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Dr. Christophe Fournier, MSF International Council President; Manuel Lopez, MSF Head of Mission for Zimbabwe; and Rachel Cohen, MSF Head of Mission for South Africa spoke on a press teleconference from Johannesburg. Dr. Fournier just returned from assessing MSF's medical programs in Zimbabwe this past weekend. The following are excerpts from the briefing. Listen:
Good morning everybody, and thank you for being with us today. Manuel Lopez, MSF Head of Mission for Zimbabwe Listen:Thank you, Christophe. Good morning, everybody. Having been in Zimbabwe for two years, I have witnessed that the situation has been worsening. I definitely would like to speak about cholera, but I would like to concentrate on a general assessment of the crisis because it's really a medical emergency that's spiraling out of control. So I think that we really have to focus on the problem of access to health care, but of course I have to say that the cholera epidemic that started in August is far from being over. In the last week of January and the first week of February, we've had the highest number of cases since the epidemic started in August, still affecting all the ten provinces in Zimbabwe and 56 out of 62 districts in the whole country so we are far from over. MSF is struggling to cope with all the needs and it has contributed and supported the consultations and treatments of 45,000 suspected cholera patients. This is the magnitude of the problem. We don't know what's going to happen in the future, but we feel that there are many possible scenarios. One is that cholera is going to continue to cause hundreds of deaths before the epidemic is over because the water and sanitation system is in such a situation. We still see some water systems being contaminated and causing explosions of cases in some of the cities in Zimbabwe, like we have seen in Beitbridge, Chegutu and Kadoma, and in other places in the past weeks. But yes, I have to insist that those who have died and those that we've treated, have been treated or have died in the last two to two and-a-half months. So yes, I would say that it is still a situation that requires a huge struggle, a huge effort to be dealt with. But as I said, this is only one part of the problem. I would like to say also something about how people endure the situation in Zimbabwe. When patients go to the clinics, they find many times that the clinics, health facilities, hospitals, and the district hospitals are closed. Or if they are open, there are no doctors, there is no medicine available, there are no resources. X-ray machines don't work. There is no possibility of a proper diagnosis. And many times, if a patient needs to have a consultation and treatment, they must pay between two and three U.S. dollars, which for most of the people living in the rural areas or in the suburbs is almost impossible. They simply cannot afford to do that. So many of them stay at home or die at home. So that's the way it is. It gets as hard as that. The maternity wards are also closing in Zimbabwe. Less and less pregnant women are going to the clinics to deliver because they have to pay this huge amount of money, and prenatal care already costs more that 20 US dollars. And most of the people, as I said, cannot afford this amount that they have to pay in foreign currency. Also, when they go to deliver, sometimes they have to bring their own water, or they have to go to the pharmacy to buy the gloves for the midwife or the nurse because these items are not available in the clinics anymore. We also see that dead bodies, the cadavers, are piling sometimes in the hospitals because the families don't have the money to afford funerals. Therefore the health care workers, they don't know what to do with the dead bodies in the hospitals. They don't even have proper disinfection resources or body bags. And MSF has to deal with these problems in the hospitals of the areas in which we are working. Of course, I can only say that I don't see the situation improving. As I said at the beginning, the situation is out of control and it's a medical emergency. And we don't know how it is going to progress in the next months. Just for you to understand what I was saying earlier about the closing of the clinics: Since the cholera epidemic started, we've seen many district hospitals in Zimbabwe that have closed because they didn't have enough human resources support to cope with adding a cholera treatment center to all the other running facilities. Clinics are closing because the hospital staff is not getting paid, or they are getting paid the equivalent of $1.80 U.S. dollars per month. This has caused strikes all over the place. Sometimes you don't know if the staff is striking or if they just don't have the money to pay for transportation to work, because with this salary they cannot pay $1 per trip for a public bus in Bulawayo. So for example, in Bulawayo, 19 clinics have been closed for three weeks because of the strikes. Now they are slowly opening because some nurses have started to go back to work with the promise that they will get their salaries. Of course many of them are still waiting for the salaries and we don't know what's going to happen. The situation is repeated all over the country and we are afraid that many clinics will continue to close in the future. Of course this means that people want access to treatment, want access to consultations. When you see that the situation in the country, the health care situation, is combined with restrictions for our doctors to provide medical care, then you understand that something is very wrong. Our doctors, our nurses, and everybody that we bring to help with the crisis from abroad, they have to wait between three and six months to get a working permit. When they finally get a working permit, doctors have to do additional training of three months in Zimbabwe before they are allowed to perform any clinical work. They have to do this training for three months with a senior doctor, a supervisor, in a hospital which becomes a joke when you think that many hospitals are closed and that senior doctors are usually not there any more. Also, we have to consider that in the case of a specialist, like pediatricians for example, this training period takes six months. Now, all these problems have a devastating impact. And we've seen, just to give you another example, the number of deliveries in one clinic in a suburb of Harare, has decreased from 300 to 26 after the introduction of the foreign currency fees. Of course, those who can afford to pay 40 US dollars for the delivery services, also have to pay for the materials, as I was saying previously. And those who cannot afford these fees are delivering at home, which of course means that, in many cases, the mother and child fatalities are going to increase. This is the shocking reality of a country that used to have a model health care system and now the system has collapsed. Now, of course in this situation many patients choose not to spend their money on health care because they need to buy food for their families. Food is extremely expensive. For many people, it's difficult to find, and finding, for example, enough money to buy a loaf of bread can be an adventure that lasts for days. As Christophe has explained, and given the figures of WFP, there are more than 7 million people in need of food aid in Zimbabwe. In many districts of the country, the global acute malnutrition is approaching the threshold that the health system considers an emergency – above 7 percent. And we are also seeing that in many clinics where we are working and supporting, the consultations related with malnutrition problems are increasing. So we have reasons to think a malnutrition crisis is looming and could happen at any moment. I want to say something also about HIV/AIDS because it's still the biggest, main killer in the country by far. In 2007, for example, according to UN AIDS, the number of deaths per week was about 2,700. So that's a very high figure that should make us think that, apart from all the problems that we have in the country, we still have a massive problem with HIV/AIDS. Now, half a million people are still in need of the treatment that will save their lives. If they don't get this treatment, of course they will get sick in the near future and they will eventually die. But, there are already more than 200,000 people on anti-retroviral treatment , which is needed for AIDS patients at any given moment. Most of these people – more than half – have been put on this treatment in the year 2008, during the same time when the health system was collapsing. We are afraid, we fear, that all these people will not receive proper follow-up, especially if clinics keep closing, or if there is not staff appropriately trained, or adequately trained to take care of the follow-up of these patients. MSF supports HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs in several places of the country – in a suburb of Harare, in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and in Gweru, Chilocho, and Bwera, three rural districts that we are supporting. We are covering and supporting the care of 40,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in the country. Out of which, 26,000 of them are sick enough to have been put on anti-retroviral therapy, which of course will save their lives. Among all these problems, we are having many problems to continue scaling up our programs and initiating new patients at the moment, given the circumstances of the country and because our counterpart, the Ministry of Health, also has so many problems dealing with capacity. So we are having problems to initiate these half million people who are still in urgent need of health care. But we are also having major difficulties retaining patients. For example, because of the problems of the clinics and the transportation costs, people going to the clinics from very rural areas have to pay high costs for the transportation to the clinic. Also a lot of people who don't have money, they have to choose between feeding their families or leaving the country and going somewhere else. We have a lot of people in our programs that we have lost to follow-up because they leave their homes to try to find survival means in neighboring countries or in other parts of the country itself. And they are difficult to keep under treatment. The problems of the people who leave their homes to find survival means in other places, who flee Zimbabwe, is also very important and I would like to introduce my colleague Rachel, as she is working in South Africa with MSF and she has a lot more information about what these people have to endure when they arrive in South Africa.
What Christophe and Manuel have described for you is the day-to-day reality for Zimbabweans still inside the country. Unfortunately, their nightmare does not end, even when they have been able to escape Zimbabwe. Listen:
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on 12-05-2012 06:36 PM
Big 'doh!' on our part today. Totally forgot the signing was today - in my mind it was later in the week - outside earlier, spotted this photo being taken by a certain person but just didn't click until I saw it pop up on twitter after we'd came back inside.
on 12-05-2012 08:24 PM
Should have snuck up on him in a cardboard box!
Anyway, slow news week for me. Not being doing alot apart from getting my head over the happenings of the year so far. Going to get creative in the next few days and draw up idea's Im having for my next tattoo, so hopefully that goes well.
Gaming wise. Im pretty bored. As I'm sitting around myself most days (personal choice over anything atm) I've been wanting to do some online gaming, but nobody's ever playing the same thing, and there's never a big enough crowd to get a decent match with folk I'd like to game with ( Including you guys)
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Thats what RabidWalker suggested, we found a nice Sony box and will jump the man should he return!
Hmmmm... you should check out some of our events maybe? Uncharted, RDR & GTA which I help with get a nice crowd.
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If only I still had any of those games... haha
In honesty, I have no idea why I traded RDR in. I loved that game, and me and my friend (Who has now lived down south for an entire year and I've not been able to see) used to have great fun just roaming around on that.
I dont know, I need to start being more constructive before I begin to enjoy my downtime again I feel.
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Been prowling the PSN store the past few days trying to think of a game I'd want to grab cheap. Might get Rayman Origons after I get Max Payne 3. Also been considering Starhawk, and since my next wage is going to be a prett good one, may pick it up.
Going to design my tattoo tomorrow I think
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Sorry to double post, but I noticed my new Poison Avatar looks like 'that lady from Total Recall'. The one that made the man 'wish he had three hands'... you know? You get it?
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Our lives are cluttered. We are inundated throughout the day with text messages and social media comments and at replies and DMs and TV and radio and then satellite radio and billboards and newspapers and Ezines and corporate newsletters and digital books and instant chats and Skype convos and emails and voice messages. And this might just all occur during the 20 minute commute to work.
In a world where nothing is simple anymore, why not create a haven that serves as a reprieve from it all? Is that what a home should be? Shouldn't your home be sanctuary from the chaos of the outside world? And what is a sanctuary for you? It is different for everyone.
According to Brian Hughes of SR Hughes interiors and showroom on Brookside, "There is beauty in simplicity (as there also is in complication). I kind of really appreciate complicated things made to look effortless. I think we tend to try to accomplish the goal of how people want to live with more of a simple eye. It really depends who lives in a space. It has to reflect them. Pare away the extras and try to accomplish that well and then the feeling is clear and authentic."
To live well with less in your life doesn't require additional consumerism. It isn't necessary to go out and purchase peace and tranquility. It's quite the opposite. The process actually starts with getting rid of some things. The process of paring down is not possible without some dematerialization. The practice of editing is by definition, counter consumerism.
The very act of it requires awareness, discipline and a feeling of security. It doesn't hurt to have some professional guidance.
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Bici and Olivia Lee, owners of the local design and lifestyle store "edit", encountered their own issue of excess when they decided to combine their lives (not to mention, their stuff) and set up household.
"Getting married, both for the second time, we were combining two separate homes full of things! We had amassed clothes, furniture, paperwork, toys (we have five kids between us), electronics, appliances and lots and lots of other 'stuff'. Therefore we had to begin 'editing' our own personal lives. Not to sound too cliché but less is more...Combining two lives into one forced us to make hard decisions about what remained and what would exit. Decisions like that are not easy and they are based on considerations of quality, design, and in some cases sentimentality... Living a more simple life, one with more order and more peace requires deliberate decisions."
If you are considering ways that you can improve your own home environment, there are simple ways to get started and important questions to ask:
1. Take stock of your environment as a whole. How does it feel to you? Is your space chaotic or serene? Do your domestic surroundings lend themselves to your relaxation? Is your home a true reflection of who you are and how you'd like to live? From a functional perspective, do you have systems in place that adequately support your day to day life? Does your home work for you?
2. Take inventory of your belongings within your space. Do your belongings serve a specific purpose or are they just filling emptiness? Do the items in your home bring you pleasure? Are the items in your home functional and in working order?
3. If you look around your home and see clutter, it's important to consider why you're holding on to excess objects. There's a psychological component to why we purchase and accumulate. Do the things you own have sentimental value? Do they give you a sense of abundance and fulfillment?
If you find yourself answering "no" to more than one of the questions above, you might be a viable candidate for the reality show "Hoarders". But fret not, help is on the way. If you've been very honest with yourself in answering these questions, you should at this point have a more clear vision of what is necessary in your life and what can be deemed superfluous.
Julie Morgenstern, organizational expert and H&L Guru, offers a 5-step S.P.A.C.E. plan of attack in her book, Organizing from the Inside Out: Sort, Purge, Assign, Containerize, Equalize
Sort: Identify what's most important to you and prioritize your belongings. You'll then want to begin grouping similar items.
Purge: Simply put, get rid of some things. If you don't love it or use it often, you probably don't need it.
Assign a home: Whichever belongings you choose to keep, find a specific place where they are housed. A place for everything and everything in its place.
Containerize: Create some storage solutions for anything that doesn't have a home.
Equalize: Do regular checkups on how your organizational system is working for you.
If you find that once you've cleared the old and obsolete, there are items that you actually need, buy the absolute best quality that you can afford. When you consider lifecycle costs of items in our homes, it's actually much more cost effective to buy one item that will last as opposed to buying something that you'll soon need to replace.
"One of our vendors, Iittala, states that they're 'against throwaway-ism'. We agree. Like them we believe that one should have fewer things but better things. And those things should be of a great design that makes you feel good about that object and where it lives," Olivia said.
Quality over quantity will not only bring more beauty into your home, it will also bring more value and functionality. So before making that decision to acquire something new and to create a space for it in your life, ask yourself this, "Does it serve a distinct purpose or contribute to the beauty or pleasure of my environment?" And if not, do you really need it?
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A few weeks ago when I was writing a story about the cable business channel CNBC ranking Rhode Island 50th among the 50 states in so-called ãbusiness friendliness,ã I talked to a lot of people who said, yeah, with our taxes and the horrendous condition of our roads and bridges, we pretty much deserve the dubious distinction.
But there was one Rhode Island businessman, John Hazen White Jr. (an occasional contributor to local editorial pages), who suggested there might be cause for optimism.
White ã who owns Cranstonãs Taco, Inc., and recently undertook an expansion there, and who recently established the John Hazen White Jr. Forum on Public policy at the Brookings Institution to study manufacturing ã believes that sector of the economy, long thought gone to foreign lands forever, might be making a comeback.
He said the Brookings forum will be ãabsolutely focused on getting at the issues that have driven manufacturing out of here and maybe are preventing it from coming back.ã White says restoring the economic engine of making products is ãdefinitely achievable. I have thought for years that the pendulum was going to swing back the other way and, to some extent, we are starting to hear the rustling in the trees of that.ã
That is precisely what we need.
For all the big economic development talk about ãhigh-techã and ãbio-techã and ãmeds and edsã (anytime you hear politicians using a catch phrase, especially one that rhymes, you know they are going to latch onto it and not let it go, like a dog with a bone), what we need in Rhode Island are good old-fashioned factory manufacturing jobs.
According to the state education department, in 2011 (the most recent figures available) 41.3 percent of high school graduates in the state went to a four-year college; 22.3 percent went to a two-year college.
That means more than one-third of the students, 36.4 percent, went out into the workforce after finishing school (or not, 12.5 percent dropped out without getting a diploma). They need jobs, too, and they are probably not going to be designing and developing cutting edge medical devices or creating video games when their baseball careers are over.
What made America the greatest nation on the face of the earth from World War II onward was our middle class. And that middle class was built by giving kids a good high school education that prepared them to go to work at a local factory and buy a home, raise a family and send their kids to college. Those were good, righteous jobs that provided not just a salary and benefits, but dignity as well.
That is all gone. Now you are either a big-shot biotech meds-and-eds-er or you are stuck in a nowhere job that is going to keep you mired among the working poor for the rest of your life. We need something in between those two extremes.
Yes, every kid should be able to have access to higher education if that is what he or she wants and he or she is suited for it. But not everyone is.
We need to be creating and attracting jobs suited to our workforce, rather than giving tax credits and other incentives to companies who are going to tell us that people in our state arenãt qualified to do the jobs they have to offer.
n You know how it is in Rhode Island, if you have connections with some higher-up, you can get away with just about anything you want; nobody can touch you and all of your misdeeds just get swept under the rug. We all know this ã nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
So how is it that when the teenage son of the governor and the teenage son of a United States senator are allegedly involved in adolescent escapades with alcohol, not only do the police become involved ã an arrest in one case, an extended investigation in another ã but the whole state finds out about it and it becomes big headlines and grist for talk radio?
In a lot of ã if not most ã other states, the cops in those circumstances would have called the governor or the senator and everything would have been quickly and quietly tidied up with no paper trail and certainly no arrests. No one would ever have to hear about it. But that is not what happened here.
Iãm just sayinã. Weãre better than we give ourselves credit for sometimes.
n I got A LOT of blowback from the section of a recent column about the way President Barack Obamaãs now-infamous ãyou didnãt build thatã comment was distorted and taken out of context.
A quick recap: Trying to make the point that we are all in this together and no man is an island, Obama said, ãIf you are successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If youãve got a business, you did not build thatãsomebody else made that happen. The Internet did not get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off of the Internet. The point is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.ã
I blasted Mitt Romney and the Republicans for twisting that into ãObama hates successã and, of course, ãObama is a socialist.ã But I also got similar messages from readers.
Here is part of one that I will attempt to answer but I wonãt use the writerãs name: ãFirst off, in its entirety, The Presidentãs speech CLEARLY (emphasis in original) conveys, to all who will listen, that he despises, personal effort, ingenuity, and the drive to succeed.ã
Seriously? Barack Obama, born of modest means, raised by a single mother and grandparents, who grew up to go to Harvard Law School, was elected to the U.S. Senate and became the 44th President of the United States, thatãs the guy who ãdespisesã the ãdrive to succeed?ã Really? He got where he is by despising personal effort and ingenuity? Are you reading your own words, sir?
The letter writer again: ãObama clearly said ãIf youãve got a business, you did not build that.ã That is the problem: we have a President who is trying to run against capitalism. He plainly said this because he wants people to believe they did not earn their prosperity through hard work, and making good choices.ã
Iãll repeat the presidentãs words: ãThe point is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.ã
Despite the preposterous Fox Newsã spin of running ãagainst capitalismã (would anyone have a snowballãs chance of being re-elected president if he or she ran ãagainst capitalismã?) Obamaãs ãpointã was dead-on accurate.
The works of Ayn Rand notwithstanding, the motto of this great nation is not, nor has it ever been, ãEvery man for himself.ã Along with our rugged individualist/pioneer/entrepreneurial side, there has always been a spirit of community in America, an ethic of ãlooking out for the other guyã and of helping out, and being helped by, our neighbors.
Nobody is trying to denigrate the success of someone who had a dream, invested all they had, worked hard for years and built a company and made money. That is what America is all about.
But, partisan snipers aside, I donãt believe that any person who actually started a business from scratch and built it into a success would deny the simple fact that ãsomebody along the line gave (him or her) some help.ã
It would be disingenuous to do so.
Our political debate is getting far too extreme. Itãs not that President Obama might have a policy stance that we disagree with, or that might be incorrect; no, he is a socialist who hates capitalism and despises personal effort and success. It is no longer sufficient for people we disagree with to be wrong; we must paint them as evil.
That letter writer above also suggested that, because I said the president had been taken out of context that I should move to Cuba ãif (I) hate our system so much.ã
We have to start walking back from extremes and try to meet each other somewhere close to the middle, where we can come to agreement on things instead of hurling epithets and invective at each other and not even trying to accomplish things together.
This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. If we hate the government, we are hate ourselves and each other. We can be better than that.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 | 11:00 AMYou already know who won the races. Now enjoy 250 Words for an extra take on a story you might have missed.
We are often reminded of just how steep and fast the learning curve of professional motorsports racing can be. Whether it's guys like Eli Tomac and Ken Roczen just shredding a track like they did on Saturday night at Angel Stadium, or a pure SX rookie like Jessy Nelson crashing out immediately after the start, this sport does not give kids a lot of chances to learn from their mistakes—at least not on a stage as big as Anaheim's.
In 250SX racing, the young riders are split into East and West Regions, which means they only get nine races (including the Las Vegas finale's East-West Shootout), so one mistake can ruin a championship run. That's why it was remarkable how downright aggressive yet fully in control Tomac's GEICO Honda was out front.
Sure, he's the defending #1 in this division, so it shouldn't be much of a stretch to see him win. But Tomac did more than win—he seemed to sprint every single lap, hardly missing a beat. Maybe he knew Roczen's Red Bull KTM was also much improved, and the German import was obviously better and faster and likely more confident than last year, given the full season of experience. Both Tomac and Roczen have won championships, so they know the mantra here: You can't win a series in one race, but you can damn sure lose it. But they rode with such aggression that it was obvious there will be no holds barred between these two phenoms, and they will likely carry this duel all the way through Vegas.
A huge crash in the first turn brought down a quarter of the field at Anaheim.
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Others, however, were not so fortunate, and a few shots at the championship were pretty much dashed right off the start when TLD/Lucas Oil Honda's Nelson, a very fast learner based on what we saw when he turned pro last May, scored the main-event holeshot but then tripped over the first jump, bringing down a quarter of the field with him. Nelson would finish eighteenth. Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Martin Davalos, also caught up in the ensuing pile-up, would finish last. In a nine-race series, it's hard to overcome a 24-point deficit from a rider as solid as a Tomac or a Roczen—especially when they already have a good idea of what it takes to survive and thrive at this level.
Which leads me back to a point I made in Racerhead on Friday: How can requiring young riders to use the smaller stages of the AMSOIL Arenacross Series as a stepping-stone to the massive platform that is Anaheim be a bad thing? Learning the frantic, tight confines of indoor, nighttime, high-pressure racing—even if for just three or four races—would almost certainly help prevent the opening-night jitters, and that in turn might help prevent things like an ugly chain-reaction crash off the start of your first real pro supercross race.
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Tomac will walk away with this title--Oh yea, holeshot!!
Its not a bad thing, as long as i dont have to watch arenacross
It does look like a Two Man race from here on for the west coast crown. Both Roczen and Tomac have 450 experience, I am sure that is an advantage for them. May be we will see both move up when the races move East. Turning the 450 class into "The Nasty Nine"...Fans are going to get there moneys worth this year!!!!
it is a great time to be a supercross/motocross fan, and it just keeps getting better and better!!
Cause no one wants to watch the 4 corners, 3 jumps, and a short whoops section that is arenacross. Thats like trying to make college football players go play arena football before that can play in the NFL. The 250 class is the stepping stone to the big boys. If your good enough to qualify for the heats, and main, then it shouldn't matter. Stop trying to make us watch a product that no one cares about. If i wanted to watch Tyler Bowers(mid-end of the pack supercross) dominate a bunch of nobody's i would.
"How can requiring young riders to use the smaller stages of the AMSOIL Arenacross Series as a stepping-stone to the massive platform that is Anaheim be a bad thing?"
I'll tell you why. Because MOST if not all of these riders have indeed raced indoors at the myriad of smaller arenacross events scattered across the country.
RacerX and the industry act like there aren't any other opportunities for indoor racing except for the ones that are "official".
Haven't seen what the requirements are, but forcing riders to do the "official" arenacross races is not a path one should be forced into doing, especially at the high cost of racing these days.
A few that come to mind, only because they come to our area:
Cyclecitypromotions-KICKER AX series
Why didn't they show the super minis instead of listening to them talk
I think some changes to the format are in order, a supercross qualifying requirement requirement to at least participate in the arenacross series is a great idea.
BUT ... I do partially agree with "qball" that the arenacross format really could use some updating (sort of putting words in his mouth but I think that was his beef with the arenacross deal). I know that with space limitations there is only so much that can be done with track design, but it seems that the tracks are all virtually identical to ones I saw in person 15 years ago. Hell, I don't know, maybe they should run one moto forwards and the other backwards (yes there would have to be mods to the tracks for this, but they need to mix it up!). So if arenacross could evolve to teach kids to expect the unexpected and adapt to varying track designs, I would support requiring participation and even some level of results (top 5? top 10? qualify for the main event?) to be "eligible" for supercross.
Now way off topic, but for arenacross tracks, they need to get creative with each venue ... I'm talking track into the stands, or maybe a venture through the lobby (I'm not kidding). Or perhaps an over-under bridge instead of the classic finish jump double, which would take advantage of the real estate between the jumps and allow for more variations of turns. Hell, maybe they could have a dead-start format where the riders are lined up on foot at one end of the start straight, and then they sprint to their bikes and crank 'em for the race (which would not be fun for the riders but fun for the fans). Or they could throw in some "obstacles" enduro-cross style (just not as extreme). Yeah some of these ideas are terrible but the only guarantee for long-term failure is to stay stagnant.
Last comment - I already have tickets to attend a supercross (Houston) and arenacross (Austin) this year. While of course I'm completely pumped for the supercross, the arenacross is 20 mins from my house, and was not that much more expensive than going to a lousy 3D movie.
Whatever. Nelson has a full outdoor season behind him. He holeshot his heat and finished 2nd. In the main, he made a mistake and caught neutral and crashed. It happens. Remember, it happened to K-dub at MEC and he gave himself a concussion. Maybe K-dub needs to go race some AX as well.
The more I think about the new AX thing, the more I see it in a negative light. Look at a kid like Savagty - he did not look too out of place or look to be a hazard out there. Ditto for Nelson, he's obviously ready for prime time. The kids that come through at the top of the amateur stream have already spent a ton of time riding SX tracks and racing under the microscope. Why send them off to race AX, where a nearly-was hack rider could injure them and set them back? Or end a career?
The sport already has self-seeding system for its hierarchy and I think it works. AX is such a fringe sport compared to SX or MX. I don't see how having a kid make 4 mains in AX makes him any more ready for his first pro SX race with a monster set of whoops and a gnarly rhythm lane.
I think using the Arenacross as a stepping stone to Supercross is a good idea. Not to fond of the new format though? Also with the cost of racing it seems it wold be better for the up and commers. Also with the cost of racing tere are people that should not even be out there trying to qualify as they can afford to do it does not mean they should get out on that track.I am wondering if it will diminish the feild? I remember in the 80s' when the Supercross tracks were a lot more difficult and they sometimes had trouble filling the roster.
Yes a lot of good opions here also! Back iin the day ie mid early 70's we could not aford to make but mybe one National a year if there was the arencross close enough I would have tried that also. As it was even though I worked at a bike shop I still needed to be at work 6 days a week. I had to pay for my racing from my very first Honda minitrail 50, Just like Jeff Ward had???? Shure!
I always viewed Arenacross as a great opportunity to see the sport if you live in one of the markets without a Supercross event. I took the family to an event in Raleigh, NC, and we all enjoyed it immensely.
I would like Supercross to follow the Monster Energy Cup format: seeing all of the top riders on the track for three mains is much more exciting. The up-and-comers show up in the support classes.
You guys have to forgive Davey Coombs. He hasn't had time to update the Arenacross format, because he's wasting all his time hanging out on the set of MTV's new hit show about West Virginians... Buckwild.
Quit raising such a ruckus in your dump truck swimming pool, Davey, and get to work fixing the motoworld.
ETs best lap was 1.5 seconds faster than KRocs. That is huge. Unless ET takes a tumble I don't see him losing much.
PS: I like that Pipe in the Yamaha add! Looks pretty trick!
The requirement of starting out in arenacross is beyond stupid. Some of these young riders have big contracts awaiting them, and not many sponsors want to spend that money to be showcased at arenacross venues. The careers of many racers may not be that long, so let them make the money while they can. And what about former world champions coming over from Europe? If they haven't experienced U.S. supercross, will they too have to hit the arenacross circuit? More than anything, this is an attempt at reviving arenacross. It shouldn't be done at the expense of riders leaving the amateurs and turning pro. That was the point of the east/west divisions and shorter mains.
Hog-tying SX to the financially-on-life-support AX series is their fix to a problem that we didn't have, but welcome to the new economy where our problem is now yours.
Do we see any AX people successfully crossing over? Has anybody that raced SX not went over and pretty much cleaned house in AX (Antunez & Stephenson to name names)
They even have RC on board schleping for the series. Tell us RC, how many AX's did YOU show up for? or think were necessary to advance?
Does it sound like I'm against it? Now my kid (meaning me) has to pay for #A but we only want #B?
I'm paying for AX's financial health because they decided it was the:
A) safest thing to do for the racers
B) would make for better racing
C) more profitable for them.
D) more profitable for them.
A riders union filled with pissed off parents would straighten these clowns out with a quickness.
Oh yeah, merge the 250F series so we are paying to see ALL the best 250F racers and sub-series the regionals (within the race) to keep it affordable to the newbies. Duh.
Davey Coombs is one hard-working dude. Nobody is perfect, but if follow many of the positive changes to the sport, you'll see DC behind lots of those. Maybe the AX idea isn't feasible, but it is worth the discussion.
Expanding on what "carlsbad" said, I would enjoy seeing the combined 250F class, AND one additional "rookie" class that would be limited to ... wait for it ... 125cc 2 strokes baby! They could run a 10 lap main, or else run a modified short (and "safe") version of the course, so not quite arenacross, but not quite full-blown supercross. Each SX track could be designed with bypass points to where triples or tricky rythm sections could be avoided. So cut out the "KTM kiddie challenge" (or whatever it is called), and put in a semi-pro division that everyone is required to race in for a year before jumping to premier classes.
Misoheye, what is "the rule"? What is not a discussion?
As far as DC goes, I meant generally the sport of motocross, which I lump everything under. But I do stand corrected on DCs direct involvement with the topic at hand. I was just trying to defend the guy, and previous comments posted seemed to reflect that he could be in a position to do something about AX. Which he is not directly, but indirectly and with Racer X, he most certainly is.
@Davey Coombs: You pose that question as if someone has brought up the point that Arenacross is a bad model for Supercross. It's Prep School for SX. It's like Pre-Med for Med School. It's like the Naval Academy for the Navy.
That said, It can bring to the mind of a young rider what to (expect) at a first corner, but when all 20 riders know they need to be in the same (tight) space for about 25% of the entire gate width at the same time, and they all have 220bpm heart rates going, and there's only 9 races in the season, what else do you realistically expect them to react... in a nano second basis... when someone hits neutral, or washes the front end, or pulls a "Hannie" on someone.
In summary, Track design layout comes to mind, but there is no room because we're indoors, (remember) and just maybe these kids would (really) rather be outdoors (on real dirt) where the track design can lend itself to something a little less restrictive and more natural flowing like "Natural Terrain Motocross," maybe...
Then that just wouldn't be Supercross, now would it.
"Supercross...The Americanization of Motocross"
Who, besides me class, remembers reading that article with the exact titled article in 1976ish.
Raise your hand...
Don't shoot, Davey, for I am just the messenger. Hep Meh Lord!
Thanks for reading, guys. I don't have any direct participation in promoting SX or AX, but I know that even Loretta Lynn's has a qualifying process that is three steps -- Area, Regional and Finals -- and it helps narrow down the field and help young riders prepare for the bigger stages.
But there is no Loretta Lynn's for Supercross, and maybe that's what AX can be. My point is, everyone wants to have a conversation about safety, track design, concussions, insurance, Leatt Braces, 6-D Helmets, etc... It's always a good idea to look at those things.
So why not another layer of indoor, close-confinement racing experience before you get to Anaheim? If Ricky Carmichael believes it's a step worth looking into, and many of the team managers and sponsors think it's a step worth looking into, why not look into?
And no, it's not mandatory yet -- like IMPACT concussion testing -- but it will be by 2014 or '15.
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@carlsbad RC would've won 200 races if he had Arenacross experience.
I would like to thank Davey Coombs for participating in the conversation. Being able to voice our opinions and then have one of men behind the scenes of our sport respond directly is a privilege not shared by many sports fans.
Good to see you on here Davey! Ya'll hirin'?!! Just kidding, but it is cool to see such an important man in the sport active in the washed up bench racers chat room!
Thx to DC for chiming in! Good discussion.
Thx to DC for chiming in! Good discussion.
No worries, January is a good month for bench-racing for me, I get a little busier in the summer... Can't wait to see what happens this weekend in Phoenix!
@Davey Coombs: Your presence on these comment boards, as well the article that brings us all here, is a welcome to all who hold this sport as passionately as someone as yourself.
Thank you for your undying support of this great sport run on two wheels.
Really like the idea of a 125 2stroke "stepping stone" class. And I would raise the age requirement to 18 for turning pro.
I have never attended a bona fide arenacross event,they can be a little redundant on tv,unless you're really hungery for moto.
Add the beast from the east to the list of sx to ax.
I'm guessing if Antonio Cairoli wanted to come to the U.S. to race supercross (HAH!), he'd have to start out in arenacross. So, DC, could you post some contact info on who we should inform of their mistaken ways? Is it Feld? Is it the AMA?
@ endo
Cairoli? Supercross? Lol
I bet he still wants to feel like a king after winning on his practice track( lommel).... No way he's coming over:D
They say he's too well rounded for that!
Getting lapped twice is not a good idea for a world chump!.......... Oops champ, I meant...
Did I? Lol
"So why not another layer of indoor, close-confinement racing experience before you get to Anaheim? If Ricky Carmichael believes it's a step worth looking into, and many of the team managers and sponsors think it's a step worth looking into, why not look into?"
Because it's not needed. As I posted earlier, there are good quality AX races going on throughout the country and if you went through the paddock and asked the current SX riders, I think you'd find the vast majority, if not all, have raced some of these AX races.
Some tracks are as demanding as the current "official" AMSOIL AX series, if room allows.
Most PRO'S have ridden AX type tracks or full blown SX tracks anyway at their friends or friends of a friends.
Most people realize what this new rule that it to take affect is basically for. Simply, to help the failing "official" AMSOIL AX series. I don't think it will revive it much anyway.
And.. has anyone went through and asked the riders themselves how much experience they've had? Has anyone asked them (current riders) if they think it would of been a good idea if they had been forced into a AX series that not many care about?
Jbon, I have not actually talked to any current SX riders, but I would anticipate the answer that most would not have wanted to go that route... But had Justin Brayton not gone that route, he would have had a much harder time getting to this level, and he has said that many times.
I do see your point about other night races that are not "official" AX events as part of that series, yet still being very beneficial. But how do you know what that event was really like? How do you know how comfortable they looked or who they beat at most smaller arenacross races?
Finally, as for European and Australian riders, for instance, I am sure GP-level talent would get some kind of waiver to not have to travel over here and race AX off the bat. I am not sure how else that could work and not make it incredibly difficult for international talent to compete here. (And MX1 world champs like Tony Cairoli, as mentioned above, are not allowed in the 250 class in supercross...)
Back in the day, there were a lot of jobs in AX racing, and it revived more than a few careers. If SX wants to revitalize that plank of professional racing, maybe it will bring some of those jobs and teams back.
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Tomac will win the 250 West title this year.
And nothing was said about the 250 outdoor champ Blake Baggett who had an awesome start and was landed on by Jessy Nelson's bike causing a dislocated wrist. He still managed to finish the race as well.
I can't wait to see him back at Phoenix to make a statement!
Oh, yeah, give the commie-Euros a waiver. Wait 'till Hannah hears about this. But, whose decision is this? Feld? AMA? Rutledge?
MeanKX, I know AC has no desire to race in the U.S. especially in SX. My point was any Euro will probably get a free pass while the top upcoming U.S. talent will be racing on basketball courts.
Looks like Feld is trying to bring AX up. Who knows, maybe it would do better for our sport...... Nothing really to watch though. Few turns one double, one triple and a whoop section. Kinda boring. Now if they got in some bigger venues..... Maybe they're trying to accomplish that by bringing top talent to the races. Better riders----> more people watching--> better ratings--> more money!
@ Endo
Now if our top amateurs will be required to do few AX races, so should GP riders as well. If anyone comes from GP circuit, it doesn't mean that they have SX skills. Take Cairolli for instance, dude got smoked at some euro off season race at Genoa by racers that no one even knows. Besides Kdub and Brayton I think. He would be hazardous for our SX racers!
I think SX should be the ultimate indoor championship. The rule should state: if any individual never raced AMA SX, he should get certain amount of points in AX series. Doesn't matter where you're coming from( USA, Europe or Uranus ) that would even things out. No free passes
Let's see we have Pro-Am at outdoors riding the same tracks as the pros the next day, why not the same for SX. SX has always been a learning curve, but as Jimmy Weinert use to say at the riders meeting us as riders are becoming gladiators in the coliseum. You get out of rhythm and the nights over with.
Watching Ax and SX is like watching Quarter Horse Racing and Thoroughbred Racing. Bothe train and ride completely different.
And don't we have Pro-Am at Daytona, why not all the tracks?
@daveycoombs Hey Davey, has anyone asked the TuffBlock manufacturer to design a different shape other than a cube? I think a triangle shape would prevent a lot of the mishaps. A triangle shape would provide more footpeg clearance along the side of the track and if a rider lands on top of the barrier their wheels would slide down the side instead of deflecting in a random direction. The sponsors would not lose much of their banner space either except directly on top. Just a thought.


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