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Tempest (video game)
|Atari Inc.
|Atari Inc.
|Dave Theurer[1]
|Release date(s)
|October 1981[2]
|Tube shooter
|Up to 2 players, alternating turns
|Standard, cabaret, and table
|POKEY x 2
|Vertical orientation, Vector (color), size: 19 inch
Tempest is a 1981 arcade game by Atari Inc., originally designed and programmed by Dave Theurer. The game is a tube shooter, a type of shoot 'em up where the environment is fixed and viewed from a three-dimensional perspective.
It was fairly popular and had several ports and sequels. The game is also notable for being one of the first video games with a selectable level of difficulty (via the option to skip early levels).[citation needed]
The objective of Tempest is to survive as long as possible and score as many points as possible by clearing the screen of enemies that have landed on the playing field. The game takes place in a closed tube or open field which is viewed from one end and is divided into a dozen or more segments or lanes. The player controls a claw-shaped spaceship (named Blaster) that crawls along the near edge of the playfield, moving from segment to segment. This ship can rapid-fire shots down the tube, destroying any enemies within the same segment, and is also equipped with a Superzapper, which destroys all enemies currently on the playfield once per level. (A second use of the Superzapper in a level destroys one random enemy.)
Enemies swirl around at the far end of the playfield, then enter the playfield and move toward the player. There are multiple types of enemy, each of which has different behavior. At higher levels, some enemies leave a spike in the middle of the lane as they travel toward the player; a spike can destroy the player's ship when the player warps out to the next playfield. Other enemies travel to the player end of the playfield and then flip from lane to lane, killing the player if they move to the lane that the player is on; firing while the enemy is changing from an adjacent lane kills this type of enemy. When all enemies in a level are destroyed or reach the near end of the playfield, the player "warps" to the next level by traveling down the playfield. As the player warps to the next level, he or she must avoid or shoot away any spikes. The player loses a ship when an enemy comes into contact with their ship, shoots it or otherwise destroys it, or if the ship hits a spike while warping. At certain point thresholds, the player earns a new ship. The game is over when the enemies destroy all of the player's ships.
The game consists of sixteen screens with unique geometric shapes, some of which are closed tubes that allow the player to loop around, while others are open fields that have distinct left and right endpoints. When all sixteen screens have been played, the sequence repeats with a different color scheme and a higher difficulty level, including the invisible (black) levels (65–80). Each sequence of levels adds additional enemies that are faster and more deadly to the player's ship. The numbered levels stop incrementing after level 99 and a random one of the 16 variations will appear after successful completion of subsequent levels.
Tempest introduced several new features for its time. It was one of the first video games to use Atari's Color-QuadraScan vector display technology (along with Space Duel, which was released around the same time). It was also the first game to allow the player to choose their starting level (a system Atari dubbed "SkillStep"). This feature would increase the maximum starting level depending on the player's performance in the previous game, essentially allowing the player to continue, a feature that became a standard in later video games. Finally, Tempest was one of the first video games to sport a progressive level design in which the levels themselves varied rather than giving the player the same layout with increasing difficulty levels.
The game was initially meant to be a 3D remake of Space Invaders, but such early versions had many problems, so a new design was used. Theurer says that the design came from a dream where monsters crawled out of a hole in the ground. During the prototype stages the game was entitled "Vortex" or "Aliens".[3]
Three different cabinet designs exist for Tempest. The most common cabinet is an upright cabinet in the shape of a right triangle sitting on top of a rectangle, when viewed from the side. This cabinet sported colorful side art. A shorter and less flashy cabaret-style cabinet was also released with optional side art, and a cocktail-style table cabinet allowed two players to play at opposite ends of the table. In this configuration, the screen would flip vertically for each player.
Ports and sequels[edit]
- An official port was released for the Atari ST.
- Versions for the Atari 2600[4] and 5200 consoles[5] were in the works in Atari, Inc. during 1984; unfinished prototypes exist for both of them. After the unfinished 5200 prototype was found in 1999, its original programmer, Keithen Hayenga, resumed work on finishing the port. The version for the 5200 was finally published through the AtariAge store on 7 February 2013, with an initial price of US $50.[6] The 2600 port was also released as part of the Atari Greatest Hits compilation for Nintendo DS and iOS devices.
- An official port that bears the Atari logo was released by Superior Software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron in 1985, and another by Electric Dreams for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC in 1987.
- A PC port of the game was released for Microsoft Windows 3.x as part of the Microsoft Arcade package.
- The original Tempest was included as part of Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 for the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Super Nintendo.
- The original game had two sequels: Tempest 2000, for Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, MS-DOS, Apple Macintosh, and PlayStation (the last under the name Tempest X3), and Tempest 3000 for Nuon enhanced DVD players.
- In 2001, Infogrames and Digital Eclipse ported 12 Atari arcade games (one of them being the original Tempest) under the compilation title, Atari Anniversary Edition released for PC and Sega Dreamcast, a PlayStation compilation titled, Atari Anniversary Edition Redux, was also released with the same number of games plus two exclusives to the Redux edition. A handheld compilation released in 2002 titled, Atari Anniversary Advance was released for the Game Boy Advance with half the number of games of the console compilation, Tempest is still included on the handheld compilation though.
- In 2005, the original Tempest was included as part of Atari Anthology for the Xbox and PlayStation 2; the PC version also had a ROM of the Atari 2600 prototype.
- Also in 2005, a port and graphical "remix" of the original Tempest was included as part of Retro Atari Classics for the Nintendo DS. This version deviates significantly from the basic rules and experience of the original game.
- On December 19, 2007, Tempest was released for Xbox 360, available for purchase through Xbox Live Arcade for 400 MS Points. This version includes the original arcade game (emulated) and an "evolved" version with updated graphics.
- On March 24, 2010, Tempest was released as a launch title on the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows LIVE virtual arcade, Game Room.
Unofficial versions[edit]
Shortly after the original game was released, an arcade owner named Duncan Brown hacked the level data and made an altered, more difficult version: Tempest Tubes. This enjoyed a lot of success in his arcade,[citation needed] and was eventually included with Tempest in the Hasbro compilation Atari Arcade Hits: Volume 1 for PC in 1999.
1980s home computer clones include Tubeway and Axis Assassin for the Apple II, and Livewire!, an Atari 8-bit family type-in game printed in ANALOG Computing in 1983.[7]
Arashi is a late '90s-era freeware Tempest clone for the Apple Macintosh running classic Mac OS.
In the early 2000s, Clay Cowgill released Tempest Multigame, an arcade kit to allow all three revisions of the original Tempest, along with Tempest Tubes, two early prototypes, and new game called Vector Breakout, (like Major Havoc) to be played on a single cabinet simply by selecting them from an onscreen menu.
A Google Chrome remake of the original game was released in late 2010.
Tempest is #10 on the KLOV's list of most popular games, tied with Centipede.
The game has been cited as an influence on the careers of several notable video game designers including Jeff Minter and John O'Neill.[8]
Tempest in popular culture[edit]
- Tempest is featured as the video game that Reggie (Catherine Mary Stewart) plays in the 1984 film Night of the Comet, and the game serves to introduce a standing thread throughout the movie. While at the movie theater that saves her from exposure to the comet, she becomes obsessed with knocking someone with the initials "DMK" off the high score list. Additionally, the identity of "DMK" is revealed at the film's conclusion when another survivor suddenly appears with the custom license plate of "DMK".[9]
- Tempest is featured prominently in the music video for Rush's 1982 song "Subdivisions".
- Parzival must defeat a virtual reality version of Tempest in the first challenge though the crystal gate in Ernest Cline's book Ready Player One.
- Peter MacNicol's character, Larry Fleinhardt, in the television series, Numbers is seen playing "Tempest" in an arcade as he is advising Charlie Eppes (played by David Krumholtz) on a mathematical problem in the Pilot Episode. Shots of the game's screen is shown as Larry is playing the game, as well as a film shot showing that Larry has the eight highest scores. Larry is later seen playing the game again on a laptop in the season four episode "End Game".
- ^ "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
- ^ Vendel, Curt. "ATARI Coin-Op/Arcade Systems 1980 - 1982". Retrieved 2007-05-09.
- ^ Tempest - Videogame by Atari, The International Arcade Museum
- ^ Reichert, Matt. "Tempest (Atari 2600)". AtariProtos.com. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
- ^ Reichert, Matt. "Tempest (Atari 5200)". AtariProtos.com. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
- ^ Yarusso, Albert (2013-02-07). "Tempest - Atari 5200". AtariAge.com. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
- ^ "Atari 400 800 XL XE Livewire!". Atari Mania.
- ^ Forman, Tracie. "Inside Gaming - John O'Neill: The Dali of Computer Gaming." Electronic Games. Vol.2, No.13. Pp.64-65. July 1984. ISSN 0730-6687.
- ^ Wright, Rob (2007-04-11). "The Top Video Game Scenes in Movie History - 12. Night of the Comet (1984): Hot Tempest Nights". Tom's Games. Archived from the original on 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
External links[edit]
- Tempest at the Killer List of Videogames
- Tempest at the Arcade History database
- Tempest guide at StrategyWiki
- Page detailing aborted attempt at Atari 2600 Tempest
- Page detailing canceled Atari 5200 version of Tempest
- Interview with Dave Theurer (Internet Wayback Machine)
- 1981 video games
- Arcade games
- Amstrad CPC games
- Atari arcade games
- Atari Jaguar games
- Atari ST games
- BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
- Cancelled Atari 2600 games
- Cancelled Atari 5200 games
- Fixed shooters
- Rail shooters
- Superior Software games
- Vector arcade games
- Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
- ZX Spectrum games
- Dave Theurer games


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Duck not only put up great offensive numbers in her third season as a Lady Topper, but also had a career year at the defensive end of the floor. She posted career highs in both steals (43) and blocked shots (32). She also pulled down a career-high 151 rebounds. Duck recorded multiple blocked shots in nine games last season, including as career-high four rejections in the season opener against East Tennessee State. She also finished with a season-high four steals on two occasions.
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DULUTH - It's been a while since Charles Howell III has held the lead after 54 holes of a PGA Tour event. So long, in fact, he had to consult his subconscious to remember the last time it happened."A couple of nights ago, I was dreaming. Just playing The Masters. I had an 18-shot lead," the Augusta native joked. Howell was unconscious in Saturday's third-round of the AT&T Classic, firing a 5-under-par 67 to take a one-shot lead over Kenny Perry into today's final round at the TPC at Sugarloaf. It's Howell's first 54-hole lead since the 2007 Sony Open in Hawaii, where he finished second. In fact, Howell has finished runner-up in all three previous tournaments in which he held the lead heading into the final round. Another day like Saturday, however, and Howell will have a good shot at his third PGA Tour victory and his first since last year's Nissan Open. "Well, I just gave myself a lot of opportunities," Howell said. "I didn't really go at any corner flags. I played fairly conservatively to the greens. ... And I drove the ball well. I got in places where I could play from that." Howell has plenty of company near the top of the leaderboard as play begins today with threesomes teeing off at both the first and 10th holes in order to beat the rain expected later in the afternoon. David Toms, Ryan Palmer and second-round leader Jonathan Byrd are just two shots off the pace, while former Georgia Bulldog Ryuji Imada and Heath Slocum are three shots back. Duluth resident Justin Bolli lurks just four strokes off the pace. Howell began the day with six straight pars before making his move. Byrd - who started the day at 12-under par - opened the door further by quickly coming back to the pack with a bogey on No. 3. Meanwhile, Byrd's playing partner, Perry, and Palmer each countered with a birdie to pull to within a stroke. Perry took the outright lead by sinking a 20-foot putt for an eagle on the par-5 fourth hole - and kept it until hitting his approach into the left side bunker on nine and settling for a bogey. That gave Howell a chance to climb up the leaderboard. The Augusta native posted consecutive birdies on Nos. 6 and 7 to move to 10-under and was within a shot of Perry's lead as he made the turn. "The fact I had gotten the ball up and down for par out of this bunker on 9, then I was able to get the ball up and down and birdie the 10th hole just to keep going," Howell said. "Whereas a case of, let's say, I don't get the ball up and down on 9, so I make bogey. Then I don't make the putt on 10. Now, it's obviously a two-shot swing there. It's little things like that." He began the back nine with a birdie at the par-5 11th to tie for the lead. Perry reclaimed the lead following a birdie at No. 12 and was joined by Palmer at 12-under after his birdie at No. 13. Howell bided his time before grabbing a share of the lead with a birdie on the par-4 15th. Another birdie on No. 17, where he reached the green with a drive and a wedge before sinking a 20-foot putt, gave him the outright lead. Plenty of others, however, are close on his heels. While Perry, Toms, Palmer and Byrd are all within two shots, the biggest moves of the day were made by Imada - last year's runner-up to Zach Johnson in a playoff - Bolli and Omar Uresti. Imada started the day eight shots off the lead, but made up five strokes with a bogey-free round of 6-under 66. "You know, if I'm within three, four shots of the lead, I know I've got a chance," Imada said. "And you know, there's a bunch of guys - I'd say about 15 guys - who have got a chance to win if that's the case. So, I've just got to go out there and make a lot of birdies." Bolli started Saturday seven strokes off the lead, but has cut three shots off that deficit with his 4-under 68. The biggest move Saturday came from Uresti, who fired the day's best round at 7-under 65 to pull into a tie for ninth place, just five strokes back.
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A friend of mine recently had very major surgery and will require months of follow-up. Discharged after five days he came home feeling tired, unwell and unable to cope. He had concerns about pain, his wound, how much he should do and how quickly. After three days he was a nervous wreck and began phoning the hospital for support. His wife was equally anxious, bearing the burden of his worries and also her own concerns about his condition. For the first two weeks she felt she had taken on the role of the nurse.
Getting out of hospital quickly has clear gains for the patient and health services – reduced risk of infection, perhaps better sleep and food are all positives, but there is a trade off when things don't go according to plan.
I felt my friend and his wife had probably been told everything before discharge but in the euphoria of knowing he was well enough to go home didn't take it in.
When my friend's wound started to leak they had to go back to the ward. When he felt very weak he was rushed back for blood tests and the burden fell on his wife to keep it all together. Not only did he feel worried each time he was called back in but it was also exhausting to travel to and from the hospital.
So I am left wondering if we send people home too quickly or whether support services are sufficiently developed to help those who do go home early to deal with problems as they arise.
The problems for so many patients are the simple things: When can I have a bath? What should I do if I feel unwell? How far should I walk?
They aren't questions you take to the GP and I suspect many of us would not want to bother the ward by ringing up.
It seems to me that going home early is great if you feel you are getting better, but those who have major interventions need care to ensure their recovery is as free as possible from stress.
It would be great to hear about your experiences of discharging patients and how early discharge can be improved.
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The services in the community to back up early hospital discharge simply do not exist. It is not the fault of the over stretched community staff, but the lack of resources and adequate staffing levels.
all well and good if community services can be reinforced and there is assurance of adequate care.
I work on a ward that has patients following major colorectal surgery, and we also have enhanced recovery, which in essence in the discharging of most patients between 3 & 5 days. I have lost count of the number of our patients who have been readmitted following discharge, and some have even gone on to have further surgery. We find that the majority of our patients if they are going to have complications develop them around about the 5th day, this is when most of them are going home, and yes I think the euphoria of going home makes them feel well enough to do so, but unfortunately it only lasts about as long as the time it takes for them to get home. Yes you are always going to get the odd person who does very well in a short period of time but the majority don't. It's false economy as when they are readmitted it usually takes longer for them to be discharged due to their anxiety levels and fear of events occuring as did on the first discharge. A few more days in hospital at first and they are then truly ready for discharge.
Janet Edwards
You say that you have "lost count" of the number of patients readmitted.
The question is have you really been counting and keeping a record of readmissions ?
Anecdote does no favours for patients!
If significant numbers of patients are being readmitted the discharge policy needs urgent review !
To undertake such a review requires reliable data !
Jenny Jones
Figure of speech really. as I do know that our enhanced recovery patients are being audited, as I questioned about this at the last meeting, and was told that there is somebody who is auditing readmissions, so hopefully this situation will be resolved, and maybe it will involve a review of the discharge policy. I agree with you that anecdote does not do the patients any favours, and can only hope that the audit will give us the reliable data to ensure this happens.
The doctors, nurses and therapists on the ward should be able to tell patients such things as when to have a bath, what to do if they feel unwell and how far to walk post-op.
When a patient undergoes surgery, or is in hospital for any other reason, isn't it just part of our job to ask them who will look after them at home, will they need extra help from the social services, assess if they need a district nurse etc. etc. Don't all patients get the opportunity to speak to doctors, nurses, therapists, pharmacists prior to discharge and get given post-op information leaflets any more?
"early" discharge should not really be an option, surely patients should only be discharged when they are fit and ready to go.
Anonymous | 15-Aug-2013 11:23 am
I agree with you and we used to ensure all of this before discharging a patient when they were fit and well enough. We had weekly meetings with the social worker and OTs to discuss those due for discharge and who would need organised care and support at home.
Imagine another European country with private insurance. A few years ago I spent Christmas day with a friend and her family keeping her company and taking in a picnic to supplement Christmas lunch. She wanted to be at home and her surgeon wanted her to stay in for more physio and to re-evaluate her at the end of the month. So disappointed though she was we made the most of it for her on Chrismas Day.
On Boxing Day, during the consultant's absence the junior doctor came and booted her out against his previous advice as the insurance company refused to pay for another day, let alone until the end of the week or until she was fit enough to be discharged! The insurancce companies and not the consultants and GPs now have the final say.
Her neighbour in the two-bedded room was an elderly lady and was doing well but they came and told her one day she was discharged as the insurance would not continue to pay for her hospitalisation. she lived alone and was still not 100% mobile after her hip or knee op and had not even received suffient warning for the care and support she needed to be organised for her at home! My friend, an HCA, who had got to know her and her limitations during their hospitalisation was very concerned about her.
If there is a high re-admission rate in any speciality then shouldn't we be looking at the reasons why?
Patients should be discharged home when they are fit to do so, I've had operations in the past and do feel tired afterwards for some weeks, isn't that normal really after an anaesethic and an op. I would expect the staff to have given me advice on post-op care, wound-care and what to do is I was worried about anything, I would also access as much information as I could find prior to having an operation. What to expect afterwards should be part of the pre-op assessment.
I don't really know what an early discharge is, if staff and patients think they could recover better at home then they need the support available to allow that to happen safely, if it's not available then don't discharge patients.
little sense in carrying invasive and costly procedures and failing to inform patients of the after care they need to do themselves. it happens all the time. perhaps it is just assumed they know or can find out themselves. I just ask and chase after people if necessary until I find out all I need to know. It can be confusing when members of the care team give different advice which can also happen.
As above it is also good to get as much informaiton as possible before any procedure which can help to allay anxiety.
As a Home Health nurse I believe that it helps to have a discharge planner in the hospital plan your discharge based on the physician's orders; and to be given a personalized discharge letter with specific instructions about what you can and cannot do and for how long.
It also helps to have Home Health nursing visits for the first few weeks after surgery as they often/sometimes do in the US where I live.
Your friend must be very grateful to have you as a nurse to help them, did you have any advice to offer Eileen and did you have to help your friends a lot?
I am a district nurse and we do see patients in this situation some referred to us by the ward, some self refer. Unfortunately district nursing teams and skills are being cut as work that prevents readmission is not measured and the fragmented way in which the health service is run means each trust looks at its own individual budget and cuts services to save money for themselves without looking at the impact on other areas. I know from talking to DN trams in other parts of the country that they have already been cut and would not offer this service now anyway. We are moving from a can do service to a 'that's not in our criteria service' a qualified DN's are replaced with 'community nurses' and so called skill mix that actually equals skill dilution which is less appropriate in community where at any visit you need to be able to provide holistic care. I would suggest we audit prevention of readmission but we are far too busy ticking boxes these days. Targets now come first.
I recently went in to support my elderly neighbours. The husband the main carer and 85 fell down the stairs and broke his collar bone. It was his second fall that week. His wife has severe Parkinson's and is housebound and walks with a stick. He too mobilises with a stick. They have no family so he went to a+e on his own while I stayed and cared for his wife. When I range the emergency department to tell them about his socialhistory they were not interested. When I voiced my concerns about how was he to care for his wife and himself I was clearly told he was medically fit for discharge and so would be coming home in a taxi in his dressing gown! When I asked if they could organise support for him and his wife at home the matron told me there was no access to support at the weekend, he would have to sleep downstairs in his chair. Being a nurse I was not happy and rang OOH to tell them of my concerns and ask for help. They were brilliant and sent the community nursing team into see us when he got home. They were appalled that he was discharged with no concern for his personal safety of that of his wife. When they gotmtomthe house he was unable to move from his chair and he had not been given any painkillers. If it hadn't been for the rapid response team he would have been readmitted or something more worse may have happened to him or his wife. I am so glad I rang OOH. The community sister told me they often pick up the pieces of poor discharge. I believe A+E was purely focused on 4hr target at the detriment to my elderly neighbour. As an ex A+E nurse i was ashamed and appalled that this had happened.
Anonymous | 17-Aug-2013 12:12 pm
I have just spent the day with my elderly neighbour who was been sent home this morning with a pneumonia and temp of 39.6 C. I spoke to the sister of the ward he was discharged from, to be curtly told that he was medically fit for discharge. We have just moved into the area and the patient's wife came to our door because they had spoken to my husband last week and he mentioned that I am a nurse. Again the OOH service have been contacted and my neighbour has just been readmitted to hospital, but only after a lengthy wait in A&E, a further wait in an acute admission area and, after 7 hours back to the ward he was discharged from!! The treatment this couple have received form the sullen-faced staff has been atrocious. Whatever the reasons for poor patient experiences, they are not helped by the miserable attitudes of those who exhibited poor judgement in the first instance. Today, I am embarrassed by the behaviour of some of my colleagues towards an 83 year old very ill man and his worried wife.
anon 12.12 and 6.56
gosh, you do sound busy looking after your neighbours.
Anonymous | 18-Aug-2013 7:15 pm
a very poor reflection on the NHS..
Anonymous | 18-Aug-2013 7:15 pm
Anonymous | 17-Aug-2013 6:56 pm
That's the first time in my career that it's happened. Like I said, we have just moved into the area and the desperate neighbour only came to our door because she knew I was nurse and genuinely didn't know what to do.
I am an NHS nurse in a busy acute setting and have been for several decades. I am proud of the work I do and of the people I work with, because I know how hard we work day in and day out. So I have every right to be annoyed with those in the minority who cause such unnecessary and avoidable misery to patients. Because it doesn't matter how hard I and my colleagues work, my neighbour and her husband's experiences have been defined by the poor care they received.
Anonymous | 18-Aug-2013 8:55 pm
that doesn't alter the fact of the very poor care your neighbour received by the NHS for which, as you describe it, there is really no excuse at all and it is not the only incidence. Of course in some areas there probably still exists very good care as well,at least one would hope so, and, if you say so, I have no reason to doubt that you deliver it.
Anonymous | 18-Aug-2013 10:19 pm
"that doesn't alter the fact of the very poor care your neighbour received by the NHS....."
That was my point!
"Of course in some areas there probably still exists very good care as well,at least one would hope so..."
And that's the trouble, isn't it? You make the assertion that good care is the exception. In which case I disagree with you. Good care is the norm, but doesn't seem to warrant any mention from most people. One incidence of poor care wipes out the many everyday examples of good care which go unremarked upon and unappreciated. That is why I am angry at these particular colleagues.
Anonymous | 19-Aug-2013 7:35 am
quiite agree with you and don't suggest otherwise. i am not responsible for what 'most people' mention.
I am just disturbed by the attitude of the sister, and apparent lack of application of nursing knowledge, as you describe it and quite a few with such attitudes are reported in the media, having been bought up in a medical household with a very high sense of duty of care for others - including neighbours and friends often as a first port of call to our house for help or advice as they knew it was an 'open door'.
I once had a colleague, a highly respected cleaner, on my team when I first started on my ward so I had little chance to get to know her well but saw her contact with patients. She was so professional and kind and one of the best 'nurses' I have ever seen. I wonder whether she was not a registered nurse in her own country but without a licence to practice in the hospital where she was working or maybe had taken this job because of family commitments. she was always the first to see if a patient needed a drink, to be made comfortable or report a change in their condition. she was an excellent communicator and not afraid of speaking to a doctor or the consultant.
Very shortly after the birth of her second child she presented to A&E in the evening with a fever of 40 degrees and was sent home! The following day she was no better and consulted a doctor and was admitted to our ward and was dead within 40 hours of her admission leaving behind a toddler and a new born baby. That is something one never forgets and especially at the beginning of one's career.
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COLTON - Zion Episcopal Church, Colton, is continuing with a major restoration project of its historic church.
Started in 2010 the project has included a rewiring of the church, the installation of an underground drainage system tying into the new municipal system, and the restoration of its slate roof as part of its drainage system. The roof renovation was completed in late November.
The nearly 130-year-old slate roof was replaced with a system from EcoStar in Holland, N.Y. The material is 80 percent post industrial recycled rubber and plastic. It has been custom cut by RSI Roofing in Gouverneur, and RSI has designed the three colors to exactly match the original color configuration on both the main and side roofs.
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Built in 1883 as a memorial to Elizabeth Clarkson, member of Potsdams prominent Clarkson family, the Zion Episcopal Church is architecturally significant as a remarkably intact and distinguished example of late-19th century ecclesiastical architecture, which reflects an English parish church inspiration with Victorian Gothic elements. The building is constructed in rough-cut ashlar masonry of red Potsdam Sandstone taken from the familys sandstone quarries. In the area of Social History, The Zion Episcopal Church, which began its life as a mission of Trinity Episcopal Church (included in this multiple property listing) for the Adirondack workers and their families, is significant as a testament to the lives of those workers and to the missionary zeal of the mother church.
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The cornerstone for the impressive red Potsdam Sandstone church was laid on July 16, 1883, Elizabeth Clarksons birthday, with approximately 1,000 people in attendance.
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A 26-year-old man who claimed he shot a gang member because he feared for himself and his family was sentenced to more than three years in prison but was released Friday for time served in jail.
Frank Sotelo III initially was charged with murdering William David Speer, 21, of Ventura, on Jan. 29, 2011. But upon further investigation, the District Attorney's Office maintains the evidence indicated it wasn't murder, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutor Thomas Dunlevy said prosecutors couldn't disprove it was self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt.
On Feb. 27, Sotelo pleaded guilty to discharging a weapon with gross negligence, possession of a firearm by a felon and carrying a loaded weapon.
Speer and several men were outside Sotelo's house when he was shot once under the armpit shortly after 10 p.m., according to Sotelo's lawyer Rod Kodman.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Kevin McGee said Sotelo who has been in custody since January 2011 would be released Friday evening.
The judge sentenced Sotelo to the maximum sentence of three years and eight months for the weapon charges but gave him 1,402 days jail time served, plus good-time jail credits.
Sotelo, who pleaded guilty in 2009 to receiving stolen property in an unrelated felony case, was on probation when the shooting occurred.
The judge gave him four years and four months behind bars on the previous felony charge but also said Sotelo had served the time.
The victim's relatives asked the judge to sentence him to the maximum sentence, saying that Sotelo was on probation when he killed Speer, a member of the Ventura Avenue gang. They said Speer was a loving family member who had a son and would be missed by his relatives.
"I truly believe that he is going to kill someone else," said Speer's aunt, Nancy Padilla. "But I know that the man above is someone he is going to answer to."
Steve Padilla said his nephew, Speer, was "not the best kid in the world" but he was shot by another gang member.
Kodman said there is no evidence that his client was a gang member, saying the Oxnard and Simi Valley police departments had no information that Sotelo was a gang member or associate when he checked with them.
Judge McGee denied Kodman's request to remove a statement in the probation sentencing report that noted Sotelo had gang affiliations.
Kodman said Sotelo was terrified by the Ventura Avenue gang members, who wrote "sinister graffiti" and were making deadly assaults and murder threats against him and his family.
The problems began after Sotelo's 15-year-old sister witnessed the fatal gang-related stabbing of a 17-year-old on July 12, 2010 at Bell Way and Olive Street in Ventura.
"His sister had death threats and subsequent to that, they went after Frank because his sister was talking to the police," Kodman said.
After his arrest, Kodman said Sotelo was attacked by Ventura Avenue gang members who were in custody for unrelated crimes in the courtroom in 2011.
"He's had consistent death threats while he has been locked up inside," Kodman said.
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(S18E12) Would you prefer what's in the covered dish or what's behind Door Number Two? Okay, I lied. There is no door, just the dish. But, just think a minute ... if there was a door, perhaps Coach would be behind it pledging his never-ending Dragon Slayer hot love and devotion to you! That would make it all worthwhile, wouldn't it? This was the Survivor auction week, always a world of gastronomical goodies. What I'd like to see is Coach on a platter at Tribal Council. Is that asking too much?
Greasy food and schmaltz to wash it down
I was kind of surprised there were no really bad trick dishes in the covered plates. Usually there are bugs or something. I suppose chicken hearts were the trick, but they're not so bad unless they're raw. They go well with gizzards!
But the real story was the schmaltz. Jeff announced the last auction item and it was a (product placement) cell phone. One person could get a video from home and it was the only time they could pool money. Aww, how sweet was it that every single one of them gave their money to Taj? It all turned out all right in the end -- Taj went to Exile Island with her husband while everyone else got a visit from their loved ones at camp. Tearjerking gag me with a spoon material, eh?
I should mention that Coach's "loved one" was his assistant coach. It doesn't really surprise me that he didn't invite a woman. What woman in her right mind would be with him? What man, for that matter, either? He's a Coach who could only be loved by an assistant coach. And, no one calls him Dragon Slayer except himself. He's so not ruling the game!
Whoa Stephen!
The immunity challenge baffled me as I watched it. I tried to remember the math symbols, and there was no way. I was just sitting in my recliner with no stress. While I understand his explanation for memorizing the symbols, there's no way I could remember which symbols I assigned which numbers to and two phone numbers. Y'know, I wouldn't mind if Stephen won this all.
Alliance? What alliance?
I've given Stephen credit for brains and thinking ahead all along, not so much JT. I thought earlier in the game that JT's honesty and country manners would do him in. Ah, no. He's turned into a conniver. I love it! He keeps lying blatantly to Coach (who's not such an example of integrity as his deluded mind thinks). JT and Stephen have an alliance along the line of Rudy and Richard -- loyal to the end and may the best man win. Add Taj in there as the third and there's your final three.
Debbie is shrewd, but wasn't smart enough to realize that they're never going to trust her. Erinn is most likely the fourth of the final crew as she came to them right after the tribe merge. She voted with the Jalapao block this week. Then there's Coach. He's delusional and still thinks it's an alpha male grunt game. Well, if Stephen fits that image, it could be.
Tonight the editing tried to show it to be a struggle between booting Coach or Debbie. In the end, it was bye-bye Debbie. I really want to see those fireworks from Coach next week because the old Jalapao alliance voted to take out his ally Debbie instead of his choice of Taj. Of course, Debbie was sure they were all voting Coach, so she was the sole vote for Coach. So he unanimously betrayed! Bwahaha!
As long as Coach doesn't win, I'd be okay with any of the rest winning.
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I was born and grew up on the edge of the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England (www.peakdistrict.org) and received my geographical education at the University of Sheffield (B.Sc. (Hons.) - 1966, M.A. (Social Science) - 1968) and at The Ohio State University (Ph.D. - 1974). I came to Queen's University in 1971 as a one-year replacement for someone on sabbatical leave and never left! From 1993-2004, I served as Head of Department.
At Queen's, I am also affiliated with the graduate Industrial Relations program in the School of Policy Studies. During sabbatical leaves I have held visiting appointments at the University of Sussex (1977-78), University of Wales, Swansea and UWIST (1985-86) and the University of Manchester (1999). In Winter Term 2007, I was the Invited Visiting Professor in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University.
I am very active in the Queen's University Faculty Association (QUFA) – the union representing academic staff at Queen's - and served as QUFA President 2005-07. Currently, I serve as a Trustee of the Kingston and District Labour Council.
Over my years at Queen's I have taught several different courses in economic and urban geography as well as methodology. I have always enjoyed teaching and I am a past recipient of both the W. Barnes and the Frank Knox Awards for Teaching Excellence at Queen's. For the past dozen or more years my administrative responsibilities in the department and the university have meant that I have not done as much teaching as I would like. Most recently, I have taught two undergraduate courses, GPHY 228 (Geographies of the Global Political Economy) and GPHY 332 (Cities, Regions and Planning in Capitalist Societies) and a graduate course, GPHY 881 (Industrial Restructuring and Locational Change).
Graduate and post-doctoral research that I have supervised includes: community unionism as a geographically-based model for union organizing; the restructuring of the automobile components industry in Ontario; labour struggles over the closure of the Cape Breton coal industry; the role of the Canadian Autoworkers Union in attracting new auto industry investment; work cultures in the Northern Ontario tree planting industry; the restructuring of workplace governance in the forest products industry in Cascadia; precarious work in the restaurant industry; and the growth in self-employment in Canada.
My primary research interest focuses on geographical aspects of the political economy of contemporary economic and social change. I am especially interested in the geographical consequences of the contemporary restructuring and reorganization of production and work. My empirical research has focused primarily on the automobile industry.
Auto Industry Research: In collaboration with a Queen's colleague (Pradeep Kumar, Industrial Relations), I have had a long-standing program of research on the implications of globalization, technological change and work reorganization for automobile industry workers and their unions. One focus of our research has been to explain the local diversity and unevenness that exist in the way that labour-management relations and shop-floor work practices are "remade" at the plant-level in response to industry-wide processes of restructuring and the introduction of new production methods.
More recently, my automotive industry research also has been undertaken in collaboration with Tod Rutherford (Syracuse University). Holmes, Rutherford and Kumar completed a three-year study of the automotive parts cluster in southern Ontario as part of a major SSHRC-funded collaborative research project titled "Innovation Systems and Economic Development: The Role of Local and Regional Clusters in Canada" and led by Meric Gertler and David Wolfe (University of Toronto).
I am a member of a research team lead out of McMaster University by Dr. Charlotte Yates that recently (2012) received a large grant from Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) for a five-year project titled "Manufacturing policy and the Canadian automotive sector: analysis and options for growth, sustainability and global reach."
I also belong to the Paris-based Groupe d'Étude et de recherche Permanent sur l'Industrie et les Salariés de l'Automobile (GERPISA) (www.gerpisa.org) an international network for research on the automobile industry.
Work, Employment and Labour Relations Research: I am a member of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail (CRIMT) (www.crimt.ca) based out of Université Laval, Université de Montréal and HEC Montréal and a co-applicant on the large collaborative CRIMT research project Rethinking Institutions for Work and Employment in a Global Era (Lead PI: Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal) which received renewed multiyear funding under the SSHRC MCRI program in January 2008. Under this research program Tod Rutherford (Syracuse University) and I are developing research on workplace governance in Canada-United States cross-border regions.
Climate Change and Work: A relatively new line of research for me is into the impacts of climate change for the future of employment and work in Canada. This research is being undertaken under a SSHRC CURA funded project titled Work in a Warming World led by Dr. Carla Lipsig-Mummé (York University) which focuses not only on the loss of traditional jobs and growth in new "green jobs" but also on how existing labour processes might be "greened" and the role unions might play in this process (www.workinawarmingworld.yorku.ca/).
Graduate Student Research Opportunities
I welcome enquiries from interested students in any of the three research areas listed above.
The CRIMT program offers very generous graduate student funding opportunities in the form of both fellowships and fieldwork support. I am especially interested in attracting new graduate students to work on topics related to this project.
Similarly, the recently funded APC project (2012-2017) will provide financial support for graduate students wishing to work on topics related to the development of policy for the Canadian automotive industry.
Selected Publications
Holmes, J. (with Austin Hracs) 2013. "The Transportation Equipment Industry: Climate and Work" Chapter in Climate@Work: Rethinking work in the warming world Toronto: Fernwood Press (in press)
Holmes, J. 2013. "The Forestry Industry" Chapter in Climate@Work: Rethinking work in the warming world Toronto: Fernwood Press (in press)
Sweeney, B.A. and J. Holmes 2012. "Problematizing Labour's Agency: Rescaling Collective Bargaining in British Columbia Pulp and Paper Mills" Antipode, (DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.00988.x)
Rutherford, T. and Holmes, J. 2012. "(Small) Differences That (Still) Matter? Cross Border Regions and Work Place Governance in the Southern Ontario and U.S. Mid-West Automotive Industry" Regional Studies, ( DOI:10.1080/00343404.2011.653334)
Tufts, S. and J. Holmes. 2009. "Student Workers and the 'New Economy' in Mid-sized Cities: The Cases of Peterborough and Kingston, Ontario" in Noreen Pupo and Mark Thomas (eds.) Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st. Century. Toronto: Broadview Press (UTP Educational) pp.129-148
Rutherford, T. and Holmes, J. 2008. "Engineering Networks: University-Industry Networks in Southern Ontario Automotive Industry Clusters" Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 1, 247-264
Sweeney B.A. and Holmes, J. 2008. "Work and Life in the Clearcut: Communities of Practice in the Northern Ontario Tree Planting Industry" The Canadian Geographer, 52(2), 206-221
Rutherford, T. and Holmes, J. 2008. ""The flea on the tail of the dog": Power in Global Production Networks and the Restructuring of Canadian Automotive Clusters", Journal of Economic Geography 8(4), 519-544.
Rutherford, T. and Holmes, J. 2007. "We simply have to do that stuff for our survival": Labour, Firm Innovation and Cluster Governance in the Canadian Automotive Parts Industry, Antipode, 39(1), 194-221.
Rutherford, T. and Holmes, J. 2007. "Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, and Learning in the Formation and Evolution of Industrial Clusters: The Case of the Windsor, Ontario Tool, Die, and Mould Cluster", International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 7, 208-232.
Holmes, J, T. Rutherford, and S. Fitzgibbon 2005. 'Innovation in the Automotive Tool, Die and Mould Industry: A Case Study of the Windsor-Essex Region', in D. Wolfe and M. Lucas eds. Global Networks and Local Linkages: The Paradox of Cluster Development in an Open Economy. Kingston: Queen's School of Policy Studies Innovation Systems Research Series. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 119-154.
Holmes, J. 2004. "The Auto Pact from 1965 to the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA)," in Maureen Irish ed. The Auto Pact: Investment, Labour and the WTO,. The Hague : Kluwer Law International, pp. 3-21.
Holmes, J. 2004. "Re-scaling Collective Bargaining: Union Responses to Restructuring in the North American Auto Industry", Geoforum, 35(1): 9-21
Holmes, J. 2000. "Regional Economic Integration in North America" in Gordon L. Clark, M.P. Feldman, and M.S. Gertler, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 649-667.
Preston, V, D. Rose, G. Norcliffe and J. Holmes. 2000. "Shiftwork, Childcare, and Domestic Work: Divisions of Labour in Canadian Paper Mill Communities." Gender, Place and Culture, 7 (1), 5-29. (reprinted as Chapter 14 in M.S. Kimmel and A. Aronson and A. Kaler (eds) (2007) The Gendered Society Reader (Canadian Edition). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
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