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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly La Oliva resort in Corralejo with 2 outdoor swimming pools
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Popular property highlights
This family-friendly La Oliva resort is located by the sea, within a 10-minute walk of Centro Comercial El Campanario and Acua Water Park. Las Agujas Beach is 1 mi (1.7 km) away.
Resort Features
This resort features 2 outdoor pools, a restaurant, and a bar/lounge. Self parking is free. Additionally, a poolside bar, outdoor tennis courts, and a sauna are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 207 rooms provide conveniences like sofa beds and living rooms, plus furnished balconies or patios and TVs with satellite channels. WiFi, refrigerators, and in-room massages are among the other amenities available to guests. Limited housekeeping is available.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Oasis Village
Hotel Amenities
All-Inclusive Details
All-inclusive room rates at Oasis Village are available. These rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).
Food and beverages
- All meals, snacks, and local beverages included
- Number or type of beverages limited at one or more venues
Activities and facilities/equipment
Land activities
- Tennis
- Onsite entertainment and activities
- Onsite live performances
Not included
- Premium or imported alcoholic beverages
Hotel Amenities
Some rates at Oasis Village are all-inclusive. These rates include onsite meals and beverages, and may include taxes and gratuities. Additional charges may apply for meals at some restaurants, special dinners and dishes, certain beverages, and other amenities.
Oasis Village features 2 outdoor swimming pools, outdoor tennis courts, a sauna, and a children's pool. The resort offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Public areas are equipped with wired and wireless Internet access (surcharge).
This family-friendly resort also offers a rooftop terrace, an arcade/game room, and a garden. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Arcade/game room
- Total number of rooms - 207
- Number of floors - 2
- Bar/lounge
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Wired Internet access - surcharge
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Garden
- 24-hour front desk
- Sauna
- Laundry facilities
- Rooftop terrace
- Poolside bar
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Tennis on site
- Outdoor tennis courts - 2
- Free self parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 6
- Children's pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pools
- Children's pool
- Separate living room
- Outdoor tennis courts
- Laundry facilities
- Arcade/game room
- Playground on site
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Wired high-speed internet ( EUR 20 per week )
Available in some public areas: Wired high-speed internet ( EUR 20 per week ), Wired high-speed internet ( EUR 0.10 per minute )
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Furnished balcony or patio
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Limited housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Bathtub or shower
- In-room safe (surcharge)
- Desk
- Television
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Sofa bed
- Separate living room
- Satellite TV service
- WiFi (surcharge)
- In-room massage available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Separate bedroom
Where to Eat
Onsite venue - This buffet restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Nearby Things to Do
2 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a children's pool. Other recreational amenities include outdoor tennis courts and a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Scuba diving nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Playground on site
- Beach volleyball on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 5 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: EUR 20 per week (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: EUR 20 per week (rates may vary)
- Fee for wired Internet in public areas: EUR 0.10 per minute (rates may vary)
- An in-room safe is available for an additional fee
Hotel Name
- Oasis Village
- Oasis Village Aparthotel
- Oasis Village Aparthotel La Oliva
- Oasis Village La Oliva
- Fuerteventura Oasis Village
- Hotel Oasis Village
- Oasis Village Corralejo
- Oasis Village Fuerteventura/Corralejo
- Oasis Village Hotel Corralejo
- Oasis Village Resort La Oliva
- Oasis Village Resort
- Oasis Village Hotel La Oliva
- Oasis Village Hotel
We should mention
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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Six interns from clinical or counseling psychology programs are hired. The interns are paid a stipend of $25,000. Medical and dental benefits are available for a small fee deducted from payroll. The interns are entitled to 20 vacation days, 12 sick days, 12 holidays and 5 days conference time. Lunch is provided by the hospital. The average workweek is about 40-45 hours. Internships at Maimonides start on July 1st and end on June 30th.
Maimonides has a longstanding commitment to training and this is reflected in the amount of time and energy invested by all staff with respect to the internship program. The administration has made it a priority to be responsive to training and educational needs. Interns have been extended the entire range of support services the staff enjoys, including separate intern offices (two interns to an office), secretarial and copying services and access to all facilities. Secretaries with each unit provide typing and organizational services as well as taking messages and coordinating appointments.
Integration and communication between the Internship Program and the respective graduate schools is accomplished by a log of the intern's activities and by direct contact with the Training Director when necessary. Reciprocal evaluations (supervisors of interns, interns of supervisors) at the end of each rotation are a source of valuable feedback. The Training Director acts as the liaison with all graduate programs.
The varieties of clinical experience are insured by rotation through different units of service. Interns spend 4 months each in the Adult Inpatient Unit, The Wellness Recovery Program (formerly know as the Continuing Day Treatment Services) and the Outpatient Service. The latter includes sub-rotations in the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Service (CAOS), the Adult Outpatient Service (AOS), Pediatric Psychology and the Psychiatric Emergency Department.
The intern is expected to become fully integrated into each unit to which he or she is assigned. The intern takes his or her part on a team and participates in treatment and clinical activities including the clinical and administrative functions assigned to that team. The intern is assigned two supervisors for long-term cases, additional individual unit supervision, supervision for psychodiagnostic testing, and a mentor. The mentor is available as an advisor to whom the intern can turn during the year if any problems develop. Finally, the interns receive an hour a week of group supervision with the chief psychologist in an on-going case seminar and 2-3 hours of group supervision on their units of rotation.
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Cuban Artists Fund
The Cuban Artists Fund, a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, is committed to supporting artists of Cuban ancestry and providing the public with programs aimed at creating broader appreciation for Cuban arts and its global impact both historically and in todays society. Specifically, CAF supports artists by helping to identify resources and people to create networks for Cuban artists, arts and culture groups, and cultural exchanges. CAF has a particular focus on presenting and nurturing artistic work by Cuban artists in New York City.


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Rocker Duff McKagan is said to replace Eric Avery in Jane's Addiction after Perry Farrell stated that he and his bandmates have been working with a new 'writing partner'.
Former Guns N' Roses star Duff McKagan has reportedly become the latest member of Jane's Addiction - he's rumored to have stepped in to replace bassist Eric Avery. The band reunited in 2008 after Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor convinced them to join him on tour - and they have also been back in the studio working on new material.
The reunion was marred by the recent departure of original member Avery, but frontman Perry Farrell subsequently revealed they have been working with a new "writing partner" and internet rumors have turned to McKagan.
Fansite Xiola is reporting the Velvet Revolver rocker has joined the band in the studio. Avery previously refused to reunite with the rockers when they reformed in 1997 and 2001, following their original 1991 split. He has been replaced over the years by stars including Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, Martyn LeNoble and Chris Chaney.


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Makes sense but doesn't work for me. The right click just gives me the same list you always get when you right click.
Makes sense but doesn't work for me. The right click just gives me the same list you always get when you right click.
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Dayton tied in the top of the sixth with two walks, a sac bunt and a ground out. Lake County snatches the lead right back in the bottom half of the frame. 2-1.
Lake County tacked on two more in the 7th. 4-1.
Dragons with four singles - Bowe, Perez, Selsky and Gonzalez.
Daniel Renken just left the Blaze game with some type of leg injury after fielding a ball on the 3B line.
Blaze win 7-4. Two hits for Hamilton (along with steal 32), Smith and Barnhart. Partch picked up his second save with a scoreless ninth.
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Hugh Jackman Talks Up Third Wolverine Solo Movie
'There are some really cool ideas that Im dying to tell you...'
Remember, remember, November 5? That was the day the news emerged that after the success of The Wolverine - which has the second biggest box office haul of the whole X-franchise, behind X-Men: The Last Stand - director James Mangold, producer Lauren Shuler Donner and star Hugh Jackman were interested in making a third solo Wolverine movie. Now, Jackman has opened up (a little bit) about why he's back on board to Entertainment Weekly.
Previously, the 45-year-old Jackman had hinted that his time as Logan wasn't going to last forever. "It's nearing the end," he said back in September. "I do feel that. If there are any more movies, there would have to be a really good reason for it." Fortunately, it seems like a good reason has arrived.
It's nearing the end," he said. "I do feel that. If there are any more movies, there would have to be a really good reason for it."
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/news/hugh-jackman-admits-hes-nearing-the-end-as-wolverine#mixK6dZR6ZwhqVuP.99
"I was on the phone with Jim Mangold last night," Jackman told EW. "There are some really cool ideas that I'm dying to tell you, but that would be giving away a secret that is not even [fully] formed yet."
"I started with a two-picture deal on the first two [X-Men films], and from that point on, it's been movie by movie — not just me, but Fox and Jim and everyone," he says. "I do want to do it with Jim and with [producer] Lauren Shuler-Donner because we had such a great experience. I'm really proud of The Wolverine."
This may remind fans of the metal-clawed Canadian of something else Jackman said back in September: "I can tell you this, and I can say this now: I wasn't sure that I would do another Wolverine movie after the first one," he said. "I just felt that I hadn't done the character justice, and that was a bit of a hole inside of me." Modest to the last, there's no doubt he's a fan favourite, and has embodied the role in such a way as to leave anyone else thinking about filling his boots very nervous indeed.
Now, Jackman is singing a slightly different tune. "I am enjoying him more than ever… being older helps playing Wolverine. He's 200 or 300 years old — no one really knows — and he's sort of world-weary. The actual working out gets harder and harder, I'll admit."
"I love the character, he's kind of like a best friend to me, and I don't ever want to take [him] or the fans for granted. … I think we've got a great opportunity to make something really cool, but it has to be great. That's what we're all working toward."
Do you want to see Jackman come back for one last hack-and-slash after Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days Of Future Past? If that movie serves as a sort of franchise reboot, considering the timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly stuff, there may be a space for a new Wolverine down a new trouser of time, but is that a world we want to live in? Who could you see playing him, if Jackman shaves off his beard once and for all?
Before you answer those questions, read our in-depth discussion as to what to do with a third Wolverine - especially considering the timeline tricksiness - over in this direction, and remember that The Wolverine is out on Blu-ray and DVD now. Jackman is currently shooting Neill Blomkamp's sci-fi comedy Chappie in South Africa, so look forward to seeing that at some point in 2015.


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They cite how party cadre who work for decades remain the same with no change in their financial situation, while leaders makes enormous amounts of money in huge propositions. One look at the state's political parties show that Cong is always influenced by political families right from the top where Sonia rules the roost. TDP by Babu is again a family fiefdom with he himself trying to bring his son Lokesh while facing opposition from Nandamuri family members to whom the party actually belongs to. YSRCP is ruled by Jagan and is supported by Sharmila, Vijayamma and Bharati. They are guided by Jagan's uncle YV.Subba Reddy. TRS is ruled by KCR and his son KTR, daughter Kavitha and nephew Harish Rao.So youth can not think of becoming leaders in family ruled parties.
Relatives ruling parties !
Political analysts and even leaders give call youth to come and join politics and help them clean the system rather than hate them to the core talking about various scams and corruptions in which all the parties are plunged. However all the political parties are ruled by relatives of respective party founders and presidents and one wonder even if youth and talented few who plan to come and clean the system, it would be difficult for them to reach the top in the party. They feel that however talented they may be, they ultimately should report to the president who himself faces corruption charges.


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Number Crunching: This Week's TV Ratings
Number Crunching: This Week's TV Ratings
- Dancing to an all-time record. Maybe it was the economy, the Bachelor drama, or The Woz, but whatever the reason, Dancing with the Stars had its best-ever premiere on Monday, averaging 22.5 million viewers.
- Daylight not-watching-TV time. Maybe everyone was out gallivanting in the sun — or going to bed early? A lot of Sunday shows took a hit after the clocks sprung forward, with The Celebrity Apprentice dropping to 7.6 million viewers and Desperate Housewives matching a series low with 13.5 million viewers.
- Not so bad. One show broke the Daylight Savings Time curse: Breaking Bad got a big bump for its second season premiere on Sunday, bringing in 1.7 million viewers, more than 40 percent above its average viewership in its first season.
- The subtle Clooney effect. Even a powerhouse like George Clooney couldn't raise ER to the number one position in its time slot on Thursday. The show generally garners 8 million viewers and saw a slight increase to 10.7 million, but it still lost to CBS' Eleventh Hour.
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Crawl Space Guru fix the space under your house
The crawl space environment under your house is dark, dirty, and smelly and has small animals and
bugs living in it. Cold air getting under the house making the floors cold in the winter time. In the summer by way
of humid air allows for a constant supply of mold, mildew and fungus spores. Odors and even possible lift threating
Radon Gases comes up through the floors and enters into the house creating health problems.
Most crawl spaces are a health
A Crawl space done right
A false water table can be the reason that your crawl space keeps getting
water in it no matter how waterproofed the foundation is. Water will come up above the surface in the crawl
space. High moisture in your crawl space is the dominating factor when it comes to odor, structure rot, wood
borning insects and mold problems. High moisture causes condensation on ducts, all surfaces and even causes
the insulation in the floor joists to fall out.
For detailed video instructions I would recommend that you go to the Crawl Space Repair
channel on YouTube"
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The Most Important People on The Internet:
Volume 2.35
Welcome to this week's installment of The Most Important People on The Internet which takes us even further into the new Golden Age of Gilberator who's apparently metamorphosed into the Henry David Thoreau of tit jokes. I'm not lying when I say I've literally wept at the end of them. On that note, Photo Boy almost pissed himself at the Gary Oldman comment which means a lot considering he spends 75% of his day hand-picking photos for The Crap We Missed in hopes of inspiring horrible jokes like how much Brett Ratner loves masturbating to shrimp. You've given his life purpose where before there was only me and a whip yelling, "BOOBY PICTURES, HYAH! UPLOAD! UPLOAD!" *CRACK-SNAP*
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Comedian, saxophonist, composer, actor and musician, he performed within the orchestras of Charlie Spivak, Shep Fields and Claude Thornhill as saxophonist. Later, as super-hip jazz musician "Cool Cees" in television skits, he played tenor saxophone, and sang with the satirical trio "The Hair Cuts" (with Carl Reiner and Howard Morris). He sang the lead role in "Little Me" on Broadway. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his popular song compositions include "I Wrote This Song for Your Birthday" and "Was That You?".
Name: Sid Caesar
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Today I made a start on improving my ERP on 137kHz and 500kHz.
Firstly, I've bought a pile of Wima 1000V polypropylene capacitors from Farnell. With these I have now made a new ATU to match my TX loop (breadboard only ATU so far) which will allow me to run some 6-10dB more power into the loop without the ATU components overheating and failing. My old switched capacitor array was an old school capacitance decade box and this was marginal with tuning changing as caps heated up!
Secondly, I am going to change the MOSFET PA design to increase the 137kHz power from around 7W RF to about 30W. This should be worth around 6-8dB. I plan to do something similar on 500kHz too.
Finally, I've got some more wire to allow me to double the thickness of my TX loop. This will be done later and will be worth 2-3dB as long as I alter the 3C90 ATU (step down) matching transformer.
In all, these changes will give me up to 10-13dB more ERP and, with some luck will allow me to get more reports on QRSS and WSPR. It will take some weeks to implement these, but by late October my range should improve on both bands.
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What will you be using instead of the IRF510's ?
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This function allows you to configure a static IP address, change the DNS, gateway, and subnet addresses on the board manually. (WiFi.begin automatically configures to use DHCP)
WiFi.config(ip, dns);
WiFi.config(ip, dns, gateway);
WiFi.config(ip, dns, gateway, subnet);
- ip: the IP address of the device (array of 4 bytes)
- dns: the address for a DNS server.
- gateway: the IP address of the network gateway (array of 4 bytes).optional: defaults to the device IP address with the last octet set to 1
- subnet: the subnet mask of the network (array of 4 bytes). optional: defaults to 255.255.255.0
Based on the reference originally written by Arduino Community, wiring.org.co and arduino.cc


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A group of prominent scientists is pressing two leading editors of scientific journals to require authors to disclose any financial ties to products or companies that could benefit from the articles they write.
In a letter sent yesterday to the editors, the scientists cited several recent cases in which authors of articles in the journal Science and in the journals of the Nature Publishing Group failed to disclose significant conflicts of interest.
One scientist, the letter said, failed to disclose that he held the patent on a drug treatment about which he wrote favorably. Another, with ties to pharmaceutical companies, suggested in an article that the nation's obesity problem could be solved ''by better education and better drugs.''
In the letter to the editor in chief of Science, Donald Kennedy, the scientists wrote that ''it is increasingly important to identify authors or quoted scientists who have management or advisory roles in companies by those affiliations and not simply by their academic appointments.''Continue reading the main story
''They are 'academic entrepreneurs,' not simply 'scientists,' '' the letter stated.
A similar letter was sent to the editor in chief of Nature, Dr. Philip Campbell. The letters were signed by 32 scientists, including Dr. Marcia Angell, a former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine; Dr. Sheldon Krimsky, a science policy specialist at Tufts University; and Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Dr. Charles G. Jennings, executive editor of the Nature Research Journals, said editors had recently had serious discussions about changing their policy since The New York Times reported that an author, Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff, chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral science at the Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta, had failed to disclose three significant conflicts of interest involving products he mentioned favorably in an article in Nature Neuroscience. Dr. Nemeroff said he would have disclosed his financial ties had the journal editors asked him.
Dr. Kennedy said his journal asked authors of some articles to disclose conflicts of interest. He said the journal would investigate the five cases the scientists cited. ''I don't know whether we slipped up or the author slipped up,'' Dr. Kennedy said.Continue reading the main story


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Police unions urge end to appointments
NEW ORLEANS — Calling the practice a "breeding ground for political corruption and patronage," representatives of two local police unions this week asked the Civil Service Commission to stop approving provisional sergeant appointments within the New Orleans Police Department.
Appointments have happened since Civil Service has not had money to pay for sergeant tests, the official way to promote officers to that rank. According to the city's 2013 budget book, the test would cost $147,000, but the City Council did not provide the funding. In fact, the Civil Service Commission, like most city departments, took a budget cut this year, receiving $1.4 million as opposed to $1.6 million in 2012.
Since tests have not been given in several years, lists of officers eligible for promotions have or will soon expire.
"All this flies in the face of a merit-based system," Raymond Burkhart III, an attorney with the local Fraternal Order of Police, told the commission during its meeting Monday.
Burkhart said he was "begging" and "imploring" the commission to work with the city to get funding for the tests while stopping the appointments in the meantime.
Eric Hessler, an attorney for the Police Association of New Orleans, described the appointments as a "breeding ground" for corruption and wondered if the lack of funding was intentional.
"I don't think it's a funding issue but a matter of design," he said.
Civil Service has softest of openings
NEW ORLEANS — It was a near literal soft opening this week for the Civil Service Commission as it moved into its new space in the Aamco Building on Poydras Street across from City Hall.
As the city prepares to open a "one-stop shop" for land-use and permitting issues, the City Planning Commission moved from the 9th floor of the Aamco Building to the 7th floor of City Hall, where it joined similar agencies. That space previously housed the Civil Service staff, who moved to the Planning Commission's former space.
While the Civil Service Commission's new space looked to be in good shape during Monday's meeting, the first in its new home, Personnel Director Lisa Hudson said there is still work to do to, such as making sure computers are properly networked.
Shortly after she made that comment, one audience member piped up, asking if Hudson would see to it that microphones and speakers could be provided next time. Those in attendance spent much of the meeting cupping their ears or craning their necks in an effort to hear the proceedings.
Hudson said she has a sound system but no speakers.
"We're working on it," she said of the whispered meetings.
Councilman pushes for election holiday
WESTWEGO — Westwego Councilman Glenn Green thinks presidential elections and work just don't mix, at least not for public employees.
Green has pushed for months for the City Council to give city employees a holiday from work for every presidential election. But because that might put a strain on Westwego's tight budget, he's found it tough to get support from his fellow board members. Earlier this month, Green said he thinks the council is being too tight with the city's purse strings and infringing on employees' rights.
"Every four years I don't think we're going to suffer any financial pain because of that," said Green, who noted that many other Jefferson Parish offices close for presidential elections. "I guess we're just not American now."
But Councilman Melvin Guidry bristled a little at the assertion that having to work on Election Day was wrong. He noted that most people who work in the private sector, such as himself, find the time to go to work and vote. He doesn't view it as a hardship, he views it as a privilege, he said.
"I know Election Day I get up early in the morning and go vote." Guidry said. "I don't know why I need a day off honestly."
Green promised to bring up the issue at a later date.
NORA schedulesinformation session
NEW ORLEANS — Representatives from the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority will answer questions from the public next week during an information session.
The forum, part of the city's Office Neighborhood Engagement's "Coffee on Your Corner" program, will take place Monday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the New Orleans East Regional Library, 5641 Read Blvd.
Submit questions to NoraAnn Winbush at email@example.com before the meeting.
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Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Paul, Blaise H. URN etd-11112008-182237 Title Analysis of Gas Dynamic Waves in Explosively Actuated Valves Degree Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (M.S.M.E.) Department Mechanical Engineering Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Keith A. Gonthier Committee Chair Glenn Sinclair Committee Member Harris Wong Committee Member Keywords
- grid deformation
- miniature device
- explosive device
- explosive valve
- gas dynamics model
- scaled device
Date of Defense 2008-11-07 Availability unrestricted AbstractA mathematical model is formulated for assessing quasi-one-dimensional gas dynamics occurring within axis-symmetric explosively actuated valves. The model describes complete valve operation and accounts for pressure-dependent explosive combustion within an actuator, compressible product gas flow within the actuator, through a small port, and into and within a gas expansion chamber. The gas dynamic waves induce piston motion at the terminal end of the expansion chamber which is needed for valve operation. The model is mathematically posed as an initial-boundary-value problem in terms of generalized coordinates to facilitate numerical computations on a domain that volumetrically expands due to combustion and piston motion. The model equations are numerically integrated using a total variation diminishing (TVD), high resolution shock capturing method.
Key objectives of this work are to characterize the influence of gas dynamic waves on device operation and performance, including the pyrotechnic shock transmitted to the valve's supporting structure. For a baseline valve configuration, predictions give results that agree with experimental data for the expansion chamber pressurization rate, and both piston stroke time and velocity. The model is used to assess how variations in port cross-sectional area, explosive mass, geometric size, and other system parameters affect performance. This sensitivity analysis has shown, in all cases considered, that the pressurization rates of the actuator and the expansion chamber are the main factors that effect valve performance. High actuator pressurization rates are necessary for complete explosive combustion while high expansion chamber pressurization rates are necessary for rapid, monotonically increasing piston velocity that is desirable in practice.
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An ambitious, interesting start to Hickman's new series
To be honest, I didn't know about Jonathan Hickman's East of West until about a week ago, and I'm glad I found out about it. The pitch hooked my instantly: an apocolyptic-future-western-epic. What's both the strength and weakness of East of West #1 is its sheer ambtition. The story seems so colossal from the start that often times I wasn't quite sure what was going on. The story jumps back and forth between different settings and time periods, which in one issue can be overwhelming when trying to present a new story.
Hickman nails the dialogue in this issue; every conversation is engaging and filled with snappy dialogue that makes me wish I knew the characters just a bit more; every character I saw in this first issue seemed like they had an interesting background, so it's exciting to possibly see Hickman tell the histories of these characters.
The artist, Nick Dragotta, does an incredible job capturing every moment--subtle and grand--that makes every page turn exciting. Colorist Frank Martin varies with deep blacks and many vibrant colors to produce an alluring color scheme that has beautiful contrast on every page. The dynamic art Dragotta and Martin produce help give Hickman's new universe its own personality immediately, perfectly meshing the bright colors often associated with space, and the dark tones of western stories--this is comic book art at its finest.
East of West is an incredibly interesting start, and it's well worth following to see how it develops. Nick Dragotta's art is unmatched and worth the admission alone. Make no mistake, East of West has the potential to be something very special.
8.5/10 - "Great"
- + Incredible art from Dragotta
- + Beautiful colors by Martin
- + Hickman's new universe is filled with interesting characters
- - The story is almost too ambitious for just the first issue
- - The jumps from setting to setting can be hard to follow
Josh is an IGN All-Star and freelance writer. You can follow him on Twitter and read his tweets about baseball, video games, and his everyday shenanigans. You can also email him: firstname.lastname@example.com


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The City of Vancouver's application for an injunction to clear the tents from the Occupy Vancouver encampment has been adjourned until Wednesday morning.
The brief delay was agreed to in order to provide more time for the protesters to find a lawyer to represent them.
Vancouver had taken the lead in Canada to seek an end to its protest encampment, one of many that have erupted across the country to support the Occupy movement originating in New York City.
City officials said they would ask for an injunction to have the Occupy Vancouver encampment dismantled, clearing it of tents and other structures that have occupied a major public plaza downtown since Oct. 15.
The injunction, if granted, will give police the power to assist municipal staff should they encounter resistance taking down the 100 or so onsite tents, city manager Penny Ballem said late Monday.
Violence has erupted in several U.S. cities where police have stormed in to end occupations, but Dr. Ballem expressed hope the Vancouver encampment can be ended peacefully.
"But we want to be clear. The police will be there as needed, and if they have to come in and protect [our staff]or take action, [the injunction]…gives them their full authority under our bylaws," she said.
Protesters who spent a wet, miserable day at the tent site, were quick to declare they would not be moved easily.
While pointing out that the matter is still to be discussed at the group's evening general assembly, media volunteer Steve Collis said he expects most tent occupants will stay regardless of whether an injunction is granted.
"I'm quite certain that they, as a whole, will not simply comply with [any] order," said Mr. Collis, an English professor at Simon Fraser University.
He noted that protests have come back even stronger when local governments tried to end occupations.
Added a protester who indentified himself as "Tom A.": "If you remove the tents from Occupy Vancouver, we're just Vancouver."
But Dr. Ballem said the city cannot wait any longer, after the weekend death of a young women at the site, a near fatal drug overdose by someone in a tent last Thursday, and fire safety concerns outlined by the Vancouver Fire Department.
"This is urgent. These are life safety issues," she told reporters at City Hall. "We are going to act in an expedited fashion."
Dr. Ballem said the court agreed on Monday to give the city "short leave" to pursue its injunction application quickly.
The encampment violates the city's land regulation bylaw, she said, and the court is being asked for an order that tents, belongings and other structures be removed.
City notices asking protesters to pack up their tents "immediately" were posted at the site early Monday morning. But the only response by Occupy Vancouver was more defiance and the ongoing erection of new, larger structures to cover a number of tents.
Sponsorship plaques were even offered to individuals donating $400 or more to defray costs of building the dome-like structures, which organizers say will make the camp safer.
"People aren't going to pack up and go," Mr. Collis said of the original city notices. "We are going to keep doing what we're doing. We're not leaving."
Dr. Ballem declined to set a timetable for tents to be taken down.
She said the city will move carefully to avoid "precipitously triggering" an unfortunate result. "But we don't have forever. It will be within a short period of time."
She stressed the city is not trying to shut down the protest, just get rid of the tents and other unsanctioned structures. The makeshift stage at the Vancouver Art Gallery site can stay, and power will not be cut, she said.
"We're asking for tents and structures to be removed, not the people."
The move to the courts follows a declaration late last week by Mayor Gregor Robertson that the occupation must end.
Vancouver's municipal election is less than two weeks away. The encampment has dominated the campaign's final days, with challenger Suzanne Anton accusing the mayor of dithering.
In Victoria, meanwhile, a noon deadline for protesters to vacate their tents downtown expired without firm action by the city.
Some protesters left, but many stayed, including one who built himself a perch in a tree. Victoria officials have vowed to ticket those remaining, or seek a court injunction to end their tent city.
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A First-Time Cruiser Takes The Gem To... Nowhere: Norwegian Gem Cruise Review by Tralfie
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A First-Time Cruiser Takes The Gem To... Nowhere
Destination: Cruise to Nowhere
Embarkation: New York (Manhattan)
Originally, the plan was that my very first cruise would be in March of 2014 aboard the Norwegian Breakaway. I booked it over a year ago as a present to myself for my 50th birthday, even treating myself to an aft-facing balcony.
But then I saw the one-night Cruise to Nowhere, and the price was just too good to pass up. So I decided to get my feet wet, so to speak, by using the overnighter as sort of a sampler to see how I'd like the world of cruising.
I'm a single guy -- what they called a "confirmed bachelor" in more civilized times -- who lives in Manhattan, so getting to the port on the morning of the trip was a breeze. As was, honestly, the entire process. It helped that almost as soon as I arrived at the terminal, I met fellow Cruise Critic member Lellie and her son, two of the nicest people you could hope to meet! She basically walked me through the entire process and by noon, we were on the boat. More
By 12:05, I had my first cocktail in hand. 'Cause that's how I roll!
Lellie and her son invited me to join them for lunch, and I gladly accepted. While I'm very, very good at traveling solo -- and have no problem eating (or doing much of anything else) on my own -- when good company presents itself, why turn it away? We wound up going to the Grand Pacific dining room.
So, how was my first experience with cruise food? In a word... pretty darn good. Okay, technically, that's three, but... you get the point.
One of the things I really loved about the meal -- aside from the whole "order as much as you care to" -- was the portions. I know some people probably complain when they order, say, fried calamari and receive 8-10 pieces (with a delicious aioli accompaniment) -- as opposed to the mound you might get at a landlocked restaurant -- but I found it ideal. I ordered the calamari, a delicious shrimp Caesar salad and the fish and chips. (Lellie's son, it should be noted, is a human garbage disposal. He must have had three appetizers, two main courses and three desserts! But the kid burns it off and is thin as a rail.) In any case, both my order and his illustrate the point: the smaller portions left me pleasantly full but not overly so, while Lellie's son was free to order to his heart's content. (Did I mention that as soon as we finished this fantastic meal, he was ready to go to the buffet? Ah, to have that metabolism again... )
The calamari wasn't hot (it wasn't really even warm), and oddly, the "warm bread pudding" was borderline chilly. And yet, the food was actually very tasty. Look, I'm a foodie, and -- having read a lot of mixed things about meals aboard the ship -- I came in with fairly low expectations. And yet I wound up really enjoying just about everything I ate over the next 24 hours. I'm also very much of the mindset that I'm on vacation, and it's going to take a whole lot to get me even warm under the collar, let alone hot.
By the time lunch was over, the cabins were ready. This was a good hour earlier than they'd told us it would be, which was an unexpected treat. I went to my cabin -- room 8005 -- to drop off my stuff. Now, I'm a big believer that balconies are the way to go, but on a one-nighter, I just couldn't see paying the price, so I went with an inside.
A couple notes about the room.
As I expected, it was small. While it was fine for a solo traveler on an overnighter, I most definitely would not want to spend a week in it. I suspect I'd feel very claustrophobic after a few days. And if you had two -- let alone three of four? -- occupants... yeah, that might get real ugly real fast, especially if you planned to spend any significant time in the room.
The other thing to note is that room 8005 is as far forward as a room on level 8 can get... and as a result, the ride was, at times, a little rough. I'm not talking things falling off shelves or anything, but there was a fair amount of noticeable motion that I assume was the boat sort of plowing through the water. While I didn't actually get sick sick, I did get a little... sea sick.
This may also have been me, however. I do have a tendency toward car sickness in certain circumstances, and I noticed that at around 9 p.m. or so -- by which time I was in the casino -- I was feeling a bit queasy. A walk around the promenade deck and some brisk air cleared that up.. which is why I'm glad I have an aft-facing balcony on the Breakaway: easy access to all the fresh air I can suck into my lungs!
Over the course of the evening, I really did my best to see as much of the ship as possible, so let me hit a few highlights:
* Bliss Lounge: This is just a fantastic, groovilicious spot to hang out. Four bowling lanes, air-hockey tables, good music, a great vibe. It's sad that, by all reports, this was turned into sort of an uncomfortable cave on the Breakaway, because on the Gem, it's fantastic. (It definitely could have used more staff, however. The poor girl working the bar alone was clearly in over her head. Nice as could be, but out of her league. It didn't help that -- this being a one-night cruise filled to the brim with a whole lotta people wanting to party hard -- she was getting slammed with customers, not all of whom were of the patient variety.)
* Stardust Theater: Really nice space, very comfy. Lellie, her son and I met up to see comedian Jeff Harms here. (He was, by the way, fantastic. I love a comic who plays with the crowd and manages to do circular humor that all ties together in the end, which was exactly what he did.) We went directly from here to...
* Spinnaker Lounge: ... where we caught the Second City improve group. Spinnaker is a fantastic space, nice big bar, lots of seating for shows (although it was standing room only for Second City). As for the show itself... they say adult, and they mean it. It was raunchy as heck... in the best way possible. It's also true that how successful the show is depends entirely on the audience. Unfortunately, our audience tended to be a little shy when it came to shouting things out. (Except for one man, seated in front of me, who was calling out some pretty dark stuff... much to my amusement).
* Casino: I had a blast here. They had a great selection of games, and a surprising number of penny slots. The staff was a LITTLE pushy when it came to selling the nightly Paradise Lotto tickets. I bought tickets, and then was asked every 10 minutes by someone else if I wanted to purchase tickets. It's not a huge casino, so it can feel a little claustrophobic, but I walked away a winner and had a blast. What more can you ask, right?
* Star Bar: I'd actually like to have spent a bit more time here, but there just wasn't time. Also, there were two groups in the place when I entered... a crazy-drunk group of girls celebrating a birthday, and a group in the corner who were apparently using an iPhone or something similar to loudly play their own music over the music played by the lounge.
* Shakers Martini bar: I never actually got drinks at either of these, because they were jam packed with very loud, very drunk people most of the night. Totally not my scene... unless I happen to be one of the very loud, very drunk people. :)
And that IS one thing to know about a cruise to nowhere: There are a lot of people on board who have one night to party, and man, are they intent upon doing so. By 8 p.m. or so, there were folks so drunk they couldn't walk. I have to think that the bar staff hates the cruises to nowhere, with everyone trying to drink as much as possible in the course of the evening.
After cashing out at the casino, I headed to the Garden Café, the only place open for late night snacks (it was around 12:30 a.m. by now, and I'd skipped dinner... unless you count bourbon!). They had a nice selection of food, including a surprising (to me) number of vegetarian options. The pizza was fantastic, as were the ham-and-cheese on sourdough bread mini sandwiches.
I took one last walk around the promenade deck -- a real highlight, to me -- taking time to stand at the very back of the boat, look off into the distance and contemplate life. (My conclusion? "I'm on a one-night cruise having an awesome time... life is good.")
The bed in my cabin was super comfy. The bathroom was odd... the shower stall is pretty roomy (although it would be helpful to have H and C indications on the handles, as it wasn't the easiest thing to figure out which was what or how it worked). But the toilet is oddly angled so that should you need to... er... do your business sitting down, your knees are gonna be pressed against a wall. I can't begin to imagine how some of the more... um... corpulent of my fellow cruisers would possibly use the toilet. Then again, public restrooms are plentiful...
I don't know if it had to do with the far-forward location of my cabin or if this is just common (remember, this was my first time on a cruise ship), but man, there is no way you'll sleep through arriving in port! I woke to the cabin shaking and I thought, "Good lord, are the alarms going to go off? Are we goin' down?" On the plus side, you won't miss breakfast! (On the down side, you may WANT to, given that the Garden Café was a madhouse with folks trying to get in that last meal! I'm not really a breakfast person, so I skipped, but the food looked pretty tasty!)
Disembarkation was a breeze. Although the announcement said I'd have a customs form in my room, I didn't... but it was easy to grab one either from guest services or even after getting off the boat.
In summary? My one-night cruise to nowhere was a fantastic experience. I'd do it again tomorrow in a heartbeat... and it definitely got me excited for my first "real" cruise on the Breakaway in March! Got any questions? Hit me up, I'll try to answer them!
Happy Sailing!
Tralfie/Richard Less
Published 11/23/13
Cabin review:
As an inside stateroom, it is what it is: Small, but serviceable. I was traveling solo, so it was fine for me... but I couldn't imagine two, three or (God forbid) four people in it! There was a fair amount of rumbling as we pulled into port - it actually scared the heck outta me! Noise-wise, I can't say I heard anything from other cabins or from the hallway.
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For many years I have used Calamine lotion, as did my own mum when I was living at home. I always have a bottle at the back of my medicine cupboard though I haven't needed to use this for a while now. I buy my own Calamine lotion from Boots where it costs a little over £1 for a large sized glass bottle with a screw off lid. There is no child safety lid on mine, it simply screws off.
I've used this lotion on many occasions, both on my daughter Sarah and on myself. My husband has also used this too. It's possibly seen as quite an old fashioned method of calming the skin down now, when there seems to be so many other up to date and more modern medications on the market, which do pretty much the same thing. To be honest, I think that Calamine lotion works just as well as any of the more pricey lotions and potions and I think this works exceptionally well for skin irritations such as sunburn, bites and stings and rashes.
Last time I used this on my daughter was when she'd fallen into a bed of nettles whilst we went to feed the horses. Her legs were in a terrible state and they came up with lots of bumps and she was crying in pain. I smoothed a layer of Calamine lotion over the affected area with cotton wool balls and left it to dry. The lotion calmed the area down, stopped he intense throbbing of the nettle rash and generally helped ease the pain and stinging.
I have also used it on myself and my husband for mild sunburn last summer (yes, it really got that hot!) and again smoothed it on our shoulder areas where the skin was most inflamed. It works well and it works quickly and really does help to calm inflammation.
It's good for insect bites and stings and whilst it won't 'cure' the problem, it works very well at reducing pain and inflammation. It's a messy lotion to apply, and once dried on the skin you end up looking white in patches where it's dried on but it soon washes off and afterwards the pain of bites, stings, nettle rash and sunburn is greatly reduced.
It's always a good idea to have a bottle of this in your cupboard ad I'm never without one. It might be seen as a slightly old fashioned method these days, but Calamine lotion is something I think should be a medicine cupboard staple.
Highly recommended.
Boots Calamine Lotion is the unsung hero of my medicine cabinet. I don't have any known, life-threatening allergies but sometimes I do have allergic reaction to house dust or prawns. The way my body reacts to my allergies is to produce patches of heat rashes throughout my body that wouldn't go away for like a week, even if I take allergy and hay fever tablets.
Luckily, I've always known since I was little that I can always rely on calamine lotion to sort it out. The purpose of calamine lotion is to sooth minor skin rashes and irritation, basically to stop anyone with allergies from scratching themselves and making the condition worse. Anyone who has suffered from skin allergies know that the urge to scratch even though you know it's painful but you still do it because it's unbearable; this is when calamine lotion saves my skin literally.
I've only ever bought calamine lotion from boots, since it's convenient. For what it does, it is unbelievably cheap. It's £1.09 for 200 ml bottle and since I only use it whenever I have skin rashes, which is rare thankfully, they last for a long time. It does have an expiration date but it last for a couple of years.
The lotion itself has a milky pinkish colour and it's has quite a runny consistency. The smell isn't pungent but as a medicine it wouldn't be fragrant either; strangely since it helps me to feel better, I've become to associate this weird medicinal smell as nice. It contains calamine 15% w/v and zinc oxide 5% w/v, which are active agents to sooth the rashes.
The bottle needs to be shaken thoroughly before each use since the solution tends to settle at the bottom if I haven't been using it for a while. I apply using a cotton bud to the areas affected and leave it air-cool, it'll leave a white patch of skin so if it's in the exposed area, it wouldn't look nice. However, if I have a skin rash, looking nice is really the last thing on my mind.
Also, this lotion will be useful for sunburn although I've only ever used it once on my nose.
All in all, this is without a doubt, a medicinal lotion that will always take permanent resident in my medicine cabinet.
Thank you for reading and reviewing. :) xx
Is it just me or are doctors a little bit useless at times?! Last november I picked up my daughter from nursery for her to reveal to me she had some spots on her tummy...uh oh. Looking at her then looking at her nursery teacher we both came to the dreaded conclusion = chicken pox. Of course just to make sure I booked a doctors appointment for the nearest slot which was 2 days away so in the mean time I popped into Boots after leaving her with gran for the afternoon after my mum and sister both recommended dabbing some calamine lotion on her spots. As it then transpired when we did eventually get to see the doctor he shrugged his shoulder and said "I'm not sure it looks like chicken pox to me I guess" I was not impressed! After telling him I was using calamine lotion on her spots he said "oh yeah thats good! keep using that!" I realised it was actually a waste of time taking my unwell child to the drs seeing as I was doing everything perfectly fine!
Boots calamine lotion comes in a clear, 200ml basic glass bottle with a screw top lid. Described as "for the relief of minor skin rashes and irritation" the chemist behind the pharmaceutical counter in boots told me it would aid the itchiness of the chickenpox but not actually clear the virus itself so recommended some other medicinal products to help with that (which I won't go into in this review!).
The lotion is a light pink, oaty kind of liquid which is really thick and comes out in a thick, yoghurt kind of consistency. It takes a lot of shaking at first as it tended to settle and then I could not use it as much. It has a smell which is hard to describe but is very mild and it is not the most appealing of smells but quite distinct to calamine lotion.
We applied this by dipping a cotton bud into the bottle and then dabbing it on her spots so as to apply it effectively to the targeted area. This was easy enough to do, and during her baths at night I would pour a small amount in so it could spread and she could soak her body in it so as to soothe her skin. Touch wood, my daughter was actually really fortunate and an absolute angel and did not scratch her spots at all! I remember having chicken pox as a child and itching like crazy so I was impressed that she handled them so well. Looking at her she was perfectly well most of the time just she was covered in spots on her tummy and legs! Whilst I can't say 100% that the lotion worked to reduce the itchiness I would say it was brilliant at healing her skin and her spots remained very small and faded really quickly as she only had a bout of chickenpox for a week or so.
This bottle costs only £1.09 (or 109 boots points!) so for me it was excellent value and an absolute lifesaver since our doctor was not helpful at all! I would definitely recommend it for anyone with little sufferers for chickenpox as it was really good in our case and doesn't break the bank!
Every house should have a bottle of this, it is a stable part of most families' medicine cabinets, not only when I was a kid but nowadays too.
My parents always had this around when I was a kid due to its amazing powers when I had measles and chicken pox as a child. I do not remember as a kid it being used for anything else other than that reason but now as a parent I have used this to provide relief from minor rashes and skin irritation. It also works on sun burn, spots amazingly, eczema (mild version). Its main use has been when the onslaught of chicken pox hit our household, everyone was covered from head to foot in the stuff. It is slightly pink in colour and when it dries it goes a little chalky, it doesn't take long to dry though and it does give immediate relief. The effects do not always last that long but if they start to fade, you can always re-apply the lotion. My daughter had an allergic reaction to a plant in our garden and her face went all blotchy and swollen, I used this lotion and within a few hours it had settled down.
This comes into its own when applying it to sun burn, trying to rub cream in when your skin hurts is never fun, this lotion is cool and sooths the burn plus you dab it on with either cotton wool or tissue (although I do find tissue tends to disintegrate a bit, cotton wool is much better). Although the bottle does warn you to keep out of the reach of children, also the dangers of swallowing it, they haven't seen fit to put a child friendly cap on the bottle, I am sure the medicinal smell might put them off drinking it though. This is a cheap and cheerful product, you can pick a bottle up from Boots for just over £1, and there is no difference between Boots version and any other brand of calamine lotion. Well worth having a bottle handy....just in case.
Calamine lotion ingredients include Purified water, glycerol, benonite, sodium citrate, phenol, calamine and zinc oxide.
I got married last year and it was a glorious day for the month that I got married in. I was not expecting it to be almost 25 degrees and while I was aware it was sunny it was a shock when I ended my wedding day and spent my first month being married suffering the after effects of sunburn! My husband suffered also and when speaking to my Mum about this she suggested calamine lotion. I promptly picked up a bottle and this was packed in my suitcase for our honeymoon destination.
A 200ml bottle of this calamine lotion from Boots is just £1.05 at present and I believe it was around this price when I purchased mine. This is a very reasonable price for 200ml as a little does go a long way with this lotion.
This is a pale pink coloured lotion and is very easy to use. I apply mine using cotton wool pads or even some toilet roll if I do not have anything better to hand. The smell of this is a bit medicinal but this does not put me off and really makes me feel like this is going to work wonders for me - as it often does!
When I applied this to my bad sun burn I felt that it was soothing straight away. The relief that I felt was amazing and because this is not like a greasy cream it lasts for ages and is more difficult to lift off my skin. This is a positive though as I wanted to stay soothed for as long as possible and this lotion definitely helps me to achieve that.
The redness of my skin was drastically improved by the second day of my honeymoon which meant that I did not have to worry about my photos being ruined by hideous bright red shoulders! I felt soothed using this and it definitely worked more effectively than the Boots after sun lotion I used in the past which was good but not as long lasting as this.
Calamine has a number of uses and can be used for rashes and irritation and this can be used by adults and children making it a fantastic product to keep in the house, particularly as its a bargain price!
As it is coming up to the sun burn season again I will be using a decent sun cream and then using this instead of after sun. I would definitely recommend it, particularly if you have small children as this is fantastic for the treatment of chicken pox.
Calamine Lotion is a medicinal product which is designed to be applied directly to the skin. It has many uses but its main use is to treat skin issues such as sunburn, chicken pox, bites and stings and also eczema. It is also used as an antiseptic to avoid infection occuring by scratching an irritated area of skin.
~Boots Calamine Lotion~
Boots offer a cream and a lotion calamine. The lotion is presented in a glass bottle with screw cap (no child safety lock) and has a basic information label wrapped around it. It contains 15% calamine and 5% zinc oxide as well as glycerol, water, sodium citrate, bentonite and phenol.
This calamine lotion is suitable for both adults and children but you must be at least 16 to purchase it. Calamine lotion should be applied directly to the irritated area of skin as and when it is required. Care should be taken to ensure no lotion is ingested.
This calamine lotion can be purchased from Boots and from www.boots.com. A 200ml bottle is priced at £1.05.
~Our Experience~
Calamine lotion has been prescribed and recommended to my family on several occasions and is a product I remember from my childhood as I have always had dodgy skin. Most recently, our local Boots prescribed this to my son alongside a hayfever oral solution when he had chicken pox. My sister informs me that the cream is much better but once we had returned home, we weren't out near the chemist for a few days to purchase the cream.
This calamine lotion is tinted pink and has quite a thin, milky consistency - very liquidy and has the potential to make quite a mess if knocked over! The lotion has a slight metallic scent which doesn't last long when on the skin. When my son had chicken pox a few weeks ago, he had them over his back, tummy and his face. He mainly had them in the winky area which proved to me most irritating for him.
Applying this lotion was fairly easy and I used numerous cotton buds to avoid mess.I simply dipped the end of the cotton bud into the neck of the bottle and allow a decent amount of lotion to gather on the bud. I then applied it directly onto each spot - this is time consuming but totally worth it to avoid my son being annoyed and itchy. The lotion dries almost instantly as it makes contact with the skin and leaves a white dot over the spot - my son actually found this amusing as he resembled one of those join the dot puzzles!
I found this lotion is be gentle on my sons sensitive skin but it did dry it out a little with regular use. Within seconds of applying this to his spots, my son appeared soothed and less agitated. The itching stopped and as a result, he hasn't ended up with any nasty scars from scratching. The lotion didn't transfer to sheets or clothing despite being applied a few times throughout the day. It washes off the skin with ease. Applying this before my son went to bed with his pull up on didn't have any ill effects and the white dots still appeared noticeable the following day.
One bottle was far too much to be used on my son during the time his spots were visible though if your household has quite a few occupants, a 200ml sized bottle would be perfect to have when several come down with the chicken pox. I have used this in the past for other conditions. A few years ago I went to the doctors with a bad rash which turned out to be Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease and this was prescribed then. I found it to be brilliant for my skin and it did take the sting out an itch and therefore make me more comfortable. It is incredibly cooling once it makes contact with skin and soothes any irritation.
I don't have eczema or dermatitis but I do have lots of spots on my arms (since childhood) and they often flare up so this lotion is a much cheaper and gentler option than some other medicinal products. It is incredibly soothing for burnt skin as well and works out much cheaper than regular after sun.
As you can see, this calamine lotion is very effective and is a multi purpose product. It is super cheap and performs very well giving long lasting relief from various skin problems. I can highly recommend it. It has served us well and we wouldn't hesitate to purchase another bottle should we need too.
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Chargers criticize Denzel Perryman for playing dodgeball while injured
San Diego Chargers rookie linebacker Denzel Perryman played in a charity dodgeball event on Saturday despite being limited at Monday's practice with a hamstring injury.
Perryman has yet to participate fully in a practice at OTAs this spring.
"It's been discussed," Chargers head coach Mike McCoy said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. "That's all I'm going to say. I've discussed it with him. That's it. You've got to get past these tests here before you do all of that stuff."
Teammate Donald Butler laughed when asked about Perryman on Monday, according to the Union-Tribune.
"Yeah, (Denzel) needs to be chilling out on that dodgeball stuff," Butler said.
• Reports: Vikings running back Adrian Peterson to attend OTAs
Perryman was a second-round pick out of Miami, where he was a two-time All-ACC selection at middle linebacker. He will compete with incumbent starters Butler and Manti Te'o.
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Got a score update? Leave it in the comments section or drop me a tweet at @Lohud_DeFran and I'll pass it along. As always, head back here for all the roundups tonight.
Today's schedule
Mary Louis at Good Counsel, 4:15 p.m.
North Salem at Arlington B, 4:15 p.m.
Pawling at Beacon, 4:15 p.m.
Carmel at Mahopac, 4:15 p.m.
Yorktown at John Jay, 4:15 p.m.
Somers at John Jay-East Fishkill, 4:30 p.m.
Fox Lane at Croton-Harmon, 4:30 p.m.
Poughkeepsie at Brewster, 4:30 p.m.
Byram Hills at Harrison, 4:30 p.m.
Peekskill at Haldane, 4:30 p.m.
Ossining at Pleasantville, 4:30 p.m.
Westlake at Valhalla, 4:30 p.m.
Blind Brook at Rye, 5:45 p.m.
Panas at Hen Hud, 6:45 p.m.
Fun fact of the day:Before hitting the big time, Billy Joel played the organ in a TV ad for Bachman's Pretzels that featured Chubby Checker singing "The Twist."


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- Performance Tests: Desktop Search
- Summary of Features: Free Desktop Search Tools
Desktop Search Primer
All desktop search tools are founded on the same basic idea. When you install the app, it creates an index of your data, building a list of all the words used in various e-mail messages, attachments, files, and data-bases (such as calendars and contacts). Then it lets you search that index, quickly tracking down long-lost items, often in the blink of an eye. And as data continues to pile up on your hard drive, the app regularly updates its index, so you always have instant access to even your newest files.
Of course, no two products operate exactly the same. Generally, an app will at least scan your local drives, indexing all Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and text files as well as Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail messages. You can restrict the scan to certain folders and file types. But beyond that, the scope of these tools varies. Some will scan network drives. Some index HTML, PDF, WordPerfect, and ZIP files. Some handle Outlook contacts, appointments, tasks, notes, and attachments. A few scan e-mail clients other than Microsoft's.
Similarly, there's some variation among indexing algorithms. If you're stuck with a slow processor and little memory, you may wait hours on end for the initial index build. Your system could also grind to a halt with each index update, and searches themselves may take a few more seconds to run. But in general the speed of these apps isn't really a consideration. Yes, if you choose a particularly efficient tool, you can save some time when you first build your index. But improvements in system hardware have made all these tools far more efficient than before.
We tested the 12 free and for-pay tools, asking each to index roughly 1.5GB of standalone files, including hundreds of Office documents, plus 9,000 e-mail messages and 900 e-mail attachments. Running on a machine with a 2.5-GHz processor and 1GB of RAM, some programs finished in around 5 minutes, and a few needed nearly an hour; one, HotBot, took over 5 hours, basically because it has no option to let the indexing process hog the CPU even if no other app is running. A few fit their index into less than 100MB; the largest index was dtSearch's, at over a gigabyte.
Once the index is put together, the tools offer different ways of searching it. At the very least, you can do a simple keyword search. Some apps also offer phrase and Boolean searches. Others let you search for portions of words. Several can even search before you finish typing your search term. And then there's blinkx, which lets you search without typing at all. As you open a document or Web page, blinkx searches for related data, Web-based or local, and if it finds anything, various icons on the toolbaryou guessed itblink on. A few of the other tools also incorporate Web search.


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Oneworld open to partner low-cost Indian airline
Oneworld, the world's third-largest airline alliance after Star Alliance and SkyTeam, is not disinclined to inducting a low-cost carrier into its alliance from India
'Oneworld' alliance eyeing Indian airline partner
Air India is in a very advanced stage of formally joining Star Alliance and an announcement...
Oneworld open to taking Indian carrier onboard
Oneworld has said it is open to taking on board an Indian carrier provided it complements othe...
Malaysia Airlines joins oneworld
The Airlines has become a member of oneworld global airline alliance from 1st of February 2013.
Oneworld not averse in inducting a low-cost carrier into its alliance from India
CEO Bruce Ashby said that the alliance is not talking to anyone in the country, but didn't rule out such a possibility in the future.
Kingfisher not part of 'oneworld' alliance: Tom Horton
Kingfisher Airlines is no longer part of global carriers' alliance 'oneworld' which does not have any plans to induct any Indian carrier as of now.
Malaysia Airlines to join 'oneworld' alliance on February 1
Malaysia Airlines will join the 'oneworld' global airline alliance on February 1 as the 12th member of the grouping.
Oneworld is taking it easy on Kingfisher membership
Oneworld has not set any time line for the entry of India's troubled Kingfisher Airlines into its fold after putting on hold its membership earlier this year.
Global airline club Oneworld stands by Kingfisher Airlines
Oneworld is looking forward to welcoming "on board" Kingfisher Airlines in early 2012 despite the Indian carrier's recent troubles.
Kingfisher Airlines joins 'oneworld' alliance
Kingfisher Airlines has announced that it will be joining the global airline grouping 'oneworld' that would enable it to offer passengers an enhanced choice of routes.
Oneworld, global airline club defers Kingfisher Airline's entry
Kingfisher Airlines would not join the global airline club 'Oneworld' later this month due to its precarious financial position.
Kingfisher signs agreement to join 'oneworld' alliance
Kingfisher Airlines today became a member-elect of the global airline partnership -- 'oneworld' alliance.
'Aircraft utilisation & revenues will go up on Oneworld alliance'
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya's ambitious airlines foray seems to have failed to repeat his all-conquering run. The Bangalore-based businessman, who runs the world's third-largest spirits empire, is facing mounting losses due to a no-holds-barred tariff war in the airline industry.
US approves American Airlines, 'oneworld' alliance expansion
The US Department of Transportation said on Saturday it proposed granting antitrust immunity to American Airlines and its global "oneworld" alliance partners including British Airways.
Kingfisher Airlines set to join global airline alliance Oneworld
"We will join Oneworld by end 2011 and with this we will try increasing our share especially in the domestic market," Kingfisher Airlines CEO said.


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September 19, 1997: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is released
On this day in '97 the first iteration in the Oddworld series was released, and promptly saw gamers taken by its unique 2.5D visuals and dark sense of humour. Despite most (including myself) not being able to progress past the first couple of levels, Abe's Oddysee still garnered a cult following that saw the franchise continue with reasonable success, culminating with the hugely underrated Stranger's Wrath for the original Xbox, which is scheduled for a HD remake on the Playstation Network sometime in the future.
September 21, 1937: The Hobbit is published
On this day in '37, J. R. R. Tolkien's literary classic The Hobbit was published. The book introduced us to the characters of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and Gollum, who would later become infamous due to Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
A Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, Tolkien was marking School Certificate papers when he spontaneously wrote "In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit" on a blank page. Two years later and the novel was completed.
Tolkien sent the manuscript to a few friends, and before long it had made its way in the hands of publisher Stanley Unwin, who gave the book to his 10-year-old son to read. His son loved it and settled Unwin's decision to publish it.
September 21, 1992: Radiohead release "Creep"
Although the members of Radiohead don't look upon their debut single too fondly these days, back in '92 it garnered them some major airplay and introduced the world to a band that would go on to become of the most experimental and inspirational in music history.
Even though radio DJ's were initially dismissive of the record, believing it to be "too depressing", excessive airplay on San Francisco stations made the word spread about Thom Yorke's tale of unrequited love. It seemed as though the band were destined for one-hit-wonder status until they released their sophomore album The Bends, which surprised everyone by being utterly brilliant and a departure from the tedious grunge of their first album Pablo Honey.
The Bends even included a little nod to their breakout single in the form of track "My Iron Lung", which included the lyrics "This is our new song/ just like the last one/ a total waste of time". Yikes.
September 23rd, 1889: Nintendo is founded
Yes, you read that right. Contrary to popular belief Nintendo did not set up for shop in the 80s. Well, technically they did, but not the 21st century 80s. On this day in 1889 a new company named Nintendo started manufacturing and selling playing cards named hanafuda cards, and you'll be interested to know that they still make them over at Club Nintendo, including a special edition Mario-themed deck.
September 24th, 1875: Billy the Kid arrested for the first time
Billy the Kid would eventually become a notorious old west outlaw and murderer, but his first imprisonment at the age of 15 was a far more innocent affair. After being convinced by a friend to hide some stolen laundry as a "joke", young Billy was subsequently thrown in jail in order to be taught a lesson. After 2 days of imprisonment Billy climbed his way up the chimney and escaped, which was his first stepping stone on a long path of wrongdoing that would see him killing a reported 21 people.
After his mother died at the age of 14 an orphaned Billy was forced to fend for himself, but was generally considered to be a good-natured and friendly young man. However, following his escape from his first imprisonment he found himself a fugitive and began a life of lawlessness.
In 1877 he found himself in a confrontation with Frank "Windy" Cahill, who would often bully Billy, and as the two were fighting Billy produced a gun and shot Cahill dead. The coroner concluded that the killing was "criminal and unjustifiable". This was Billy's first murder.
Billy would go on to become feared yet also admired in certain communities, in particular with Hispanics as he spoke fluent Spanish and was very friendly with the Latina girls.
Sentenced to execution in 1881 after being detained by Sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy escaped Lincoln prison and was yet again on the run. In the July of that year Garrett was speaking a friend of Billy's named Pete Maxwell in his home, when the outlaw unexpectedly entered. A surprised Billy was shot dead by Garrett.


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IHS boosts 2012 chip market forecast
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SAN FRANCISCOMarket research firm IHS iSuppli Wednesday (April 25) lifted its forecast for the 2012 semiconductor market, citing strong ongoing consumer demand for wireless products like cell phones and media tablets.
IHS (El Segundo, Calif.) is now forecasting that total chip sales will reach an estimated $324.6 billion in 2012, up 4.3 percent from last year. The market research firm previously forecasted an increase of 3.3 percent for the chip market this year.
Gartner Inc., a rival market research firm, increased its forecast for the 2012 chip market in March. Gartner now expects chip sales to increase 4 percent to $316 billion this year.
Barring an unforeseen economic slump in world markets or grave missteps by the chip industry, revenue should continue to climb during the next few years, hitting approximately $412.8 billion by 2016, according to the latest IHS forecast.
"Semiconductor revenue growth is expected to rise in 2012 compared to last year as consumers begin to believe that the global economic recovery is for real," said Len Jelinek, director and chief analyst of semiconductor manufacturing at IHS.
Jelinek said the biggest drivers of semiconductor demand in 2012 would be consumer-oriented products like smartphones and tablets. In addition to Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPad, a swarm of competing products will also help drive semiconductor sales, Jelinek said.
"In particular, semiconductor suppliers can anticipate an exceptionally robust third quarter this year in preparation for strong holiday sell-through," Jelinek said.
IHS predicted that the Intel-back Ultrabook low-power notebook PC platform would have only a minimal impact on 2012 semiconductor revenue. But the forthcoming introduction of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8the first version of the PC operating system that will support touchscreen capabilitymeans that Ultrabooks have the potential to become a key market revenue driver in 2013, IHS said.
The three major areas of strength for the semiconductor industry this year will be NAND flash, logic ASICs and microprocessors, according to the IHS foecast. The revenue increases in NAND and logic ASICs will come as a result of growth in sales of tablets and smartphones, while the revenue expansion in microprocessors will be driven by renewed growth in notebooks and the gradual emergence of Ultrabooks, according to IHS.
But IHS warned that the semiconductor industry is in a tenuous position because inventory remains at high levels, despite the fact that chip suppliers have reduced their inventory by 7.5 percent over the last six months. Further inventory reductions are necessary for manufacturers to experience sustained demand, and companies must continue to monitor inventory levels closely to reduce them through the first half of the year, IHS said.
According to IHS, the largest portion of inventory is held by integrated device manufacturers, which traditionally do not reduce inventory as aggressively as fabless semiconductor companies. Since the end of the second quarter of 2011, IDMs have reduced their inventory by only 5.4 percent, IHS said. The firm warned that sustainable growth will not occur until the semiconductor industry reduces total inventory by at least another 5 percent.


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Security plan on track, Maliki tells Nelson on unheralded visit to
IRAQ Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told visiting Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson yesterday the Baghdad security plan was going in the right direction despite challenges.
Dr Nelson's unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital came a day after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates wound up a two-day trip to check on the progress of the latest strategy to combat violence in Baghdad.
Car bombings killed more than 200 people there last week despite the presence of about 80,000 Iraqi and US troops on the capital's mean streets.
"The security plan currently in action is going in the right direction despite the challenges," Mr Maliki said in his talks with Dr Nelson in the Iraqi leader's office in the capital's heavily fortified Green Zone.
A statement from Mr Maliki's office said Dr Nelson pledged Australia's "full support" for the Iraqi Government, particularly in developing the country's dilapidated infrastructure.
"Our country is intent to play a bigger role in the reconstruction drive that is currently on in Iraq," the statement quoted Dr Nelson as saying.
Australia has about 1400 troops in Iraq, of whom 550 are combat soldiers largely deployed in the south alongside British forces.
Mr Maliki "underlined that Iraqi forces are unified in battling terrorists and outlaws, and are now fighting shoulder to shoulder throughout Iraq," especially in hard-hit areas such as Baghdad and the provinces of Anbar, west of the capital, and Diyala, to the north-east, a Government statement said.
For security reasons, Dr Nelson's trip to Baghdad was not announced and it was not known how long it would last or what the minister planned to do in Iraq.
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Mulcair at News Café
FEDERAL Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair will be making a visit to the Free Press News Café today for a live Q & A at 4 p.m.
Mulcair is coming to Winnipeg as part of the Opposition's new grassroots community campaign to mobilize political supporters.
Mulcair, along with NDP deputy leader and environment critic Megan Leslie, MP Pat Martin and party president Rebecca Blaikie are leading a daylong event at the Sir John Franklin Community Centre Gym at 1 Franklin Rd.
The SJFCC event runs from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with training for campaign skills to start at 1:30 p.m.
Our interview with Mulcair will be live-streamed here starting at 4 p.m. The public is also welcome to come to the News Café at 237 McDermot Ave.
Satellite to help prof
A University of Winnipeg geography professor is going to have a much better look at wetlands in and around Morris and Churchill, thanks to radar images taken by a Canadian satellite.
Prof. Joni Storie has been awarded a SOAR Education Grant from the Canadian Space Agency and MacDonald, Detwiller and Associates Ltd. It will provide her with 20 RADARSAT-2 satellite images worth $100,000. Ten images will be ordered for 2013 and another 10 for 2014. The satellite will be programmed to obtain the specific images requested.
Information obtained from the images will be used to address two long-term research projects that can help meet the province's surface water management goal to map and monitor wetlands, U of W officials said.
The purpose of the first project is to map potential sites for temporary wetlands in southern Manitoba around the Morris area. The images will show where the soils continue to have high moisture after the spring flooding has receded, making it too wet to plant crops.
The second study will use satellite images to map the extent of coastal wetlands of Hudson Bay near Churchill. This will help determine if the coastline is changing year to year, an issue that is a challenge with sea-level rise (climate change) as well as land rise (isostatic rebound).
"Radar imagery has been used by the military for decades but is fairly new in terms of civilian and commercial applications," said Storie. "The advantage of radar images is the longer wavelength can see through clouds. This is especially useful in spring when we have floods and in regions that have lots of cloud cover."
Storie and her students hope to present preliminary findings in late August 2013 at the 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing in Victoria, B.C.
Discover food science
THE University of Manitoba is inviting the public to the Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Centre on Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Visitors will have the opportunity to churn cream into butter, bake some barley bannock, watch bees make honey and strap on some snowshoes to walk through the deep snow.
The centre is located 15 minutes south of Winnipeg on Highway 75 (Pembina Highway) at the U of M's Glenlea Research Station. The centre's hands-on exhibits lead visitors from the farmer's wheat field to the kitchen table and include a peek into a day in the life of a pig.
Admission costs and travel directions can be found at www.ffdc.ca.
New science lab at school
MILES Macdonell Collegiate in East Kildonan unveiled a new state-of-the-art science lab Friday, courtesy of a $25-million provincial program.
The high school is the first to benefit from the Science Lab Renewal Program, receiving $240,000. Miles Mac also received $25,000 for special equipment for more complex experiments.
The fund is for updating science classrooms across Manitoba. Premier Greg Selinger was on hand for the opening Friday.
Man stabbed in robbery
A man suffered stab wounds to his upper body in a strong-arm robbery in a Westminister Avenue parking lot Friday morning.
Police said two men approached the victim in 600 block of Westminster Avenue and an altercation ensued.
The man, 28, was taken to hospital in unstable condition but has been upgraded to stable.
One of the suspects is described as Caucasian, 20-30 years of age, 5-6 to 5-7 in height, 170 pounds with a medium build.
The other suspect is described as Caucasian with darker skin, mid-20s, 5-6 to 5-7 in height, 150 pounds with short dark hair and a skinny build.
Driver hurt in crash
THE driver of a Honda Civic westbound on Roblin Boulevard on Thursday afternoon lost control and struck a tree, police said Friday.
The single-vehicle collision occurred at about 3:30 p.m. in the 5000 block of Roblin. The 25-year-old driver was taken to hospital in unstable condition but has since been upgraded to stable.
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Not only that, Nexium is just a left-handed version of omeprazole, which is now available OTC and generically for bargain-basement prices. (If you buy branded Prilosec you are just paying for their TV ads featuring Larry the Cable Guy. Watching those is enough to, well, give you heartburn.) I challenge AstraZeneca to demonstrate how their R&D on Nexium justifies the outrageous price. Even the normally industry-friendly former CMS administrator Tom Scully thinks they are pulling a fast one..
This is the biggest rip off in history. Drug prices in america are not subject to any kind of price controls. I see americans dying everyday due to lack of affordability. even the cost of simple simple inhalers is jacked up several times over what the rest of the world pays.
Lee Hover, D. Med. Hum.
I was in a medcom company when Nexium came out--talk about cynical conversations!.
Roy Clark MD FACP DLFAPA
If only the U.S. could have the rest of the free world share the costs of developing and bringing to use new drugs, the price would be more fair and balanced. But, then, if the U.S. could have the rest of the free world share the costs of defending ... ..
We will never have affordable health care without negotiations with all the players up front with our government. This includes Big Pharma, medical equipment, labs, physicians and hospitals. For profit insurance must be outlawed for essential services. Every other country knows well that this is the only way to have a fair and healthy, health care system. I am glad that Medpage and others are sharing this information we us. It is time to expose the great in this "vast industry" that exists on in the US. Few folks understand that this greed machine started with Medicare and Medicaid. The Johnson administration pretty much allowed the docs and hospitals to set their own prices for fear of the very powerful AMA from blocking this legislation. The result: Medicare became a bonanza for physicians and hospitals and was soon followed by for profit health insurance. This history is well documented in Paul Starr's Pulitzer Prize 1984 book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine - the making of a sovereign profession and a vast industry and Rosemary Stevens - In Sickness and in Wealth. The names of the books tell the story as it was and unfortunately continues to be..
Harry A.Roselle Sr.,MD, FACP
There has been a serious rise in cost of medications recently. Digoxin-90{ninety} 0.25 mg tabs was $9.99: now is about $55.00 for the same amount. Cough syrup{ Phenergan VC with codeine} is now $35.00 for 120cc. was around $10 for the same amount. The list goes on and on. We are the victims of a national fraud and lets blame ?..
Michael Rie MD
Sarah Kliff's tweet has the right facts but suffers from narrow angle glaucoma journalism and general medical and market economics knowledge. Ever since the Medicare Modernization Act in 1984 permitted new patented drugs to be priced exclusively by manufacturers as the price of innovation, big PHARMA companies promptly exited the manufacture of both ambulatory generic medications and sterile generic injectable primarily used in hospitals and cancer chemotherapy because there was no profit to be had. Now we have more than 300 generic drugs (primarily sterile injectables) in shortages producing unrecorded inefficiency, diminished medical outcomes and inevitable Pay for Performance decrements in reimbursement. Even the Group purchasing Organizations like Premier Health Alliance now agree( See Premier Website February 2014 Survey). Now Premier, which has benefited from anti-kickback legal immunity, promotes itself as a quality improvement organization. The rest of the first world has been careful to pay more for generic injectables and less for new patented drugs both ambulatory and injectable. Until big PHARMA comes back to the realization that we cannot have a cost contained drug purchasing dollar without patented drugs being part of a national drug dollar without added population based economic waste, more outcome decrements will occur. As we have chosen to pay third world generic prices, we have become a third world purchaser of generics. The FDA has a big problem and it cannot import its way out of disappearing domestic production. Sunshine for an industrialized drug supply chain will be the best disinfectant. While I agree with Dorthy Greeen's comment in part, we will not have a perfect solution as long as we nationally attempt to deny the birth of a global black market and the legitimacy of the private ownership of money for the well off to buy freely ..
Can anyone of the complainers cite the last drug researched and developed in the Netherlands - or for that matter, in the majority of the socialized-medicine countries? Their politicians tell the pharmaceutical entities just what THEY will pay and if those prices aren't acceptable, the drug(s) are not available in their countries. As usual, Americans are supporting the care of patients living in all our "allied" countries. And our majesty wants single-payer health care! HAH!.
Pretty much every profession can set their prices. Compete With each other. Lawyers charging by the minute anyone? For some reason medical professionals with the most important job on the planet cannot? Even though they take on the rigors and debt (250k plus and the sacrifice of our young adulthood in training) of achieving that title, somehow we still don't deserve it? Because the services of my profession are desirable, I don't have the right to charge appropriately? Everyone wants Marcus Whelby as their PCM but don't expect him to make a good living for learning the skills to save your lives... No one has the RIGHT to ANYONE else's work or services no matter how desirable. Primary care doc salaries are at the bottom of the ladder. Society wants ALL of us. Total access, total responsibility, total blame if bad things happen. But don't ask to make a good living. Somehow we don't deserve it? Hummmm.
ed martinez
It doesn't bother the insurance company. They can make an upgrade, from tier one to tier two. As for the drug company, just go to Yahoofinance.com, go to "key statistics" and then to "Net Profit Margin". Of the three parties involved, two come out O.K. Just great..