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Ordinarily, any minister can survive a botched scheme or two. Whatever the history books say, the Westminster convention that ministers take ultimate responsibility for their departments is just that: history. But Peter Garrett has now presided over at least three debacles: the solar hot water rebate, the Green Loans program — which Fairfax reporter Tom Arup has called an "unmitigated disaster" — and, of course, the insulation debacle which has cost the lives of at least four young Australians.
All three programs point to serious shortcomings in the ability of the federal Environment Department to manage large-scale public policy roll-outs for which it historically has had little responsibility.
Another issue seems to have been a catastrophic failure on behalf of the department to forecast demand. All three schemes in question have been wildly popular: so popular in fact that they quickly soaked up all the available contractors in their industries. Financed by government incentives, this massive new demand then began to suck in fly-by-night contractors and opportunists keen for a piece of the action. Unskilled, untrained workers were employed in their thousands, many of them students and young people looking for holiday work or some extra cash. The results have been tragic.
Why the Environment Department got its forecasts so wrong is somewhat of a mystery. An elementary grasp of economics and public administration should have been all that was required to realise that consumers respond to incentives. Just look at the Australian housing market which has proved itself highly sensitive to government incentives like the First Home Owner Grant. It should have been obvious that injecting hundreds of millions into previously small industries would cause major structural dislocations.
This was exactly what happened with Garrett's $8,000 solar rebate last year, which proved so popular with householders that it eventually ran $850 million over budget. Garrett had to pull the plug three weeks early with only 24 hours notice. In this week's Senate Estimates testimony, it emerged that some solar contractors have still not been paid by the Environment Department.
The multi-billion dollar insulation roll-out proved equally popular. Created as part of the Government's economic stimulus package, the program was specifically designed to quickly shovel billions of dollars out of Treasury coffers in order to combat the global financial crisis. Speed was of the essence: an Environment Department media release from early 2009 proudly announces that Garrett was "fast-tracking" the insulation scheme. Little thought appears to have been given to whether the Australian home insulation industry had the capacity or the workforce to deliver such a massive program.
This is where Garrett's protestations that the blame must rest with shoddy contractors runs aground. Almost as soon as the stimulus measure was announced, a sudden boom began to sweep the industry and soon after that, accidents started to happen. Houses burnt down. Contractors died.
For instance, in November alone two young Queensland installers died as a result of shoddy work practices. One particularly distressing death occurred outside Rockhampton, where 16-year-old Rueben Barnes died after being electrocuted while installing foil insulation.
But electrocution is just one of the risks faced by untrained subcontractors looking for extra cash. Reports have reached newmatilda.com of endemic unreported workplace accidents, like contractors falling through ceilings because they weren't standing on roof beams. On 24 November, a man died of heatstroke while installing insulation in Western Sydney. As the Sydney Morning Herald reported at the time, "the man had been employed by a subcontractor as a casual worker and ... he was not adequately qualified to install insulation".
It has since emerged that Master Electricians had warned the Environment Department of these risks well before November. In October, the CEO of the Master Electricians, Malcolm Richards, called for an end to the insulation rebate because of the electrocution and fire risk. It now seems as though hundreds and perhaps even thousands of homes may be "live" — in other words: potential death-traps. The Federal Government will now pay to inspect more than 48,000 homes to check for problems, potentially costing as much as $50 million.
And yet despite the warnings, Garrett acted cautiously and incrementally. Last year, he worked to introduce mandatory training requirements for insulation installers. After the electrocution deaths last November, he banned the use of metal staples (which you would have thought posed an obvious risk) but it has taken until now for the Environment Minister to decisively end the program.
Despite a terrible week, the Government is so far standing by its troubled Environment Minister. Senior front-benchers, including Chris Bowen and Julia Gillard, have been given the task of publicly defending Garrett. Labor's strategists have clearly decided that Garrett remains an asset rather than a liability, but his accident-prone performance in the job must also have disappointed those who touted the former rock star as a future leader.
In some respects, of course, Garrett is not to blame. Clearly, his department has shown itself woefully incapable of carrying out the ambitious new responsibilities given to it under Rudd, but in politics, what matters is what happens on your watch, no matter whether you personally knew about it. Garrett has taken a significant hit in this scandal. Another scandal before the election could finish his ministerial career.
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Posted Friday, February 12, 2010 - 14:58
In your second paragraph you should have put solar panel rebate not solar hot water rebate.
The solar hot water rebate for replacing an electric hotwater system is $1600 for roof top and $1000 for heat pumps. The heat pump rebate was dropped from the $1600 in September with less than 24 hours notice and on the very spurios grounds that they were cheaper to install despite being as energy efficient as roof top with an electric back up element.
You can't get the hot water rebate if you have already claimed the insulation rebate.
Posted Friday, February 12, 2010 - 15:59
It seems to me a significantly long bow is being drawn to hold Garret responsible for the deaths of the workers installing or working around the foil insulation. Garret is certainly answerable to the poor design of these schemes but to the calibre and quality of the people employed by private contractors to actually install the stuff, certainly not. While we are at it let's hold the defense ministers accountable for deaths in afghanistan or even the entire premise of the invasion of Iraq... where are those WMDs again?
Certainly to suggest Garret and his department dropped the ball on estimating the popularity of their schemes and they should be held to account. Why is no one claiming garret is responsible for deaths installing the insulation also pointing their fingers at State ministers who hold Workplace and Safety portfolios? Surely if Garret holds some blame then so too do these ministers who "on their watch" have not prevented opportunistic contractors from placing the lives of undertrained, underqualified and vulnerable people at serious risk just for a buck.
All this really does is distract from the real area worth investigating and highlighting which is the Green Loans Program. Stop swallowing the Opposition's double standards of Ministerial accountability (who lost their portfolio over the AWB scandal? Children overboard? Campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq? etc) and actually apply some consistent and intellectually honest standards.
Dr David Horton
Posted Friday, February 12, 2010 - 16:13
Ben I don't often disagree with you but I reluctantly do here. I agree that Garrett has been a disaster in many ways, but Insulgate is not really his Waterloo. Imagine if Garrett had announced back at the start that houses were going to be insulated, but that before it happened there was going to be a long period on which both installers and inspectors were trained, and before that the trainers needed to be brought in to the TAFE system and TAFE funded to carry out the training program. In addition, there was going to be an extensive registration and regulatory program put into place. And a Commonwealth Department established, staffed by experts in the field, when they could be found, to oversee the work of the states.
There would have been screams of outrage from the LIberals, from the industry, and from the shock jocks - typical Labor, procrastination, bureaucracy, states rights, big government, let private industry get on with this without being shackled by regulation, only private enterprise can do this work, and only if government gets out of their way, these contractors are giving kids jobs who would otherwise be out of work. And so on, the whole neoconservative "drown government in a bathtub and remove all regulations" shouting match.
Garrett seems to me, with this one at least, in a heads you lose, tails you lose more, situation.
Posted Friday, February 12, 2010 - 21:27
I am all for ministerial accountability, but in this case the calls for Garrett to resign are over the top. This is another example of Australia's political media class working itself into a frenzy for the sake of sustaining a story about a minister under pressure. Garrett got this scheme up quickly - as the PM and the rest of Cabinet presumably told him to do - and when the risks became apparent he took action. If he goes over this - which he won't because no Minister will ever be sacked again after the bar was lowered so far by Howard - then no government will ever again attempt to expedite a major program. If anything, Garrett has been let down by a dud department. Unfortunately, the public discourse about these sorts of issues has become as routinely toxic as it is visceral, and the restoration of some balance, decency and common sense to these debates is long overdue.
Posted Friday, February 12, 2010 - 22:17
This is all so bullshit. Scapegoating some bald old rocker. Tall poppy syndrome? Or just another demonstratation of the deeply flawed state of Australian society.
What ever happened to logic??
Stupidity got us into this mess ... why can't it get us out?
Bob Karmin
Posted Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 10:34
Poor Garrett. The world won't stand still...
It seems that ministerial work don't get you nowhere.
You just go round and round in spin.
Media's got him on that treadmill, mate.
I hope his not beaten yet, ...not yet.
I hear much support for him stepping down.
I hear the that his policies won't remain.
I see the environment, and its a tragedy,
I see the Rudd government in pain, ...yeah.
Too soon?
Posted Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 12:31
Democracy in Australia is limited to voting every four years on the trust that promises made by political candidates will be delivered.
Demoracy's promises are not delivering very well. Political delivery performance is poor. Electoral trust is repeatedly abused and so culturally many are disenfranchised by the whole process.
Peter Garrett's performance should be assessed on his electoral promises, which should be summarised on the home page of his website, but they are not.
In his maiden speech, garrett spoke about addressing the following issues:
1. Aboriginal health
2. Industrial development toxic chemical pollution
3. Malabar Headland to be made a National Park
4. Championing civic engagement to contest ideas in parliaments as absolutely central to the health of our democracy.
5. To strive for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood
6. To preserve the living fabric of nature and the loss of living things that make up our biodiversity
7. To plight of the "majestic river redgums on the Murray River"
8. The scourge of salinity is spreading across the land, eating away at rural communities.
9. Address global warming by urgently moving Australia to a mixed-energy economy with a much greater emphasis on demand management, use of renewable energy and increased energy efficiency, especially in the transport, building and agriculture sectors.
10. Sustainability reform.
11. Sincere acts of real reconciliation with indigenous Australians by providing immediate support, opportunity and structures for Indigenous communities to build healthy and engaged lives.
SOURCE: http://www.midnight-oil.info/news/peter-garrett-maiden-speech.html
Irrespective of scandals, problems with insulation, has Garrett delivered on any one of these eleven personal undertakings?
If not, he should review his options and his purpose for joining Labor.
Posted Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 12:38
I'm with LukeC. and Anwyll.
However, I still say that Garrett as a Minister is a wasted space, and he should have stayed in his 'day' job.
Whatever happens here, he is badly mauled and is probably ruined for a future in a Krudd Government, even as it is known that Krudd would have been forcing his hand, and should take a LOT of the blame. He has been remarkably silent to date.
Krudd really HAS to get rid of Wrong Wong. She is an unmitigated disaster as a Minister for Water and for Global Warming. But the Screaming Murdoch and Fairfax Media (plus the Howard ABC) seems to like her, maybe because she is 'one of them', a far Right Wing (NSW Labor) operator. A real friend of Business!
Garrett incurred Krudd's wrath during the election, and I do think he has hung him out to dry on the rack.
Whereas, Krudd and Wong seem to speak the same lingo. Gallons of total crap, with no content whatsoever.
Posted Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 13:33
So why do these houses that have become "live" have exposed and shoddy wiring in their roofs anyway? Should we not be looking deeper into previous Gov's lax approach to building standards? This is like blaming Toyota for a Prius that drives into a fallen "live" power line electrocuting the driver.
I had 4 separate insulation "contractors" come to my house in west Brunswick telling me they are going to come into my house, climb through the man hole and check to see if our roof has insulation. They were all young English or Irish tourists (maybe on work visas). I had no prior warning of this (i don't watch television, so i guess that's where i missed it). I actually thought they might be criminals scoping out my house!
After the job was done (in about 20 mins) different contractors continued to knock on doors up and down our street wanting to get into our roofs and see if there was insulation in there.
Obviously there was no central data base created by the Gov to know which houses had received the free insulation . So how are they going to know who they need to check for possible fatal wiring/insulation possibilities?
Overuse of air conditioning and heating is a massive contribution to our carbon wastage and i think the idea of insulation all homes should be applauded. Why are we calling for the lynching of our Environment minister? Sure the media and Gov/ Lobbyist spin doctors make him look bad but who else in Aus Government has a better track record for honestly wanting to save the world?
This whole debacle stems from shoddy building regulations, unaccountable building planners, lack of professionalism in general. Every house i have ever lived in (rented) has obviously had every single corner cut in building and maintenance (some were new houses).
It's Howard's fault for letting building practices slide . and the insulation debacle is Rudd's fault. Give Garrett a break
Posted Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 21:57
I'm pretty sure it was Barnaby Joyce's fault.
Posted Monday, February 15, 2010 - 12:00
Like much comment from the news media on Australian politics this article is almost entirely fantasy. There are lots of opinions, insults and claims but none of them stand up to scrutiny. What is happening here is that the news media, for no good or obvious reason, have turned on the Rudd government and they take any opportunity no matter how remote or slight to criticise destructively.
This happens to virtually every government sooner or later and is part of the adage that "oppositions don't win elections, governments lost them". This particular case may be different however because the turning of the press happened with he ascension of Abbott to the leadership of the opporsition. I can only assume therefrom that for some reason the news media in Australia want Australia to have a profoundly unfit person as Australia's Prime Minister.
Posted Monday, February 15, 2010 - 21:41
Australian need to lobby for a new Bill that proclaims electoral promises by political parties electorially contractual on a financial year deadline basis.
Failure to deliver triggers an early election.
One of two things will happen, electoral promises will number reaslistically in single figures, or Australia will go to the polls more often and become a more direct demoncracy.
I can live with that; the Swiss do.
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 12:05
Unfortunately, we already have a profoundly unfit person as Australian Prime Minister.
We have a Mechanical Robot instead, sort of programmed to talk some language totally beyond the comprehension of normal Aussies.
I have this theory that the Kruddbot was manufactured in some Global Corporation Laboratory and designed to give them everything they could possibly want from Australian resources and workers.
As such, the KruddBot has been performing admirably and to requirements.
However, just proclaiming sort of imagined needs and actions on them, generally none in any way helpful to ordinary Australians, and then heading off to see his mates in far distant places without any explanations as to the operation or real needs of his proposals, such as the Global Warming inactions, the Education debacle, the Health debacle, the Broadband rollout that will probably never happen, the 'Control' Conroy censorship debacle. Lord it goes on and on, and the Green Loans, the Insulation fitting debacles were put onto Garrett as a punishment for some of his pre-election statements, and now we have no real ideas as to where this is all going. A bloody great mess, anyway.
No wonder Krudd and Co., are slipping in the polls.
In truth, they promised Change, the gave us more of the same (Howard policies and people) and every other large focus seems to have been totally ignored by Krudd and Co. or as soon as it was announced, unless they could see some perceived political advantage in playing silly-buggers and small minded political games, they left the playing field.
We really do need so badly a Statesman, one who will give us Leadership, and assiduously work to clean up our very dirty acts.
I hope that Krudd was listening to QANDA on ABC last night. There was some sharp observations made by a few people that are totally relevant. I am not normally a fan of this show, but last night I stayed to the end. Still wanting more. More questioning of a Government that has gone to sleep at the wheel.
Or concentrating on esoteric economic matters that no-one can understand, let alone want to, to the exclusion of all else, because this is where Krudd and Co. see they may have some advantage over Abbott and Co. Maybe?
What Joyce said last night was rememberable, if silly, but what L.Tanner said was just totally beyond comprehension, except to the insiders. Most people just turned off their brains when Tanner spoke, but listened fascinated to the bellicose disjointed ramble coming from Joyce. That may well have an effect at the ballot box.
Is TA consciously playing this fiddle?
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 14:20
I suspect next that Transport Minister Anthony Alabanese will be held responsible for all the deaths on Australia's roads, or that the Minister for Health Nicola Roxon will be held responsible for all the preventable deaths in Australias hospitals.
The reality is that standards and procedures for installing insulation have been in place for years. It is up to employers to ensure that those standards and procedures are enforced and complied with. Garrett cannot be held responsible for the failings of employers that have abused their employees by taking shortcuts within the industry just to make a bit more money and which has resulted in deaths. It is the employers that are responsible for their employess deaths; not Garrett. It's as simple as that.
The fact that the opposition and the right-wing commentariat are making political milage from their deaths is plain inexcusable. The way they are carrying on one would think that roof insulation was a new idea dreamt up by Garrett. Families of those that have died should be looking to sue the employers of those that died for failing in their duty of care to look after their employees when those employers were, or should have been, fully aware of the requirements for doing the job safely.
Don't blame Garrett; blame the greedy bastards prepared to knowingly risk lives to save money.
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 17:09
I wish to emphasise another problem and that is the ignorance of the majority of people calling for blood about the fact that metal is conductive! It seems to me that the ignorance of a potential problem starts with ignorance of basic science which should be taught at schools. The fact that a conductive metal could be in touch with a live wire is pretty obvious. When I had my house rewired be a professional electrician, I went under the house to have a look. There was a live wire hanhing from the floorboards. So all the finger pointing be the electrical trade union and others should actiually be an introspection
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 18:03
I'd like to point out that I didn't call for Peter Garrett to resign in my article.
I did however argue that he and his department should have been cognizant of the likely dislocations that would result in a relatively small industry by stimulating so much new demand.
David Horton, I think that you're right, in many ways Garrett has been on a hiding to nothing in this controversy. Even so, ther seems to have been significant policy mal-administration under his watch.
GraemeF, thanks for picking up on that point of information.
another sceptic
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 18:55
By his own standards! Garrett MUST GO!
Imagine if Howard had tried this during the stolen generation debate: "There are also tragedies with children being taken from their families across the country in other areas." Garrett might have been unimpressed.
Still, none of the deaths, fires, sub-standard installations and rip-offs are anything to do with him. He is just minister responsible. Julia Gillard said: "Peter Garrett can't be in every roof in this country as insulation is being installed."
This is the new level of political accountability. Unless you're on site, you can't be blamed. Times have changed. Let's revisit the words of an MP a few years ago:
"It is fair to say that the public has an expectation that government departments would not only observe all the appropriate bureaucratic policy and legislative and other
protocols that are within their remit but, at the same time, ensure that the duty of care they owe … to the people over whom they ultimately have some responsibility is exercised prudently and compassionately …
"The department's political masters … have refused in any way whatsoever to take accountability for what has happened."
That's Peter Garrett in opposition, calling the government and the Immigration Department to account over treatment of Corneila Rau.
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Jane E
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 19:35
Dazza, Penny Wong is a Senator from South Australia.
Josha, I agree with you. Building standards anywhere I have lived in Australia are appallingly lax. It's not as if no one knew how to build for the climate. Look at the homesteads on outback stations: stone walls, deep verandahs, high iron roofs. Look at the elevated, light, airy tropical houses. Now when I drive past new housing estates, I see dark tiled roofs with minimal or non-existent eaves, and single glazed windows with no external shading. And not much evidence of passive solar design.
So retro-fitting roof insulation is a bit cart before horse, but better than nothing. However, it can be done safely. Have a look at http://www.yourhome.gov.au/technical/fs48.html#health
and note the date at the bottom: © Commonwealth of Australia - Copyright and Disclaimers/Privacy Notice - Fourth edition, 2008
It is not spelled out too well, but the dangers of downlights are discussed.
Section 4.7 clearly states that only qualified persons should be installing the insulation: "PLEASE NOTE: To qualify for the assistance, the insulation must be installed by an installer on the Australian Government's Installer Provider Register." Which brings me to Dr. Horton's comments. I seem to recall just such an outcry being raised when the scheme got into full swing: that there was too much regulation, people were being held up, etc. When we had our roof insulation redone (pre-rebate), we just had polyester batts installed. They helped. So I am still wondering why people were trying to retro-fit foil products. Which seems to be where all the tragedies have occurred.
Jonah Bones
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 20:58
Garrett is the polarizing type of personality you want in Parliament, except he wears the Rudd muzzle. People seem to prefer to crucify the person rather than the system . Garrett is the failure of Parliament in Australia personified. If the ruling party cannot use his talents to address the issues of the day then it is politics that has failed not the person.
A pity that Ben did not see fit to turn the spotlight on the hundreds of millions Goss convinced his old understudy to give to free to air tv to prop up their failing businesses. A far greater scandal and one worth the fall of a government.
Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 01:47
I reckon Garrett is being treated far too harshly. Particularly by the Opposition. It is just plain dirty the way Tony Abbott keeps trying to finger Garrett personally for the deaths. This is the nasty opportunistic underbelly of the Liberal Party flaunting itself, with not even an metaphorical fig leaf (nor budgie smugglers!) anywhere to be seen for even a modicum of intellectual caution and modesty.
Industry and the market has got to take its share of the blame here, not merely blame government. In any reality other than this apparently new topsy-turvy one, this would usually be a truth Liberals held to be self-evident. But Abbott is acting like a commie to be a crowd pleaser. This veneer reeks so bad on him, it needs to be buried yesterday.
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Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 11:36
At last some facts are emerging. But of course only after the baying for blood. What has been made to look quite simply like four deaths from foil insulation improperly or carelessly installed, isn't what it seems. One death was from heat exhaustion while installing batts not foil. Another was from a ceiling that is now claimed to have been "live since 1991". A PWC audit has found 21 homes with potentially deadly electrical faults caused by inept installers, but 142 homes were found to have pre-existing electrical problems. As the rush to hysteria and hype shifts to the proper gathering of information, trying to simply pin the blame on Peter Garrett is utterly absurd.
The issues are far more complex. It will take some time to unravel the facts. Meanwhile it is all too easy for former members of a government which did very little about reducing our energy demands and their emissions beyond changing light bulbs (for ones containing mercury with no recycling proposal) to be on the attack. Equally disappointing is the response of the media which on this issue has not been so hysterical and prone to premature judgement and condemnation since the Lindy Chamberlain case.
Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 16:44
I was very disapointed the TV news shows didn't play "Cold Cold Change" over the article. 8^)
Magnus Muir
Posted Friday, February 19, 2010 - 11:30
Not to mention PG's performance in the Arts portfolio. Maybe not as life-and-death an issue, nevertheless the way he completely mismanaged the attempted closure/take-over of the Australian National Academy of Music in 2008 was an eye-opener for musicians who saw the appointment of one of their own as arts minister as good news:
There was a level of incompetence at ministerial level that simply couldn't be blamed on a slack department, because music was supposedly one of Garrett's special interests and areas of expertise. People were shocked, too, at his lofty dismissiveness, as though it was all a bit beneath him. In the end, the campaign to mobilise support for ANAM exposed how little thought had gone into his plans (for want of a better word) and asked some penetrating questions about his competence.
Signs of things to come, we wondered.
Dr David Horton
Posted Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 11:14
Late to be commenting again Ben, but it seems to me having watched the drama unfold culminating in at least a partial abandoning of the idea of helping people insulate roofs as one small step towards reducing greenhouse gas production in Australia, that this might well have been the point of Abbott's attack. That is, to discredit not just Garrett but the whole idea of responsible environmental action. And note Joyce's sneering at the very idea of insulating houses (http://www.blognow.com.au/mrpickwick/247076/Joyce_for_Canberra.html). I think this whole beat up was intended to run in parallel with the Murdoch Press/shock jock attack on climate science. Destroy the science, destroy the responses.
And if you are still reading you might look at doing a scientific response to the latest Miranda Devine demands for burning the forests. Dr John Benson at the Sydney Botanic Gardens could be approached perhaps.
Posted Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 01:35
Clearly, his department has shown itself woefully incapable of carrying out the ambitious new responsibilities given to it.
There is your true target. A Head of Department resignation for failing to properly advise the Minister or for incompetance.
Garrett should resign because the deaths were avoidable.
Posted Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 01:43
This could have all been avoided if we had used sheepskin or fleece insulation which was instaled by licenced tradesmen. i.e you had to have a ticket to get into a roof!


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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic bacterium that targets people weakened by lung disease, severe burns, immunodeficiencies and other serious medical conditions. Two things set it apart from many other bacteria: its eerie green color and its resistance to antibiotics.
"In a lot of infections, we can knock it down," says Dr. Luke Hoffman, "but we can't knock it out."
Hoffman is a pediatric pulmonologist at Seattle Children's. His work on fighting chronic lung infections in children – especially those with cystic fibrosis – led to a discovery about Pseudomonas that has opened a line of inquiry into what makes this and other bacteria such stubborn foes.
"We're learning that bacteria act differently in groups than a single species acts in isolation," Hoffman says. "They appear to adjust to each other metabolically."
According to Hoffman, the purpose of the bacteria's metabolic adaptations is probably to avoid competing for the same nutrients. But the result is that bacteria often become less susceptible to antibiotics even though the antibiotics have been proven to treat the bacteria when isolated.
It's long been known that many combinations of bacteria inhabit the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis. The thick mucus that clogs their lungs offers a fertile breeding ground, and bacteria that become established in these secretions can cause chronic and destructive infections. Most research has focused on Pseudomonas because it commonly infects people with CF, is virulent, and is very difficult to eradicate.
"If Pseudomonas was on the TV show 'Survivor' it would win every time," says Dr. Bonnie Ramsey, a pediatric pulmonologist who leads CF research at Seattle Children's. "Once it gets established, it's almost impossible to totally clear from a patient's lungs."
Hoffman hopes his work will help end that winning streak. In the past, researchers studied Pseudomonas in isolation despite the fact that it's rarely the lone bacterium in the lungs of people with CF. Hoffman decided to study how Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus aureus – the other bacterium most commonly found in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients – behave when the two are grown together.
Hoffman discovered that Pseudomonas produces a compound that causes Staphylococcus (aka "staph") to grow more slowly, making it more difficult to detect. The compound also makes staph highly resistant to the antibiotic tobramycin. The findings suggest two hypotheses. First, staph may actually be more common in cystic fibrosis patients than thought because it's difficult to detect whenever Pseudomonas is around. Second, this molecular interaction between Pseudomonas and staph may be just one example of how a bacterium can become more resistant to antibiotics as a result of adjusting to other bacteria.
Hoffman's findings are the latest breakthrough made by researchers at Children's in the fight against cystic fibrosis and chronic lung infections. The first breakthrough (in the 1980s and '90s) was developing TOBI, an inhalable form of the antibiotic tobramycin. This antibiotic preparation has become a standard treatment for CF and has helped increase the life expectancy of cystic fibrosis patients to nearly 40 years.
Ramsey, who worked with Dr. Arnold Smith and others to develop TOBI, has continued the quest to improve treatment for chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. Now, after training under Ramsey, Hoffman is looking for answers in the lab to the questions his mentor is raising in the clinic.
Hoffman is pursuing three lines of inquiry related to his earlier discovery about Pseudomonas. One study seeks to determine the clinical significance of his findings about Pseudomonas and staph interactions by looking at bacteria from a small group of local cystic fibrosis patients. Hoffman and his lab team are searching for molecular evidence of interspecies interactions and exploring whether the presence of those interactions alters patient outcomes. Hoffman also is working with Dr. Nicole Hamblett at Seattle Children's to build upon a nationwide clinical study led by Ramsey. Pseudomonas infections don't immediately make patients sick, so they haven't always been treated with antibiotics right away. Recently, evidence has shown that Pseudomonas infections are easier to eradicate with antibiotics when treated very early, and that this response decreases as the infection becomes more established.
Ramsey's study used TOBI to treat Pseudomonas infections in young cystic fibrosis patients 1- to 3-years old before they showed any signs of illness. The study led by Hoffman and Hamblett is examining whether the Pseudomonas that was successfully eradicated in these children differs in some way from the Pseudomonas that was not successfully eradicated.
"We were very successful with 85% of the patients," says Ramsey. "Luke and Nicole's study may shed light on why the remaining 15% did not respond as well and why Pseudomonas is easier to clear in young patients and almost impossible to clear in older patients."
Another study in Hoffman's laboratory will examine the behavior of various combinations of bacteria (not just Pseudomonas and staph) found in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients.
"Ideally, we would study these bacteria inside a patient's lungs, but we haven't figured out an easy way to do that," Hoffman says. "So we're developing models for growing these bacteria in the lab that closely resemble the conditions inside a patient's lungs."
The study poses three main questions. Do infecting bacteria respond differently to antibiotics when part of a community of bacteria? Are there treatments that could achieve better results by targeting the overall community rather than targeting one bacterium at a time? Does the composition of a community have a bigger influence on outcomes than the presence or absence of any single bacterium such as Pseudomonas?
"The defining characteristic of chronic lung infections is their persistence, despite antibiotic treatment," says Hoffman. "In many cases, we don't understand why we can't cure them. Our hope is that learning more about how bacteria respond to antibiotics and interact holds the key to providing more effective treatment."


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We need our records accurate, but we also want to acknowledge and celebrate your achievement. The MESA Awards Reception will take place on Friday, May 4 at the Sacramento City College City Cafe. A booklet that includes names and information about all of the transfer students is a very important part of the reception. In order to include you in that booklet, we need you to provide the information on the attached form, and return it by Friday, April 6 at the very latest. If we do not have your information by that time, you will not be in the book, and that would be very sad.
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Way of the Cross Hits the Streets of Toronto
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TORONTO, JULY 26, 2002 (Zenit.org).- World Youth Day participants were expected to participate this evening in downtown Toronto in a Stations of the Cross that put an emphasis on peace.
The event was to begin in Nathan Phillips Square at 7:30 and end at the Royal Ontario Museum around 10.
The Stations of the Cross will feature young actors performing a Gospel narrative composed by Father Robert Gendreau.
This Way of the Cross, the priest explained, is to remind young people that "Jesus goes today with us; on the street, he meets us in our daily life."
"This is the reason I conceived the representation of Jesus dressed as he was 2000 years ago," he concluded. "Yet he meets with today's young people, in the same scene. So this meeting appears with Jesus' message that goes across time."


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Ericsson today [5 July 2007] announced at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in Geneva that it is collaborating with Stanford University to explore the innovative use of mobile technologies in distance e-learning.
Ericsson will work with Stanford University's International Outreach Program to bring distance learning to countries in Africa. The program offers students on different continents the opportunity to learn from researchers in environmental sciences from several countries and perspectives, as well as contribute to lively discourse and debate through Internet and mobile phone interaction.
As part of the program, Ericsson is providing smart phones fully equipped with video cameras, audio recorders, and Internet capability. Ericsson will also support the program by leveraging its relationships with mobile operators in Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa to help Stanford and others implement an environmental e-learning program. This program involves faculty and students from the University of the Western Cape in South African, Mweka College of African Wildlife Management in Tanzania and Makerere University in Uganda.
The international mobile learning project, called Dunia Moja or "one world," utilizes a GPRS or 3G mobile connection and an Internet-enabled mobile handset from Sony Ericsson to allow students and faculty in remote locations to submit and access video, audio and text-based course materials, participate in online discussion forums, post blogs, produce multimedia content and otherwise interact as they learn.
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Stitch from the bottom seam up one side to the 15" mark. STOP. Leave the 1" area between marks open. Stitch from the upper mark to the top edge. Repeat on opposite side of bag. The 1" opening is needed for the casing.
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3. Press upper raw edge under 1/4". Press side seams open. Stitch close to edge of seam allowance next to casing opening.
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5. Repeat steps 1-3 with the second fabric.
6. Lay bags side by side, with one right side out and one wrong side out.
7. Place the inside out bag inside of the right side out bag. Pin bags together, aligning side seams. Stitch bags together by topstitching around the top, aligning top edges and stitching close to upper edge.
8. Find the opening on each side seam of the bag. Place a ruler on the bag and draw a straight line (or mark with pins) across the bag just above and just below the side openings, stitching through both layers. This creates your casing.
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Discover the secluded grace of an intimate retreat in Chiang Mai, Thailand's far north. Puripunn Baby Grand Boutique Hotel is a small luxury hotel inspired by traditional Lanna design and fused with contemporary colonial styles. Located in the heart of Chiang Mai, Puripunn is a charming boutique hotel that combines the rich architectural traditions of the former Lanna kingdom with period elegance. The hotel is situated in Wat Gate, one of Chiang Mai's older districts with a diverse mix of cultures and religions, making it a fascinating place to enjoy a city break in the beautiful northern capital.
Puripunn Deluxe Rooms are located on the ground level measuring 48 square meters and feature an en-suite bathroom with a special designed bathtub with a sitting area, a separate rainshower, LED TV, DVD player, fully stocked mini bar, in-room safe, tea and coffee making facilities, and complimentary bottled water. The private terrace is surrounded by tropical plants, and uniquely designed double entrance doors will lead to a spacious air-conditioned king-size bedroom, with day bed and ceiling fans. These rooms are conveniently accessible to the garden walk and the main swimming pool.
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The first Morse Code message sent across the Atlantic Ocean by radio, as opposed to cable, was received by Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) on 12th December 1901. He was stationed at Signal Hill, near St John's, Newfoundland, and the signal was received from a transmitting station at Poldhu, near Lizard Point in Cornwall, England.
Marconi first started experimenting with wireless telegraphy in 1895 in his native Italy, but moved to England in 1896 because he hoped to attract more interest and support, which was indeed the case. He developed gradually more sophisticated transmitting and receiving equipment and achieved progressively greater distances over which signals could be transmitted.
He was particularly interested in establishing ship-to-shore radio communications, and many of his early experiments were from ships and yachts to receiving stations that he had built onshore. There was clearly a business opportunity here because ships could not be connected by undersea cables in the way that fixed stations could. During the course of these experiments it became clear that radio signals could be picked up even when the transmitter and receiver were not within line of sight of each other, as would be the case when a ship was below the horizon as far as the shore station was concerned. If radio signals could "bend", what limit could there be to how far they could travel?
Marconi became convinced that it should be possible to send a radio signal for thousands of miles, provided that the transmitting equipment was powerful enough. However, up to this point the best distance achieved had been no greater than about 90 miles (from near Boulogne on the French coast to Chelmsford in Essex, where Marconi had established his business headquarters). Nevertheless, he pressed on with his project to leap the Atlantic.
Work on the transmitting station at Poldhu Cove began in October 1900, the plan being to build a similar station at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and the work on this station began in March 1901. Each station was to comprise 20 masts, each being 200 high, set in a circle that was 200 feet in diameter. In terms of transmitting equipment, Marconi calculated that the energy needed to send a signal the required distance would be around 20,000 volts, and this was to be provided by a Hornsby-Ackroyd oil-driven engine that would drive a 25 kilowatt alternator and a pair of transformers that would boost the alternator's 2,000 volts to the necessary 20,000 volts. The final output of the plant, in terms of signal energy, would be 100 times greater than that of any previously built transmitter.
All seemed to be going well until 17th September 1901. By this time the aerials at both Poldhu and Cape Cod were nearly complete and Marconi was carrying out tests on the parts of the system that were serviceable, getting very satisfactory results. However, on that day a storm blew up and wrecked the circle of masts. This was clearly a massive setback, but it proved possible to create a temporary aerial, based on only two masts, that was operational only seven days later. Experiments using this aerial showed that strong signals could reach Marconi's station at Crookhaven in County Cork, Ireland, 225 miles away, so Marconi decided that there was no need to rebuild the station before trying the ultimate test.
He therefore abandoned the original plan to set up two-way communications between Poldhu and Cape Cod and on 26th November 1901 he set sail, with two colleagues, for St John's, Newfoundland. He had begun to have doubts about whether the signals would reach as far as Cape Cod and decided to bridge a shorter distance, Newfoundland being the closest point of the North American continent to Cornwall. As it happened, just before setting sail he heard news that the Cape Cod station had also been wrecked in a gale.
The party arrived at St John's with a quantity of balloons, hydrogen cylinders and large kites, apart from their portable receiving apparatus. They were received hospitably by the authorities at St John's (Newfoundland was still a British colony at the time) and offered space in a disused fever hospital on a rocky promontory overlooking the town. The appropriately named Signal Hill had been used in past ages for sending semaphore communications, and was also close to the point at which the first transatlantic cable had reached shore in 1866.
The trio tried various methods for getting an aerial wire airborne using the balloons and kites. The winds were strong and at times threatened to be too strong, but, once in place, the kites were perfectly serviceable for what was needed.
(See Part 2 of this article for the conclusion of the story)
Picture credit: Photograph of Guglielmo Marconi taken in 1908; public domain, copyright expired.
This article was originally published be me, John Welford, on Helium.com on 21st March 2011 - http://www.helium.com/items/2122840-the-first-transatlantic-radio-signal-and-guglielmo-marconi
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As she puts it, she's an immigrant's kid, a first-generation American from a Lebanese father. She's an under-40 suburban mom with kids in public schools who can't remember a time growing up when her family didn't rely on government programs to get by.
"Demographically," Parrish says, "I should not be a Republican."
But she is—and an outspoken one at that.
Parrish, a state representative from West Linn, is at 38 an emerging leader in the Oregon GOP. In her first race, in 2010, she beat the Republican favorite in the primary. In the 2012 elections, Democrats took back control of the House by targeting her and four other first-term Portland-area Republicans. Only Parrish won re-election.
Parrish is proudly brash and at times controversial —criticized in 2012, for example, when she blasted out thousands of robocalls at inactive voters. She has strong ideas about what her party—which has not seen a statewide victory in 10 years—must do to become more relevant.
Parrish also talked to WW about why Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, has been good for the Republican agenda, and how people panicked by losing their guns don't all come from the GOP.
Where did you grow up?
I was born in Oregon, but we bounced around. My parents' marriage was very volatile. It wasn't always pleasant—lots of domestic violence-type issues. My parents divorced, and my mom moved us around. I went to five elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools. There was no real stability growing up.
You have been outspoken about reforming public assistance programs, which your family relied on.
That was back when welfare benefits were fairly generous and food stamps looked like Canadian dollars—not the Oregon Trail card you swipe at the grocery store nowadays. Section 8 housing. Health care. The gamut of government services. My mother was getting food stamps until the last kid turned 18. She had six kids.
But we all ended up Republican. My sister is ridiculously conservative compared to me. My brother migrated to Texas. What we learned from that experience is that the system doesn't work.
What isn't working?
How do you get off the system? There's no good way to get people to think out of those programs effectively.
But don't a lot of programs try to provide a bridge?
That's the intent. I don't think that's the outcome.
Republicans have not won the governorship since 1982. What's your party not doing that it should be?
We can do a better job getting out our vote. We saw that in 2010 where 100,000 Republicans stayed home and Chris Dudley lost the governorship by 20,000 votes.
The tragedy of the division of rural Oregon and urban Portland is that there really is a feeling of disenfranchisement out in rural Oregon, that their voice is just not heard, that their vote doesn't count. It has artificially depressed voter turnout.
You were targeted this year for defeat, as were four other House Republicans in the Portland area. Only you survived. You also won in the suburbs, the electoral tipping point in Oregon. What were you hearing from voters that Republicans might learn from?
When I go out and knock on doors—we're talking about suburbia here—there are certain things voters in Oregon want, the things I think government should be doing. I want a road to soccer practice, and that road needs to be safe, there needs to be a police officer on it, and I don't want potholes in it.
And what do you hear about schools?
In other states, they're actually doing universal school choice. They're letting parents pick the school that works for them, as long as it meets a course standard.
Oregon used to make, grow and build things. We don't do that anymore. Those pathways are not there for kids in urban Portland, just as they're not there for kids in rural Oregon. That's an opportunity to link those two worlds together around some common ideas around education.
Do Republicans win by campaigning on universal school choice?
What's the outcome of [school choice]? The outcome is, your child gets to have a productive life. They're not one of the 80,000 18-to-23-year-olds in this state on food stamps. I don't know any parent who wants that for their kids.
School leaders say the existing educational structure might collapse.
Schools are collapsing without us making decisions around choice.
What else should Republicans be talking about?
How we care for our people. Kitzhaber came in with 700,000 Oregonians on food stamps. At his midterm, 800,000 Oregonians are on food stamps. What's 2014 look like? Another 100,000 people? That's not sustainable.
If you've got hungry kids—and I've been a hungry kid, and that sucks—a hungry kid can't learn. How do we ensure we're not sending kids to school hungry? If you have a hungry kid who's not getting good nutrition, you're going to have bad health-care outcomes. That drives the cost of health care. That's at the root of fundamental conservative-thinking values. You're looking at the system in kind of a long-term trajectory.
Democrats say they look at it in the same long-term trajectory. How are Republicans different here?
I'd like to see a pathway for individuals to move forward.
Kitzhaber has taken up parts of the Republican agenda—school reform and public pension reform, for starters.
He's building a very centrist agenda. The governor—while I don't agree with everything he's trying to get accomplished—recognizes the problems for what they are. He knows there's work on [the Public Employee Retirement System], public safety and economic development. Historically, these are things Republicans care about.
So how could Republicans hope to give Kitzhaber a serious run in 2014?
It depends on how this [legislative] session goes. His biggest problem may be his own party. If it was me running for governor, I'd point out our unemployment hasn't gotten better, there's an increase of the number of people on the Oregon Health Plan. There's not enough job creation.
And there's a bridge to be built between urban and rural communities: Schools in both places are failing. The person who comes in with a unification message can give Kitzhaber a run.
But can Kitzhaber be beat in 2014?
I'm not sure. It depends on if the Republicans have a strong enough challenger.
Is there one out there?
I don't know who that person is right now.
As you noted, Multnomah County, with its heavy Democratic vote, has been an almost impossible barrier for Republicans to break through.
This state is not as blue as people think. You should see the emails I get on guns. They're not just from crazy right-wingers, they're coming from Democrats. That just doesn't play out at ground level. I have Republicans calling for gun control. I have Democrats saying, "Don't take away my guns."
A lot of people in your own party probably don't like your candor about how many issues defy party labels.
The Republican Party didn't choose me. I crashed the wedding. The great thing is, I get to listen to my neighbors, hear their concerns and know they need a voice in Salem. I get to be that voice.
And if my neighbors hadn't re-elected me, well, I would just have gone and opened a pie shop.


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A Decade of Research on the Environmental Impacts of Pulp and Paper Mill Effluents in Canada (1992-2002)
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- 1.0 Executive Summary
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- 3.1 Field Studies and Mechanistic Research - Summary
- 3.2 Canadian Research Leading Up to the 1992 Pulp and Paper Regulatory Package
- 3.3 Research Program to Identify the Causative Compounds, How to Eliminate Them, and Determine Their Short and Long-Term Environmental Effects
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In the late 1980's, pulp and paper production worldwide became an area of increased environmental scrutiny by the public as dioxins and furans in effluents and paper products were found. At the same time, results from Swedish studies in the early 1980s provided some of the first evidence that effluents from some pulp mills were capable of inducing toxic responses in fish at very low concentrations in the receiving environment. In response to these studies, a number of Canadian studies were initiated to determine whether similar responses were seen in fish downstream of pulp mills in Canada . Reproductive alterations were identified at a number of locations, however not all studies demonstrated similar reproductive effects in the receiving environment. A new regulatory package for the pulp and paper industry was then introduced which set new levels for BOD, TSS and acute lethality as well as limits for dioxins and furans. In order to meet the new regulatory limits, a number of process and treatment changes were required by the industry however it was not known whether these upgrades would also improve the reproductive responses demonstrated in fish at a number of locations.
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Book Launch: Vulnerability in Developing Countries
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Haiti's earthquake, the global financial crisis and the Asian tsunami are three instances of natural and human-made disasters, which have had devastating consequences on the developing world. Climate change and ever increasing urban populations may further increase vulnerability to hazards in developing countries. Women and children are especially at risk.
WIDER's UNU-Press publication 'Vulnerability in Developing Countries', edited by Wim Naudé, Amelia Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray was formally launched in London on 26 February 2010. The launch was hosted by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), and attended by participants working in academia, in government, in the NGO sector, the press, and by students.
The event was also webcast live to a global audience, and more than 40 participants from across the world registered for the webcast. During the launch, presentations were given by the editors, Wim Naudé and Amelia Santos-Paulino. Wim addressed the apparent rise in human vulnerabilities to diverse hazards, such as natural hazards, conflict and economic and financial crises since the 1990s, and illustrated how the various chapters of the book addresses the measurement of vulnerability, vulnerability to poverty, to ill-health, to natural hazards and to economic shocks. Amelia laid emphasis in her presentation on applying the book's frameworks of vulnerability and resilience to the situation facing small island development states. Tim Conway from the UK's Department of Foreign and International Development (DFID) acted as discussant, stressing that this is a 'very useful book coming at a very good time'. After his remarks, the floor was opened for questions and discussions, and various related UNU-WIDER publications on the topic of vulnerability, small island states and resilience, were flagged.
Wim Naudé - Co-editor of book and Senior Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER
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Tim Conway - Senior Advisor on Social Protection, DFID
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Mark McGillivray, Wim Naudé and Amelia Santos-Paulino, 2008.'Small Island States Development Challenges: Introduction', Journal of International Development, 20 (4): 481-85.
Wim Naudé, Amelia Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray, 2009. 'Measuring Vulnerability: An Overview and Introduction', Oxford Development Studies, 37 (3): 183-91.
Wim Naudé, Amelia Santos-Paulino, and Mark McGillivray, 2008. 'Vulnerability in Developing Countries', UNU Research Brief, United Nations University.
Wim Naudé, Amelia Santos-Paulino, and Mark McGillivray, 2008. 'Fragile States', UNU Research Brief, United Nations University.


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FARRER CREEK. Farrer Creek rises in north central King County (at 33°48' N, 100°17' W) and runs east for fifteen miles to its mouth on the Middle Fork of the Wichita River, two miles west of Lowrance Mountain in northeast King County (at 33°48' N, 100°04' W). The stream passes through remote ranch and oil lands with rolling to steep-sloped terrain. Its headwaters are near the Tom B oilfield, and its mouth is within the Juniper gas field. Local soils of shallow clay and sandy loams, occasionally rocky, support juniper, cacti, and sparse grasses. Farrer Spring, slightly active in 1979, is located near the mouth of the creek; Indians once camped beside it.
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This is the most conspicuous place in town -- right along the highway, just down from the post office. We can't really fault the rooms, which are clean enough for the night -- we found the mattresses a tad thin. Fan options are available, and discounts if you bargain, but we had the misfortune of spending the night here and being woken up at 5am by someone counting, over and over again, in Vietnamese, very loudly, on a public address speaker across the street. Turns out it was an aerobics class. Only lasted a half an hour, but we chose another place to stay next time we were in town.
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