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Achilles tendinitis
Achilles tendinitis is when the tendon that connects the back of your leg to your heel becomes swollen and painful near the bottom of the foot. This tendon is called the Achilles tendon. It is used for walking, running, and jumping.
Alternative Names
Tendinitis of the heel
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
There are two large muscles in the calf. These muscles are important for walking. They create the power needed to push off with the foot or go up on the toes. The large Achilles tendon connects these muscles to the heel.
Heel pain is most often due to overuse of the foot. Rarely it is caused by an injury.
Tendinitis due to overuse is most common in younger people. It can occur in walkers, runners, or other athletes.
Achilles tendinitis may be more likely to occur if:
- Suddenly increase the amount or intensity of an activity
- Your calf muscles are very tight (not stretched out)
- You run on hard surfaces such as concrete
- You run too often
- You jump a lot (such as when playing basketball)
- You do not have shoes with proper support
- Your foot suddenly turns in or out
Tendinitis from arthritis is more common in middle-aged and elderly people. A bone spur or growth may form in the back of the heel bone. This may irritate the Achilles tendon and cause pain and swelling.
Symptoms include pain in the heel and along the tendon when walking or running. The area may feel painful and stiff in the morning.
The tendon may be painful to touch or move. The area may be swollen and warm. You may have trouble standing up on one toe.
Signs and tests
The doctor will perform a physical exam. The doctor will look for tenderness along the tendon and pain in the area of the tendon when you stand on your toes.
X-rays can help diagnose bone problems.
An MRI scan may be done if your doctor is thinking about surgery or is worried about the tear in the Achilles tendon.
The main treatments for Achilles tendinitis do not involve surgery. It is important to remember that it may take at least 2 to 3 months for the pain to go away.
Try putting ice over the Achilles tendon for 15 to 20 minutes, two to three times per day. Remove the ice if the area gets numb.
Changes in activity may help manage the symptoms:
- Decrease or stop any activity that causes you pain.
- Run or walk on smoother and softer surfaces.
- Switch to biking, swimming, or other activities that put less stress on the Achilles tendon.
Your health care provider or physical therapist can show you stretching exercises for the Achilles tendon.
They may also suggest the following changes in your footwear:
- A brace or boot or cast to keep the heel and tendon still and allow the swelling to go down
- Heel lifts placed in the shoe under the heel
- Shoes that are softer in the areas over and under the heel cushion
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin and ibuprofen can help with pain or swelling. Talk with your health care provider.
If these treatments do not improve symptoms, you may need surgery to remove inflamed tissue and abnormal areas of the tendon. Surgery also can be used to remove the bone spur that is irritating the tendon.
Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) may be an alternative to surgery for people who have not responded to other treatments. This treatment uses low-dose sound waves.
Expectations (prognosis)
Lifestyle changes usually help improve symptoms. However, symptoms may return if you do not limit activities that cause pain, or if you do not maintain the strength and flexibility of the tendon.
Achilles tendinitis may make you more likely to have an Achilles rupture. This condition usually causes a sharp pain, like someone hit you in the back of the heel with a stick. Surgical repair is necessary, but difficult because the tendon is not normal.
Calling your health care provider
If you have pain in the heel around the Achilles tendon that is worse with activity, contact your health care provider for evaluation and possible treatment for tendinitis.
Maintaining strength and flexibility in the muscles of the calf will help reduce the risk of tendinitis. Overusing a weak or tight Achilles tendon makes you more likely to develop tendinitis.
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Baer GS, Keene JS. Tendon injuries of the foot and ankle. In: DeLee JC, Drez D Jr., Miller MD, eds. DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2009:section D.
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|Bemidji State University 41st annual Pow Wow. Hosted by the Council of Indian Students. Will take place at the Jon Glass Field House. Free to all persons. Doors open 5pm Friday, 10am Sat and Sun (events starting at 12). The powwow will be located at John Glas Field House, located by the baseball field. Grand entry will be 1pm on Saturday and Sunday with registration starting at 11am and closing at 1pm. Must be dressed to registrar. For vending information, refer to the flyer. Feast will be held 5pm on Saturday, only. Princess and Brave age limits will be 10-17 and winner will be expected to represent BSU in many ways, that will be discussed on the application. Lots of specials for adolescents!!!!!!!!! great prizes and more!!! Only the first 15 drums with 4 drummers will be accepted (no drum hopping). Host drum: TC Boyz MC's: Tom Cain, Mickey Hodges Spiritual Advisor: Daryl Kingbird Arena Director: Darrell Northbird All of this is brought to you by the Council of Indian Students - BSU
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"cheap and reasonable enough place to stay for a night. Breakfast was decent, you can book pantanal tours direct with the hotel, then you stay free, also a free bus station pick/up/taxi which is a good distance from the…"Read all Hostel Campo Grande reviews
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The Hostel Campo Grande and Ecological Expeditions head office are located at the same address in downtown in front of the old bus station.
There is a new bus station in Campo Grande located far from centre and in an area that do not offer any services as restaurants, bars, etc. Breakfast to give you is from 600am to 930am.
Please not book any tours to Pantanal or Bonito before visit our office we cover any offers
We can pick you up at the bus terminal or at the airport in Campo Grande free of charge.
Please let me know soon is possible your arrival details.
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* Feminine/Masculine dorms for four people with fan or air conditioner.
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* Free pick up from the airport or from the bus station.
* Breakfast included.
* Swimming pool with bar.
* Visa and Master card accept.
* Pantanal Trekking with free night when book with Ecological Expeditions.
* Reception Service 24 hours open: information and Hostel reservations free of charge.
* Internet access free with warless Wi-Fi area and Sky television.
* Kitchen and washing machine for users' guest.
* Bus, trains and airline tickets reservations and information about the way to Bolivia.
Campo Grande is our start point to travel into the Pantanal and Bonito.
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Hostel Campo Grande - is location Central area of city Campo Grande
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Rua Joaquim Nabuco 185 Centre - Campo Grande
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With a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd packed inside the high school's gym Monday afternoon, the Eminence community remembered the life of Dewayne Douglas and said a teary-eyed goodbye to the man that is better known as Coach D.
Douglas, who has served multiple positions at Eminence Independent School since 1991, died of an apparent heart attack in the early morning hours Friday, which shocked the school and the community. He was 51.
The Henry County girls' basketball team lost two important district outings last week — Carroll County on Tuesday and Owen County on Friday — to drop its record to 6-7 overall and 1-4 against 31st District opponents.
Eminence's Dre Banta scored a career-high 29 points and hit seven three-pointers against Spencer County last Tuesday night on the road, but the sophomore and his teammates fell just two points short as they took a 53-51 loss in one of their better performances of the season.
The only blemish for the Warriors came during the second quarter when Spencer used an 8-0 spurt in a four-minute stretch to gain a comfortable advantage. At the half, Spencer was ahead 22-16.
According to the latest Courier-Journal Litkenhous Ratings that were recently released, both Henry County basketball teams — boys and girls — are 13th in the 8th Region, while both Eminence teams are ranked 16th.
The Litkenhous, which is released each week during the season, is a computerized power ranking of each team in Kentucky based on a formula that includes record, strength of schedule and margin of victory. Games against out-of-state opponents are not included.
After winning their season opener and dropping the next eight, the Eminence Warriors jumped back on the winning side of things with a big 59-33 outing over Covington Latin last Tuesday night on their home court. It was their first check in the win column in almost a month.
While there are some things I can manage to control — organizing a basketball game, planning a party, finishing off the leftovers at the dinner table — there are some things I should obviously never, ever be in charge of. Just ask my wife Sandra.
They came in jeans and shirts, ties and suits. They came as current players, former players, students, coaches, family and friends. They filed in Eminence's gym, found a seat in the stands and glared out onto the court almost like they were there to watch a game.
In what was supposed to be just one game Saturday afternoon, two different opponents showed up which left the Eminence girls' basketball team playing a double header against Spencer County and Riverside Christian.
Riverside was originally scheduled but scratched when it was thought the school that's located in Breathitt County couldn't make the trip, so Spencer was scheduled in its place. But when Saturday rolled around, both schools showed up. Eminence decided to go forth with both games.
In the first boys' Litkenhous Ratings of the season that were released earlier this week, Henry County High School's basketball team is ranked 11th in the 8th Region while Eminence High School is ranked 16th.
The Litkenhous is a computerized power ranking of each high school team in Kentucky based on a formula that includes record, strength of schedule and margin of victory. Games against out-of-state opponents are not included in the ratings.
The Eminence boys' basketball team lost its final two games of the Gallatin Steel Invitational Monday and Tuesday to leave the invitational at 0-4 and 1-8 overall.
The Warriors, whose one win this season was against Kentucky School for the Deaf in their opener Dec. 2, lost to Gallatin County (80-32) last Saturday, Meade County (69-43) last Sunday, Ludlow (59-47) last Monday and Spencer County (52-44) last Tuesday. Since the opening win, the Warriors have now dropped eight straight.
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Foreclosures & Bank Failures
Between 1980 and 1994, more than 1,600 banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) were closed. While that was the highest number of failures since the FDIC was established in 1934, it was much less than the failures that lead to the establishment of the FDIC. At the height of the Great Depression in 1933, it's estimated that more than 4,000 banks failed. That was the year the Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office as president, and his first official act was to declare a "bank holiday" to stop runs on banks angry depositors descending on banks to demand all of their savings immediately. In all, 9,000 banks failed during the 30s.
While the bank crisis of the 80s didn't reach the level of the 30s, it was still a severe shock to the agricultural system. In 1983 and '84, protestors targeted several foreclosure auctions, made ridiculously low bids a nickel for a tractor and intimidated legitimate bidders. In Springfield, Colorado, sheriff's deputies used tear gas to break up a court-ordered sale of a farm.
In 1985, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad declared a state of "economic emergency" and imposed a year-long moratorium on foreclosures in his state. There were attempts in other farm states to impose moratoriums there.
In August 1984, the Farmers Home Administration began their own moratorium on foreclosures in nine Midwestern states where the agency had acquired failed farms. They extended the moratorium in December, but only for certain counties. Out of nearly 3,000 counties in the nation, the agency said that farm sales would be prohibited in only 79 of them 24 of those counties were in Nebraska.
But moratoriums often only delayed the inevitable. By the end of the decade, farmers who had been turned down for new or restructured loans by commercial banks had turned to the Farmer's Home Administration (FmHA), the government's "lender of last resort." By 1990, even the FmHA had initiated foreclosure proceedings against an estimated 8,000 farmers, up from 5,000 in '89 and 1,500 in '88. The agency insisted that it was trying to restructure or write off much of the debt for many of its borrowers, but thousands were still forced to leave farming.
Of the 1,617 commercial banks that failed between 1980 and 1995, nearly 60 percent were in only five states that have large agricultural economies California, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. Nebraska lost 33 banks during that period, almost 7 percent of the total number of banks before 1980.
Texas alone lost 599 banks, almost 30 percent of the total number of banks in the state before 1980. That figure is inflated a little by the fact that Texas did not allow "branch banking" at the time, so if a bank owner wanted to expand he or she had to charter a new bank rather than open a branch.
What happened in Texas illustrates that several factors came together to create the bank crisis of the 80s. In addition to the slow down in agriculture, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Wyoming and Alaska were all hit hard by a collapse in energy prices that happened the same time as the farming crisis. There was also a downturn in commercial real estate activity that contributed to bank problems in California, the Northeast and the Southwest.
Mark Kaliff (left) was in college in the mid-80s and found himself in classes with older farmers who were studying for new careers. "Times were tough, and they were looking at other options that they could go in to," Mark says.
Hank Kobza (right) was one of those forced into a new occupation, auctioneering. In the 80s, he lost his farm when the David City Nebraska bank went under and found himself auctioning off his neighbors' possessions when they went under. Hank says he tried (and still does) to get the best prices he could for his clients. "To me, one of the things we pride ourselves in is honesty. Be honest with the people you're dealing with. In a small community, if you aren't honest they'll sort you out in a hurry."
While a number of factors contributed to banking collapse of the 80s, the government's solution to those problems may have planted the seeds for credit crisis of the late 2000s. In the 80s, the Republicans controlled Congress and the White House, and they deregulated the financial industry in a number of significant ways. In 2009, those measures were singled out as a major cause of the financial collapse.
In comparison with the 80s, the FDIC closed 124 banks through the first 11 months of 2009. Analysts said they expected hundreds more to collapse in the months ahead, and they suggested that all of the nation's 8,100 lenders were in fragile condition.
Written by Bill Ganzel, the Ganzel Group. First published in 2009. A partial bibliography of sources is here.
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A Perfect Painting At Any Cost: "In The Picture" in Three Cases of Murder (Favorite Horror Short Films, Part III)By srbissette on October 24th, 2008
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Continuing my Halloween season coverage of personal all-time favorite short horror films, in anticipation of next week's Halloween online debut of Christopher P. Garetano's short film adaptation of my Goreshriek #1/Taboo 1 story "Cottonmouth", I give you one of the rarest of all genre jewels: "In the Picture", the opening story in the British anthology feature Three Cases of Murder (1954).
Released almost a full decade after the international success of the Ealing Studios portmanteau classic Dead of Night (1945) — which would have yielded an episode or two on my 'best horror shorts' list if the whole didn't work as well as it does as a unit, the whole being greater than the sum of its considerable parts — Three Cases of Murder is an essentially forgotten film today.
I was only aware of it thanks to novelist and screenwriter Robert (Psycho) Bloch's references to this film as one of his personal favorites. Bloch noted the film in an adult magazine article from the late '50s/early '60s reprinted by editor Forrest J. Ackerman in the venerable Famous Monsters of Filmland. I clung to Bloch's every word in that short article, committing the horror films he cited to memory and seeking them out over the decades. This was, without a doubt, among the most elusive — but once found, among the most rewarding, too.
Unlike the celebrated Dead of Night, Three Cases of Murder doesn't intergrate its trio of adaptations in any way save for the link of a narrator (host Eammon Andrews) introducing each tale with his aplomb ("Well, that's the way I'd like to do my murders… short, sharp and efficient…". The absolute stand-out story here is the first, the very story Bloch singled out: "In the Picture", adapted by Donald B. Wilson from a story by Roderick Wilkinson.
In a British art museum, the glass over a framed landscape painting shatters, and a man (Alan Badel in a role credited as 'Mr. X') dressed in what appears to be an Edwardian suit materializes in front of the exhibit, carefully plucking a shard of glass from the frame before sitting down on the bench facing the eerie masterwork. A guided tour moves into the room, the guard noting for the museum visitors a rather alarming litany of key collection items now missing from the room: a Turner painting, a sculpture, etc. After noting the broken glass on the floor, the guide hustles the tour group out of the room and the inexplicable accident — a repeat incident — is hastily reported as the curious man on the bench watches.
His interest sparked by the unusual devotion to the painting demonstrated by the museum guard and guide — whose name is Jarvis (Hugh Pryse) — the mysterious gentleman in period clothing reciprocates Jarvis's fealty to the rather foreboding landscape by enticing the fellow into the painting itself, actually walking him up the furrowed road and beneath the canopy of fog to the door of the mansion. Director Wendy Toye, cinematographer Georges Périnal and editor Gerald Turney-Smith work considerable onscreen magic with this alluring walk into the portrait, a feat accomplished entirely via the mesmerizing merger of Badel's seductive voiceover, a gracefully simple photographic scheme (the camera hones in and arcs up until the texture of the paint itself is visible, intent all the way on the paneled door) and the succinct culmination of both in the knocking at the painted mansion's door with Mr. X's cane.
Once inside, though, the real black magic begins as Jarvis meets the inhabitants of the painting's cavernous abode and he (and we) divine what, precisely, is going on in this uncanny canvas limbo. Here are all the missing museum pieces, large and small. The nature of this afterlife — a sort of damnation within the painting itself, an utterly original conceit that still seems startlingly fresh and disturbing — takes time to unfold, edging from an almost fey queasy whimsy to increasingly ominous revelations. I don't want to give too much away; suffice to say what begins as a series of riddles escalates into breathtaking cruelty without a misstep.
Leueen MacGrath and Eddie Byrne (whose 90+ roles in British film and television included inspectors in Jack the Ripper and the Hammer The Mummy, both 1959, and an unfortunate doctor in Richard Gordon's Island of Terror, 1966) play the other inhabitants of the painting, and an odd pair they are, too. MacGrath pines for warmth and a means of lighting a candle Byrne hoards, intent as he is upon his insect and taxidermy specimens; Badel cares only for his painting and how to enhance his work from beyond the grave, while Jarvis would really, really rather go home, thank you very much.
The ensemble playing is perfectly attuned; Paul Sheriff's spare production design and Doreen Carwithen's score play their key roles, too, but the whole works because of director Toye's flawless orchestration of every thread into a deliciously caustic tapestry. The imaginative details sneak up upon the viewer — and Jarvis — in calculated degrees: one can scarcely stand it as Jarvis is forfeited for the undead painter's need to grace the window of his painting with a light, a dear commodity in limbo.
Having achieved this grace note, the painter returns to the gallery to contemplate his painting anew, only to find a need for a new devotee of his work, someone willing to give her all to balance the composition now that the light is in the window…
Photo: Orson Welles as Lord Mountdrago, dancing on a cloud in a dream…
Make no mistake, this first corker of a story is the crown jewel of Three Cases of Murder. After such a crafty cup of tea, the lightweight "You Killed Elizabeth" (directed by David Eady, scripted by Sidney Carroll from a story by Brett Halliday) evaporates from memory almost as quickly as it unreels, though the flamboyant performances of Badel and top-billed Orson Welles and a couple of marvelous dream sequences spark director George More O'Ferrall's segment "Lord Mountdrago", adapted from the W. Somerset Maugham story.
This climactic segment received the most attention from critics during the film's original theatrical release, and it's still grand fun, further blessed by the presence of genre favorite André Morell in its cast. Rumors persist that Welles had a hand in the direction of this episode, and anything's possible — this tale has a supernatural element as well, as the aristocratic Cabinet minister Lord Mountdrago (Welles) wields his formidable oratory skills to destroy the career of his charismatic Labour opponent (Alan Badel) in Parliament. Decades before Freddie Kreuger, Badel seems to enter Mountdrago's dreams to exact his revenge: is this real, or a manifestation of Mountdrago's guilt?
Photo: Jane Austin's Pride & Prejudice with Alan Badel as Darcy, Jane Downs as Elizabeth Bennet; BBC, 1958
Producers Ian Dalrymple, Alexander Paal and Hugh Perceval's Wessex Films shot the trio of tales at Shepperton Studios, mounting a modest but quite handsome production now buried in the Janus Film collection and British Lion Film Corporation vaults. It's a rarity indeed, and one well worth ferreting out.
What malingers long after viewing is "In the Picture" and its peculiar purgatory, which is particularly resonate for anyone who's an artist themselves. Would I want to be trapped in the last image I commit to paper? "There are many brands of damnation," the painter forever trapped in (and rather happily consigned to fussing with) his final painting explains to the sadly over-his-head Jarvis. "Out here we have more varieties of it than you have pickles…" Badel delivers every chilling verbal twist of the blade with uncanny precision, his every gesture revealing another personality trait and element of this mad perfectionist's back story. Alan Badel was a frequent performer on British screens large and small (including his turn as Darcy in BBC's 1958 six-chapter miniseries adaptation of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice, which I'd love to find a way to screen and share with Marge one day; she's a real Jane Austin buff).
I was most familiar with his face and voice from seeing Children of the Damned (1963) in my formative years, lending support to that sleeper's tragic Cold War parable. Badel holds his own alongside Welles in the final of tale in Three Cases of Murder, but his role as the furtively manipulative obsessed painter has permanently fixed him into my mind. It's a nimble performance, attentive to detail and a glorious feat of storytelling in and of itself, a brilliant tour de force and among the best in the genre.
I'd say "In the Picture" is definitely 'not to be missed' if it weren't so damned difficult to see the film. Alerted as a mere lad by Robert Bloch's mention of the film in Famous Monsters, I caught the film once and only once on late-night TV as a teenager and lept at the chance to revisit the film when it surfaced briefly on vhs back in July 1995 from Home Vision at a sell-through price. That release barely made a ripple in the vast, cool and indifferent marketplace that cared not a whit about this Orson Welles curio; had I not been a shareholder at First Run Video with an inside track to the monthly new release lists, I'd have never known it was even on video. Here's hoping Three Cases of Murder is resurrected from the limbo its consigned to at present… Watch for it!


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'Finding nurses who will speak out is like hunting for Easter eggs'
My daughter stops me: "Dad, Easter is about Jesus dying and being resurrected right?"
"Yes" I said confidently.
"And Passover is totally different but happens around the same time."
"Uh huh". I now look around for her mum who definitely drew religion when we divided up areas of parental responsibility.
"Last week it was Buddha's birthday."
"Was it?"
"Yep. Bit of a coincidence don't you think? All the different religions having special days at the same time. Do you think all the religious people got together and decided to have their festivals at the same time so everyone would be off work?"
I like her thinking – the bigger picture, interfaith collaboration. And I like the idea of loads of religious people sitting round in a cafe saying "April? Do you have anything on in April?" But I also notice how unknowing I felt in the face of religious questions, how I wanted her to stray back to something a bit like sociology, to organising things so everyone gets a few days off work every four months.
We often make sense of the world on our own terms don't we? It reassures us, helps us feel close to being in control? But I wonder if it also draws us away from areas of thinking or acting where we might feel less able? Politics for example. Because it seems that so often when the discussion strays toward the political, nursing feels ill at ease and retreats or at least reframes the political into something more homely, like standards or professionalism.
I think it's telling that while the National Union of Teachers has moved quickly to oppose the suggestion of regionalising pay and doctors have been vocal and consistent in their opposition to the Health and Social Care Act and their defence of the NHS, nurses have been relatively quiet. It was also telling that an article on nursingtimes.net revealing that Health Secretary Andrew Lansley would address the Royal College of Nursing Congress was greeted as an opportunity to express anger – a vicarious anger given the small numbers who will be there. We know there are strong feelings but we don't know how to express them, so nursing's political expression will undoubtedly consist of some pursed lips and maybe a slow handclap.
I have always thought it was a lack of political confidence that quietened the largest profession in the public services. A lack of confidence borne of a history of deferring to medicine, men or managers has meant that even engaging with the political world feels like a step too far. But it isn't just confidence is it?
I know there are many nurses who are politically astute, engaged, intelligent and able – but they do not find themselves speaking or acting on behalf of nurses or nursing. It seems to me the very structure of the profession prevents the politically articulate from ever finding themselves in a position to act.
The RCN tends toward professional rather than political voices – perhaps because it primarily sees itself as a professional organisation – and Unison tends toward generic rather than specialist campaigning. We do not have a tradition of, or a clear training ground for, political activity, for dissent, for engagement.
Nurses have a capacity for creativity, moral clarity and personal courage. In theory they could thrive politically in a progressive and constructive way but something about nursing prevents that expression. Given the government assault on health services, wouldn't now be a very good time to do something about that?
Mark Radcliffe is a senior lecturer and author of Gabriel's Angel.
Readers' comments (16)
It's somewhat odd that Mark talks about nurses not speaking out, and then in the latter part of his article suggests a Government 'assault' on Health Services. Well pardon me Mark, but I don't see it as an assault - rather an attempt to trim the NHS and its bureaucracy to a more manageable beast - and they should be lauded for doing so.
Sure it will never be perfect - these types of changes seldom are, but at least this time it is not change for change sake, and actually looks to have a meaningful outcome.
As a nurse, I get a little annoyed at people like Mark - who are instilling this mindset into our nurses of the future presumably - who just want us to speak up to have a go at the Government (particularly, it would appear, if it is not a Left wing one!) when the Government actually deserves praise for some of its initiatives. Not all of us are angry with the Government - more the mismanagement that occurs at a local and regional level - over which the Government despairs of too!
I wish I had the confidence to speak out in the work place but the power of management can make life uncomfortable by moving your wards, even your hospitals within the same trust and according to my contract they can do just that.
I think that is a major factor in nurses not speaking out.
Also now the response is if you don't like it leave as there are many nurses looking for a post at the moment.
How true My daughters had her hours changed She works 20 hours a week over 31/2 days Shes now been told she cant have her half day anymore and hours will be adjusted over the month All the staff now cant finish at 3pm they have to have a 1.2 hour break so finish at 3.30 making it impossible to collect children from school They still dont get their full half hour break as there isnt enough staff to do the work.They are just told if they dont like it look elsewhere for a job Your hands are completely tied and you have to put up with this bullying until you are lucky enough to find another job!!!
"Hell is other people"
J-P. Sartre
Indirectly related to the topic under discussion here,but always related to nursing, I just read in a German magazine in an article on the secrets of long life that it is not the job which causes stress but the 'psycho-theatre'! It goes on to say that the psycho-rigmarole at work should not be taken too seriously!
Tim Wood
You are taling out of your backside. 'Assault' doesn't begin to describe what the unelected dictatorship is doing to OUR NHS.
Those managers and their bureaucracy will have their pay protected to attract the right 'calibre' of individual.
Unless you work in a city centre you probably have you pay reduced. Again.
Let's not pretend that the gvt is doing anything as noble as improving the NHS - it is being prepared for sale. We have to reduce costs to make it more attractive. Many are finding that they are being moved to Private provider contracts.
Everything that makes the NHS great is being flushed down the toilet for the sake of political ideology.
The NHS will be the equivalent of Railtrack overarching a plethora of providers which do not, however you look at it, work to a common goal other than profit.
You say it is not change for changes sake. Who are you trying to kid? These changes are lining the pocket of their friends in businesses that commonly contribute to the tory party coffers. No where in these changes is the patient at the centre of what will be the outcome.
As a nurse i get more than a little annoyed, i get furious at idiots like you who allow these changes to be made with little of no thought for the people who you are meant to serve.
Mark is right of course, it really is a shame that potentially the most powerful workforce in the nhs is silent except for a minority.
Anonymous | 22-Apr-2012 6:00 pm
well said.
It is very difficult to speak out. I complained about the behaviour of my ward manager. I went to our matron. I told her about the low morale, bullying and poor leadership. The matrons response was to hold a ward meeting. At the meeting she asked those staff dissatisfied to identify themselves. Needless to say there were no takers, even though most agreed with me.
Annoymous - 22/4 6pm
I find it somewhat disappointing that you won't put your name so a proper discussion can be held. But whatever - I can still answer your points!
The NHS is NOT great - and hasn't been for over 30yrs - if ever - the principle is good, but effectively flawed and unless radical changes are made will become more flawed due to the increased demands of society.
'Being prepared for sale' - I think your socialist dogma gets the better of you here - there may well be a greater degree of private involement - public/private partnership - enabling more needs to be met, quicker, and more efficiently.
As for personal abuse - well that is surely the dying argument of someone that has lost the debate (and the plot!) and who is determined that WHATEVER this Government (Democratically elected by the way!) does is wrong.
Personally I do think the NHS needs to be radically overhauled - sadly I don't think that any Government has the bottle to do it - what is needed is a semi insured, semi public funded system that can provide high quality, timeous care - sadly that is not what we have due to mismanagement over the lifetime of the NHS, and no one having the courage to admit that that it is broken, and needs fixing
Tim Wood | 24-Apr-2012 11:40 am
I want the NHS to remain publically funded, not partly by insurance as you do, but that isn't quite the same thing as whether or not nurses 'speak up enough'. That argument does tend to be political, because insurance would perhaps lead to a 'better' service, but not for those too poor to pay for it. It would also take the 'National' out of 'NHS', in my opinion.
I do think, it is easiest to speak up if you are in a position of relative power or immunity, and whatever people say about nurses no longer being doctors handmaidens, I suspect that nurses do often lack the confidence to forcefully push their point of view; see Anonymous | 23-Apr-2012 5:04 pm
Tim Wood, my name is not a requirement for a discussion. I may, or may not, have reason for posting my name. Have you ever considered that by posting as anonymous it can actually stimulate debate, not limited by fears of reprocussion!
I'm intereested how you measure 'great'? I believe that the NHS is great, btter than any other health system in the world. It's just as efficient as any other system in the world. Not a popular idea in the Tory rags of course - wouldn't suit the Tory argument for tearing it up and starting again.
I'm not sure what you mean by socialist dogma, but to pretend that the gvt is doing anything as noble as in the public interest is laughable. Consider what has happened with the banks - those socialists bailed out the banks, now the tories are ringfencing the toxic debts and selling off the profitable bits back to the markets. The potentially profitable bits of the nhs are being contracted out to companies like Virgin Healthcare (who are not, I can assure you, in the game for anything other than the bottom line).
You need to try using Google occasionally regarding complex words like 'democratic' and 'elected'. Yes, we have a government, but they were not elected - the Lib Dems are Making up the numbers in something called a coalition. This means that the votes were split between the eligible political partys, none of which had enough seats to to form a democratically elected government. I'm ashamed to say that my vote for the lib dems went towards making the current political setup.
I believe that the the idea of spending £3billion to change the nhs from a provider to a comissioner of care is idiocy, you happened to articulate your support for that position. You are wrong in assuming that I believe that whatever this government does is wrong.
I agree with you that the NHS needs better management. I also believe that there needs to be a rethink on values - if you pay peanuts you get monkees.
Do not be fooled into thinking that a semi-insured semi state-funding route is the way forward either, the vulnerable will lose out (i pay so i demand better), and profit becomes an overwhelming focus, rather than quality.
I'll leave you with an example. I have a friend who has recently had cancer. Her pathway was badly managed. She was treated after her breach date. No one warned her of the potential long term side effects of treatment (which has meant the closure of her previously profitable business), health professionals thought that she was just whinging when she complained of a bit of pain in her arm when having chemo and ignored her (a year post treatment she will shortly undergo surgery for full thickness extravasation burns). She loves in a neighbouring euro country that has the system you advocate. Her insurance will not pay for the rehab treatment she needs, and the state does not provide it. Yet for many years she liked to tell me how we were fools in this country putting up with such terrible service. Contrast that with the private provision in this country of the care in privately run nursing homes - you may have seen the news in the last 24 hours. I could quote more if you like.
We do not have a perfect NHS - of course we don't, but a considerable majority of us are in it for altuistic, not socialist reasons. Just don't believe it's as bad as the unelected dictatorship ("...no top down reorganisation of the NHS...") will have you believe!
Just to add, one or two spelling errors on my post - typing on an ipad on the move!
Tim Wood | 24-Apr-2012 11:40 am
Tim Wood | 24-Apr-2012 11:40 am
you appear to be pushing your own 'dogma'.
Tim Wood has the right to his express his own position - this seems to be developing an air of nastiness !
Anonymous | 24-Apr-2012 9:59 pm
I have considered anonymous posting, and I personally think it leads to more confused debates, and not to the promotion of better discussion - I do, however, accept that posting under your real name can be a deterrent to engagement. But I am only a dog !
Tim Wood
If it ain't broke don't fix it. Yet politicians, not clinicians, have damaged the NHS, From Thatcher onwards the idea of the NHS was profit, not service. When you have a London-centric government ( and all of them are) then things are done that quite rightly are a boon to that population ( I'm thinking mainly about 'competition') but have no relevance to anywhere else in the country.
The Conservatives have sold everything in this country that was once owned by everyone, did everyone gain? Not at all. Instead communities have been ravaged for generations with lack of opportunity, and their choice has reduced.
Now they have the chance to sell the last of the family jewels, under the guise of a world-wide recession ( were all in this shit together, but some of us are up to our ankles, whilst the rest of us are standing on our heads), the profits will go to the same people it always has, syphoned offshore to some Cayman Island account.
It is terrible that people have to make a profit out of a kiddie wanting a glass of water on a hot day, or a pensioner turning on the heating when it's cold, now we'll see them make profit from people being ill and dying. For the future, just read what Professor Lord Winston has to say about the IVF rip- off in this country, extrapolate that to the rest of the NHS, and ask who ultimately gains from it. You, Tim?
I agree with Mark.
Nurses we need to speak up , we seem to be still in an era that is long gone.
Our NHS is not perfect and never was but surely we can all see it is now falling apart too quickly before our eyes.
I have seen Senior Sisters and Nurse Managers at work preventing debates and meetings where nurses voice opinions on political issues while reassuring us that we are good people who should keep the mouth shut and carrying on working.
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December 7, 2012
Lawyers for George Zimmerman filed suit today against NBC Universal Media over a well-publicized editing error that portrayed their client in racist terms in his pursuit of Trayvon Martin on a drizzly evening in February.
"NBC saw the death of Trayvon Martin not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to increase ratings, and so to set about the myth that George Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain," states the civil complaint in its opening salvo against NBC.
(Also at The Washington Post: Can Zimmerman prevail against NBC?)
NBC's editing of the 911 audiotape in the Martin case became a public fixation after the media-monitoring Web site NewsBusters.org noted editing oddities on a "Today" show broadcast March 27. Here's how NBC News portrayed the audiotape:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black.
The full tape went like this:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
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We've already told you a few days ago that Microsoft has released a new version of Bing Desktop, but it's not the update that makes us raise an eyebrow when looking at the app.
Among several other improvements, Bing Desktop 1.1 now comes with support for Windows XP, the 11-year old operating system that Microsoft wants to get rid of.
And the decision to roll out Windows XP support is even more awkward when taking into account that support for this particular OS contraption will end in less than 500 days, hence Microsoft's desperate attempts to convince users to move to a newer Windows.
Bing Desktop comes with a search bar and features to automatically replace your desktop wallpaper with the Bing home page background, but it also features support for most Windows versions, including Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. And from now on, Windows XP.
Microsoft's latest mission is to move all Windows XP users to Windows 8, although most of them will very likely choose Windows 7 thanks to a more familiar GUI.
"There are 100 million-plus Windows XP installations in the U.S. Time to refresh them to Windows 8," Peter Han, vice president, Microsoft U.S. OEM Division, said at the Tech Data Channel Link in Orlando, Fla.
What's more, Microsoft reminds users to dump Windows XP with every single occasion, emphasizing that an 11-year old operating system that doesn't receive patches and updates isn't a secure working environment anymore, despite its remarkable market share.
"We recommend that customers running computers with Windows XP take action and update or upgrade their PCs before the end-of-support date. If Windows XP is still being run in your environment and you feel that migration will not be complete by April 8, 2014, or you haven't begun migration yet, Microsoft is eager to help," Microsoft said in a statement in October.


text: Jauhar 5pts I was walking toward a certain really good Cuban bakery (shameless plug for no compensation) in Glendale over the weekend. A car passes me with almost no engine noise; an E350 Bluetec I can see by the badging. He stops at the red-light just in front of me. I thought "Cool! There's one of those cool MBs with the diesel engine. I've been considering whether diesel is an option for my next automobile, lemme ask the driver a couple of..." All of a sudden I hear this clackity-clack-clack-a-chug-chug, and all desire left my being. It sounded literally like a one-valve-per-cylinder-Kenworth just rolled up where i couldn't see. I've heard this noise before (more subtle in VW/Audi TDIs, more blatant in an old Volvo) but in an MB or by extension a Porsche, it borders on unacceptable. Wail or rumble, cool. If I'm paying more than $60K, it better not clatter or rattle.


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Brewarrina, a remote, rural shire with a majority Indigenous population in New South Wales, run the Brewarrina rural placement dental program. It aims to address the Shire's problem attracting dental health practitioners, and also allows the Shire to offer free dental care to eligible participants and reduced rates to other clients. The Shire Council approached a university dental school, explaining its community's need for assistance with oral health services. This resulted in an innovative dental program involving the Council, Griffith University, the Greater Western Area Health Service, and Ochre Health. The service includes dental students who are in their final year at Griffith University, and the Commonwealth Government supplied money for the dental surgery.
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Serious stuff Jo and true. I hope that the concern can become universal and many messages will be needed to make that a reality. I do pray that your children will live in a safe and clean world. It is the defining question of our age.
The growth is beautiful! Another Nathan-Joanna child will definitely be a good thing for this earth and for all who will get to love this child. Abilene will be a great big sister – she already has learned how to care for small things.
Love you all, Grandma D
congratulations on your pregnancy joanna! i am with my sister currently in indiana helping with her newly birthed twin boys…..ahhh babies.
What a thought provoking post. Digital poetry. Nice!
Jason, thanks!
And thanks for the Robert Frost as well! I just posted those lines on the traveling neighborhood's blog with a needlepoint I found! Cheers!


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The fiery bite of cayenne pepper can make food sing with flavor, but did you know that this dried spice also has many practical uses around the home, too?
Here are the top seven ways you can put cayenne to work around your home.
1. Protect your bird feeder: According to a plant regulatory officer from the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, birds are immune to the sting of chili peppers, while we mammals are most certainly not. By adding a little cayenne to your bird feed, you can ensure the food goes to the birds, while bullying squirrels are kept at bay.
2. Get rid of ants: Ants are insidious creatures, exploiting any opening in your home to get at your food. Try cayenne pepper for a natural ant control solution.
3. Curb kitty's curiosity: Cats are fiends for cables and cords. I have no idea why, but the mere sight of a power cord or a pair of headphones can set a cat to "kill mode." If you'd like to cure a curious cat of its chewing habit, rub a raw, sliced hot pepper on your cords, or whip up a quick hot sauce by dissolving ground cayenne into some vinegar. Apply to dangling chords on a regular basis to protect them from kitty's wrath.


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Happy 40th birthday, Rubik's Cube!
I've practically grown up with the toy, which I first encountered around 1981 when my elementary school classmate Matt dazzled us with his ability to solve it in mere minutes while the rest of us struggled to master the 3×3 cube. We didn't have the advantage of online instructions or videos to give us helpful tips, since we didn't have the World Wide Web yet. So puzzle-loving kids and adults invested hours solemnly twisting the cube segments over and over again. This was at the height of the toy's popularity in the U.S., which quickly waned but never quite died.
Today the toy and its inventor are celebrated in Beyond Rubik's Cube, a traveling exhibition at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey. Born 70 years ago on July 13, 1944, Hungarian Ernő Rubik is the man behind the Cube. His mother, Magdolna Szántó, was a poet and his father, Ernő Sr., was an aircraft engineer known for his glider designs. He said of his father: "Beside him I learned a lot about work in the sense of a value-creating process which has a target, and a positive result too." (1) Young Ernő studied sculpture, design, and architecture in Budapest and eventually became a professor of architecture.
In 1974 he thought up the idea for the Rubik's Cube in order to help teach 3-dimensional design to his students. Initially, he created a 3x3x3 rotating cube out of wood. "There was a workshop in the school, and I just used wood as a material because it is very simple to use and you don't need any sophisticated machines. So I made it by just using my hands—cutting the wood, drilling holes, using elastic bands and those kind of very simple things." (2) The following year he applied for a patent, which he received in 1977. Since this was Soviet-era Hungary, when the "Iron Curtain" divided Eastern and Western Europe, Rubik's options were limited for manufacturing and marketing his invention. He worked with a small Hungarian company Politechnika to start selling colorful plastic versions of his "Bűvös Kocka," translated into English as "Magic Cubes."
Rubik's big breakthrough came when an expat Hungarian entrepreneur took the Magic Cube to the Nuremberg Toy Fair in Germany in 1979. There Tom Kremer, who owned a games and toys company called Seven Towns Ltd., saw the Cube and believed it could be a great success on the toy market if he could just find the right company to license it. Fluent in Hungarian and English, Kremer negotiated a deal with the Ideal Toy Company, who renamed it the "Rubik's Cube" and launched it on the international market in 1980.
The Rubik's Cube was an immediate worldwide sensation, winning many Toy of the Year awards in 1980 and 1981. Approximately 100 million were sold by 1982, but almost as quickly as it rose to fame the Cube seemed doomed to become a one-hit wonder. By 1986, The New York Times reported it had been "retired to the attic, the garbage heap and, with a bow to its elegance and ingeniousness, to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art." (3) However, the colorful toy never really disappeared, and over time it morphed into a popular culture icon. Today the number of Rubik's Cubes sold worldwide is estimated at about 350 million.
In Hilton, New York, Northwood Elementary School students are petitioning to get the Cube inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. "The project started in Jenny Ames' and Julie Fiege's sixth grade classes in November… Students worked in groups to pick a toy that they thought should be inducted, conducted research and then presented their argument to a panel of judges…The presentation included criteria set by the Hall of Fame—icon status, longevity, discovery and innovation. The Rubik's Cube won! So now the entire C Core—six teachers and 160 students—is working to get the Cube nominated for its 40th birthday this year." (4) Hopefully, the Rubik's Cube might win induction into the Toy Hall of Fame in November also to honor Ernő Rubik's 70th birthday.
For teachers and families, there is now an educational program called "You Can Do the Rubik's Cube" focusing on math learning and 21st Century Skills. As Ernő Rubik said, "If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them." (5)
(1) http://www.create2009.europa.eu/ambassadors/profiles/erno_rubik.html
(2) http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/10/tech/rubiks-cube-inventor/
(3) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/nyregion/rubiks-redux-a-colorful-cube-puzzles-anew.html
(4) http://www.hilton.k12.ny.us/news/RubiksCube.htm
(5) http://rubiks.com/history


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SuperVeloce What? Tuner JB Car Design Builds 750-hp Murcielago for $500k
much better current ugly i see it every sunday at church!
Still looks like the offspring of a hearse and a jello mold... however the front is slightly less offensive than before.
They should bring back the R63. Those things are wicked fast!
vertigo5110how can u defend and miss, that horrible facifica. i don't if u ever driven it, but the throttle was so touchy, and would snap your head everytime, and there was absolutely no power in anything higher than 3500 rpm... and the interior... looked like one single piece of cheap plastic. it was horrible! glad they killed itsee, the only reason people buy this MB r-class is because of its handling (and yes, the name) the pacifica had only decent exterior looks going for it, thats it
like lambo08 said, this new r-class may look elegant, but i'm not so sure i could say the same for older modelsthey are so awkward to look at, but in the realm of minivan, this is the king, or queen...
Why did they even bother regurgitating this dog of a car?
I would take an ML, GL, GLK, or E-class wagon any of my life over this minivan "sports tourer".This thing looks like a giant loaf a bread. I DESPISE the shape. The styling elements are nice, but even Mercedes-Benz classy style wont make a minivan look good :/
Looks like a minivan
Who buys these things? This is the ugliest Benz ever.The station wagon looks better.
rear window shape/cut angle is what screws it up.
Looks like a sportier Honda Odyssey. I'd rather drive a European "tourer" than a minivan any day of the week. Too bad the Chrysler Pacifica had to die :(
Looks like a hearse.
Stunning, elegant, beautiful. Great design.
I'm shocked they are still selling those things! The concept of the R-Classe was very nice. They should have copied the concept.