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Labour steps cautiously up to difficult truths about the NHS
At last, a shadow minister says budgets would be tight and reform essential regardless of who was in power.
By Rafael Behr Published 24 November 2012 10:15We know Labour loves the NHS. All British political parties are obliged to profess their undying devotion to the health service at routine intervals, but Labour, as the party that oversaw the creation of the NHS (and has, in recent memory, invested the most money in it) claims a special protective monopoly. Voters seem to recognise this and regularly award Ed Miliband's party robust leads on questions of who is most trusted on the issue.
That advantage is sure to be extended as the government's NHS reforms, combined with an unprecedented budget squeeze, reinforce the impression that the Tories inevitably succumb to vandalistic urges towards the health service.
Even without the Lansley reforms (now to be implemented by Jeremy Hunt, who has never knowingly inspired confidence in anyone apart, it seems, from the Prime Minister) the NHS would be causing headaches for the coalition. The health budget may be "ring-fenced" but anything other than a real terms rise in spending feels, over time, like a nasty cut, given inflation in the cost of treatments and the growing demands of caring for an ageing population.
That would be a problem for Labour in government too although you don't often hear opposition MPs advertise the fact. Why would they? Slamming David Cameron for trashing the NHS is an open goal for Ed Miliband; it would just complicate the goal-scoring manoeuvre to add mealy-mouthed acknowledgements of the immovable budget obstacles on the horizon. That, at least, is one argument and it has generally prevailed at the top of the Labour party.
There is another view, which is that the public are not fools and will, as an election approaches, expect to hear something about the opposition's intentions towards the NHS other than "we wouldn't be the Tories". As I've argued (ad nauseam) in the past, a necessary step on Labour's journey to governing credibility, especially with regard to fiscal responsibility, is being seen and heard to talk about innovation and reform of public services. This doesn't have to be a macho breast-beating display of willingness to wield the axe. It just means demonstrating, by the deployment of some policy imagination, that Labour recognises the long-term obligation to find ways of getting more for less.
With that in mind, I was heartened to come across a speech yesterday given by Liz Kendall, shadow minister for social care. Not many people spend their weekends catching up on policy interventions by junior ranking shadow cabinet figures, so I suspect you may not have yet got round to reading this particular example of the genre. It is not the Gettysburg address, nor is it a complete exposition of Labour's policy towards reforming the health service. As with everything else in Labour's agenda for government (with good reason, given the time still to run before an election) health policy is a work in progress.
Nonetheless, for those of us who try to decrypt dull Labour announcements, scouring the formless surface of cosy One Nation reassurance for signs of something that looks like progress towards a governing position, Kendall's speech is a find.
She states, for example that:
The truth is that far more fundamental reform is vital if we're going to meet the challenges of demographic and social change.
And that:
.. Whichever party is in Government and however much growth we get back into the economy, we've got to get far more out of the billions of pounds spent in the NHS into the foreseeable future.
Obviously true, and a few grades below rocket science, but refreshing to hear said aloud by a shadow cabinet minister.
Kendall clarifies, up to a point, Labour's view on what would happen to the new NHS architecture currently being put in place by the coalition if Ed Miliband were prime minister.
If Labour wins the next election we will repeal the 2012 Health and Social Care Act but we will not force the NHS through another major re-organisation.
We don't need new NHS organisations, we'll simply ask those we inherit to work differently.
We'll keep Clinical Commissioning Groups and Health and Wellbeing Boards, but ensure they work within a properly accountable national health service.
And what about this for a realistic account of how the opposition should behave towards hospital reconfigurations (a euphemism for the movement of services out of hospitals, into the community, usually involving ward closures, demonstrations, angry public meetings, bad headlines etc.):
Whilst changes to local hospital services will always be difficult, Labour will not have a policy of blanket opposition to hospital reconfigurations like the Conservatives did at the last election.
That might be easy politics. But it wouldn't be right in principle or in practice.
We will judge every proposal on its merits: whether it saves more lives, reduces disabilities, and improves the quality of care. The clinical case must be made and supported by the evidence, if the public as well as local MPs are to be convinced.
In other words, yes, sometimes wards and even hospitals will have to close if we're serious about finding the most effective and efficient way to deliver modern health services. That is because vast old district general hospitals are a desperately outmoded way of looking after people, many of whom have chronic conditions that should be treated not in hospital beds but at home or at local clinics. Better still, such conditions should prevented or kept in check by lifestyle changes. It's what nearly everyone who has looked at the long-term implications of health policy decides in the end, but you rarely hear opposition politicians say it because joining in the anti-closure demo is so much more rewarding in the political short term.
Kendall even talks about "innovation" in the health service and the need to take a non-dogmatic view of the role of private and voluntary sector providers:
For all the criticism you hear, there's actually a huge desire and talent for innovation amongst NHS staff.
What they need is the encouragement, freedom and space to innovate. They need backing to experiment and take sensible risks, not rigid performance management from on high.
The private and voluntary sectors also have a vital role to play in bringing innovation and challenge into the system.
Of course private and voluntary providers must be effectively commissioned and regulated, within a properly managed system - not the free market, free-for-all that this Government is putting in place.
But it would be a real mistake to slip back into old ways of thinking, and attempt to block rather than encourage the benefits these services can bring.
To most people who think about the challenge of running a decent public sector on limited budgets, that is all perfectly sensible. It is also, however, by the standards of recent Labour party caution in the discussion of public sector reform and given the reactionary mood in some corners of the wider labour movement, quite a departure. Brave, even. A modest burst of level-headed realism from a shadow minister about the challenge of running services in straightened times, acknowledging the need for innovation and reform that might not always be popular at first - I wonder if it will catch on.
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Labour could just lie like the Tories and do what Portillo said: 'They didn't say they would change the NHS because they knew if they did they wouldn't be elected.'
This ignores the very expensive NHS market, set up by Thatcher and perpetuated under the last government, which has been rejectd by the devolved nations but which continues to be viewed as immutable by all three major political parties in England
It is estimated to cost 10 - 12% of the NHS budget (odd and convenient that no-one knows an exact figure) ie about £12 billion a year. That would buy a lot of healthcare.
If you want to think innovative think about abolishing it. Otherwise 'innovative' is just more annoying jargon to staff who are too busy to see beyond the next patient and whose managers are off playing jargon bingo or ticking boxes
As for 'care in the community', its uncritical embrace ignores the fact that it doesnt save money and the infrastructure is not in place.
The evidence for the 'innovation' resulting from the privae sector would be welcome if you have it. I havent seen any written up. Meanwhile their 'challenge' is mostly through the courts when they dont win contracts - which they will mostly do given the cost of tendering for non multinationals
This is tired and disappointing old stuff and wont get the NHS out of the hole into which it is disappearing.
What's this?
I have looked in vain since the story broke about the Rotherham case of Foster parents suddenly not being acceptable because they are members of UKIP in much the same way that I kooked in vain for the story of Jimmy Savile on this blog when it broke.
It seems that when a massive story(and it is) breaks that doesn't coincide with certain agendas,SAD!
It isn't a massive story. SS should have checked that the children's identity/culture/religion would be protected before they placed them. They didn't. Now they have, and they've corrected their error. Move on.
Rafael: Why do you take it for granted that "realism" and "credibility" mean cutting government budgets? Given the global crisis--and new ones to come, like global warming--it's clear that "credible" government and "realistic" measures for response can only come from reversing the conventional wisdom of the last 30 years, and moving back to the larger governments and increased regulation that actually worked fairly well. Any party that does not call for bigger government and increased spending is, quite simply, not offering a "realistic" response to the current situation. And Labour today is only very marginally less deluded than the Tories. Let's have some real realism.
Oh dear - the same old metro-consensual gang-bang rhetoric about 'reform' of public services.
This is the same tired old vacuity which has stifled really creative thinking about the best ways to achieve social goals with finite resources. We'd never have had the NHS in the first place if such had infected post-war reconstruction thinking.
Yes, there are problems - but the regurgitation of half-digested market nostrums are no solution.
as a canadian living in the uk i don't understand all the 'necessary' cuts and tight budgets needed by the nhs. the nhs is superb and runs on a budget far far less than the canadian health service. it is cheaper still than the american and better and serves all the people not just 80%. all this privatization is absolute neo-liberal nonsence. want to help the nhs, easy. ban all private care and insurance and share holders (not the production of needles etc.) , double the budget so it equals canada or triple it to equal america, then pass a law to make certain that 80% of that tripled budget goes to those working fist hand with those in need. then relax have a holiday and address the other challenges without all the hyped up pressure. job done.
all other arguments are neo-liberal rubbish to make profits for their mates.
"That is because vast old district general hospitals are a desperately outmoded way of looking after people, many of whom have chronic conditions that should be treated not in hospital beds but at home or at local clinics."
No, you miss understand. If anything there is a lack of capacity in DGH's and there will be a greater demand on the capacity of DGH's as the population ages. There is little evidence that moving treatment out to the community will save any money, in fact there is more evidence that *centralising* services is more efficient and safer. If you move services out to the "community" you will either have to make specialists spent time inefficiently travelling, or the service will be delivered by less specialist staff: a diabetic will be seen by a practice nurse at a GP practice rather than by the diabetic consultant in the DGH. This will be undoubtedly cheaper on the surface, but long term will it be cheaper?
Where reconfigurations are needed are if the DGH is in the wrong place. This government believes in competition, and competition means there must be excess capacity. But excess capacity may mean that a hospital will not be able to generate enough income. We also see some services being closed because there is not enough patients to employ enough specialists and so the service is unsafe (this has happened with A&E departments and child heart surgery centres).
Don't assume that reconfigurations are simply about closing DGHs. That is tired thinking.
That's not correct. Having local diabetic intermediate services is actually cheaper. Most diabetic patient do not benefit from seeing a consultant once a year. Most forward thing hospitals are putting this into action. That said running down all DGH's is not the answer as acute beds are already in short supply.
I wonder if you are in hospital in Yorkshire and a UKIP voter, would you get killed by the jackboot socialist there that take chidren off foster-parents for being in a democratic party.
I would not vote UKIP, but I respect the rights of other to exist in a democracy.
Well if we had one!
Her Majesty's government, and I mean that most sincerely folks, may be pants at fighting wars abroad but just look at what they've done in the last two-and-a half years.
And yet here is Cameron is holding out the begging bowl again. What percentage of EU funds is made up of UK contributions. No creative accounting from the Crooked MIle, thank you.
Just as the 1945 Labour government had to restore and rebuild a 'bombed-out' Britain, the next Labour government will be faced with a similar problem with the perps, Tory Vandals, just across the aisle.
Talk about friendly fire!
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The last labour government poured lots of money in to the nhs and modernised it. As a result of their actions, many of my family had operations and I will be forever grateful. I know that with cuts to services, those life enhancing and life saving procedures may not have been available.
However, I have worked in the nhs and whilst medical records staff and bureaucrats are definitely needed, a new breed created by Labour were allowed to dictate to clinicians, budgets for medical decisions. This is wrong. Working as a health care assistant in a local hospital that Labour closed in the name of centralisation, the ward sister had funds taken away for care to pay for coffee machines and modern managers full of waffle, whilst laying off medical staff and told to save on medical supplies. They didn't look for better prices for the supplies, oh no- instead they just told us to stop giving pads to the incontinent or lay of staff that took them to the loo. Hence resulting in laser treatment needed for bed sores from sitting in urine.
I've worked in a hospital laundry and have seen surgeons gowns, not fit for purpose, where even the outsourced private firms were shocked at lack of funding for such items. Because, any of us could be a patient in these wards one day.
The conservatives on the nhs are thick. My father had private health insurance from his bank for himself and his family. Two of the operations he had done were in the nhs and the one private one that went wrong, had to be corrected in the nhs. Now i would ask the thick as thick conseratives- where are most of your privately funded operations done? In nhs hospitals!!! Doh!!! So- think on. Where are you going to have your private health care operations done- in starbucks? Yet they seem intent on destroying the nhs. That is where all the facilities and expertise is.
People are left in wards without people to feed them or take them to the loo- as this is not seen as an issue by pen pushing bureaucrats.
When you are old and sitting in your own sick, poo and urine and in pain, perhaps you may wish that you looked after the nhs- not to make a quick buck, but as an accountable, rational organisation that could make your life more comfortable.
Yes, there seems little difference in the actual base doctrine here. As a citizen, I object strenuously to the uncounted millions which are leeched out of the NHS budget in order to pay for private sector profits, shareholder dividends, and exec bonuses. I do not see this as money well spent, but clearly Labour has still to wake up and smell the rightwing pillaging of the public sector. Ed, wake up!
Bollocks - this is nothing more than the same old, same old with a red coat of paint rather than a blue one. No end to the wasteful, bureaucratic purchaser, provider split, no end to outsourcing to parasitic, self-serving private sector firms, no end to the dogma of choice and competition and disruptive innovation. The neoliberal consensus rules. Until someone (of any political stripe) takes a step back, does some serious analysis of policy and really gets their thinking caps on, we are doomed to have to put up with this garbage.


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Drago: You are a empathatic Urbworld Entrepeneur. You grew up an urchin on the streets of some urban megapoilis, and rose your way up to a respectable station through guile. You're a compulsory thief, an ignoble trait, but one that kept you fed when you lived on nothing but scraps. Your life on the streets taught you how to hold your own in a fight, and your experience in business has given you insight into how people work and into the basics of modern technology.
Turt: You grew up a lowly slave on a backwater medieval world. Your master later sold you to a passing slaver ship, who then sold you to some asteroid in the middle of nowhere. Years of hard labor have made you wise in physical matters, such as mining and construction, but leave you lacking when pondering the more techincal fields. Your life on the deep-space mining asteroid has given you a tolerance for radiation. A life of isolation and abuse has left your psyche fractured, with your only friends being your multiple personalities.
Grif: You were born from war. Part of a space empire's navy's R&D, you were grown in a testtube. Trained and created specifically for combat, you are deadly at range and in melee combat. Your nature as a living weapon, however, leaves you useless in social tasks. Even the merest social interaction is vexing to you. You rose to the ranks of Comissar in a batallion through your methodical ways. Also you stink and are lecherous.
Holmeshire Rivas: You were born into nobility on some backwater planet. You were raised to understand all the working of court and rulership, and you never had to demean yourself with manual labor. Until, that is, slavers raided your homeland and took you off world. You were eventually sold to a mining outfit, where you spent years working deep in space on mineral rich asteroids. There you slowly learning the secrets of earth and building, as well as becoming strong. You have a bit of a temper, and killed a couple of your fellow miners in a drunken brawl. You were aboard the ship when it crashed. You made it to an escape pod, but launched just as the ship broke apart. You drifted for a week in orbit around Planet before crashing to the surface.
Zed Underwood: You grown as a soldier, like Grif, though you didn't have the same talent in warfare as he did. You were designed to be a technician - you worked under Grif as a Scientist in the navy, working with arcane technologies. You face the same problems in social interaction as Grif does, and your work with higher-level technologies has left you scarred, both physically and mentally.
Beowulf Todd: You're a strange man - covered head to foot in fur like a Wookie due to a genetic disorder. You grew up poor on the streets of a city-world, fighting just to survive. To better your lot in life, you joined the Navy, and became a soldier. You had a particular talent with the maintenance of arms, and always kept your squad's gear in top shape.
(Unclaimed) Sellers: You grew up on on the rough streets of the city, and the brawls you had there prepared you for your true calling - killing. You worked as an assassin for years, honing your skills, before being captured by slavers. Now you've been bought by Spamville. You're good at one thing and one thing only - killing. You have no talent with normal manual labor, nor social graces, nor any talent with numbers. In one particularly lucrative contact, you went to kill an alien crime lord on a toxic world. The contractor bought you cybernetic implants, putting CO2 scrubbers in your respiratory system.
(Unclaimed) Best: You were born a slave and climbed the social ladder to become a military officer. You were enslaved again on a suicide mission by SCD Shipping. Now you are free once more. Your battalion took a special drug that made you numb to all pain. You have a special talent for mathematics.
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Our survivors land on Planet. Drago, being the most charismatic of the three, declares himself leader and sets about dictating what needs to be done to Turt and Grif. Turt, used to taking orders, does what Drago says without question. When Drago shares that he managed to grab some scans of the planet before the ship blew apart, Grif gives his own solemn acquiescence to Drago's command as well. Apparently the region they landed in had quite a few geothermal vents. Drago, being a contractor for an interstellar engergy conglomerate, is able to show Turt how to make a generator out of the metal from their escape pods. With power, they can set up shelters in the rockfaces and power a nutrient converter. They might just survive after all.
Day 2:
Drago orders Turt to begin digging shelters into the cliff-face as the next day begins. Then he and Grif begin scavenging their surrounding area for supplies - they find some native fauna that should be fine to eat, as well as scrap metal that crashed from their ship. Their cave-shelters begin to take shape.
Day 3:
Drago and Grif finish collecting everything useful in the local area.They begin a small potato farm from seeds that survived the crash from their ship. Hopefully they can grow enough food to keep the three of them alive. Turt finishes digging some bedrooms, and the survivors make themselves proper quarters. Even turt, a slave, is given a good room.
Day 4:
The survivors set about connecting their rooms to the generator, powering their small home. Grif, knowing how raiders and slavers wander this part of space freely, suggests building some defenses. The survivors put together a small turret near the door of their new home.
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The group finally builds a room with a nutrient converter. Eating raw potatoes was getting really dull.
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Lights are installed inside the caves. Life seems a little brighter. Turt begins to dig new halls, and a storage room. The survivors have been stockpiling everything outside - they decide to move it inside where animals and the like can't steal their food.
Around noon, a large crashing is heard. Apparently not all of your ship's escape pods were destroyed! Grif goes out to investigate, and brings back a survivor - a girl, one of the mining outfit that Turt was enslaved too. As soon as she's in a bed, her wounds dressed, another crash is heard - this time a scientist from the ship.
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As a Terran Week flies past, the survivors - now numbering five total, realize that they're going to be stuck here for a long time. Drago decides that this unintentional colony needs a name - Spamville.
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Located in Tysons Corner, Avalon Park Crest is a brand new Virginia apartment community situated in desirable Fairfax County. Avalon Park Crest offers spacious Tysons Corner apartments with luxurious features. Community amenities include a state-of-the-art fitness center, sparkling swimming pool, underground parking, and the ease of maintenance-free living. Nearby attractions include a Harris Teeter grocery store, Starbucks, the Tysons Galleria Shopping Mall and the Tysons Corner Center Mall. Add in convenient access to transportation via the Silver Line Metro stations, Dulles Toll Road, I-495 and nearby Dulles Airport.
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Cats and Dogs are allowed. Maximum number of pet(s): 2. Restrictions or other terms: Non-Refundable pet fee: $500 per unit. Restricted breeds are: Rottweiler, Doberman, Pit Bulls, American Bull Dogs, Staffordshire Terriers, German Shepherds, Tosa Inus, Shar Peis, Wolf Hybrids, Dalmatians, Boxers, Alaskan Malamutes, Basset Hounds, Blood Hounds, Bull Mastiffs, Argentine Dogos, Akitas, Bresa Canarios, Fila Brasileiros, Chow Chows. Following pets are also restricted: Monkeys, Ferrets, Snakes, Rabbits, Livestock and Reptiles..
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Atletico Madrid are 90 minutes away from booking a place in the Copa del Rey final against city rivals Real Madrid. Standing in their way is a Sevilla side that would love nothing more that to spoil a potential derby match-up.
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With Real Madrid having secured their place in the Copa del Rey Final, it's time to decide who they will face. Madrid's city rivals Atletico Madrid hold a 2-1 advantage after the first leg and if they can take care of business today at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, we will all be rewarded with a El Derbi madrileño.
First things first though before we can start getting excited about that potential match-up. Head coach Diego Simeone rested Adrian during their win over Espanyol at the weekend and midfielder Cristian Rodriguez played limited minutes in the second half. Simeone also has no injuries or suspensions to deal with. Atleti are unlikely to be able to catch Barcelona for the league title and they were just knocked out of the Europa League, so the Copa del Rey is their last chance at a trophy this season.
Sevilla are in pretty good shape as well on the injury/suspension front with only one long term issue at the moment. Regulars Alvaro Negredo and Jose Antonio Reyes were rested over the weekend and there's not doubt Unai Emery will need them to play a big role. Sevilla have failed to defeat Atletico Madrid in their last six attempts.


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Rising world-wide gas prices triggered automakers to release a new generation of small city cars at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. These cars range from the diminutive Toyota iQ to the more conventionally-sized Hyundai i20. Engine sizes go from 1 up to 1.5 liters, with fuel economies between 40 and 50 miles per gallon. Not much cabin tech is available in these cars, although, judging from its steering wheel buttons, the new generation Ford Ka might be getting the Sync system.
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We haven't been too excited about Ford's Ecoboost tech, simply because it's not really new tech. However, Ford's next evolution of Ecoboost, code-named Bobcat, might be worth getting worked up about.
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Michigan's pharmacists are encouraging people to clean out their medicine cabinets.
Paul Jensen is the president of the Michigan Pharmacists Association. He says old, out of date, unused prescription drugs are increasingly being abused by teenagers.
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'Lore' is from the Old English meaning "learning, what is taught, knowledge, doctrine," & 'occult' means "hidden, concealed, secret." Like a Watchers meetup in Buffy, we share stories, books, myths, high magick research, and the company of friends. "The believer is happy, the doubter wise." — Greek proverb
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A working meeting for those publishing on-line, whether engaged in some facet of on-line publishing or the 'whole of it'. This meetup comprises 2 hour lunch meetings (buying lunch not required) twice weekly 1 - 3 pm, as in the afternoon for those of us already on a 24/7 internet clock. This internet marketing mastermind group is moderated by a past president of a local Toastmasters Club, which indicates some organized focus. These meeting times of course assume you have already somehow 'adjusted …
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This is a gathering for pagans of all paths to join and share fellowship and friendly conversation over a pint (or two). Its a great opportunity to get to know other pagans in the community in a comfortable, relaxed social environment. What is a "moot"? Generally speaking, "moot" is a very old word for a meeting from early Germanic languages. In modern times, pagans all over the English-speaking world have been gathering at pubs for pagan pub moots. Now Tacoma is joining in the tradition!
The fourth Sunday of every month is the regular meeting of the Tacoma Tarot & Qabalah Study Group. We are now located at the Matsusaka Townhomes Rec Center at 810 S 13th St # A, Tacoma, WA 98405-4943. We meet at this location every fourth Sunday, from 1:00 ~ 3:00 PM. The Tacoma Tarot & Qabalah Study Group is free of charge, and open to anyone interested in the Western Mystery traditions of Qabalah, Sacred Tarot, Spiritual Alchemy and Esoteric Astrology. Please come and enjoy the invigorating di …
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A welcoming community of open-minded people with different backgrounds who have an interest in inner exploration. Our discussion topics tend to center around shamanic techniques , plant medicine, expansion of consciousness and spirituality. We are interested in growing as human beings by integrating our spiritual experiences into our lifestyles and sharing our knowledge with each other. The topics of conversation at meetings are our experiences with Ethnobotany and Ethnomycology, and sacramenta …
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Greetings to all! This group is for queer pagans, heathens, wiccans, druids, witches, magicians and any and all that enjoy or are interested in learning more about neo-pagan and magickal spiritual practices. We welcome all with a sincere interest in meeting others of our LBGTQI community that are practicing pagans or interested in neo-pagan and magickal ways. Our intention is that this group bring some of us together to make new friends, share knowledge, and have fun. Check back often for news a …
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Welcome to one of Seattle's newest esoteric meetups! This group is for anyone looking to learn more about the theory and practice of modern astrology. It's easy to read astrology columns in newspapers and magazines, and hear pop culture astrologers on television telling us "our future is in the stars", whatever that means... inquisitive minds know there is more to the field than that. Many people learn about astrology for many different reasons- for personal growth, after a strange encounter, …
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Over the past five years, dozens of stores have come and gone in Chicago. Four former shop owners tell us about life after the boutique.
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Then "[My partner Dion Antic and I] opened at the beginning of the metrosexual phase," Berlin says. "The idea was to give men in the neighborhood a place where they could be comfortable shopping." Decked out with a foosball table, Playboy magazines and beer, the Wicker Park shop purveyed a collection of casual menswear, with lines such as Rock & Republic, J.Lindeberg and Hudson. In the end, the combining forces of internal conflict between Berlin and Antic and neighborhood changes were too much to bear. "It was hard to compete with Marc Jacobs and BCBG. I was thrilled to close."
Now With more time on her hands, Berlin focuses on freelance wardrobe styling; recent work has included a Ting Tings music video and a Sears commercial starring Brett Favre. She also spends part of the week working at a high-end women's apparel showroom. As for opening up another store? "I loved it, and if the economy gets back on track, who knows," Berlin says. "It was the most fun I've ever had, maybe just [because I was] surrounded by men all the time."


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The Triumph Street Triple and Street Triple R are famed for their incredible performance, unmistakable appearance and an attitude all of their own. Only a perfectionist would try and improve the famous all-rounder. But that's exactly what we've done. In fact, it's a whole new bike – rediscovered and redesigned for the most exhilarating, exciting riding experience.
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On October 26, Family Promise hosted their 25th Anniversary Gala Celebration at Fiddler's Elbow Country Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Close to 250 friends and acquaintances, new and old, gathered in recognition of the work Family Promise has done over the past twenty-five years to help homeless and low-income families across the country.
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Internal ALEC documents reveal that it lost 400 state legislators and 60 corporation members in the last two years
Tuesday, Dec 3, 2013 8:32 PM UTC 15The man who brought the world "2016: Obama's America" tries and fails to be funny on Twitter
Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 9:30 PM UTC 355A judge ordered Zimmerman to surrender his firearms, but that's only for the time being
Friday, Nov 22, 2013 3:02 PM UTC 77Between George Zimmerman's history of conduct, his state of mind and our judicial system, it's a very real question
Thursday, Nov 21, 2013 6:28 PM UTC 511A chilling 911 call shows George Zimmerman trying to frame his girlfriend -- just like he did Trayvon Martin
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2013 9:50 PM UTC 1191Once again, calls to the police evidence Trayvon Martin's killer resorting to pulling out a firearm VIDEO
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2013 4:19 PM UTC 63Trayvon Martin's killer has been taken in by Seminole County officers, reportedly for a domestic disturbance
Monday, Nov 18, 2013 7:16 PM UTC 56The racially charged shooting, ruled a homicide, generates more rage as details of 19-year-old's death emerge
Tuesday, Nov 12, 2013 6:40 PM UTC 38Research suggests high score on common measure of racial resentment increases odds person rejects gun reform
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013 1:15 PM UTC 50...is don't wear blackface. The end. Now why is that so hard for some people to remember?
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 11:44 AM UTC 658Laws fail to effectively stop violent men or protect us -- that's why we have to stand up for ourselves
Tuesday, Oct 1, 2013 11:43 AM UTC 55Marissa Alexander received 20 years for firing a gun, despite claiming Castle Law against her abusive husband
Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 3:42 PM UTC 25While being up in arms about popular injustices, they're educated how not to see race, empire and colonialism
Friday, Sep 13, 2013 4:43 PM UTC 257She said he threatened her with a gun VIDEO
Monday, Sep 9, 2013 8:05 PM UTC 31It comes a week after she pleaded guilty to perjury
Friday, Sep 6, 2013 12:06 PM UTC 23For at least the second time since his acquittal VIDEO
Wednesday, Sep 4, 2013 6:10 PM UTC 27The wife of Trayvon Martin's shooter had falsely told the court her family was indigent
Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 6:21 PM UTC 43While the nation discusses racial and economic equality, the cable network is covering a totally different story
Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 11:43 AM UTC 98Trayvon Martin's killer will ask Florida to foot a legal bill of up to $300,000
Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 6:38 PM UTC 62The March on Washington of 1963 held great importance -- here's why the 50th anniversary is more like a eulogy
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So where are all the '38's then?
I figured since we had a thread about '39's, we could start one on '38's "officially". I'll start the ball rolling by posing a question. Does anyone know where this '38 ragtop has gone to? I believe, but am not sure, that Hayward Barb of WV used to own this car. He also was a former owner of my sedan.
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oldhudsons had this one posted on his album (think it's the same car):
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Well, of course there is this one, which was driven to the Gettysburg National. Comes from Long Island (but don't know where it was before then). Al Muller (previously of Long Island, now from Tennessee) had a '38 convertible for many years, originally green like the one pictured here, but later changed to yellow. Al sold it in the 1980s (I think) to finance restoration of a '33 T8 cv. he'd owned since his college days. Possibly the Barb one was once Al's. Then you have the '38 formerly owned by the late Kelly Hinegardner. So that makes three Hudson Eight convertibles known to exist in the U.S. (A fellow from Russia showed up at Gettysburg; turns out he owns a '38 cv. too, but it was exported to Germany from the U.S. when new, so not one of the aforementioned ones.) These are the only three 1938 convertible "senior Hudsons" (not counting 112's or Terraplanes) that I know of. -
Kelly Hindgardner had a 38 -8 conv. with a back seat. I saw him a few months before he died and he told me it was one of two to exist. I thing his wife still has it. He also had a 38 sedan that he drove to Salt Lake City meet to run on the salt flats. They wouldnt let us because it rained the night before. Dont know what happened to it.
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1951 - Kelly's '38 was originally a '38 Hudson 6 conv. (model 83 & probably the only one of them in existance) which he converted into an 8; I know, I sold it to him. He'd looked for a '38 8 conv. for decades & could never find one so bought this one from me, which I'd found in no. Calif., and made it into an 8.
RL - YES, Kelly would have gone NUTS to have found a completely original '38 8 conv. after all the years of hunting! An incredible find - I took a lot of pics of it at Gettysburg but owner never around (I was told he paid $40K for it at Hershey). -
Oldhudsons gave me permission to post this photo. That's him in the photo with the '38 Ragtop that he sold to Terraplane Kelly. Kelly later painted it blue and added sidemounts to it. Also, he converted it from a 6 into an 8. Reason for posting, is that I do not have any pictures of the car after Kelly completed it. I was hoping some of y'all could help me out with that! Got any pics of TK with the completed car?
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RL - I "cleaned it up" on Picasa & added it to my website.
Pete confirmed that it was. -
Dave and Mary Blanchard of the RMHET chapter drive a modified 38 coupe everywhere.DSC_3140.jpg360 x 239 - 45KDSC_3167.jpg360 x 239 - 57K
On a far more general note, I learned some time ago that the reason that there are far fewer '38 Fords (it was an article about Fords - sorry) is that 1938 was a recession year. I found it interesting that even though the country was in a depression, it was still possible to also have a recession. There must be some truth to it, because not only are there fewer Fords for 1938, but also Chevys. I suppose that it's logical that the same thing would apply to nearly all other makes, as well. I'd be curious to know if the club registry reflects that in any way.
Give me another year or so and hopefully I will get my '38 112 finished. Promised you a ride and a promise made is a debt un-paid Russell.
Give me another year or so and hopefully I will get my '38 112 finished. Promised you a ride and a promise made is a debt un-paid Russell.
I have not forgotten! I assure you, sir. You don't know how, "distraught" is not the right word, . . . let's say, concerned that when I first saw that yellow 112 in a picture from GB this year, that I thought I had missed the boat, so to speak. Then I got a hold of my chimp and realized you would have written me if you had gotten her completed.
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From what I have learned, you are correct. To add to your story, it is my understanding that the recession (or lack of spending) was brought on by the Germans starting to make a lot of loud noises in Europe (again). Just like in an election year, folks tend to sit back and wait during times like that and see what develops. Which, of course translates into less new cars being sold, among other things. -
The economy was on the skids in both 1933 and 1938 and -- wonder of wonders! -- these were two of the worst years for the Hudson nameplate. (Fortunately they made a cheaper line of cars in those years; Terraplanes in 1933 and Terraplanes / 112's in 1938, which pulled them through.) The economy hit all manufacturers in these years. You don't see a whole lot of 1933 or 1938 Anythings at antique car shows.
HET historians feel the introduction in '32 of the Essex-Terraplane in mid-'32 and the sales the '33 E-T 6 & 8 made saved Hudson from going under. '33 was the worst year of the Great Depression in terms of % of unemployed & only 2401 of the big Hudson were sold whereas over 38,000 of the E-Ts were sold which was enough to keep Hudson going. '34 much better sales.
here's a VERY rare hood ornamentIMG_0997.JPG1731 x 1979 - 1M
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atho they look the same in the pics the Hudson is approx. 25% bigger (these appear to me to be modeled after an Assyrian god)
Could someone identify the exact model of the 38 Convertible at Gettysburg for me... Was it a DeLuxe Brougham or a Convertible Coupe? I want to get it right? Or was it a 6?
One other question is the lights on the fender only seem to be on English cars? Was this available here as an option?
Thank you
Todd -
Todd - the original green conv. is an 8 and a conv. brougham. I believe the fender lights were std. on the model 84 as are the "spears" on the front fenders; the lights optional on the less expensive models.
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Here's one a bit further away ... some 160 miles north of Moscow! Some of you met Andrey Laguzov at G'burg. He's in the middle of a full-up restoration of this car.P10100151.jpg1144 x 856 - 89K
Thank you Pete, Rick, and Park! I just needed some clarification on the Green one. Love original preservation pieces that run!
Todd -
I'm hoping this works, Rich. I saved this image from the old forum and used it as a wallpaper for years. It is after Kelly did his magic.
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Andrey gave an interesting history on that '38 he's restoring. Supposedly, it was being used by the American ambassador to Germany and was seized (I'm guessing at the outbreak of WWII) by the German authorities. It was used by the Germans (Army?) until the end of the War at which point it was seized by the invading Russians (or maybe "a" Russian), who took it back home. I can't recall what's supposed to have happened to it at that point.
We withdrew our Ambassador in late 1938, leaving only an embassy charge d'affaires, so the car may have changed hands then or soon after. Andrey has told me it's supposed to have gone at some point into the collection of big-time (and big!) car guy Hermann Goering.
Here is a picture of my 38 Terraplane in NewZealand.
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'46 OK, I looked at the photos I took of at, but all from a distance, no shots of the interior, so having no sidecurtains, assumed it was a conv. cp.
sure an interesting story about the Russian '38
I have a photo of a '38 H8 conv. in Denmark which I will try to post after get problems with access to Picasa straightened out! -
Pete, that wouldn't happen to be the '38 cv. owned by Erik Bjerring? I met the fellow at the Hudson flea market in Carlisle (the one held just after Hershey) maybe 15-20 years ago and have been carrying his card around ever since. He was then with GM Danmark, and was looking for parts for his car.
Jon - I don't know as received several photos of rare Hudsons in Scandanavia over the last few years, several in a museum in Denmark, but without attribution. The '38 photo was taken outdoors & appears to be black.
Pete: is it this one?
Go to http://www.carsinbarns.com/new138.html and scroll down the page. This car is evidently in Denmark. The serial number identifies it as a Custom Eight, and it was registered (in the Club's "master list" of 5,000 or so cars) as belonging to Erik Bjerring in Helsinge, Denmark. Not sure when the photos were taken. -
no - when get Picasa straightened out will try & find it. Photo I have is of a nice one, obviously in running condition as out on a country road.
There is another '38 112 CV in Europe. It's black, very pretty, has an odd turn-signal flag that pops out of the side of the body. It was listed on a site as being for sale a couple/few years ago. Might have been Denmark? There were several pics listed on the site, mostly of the car parked against a curb on a hilly street.
I looked the other day for a while to see if I could find it again, but no luck. This ring a bell with anyone?
I believe the pictures were copyrighted, and couldn't save one. -
Thanks for posting!! Can you send me a full-sized copy of that pic, please?
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Thanks! -
just posted to my website today: '38 Custom 8 Country Club sedan and a '38 Hudson-Terra. Big Boy PU
Whew!! I like that Sedan.
RL - I have 2 photos of the interior which was/is in perfect original condition (think it has the fold out table)
Like to see it, Pete.
OK, will do that tomorrow.
Heres mine! Hope the link works..
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Darn.. need to practice on this.
Sry all! -
This one is in New South Wales Australia.1938Hudson112Sedan.jpg320 x 231 - 17K
Pretty car! Thanks for sharing. -
Russell, just saw your request. I will attempt to send you what I have.
Tim -
RL - I put the interior pics of the Custom 8 onto the website & with the pics of the car
Thanks for posting that, Pete. So, what was that in the back of the front seat, a storage compartment?
I'm not sure; guess I just assumed it had the fold out table but that doesn't seem to be the case?
Love the stainless door strips, pull out middle arm rest, cigarette trays in the side arm rests.
These photos taken years ago when car belonged to one Keith Chamberlain of Venice, Calif. He died some years ago, I have no idea where it is now. -
Yep, I like it, too. Luxury and class.
Just looked at it carefully & it has a "robe rail" ergo no pull out table. There appears to be a button (?) in the middle of the back of the front seat, don't know it's function.
Jonas, is this the car that is for sale on blocket, or have you recently bought it?


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"At this point, we weren't connecting the dots," he said. They did later when a reporter called the police chief, asking him to comment on the shooting.
Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Andy Smith says police were first called to check on Ciancia at 10:06 a.m. Officers arrived at his apartment six minutes later, according to Smith.
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The timeline provided Monday by police differed from that offered earlier by Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. He said police had arrived at Ciancia's apartment about 45 minutes after the suspect had left for the airport.
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