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Naft & Energy Milestones Agency (NaftEMA): Oil Industry has spent milestones in the year of 1395 (20 March 2016-20 March 2017). In one side of the coin, one of the positive events was OPEC's deal on cutting its oil production from 33.8 million barrels a day (b/d) to 32.5 million b/d. to prop up prices and to stabilize and balance the global oil market. Iran's glorious return to world oil market following the implementation of the JCPOA was a new dawn for its oil Industry and a victory for Iran's Ministry of petroleum diplomacy. In gas field, launching Iranshahr-Zahedan gas pipeline project offers the development to Sistan and Baluchestan Province and provide a potential opportunity to export gas to Indian subcontinent in the future.
Iran produces 420mn m³/d of gas from South Pars. With regard to inauguration of phases 14, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, the total is to exceed 570mn m³/d. Iran plans to produce more than 700mn m³/d of gas from all 24 phases of South Pars by 2018. This event will have economic, political and geopolitical implications.
On Petrochemical industry, five petrochemical projects are expected to go on stream by the end of the current fiscal year in March 2017. Iran's annual installed petrochemical capacity, stands at 64 million tons, although plans are in place to boost it by 40 million tons over the next five years and reach 100 million tons a year. Iran exported 10 million tons of petrochemicals, worth $9 billion, in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year Iran holds 38% of the petrochemical market in the Middle East. As a matter of fact, petroleum Ministry card report is satisfactory.
But in the other side of the coin, President Trump's policies on energy field, will revive the US shale industry, then the U.S. will become the world's biggest oil producer this year. Trump could destroy OPEC and its manipulation of the oil market. Of course, non-commitment of some OPEC members and non-OPEC countries could destroy this game plan. The US also will become the largest LNG supplier and exporter (about 8 billion cubic feet), marks a turning point in LNG global market which will face stiff competition from leading exporters in Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF). The US shale gas will bring a tsunami of cheaper petrochemical products which will shift the petrochemicals market.
Iran's serial incidents in petrochemical complexes occurred because of the lack and support of HSE guidelines. Petroleum Ministry responded in an official notice to certain failed privatization policies and cut of feedstock to petrochemical complexes that not observing the HSE mandates. In the other event, Turkmenistan halted gas export to Iran, but Iran's Petroleum ministry could manage the crisis by the promotion of saving through the media and public solidarity in gas consumption.
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Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder has said his team is "running hot" and is hence unlikely to change a winning formula against the Waratahs at Allianz Stadium.
The Crusaders have won their last two matches, and four from five (their two-point loss to the Bulls their only recent blip), and the chance of the World Cup winning All Blacks captain being rushed into the starting side are slim.
Especially when the Crusaders appear to be entering their traditional upward gear shift towards the Super Rugby Final's Series.
The seven-time champions have begun to hum, and Matt Todd has played well for the second straight season in the absence of the 110-Super Rugby capped flanker.
McCaw, who hasn't played since guiding the All Blacks to a 8-7 win over France in the Rugby World Cup Final in October, has stressed in recent times that he will not rush his comeback.
Blackadder, who is all too aware of what McCaw went through last season, has said that his usual captain will only be ready when all parties agree.
If he doesn't make his return against the Waratahs, the side that the Crusaders defeated in the 2005 and 2008 deciders, it will be against the Reds – with the Queenslanders defeating McCaw and his troops last season at Suncorp Stadium.
McCaw had surgery after the World Cup to remove the much talked about titanium screw from his foot, and recently had a final operation to remove two small screws that were inserted to essentially complete the healing process.
With the likes of stand in captain Kieran Read playing a full season so far, there may be temptation to rest some of the regulars – including the likes of Sam Whitelock and Corey Flynn – in the coming weeks.
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Beef Days 5K & 1 Mile Run Race Time: 7:30 am - 1 Mile & 5K NOTE: Both races start at the same time - you will not be able to run both races this year. Registration: Online registration here Print an entry form to mail or Day-of registration (see below) Individual Pricing: 1Mile - $10.00 5K - $15.00 ($20/Race Day) Solon Students K-12 - $7.00 Family* Pricing Option - $40.00; Add'l Family Member…..$5.00 *(Family indicates 4 related individuals with the … [Read more...]
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How can it be, you might ask, that such a travesty came to pass? How is it, I mean, that a woman like me, born and bred of preening Orthodox German-Jewish stock, came one evening two years ago to usher in Yom Kippur, the Holiest of Holy Days, in the most faithless way imaginable: by having a manicure and pedicure at Iris Nails on the Upper East Side?
You might ask, that is, if this were the beginning of an old-fashioned story by S.Y. Agnon, say, or Sholom Aleichem, one that had never been exposed to those newfangled and profane literary influences that do away with all meaning, much less a divine purpose. The kind of story that always includes a busybody or two — professional meddlers in the detritus of other people's lives — whose ordained narrative purpose is to stand around the town square, alive with the sounds of peddlers hawking and chickens squawking, the better to discuss the latest shanda, a piece of news that would set your mother's ears on fire. Such sorrows shouldn't happen to a dog, they would undoubtedly cluck — if they happened to get wind of the tale I am about to recount — much less to a family of noble standing such as hers. To fall from such heights to such depths, all in a moment's undoing! Better you should excuse yourself than read on.
My own sordid little history is set in a traffic-ridden 21st-century city where anonymity is assured, rather than in a tiny, 19th-century shtetl where village gossips held sway. No one would chance to know of my brazen flouting of basic religious etiquette except for the fact that I feel compelled to reveal it now as another Yom Kippur approaches. Think of it as a form of belated penance, disguised as a shameless confessional performance. S'lach loh-nu, m'chal loh-nu, kahper loh-nu. Forgive us, Pardon us, Grant us atonement.
It was, I suppose, a piece of exquisite, fashionably postmodernist irony waiting to happen, the unforeseen and inconclusive resolution of years of wondering about how, or even whether, I fit into the larger Jewish picture, such as it is, now that the czars have been overthrown and girls walk around with their navels showing.
Then again, you could conclude that my having decided to opt for a set of shiny toenails over the chance to burnish my soul demonstrated just how hopelessly tarnished a soul I was stuck with. Or, even worse, it attested to nothing more profound than my inability to pace myself accurately, to ever be on time for anything — even Kol Nidre. I mean, it is theoretically possible to see to both the needs of the body and the soul without overlooking either, if one schedules these things accordingly. It's not like every frume Sarah wears whiskers on her chin or soiled cuffs on her blouses. But I was always running late, always wildly cramming three plans into two, and why should this night, if I may mix my yontiv metaphors and borrow from the Passover Haggada, be different from all other nights? Why, indeed, even if erev Yom Kippur happened to be the Ur-night of soul-wrestling, the calendrical moment designated for coaxing and flattering and altogether finagling your way into good standing in God's annual ledger?
So there I sat in Iris Nails on that Friday evening in September as the hands on the oversized wall clock moved inexorably forward and the shadows outside lengthened, paging through a month-old copy of Vogue, waiting for my toes — freshly lacquered in some subtle shade with a coy name like Allure or Delicacy, some imperceptible variation upon the same basic pale pink theme — to dry.
All around me for the past two hours the salon had been emptying out of its devoutly assimilated Jewish clientele, women with toned bodies and cosmetically altered faces who just minutes earlier had been on their cell phones busily discussing their various plans for breaking the forthcoming fast. One coiffed woman was expecting 40 for dinner the next night, and worried whether she had enough dessert plates; another described her less ambitious scheme to order takeout for her family. I sat there and eavesdropped disapprovingly, a spy in the House of Iris, wondering whether any of these women were real Jews — Jews like me — and knew enough not to wear their highfalutin designer pumps to shul (the wearing of leather being one of the holiday's prohibitions) or whether they had just jumped on to the newly fashionable ethnic bandwagon.
Did they understand, for instance, that it was crucial to be on time for Kol Nidre, that only the religiously ignorant and the hopelessly vainglorious sashayed into synagogue after the service had begun? This lesson had been conveyed to me in my girlhood, and I, in my turn, had repeatedly impressed its importance on my adolescent daughter for the past two days, reminding her to be ready to leave in her sneakers and shul clothes by 6:10, 6:10 sharp. I'm not coming late to Kol Nidre, I warned her. If you're not ready, I'm going without you.
It was now 11 minutes past 6. Twenty blocks away the same chazan who had serenaded me 15 years earlier as I stood under the chupah (how was he to know that the marriage was misconceived and would be over in a few years, a minor blot on the golden record of family ceremonies at which he has continued to officiate?) was about to commence with the solemn prayer that announces the start of the 24-hour fast. What on earth was I thinking? Here I had been alerting my daughter to this defining Jewish moment as though it meant something to me and by extension should to her, and now I was keeping her cooling her sneaker-shod heels while I sat in admiring contemplation of my toes.
I had to get out of there fast. I gestured wildly to the shy young woman who had plied her fine-tuned, underpaid skills for the past two hours, trying to communicate some sense of urgency in spite of the fact that I appeared to have all the time in the world. My faith was on the line, but how was she to understand my predicament if I myself couldn't figure out how I had managed to arrange my life in such a fashion that more than four decades of roiling conflict about Jewishness had come to a head right here in Iris Nails? On the one side were the hallowed claims of a patriarchal religion presided over by a grim and reclusive (and needless to say, male) God, who couldn't be expected to understand the significance of socioeconomic factors in the formation of one's approach to shul-going: What did He care if I associated Yom Kippur with the incongruously glamorous, often newly Judaicized wives of the congregation's multiple tycoons who showed up in the front row of the women's balcony only for the High Holy Days and then disappeared into their brilliantly secular lives? On the other side was my feminine instinct to compete with these same buffed and lacquered women who occupied the balcony section of the synagogue from my childhood, which I still frequented, not out of any deep conviction or even a commendable sense of loyalty (I disliked the place as much as an adult as I had as a child) but out of an inability to figure out where else I might convincingly claim a seat.
I may as well admit, for the record, that I didn't make much effort at speeding things up. I had seen customers in a hurry get their freshly done toes saran-wrapped for extra buffering before putting on their footwear, but I wasn't willing to risk messing up the polish. Besides which, even I could figure out that there was no way I could get home, dressed, and be at shul all within the next 15 minutes. And who was He (if He, indeed, existed) to me, when it came right down to it, that I should be rushing myself for Him? Hadn't I tried to find a religious footing for myself all these years, with a degree of good faith that had included my taking private Talmud lessons in the hopes that I might find some sort of locution for myself in the disputatious language of the Gemara. In the Jewish high school I attended, I had always warmed to the abstract reasoning of the Talmud over the picturesque but pedantic tales that we studied in my Chumash classes. The cerebral sparks given off by the various commentators with their differing interpretations of a particular phrase reminded me of the splitting of semantic hairs that I found so intriguing in the analyses of literary texts. But none of this could keep me from scrambling around wildly in my head, hurling accusations at myself for failing to provide a role model for my daughter, failing to provide a role model for myself, failing, failing, failing at the Jewish thing.
Iris Nails is a prettier salon than many, mind you, and priced accordingly. It's not one of those fly-by-night affairs that tend to dot the urban landscape, put together with spit and quick-dry, a freebie wall calendar with photos of kittens adorning the cheaply painted walls in lieu of interior décor. No, this is a plush oasis of a nail salon, replete with a crystal chandelier. The stations of the manicurists are set luxuriously far apart and there is a sparkling, peach-toned Italianate landscape painted quite convincingly on the walls so that if you half-close your eyes and shut your ears to the indecipherable chatter of the Korean staff, you can imagine yourself on a sun-splashed terrazzo.
These incidental details matter, if you are ever to get the setting for this tale of divided loyalties and split identities more or less straight in your mind. If Iris Nails had been a less appealing place, for instance, instead of representing a sanctuary of sorts, a haven in a heartless world, perhaps I would have lingered less among the shy manicurists, the soft lighting and the trompe l'oeil Mediterranean backdrop. But as it was, I couldn't bring myself to leave this refuge in the midst of the gleamingly impersonal city I had grown up in, a city in which I had always felt spiritually homeless. And so I sat on, in my padded chair with the buttons that enabled you to get a heated back massage while reclining, immobilized by the comforting atmosphere of the salon and by my consuming ambivalence over Judaism — an ambivalence that led me to judge other Jews by my own lapsed Orthodox standards, as though I were a rebbetzin in disguise, even as I indulged in pork-filled Szechuan dumplings. It drove my daughter mad, the way I kept a foot guiltily in both camps, and tonight's behavior would only further the crazed confusion.
Perhaps, too, if I had ever succeeded in finding a shul that spoke the language of home to me, instead of returning, lemming-like, year after year, to the affluent, snobbish congregation that had made me feel acutely uncomfortable ever since I had first stood in my imported hand-smocked Shabbos dress and black patent leather Shabbos shoes and gazed down at the men's section where everything worth watching was taking place, things might have worked out differently. I wouldn't have felt the dire need to paint my toenails at just that pre-Kol Nidre moment, for crying out loud, as though I were going to be inspected for trophy wife-level grooming standards before being allowed into the women's section.
Perhaps, but then again, perhaps not. As you can see, my Jewishness and I are a vexed pair from way back. It's as though we got soldered together when I was still young and impressionable and now I'm doomed to drag this ancient, sober-minded religion through the rest of my life, like a giant ball and chain clanking behind me, seconding my every move. Wherever I goeth, my cumbersome Jewish shadow goeth; wherever I departeth, it departeth.
The problem with this kind of tortured relationship, as with all tortured relationships, is that at some point it is no longer possible to conceive of having any choice in the matter. Letting go seems just as self-evident a gesture as holding on. The worst part of it is that I'm caught between a sense of nostalgia for the idyllic, somewhat kitschy shtetl fantasy that I've always harbored — Friday night candles flickering on a snow-white tablecloth, like an image out of "Fiddler on the Roof," signifying everything that is peaceful and heartfelt about Shabbos, the cozy warming chicken-soupness of it — and an equally strong sense of claustrophobia about the hidebound German-Jewish reality as I experienced it growing up: those Friday night candles once again, suggestive of everything that is repetitive and compulsively ritualized about Shabbos, the enforced matzo ball-eating idleness of it.
My Jewishness is further complicated by my blue-chip, Platinum Card credentials — otherwise known as yichus, otherwise known as lineage. Although I have never met a Jewish person, of however attenuated an identity, who didn't in some flimsy fashion try to link him or herself up to an ancient towering sage like the Baal Shem Tov or Maimonides, I can lay claim to the Jewish equivalent of being able to connect your Wasp ancestry directly to the Mayflower. My family history has produced generations of great scholars and influential community leaders. This foamy bloodline comes to me on my mother's side, which features various founding fathers of Modern Orthodox Judaism, including my great-great grandfather, Samson Raphael Hirsch, who paved the way for the unique approach to living in two competing worlds — the secular German one and the ritualized Jewish one ("Torah im derekh eretz") — that characterized German Orthodoxy, and Hirsch's grandson, my grandfather, Isaac Breuer, who, alone among his celebrated family, embraced the Zionist ideal when Israel was still only a gleam in the eye of Theodor Herzl.
My mother had been the only one of her immediate family, which included four siblings and their collective 24 children (the obligation to breed and multiply being one that the entire Breuer clan took to heart), to abandon a life of high principles and scant material comforts for a life of less obvious principles and visible affluence. Meanwhile, her qualms about leaving the fledgling State of Israel and modest lifestyle her father had embraced were played out on the vulnerable psyches of her children.
And yet I wonder, do one's origins ever explain as much as they obfuscate? It all goes so far back that it would take a team of shrinks working overtime to figure out which complicated antecedent led to which tragicomic outcome. How can I ever get you to see it as it was for me, back then, a girl brought up on the de-ethnicized, churchgoing Upper East Side only to take her rightful place in a sleeping bag in the Sinai Desert? An unhappy, introspective girl raised on lullabies of hardy pioneers going up to Israel with pails and shovels, like intrepid toddlers in overalls, by a mother who had imbibed her adored father's ideological commitment to the land, despite the fact that she herself had chosen to set up her life on Park Avenue, with no sign of a camel or a kibbutznik in sight.
The other major characterization of Jewishness that colored my childhood was the polar opposite of that triumphant Zionist image of strong Jews: the fate of being caught up in Hitler's web. At an age when I was still too young to comprehend the historical evil of Nazism in any but the vaguest terms, I had a clear grasp of the way it had disrupted the natural course of my mother's life, leading to two emigrations, one forced and one voluntary. It was because of the Nazis that in 1937 she had to leave behind her beloved Frankfurt with its famous zoo, which she had regularly visited on Shabbos afternoons, and immigrate to what was then Palestine together with her family. A decade later, in the wake of her father's death, in her late 20s but not yet married, she left Israel for what was to have been a year abroad in New York to teach at the religious day school that was part of the thriving Washington Heights German-Jewish community established by her uncle Joseph Breuer (as fervent in his anti-Zionism as her father had been in his religious Zionism) after he had fled Frankfurt.
Early in her stay, at one of those dinner parties expressly designed for matchmaking purposes that people used to be in the habit of giving, my mother was introduced to my father, an Orthodox bachelor of long standing and fellow yekke (as Eastern European Jews referred to their haughty German counterparts with an uneasy mixture of admiration and disdain). After a stop-and-start courtship, befitting a man and woman who had resisted the lure of matrimony until the ripe ages of 42 and 30, respectively, they married on the roof of the St. Regis Hotel and produced six children in rapid succession. My parents spoke to each other mostly in German, a language which always makes me think of swastikas, and gave off a general air of living where they did only under sufferance, since it was all too obvious that America and its silly Orthodox Jews with their casual ways couldn't hold a candle to the old-world restraint and formality of their lost communities.
What all this percolated down to was a childhood bombarded by more mixed messages about what it meant to be an authentically Jewish person than you could juggle with three hands. For one thing, I was given the sort of predictably schizophrenic amalgam of social mores and moral guidelines that Modern Orthodox Jewish girls are heir to, stemming from the vast and uncrossable gulf between traditional ideals of modesty, purity and imminent wifeliness/helpmeetness on the one hand, and the brutal realities of the contemporary dating marketplace and current expectations of female self-definition on the other. To get a sense of the confused atmosphere, you have only to stand outside a Jewish day school like the one I went to on the Upper East Side and watch the girls emerge in clothes that are maximally revealing while being at the same time appropriately unscanty — an aesthetic approach most typically characterized by the long, tight denim skirts that are usually slit halfway up the back or side and look difficult to navigate without resorting to the kind of mincing steps that I imagine Chinese women with bound feet were forced to adopt.
But the messages we received in my immediate family about being properly Jewish went well beyond this in scope, covering every aspect of our presentation to a watchful world. This externalized aspect, bewilderingly enough, was what seemed to count most both for my mother and for the shulon the Upper East Side that my father had helped found and over which he had presided through four decades. Although religious belief was presumably a manifestation of your inner life, Judaism struck me as a resolutely social institution, more about group behavior than private wranglings with God or faith. No one, it seemed, gave a damn whether or not you sinned in your soul, or hated in your heart or fantasized about group sex in the middle of the rabbi's sermon. Primitive convictions about the transparency of your spiritual failings was fine for Southern born-again types like Jimmy Carter, who confessed to Playboy that he had lusted in his heart. Jews — Jews like us — were more sophisticated than that.
Which meant that in my family there was barely any mention of God and none at all regarding vicissitudes of belief. The German approach emphasized rules and more rules — as well as the solemn aesthetic context surrounding their observance, the beautification of ritual that is referred to as hiddur mitzvah. My mother was particularly proud of this aspect of her upbringing, and it undoubtedly added something to our Friday evenings that your average Friday evening in non-yekke homes did not have: The table was beautifully set, flowers abounded and we got dressed in Shabbos clothes, no lounging about in robes or sweatpants as I saw my friends do. But with so much stress on form, I began to lose sight of the priorities — whether it was more important that I look good (which meant Wasp good, as in understated, not too much makeup, certainly no red nail polish) or pay attention to the davening, or whether the most important thing of all was that I got to shul on time and didn't meander in when services were almost over.
I came home close to 7 that evening. My pedicure had dried, Kol Nidre was well under way and I immediately broke into tears. I insisted to my somewhat bewildered daughter that it was now irrevocably too late to go to shul — too late for Jews like us, who knew better. Mine was the emotionally dissonant (and perhaps unfathomable) logic of a lapsed Orthodox Jew. Confronted by the gap between my adult disregard for the unbending religious approach of my childhood and the powerful nostalgia invoked in me by memories of rituals scrupulously observed, I froze in my tracks. Even if I no longer believed in the letter of the law, I just as strongly believed that there was only one right way to keep the law — if, that is, you were going to bother at all.
My daughter is a wise soul and I like to think she understands that my abiding sense of conflict speaks to some sort of passion, a connection rather than a severance. How else to explain my perplexing behavior that evening and on to the following day, when I attended shul from late morning until the end of the fast, barely lifting my head from the machzor, like a person in a trance.
Perhaps it will suffice to note that I am a woman haunted by my past, and that in the present time in which we are all required to live, willy-nilly, ready or not, I have never been able to locate my inner Jew. Nothing in my experience of religious life then or now has clarified for me in what, exactly, the Platonic essence of Jewishness — its internal content as opposed to its outer form — resides. And yet I continue to hope it is there, a shimmering and sacrosanct kernel that got lost somewhere between Iris Nails and Yom Kippur.
Daphne Merkin is the author of "Enchantment," a novel (HBJ, 1986), and "Dreaming of Hitler" (Harvest, 1999), a collection of essays. Her writing has appeared in leading publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. She currently writes a regular column for Elle about books and culture.
The above essay is excerpted from "The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt," edited by Ruth Andrew Ellenson. Copyright © 2005 by Daphne Merkin. Used by arrangement with Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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"The Roberts Court is pro-business." The Roberts Court "comes to the defense of business."
Stories peddling this angle seem to be a compulsory part of reporting at the conclusion of each Supreme Court term. The completion of the October 2012 term is no exception. King & Spalding's Ashley Parrish took strong exception to this characterization of the Court during Washington Legal Foundation's annual end-of-the-term briefing this past Tuesday. The entire program can be viewed here.
The "pro-business" bromide is a trite and woefully simplistic byproduct of the need to label things. One could argue that the term implies judicial bias, i.e. deciding cases based on the nature of the litigant rather than on the law. It can also be seen as ideological or political in nature. If, for instance, Justice Ginsberg happened to be the Chief Justice at a time when the Court's rulings favored free enterprise, would we be seeing stories about how pro-business the "Ginsberg Court" is? Further, has anyone seen the justices who rule against business litigants described as "anti-business"?
As an institution which for 36 years has sought to advance legal principles which support the conduct of free enterprise, Washington Legal Foundation views "pro-business" Court as a compliment. We're pleased that in the nine cases in which we filed during the October 2012 term, seven resulted in victories for "business" litigants. Our perspectives on the law, on the judiciary's limited role, and on constitutional protections for business entities are prevailing. But WLF should not be alone in applauding this Court's rulings against plaintiffs' lawyers, activist groups, and federal regulators. Businesses employ Americans, Americans invest in businesses, and our free enterprise system gives people of all backgrounds a fighting chance to succeed.
So if a label must be imposed, did the Roberts Court earn its "pro-business" stripes this term? If one looks strictly at the numbers, generally it did.
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If you were in the CEID Wednesday the 12th, you are well aware the first ever Musical Instruments Workshop was a huge success! By the end of the two hours, the workshop participants were serenading CEIDers with their new acrylic flutes.
Hanoi Hantrakul ('15) and Dr. Larry Wilen have been working for months to design a workshop which teaches the basic physics of acoustics and allows participants to create their own recorder-like flutes on the laser cutter and in the machine shop.
Did you know the laser cutter can cut and engrave circular objects? The CEID laser cutter has a rotary stage meant to engrave pieces like vases and mugs. Larry and Hanoi created a special device to hold the tube which would become a flute into place. The rotary function allowed students to create a design on CorelDRAW which was then engraved on the flute. The workshop also took advantage of the mill using a CNC program to cut holes in the tube. The wooden mouthpeices were carved using files and then inserted into the tube, completing the flute.
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Flush from the overwhelming success of their London U.L.U. show, and with the video of the gig constantly playing to remind them of 1,100 pairs of hands reaching for Hue's groin, The Pooh Sticks agreed to play a small, 150 capacity Labour Club in Southampton. That week anyone could have offered them a gig in a toilet and they were so vibed up they'd have done it - and probably for free. Unfortunately, it would mean another gig without Trudi, who was somewhere between Paris and Marseilles - cycling. At least Trudi's priorities were straight! Still, it made my job easier; at least I wouldn't have to contend with her assaulting boys at motorway services as well as with Stephanie's hunger strike.
Southampton looked like the end of the civilised world when we arrived just before teatime (chips and veggie-burgers for Paul and Stephanie, dead animal for Hue and me, a packet of Marlboro for the tall one) and it didn't get any better when we entered the sacred portals of the highly distinguished and well-appointed club - the stage was completely inadequate, not to say down-right dangerous; the P.A. was like a music centre; and the glasses were plastic. Still, fairly soon The Pooh Sticks were slugging Jack Daniels and entertaining ligging indiepoppers with autographs, lies and insults; a pirate radio station and set up all its gear to record the show for broadcast and we were all looking forward to another crowd-pleasing display of fake John's Children.
The set list read "Young People" / "Foxy Boy" / "Heroes and Villains" / "Dare True Kiss Promise" / "Dying For It" / "Sex Head" / "Heartbreak" / "Go Go girl" / "Force Fed By Love" / "Teenage High", but right from the word GO there seemed little chance of completing the lot. The stage, such as it was, bounced up and down with every movement of the band which can't have helped Paul and Keith who must have felt like they were playing guitar on a fairground ride. At least 50% of the audience insisted on grappling with Hue's mic lead and stroking Stephanie's thigh. But the band were enjoying it - even the constant hail of bananas being rained upon them from all angles didn't seem to faze them. I was having difficulty maintaining a foothold and I wasn't even on stage wading through what must have been inch-deep banana in almost total blackness, so the band did a fine job really. But something had to happen and eventually, after "Heartbreak", the front-rows crush and on-stage mania resulted in the guitar amps dying an unholy death of a dubious electrical nature and the group trooped off stage prematurely.
There were those present who thought that the twenty-minute show did not represent a value-for-money night out. Even with the vast gaps between songs the band were on and off in lightning time, despite Hue having gone missing in the blackness of the crowd during his "Dying For It" stage-diving, a victim of several girlie fans intent on "Orgasm" research. (This went on for so long we had to cut most of it out of the record). On the other hand, most people realised that The Pooh Sticks had just crammed into twenty minutes what most bands can but dream about - tunes, excitement, dancing, bananas and SEX, lots of SEX. No matter that the guitars were out of tune and the band were fucking up at regular intervals, the feeling was great and the majority felt honoured and priveleged to have been given an opportunity to see The Pooh Sticks in the flesh.
The Pooh Sticks played in Oxford and Cardiff that week, too. But it's this show, the one on this "Trade Mark Of Quality" bootleg, that will remain with us the longest because not only was it the last gig of that tour but it was also the last gig The Pooh Sticks would ever do.
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Friday, December 31, 2010
Get Set Go! Quadrantids 2011
For AFA's previous detailed post on the Quadrantids, and to know in detail about the meteor shower, please visit this link.
Active Start Date - 1st January
Active End Date - 10th January
Peak Date - 3rd and 4th January
Maximum Activity - January 4, 1h 10m UTC i.e. 6:40 am IST
Timings for India - Best Time to Observe is from 11:00 pm to 4:30 am on January 3-4. Look for the pole star in the North. Pole Star to be visible from 8:30 pm onwards on January 3, and Bootes (the radiant) will be visible from about 10:30 pm onwards. Try to get away from cities for the best loacation!
The Association of Friends of Astronomy (Goa) is planning a 'Official' overnight observation for the Quadrantids Meteor Shower 2011.
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It will be great to join you guys for observing the meteor showers.
Will the observation be done from the Public Astronomical Observatory or will be at some remote location? I suppose since the meteors are going to be around the horizon, it will be best to observe from outside the city where there are no lights. Either way do share the details.
@ Piyush.... we are planning the observation at the observatory itself. Going to a remote location was given a thought, but we had a shortage of senior members accompanying us :( Yes, this meteor shower will not be so grand, but expect around 50 meteors the whole night! Hop in, pay us a visit!ReplyDelete
- SharangJanuary 3, 2011 at 6:57 PM
hey atharv i think the max. activity timing is at 4:30 n not 6:30........ plz do confirm.........ReplyDelete


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i decided while walking into my apartment, dodging the awkward stares from my freeloader, 30-something male neighbors smoking on their porch (who, i'm pretty sure, are that 47% that mitt romney was talking about. judge me all you want.):
i'd pretty much had it with people today, for a few reasons.
first, creepers that go to winco and shop and look at me while i'm trying to buy deodorant.
and then when i leave the store i look like i'm following them because i'm trying to dodge a truck that's backing out. i got really close to that truck so i wasn't as close as i could've been to the creepers who were hocking (is that the word?) loogies right in front of me.
ogden is full of classy people.
second, my aforementioned neighbors.
third, the fact that aunt flo is coming for a visit
(story behind that: basically i just looked up euphemisms for period, and that one was just about as golden as it got.)
because i was in this mood, i decided to blame aunt flo and decided that i needed, no...deserved a night where i didn't work on my online class and watched hours of how i met your mother while eating some of the mini twixes (how do you pluralize that? twixi? twixen?) i bought for pj. then i painted my nails.


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Friday, April 18, 2014
Jordan or LeBron? The best player of all time is...
LBJ or MJ? His Airness or the King? Who's better?
It is a worthy argument. James has forced himself into this discussion with NBA championships in each of the past two years.
But the answer to the question is the same as it was a decade ago. Jordan remains the greatest basketball player ever. LeBron has not scaled that mountain yet.
Because we see LeBron highlights every day, we sometimes forget how good Jordan was. Let's look at their playoff statistics, because I think both men would agree that the postseason is where reputations are made or broken.
MJ outscores LeBron in the playoffs, 33.4 to 28.1. OK, you say, but LeBron is the better passer and rebounder.
That's true. But how much better, really? LeBron in the playoffs has averaged 6.7 assists and 8.6 rebounds. Jordan averaged 5.7 assists and 6.4 rebounds.
So LeBron gets roughly one assist and two more rebounds per game than Jordan in the games that matter most. But Jordan scores five more points per game. And then there's the ultimate argument, perhaps best voiced by actor Jason Segel in the otherwise forgettable movie "Bad Teacher." It went like this:
Teacher: "You are out of your mind. There is no way LeBron will ever be Jordan."
Kid: "LeBron is a better rebounder and passer!"
Teacher: "Call me when LeBron has six championships!"
Kid: "That's your only argument?"
Teacher: "That's the only argument I need, Shawn!!"
Yes, Jordan has six championship rings. LeBron has two -- and I don't think he will get a third this season.
Rings aren't the only barometer, of course. Otherwise, Bill Russell with his 11 championships would be thought of as the game's greatest ever. It's more than that.
How about defense? I'd call it a draw. Yes, LeBron can also guard every position on the floor. He's two inches and 45 pounds heavier than Jordan was, and that means he's more of a physical presence.
But Jordan was a perennial first-team NBA defensive player as well. In Jordan's last game as a Chicago Bull in 1998, he not only scored 45 of Chicago's 87 points and hit the game-winning jumper against Utah, but he stole the ball from Karl Malone to set it up. James is bigger and more physical, but Jordan in his prime was quicker.
Competitiveness? I'd rate MJ a bit higher. LeBron wants very badly to win. Jordan would all but kill himself to win.
Yes, I went to North Carolina and overlapped at Chapel Hill with Jordan for one year there. But I also made a pilgrimage to Ohio to see LeBron play while he was still in high school.
I loved watching Jordan play. I love watching LeBron play.
For me, it ultimately comes down to this when you are thinking about the "Greatest of All Time" title. With your team by one point and three seconds left, who do you want with the ball taking that shot?
I think almost all basketball fans outside of south Florida know the true answer in their hearts.
Michael Jordan.
35 comments:
- April 18, 2014 at 8:46 AM
- Mary Smithfield said...
The answer is neither! Bill Russell is the Greatest NBA player. 11 NBA championships and a very good team player.
- April 18, 2014 at 9:10 AM
Amen to that. Jordan is synonymous with clutch and elevated teams that were average at best , beyond the presence of Scottie Pippin.
- April 18, 2014 at 9:18 AM
Also Jordan did not have the supporting cast that LaBron has. There could also be valid arguments for Wilt Chamberland and Doctor J.
- April 18, 2014 at 10:40 AM
Jordan had seven championships...you forget the NCAA final clutch shot. LeBron may have gone pro sooner, but Jordan proved he could play in the most difficult tournament there is..the NCAA.
- April 18, 2014 at 10:52 AM
Neither, like Mary said. I'd take Jerry West or Oscar Robertson over MJ ANY day & both Russell or Wilt Chamberlain is head & shoulders above whoever is 3rd on the all time list.
- April 18, 2014 at 10:53 AM
No knock on Lebron. He is a great player, no doubt! But would Jordan ever call up the Clyde Drexler, Magic and Bird to try to form a championship team? No! Jordan was trying to beat them. He even said it himself.
- April 18, 2014 at 11:18 AM
Not to be a negative Nelly but really Scott, this debate is old and overused by sports journalist who have nothing else to write about. What's next Petty v Earnhardt? Dean v K? Babe Ruth or Henry A?
How about a piece on why Coach K's proteges all chose private schools to ply their trade. That would get me past the headline and show your moxy as a journalist.
- April 18, 2014 at 11:58 AM
- Shots956 said...
don't start this discussion it is irrelevant.
- April 18, 2014 at 12:09 PM
Who do you want taking the last second shot?
Of course the answer is... Robert Horry.
- April 18, 2014 at 12:10 PM
- Ghoul said...
When either one of them averages 50 points and 25 rebounds for a season, and 10,000 women, get back to me.
Although Jordan is closing in on that second part.
- April 18, 2014 at 12:12 PM
I think Scott forgot about Kobe Bryant.
- April 18, 2014 at 12:55 PM
yep. I think it's ridiculous how supposedly basketball afficionados just put Jordan there automatically. It's arguable. Best 1 on 1 player? probably. But basketball is a team game that is not soccer with interchangeable pieces (sorry Don Nelson.) specialization matters. If you had one game to win all time, are you telling me you wouldn't seriously consider (in their healthy prime) Magic or Bird who elevate everyone and changed their respective positions? Russell or Wilt or Kareem who dominate? Oscar who just did everything well.
MJ was a magical combination of all time great player, next level athlete, weakened league from expansion, marketing blitz and explosion of new media that dominated a generation. I just wish basketball people could have a conversation that is more rational.
- April 18, 2014 at 1:01 PM
This is Lebron's 28-29yr old season (turned 29 in December). He's got 23,170pts, 6,086rebs, 5,791asts, 2 championships, 2 finals MVPs and 4 MVPs.
Jordan turned 29 during the 1991-1992 season. At the end of that season, Jordan had 19,000pts, 3,697rebs, 3,507asts, 2 championships, 2 finals MVPs and 3 league MPVs.
That's the only comparison worth making at this point, and Lebron leads or is equal to MJ in every category. Prognosticate all you want, but we can't compare what hasn't happened.
- April 18, 2014 at 1:44 PM
The difference is not only that MJ has 6 rings but MJ never went to the finals and Lost! He's 6-0 in the finals and thus LB will never accomplish that feat. Also, MJ didn't leave Chi-Town to go to a team to get a Ring. Team came to him. This would have never happened back when the NBA was actually worth Watching..
- April 18, 2014 at 2:13 PM
- Philip Hanrahan said...
Wilt Chamberlain is, and always will be, the standard of greatness.
- April 18, 2014 at 2:39 PM
Anonymous 1:44- are you kidding?? This is probably THE dumbest argument for Lebron over Jordan that I've ever seen! You realize that LBJ went in to the NBA right out of HS, at 18, and that MJ went to college for 4 years, making him 22 before he started, right? Based solely on points divided by seasons, MJ would have had approx 9k more points had he turned pro 4 years earlier. That would have put him at 28k points. Eclipsing LBJ by 5k points. Better luck next time.
- April 18, 2014 at 2:43 PM
Invalid comparison. Lebron went straight to the league while Jordan played 3 years of college ball. At the same age Lebron has played 3 more years in the NBA.
- April 18, 2014 at 3:13 PM
To reply to the sad little LeBron lovers- LeBron will eventually be proven not to be better than FIRST three peat championship Jordan. The Jordan that left for nearly two years, rode a bus around the lower south while playing a much less athletic sport, returned older, less conditioned then once again carried a good (not close to money stacked great like Miami) team to three MORE consecutive championships (second season being the best win percentage by a team all time)? That Jordan? Not Lebronk, Bryant or any other since compares. True story. As for weakened league?? That would be now, not then. Jordan routinely beat and denied many greats rings. Beat Bird, Beat Johnson, beat Thomas, denied Ewing, denied Malone/ Stockton TWICE. Be serious here.
- April 18, 2014 at 3:32 PM
This series does in fact "contain" two of the greatest players in history--Lebron and Wade. It does not "contain" Jordan no matter how hard we might wish him to wind back the clock 20 years. This is a silly pretext for a silly column. Everyone but the Observer has come to terms with how irrelevant Jordan is to the current NBA. Finding guys who want to play for him is like trying to find palm treest on Mt Everest.
- April 18, 2014 at 3:36 PM
- Marc Lindgren said...
Clearly those of you suggesting Oscar Robertson or Wilt Chamberlin are better than Jordan have no idea what you're talking about. While the number of titles isn't the end all be all, it certainly factors into the conversation. Having said that, Jordan is the greatest. Lebron has a 3 year head start on Jordan. Jordan's numbers after 10 years in the league are slightly better than LeBron's. And LeBron does not have that killer instinct that MJ had. End of discussion.
- April 18, 2014 at 4:12 PM
to anonymous at 144
you do realize that at age 28-29 lebron has been in the league 11 years and MJ only had been in 8. So your numbers are invalid. Not to mention MJ was hurt in his second year and in his 10th retired to play baseball.
- April 18, 2014 at 4:39 PM
player,coach,team player, unbelievable organizational genius...The Logo............................................................................................he can out shoot all of them at 75 years old
- April 18, 2014 at 4:48 PM
Both are great, but the greatest of all time was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar according to Dr. J.
- April 18, 2014 at 5:42 PM
- par said...
No doubt - Jordan. Even taking two years off for baseball.
- April 18, 2014 at 6:28 PM
- Pace Holding said...
Its a fun enough argument to have, but the difference is that Jordan was so much more mentally tough than whoever he faced & the same would be true today. That is the biggest difference in the end. During the "Dream Team" run in the olympics, Magic tells a story about when he & Bird were sitting in a "dorm room". Jordan walks in with his cigar going & tells them both, "There's a new sheriff in town"... to two of the greatest ever. You got the feeling he wasn't smiling when he said it :)
- April 19, 2014 at 2:45 PM
- April 19, 2014 at 3:27 PM
Wilt Chamberlin, without a doubt.
They changed the rules to make it harder for him.
Referees acknowledged letting people foul him. There were no "Jordan Rules for Chamberlin. He was a big man who led the league in assists one year. He still holds records.
Jordan came along when the NBA decided it was more about entertainment and selling jerseys than about legitimate competitive sport. Since then, the stars get coddled and have their numbers inflated. They have sport center and internet to show them off.
Chamberlin was an amazing player and athlete. He would likely be dominant today. He was the greatest.
- April 21, 2014 at 1:22 AM
- EJ Linehan said...
According to this poll, it is easily Jordan. http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-top-nba-players-of-all-time
- April 21, 2014 at 9:13 PM
Lebron's a cry baby punk surrounded by stars who were stars when they got there! I wish The Bad Boys were still around, Lebron would stay home. Pay attention the next time he is weak side defender on a dunk, tucks tail and runs!
- April 24, 2014 at 6:42 PM
Lebron is a great player but for me Jordan was the best player of all time. His game was simply more complete.
- April 25, 2014 at 4:36 PM
- Jovana said...
Always is ungrateful to argue about who is best in anything. Because of that I will say both of them are best players and i can add at least 10 other players that deserve to be best players.
- May 10, 2014 at 3:44 PM
The talk about greatest of all time is never really fair because you can't compare the role of a center or forward to that of a guard. Jordan and Lebron are both flashy but flash and greatness are two totally different things. I think when you look at overall contributions on the court you have to also consider names like Tim Duncan, Shaquille O'Neal, hakeem Olajuwon, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, etc. As for Lebron, he isn't even worthy of discussion among the greatest of all time. If he played in the 80's and 90', he might have been good enough to win the Sixth Man Award.
- July 19, 2014 at 4:10 PM
- raja said...
The Jordan that left for nearly two years, rode a bus around the lower south while playing a much less athletic sport, returned older, less conditioned then once again carried a good (not close to money stacked great like Miami) team to three MORE consecutive championships (second season being the best win percentage by a team all time)?
- October 15, 2014 at 8:11 AM
- Scott Knox said...
Simple, compare game footage Jordan is simply better, coachability us also key. Jordan is not switching teams to do it. Of course chamberlain is great. But best ever, ,,, Joan is always in the discussion and there is reason for that. Generational ly, people will have their favorites or just try to be devils advocate. On a bigger picture the NBA today will never be as good as the 80's or90's NBA. Jordan all the way I can continue so past away
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Shavance Stephens Connecticut High School Musical Theatre Awards Stratford, CT
What is the most difficult role you've played?
I have never played a role more complex, both emotionally and socially challenging as Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime. It seemed that there was no one right way to play Coalhouse, but many wrong ways. It was a process. We first meet Coalhouse as a man going after the American dream: a gifted piano player, the owner of a model T, and the father of a beautiful baby boy. He was transformed into a tormented, angry and violent man after his justice had been denied, and his soon-to-be bride was brutally taken from him. Playing the happy-go-lucky Coalhouse was easy for me, because I'm a happy person. I enjoyed being the gregarious, life-of-the-party piano player. It was much harder creating the powerful and upset character he became… I had to dig deep into my own feelings to get the right edge.
Special Skills
Strong tenor, ballet, tap, improvisation, computer skills, building sets, painting, lighting design, stage management, teaching parts, play piano by ear, sightread music, hair/make-up


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Banc De Binary was an Israeli financial firm with a history of binary option fraud issues on three continents. On January 9, 2017, the company announced that it would be closing due to negative press coverage and its tarnished reputation.
It sold binary options on assets including foreign exchange. It was barred from accepting U. The company operated an online trading website through which customers could buy binary options, predicting whether the price of a certain commodity will go up or down in a specific time period, as short as 60 seconds. The Wall Street Journal described it as "a website that allows people to bet on the price of gold, oil or stocks".
Customers did not own the asset but instead predicted whether its price would rise or fall. Cyprus, along with ET Binary Options Ltd. Israel and the Republic of Seychelles, collectively conducted business internationally as Banc De Binary. In an interview, the company's founder also claimed that by June 2011 the company had around 20,000 client accounts, In a 2014 court case Banc De Binary claimed that it "is a small company, with approximately 60 employees". An article in the Independent on Sunday described it as a "leading City trading firm", although it did not have an office in the City of London, and the address the company gave was a virtual office space with no physical presence.
10,000 for "crisis management" of the BdB page on Wikipedia. However, the reputational damages and legal ramifications were significant for BdB's Cypriot based operations. A company official announced on January 9, 2017 that the company would be closing because of "consistently negative press" coverage. It's just not worth the tarnished reputation. I don't see how we can continue operating under such scrutiny and public image," said the official. The Times of Israel reported that some industry insiders were skeptical that Banc De Binary was really closing, but was rather relocating and changing its name.
August judgement from the Cyprus Ombudsman was still awaiting payment as of January 11, 2017. On June 6, 2013, Banc De Binary was charged by both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged violations of U. On July 30, 2013, the SEC obtained a preliminary injunction from U. District Court for the District of Nevada to prevent and freeze any further trading with U. Banc De Binary at first refused to appear in court in the United States for depositions.


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Just about everybody who has studied the hospital industry agrees that it needs to confront the epidemic that plagues many of its staff: Tens of thousands of nursing employees suffer debilitating injuries every year, mainly from doing part of their everyday jobs — moving and lifting patients. The problem is, nobody agrees how to get hospitals to take aggressive action.
As NPR has been reporting in its Injured Nurses series, nursing employees suffer more back and arm injuries than just about any other occupations.
"It means that workers who are relatively young have to stop working early in many cases," says David Michaels, chief of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. "They go home and they have real disabilities. They have trouble lifting up their kids. They have trouble doing a lot of the daily tasks of life, because of back injuries, arm injuries, shoulder injuries. It's a very big deal."
Studies show that hospitals can reduce the number of injuries dramatically if they buy special equipment to move patients and conduct intensive training to teach the staff how to use it. For example, federal researchers found that across the vast VA hospital system, nursing injuries from moving patients have dropped by an average of 40 percent after using these strategies.
And at Baptist Health, a chain of five hospitals around Jacksonville, Fla., a spokesman says they slashed the number of lifting injuries by 80 percent after installing the equipment and training the staff.
But industry officials acknowledge that most hospitals haven't done the same thing.
"A lot of hospitals still believe this old myth that hospitals are safe places to work," Michaels says.
Government regulators haven't done much to protect nursing staff, either.
OSHA's 'Ergonomics' Rule
The federal officials who ran OSHA in an earlier era thought they had the solution, and it would have affected far more than hospitals: On Nov. 14, 2000, just before President Bill Clinton left office, OSHA issued a sweeping new rule that required major companies across the nation to prevent "ergonomic" injuries — the injuries workers suffer to their backs, necks, arms and legs from doing tasks that repeatedly stress their bodies.
OSHA's rule warned specifically about the large numbers of nursing employees who get hurt by lifting patients in hospitals, but it applied equally to businesses from auto factories to timber mills. Under the rule, companies would have to redesign their workplaces if multiple employees developed ergonomic injuries while doing the same job.
The nation's business leaders mounted a national campaign against the rule, predicting that it wouldn't prevent workplace injuries but would cost so much money to implement that some companies would shut down.
Only weeks after OSHA issued the rule, Republicans took over the White House and Congress, pledging to block or overturn what it considered to be burdensome federal regulations. Congress killed OSHA's rule.
Still, nursing groups, labor unions and public health advocates were undeterred. They tried to persuade state legislators to pass narrow laws aimed specifically at hospitals, requiring them to buy equipment to move patients and adopt other strategies to prevent nursing employees from injuring their arms and backs.
But in one state after another, their campaigns stalled.
For example, in Missouri, Judy Morgan, a Democratic legislator and former teacher, introduced a bill in 2013 that required "replacement of manual lifting and transferring of patients" with machines and teams of lifters. Her bill was tough: "Any hospital that violates the provisions of this section," the bill declared, "shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to $5,000 a day" for each violation — and those fines quickly doubled for any hospital where administrators didn't comply.
Missouri's hospital industry opposed the bill. So did the chairman of the key legislative committee that considered it, Republican Rep. Keith Frederick.
"Of course, we are all very interested in preventing any sort of injury to our nursing staff," says Frederick, who runs the Health Care Policy committee in Missouri's House of Representatives.
But Frederick, who's also a surgeon, says bills like this are too rigid and would hurt hospitals, not help them. "You say, well, what would it hurt to pass this one little government requirement?" Frederick says. "A friend of mine who's in the military used this analogy — that one little pebble in your rucksack doesn't really make much difference. But you keep adding them and you keep adding them, it gets half-full, and now it's pretty much of a load to carry. And I feel like our hospitals, and I feel like ... our small businesses, are laboring under increasing loads of government regulation."
Frederick let the bill die without bringing it up for a vote. According to the nonpartisan National Institute on Money in State Politics, Missouri's hospital industry contributed more money to Frederick's campaigns than just about any other group. But Frederick says the hospitals' support did not influence his position on the bill to prevent nursing staff from getting hurt lifting patients. "And in fact before I was elected, one of the things I thought was wrong with our medical system in Missouri was that our hospitals were being overregulated," Frederick says.
There are similar stories in states like Florida, Oregon, and Massachusetts — where nursing and labor groups have repeatedly pushed bills to require hospitals to use equipment and other strategies to protect nursing staffs.
Some States Pass Laws, But Don't See Progress
Despite the industry's opposition, 10 states have passed laws that require hospitals to prevent injuries from lifting patients — often only after years of political battles.
In California, for instance, the California Nurses Association union helped persuade the Legislature to pass a bill five times between 2004 and 2008. Then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed every one of those bills, saying that he would not support a "costly mandate imposed" on hospitals that were already suffering a "financial burden." The Legislature passed a bill yet again in 2011 — and this time, Gov. Jerry Brown signed The Hospital Patient and Health Care Worker Injury Protection Act into law.
But even though the state laws proclaim on paper that they're designed to reduce injuries to nursing staff from lifting patients, most of them don't have many teeth to enforce it. Washington state, for instance, has had a law for almost 10 years now, which public health and nursing groups frequently cite as one of the strongest in the nation. Yet state officials told NPR that they can't find out whether hospitals are actually obeying the law and protecting nursing staff.
"The only way that we can know for sure is if we do inspections," says Ninica Howard, a health and safety specialist who studies hospitals for the Washington Department of Labor and Industries. "We don't have the money and we don't have the resources."
That brings us back to OSHA. Congress and then-President Richard Nixon created the agency in 1970 specifically because states weren't doing a good enough job protecting workers on their own. The law that created OSHA declared that its mission is "to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women," partly by issuing regulations covering industries across the nation.
OSHA's Michaels told NPR he and his staff would "love to issue smart standards" to protect nursing staff from getting hurt lifting patients. But he said the agency has no plans to do that.
Since Congress struck down OSHA's ergonomics rule 14 years ago, and after a series of court rulings constrained what OSHA can do, Michaels says, "the process for OSHA to issue new regulations is broken" and the agency "can take on very few issues."
"The requirements that OSHA has to go through to issue a new standard are very, very onerous," he says. "It takes us years if not decades to put out a rule."
So Michaels is sending the agency's inspectors mainly to factories and construction sites where workers suffer amputations and can get killed. As for transforming the hospital industry: Michaels says he's trying to use the powers of "moral suasion." He sent out a letter to 5,000 hospital administrators "describing exactly why it's in their best interest to ... start protecting workers," he says.
OSHA has also created a website and other materials that show administrators how to prevent nursing staff from getting injured.
Despite those efforts, he acknowledges that "most hospitals are not yet taking aggressive action."
Michaels says there's one institution today that could require hospitals to protect their nursing staffs: Congress.
"There's no question, a national law requiring protection in hospitals would protect workers and would result in the reduction in musculoskeletal injuries in hospitals," Michaels says. "Not just for protecting the health and safety of the workers, but in fact they will protect the health and safety of their patients if they do the right thing."
But that's pretty much where this story began.
We've been reporting recently about a little-known epidemic affecting hospitals across the country. Tens of thousands of nursing employees suffer debilitating back and arm injuries every year. This happens mainly from lifting and moving patients. Hospitals could prevent many if not most of these injuries, but most hospitals don't. Today NPR's Daniel Zwerdling examines why government regulators aren't doing much about it either.
DANIEL ZWERDLING, BYLINE: Most hospital executives still don't get it - that's what David Michaels says. He's America's key official in charge of protecting workers' health. He runs OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
DAVID MICHAELS: A lot of hospitals still believe this old myth that hospitals are safe places to work.
ZWERDLING: Michaels says nursing employees suffer more debilitating back and arm injuries than almost any other occupation.
MICHAELS: It means that workers who are relatively young have to stop working early in many cases, but they go home and they have real disabilities. They have trouble lifting up their kids, they have trouble doing a lot of the daily tasks of life because of back injuries, arm injuries, shoulder injuries. It's a very big deal.
ZWERDLING: So you might wonder, what is OSHA doing about it? Not much. Michaels is trying to persuade executives that they should prevent their nursing staff from getting hurt.
MICHAELS: I sent out a letter to 5,000 hospital administrators describing exactly why it's in their best interest to do what we think is the right thing to do - we should start protecting workers.
ZWERDLING: Are most hospitals taking aggressive action, or are most not?
MICHAELS: Most hospitals are not yet taking aggressive action.
ZWERDLING: Meanwhile, nursing workers are saying, somebody help us please.
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: Yeah, yeah. Because we're on strike. Yeah, yeah.
TORI NEET: My name is Tori Neet. I have been injured for two years. I was helping transfer a patient. I injured the elbow and shoulder.
ZWERDLING: Tori Neet is a nursing assistant in Springfield, Ore. On a recent afternoon, she and dozens of other staff were waving signs in front of their hospital right near the emergency room. They were briefly on strike over pay, but workers like Kristi Kuipers said injuries are a big issue.
KRISTI KUIPERS: Probably at least half of our staff in the last couple of years has been injured. There have been some that have been off work for almost a year.
ZWERDLING: Studies show that hospitals could prevent most of those injuries if they bought special equipment to move patients, but most haven't invested the money.
KUIPERS: I think it should be mandatory. Until there's a law made to make them realize that people are getting hurt, hospitals won't do it on their own.
ZWERDLING: And it turns out, there was a law - once. It was early 2001, just before President Clinton left office. OSHA issued a sweeping new rule. It required companies across the country, from auto factories to hospitals, to prevent ergonomic injuries. Here's NBC.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: To Washington now, in a battle over workplace safety.
ZWERDLING: Ergonomic injuries are the ones you get from doing tasks that repeatedly stress the body, like lifting auto parts or lifting patients. OSHA's rule warned specifically about all the nursing employees who get hurt in hospitals.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: If more than one worker is injured within 18 months doing the same job, the employer must redesign the workplace.
ZWERDLING: The nation's business leaders said, no way. Before the rule went into effect they called a press conference.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Testing one, two, three. Testing one, two, three.
ZWERDLING: It was organized by the National Association of Manufacturers. One executive after another predicted doom.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: And our concern is that this rule is all cost and no benefit.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #5: And that's the devastating effect that this is going to have on the American worker.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #6: It will force some employers to move overseas.
ZWERDLING: Then right after OSHA's rule went into effect, Republicans took over the White House and Congress. They said, we're against burdensome regulations, too.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #7: And ABC's Linda Douglass tells us tonight that before the day is over, businesses will likely have their way and the regulations will be repealed.
ZWERDLING: Congress killed OSHA's rule. So, public health and nursing advocates decided, OK, if OSHA can't put out a national rule, let's set our sights lower - let's convince states to pass laws just to tell hospitals, you have to buy equipment to move patients so nurses don't wreck their backs.
KEITH FREDERICK: Well, of course we are all very interested in preventing any sort of injury to our nursing staff, but...
ZWERDLING: But, here's what happened. Keith Frederick is Republican chairman of the Health Care Policy Committee in Missouri's House of Representatives. Two years ago, the state nurses association and a labor union pushed for a pretty strong bill. It would give state officials the power to inspect hospitals and then fine them if they didn't protect nursing workers from getting hurt lifting patients. Missouri's hospital industry opposed it and so did Frederick in the state legislature.
FREDERICK: You say, well, would it hurt to pass this one little government requirement? And a friend of mine who's in the military used this analogy - that one little pebble in your rucksack doesn't really make much difference, but you keep adding them and you keep adding them, it gets half-full and now it's pretty much a load to carry. And I feel like our hospitals - and I feel like this about our small businesses - are laboring under increasing loads of government regulation.
ZWERDLING: Frederick let the bill in the Missouri State House die. You'll find similar stories in states like Florida and Oregon and Massachusetts.
Keith Frederick, I did a bit of research on your background on a nonpartisan website called followthemoney.org and I see that the hospital industry in Missouri contributed more money to your campaigns then just about any individual or other industry. Has that in any way affected your position on these bills?
FREDERICK: No, it hasn't. And in fact, before I even started to run - before I was elected - one of the things I thought was wrong with our medical system in Missouri was that our hospitals were being overregulated.
ZWERDLING: Despite the hospital industry's opposition, 10 states have passed laws that require hospitals to prevent injuries from lifting patients. But most of those measures don't have many teeth. For instance, Washington State has had a law for almost 10 years now. Ninica Howard works for the agency that oversees it and she says state officials don't know if hospitals are actually protecting nursing staff or not.
NINICA HOWARD: True. I mean, the only way that we can know for sure is if we do inspections.
ZWERDLING: And do you have the resources - the money and the staff to do those inspections?
HOWARD: No, we don't. We don't have the money and we don't have the resources.
ZWERDLING: And that brings us back to the federal agency in charge of protecting workers - OSHA. Congress created OSHA in 1970, quote, "to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women," un-quote. The man who runs OSHA today, David Michaels, says he'd love to issue regulations to protect nursing staff across the country from getting hurt lifting patients, but here it is 14 years since Congress smacked OSHA down, and he says...
MICHAELS: The process for OSHA to issue new regulations is broken. We can take on very few issues. The requirements that OSHA has to go through to issue a new standard are very, very onerous. It takes us years if not decades to put out a rule.
ZWERDLING: So Michaels is sending the agency's inspectors mainly to factories and construction sites, where workers suffer amputations or get killed. As for hospitals, OSHA has created a website and other materials that show administrators how to prevent nursing staff from getting injured - if hospital administrators bother to read them. Michaels says there is one institution that could require hospitals across the country to protect their nursing staff - Congress.
MICHAELS: There is no question, a national law requiring protections in hospitals would protect workers and would result in the reduction in musculoskeletal injuries in hospitals.
ZWERDLING: But, that's pretty much where we started this story. Daniel Zwerdling, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Prohibition of cannabis doesn't work
Our tax money is spent on police arresting and charging adults who have chosen to consume cannabis rather than the far more dangerous drug alcohol. From a health point of view the cannabis smoker is making the right choice. From society's point of view, the pot smoker is making the right choice but apparently from a law and order point of view the cannabis smoker is a threat. The truth is cannabis is a threat to an easier work day for the cop. Arrest a pot smoker and that goes on the cops record as an open and shut case. Leave the bank robbers, rapists and murderers and push tax payers money into buying tanks so the police can raid the still peaceful pot smoker's home. Shoot his dog and wreck the place as well. In fact the pot raid is the perfect place to play soldier, especially as you have had the training and lots of new soldier toys.
The police like doing raids. Cannabis prohibition is the easiest law to enforce and the one that is doing lasting damage between the public and police. The police are now the others. They are a threat not to be interacted with. Ending prohibition of cannabis will put police back to work on real threats. We are still living in a democracy, find pro pot candidates and vote for them. We have a long way back to real freedom but like every journey, it begins with that very first small step.


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Introduced as an amendment to the credit card reform bill by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), the provision allows owners of licensed firearms to bring them into national parks and wildlife refuges as long as they are allowed to do so by state law.
Coburn's amendment is intended to prevent the implementation of a March 19, 2009 preliminary federal injunction blocking a George W. Bush administration regulation that allowed concealed weapons to be carried in national parks and wildlife refuges, subject to state law. The regulation is currently under review by the Obama administration.
"The Federal laws should make it clear that the second amendment rights of an individual at a unit of the National Park System or the National Wildlife Refuge System should not be infringed," states Sen. Coburn's amendment.
So come February when the new law is scheduled to go into effect (unless Coburn can sneak it into another bill taking effect sooner), Yogi and Boo Boo will need to be more careful when choosing which picnic baskets to steal.
On a side note, how hard of a vote was this for our Congressional delegation? They had to choose between protecting the predatory credit card companies that serve as the backbone of our state's economy, and keeping up their NRA cred which is so important to South Dakota's 2nd Amendment crazed population.
They chose the predators that hire people for 10-12 bucks an hour.


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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - International rating agencies have been making intense efforts to create a pessimistic view of Turkey's banks, Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said on Friday, but added that the government vowed to stand by its financial institutions.
Speaking at a gathering of small to mid-size businesses, Albayrak also said Turkey was going to continue to take steps to support and protect its currency.
Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Daren Butler