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Regulators in the U.S., Britain and Switzerland ordered six banks to pay about $4.3 billion in the first wave of penalties since authorities began a global probe into the rigging of key foreign-exchange benchmarks last year.
The Office of Comptroller of the Currency fined Bank of America Corp. $250 million, while JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. will pay $350 million each, according to a statement. That adds to $3.3 billion of penalties announced earlier Wednesday by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Britain's Financial Conduct Authority and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority.
Banks and individuals could still face further penalties and litigation following the 13-month probe into allegations dealers at the biggest banks colluded with counterparts at other firms to rig benchmarks used by fund managers to determine what they pay for foreign currency. The Justice Department, which is working with the Federal Reserve, and Britain's Serious Fraud Office are still leading criminal probes into the $5.3 trillion- a-day currency market.
"Many will see this as drawing a line under this sad episode," said Tim Dawson, an analyst at Helvea SA in Geneva who covers financial firms. "We are less optimistic," he said. The banks are "likely to face a heavy burden of potential litigation in coming years."
Citigroup and JPMorgan, two of the biggest players in the currency trading market, will pay about $1 billion each in penalties to the OCC, CFTC, and FCA. UBS AG was earlier Wednesday fined about $800 million, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc $634 million and HSBC Holdings Plc $618 million. Barclays Plc, which had been in settlement talks, said it wasn't ready for a deal.
"The traders put their own interest ahead of their customers, they manipulated the market -- or attempted to manipulate the market -- and abused the trust of the public," FCA Chief Executive Officer Martin Wheatley told reporters at a briefing in London today. The regulator will press firms to review their bonus plans and claw back payments already made.
While the FCA has completed its probe in less than half the time it's taken to investigate the rigging of Libor and other interest rate benchmarks, lawyers criticized the settlement for leaving unanswered how clients will be compensated, and a U.S. regulator shunned it for being too weak.
"Barclays is the only bank we are currently investigating from an enforcement perspective," Tracey McDermott, the FCA's director of enforcement, said.
The New York State Department of Financial Services, led by Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky, refused to sign on to the FCA settlement because he viewed it as too weak, said a person briefed on the matter who asked not to be named because the discussions were private. Barclays, which is regulated by the DFS, withdrew from the group settlement because of issues with Lawsky's department, another person said.
About 30 other banks, including Deutsche Bank AG, will still have to overhaul their practices. The FCA isn't planning to fine Deutsche Bank, the second biggest player by market share in foreign exchange. Credit Suisse Group AG has also been given the all-clear from the U.K. regulator, a spokesman for the Swiss bank said.
"The fines alone are not sufficient, and there is plenty more work for the regulator to do to ensure that those customers affected are properly compensated," said Stevie Loughrey, a lawyer at London-based law firm Carter-Ruck. The fines "will offer no comfort whatsoever to those bank customers who have suffered significant losses."
'Ineffective Controls'
The probes were initially into whether traders colluded to manipulate the WM/Reuters benchmark rates. They have expanded to include whether traders used confidential information to take bets on unauthorized personal accounts, and whether sales desks charged clients excessive commissions. More than 30 traders have been fired, suspended, put on leave, or resigned since the probes began last year.
The FCA said its fines relate to "ineffective" controls at the banks between Jan. 1, 2008 and Oct. 15, 2013 that allowed the banks to put their "interests ahead of those of their clients, other market participants and the wider U.K. financial system." These failings allowed traders at the banks to behave "unacceptably," the FCA said.
"They shared information about clients' activities which they had been trusted to keep confidential and attempted to manipulate G-10 spot foreign-exchange currency rates, including in collusion with traders at other firms, in a way that could disadvantage those clients and the market," the FCA said.
Wednesday's settlement includes the FCA's largest-ever fines and marks first time the regulator has entered into a settlement with a group of banks. Previously, the regulator's largest fine was a 160 million-pound penalty against UBS over the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate in 2012. The FCA announced its formal probe in October 2013, four months after Bloomberg News reported traders colluded to manipulate the WM/Reuters rates.
The FCA said it plans to "progress" its probe into Barclays, which wasn't part of the settlement, to cover its wider foreign exchange trading business.
"We will continue to engage with these authorities, including the FCA and CFTC, with the objective of bringing this to resolution in due course," Barclays said in a statement.
UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, was ordered to give up 134 million Swiss francs ($139 million) in profit after the Zurich-based bank was found to have "severely violated" the requirement for proper business conduct in currency markets, Finma said. The bank was also ordered to cap bonuses for foreign-exchange and precious-metals bankers. Finma is also probing 11 employees.
The fines come more than two years after the first banks settled with U.K. and US authorities over allegations they rigged the London interbank offered rate, a benchmark interest rate used in $300 trillion of securities including swaps and home loans. A dozen firms have so far been fined at least $6.5 billion in investigations related to Libor and its derivatives. UBS was fined about $1.5 billion in that probe.
The Libor investigations, which have not yet concluded, sparked a broader review of dozens of benchmarks used in markets from oil to precious metals.
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Lindy hop classes on Mondays at Market House, Brixton, South London.
20 Nov, 27 Nov - Swing Kitchen
7.00pm - 8.00pm Beginners Lindy hop class
Learn all the basics of swing dancing - absolute beginners can join any week, no partner needed
8.15pm - 9.15pm Improvers Lindy hop class
Moving on from the basics - develop your Lindy hop vocabulary and technique
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If you're new to this
Swing is a lively and fun style of social dancing for people of all ages.
The classes are perfect for those with little or no dance experience. Swing dance is a great way of meeting new people, learning dance with a partner, keeping fit and having fun.
You will learn: - Basic fundamentals of Swing dance - Learn a variety of 6 count steps and footwork combinations.
You do not need to bring a partner.
Dance is a great way to boost confidence in a supported and fun environment.
If you have some experience
There is an improvers class after beginners, aimed at those who are already familiar with the basics taught in the beginners classes.
About Brixton Lindy hop (Swing Kitchen)
"Start the week as you mean to go on by learning to Lindy hop in Lambeth. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned dancer, this class beats your average Monday evening..." - Time Out London
Our Brixton classes opened in late 2011 and Ciana Skeete and Oli Deans soon established a thriving local swing dance scene based around Electric Social, which sadly closed its doors in 2015.
Early in 2016 Romayne Etwaroo re-started our Brixton classes and after a brief spell at Brixton Community Base she returned to the original venue, which had re-opened as Blues Kitchen. At that time Oli returned to teach with Romayne.
For 2017 Romayne and Oli are excited to be moving to a wonderful new venue - Market House - right in the heart of Brixton on Coldharbour Lane and closer to the tube.
Please do join our regulars on our Swingland Brixton Facebook page!
Swing Kitchen - Class details
Join any time. No need to book (just turn up). No partner needed.
See also What to wear.
- Beginners
7pm - beginners Lindy hop class
Learn all the basics with simple fun routines aimed at getting you dancing quickly - with plenty of emphasis on good lead/follow technique and connection as with all Swingland classes! No experience required. Absolute beginners always welcome!
- Improvers
8.15pm - improvers Lindy hop class
Move your dancing on to the next level! You need to be familiar with all the basics taught in the beginners classes
Class rotation
Partners are rotated regularly in the classes so you get a chance to dance with everyone. This is the best way to learn and it's a great way to get to know people too! Even if you do come with a partner, we strongly recommend joining in the rotation - you will learn much quicker!
Your teachers
The classes are taught by Romayne Etwaroo and Oli Deans.
Romayne trained full time in Contemporary dance, Physical Theatre, Street and Ballet from the age of 16.
Her love of music from the 1920's to 1950's led her to Swing dance, ever since she has specialised in Lindy hop and the Charleston.
Romayne has since performed internationally for various dance and theatre companies, choreographers and artists in London, France, Italy and Japan.
She loves teaching and her classes are both energetic and fun.
Swing Kitchen - Admission
The class kicks off at 7pm - please be prompt.
- Beginners class - £10
- Improvers class - £10
- Both classes - £12
Cash only - please pay Romayne in the class
How to get to Swing Kitchen
Market House is at 443 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW9 8LN. Our classes are held upstairs.
By tube - Brixton on the Victoria line is 2 minutes walk away. Alternatively you can use Clapham North (Northern line) then catch a bus or walk (20 minutes).
By bus - bus routes 3, 37, 45, 59, 159, 139, 109, 2, 2a, 2b, 133, 135, 37, 35, 322.
By train - Brixton station is 2 minutes walk away. Alternatively you can use Clapham High Street (London Overground) or Herne Hill station (Thameslink) then catch a bus or walk (20 minutes).
Parking - in local streets.
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Venue website market-house.co.uk
Swing Kitchen - Dates
Shown below are dates for the next three months - for dates after that, please see our calendar.
20 Nov, 27 Nov, 4 Dec, 11 Dec, 18 Dec, 8 Jan, 15 Jan, 22 Jan, 29 Jan, 5 Feb, 12 Feb, 19 Feb - Swing Kitchen
7.00pm - 8.00pm Beginners Lindy hop class
Learn all the basics of swing dancing - absolute beginners can join any week, no partner needed
8.15pm - 9.15pm Improvers Lindy hop class
Moving on from the basics - develop your Lindy hop vocabulary and technique
25 Dec, 1 Jan - No Brixton classes (Xmas break)


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This supplement explores how the interfaces between primary and subspecialty care for cancer provide insights that could help close the gap between what is known about good medicine and what is done in medical practice. The articles presented here started as a discussion of cancer care among primary care and subspecialty care providers in the United States and Canada at the October 2007 North American Primary Care Research meeting in Vancouver, Canada. The discussion highlighted the challenge that simply providing coverage and a system to obtain care does not insure closure of the chasm between what is known and practiced in medicine. We hope that sharing this discussion and expanding the scope of our considerations will contribute to closing the quality chasm identified by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in its 2001 report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (1).
Since the series of classic reports by the IOM (1,2), consensus has been growing that health care is not realizing its full potential in the United States (1,3). Cutting-edge advances in medicine appear in leading American journals on a regular basis, but the United States is ranked 13th in infant mortality and last among 19 industrialized nations in its ability to reduce mortality because of avoidable causes of death (3,4). The only measure of health care where the United States leads is in cost per capita (5). Although research has examined our system of care, it must be accelerated and focused to identify actionable improvements.
Critiques of the US health-care system emphasize the Nation's poor performance compared with other developed countries. One obvious factor is that 19.6% of the non-elderly adult population in the United States does not have health insurance at any given moment, and this affects their ability to obtain care (6). Recommended improvements to the US health-care system have emphasized reducing costs of care and increasing insurance coverage. Creating a method of reimbursement that allows all citizens to receive care and aligns incentives and practices is critical to improving the health of Americans. However, the process of care for those who do have access also must be addressed to achieve high-quality outcomes (7). The IOM reports on health care in general and cancer specifically make a strong case that health care in the United States is a fragmented and uncoordinated process that does not deliver the quality that is possible with what we know in medicine today (1,2). Achieving improvements in care must therefore consider how to expand both the pool of people who have access to care and the process of care once they receive it.
The means forward to a successful approach to care is not entirely clear. Recognizing the limitations in the US health-care system, the IOM reports Crossing the Quality Chasm and Ensuring Quality Cancer Care identify six principles that must be the ultimate goal of systematic change to improve care. These principles are safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity (1,2). The reports also note that no prescription exists for how to carry out such systematic change (1,2). Since the IOM reports were published, many have considered this challenge (1,2,8–10), and their work has led to a recognition that care is affected by multiple levels of influence.
The current health-care reform effort in the United States aims to ensure that the majority of people have access to a system of care in which they can obtain coverage regardless of employment and without fear of losing it if they become sick or unemployed. However, in Canada, where such a system of care has been in place for many years, the mere fact of having a system does not ensure that it delivers evidence-based care that meets the principles outlined by the IOM report. Canada ranks 15th out of 17 in infant mortality and 13th out of 18 among industrialized nations in its ability to reduce mortality because of avoidable causes of death (4,11). To make progress in achieving the principles set out in the IOM report, we need to clarify how a health-care system can not only ensure coverage but also facilitate the process of care. Improvements have been demonstrated in breast cancer screening for ambulatory patients and myocardial infarction and pneumonia for hospitalized patients, but we need to address broader systematic changes across care in general. The entire spectrum of cancer care from screening end of life is a step in that direction. (12,13).
In this supplement, we consider the process of cancer care from the perspective of the people responsible for providing that care, and we include insights from practitioners in Canada and the United States. We also include the perspectives of patients who are affected by the process. We define "process of cancer care" as the sum of the types of care, transitions, steps, and interfaces that must be traversed to receive health care across the cancer continuum (Table 1). Furthermore, we define "system of care" as one that not only provides coverage but also develops an infrastructure for communication that facilitates care delivery consistent with the IOM's six principles. Care across the cancer continuum encompasses different types of care, including risk assessment, detection, diagnosis, primary treatment, survivorship and surveillance, and end-of-life care (Figure 1) (10).
Each of these types of care and the transitions between them involve steps that pose different challenges to individual patients, families, and physicians. For example, detection may occur through screening or testing following symptomatic presentation. Screening and symptomatic presentation each involve multiple steps that require coordination and a different balance of technical medical skills and logistical and emotional support. When detection of cervical abnormalities occurs by screening, for example, it often starts with a Papanicolaou test in primary care and repeated primary care visits to clarify the persistence of any abnormality. Persistent and/or severe abnormalities lead to a referral to an obstetrician/gynecologist because he or she has the expertise required to make the final diagnosis. Finding breast cancer through screening is different, however, because it involves an imaging technique that cannot be done by primary care physicians. Diagnosis of breast cancer may involve multiple steps, such as referral to a radiologist for further imaging or to a surgeon for a biopsy. Each visit is a step in screening or symptomatic detection, and every type of care involves multiple steps and interfaces.
Adding to the complexity of cancer care through these phases is the multiplicity of providers and institutions that are involved. At the beginning and end of the cancer continuum, most care involves primary care providers, whereas the care of subspecialists is central to diagnosis and treatment. After primary treatment is complete, care may move back and forth from primary care to subspecialty services if an abnormality arises or a nononcology problem needs attention. Toward the end of life, care may involve the oncologist and the primary care provider, as well as other organizations such as hospice. Central to the process of care across the continuum is the transfer of information and responsibility from one institution to another, from one physician to another, from physicians to staff, and from providers to patients and families. Providers and patients must share an understanding of the disease, the therapy, and its consequences, and they all must know who must do what and when. The exchange of information and responsibility is particularly important during transitions in care when new providers or care organizations become involved and new care decisions become necessary. Therefore, the interfaces of care and coordination among providers and institutions are critical to a successful process of cancer care. For example, studies of cancer have shown that whether people get screened accounts for a higher proportion of late-stage cancer than does the quality of the screening itself and that follow-up after an abnormal screen also is an important factor (14,15).
Figure 2 shows the types of care and the triangles of communication that are established among cancer patients and their providers (16). The communication triangles pose challenges for patients and physicians faced with coordinating care because sharing a common understanding about what actions are required and what they mean is often necessary to successfully manage the interfaces and transitions. This challenge is made more complex because community service providers, patients' families, and physicians' staff also are critical to care and create additional triangles of communication that challenge coordination. Note that Figure 2 also highlights that the patient is often the central repository of information. The fragmented system of independent practitioners and offices in the United States challenge easy communication and coordination among providers, thereby placing patients in the potentially awkward role of coordinating their care by default (17,18).
The thesis of this supplement is that coordination and communication across the interface of primary and subspecialty care and the transitions between care types are critical windows into opportunities to improve the quality of patient care. This is true in centrally organized health-care systems, such as Canada, where the many transitions in cancer care lend themselves to potential failures, and even more so in fragmented health-care system, such as the United States, where quality lapses are frequent.
These interfaces are primarily human but also include connections between organizations and entities, such as primary care offices and subspecialty care offices, ambulatory care and hospital care, and primary and subspecialty care with other support services. Although we focus on providers in the discussion of interfaces, this is shorthand for the groups of people (receptionists, nurses, lab technicians, radiology technicians, physical therapists, nutritionists, etc.) in the primary and subspecialty arena who together influence the care at the interface. Preserving the integrity of patient information and improving the potential quality of patient care across these interfaces and within each type of care are the major goals for care in the 21st century (2).
Considering the interfaces among providers and between the settings of health-care delivery forces us to consider the system in which care occurs. As noted earlier, factors in practice, health-care organizations, the policy environment, and the culture of the people seeking and delivering care all affect the care process that is at the center of a multilayered system of care that many have described (7,10,19–21). In this supplement, we use an ecological framework (Figure 3) to consider the multilayered influences on the interfaces of care (22,23). In this framework, a variety of environmental factors can influence productive interactions between provider teams and patients (19,22,23).
Much has been written about the problems with specific types of cancer care—the strength and weaknesses of screening tests, evidence reviews for diagnostic and treatment regimens, recommendations for and against posttreatment surveillance. However, attention to the interfaces within and between these types of care has been missing. We hope that the articles in this supplement begin to fill this gap. Improving quality of care requires consideration of the types of care, the steps and transitions within care, and the interfaces that occur during care. Although the interfaces are emphasized in this supplement, the reality is that we must improve the steps within types of care and the interfaces to improve care overall. An emphasis on both these elements turns them into an entire care process. It also offers many opportunities to improve care without necessarily considering issues of reimbursement and financing. Some have suggested that, in fact, financial reform cannot occur without first considering changes in the process of care (24).
While considering the organization of care and communication among providers is critical to improving care, it also is important to recognize that the ultimate goal is to improve the lives of the people who seek care. For this supplement, we have interviewed six people who are long-term survivors of cancer treatment (Table 2, Appendix 1). Their stories are not intended to be representative of what occurs on average. Rather, our intention is to give readers and the supplement authors a chance to view the human stories that are behind the care we are trying to affect and to give the people behind those stories the chance to comment on the issues raised by the articles in this supplement. As suggested by the IOM report Crossing the Quality Chasm, a major goal of improving care is considering how to put patients back in the center of what providers do (1). A thumbnail sketch of each case is provided in Table 2, and their stories are elaborated in Appendix 1. We have asked each of them to comment on articles in the supplement, and their comments can be found in section II as described below.
This supplement focuses on the interfaces of primary and subspecialty care and asks five questions:
In this introductory article (section I), we outline the continuum of cancer care, point out that this supplement began as a presentation involving a patient as well as physicians from Canada and the United States, and present the thesis that examining the interfaces of providers in the cancer care offers an insight into how to address the quality chasm in health care.
In section II of the supplement, the authors consider the five questions as they address the major phases along the continuum of care and the interfaces between providers during each: Nekhlyudov and Latosinsky (25) address Symptoms through Diagnosis, and Sussman and Baldwin (26) consider Diagnosis through Treatment. Grunfeld and Earle (27) discuss Treatment through Survivorship, and Han and Rayson (28) examine End-of-Life Care. This section describes the care process, and so we asked patients and the clinician-authors to read this section and comment.
The articles in section III of the supplement consider the context (Figure 3) in which cancer care is provided and how that context has multiple levels that can be shaped to influence the types, transitions, steps, and interfaces in care. Anhang Price et al.(29) present a literature review on measures of organizational structures and processes in cancer screening and assess how they address steps and interfaces of cancer screening. Zapka et al. (30) then consider how the multiple layers of the health-care system can influence interfaces during the follow-up after an abnormal screen. These two articles by Anhang Price et al. (29) and Zapka et al. (30) reinforce the idea that interventions to address interfaces will need to consider the multiple levels of the care context to achieve improvements. The next article, by Fennell et al. (31), considers cancer treatment and examines how one common approach, the multidisciplinary care team, has evolved to affect the interfaces of care. Murray et al. (32) then discuss the range of study designs that can be used to test changes in these influences, whereas Hade et al. (33) report intraclass correlations in measures relevant to the multilevel intervention studies. One potential intervention is commonly considered to be information technology. Hesse et al. (34) directly address whether that is a reasonable expectation. We close the supplement by revisiting the five questions and proposing an agenda for future research. Without surprise, that agenda encourages further work to characterize and intervene at the interfaces of care across the cancer continuum.
This work was funded by the National Cancer Institute through direct salary, and publication costs.
The articles in this supplement focus on the interfaces between primary care providers and oncology specialists throughout the continuum of cancer care. However, attention to the patients who are at the center of that care is the primary motivator for this supplement because improved care of patients is the ultimate goal.
To ensure that the patient perspective was highlighted, we interviewed six long-term cancer survivors. We were interested in hearing about their experiences through the cancer care continuum. Though we recognized that they were not a representative group, we thought that their perspectives on the issues raised by the authors of articles included here would be valuable addition to the supplement.
One finding that struck us was that even within this small group, the individuals took highly diverse routes through cancer care and that their entrance into cancer care largely dictated the rest of their journeys. We have grouped their stories in this way to highlight this diversity.
This finding suggests that a broad perspective is needed when considering ways to improve the interfaces of care, for the interfaces may involve a large and diverse number of players beyond primary care providers and oncology specialists. Another finding, clearly evident in these stories, is the degree to which these survivors felt that they were the main coordinators of their care and main repositories of records and information about their care.
In 2004, while in Connecticut on vacation with her family, Ms V experienced severe rectal bleeding and went to a local hospital. Within 24 hours of her admission, Ms V had a colonoscopy and a recommendation for surgery, either immediately in Connecticut or the following week at home in Maryland. Ms V chose to have surgery—a left hemicolectomy—the following day. The surgeons removed 12 inches of her colon, including a bleeding polyp. She was diagnosed with stage I colon cancer. Ms V was 32 years old with no family history of this disease.
Ms V remained in Connecticut to recover from the surgery. Upon her return to Maryland, her challenge was to inform her primary care physician of her diagnosis and surgical procedure and to establish ongoing care in her home area. Because of her unusual situation, she circumvented the traditional channels of referral to a specialist for diagnosis. As a result, Ms V considers herself fortunate to work at a biomedical research institution with colleagues who have been an invaluable support and information resource. She refers to herself as the "information manager" as she, and not her primary care provider, is responsible for managing her continued care and is who communicates with gastrointestinal disease specialists about her medical diagnosis and clinical experience.
Two years after her surgery, Ms V switched to a new primary care provider. This provider asks about her cancer diagnosis and experience. However, he does not have an active role in managing her follow-up, as she had already established this care before becoming his patient. Ms V schedules a colonoscopy every 1–2 years and interacts with her gastroenterologist only at those procedures. She does not need follow-up with an oncologist because of the nature of her case.
In 2006, Ms V married and had a child in 2009. Her need for regular colonoscopies affected the timing of her pregnancy and decisions about breast-feeding and will do so again for any future children. In addition, Ms V chose to discontinue taking a daily aspirin, prescribed to help prevent future polyps, during her pregnancy and breast-feeding because of the risk to her child. Of current concern are the two different opinions she has been given about her children's risk of developing colon cancer and when they need to begin screening.
On December 27, 2006, at age 58, Ms U had a routine screening mammogram. Nine days later, on a Friday, January 5, 2007, she received an unsigned letter from the radiology department of the laboratory asking her to come in for further evaluation—a right breast special view mammogram. As she was reading the letter and also checking voice mail, she heard a voice message from her long-time gynecologist, which said, "Call me back on my cell when you get this message." Ms U was concerned and immediately called her gynecologist, who told her that she had been notified by the laboratory of an irregularity on her mammogram. Ms U then called the number on the letter to make an appointment.
She was told that she could have an appointment in 30 days. When Ms U called the radiologist's office on Monday, she spoke with the office manager, vigorously protested the 30-day wait and was given an appointment in the next few days. At this appointment, she received a diagnosis of breast cancer.
The next step was an appointment with a surgeon recommended by the radiologist, a breast cancer survivor. The gynecologist called the surgeon on M. U's behalf to get her a more timely appointment than she was given when she called. Despite the surgeon's somewhat brusque, no-nonsense manner, Ms U and her husband were impressed with her highly organized presentation and by the fact that the surgeon already was familiar with her case. They felt that she was patient-centered and clearly communicated treatment options. "She did something I never saw a doctor do before," says Ms U. "She told us that we did not need a note pad and began to write down everything for us in an organized fashion on her own notepad." As she reviewed Ms U's case she said things like, "This is what this means and this is what we plan to do." Ms U's reports that the surgeon said, "I am not an oncologist but this is what might be recommended. You can think about it and when your oncologist speaks of it you wouldn't have heard it for the first time." The surgeon answered all of Mr and Ms U's questions, and her responses were comprehensive. Ms U felt supported, and the experience was comforting to understand everything in an orderly fashion. She was very prepared to talk to the oncologist after speaking to the surgeon.
Ms U had a biopsy, a lumpectomy, and 7 weeks of radiation therapy throughout the first half of 2007. Within 3 weeks of the surgery, she noticed lumps, called cording, which are clots in the lymph passages caused by the change in one drainage system as a result of the surgery. No one had mentioned this as a possible postoperative complication and this concerned Ms U. She spoke to a nurse at the surgeon's office, who recognized the symptoms and suggested that she see a physical therapist who specialized in lymphedema. She was not comfortable with first office's atmosphere, organization, or staff, so she switched to the lymphedema clinic at the hospital where she had had her surgery.
Reflecting on communication among her health-care providers, Ms U noted that her gynecologist, not her internist, acted as her primary care provider during the diagnostic and treatment phases. At different points in the care continuum, she spoke with or saw her gynecologist, surgeon, and radiologist. One major concern she had about her experience with cancer care was the need to tell her story to many providers at each interface in the care continuum. For example, she told her story multiple times to the surgeon, oncologist, radiologist, intake nurses, scan technicians, and staff at the lymphedema clinic. She also needed to tell her story multiple times at the radiology center because the different nurses caring for her there needed her to start over from the beginning of her diagnosis.
Ms U's son also has had cancer, and she learned from that experience to request her own medical record. She now has many boxes of her records and is grateful to have them because she occasionally needs to refer to them. When asked whether the roles of her doctors were clear, Ms U felt that they were clear but isolated and that she acted as the "quarterback" of her care in terms of making final decisions, collecting and analyzing information, and acting as main advocate for her care. She is not sure whether any of the doctors would have stepped into that role if she had not. In contrast to her own approach to her care, Ms U notes that her mother, who recently died of pancreatic cancer, relied on her primary care provider to manage her cancer treatment and follow-up care as well as her noncancer care and she asked very few questions.
Currently, Ms U sees her oncologist, radiologist, and gynecologist and gets a mammogram, all once a year. She tries to space these appointments so she sees someone quarterly. This works well for her because she knows she is being seen often. She also has consulted with an oncology nutritionist, who has educated her on topics that none of her other providers told her about. Ms U feels that one of her medical practitioners should have told her these things, particularly about issues related to eating products containing hormones and soy.
Ms U is concerned that early on in the process, and perhaps even at diagnosis, people are not told about the many resources available to them, such as support groups, cancer care tools, and system navigation help. Since her diagnosis, she has become an advocate for breast cancer awareness and early detection. She tells those with a recent cancer diagnosis, "Find someone to help you navigate the system, ask a lot of questions and do a lot of research on your own. People do more research on buying a refrigerator than they do with researching their own medical care."
In July 1999, Mr B completed an annual executive physical examination, one of the benefits he received when employed as a city manager. He had no regular primary care provider, relying on the doctor performing the physical for advice. Because his prostate specific antigen (PSA) level had increased dramatically from the previous year, he was urged to see a urologist. After completing a biopsy and scans, the urologist advised Mr B that he had prostate cancer as well as an enlarged lymph node, which was confirmed as cancerous after a subsequent needle biopsy. Mr B sought a second opinion from a urologist at a nearby university, who confirmed the diagnosis and suggested androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).
Immediately after his diagnosis, he began double ADT. His PSA dropped to an almost undetectable level after two or three rounds of therapy, but Mr B continued the therapy for 5 years. In the first year of ADT, Mr B investigated radiation therapy in addition to ADT. He interviewed two radiation oncologists as well as a medical oncologist. Another factor that helped Mr B make the decision to receive 3-dimensional conformal external beam radiation therapy was that his urologist discussed his case with other urologists at a medical conference. The response from fellow participants helped this clinician become more enthusiastic about radiation therapy for Mr B's cancer. Mr B completed a full radiation cycle in 2000.
Although tolerable, Mr B has experienced the common side effects from ADT. His PSA is now undetectable. He visits the radiation oncologist and urologist once a year and is watching his numbers annually as well (testosterone, complete blood count, and lipids). Additionally, he gets his PSA checked regularly, initially quarterly after ceasing ADT, now every 6 months.
Mr B feels that his doctors communicated well, and their roles were clearly defined. He had good health insurance and good doctors who listened to his concerns. During his treatment, he did not have a primary care provider as part of his team of care providers. Because of the good communication with his specialists and his decision to become "the general of his own army," he felt that it was not necessary to involve a primary care provider. He does have one now, however, and sees him every couple of years.
The one area Mr B found lacking was that his laboratory and scan test results were not communicated well to all parties. Therefore, very early on, he began to collect his own medical records. He emphasizes that patients have a right to their medical records, even though they may need to be aggressive to obtain them. He also recommends that patients seek a support group as he did, do their homework about the disease, and investigate and select the doctors who may be involved in their care.
Mr W spent a career as an active duty military member and received his medical care through the military. In 1991, after his retirement, Mr W's wife urged him to see her primary care provider for a physical examination. During the examination Mr W had a PSA test. The results indicated an elevated level (11) so Mr W was referred to a urologist. The primary care provider's first choice was not available so Mr W was referred to a second urologist, who turned out to be exceptional. A six-quadrant needle biopsy was performed with the use of an ultrasound, and the result of his biopsy indicated a prostate cancer with Gleason score of 7 (4 + 3).
Mr W's urologist recommended that he review his options with specialists in radiation therapy, oncology, and surgery. Despite a 5-hour drive from Chicago, the urologist arranged an appointment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Mr W was very impressed with the highly organized care system at Mayo. He was in and out of admissions in 15 minutes. The appointments process was equally impressive. Mr W saw a nurse practitioner, a fellow and physician's assistant, and had blood drawn. Everyone he saw entered information into a laptop. At the end of the day, he saw a surgeon, who reviewed his case. All the information from the earlier tests was available to the surgeon through the laptop. Additionally, reports of all tests and procedures conducted at Mayo were sent to his primary care provider and urologist.
The surgeon recommended treating the prostate cancer with surgery, and Mr W's urologist agreed. After the prostatectomy, the laboratory report revealed that Mr W had a positive margin and he was put on hormonal therapy as recommended for 6 months. Since then, he has been cancer free. He gets annual checkups from a urologist. He also has high cholesterol so he sees his primary care provider often for that condition. He takes cholesterol-lowering medication, so blood work for kidney function is done every 6 months and the PSA is added to the blood work.
Reflecting on his experience, Mr W said that he was fortunate to have excellent, and mobile, insurance coverage, an engaged primary care provider who was proactive about PSA testing at a time (1991) when it was not done regularly, an excellent urologist, and access to a medical facility that practiced "gold standard" high-quality care. As a cancer advocate, Mr W, said that he constantly tries to get men screened for prostate cancer so they can establish a PSA baseline number. He tells them, "You really need to know what your number is." "Forget about finding out about cancer. You need to know the baseline number to monitor your prostate health."
Ms F grew up in a small town under the care of a primary care provider she knew most of her life. After high school, she went off to college and upon graduation got a job in Washington, DC, as a television producer. At her first job, she was not offered health insurance but needed a job so she took the position. Eventually, she changed jobs, got insurance, and decided she should see a doctor. She saw the doctor on April 12, 2001 and received a complete physical examination, including a Papanicolaou test. She left the appointment feeling fine and with no indication from the new doctor that anything was amiss. About 2 weeks later, the doctor's office called for a follow-up appointment. This struck Ms F as odd.
At the second visit, the doctor suggested that Ms F needed to see a gynecologist. She was very surprised by this suggestion. She also told Ms F that she had cervical carcinoma in situ and needed to have a cone biopsy performed by an oncologist. Ms F made an appointment with a gynecologist. The gynecologist and primary care provider jointly decided that she should go to a nearby university hospital and recommended a specific oncologist for her to see. Ms F was told that she had to wait a month for an appointment with the oncologist because his schedule was booked.
While waiting for the appointment with the specialist, Ms F began to have doubts about the accuracy of the Papanicolaou test and convinced herself that she did not have cancer. Her primary care provider called the hospital frequently and managed to get her a more timely appointment. She had an examination at the hospital and was told by the specialist that she needed a hysterectomy because she had cervical cancer. The hospital called Ms F repeatedly to schedule the hysterectomy but she did not respond because she felt "those people were crazy" and she convinced herself she did not have cancer. She also did not want to have a hysterectomy because she was not married and wanted to have children some day.
During this period, Ms F saw nine doctors to seek additional opinions on whether she needed surgery. To her surprise, they all agreed that she needed a hysterectomy. On June 14, 2001, she had a radical hysterectomy. Following the surgery, she had radiation and chemotherapy until October 2001.
Ms F identified her hometown primary care provider as the first "quarterback" of her care. She also is grateful to the primary care provider and gynecologist she saw in Washington because they were such strong advocates for her care. Since her surgery, the "quarterback" responsibility has shifted to her oncologist. She spends more time with him than any other provider. An important ongoing concern is whether she will be able someday to have a baby by a surrogate. She talks with her oncologist about this issue and wishes that her doctors had talked with her more about options for maintaining ova and fertility before her surgery.
Ms F is now adamant about having adequate health insurance, obtaining all of her medical records, and knowing as much as possible about her ongoing health. She works with other patients as a patient navigator. She tells patients that "you are your best advocate." She says, "At every appointment, make your doctor guilty, make them know that you have a life, you have a family, make sure he remembers you when he goes home, make sure that he knows your name."
Dr P is a 43-year-old oncologist. When he was 13 years old, he noticed a bump on his foot, but he ignored it because it was not painful. When his mother noticed the bump, she took him to the pediatrician. The pediatrician suggested that he see an orthopedic surgeon but provided no specific referral. Dr P's mother chose to take him to an orthopedic surgeon at a community hospital, who had treated her earlier for a fracture. Not suspecting anything out of the ordinary the orthopedic surgeon removed the lump. Laboratory tests showed that the lump was synovial sarcoma. The margins also tested close but negative.
Following this result, the orthopedic surgeon referred Dr P to a cancer center for a resection. The orthopedist knew an oncologist there and recommended him highly, even though the oncologist did not specialize in pediatric patients. Consequently, Dr P was treated on the adult services ward. The doctors at the cancer center recommended amputation of his foot along with chemotherapy. Dr P refused to accept this recommendation. The family obtained a second opinion from an oncologist at another hospital, who said that keeping the foot and undergoing radiation was a viable option along with chemotherapy. Both doctors favored radiation. The family had divided opinions on the issue of amputation, which allowed Dr P considerable leeway to influence the final decision.
Meanwhile, the oncologist at the cancer center was willing to administer the therapy suggested by the other oncologist. The therapy included radiation and chemotherapy. The family chose this route, and Dr P had radiation therapy for 4 weeks and the chemotherapy for 9 months. Unfortunately, over the next 3 years, he had repeated wounds and infections that would not heal. At the age of 16 years, his leg was amputated below the knee.
For 5 years following the amputation, Dr P continued to see his team of three doctors at the cancer center, the radiation oncologist, the chemotherapist, and the surgical oncologist. He has been fortunate not to have any significant long-term effects from the radiation or chemotherapy. Reflecting back, Dr P notes that all his specialists communicated well but that his primary care doctor did not have an ongoing role in his cancer care. It seemed to him that his surgical oncologist was his main care coordinator. In addition, Dr P notes that although the doctors at the cancer center were very good, they did not at any point address to any great extent emotional issues that he might have experienced as an adolescent coping with cancer and an amputation.
Overall, Dr P has a positive opinion of his experience in the health-care system. However, he acknowledges that he was fortunate that his parents had good health insurance coverage and that he has been employed at hospital continuously from the time he graduated from medical school, so he has always had health insurance coverage. He has gone to an internist every couple of years for follow-up care but has never been to the same doctor twice. He reports that he has not found a provider who understands both sides of his needs. The internists do not understand his cancer, and the oncologists do not understand his noncancer health maintenance needs, such as monitoring cholesterol and blood pressure. He also has seen doctors at the cancer center who specialize in late effects of cancer, but he does not feel that they have been able to respond particularly well to his particular needs either.
For Dr P, the lack of guidelines and providers who understand the very long-term needs of cancer survivors is an unmet need. With a growing number of childhood cancer survivors, more needs to be done to address this issue. Another challenge he faces is getting life insurance outside the hospital setting because insurers assume he is a high risk. Similarly, he feels that the longitudinal study of childhood cancer survivors in which he participates assumes that most cancer survivors are not doing well. He feels that he is generally healthy and doing well in his life but wonders how his long-ago cancer affects his overall preventive care now (eg, screening for other cancers, treatment of risk factors for chronic disease). This uncertainty and a lack of places to turn to for answers are Dr P's major current concerns.
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Have your walls recently started to resemble crazy paving? You'd be forgiven for fearing your property had been blighted with subsidence. With the media prone to focus on worst-case scenarios, even the finest hairline fracture can cause palms to sweat.
But Nick Deakin, technical manager for loss-adjusting services at Royal and Sun Alliance (RSA), says more than half of the 4,000-5,000 subsidence claims it receives each year are not subsidence at all, and this is consistent across the insurance industry. So how did it come to this?
Risk-averse surveyors may not have helped. Or mortgage companies who increasingly make more simplistic valuation surveys available to purchasers. Howard Jenkins, a chartered building surveyor, says: 'The layman assumes all cracking is subsidence or structural damage, but some cracks are perfectly normal, even a few millimetres.'
So how can you tell whether that distressed decor is subsidence or settlement, thermal movement or brickwork shrinkage?
Settlement is what happens when the moisture in a building is drawn out in the months after it is built and gravity does its work. This is a common cause of innocuous cracking in new builds, when, for example, plaster can shrink away from door and window frames.
By contrast, subsidence means the ground has lost its load-bearing capacity, causing damage from the source point, at the bottom, to the top, or point of least resistance.
This is most common in clay soil areas between Humberside and the Bristol Channel, when particularly dry weather can shrink and desiccate the earth around foundations. The stakes are higher for properties built before 1940 with shallower foundations, or those built close to to trees and shrubs - these suck up still more water. The Association of Specialist Underpinning Contractors (ASUC) says trees and shrubs are responsible for almost 70 per cent of subsidence. The thirstiest trees include eucalyptus, oak, Leylandii cypress, poplar and willow.
However, Nick Eden, director of the Arboricultural Association, says: 'These trees shouldn't indicate the need for a chainsaw; further investigation by an arboriculturalist may be appropriate.' As may a structural engineer, to ensure removing the tree doesn't cause 'heave' - the opposite of subsidence, where the water normally taken up by the tree causes soil to swell and lift the house out of the ground.
So are you living in a new build in a town centre north of Birmingham and breathing a sigh of relief? Unfortunately, things aren't that clear cut.
The second most common cause of subsidence is a cracked drain, where water leaking into the ground can soften and wash away soil, especially in areas with a high sand or gravel content, causing the property to settle at one corner.
But RSA statistics suggest that crack may have another cause. Poor building practice can result in damage that looks like subsidence. For example, experienced builders note that they have been called to new developments where sodden bricks, left uncovered, have dried too quickly in hot weather and created a large crack at the point of least resistance above a window frame.
And here's the rub. While old builds have shallower foundations, they are constructed with more pliable lime mortar, allowing for thermal movement as the building expands and contracts with the seasons. Not only do new builds use more brittle cement mortar, but generally they are more rigid and angular to help hold in the heat. This is what we want, but it also increases the difference in temperature between outside and inside and therefore the risk of cracking due to thermal movement.
Pulling your hair out yet? Climate change has made this worse.
Dr Andrew Dlugolecki, author of a recent Association of British Insurers' (ABI) report on the subject, says: 'A tendency towards cyclical weather behaviour - dry, wet, dry, wet - will exacerbate cracks caused by thermal movement, especially in the frame of the house.'
So, providing you've remained calm this far, ensure you seek the right advice by employing a qualified surveyor familiar with a house-type like yours. Significant cracks will require a full structural survey.
ASUC says whatever its cause, subsidence is an engineering problem that requires an engineering solution. Recently, the trend has been to monitor movement in buildings and carry out crack repairs or partial correction and only undertaking full underpinning as a method of last resort.
But this can lead to problems later on, eventually costing more - up to £100,000 - and causing more inconvenience. Make sure your insurer has sought the best-value solution, not just a quick fix.
Still worrying about hairline cracks? Consider this. Deakin says: 'In this climate, house maintenance has become more important. Some people buy a house and think that's it. They should realise their insurance policy is there to protect against unexpected events; its not a maintenance contract.'
Time for a trip to the hardware store.
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KELOWNA - Pubs which are open later combined with a recent jump in competition is what killed Flashbacks, according to its owner.
Lonney Weber bought Flashbacks Nightclub in 2014 but this will be their last weekend unless a new owner can be found.
"I don't want to do this anymore," he says. "I'm almost 60. It's hard to see it go but it's time."
Weber says there are several other reasons why he feels the time is right to exit the industry after almost three decades.
"It basically boils down to a financial decision," he says. "It's got a lot to do with the different competition and the different licencing strategies the government and city have gone with."
Weber says while BNA opening next door has helped somewhat, more and more of his clients are looking at a night out differently than they used to.
"Before everybody used to get out of these restaurants and go to a nightclub," he says. "Now with the new rules they have no reason to anymore."
Weber says the city and the provincial liquor regulators have recently relaxed their requirements, allowing more pubs and restaurants to serve alcohol later.
"The playing field isn't all that level," he says. "More freedom to not sell food and sell liquor has caused a lot of these places to open up."
He points to places like Canadian Brewpub on Pandosy Avenue, which is open past midnight, as well as Cactus Club on Banks Road and Water Street and Roses Pub.
Weber says those places are exempt from certain rules which create hassles for patrons but also increase safety.
"The nightclubs are required to have ID scanners. These scanners prevent the people you don't want in from coming in," he says. "The other places that also party all night, Cactus Club, BNA, don't have to have them. They're doing the same thing we're doing so they're attracting people that don't want to get scanned."
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Chicago Bears cornerback Charles Tillman will miss the remainder of the season because of a torn right triceps.
The Bears had left open the possibility of a comeback in the playoffs after he was injured against Detroit on Nov. 10 by placing him on the injured reserve/designated to return list.
Coach Marc Trestman said Monday that won't happen. He also said a decision on whether star linebacker Lance Briggs will return from a fractured shoulder this weekend at Philadelphia will be made on Friday.
"It's going to be day to day," Trestman said. "I'm reasonably optimistic, but it's going to be through the three days of practice before a decision is made."
It's possible Tillman has played his final game with the Bears given his expiring contract.
He was eligible to start practising this week, but Trestman said the two-time Pro Bowl pick is not far enough along in his recovery. Citing privacy concerns, he would not say if Tillman had surgery or when it became clear he would not be back.
"I don't know if I could be specific in that area," Trestman said. "A lot of that goes to the privacy issue, respecting Charles. He was tagged because the tag was available in case he would (be ready), but it was for the latest moment of the season as we all know for that to be possible."
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|Quoting Dbo861 (Reply 3):
How many airplanes per month are they currently planning on producing if they don't ramp up production?
The initial rate will launch at four per month, rising to six per month within one year. The rate then increases to 10 per month in 2010 under the current rate acceleration plan agreed under the initial study.
|Quoting Nudelhirsch (Reply 7):
Let's hope for them that all the airlines are taking delivery of ther frames that soon... Which is not granted
|Quoting KFLLCFII (Reply 5):
One off the line appx. every two days??
|Quoting KFLLCFII (Reply 5):
How would this rank up with other assembly lines (737 series, A320 series, etc)?
|Quoting Hjulicher (Reply 13):
This is more of a question, but if boeing does open a second assembly line, do you know where it will be located? This is so far fetched, but I was watching (Ñåãîäíÿ)* Sevodnja, a Russian news program, and it said that the B787 will be built in Russia, or something along the lines
|Quoting CaptainBob (Reply 11):
Each supplier is attempting to use its own concepts on these custom machines that have never been built before.
|Quoting Mark_D. (Reply 9):
See NAV 20, you continue to be THE most entertaining dispensers of raw zealotry among all the usual suspects around here. Way to go!
|Quoting By JAMES WALLACE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER AEROSPACE REPORTER]Friday, August 26, 2005
Boeing unveils nose section of new 787
WICHITA, Kan. -- In the history of aviation, no one has ever made anything like it before.
About 24 feet long and 18 feet in diameter, it's a one-piece composite structure of a jetliner that, as one Boeing executive put it Thursday, "leads us through the skies."
In the jargon of the industry, it is simply called Section 41, the nose, cockpit and forward fuselage.
Agreed NAV20 ,
I believe Boeing knows how vulnerable Airbus is with regard to the A350 & there A350 Launch customer QR ?! It would be wise for Boeing to jump up production of the 787 while Airbus is currently caught in the Pickle .
[quote=Bryan Corliss
Herald columnist :
Published: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Airbus: You've got big trouble
Boeing's rival is having a tough time designing its 787 competitor, making A350 launch customer Qatar Airlines "very unhappy."
But the news that Airbus is going back to the computer-assisted drafting software on the A350 is creating a stir with the one customer that's already really interested in the jet - Qatar Airways.
"We are launch customer for an aircraft that, other than its model number, does not now exist," the airline's chief executive, Akbar Al-Baker, told Flight International. "Qatar Airways is very unhappy about this."
|Quoting Rheinbote (Reply 15):
Actually, autoclaves like these have been in use ever since the B-2 stealth bomber was 'boken' back in the mid eighties. Or take the composite wings Boeing designed and produced for the Navy A-6 SWIP program in the late eighties.
|Quoting Trex8 (Reply 19):
is Alenia-Vought "on board" for this production ramp up?? the Japanese can make all the wings they want but if there are no fuselages!!!
|Quoting Dalecary (Reply 21):
Ummm, KHI are making the fuselage barrels. They are offloading some Embraer 190/195 wing work, so they can meet Boeing's 787 fuselage production rate.
|Quoting HAJFlyer (Reply 8):
If we see no major changes in the the current economic situation of high oil prices, robust growth and a declining US dollar, airlines will be falling over themselves to get their hands on a dreamliner.
|Quoting Kaitak744 (Reply 16):
If Boeing were to put the 787 on 2 lines, they would have to A. build a new line, B. squish the 747-8 into one line, or C. shut down the 767 completely.
|Quoting Zvezda (Reply 27):
Another option would be to consolidate B777 production on one line. That might be reasonable from 2010.
|Quoting Kaitak744 (Reply 16):
C. shut down the 767 completely.
|Quoting Zvezda (Reply 30):
Kaitak744, thanks for clarifying that. However, if the B747 could fit in the 3rd assembly hall, it would be strange if the B787 were too large.
|Quoting Kaitak744 (Reply 28):
- 747 - 747 - (miscellaneous) - 767 - 787 - 777
|Quoting Ikramerica (Reply 33):
I would assume you could do:
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6
787-10 - 748 - 748 - 767 - 787-8/9 - 777
747 parts go in 3 like before and planes come out 2
|Quoting Zvezda (Reply 35):
Will the SuperJumbo require two lines?
|Quoting EI321 (Reply 1):
I said a while ago that I thought that the 787 might turn out to be this century's first DC3 Dakota. This news appears to fuel that impression.
|Quoting Mark_D. (Reply 9):
I'd like to point out to you that --from a fully-in-service airliner standpoint anyway -- the 787 programme has done absolutely n-o-t-h-i-n-g, as of this particular point in time. Especially after all the pack of lies served up previously about the "Sonic Cruiser", under Condit and so on.
Now, by all means let's hope the plane will roll out and fly sometime soon, of course -- and in so doing let's sure hope as well that the guys and girls building the thing are way more emotionally level-headed and technically-oriented then the gang of zealots around here, for instance, because otherwise yikes would Boeing ever be in real trouble then.
But let's at least give it another few months more here, shall we. Now that finally the rubber really is starting to hit the road, for their hoped-for EIS timeline anyway.
|Quoting Keesje (Thread starter):
Good news!
|Quoting Keesje (Thread starter):
The rate increase is dependent on the availability of the Boeing 747-400LCF (Large Cargo Freighter) development
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Dawn Richard, of the group Danity Kane, sat down with Essence Magazine to discuss the groups' lost of members Aubrey O'Day and D. Woods, talk of a solo career and the future of DK.
The Future of Danity Kane
"We talked about it, and there's a fear we have of losing our fan base. But at the end of the day, Diddy made his choice to let us decide, and we would like to continue with the name and the group," Richard told Essence magazine. "This is our lives, and you can't just say no to your dreams. I love working with the group. However, it's so hard to say what will happen. I would prefer that the original group members remain. It's hard enough for fans to follow as is."
On Whether She is Pursuing a Solo Career "It's so interesting how the media chooses to interpret or report things. I have never said that I was pursuing a solo deal. I told someone that I have waited so long for my dream, and singing is my dream and has been for so long. I have done nothing on the side as far as solo projects. I'm not sidestepping."……"Everyone should ask Puff if that's what he has in line for me," she suggested. "If he does, then I'm honored and I will work hard, as I've always done. Who knows what can happen, because Puff changes his mind every five seconds. I'm going to work hard. I'm going to be the same person I was in the beginning."
On Feeling Unsupported by Group Members "I have totally been supportive of the group, that's my priority," she said. "We had shows where Aubrey didn't show up, and we had her back and no one wrote about it or said anything.


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I love quotes!
So many timeless lessons can be learned and passed on from generation to generation simply from short one-sentence quotes.
Over the next four days I'll share will you four quotes that I currently have displayed on the desk in my administrative office.
Here we go!
"The poorest person in the world is a person without a vision" – John C. Maxwell
I heard this quote on an old John Maxwell INJOY Life Club lesson from 1985 entitled, Victorious Because of a Vision.
I really think it's true, people who don't have a vision are poor. They don't have anything to look forward to. They don't have anything to push towards. They don't have anything to work towards. They don't have anything to grow them self and stretch them self for.
It's important to distinguish that "vision" isn't always for leaders. Anyone can have a vision of the future. A mother can have a vision for how she wants her children to grow up. A boyfriend and girlfriend can have a vision for how they want their marriage to look like in years to come. And someone can have a vision for the people they want to serve and help.
Vision isn't only reserved for leaders of organizations. It's for anyone, and if someone doesn't have a vision for something in life, that person is truly poor.
I'm not a biblical scholar, but I believe it's in proverbs that says, "Without a vision the people perish."


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31 May 066 Interest deductions denied - TaboneThe AAT has upheld the Commissioner's denial of deductions for interest incurred by a taxpayer in relation to the construction of a home on land owned by a unit trust. The proceeds of the loan appeared to have been used to acquire units in the unit trust, with rental being paid by the taxpayer to the trustee of the unit trust for the occupation of the home. The unit trust claimed maintenance expenses and building depreciation as deductions against the rent. The AAT held that there was no nexus between the interest outgoings and any likely assessable income from the unit trust. Even if such a nexus could be identified, the AAT held that the interest expenditure was of a private or domestic nature. The AAT concluded, therefore, that the taxpayer was not entitled to a deduction under s 8-1 ITAA 1997. Alternatively, the AAT considered that Part IVA applied to the arrangement, distinguishing FCT v Janmor Nominees Pty Ltd (1987) ATC 4813: Tabone and FCT [2006] AATA 466 (AAT, Pascoe SM, 29 May 2006).
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Having stayed at Cubo Apartments for 9 nights my husband and I ate here at Signum all but 3 nights. Anna, who owns Cubo along with her husband Alfonso, cooks all the meals and bakes all the pasteries for breakfast on the property, After meeting Anna once we checked into the hotel, she wanted nothing more than to feed us. After we dropped out luggage we went down to the outdoor patio area where the staff was having a mid afternoon meal. Right away Anna and Alsonso welcomed us with a plate of fresh pasta with a parmesian sauce and a glass of white wine. It was outstanding. My husband does not normally like cream sauces but this was very light and airy and he loved it. In speaking with Anna, she made a conscious effort to know our likes and dislikes. When we sat down for dinner and the menu was presented we just said "what does Anna suggest"? The wait staff (Salvatore or Lucia) would say "I will check" and come back with the offering from Anna, which we never refused. We never ordered off the menu and every meal was outstanding. All the items were very fresh and made from sctrach, From appertizers to main course and wine selection (which we had everytime) each was perfect. We never had room for dessert. We had Caprese Salad and Pasta Vongole (clams). Octopus with tomato and other veggies and seasoning on a round ciabatta bread (that is on the menu) and the best Ravioli we ever had. Anna puts several differnt cheeses and meats in the filling and they are large. It was my husbands best meal. Another night we had deep fried zucchini flower and tuna and sea bass over fresh pasta. One night I had sushi (which Anns makes fresh as ordered) which was out of this world (go figure in Italy) while my husband had a repeat of the Ravioli. He did actually eat some of the sushi and thought is was very good. Our last night Anna made us a special dinner of zuppz de pesce, she says she loves to make it but it takes some time. It was delicious, fish with other shellfish in a tasty broth and lots of bread to soak up the juice. We can not say enough of our meals at Signum. We live in New York and have plenty of great restaurants and this was by far one of our favorites. I am already missing the food and hope to try and make some of these myself. If you want a casual relaxing atmosphere with great food and staff this is the place to go. They do have room service where you can enjoy your dinner on you own balcony, inside the restaurant, outside on first floor patio or on the rooftop patio. As the weather was warm outside we chose the inside restaurant area which is beautiful.
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Having finally gotten together with Miharu, Ushio leads a healthy daily sex life. That comes to an end one day when Miharu takes a bad fall on the way to school and is hospitalised. Together with Miharu's sister, Futaba, Ushio keeps vigil at the hospital until Miharu finally awakens. However, she does so without any memory of Ushio. Not only that, she is no longer the cheerful and positive Miharu that Ushio is familiar with. Instead, this Miharu is dour and moody. Futaba reveals that this was the Miharu of the past, before she met Ushio. While Ushio was worrying about what to do, he becomes aware of Futaba's heavy breathing, flushed cheeks, and the lust in her upturned eyes. Despite his worry about Miharu, his will crumbles before Futaba's seduction.
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Colleen Gleeson from "The Learning Edge" has released the eagerly awaited report from her research into the Manaiakalani Project. The focus question was "What is the impact of the Manaiakalani Project on literacy teaching and learning?" She has been gathering data from students, lead teachers, principals and parents over three years, 2008-2010. She has released interim reports at the end of each year which can be accessed here. Her final report is available here.
The Project definitely provided a motivation for writing, an improvement in audience awareness and purpose and in presentation skills. Other school interventions also had an impact on literacy achievement; however the Project has provided a purpose and enthusiasm for literacy.
The students of Manaiakalani were provided with a "hook" (e-learning outcomes published in on-line spaces) which gave these decile 1 students a voice to be heard globally. Subsequently, participating in the Manaiakalani Project enhanced their literacy, engagement, oral language and presentation.
With the advent of netbooks in 2011, schools are starting on a new and innovative initiative that, with careful planning and implementation and adequate support and funding, could be the key to 21st century education in New Zealand.
This gives us a lot of confidence in our pedagogical foundation as we move into Phase 2: The Manaiakalani Project provides 1:1 digital learning opportunities for all students in years 5-13, rolling out across 7 Decile 1a schools in 2011/2012.


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Employee engagement is now a high priority in most corporations, yet most of these efforts are pursuing the wrong tactics. Research shows that most elements of employee engagement don't lead to higher success or profitability. If you're going to invest in energizing your business organization, get smart about it.
Have you ever tried to energize a lifeless organization? I recall one time working as a junior executive for a company that was lacking vitality. You could detect it as you walked through the offices, as everyone seemed to be in a bad mood. The executive team knew there was a problem and that it was contributing to lower profitability. They decided to fix it by pursuing an employee engagement strategy, which was supposed to get people more satisfied and enthusiastic about their work and the company.
I remember being in a meeting with the "employee engagement" consultants that were hired, and they were walking us through the survey that we were to have our employees take. They poured through about forty questions covering how employees felt about their compensation, management, and the future of the company. I remember thinking that these questions were as lifeless as the organization. I didn't believe that focusing on these things was going to energize the organization and lead to greater profits, and research backs me up on this.
Sure, there is a wealth of research showing a strong correlation between employee engagement and profitability, but most of it is misleading about what came first, the engagement or the profitability. I've only seen one study, published in 2003, that measured employee engagement over time (eight years to be exact) and then correlated it with financial success over that same time period. This enabled the researchers to see which came first, employee engagement or financial success. The researchers found that employee engagement doesn't cause, or precede, higher profitability, but rather higher profitability causes, or precedes, higher employee engagement. So pursuing employee engagement, at least the way it's conventionally defined, isn't going to lead to higher profitability. By the way, the study included large and esteemed U.S. corporations, most of which were on Fortune magazine's list of most admired companies.
Yet we all know there's something about an organization's environment, or culture, that is a pre-requisite to success and profitability. Dan Pink has likely uncovered part of the answer. Most of us are familiar with his work on employee motivation, and we believe that some form of autonomy, purpose and mastery are important to motivate workforces. This is an important finding, but it only covers motivation. I work primarily with professional organizations, and quite frankly, the people in these organizations have enough self respect and personal pride to be highly motivated. Motivation is not the problem. In fact, a 2010 IBM survey of over 1500 global CEO's concludes that creativity is the number one quality that organizations need to succeed. They hold that as the business world becomes increasingly complex and fast-paced, employees are challenged to find local, instant solutions that satisfy customers, and this requires effective creativity. So how do we foster this creativity in an organization?
This is where research about the connection between emotions and brain function becomes invaluable. Scientific experimentation shows that emotions profoundly impact our brain's ability to process information and arrive at sound conclusions. When employees feel positive, heartfelt emotions at work, their minds become far more sharp and clear, and they're able to see possibilities where previously they could perceive only dead-ends. They're able to rapidly recall information committed to memory and mentally sift through large amounts of data, finding the most relevant facts and making the best decisions. In contrast, when employee emotions are negative, their learning, memory, cognition, and problem-solving are severely limited. This causes poor or short-sighted decisions, difficulty remembering key facts, and the feeling of being overwhelmed. People and organizations in this state are inhibited in their ability to find solutions, and they simply can't compete effectively.
So how do we create positive, heartfelt emotions in an organization? Sure people need to feel good about their compensation, manager and future. Yet it takes much more than this to engender profound positive, heartfelt emotions. It takes: 1) making emotionally positive people prominent, 2) fostering emotionally positive relationships, 3) effectively addressing negativity and fear, and 4) resonating with the deepest values of employees, which are rapidly becoming self-sufficiency and societal stewardship. When we seek to energize an organization, it's positive, heartfelt emotions that we should seek.
As we learn more from neuroscience about the incredible power of group emotions, we see reasons to adopt techniques beyond the ordinary. For more on shaping team emotions to increase creativity and performance, including research references, get notified of the upcoming book Primal Teams: Harnessing the Incredible Power of Group Energy or sign up for a monthly summary of articles.Share


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Re: Johnson, August W
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Karen Allsing 4/14/07
An August W. Johnson died 17 Dec 1978, Everett [Snohomish Co.] WA. He was born abt. 1899. He lived in Snohomish [or his last benefit check was mailed there] per WA death cert #028977.
An August Johnson, 531-14-5782, last residence was Everett, Snohomish Co., WA. He was was born 11 July 1899. His last benefit check was mailed to Seattle, King Co., WA. He died Dec. 1978. His soc. sec # was assigned to him in WA before 1951.
Since this August appears to be yours, you can send an email to email@example.com and ask them for an obit. Provide them his name, where and when he died and where his last benefit check was mailed to. They will search the newspaper microfilm and try to find his obit and email it to you for FREE!
The challenge with this name is that there were two August Johnsons. In the 1930 Burlington, Des Moines Co., IA Census one was born. abt. 1900, IL and had a wife Lydia.
In the 1930 Chicago, Cook Co., IL Census another August W. Johnson was born abt. 1899, IL and had a wife Myrtle.
I found an August Johnson in the 1900 Chicago, Cook Co., IL Census who was 4 mos old.
I also found an August W. Johnson who was a messman on the "Hawaiian Lumberman" on 5/29/1953. He had served at sea for 18 years, been engaged as a messman 5/5/1953, San Francisco. He was 5'9", 195 lbs and born 7/11/1899, IL, USA. The ship had left New Westminster, B. C. and arrived in Astoria, OR.
Unless you have more information it's almost impossible to tell which one is your August W. Johnson.


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The STAS moulding hook is designed for traditional picture rail mouldings (wooden picture rail). A perlon cord and STAS zipper are included with the hook to provide you with a complete hanging system.
The moulding hook is available in three colours: white, natural aluminium and gold.
The hook can carry loads up to 15 kg (33 lbs), provided that your wooden picture rail moulding can carry this weight.


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Planning a party, Conceiving a cookout, Deciding to dine outdoors, Look no further than this marvelous gazebo. This gazebos large size makes it perfect for parties or entertaining, set up a buffet underneath and you've now got an excellent place to mingle. The unique domed roof also allows for a much more spacious feel when underneath, the vaulted ceilings raised far away from even the tallest individuals. This gazebo is great for all occasions, the large footprint will easily accommodate dining or seating sets underneath, with room to spare. A stylish striped valance runs just below the canopy giving the gazebo that designer look.
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AOL Inc posted a quarterly profit and beat Wall Street's revenue expectations, even though the weak advertising market and the Internet company's dwindling subscriber base dragged revenue down from a year ago.
AOL, which became an independent company once again in December after former parent Time Warner Inc spun it off, said net income for the fourth quarter was $1.4 million, or a penny a share.
This compares with a loss of $1.9 billion, or $18.52 a share, a year ago when the company took a $2.2 billion charge.
The latest quarter's earnings were hit by restructuring and other costs of around $110 million, or 70 cents per share.


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Ahoy matey! These two pirate lovers are on their quest to conquer as many lands and ships as possible. But wait, they're not yet dressed up for the trip! Jack and Jennifer need your help to make them the most badass and scariest pirates in the sea. This dress up game will unleash your inner pirate fashion! Think of it as a costume party, you and a guy friend will attend a costume party. All you need to do is get the right accessories and clothes to match your pirate attitude!
Browse through a wide variety of choices and clothes for the best pirate get up. Yarr! Make the most out of the brimming treasure chest of clothes, shoes, hair, and customization items available in the game. Let your friends play too. And when you're done, you can save a photo of your creation and display on your desktop or show of to your friends.


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Mar 10, 2013 - 1:25 pm
Good Morning Sisters,
I hope you're day is off of to a wonderful start!
Emotional day, I just took my steriords for #5 of 16 chemo rounds, UGH do some of you feel like your Lou Ferrigno after taking them? I'm so pumped, geeze i feel like a boy. And my cheeks, it looks like I'm storing nuts for winter.
This is one awesome site, thank you to all that created it. Listenening to your stories, challenges and successes is so heart warming and let's me know my journey with Breast Cancer will be ok.
My last chemo date is 4/8, then double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery.
I know I'm all over the place, I'm sorry, I have so many feelings inside. Do you still get the feeling of why me? I get so jealous of my friends and family, seeing them all beautiful with hair, jobs and living life.
I know God has a plan for me, there is a reaon for this journey I'm on. And to share one of the BEST experiences out of BC is my Mom. She and i NEVER liked each other, BUT BC has brought my mom and i together after 42 years of I'll say it. But once the doctor said "Carrie you have breast cancer". All the hatred, hurt feelings left and only love surrounded our hearts. Now my mom goes with me to all my appts, she takes such good care of her little girl and trust me i let her treat me like a little girl LOLOL. Honetsly, I would endure 50 rounds of chemo just to have this feeling with my Mom.
Ok, I'm so just going on and going on, thank you for letting me share my experience.
I get worried of what's to come, but like you Warriors out there, you're strength, energy and will is overwhelming and makes me want to continute to kick *** on cancer.
God is so good, I give him all the glory and Praise in my healing. I wish all of you the BEST and will pray for you.
God Bless You All,
Carrie :)
Mar 10, 2013 - 3:18 pm
Your post made me cry happy tears! I think you've already discovered possible reasons to be brought to the crossroads of life's pathway. Hearing the C word was the most awful thing to this point for me, and I'm sure all of us here. It brought you and your mother together in what sounds like a beautiful reconciliation. Your story makes my heart feel so happy today. Thanks for sharing, and I wish you well being on your continued journey. Hugs, Linda
Mar 10, 2013 - 4:07 pm
Hi Carrie,
I do not sign up often as used to as I am going through too much with my treatments. Yet I did today and came accross your post.
Hair will grow back, sometimes even better. Well you will get your job back, and stay close to your Mother, for sure.
Please know we all have been there, your feeling are normal, yes "why me?" is a reasonable question , the the aswere is "why not?"
Please keep your faith, real friends close to your heart, and we will celebrate your victory together.


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Useful Tips You Need To Remember When It Comes To Fitness and Health
There are so many people out there who often claim that you need to exert so much effort when it comes to living a fitter and much healthier lifestyle, not to mention the need for you to work hard to achieve it however, that is not really the case at all. Well, if you are going to thoroughly analyze this matter at hand, of course, you will come up with a conclusion that it is indeed difficulty but, that is the normal and the most common thing that we typically experience while still starting but, as the time goes by and as you continue to do what you must do, everything will become much easier and better for you. In fact, if you only get the hand of it, if you only get everything right, you are guaranteed to have it much easier and much better on your end. Living a lifestyle that is full of fitness and health will not require you to have so many things as it will only ask you to equip yourself with only two things and these are: your strong as a rock sense of responsibility as well as your self-control that is unwavering.
What we have written and what you will be reading as you continue to read this article are some of the vital and most important pointers that will certainly guide and assist you as you move forward towards taking the road that will lead you to a lifestyle that is of fitness and health. What you need to do now is to read each and every tip that we will be listing down below and you will eventually realize that these tips are actually very easy to understand and follow.
Although it is true that there are so many fitness and health experts out there who would recommend to us to just eat the kind of food that we want to eat but then again, there are also those fitness and health experts who would advise us to refrain from consuming the normal food that we eat as it may affect us greatly, most especially our health. But then again, the only thing that we actually need to do when it comes to this matter is to take moderate actions so that you will not go below the normal and above the usual.
If you are planning on establishing your goals for the fitness and health lifestyle that you want to live, there are actually lots of things that you need to keep in mind and one of which is to keep your goals all to yourself. Your goal will be the one to guide you on the things that you need to do and because of that, you need to make sure that it is not the kind of goal that will make you give up but, a goal that will make you strive hard to achieve.


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David Levdansky's Biography
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Full Name:David Keith Levdansky
Family:Divorced; 3 Children: Shane, Timothy, Joseph
Birth Date:10/16/1954
Birth Place:Monongahela, PA
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- BA, Labor Studies and Political Science, Penn State University, 1978
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This delightful fisherman's cottage, tucked away in a courtyard setting with its own roof top terrace offers extensive views over this historic fishing village. 200 yards from the bustling harbour, take a fishing trip or passenger ferry to Fowey, 35 mins. Beaches within 1/2 mile. The Eden Project and Lost Gardens of Heligan close by. Walk the south west coastal path to Charlestown, 8 miles and catch the bus back! Shops 10 yards, pubs 200 yards.
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- Meal can be requested on the spot
Best offer
35 € / person / night, no meal
Description of the accommodation:
Rooms, services LaLuna Aluthgama is offering 21 comfortable rooms to guests looking for accommodation in Aluthgama. If you feel like having a meal not included in your chosen type of catering, you can always taste local dishes in the restaurant of the hotel. For guests arriving by car parking possibility is available nearby. Refreshing wellness services will be available to you on the spot. If you love spending your leisure time actively it may be a good idea to check the water ski, diving, surfing and boat rental opportunities nearby. In case you'd bring your laptop along, you may go online via wireless Internet connection (WiFi) available at the hotel. An exact and detailed list of equipment in the rooms and of the services provided by LaLuna Aluthgama you will find on the information sheet below, including any applicable additional fees.
Payment Depending on the selected date, room and price, you may need to provide credit card guarantee or advance bank card payment to finalize your reservation.
Arrival, opening hours The earliest check-in time to your room is 13:00, the latest check-out time from your room is 12:00. The personnel can speak Sinhala; Sinhalese and English languages.
LaLuna Aluthgama rooms Rooms
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Accommodation services
Free WiFi in shared places
Water skiing nearby, Scuba diving nearby, Surfing nearby, Boat rental nearby
- Wellness section, relaxation
Garden, Room service
Own restaurant