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Video: Our "legacy" is all that separates us from Euro-Canada health care
posted at 2:47 pm on March 26, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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If you want a peek at the direction Barack Obama will take health care, or at least where he would like to take it, check out this moment from an otherwise dull, dreary "virtual town hall". Obama extols the virtues of single-payer systems in Europe and Canada while lamenting the "legacy" that keeps America from its nationalized destiny:
Obama's right about the "historical accident" of employer based care, from which Obama obviously drew the wrong lesson. Government intervention in markets — in this case, the labor market — produces strange and sometimes problematic results. This was the very issue that John McCain wanted to address in his plans to make employer-financed health insurance taxable income while providing a balancing refundable that would have disconnected insurance from employment and created a new market for individual — and portable — plans. Obama and the Democrats misrepresented McCain's plans, and then turned around this month and suggested they might co-opt the McCain approach now.
As for his description of Canada and "England" as places where one just walks in and gets treatment, perhaps Obama should talk to more Canadians and "English". Most have to wait months for tests and treatments. The British have a chronic lack of dentists and transplant surgeons, just to name two specialties, because of the lack of compensation for specializations. Both have a healthy "health tourism" outflow of patients to countries that allow for free-market health care. Most people in the systems that Obama hails would laugh outright at the notion that they get health care on demand.
Maybe Obama should do more research on Canada and "England".
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I'll buy a cork for my ass also.
LimeyGeek on March 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Heh. Well, that'll be doing everyone a favor.
Esthier on March 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM
not much more to say but the people that really believe in Obama thinks he will bring back the jobs, fill their gas tanks and pay their home loans. If you believe that it isn't much of a stretch to think he will pay your medical care also.
unseen on March 26, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Do you cons fit in this bracket?
getalife on March 26, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Sorry, you have us confused with all of those liberals who make a living in the entertainment industry.
Just A Grunt on March 26, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Actually, their financial problems may be WORSE than ours. They've already reached the point where they can no longer issue debt to cover their massive social spending and "stimulus" programs. We're months away from that.
hawksruleva on March 26, 2009 at 3:32 PM
I'm not so sure it'll take that long. Yesterday the Fed auctioned some T-bills, but there were so few interested buyers, they had to raise the interest rates significantly above what they originally priced them at.
Looks like our creditors are starting to catch on.
AZCoyote on March 26, 2009 at 3:59 PM
While talking on the phone with a service technician who was working in British Columbia, Canada, I happened to purvey to her how beautiful the country up there was. Without missing a heartbeat, expecting a hearty "yes sir", she said "yes, sir, but our socialized medicine sucks!"
Enough said!!!
Before the revolution begins, you may want to take that Obama bumper sticker off your Subaru!
smokey on March 26, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Since a significant portion of medical costs are caused by lawyers and the threat of lawsuit, tort reform would bring costs down precipitously:
Lower malpractice insurance for doctors and hospitals, less money going out in awards, less settlements designed to buy off cases that are frivolous but still cost to defend againstless extravagant and wasteful procedures designed to fend off lawsuits, less money for lawyers being paid to defend care providers, less paperwork, and less burden on the legal system.
Make tort reform a part of any socialist medicine proposal, and you'll see the financial backing for it disappear. Trial lawyers and their enablers are lusting at the thought of a massive public program with ample teats for them to suckle.
snickelfritz on March 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM
So sick of this dude. Disappear, obama.
ErinF on March 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM
"You just go in and someone treats you".
Uh huh. Well, not too long ago I made an appointment with my doctor because I had an extremely painful, very immobile shoulder joint. It two weeks to get an appointment (and I'm lucky, because about 15-20 of Ontarians don't have a family doctor – there aren't enough to service the population). The prescribed X-ray was fast, but it then took nearly 3 months to get an ultrasound, and another month for my doctor to get the results from the ultrasound. My doctor then wanted to send me to an orthopaedist (you can't see a specialist without a referral from a family physician), and said it would likely be 8-18 MONTHS before I would be able to get in. Because the problem had begun to improve on its own by then (nearly 5 months after I first called to make the first appointment), I said that if I could get in within 6 months I would go, and if not, then it would likely be pointless.
So hey, Mr. President, "you just go in" and THAT IS how they treat you in Canada. Slowly if at all, unless you are obviously in imminent danger of death. And even then, the wait times for radiation treatment, MRIs and other important diagnostic tests are often dangerously long. Not only that, but "universal health care", which we pay for dearly through high taxes, as poor as it is, doesn't cover take-home chemotherapy drugs, physiotherapy, prescriptions or prostheses. And to add insult to injury, to get treatment, a patient is often forced to relocate far from home and/or to travel absurdly long distances on a regular basis to get it, and none of the costs associated with that are covered. Nor is any concern given to the fact that it rips people away from their social and emotional support networks when they most need them.
Our system sucks!! It is nothing to aspire to! The only saving grace I can see in the US going toward universal health care is that all the Canadian doctors who take their costly, government-financed medical educations to the US to practice there will have less incentive to do so, so maybe in the long-run, we won't have sch a serious shortage of doctors here. But more likely, fewer very capable people will want to practice medicine.
ProfessorMiao on March 26, 2009 at 4:04 PM
radiofreevillage on March 26, 2009 at 3:31 PM
One of the biggest problems with our healthcare system is all the regulations on bureaucratic paperwork. Doctors spend a LOT of time on paperwork… which eats into their time, which means fewer patients can be seen. This drives up the price per patient to cover the fixed expenses (like doctor salary, office rent, etc).
dominigan on March 26, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Since a significant portion of medical costs are caused by lawyers and the threat of lawsuit, tort reform would bring costs down precipitously:
I think California has some caps, and it didn't do anything to reduce the costs.
radiofreevillage on March 26, 2009 at 4:06 PM
The "English". What a twerp. Probably even "notaclue" knows what's wrong with that.
I've lived in Canada (single payer) and Australia (hybrid). Both were fairly bad, although Australia was an improvement on Canada. I recently gave birth to a kidney stone here in Denton Co. TX. The hospital did an MRI on the spot. In Canada, you wait months for an MRI, if your condition is deemed sufficiently severe to require one at all. Folks in Canada die waiting for their pacemakers.
In Australia, the public hospitals are revolting, the medical attention indifferent and slap-dash. I went into one (in Sydney, a city of 4+ million) after a road accident, and they begged me to stay overnight because they would have received funding from my private insurance, but there was no way I wanted to stay there and get sick. In the ER, they didn't even attend to my bleeding wounds.
Believe me, we do not want socialized medicine! Been there, done that!
mr.blacksheep on March 26, 2009 at 4:06 PM
0 should ask Liam Neeson about Canada's wonderful health care system that killed his wife.
rockmom on March 26, 2009 at 4:08 PM
I hope Obama fails.
bluelightbrigade on March 26, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Yeah, if Sarah Palin had said "England" instead of "Britain," Poptech and all of his ilk in the MSM would be cackling about how stupid she is.
Weight of Glory on March 26, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Something similar happened to a friend of mine. She had minor routine surgery and was double-billed on one item. One bill came to her, the other was sent to the insurance company. This was for the EXACT SAME item; it was an error in the billing department. They charged my friend about a fifth of what they charged the insurance company.
Of course, I'm not sure if I can exactly blame the hospital in this case. After two years of having to navigate the vagaries of Medicare on behalf of my grandmother, and learning how they nickel and dime and red tape the doctors to death, it's not surprising that doctors are 1) loath to take on new Medicare patients, and 2) are looking for other ways to make up the shortfall. And just try getting an appointment to see a doctor if you're on Medicare and don't already have a PCP. MONTHS, I tell you. And over a year in some places. What choice does a person then have but to go to a woefully overcrowded and understaffed clinic? Or the friggin' emergency room which was never intended to treat routine ailments but is certainly taken full advantage of by the un- and underinsured. I worked in the billing department of a hospital one summer when I was in college and it was obscene to see the kinds of things people would come to the emergency room for. A simple tension headache might yield a bill of $1000 after the CT scan and the $10 Tylenol tablet. Do we think this would abate by nationalizing healthcare? Hell no! There will simply be even more people seeking out care for frivolous health concerns that could easily be remedied with a $3.00 bottle of aspirin from Wal-Mart. There would be even fewer doctors in understaffed specialties, it would take even LONGER to get in to see one, because now it wouldn't just be the over 65 crowd we're competing with for slots but EVERYONE. There's plenty wrong with how our healthcare system operates, but nationalizing it is not going to solve any of those ills. It's only going to take us in the opposite direction. It would be a novel idea if there were no insurance at all — state-funded OR private — and people had to pay for it all out of their own pocket. Scandalous, I know. But just like I mentioned about the cost of college in the student loan thread, anytime the government gets in the business of subsidizing something, it makes it MORE expensive and LESS accessible for everyone. If people had to pay for their own routine care, like they have to pay for their own long-term care, costs could be better contained.
And speaking of Wal-Mart, I think it would be a great idea if they got into the healthcare business, and given that they are already offering optical services, and that they will do ANYTHING to keep their employees from unionizing, I don't think we're far off from that happening. I welcome it. They would wring every last dime of waste from the system and it might finally become efficient again.
NoLeftTurn on March 26, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Since a significant portion of medical costs are caused by lawyers and the threat of lawsuit, tort reform would bring costs down precipitously:
Lower malpractice insurance for doctors and hospitals, less money going out in awards, less settlements designed to buy off cases that are frivolous but still cost to defend againstless extravagant and wasteful procedures designed to fend off lawsuits, less money for lawyers being paid to defend care providers, less paperwork, and less burden on the legal system.
Make tort reform a part of any socialist medicine proposal, and you'll see the financial backing for it disappear. Trial lawyers and their enablers are lusting at the thought of a massive public program with ample teats for them to suckle.
snickelfritz on March 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM
I'd like to see any other profession in the world where you have to pay $100,000 a year just for the privelege of practicing.
rockmom on March 26, 2009 at 4:13 PM
How's this?…
I'm a Canadian disabled Vet, we don't have anything like the VA up here, so you have to find a doctor willing to take on new patients. Because of my various problems, it took me over 5 years to find a doctor willing to see me, as most didn't want anything to do with me, because I would have been too much work for them. I got angry the first few times I heard this, but got used to it over the years… Before I managed to find a doctor, I was forced to use emergency services whenever I needed medical attention. This is not ideal, and has resulted in some extreme "wait times" for any kind of care. For example, I once waited 5 and a half months to get an MRI on my neck, and another time it took over 7 months to get a colonoscopy…
Absolutely ridiculous…
My advice to you Yanks would be to resist socialized healthcare to the bitter end. Don't put your health in the hands of a bureaucrat when you can have a real doctor.
Scarbarian on March 26, 2009 at 4:13 PM
And speaking of Wal-Mart, I think it would be a great idea if they got into the healthcare business, and given that they are already offering optical services, and that they will do ANYTHING to keep their employees from unionizing, I don't think we're far off from that happening. I welcome it. They would wring every last dime of waste from the system and it might finally become efficient again.
NoLeftTurn on March 26, 2009 at 4:12 PM
I think there is already a pilot program for Wal-Mart health clinics. I would love to see it work out.
myrenovations on March 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Please Mr. Obama, I don't wanna go
Hey, Mr. Obama, please don't make me go
I had a dream last night about my comin' medical care
Somebody said "What you'll get is
Dashle Kennedy Care!'"
And there I stood with a rag in my mouth upon which to bite.
Please Mr. Obama, I don't wanna go
Listen, Mr. Obama, please don't make me go
There's a bureaucrat a'waitin' out there, just fixin to decide my fate
A complainer I've been called cuz I don't wanna wind up screamin' or dead
I wonder what the Kenyan word for friend is
Let's see-friend– kemo sabe, that's it
Nope, that itn't it
Look at them durned socialists
They're runnin' around like a bunch of wild Kevorkians-heh, heh, heh
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 4:21 PM
From Drudge and the NY Post:
Candacare may have killed Natasha
hawksruleva on March 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Scary stuff.
Sounds to me like they're laying the groundwork for the imposition of a FICA-like tax to support national healthcare.
Healthcare is doomed as we know it because of the flood of unintended consequences that are generally not acknowledged by people who are not in the industry.
As someone who has worked in the healthcare industry for nearly 25 years, this will probably cause ERs to be overwhelmed without substantial limitations that regulate who can be seen for what. Under the current system, patients with insurance or self pays are disincentivized from using ER facilities as primary treatment facilities for non emergent care because of the added individual costs associated with treatment. By contrast, medicaid patients tend to abuse the system because there are no disincentives for them not to use ERs as primary treatment facilities.
Against this backdrop ER physicians will continue to over test and treat without significant tort reform or an imposed form of govt rationing. Failure to address these significant problems, we will see an explossion in demand and costs.
These unintended consequences will necessitate more regulations to fix the dislocations and inefficiencies that are bound to happen. What will be sold as nationalized healthcare-lite will require a more comprehensive, top down healthcare system that looks more like a European style of healthcare than the bill of goods which will be sold.
Basically, we're screwed.
moxie_neanderthal on March 26, 2009 at 4:21 PM
ProfessorMiao on March 26, 2009 at 4:04 PM
At one point a few years ago, I know there were only five MRI machines in all of Canada. You could only get one for a brain or heart scan. I live in a town of 35,000 and there are three of them here. They cost $150,000 which is why the hospitals can't get them in Canada. Here a doctor can be sued for malpractice if he does not order an MRI.
rockmom on March 26, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I couple of years ago at Democratic Underground, there was a fierce thread concerning FREE sonogram machines being given to "family planning" clinics in Kansas (I believe). The DU nutjobs openly opposed this access to medical care (with extreme predjudice). Guess why?
Access to health care is, was, and ever shall be a political football kicked around by the Left to achieve their vision of society… which has nothing to do with actual health-related issues.
CanadaCare killed Natasha.
subbottomfeeder on March 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM
At one point a few years ago, I know there were only five MRI machines in all of Canada. You could only get one for a brain or heart scan. I live in a town of 35,000 and there are three of them here. They cost $150,000 which is why the hospitals can't get them in Canada. Here a doctor can be sued for malpractice if he does not order an MRI.
rockmom on March 26, 2009 at 4:22 PM
The best part about the MRI shortage in Canada is that the machines we do have (I think we may be up to 7 now) are used for vetrinary diagnostics in their 'off hours'. The problem isn't the cost of the machines but of the radiologists who run them and interpret the images – about 3-4 times per year the cost of actually purchasing a machine.
A doctor here could also be sued for not ordering an MRI. But the doctor can't be held responsible if the patient is dead before their appointment comes up 6-12 months down the road.
ProfessorMiao on March 26, 2009 at 4:31 PM
A draft of the House tax-and-spending blueprint calls for using "reconciliation" procedures, a maneuver that would allow a health-care overhaul to move through the Senate with a requirement for a simple majority of 51 votes. Under normal Senate debate rules, 60 votes are needed to keep opponents from blocking legislation.
I've about had it with Pelosi's Politburo.
Somebody really should explain to our new president that nothing is free. Not really.
Terrye on March 26, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Under Barry's plan, we'll all go to Mexico for our health care. See? Problem solved. Of course all the malpractice attorney's will be pissed, that's just their tough luck.
GarandFan on March 26, 2009 at 5:21 PM
After suffering congestive heart failure I required heart by-pass surgery which was done only 2 weeks after my condition was detected. If I had to wait 6 months I probably wouldn't have survived.
docdave on March 26, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Someone tell me again what the exact PROBLEM is with our healthcare system?
I second everything that JAM said above but would add that instead of insurance, what we have now is a pre-paid health plan; mostly paid for by employers except by poor sods like me. My husband and I are forced to buy super expensive plans that cost 10x as much as we would spend on healthcare if we just had a very high deductible plan and paid for our yearly check ups (even if you add in my minor back issue and the fact that the nsaids caused me to be on Nexium for the next few months, it doesn't add up to the $1550 a month premium we are paying). Alas, New York doesn't allow for that individual high deductible plans. What NY does force us to have is things like chiropractic care and fertility treatments for women in their 40s. Do even get me started about the state run Healthy New York plan where everyone else gets to pay really low monthly payments subsidizes by yours truly. There are a few good books out on the subject:
The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World
Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care
Ann NY on March 26, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Every person should be responsible for their own health care. If they had to shop for the insurance or shop for price and quality of the Doctor competition would drive the price down and force the quality of service up! Get the employer and government out of areas it doesn't belong.
I think there is already a pilot program for Wal-Mart health clinics. I would love to see it work out.
myrenovations on March 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM
CVS and Walgreens in my area already have these "minute clinics" or something like that. They are kind of pricey, but really handy. I used the CVS in my hood last year before traveling abroad. I got a hepatitus B shot, a shot for malaria and 3 scripts written for antibiotics, anti-nausea and anti-diaheria meds. Total price, not including the scripts for a grand total of $250.
It sure beat waiting in the doctors office.
Knucklehead on March 26, 2009 at 5:41 PM
The only thing that makes our health care system by far the best in the world is our legacy. Has anyone EVER heard of anyone going without health care in this country? Even illegal aliens get better health care than the rest of the world. Does anyone want to guess where Europeans and Canadians go when they need excellent health care?
Everything our government touches it damages so, by all means, let's let Obama, Pelosi and Reid mess with health care.
orlandocajun on March 26, 2009 at 5:41 PM
In an earlier thread I said I expect to leave the country by the end of 2010. Make that the end of 2009.
I worked today you lazy piece of crap and you work for me, So get off of the internet and get to work doing your job. I know that you don't know what the f@#k you are doing so go in there and learn something you lazy turd.
thomasaur on March 26, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Every person should be responsible for their own health care. If they had to shop for the insurance or shop for price and quality of the Doctor competition would drive the price down and force the quality of service up! Get the employer and government out of areas it doesn't belong.
LifeTrek on March 26, 2009 at 5:37 PM
The Democrats think that we are all too stupid to choose between insurance policies and they need to do it for us.
myrenovations on March 26, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Maybe Obama should do more research on Canada and "England".
I'm sure the teleprompter kid can find a DVD set or 2 on the subject…try Wal-Mart
Gohawgs on March 26, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Maybe Obama should do more research on Canada and "England".
Obama knows Canadacare is garbage. He just doesn't care.
Kjeil on March 26, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I think California has some caps, and it didn't do anything to reduce the costs.
radiofreevillage on March 26, 2009 at 4:06 PM
That's because awards are not the problem. The problem is the risk every healthcare provider has of being sued for failing to be God. The respondent has to pay for their defense, win or lose, frivolous or not, and those costs dwarf even the largest awards. I believe we could handle the whole tort reform problem by making it losing lawyer pays. each lawyer would have to insure his case when filing suit and would have to pay all the hourlys of the winning lawyer if he loses.
Damage caps are like adding a new paint job to fix a transmission problem. They may look shiny, but they don't address the issue.
Random Numbers (Brian Epps) on March 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM
You get what you pay for, and right now fewer and fewer of the best and brightest are choosing to go into medicine, for many, many reasons. It will only accelerate under Obama's planned healthcare. Check out this site regarding patient access to care, http://operationpatientaccess.facs.org
Then imagine how much worse it will get under socialized medicine.
txmomof6 on March 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM
You people just don't appreciate anything. A talking chimp is discussing health care and you harp on the facts and details? Sheesh, what's it going to take to entertain you people?
mr1216 on March 26, 2009 at 8:17 PM
"Our legacy" keeps Obama from doing a bunch of stuff he wants to.
Of course, by "our legacy" I mean the U.S. Constitution.
29Victor on March 26, 2009 at 9:42 PM
I had no idea that many Canadians had their winter homes down in Florida.
Knucklehead on March 26, 2009 at 2:55 PM
When the furthest South you can get in Canada is North of North Dakota, gotta go somewhere further South :o)
cntrlfrk on March 26, 2009 at 3:18 PM
oh my…try looking up Point Pelee, Ontario on a map.At least you're smarter than most,you do know Canada lies to the north.
spareadime on March 26, 2009 at 10:36 PM
As I Brit, I often hear Americans complain that the UK health system is bad, inefficient, etc. I think many of your comments are misguided. Your point of view is reasonable given the diet of negative news you get about our health service, but I put it to you that very few people in the UK would complain about the National Health Service compared to private insurance. Is ht NHS perfect? No. Does it treat immigrants who don't deserve it? Yes. Is it better than having to pay for private insurance? God, yes.
Most Americans who complain about a nationalised health system are normally quite wealthy, have their own health insurance, and are generally in pretty good health. I don't see many people suffering from serious, life-threatening illnesses defending the American privatised health system. I would imagine insurance costs for someone like that would be astronomical, and for many unaffordable. And older people, who are far more likely to need help with their health, are very grateful in this country to get that help free and on demand. As for immigrants being treated who don't contribute, as I understand it something very similar happens on your border with Mexico and immigrants coming from there. Health tourism happens the world over.
A nationalised health system is run for the benefit of the patients, not a private company. Many Americans talk about the rationing and cost-saving measures in national health schemes. But private companies go to extreme lengths to save money, too, just they are very good at keeping it hidden. The NHS is not interested in making a profit out of the patients like a private company, nor is it going to try and find legal loopholes to avoid costly medical treatment for individuals. Yes, some treatments are not offered if they are not cost-effective, but they are open and honest about this and make these judgements on a proven formula. I'd rather have them save money that way than screwing needy patients out their treatment by finding legal loopholes and running profit-making schemes.
The other criticism I often hear is that it takes a long time to get treatment on the NHS. Well, I can see my GP at an appointment time of my arranging within a week, and normally a day or so after phoning. If I need fast help, I can see them within an hour or so. And in a real emergency, I can go to an emergency department and be seen instantly if the problem is genuinely serious by a specialist consultant. Is that so different to your private care?
Specialist treatment is handled by consultants who work in both private and NHS practises. In other words, the same doctors who give private care are the same doctors who work for the NHS, splitting their time between the two. They are not Jackal and Hydes – they are just as effective in their jobs whether working privately or in the NHS.
I often feel that there is a lot of misinformation going around about national health schemes in America. Consrvative Americans compain bitterly about the reporters in the Iraq war who report bad news only. But conservative American's themselves pounce on the bad news about national health care and ignore the good news.
Ask yourself this: is your private healthcare really such good value? Does it really offer better treatment? And if you get a serious illness, are you really sure you're healthcare company is going to do all in its power to honour their contract? Or will they do their best to do as little as possible?
I've had a lot of help from the NHS, and I'm satisfied with it. That's the real measure of success, in my opinion. I know I won't change many minds, but at least you should be open to an alternative system.
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Cutting through northern British Columbia is a notorious stretch of highway. Along what is now widely known as the Highway of Tears, a staggering number of First Nation women have been murdered or gone missing. For many First Nations women, however, the Highway of Tears just keeps going, shearing its way across the country through our small towns and inner cities, bringing with it sexual exploitation and violence.
Where I work in Toronto's Moss Park, I see many homeless women working in the sex trade. They walk down the middle of the road, knocking on the windows of drivers waiting for the light to change. Sometimes they're under-dressed for the cold, leaving them shivering on the street corners. They come from poverty and despair, drifting into the city to live under very precarious and often dangerous conditions. Some are Aboriginal women who for myriad reasons left impoverished northern reserves to try their luck down in the city, only to be caught up in a merciless cycle of poverty and exploitation.
All of the women who end up working the streets have a story. But the story of many Aboriginal women begins long before anyone of them was ever born, as if the Highway of Tears also extends back through time, linking the exploitation of the women huddled at the corner of the street with the historical victimization of Aboriginal women. The book Clearing the Plains, by James Daschuk, has recently gained attention for its analysis of how the federal government used starvation as a political tactic to break the independence of the western Plains tribes. But what is often overlooked is Daschuk's disturbing analysis of the rise of forced prostitution and sexual abuse among First Nation communities dating back to the 19th century.
Daschuk points out that in the late 1800s, Aboriginal children were taken by government officials from their families and were "left a prey to the seductions of men revoltingly immoral." He further talks about the domino devastations of starvation and exploitation as First Nation communities saw that "their young women were now reduced by starvation and prostitution, a thing unheard of among their people before." Daschuk shows us that the sexual exploitation of First Nation women was created, in large part, by the bureaucratic pressures brought to bear on these communities to force them into submission within the reserve system.
Such was the beginning of the Highway of Tears. Some 130 years later, the Highway still pushes itself mercilessly from the west coast, then across the Prairies, to run the length of this country. According to a recent report on the Aboriginal sex trade in the Great Lakes region, Aboriginal women and children are being trafficked between Minnesota and Canada (primarily through Thunder Bay). Women who had engaged in survival sex reported that they had been "racially and sexually harassed by police officers..." and this alienation likely leaves them even more vulnerable to violence.
Police in Thunder Bay have said they were unaware of prostitution in the Great Lakes. This is the same police force that has had human rights complaints filed against them for racism, has been the target of several complaints of misconduct, and that so badly handled a case of racial sexual assault against an Aboriginal women that Anonymous got involved.
Sex workers cannot escape sex trafficking and forced prostitution if police departments refuse to treat them with respect. But as we have seen from young aboriginal women in other parts of the country, there is a systemic disinterest in the conditions being faced by young and poor First Nation women. In the official inquiry into the police handling of the notorious Pickton serial killings, Justice Oppal concluded: "The women were poor -- they were addicted, vulnerable, Aboriginal. They did not receive equal treatment by police. As a group, they were dismissed.... These women were vulnerable; they were treated as throwaways."
This is not to blame only the police. The problem cuts to the very core of Canada's long standing, abusive relationship with First Nation people. On the front lines of inner cities, there needs to be active measures in place to stop trafficking and prosecute human traffickers, while at the same time providing safe, non-judgemental services to women trying to escape sex work. Women are more vulnerable on the streets; a homeless woman is 10 times more likely to be assaulted than a homeless man.
Not surprisingly though, there is an acute lack of front-line services, particularly at night, for homeless women. In Moss Park, one of the poorest and most violent neighbourhoods in Canada, there are few shelter beds available for women. There are no safe shelters in Toronto for homeless women who are under in the influence. The woman who was sexually assaulted twice in one night while sleeping on the street at Dundas and Sherbourne is a very real and graphic reminder of how brutal life can be on Canadian streets. It is unconscionable.
And so while our cities need more shelters and services for this vulnerable group of women, the long term solution cannot simply be found on the front lines, there needs to be a systematic response to the conditions that have created generations of poor and "disposable" women from Canada's reserve system. The young women walking on Toronto's Sherbourne Street, and the streets of other inner cities across our country inherited a system of abuse that began with the clearing of the plains and continues today. They deserve a better fate than to end up dying on the Highway of Tears.
Age: 19 Last Seen: Oct. 19, 1973 in Clearwater. Body found April 6, 1974 along Yellowhead Highway. Believed hitchhiking to Kamloops.
Age: 16 Last seen: Aug. 9, 1974 near Lac La Hache. Body found Sept. 5, 1974 near 100 Mile House. Was believed to be hitchhiking. RCMP have determined through DNA testing that Bobby Jack Fowler was responsible for her death.
Age: 19 Last Seen: Nov. 6, 1973 in Kamloops. Body found Nov. 7, 1973 in a city park. Believed to be hitchhiking at the time.
Age: 19 Last Seen: Oct. 7, 1995 at a service station in Thornhill, B.C.
Age: 16 Last Seen: June 14, 1990, along Highway 16 in Smithers.
Age: 25 Last Seen: June 21, 2002 in Prince George. Believed to be hitchhiking on Highway 16.
Age: 22 Last Seen: Sept. 21, 2005 in Prince Rupert. Believed to be hitchhiking on Highway 16.
Age: 24 Last Seen: Aug. 26, 1989 in Prince Rupert. Body found Sept. 16, 1989 on Highway 16.
Age: 16 Last Seen: June 11, 1994, hitchhiking to a friend's home in Smithers. Body found April 1995, Smithers Airport.
Age: 15 Last Seen: Nov. 1994 in Prince George. Body found near Burns Lake.
Age: 15 Her body was found Dec. 9, 1994.
Last Seen: 1989
Age: 14 Last Seen: Dec. 13, 1974 in Thornhill, B.C. Body found Apr. 6, 1975 near Terrace.
Age: 14 Last Seen: Feb. 2, 2006 in Prince George. Body found Feb. 10, 2006 on Highway 16.
Age: 27 Last Seen: Oct. 25, 1969 in Williams Lake. Body found Oct. 26 1969.
Age: 18 Last Seen: July 1970 along Fort St. John/Hudson's Hope Highway. Body found Aug. 8, 1970 near Hudson's Hope. Last seen hitchhiking to a ranch.
Age: 16 Last Seen: May 3, 1983 near Hinton, Alberta. Seen walking along Highway 16.
Age: 12 Last Seen: May 6, 1978 near Nicola Lake. Body found in June 1995 north of Merritt.
Age: 33 Last Seen: May 8, 1981 in Salmon Arm. Body found May 9, 1981 near Kamloops. Believed to have been hitchhiking.
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October 26, 2010: GlaxoSmithKline Will Plead Guilty and Pay $750 Million to Resolve Manufacturing Deficiencies at Puerto Rico Plant
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October 26, 2010
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Boston, Mass. - The Justice Department announced today that SB Pharmco Puerto Rico, Inc., a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline, PLC ("GSK"), has agreed to plead guilty to charges relating to the manufacturing and distribution of certain adulterated drugs made at GSK's now-closed Cidra, Puerto Rico, manufacturing facility. The resolution includes a criminal fine and forfeiture totaling $150 million and a civil settlement under the False Claims Act and related state claims for $600 million.
The drugs, manufactured at the plant between 2001 and 2005, are Kytril, Bactroban, Paxil CR, and Avandamet. Kytril is a sterile anti-nausea medication. Bactroban is a topical anti-infection ointment commonly used to treat skin infections. Paxil CR is the controlled release formulation of the popular anti-depressant drug, Paxil, and Avandamet is a combination Type II diabetes drug.
The criminal information filed today alleges that SB Pharmco's manufacturing operations failed to ensure that Kytril and Bactroban finished products were free of contamination from microorganisms. It is further alleged that SB Pharmco's manufacturing process caused Paxil CR two-layer tablets to split. The splitting, which the company itself called a "critical defect," caused the potential distribution of tablets that did not have any therapeutic effect and tablets that did not contain any controlled release mechanism.
According to the information, Avandamet tablets manufactured by SB Pharmco did not always have the FDA-approved mix of active ingredients, and, as a result, potentially contained too much or too little of the ingredient with the therapeutic effect. Finally, it is alleged in the criminal information that SB Pharmco's Cidra facility suffered from longstanding problems of product mix-ups, which caused tablets of one drug type and strength to be commingled with tablets of another drug type and/or strength in the same bottle.
Under the plea agreement, the company will pay a criminal fine of $150 million including forfeiting assets of $10 million. A date for the plea hearing has not been set.
Under the civil settlement, GSK has agreed to pay an additional $600 million to the federal government and the states to resolve claims that it caused false claims to be submitted to government health care programs for certain quantities of adulterated Kytril, Bactroban, Paxil CR and Avandamet. The government contends that GSK knowingly caused false and/or fraudulent claims to be submitted to, or caused purchases by, the Medicaid Program and the other federal health care programs, by selling drugs that did not meet the quality specified in the drugs' NDAs.
The federal share of the civil settlement amount is $436,440,000 and GSK will pay up to $163,560,000 to states that opt to participate in the agreement.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said, "The industry has an obligation to ensure that all rules, regulations and laws are complied with. To do less erodes public confidence and compromises patient safety. As this investigation demonstrates, we will not tolerate corporate attempts to profit at the expense of the ill and needy in our society - or those who cut corners that result in potentially dangerous consequences to consumers."
"This resolution demonstrates the Department of Justice's ongoing dedication to taking action against pharmaceutical fraud in all its forms," said Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. "The knowing, unlawful distribution of drugs whose strength, purity, and quality are not reliable undermines the integrity of our health care system and we will continue to pursue these types of violations."
"In fiscal year 2010, OIG realized nearly $2.3 billion in settlements and judgments against the pharmaceutical industry," said Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. "If all pharmaceutical manufacturers complied with the law, there would be no need for such massive settlements and judgments. But until they stop stealing from taxpayers and threatening the health and lives of Americans -- as is alleged here today -- OIG will continue to vigorously pursue these corporations and their executives."
"FDA's manufacturing standards are designed to ensure the safety and quality of drugs distributed to American consumers," said Mark Dragonetti, Special Agent in Charge, New York Field Office. "FDA expects pharmaceutical companies to abide by these manufacturing standards and correct deficiencies in an expedited manner. FDA and its law enforcement partners will continue to aggressively pursue those companies that place the public health at risk by distributing products that do not comply with all FDA requirements."
"This settlement demonstrates that the government will not stand for sub-standard drug product. As a result of this extensive investigation, millions of dollars will be returned to the Department of Veterans Affairs' Pharmaceutical Supply Fund for the direct benefit of our Nation's veterans," said Jeffrey G. Hughes, Special Agent in Charge, Office of Inspector General for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"Federal employees deserve health care providers and suppliers, including drug manufacturers, that meet the highest standards of ethical and professional behavior," said Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. "Today's settlement reminds the pharmaceutical industry that they must observe those standards and reflects the commitment of Federal law enforcement organizations to pursue improper and illegal conduct that places health care consumers at risk."
FBI SAC Richard DesLauriers said, "The completion of this investigation reflects law enforcement's efforts to make companies like GlaxoSmithKline accountable for knowingly manufacturing and releasing defective products to millions of adults and children suffering from diabetes, depression, and skin infection. To avoid lost profits, GlaxoSmithKline intentionally disregarded the potential harmful effects of these defective drugs on consumers. The FBI will continue to work collaboratively with our law enforcement partners to identify individuals and companies who seek to line their pockets at the expense of the health care system and safety of each of us."
"The Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) and the DoD's Office of Inspector General are committed to ensuring that TRICARE, the Defense Department's health care program, continues to provide safe and superior medical care to America's military members and their families. A vital part of that effort is to ensure that drugs purchased by the DoD are manufactured in accordance with the appropriate rules and regulations. The successful resolution of this case demonstrates the importance of joint investigations to address and combat pharmaceutical fraud," said Leigh-Alistair Barzey Resident Agent-in-Charge of the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Boston Resident Agency.
The civil settlement resolves one lawsuit filed in federal court in the District of Massachusetts under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act, which allow private citizens to bring civil actions on behalf of the United States and share in any recovery. As part of today's resolution, the whistleblower, Cheryl Eckard, will receive approximately $96 million from the federal share of the settlement amount.
This settlement is part of the government's emphasis on combating health care fraud and another step for the HEAT initiative, which was announced by Attorney General Holder and Secretary Sebelius in May 2009. The partnership between the two departments has focused efforts to reduce and prevent Medicare and Medicaid fraud through enhanced cooperation. One of the most powerful tools in that effort is the False Claims Act, which the Department of Justice has used to recover almost $4.2 billion since January 2009 in cases involving fraud against federal health care programs. The Justice Department's total recoveries in False Claims Act cases since January 2009 are over $5.4 billion.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Tony West, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Civil Division; Richard DesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation- Boston Field Office; Jeffrey Hughes, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the Inspector General, Office of Investigations - Northeast Field Office; Susan J. Waddell, Special Agent in Charge of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General; Mark Dragonetti, Special Agent in Charge of the Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations; Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Resident Agent In Charge of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Boston Resident Agency, and Drew Grimm, Special Agent in Charge of the Office of Personnel Management, Office of the Inspector General, Eastern Operations, announced the settlement today.
The criminal and civil cases were investigated and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Shannon T. Kelley and Susan G. Winkler of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts and Trial Attorney Mark L. Josephs of the Justice Department's Office of Consumer Litigation. The civil settlement negotiation was handled by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts and Trial Attorney Jamie A. Yavelberg of the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Justice Department's Civil Division. The HHS Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, FDA's Office of Chief Counsel and the National Association of Medicaid Control Units provided assistance in the investigation and resolution.


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Who's The Bigot?
Dear Editor,
Who's the bigot? I will never back down from my desire to safeguard our country or in challenging the motives of any special interest group or politician. My response to Michael Schwartzman is very simple, to wit: don't let your evident bias and prejudices detract from speaking the truth. Jonathan Pollard did give massive volumes of classified intelligence documents to Israeli spies. Sorry, Michael, there were no "supposedly stolen" secrets as you equivocated in your knee-jerk reaction letter. Pollard's actions are a matter of public record, and I suggest you become better informed before lowering yourself to unfounded name-calling to mask or lessen this treachery. In doing so, you diminish yourself and impress as being an ignorant fool.
The named politicians - Schumer, Weiner and Ackerman - are, to my understanding, the only locally elected federal officials to call for the release of this traitor. They have sent letters to every President, starting with William J. Clinton, in unsuccessful attempts to influence his release. They have not sent a letter to any elected Israeli official to have the secrets returned. I ask why and demand that they explain their positions publicly. I don't think that's unreasonable.
I oppose Pollard's release because of the extensive scope of his treachery against our country. There is no "upside" in releasing him for us. Neither the religious background of this traitor, nor the country involved, matters to me. However, I am saddened that the country was our ally, Israel, funding this espionage operation for 18 months. I am angry that these local officials have been interested in his release, seemingly only because he is Jewish and the country was Israel. Sorry, Michael, in my thinking this in and of itself doesn't entitle Pollard to a "get-out-of-jail-free card." For you, Michael, and those of you that think it does, I ask, "Who's the bigot?" You can be pro-Israel without being anti-American. Are you with the United States or against it? In my informed opinion, supporting Pollard's release is anti-American. Where are your loyalties? Look at and be honest with yourself, Michael, as you reflect upon the aforementioned points. All things being equal, if this traitor was a Muslim and the country was Syria, you would probably be praising my position.


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City considering lodging fee
City Council will hold a public hearing Thursday, 7 p.m. at City Hall, 425 N. Richardson Ave., regarding an ordinance that would impose [auth] fees on lodging facilities for the expansion of the Roswell Convention and Civic Center.
The state Legislature recently removed the population requirement from the Convention Center Financing Act, allowing smaller municipalities, such as Roswell, to impose such fees.
If approved, the ordinance would impose a $2.50 fee "per room for each day that a room within a lodging facility in the City limits is occupied by a vendee not otherwise exempted by the Act or the Ordinance."
The fee would not be related to the city's occupancy tax, or Lodger's Tax, under which the city collects 5 percent from the total amount paid for lodging by tourists — not including the state gross receipts tax or local sales taxes.
Dollars from the Lodger's Tax are used for a number of different things that relate to promoting the city and attracting tourists, said City Manager Larry Fry.
This includes helping to fund the cost of advertising for events, marketing the city and maintaining the Convention and Civic Center.
"Basically, it is to be used for tourist-related items that will bring people into a town — hopefully to spend the night because that's how the tax is replenished," said City Finance Assistant Janice Self.
The city follows the state's statutes regarding the Lodger's Tax, she said, and submits a report quarterly to the state of what's spent and how.
The Lodger's Tax fund is divided between two funds: promotional (i.e. event advertising and publicity materials) and non-promotional (i.e. performing audits and providing sanitation and safety for events).
Money from both funds is sometimes transferred to the city's general fund, Self said, and is still used for tourism-related activities or promotion.
In March, the city submitted its most recent report to the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration. At that time, the report shows the city's total revenue from the tax was $704,593. Of that, the city spent $631,632 total, with $138,454 spent on tourist-related events and $493,178 going toward contractural services.
The city also provides monthly reports of Lodger's Tax collection by month and by year, going back as far as 2010. According to the city's Lodger's Tax report for May, the city has collected $876,178.96 so far this fiscal year through the tax.
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Kane Fannin took his two young children to the beach yesterday, a seemingly ordinary excursion in the school holidays.
But for Mr Fannin, his son Albie, 5, and daughter Indie, 3, the trip to Whale Bay near Whangarei was made to mark the one-year anniversary since wife and mother Nadia Fannin died of breast cancer.
The story of how Mr Fannin coped with his wife's diagnosis and treatment, and ultimately her death, is one of 18 in a new book compiled by writer Peter Calder for men who have a woman in their life with breast cancer.
Mrs Fannin was just 31 when she found a lump while breastfeeding baby Indie in late 2010.
On the advice of doctors, who initially diagnosed a cyst, she put off a biopsy so she could continue breastfeeding.
Eight months later the unthinkable happened and Mrs Fannin was diagnosed with breast cancer.
In his story Mr Fannin, a school teacher, describes the pain and grieving he went through, even before his wife died just months short of their 10th wedding anniversary.
He decided to detail his experience to Calder, who began the book She's Got Breast Cancer after his wife battled the disease, to help other men who might be suffering in silence.
"You're almost the left-out party," Mr Fannin said.
"I just thought if I can contribute in any way to people who are going through that same thing, then I'll be happy."
His advice to family and friends of couples confronting breast cancer was to "just be there".
"Just go and visit and let people know you're thinking of them. A particular mate of mine was really good to me and he just kept it a little bit more real and that's what I needed. Not really any pity."
Opening up to be part of the book helped Mr Fannin deal with some of his grief and anger and accept what happened.
"I was quite angry about that process [of misdiagnosis] because I wanted to be angry at something or someone."
One of his biggest heartbreaks was trying to explain Mrs Fannin's death to their children. To ease the pain of birthdays and special events Mrs Fannin pre-wrote cards for the kids for years to come, bought presents and made videos for them to remember her by.
Mr Fannin says now when the children are missing their mum they ask him to tell stories about her.
Going to Mrs Fannin's favourite beach yesterday with a group of friends and their families was as much about celebrating her life as it was a fun day out for the kids.
The families took a moment to sit and reflect on the past year at a bench seat Mr Fannin erected there in his wife's memory.
"We'll be going out there for a bit of a sit-down and will share a glass of her favourite wine."
Mr Fannin said he had his wife to thank for his new outlook.
"I'm more positive than I thought I would ever be at this stage, due to her strength of what she wanted for me and the kids."
Tales of loss
• She's Got Breast Cancer, compiled by Peter Calder
• Published by the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
• Available in New Zealand later this month
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text: The Eastern Pulaski Community School Board will discuss the possession of firearms on school property when they meet this evening at 5:30 p.m. EDT in the Distance Learning Lab. Last week the West Central School Board discussed allowing faculty members to posses weapons while at work. The Eastern Pulaski School Board will also talk about the use of seclusions and restraints. Other items on the advance agenda include consideration of electric, demolition and cleanup quotes and acceptance of donations. Action to approve the transfer of funds from capital projects into a rainy day fund will be discussed. The superintendent's report will cover bus inspection, the special education cooperative, NASP, graduation, maintenance, the appreciation breakfast and projects scheduled for the summer.


text: All Chinese team members do that ala the Russian system, but that doesn't explain the whole story. Just look at the media events S/Z go to (http://sports.sina.com.cn/o/2010-06-17/16425045419.shtml). I'm sure they got $$$ out of them, while the other pairs... (shrugs) Looks like S/Z appeals to the public because they have a romantic Cinderella story that goes with their success. P/T probably has a similar story too but the guy didn't propose on the ice or come back after an archilles tendon injury or anything like that. I guess S/Z is successful and sexy and that's why they got their BMWs. (see my thread in GSD)


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Working with a mentor, Broadmeadows students realised an urgent project - and improved their self-esteeem, writes Michael Winkler.
It is estimated that there are almost 20 million refugees in the world. Every one of them has a story replete with drama, but these stories have rarely captured the imagination of filmmakers. Redressing the balance slightly, a short film, By the Light of the Moon - written, filmed, acted and produced by year 10 students at Broadmeadows Secondary College - presents the stories of two refugees who have settled in Australia.
Filmmaker Christine Rogers, who was enlisted to help wrestle it into reality, says: "The film tells the stories of two girls. One runs away from her family in Iraq because her dad is going to make her marry a much older man, so she and her boyfriend come to Australia. The other girl's story is very grim, with her family fleeing over the mountains to Turkey, and her baby brother dying on the way.
"Both stories are based on true experiences. The script and the ideas behind it are from the students themselves."
By the Light of the Moon had two powerful backers: Arts Victoria made a significant financial contribution, but the biggest share of finance came from the Victorian Department of Justice, which sees its involvement as promoting human rights issues, and connecting with and nurturing a student group that includes individuals at risk of early contact with the juvenile justice system.
The film's premiere screening was at ACMI last Friday. It was launched by the Attorney-General Rob Hulls.
"We were offered the opportunity to do something outside our normal school budget constraints, something innovative and different," BSC principal, Marlene Robinson, says. "There were about 80 kids, mostly year 10s, who performed a huge range of tasks. Some of the students have really blossomed.
I think telling these stories verifies (the kids) and makes them important . . . It's important (they) have a sense of pride.
"At this school, we are often in the firing line when people look at things like VCE results. But education can take many forms, success can take many forms, and if, through a project like this, kids learn useful life skills rather than formal educational outcomes, that is something very valuable."
Drama students worked on the script, media students shot the film, music students provided music, while home economics students will cater for the community screening at the Global Learning Centre in Broadmeadows. Most of the actors were students.
"It seemed to me that the students involved gained a status in the school, because there was a sense that it was very much a special project," Rogers says. "Their concentration spans aren't great - sometimes we'd do seven or eight takes, I'd be shouting 'Please!' and I think they'd worry about my mental health. But I loved it. It was wonderful to be with people so open to suggestion.
"It is a fine line between grabbing a camera yourself and saying, 'Oh, let me do it', and guiding them and letting them make mistakes. The end product will have some inherent mistakes, and that's fine.
"The school has a lot of children from the Middle East, Iran and Iraq. I think telling these stories verifies them and makes them important. When you come to a strange place and none of the stories on the TV reflect your reality, I imagine that's very strange.
"It's important the kids have a sense of pride in what they've made, that the quality will compare with stuff they see on television. I have to say, the performances we've got - I'm astounded by them. They are amazing."
Rogers is a sessional teacher in media at RMIT and has had a varied involvement in the filmmaking industry, including co-writing the short feature The Forest, which was released last year. She looks like a successful woman with funky jewellery and a good haircut, but she is the product of an arts-apathetic working class home in Christchurch, New Zealand, who attended a tough school and was a rebellious kid.
"I was a pretty out-there teenager, a punk, pushing the limits of what my parents would let me do, what school and society would let me do," Rogers says. "I was pretty troubled, so when I see the stuff that these kids are into and the pull within a lot of them between being interested in creative work but also wanting to be bad, I have both those things in me, and I think that helps.
"Working with kids, many of whose families are refugees, made me think about the fact that you never really give up the dream of home. Even though I go back to New Zealand quite a lot, I always get drawn back here. There is always a part of you that belongs somewhere else, even if you're a voluntary immigrant like myself."
Rogers hopes that there may be more "film mentor" roles for her. Meanwhile, she continues with her tertiary teaching and has two feature film scripts nearing completion. She believes in the power of stories, and the value of creative work.
"When you're in New Zealand you feel like you're falling off the end of the world. There's this incredible sense of cultural isolation. And I think that that's made New Zealand artists strive harder to find their own voice - you see it with novelists, painters, poets, artists of all sorts."
She is reminded of the importance of using each day by the words written on her watchband: "All my possessions for a moment of time." Taken in the context of the refugee experience, the phrase has great poignancy.
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Singer-songwriter Billy Joel married his fiancee, 23-year-old Kate Lee, in a ceremony at his Long Island mansion, his record label said.
Joel, 55, wed Lee in a sunset wedding at his waterfront home, Newsday reported in its online editions.
Columbia Records, Joel's label, announced the marriage.
Joel, who has been married twice previously, including to supermodel Christie Brinkley, has had more than two dozen Top 10 hits, including his signature song Piano Man.
Last month, Joel's star was placed on Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Pantages Theatre, where the Tony Award-winning musical based on his songs, Movin' Out, is currently playing. He is also a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Lee, a native of Huntington, West Virginia, recently graduated from Ohio's Miami University and works as a restaurant correspondent for the PBS TV show George Hirsch: Living It Up!
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New guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has laid out new restrictions on the use of gender segregation. The AHS supports the recent changes to the guidance, which mean that gender segregation is no longer allowed to be enforced at events held at UK Universities.
A previous report from Universities UK (UUK) was condemned by the AHS for permitting gender segregation at university events if it was demanded by a potential speaker or audience member on religious grounds. At the time, the AHS objected to UUK's justification of the guidance, which stated that segregation wasn't discriminatory as men and women were being "segregated in the same way", and that a speaker's right to freedom of expression could be limited if they had no choice but to speak to an unsegregated audience.
However, the EHRC has since revised its guidance significantly since the last report by UUK in November 2013. Their new guidance for July 2014 states that "Universities and students' unions must not knowingly facilitate discrimination by others at the request of an external speaker or an individual attending or wishing to attend an event" and that "all attendees would need to be at liberty freely to choose where they wished to sit without any direction, whether explicit or merely an implicit expectation." The EHRC no longer gives any permissible reasons for Universities to allow separation of male and female attendees to be enforced at public events held on their campuses, forcing UUK to withdraw its guidance from November 2013.
The AHS is glad to see the new guidance from EHRC opposing gender segregation on UK campuses. This is a fantastic step forward and the AHS supports the recent changes made to this guidance to be in line with UK equality law.
Chris Malburn, President of the AHS, said: "This news is certainly welcome. Gender segregation at university events is unjustified and I don't believe that a situation where men and women are 'separate but equal' is realistic. Freedom of belief is a fundamental right, however, no-one should have the right use their beliefs to make demands that impact on the personal freedoms of others. For that reason, I support the recent changes made to the EHRC's guidance."
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What We Can Learn From Plants
This young woman knew that she would die in the next few
days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this
knowledge. "I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard," she
told me. "In my former life I was spoiled and did not take
spiritual accomplishments seriously." Pointing through the
window of the hut, she said, "This tree here is the only friend
I have in my loneliness." Through that window she could see
just one branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two
blossoms. "I often talk to this tree," she said to me. I was
startled and didn't quite know how to take her words. Was she
delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously
I asked her if the tree replied. "Yes." What did it say to her?
She answered, "It said to me, 'I am here – I am here – I am
Life, eternal life.'"
- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
What we can learn from plants is how to be joyous. We can't learn that from other
people, usually, because the setup with other people isn't to be joyous; on the contrary, it
is to be fearful, close-hearted, and uptight. Therefore, to learn to be joyous, we have to
go to the plants. If we can first learn to be joyous from the plants – who aren't out to
cause us grief – we can then learn to be joyous with our fellow humans.
Of course, the joy we receive from plants doesn't have all the ego zing of a sexy
partner, or a mother's approval, or the boss's congratulations; but it's always there.
That's the nice thing. No matter how horribly our lives are going, or how much rejection
other people heap upon us, the plants are always there being happy.
At a nearby airport there is a hedge in front of the entrance for departing
passengers, and when the wind blows across the hedge the shrubs wave "Bye-bye! Bon
Voyage! Feliz Viaje!" to all the passengers. Nobody pays any attention to them, but the
plants don't care. They don't need people's acknowledgment and validation to be happy.
They're just there, pouring love out into the world. That's their job, and the people
passing by receive that love whether they're consciously aware of it or not.
The plants are what keep this from being a hell world. There are no plants in a
hell world. The plants in this world are not just the bottom of the food chain; they're
anchoring all of us uptight animals to the earth's love. They aren't just the source of all
our oxygen; they're the source of all our joy. They just sit there casting joy out all over
the place.
What we can learn from plants is that there is love surrounding us all the time,
every minute, had we but the wit to see it, feel it. We are being offered love all the time,
but we reject it because we don't understand that's what love is. We think love should be
zappier, instead of quiet and peaceful and waving in the wind.
The love which plants offer us – the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of pine
needles – is all there is. This is not a poetic metaphor: it's a cold, hard fact of life. If we


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Car Stereo Not Working and Instrument Panel Problems
I have a Jeep Wrangler TJ, 2000. The car stereo stopped working about a year ago and I have yet to fix it. I should say that sound doesn't come out of the speakers. The stereo powers up and looks like it works, but no sound comes out regardless of whether it is a CD, tuner, etc. The stereo is an after market model, but the speakers are stock. I'm basically asking if there are any videos out there that can show me how to shoot wires or check the sound bar, etc.
Also, not sure if this is related, but for about 3 years, the car sometimes hard starts. In addition, when it's been raining, the instrumentation and stereo (including turn signals) will sometimes not work. When this happens, the mileage readout will be replaced with the words, "no bus". Usually, these things will be restored after a couple of minutes. I've replaced the battery, ignition switch and the spark plugs to try to fix the problem. I've tried fixing the relay converter thing (not sure of the name) but I needed a factory torque set which I didn't have, so I gave up on it.
I'm somewhat mechanically proficient, I've done basic things like change the top, headlight, battery, sparkplugs, oil, air filter, ignition switch, etc. Once again, just wondering if there are any DIY videos out there that I can follow to test things. Thanks!
Google no bus jeep wrangler and start reading. it is a common problem.
i believe its one of the fuses under the hood of the jeep, and i think its a 20 amp fuse. so open the relay box and check the fuses in there
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A wonderful Russell Latapy volley cannoned in off the post after only seven minutes to put the Bairns ahead.
Airdrie pressed but faced an inspired Allan Ferguson and were hit on the break when Andy Thomson turned to fire home after a flick from Kevin James.
Owen Coyle pulled one back for Airdrie after the break, but Andy Lawrie slotted home from close range after good play by Thomson and Darryl Duffy.
Airdrie Utd: McGeown, Docherty (McManus 46), Lovering, McGowan, Christie, Hardie, Barkey, Marvyn Wilson, Coyle, McKeown (Gow 62), McLaren (Roberts 84). Subs Not Used: Vareille, Hollis.
Goals: Coyle 72.
Falkirk: Ferguson, Lawrie, McPherson, MacKenzie, Campbell, James, O'Neil (Scally 86), Nicholls, Thomson (McBreen 88), Latapy, Duffy. Subs Not Used: Moutinho, Marshall, Hill.
Goals: Latapy 7, Thomson 44, Lawrie 76.
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OUT NOW: TO BE A BEAST LP/digital (via CUT SURFACE)
Praise - Taken from "I Do not Want what Heaven Gave Me" (2016, Cassette/digital, Phinery)
As DINO SPILUTTINI:
"To Be a Beast" (2017, LP/digital, Cut Surface)
"I Do not Want what Heaven Gave Me" (2016, Cassette/digital, Phinery)
"Christmas Drone for the Sad and Lonesome" (2016, Cassette/digital, TVEI)
"Christmas Drones for the Sad and Lonesome" (2015, digital, self released)
"Music for Parabellum" Soundtrack for the film Parabellum (2015, digital, self released)
"All I Want is to Be a Happy Man" (2015, Cassette/digital, Sacred Phrases // Limited edition LP, self released)
"Desire" (2015, Cassette/digital, J&C Tapes)
"Modular Anxiety" - split LP w/ Nils Quak (2014, LP & digital, Umor Rex)
" World's Ambient" (2016, Onmyōdō Cassette)
" VA1+2" (2016, Tavern Eightieth)
" Random" (2016, Nova Fund Recordings)
" ...And then a painless end." (2015, J & C Tapes)
" Inscriptions, Vol. 3" (2015, Sacred Phrases)
" Air Texture Vol. IV" (2014, Air Texture / Kompakt)
"Elektronikland 2013" (2013, Arge Kultur")
"BiM20" (2009, Beatismurder)
"Elektronikland 2005" (2005, Arge Kultur)
"DiRi" (2004, Selfreleased)
"Kapo/Ambro" (2004, Ostblock Rekords)
"Elektronikland 2003" (2003, Arge Kultur)
As ISLANDS OF LIGHT:
"Ruebke" (2014, CD, Home Normal)
"Elements One" (2014, Home Normal)
With SWAN FANGS:
"Singles" (2012, Cassette, Total Light Records)
"Kill For Love" (2012, Mp3 Single)
"Single #2" (2012, Mp3 Single)
"Single #1" (2012, Mp3 Single)
Swan Fangs on Bandcamp
With LIGER:
"The Complete Recordings 2006-2010" (2011)
"Out There Be Monsters" (2010, Mp3 EP, Beatismurder)
"Unknown Pressures" (2010, 7" Vinyl, Beatismurder)
Split EP w/ Dust Covered Carpet (2009, 12" Vinyl, Beatismurder)
"In Your Face, Adulthood" (2009, CDr, Beatismurder)
"Crash Symbols" (2008, CD, Beatismurder)
"Liger USA Tour Benefit Project" (2007, CDr)
"Smapples" (2006, CD / 7" Vinyl, Beatismurder)
"The Infra-Ordinary" (2005, Mp3 EP, Beatismurder) – LINK
"Split EP w/ A Thousand Fuegos" (2006, Mp3 EP. Beatismurder) – LINK
Compilations w/ Liger:
"TBA Loves Music #1" (2010, Hoanzl)
"BiM20" (2009, Beatismurder)
"Wire Magazine" (2008, Netaudio London Showcase)
"TBA Magazine", (2008)
"52 Weeks" (2007, Peppermill Records)
"New New 2006" (2006, New New)
"Beatismurder.com 1st Anniversary Compilation" (2006, Beatismurder)
As YEAH PRETTY BOY:
"Death To False Bitpop" ( 2008, Mp3 EP, Beatismurder) - LINK
"'Eart" (2007, Mp3 EP, Beatismurder) - LINK
"Petting 1: Everything Minor (And A Scratch)" (2005, Mp3 EP, Nishi/NoType) - LINK
"Good One Go EP" (2005, Mp3 EP, Beatismurder) - LINK
"BiM20" (2009, Beatismurder.com)
"Liger USA Tour Benefit Project" (2007, Beatismurder Records)
"Beatismurder.com 1st Anniversary Compilation" (2006, Beatismurder)
"Bedroom Research V3" (2006, Bedroom Research)
"I Look Pretty Different When I'm Alone" (2005, Beatismurder)
"Headphonica" (2005, Headphonica)
With DANGERBÖYZ:
"On Fire" (2009, Mp3 Single)
As DURAN DURANDOM:
"I Look Pretty Different When I'm Alone" (2005, Beatismurder)
"Liger USA Tour Benefit Project" (2007, Beatismurder)
"BiM20" (2009, Beatismurder)
"5 Years Of Netwaves" (2011, Netwaves Records)
With BRUSPI:
"I Look Pretty When I'm Alone" (2005, Mp3 EP, Beatismurder) – LINK
"I Look Pretty Different When I'm Alone" (2005, Mp3 EP, Beatismurder) – LINK
"The Party" (2013, Jasmin Luu)
"Dich/Mich" (2006, Dino Spiluttini)
"Chiema" (2004, Lukas Valenta)
"Beat Is Murder" (2004, Dino Spiluttini)
"Metamorphosen" (2004, Sabrina Kern & Dino Spiluttini)
"Moment Of Disillusionment" (2004, Sabrina Kern)
"Broken Household Appliance pt.1: Breakfast" (2004, Dino Spiluttini)
"Escaping" (2004, Sabrina Kern)
"Pauls Party" (1999, Michael Kerstan, w/ the Band Hogwash)
"Suchtbilder" (1999, ???, w/ the Band Hogwash)
With the band Hogwash:
s/t (1998, Selfreleased)
"Authentic Pop Rumble" (2000, Multicore Records)
"Three Gunmen Of Ave Maria" (2001, Selfreleased)
"I'm So Happy That You're So Attentive" (2002?)
With the band Kniff 17:
"Masters Of Afraidity" (2003, Selfreleased)
"Connaitre Le Truc" (2006, Selfreleased)
As Mouton:
"Untitled" (1998, Selfreleased)
As DINO SPILUTTINI:
Tide Jewel – 若返り – LINK
As YEAH PRETTY BOY:
Radiohead – "Kid A" – LINK
Liger – "You Are An Engineer Too"
Liger – "Smapples"
Liger – "You Are Made Of Win And Gold"
Bruspi – "International Karate"
Bruspi – "I Believe in The Power Of Honesty And Obviously You Don't"
Aphex Twin – "4"
Miss Ueki – "Circles 1.0" – LINK
Dust Covered Carpet – "Waves May Come"
Aphex Twin – "Avril 14th" – LINK
Boy Omega – "Black Metal Fairies"
As DURAN DURANDOM:
Kniff17 – "Aliens In Hawaii"
The Aeth – "Sonnenwind"
Liger – "Smapples"
Bruspi – "I've Got My Cleanest Dirty Pants On"
Miss Ueki – "Kyoto 0.9"
As LIGER:
Liger – "You Are An Engineer Too"
Polar Nights – "Polar Nights"
Miss Ueki – "Reykjavik 1.0"
Boy Omega – "Black Metal Fairies" – LINK
Pilots. – "Hands Turn"
JDH – "Arms Legs Feet" – LINK
As SWAN FANGS:
Radiohead – "Nude" – LINK
Pilots. – "A Rope Dance" – LINK
Ueki – "Mahler 1.0" – LINK
Liger – "Funereal"
Dust Covered Carpet – "Dating My Faintness" – LINK
As BEATISMURDER:
Ashmong – "Aus Meinem Kopf" – LINK
As LIL D:
Dust Covered Carpet – "Because Gravity Overpowers Me" – LINK
I generally mix and master (and of course record) all of my own stuff, so i won't include my music in this list
mi - Mixing, ma - Mastering, re - RecordingNils Panda - "Music from Films" (2016) mi, ma
Little Big Sea - "Little Big Sea EP" (2015) (unreleased)mi, ma, synths, beats, arrangements
Celsius Panda - "Almost Ghosts" EP (2015) ma
Stalaktos - "Regolith" (2015) ma
3rynnia - "Adonis Vernalis" (2014/15) mi, ma
Bruch - "My Name Should Be Trouble" (2014) mi, ma, additional guitars
DeLoria Pontiac - "Melodramatic Highwayrace" (2014) mi, ma
Dino Spiluttini / Nils Quak - "Modular Anxiety" (2014) (mi), ma
Hop Jonathan - Demo (2013) re, mi, ma
Ueki - "Yes" (2013) mi, ma
Dust Covered Carpet - split 7 inch w/ Die Eternias (2013) mi, ma
Monsterheart - Live backing tracks (2012) mi, ma
Ueki - "Wood" (Single, 2012) mi, ma
Ashmong - "Divinariana" (2012) re, mi, ma, additional synth and beat programming, arrangements
SNDY PRLRS - "Rex" (2012) ma
Dust Covered Carpet - "Witness Me pass Out" (2012) mi, additional guitars, piano
SNDY PRLRS - "Bring Death To SNDY PRLRS" (2011) re, mi, ma
Ashmong - "Sylviah" (2011) re, mi, ma, additional synth programming
Falling Knees - Demo (2011) re
Werner Kitzmüller - "Carla" (2010) ma
Dust Covered Carpet - Split Tape w/ Telly is the Tube (2010) mi, ma
Dust Covered Carpet - "A Cloud, Pushed And Squeezed" (2010) re, mi, ma, woodwind arrangements
R/V/LT/D - s/t EP (2009) mi, ma, additional synth programming
Dust Covered Carpet - split LP w/ Liger (2009) re, mi, ma
Dust Covered Carpet - "Rerededust The Doubts I Trust" (2008) re, mi, ma
Infant Color - s/t (2008) ma
Werner Kitzmüller - "Proximity" (2007) ma
A Thousand Fuegos - Split w/ Liger (2006) ma
Kniff 17 - "Connaitre Le Truc" (2006) re, mi, ma
Kniff 17 - "Masters Of Afraidity" (2003) re, mi, ma
(Yeah Pretty Boy, Bruspi, Liger, Swan Fangs - Everything so far (except Liger - Crash Symbols) re, mi, ma)
I offer high-quality analog mixdowns and/or mastering, as well as creative production services (e.g. adding synths and stuff) for a very reasonable price. Just get in touch and we'll talk about your project.
Here's a list of all the stuff in my studio:
SYNTHESIZERS:Roland Juno-106
Korg 700s (aka Univox Minikorg II)
Roland D-110
Elka Rhapsody
Eurorack Modular System
Arturia Microbrute
Yamaha RX17
Boss DR-110
INPUT/MIXDOWN/SUMMING:2x RME Multiface
Midas Venice 240 Mixing Desk ("Vintage" Midas, pre Behringer) - 24 channels of high end pre-amps and EQs
2x Studer 980 Channel Strip (racked) - Preamp, Filter, EQ
Golden Age PRE-73
Apogee PSX-100 24bit/96khz - AD/DA Converter
Revox A77 (high speed v.) - 7.5 / 15 ips 1/2 track Reel to reel
Yamaha MT4X - 4 track cassette recorder
MONITORING:Yamaha HS80m
Sennheiser HD-650
Warm Audio WA-76
Urei LA-12
Dynacord DRP 10
Dynacord DRP 10
Lexicon MX 200
DAWs:Reaper (always up to date)
Ableton Live 9
For my Graphic Design/Photography/Video portfolio please visit visual.dinospiluttini.com
"There's an air of loneliness here that mirrors the kind of work Tim Hecker often produces, where repeating figures amass a great emotional weight as a growing sense of gloom gets worked up around them. Still, Spiluttini is careful not to create too great a distance in his work, ultimately turning his tension into a trance-like state that's positively inviting." -PITCHFORK
Dino Spiluttini
1981 - ???
Austrian expatriate currently living and working as a musician, producer and visual artist in northern Germany Vienna/Austria.
Founder of Beatismurder Records
Co-founder of Total Light Records
Swan Fangs (vocals, everything really)
Mimu (live percussion/drums, bass guitar)
Bruch (live guitar, drums)
Bruch & Pü (live guitar)
Little Big Sea (production, studio synth/beats)
My visual work (photography, illustration, videos) has its own internet representation here: visual.dinospiluttini.com/
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Listen to / buy my music on bandcamp.
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North Myrtle Beach High didn't have to look very far to find its next head football coach. In fact, you could say he was "Reel" close to the program.
Chiefs assistant Matt Reel, who has served as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for the varsity squad as well as JV head coach for the past three years, was elevated to varsity head coach to replace the departed Blair Hardin.
Reel also served as assistant coach for the varsity baseball team, head coach of the JV baseball squad, and strength and conditioning coach in the weight room. The NMBHS teacher takes over a varsity football program that is on the rise.
The Chiefs finished with a school-best 11-2 record last season, winning Region 7-4A and advancing to the third round of the playoffs. Over the last three years, the JV team won the region title, went unbeaten in region play, and went 21-3 overall.
Reel came to North Myrtle Beach from McDowell High in Marion, NC, where he taught and coached for seven years. He has been married for five years to his wife, Stacy, who is also in education.
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|October 31, 1966
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Jonathan Patrick "Jon" Wurster (born October 31, 1966) is an American musician and humorist best known as the drummer for indie rockers Superchunk and the Mountain Goats, as well for his comedic work with radio host Tom Scharpling on The Best Show.
Wurster has recorded and/or performed live with artists such as Bob Mould, Jay Farrar, Ben Gibbard, Robert Pollard, Katy Perry, The New Pornographers, Rocket from the Crypt, Ryan Adams, R.E.M., Guided by Voices, Marah, Alejandro Escovedo, A.C. Newman, Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple, Inspiral Carpets, The Minus 5, and Charlie Daniels.
Early music career[edit]
In the mid-1980s, Wurster was the drummer in a band in the Philadelphia area called Psychotic Norman. They released a three song, 7" EP in 1985.[1] During this time, Wurster also played in The Right Profile, a roots rock band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The band was signed to Arista Records and co-founded by Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner.
Wurster booked the first show by punk rock artists The Dead Milkmen which took place at the Lower Salford Youth Association in Harleysville, Pennsylvania.[2] He is also mentioned in the lyrics to The Dead Milkmen song "Stuart" from the album "Beezlebubba".
Comedy work[edit]
Wurster is one half of the radio comedy team Scharpling and Wurster. Tom Scharpling is the host of long running radio program The Best Show which ran for the bulk of its run on free-form station WFMU and, as of December 2014, functions as an independent, online-only program. The duo released a variety of CDs on their Stereolaffs label starting with Rock, Rot & Rule in 1999, followed by four "best of" releases that came out between 2002 and 2007. A 16 disc box set, The Best of The Best Show, was released by The Numero Group in 2015.
Scharpling and Wurster have collaborated in music videos written and directed by Tom Scharpling and starring Wurster. The videos were created for The New Pornographers, Aimee Mann, and The Postal Service.
Wurster has written for television shows such as Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, Monk, Squidbillies, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, and Tom Goes to the Mayor.
Wurster is a frequent contributor to Modern Drummer magazine.
Wurster has appeared as an "expert witness" in the Judge John Hodgman podcast episode "A Trial of Two Cities".[3]
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- ^ Kaufmann, Justin. "Wikipedia Files: Superchunk's Jon Wurster". WBEZ. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ MaxFun Intern (12 February 2014). "Judge John Hodgman Episode 147: A Trial of Two Cities". Maximum Fun. Retrieved 2014-05-14.