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A new settlement for health and social care
At the root of the problem is a lack of alignment in funding, organisation and entitlement. The report analyses the historical divides between the two systems, the effects of our ageing society, and issues of affordability, before exploring options for change in meeting the costs ahead. It concludes with a call for responses to these options.
Key findings
- The problems of the current settlement for health and social care are systemic, in the commission's view. They stem from a lack of alignment in entitlements to care, between funding streams, and in organisation/commissioning of care.
- There is a problem of adequacy, with too little public money spent on social care and too much demanded of at a time of rising needs.
- The public has a poor understanding of the present system of social care. The current system is heavily dependent on unpaid carers and is inequitable, with shifting boundaries on entitlements.
- Greater life expectancy, an altered disease burden, and medical advances have all resulted in more people requiring health and social care.
- Economic growth means that better health and social care are not unaffordable. But intense short-term pressures and long-term changes mean hard choices will need to be made on funding.
Policy implications
- The problems of alignment and adequacy raise the issue of affordability – how to fund the type of health and social care system fit for the 21st century.
- The broad options for raising extra resources are: using existing health and social care resources more efficiently; raising more public funding; and raising more private funding.
- Improved productivity, improvements in end-of-life care, better integration, ensuring NHS money is spent on what is cost-effective are explored (option 1), but considered insufficient to meet all the costs.
- Proposals are considered for the 'harder' long-term choices, including extending NHS charges, developing a health insurance market, and introducing a hypothecated tax for health and social care. Responses to these are requested.
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- Attitudes to health and social care: review of existing research
- Options for funding care
- The social care and health systems of nine other countries
- Social values in health and social care
- Summary of responses to the first call for evidence
- Summary of discussions at stakeholder engagement events
- The UK private health market
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A £10 charge per GP consultation would generate only limited funds and would be bound to have some exemptions. Based on some old data, I do not not see how it could raise more than £3.6 billion in England and, with exemptions, potentially much less. An alternative is to give us all an NHS "credit card" which we use when we consult. This could have a means-tested sliding scale of charges, with the better off potentially paying £30-40 to see a GP, a rate that can be found in much of Europe, including Ireland. Given the inevitable exemptions, it might be pitched higher than £10 anyway and at this rate, could reduce demand. But what of the late diagnosis of conditions that needed to be seen at once? The inevitable conflict when charging for a first diagnostic assessment. Delays have a cost too and that should be estimated.
I agree with Ian Richardson,the best way forward is for collaboration for high impact.Simple rules that patients and the public and existing staff can understand makes for better implementation for change.
This report is driven by neo-liberal ideology, not common sense book-balancing. There are far more equitable ways of raising revenue to fund public services that are not palatable to the current government - the Robin Hood tax on financial transactions and a reform of the ridiculously outdated and unfair council tax bandings for example. There has been a sustained attack on the NHS, its staff and its principles for a number of years now, paving the way for a dismantling of the whole institution. Charging for consultations would be an expensive system to administer and apply (like increased university fees), and because of delayed presentations would result in many more expensive difficulties down the line (like the spare bedroom tax). However these coalition measures fit in neatly with neo-liberal principles of individual responsibility for well-being and opportunities for commercialising the welfare sector.
So Ms Archer, CBE, has noteworthy experience working for a bank. Not just a bank, in fact, but the Bank of England. According to the Haldane Report, published by Ms Archer's previous employers, the Bank of England, bankers, a multiplicity of economists and banks made quite a mess of the world's financial system. And, you know, that just might have determined the 'austerity' agenda this report addresses. Nevertheless, from a banking perspective, why not get poor working class people to pay more for the NHS? They clearly are doing swimmingly at the moment.
What is the future of health and social care in England, over many years much work has been undertaken on joint working, but this is mainly only involving some front line services. This has not necessarily been run inconjuction with joint working on management, governance and funding.
In many areas the working of both health and social services over lap, but in some instances each are still progresses this work separately, this creates duplication of work and is not cost effective as each service is paying for the same work to be undertaken. If pure joint working was followed with a pooling of financial resourses as well as staffing and other resources, this would result in a reduction of the unit costs.
However, this will not be easy to achieve, as both health and social services have their own ways of working, certainly on the administrative systems they use.
As to the concept of fundamentally changing the funding of health to reduce the areas of free at point of delivery. It is being considered to bring in charges for attending GP surgeries, but there will have to be exemptions and who would be within these exemptions. How will it be administered, as the GPs and others have already stated that they would not be able to do this, as was their reaction when there was the suggestion of enforcing charges at GP surgeries, hospitals and other areas for persons who are not supposed to be within the current free at point of delivery. It is well known that in many instances persons who are not UK and EU citizens have not paid for their treatments from UK hospials, even thoulg they may have been invoiced. There appears to be no facility to chase payments or a complete unwillingness to do so.
If charging is to be seriously considered then what would be the outcome impact assessments, would the charging not only dissuade persons who could be seen to be misusing the services, but in fact stop some who delay contacting services resulting in increased costs when their conditions deteriorate to serious or terminal.
The other factor when charging is introduced is that the initial charge will not remain as UK governments will increase the charge to supplement other revenues.
Currently many families are being hit by many increases in costs and reductions in service and the more services you use the greater impact these increases and reduction will have on these families.
There is in fact a large section of the community who while saving much costs to the UK or not effectively recognised by the authorities, although they are mentioned frequently by them. These are the family carers who care for their relatives for no monetry allowance. There is the Carers Allowance, but when you factor in the hours of care they provide, the allowance is effectively less than a quarter of the minimum wage. Then when the family carer is on retirement benefit this allowance is no longer paid.
To bring in charges would be, certainly another tax on the persons of limited income, whose income is currently being eroded by other financial increases they are bearing. But they will not only be the ones to suffer financially, for there are those persons, who currently can manage financially, but any new charges will mean they will not be able to do so.
So what is the answer, do we ration the services or withdraw them from persons who do not seem to be helping themselves. Do we only charge the super rich. Or do we charge all and then deal with the consequences.
I certainly do not agree with many of your proposals. Simply trying to combine Health and Social Care is a gross over-simplification of the problem in my opinion. There are many issues within Health and within Social Care that require extensive effort to put right.
People do not generally work well together. There are many divisions between teams, contracts, CCGs, County boundaries, age groups (child/adult). Just joining Health and Social Care won't address any of this. People tend to work in 'tribes' so the effort need to go into making people work together better and focussing on the needs of the individual rather than the needs of the tribe.
The real cause of the issue is a lack of Government funding. This is causing us all acting like turkeys voting for Christmas trying to treat the symptoms and not this cause.
The population is getting older, whoopee what a surprise. Most people have paid all their working lives for their health and support and it should be no surprise that costs will increase but much of the money for this has been received, in proportion to the demand, over the lives of it's citizens this is not just money coming from the public purse.
We now have a system where, due to failures caused in part by a lack of funding, resulting rationing of services is doing great damage. This is exactly what the Government wants so they can justify increased use of the Private sector and all the lovely profit.
Other problems that need to be addressed include free movement of people within the EU which means many EU citizens can now move to the UK having paid no taxes and obtain free care and support. You need to be campaigning for the EU to provide the UK with substantial funding if we are to be expected to be the EU's health and social care service.
Good public services can be cheaper and better than private ones, the motive in providing these services must always be to deliver the best result for the patient/client and the tax payer. I do not believe that you can do this when profit is the primary driving force.
I admire much of the work that you do but this report could well have been written by a Conservative right wing think tank. Please think carefully about what you are suggesting. Providing the best services possible should be what drives us all, if we are pretending that we cannot afford essential, reasonable and appropriate services for our citizens because some politician says we cannot afford it then we are all wasting our time.
They can afford plenty of other nice to haves but they can't look after their own people. Very sad isn't it?
I certainly mean no offence against the writer but the public are so very weary generally of meeting upon meeting, report upon report and valuable professional time being taken up when all we, at the sharp end, want is action.
It is embarrassing to think how often integration has been talked about and half attempted with a few well meaning experiments but nothing really changes.
There again I guess as long as more and more reports are allowed to be contemplated without someone really grasping the nettle and do what managers are paid to do - manage and manage well, the hope must be that all will go away if heads are kept low enough for long enough.
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Ahaaaa... I havn't been out on 4chan for ages now, guess I should check that place out again. Seems like I have been missing out on a great deal of fun in there xD
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I don't even have a copy of that game right now ._.
Lol. Or maybe you are just trying to make up an excuse just to be able to have more freetime of playing Skyrim? xD
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Especially when it comes to the Supplemental Draft, where it's not necessarily about picking the best player available, one can only assume that these clubs passed on their local products because they had seen enough to steer away.
Only history will tell whether they were right. However, if they were wrong, the oversight turns into one of the biggest blows any club can suffer.
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It should be the obvious first step for any club that is serious about its future: guard your own turf. The New York Cosmos are making the same statement, establishing academies on both coasts even before formally submitting a bid for expansion. Some say they should not be considered "a real club" just yet, while others believe they are visionaries. The latter description seems more apt, especially given the current academy race in American soccer.
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The Cubs' loss is the Orioles' gain and now, potentially, the O's have themselves a young outfield that might stick together for quite a long time.
Not that Felix Pie is any great shake as a major leaguer, let alone a fantasy option, right now. But he could be something given time -- and a chance to play -- and Baltimore will certainly present him a stronger opportunity than Chicago did. As such, the Cubs, knowing Pie is out of options this season, shipped him to the Orioles on Sunday in exchange for left-handed starter Garret Olson and right-handed reliever Henry Williamson.
Pie presumably takes over in left field for the Orioles, with Luke Scott shifting to designated hitter and Aubrey Huff to first base. That gives Baltimore an outfield of Pie, Adam Jones in center and Nick Markakis, who is reported by the Washington Post to be nearing a six-year contract extension with the team, in right assuming, of course, that Pie proves himself worthy of regular duty come spring training.
He'll get his chance, for sure. Since he's out of options, Pie would need to clear waivers in order to be demoted to the minors, meaning his chances at breaking camp with the team are near 100 percent. His chances at winning a starting job? Pretty darned good.
As such, look for Pie to bat perhaps 400-plus times, plenty for him to flash his double-digit home run power and 20-plus steals speed. A batting average risk -- strikeout-prone as he has been in his brief career to date -- Pie actually might not be disastrous in the category in 2009, as he'll perhaps be spelled by Ryan Freel or Luis Montanez against left-handers to ease him in. In the best-case scenario, think Coco Crisp in one of his better seasons. But in order to treat Pie as much of a fantasy draft pick, especially in mixed formats, he'd need a solid spring to warrant our attention in the late rounds.
None of Jones, Markakis, Scott or Huff should suffer in terms of playing time as a result of the Pie addition, fortunately. For one thing, Markakis, Scott and Huff are left-handed, like Pie, and better hitters. They'll get their at-bats, so no need to downgrade them. Freel is most affected, as he'll only start against left-handers, not that he was an especially attractive fantasy pick even in AL-only formats.
Olson, the more significant of the two pitchers headed to Chicago, becomes rotation depth for the Cubs. Unfortunately for him, he's not much more skilled than Sean Marshall, the leading candidate for the No. 5 starter role heading into spring training. Olson will get a chance to win that job when camps open, but it's more likely he'll spend much of his season in the minors. He's a soft-tosser with limited matchups appeal at his best.
One interesting twist: With Milton Bradley now a Cub, Pie might have stood to be next in line for at-bats when Bradley inevitably misses some time. Pie's projected fifth outfielder role for the Cubs now probably belongs to one-time Devil Rays prospect Joey Gathright.
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Ash still is waiting for Sirotka's first regular-season
pitch in a Blue Jays uniform. But he's got nothing on what has White Sox GM
Kenny Williams cooling his heels.
David Wells' likely surgery has guaranteed that neither
principal in that disputed offseason trade will be on a major league mound the
rest of this year. But Boomer's aching back makes it a six-pack for the Sox.
We're not talking about a power lunch at David's place.
Wells is the sixth White Sox pitcher to go out for the
season, after Cal Eldred, Jim Parque, Antonio Osuna, Lorenzo Barcelo and Kelly
You can stop right there. Don't even move on to Frank Thomas
missing all but 68 at-bats of his season. This year is over for the Sox. Forget
about it. If somebody wants to give up something for Jose Canseco, good. If
a bidder miraculously appears for Royce Clayton, hallelujah.
Pitcher James Baldwin keeps getting ground up in the rumor
mill, but keeping him probably is a good idea. After all, he celebrated his
30th birthday Sunday and over-30 types are becoming rare on this roster. This
isn't the time to be moving folks out of Comiskey Park by the busload. By this
time next year, the South Side of Chicago could be home to a runaway train.
The White Sox and Oakland A's have walked side-by-side
the past season and a half, jumping into the 2000 playoffs, surging onto everyone's
hot list for 2001, then stumbling to the brink of standings oblivion.
While the A's are in better position for this year
a run at the AL wild card still is likely the White Sox have the edge
for 2002 and beyond. Oakland has to sweat over Jason Giambi's future, just part
of the small-market exercise the A's will face almost annually with the superb
talent they develop.
Payroll isn't an issue in Chicago, especially if the Sox
opt for a $1.25 million buyout over Wells' $10 million option for next year.
The current payroll is only in the $65 million neighborhood and about $25 million
of that is on the disabled list.
That's more than enough to forget about. Especially when
there's so much else to remember.
Remember that 80% of the starting lineup on many days is
under 30. Only Jose Valentin, part-timers Sandy Alomar and Herbert Perry, plus
Canseco qualify as ancient by White Sox standards. This time next year, figure
on the only 30-and-overs being Valentin, Thomas and second baseman Ray Durham,
who'll have his 30th birthday in November.
Remember that Baldwin isn't the old man of the rotation
only because Sean Lowe 108 days older than Baldwin is plugging
Wells' spot for now. But inevitably, 21-year-old Jon Garland will force the
issue, joining Mark Buehrle, Rocky Biddle and Kip Wells. Biddle is the old man
of that foursome, having turned 25 in May. Among the relievers, only lefty specialist
Alan Embree is over 30.
Remember that the White Sox are young but accomplished.
Garland, Buehrle, Biddle and Kip Wells have a 3.71 ERA this season with 223
strikeouts and 111 walks. Valentin is the only hitter over 30 who can crack
the current top five on the team in hits, total bases, doubles, homers or RBI.
Remember that this is a team figuring out the fundamentals
at an early age. The White Sox are third in the league in home runs, but next
to last in striking out and grounding into double plays. They have the most
sacrifice bunts in the league. Magglio Ordonez has become an All-Star Game regular.
Paul Konerko and Carlos Lee have established themselves as big-time hitters.
Remember that more help is on the way. Jeff Liefer, another
serious power guy, is easing into the lineup playing first base, third base
and the outfield. Third baseman of the future Joe Crede is nearly ready at Triple-A.
Joe Borchard is learning how to play center field at Double-A.
It's easy to understand why Williams was kicking back at
the Futures Game last week, where Borchard was the DH for the U.S. team. You
need to understand that kicking back at the ballpark isn't a Kenny Williams
kind of thing.
"People don't usually like to sit with me during games,"
the first-year GM admits. But he was relaxed in Seattle, hiding out in a luxury
suite from the inquisitions about what players he might or might not trade.
He's a rookie GM for a team playing nearly 100 percentage
points worse than last year. Not to worry. He knows what he has, most of which
he's going to keep. He knows an outfield maybe as early as next year
of Lee, Borchard and Ordonez from left to right won't dominate ESPN's
Web Gems.
"Looks like we're turning into an offensive team," Williams
says with a detectable twinkle and without a hint of apology.
But don't translate that into "bash at all costs." Because
there is one glaring statistical deficiency that has become a focus for the
entire organization. The White Sox are last in the AL in on-base percentage,
the very stat that Williams is demanding be stressed from Comiskey to rookie
"It's all about on-base percentage," Williams says. "That's
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category, is missed most. Don't think it's a coincidence that with Thomas sidelined,
the on-base numbers of Ordonez, Lee and Konerko have leveled off after improving
every previous season. Thomas' habits rub off, plus they help put the other
batters in better hitting situations.
Patience is a virtue. It needs to be the White Sox's virtue.
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No. I mean, let me try to be empathetic here: I know you feel a lot of pressure, but working straight through the holiday is only going to make it worse. Worse right away because you will feel lousy and exhausted and exploited. Worse later because people will expect you to be always working. Worse for everyone else who would really like work life balance because you are setting a precedent for not needing it. So, no.
Are you tired? Has the term been tough? Have you studied / taught / researched / served with all your might, juggled too many things at once, set lofty goals and not quite reached them, dropped a couple of things? Me too. Also, everyone else. Take a break, soften, rest.
Do you have a big term coming up at the start of January? Writing deadlines, new prep, admissions season, lofty goals you're not quite sure you can reach? Me too. Also, everyone else. Take a break, build up a little cushion of restedness to be ready to tackle January when it comes.
The longer I do this the more I understand the values of boundaries. This job will take any amount of time you throw at it, and ask for more, and the work will still never be done. So I set boundaries: this amount of time for course prep and no more. A dedicated writing appointment every time for 60 minutes. No work emails after 5 pm (and if I write them after that, I wait until morning to send them). Take the weekends off (unless I am overcome by an urge to write). This makes me more productive and more relaxed--it's true.
And I'm setting boundaries not just on a daily or a weekly basis: I'm setting semester boundaries. This means, particularly between Fall and Winter semesters, when my family celebrates Christmas, I take a break. Don't work. Sleep in. Read novels. Go sledding. Drink mimosas at 10am. Hit the Boxing Day sales. Hang out with friends and family.
The best part is digging out my office keys on the first day back, walking down the hallway to my office, and seeing everything with fresh eyes. It feels like I've been away. It's fresh, a little strange. I'm ready to go.
Everyone deserves this feeling.
When I was a grad student I used to fly home for the holiday with half a suitcase full of books. I never read them. They were heavy to carry. I felt an ambient looming guilt over not reading them when I was out walking in the snow or sipping egg nog. I felt regret when I dragged them all back to Edmonton unread, starting the semester feeling like a failure.
As as prof, I'm very, very careful to not give my own students anything to do over the break. No really late paper submission deadlines so that they write all through the holiday, no pre-semester reading list or assignments. No chapter revisions for my supervisees. Nothing.
You need a break. I need a break. I assure that I myself take one every year at this time and I'm still employed and relatively successful. And happy.
So my holiday wish for you is: visions of sugarplums, and not Zizek, dancing in your head, for at least a week. You can do it. You deserve it.


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1. I used to work for Nokia And Samsung doing mobile phone repairs and some of the stuff I've seen has blown my mind, one of my favourites was when a dad brought in his daughters Nokia windows phone and while holding it a text preview came up from a young man saying "God I can't wait to see your big boobs" The fathers reaction was priceless he just gritted his teeth let us do what we had to do and left, I can only imagine the bollocking she got when he got home.
2. So when I was a kid, my dad locked me out of most of the internet with parental controls. I got mad at him and installed a key logger onto our computer so I could steal his password and go into account settings and change my privileges. I got his password, along with a bunch of love letters he was writing to a woman he was cheating on my mom with.
3. As a prying child looking for confiscated videogames I discovered my mom hides my gameboy way better than she hides her strap-on.
4. That my then-14 year old stepdaughter had a thing for anime porn.
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5. My 5-year-old daughter was riding in the back seat autobabbling away. Eventually she said, "Daddy, I don't think you know this, but when I was young, I used to pick up little bits of things off the floor and put them in my mouth."
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The Man Who Understood Men (5 of 10) by Roger Thomas
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The Man Who Understood Men (5 of 10)
Come As You Are
Roger Thomas
John 5:1-15
January 28, 2001
I don't want to get in the rut of starting every sermon with a funny, primarily because I am afraid I don't know that many good jokes. But having begun my sermon last week on The Man Who Understood A Woman with a couple of "impeccably delivered and genuinely hilarious stories" (?!?), I feel that is only fair that I do the same this week on the theme of The Man Who Understood Men.
Once again I will tread where few preachers ought to go by again illustrating the fact that "men are from mars and women are from venus." Mark Lowry, Christian funny man from the Bill Gaither Vocal Band, offers the following Top Ten Reasons Why It Is Great to Be A Guy:
The Number 10 reason it is great to be a guy: a five day vacation requires only one suitcase. #9 Bathroom lines are 80% shorter. #8 Guys can go to the bathroom alone. The number 7 reason it is great to be guy --because you can be showered and ready in ten minutes. #6 The remote is yours and yours alone. #5 When clicking through the channels you don't have to stop on every shot of someone crying. The #4 reason why it is great to be a guy: three words—flowers fix everything. #3: Your underwear only costs $7.50 for a pack of 3. #2: Wedding dress $2000; Tux rental $100. And the Number 1 reason why it is great to be a guy --your last name stays put. So says Mark Lowry.
If the woman at the well in John 4 had a life that no woman would ever set out to intentionally create, then the man in John 5 had a life no man ever wants to experience. This is the stuff of which male nightmares are made.
A word of caution before we go further. When studying the Bible we must be careful about reading our experiences into it. The Bible is a two thousand year old book. The ancients knew little of our psychological terms and ways of explaining everything in terms of neuroses, psychoses, and this syndrome ...
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July 28, 2009 at 12:08:49 Jul 28, 2009 @ 12:08
^^ muh bad for some reason my computer isn't loading the youtube video
can't wait for this game, now to get it on 360 or ps3? Hmmmm..
YOu know what would be a badass killstreak reward, a nuke.
I hope you have a PS3. So I can teabag the fuck out of your red pants/yeezy wearin' ass. no homo.


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Alien (1979) is a science-fiction/horror film which was released in 1979. It was directed by British filmmaker and atheist Ridley Scott, who is also known for Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Hannibal (2001), Matchstick Men (2003) and Robin Hood (2010).
Alien received critical acclaim and was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning one. It is also one of Ridley Scott's blockbusters grossing $104,931,801 over an $11million budget. Sequels followed including; Aliens, Alien3 and Alien Resurrection.
Alien, along with its sequels, is regarded as an anti-capitalist movie.
Nostromo, a commercial towing spaceship is en-route back to earth, transporting twenty million tons of mineral ore. On board the ship are Warrent Officer Ripley, Navigator Lambert, Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, Science Officer Ash and Engineers Brett and Parker. The crew work for Weyland-Yutani (also known as The Company).
The crew pick up a signal of an unknown origin from a nearby planetoid. Dallas, Kane and Lambert set out to investigate and discover remains of an alien creature. Ripley determines that the signal is in fact a warning. Kane discovers a chamber of alien eggs, one of them releasing a creature that attaches to Kane's face. He falls unconscious. Dallas and Lambert carry him back aboard the ship. The crew discover that the alien contains a corrosive acid. At that point, the alien detaches itself from Kane and is later presumed dead. The nostromo leaves the planet and resumes its return trip.
Kane awakens with some memory loss, but no apparent ill affects. However, during dinner, Kane chokes and convulses until a small creature bursts from his chest, killing him. The creature escapes and the crew, lacking weapons, attempt to locate it by using motion trackers, electric prods and flamethrowers. However, the alien has enlarged in size. It attacks Brett, taking his body to the airshaft. Dallas enters the airshaft and attempts to force the alien out of the airlock, but the alien kills him.
It is therefore clear that the alien intends to wipe out the entire crew. Lambert suggests that she and the remaining crew members escape in the ship's shuttle, but Ripley, now in command, knows that the shuttle will not fit four people in and recommends that they go along with Dallas' original plan to corner and destroy the alien.
Ripley accesses the ship's computer and discovers that Ash is a traitor and has been instructed to bring samples of the alien back to Earth by the Company, regardless of the crew's lives. Ash attacks Ripley, but Parker and Lambert save her, decapitating and impailing Ash, only to discover that he is an android. Ripley realises that the capitalist-Company wants the alien for its weapons division. Ash briefly predicts that the three humans will not survive the indestructible "perfect organism" they are against, before they destroy the remains. Ripley, Lambert and Parker agree to arm the Nostromo's self-destruct mechanism and escape in the shuttle, but Lambert and Parker are killed by the alien.
Ripley is now alone and initiates the self-destruct mechanism herself. She heads for the shuttle with Jones, the crew's cat, but the alien blocks her way. She turns back to abort the mechanism, but it does not work. When she heads back to the shuttle, the alien is gone and escapes in the shuttle, as the Nostromo explodes.
Suddenly, Ripley encounters the alien, which has hidden aboard the shuttle. She puts on a spacesuit and opens the shuttle's main door causing explosive decompression, which forces the alien to the shuttle's open doorway. She forces it out into space by shooting it with a grappling hook, but the gun catches into the closing door, tethering the alien to the shuttle. Ripley activates the engines and blasts the alien into space. She then puts herself and Jones into stasis and resumes the voyage back home.
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|Veronica Cartwright
|John Hurt
|Ian Holm
|Yaphet Kotto
|Harry Dean Stanton
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Political PointsEdit
Near the opening scene, the crew are having a meeting in regards to the business itself. Brett and Parker are expressing their disapproval in regards to the fact that they've done so much work and have received less money in pay compared to the others. They deem their pay rates unfair.
Weyland-Yutani/The Company are portrayed as the capitalist antagonist of this film. They only want the creature for their weapons produce and do not care what happens to the crew members. Very typical for capitalist organisations.
The fact that the self-destruct mechanism, which Ripley attempts to cancel, malfunctioned, may be the result of the company's capitalist scheme.
Like in most left-wing films (spoiler!), Alien ends with Ripley triumphing against the company, therefore getting rid of the alien, rather than abide by the company's unnecessary demands.


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The news came to Riverside High School football coach Bill Stubbs completely out of the blue. And it stuck like a knife.
It was midsummer and Stubbs was preparing hard for the upcoming football season. Stubbs was content in knowing that his standout quarterback Deuce Wallace had completely healed from the broken leg he suffered — yet continued to play on — in his team's win over Newman in October.
Other players had stepped up to get Wallace's job done the rest of the season, helping the Rebels to an 8-2 regular-season finish and a trip to the playoffs, but Stubbs was ready to see his star player back where he belonged — under center — for his junior season.
But one Saturday in June, Wallace made his way to the Riverside football field house to give his coach some news. He was leaving Riverside, leaving Louisiana and moving back to Tennessee where his father and his grandfather lived.
Wallace explained that his grandfather was getting older and the family wanted to be with him as much as possible. They were leaving on Monday.
"It was a shock," Stubbs said. "Of course, it was their decision. You try to make some sense out of it, but I wasn't able to. But, of course, I support the young man 110 percent. Probably, in all my time coaching, one of the closest kids I ever got to. And he was split in two. But you have to do what your parents feel is right. It was a family decision."
But with Wallace gone, Stubbs had to make a tough decision of his own — who to move into the quarterback spot for the upcoming season?
To hear Stubbs tell it, that decision was easy. Stubbs said he had no hesitation to tap freshman Jordan Loving for the role. Long having been an up-and-coming player to watch because of his impressive size and skill sets for his age, Loving had been working with the varsity during his eighth-grade season. Stubbs said he could see some things in the youngster that foretell a solid future as a Riverside quarterback.
"I guess you can call it fate, you can call it what you want," Stubbs said. "But we had made the decision last year not to have him play seventh- and eighth-grade football, to keep him with us on the varsity the whole time. What I wanted him to do was learn the offense, because I thought he was ready to start absorbing it. I was going to try to be real strategic about it. I was going to get him the playing time. And we did."
But when Wallace got hurt, Loving was one of several players to share quarterbacking duties — along with wide receiver Herb McGeee and Kendall Martin. And when Wallace left, Stubbs said he knew the job would go to Loving, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound, 14-year-old freshman.
"It was just that quick," Loving said, snapping his fingers. "Coach Stubbs told me I was going to be the guy. He had a lot of confidence in me. He told me expectations don't change just because Deuce left. He told me, 'We have a world of confidence in you and the team around you.' Deuce was a great quarterback and a great mentor to me. I was upset that he was leaving because he was like a brother to me. But, at the same time, you know, I was excited that I was going to get my shot."
"Of course, there was a lot of trepidation because of his age," Stubbs said. "Deuce played as a freshman here, but Deuce played as a 15-year-old freshman. In my mind, there's a big difference there. But I'm coming to learn that this young man has a lot more maturity than I really anticipated. I had confidence in his ability, but in the back of my mind, I'm going, 'God dang. What's going to happen when the bullets are flying?' "
So far, so good. In three games, Loving has completed 41 of 74 passes for 542 yards and eight touchdowns with one interception. More importantly, he has led the Rebels to three victories, including an epic battle at Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport during which he threw three touchdown passes — including the game-winner. The Rebels will travel to St. James Friday night to take on one of their River Parishes rivals in the District 8-2A opener for both teams.
Stubbs said he and the Rebels staff are still trying to bring Loving along somewhat slowly, "not trying to do things he possibly couldn't do. I think he really drew his strength from a lot of the veteran kids around him, who have a lot of confidence in him. I can't tell you how excited I was to see them really support him. That was huge.
"And I don't think they were doing that just because it benefited them. I think they were pretty much saying, 'Hey. We've got your back.' "