s) of single-domain proteins can be characterized by the existence, stability, and structural nature of the intermediates that populate the regeneration pathway. Structured intermediates can be disulfide-secure in that they are able to protect their existing (native) disulfide bonds from SH/SS reshuffling and reduction reactions, and thereby form the native protein directly, i.e., by oxidation of their exposed (or locally exposable) thiols. Alternatively, they can be disulfide-insecure, usually requiring global unfolding to expose their free thiols. However, such an unfolding event also exposes the existing native disulfide bonds. Thus, the subsequent oxidation reaction to form the native protein in a disulfide-insecure intermediate competes with the intramolecular attack by the thiols of the macromolecule on its own native disulfide bonds, resulting in a large population of intermediates that are reshuffled instead of being oxidized. Under stabilizing conditions, disulfide-insecure species become long-lived kinetically trapped intermediates that slowly and only indirectly convert to the native protein through reshuffling reactions. In this study, trans-[Pt(en)2Cl2]2+, a strong oxidizing agent which has not traditionally been used in oxidative folding, was applied to shift the competition between reshuffling and oxidation reactions in des [58-110] and des [26-84], two long-lived disulfide-insecure intermediates of RNase A, and oxidize them directly under stable conditions to form the native protein. Such a successful direct conversion of kinetically trapped intermediates to the native molecule by trans-[Pt(en)2Cl 2]2+ may be helpful in facilitating the oxidative folding processes of multi-disulfide-containing proteins in general.
AB - The oxidative folding pathway(s) of single-domain proteins can be characterized by the existence, stability, and structural nature of the intermediates that populate the regeneration pathway. Structured intermediates can be disulfide-secure in that they are able to protect their existing (native) disulfide bonds from SH/SS reshuffling and reduction reactions, and thereby form the native protein directly, i.e., by oxidation of their exposed (or locally exposable) thiols. Alternatively, they can be disulfide-insecure, usually requiring global unfolding to expose their free thiols. However, such an unfolding event also exposes the existing native disulfide bonds. Thus, the subsequent oxidation reaction to form the native protein in a disulfide-insecure intermediate competes with the intramolecular attack by the thiols of the macromolecule on its own native disulfide bonds, resulting in a large population of intermediates that are reshuffled instead of being oxidized. Under stabilizing conditions, disulfide-insecure species become long-lived kinetically trapped intermediates that slowly and only indirectly convert to the native protein through reshuffling reactions. In this study, trans-[Pt(en)2Cl2]2+, a strong oxidizing agent which has not traditionally been used in oxidative folding, was applied to shift the competition between reshuffling and oxidation reactions in des [58-110] and des [26-84], two long-lived disulfide-insecure intermediates of RNase A, and oxidize them directly under stable conditions to form the native protein. Such a successful direct conversion of kinetically trapped intermediates to the native molecule by trans-[Pt(en)2Cl 2]2+ may be helpful in facilitating the oxidative folding processes of multi-disulfide-containing proteins in general.
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STILL BEGINNING: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art (through December 30th, 2019)
The International Museum of Surgical Science is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.
The seven short videos range in subject from anti-stigma work in New Orleans to public sex culture in Chicago, highlighting pioneering AIDS activism and staging intergenerational conversations. Recalling Gregg Bordowitz’s reminder that “THE AIDS CRISIS IS STILL BEGINNING,”* the video program resists narratives of resolution or conclusion, considering the continued urgency of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary moment while revisiting resonant cultural histories from the past three decades.
Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. For Day With(out) Art’s thirtieth year, over 100 institutions worldwide will screen STILL BEGINNING, recognizing the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic.
Read more: https://imss.org/still-beginning-the-30th-annual-day-without-art/
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CHEF’S CELLAR
ITS GOURMET MENU AND RESERVATIONS ONLY WINE BAR MAKE VIOLETTE’S CELLAR A UNIQUE DESTINATION FOR STATEN ISLAND CONNOISSEURS
BY JESSICA JONES GORMAN • PHOTOS BY AMANDA DOMENECH
For a little more than a year, Peter Botros has been quietly luring Staten Island foodies to his chic underground restaurant with the promise of complex craft cocktails, lobster risotto, and a tomahawk ribeye made for sharing.
“We define it as a social dining experience,” Botros said recently, describing Violette’s Cellar, his understated, eclectic eatery that has created a significant buzz over the past 15 months. “Our menu features contemporary American small plates that the entire table should experience as a group. It’s not essentially family style, but the way it’s designed encourages guests to order together and get everyone at the table talking about the food.”
Located on Hylan Boulevard in the borough’s New Dorp section and set in the quaint basement site that formerly housed La Botte and then Troy, Violette’s Cellar features a chic underground design.
“The decor is eclectic, with an emphasis on repurposed materials,” Botros said while detailing the restaurant’s overhaul, which took about three months to complete. “We used a lot of reclaimed wood and recycled wine corks; we took old wooden wine boxes, broke them down, and used them as wall panels.”
The restaurant is lit by Edison bulbs, and the flooring is crafted out of decorative concrete that has been cut, polished, and stained. A separate, reservations only wine bar seats six and features its own wine paired dinner menu; a “speakeasy” called the Button Room is hidden behind a bookshelf.
“There’s a keypad on the door and a password is required for entrance,” Botros said. “We went with an old school vibe in there, lining the walls with mirrors from the Waldorf Astoria and designing a bar made out of buttons. That room has a completely separate cocktail list, each beverage a twist on a classic speakeasy beverage, just modernized.”
Craft cocktails flow in the main restaurant as well, and a well-balanced wine list is overseen by a full time sommelier.
“At Violette’s, we focus on putting a twist on all the classic cocktails,” noted Roberto Hernandez, the restaurant’s beverage director. “Our bar is also sustainable creating the least possible amount of waste and we employ innovative techniques of molecular mixology to create some very interesting drinks.”
The wine list is varied, representing a wide variety of regions. The bar’s most popular drinks include a Tepaché, made with mezcal, cognac, and fermented pineapple juice, and a Blackberry Basil Lemontini with muddled basil, blackberry jam, and fresh squeezed lemon.
“We’ve also been doing something called a Wine Academy, which is an interactive wine tasting event that we host either monthly or bimonthly,” Botros said. “Roberto devises the entire program; that’s where his expertise truly shines.”
But the fare all crafted and concocted by Botros himself is undoubtedly the star here.
“Everything is intricate and innovative, and if we do something traditional, it always has a twist,” Botros said, listing Artichoke Bread Pudding, Charred Spanish Octopus, Seared Ahi Tuna, and Chicken Pot Pie Empanadas as guest favorites. “Our Tomahawk Ribeye is dry aged and served with three different sauces wild mushroom, black truffle soy butter, and spicy peanut bechamel. Our Fried Calamari is served with pine nuts, lemon basil aioli, and fried basil.”
Chef Botros has earned a reputation on the Staten Island restaurant scene for doing things differently. After taking over the decades old Lake Club, renaming it The Stone House at Clove Lakes Park and completely reinventing the outdated space, the mortgage banker turned restaurateur wowed local foodies with The Chef’s Loft, a restaurant within a restaurant that routinely sells out its exclusive Saturday night seating, serving up monthly gourmet tasting menus sprinkled with Wagyu beef and crystallized cilantro salads. He also recently reinvented The Corner house, turning the longtime Grant City staple into a popular barbecue outpost.
At Violette’s Cellar, the overwhelming majority of the menu is small plates (a recommended order is two to four small plates per person), but there are also several large format dishes made for sharing.
“We do a great salmon, and there’s a spicy marinara sauce served over cavatappi pasta and topped with our signature meatballs,” Botros said. “They’re all great dishes for the entire table to share.”
There are also multiple event and party spaces within Violette’s Cellar; one dining area can accommodate as many as 160 guests.
“We can host intimate dinner parties for 15 people or larger gatherings for 65,” Botros said. “We will also have an outdoor dining space ready for this spring.”
But the majority of the restaurant’s guests during its first year in business have been groups looking to sit and socialize.
“Dinner here consists of several different experiences,” the chef said. “Guests start with cocktails at the bar, then eat in the main dining room, then often retreat to our Button Room for an after dinner drink.”
The restaurant, which has been active on social media (earning 4,000 Instagram followers in less than one month), has sold out every weekend since its grand opening.
“It’s been unbelievable,” Botros said. “I knew this concept would be successful, but I never thought that success would come so quickly.”
In April, Violette’s Cellar participated in the Food Network’s 25th anniversary party, and in October, the restaurant was featured in the NYC Wine and Food Festival. Botros also recently hosted a dinner at Violette’s for the James Beard Foundation. “This was the first time that the Foundation ever hosted an event on Staten Island, so it was a huge honor for them to host it here,” he said.
Doug Bifulco, COO and general manager of Violette’s Cellar, hopes to continue that success in 2019. “We had a very successful first year and are entering into our second with a lot of anticipation and excitement,” he noted. “There is a unique atmosphere here that people just seem to gravitate towards, and the food and presentation is simply out of this world. There is something for everyone on this menu.”
And because Botros and his partners have all been affected by cancer in some way, the restaurant also features a charity component.
“I am myself a cancer survivor, and my two partners both have parents who have survived cancer,” Botros said. “My mother, Violette, passed from cancer when I was just 14. Truth is, the disease is too prevalent here on Staten Island.”
So, Botros has pledged a quarter million dollars to Staten Island University Hospital’s comprehensive cancer center, which is currently in development.
“A portion of our profits will be donated to SIUH over the next seven years,” he concluded. “Everyone on Staten Island is greatly affected by this disease, so this is our way of giving back to our hometown borough.”
Violette’s Cellar
2271 Hylan Boulevard / 718.650.5050
violettescellar.com
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A Simple Equation Results in Decades of Technical Fun
Ronald C Lasky*
Dartmouth College, USA
Ronald C Lasky, Professor, Dartmouth College, Indium Corporation, USA.
Received Date: June 26, 2019; Published Date: June 28, 2019
Decades ago, when I was getting my PhD, I needed to calculate the density of a mixture of two polymers. I was tempted to use equation 1 below:
Where x is the mass fraction of polymer (or metal for a metal alloy), y the mass fraction of polymer 2, rho the respective densities and rho the total polymer or alloy density
The derivation is in the appendix. Others have derived this equation before, as it is in some metallurgy texts.
Little did I know at the time that this equation would yield decades of “confrontation” and technical fun. Right after deriving this equation, some of my materials science grad student friends heard about it and asked for the equation. I suggested they derive it themselves and was a bit surprised that they had trouble doing it and sheepishly asked for my help in the derivation.
Years later, I began working in materials for electronic assembly, mostly solder alloys. About 15 years ago, I began blogging on topics in this materials field. I am still an active bloggeri today.
Shortly after beginning my blogging efforts, I posted on why equation 1 is incorrect and equation 2 is right. Thus, began over a decade of queries to my blog about equation 2. An example follows (with names changed):Dr. Lasky,
My name is John Smith, a PhD metallurgist. I read with interest your article on calculating densities of alloys. Surely your formula:
can’t be correct. I have been at ACME metals for over 30 years and have always used:
Please tell me it is not wrong!
Best, John Smith
Unfortunately, for Dr. Smith, he has been wrong for 30 years.
I then developed an Excel® spreadsheetii to perform density calculations. I have had 100s of requests for the spreadsheet over the last decade.
As time went on, I was asked to verify the wet gold techniqueiii. This technique is used to estimate gold content in jewelry scrap and gold ores. One thing that scares me is that it can only be used in a binary system (i.e. gold and one other metal or constituent.) I believe many users don’t know this fact.
I continue to be asked to verify gold content formulas as a function of density and have incorporated much of this work into my classes at Dartmouth. I expect to have similar adventures in the future.
Appendix: Derivation of the Equation
Dividing equation 1 by mt ,
No conflict of interest.
https://www.indium.com/blog/dr-ron-lasky.php
Those interested in a copy send an email to rlasky@indium.com
https://www.indium.com/blog/wet-gold-a-technique-to-measuredensity- without-knowing-the-volume.php
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Efficacy of a pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis among American Indian children
Lindsay Renee Grant, James P. Watt, Robert C Weatherholtz, Lawrence Hale Moulton, Raymond Reid, Mathuram Santosham, Katherine L O'Brien
Background: Before the widespread use of rotavirus vaccines, rotavirus was a leading cause of gastroenteritis among children. Navajo and White Mountain Apache children suffer a disproportionate burden of severe rotavirus disease compared with the general US population. Methods: We enrolled Navajo and White Mountain Apache infants in a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine (PRV). Subjects received 3 doses of vaccine or placebo at 4 to 10 week intervals, with the first dose given between 6 and 12 weeks of age. Gastroenteritis episodes were identified by active surveillance. Disease severity was determined by a standardized scoring system. Results: There were 509 and 494 randomized children who received vaccine and placebo, respectively. Among placebo recipients, the incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis was 34.2 episodes/100 child-years (95% confidence interval [95% CI]: 25.8-38.9) versus 8.1 episodes/100 child-years (95% CI: 5.4-12.5) in the vaccine group. The percentage of rotavirus episodes caused by serotypes G1, G2, and G3 was 72.3%, 23.4%, and 2.1%, respectively. There were no severe rotavirus episodes among vaccinees and 4 among placebo recipients. PRV was 77.1% (95% CI: 59.7-87.6), 89.5% (95% CI: 65.9-97.9), and 82.9% (95% CI: 61.1-93.6) effective against G1-G4 rotavirus disease, severe and moderate rotavirus disease combined, and outpatient visits for rotavirus disease, respectively. The risk of adverse events was similar for the vaccine and placebo groups. Conclusions: PRV was highly effective in preventing rotavirus disease and related health care utilization in these American Indian infants. Vaccine efficacy and immunogenicity were similar to the overall study population enrolled in the multicenter trial.
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0b013e3182435afe
Rotavirus Vaccines
North American Indians
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Grant, L. R., Watt, J. P., Weatherholtz, R. C., Moulton, L. H., Reid, R., Santosham, M., & O'Brien, K. L. (2012). Efficacy of a pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis among American Indian children. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 31(2), 184-188. https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0b013e3182435afe
Efficacy of a pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis among American Indian children. / Grant, Lindsay Renee; Watt, James P.; Weatherholtz, Robert C; Moulton, Lawrence Hale; Reid, Raymond; Santosham, Mathuram; O'Brien, Katherine L.
In: Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, 02.2012, p. 184-188.
Grant, LR, Watt, JP, Weatherholtz, RC, Moulton, LH, Reid, R, Santosham, M & O'Brien, KL 2012, 'Efficacy of a pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis among American Indian children', Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 184-188. https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0b013e3182435afe
Grant LR, Watt JP, Weatherholtz RC, Moulton LH, Reid R, Santosham M et al. Efficacy of a pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis among American Indian children. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2012 Feb;31(2):184-188. https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0b013e3182435afe
Grant, Lindsay Renee ; Watt, James P. ; Weatherholtz, Robert C ; Moulton, Lawrence Hale ; Reid, Raymond ; Santosham, Mathuram ; O'Brien, Katherine L. / Efficacy of a pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis among American Indian children. In: Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2012 ; Vol. 31, No. 2. pp. 184-188.
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AU - Grant, Lindsay Renee
AU - Watt, James P.
AU - Weatherholtz, Robert C
AU - Moulton, Lawrence Hale
AU - Reid, Raymond
AU - Santosham, Mathuram
AU - O'Brien, Katherine L
N2 - Background: Before the widespread use of rotavirus vaccines, rotavirus was a leading cause of gastroenteritis among children. Navajo and White Mountain Apache children suffer a disproportionate burden of severe rotavirus disease compared with the general US population. Methods: We enrolled Navajo and White Mountain Apache infants in a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine (PRV). Subjects received 3 doses of vaccine or placebo at 4 to 10 week intervals, with the first dose given between 6 and 12 weeks of age. Gastroenteritis episodes were identified by active surveillance. Disease severity was determined by a standardized scoring system. Results: There were 509 and 494 randomized children who received vaccine and placebo, respectively. Among placebo recipients, the incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis was 34.2 episodes/100 child-years (95% confidence interval [95% CI]: 25.8-38.9) versus 8.1 episodes/100 child-years (95% CI: 5.4-12.5) in the vaccine group. The percentage of rotavirus episodes caused by serotypes G1, G2, and G3 was 72.3%, 23.4%, and 2.1%, respectively. There were no severe rotavirus episodes among vaccinees and 4 among placebo recipients. PRV was 77.1% (95% CI: 59.7-87.6), 89.5% (95% CI: 65.9-97.9), and 82.9% (95% CI: 61.1-93.6) effective against G1-G4 rotavirus disease, severe and moderate rotavirus disease combined, and outpatient visits for rotavirus disease, respectively. The risk of adverse events was similar for the vaccine and placebo groups. Conclusions: PRV was highly effective in preventing rotavirus disease and related health care utilization in these American Indian infants. Vaccine efficacy and immunogenicity were similar to the overall study population enrolled in the multicenter trial.
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KW - Child
KW - Gastroenteritis
KW - Native American
KW - Rotavirus
KW - Vaccine
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Rapid and transient palmitoylation of the tyrosine kinase Lck mediates Fas signaling
Askar M. Akimzhanov, Darren Boehning, Solomon H Snyder
Palmitoylation is the posttranslational modification of proteins with a 16-carbon fatty acid chain through a labile thioester bond. The reversibility of protein palmitoylation and its profound effect on protein function suggest that this modification could play an important role as an intracellular signaling mechanism. Evidence that palmitoylation of proteins occurs with the kinetics required for signal transduction is not clear, however. Here we show that engagement of the Fas receptor by its ligand leads to an extremely rapid and transient increase in palmitoylation levels of the tyrosine kinase Lck. Lck palmitoylation kinetics are consistent with the activation of downstream signaling proteins, such as Zap70 and PLC-γ1. Inhibiting Lck palmitoylation not only disrupts proximal Fas signaling events, but also renders cells resistant to Fas-mediated apoptosis. Knockdown of the palmitoyl acyl transferase DHHC21 eliminates activation of Lck and downstream signaling after Fas receptor stimulation. Our findings demonstrate highly dynamic Lck palmitoylation kinetics that are essential for signaling downstream of the Fas receptor.
CD95 Antigens
Post Translational Protein Processing
Protein palmitoylation
Akimzhanov, A. M., Boehning, D., & Snyder, S. H. (2015). Rapid and transient palmitoylation of the tyrosine kinase Lck mediates Fas signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(38), 11876-11880. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509929112
Rapid and transient palmitoylation of the tyrosine kinase Lck mediates Fas signaling. / Akimzhanov, Askar M.; Boehning, Darren; Snyder, Solomon H.
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, No. 38, 22.09.2015, p. 11876-11880.
Akimzhanov, AM, Boehning, D & Snyder, SH 2015, 'Rapid and transient palmitoylation of the tyrosine kinase Lck mediates Fas signaling', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112, no. 38, pp. 11876-11880. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509929112
Akimzhanov AM, Boehning D, Snyder SH. Rapid and transient palmitoylation of the tyrosine kinase Lck mediates Fas signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2015 Sep 22;112(38):11876-11880. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509929112
Akimzhanov, Askar M. ; Boehning, Darren ; Snyder, Solomon H. / Rapid and transient palmitoylation of the tyrosine kinase Lck mediates Fas signaling. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2015 ; Vol. 112, No. 38. pp. 11876-11880.
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title = "Rapid and transient palmitoylation of the tyrosine kinase Lck mediates Fas signaling",
abstract = "Palmitoylation is the posttranslational modification of proteins with a 16-carbon fatty acid chain through a labile thioester bond. The reversibility of protein palmitoylation and its profound effect on protein function suggest that this modification could play an important role as an intracellular signaling mechanism. Evidence that palmitoylation of proteins occurs with the kinetics required for signal transduction is not clear, however. Here we show that engagement of the Fas receptor by its ligand leads to an extremely rapid and transient increase in palmitoylation levels of the tyrosine kinase Lck. Lck palmitoylation kinetics are consistent with the activation of downstream signaling proteins, such as Zap70 and PLC-γ1. Inhibiting Lck palmitoylation not only disrupts proximal Fas signaling events, but also renders cells resistant to Fas-mediated apoptosis. Knockdown of the palmitoyl acyl transferase DHHC21 eliminates activation of Lck and downstream signaling after Fas receptor stimulation. Our findings demonstrate highly dynamic Lck palmitoylation kinetics that are essential for signaling downstream of the Fas receptor.",
keywords = "Apoptosis, Calcium, Fas, Lck, Protein palmitoylation",
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AU - Boehning, Darren
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N2 - Palmitoylation is the posttranslational modification of proteins with a 16-carbon fatty acid chain through a labile thioester bond. The reversibility of protein palmitoylation and its profound effect on protein function suggest that this modification could play an important role as an intracellular signaling mechanism. Evidence that palmitoylation of proteins occurs with the kinetics required for signal transduction is not clear, however. Here we show that engagement of the Fas receptor by its ligand leads to an extremely rapid and transient increase in palmitoylation levels of the tyrosine kinase Lck. Lck palmitoylation kinetics are consistent with the activation of downstream signaling proteins, such as Zap70 and PLC-γ1. Inhibiting Lck palmitoylation not only disrupts proximal Fas signaling events, but also renders cells resistant to Fas-mediated apoptosis. Knockdown of the palmitoyl acyl transferase DHHC21 eliminates activation of Lck and downstream signaling after Fas receptor stimulation. Our findings demonstrate highly dynamic Lck palmitoylation kinetics that are essential for signaling downstream of the Fas receptor.
AB - Palmitoylation is the posttranslational modification of proteins with a 16-carbon fatty acid chain through a labile thioester bond. The reversibility of protein palmitoylation and its profound effect on protein function suggest that this modification could play an important role as an intracellular signaling mechanism. Evidence that palmitoylation of proteins occurs with the kinetics required for signal transduction is not clear, however. Here we show that engagement of the Fas receptor by its ligand leads to an extremely rapid and transient increase in palmitoylation levels of the tyrosine kinase Lck. Lck palmitoylation kinetics are consistent with the activation of downstream signaling proteins, such as Zap70 and PLC-γ1. Inhibiting Lck palmitoylation not only disrupts proximal Fas signaling events, but also renders cells resistant to Fas-mediated apoptosis. Knockdown of the palmitoyl acyl transferase DHHC21 eliminates activation of Lck and downstream signaling after Fas receptor stimulation. Our findings demonstrate highly dynamic Lck palmitoylation kinetics that are essential for signaling downstream of the Fas receptor.
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KW - Calcium
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.1509929112
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