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Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive
- Collection
- (c.1960s - c.2002) 1848 - 2002
Photographic stills and negatives from the ITN corporate press archive documenting national and international news
Independent Television News
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Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive
Photographic stills and negatives from the ITN corporate press archive documenting national and international news
Independent Television News
Dymock Poets Special Collection
On the north-west borders of Gloucestershire, in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the First World War, a literary community was formed which came to represent a significant development in the modern poetic tradition. By August 1914, ...
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Local Heritage Initiative Archive
The collection is comprised of the outputs of an England-wide Heritage Lottery Fund project where communities were given money to produce something tangible on their local heritage. Subjects covered include archaeology, agriculture, history and he...
Countryside Agency
Whittington Press Special Collection
The Whittington Press was founded by John and Rose Randle in 1971 at Whittington Court near Cheltenham. The Press continues to produce hand-made books by letterpress, often incorporating text and wood engravings. Material is comprised of monograph...
University of Gloucestershire
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail Archive
The collection charts the history of the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, located at Beechenhurst Lodge in the heart of the Forest of Dean. This includes both the administrative and artistic processes involved. Formats encompass documents, books an...
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust
Draft poetry, correspondence and publications relating to the poet Michael Henry
Henry, Michael
Artists' Books Special Collection
The Artists' Books Collection was established in 1998 following the exhibition Books As Art held at Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham Town Hall and the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education's Pittville CampusArtists' Bo...
University of Gloucestershire
The personal archive of poet U A Fanthorpe CBE (1929-2009), a Gloucestershire-based poet. The collection encompasses extensive correspondence and draft poetry and is an example of the creative processes writers undertake from idea to composition t...
Fanthorpe, U A
Cotswold Centre for History and Heritage Archive
The Cotswold Centre for History and Heritage brings together the work of undergraduate students and staff in History (School of Liberal and Performing Arts) at the University of Gloucestershire. Primarily student-led, the research conducted as par...
University of Gloucestershire
The Cyder Press Special Collection
The Cyder Press was a small press, established by Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Education in 1998 as an extension of the resources provided by the College's existing Dymock Poets Archive and Study Centre.The principal function of the P...
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
David Elyan Special Collection
"The Dubliner" and "Dublin" publicationsJames Elroy Flecker publications - 37 books, including an unpublished masters thesis, by and about the Cheltenham poetWhittington Press ephemera
Elyan, David
University of Gloucestershire Archive
The origins of Cheltenham Training College grew from the reformation of the education system in England during the nineteenth century. The National Society for Promoting Religious Education was established in 1811 with the aim of providing a schoo...
Cheltenham Training College
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Library
The Library is physically divided into two halves, serial and general publications, and county or country based material. There is material about most counties in England as well as on Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Subjects covered include history,...
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
University of Gloucestershire


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Florida Trend Magazine announced its 2010 Golden Spoon award winners.
On Longboat Key, The Colony Dining Room and Maison Blanche were recipients of the Golden Spoon awards. Receiving the honor in Sarasota were Derek's Culinary Casual, the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota and Selva Grill.
Euphemia Haye, on Longboat Key, and Michael's On East, in Sarasota, are members of the Golden Spoon Hall of Fame. Euphemia Haye first earned a Golden Spoon award in 1993 and was named to the Hall of Fame in 2003. Michael's On East has been receiving Golden Spoon awards since 1991.
Libby's Café + Bar, in Sarasota, received a Best Newcomers award.
Mattison's three restaurants in Sarasota and Bradenton, owned by Paul Mattison, were honored with a Golden Brand award, a new category that honors the best restaurant chains.
Also honored by the magazine was Longboat cooking legend Marcella Hazan, who earned one of the new "Florida Icons" awards.
Contact Robin Hartill at [email protected].
Florida Trend Magazine announced its 2010 Golden Spoon award winners.

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29-1069.10 - Radiologists
Examine and diagnose disorders and diseases using x-rays and radioactive materials. May treat patients.
Sample of reported job titles: Attending Radiologist; Diagnostic Radiologist; Interventional Neuroradiologist; Interventional Radiologist; Neuroradiologist; Physician; Radiologist; Radiologist, Chief of Breast Imaging; Radiology Resident; Staff Radiologist
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Obtain patients' histories from electronic records, patient interviews, dictated reports, or by communicating with referring clinicians.
- Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
- Perform or interpret the outcomes of diagnostic imaging procedures including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), nuclear cardiology treadmill studies, mammography, or ultrasound.
- Review or transmit images and information using picture archiving or communications systems.
- Communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families.
- Evaluate medical information to determine patients' risk factors, such as allergies to contrast agents, or to make decisions regarding the appropriateness of procedures.
- Provide counseling to radiologic patients to explain the processes, risks, benefits, or alternative treatments.
- Instruct radiologic staff in desired techniques, positions, or projections.
- Confer with medical professionals regarding image-based diagnoses.
- Coordinate radiological services with other medical activities.
- Document the performance, interpretation, or outcomes of all procedures performed.
- Establish or enforce standards for protection of patients or personnel.
- Develop or monitor procedures to ensure adequate quality control of images.
- Recognize or treat complications during and after procedures, including blood pressure problems, pain, oversedation, or bleeding.
- Administer radiopaque substances by injection, orally, or as enemas to render internal structures and organs visible on x-ray films or fluoroscopic screens.
- Participate in continuing education activities to maintain and develop expertise.
- Participate in quality improvement activities including discussions of areas where risk of error is high.
- Supervise and teach residents or medical students.
- Implement protocols in areas such as drugs, resuscitation, emergencies, power failures, or infection control.
- Schedule examinations and assign radiologic personnel.
- Provide advice on types or quantities of radiology equipment needed to maintain facilities.
- Participate in research projects involving radiology.
- Perform interventional procedures such as image-guided biopsy, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, transhepatic biliary drainage, or nephrostomy catheter placement.
- Administer or maintain conscious sedation during and after procedures.
- Interpret images using computer-aided detection or diagnosis systems.
- Serve as an offsite teleradiologist for facilities that do not have on-site radiologists.
- Develop treatment plans for radiology patients.
- Treat malignant internal or external growths by exposure to radiation from radiographs (x-rays), high energy sources, or natural or synthetic radioisotopes.
- Conduct physical examinations to inform decisions about appropriate procedures.
Technology Skills
- Electronic mail software — Email software
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Medical software — Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR; MEDITECH software ; RamSoft PowerServer RIS/PACS; Vitera Healthcare Solutions Vitera Intergy RIS (see all 39 examples)
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Voice recognition software
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Bone densitometer — Bone densitometers
- Medical computed tomography CT or CAT complete stationary unit installation — Computed tomography CT equipment
- Medical computed tomography CT or CAT ultrafast system components — Single-photon emission computed tomography SPECT cameras
- Medical gamma cameras for general use — Gamma cameras
- Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI complete stationary unit installation — Magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment
- Medical positron emission tomography PET units — Positron emission tomography PET equipment
- Medical radiation dosimeters — Medical radiation monitors
- Medical radiological shielding aprons or masks or drapes — Patient radiation shields
- Medical radiology and fluoroscopy RF equipment — Fluoroscopic imaging systems
- Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use — Medical ultrasound scanners
- Medical x ray film archiving system software — Novarad NovaPacs
- Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use — X ray machines
- Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- Biology — Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Physics — Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- Psychology — Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
- Science — Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Speed of Closure — The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
Work Activities
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Monitoring and Controlling Resources — Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
- Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Detailed Work Activities
- Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment.
- Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals.
- Gather medical information from patient histories.
- Operate diagnostic imaging equipment.
- Prepare reports summarizing patient diagnostic or care activities.
- Communicate detailed medical information to patients or family members.
- Communicate test or assessment results to medical professionals.
- Analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.
- Explain medical procedures or test results to patients or family members.
- Operate on patients to treat conditions.
- Administer anesthetics or sedatives to control pain.
- Train medical providers.
- Inform medical professionals regarding patient conditions and care.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
- Record patient medical histories.
- Determine protocols for medical procedures.
- Verify that medical activities or operations meet standards.
- Develop healthcare quality and safety procedures.
- Monitor patients following surgeries or other treatments.
- Administer medical substances for imaging or other procedures.
- Maintain medical or professional knowledge.
- Develop medical treatment plans.
- Administer cancer treatments.
- Examine patients to assess general physical condition.
- Supervise patient care personnel.
- Treat medical emergencies.
- Schedule medical facility use.
- Advise medical personnel regarding healthcare issues.
- Conduct research to increase knowledge about medical issues.
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Work Context
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 99% responded "Extremely important."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 99% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 96% responded "Every day."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 91% responded "Very important results."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 91% responded "Every day."
- Time Pressure — 80% responded "Every day."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 74% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 60% responded "Every day."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 29% responded "Very important."
- Electronic Mail — 71% responded "Every day."
- Exposed to Radiation
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 60% responded "Very high responsibility."
- Exposed to Disease or Infections — 70% responded "Every day."
- Level of Competition — 57% responded "Extremely competitive."
- Consequence of Error — 66% responded "Extremely serious."
- Contact With Others — 54% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 43% responded "Extremely important."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 67% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 65% responded "Some freedom."
- Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection — 39% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 43% responded "Very high responsibility."
- Spend Time Sitting — 36% responded "More than half the time."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 45% responded "Very important."
- Deal With External Customers — 59% responded "Very important."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 48% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Physical Proximity — 29% responded "Very close (near touching)."
- Frequency of Conflict Situations — 48% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Letters and Memos — 37% responded "Once a year or more but not every month."
- Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 21% responded "Once a year or more but not every month."
- Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 12% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
|Related Experience
|Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
|Job Training
|Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations often involve coordinating, training, supervising, or managing the activities of others to accomplish goals. Very advanced communication and organizational skills are required. Examples include pharmacists, lawyers, astronomers, biologists, clergy, neurologists, and veterinarians.
|SVP Range
|(8.0 and above)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|Post-doctoral training
|Bachelor's degree
|Doctoral degree
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- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Social — Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
Work Styles
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Work Values
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Recognition — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wage data for Physicians, All Other; and Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric.
Employment data for Physicians and Surgeons, All Other.
Industry data for Physicians and Surgeons, All Other.
|Median wages (2019)
|$99.28 hourly, $206,500 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|433,700 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Faster than average (7% to 10%)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.
- American College of Radiology
- American Medical Association
- American Roentgen Ray Society
- American Society of Head and Neck Radiology
- American Society of Neuroradiology
- American Society of Radiologic Technologists
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Physicians and surgeons
- Radiological Society of North America
- Society of Abdominal Radiology
- Society of Interventional Radiology
- Society of Skeletal Radiology
- The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists


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Stunned silence gripped the Germany dressing room, a sense of disbelief coursing through a team that had scored 10 goals in a little over one and a half games but now found their will to win under examination. Looking on, their manager, Joachim Löw, was in a "state of shock," unable to comprehend how his players had managed to throw away a 4-0 lead on home soil to a Sweden side that days earlier had scrambled to victory over Faroe Islands. Germany had drawn but it felt like a defeat.
"I don't know how to explain it," said Löw after Tuesday night's 4-4 thriller in Berlin. "The problem seems to have been mental after 60 minutes. We became sloppy and lost our discipline."
That sentiment was shared by Germany's captain, Philipp Lahm. "It's very bitter," he said. "Maybe we thought the game was already over. You concede the first goal, then the second and then everything falls apart."
Bastian Schweinsteiger, too, admitted that the Nationalmannschaft had perhaps become complacent having engineered what appeared to be an unassailable lead. "I can't explain it," the midfielder said. "I've never experienced anything like this before."
Indeed, no Germany player of any era has, for the collapse to Sweden was the first time the national team has squandered a four-goal lead and, as such, the sense of shock that followed was understandable, even more so given Germany came into the match on the back of having thrashed Republic of Ireland 6-1 in Dublin last Friday.
Löw's men had been irresistible that night, tearing through Ireland at near-will to record their 13th consecutive win in qualifying tournaments, and against Sweden appeared to have simply picked up from where they left off, racing to a 4-0 lead within 55 minutes thanks to two goals from Miroslav Klose – he is now one behind Gerd Müller's all-time record of 68 goals for Germany – and one apiece from Per Mertesacker and Mesut Ozil.
At that stage the majority of the 70,000 people inside Berlin's Olympic Stadium were in raptures; Germany were heading for their fourth straight win in Group C of this 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign with a swagger and verve that suggested they would secure their passage to Brazil in style.
Then, however, came the fightback. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who got Sweden's winner in their 2-1 victory over Faroe Islands five days ago, scored with a header on 62 minutes before Mikael Lustig halved the deficit soon after with a close-range finish. Johan Elmander made the impossible appear probable on 76 minutes with a near-post finish before Rasmus Elm snatched the equaliser in stoppage time after Mertesacker had headed the ball into the path of the CSKA Moscow player.
"60 minutes heaven, 30 minutes hell," is how the headline in Der Spiegel described the match, with the subsequent article going on to say that "debates about the shortcomings of the DFB" would break out again.
Those debates had begun following Germany's loss to Italy in the semi-finals of Euro 2012, with the team accused of freezing on the big stage. There then followed questions about the morale of the squad, with some coming from inside the camp itself, most notably from Schweinsteiger, which resulted in Löw having a "very fruitful discussion" with the 28-year-old ahead of the Ireland match.
The subsequent thrashing of Giovanni Trapattoni's side suggested all was well with Germany again, only for Tuesday night's meltdown, as Der Spiegel states, to reopen the debate into the squad's collective state of mind.
So much so, in fact, that the German tabloid Bild is asking if the national team has a "psychological crack" seen not only by what happened against Italy at the Euros and against Sweden this week, but also by how Bayern Munich, who provide the national team with a sizeable number of players, finished runners-up for the Bundesliga title, the German cup and the Champions League last season.
"Can sports psychologist Dr Hans-Dieter Hermann help now?" asked Bild. "He works for the DFB and will be able to engage with the international players."
There is naturally no such introspection in Sweden following a result that keeps the national team in second place in Group C, with a game in hand over Germany and morale boosted ahead of the meeting with third-place Ireland next March.
"Achievement of Berlin" and "historical" is how the Sweden manager, Erik Hamrén, described his team's dramatic comeback, with columnist Johan Esk speaking of his country's "biggest bang in football history" in the Swedish daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter.
Germany were certainly shot down to earth on an incredible night in Berlin. A case of shock and awe for a normally awesome team.


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The car bearing Allen West to the Capitol pulls over so the former House member can show identification to a security guard. The officer recognizes him instantly and pushes West's ID away. Then he reaches into the passenger-side window and pulls the Army veteran in for a bro-hug. "We gotta get you back here," the officer says.
"Oh, I'll be back," West replies, flashing his slightly gap-toothed smile. "Tell the fellas."
The truth is, Allen West never really left. During his single term in the House, which ended in January, he carved a path as distinctive as his trademark salt-and-pepper flattop -- not just for his bombastic rhetoric but also for being the first black Republican elected from Florida since Reconstruction. Some might slink away from Washington after losing their first reelection battle in one of the nation's best-funded campaigns, and in a district carried by Mitt Romney. Not West, the Tea Party outsider who decided he'd hold onto his Capitol Hill basement apartment. "Of course I did," he says, as if it were even a question.
And why would it be? He's still at the Capitol about three days a week to conduct interviews for a new Internet-based television show he hosts -- one of West's many ventures. He has a contract to appear frequently on Fox News. He funded a nonprofit (the Allen West Foundation, of course), finished a book manuscript (coming early next year), and raised impressive amounts of campaign cash (leading plenty of people to speculate about his plans for 2016). In the first six months of 2013, his Allen West Guardian Fund, a leadership PAC, pulled in $1.3 million, a figure on par with the upper echelon of his former House colleagues.
By losing his spot in Congress, West may have failed upward. "In some ways, my ability to impact the conversation has somewhat exponentially grown," he says. His docket is so full these days that a 75-minute meeting is carved into his calendar just to discuss all the far-flung elements of "the empire."
As he enters the Rayburn House Office Building on a hot July day, West breezes past the metal detector. ("They know me here," he explains.) He's on his way to interview House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. He presses the "members only" button on the elevator, and even though another car arrives first, he opts for the exclusive one. "The only difference now is that I don't have to be constantly paying attention for the voting bell to ring," he says, noting he even goes home to his family in Florida on the weekends, just like he did as a member.
But while it all feels familiar, there is a big difference today. West is no longer just one of 435. Now he's the founder, president, and CEO of a rising political force: Allen West Inc.
The Last Samurai
The operation has expanded recently from West's basement apartment -- which he calls "the bat cave" -- to a suite on the eerily empty third floor of an office building only blocks from his old office. The walls are barren because many of them are going to be torn down to build a bigger filming studio. The place has the feel of a start-up. A half-dozen young women mill about. West's flat-screen TV, tuned to Fox News, sits atop a cardboard box. A Post-it Note stuck to his computer reminds him that his password is "allenwest." Talking points about Trayvon Martin and a packet of Clearasil wipes sit atop his desk. Oh, and there's a samurai sword.
"I'm pretty scared about you having a samurai sword. That's insane," says Michelle Fields, a rising conservative star and correspondent on his show. "Take it out! I want to see what it looks like."
A fan had arrived, unannounced, bearing the weapon just hours earlier. (The security guards downstairs didn't stop him.) "I'd never met him, but he said because I'm a stand-up guy willing to fight for my beliefs, I should have it. If a guy is going to give another guy a gift, this is cool. I don't want a guy coming in and giving me cologne or some kind of basket," West says. "I mean, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, dude."
West, like Sarah Palin, inspires the true believers. His caustic brand of Republicanism -- he has said Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels would be "very proud" of Democrats and that as many as 80 communists secretly lurk among the Democrats in Congress -- turned him into a conservative icon. By November 2012, his campaign team says, it had more than 100,000 active donors who had contributed nearly $19 million. "It's an unheard of sum," says Brock McCleary, who was the deputy political director for the House Republicans' campaign operations last year.
To put his haul in context, the only House members to raise more money than West last cycle were Speaker John Boehner and those running for president (Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Ron Paul of Texas). West's reelection campaign outraised that of Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, by more than $11 million.
West did it by investing heavily in direct-mail and e-mail solicitations that capitalized on his image as a Tea Party rabble-rouser, a military veteran serving his nation, and, of course, a rare black Republican. His campaign spent more than $7.4 million on fundraising, much of it for direct-mail solicitations. West received so many contributions that he reported spending more than $200,000 in bank and credit-card fees just to process all the incoming money.
The secret of Allen West's success is that, despite appearances, he is more strategic than spontaneous. Every crazy comment he makes raises his profile and the amount of money in his coffers. Every joke is workshopped (at least in his own head) to best charm the press. Every attempt to shoot down a 2016 rumor is actually an effort to keep his name in the mix.
He has been able to drive his own coverage, even out of office. West was mentioned in 185,000 Twitter and Facebook posts in the first six months of 2013, according to Crimson Hexagon, a social-media analytics firm. That was almost the same volume as the first six months of 2012, when he was mentioned 220,000 times during a reelection campaign in which he accused Democrats of being communists (and drew national attention). He counts nearly 350,000 fans on Facebook (40 percent more than, say, the Sierra Club), more than 150,000 of whom have joined since his electoral defeat, his advisers say.
West's mail operation continues to hum. It ensures that he, unlike so many of his former colleagues who depend on the largesse of the lobbying class, isn't tethered to the whims of Washington elites. This large donor base gives West the freedom to speak his mind -- demands it, even. It also, crucially, provides him the time to build his empire and to amass the money that will serve as his mortar.
He keeps a busy schedule. One July day began with a conference call to his publisher to negotiate a release date for his book (he joked earlier on Twitter that he'd thought about calling it Dreams From My American Father). Then there was a Politico interview to talk about the Rev. Al Sharpton's role as commentator in the wake of the Trayvon Martin case, followed by a radio hit with Sean Hannity in which he discussed the "Stand Your Ground" laws. Next was the trip to the Capitol for the interview with Goodlatte. Then it was back to the studio to film a segment, followed by an event West was hosting at a wine bar on the Hill to ply press secretaries with free alcohol and encourage them to put their bosses on his show.
West has so much going these days that he and his advisers still haven't figured out what exactly to do with a second nonprofit he launched, the American Legacy Guardians, with another $250,000 in campaign money.
An Insider's Outsider
West is not the first lawmaker to leave Congress -- in his case, albeit, involuntarily -- hoping to make an even bigger mark. South Carolina's Jim DeMint resigned his Senate seat last December, only two years after winning reelection, to head the Heritage Foundation, one of the most influential conservative organizations in Washington. West, by contrast, is trying to build something from scratch. "It's crazy. I served one term of Congress, and now I'm busier than I ever was as a congressman," he says.
The goal is to start by instilling conservative values in young people and minorities -- two growing sectors of the electorate crucial to Republican survival -- and then get some of them elected to office. This requires two types of organizations.
First, there's the Allen West Foundation, whose role as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit bars it from some political activity. West doesn't take part in the day-to-day operations of this enterprise, but he started it with $650,000 in leftover campaign funds. And in the words of its executive director, Joe Finley, "The foundation is just looking to foster Colonel West's vision. He wants to get it to a point where it will be in perpetuity." By hosting seminars in urban areas and encouraging engagement in youth military organizations like the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, West hopes to inspire a new generation of minority Republicans.
But to be truly successful, West doesn't just want citizens to think like him -- he wants those citizens to run the country. Only one in five members of the House and Senate are military veterans, down from nearly four in five in the late 1970s. The House has no black Republicans. That's where the Guardian PAC comes in. West says he plans to raise between $5 million and $6 million and spread it out over 12 congressional elections, backing veteran and minority candidates around the country. He's already on pace to raise that sum after what is typically the slowest six months in the political fundraising cycle.
Democrats are giddy about the prospect of West's expanding influence. Ali Lapp, executive director of a Democratic super PAC that spent more than $2 million to unseat West last year, says that while West's rhetoric may raise gobs of money, it turns off swing voters. "It might play well to the activist base that is funding all his endeavors, but it doesn't play well with voters who decide elections," she says. "There's no race that shows that better than his own race last year."
That contest was the most expensive House race in the country; it also was one of the closest. In the end, West couldn't win over enough of the moderate country-club Republicans who live along the Treasure Coast of Florida, and he lost, by less than 1 percent of the vote, to Patrick Murphy.
In some ways, it's not surprising that West appeals more to die-hard conservatives around the country than to those Republicans in his wealthy coastal district. He said recently that Attorney General Eric Holder is "a bigger threat to our Republic" than the leader of al-Qaeda. He dons leather vests at motorcycle rallies. As an Army officer, he turned an incident in which he fired a gun near an Iraqi police officer's head -- for which he was fined -- into a heroic act. (In 2003 testimony about the case, he declared he would "go through hell with a gasoline can for [his] men.")
He knows that his support comes from the Right, not anywhere else on the political spectrum. So his job, as he sees it, is to engage the diehards in a way nobody else can. "I speak the truth, I'm not going to spin it, I'm not going to try and run away from things," West says.
At the same time, beneath his brash exterior, the former Army lieutenant colonel knows how to fall into line. No matter how outlandish the statement, he keeps a deadpan tone, so he never seems unhinged. And, according toNational Journal's analysis of congressional votes, he was only the 110th-most-conservative member of the House in 2012 -- the middle of the GOP pack. He left Congress in the good graces of the Republican leadership, meaning he was deft enough to please the GOP establishment and the Tea Party at the same time.
Perhaps the most telling moment came during the 2011 debt-limit showdown, as Congress took the nation to the brink of default. In a closed-door meeting, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy played a scene from the movieThe Town to fire up and unite the fractious Republican Conference. On-screen, one character tells another: "I need your help. I can't tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later." His friend responds, "Whose car are we gonna take?"
Then West stood up and pronounced: "I'm ready to drive the car." The bomb-thrower in public was a team player behind the scenes.
No "Kingmaker"
Still, even some in West's orbit doubt that a man with his track record -- he lost a district that Mitt Romney won, despite a $19 million war chest and a young opponent who had never held office -- should be driving much of anything. "It's one thing to be beaten by the sheriff or the county commissioner, but to be beaten by a 29-year-old construction executive who worked at daddy's company -- that's a sad commentary," says a former adviser who requested anonymity to speak candidly. The No. 1 job of any elected freshman in Congress is to get reelected, and West failed. "Anybody in politics who can put two and two together can come to that conclusion," the adviser says.
But West is looking beyond the House. His Guardian PAC recently held an online "straw poll" among his e-mail contacts for the 2016 Republican presidential race. (West wasn't listed among the choices; Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas won, and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky finished second.) The effort, of course, doubled as a way to draw ever more e-mail addresses.
What, specifically, is West working toward? Despite his desire to anoint conservative candidates, he denies he wants to be a "kingmaker." He insists, "I'm not trying to take over the country. I'm not, what's that cartoon show, Pinky and the Brain? I'm not trying to take over the universe."
So he won't run for president? "God will decide what path for me to be on," he says, back in his office, while eating peanut butter with a spoon and watching a video of himself online. "And then I'll discuss it with my wife and my daughters.… I'll see Him eventually in eternity, but I live with them every day."
It's a line he uses often -- Allen West is still a politician, after all. ("You guys keep asking me the same questions, so I have to be prepared," he says later, at the happy hour he was hosting.) There's nothing he seems to relish more than being asked about higher office. Just weeks after losing his reelection bid in November, West was already busy fanning the flames.
"Always remember," he said as he wound up an NPR interview, "Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too."
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[This review from the Monitor's archives originally ran on Dec. 20, 2005]. Fourteen years ago, in December 1991, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told his country that the cold war was over. In signing the decree that dissolved the Soviet Union and ended the East-West competition, Gorbachev also announced an end to the arms race and the "insane militarization" that had "distorted" his country's thinking and "undermined" its morals. And perhaps most significantly, he claimed "the threat of a world war" had come to an end.
With the demise of the Soviet state, the world seemed ready to enter an era in which the fear of a catastrophic war would no longer stalk humanity. Many believed the perils of the cold war would give way to a more tranquil age.
But it was not to be. Yesterday's fear of intercontinental ballistic missiles raining down on New York or Washington has been supplanted by today's fear of suicide attacks and dirty bombs.
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And now, when boarding a plane gives many people pause, one looks almost longingly at the postwar decades, when the United States seemed to understand its adversary and believed Russian leaders were unlikely to act irrationally. After all, the cold logic of the cold war meant a Soviet attack on the United States would lead to a swift and devastating response.
As US leaders strain to manage America's current overseas dilemmas, The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis transports us to an earlier era. In luminous detail, Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett professor of history at Yale, traces the history of the conflict that dominated world politics from the end of World War II to the early 1990s. How long ago it all seems.
Gaddis, America's most distinguished cold war historian, has been writing about the subject for more than 30 years. (I co-edited a book on nuclear diplomacy with Gaddis and two other scholars in 1999.)
But unlike several of his previous books, which were intended for scholars, this one is aimed at a broader audience - for those who want to understand how the cold war began, how it unfolded, and why it ended when it did.
Given these objectives, Gaddis has succeeded splendidly. Indeed, in the book's narrative sweep, analytical insights, and deft incorporation of the most recent scholarship, Gaddis has written the best one-volume treatment of the East-West struggle. By examining how individual leaders, differing ideologies, domestic politics, and the nuclear threat shaped the competition, he's produced an altogether stimulating work.
Assessing the origins of the cold war, a subject that has long sparked bitter debate among historians, Gaddis fully places responsibility for the conflict on Stalin and the Soviet Union. (Some historians assign the US primary responsibility, while others contend that both Moscow and Washington were to blame.)
The key, Gaddis argues, is that the United States and the Soviet Union had fundamentally different visions for the postwar world. The Americans possessed a multilateral vision that sought to avoid war by encouraging cooperation among the great powers, fostering political self-determination and economic integration, and relying on the United Nations to enhance the security of all states.
But Stalin's postwar vision could not have been more different. The Soviet dictator sought to advance Russian interests by establishing a ring of subservient (nondemocratic) states around his country's vulnerable western flank, while awaiting the inevitable rivalries that he believed would cause fissures and perhaps even war among capitalist nations.
As Gaddis observes, Stalin was convinced that "capitalist fratricide" would eventually allow the Soviets to dominate Europe.
Beyond exploring the conflict's origins, Gaddis superbly evaluates how nuclear weapons and ideology influenced the struggle. The bomb helped keep the peace between Moscow and Washington because using it first meant a certain, cataclysmic response. Thus, it was not a legitimate option for rational policymakers.
In the ideological realm, Gaddis writes that each state's ideology was "meant to offer hope" (as do all ideologies). But while one ideology depended upon "the creation of fear" to function, the other had no "need to do so." And that, he asserts, explains the cold war's "basic ideological asymmetry."
To the surprise of even the most astute observers, the cold war came to a swift end between 1989 and 1991. While the actions of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Pope John Paul II each contributed to the conflict's peaceful conclusion, world leaders were not central to ending the competition. The actions of "ordinary people" were crucial, Gaddis believes, for it was citizens in Budapest, Warsaw, Leipzig, Prague, and Bucharest who boldly threw off the shackles that had bound them for so long.
To be sure, Gorbachev decided Moscow was no longer prepared to maintain the old repressive order. But the liberation of millions was catalyzed by regular men and women who had the capacity to envision a better existence and the will to achieve it.
There were few more uplifting moments in 20th-century history, and it is easy to reflect on those heroic days with a certain wistfulness.
• Jonathan Rosenberg teaches American history at Hunter College, the City University of New York.
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For better compatibility, TP-Link keeps testing all the mainstream modems all over the world, and continuously updating the firmware and compatibility list as soon as a new modem get compatible. However, some customers still encounter compatible problem, this document will guide you to do the troubleshooting and resolve it.
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Situation 1: 3G/4G modem/Region/ISP is not listed in the compatibility list of our router.
We recommend our users to check the 3G/3.75G USB Modem Compatibility List before purchasing our 3G router. This list contains the tested modems with corresponded information such as region/ISP. If your country is not in the list, please take "Other Location" option for reference only.
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Please note, due to the firmware upgrading or various parameters changed by some 3G ISPs, there are some 3G modems in the "Other Location" list that may NOT be compatible with our router. So please be careful with the "Other Location" list.
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(1)Update Firmware
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Finally, please go to System Tools-> Reboot and reboot your 3G router,.
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Now we assume that your 3G modem can be identified successfully by the 3G router, as you can see the following picture. Here we take Huawei EC169 as an example.
If you cannot have Internet via the 3G router, it may be caused by following issues.
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(3) Mismatched parameters
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What's more, please also compare the performance between wired connection through Ethernet cable and wireless connection to check whether there are any differences about this issue.
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"And clothes off, we are in. Fully submerged, it's ice cold and freezing our brains, knocking the air from our lungs. We slow our breath to calm our shock. We don't stay in long… nothing heroic. Just enough to awaken our winter bodies."
Here at VIVO, we're big fans of a splash in wild water.
Cold water swimming is fast emerging on the medical radar as the 'super food' of physical activities – lowering blood pressure, boosting immunity, circulation and libido, and even mediating stress and depression.
Throughout the summer months you'll see us Swim-Run-Swim-Run our way round the ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Series… but what, now the weather has turned?
We asked some cold-water lovers of the Swimrun World Series why and how they do it when the temperature starts to plummet…
Co-founder of Swimrun and director of the ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Series
"As winter draws in, everything in nature is beginning to close. The birds have migrated – the woods are quiet. In recent years, I've begun swimming earlier in the morning, and later into the year, to avoid the crowds.
This past weekend, I swam to the Island of Utö in the Stockholm Archipelago, home of the original bet that sparked the idea for ÖTILLÖ. We called to action via Facebook for fellow swimmers, and two chefs from the local hotel showed up – both used to cold water.
It was a real autumn day, single digit degrees and a fair North Westerly wind. Together we swam the four north islands, just warm enough to laugh together, clearing our minds with the cold, a Sauna and dinner waiting on the other end."
Official VIVOBAREFOOT athlete and Swimrun World Champion, Maja swims in some of the coldest waters around Sweden
"For me, it's the moment before you throw yourself into the water. The micro-second when there's no going back and you have to mentally prepare for the cold to hit. Immediately, you feel your heart pound in your ears and you innately want to panic.
I focus on long, smooth exhalations, breathing right to the belly to get plenty of oxygen – ready to swim forward with full power. "
VIVO sponsored Swimrun Athlete
"Living in Stockholm, the surrounding sea and lakes don't rise above 10°C before May. I like to warm up in nature before a swim, enjoying a jog in beautiful surroundings.
If you're trying cold swimming for the first time, be sure to remain close to the edge. You can easily seize up – so it's best to have an easy exit.
My number one tip to secure your wetsuit well – make sure it's snug at the neck!
A neoprene cap can make a huge difference, protecting the forehead and the tops of your ears, plus neoprene socks will keep your feet toasty. Sometimes, you need only these two pieces of kit.
In the first minute, you want to make small, quick strokes. Then slow as you calm and embrace the cold. I love to swim without a wetsuit, it lets me push my system harder, training both my body and my mind."
Some final words from Michael Lemmel...
"Our adventures are limited by our minds and the comfort of our homes. We need to get out and feel nature, to feel small and to expand our dimensions. To be alive!"
Active feet mean active brains: spark the creativity in your junior superhero! Meet the small super heroes whose feet talk to their brains!
Look after your kit and it will look after you!We spoke to wilderness and survival expert Ben McNutt on how to look after your leather hiking boots so they provide the best innate water-resistance nature has to offer (and all other leather goods for that matter!).
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee has helped us fully understand the positive health benefits of going barefoot.
Girls are not hard-wired by nature for pink and boys for blue. They just aren't.
Let's let pink and blue kill each other in the ring of senseless consumerism. Let's nurture a nature that is not dominated by pink and blue, and free our kids to just be kids, in any colour they want.
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What it says. And he makes $180 a month. He also rescues the bodies of aborted children from clinics and buries them in a cemetery he's built. There are 9,000 children buried there. And he's Catholic.
The man raises the children as his own, but will return them to the mothers if they want them back. There is much amazing about this story, but what struck me is that the news report is entirely respectful.
When I googled this man, I found that his story made the rounds in 2008. I didn't see it – apologies if you did. Much more can be found out about him in this 2008 report. Now watch this amazing video.


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Who benefits from the new overtime pay system?
On Feb. 13, a Labor Policy Council sub-committee submitted to the labor ministry a report with suggestions for a bill to revise the labor standards law. The revision, which the ministry plans to submit to the next regular Diet session, applies to the work of skilled white collar professionals and will allow them to "work in a manner that demonstrates their achievements" more effectively, which is another way of saying that employers will no longer be required to pay these workers overtime for extra hours on the job, which in turn means that employers cannot be accused of pressuring them to work overtime for no pay, a system popularly known as saabisu zangyo, or "free overtime."
Ostensibly, the revision will affect a small portion of the labor force, since it will only apply to workers who make at least ¥10.75 million a year, mainly foreign currency traders, financial analysts, consultants, etc.
According to the advisory panel's recommendations, if a company wants to utilize this new overtime system, it must reach an agreement with the targeted workers and somehow introduce rules that will guarantee the employees avoid overwork as much as possible by, for instance, making sure they don't work weekends.
The panel also recommends another revision to so-called sairyo rodosei, the "discretionary labor system." Under to this system the worker and his employer decide together how many hours the former will work and how much pay he will receive based on those hours. If the two parties believe that in order to accomplish his tasks he may occasionally need to work longer hours, then those hours and appropriate compensation should be incorporated beforehand into his wages. But if the worker works even more hours than the overtime covered by the extra wage, he will not be paid extra in accordance with the new system, though there may be special conditions for after-midnight and weekend work.
This system targets sales agents, researchers, legal workers — people who tend to require flexible hours since the size of their work load varies in accordance with the nature of a specific project. The whole point, according to the labor ministry, is to peg pay to achievement.
An report in Tokyo Shimbun points out that there is more to the proposed bill than the two revised overtime systems. The ostensible purpose of the revisions is to prevent "overwork," so the sub-committee also recommends a law guaranteeing a minimum number of paid vacation days a year, even for management employees; and that overtime rates be increased for employees of small and medium-sized companies to those already being paid by large companies.
With regards to workers on flextime systems, overtime should be paid for any hours that exceed 50 in a week, and employees with small children should be better able to set their hours in order to address parenting contingencies.


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Senate report blasts JPMorgan Chase risky trades
- Bank lost at least %246.2B in high-risk securities trades by London office in 2012
- Investigators say JPMorgan misinformed investors%2C regulators and public about trades%27 risks
- Report calls for stricter oversight of banks%27 derivatives trading activities
The nation's largest bank hid high-risk derivatives trading that ran up $6.2 billion in losses by inflating trade values, dodging federal regulators, and misinforming investors and the public about the dicey strategy, a scathing new congressional report charges.
The so-called London Whale trades in early 2012 by JPMorgan Chase were so large that they roiled world credit markets, despite bank CEO Jamie Dimon's initial and since withdrawn dismissal of the losses as a "tempest in a teapot," the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations reported Thursday in a 301-page analysis that disclosed new details of the financial debacle.
The bank's use of federally insured deposits for at least part of the risky trades reprised some of the questionable financial practices that led to the national recession, the report concluded. The bank said Thursday "while we have repeatedly acknowledged significant mistakes, our senior management acted in good faith and never had any intent to mislead anyone."
The Senate panel is scheduled to question several current and former JPMorgan Chase officials, along with federal regulators, at a Capitol Hill hearing Friday. Four bank employees deeply involved in the trading ducked Senate subpoenas by arguing they lived outside the U.S. Nonetheless, the bipartisan report, based on bank personnel interviews, internal documents, e-mails and other electronic records, concluded that the bank and its Chief Investment Office:
• Gambled billions of dollars in hidden "high-risk, complex, short-term trading strategies" by London-based traders from the bank's Synthetic Credit Portfolio. The strategy and trading were known by several bank managers, but were only fully disclosed to federal regulators in the Office of Comptroller of the Currency after the massive losses drew news media attention.
"I am going to be hauled over the coals. … (Y)ou don't lose 500 M(illion) without consequences," bank trader Bruno Iksil wrote in a March 2012 instant message after a day of heavy losses. He was among the four who declined subpoenas.
• Claimed at times that the strategy functioned as a hedge against credit risks — even though the bank failed to identify the assets being hedged or show how the trading lowered, rather than increased, risk. Although a Dimon e-mail requested a report to document the hedging claim, the subcommittee "found no evidence this analysis was completed."
• Hid more than $660 million in preliminary losses for months in 2012 by overstating the value of credit derivatives and "ignoring red flags that the values were inaccurate."
• Breached all five of the major risk limits on the trading — and then raised the limits and disregarded red flags to continue the strategy. Bank managers were aware of the breaches "but allowed them to continue, lifted the limits, or altered the risk measures after being told that the risk results were 'too conservative,' not 'sensible,' or 'garbage.' "
• Misinformed investors, the public and policymakers about the risk and total losses after the disastrous trading became public. The strategy forced JPMorgan Chase to reduce and restate first-quarter earnings last year. It ultimately led to a 50% cut in Dimon's 2012 pay, reducing his annual compensation to $11.5 million.
The Senate panel called for tougher oversight of bank-based derivative trading, including procedures used to gauge prices and costs of executed trades. The report concluded that the Office of Comptroller of the Currency failed to spot the risky strategy and rein in the bank even though it had approximately 65 examiners and related personnel physically located at JPMorgan Chase.
Until 2012, the OCC "had very little understanding of the strategies, size, or risk profile" involved in the derivatives trades, the report concluded. That was due "primarily to a lack of disclosure" by JPMorgan Chase about when the trading strategy "was established, when it delivered unexpected revenues, or when it began to increase in size and risk in 2011," the report said.
The OCC didn't catch some red flags, including a tenfold growth in risky trading volume in 2011, the subcommittee report said. But the regulators at the same time coped with what they told investigators was strong push-back from Ina Drew, then JPMorgan's chief investment officer, in response to a 2011 regulatory report that cited some needed corrections.
The OCC told Senate investigators Drew complained that the agency was trying to "destroy" JPMorgan Chase's business. According to the report, regulators quoted her as saying "that investment decisions are made with the full understanding of executive management including Jamie Dimon." The report adds, "She said that everyone knows that is going on and there is little need for more limits, controls, or reports."
OCC examiner Elwyn Wong characterized the bank's purported anti-risk hedging strategy as a "make believe voodoo magic 'composite hedge' " in a May 18, 2012, e-mail. But that came after media reports brought the financial debacle to light.
"The bottom line is that the bank did not disclose and the OCC did not learn of the extent and associated risks ... until media reports on April 6, 2012, described the book's outsized credit derivative holdings," the report concluded.
JPMorgan Chase "piled on risk, ignored limits on risk-taking, hid losses, dodged oversight and misled the public," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the subcommittee chairman. The bank's London trading office created a "runaway train that barreled through every risk warning," he said.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the panel's ranking minority member, added that the findings documented "a shameful demonstration of a federally insured bank taking substantial risks and gambling away billions of dollars on ill-advised traders while regulators were asleep at the switch."
Congress approved the Dodd-Frank Act financial reforms in 2010 in part with the aim of preventing risky trading by large banks that could threaten the domestic and global economy. Part of the law, known as the Volcker Rule, was included in an effort to prevent banks from engaging in proprietary trading with federally insured deposits.
But after missing earlier deadlines for completing Volcker Rule provisions, U.S. financial regulators are still working on finalizing specifics.


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The Tenth Day of September (Song)
In ninety-eight Anno Domini
when our fore-fathers
won the glorious fight
at Old St. George's Caye
Hip! Hip! Hurrah. Hip! Hip! Hurrah.
Then hail them – cheer them.
Let our grateful loyal hearts not fail them,
as we march and sing and shout in merry glee
The Battle of St. George's Caye.
Hip! Hip! Hurrah. Hip! Hip! Hurrah.
When it comes to vacationing in Belize most of us visitors are familiar with Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker. But when it comes to history, and for Belizeans, St. George's Caye is the most significant of all the islands.
Just a 20-minute water taxi ride from Belize City, St. George's was the country's first capital.
More importantly, it's where the famous Battle of St. George's took place. On September 10, 1798, British settlers or "Baymen," with the help of enslaved locals, defeated the Spanish who sent a fleet toward the island to drive the British completely out of the area.
The day the Spanish lost this last attempt to invade St. George's and get rid of the British is the day that determined Belize's fate, because it escaped becoming a part of Spain's territories. As a Belizean told me, it was a blessing that the country remained a British colony because otherwise there would be no Belize of today, it would've instead become a part of Guatemala or Mexico. The decision by the Baymen and the enslaved to remain on the territory that is now Belize and fight the Spanish together is what later led to a unified country and what gave birth to Belize. And victory over the Spanish couldn't have happened without the help of the enslaved who had better knowledge of the reef and the seas around St. George's.
So while September 21 celebrates the day Belize gained independence from Great Britain, September 10 recognizes the Battle of St. George's Caye and is also a national holiday. St. George's was named a historical site in 2009.
Yesterday I spent the day on the island for the official launch of the September celebrations. Everyone boarded the water taxi from Belize City around 10.a.m. – Belizean dignitaries, diplomats as well as proud citizens. There were red and blue colors all around, speeches, prayers, singing, poem reading, and steel pan music on an otherwise quiet afternoon.
After a satisfying boxed lunch of turkey and rice and beans, I explored more of the island on foot.
Aside from one resort, the St. George's Caye of today is lined with private villas and docks, owned by the more affluent Belizeans, who escape here on the weekends to relax. Some were swimming and picnicking off their docks, while others barbequed on their sailboats. Pretty nice way to spend a Sunday if you ask me.
I got to join a family on their dock and was envious that they were cooling off in the sea while I melted away in my strapless linen summer dress. You know, one of those times when you think you're going to a semi-formal event and most people turn up in shorts and jersey dresses!
It was still a nice Sunday getaway, and I experienced one of Belize's most historically significant places. I'll be back on St. George's Caye on the 10th of September for the festivities.