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She starts with an unusual hero. Richard Dempsey is a clergyman, for heavens sake, and not in the bloom of youth either. After years working for the Bishop of Hereford, he is finally going to have a living of his own. The Duke of Berinwick has offered him St. Milburga's of the Woods' parish in exchange for his expertise in antiquities.
When he arrives at his new home, Richard is in for a number of shocks. First, he discovers that his patron has died in a coaching accident some months earlier. The new duke, a satirical and snappish young man, seems less than enthusiastic to welcome him. Next, he discovers that his church has not had a vicar for twenty years and is falling down around him. That the late duke killed the last vicar at his altar perhaps explains why no one has taken the job in the interim. Finally, Richard learns that the Duchess of Berinwick is none other than Veronica Longwood, his first and only true love. Of course, he was seven and Veronica was thirteen when they parted, but neither has ever forgotten their childhood playmate.
To add to the mix, on his first night, he encounters a ghostly apparition, the shade of Owain Glyndwr. Richard swiftly realizes that the white mist that surrounds the shade is flour and that this is no real ghost. But what in the world is going on in his new parish?
Richard soon discovers that the "accidents" that keep happening to the Thorne family are no accidents at all. Someone is threatening the Berinwicks. Could it have something to do with the centuries old feud between the Thornes and the Poles? The new vicar, with the help of the entire community, is determined to protect their duke, duchess and young Lady Hannah.
The whodunit is actually quite good, with all sorts of gothic elements. But what makes Just in Time so much fun is Richard. This is no ordinary clergyman. He is witty and wise, kind and caring. He spars happily with the young duke. William lost his eye as a young child and has adopted a cutting wit as armor against the taunts of his peers. He doesn't quite know what to make of a parson who gives as good as he gets and does not seem overly impressed by his lofty status and sarcastic tone.
If her son doesn't know what to make of Richard, Veronica has no doubts. He is as kind and sweet as he was as a child and he helps her overcome the guilt that has plagued her all her life about the accident. Veronica truly loved her husband and misses him very much. But she is open to loving again. For his part, Richard comes to understand that no woman he has met since has measured up to the Veronica of his memory and that the woman is, if anything, more lovable than the girl.
Lansdowne manages deftly to combine humor and danger. The humor arises partly from the interchanges between Richard and the duke, partly from his old hound Theophilus, partly from the local cast of characters. The danger becomes clearer and clearer as Richard tries to discover the villain who is threatening his new friends.
William, the young Duke of Berinwick is a particularly successful creation. Such an interesting young man deserves a romance of his own.
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For the past two weeks, Gloucester has been holding its collective breath in the hope of catching a glimpse of or a nod from actor George Clooney.
But in many ways, the real star of the upcoming movie "The Perfect Storm" will not be Clooney or co-star Mark Wahlberg but rather the 1991 no-name storm that pummeled the eastern coast and sank the local swordfishing boat Andrea Gail.
Director Wolfgang Petersen acknowledged the storm's key role in a press conference held on the Gloucester Marine Railways set earlier this month.
"It's an ideal combination," Petersen said, referring to the storm and the story of the Andrea Gail. "The powerful and moving human drama is at the center of this movie and the combination with the storm makes this a great, great film."
Warner Brothers has rebuilt the Crow's Nest and repainted other vessels to play the Andrea Gail and its sister ship, the Hannah Boden, and they will recreate the storm safely inside the special effects studios of George Lucas' company, Industrial Light and Magic in California.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Industrial Light and Magic will produce 250 shots for the film version of "The Perfect Storm."
Warners Brothers announced several weeks ago that work will be done this fall under the supervision of Helen Elswit and John Frazier, whose work includes visual effects for "The Haunting" and "Armageddon."
Industrial Light and Magic, Hollywood's premiere special effects company, got its start in 1975 when Lucas assembled a crew of young technicians to create the visual effects for "Star Wars."
Back then they were known only as the Star Wars effects crew but after the phenomenal success of the film, Lucas bought a special studio and Industrial Light & Magic was born.
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Petersen was asked about "The Perfect Storm"'s special effects but refused to give away any secrets.
"I won't tell you how we will film it, but this is something you have never seen before," he said. "Something we could not have done two years ago."
Local photographers and filmmakers speculate that Industrial Light and Magic will probably layer shots of the cast filmed on the water in Gloucester with computer-generated storm scenes in order to create the images that show the final moments of the Andrea Gail.
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"With predictive analytics, we were basically able to close a hole in our pocket where money was leaking out steadily" - Bill Dibble, SVP of Claims Operations, Infinity Property & Casualty
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While Bill Dibble doesn't believe in "silver bullets," he saw predictive analytics as something that could be used to help Infinity address a number of challenges and opportunities. While his area is Claims Operations, he articulated an expansive, enterprise-wide vision for the company and is leading the charge to make it a reality.
How Accomplished:
Good ideas usually start simple— and Dibble's idea was. His insight was to "score" claims like lenders score credit, to provide a more systematic, efficient and accurate way to pinpoint fraud. But that was just the beginning. His breakthrough was to leverage the same underlying intelligence to create a smarter claims processing workflow. That made it possible to transform the way Infinity's agents handle and route claims, resulting in a lesser reliance on external adjusters, lower adjustment costs and—because claims are handled faster—more satisfied customers.
Leadership is...Big picture thinking
Bill Dibble pursued predictive analytics to address what he saw as a growing fraud problem as well as the company's overall goal of achieving a world-class claims capability. However, in framing and then championing his vision, he took an enterprise view— looking at how it could be used across the company as a whole. "As soon as [Dibble] wrapped his mind around it, he became a visionary and an evangelist for predictive analytics—not just for claims—but also for pushing its value across the enterprise."
— Eric Eckert, IBM Business Analytics
Lessons Learned:
Believing the intelligence.
Infinity's case shows that topdown support isn't enough to make predictive analytics a success. Dibble's line managers and regional claim managers were instinctively skeptical of something they didn't necessarily understand. He sees it as a communications challenge. "For predictive analytics to be effective, consumers of the intelligence have to believe the results."
— Bill Dibble, SVP of Claims Operations, Infinity Property & Casualty
400% ROI with six months of implementation; Increase of $12 million in subrogation recoveries; As much as 95% reduction in time required to refer questionable claims for investigation; Increase in success rate in pursuing fraudulent claims from 50% to 88%; Ability to keep 25% of claims within the company's first notice of loss area (up from 4%), enabling Infinity to sharply improve its Loss Adjustment Expenses (LAE) ratio
Case Study
In his 25 years with Infinity Property & Casualty, all of it spent in the claims area, Bill Dibble hasn't lost his enthusiasm for finding a better way to handle them. As he voices his ideas on how to improve claims processing, an evangelical quality comes through that has become familiar to his colleagues, both inside the company and across the industry. Call it a kind of professional idealism, one colleague says, but when Bill Dibble finds something new that works, he talks about it everywhere.
Dibble, Infinity's SVP of Claims Operations, also has the ear of the Infinity's executive leadership, who recognize the combined value of his experience and his perspective on the industry. That perspective comes from the frequent contact with his corps of adjusters out in the field, whose feedback from the front lines keeps him up to speed on trends—be they market, regulatory, or anything else—as they're developing. By virtue of his experience and breadth, Dibble has emerged as a trusted go-to figure in the company, who isn't yet done making his mark.
Seeking the edge
Back a few years ago, Infinity found itself—in a positive sense—at a strategic crossroads. In the wake of an initial public offering, strong growth and a series of successful mergers, the Birmingham, Alabama-based company had become one of the nation's leading "nonstandard" insurance providers, specializing in covering higher risk drivers. Now, with their eyes on long-term revenue growth amid intensifying competition, the company's leaders were poised to make a push into the standard insurance segment.
To succeed in a market dominated by big-name national providers, Infinity needed an edge. That's the short story of how Infinity set its sights on developing a "world-class" claims capability, one whose speed, efficiency and accuracy would help keep existing customers and attract new ones. Infinity's vision was no hollow commitment. With the support of management, the company created an internal task force to brainstorm ways of improving. But as subsequent events show, change doesn't always come from where you expect it, and the path to transformative change isn't always predictable.
In about the same timeframe, Dibble had been picking up a steady stream of intelligence from his adjusters in the field that, taken together, pointed to a rise in fraudulent activity beyond the "usual." While gathering his options on how to respond, it was recognized that predictive analytics was a way of detecting emerging fraud schemes, and another contact from IT concurred. With the seed planted, Dibble proceeded to research and flesh out his ideas over the next few months. What grew out of it was a broader vision of how predictive analytics could be leveraged not only for fraud prevention, but also to improve other parts of the claims process— and beyond that, other parts of the enterprise.
Dibble predicated his vision on the idea that claims could be scored in the same way as credit applications. True, the company's existing system of screening out questionable claims based on "red flags" was already doing this in a rudimentary way. But it was doing so in a way that required human judgment and a good deal of handling, as when cases were directed to others in the company for further review. Such touch points were not only costly to the company, but also tended to drag out the payment of legitimate claims, which threatened to undermine its customers' satisfaction with the experience. What's more, the static nature of the red-flag approach made it impossible for Infinity to adapt its scoring criteria to catch evolving or emerging fraud patterns.
Good timing, good message
Dibble knew he had a strong case to make before the executive team and that his timing was propitious, given the company's increased focus on competitive differentiation. But he also realized that the best way to build support for predictive analytics was to deliver clear, definitive and measurable results—and that meant keeping it small and manageable at the outset. "The important thing was to create excitement and build momentum right from the get-go," says Dibble. "Thrilling our people in the near-term is the best way to build faith in the broader potential [for predictive analytics] down the road."
Dibble and his team chose subrogation as the initial test-bed for predictive analytics, since it was deemed to have the fastest and most direct path to payback. If an insurance company (like Infinity) pays a claim to its policyholder even though the accident is not his fault, subrogation is the process of getting the money back from the company (or people) that are liable for it. It's an often costly, hightouch process, one relying heavily on human judgment, where the odds of success (getting restitution) aren't certain. In short, it's the perfect candidate for optimization based on predictive analytics—a point proven emphatically by Infinity's results.
The company's approach was to first identify the parameters that characterized cases that were successfully subrogated and then use that knowledge to create business rules that would score cases based on the likelihood of successful collection. This enabled Infinity to add structure and intelligence to what had been a judgment-heavy, labor-intensive part of the business. In the first month alone, the solution increased subrogation recovery by $1 million; after six months that total rose to $12 million. Now—in going back to Infinity's executives to move ahead more broadly—Dibble had the numbers to back up his vision. "With predictive analytics, we were basically able to close a hole in our pocket where money was leaking out steadily," explains Dibble. "We were also ready to show that this was just the beginning."
In the next phase of its predictive analytics rollout, Infinity focused on fraud detection, again employing a score-based approach (driven by predictive business rules) to routing claims for investigation. It starts at the very beginning of the claims cycle—a process area known as first notice of loss—when claimants first report the accident. As data on the accident is gathered by representatives, Infinity's rules engine builds a rating for each claim that corresponds to its fraud probability, with claims above a threshold automatically referred for review. By getting suspect claims into the hands of investigators within a day or two—a contrast to the one to two months it used to take—they can proceed on the case while the facts are still fresh. That's one reason Infinity's success rate in pursuing fraudulent claims has gone from 50 percent to 88 percent.
Intelligence as transformation catalyst
In fact, however, that only scratches the surface of how Infinity is using intelligence to streamline, speed up and otherwise optimize the claims process—all of which represents a realization of Dibble's vision of a "world-class" claims capability. Traditionally, the first notice of loss area is the first of many customer touch points in the claims process, with the typical handoff made to adjusters in the field. Dibble's bold idea was to extend Infinity's analytics capability as a way of creating an optimized, intelligent workflow. The idea is that by asking "smarter" questions at the first notice of loss, Infinity can apply algorithms that sort claims into groups with different handling or adjustment requirements. This, in turn, enables claims to be routed for processing in the most efficient way.
Or—in some cases—it can prevent the need to route claims at all. In what is arguably the project's coup, Dibble leveraged the solution's intelligence to redesign the claims handling process. By using predictive analytics to identify the claims least likely to require investigation, Infinity made it possible for the first notice of loss area to handle a full 25 percent of the claims burden itself, claims that would, in the past, be routinely dispatched to adjusters in the field at considerable cost. In addition to giving claimants the "express" treatment—and the speed and convenience that goes along with it—Infinity was able to reduce its overall cost of adjusting claims, an improvement that shows up in its all important Loss Adjustment Expenses (LAE) ratio.
The fact that Infinity had a framework for intelligent processing in place was a key enabler of this transformation. But it wouldn't have happened without the decision and commitment to make important changes at the personnel, process and organizational levels. In a one-year process, Infinity reoriented its first notice of loss employees to handle an entirely new set of tasks, creating what amounts to a lower severity adjustment force. Employees were retrained, job descriptions and goals were changed—and perhaps most importantly to Dibble—a new culture of accountability was put in place. "Our people at the front-lines taking claims are now making decisions that adjusters in the field would have made in the past," Dibble points out. "To make it work, we needed to balance that extra empowerment with a greater degree of accountability—and employees who were comfortable with that new balance."
Infinity Property and Casualty: The parameters of smarter claims processing
Instrumented: As claims information is being gathered, it is being automatically fed into a scoring engine that drives the processing workflow, including referrals to fraud investigators.
Interconnected: An integrated body of customer and claim information— augmented by analytics— provides Infinity's agents with the means to make the right
adjustment decisions.
Intelligent: Infinity's ability to identify "express" claims as they are received speeds their resolution, improves customer satisfaction and lowers the cost of adjusting claims.
Going deeper to get smarter
And Dibble is not stopping there. The company is augmenting the intelligence of its claims processing by putting in place a text mining capability that will analyze the content of police reports, medical files and other documents related to accidents to help pinpoint narrative inconsistencies that may indicate underlying fraud. At the same time, Infinity is continuously updating its fraud models to further improve their accuracy. With Dibble as the catalyst, the use of predictive analytics is also spreading to other parts of Infinity's enterprise, including direct marketing, where it has improved
response rates significantly.
With Infinity poised to expand its market presence, Dibble sees the use of predictive analytics to create a smarter and more efficient claims process as an important foundation of its future success. "Whether it's fraud reduction, customer convenience or cost control, leveraging intelligence will be increasingly important to the way we differentiate ourselves in the future," says Dibble. "We've shown our willingness to take some chances to make this happen and we have the results to show for it."
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (169 votes).
In short: fast flat race in lovely spring sunshine!In full: i'm not sure why people are getting so het up about the water. the cups were there with people filling up. i actually brought my own bottle because you don't want to have to wait every 3 miles to remove your thirst. sure the first drink stop was busy, but that's the early stage of the race. for a long race like this, people should take responsibility for their own hydration, rather than solely relying on the drinks stations.as for no start or finish signs. at the start people had started congregating at the middle of the green where the ambulances and other administrative stuff was. the finish was obvious too, when getting to the rype at the end of the race, all you had to do was look across the green and see all the people gathered there, as well as just following the person in front.i think it was a small friendly run, which coupled with the spring sunshine and village green atmosphere made for a good race overall. i'll do it again next year.Date of review: March 14, 2010
In short: Great PB potential In full: Super, flat course makes it a real chance for a fast time. Reiterate the comments re the lack of toilets and lack of water at first couple of stations, but if the organisers can get these points right then this would be a great race.Date of review: March 14, 2010
In short: What more can I say!!!!Date of review: March 14, 2010
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In short: could be good, organisation let it downIn full: Unmarked start and finish point and no clock? should have been chipped race as flat and good for recording your PB... Water stations were a real let down, not enough people or WATER????? at one station a young man was helping his mum (assumption) and was doing a great job trying to get the water out to the runners. Nice Work! Toilets... A nightmare! Date of review: March 14, 2010
In short: Still needs a LOT of improvementIn full: I had a right old strop about this race last year so I will stick to four words this year and email the organise privately. YOU NEED MORE PEOPLEDate of review: March 14, 2010
In short: Really good course, just needs a couple of tweaksIn full: Really good, flat, scenic course. Marshalling and signs all good. But I do agree with other comments that a few extra loos and sorting out the water problems would make a big improvement.Date of review: March 14, 2010
In short: This race is attractive as it is possibly the fastest course in the South East.In full: This race is attractive as it is possibly the fastest course in the South East. PBs are the order of the day here. The event has a village green and community feel to it which is great. Parking is easy and very convenient. If the organisers can get at least double the people on the water particularly at mile 3 to make sure they can deal with the volume of runners coming through then I think they will have a great race. But having said that I will turn up next year as the speed of the course sells the race. Anyone concerned may wish to bring their own water supply to be sure of having enough. Thanks Lydd / Nice Work, see you next year.Date of review: March 14, 2010
In short: ok - but appalling they run out of water completely at 6 m check and at 3 m the water wasn't ready for us, so we had to go from 3 m to 10 m with no water - irIn full: I guess the frustration was the water - either say it will be there and provide it or say it won't and then we bring our own?Date of review: March 14, 2010
In short: for event organisers they need to learn a bitIn full: As most people have said the lack of water, as one of the back runners the 1st marshall was still struggling and i didnt even get a quarter of a cup, the 2nd was a full cup but the 3rd was a bit past where i would have like it, although they had loads so i made the most of it..route to hq should have been better.they needed a start finish line, or even a megaphone so those of us at the back could tell when they started the race and not just see people run off.howevr it was a nice flat run.considering Nice-Work organise my clubs 10k (A&D) they did really well there so this was a dissapointmentDate of review: March 14, 2010


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More questions. Can North Carolinians support a team that is not a Lakers, Celtics, Spurs, Magic and Cavaliers type team? If they can't should the team remain where it currently is? When will people get past being burned by George Shinn? If they can't then why the hell is Charlotte home to another NBA team?
The Bobcats started slow as I predicted they would but they are coming on strong as of late and are in the thick of the Eastern Conference Playoff Race and deserve some participation for what they are doing. They are winning at home and doing it without large raucous crowds behind them. Should it not get to the point where the state is behind their Bobcats?
Your state is supposed to be a Basketball state but looking at the crowds at Bobcats games one would never guess as much.
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Whatever the reasons, this is a good decision, which - with a little luck - could have the following consequences:
- Banks will have the sell the real-estate properties at current market value. It's not hard to predict that real-estate properties will keep going down, maybe at least 30%, until the young generation could pay for them. Right now, they can't with or without credit.
- This might reactivate the house construction business, specially if second-hand properties become more expensive than new houses (amazingly, this is already happening).
- A little reactivation of the housing business might be all the economy needs to start growing again.
- We all get lucky and this happens within 2 years.
I'm still wandering why Mr. ZP insisted on keeping the real-estate prices up, instead of closed to what the young generation could pay. Yes, a government does not set prices... but it could make decisions like the ones Mr. Rajoy had taken (the one mentioned in this article plus raising the property taxes). Such measures could have killed the housing bubble as early as 2006 (as many of us have suggested at the time). I'll conclude that Mr. ZP was ill-advised (I'm trying to be kind here) instead of trying to "screw" the younger generations. Amazingly a "socialist" party did that... No doubt many PSOE voters (like myself) stayed home last Nov 20th.
I think that if Spanish banks would save dividend payments for a year the issue would be almost solved. So the Government has not to nationalise banks as Germany or UK did.
In Spain - as in other EU countries and in the US - the state supervision on banks has proved lacking and failing. Nowhere has this failure been sanctionned in any way . It has been considered has inevitable and unfixable. In the EU, part of the supervision has been rightly transfered to the more adequate european level. However the new european supervisor has proved as feeble and impotent as the national ones (see the latests banks "stress tests") . The piling up of more and more stringent regulations on banks will be of no effect if their supervision remains so feeble . Financial supervision should be considered as important as competition control and should be given
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This is what happens when everything is driven by market forces. Echos of the infamous "greed is good" speech by Gordon Gecko.
Banks were driven by greed to sell money they didn't have because the radical free market let them do so.
The anarchic economic policies of Friedman have to be ditched asap so that the global economy and banking system starting working again. Friedman economics cause chaos. The last 4 years have shown it. How he ever won a Nobel prize beats me.
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Rated 5 / 5 stars July 28, 2010
cool use of the music
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Rated 5 / 5 stars July 5, 2010
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My only complaint is that expert mode is, to my best knowledge, impossible. I'm not one to call something impossible but when I can't get half-past the first screen after 30 deaths, that says something. I'm good at dodging games, mind you, and this just seems beyond anyone's ability.
Normal mode was AWESOME though.
Rated 5 / 5 stars June 17, 2010
Simple, yet hard enough to be addicting. I love it. The only downside is the laser pack and the walrus's missiles and the ground-to-air missiles. Everything flashes, and the flashing lasers make it so much harder to concentrate on the missiles coming at you. If that was intentional though, you're doing a heck of a good job annoying my eyes. Keep up the preposterous.....ly outstanding work!!!
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This game is stupid
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The normal mode is very brief and easy, it's there so you can enjoy the humour and the silly storyline,
Expert mode I found to be quite impossible, and I speak as someone (going to sound arrogant here) who is excellent at the oldskool space shooters that most people write off as way too hard in regards to dodging bullets. So if you can finish the game on expert then you've got something to be pretty proud of in my book.
Rated 5 / 5 stars May 15, 2010
freakin funny
i loved how the giraffes head kept stretching up to space while shooting lasers. xD even though this game was really retarted, i loved it \:D


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Marriage is the term used to denote the covenant relationship between a man and a woman and has been for thousands of years...can't gays come up with a different word for their different sort of liaison?
No worries! I should have clarified at the time!
Sorry about that, Steve. You said Sammy and I leaped to a conclusion. Argh!
Just one correction: The production features Sammy Gleason, not Sammie Joe Kinnett. They are both, however, very lovely people.
Great show; Nancy Holaday did a great job adapting this story for her actors.
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Our audio recording of the interview does not include the phrase "To Shakespeare's audience." However, it is clear that Ms. Carter was speaking about the perspective of someone in Shakespeare's time period, so we have inserted a clarification to that effect, in brackets. We apologize for any confusion or mischaracterization this may have caused.
Thank you Cherise for the wonderful article! I would like to clarify, with all respect to Cherise Fantus, the above quote was taken out of context. We were discussing Shakespeare's treatment of Achilles and the quote should read " To Shakespeare's audience, what's the worst possible way they could sabotage the greatest warrior in the world in history? They make him ridiculously proud, and they make him gay." I apologize for any misunderstanding. Crystal Carter, Director.
Personal stories, from our own community, are always the most inspiring. Hope to see you and your family at the opening reception this Friday at 6 pm, James. It'll be a timeless production. Anne Marie
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This show was one of the best I have ever seen! The cast is very personable and professional. Joe Mikolaj is fabulous and will definitely go far. Would see it again.
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While bullets fly into El Paso and bodies pile up in the streets of Juarez, and thugs with gold-plated AK-47s and albino tiger pens are beheading federal officials and dissolving their torsos in vats of acid, here are some facts concerning the peaceful situation in Holland. --Please save a copy and use it as a reference when debating prohibitionists who claim the exact opposite concerning reality as presented here below:
Cannabis-coffee-shops are not only restricted to the Capital of Holland, Amsterdam. They can be found in more than 50 cities and towns across the country. At present, only the retail sale of five grams is tolerated, so production remains criminalized. The mayors of a majority of the cities with coffeeshops have long urged the national government to also decriminalize the supply side.
A poll taken earlier this year indicated that some 50% of the Dutch population thinks cannabis should be fully legalized while only 25% wanted a complete ban. Even though 62% of the voters said they had never taken cannabis. An earlier poll also indicated 80% opposing coffee shop closures.
It is true that the number of coffee shops has fallen from its peak of around 2,500 throughout the country to around 700 now. The problems, if any, concern mostly marijuana-tourists and are largely confined to cities and small towns near the borders with Germany and Belgium. These problems, mostly involve traffic jams, and are the result of cannabis prohibition in neighboring countries. Public nuisance problems with the coffee shops are minimal when compared with bars, as is demonstrated by the rarity of calls for the police for problems at coffee shops.
While it is true that lifetime and past-month use rates did increase back in the seventies and eighties, the critics shamefully fail to report that there were comparable and larger increases in cannabis use in most, if not all, neighboring countries which continued complete prohibition.
According to the World Health Organization only 19.8 percent of the Dutch have used marijuana, less than half the U.S. figure.
In Holland 9.7% of young adults (aged 15 to 24) consume soft drugs once a month, comparable to the level in Italy (10.9%) and Germany (9.9%) and less than in the UK (15.8%) and Spain (16.4%). Few transcend to becoming problem drug users (0.44%), well below the average (0.52%) of the compared countries.
The WHO survey of 17 countries finds that the United States has the highest usage rates for nearly all illegal substances.
In the U.S. 42.4 percent admitted having used marijuana. The only other nation that came close was New Zealand, another bastion of get-tough policies, at 41.9 percent. No one else was even close. The results for cocaine use were similar, with the U.S. again leading the world by a large margin.
Even more striking is what the researchers found when they asked young adults when they had started using marijuana. Again, the U.S. led the world, with 20.2 percent trying marijuana by age 15. No other country was even close, and in Holland, just 7 percent used marijuana by 15 -- roughly one-third of the U.S. figure.
In 1998, the US Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey claimed that the U.S. had less than half the murder rate of the Netherlands. That's drugs, he explained. The Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics immediately issued a special press release explaining that the actual Dutch murder rate is 1.8 per 100,000 people, or less than one-quarter the U.S. murder rate.
Here's a very recent article by a psychiatrist from Amsterdam, exposing Drug Czar misinformation
Now let's look at a comparative analysis of the levels of cannabis use in two cities: Amsterdam and San Francisco, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health May 2004,
The San Francisco prevalence survey showed that 39.2% of the population had used cannabis. This is 3 times the prevalence found in the Amsterdam sample
Source: Craig Reinarman, Peter D.A. Cohen and Hendrien L. Kaal, The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy
Moreover, 51% of people who had smoked cannabis in San Francisco reported that they were offered heroin, cocaine or amphetamine the last time they purchased cannabis. In contrast, only 15% of Amsterdam residents who had ingested marijuana reported the same conditions. Prohibition is the 'Gateway Policy' that forces cannabis seekers to buy from criminals who gladly expose them to harder drugs.
The indicators of death, disease and corruption are even much better in the Netherlands than in Sweden for instance, a country praised by UNODC for its so called successful drug policy.
Here's Antonio Maria Costa doing his level best to avoid discussing the success of Dutch drug policy:
The Netherlands also provides heroin on prescription under tight regulation to about 1500 long-term heroin addicts for whom methadone maintenance treatment has failed.
The Dutch justice ministry announced, last year, the closure of eight prisons and cut 1,200 jobs in the prison system. A decline in crime has left many cells empty. There's simply not enough criminals
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Dreamweaver. I found the problem. It must have something to do with the Firefox version I have. By setting up the code in Firefox it would not allow me to change the parameters, nor would it work when uploaded.
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Wow, What A Go-Getter: Kid Buys Back Car To Prove Speeding Ticket Was Falsely Issued
One day Dale Lyle got a speeding ticket in the mail issued by one of those automatic ticketing cameras. It claimed he was doing 98MPH in his 14-year old Honda Civic, a car he insisted could only do 85MPH max on a downhill slope with a tailwind. So what did he do? He did what any badass would do -- he stuck it to the man like dogshit under a cardoor handle.
Mr Lyle, 21, who has a clean driving license, had already sold the car to a friend for £600. He had to take out a bank overdraft to buy it back. Then he had to pay an independent driving expert £600 to test the 1.3litre Civic's top speed at a circuit in Bedfordshire.
The result was as expected. Even when driven flat-out, the Honda could still only do a top speed of 85.4mph in fourth gear and 81.3mph in fifth.Next, Mr Lyle obtained the mobile speed-camera footage of his alleged offence - travelling at 98mph on a 70mph three-lane carriageway of the A38, near Plymouth, on December 13, 2007.
The three-minute film shows three other cars in the frame at the same time, he said, which he believes means his vehicle was mistaken for another.
Nice, Dale, way to make us all proud. Now make the court give you back all the money you spent. I swear, I wish I was more like you. I probably would have just paid the fines and then vandalized the ticketing camera. Yay, passive-aggressiveness!
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- EDUCATION: University of Zurich
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Zurich, Switzerland
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Author, psychiatrist. Born on July 8, 1926, in Zurich, Switzerland. Through her ground-breaking research and writings, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross helped revolutionize how the medical community cared for the terminally ill. She had a fragile start in life as a triplet, weighing only two pounds when she and her two other siblings were born. Developing an interest in medicine at a young age, Kübler-Ross encountered intense resistance from her father about her career aspirations. He told her that she could be a secretary in his business or go become a maid.
Defying her family, Kübler-Ross left home at the age of 16 and worked a series of jobs. She also served as a volunteer during World War II, helping out in hospitals and caring for refugees. After the war, Kübler-Ross volunteered to help in numerous war-torn communities. She was profoundly affected by a visit to the Maidanek concentration camp in Poland and the images of hundreds of butterflies carved into some of the walls there. To Kübler-Ross, the butterflies—these final works of art by those facing death—stayed with her for years and influenced her thinking about the end of life.
Kübler-Ross began pursuing her dreams to become a doctor in 1951 as a medical student at the University of Zurich. While there, she met Emanuel Robert Ross, an American medical student. They married in 1958, a year after she graduated, and moved to the United States where they both had internships at Community Hospital in Glen Cove, Long Island. Then she went on to specialize in psychiatry, becoming a resident at Manhattan State Hospital.
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In 1962, Kübler-Ross and her husband moved to Denver, Colorado, to teach at the University of Colorado Medical School. She had been disturbed by the treatment of the dying throughout her time in the United States and found nothing in the medical school curriculum at the time that addressed death and dying. Filling in for a colleague one time, Kübler-Ross brought in a 16-year-old girl who was dying from leukemia into the classroom. She told the students to ask the girl any questions they wanted. But after receiving numerous questions about her condition, the girl erupted in anger and started asking the questions that mattered to her as a person, such as what was it like to not be able to dream about growing up or going to the prom, according to an article in The New York Times.
Moving to Chicago in 1965, Kübler-Ross became an instructor at the University of Chicago's medical school. A small project about death with a group of theology students evolved into a series of well-attended seminars featuring candid interviews with people who were dying.
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