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Samsung reports lower quarterly earnings for the first time in two years
0. phoneArena 23 Jan 2014, 20:02 posted on
For the first time in two years, Samsung reported lower quarterly earnings. Led by softer sales of smartphones, the Korean tech titan reported operating profits of 8.3 trillion won ($7.7 billion USD) for the quarter. The company took a 800 billion hit ($745 million USD) to pay a special employee bonus that was given to commemorate the 20th year since Chairman Lee Kun-hee's restructuring which turned the company around...
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1. nokia12 (Posts: 484; Member since: 19 Nov 2013)
time for Sony and LG to rise... waiting for great results from Sony due to z1 and z ultra sales...
2. nokia12 (Posts: 484; Member since: 19 Nov 2013)
also add xperia m which became second best seller after lumia 520 in low end
5. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Both models leave 0 room for profit, which in the end is the ultimate goal of a company.
15. nokia12 (Posts: 484; Member since: 19 Nov 2013)
I wasn't talking about profitability when talking about xperia m .. I was talking about units sales ... z1 and z ultra will push profitability.. xperia m is a 210$ device not exactly 0 margin profit device even moto g makes some profit this is lowered speced than moto g so it should be making even more profit. although a small one., high volume might cover it up.. Sony has other departments especially tv and camera business which are struggling that will have a major impact in their profitability. ps4 sold big numbers so game sales of ps4 should push gaming profitability even higher this quarter...
28. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Comment still stands.
41. SandraB (banned) (Posts: 75; Member since: 07 Aug 2013)
Samsung must pay licenses to microsoft for Android
Nokia Microsoft will now avoid paying licenses for Android. Then microsoft take out licenses for this Linux variant.
Really wonder if China and India, with nice big manufacturers like Huawee and Micromax will allow the deal between Microsoft and Nokia.
Will India and China regerinar really allow the store when the risk to knock out their entire phone industry?
It's not fair if microsoft nokia avoid paying licenses
40. SandraB (banned) (Posts: 75; Member since: 07 Aug 2013)
WP is a joke ,dont sell.
7. Isitforyou (banned) (Posts: 11; Member since: 19 Jan 2014)
Sony, LG, HTC, Oppo, should do well this year.
Enough of Samsungs cheap plastic. But specs are great by Samsung, which they believe in.
18. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Same has been said since 2011.. Sounds like a broken record.
27. androiphone20 (Posts: 1654; Member since: 10 Jul 2013)
True, only this time around OEMs like oppo are making good smartphones like the Find 7, LG and Sony are really stepping up their game so the S5 is up for some steeper competition. In the low-end department a lot of OEMs are rising too, Motorola is doing well and people who care less about a $700 smartphone are going for devices like the nexus line
29. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Only OEM I see next year climbing is either Sony or LG. Everyone else is going to stay where they're at. Moto is looking good btw.
42. Tsepz_GP (Posts: 987; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)
Don't get your hopes up :D Sony Z Ultra was barely a hit, and the Z1 hasn't seen the sort of success the Z did, Sony would have told us if it did. Expect Sony to make a profit in gaming and financial activities.
Us logic, if Samsung were hit by higher iPhone sakes then that causes a ripple effect, the rest of the Android OEMs probably also had a rough quarter.
3. PBXtech (Posts: 1032; Member since: 21 Oct 2013)
Still a considerable amount of profit. If the S5 is as good as expected, should be a good year for them in 2014.
6. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Hopefully it's LTE-A capable so when T-Mobile upgrades their LTE network this year, it'll be ready.
12. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Of course it will be. The Note 3 is LTE-A capable. Almost positive the G2 is as well.
21. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Is it really? I thought it wasn't. John Legere spoke about the carrier hitting max data speeds of over
150mbps, so LTE-A this year is going to kick ass.
26. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
It is. Samsung has been including it in all of their Snap 800 devices since the LTE-A S4 came out in S. Korea last June. It will kick ass. I can't wait.
32. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
This news is better than the news I got from my professor in passing my exam with a 100 lol.
Good guy Samsung for making their phones futureproof.
31. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Did a little research. The G2 does support it. The Nexus 5 & 7 are the only other devices on T-Mobile that currently do as well.
33. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Nexus 7? S4 Pro has LTE-A capabilties? Is it modified since other phones don't support it?
34. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Sorry, I was confusing LTE-A & Category 4 LTE devices, which are ones that support 20+20 LTE (wide band). The Note 3 & G2 are both, while the Nexus 7 is only the latter. I'm not sure if the Nexus 5 is LTE-A capable, but it's definitely Category 4.
35. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
I know all flagships in 2014 are going to be wideband capable (S5, Z1S). With T-Mobile pushing VoLTE aggressively to eliminate 2G from the nation, speeds are only going to get better and better. Thanks to the 700MHz Block A spectrum purchased from Verizon, T-Mobile will remain the fastest LTE network in 2014.
36. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
No doubt about it. That gap will only widen too. I've been a T-Mobile customer for over 10 years now. They've never given me a reason to leave, but recently, they've been giving me lots of reasons to stay. I love it.
8. nctx77 (Posts: 1958; Member since: 03 Sep 2013)
The S5 will have some serious competition this year from both other Android hand sets and Apple. HTC, Sony and LG are not playing. Added in Lenovo and other Android manufactures making noise, Samsung is finding it increasingly hard to keep it number one status and differentiate it self. Add in an early release of a large screen iphone and a phablet later in the year and you will continue to see articles like this. Everybody will have big screens, 2k res, fast processors, etc.
10. Napalm_3nema (Posts: 2183; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)
No, not really. Are they stumbling? A bit. Are they hurting? Not by a long shot, when they collected around 53% of all mobile profit. That means Sony, Google, LG, Motorola, HTC, etc. collected -9% of all mobile profit (Yes, collectively, they lost money, although Sony and LG saw small profits individually), since Apple collected the other 56%.
13. nctx77 (Posts: 1958; Member since: 03 Sep 2013)
Those are hard numbers. I'm looking at momentum. HTC One didn't sell no where near as much as the S4, but what it did do is create a buzz much like the Initial Galaxies did. Now, people are intrigued and waiting on the second edition. The same can be said for other manufactures. Sammy hasn't dealt with that in a while. Before, it was just a bunch of phones with not one really standing out. HTC, Sony, LG, etc have really created some nice momentum in 2013. Most in the Android camp have been rocking Galaxies for a while now. They want something different. It's the same thing Apple went through.
16. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)
Don't think HTC created much buzz, imo out of all the oems I think Sony and LG have the best chance and HTC just can't gather steam and they just are not making enough money to keep up the marketing and hence create and maintain buzz. The problem here for people predicting Samsung demise is that Samsung just make too much money and even there worst quarter is like better than others best better quarters.. It all comes down to money, Samsung make profits in billions, the others are making millions when they make a profit. For anyone to suddenly over take samsung it would mean samsung will have to be losing tens of millions of sales a quarter with at the same time others increased tens of millions each quarter. If we looking at the US the likes of HTC, moto etc lost market share while Samsung increased. My point is that not that Samsung will never go down but this 1 drop I sales in 2 years is not a sign of demise. Samsung need to be losing in every quarter this year to be considered a demise. Also 750million was used up for bonus Payment so that's a huge chunk, that's more than HTC, Sony, LG, moto made this year in profit so I think anyone (not you) saying this is the death of Samsung are being very sort sighted
22. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Took the words out of my mouth.
49. PBXtech (Posts: 1032; Member since: 21 Oct 2013)
Samsung makes the internal components others need. When the rest can do that, they'll be as strong as Samsung. Until then, they're buyers of those components, advantage Samsung.
9. Furbal (Posts: 980; Member since: 22 Sep 2012)
I'd say, exchange rates not in their favor and a huge employee bonus. Impressive by any means
I probably wont be buying a Samsung phone this year though, not liking the direction they are heading as noted in the kitkat update breaking accessories article...
43. Tsepz_GP (Posts: 987; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)
Exactly, better profit than any other Android OEM will make in the next year, a bad quarter for Samsung still yields a huge profit, $5.08billion in the mobile division alone.
14. mr.techdude (Posts: 569; Member since: 19 Nov 2012)
HTC one 2......dat is all
23. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
What about it?
38. hurrycanger (Posts: 1562; Member since: 01 Dec 2013)
One 2 cha cha cha. That's a very fun dance.
17. fanboy1974 (Posts: 1345; Member since: 12 Nov 2011)
This is good news. When you see just average iPhone updates with people still buying them it gives Apple no motivation to improve. This should force Samsung to react and make better phones. Just look at the HTC One and LG 2; clear improvements over the previous models. And if it wasn't for Android Apple would still try to push a 4" screen down our throats.
24. androiphone20 (Posts: 1654; Member since: 10 Jul 2013)
"it gives Apple no motivation to improve." what? you're kidding right, how is that even possible?
20. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)
This is the end of Samsung I tell you, I bad quarter on 2 years is just not acceptable. Kidding a size if samsung profits keep on dropping for the next 3 quarters I'll be on the Samsung is dying bandwagon lol
25. Napalm_3nema (Posts: 2183; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)
Yeah, once is a hiccup, twice is a bump, but three in a row could see a quick spiral begin. Until then, this is a minor, isolated incident. Still, doubt Sammy sees any money out of me this year. Love my Z1S, and I hope the follow up is another step in the right direction.
30. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)
Exactly, basically this year we will know if samsung is just gonna stay on the top for a while longer or will it mean the slow demise. That's the other thing, even if it is a demise it will be a while before it loses its top position as it's so far ahead right now giving it time to amend itself too which the others don't have the luxury of. Sony make some nice looking phones, just not a fan of the bezels on there phone or the update speed. Let's see what the z2 brings. One thing for sure sony is on the right track and can't rule them out as the oems for my next phone. Cause honestly Sony and Samsung are the only ones using sd card slot and any phone that hasn't got one is a no for me.
39. janjhel1907 (Posts: 12; Member since: 21 Jun 2013)
its not because of apple sales, its because of SAMSUNG'S DESIGN and build of smartphones add the pricing .. poor design and build, also expensive than other smartphones
44. Tsepz_GP (Posts: 987; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)
Haha, $5.08billion in the mobile division alone, that is more than some entire conglomerates make, the rest of Samsung's Android rivals wish they made a profit full stop. I trust Samsung hasn't their lesson though, I like the fact that they made a lower profit, means they will work much harder on the Galaxy S5 :)
45. xfire99 (Posts: 825; Member since: 14 Mar 2012)
Too many different versions of same model and too confusing to what to buy = lesser sales.
47. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Wasn't the case in 2012, 2011, 2010....
52. xfire99 (Posts: 825; Member since: 14 Mar 2012)
Look back to 2010-2012 and compare it with 2013 and how many models they released. Then different versions of same model. Both for smartphones and tablets.
2012 they had 4 different versions of Top model of Galaxy S3 here in EU and not talking about when S4 released in 2013.
Exynos, Qualcomm 600, Qualcomm 800 (S4 Plus), Qualcomm S4 (S4 mini)
Also Galaxy S4 Zoom, S4 Active.
Even I like Sammy products and I dont even ´have a clue what theh heck all these S4 devices are for.
48. geodude074 (Posts: 99; Member since: 05 Mar 2013)
Some of these comments are ridiculous.
Samsung reported PROFITS of $7.7 BILLION USD for the FIRST QUARTER and some of you are claiming that it's the beginning of the end for Samsung? HAH!
51. kryme (Posts: 355; Member since: 24 Oct 2013)
its not the end of them... but now is not the time to be losing... apple was warming up with the 4 4s 5 5s..... the 6 with that 4.8 screen will have alot of person switching... cause android phone getting too big and apple phones getting in that sweet spot screen size... i'm a samsung fan but before i go get the s5 am gonna wait to see wat the iphone 6 looks like....
50. kryme (Posts: 355; Member since: 24 Oct 2013)
as i said before....the s5 will make or break samsung... apple will be in the big screen league so persons like my self who say iphone r too small might wanna try that 4.8 screen... so watch out sammy..


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The premise of this trip was to visit a friend/future roommate in New Jersey, but I thought it'd also be a good time to see just how much of a plane freak I could be. I found the AUS-ORD-PHL; JFK-LAX-DFW-AUS round trip for about $450, and decided it'd be worth the little bit extra (an "ordinary" round trip was about $380 into either PHL or EWR) to experience my first trans-con flight. Suffice to say, I was extremely excited, and counted down the days. Eventually, my day of departure came.
July 8th, 2008
I woke up about 7:15 for my 9:45 am flight to ORD. As I usually do, I checked the previous night to ensure all the flights made it in reasonably on time, just to ensure I wouldn't have any crew rest delays or anything of the sort. I was a bit ancy, since I only had an hour in ORD, and any sort of delay might put that connection in jeopardy. I checked the flight status on AA.com again when I woke up, and saw what every traveler fears; my flight to ORD had been canceled, inexplicably. So naturally, I was a bit panicked, but I called AA.com, and much to my surprise, they had already taken care of me, and booked me through DFW, leaving AUS 15 minutes later, and arriving into PHL 15 minutes later. Sweet! As a matter of fact, I received an automated call about 5 minutes after I got off the phone with them informing me of my schedule change. Bonus points for AA, thus far. There would be many bonus points given out on this trip. Obviously, the first thing I was worried about was seating assignments, as they were now under airport control (less than 3 hours to scheduled departure). I really didn't want to spend 3 hours in a middle seat. I could handle it on the AUS-DFW flight (in fact, I had almost prepared myself for that inevitability). My only hope lay in the machine upgrades, or the exit rows. I arrived at the airport at about 8:20 for my flight, and quickly got checked in for my flight using the machines. There was a bit of a line for agents to tag your bags, but it went by pretty fast, much faster than the check-in line. I still had no seating assignments, but I bypassed wait at security by using my airport SIDA badge, which got me to the front of the line. After the hassle at the TSA checkpoint (nothing out of the ordinary, but it's all a hassle nowadays), I proceeded to gate 17, where my flight to DFW had not yet arrived. An agent, was, however, able to give me a boarding pass for my DFW-PHL flight, and much to my excitement, it was an exit row. Not only an exit row, but a window! My life was saved. No matter what happened on the AUS-DFW flight, I was happy that I had a window on the long leg. I think my AA polo shirt that I wear whenever I fly them might have helped with that. It also doesn't hurt that I know some of the AA AUS gate agents from my experience on the DC-3 (see above TR). I tried to get on standby for the earlier flight to DFW (a 737-800), but it was jam packed and there was not a chance. I went back over to gate 17, and stood in line while the agent helped a couple of people who had had a series of unfortunate events. I gave her my name she told me she'd get me a boarding pass in a little while. I meandered around the airport, bought some breakfast tacos from Maudie's (yum!), and eventually headed back over to the gate, where she handed me my boarding pass. Row 21! Sweet, another exit row! Seat A! A Window! Freakin' awesome! Suffice to say, I was very thankful to get this lucky, as I was speaking to somebody in front of me in line who'd been stuck in AUS for 2 days. Fortunately, the gate agent got him booked on Continental. More bonus points for AA, both for my seating assignments and helping him get out of Austin!
Eventually, my plane pulled up, and we boarded shortly after, albeit about 40 minutes late.
N7539A, my ride to DFW
Scheduled Departure: 1000
Out: 1043
Departure Gate: 17
Seat: 21A
Departure Runway: 17R
Off: 1056
Cruising Altitude: FL 220
Cruising Airspeed: Mach .700
Route: AUS2.LZZ DCT JUMBO.JEN8
Arrival Runway: 18R
On: 1135
Arrival Gate: A19
Scheduled Arrival:1100
In: 1143
I boarded in group 4, and after a quick chat with the pilots, whom I asked to fill out my flight data sheet (which they did, in fact, all of them did, graciously), I made my way back to seat 21A.
View from 21A
Initially 21B was empty, but was quickly occupied by an Army guy who was heading off for his 3rd tour in Iraq, although one of them was in Desert Storm. I thanked him for his service, and wished him a safe tour, and safe return. We chatted for a while, and we eventually pushed back, 43 minutes behind schedule. My connection to PHL was scheduled to depart at 12:15, so as long as there weren't any other hiccups, I should be fine. We taxied to 17R, and away we went.
Takeoff from AUS
We turned west, and then northwest to join the departure. We climbed up to FL220, and got a quick beverage service (always appreciated, nowadays, especially on a 35 minute flight).
Climbing out of AUS
Cruising over Central Texas at FL220
Before too long, we began our descent into DFW. We followed the JEN8 arrival, which I know like the back of my hand. We approached DFW from the SW, turned north over the DELMO intersection, flew the downwind, made a right base, and turned to final for 18R.
Turning north over DELMO, passing downtown Fort Worth.
Landing at DFW on 18R
After landing, we taxied across 18L after a short wait for departing aircraft, and across the Bravo bridge to gate A19. My flight to PHL would be 4 gates down at A23.
Terminal D Lots of Silverbirds!
My plane to PHL, N453AA
As soon as I walked to the gate, they began boarding. After a quick pit stop, I made my way on board, to have a short chat with the pilots. I found my seat, and shortly afterward, we pushed back, 4 minutes early.
Scheduled Departure: 1215
Out: 1211
Departure Gate: A23
Seat: 21F
Departure Runway: 17R
Off: 1220
Cruising Altitude: FL 310/330
Cruising Airspeed: Mach .750
Route: SOLDO2 J52 ATL J14 SPA J14 CREWE J51 FAK DPNT4
Arrival Runway: 27R
On: 1638
Arrival Gate: A9
Scheduled Arrival: 1640
In: 1644
AA446, according to FlightAware
After a short push and taxi, off we went for the southerly route to PHL, over ATL and then north.
Takeoff from DFW on 17R
After takeoff, we followed the SOLDO2 departure east. Much of this flight is a blur to me as I had a very lengthy (like the whole flight) chat with my seatmate in 21E. Real nice guy! I did buy some Lays Stax and a turkey croissant sandwich, which was perfectly satisfactory, but nothing extraordinary. We passed some marvelous weather over either North Carolina or Virginia.
Awesome CB. Thinking about trying to upload this one into the database.
We held for 15 minutes or so at the TERRI intersection for flow control, before continuing our approach to PHL, which took us over southern NJ, and then back around from the east.
Landing at PHL on 27R
After a nice landing on 27R, we had a quick taxi to the gate. I saw some Europe bound heavies along the way, but only the one shot.
US Airways A330-300
As soon as I walked the marathon to baggage claim (it's like over a road/railroad, how do the bags get such a long distance. I'm a ramper and I can't even answer that), my bag was the first one that popped out, and off I went for a week's vacation in NJ, Philly, NYC.
July 14th
After an exciting, fun, and relaxing 6 days in Jersey, among other places, it was time to head back to NYC to head back home. My day began VERY early, at 4 am, for my 9 am flight to LAX from JFK. I caught the 5:19 NJ Transit express train to New York Penn, where I connected to the 6:36 LIRR (Long Island Railroad) train to Jamaica, for my transfer to the AirTrain. All of this went surprisingly without incident, and I made it to a dreary/rainy JFK about 7:20. A quick and painless check-in at the private counters for F/J travelers. Nice touch! I like the frosted glass windows, followed by a short wait at security, and I was through at about 7:35 for my 9 am flight. I had an hour to kill before boarding, so I decided to grab a quick bite to eat.
Immediately after security. Sorry for the darkness.
My boarding area, gate 8, off to the right.
N335AA awaiting AA1 to LAX
After a tasty omelette at a restaurant right across from gate 10, which was a 767-300 to Santo Domingo, my time to board came soon enough. While at the restaurant, I noticed a large amount of Hasidic Jews going to LHR. Wonder why.
Scheduled Departure: 0900
Out: 0855
Departure Gate: 8
Seat: 8J
Departure Runway: 31L
Off: 0926
Cruising Altitude: FL 380
Cruising Airspeed: 465 TAS
Route: KJFK RBV J230 AIR J80 EMPTY J80 MCI J24 SLN J102 LAA J102 ALS J44 RSK J64 PGS RIIVR4 KLAX
Arrival Runway: 25L
On: 1140
Arrival Gate: 42B
Scheduled Arrival: 1155
In: 1205
AA 1, according to FlightAware
After a fairly lengthy chat with some really, really nice LA based pilots, who were extremely interested in my love of aviation. Almost as interested as I was in the flight, and that's saying something! More bonus points for AA! They were more than happy to fill out my flight log, and after a while, I made my way back to 8J.
View from 8J. Rainy in NYC
My first impressions of the seat (which I forgot to take a picture of) were that it was comfortable, and familiar. Probably because it was the J-class seat I flew on from DFW-ZRH in 2001 on the 777. I was tremendously excited to be flying my trans-con, finally! And on AA 1, no less. Pretty sweet, if you ask me! We pushed back a little early, and taxied over to 31L, where we were about 9th in line for takeoff. We waited for about 25 minutes, and I took a few pictures.
The line for 4L departures. Note the BA 772, operating the daylight flight to LHR. Shortly after I took that picture, the AA 772 operating that route also appeared.
Number 2 for takeoff
Takeoff from JFK
After a powerful takeoff on 31L, we banked left and joined the departure.
Climbing through the clouds
Finally, some blue sky!
We continued climbing through some relatively choppy air before emerging into blue skies. The flight attendants got up, and distributed the portable media players, complete with Bose QC3 noise canceling headphones.
I settled in to watch I Am Legend, which was very average. Every so often, I took a picture.
Over PA or OH
Shortly thereafter, the FAs, both of which were extremely nice, began distributing the menus for today's flight.
I chose the omelette, which was OUTSTANDING! It may not look like much, but it was absolutely delicious. The potatoes were awesome, too!
MMMMM!!!! Breakfast!
I finished watching my movie as the flight progressed.
Somewhere over the heartland
It was about 2/3 of the way through the flight I decided to stretch my legs. I went up to the galley, and had a very lengthy (20 minutes or so) chat with the flight attendants. And once again, AA shows me what, for some reason they only show a few others. I'm 100% convinced, regardless of what others may say, that AA has the best flight attendants in the industry. Patrick, the purser, and Melanie were just absolutely fantastic! We had a lengthy chat about my route, the industry, my career goals, what they did before flying, and many other things including celebrities flying the trans-cons between JFK-LAX. Actor Kevin Spacey was sitting in F on my flight! What awesome people! And so professional, too! Absolutely massive bonus points from me (I know they don't mean anything, but who cares!).
Cruising over the desert
After what seemed like a really short time, we began our descent into LAX.
Descending through the clouds
It was then that Patrick decided it would be nice to announce to the whole plane that I was completing my first trans-con flight. I was probably redder than a tomato. He also told everybody how I was flying back home to Austin: through LAX and DFW. Great, so now everybody thought this guy was psycho. At least they didn't know who I was (not that the AA shirt I was wearing helped my anonymity at all), right? Well, then he came over to me in my seat and started bowing to me, and announcing to the entire J-cabin that it was me. Oh man. I was really embarrassed, but completely grateful of the gesture. It's the little things this airline does for me, the people like Patrick and Melanie, that make me feel so much at home. Thank you, American!
Los Angeles urban sprawl
An excellent landing by the first officer completed an already memorable flight.
Landing at LAX on 25L
Our gate was occupied when we landed, about 15 minutes ahead of schedule, so we taxied over by the AA maintenance ramp, where I saw an absolutely glistening AA 767-300.
KE 777 to ICN
United 752
LAX tower
AA 752 and KE 777
Striking AA 763
We eventually taxied over to the ramp, shut down the engines, and were towed into gate 42B, where my first trans-con ended. I'd give it 100% if I could, but we did arrive into the gate 10 minutes late, so I guess 99.8% is in order! After the flight, the F/O gave me a 757/767 checklist!
I had about an hour and a half in LAX, so I killed some time by taking pictures, and checking the internet.
TN 343 to PPT
After a delay waiting for an inbound crew from DFW, we finally boarded, about 30 minutes late. I only had a 45 minute connection in DFW, so it was going to be close.
I had a quick chat with the pilots, who obliged in filling out my data sheet. While I was up there, a Federal Air Marshall came up and introduced himself. I tried to excuse myself when I heard who he was, since I knew that wasn't for my ears, but he was blocking the doorway. He must have just assumed I worked for the airline since I had my shirt on. Eventually I made my way back to 5J, where I was excited to try out the new J-seat, which I've heard many opinions on.
AA 763 to MIA
Seat 5J legroom
Tragically, yet again, Cameron, in all his excitement, forgot to take a good picture of the seat. I was very, very pleasantly surprised at how comfortable it was. Eventually the door was closed, and we were on our way.
Scheduled Departure: 1325
Out: 1352
Departure Gate: 47B
Seat: 5J
Departure Runway: 25R
Off: 1406
Cruising Altitude: FL 390
Cruising Airspeed: 450 TAS
Route: KLAX TRM J169 TFD J4 INK JEN8 KDFW
Arrival Runway: 18R
On: 1845
Arrival Gate: D23
Scheduled Arrival: 1840
In: 1853
AA2448, according to FlightAware
We pushed back and quickly headed to runway 25R, where I snuck a video in.
Takeoff from LAX
We climbed out over the Pacific, before turning south, then back east.
Over the Pacific, with Catalina Island off in the distance
Feet dry, again
Cruising over the Arizona or New Mexico desert.
About mid-way through the flight both the FAM and I got up to use the lavatory, and we had a little chat while standing in line. He asked me what I did for AA, and I told him, "nothing, actually." I explained my interest in commercial aviation. He was a really nice guy, and after the flight he gave me a FAM pin, which I've already misplaced. Grr... Other than that, the flight was exceedingly uneventful, save for some more nice cloud formations
More CBs
We eventually got our "snack," which consisted of a delicious turkey wrap and pasta salad, as well as the ever-crisp grapes, brie, and water crackers.
Mmm, turkey wrap!
El Paso, barely.
Over MAF, we were approached from the SW by an AA Super 80, undoubtedly headed toward DFW, as well. I was surprised how close he got, but he was at least 2000 feet below us.
Company S80
Midland, TX
Not too long after that, we began our slow descent into DFW.
Descending through the clouds, just southwest of DFW.
We followed the same Glen Rose (JEN) 8 arrival, and turned north for the downwind before reversing direction for 18R.
Landing at DFW
After a landing about 10 minutes after scheduled arrival time, we made a short taxi to D23. Fortunately, my connection to AUS was at D17.
After deplaning, I made my way over to D17, where my flight to AUS began boarding shortly after.
I had a very short chat with the pilots about our abnormal route today to avoid W/X, and then made my way back to 5F.
Scheduled Departure: 1935
Out: 1931
Departure Gate: D17
Seat: 5F
Departure Runway: 18L
Off: 1943
Cruising Altitude: FL 220
Cruising Airspeed: 310 TAS
Route: KDFW PODDE3.ABI LLO.KALLA1 KAUS
Arrival Runway: 17R
On: 2024
Arrival Gate: 13
Scheduled Arrival: 2025
In: 2034
AA470, according to FlightAware
We made a quick taxi to 18L, and away we went into the Texas evening.
Takeoff at DFW on 18L
We made a westerly turn, heading out toward Abilene, before turning south. We did receive a beverage service, accompanied with some of the AA Premium Snack Mix (which I think is delicious!). Near Llano, we made a SE turn to join the KALLA1 arrival into AUS.
Descending into AUS
Landing at AUS
We taxied to the gate, where we held very briefly to wait for our gate to clear out. The fasten seatbelt sign was turned off, and I realized my unbelievable day was over. Not a moment too soon, either! I was exhausted, but it was a day I'll never forget!
American, even though these hard times, continues to show unbelievable professionalism and dedication. I feel the least I could do for them is to continue to fly them wherever I go. Thank you American, for another awesome experience!
I hope you all enjoyed. Stay tuned for a short TR in early August, for my next trip, a one-way trip MSP-ORD-DFW-AUS (with a 777).
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make it honourableChristine Kang
Yesterday (before I sat down to write this post, in fact), I decided to take a quick break and sit outside in our garden. Idly, I grabbed a copy of our neighbourhood magazine to thumb through while I sat on our backyard swing, enjoying the spring day.
Right in the middle pages of the magazine was an interview of a pretty prominent Houston newscaster. As she recounted some of the highlights of her career, she mentioned that in her youth, she had exchanged letters with former congresswoman and civil rights leader Barbara Jordan. In her letter, Jordan told her the following:
"You can do anything you want to do. Just make it honourable."
I've been thinking about these words ever since I read them. At first blush, it seems like simply great advice from a leader to a young girl who had yet to make a decision on what she wanted to be when she grew up. And in truth, this is what we're always told we should strive for, right? This is what our parents, grandparents and kindergarten teachers encouraged us to work for all our lives: Help make the world a better place, they would plead. Be honourable. And so, we tried: we dreamt of being doctors, lawyers, firefighters, police officers. You know, honourable.
But digging deeper, it seems to me that Jordan's statement is applicable even now, even after I've already finished my education and chosen my profession. As an adult, every waking minute of every day, I make tons of decisions:
- how I'm going to deal with my family as we face the morning rush
- how I prioritize my work schedule, and how I deal with clients and colleagues
- how I deal with bad news, bad luck, bad behaviour and other setbacks
- how I share of myself, my family and my friends online
- how I choose to comment, react, respond to things I read, hear, experience
- how I decide what to tweet, retweet, "pin," "like," "+1" and otherwise share and communicate on the internet.
And ever day, when I make these decisions, consciously or not, I choose to do each one of them honourably or … not.
Here's the thing: these days, "honourable" doesn't sell magazines, or advertising, or television air time. Honourable doesn't get you fame and fortune, or heck, even massive pageviews. Honourable doesn't bring you cash. Honourable just isn't sexy.
Also? Honourable is hard.
Still, when I consider the alternative — when I choose to react, or respond, or behave in a way that I feel to be less honourable than I know I am capable of, there is just nothing worse that that uneasy feeling that I get in the pit of my stomach. You know the one: the one where the little voice inside of you says, dude, you are better than that. The one that comes dangerously close to feeling like shame.
Man, I hate that feeling. Because in my world, nothing comes in the way of my feeling gratitude like experiencing shame.
My friend Brené Brown, a researcher who studies shame, and vulnerability and courage, once shared a wonderful quote from Mary Anne Radmacher: "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." It's a great message to remind myself before I got to sleep each night that, indeed, I live in a place and time where I can do anything I want, and I can always try again in the morning. It's a complete relief, when you think about it.
But since reading that article in my little local magazine, I feel challenged to do more. Maybe after I've gone to bed with Radmacher's words in mind, in the morning I should wake up and set my tone for the new day, with Jordan's words at the forefront of my thoughts. Maybe, before I even get out of bed, I should make a habit of thinking, what is it that I want to stand for today?
Perhaps, as I set my future course for my career, not to mention in my roles as a wife, mother, daughter and friend, I should take Jordan's advice: perhaps I should consider how I can consciously and intentionally make my life and what I choose to do in it honourable.
Because I suspect that while doing so might not bring me fame, fortune or heck, even massive pageviews, it will bring me a ton of gratitude.
And on that grateful note, have a wonderful weekend, friends.
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HOLLIDAYSBURG - At the Troop G Headquarters in Hollidaysburg, troopers and the public gathered Friday to pay tribute to the 94 troopers killed in the line of duty since the inception of the Pennsylvania State Police in 1905.
"From 1905 to today, the world around us has changed so very much, yet in reality very little has changed," Troop G Commanding Officer Capt. Maynard H. Gray said during the memorial service. "The necessary struggle against violence, illegal drugs and crime continues ever so prominently today."
Gray noted the service was not only to remember fallen troopers, but to honor the men and women who put on a state police uniform to serve the people of Pennsylvania.
"Today, we are here to honor all police officers who accept the responsibility and dangerous challenges to protect and serve," Gray said. "Few understand this responsibility, but it is one that everyone benefits from because it is essential that we make our society a safer place to live and raise our children."
Lt. Troy Park read the names of four Troop G troopers who were killed while on duty. Their names are etched on the monument at the state police academy in Hershey along with 90 others.
Trooper Dean Zeigler died in 1942 as a result of a car crash; Trooper Floyd B. Clouse was shot to death in 1971 while serving a warrant; Cpl. John S. Valent was killed while transporting several juveniles to Lewistown in 1971; and Sgt. Arthur L. Hershey, a Huntingdon native, died in 1999 while assisting at the scene of a traffic accident.
Although too windy for the state police helicopter, other gear and equipment was on display for the public.
"I have a couple of family members with the state police," said Mark Hileman, 70, of Hollidaysburg, who brought his grandson, Caleb Hileman, to the event. "I just like to come out and support the cause."
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From the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center and Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
Acknowledgment: The authors thank Tracy Dana, MLS; Ian Blazina, MPH; Laurie Hoyt Huffman, MS; and Jennifer Croswell, MD, MPH. They also thank U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Leads Susan Curry, PhD; Virginia Moyer, MD, MPH; Wanda Nicholson, MD, MPH, MBA; and Timothy Wilt, MD, MPH.
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Background: A 2005 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) review found good evidence that prenatal HIV screening is accurate and can lead to interventions that reduce the risk for mother-to-child transmission.
Purpose: To update the 2005 USPSTF review, focusing on previously identified research gaps and new evidence on treatments.
Data Sources: MEDLINE (2004 to June 2012) and the Cochrane Library (2005 to the second quarter of 2012).
Study Selection: Randomized trials and cohort studies of pregnant women on risk for mother-to-child transmission or harms associated with prenatal HIV screening or antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy.
Data Extraction: 2 reviewers abstracted and confirmed study details and quality by using predefined criteria.
Data Synthesis: No studies directly evaluated effects of prenatal HIV screening on risk for mother-to-child transmission or maternal or infant clinical outcomes. One fair-quality, large cohort study (HIV prevalence, 0.7%) found that rapid testing during labor was associated with a positive predictive value of 90%. New cohort studies of nonbreastfeeding women in the United States and Europe confirm that full-course combination antiretroviral therapy reduces rates of mother-to-child transmission (<1% to 2.4% vs. 9% to 22% with no antiretroviral therapy). New cohort studies found antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy to be associated with increased risk for preterm delivery (<37 weeks' gestation); there were no clear associations with low birthweight, congenital abnormalities, or infant neurodevelopment. Evidence on long-term maternal harms after short-term antiretroviral therapy exposure during pregnancy remains sparse.
Limitations: Only English-language articles were included. Studies conducted in resource-poor settings may be of limited applicability to screening in the United States.
Conclusion: Antiretroviral therapy in combination with avoidance of breastfeeding and elective cesarean section in women with viremia reduces risk for mother-to-child transmission. Use of certain antiretroviral therapy regimens during pregnancy may increase risk for preterm delivery.
Primary Funding Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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i am investigating above numeric
when ln(-.733448502640020+0.*I);
it has Pi imaginary part
i try
complex(1, exp(Pi)^3);
it return Complex(...) but not 1 + i*exp(Pi)^3
3 means 3 times come from recursively using pattern ln(Re(ln(x) - 3.141592654*I))
3.141592654 in imaginary part appear 3 times
i use Round(Im(x), 8) during above operation
actually i want to extract Pi imaginary part from -.733448502640020+0.*I
however, after minus exp(Pi) from it first time,
it is near the original number -.733448502640020
is this elimination of imaginary part is just a illusion from log function?
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We are getting new courts!
Yes, you read that correctly. The courts at McCarren Park were one of only 3 sets of public courts to be part of the "Fresh Courts" initiative sponsored by American Express and the USTA.
From the press release: "For New York, American Express' Fresh Courts program will work with tennis courts located in Brooklyn's McCarren Park. The 35-acre park services the Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighborhoods and currently contains seven full-sized tennis courts, one of which was recently resurfaced through the efforts of the McCarren Tennis Association and park volunteers. As part of the Fresh Courts program, the remaining courts will be completely resurfaced and renovated, and upon project completion, McCarren Park will contain six full-sized, 78-foot courts, and two permanent 36-foot courts for the QuickStart play format."
Read the full press release here.
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this is great news! thanks usta and ny! i am excited about the new courts. good work guys
Kudos; much karma to those involved in this effort from day 1;
fantastic work…thanks !
Wojtek will dominate anyone under the age of 9 (on the QuickStart courts).
now you guys have to get us kids nice basketball courts right next to it…
Thank goodness! I've been playing here for 10 years and would really enjoy a consistent bounce surface
Wow this is awesome. Thanks for all the hard work guys. It paid off.
This has to be a direct response to the hard work put in by the members of the Association. Congratulations!!
Congratulations! I am soooo appreciative of all the Association's efforts for the players of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
incredible!!!!!!!!!!!! you guys are the best!
Great Job guys. Hard work paid off..
It is really exiting news.
Finally we can play McCarren Open tournament on real courts.
This is SOooooo huge!! Thank you everyone! Amex, USTA, OSA, NY City Parks!
I don't mean to be self-righteous but look at the difference of action over complaining. 20 years since those courts have been resurfaced and you guys did it in 1 year! Congrats McCarren Tennis!
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• Clinical performance of residents should be assessed as reliably and validly as possible. This study investigated the reliability and validity of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) for assessing clinical performance of internal medicine residents. Residents were required to take a 17-patient OSCE in their first and second year. Reliability of the OSCE was 0.40. Validity studies indicated second-year students were significantly better than third-year students for five of six OSCE skill scores; first-year students were significantly better for three scores. Resident's scores for diagnosis, plan, and total significantly increased on their second OSCE. Generally faculty overall ratings of residents' clinical performance did not correlate with OSCE scores. American Board of Internal Medicine certifying examination scores were consistently positively correlated only with diagnosis. This 17-case OSCE is a feasible method for obtaining moderately reliable, valid data not available from other sources about the clinical performance of residents. More cases should be added to increase its reliability.
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Police say a 62-year-old woman who went missing after her husband dropped her off at Walmart last week has been located.
Chandrika Purohit, who has several medical issues, was dropped off by her husband the afternoon of April 25 at the store, which is located on U.S. 1 in North Brunswick.
"She was supposed to call him when she was done shopping but never did," South Brunswick police Sgt. Jim Ryan said in a statement.
Purohit, who lives in the Dayton section of South Brunswick, was found Saturday morning, Ryan said.
Police tracked her cell phone to an area near Route 27 and Easton Avenue in New Brunswick, according to Ryan.
"Detectives had worked for … two days piecing together video surveillance from the Walmart in North Brunswick and New Brunswick train stations in order to locate her," Ryan said in a statement.
Assistance was provided by New Jersey Transit Police, New Brunswick Police, and Rutgers University Police, Ryan said.
South Brunswick woman, 62, disappears on trip to Walmart


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Investigators Give Martha a Deadline
Congressional lawmakers, saying that they have tried without success to interview Martha Stewart regarding the ImClone scandal, demanded her e-mail messages and her Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia business manager's records on Tuesday, reports Wednesday's New York Times. The newspaper notes that the ultimatum marks "the first time that investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have made a direct link of Stewart's stock sale, which she has called a personal matter, to the company that bears her name." Rep. James Greenwood (R.-Pa.), speaking to New York's Daily News, said in regard to Stewart's refusal to meet with the committee, "We have been very patient about our polite requests to (Stewart's) attorneys. At some point, you can't just tell the United States Congress to go pound sand." Greenwood said Stewart, 61, has until Aug. 21 to deliver the requested information. The investigation stems from Stewart's sale of nearly 4,000 ImClone shares a day before the company announced that the Food and Drug Administration had rejected its application for approval of a cancer drug. The Times reports that Jeffrey H. Smith, a lawyer for Stewart, said in a letter to the committee delivered late Tuesday that his firm has asked to have any meeting between Stewart and the investigators delayed until at least after Congress's August recess. A spokesperson for Stewart would not comment to The Times on the matter, other than to confirm the name of the company business manager, Heidi DeLuca.


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Shul partners educating the young generation
A joint initiative by the Kingston Orthodox and Liberal synagogues to provide a Holocaust Memorial Day education programme for local students is now attracting over 1,000 participants.
On the launch day of the scheme's seventh year, French-born survivor Marcel Ladenheim discussed his experiences with year-10 students from Coombe Boys' School at Kingston Synagogue.
Now Surbiton-based, Mr Ladenheim recalled that much of his childhood had been spent in hiding under the care of two non-Jewish women — his mother was mentally ill.
He also recounted the trauma of leaving France after the war when his aunt took him to Manchester. "The reason I speak to you today is because I'd like to remember the children who were murdered," he explained. "And for my mother, who never recovered from her experiences, and the two ladies who didn't have to take in a Jewish boy, but did."
Sean Dickson, 14, said Mr Ladenheim's talk had moved him greatly. "From listening to his story, it is quite upsetting to know how many people were actually affected. How many rooms full of people died? It's hard to imagine."
Coombe Boys' head of humanities Grant Robertson pointed out: "As much as we can do in the classroom, we can't create the first-hand experience for them. It is not just what they get from the survivor, but the whole environment of being in a synagogue.
"The boys were so enthused about spreading the message further. They have really come away with a sense of how brave the survivors were, and the people who saved them."
Forty volunteers from both synagogues organised the half-day workshops, each featuring a talk by one of seven survivors involved in the project and the showing of a film made by the Holocaust Educational Trust.
Programme volunteer Robert Lewis said: "We hope that the children leave with the knowledge of what it was really like. Just hearing somebody talk about their experiences will hopefully breathe into them a feeling of tolerance."


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Why Untreated Chronic Pain is a Medical Emergency
Alex DeLuca, M.D., FASAM, MPH; Pain Relief Network(PRN); 2008–02–28; Revised: 2008–07–08. (PDF version) Written testimony submitted to the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs regarding the "Gen Rx: Abuse of Prescription and OTC Drugs" hearing; 2008–03–08.
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Pain Patients Excluded from Prescription Drug Abuse Hearings
Testimony of Siobhan Reynolds, President PRN, to "Generation Rx" congressional hearings. (PDF version)
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Untreated Chronic Pain is Acute Pain / Fight or Flight, Thwarted, Leads to Illness / Consequences of Unrelieved Pain / Discrimination Against Pain Sufferers / Chronic Pain is a Legitimate Disease / Appendices
Untreated Chronic Pain is Acute Pain
The physiological changes associated with acute pain, and their intimate neurological relationship with brain centers controlling emotion, and the evolutionary purpose of these normal bodily responses, are classically understood as the "Fight or Flight" reaction, which was elegantly explained by W.B. Cannon in "The Emergency Function of the Adrenal Medulla in Pain and the Major Emotions", published in 1914. [1]
Cannon describes how adrenalin, "Liberated Normally in Fear, Rage, Asphyxia and Pain," a reflex response to pain and major emotion, leads to hyperglycemia necessary "for putting forth supreme muscular efforts," and to vascular changes that shunt blood away from vital organs in the gastrointestinal and urinary system in order that "the 'tripod of life' – the heart, lungs and brain (as well as the skeletal muscles) – are, in times of excitement… abundantly supplied with blood…" Cannon concludes this most basic and well known medical tract with these words:
"These changes in the the body are, each one of them, directly serviceable in making the organism more efficient in the struggle which fear or rage or pain may involve; for fear and rage are organic preparations for action, and pain is the most powerful known stimulus to supreme exertion." [2] (emphasis added)
"Fight or Flight", Chronically Thwarted, Leads to Pathophysiological Changes
When these adaptive physiologic responses outlive their usefulness, as when access to effective dosage of analgesic medications is denied, then the fight or flight response becomes pathological, leading to chronic cardiovascular stress, hyperglycemia which both predisposes to and worsens diabetes, splanchnic vasoconstriction leading to impaired digestive function and potentially to catastrophic consequences such as mesenteric insufficiency.
Unrelieved pain can be accurately thought of as the "universal complicator" which worsens all co-existing medical or psychiatric problems through the stress mechanisms reviewed above, and by inducing cognitive and behavioral changes in the sufferer that can interfere with obtaining needed medical care.[3] In a New York Times Magazine article in 2001, Dr. Daniel Carr, director of the New England Medical Center, put it this way:
"Some of my patients are on the border of human life. Chronic pain is like water damage to a house – if it goes on long enough, the house collapses," [sighs Dr. Carr] "By the time most patients make their way to a pain clinic, it's very late. What the majority of doctors see in a chronic-pain patient is an overwhelming, off-putting ruin: a ruined body and a ruined life." [4] (emphasis mine)
Specific Consequences of Untreated and Inadequately-treated Pain
Following our discussion in the preceding section, the medical consequences of untreated pain are legion. In addition to the direct morbidity of pain induced physiologic stress, including chronic hypertension, ischemic cardiac disease, renal insufficiency, stroke, and gastrointestinal bleeding, we must also consider often profound decrements in family and occupational functioning, and iatrogenic morbidity consequent to the very common mis-identification of pain patient as drug seeker. The overall deleterious effect of chronic pain on an individual's existence and outlook is so overwhelming that it cannot be overstated. The risk of death by suicide is more than doubled in chronic pain patients, relative to national rates. [5]
What happens to patients denied needed pharmacological pain relief is well documented. For example, morbidity and mortality resulting from the high incidence of moderate to severe postoperative pain continues to be a major problem despite an array of available advanced analgesic technology.[6] In a study of pain following hip fracture, undertreated pain was demonstrated to significantly increase the risk of delirium:
Patients who received less than 10 mg of parenteral morphine sulfate equivalents per day were more likely to develop delirium than patients who received more analgesia (RR 5.4, 95% CI 2.4–12.3)… Avoiding opioids or using very low doses of opioids increased the risk of delirium. Cognitively intact patients with undertreated pain were nine times more likely to develop delirium than patients whose pain was adequately treated. Undertreated pain and inadequate analgesia appear to be risk factors for delirium in frail older adults. [7] (emphasis added)
Pain Sufferers are Medically Discriminated Against
One very important reason that untreated pain is a medical emergency, particularly in the United States, has nothing to do with neuropathology or cardiovascular complications or even the current state of the medical art. Chronic pain patients are routinely treated as a special class of patient, often with severely restricted liberties – prevented from consulting multiple physicians and using multiple pharmacies as they might please, for example, and in many cases have little say in what treatment modalities or which medications will be used. These are basic liberties unquestioned in a free society for every other class of sufferer.
In effect, chronic pain patients are often seen by medical professionals primarily as prescription or medication problems, rather than as whole individuals who very often present an array of complex comorbid medical, psychological, and social problems, all of which demand expert medical assessment and stabilization in the untreated or undertreated pain patient.
This phenomenon is painfully on display in Wichita, Kansas in the early months of 2008, as the entire country watches droves of ordinary Americans become medically disenfranchised after Dr. Schneider was arrested and his large clinic closed by the federal government. These patients found themselves unable to access basic medical assessment and stabilization, and the ongoing primary care services they needed.
Instead these complex general medical patients are 'cared for' as if their primary and only medical problem was taking prescribed analgesic medication. Obviously the major medical problem of these patients is that they have been forcibly cleaved from their physician, and their obvious primary medical need is for medical stabilization, not knee-jerk detoxification. (See Appendices: 1 – The Distortion of Medical Practice, and, 2 – The Ethical Obligation to Relieve Suffering)
Finally it is well known and documented that special groups of pain sufferers have even higher rates of unrelieved pain. These include the elderly or those with neurological conditions, children, minorities, and those with more severe pain, and pain patients accessing emergency room services. [8] [9] [10]
Chronic Pain is a Legitimate Medical Disease
Chronic pain was established as a legitimate, progressive, neurodegenerative disease state in exhaustive research in the 1990's [11] and reported in very widely read academic review articles in 2000.[12] Chronic pain is probably the most disabling, and most preventable, sequelae to untreated, and inadequately treated, severe pain.
The etiology and pathophysiology of chronic pain are very well understood and have been widely published in the medical literature, and have stood the test of time. This understanding is the literal basis of the current legally relevant "reasonable physician" standard of care.[13] Following a painful trauma or disease, chronicity of pain may develop in the absence of effective relief. A continuous flow of pain signals into the pain mediating pathways of the dorsal horn of the spinal cord alters those pathways through physiological processes known as central sensitization [14], and neuroplasticity.[15] [16] The end result is the disease of chronic pain in which a damaged nervous system becomes the pain source generator separated from whatever the initial pain source was. (See Appendix 3 – A Modern Understanding of Chronic Pain and Opioid Therapy)
Aggressive treatment of severe pain, capable of protecting these critical spinal pain tracts, is the standard care recommended in order to achieve satisfactory relief and prevention of intractable chronic pain. For example, Pappagallo, in an authoritative monograph of the Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America thoroughly reviewing the pharmacology of nociception as well as the classes of drugs used for pain control, and concluding:
[M]edications represent the mainstay therapeutic approach to patients with acute or chronic pain syndromes… aimed at controlling the mechanisms of nociception, [the] complex biochemical activity [occurring] along and within the pain pathways of the peripheral and central nervous system (CNS)… Aggressive treatment of severe pain is recommended in order to achieve satisfactory relief and prevention of intractable chronic pain. [17]
More recently, we are seeing ominous scientific evidence in modern imaging studies of a maladaptive and abnormal persistence of brain activity associated with loss of brain mass in the chronic pain population. Atrophy is most advanced in the areas of the brain that process pain and emotions. In a 2006 news article, a researcher into the pathophysiological effects of chronic pain on brain anatomy and cognitive/emotional functioning, explained:
This constant firing of neurons in these regions of the brain could cause permanent damage, Chialvo said. "We know when neurons fire too much they may change their connections with other neurons or even die because they can't sustain high activity for so long," he explained. [18]
It is well known that chronic pain can result in anxiety, depression and reduced quality of life. Recent evidence indicates that chronic pain is associated with a specific cognitive deficit, which may impact everyday behavior especially in risky, emotionally laden, situations.[19] The areas involved include the prefrontal cortex and the thalamus, the part of the brain especially involved with cognition and emotions, and it is these same areas that were found in 2004 to undergo striking atrophy in chronic back pain patients, compared to normal controls:
Patients with CBP showed 5–11% less neocortical gray matter volume than control subjects. The magnitude of this decrease is equivalent to the gray matter volume lost in 10–20 years of normal aging. The decreased volume was related to pain duration, indicating a 1.3 cm3 loss of gray matter for every year of chronic pain… Gray matter density was reduced in bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and right thalamus… [20] (emphasis mine)
Medical science is not conflicted on this very important point. That chronic pain is a disease whose etiology and pathophysiology are quite well understood in the published literature since the 1990's. That medical science has had a firm grip on the pathophysiological mechanisms and consequences of untreated or undertreated pain since the 1914 publication of Dr. Cannon's seminal and classic research. That clinicians have used opioid preparations to good analgesic effect since recorded history.
Further, there can be no question but that Dr. Schneider's patients, abandoned by the Kansas medical board in 2008, many with multiple chronic medical problems, or any pain patient maintained on opioid analgesic medication with good result, will be at high risk of serious medical harm if withdrawn from these medications in any precipitous manner.
1) The Distortion of Medical Practice
2) The Ethical Obligation of Physicians to Relieve Suffering
3) A Modern Understanding of Chronic Pain and Opioid Therapy
Appendix 1 – A Brief Discussion of the Distortion of Medical Practice, the Standard of Care, and Medical Community Norms
In fields of medicine involving controlled substances, especially addiction medicine and pain medicine, the doctor-patient relationship has become grossly distorted.
This distortion is profound and significant. One manifestation is the 'chilling effect' – the 'chilling effect' is the withdrawal, for fear of litigation or loss of livelihood, by physicians from the appropriate treatment of pain.[21] It is important to note that much of the public health damage here is caused not by the doctors accused of wrongdoing, rather it is caused by doctors-in-good-standing who, faced with a patient in pain and therefore at risk of triggering an investigation, modify their treatment in an attempt to avoid regulatory attention. The chilling effect on appropriate pain management leads inexorably to the national problems of the undertreatment of pain and the shortage of physicians knowledgeable and experienced in opioid therapy for chronic pain, and willing to provide this legitimate professional service.
This distortion of the doctor-patient relationship is complex and can be gross or subtle. Examples include a blanket refusal to prescribe controlled substances even when clearly indicated, or selecting less effective and more toxic non-controlled medications when a trial of opioid analgesics would be in the best interests of a particular patient. At the very least, some degree of suspicion and mistrust will surely arise in any medical relationship involving controlled substances.
For most common medical conditions (not involving controlled substances) the quality of care most physicians provide is fairly close to the medical standard of care which is what the textbooks say one should do, and which is generally in line with core medical ethical obligations such as holding the interests of the individual patient before you above all other interests, patient confidentiality, etc. For example, the care a person would receive for an acute asthma attack is pretty much the same no matter what ER he walked into, and that care would be pretty much by-the-book. So, in most medical fields we could say: "How most reputable physicians practice approaches the (textbook) standard of care."
This is NOT true in the fields of addiction and pain medicine. For example, modern pain management textbooks universally recommend 'titration to effect' (simplistically: gradually increasing the opioid dose until the pain is relieved or until untreatable side effects prevent further dosage increase) as the procedure by which one properly treats chronic pain with opioid medications. Yet the overwhelmingly physicians in America do not practice titration to effect, or anything even vaguely resembling it, for fear of becoming 'high dose prescriber' targets of federal or state law enforcement.
In pain medicine we have the deeply disturbing situation that what most doctors do (medical community norm) is at odds with the medical standard of care. Literally, in the treatment of chronic pain, an ethical physician attempting to practice in good faith, according to the clinical literature, is an outlier, deviating from how most reputable physicians would practice. [22]
Appendix 2 – The Ethical Obligation of Physicians to Relieve Suffering
It is a foundation of medicine back to ancient times that a primary obligation of a physician is to relieve suffering. A physician also has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the individual patient at all times, and that the interests of the patient are to be held above all others, including those of family or the state.[23] These ethical obligations incumbent on all individual physicians extend to state licensing and regulatory boards which are composed of physicians monitoring and regulating themselves. [24]
Many studies have shown the practice and custom of physicians in managing pain, even in terminal cancer cases, is extremely conservative and below the (textbook) standard of care.[25] [26] In the literature analyzing this discrepancy a number of barriers to effective pain relief have been identified and include:
1. The failure of clinicians to identify pain relief as a priority in patient care;
2. Fear of regulatory scrutiny of prescribing practices for opioid analgesics;
3. The persistence of irrational beliefs and unsubstantiated fears about addiction, tolerance, dependence, and adverse side effects of opioid analgesics. [27]
Regardless of the particular barriers impacting any particular case, in fields of medicine involving the use of controlled substances a rift has developed between the usual custom and practice standard of care (the medical community norm – what most reputable physicians do) and the reasonable physician standard of care (what the textbooks say to do – the medical standard of care), and this raises very serious and difficult dilemma for both individual physicians and medical boards. From an ethical perspective, and on the basis of precedent in criminal law:
"When credible evidence has been presented that not just a particular physician, or an isolated, retrograde group of them, but a majority of the profession has failed to adopt practices that would materially reduce patient suffering, courts may properly conclude, in the tradition of great justices like Holmes and Hand, that a reasonable physician would not practice in this way and those who do should be called to account for the adverse consequences such practice has on the well-being of patients." [28]
Appendix 3 – A Modern Understanding of Chronic Pain and Opioid Therapy
Research into pathophysiology and natural history of chronic pain have dramatically altered our understanding of what chronic pain is, what causes it, and the changes in spinal cord and brain structure and function that mediate the disease process of chronic pain, which is generally progressive and neurodegenerative.[29] Simply put, a continuous flow of pain signals into the pain mediating pathways of the dorsal horn of the spinal cord alters those pathways through physiological processes described as central sensitization, and neuroplasticity.[30] [31] [32] The end result is the disease of chronic pain in which a damaged nervous system becomes the pain source generator separated from whatever the initial pain source was.
The end result is the disease of chronic pain in which a damaged nervous system becomes the pain source generator separated from whatever the initial pain source was. This understanding explains many clinical observations in chronic pain patients, such as phantom limb syndrome, that the pain spreads to new areas of the body not involved in the initiating injury, and that it generally worsens if not aggressively treated. The progressive, neurodegenerational nature of chronic pain was recently shown in several imaging studies showing significant losses of neocortical grey matter in the prefrontal lobes and thalamus. [33] [34]
The implications for how acute and early chronic pain should be treated, the medical standard of care, are very serious. The analgesic effects of opioids are primarily mediated in the dorsal horn of spinal cord where they bind with receptors blocking pain transmission and thereby protecting the dorsal horn from being bombarded with pain signals which is believed to be the pathophysiological mechanism underlying the development of chronic pain, as just discussed. NSAIDs, antidepressants, and other commonly used non-opioid analgesics do not have this protective property. Therefore, regarding the standard of care for pain management:
1) Delaying aggressive opioid therapy in favor of trying everything else first is not rational based on a modern, scientific understanding of the pathophysiology of chronic pain, and is therefore not the standard of care. Delaying opioid therapy could result in continuous pain signals overwhelming the dorsal horn, would be expected to promote the development of chronic pain and making the patient's illness progressively more difficult to treat. Opioids in adequate doses can prevent the development of the disease of chronic pain.
2) Opioid titration to analgesic effect represents near ideal treatment for persistent pain, providing both quick relief of acute suffering and possible prevention of neurological damage known to underlie chronic pain.
Cannon, W. B. (1914). The emergency function of the adrenal medulla in pain and the major emotions, Am J Physiol, 33(2), 356–372. ↩
Cannon (1914). Emergency function of adrenals in pain. page 372. ↩
For example, five recent academic review articles about consequences of chronic stress on various organ systems: – 1) Mayer, E. A. (2000). The neurobiology of stress and gastrointestinal disease, Gut, 47(6), 861–9; – 2) Heim, et al. (2000). The potential role of hypocortisolism in the pathophysiology of stress-related bodily disorders, Psychoneuroendocrinology, 25(1), 1–35; – 3) Pickering, T. G. (2001). Mental stress as a causal factor in the development of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, Current hypertension reports, 3(3), 249–54; – 4) Loeser & Melzack. (1999). Pain: an overview, Lancet, 353(9164), 1607–9; and, – 5) Morrison et al. (2003). Relationship between pain and opioid analgesics on the development of delirium following hip fracture, J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 58(1), M76–81. ↩
Thernstrom, M. (2001). Pain the Disease, New York Times Magazine, 2001–12–16. (Available: http://snipurl.com/21ttm) ↩
Tang, Nicole K.Y.; Crane, Catherine; Suicidality in chronic pain : a review of the prevalence, risk factors and psychological links, Psychological Medicine 34 (5): 575–586; 2006. ↩
Filos, K. S., & Lehmann, K. A. (1999). Current concepts and practice in postoperative pain management: need for a change?, European surgical research. Europäische chirurgische Forschung. Recherches chirurgicales européennes, 31(2), 97–107. ↩
Morrison, R. S., Magaziner, J., Gilbert, M., Koval, K. J., McLaughlin, M. A., Orosz, G., et al. (2003). Relationship between pain and opioid analgesics on the development of delirium following hip fracture, J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 58(1), M76–81. ↩
Clay, R.A. (2002). Overcoming Barriers to Pain Relief. Monitor on Psychology, 33(4). ↩
Chronic Pain in America: Roadblocks to Relief," a study conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide for American Academy of Pain Medicine, American Pain Society and Janssen Pharmaceutica, 1999. ↩
Barletta et al. A prospective study of pain control in the emergency department. Am J Ther., 7(4); 2000. ↩
For example, here are six references including major articles from prestigious journals and chapters from medical textbook publications: 1) Besson JM. The neurobiology of pain. Lancet 353:1610, 1999 – 2) Dickerson AH. NMDA receptor antagonists as analgesics. In Progress in Pain Research, vol 1, Fields HL, Liebeskind VC (Eds), IASP Press, Seattle, 1994, pp 173–188 – 3) Borsook D (Ed). Molecular Neurobiology of Pain. IASP Press, Seattle, 1997 – 4) Sicuteri F et al (Eds). Pain Versus Man. Raven Press, New York, 1992 – 5) Urban MO, Gebhart GF. Central mechanisms in pain. Med Clin North Am 83:585, 1999 – and, 6) Willis W (Ed). Hyperalgesia and Allodynia. Raven Press, New York, 1992. ↩
Brookoff , D. wrote two very widely read and hugely important review articles, Chronic Pain I – A New Disease?, and, Chronic Pain II -The Case for Opiates. Hospital Practice; Volume 35; Issues 7 and 9, respectively; 2000. ↩
Rich,B.A Medical Custom and Medical Ethics; Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics; 14: 27–29; 2005. From p. 39:
"When credible evidence has been presented that not just a particular physician, or an isolated, retrograde group of them, but a majority of the profession has failed to adopt practices that would materially reduce patient suffering, courts may properly conclude, in the tradition of great justices like Holmes and Hand, that a reasonable physician would not practice in this way and those who do should be called to account for the adverse consequences such practice has on the well-being of patients." (emphasis added) ↩
Gudin, J.A. Expanding Our Understanding of Central Sensitization. Medscape Today, Pharmacologic Management of Pain Expert Column; 2004–06–28. This is a particularly readable review of the medical literature aimed at an educated, but medically lay, readership. ↩
Brookoff D. Chronic Pain: Part 1. A New Disease?; Hospital Practice, 35(7); 2000. ↩
Brookoff D. Chronic Pain: Part 2. The Case for Opiates; Hospital Practice, 35(9); 2000. ↩
Pappagallo, M. (1999). Aggressive pharmacologic treatment of pain, Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 25(1), 193–213. ↩
Chronic Pain Can Damage Brain. redOrbit Staff; 2008–02–06. ↩
Apkarian, A. V., Sosa, Y., Krauss, B. R., Thomas, P. S., Fredrickson, B. E., Levy, R. E., et al. (2004). Chronic pain patients are impaired on an emotional decision-making task, Pain, 108(1–2), 129–136. ↩
Apkarian, A. V., Sosa, Y., Sonty, S., Levy, R. M., Harden, R. N., Parrish, T. B., et al. (2004). Chronic back pain is associated with decreased prefrontal and thalamic gray matter density, Journal of neuroscience, 24(46), 10410–5. ↩
DeLuca, A. War on Drugs, War on Doctors, and the Pain Crisis in America. Addiction Pain and Public Health website; 2004. ↩
See also, Vastag B. Mixed message on prescription drug abuse. JAMA; 285(17):2183–2184; 2001.
For a stark example. Brown and colleagues reported, at a NIDA symposium in April 2001, on a survey they developed that measured the prescribing practices for benzodiazepines and opioid analgesics by groups of physicians in response to variations of a single presented case. The physicians' prescribing decisions were then compared with recommendations from a panel of pain management experts. The findings:
"While the expert panel recommended that virtually all patients with [common idiopathic back pain] who do not respond to other treatments be given an opioid analgesic, only 20% of physicians said they would actually write that prescription…" ↩
Rich,B.A An Ethical Analysis of the Barriers to Effective Pain Management; Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics; 9: 27–39; 2005; p. 66. ↩
Rich. Ethical Analysis; p. 66. ↩
SUPPORT Principle Investigators. A Controlled Trial to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Patients.; JAMA; 274: 1591–1598; 1995. ↩
Marks,R.M., Sachar,E.J. Undertreatment of medical inpatients with narcotic analgesics; Archives of Internal Medicine; 78:173–181; 1997. ↩
Rich. op.cit., p. 54. ↩
Rich,B.A Medical Custom and Medical Ethics; Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics; 14: 27–29; 2005; p. 39. ↩
Argoff C.E. Managing Neuropathic Pain: New Approaches for Today's Clnical Practice; Medscape; 2003. Available; accessed: 2007–07–17. ↩
Gudin J. Expanding Our Understanding of Central Sensitization. Medscape Neurology & Neurosurgery; Pharmacologic Management of Pain Expert Column; 2004. ↩
Brookoff D. Chronic Pain: Part 1. A New Disease?; Hospital Practice. 2000. ↩
Brookoff D. Chronic Pain: Part 2. The Case for Opiates; Hospital Practice. 2000. ↩
Apkarian,A. et al. Chronic Back Pain Is Associated with Decreased Prefrontal and Thalamic Gray Matter Density; The Journal of Neuroscience; 24(46):10410–10415; 2004. ↩
Schmidt-Wilcke,T. et al. Affective components and intensity of pain correlate with structural differences in gray matter in chronic back pain patients. Pain; 125(1–2):89–97; 2006. ↩


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Missing Persons
Fox (Fridays, 8 p.m. ET)
This burlesque Western is like the old Robert Conrad-Ross Martin series, The Wild, Wild West, gone Looney Tunes. In fact, in this two-hour pilot, outlaws cause a train wreck by dropping a boulder on the tracks and painting it with scenery—a ruse that, if memory serves, was a favorite of Wile E. Coyote's.
Our smirky hero (played by Bruce Campbell) is a maverick bounty hunter with a Harvard law degree. Each week, with the help of his wonder horse, Comet (who does everything but give stock tips), Brisco faces death with a glint in his eye and a smart remark on his lips. His archnemesis is a flamboyant villain named John Bly (Billy Drago), who's like Hannibal Lecter as played by Peter O'Toole.
The show has a refreshing sense of humor and whimsy. For instance, when a Calamity Jane type (played by Anne Trimko) accidentally slugs him, Brisco says, "Where did you learn to throw a punch like that?" "Catholic school," she responds. "That was going to be my first guess," he says, gingerly touching his nose.
While the series is distinctive and diverting, most of the supporting roles are weakly cast, particularly Christian Clemenson as a starchy lawyer, John Astin as a screw-loose inventor and Julius Carry as Brisco's bitter business rival. Campbell (Army of Darkness) gives a game, often enjoyable effort, but he can't push this goofy, spoofy conceit around by himself.
NBC (Fri, Aug. 27, 9 p.m. ET)
Hoping to bolster its Friday-night lineup, NBC introduces a novel ploy, Great Escapes. Or better yet, make that a romance-novel ploy. For Great Escapes is a collection of discrete soap-opera miniseries.
First up is this howler, set on the Caribbean island of St. Martin, in which two prominent families make a stiff, stilted run through greed, lust and the other deadly sins (except for sloth, which on TV is the sole province of sitcoms). A large cast features Efrem Zimbalist Jr., John Beck, Michael Michele, Michael McLafferty, Anita Morris and Stephen Meadows, who in real life is married to ubiquitous infotainment pep-rallier Leeza Gibbons.
Really, I don't see how it constitutes a Great Escape to combine exotic settings, beautiful people, dull, dumb writing and bad acting. That's just TV as usual. After this two-hour premiere, Trade Winds will blow over on four consecutive Fridays at 10 p.m. ET.
The Family Channel (Saturdays, 6 p.m. ET)
In this Australian series set in the 19th century, the Man from Snowy River, the daring young roustabout celebrated in song and verse (a character that also inspired the 1983 Kirk Douglas movie) is now a good deal older. He's a successful homesteader and cattleman, a widower with three children in rugged southern Australia.
Andrew Clarke, Wendy Hughes (who was the coroner Ned Beatty had a crush on in NBC's Homicide), John Stanton, Amanda Douge, Josh Lucas and Victoria Tennant costar.
Handsome and pastoral, the show is like The Virginian, albeit with a stiff Aussie accent—and one other, even more important, difference: There are no holsters, guns or shoot-outs to speak of, which makes this wholesome and rather stodgy series a good fit for the Family Channel.
Fox (Sundays, 8:30 p.m. ET)
This sitcom about four female Brooklyn buppies who are best friends is brash, scattered, derivative and kind of desperate. If nothing else (and we're dangerously close to that state of minimalism), it does have what may be the season's most curious, eclectic cast.
Rap star Queen Latifah plays a woman trying to launch a women's magazine on a shoestring budget. She's the den mother to the other characters. There's a spacey office assistant played by Kim Coles (In Living Color) in the time-honored sitcom role of the moron. There's a man-hungry material girl hammily played by Kim Fields (Tootie on The Facts of Life) with all the extravagant mannerisms of Diana Ross. Finally there's a fly-girl divorce lawyer, played by Erika Alexander (Going to Extremes) with the only comic verve evident in the cast. That's not entirely the actresses' fault. They're hemmed in by bad gags and clichéd characters.
The supporting male figures (played by T.C. Carson and John Henton) are particularly reprehensible. Their idea of a salutation is "We hungry." One of them says to the other, "My brother, this ain't Home Improvement." You got that right.
ABC (Mon., Aug. 30, 9 p.m. ET)
Daniel J. Travanti lands back on series TV not far from where he jumped off in 1987. But there are some key variances between Lt. Ray McAuliffe of the Chicago Missing Persons squad and Capt. Frank Furillo of the Hill Street station house: McAuliffe is more hot-headed, by-the-book, and isn't averse to using mind games to keep his staff motivated. Much of McAuliffe's attitude can be explained by the fact that he's a former street hound now shackled to a desk after a hail of bullets nearly took his life in the Cabrini Green housing project.
Missing Persons tries to copy the gritty urban flavor and punchy tempo of NBC's Law & Order without succeeding on either front. And it shreds TV's already thin fabric of plausibility and common sense. In this two-hour pilot, one cop (Erik King) entraps a murder suspect by impersonating a pimp. Then after taunting the killer for being fooled, the cop leaves this man, who has a history of brutality to women, alone in a hotel room with the laughing prostitute who just helped sign his death warrant.
Besides Travanti, the only cast member who stands out is newcomer Jorjan Fox, who brings a plucky charm to her role as the squad's junior member. In three weeks this stale show will settle into its regular slot: Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.
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