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Likud MK Danon: Destroy Gaza neighborhoods for every rocket fired
By Alex Kane | Mondoweiss | November 10, 2011
Ami Kaufman of +972 Magazine highlights this disgusting message from Danny Danon, a Likud Party member of the Israeli Knesset:
I am currently in Ashkelon to witness the security problem facing the city specifically in neighborhoods with new Olim and have come to two main conclusions. Firstly, we must do everything we can to ensure the safety of all residents with an emphasis on areas with new immigrants who greatly lack protection, and more importantly, to deal with Hamas leaders in Gaza, and for every missile that falls in our southern towns, we retaliate by deleting a neighborhood in Gaza
It is disturbing to hear such a blunt call for collective punishment and the wholesale destruction of civilian life in Gaza from a politician with power in Israel. Unfortunately, it is no surprise–a similar mentality was behind Israel's conduct during Operation Cast Lead.
Danon's call echoes what former combatants in the Israeli army told the UK-based Channel 4 early this year:
24-year-old tank commander Ohad remembers being told the night before the operation that the entry into Gaza was to be "disproportionate". Once into Gaza, he says his orders were unambiguous:
"The order was very clear that if a car came within 200 metres of me I could simply shoot at it. Shoot a shell at it."
Some of the most disputed claims about the operation centre around firing at family homes and mosques.
Ohad also says: "We needed to cleanse the neighbourhoods, the buildings, the area. It sounds really terrible to say "cleanse", but those were the orders….I don't want to make a mistake with the words."
Danon is only vocalizing what has long been the Israeli establishment's mentality towards the people of Gaza.
Alex Kane is a freelance journalist and blogger based in New York. Follow him on Twitter @alexbkane.
Major push for Iran war by liberal Zionists and hawks
By Scott McConnell | Mondoweiss | November 10, 2011
Robert Wexler, former Florida congressman and a key Obama ally on Israel/Palestine issues, was one of the speakers at a Churches for Middle East Peace dinner last night. Wexler is a liberal Zionist, who (correctly) sees Israel's long term interest in a two state solution, and has taken a lot of flack for defending Obama from attack by the Zionist right. But last night he was terrifying.
He began by saying he didn't want to spend much time talking about the troubled peace process, about which there was little new to say, but Iran. What followed was a "Oh how it pains me to conclude this" analysis about how the US (not Israel) must launch a military attack on Iran, due to the progress Teheran has made in its nuclear program. Only then, Wexler said, in a line eerily evocative of the the neocons' "road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad" line of 2002, will Israel feel secure enough to make peace with the Palestinians. Obama faces the choice of going down in history as the president who was on watch while Iran acquired nuclear weapons, or being the one who stopped it. An Iranian bomb would unleash all kinds of unknowable dangers in the Middle East, but the consequences of the US attack on Iran are knowable. Much as it pained him to say this (channeling the classic Israel "shoot and cry" trope) American military action is the most rational course. He closed by calling explicitly for "regime change" in Teheran.
None of this went over very well with our group. One former ambassador asked a pointed question about whether the Grand Bargain was possible, and when Wexler said it had been tried, the questioner pointed to the Obama administration's dismissive reaction to the Turkey/Brazil initiative on Iran's nuclear program. I asked, "While I agreed that the consequences of a nuclear Iran are unknowable, could he please tell us the consequences of a US attack, since he claimed they are knowable." He didn't answer, pontificating for three minutes on "what if they got the bomb" and then saying American military planning could game out the consequences of a US attack. One sentence.
A couple of thoughts. First Wexler made not even passing mention of a possible Israeli strike– he seems to know that Israel by itself doesn't have the capacity to end Iran's nuclear program or do very much more than damage Iran and stir up hatreds that will last generations. So this has to be an American operation. Secondly, he is a major liberal Democratic foreign policy figure, and Obama seems to rely upon him. It's the first time I've seen a representative of this group call explicitly for American attack on Iran.
At my table, the feeling was that we were witnessing the opening volleys of a major new push for war, by liberal Zionists and liberal hawks. By supporting Obama on two states (not that it has made the slightest difference) Wexler has positioned himself as a necessary ally of the administration, so if he defected because of Obama's reluctance to launch a war, it might be seen as politically damaging. I would like to think that Wexler has no influence in the Obama White House, but I don't believe that. And he wants another American war on a Muslim country, consequences be dammed. His position is exactly the same as Richard Perle's.
Free Gaza Movement | 10 November 2011
The seven Irish human rights activists due home in Ireland this afternoon at 2:25 pm were at the last minute prevented from boarding their flight out of Ben Gurion airport by Israeli armed guards. They had been taken last night to a holding cell and were ready to board their 7:40 am flight to London this morning when at the last minute they were prevented from doing so by Israeli security forces and returned to Givon prison. All seven are now being detained indefinitely, with no further news available from Israeli authorities or the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs about when they will be released.
An Irish Ship to Gaza shore team coordinator spoke briefly on the phone with Fintan Lane before communication was abruptly cut off. Lane said: "This is a deliberate and calculated attempt by the Israelis to break our spirit. It won't succeed."
Lane also reported that the seven had been subject to "continuous harassment and repeated, humiliating body searches" and were shackled and "denied sleep".
Gay Lawlor, Zoe Lawlor's brother, spoke briefly with Zoe, who described what was happening as "sheer malice" on the part of the Israelis.
The families of the detainees are phoning member of the Irish Ship to Gaza shore team this morning in great distress.
Laurence Davis, Irish Ship to Gaza spokesperson, commented: "We are outraged by this latest attempt by the Israeli authorities to break the morale of the human rights activists, their families and their supporters, all of whom had been looking forward to the homecoming this afternoon in Dublin. This is yet another example of the cruelty and arrogance that the Palestinians face every day."
Irish Ship to Gaza spokesperson Claudia Saba added: "It is particularly distressing for the families to learn that their loved ones won't be coming home as they had expected, and distressing that they have no update as to what exactly is happening or when they will be finally freed."
For more information, contact:
Laurence Davis 086 360 5053 (Outside of Ireland, add +353 and drop the 0)
Claudia Saba 086 393 8821
Moon of Alabama catches two major nuclear-related lies in one month
Arnold Evans | Middle East Reality | November 7, 2011
Not much for me to add here. First the US and Western nuclear policy communities were astir over the idea that a yarn-knitting facility in Syria was actually a planned centrifuge facility. It turns out, and members of the Western nuclear policy community now admit, that the accusation was just false.
I want to give full credit for that to "b" from Moon of Alabama here.
Shortly thereafter, we learned that there is supposedly a steel tube in Iran that can be used to test triggers for nuclear devices. The expertise to use this tube was supposedly transferred to Iran from a Ukrainian nuclear weapons scientist named Vyacheslav Danilenko.
Danilenko is not a nuclear scientist but works on an industrial process that makes small diamonds used industrially to polish smooth surfaces.
Thanks again to b at MoonOfAlabama. A place I need to visit more frequently.
So what does this all mean?
There is exactly one reason Iran having technology that could in theory be used to create a nuclear weapon is more sinister than Japan or Brazil having such technology. Iran is close to Israel and Brazil is not.
Barack Obama, David Sanger – one of the New York Times' primary scare-mongers regarding Iran – and David Albright – one the the Western press' main sources for anti-Iran nuclear information – are each committed to the idea that Israel must have a nuclear advantage over all of its neighbors and are each willing to blatantly lie if necessary toward that end.
Once the United States committed that six million Jewish people must be dominant over more than 400 million people in the region, then modern colonialism in the US' relations with Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE and others, murders of scientists, sanctions, government-created computer viruses and attempts to deny industrialization and large swaths of technology to large populations follow directly from that commitment.
Obama, Sanger and Albright are proponents of that commitment. Distortions and lies meant to harm Iran for Israel's sake are going to come from these three faster than even b can debunk them.
Blogger's Nanodiamonds Analysis Starts to Kill The IAEA's Case
Moon of Alabama | November 10, 2011
Before the recent IAEA report was published I looked into the available information about the Ukrainian scientist Vyacheslav Danilenko mentioned in a Washington Post piece as a "former Soviet weapons scientist" who supposedly was helping the Iranians with there nuclear program.
I found that the Dr. Danilenko's main scientific record and capacity was in the field of producing Nanodiamonds through explosions and his collaboration with Iran's acclaimed nanotechnology industry and research was with regards to Iran's nanotechnology program not with regards to nukes.
A close reading of the IAEA report after it was released confirmed my analysis.
Gareth Porter of Inter Press Service added some bits to my analysis in a piece published yesterday.
Now even more confirmation is coming in. Via The Hindu:
The Soviet scientist was not named in the IAEA report but the Kommersant daily easily identified him as Vyacheslav Danilenko, a pioneer in developing the technology of producing nanodiamonds by explosion. Nanodiamonds are used in the manufacture of lubricants and rubber. Contacted by the newspaper, the 76-year-old scientist, now retired, refused to discuss his work in Iran, saying only: "I'm not a nuclear physicist and I'm not a father of Iran's nuclear programme."
His former colleague confirmed Mr. Danilenko's words. Vladimir Padalko, head of a company producing nanodiamonds, said experts from the IAEA and the U.S. State Department had interviewed him several times about Mr. Danilenko's work in Iran.
"I explained to them that nanodiamonds have nothing to do with nuclear weapons," Mr. Padalko told Kommersant.
Reuters also covers the Kommersant piece.
More people are taking a deeper look into this now. It seems likely that the whole case will blow up into the IAEA's face and in the face of David Albright who, according to Porter, was the one who slipped the scientist's name to the Washington Post and other media.
After knowing the name it was simply diligent use of search engines and some intelligent combining of the available information to find what Danilenko's work was really about.
A lot of the IAEA "evidence" that has been interpreted as "nuclear" stuff, the explosion chamber in Parchin, the hemispheric shell with an array of high explosives, the exploding bridge-wire detonators and other details, are all very well explainable with Iran's work on nanodiamond production. There is nothing exclusively "nuclear" to it. Without that exclusivity the case the IAEA tried to make doesn't exist anymore.
Why the IAEA and the main stream media have not better researched Danilenko's work, or done this and then disregarded the obvious conclusions, is beyond me. It is likely only explainable by heavy U.S. pressure on IAEA head Yukiya Amano and a generally pliable media.
The IAEA should be deeply embarrassed when even a former inspector with knowledge of the evidence calls its recent work "unprofessional".
The case the U.S. pressed so hard for to make turned out to be a dud. As Cyrus Safdari of Iran Affairs notes in a comment here:
Actually … it appears to me that exposing this "secret annex" was the worst thing the US could have done. It showed its cards, metaphorically speaking, and turned out to have been bluffing. The "evidence", long touted as containing damning proof of an Iranian nuclear weapons ambition, is now characterized even in the mainstream media as "thin" (Christian Science Monitor) and "phoney" (Guardian)
I agree with that analysis. The Obama administration managed to shot another decisive own goal.
As Arnold Evans notes this was, after the Hasaka case, the second time in just two weeks that this writer caused the crash of false allegations made by the IAEA.
Hello? Vienna? IAEA? How about a decent job offer for this writer. If only to help you to avoid more such face palm moments.
Israel influenced IAEA report on Iran
Press TV – November 10, 2011
Interview with Gareth Porter, historian and investigative journalist
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano has released his latest report on Iran's nuclear activities to the 35 members of the Board of Governors of the agency.
Iran dismissed the report as "unbalanced, unprofessional and prepared with political motivation and under political pressure by mostly the United States."
The US and its allies accuse Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program and used the false charge as a pretext to convince the UN Security Council to impose a fourth round of sanctions on Iran.
Press TV has interviewed historian and investigative journalist Gareth Porter from Washington to discuss Amano's latest report.
Press TV: How do you see this whole scenario, why would the IAEA release a report based on what it calls foreign intelligence agencies' reports at this point in time?
Porter: First of all of course, this is a secrete annex –so called– that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei refused to publish in 2008 and was subjected to a concentrated attack on the part of the European and Israeli ambassadors and governments at that point, charging him with hiding relevant intelligence information about an Iranian nuclear weapons program.
ElBaradei made it clear the reason he didn't publish it when he was the Director General was because the information did not pass the level of scrutiny that was required to ascertain that it was genuine. In other words, he had serious doubts that this was genuine evidence rather than fabrication and there is indeed every reason to believe that he was right, that much of the evidence that has been submitted by the Israelis, particularly, and I am talking about the 'alleged studies' documents which are the heart and soul of this secrete annex and that I have written about extensively that these are, I am quite convinced, fabrications. So this is still the same story that we have been talking about for years now, it goes back to 2005 when the US turned over these 'alleged studies' documents to the IAEA and the IAEA was then encouraged to go after Iran on the basis of these documents.
Press TV: Who are these foreign spy agencies that are providing the IAEA with the so-called information on Iran and would these reports be of any legal value?
Porter: Well this material, of course, will not stand up in any legal process that had any due process or fairness about it, simply because of the serious inconsistencies, the serious contradictions that are built into them –that I have talked about in my coverage of 'alleged studies' documents, particularly with regard to the so-called effort to integrate a nuclear payload into the Shahab-3 missile. This was a set of drawings that I pointed out where about the wromg missile
So the question is who had the opportunity and the motive to fake these kinds of documents. As I asserted in the past, Israelis are the ones who had the motive and the opportunity. They had a part of Mossad –which is known and is written about in main stream journals coverage of this– as a specific office to basically disseminate coverage or documents that are supposed to have come from Iran about the nuclear weapons program.
So they were fixed, they were prepared to put out documentation which would accomplish exactly what these 'alleged studies' documents have accomplished. So there was no doubt in my mind and I think that the evidence speaks for itself that Israel was the source of most of this intelligence.
Press TV: Where does this leave the credibility of this nuclear watchdog agency as this report is seriously raising questions on its impartiality?
Porter: This agency, during the period when Mohamed ElBaradei was Director General, was deeply divided between a group of people led by ElBaradei who were trying, I think, to achieve a degree of fairness and balance and a second group which was the group that Olli Heinonen in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 which was really not dedicated to any objective view or presentation of the evidence but was interested in putting Iran in the dock and making a case that Iran was seeking nuclear weapons regardless of what it took.
I have interviewed Olli Heinonen a couple of times, once in person once on the phone, and what I got from Olli Heinonen was a series of "I don't knows", "I don't remembers" and basically inability to respond to the inconsistencies –which I pointed out in the reports that he has been responsible for.
Kidnapped Canadians face two months of captivity, Harper fails to object
Canadian Boat To Gaza – Press Release – November 10, 2011
On Tuesday, Freedom Waves to Gaza activists detained in Israel – including Canadians David Heap and Ehab Lotayef – came before a judge and were told they could be held in prison for 2 months without charges or trial.
To avoid this, the judge told them, they must sign a statement that they entered Israel 'voluntarily' and 'illegally' despite being violently kidnapped from international waters and taken to Israel against their will while trying to reach Gaza.
While a handful of Freedom Waves to Gaza participants have been deported – including Canadian Karen DeVito – 18 activists and journalists have now been in Israeli prison for 5 days with no end in sight. DeVito is available for interviews.
The Israeli military forcibly commandeered the boats Tahrir and MV Saoirse that journalists and activists were travelling on as part of the Freedom Waves initiative and brought them to Ashdod port in Israel.
American journalist Jihan Hafiz was on the Canadian boat Tahrir, and was among those detained by Israel despite her press credentials. Israeli authorities ordered her and others not to talk about "anything negative or political" during their brief phone calls to home from Israeli detention.
This censorship explains why some details are only just coming out now. She reported Tuesday about her experience during the Israeli takeover of the Irish and Canadian boats:
"There were three warships […] four Zodiacs, four water cannon boats, as well as four regular gunboats. All of the commandos on all of these boats were heavily armed. It looked like they were taking on an army of a foreign country."
She added: "Two water cannons started to pour lots of water into the Irish boat, which flooded it, blew their sockets, and cut off all the electricity. And so, at that point, the Irish delegates I spoke to said they told the Israeli army, 'We're taking on water. We're sinking. We're going to go down at sea if you continue with the water.'"
Hafiz went on to describe the violent takeover during which guns were pointed at the heads of the boats' passengers, how they were roughed up, mistreated, strip-searched, and filmed naked. She also tells of how the journalists' equipment was confiscated, in a bid to silence any reporting that might contradict the sanitized Israeli account of what happened during the hijacking of the Tahrir and the MV Saoirse.
"Our friends have been assaulted, tasered, beaten, kidnapped, robbed, and imprisoned. Now Israel is threatening to illegally detain them for two months. What is it going to take for the Canadian government to actually do something about another country kidnapping Canadian citizens and refusing to let them go?" demands Wendy Goldsmith, an organizer with the Canadian Boat to Gaza.
"We are disappointed, but not surprised, by the inaction of Baird and Harper," said Canadian Boat to Gaza organizer Dylan Penner. "In its failure to speak out against Israel's blockade of Gaza, the Canadian Government is condoning Israel's disregard for the human rights of the citizens of Gaza and giving it impunity for its refusal to comply with its international obligations. It is this silence that compels citizens of good conscience, like David and Ehab, to act where our Government has so consistently failed to do so."
Organizers of the Canadian Boat to Gaza are demanding Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird step down for failing to do his job to stand up for the interests of Canadians.
For updates, stay tuned to:
Twitter (@CanadaBoatGaza and #freedomwaves),
Facebook.com/CanadaBoatGaza, http://www.tahrir.ca , http://www.ustogaza.org ,
http://www.freegazaoz.org , and http://www.irishshiptogaza.org .
For more information:
English inquiries:
Wendy Goldsmith, Canadian Boat to Gaza, 519-619-6766
Dylan Penner, Canadian Boat to Gaza, 613-859-6996
French inquiries:
Denis Kosseim, Canadian Boat to Gaza, 514-923-5594
Palestinian political leaders confined in West Bank ghettos
DFLP leaders stopped at Allenby Bridge
Ma'an – 10/11/2011
RAMALLAH — The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine says three of its leaders were prevented from crossing into Jordan from the West Bank over the holiday.
Ramzi Rabbah, Ibrahim Abu Hajla, and Muhammad Salameh were prevented from crossing the Allenby Bridge with no explanation, the DFLP said in a statement condemning the measures as "collective punishment."
The three men were traveling separately and had different destinations, so the decision appeared to deliberately target the DFLP, it said.
Rabbah was held for hours before being told he would not be able to cross, the DFLP said. Salameh was on his way to Lison to attend the World Federation of Democratic Youth.
Abu Hajla, who was recently released from an Israeli prison in a deal between Hamas and Israel, was on his way to Jordan to meet with his family after 10 years behind bars, the DFLP said.


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Who has the most Screwed up Department
During my journeys across the word I have visited with many different
Fire Departments. Each one seems to believe that theirs is the most
screwed up of all. Please tell me what your department does that is
should signify it for the title of the "Most Screwed Up Fire Department in the World".
Pat Dunnlet me know if im not clear
I'd have to put my department right near, if not at the top. You ask why? Political correctness run amok. They have chosen nothing but inept administrators for the last 25 years and it isn't going to change. They will continue to expect us to do it all with little or nothing, and the unfortunate thing is, we will.
The major problems we face now are.
1. Inadequate staffing levels
2. Radios that don't work (we've learned to use hand signals and runners)
3. Poor maintenance on apparatus by the repair shop
4. No replacement line
5. Lack of foam for firefighting operations( some companies are still using eductors that are almost 50 years old).
6. Lack of up to date equipment from SCBA's to axes.
7. Some Ladder Trucks where the stick still is inoperable.
8. Only 2 or 3 replacement apparatus and they're falling apart.
9. Poor training academy standards and operation
10. Lack of replacement parts for apparatus
11. Lack of qualified mechanics
12. Firehouses that are falling down around us.
13. A computer system that is totally outdated and somewhat useless.
14. Allowing another city to tap resources we can't afford to send.
15. A politically correct hiring and training process that needs to be changed.
How's that for screwed up.Last edited by FireLt1951; 07-25-2002 at 05:34 PM.
Well, I'm not here to give any details of anything........ but
We all have our problems. Many people vent them on here (which I have been guilty of in the past)
I guess you can say I've turned over a new leaf. Not too long ago, there was someone who posted some negative comments about his department or chief and he had some disciplinary action taken because of it. (I vaguely remember this and don't know the specifics of it, so please correct me if I'm wrong).
The main reason I won't post that kind of stuff, and I hope that others won't either, is because it is nobody's business. Yes we all have problems that need fixing, but we all should help try to be a solution for the problem instead of adding to it. A problem cannot be fixed by just saying "here is why we are messed up". We have to take a step back and try to figure out how we can fix it.
I know we cannot fix all problems and there are many that are out of our hands. All we can do is try to educate those that CAN fix the problem and explain to them why we believe the problem exists, but we also have to offer up a solution to the problem. No, it may not be the solution they want to hear or on =e that will definitely work, but from my experience, this is what we need to do.
I have addressed many concerns to my chief. He has an open door policy and I take advantage of it. He knows that I am not afraid to "speak my mind" and come to him with problems (after following the proper chain of command). Yes, he will sit there and listen to me explain the problems or situations, but he is more apt to help take care of the situations if I try to offer up possible solutions.
Sorry to get off topic on this, but I just wanted to explain to everyone why I feel the way I do. We need to address these problems with possible solutions instead of venting them for the whole world to see......
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Well thanks for posting a reply, but i would still like to know.
kinda a underlying factor for asking is to help me rule out what
cities should as well as should not be a perspective city to apply to
I know every one has problems but some simply are not visiable untill it is to late.let me know if im not clear
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It is foolish to post your problems here, even more foolish to ask for people to air their dirty laundry. What is even more horrific is that someone would share their problems and then label the department they belong to! If you are using this as a means to decide which cities to submit your application then you need to find a job outside the Fire Department. Every department is screwed up in some way. Every department has their problems. You are not going to find a perfect department. Just apply and learn to live with problems that they present you with.
How about you telling us about your love life.... same thing
Mark440 - That was kind of the point I was trying to get across also.
Thanks for the support!
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Firenresq77, I've got your 6 Bro!
Some departments need their dirty laundry aired. If it brings about one minor change it's worth it. I know that a couple of members here have met some of the administrators at conferences and have brought up the subject and put the administrators in a tough spot, then they returned and made minor changes. I have never had a problem airing the deficientcies within this department, which are well known from FH printing the articles on Detroit a few years ago. Many articles are written in FH and other trade journals that air the problems related to training, staffing, accountability, safety, communications, tactics, equipment and many others within Fire Departments, I see this as being no different, except for the fact that I am writing it and not a journalist or editorial writer. The unfortunate thing is, most problems are not brought to light in any context until a tragedy has occured.
It's somewhat easier to discuss problems and solutions among themselves in smaller, progressive departments but in some larger non-progressive or should I say stagnent departments it is not as easy to do and sometimes almost impossible. If it had not been for the airing of this departments dirty laundry a few years ago we would definately be worse off than at present. The outcry from some parts of the fire service and the citizens after the article was of more help than trying to sit down and discuss the possible solutions with people who did not care to here it (picture the 3 monkeys here). Until their feet were held to the fire (so to speak) absolutely nothing was accomplished.
I'm not in fear of losing my position for airing our problems, they already tried to put that fear in me, I'm still here and their gone but usually replaced by the same type of administrators. I don't find it foolish to use a forum where so many problems are discussed effectively with individuals who present excellent ideas and possible solutions. Do I expect to find all the answers here? Absolutely not! The administrators here should be ashamed of themselves for allowing a department with such excellent firefighters to have to struggle everyday just to provide the service we are intended for. I'm proud to command the firefighters here and be commanded by the officers above me because they are a dedicated bunch that will continue to do their jobs regardless of the adversity brought forth by the administration.
I know that some of our administrators and citizens read these forums and yes my intent is to try and make them aware of the reality of the situation which they usually refuse to see and maybe, just maybe put a little heat on the administrators from the fire service community and the citizens. If you consider that wrong, so be it, you have a right to your opinion. By making our problems public, some changes have occured and yes, they are few. Hopefully more improvements will follow. Beats banging my head aginst a wall just trying to get the administrators to listen and bring progression and safety to this department instead of ignoring it while collecting huge salaries.
To those who read the Detroit News articles and e-mailed the administration, I thank you, for you have helped to bring about the minor changes we have seen and for those who have questioned the deaprtment administrators at conferences and expo's, I also thank you, you have made a dent (although minor) and for that I am pleased. Sometimes you have to keep hitting politicians over the head with anything possible to get their brains to function in a positive manner.
On another note, I hope our new appointees decide to stand up to the politicians (especially the CITY COUNCIL) and lay these problems before them, along with solutions for the correction of those problems. To be fair, I will give the new administrators the benefit of the doubt right now and we'll see. They will have the full backing and aid of the firefighters if they choose to do so. All the firefighters ask is that they give 100% to helping this department move forward and not holding us back.Last edited by FireLt1951; 07-27-2002 at 02:46 PM.
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Lt1951, I e-mailed the Detriot press when they published said articles. With your case I do have to agree with you. But where my stance comes from is the smaller departments.
The DFD is large enough that you will not be punished, as you have said so. But a smaller department, mine for example, would root me out and I would be out of a job. I'm not saying that I am complaining here about my Fire Department, I think it is great. It has its problems just like everything else. I faced the same problems, except 3 man engines, when I worked for the Police Department. I will still say that you should not air your dirty laundry (unless you are in a large force) in public.
Most Screwed Up Department
If you want to hear about some real problems, check out the Fire Politics site and read the messages in the MAFF or not to MAFF...
LT1951, I know that MAFF would not be one of your favorite unions to talk about, but even the MPFFU sugessted MAFF, because they are a paid per call volly dept. Many members have been told by the Chief and Asstant Chief (Father-Chief, Asst-Son) that they will never need fulltime (other than the cheif and thier fire inspector-which is a whole nother bee's nest) until the population hits 50000 in 2030.
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Fantastic color! Isn't God amazing! |
WOW...gorgeous! |
The greens and blues are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. |
Love all those blue/green shades |
What beautiful combinations of colors, lots of shades of blues, greens, muted yellow, white snow,... Beautiful photo. Congrats on the AC |
Oh my goodness what a wonderful shot Heidrun. |
Love the reflections in this shot. |
Gorgeous shot Heidrun, the colors are stunning! |
SO VERY BEAUTIFUL Heidrun ! TERRIFIC series - 10+ on all :) |
I could sit there on the snow and stare at that view all day long! |
Pretty awesome! Love the vibrant colors. Such a beautiful spot - Congratulations on AC. |
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A great variety of colors and reflections. Beautiful! |
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Wow! what a great series, I am always so Jealous when I see your shots because I feel I should have spent more time there, when I visited last year.I took 30 days and did five countries. Maybe to much to quick. hind sight is 20---20 I guess Great place |
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Each view is a joy! Congratulations on the Blue, Heidrun. |
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A beautiful scene with wonderful colors Heidrun! Bill |
Beautiful spot, nicely photographed. |
Beautiful! |
love this little lake! |
I would be temptd to revisit these beautiful, colorful waters often! The water would get me there, but that view would keep me there for a while! I love that evergreen peninsula, or is it an island? Gorgeous shot, Heidrun! |
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NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES RICHMOND INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY TEAM CHEVY DRIVER PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 DIET MOUNTAIN/NATIONAL GUARD CHEVROLET, met with members of the media at Richmond International Raceway and discussed racing at Richmond, his and the team's mindset heading into the Chase and Jeff Gordon's status going into Saturday night's race. Full transcript: TALK ABOUT BEING AT RICHMOND, AND HOW BIG THIS RACE IS: "It is big for some people. We're locked in, and feel like we can just enjoy the race and have fun. We ran pretty good here last time. Hopefully we can have a good night. It is kind of hot or cold every time I come here. I've had some really good cars, and won some races here. Then I've had some unexplainable poor runs; just had cars where I couldn't get around the track. I'm excited to get in the car for practice. See where we are at. See what kind of drivability we've got. How much comfort we've got. Just have some fun. It's the last week until we have to get back at it and focus on points, and focus on trying to win the championship, which we feel pretty confident about. It's a fun track, and it should be a good time." CAN YOU COMPARE HOW YOU FEEL TODAY IN RELATION TO HOW YOU FELT A YEAR AGO WHEN YOU WEREN'T LOCKED IN? "There is a lot of nerves. Nervous energy, and just worry and concern that I don't have this weekend at all. You start the season with the goal to make the Chase. You want to be in the Chase. Being in the Chase signifies that you are one of the upper tier teams. It's a big disappointment when you aren't in that group. The best case scenario is to be locked in a week or two early, and be able to take a little bit of a breather from the pressure you put on yourself to get as many points every week. So, we can just race and not worry about points, which is really fun. It definitely is a lot less a ton less stressful." HOW DO YOU LOOK FORWARD TO NEXT WEEK AND KNOW IT'S GOING CHANGE TO GAME OUT? HOW DO YOU GET IN THE CORRECT MINDSET? "We're going over the Steve's (Letarte, crew chief) house on Sunday, and the team is going to get around each other and we'll talk about the season we've had, what our expectations had. And, I mean, you'll think about that all week while we're doing we are going to do ESPN Car Wash on Tuesday, and we're doing all that media in Chicago on Wednesday. We'll be thinking about that all week. The season we've had. The opportunity we have; that I feel like I have as a driver to win the championship. That I feel like our team has to compete every week. I'm pretty sure by the time the race is about to start in Chicago, the energy level is going to be about as high as it needs to be. Probably higher than it should be. You'll probably have to call yourself down a little bit just to realize that it is 10 individual races. And, you have to do your best in every single one." AT ATLANTA YOU HAD TO RALLY BACK STRONG TO FINISH SEVENTH. HOW MUCH OF A CONFIDENCE BUILDER IS THAT FOR THE TEAM? HOW IMPORTANT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR IS IT FOR YOU TO HAVE RUNS LIKE THAT? "That is just a product of Letarte and the team. You have to throw a lot of luck in there too. Steve made the call on when to get the wave-around. When to pit. What to do. How to try to figure out a better way to finish. He's done a really good job of that over his career. When he's got a fast car, they finish where they should. And, when he doesn't have a good car, he's squeezes a few more positions out of that potentially bad finish. That's kind of been his thing. His MO. So I am reaping the benefits of being with him, and the decisions he made the other night to get us a good finish. All that stuff that happened, and the result of that finish was due to him. I just had to hold as many positions as could, and do the best I could on the restarts. The pit crew got us a couple of spots there at the end. We gained a few spots from some guys wrecking out late. That was about five positions right there. I think the one thing that I took away from that was for whatever reason, whether it was my responsibility, or someone else's, five years ago I would have ran 20th all night and finished 20th. At this point with the way my team is and the chemistry we have got going on, we're able to turn things around in some races and finish better for at least better points; more points and better season." YESTERDAY JEFF GORDON SAID THAT HE'S GOT TO TREAT EVERYBODY AHEAD OF HIM AS THE ENEMY, EVEN IF IT'S A TEAMMATE. KNOWING THAT, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE CROWD REACTION AND YOUR REACTION WOULD BE IF SAY JEFF WOULD HAVE TO KNOCK YOU OUT OF THE WAY ON THE LAST LAP FOR THE WIN? "Well, I think the crowd reaction would be quite big (laughter). I wouldn't expect anything else, to be honest with you. And if I was in the same situation, I would have a hard time not doing the same thing. Everybody wants to win races regardless of the situation going into the Chase and all those perimeters; you're not thinking about that stuff when you're in the car and you've been racing for 400 miles. You're not thinking about all these situations that other drivers are in; you're just wanting to win for yourself. You've been running all night. Your team has worked all night. You've done everything you can to put yourself in position and you've got to make a split decision in that corner, if you can reach the guy, to move him or not move him. You make that decision, you know? You might regret it somewhat if you don't do it or do it or whatever. I don't know. It depends on what kind of person you are. You come here to win and your team builds a car and sets a car up and works on it all week to win the race, not to roll over for anybody, no matter what. So, I would think that regardless of the individuals involved, if there are two guys within reach of each other on the last lap, something's going to happen. I wouldn't expect anything less." REGARDING THE ENERGY-LEVEL BEING ELEVATED AS FAR AS THE CHASE, ARE YOU ANTICIPATING HAVING TO CALM YOURSELF DOWN? ARE YOU DOING TO HAVE TO DO THINGS TO GET YOURSELF DOWN TO WHAT THE NORMAL SEASON LEVEL WOULD BE? "Yeah, I think so. A good example would be that we went to Martinsville and for whatever reason that day, I was super ramped-up and I had done 500 miles worth of damage to the car in 100 laps. So, I told Steve (Letarte, crew chief) man, I need to calm down or we're not going to have a car to finish because it was just destroyed down both sides of it. You get excited over certain things and you can get over-zealous in driving the car and making mistakes. And so, I think that a calm-thinking approach and using your head and being smart is what's best. 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Since 1992, a Green Bay victory against Detroit in Wisconsin has been as regular as a Lions Thanksgiving Day game. Twenty-two straight wins, counting one playoff victory. The 21-game, regular-season home winning streak against Detroit is the longest in NFL history.
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The defense could use him against a Lions offense that's clicking right now with the dynamic duo of Reggie Bush making plays out of the backfield and receiver Calvin Johnson giving cornerbacks typical fits. Coach Mike McCarthy said Matthews has made progress since getting hurt at Cincinnati.
So have running backs Eddie Lacy and Johnathan Franklin, along with fullback John Kuhn, who were full participants in practice after using the bye to help recover from various injuries. Tight end Jermichael Finley was back Wednesday as a full participant after suffering a concussion against the Bengals.
The Packers' high-powered passing game seemed to get turned down a notch after Finley went down during the first series. He watched the replay of the hit once, and once only.
Cleared to play after going through concussion tests Tuesday, Finley said he felt like a "little kid" being back at practice.
"It took several days. I took my bye week, rested up a little, came back in Monday and did several tests, went to the hospital and did a couple tests. It's a long haul," Finley said. "You have to do several things to get back and you have to respect the league for doing it. It's much respect from me."
About that streak against the Lions, though? No, no bulletin board material from Finley, either.
"I feel great, man," Finley said about the success against Detroit at home. "The past is in the past, though. We're 1-2 right now, not a good record. The Lions are on a high right now, so we have to bring them down a little and beat them at Lambeau."
That streak covers games played in Milwaukee, too, when Green Bay used to play there a couple times a year. According to the Packers, the 21-game regular-season home winning streak is three games better than the one the Redskins had against the Lions between 1939 and 2007.
Detroit finally broke through with a win at Washington in Week 3. The Lions' last victory on the road against the Packers came on Dec. 15, 1991, a 21-17 victory.
But honest to goodness, it's not an issue, coach Mike McCarthy said, except perhaps for reporters.
"I doubt they care what a team 20 years ago did," said Packers guard T.J. Lang, a Michigan native. "I know from being over there, the media talks a lot about it. As a player, I doubt they really care. Every year, it's a new year. You've got a new team."
Notes: CB Jarrett Bush (hamstring) was also a full participant at practice Wednesday. CB Casey Hayward, who hasn't played yet this season, remains out with a hamstring injury. RB James Starks could also miss two weeks following a knee injury at Cincinnati ... Finley said he thought the hit from Bengals safety George Iloka that knocked him out was clean, and that he was surprised Iloka had been fined $15,000 by the league. "I didn't think it was dirty at all," Finley said. "If I was the safety, I'd do the same thing."
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Scientific Name: | Lophira alata | ||||||
Species Authority: | Banks ex Gaertn. | ||||||
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Year Published: | 1998 | |||
Date Assessed: | 1998-01-01 | |||
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Assessor(s): | African Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Zimbabwe, July 1996) | |||
Justification: Listed on the basis of large scale destruction of wet evergreen forest throughout its range, over-exploitation as a timber, slow rates of growth and poor regeneration levels in less than optimum conditions. |
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Countries: | Native: Cameroon; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Ghana; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone |
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Population: | In Cameroon it is common, widespread and regenerates easily in many areas and does not appear threatened, however, this is evidently not the case in other parts of its range. |
Habitat and Ecology: | Azobé is a pioneer species and occurs abundantly in wet evergreen forest. |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Major Threat(s): | Wet evergreen forest continues to experience large-scale destruction. Slow growth rate, poor regeneration in less than optimum conditions and over exploitation as a timber species are contributing to the decline in population numbers through most of its range. Its timber, Azobe, rich in silica, is resistant to marine borer and favoured for use in jetties. |
Conservation Actions: | Improved protection and management (e.g., felling regimes) of existing forest reserves is required. |
Citation: | African Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Zimbabwe, July 1996) 1998. Lophira alata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 April 2015. |
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman says he is Mormon, and he doesn't think his religion will be an issue if he decides to run for president.
"I believe in God. I'm a good Christian. I'm very proud of my Mormon heritage. I am Mormon," Huntsman told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday.
"Today there are 13 million Mormons. It's a very diverse and heterogeneous cross-section of people. And you're going to find a lot of different attitudes and a lot of different opinions in that 13 million," he added.
His remarks came a week after a Time magazine interview in which he said it was "tough to define" whether he still belonged to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A Huntsman spokesman issued a statement after the Time interview was posted online May 12, saying Huntsman "remains a member of the church and proud to be part of the fabric of a large, vibrant faith."
Matthew Wilson, a Southern Methodist University professor who specializes in religion and politics, told the Deseret News of Salt Lake City that he thinks Huntsman is still trying to distance himself from the Mormon church to avoid the problems faced by fellow Republican Mitt Romney in his 2008 presidential campaign. Some evangelical Christians view the church as a cult.
"(Huntsman) clearly seems to be trying to hold the church at arm's length," Wilson said.
In his first network television interview since returning last month from Beijing where he served as U.S. ambassador to China, Huntsman told "Good Morning America" that his religion won't be an issue in the campaign.
Voters want someone focused "laserlike on jobs and keeping this economy moving forward in ways that will maintain our pre-eminence in the world," he said. "I think everything else that people like to talk about, in many cases, are less relevant. In fact, some are sideshows."
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The expert guide to working from home
With the right approach you can make home-working a success for you and your clients. Mike Griggs shares some tips.
Working from home seems like heaven – here are our tips for how to do it best. The commute is minimal, there are no arguments about whose turn it is to make the tea round and you can even work in your pyjamas.
However there can be problems working from home. It can be hard to manage client expectations: there are all those little distracting home chores which you just need to go and sort before you get on with your client work. If you suffer from this, read our article the best places to do freelance design work.
So after freelancing for two years for clients both at their studios and from my home base, I am going to share some of my tips to see if working from home could suit you.
01. Make your own space
The most important element for any creative work is to find a dedicated work space. If sharing with a partner or housemates, especially if kids are at home too, putting a laptop on the kitchen table and thinking that is an office is not going to work for you or the people you live with as it is their home as well.
In my case I am lucky to have an old shed with power (but no heating) which I work in during the day, and when I need to work at nights I have desk setup away from the main living space. This enables me to work and not get in the way of my wife when she wants to relax. So try and find a space in the house, which is not a bedroom, that can be dedicated to work.
02. Give your clients access
The most important bills I pay as a home-based freelancer are not for software upgrades or for new computers, they are for unlimited fibre internet, Dropbox Pro and my smartphone. These give me the ability to be available to my clients, through skype and screen sharing.
I keep my work files on Dropbox grouped by client. I then share them with my clients so that they can have immediate access to my work files if they need.
This system has worked with clients from Soho to San Diego, and helps dispel any worry a client may have in not having direct involvement in the work that they are paying for. Dropbox also keeps my computers in sync, which means if I am travelling to meetings or am away from the house I know I have access to all of my work files in the cloud on any device.
03. Be disciplined
It may sound counter-intuitive but I still find it is useful to get ready for work if I am working from home. I get dressed in clothes that I would be happy to wear if I was working at a client's studio, and make sure I am available to clients from 8.30am to 6pm when I am working from home.
If you do not have any billable work due on that specific work day, try not to make that a reason to switch on daytime TV.
Instead, make yourself the client: update your website or your reel, check in with existing clients or potential new ones, spend some time doing training, and if you spend that day on personal work, make sure it is in a format that can be used for self publicity.
This discipline should also extend to infrastructure. If a client is paying you to work from home, that should not make the work feel 'homemade' (unless it is in the brief). Make sure that you have the correct equipment available to do the work, and also that you have it properly archived, I use a synology NAS for local archiving and crashplan for offsite.
This can mean that working from home is potentially more expensive than working as an onsite freelancer where equipment would be provided. The benefit of homeworking is that you have access to all of your work files on equipment which you maintain so you are familiar with it. This will greatly enhance your productivity rather than having to deal with different studio setup every time you start with a new client.
04. Work when it's best for you
The payoff for this personal discipline and financial investment is that you can schedule your day for when you're naturally at your most creative, as well as scheduling things like rendering or application compiling at a time and location that suits you.
The caveat is to make sure you're not suddenly working a schedule that impacts on downtime. Try to maintain the number of hours you would want to work if you were working in a studio. The key reason for this is to avoid burnout, but it also ensures you're not losing money if you're working to an agreed day rate with your client.
05. Don't become a hermit
Once you've managed to get ourself into a routine where you are successfully working from home it can be too easy to forget that there are actual benefits to working in a studio.
As much as we all hate the commute at least the walk to the car or train is exercise. So try and get out of the house at least once a day, even if it is just to buy some lunch.
Time for a run
Personally I took up running. My least productive part of the day is between 10am and 11.30am, so using this time for a run and making it an early lunch hour means at least I feel I am doing something useful with my time, as well as being reminded why I work at home in the first place (I live in the South Downs).
The other thing that working in a studio offers is human contact. While Twitter and other forms of social media are brilliant for news and banter and can keep the hermit tendencies at bay, do try to make a couple of days every few weeks to meet with clients, have lunch with friends and generally get out of the house and see things other than the wall behind your computer screen.
Working from home successfully is dependant on treating it as seriously as working in an office. Designers and artists especially can gain the most from working from home as it allows the creation of a personal work environment and schedule suited to you and you alone. Personally having the ability to work from home has enabled me to see much more of my family and also work with a wider range of clients than potentially are available if I was just working as a studio freelance artist.
The one thing that will make home working unsuccessful is to lock the front door to clients in terms of availability and becoming a hermit with friends. A happy creative is usually a productive creative so if you have the opportunity to work from home give it a try, it could be the best business move you make.
This is an updated version of an article that previously appeared on Creative Bloq. Do you have some of your own tips to share? Tell us in the comments.
Contributor: Mike Griggs
Mike Griggs is a freelance concept 3D, VFX and Mograph artist working across TV, exhibition and digital design. Find him on Twitter @creativebloke.


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My cousin lives in Wyoming where he's been taking elk exclusively with a 25-06 M77 for over 25 years. The 308 or 7mm should be more than adequate so go with whatever you shoot better.
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Hunted deer, elk and antelope in Wyoming for over 50 years. I started using a .308 in the late 60's and decided the recoil was better than a 30/06, so I stuck with it. Never considered anything else since. My guns seem to like bullets in the 165 gr. range and most things I've shot don't go far. Either gun you mentioned is more than capable. If the 7mm bothers you, leave it home, it ain't worth it to worry about recoil on a nice hunt in MT. Besides, hunting means getting as close as you can, for the best shot and a clean kill. Use the .308.
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all packed and leaving in the morn- bringing the precision carbine and a savage FCP HS Precision in 308....I shoot both equally as well at 250-300 so either one is good and I always bring a backup when traveling far from home. Went to the range with my buddy who's going with me and we shot 6 inch plates at 300 as practice and I didn't miss any, so I guess im all set. If I get one i'll post some pics.
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Cool! Sounds like you are set. Let us know how it goes.
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Cant wait for pictures!
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Back from Montana..Beautiful country...Saw lots of elk and ended up shooting a 5x4 (one tine was broken off) at 208 yrds with my Savage 10/110 FCP HS Precision .308 shooting Nosler Accubonds 165gr..3 shots, 3 hits in the lungs...dropped in 30 yrds. Great guide great experience...BTW my friend scored a nice 6x6..lots of meat and lots of stories. Also 2 were complete pass-through's with large exits and one broke the opposite shoulder.
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Nice looking elk! Glad you had a good hunt. As far as caliber choice goes I would have used my 7mm Rem Mag because I have killed everything I ever shot at with it. Confidence in the gun makes a difference. In my opinion, that makes a good reason for you to chose the .308
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Nice looking bull, congratulations.
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Congrats!!! Thanks for sharing!
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Nice to hear it went well. Congrats!
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Nice elk! I've read that many guides prefer hunters with a .270 simply because the hunter is more likely to be able to shoot accurately with a .270 rather than a .30-06, 7mm Mag or .300 Mag. I've used my .300 Mag on elk hunts and don't regret it (five hunts & two 5 X 5 bulls) but if I ever go on another elk hunt I'll probably take my very light, very accurate Rem. 700 .270 (which I used to take my largest 5 X 5 mule deer at more than 400 yards.)
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Using linked data from the intensive care unit, trauma registry, Western Australian Death Registry, and post-mortem reports, the incidence and risk factors for fatal PE in a consecutive cohort of major trauma patients, admitted between 1994 and 2002, were assessed. Non-linear relationships between continuous predictors and risk of fatal PE were modelled by logistic regression.
Of the 971 consecutive trauma patients considered in the study, 134 (13.8%) died after their injuries. Fatal PE accounted for 11.9% of all deaths despite unfractionated heparin prophylaxis being used in 44% of these patients. Fatal PE occurred in those who were older (mean age 51- vs 37-yr-old, P=0.01), with more co-morbidities (Charlson's co-morbidity index 1.1 vs 0.2, P=0.01), had a larger BMI (31.8 vs 24.5, P=0.01), and less severe head and systemic injuries when compared with those who died of other causes. Sites of injuries were not significantly related to the risk of fatal PE. Fatal PE occurred much later than deaths from other causes (median 18 vs 2 days, P=0.01), and the estimated attributable mortality of PE was 49% (95% confidence interval 36-62%).
Fatal PE appeared to be a potential preventable cause of late mortality after major trauma. Severity of injuries, co-morbidity, and BMI were important risk factors for fatal PE after major trauma.
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There was plenty of concern and anxiety around Villa Park as Wes Hoolahan put Norwich City in front in their previous game, but a magnificent overhead kick from Christian Benteke totally changed the game, as Paul Lambert's side scored four times in the space of 15 minutes to move six points clear of the bottom three. Two more wins should be enough to ensure top-flight status is retained.
The hosts will be hoping that Chelsea will be distracted by their upcoming Champions League meeting with Galatasaray, but manager Jose Mourinho would not allow his team to take their eye off the ball. The Blues were lacking inspiration for 58 minutes against Tottenham last time out, but saw their rivals crumble as they opened up a seven point lead at the summit.
Aston Villa will be without Ryan Bertrand, who is unable to face his parent club, while Libor Kozak, Charles N'Zogbia and Jores Okore are all out injured.
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