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Solar Homes Sell at a Premium
What happens when word gets around?
A new Berkeley Lab report, "An Analysis of the Effects of Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems on Home Sales Prices in California," provides some evidence that a significant benefit comes with selling a home with a solar power system.
What are the implications for utilities if the trend continues or is experienced outside of California? The study doesn't consider those prospects, but the obvious impact might be to encourage wider adoption of home systems.
"Relatively little research exists that estimates the impacts of those PV systems on home sales prices. A clearer understanding of these effects might influence the decisions of homeowners considering installing PV on their home or selling their home with PV already installed, of home buyers considering purchasing a home with PV already installed, and of new home builders considering installing PV on their production homes," the report says.
Almost 100,000 PV systems have been installed in California alone, more than 90 percent of which are residential. Innovative financing methods, called into question by lending underwriters, have played a major role in that.
To determine whether PV homes sell for significantly more than comparable non-PV homes, Berkeley Lab analyzed a dataset of approximately 72,000 California homes, almost 2,000 of which had PV systems installed at the time of sale. The analysts found strong evidence that California homes with PV systems have sold for a premium over comparable homes without PV systems.
The premium coalesced at nearly $17,000 for a relatively new "average-sized" based on the sample of homes studied PV system of 3,100 watts (DC). This corresponds to an average home sales price premium of $5.50/watt (DC), with the range of results across various models being $3.90 to $6.40/watt.
Other key findings include:
• When the data are split between new and existing homes, a large disparity in premiums is discovered: The research finds that new homes with PV in California have demonstrated average premiums of $2.32/watt, while the average premium for existing homes with PV has been more than $6/watt.
• The research suggests several possible reasons for the lower premium for new homes, including that new home builders may also gain value from PV as a market differentiator, and may therefore have been willing to accept a lower premium in return for faster sales velocity.
• The research finds strong evidence that homes with PV systems in California have sold for a premium over comparable homes without PV systems. More specifically, PV as a standard (as opposed to an optional) product on their homes and perhaps been willing to accept a lower premium in return for faster sales velocity and decreased carrying costs.
• The research also finds that, as PV systems age, the premium enjoyed at the time of home sale decreases, indicating that buyers and sellers of PV homes may be accounting for the decreased efficiency and remaining expected life of older PV systems.
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I don't buy it!
While I would love to jump on the band wagon and sing the praises of how solar systems increase the value of a home, it's simply too early to say that they do!
With my previous career having been in the real estate and mortgage banking field, I was curious about this topic too. I checked into it and wrote a blog posting on this very topic. In my research I talked with three different appraisers in the Los Angeles area and they all three said the same thing, that, "Not enough homes have sold with solar power generation systems for them to have sufficient "comparables" to "prove" that they add to the value of a home.
Here's a link to that blog...
Please be careful leading people to beleive that installing a system will increase the value of their home. Even if it does, I doubt that it would increase it enough to justify installing a system for that reason alone!
Bob "Free As The Wind" Mitchell


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Ned Yost Media Session Aug. 7, 2015
The Royals are in town to start a 10-game homestand, after completing a 10-game stretch on the road. Manager Yost said he is glad to be back at 'The K'. "It seems like it's been a year since we've been back here." It was a tough road trip for the Royals as they lost four of six, but added two games to their A.L. Central lead over the second place Twins and maintain the best record in the American League. Despite poor offensive performances during the road trip, Yost is optimistic that "at least four or five" of the Royals will get their bats going and continue to separate themselves in the American League.
The Royals currently have a 9.5 game lead on the Twins, but Yost knows there is still a lot of baseball to be played and no lead is safe at the point in the season. According to Yost, the Royals have been a good second-half team over the past two seasons and he is confident that his club will continue that trend and make another World Series push.
By: Sal DeFeo
Ned Yost Media Session July 22
Royals starter Jason Vargas was placed on the 15-day disabled list after he tore his left ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in the second inning of Tuesday night's game. The Royals recalled Yordano Ventura, to take his place on the 25-man roster, one day after sending Ventura down to Triple-A Omaha. Manager Ned Yost made the decision to bring back Ventura because if he did not bring Ventura back today, "Ace" would have to stay in the Minors for 10 days. Yost also noted that the Royals needed a starter for Sunday and Ventura was their best option. Regarding Vargas' injury, Yost said, "the report didn't come back good, and he's definitely going to have surgery" and most likely "Tommy John" surgery.
Despite losing Vargas in the second inning, the Royals bullpen picked up the void and scattered seven hits and one run across 7.2 innings, with 10 strikeouts, to get the win over the Pirates. Having a bullpen that can pitch nearly an entire game extremely effectively gives the Royals a "big advantage" over other teams in the league. "We've got guys who can come in the ball game and hold the ball game right there and give us a chance to score," said Yost.
By: Sal DeFeo
Ned Yost Media Session July 21
Royals pitcher Yordano "Ace" Ventura was optioned to Triple-A Omaha and starter Jason Vargas was reinstated. Manager Ned Yost said that the move was influenced a lot by using Kris Medlen last night and the recent workload of the bullpen. According to Yost, the move will also be good for Ventura to get his confidence back with a few starts in Omaha to work on his command, "a lot of times it good for a player to take a step back, so they can take three or four steps forward," said Yost.
The entire Royals organization including staff, players and front office all have confidence in Ventura that he will be ready to go after his stint in the minors is over. Manager Yost told the media that if we (the Royals) are going to make it back to the World Series this year he (Ventura) will be a big part of it. Ventura is scheduled to make his first start in Triple-A this Saturday.
Jason Vargas will start tonight for the first time since going on the disabled list five weeks ago. Vargy threw 90 pitches in his last rehab start, without any discomfort and should not be limited by a pitch count.
By: Sal DeFeo
Ned Yost Media Session July 20
Danny Duffy pitched a career-high 8.0 innings yesterday, giving the Royals bullpen a much needed day off according to Yost, as the Royals are just beginning a 17-game stretch without an off day. Duffy was able reach this achievement with the help of his defense, with many great plays by multiple players.
Five years ago the Royals and Pirates were both towards the bottom of the league in terms of wins, however now both are among the best in baseball. Yost sees many similarities between the two clubs from the defense and pitching quality, to how the teams bring up talent within the organization and develop players.
Also giving a boost to the Royals bullpen, Kris Medlen, was placed on the active roster today and will be available for the Pittsburgh series. Yost said that Medlen has worked hard to get back to the Majors after two Tommy John surgeries and has built up his arm strength to throw around 100 pitches if needed. He provide depth to the bullpen as a long reliever and could even see a spot start if injuries were to occur.
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Paulo delivers again!
The Royals wrapped up an exciting 8-3 homestand on Sunday, with rookie Paulo Orlando delivering his second clutch homer of the week. Paulo capped the 11-10 win over Toronto with a solo homer in the eighth. He belted a walk-off grand slam in Tuesday's first game vs. Tampa Bay.
On a personal note, today is the last day at the Royals for this blogger. The blog will continue, so stay tuned for updates from the media relations staff. I interviewed Paulo on Friday for an upcoming Royals Baseball Insider feature about his hometown of Sao Paulo, so it was great to see him get another clutch hit! Best to all of you and GO ROYALS! Colby
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Ned Yost media session: July 12, 2015
The Royals play their last game before the All-Star break today against the Blue Jays. Kansas City has gone 7-3 so far on their 11 game home stand and will be looking to close it out with a win.
Kansas City will be taking on the White Sox in the first series back from the All-Star Game. In his pre-game session, Ned Yost said that Chris Young will be starting the first game against Chicago and Edinson Volquez will be starting the second.
By Eric Paulson
Ned Yost media session: July 11, 2015
The red-hot Royals look to extend their winning streak to seven games today against the Blue Jays. Chris Young will take the bump for the Royals and is taking on Toronto's left-hander Mark Buehrle. After a long night yesterday, manager Ned Yost said he knows his guys may be tired but expects them to come out with the same energy that they have had all year.
Lorenzo Cain and Salvador Perez will not be in today's lineup. Instead, Jarrod Dyson and Drew Butera will be holding down their respective positions for Kansas City. "It was a long night yesterday and we need to be careful with quick turnarounds like today's game," said Yost, "with Gordo out, I just want to be extra careful with key role players like Cain and Salvy."
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Ned Yost media session: July 10, 2015
The Royals are wrapping up the last series of an 11-game homestand starting tonight at "The K." Kansas City has won five consecutive games and will be looking for another as Danny Duffy takes the mound against the Blue Jays.
Mike Moustakas will be returning to the lineup tonight from a family emergency that caused him to miss the series against Tampa Bay. "Family comes first," Said manager Ned Yost, "A lot of times people forget that baseball players have lives outside baseball. Family is the most important thing and it comes before baseball."
With the return of Moustakas, Kansas City was forced to send Cheslor Cuthbert back down to AAA Omaha. Cuthbert had an impressive showing in his short time up in the Major Leagues and Yost said he is glad he has proven he can play at the highest level. "Sometimes the hardest part about playing in the Major Leagues is proving to yourself that you can actually do it. Cuthbert came up and showed everyone he's capable at performing at this level and it's good to know we can call on him at anytime."
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Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (R-Fla.), in response to the Rush Limbaugh-Sandra Fluke controversy, told the host of Meet the Press Sunday, "I don't know any woman in America, David, that thinks that being called a slu t is funny."
This comes less than two months after the Florida Congresswoman appeared on vulgarian Bill Maher's HBO program Real Time
"REP. SCHULTZ: Yes. Mitt Romney. What, what woman in America--and Rush Limbaugh, in that apology, said that he was trying to be humorous. I don't know any woman in America, David, that thinks that being called a slu t is funny."
But Maher thinks that's funny and so do his fans.
On March 18, 2011, to cheers and applause, the host of HBO's Real Time called former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a "dumb twa t."
Then, according to the Dallas Voice, while performing at the Winspear Opera House nine days later, Maher called Palin a "cun t."
If slu t is so offensive to Wasserman Schultz, shouldn't "dumb twa t" and "cun t" also be?
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1. Contemplate bodily functions at an eccentric art museum.
Overlooking the waters of the Derwent River, the Museum of Old and New Art is Australia's largest private museum, and arguably its most provocative. Based on the collection of Tasmanian native son David Walsh, who made his millions as a professional gambler, displays include an obese Porsche, a couch that purrs when you stroke it and a "pooing machine" that replicates the human digestive tract. A new exhibition called "Theatre of the World," set to open June 23, will feature objects reflecting 4,000 years of human creativity. Also on site are a winery, a boutique brewery, a restaurant and eight upscale accommodations known as the Pavilions.
2. Catch a glimpse of an angry local.
With its rivers, white-sand beaches and ancient forests, Tasmania has no shortage of breathtaking wilderness. But its most iconic draw is the Tasmanian devil, a small marsupial with black fur and a distinctive white stripe on its chest. The emblem of the state's Parks & Wildlife Service, it is a scavenger and can sometimes be seen during daylight hours, but be warned—it has a reputation for grumpiness (it inspired Warner Bros.' short-tempered "Looney Toons" character, Taz).
3. View history in the making.
Nature and art meet in Tasmania's central highlands, where Australian artist Greg Duncan is in the middle of a decade-long art project inspired by the region's heritage and landscape. Composed of three-meter-tall wood panels that depict, among other scenes, the demise of the Tasmanian tiger and the building of the region's hydro-electric dams, the "Wall in the Wilderness" will be 100 meters long once completed in 2015; so far, 60 panels are done. You can view the work-in-progress at a gallery in the tiny town of Derwent Bridge, near Lake St Clair, Australia's deepest freshwater lake. According to Mr. Duncan's wife Margaret, he used to work in public but has moved to a nearby workshop because he found himself talking too much.
4. Go ghost hunting in one of the world's most notorious prisons.
In the 19th century, Port Arthur struck fear in the hearts of British convicts sent to Australia. More recently, the remote prison settlement was the site of the country's worst peacetime massacre after a lone gunman, now serving a life sentence, murdered 35 people in 1996. No wonder tales of hauntings there abound—and while its Ghost Tour has long been a popular attraction, as of this year adults over 18 can investigate paranormal activity as part of a once-a-month late-night experience. Focusing on locations with especially high incidences of unexplained phenomena, you'll be armed with gear such as a Zoom H4n sound recorder, electromagnetic-field meters, a video recorder and a full-spectrum camera.


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Richard Dawkins – "Outraged atheists lose faith in Dawkins as he censors website"
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Funny, but you should have written this before Dawkins wrote his apology for the way things were handled. So no confrontation is expected. Funny you left out, but it's quite clear you don't understand what even happened in the first place.ReplyDelete
Why do you hate Richard Dawkins so much? I thought Christians were supposed to be filled with "love" and all that. Making fun of his face, really? Judging by your picture, you're not exactly an Adonis yourself, no offense.
But if Richard Dawkins were such a paltry pseudo-intellectual as you say, why do you seem so fascinated with him? I always find it interesting (and perhaps telling?) that you frequently engage in the very thing you condemn: emotionally-driven personal attacks supported by quotes taken out of context.
- AnonymousMarch 8, 2010 at 1:26 AM
"The forum is going to be more tightly controlled and will be under more central control."ReplyDelete
The shape of things to come if Dawkins succeeds in his crusade against religious freedom. Totalitarian atheism at its finest.
By contrast, totalitarian Christianity is an actual problem...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 8, 2010 at 1:52 PM
'Why do you hate Richard Dawkins so much?'ReplyDelete
Oh the ignorance
- AnonymousMarch 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM
No, really, why do you hate Dawkins?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 8, 2010 at 2:45 PM
"The shape of things to come if Dawkins succeeds in his crusade against religious freedom. Totalitarian atheism at its finest."ReplyDelete
What does "religious freedom" have to do with a privately run forum for atheists?
You are free to practice your religion. Just not in my house.
Your whining here is like you stepping into my house, preaching away, and then whining like a little crybaby if I threw you out!
- AnonymousMarch 10, 2010 at 2:08 PM
I think someone may have had a few JW visits lolReplyDelete
yeah, this blog STILL sucks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2010 at 2:43 PM
"By contrast, totalitarian Christianity is an actual problem..."
That's right, 200+ million murdered by totalitarian atheists isn't an "actual" problem.
Only to tards who can't tell the difference between actions done by people who may have been atheistic, and actions done in the name of religion.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2010 at 3:20 PM
That makes totalitarian atheism's 200+ million dead not an actual problem. Nice morality you have there.
Well done on showing to everyone that you can't comprehend the point.ReplyDelete
Do please share with us the 'solution' to the 'problem' of the people Stalin might have killed.
To clarify, I don't think a historical event, is a 'problem' seeking a solution.ReplyDelete
Apparently Anonymous does.
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2010 at 3:29 PM
You didn't make a point, you spewed a red herring. How is the murder of over 200 million people by totalitarian atheism not an actual problem?ReplyDelete
No Red Herring, just a simple point.ReplyDelete
There is a difference between doing something because you are a Christian, and doing something and also just happening to be Christian.
There is a difference between doing something because you are a Rastafarian, and doing something and also just happening to be Rastafarian.
Presumably you don't consider the Crusades a 'problem'? Or the Thousands killed as Witches to be a 'problem'?
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2010 at 4:54 PM
I see where you're coming from. If we pretend that there isn't a remarkable correlation between totalitarian atheism and the worst mass murders in human history then it becomes obvious that the murders of over 200 million innocent people can be seen to be less of a problem than religious atrocties, and therefore atheism is great!ReplyDelete
I see your point. Totalitarian atheist murderers are so because they are assholes and not because they are atheists. Therefore, there is also a strong correlation between atheism and being an asshole.
Hmm strange At the moment it would appear to be a correlation to anonymous commenter and being an asshole.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2010 at 5:11 PM
Youtube? Sorry but the site is actually blocked in the secular atheist utopia where I am currently residing. Assholes! (that also happen to be atheists).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2010 at 8:04 AM
Richard Dawkins is a puerile lump of diseased matter and all you apologists for this deranged donk should go into a corner,eat your own fecal matter and then die S-L-O-W-L-Y along with your boy,Richie Dawkins,Hitchens,Harris and the rest of the atheistic garbage flotsam.If you choose to be atheists...well knock yourselves out but remember all the atheistic poster boys from an earlier time...the demented Nietzche who was in reality a syphilytic moron who couldn`t even wipe his ass for the last eleven years of his life because the cretin was in a coma...and then there is Bertrand Russell the consumate coward,typical atheist pussy,who fled England during the height of the First World War in order to avoid conscription and serving his country and oh the sociopath Alistair Crowley...now there was piece of work...satanic work who should have been cut into chunks and fed into a wood chipper.I could go on and on about all the brain dead atheists that this world has been cursed with but I will conclude by asking one fundamental question...just why is so much of Humanity fucked up...poor potty training,oxygen deprivation at birth,insufficient breast milk feeding at birth...the question of the day was Richard Dawkins breastfed when he was a little itsy bitsy atheist...and could Stephen Hawking ever get a hard on?Now,I know Hawking is a poster boy for all the materialistic hacks out there but I can`t help but think this poor little challenged organism is pissed off with his serious physical limitations,I know I would,and he is angry to the point of rejecting anything which the majority esteem.ReplyDelete
Ah another christian transformed into a new creation by the love of Jesus.ReplyDelete
Can't you feel the fruits of the spirit flowing from that post?
- Jennifer SmithApril 25, 2011 at 8:46 AM
I'm a Born-Again believer in Jesus Christ and I think Richard is cute :DReplyDelete
I admire him for his... Passion and boldness, but I don't agree with his proposal that Faith schools... ((Christian ones (not Catholic ones are dangerous.) After all it was Christians who invented the schooling system.
Hmmm... Bathtub, I would just like to say to you personally, the Crusades/ Witch burnings were not carried out by proper Born-Again Christians because Born Again Christians would not kill somebody else (Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do to you.) Witches weren't the only ones suffering in the witch burnings either. Proper Christians were persecuted then aswell.
The idea of burning/ torturing atheists or witches is repulsive and downright sickening to me as a Born Again believer in Christ.
May I ask, Bathtub? What made you atheist?
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2011 at 3:05 AM
EVERYONE acts ONLY and ALWAYS from out of their fundamental convictions - EVEN WHEN GAMBLING. Therefore to say that mass murders carried out by atheists had nothing to do with them being atheists but that similar things done by theists must be because of their theism is simply ridiculous nonsense lacking in all logic and as such divorced from reality.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2011 at 3:12 AM
Atheists are constantly burning and torturing themselves with self-engendered, unnecessary doubt which they claim to be the highest virtue. I mean, how terrible is the inner life of one who doubts the Principle of Causality - all to be able to assert that there is no Supreme Universal Moral Authority and therefore it is ok for them to behave as despicably as they like and shouldn't be despised for it?ReplyDelete
Pretty standard theist gibberish.ReplyDelete
"Principal of Causality!"
"Oh, sure, then what caused God?"
"Causality doesn't apply!1!"
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 12:34 AM
Hahahahahahahahahaha! Why do you suppose the Beginning of ALL THINGS needs to have something preceding it causally - or otherwise?ReplyDelete
If the Principle of Causality is removed from reasoning - if no causal link exists between events - what is left but pure CHAOS and MAGIC? I thought atheists were claiming to be logical thinkers who rejected MAGIC! Clearly NOT! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Yes exactly, special pleading.ReplyDelete
Since time began with the formation of the universe (spacetime), and 'before the universe' doesn't make any sense I could say with just as much evidence as you have presented that trigger for universe doesn't need causality either.
As I said, you present a rule, command that everything obey it, then immediately say your deity breaks this rule simply by definition. This is not evidence, it is simply special pleading.
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 2:03 AM
Hahahahahahahahahah! Who said ANYTHING about BEFORE the universe? I'm talking about the Original State of the Universe. The State of the Universe from Which ALL subsequent states arose. But such a concept is alien to you as an atheist is it not? Hahahahahahahahahah!ReplyDelete
Without the Principle of Causality, NO INFERENCE can be logically justified and ALL reasoning comes to a grinding halt!
And, by the way, the Principle of Causality only demands that EFFECTS have CAUSES. It DOESN'T claim that ALL causes must have have causes. The BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS, by definition, CANNOT be an EFFECT now, can it? Hahahahahahahahahahaha! I've noticed that fine details like that seem to ALWAYS escape atheists. A case of intellectual imprecision, wouldn't you say? It gets you lot into so much hot water in debates! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Nope again, it's all special pleading.ReplyDelete
Acting like a douche-bag and simply piling on more special pleading doesn't change that it's special pleading.
Again, with as much evidence as you are presenting I could simple state that the 'Original State of the Universe' by definition requires the Universe to Exist.
You are not making any case for God.
You are simply insisting that an uncaused cause must exist, and this is God.
But by that very same argument I can say the uncaused cause is simply the original state of the universe.
I'm not asserting this argument, just showing that yours as a case for God is simply special pleading.
You aren't presenting any actual evidence for one uncaused cause over another.
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 2:50 AM
Hahahahahahahahaha! Ah! so you do believe the universe has an Original State. And that this Original State can be called the Uncaused Cause! Well then, that's EXACTLY what I call "GOD"! You DO agree with me then, eh? And you didn't even know it! Hhahahahahahahahahaha!ReplyDelete
Sheeeeeshhh! These atheists are funny!
well thank you proving that you didn't actually read what I said. I specifically said I wasn't arguing that.ReplyDelete
I just said it's the natural extension of your un-evidenced special pleading.
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 3:06 AM
Hahahahahahahahahaha! So WHAT are you arguing? ANYTHING AT ALL? Hahahahahhahahahaha! You KNOW you DAREN'T attempt to argue ANYTHING AT ALL anyway since you'd be put to the sword intellectually and cut to ribbons! Having shunned the Principle of Causality, you're in NO POSITION to argue ANYTHING! Certainly NOT LOGICALLY! Hahahahahahahahahaha!ReplyDelete
All atheists can do is assert - NO MORE! Just as delinquent children, impervious to reason, stamp their feet and demand that the moon be brought down and handed to them - simply because they wants it! The fact that the demand is absurd and canno9t be fulfilled does not concern them! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
yeah if I was too embarrassed to admit that I wasn't reading the posts, and just wanted to act like a jackass I would post like that too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 3:17 AM
By the way, the evidence for the Original State of the Universe is the subsequent states of the Universe which have arisen -directly or indirectly - out of It by means of CAUSATION - of which we have countless examples!ReplyDelete
But, of course, you don't understand Causality, do you? Hahahahahahahahahahahah!
Contrary to what you seem to think cutting and pasting "hahahahahahaha derp derp derp hahahahahah" over and over again isn't a meaningful comment.ReplyDelete
Until you decide to start reading and responding to what was actually said, there isn't really much point going on.
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 3:22 AM
Hahahahahahahahahah! Why should ANYONE be embarrassed about not reading drivel? However, I did read what you wrote and responded to it. YOU made the argument. If you're disowning it then you can't claim it works for you, can you? Hahahahahahahahahahahah!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 3:25 AM
Hahahahahahahahahahah! Taking to your heels, eh? You atheists ALWAYS do when you encouter strong opposition! Witness Dawkins and co. beating the backs of their heads with their heels as they run from William Lane Craig! Hahahahahahahahahahahah!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 3:30 AM
Atheism is about denying the Existence of God - WITHOUT EVIDENCE! So atheists are hardly in any position to demand evidence for ANYTHING from anyone. Nevertheless, I have offered CONCLUSIVE evidence for EVERYTHING I've said here. Is this not so? Hahahahahahahahahahahahah!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 3:37 AM
How can these leaders of the worldwide atheist community show their faces in public again after this tour by William Lane Craig if they fail to debate him? Why would ANY intelligent and honest person want to hear what they have to say anymore if they are not prepared to defend it in public against strong opponents?ReplyDelete
All they are saying loud and clear to the world is that, contrary to the intellectual standards they claim to espouse, they will only debate when they feel quite sure that there is no risk to them of being defeated – and consequently exposed to ridicule; Humiliated.
Humiliated because they have heretofore boasted of the unassailability of their position which they claim to be founded on truth – which in turn they insist is sacred to them. Yet one who truly reveres truth will see no shame in being humbled by it; will in fact humble himself willingly before it. Therefore one may safely conclude that what is sacred to them is not truth at all – but merely their ridiculous self-regard founded on vanity.
I for one welcome this happy development as I had long grown intensely bored with the tiresome illogical drivel and often blatant deliberate falsehoods that have spewed from the maws of these benighted fellows – like the brackish fluid that issues from a breached sewerage pipeline. They were the scourging mankind had to endure for the corruption that was bound to result from the permissive society. But at long last after this long night of the soul dawn is breaking out again. The pestilence is being checked – the atheists are being silenced. Glory be to God! Amen!
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 12:33 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Derp Derp... My grandma got me a computer for my birthday... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and I learned how to cut and paste and act like a dipshit... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHReplyDelete
If this is what being saved does to a person, I'd rather be an atheist.ReplyDelete
Hahahahahahahahaha! Oh man, those giggles are contagious. *snort* pfff-ReplyDelete
The original state of the universe is God? So God is an infinitesmall point of absurdly high density spacetime and not, as I had been led to believe, an Omnicient Supernatural Uberbeing who'll torture me forever for stealing a cookie, as is right and just?
Glad we cleared that up. Pfffff- Hahahahahahahaha! Oh man, stop! Please mercy, I'm laughing so hard it's giving me a stomach ulcer... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHHHAHAHAHHAHAH I think that a zombie god Created my incestuous Predecessors out of dirt and Ribs! HahahHAHAAHAHHAHAHaa I AM LOGICAL AHHAhahahaAHAHAHAHAH. AND SANee.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 20, 2011 at 12:42 AM
Hahahahahahahahaha! These atheists are have gone bonkers! They're all equally bad at logic, mathematics and science in general! Hahahahahahahahahahah!ReplyDelete
At the Beginning of the Universe there was ONLY the Original State of the Universe. Space and Time DID NOT yet exist - nor did constraints of ANY form. All these arose SUBSEQUENTLY!
An Unconstrained State capable of Unlimited Spotaneous Activity differs from Infinite Conscious Will how - exactly? Hahahahahahahahahahahahah! Sheeeesh! Are all of you atheists dimmos college drop-outs? Hahahahahahahahahahahah!
As for your torture, you're doing it to yourself with your rebellion against the Truth! Yes, it's ALREADY HAPPENING! ALL atheists suffer from severe bouts of DEPRESSION, do they not? What HELL could be worse than that? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
HahahahAHAHAHHAHAHAH I BELieve Ideas exist Without a brain because sOme goat-Herders wrote a book back in The bronZe AGe. HAHAHAaahhahahhhhhhaaaah.ReplyDelete
Remember kids, if you randomly capitalise words it makes your argument true. You dimmos.
Trollboy wrote:ReplyDelete
Space and Time DID NOT yet exist - nor did constraints of ANY form. All these arose SUBSEQUENTLY! (emphasis added)
Care to explain to us atheists (who are apparently bonkers by virtue of joining in with your own manical laughter) how "SUBSEQUENTLY" /capslock makes any bleeding sense in the absense of time?
An Unconstrained State capable of Unlimited Spotaneous Activity differs from Infinite Conscious Will how - exactly?
Why the hell would a complete absence of spacetime have sentience, or be capable of omnipotence? Dude, you sound like one of those Choprak believers who has thinks he's proven God's existance by virtue of knowing a few quantumish sounding buzzwords.
Here's a hint: according to the actual astrophysicists and cosmologists and not Mr Twisty Facts, who is apparently who get your information from, there was no "before the universe". The initial starting conditions for our universe are called "initial" for a reason, and they were an infinitesmall singularity, not whatever the heck you just wrote. There wasn't anything before that, because there wasn't any "before".
ALL atheists suffer from severe bouts of DEPRESSION, do they not?
No. :D
PS: Projection much?
PPS: I've gotta admit, if you're a poe, you're awesome. If you're a troll, you're failing at doing anything other than providing hilarious amusement. And if you're genuine, they're going to need to invent new words for how bad you fail at life. This thread is my new favorite thing on the internet.
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 12:16 AM
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! A brain is a lump of organic matter - organised by forces OUTSIDE of itself! It is NOT capable of generating ideas - or indeed of ANY action; anymore than a computer can write its own programs! Hahahahahahahahhha! Sheeeeeesh! These atheist boneheads are COMPLETELY bonkers! Hahahahahahahahaha!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 12:23 AM
Hahahahahahahahahahah! And now these atheist boneheads are claiming they don't know the meaning of the word "SUBSEQUENT"! Hahahahhahahahahaha! At the BEGINNING, there WAS NO TIME OR SPACE! However, These were created with the First Action of from out of the Original State! The very fact this meeds to be explained to you.......! Sheeeeesh! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 1:00 AM
And what has Space-Time to do with whether sentience exists or not? Space-Time is merely an OUTWARD expression of Reality. Reality is NOT based on it! Space-Time is Created and can be manipulated and modified without limit by Ultimate Reality! From the point of view of those who dwell in Space-Time - i.e. ALL ELSE in the Universe - such unlimited ability to Create and alter Space-Time IS Omnipotence! Hahahahahahhahahaha!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 1:11 AM
The Original State of the Universe is/was NOT a point - IN SPACE - because Space COULD NOT exist AT the Original State of the Universe. But the CREATION of Space - AND TIME - did begin with a singularity in which - by the laws of conservation - EVERYTHING that SUBSEQUENTLY arose existed with its complement! This was followed by inflation and polarization. Thus, for instance, matter could not exist here alone but only IN COINCIDENCE with antimatter - and I trust you know what that means! Hahahahahahahahahahahah!ReplyDelete
Now, I don't know who has been teaching you physics, but I suggest you go and get your money back and report them to your local education authorities for incompetence! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 1:22 AM
Once again, the true Universe - not merely the materially observable bit of it - is that which contains ALL THINGS! Even God is contained herein. However, of the Universe, there is a Part that Exists UNCONDITIONALLY - God - and a Part that exists CONDITINALLY - God's Creation. THERE IS NOTHING ELSE! What you atheist boneheads are claiming is that there is no UNCONDITIONED Part of Existence. And that is utterly absurd - since the Universe - not merely its material products - exists UNCONDITIONALLY! Is this not so? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!ReplyDelete
As for the DEPRESSION of ALL atheists it is a well-known FACT! I mean who would not be DEPRESSED living with the conviction of having NO FUTURE or only severe DEPRESSION and agonising PAIN to look forward to - FOR ETERNITY! Hahahahahahahahahahahahah!
Space-Time is Created and can be manipulated and modified without limit by Ultimate Reality!ReplyDelete
Pics... err, I mean... Evidence or it didn't happen.
The Original State of the Universe is/was NOT a point - IN SPACE - because Space COULD NOT exist AT the Original State of the Universe.
Once again, you're confusing t=0 with misleading descriptions of "what came before" t=0. Space and Time are correlated, and have always existed: the very concept of a time at which space can't exist is the most redulous derp I've ever heard, derpbag.
Space has existed for as long as the universe has existed, but I never said the singularity was "a point - IN SPACE" /capslock. At t=0, it was compressed into a very small volume (presumably planck volume, the smallest volume before which space-time becomes granular according to Quantum Mechanics), but it contained every point in the modern universe.
Now, I don't know who has been teaching you physics, but I suggest you go and get your money back and report them to your local education authorities for incompetence!
Wow. Great comeback, repeating my insult back at me like that. Next you'll be telling me my face doesn't understand physics, and then I'll just wither up and die as your epic insult saps my self-esteem straight from my body.
You might wanna get a psychiatrist looking at that verbal tic you got there.
However, of the Universe, there is a Part that Exists UNCONDITIONALLY - God - and a Part that exists CONDITINALLY - God's Creation.
"What's that? Evidence you say? Why, no I don't have any evidence for my rediculous assersions, why would you ask?"
Why are you using "UCONDITIONAL" /capslock and "CONDITIONAL" /capslock when there's a perfectly good "natural" and "supernatural" lying about? Words have definitions you know.
What you atheist boneheads are claiming is that there is no UNCONDITIONED Part of Existence. And that is utterly absurd - since the Universe - not merely its material products - exists UNCONDITIONALLY! Is this not so?
You're just pulling stuff out of your rectal glands now, aren't you? No, the universe doesn't exist supernaturally. But I'll tell you what I'll do: I'll consider your absurd assersion if you can find me some actual evidence for the supernatural (sorry, for the "UNCONDITIONAL" /capslock).
As for the DEPRESSION of ALL atheists it is a well-known FACT! I mean who would not be DEPRESSED living with the conviction of having NO FUTURE or only severe DEPRESSION and agonising PAIN to look forward to - FOR ETERNITY!
Oh dear you're right, I don't believe in the rediculous supernatural claims of ancient authors therefore I must also be an emo with no hope or meaning to my life ever. Who apparently believes in living for eternity. Weird. Oh well, guess I better go find a knife and start cutting. And dye my hair black and let my fringe grow out while I'm at it.
... oh wait, my mistake, since everything you believe is apparently BULLSH*T and your random capitalisation has no actual basis in reality, I don't actually have to take your word for it and can instead live a happy and fulfilled life without your invisible deity. That's a relief. I'd look terrible with black hair.
Dude, your "well known FACT" /capslock is disproven by my mere existence. This is usually the point at which a sane person goes "oh, my mistake, sorry for slandering your entire worldview". Of course, from you I'm expecting something more along the lines of "Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!" So good luck with that.
WwowowoowowoowohwhahhahahhahhahahhahhahahHAHAHAAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!1 I think snaKes can talk and unicorns Existed. You BONEheads! AHHahahahhahahha! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2011 at 1:55 AM
Hahahahahahahahahah! These atheistic boneheads are trying to make out they know something about the latest and foremost ideas in cosmology and yet are asking me for evidence that Space-Time was created! Hahahahahahahahahah! Didn't you cretins just say something about a Singularity from which the entire universe arose? Has it not occurred to you that Space-Time is part of the universe also? Hahahahahahahahhahah!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2011 at 2:07 AM
Boneheads, Space and Time ARE NOT ETERNAL! Certainly, that is NOT what Big Bang theory postulates! Space-Time can only exist where SEPARATION of some kind exists - spatial or temporal or both. It therefore CANNOT exist in a SINGULARITY where there is NO SEPARATION of ANY kind!ReplyDelete
And, no, I am NOT contending that there is ANYTHING BEFORE the Universe! EVERYTHING is CONTAINED in the true Universe - including Space and Time - and even God! The Universe per se has ALWAYS existed - but NOT always with all the parts that have arisen in it CONDITIONALLY! ONLY ONE PART OF IT has ALWAYS EXISTED and will ALWAYS Exist - UNCONDITIONALLY - God!
It is not the concept of Unconditionally Existence that you are quarrelling with but rather the fact that I call it "God"! The fact that I say It is Intelligent and has the capacity to Act Spontaneously - Autonomously. For you accept that some ACTION was necessary to produce things that came into being SUBSEQUENTLY! You just don't want to concede that such an Action was engendered by an Intelligent Being. Pray tell then, how does an Action arise Spontaneously and Autonomously if not from out of an Intelligent Being? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah! These stupid atheists! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2011 at 2:17 AM
As for the word "supernatural", whatever are you on about, dolt? What does it even mean? It is NOT a word I EVER employ - since it has NO MEANING to me! Do YOU even know what YOU mean when you use this word - or do you just parrot it because it sounds like something clever to say as you saw it on an atheist website? WHAT do YOU mean when you use it? Pray tell! Or don't you know? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah!ReplyDelete
I am restricting myself to FACTS and LOGIC alone! You should try doing the same. It saves you from the absurdity of thinking that it makes sense to claim that ANYTHING can just happen FOR NO REASON....! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2011 at 2:30 AM
Hahahahahahahahahahah! I just KNEW you would not have the gumption to dare to deny the FACT that atheists live a life WITHOUT HOPE - both here and in the Hereafter! You CANNOT trust that tomorrow will come for you! You might even perish FOREVER in the very next moment! And that will be that as far as you are concerned! Now tell me, where can there possibly be room for ANY joy in such a worldview? Hahahahahahahahahahahah!ReplyDelete
You claim that your existence disproves the Existence of the Origin of the Universe. How is that exactly? How does the fact that you exist now prove that the Origin of the Universe does not Exist and has never existed? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah! These crazy atheistic boneheads! Hahahhaahahahahahahahah!
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WEtv recently kicked off a brand, spankin' new TV series with a very familiar premise: Their cameras are following a set of parents who have sextuplets – three girls, three boys – who are 16 months old. The dad works full-time and is gone from the house for the vast majority of the daylight hours, while the mom works part-time as a nurse. The husband struggles with some weight issues and the mom requires a tummy tuck in order to repair the substantial abdominal damage caused by carrying six babies at once. And while this may sound EXACTLY like the premise of another show about sextuplets which first premiered in April 2007 -- you might have heard of it, Jon & Kate Plus 8, starring Jon and Kate Gosselin – I have to throw in a caveat here, it's like Jon & Kate the early years.
When I watched the first three episodes of WEtv's Raising Sextuplets, which follows Jenny and Bryan Masche and their six toddlers, it was impossible to not think of Jon and Kate. Jenny -- a perky, energetic woman with long blonde hair and a big smile -- says the same exact things Kate first did when explaining how infertility treatments led to a sextuplet pregnancy, observing, "Nobody goes out and tries to have six kids. That's ridiculous!" Over the course of the episodes, one notices that Jenny and Bryan, as laid back as Jon, don't approach parenting the same way and this becomes a source of conflict. (Bryan says she's "better" at some of the onerous baby-related tasks so he tries to get Jenny to do them while she gets annoyed, particularly when he doesn't do things her way.) With their heavy work loads and omnipresent exhaustion, Jenny and Bryan barely have a moment of quality time with one another, which they say they desperately miss. "We're like two ships passing on a sea of babies," Jenny said, noting that on top of his job in pharmaceutical sales, Bryan is also working on getting his MBA. "Unfortunately, sometimes we're living two different lives," Bryan echoed.
Is this what happened to Jon and Kate? Parenthood – they have two more children than Jenny and Bryan – was so overwhelming that they lost one another in "a sea of babies?" They had no energy left to devote to their marriage? A tidal wave of day-to-day obligations smothered them? "The most important thing is that it doesn't weigh on our marriage," Bryan said, of the amount of work he and his wife put into parenting their toddlers, working and taking care of their home. "We're in this together," Jenny agreed. Wait, I'd heard that line before . . . on Jon & Kate, when their sextuplets were but 16 months old (they're 5 now) and their reality show commenced, first in one-hour specials which then morphed into a series. Are the same tabloid-fodder marital woes facing the Gosselins in store for the Masches?
what happened to the Gosselin family is not the routine, it's TV. I don't know of a single long time celebrity who has maintained a normal life for long. Had they just lived their lives in peace without becoming TV stars they might have been able to keep their marriage alive.
I agree whole heartedly with you. I am fearful for the Masches, I watched them on youtube. I hope they don't meet their demise as well.


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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Health officials are reporting that for the first time, U.S. mosquitoes are spreading a virus that has been tearing through the Caribbean.
Two people in Florida have domestically acquired chikungunya infections, officials said Thursday. In both cases, they said, a person infected with the virus after visiting the Caribbean was then bitten again by an uninfected mosquito in Florida, which then transmitted the illness further.
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"The arrival of chikungunya virus, first in the tropical Americas and now in the United States, underscores the risks posed by this and other exotic pathogens," said Roger Nasci of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Health officials in Puerto Rico, meanwhile, on Thursday declared an epidemic of the virus in the U.S. territory, which reported its first case in late May.
Health Secretary Ana Rius said more than 200 cases had been confirmed on the island as of June 25 and that the majority of them were reported in the capital of San Juan and nearby areas.
Chikungunya virus is rarely fatal. Infected people typically experience fever, severe joint pain and swelling, muscle aches, headaches, or rash. Patients usually recover in about a week, although some people suffer long-term joint pain. There is no vaccine and no specific treatment.
This virus is not spread person to person, but rather by the bite of certain mosquitoes. That's why health officials believe the virus is spreading in the continental U.S.; the two cases had not recently left the country.
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Philip said both are doing well.
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The 260-page document has been published to show nurses how they can implement and measure the eight "high impact actions" aimed at saving more than £9bn.
Produced by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, High Impact Action for Nursing and Midwifery – The Essential Collection draws on lessons learnt from trial sites.
It states: "A few nurses and midwives may still think that money is someone else's business, but those that think this are, quite frankly, out of touch with reality - opting out isn't an option.
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The "high impact actions" were announced last November and include areas such as improving patient nutrition, reducing pressure sores and falls and cutting staff absence.
A major theme in the document is the importance of good communication methods. At one trust, infection control teams carried out trolley dashes through the wards, handing out themed "goodies" to get people talking about catheter care.
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The guide also sets out how cost benefits can be calculated. For example, by using the Department of Health's estimate that the daily cost of care for a patient awaiting hospital discharge is £100, nurses can identify savings from reducing delays.
Chief nursing officer Dame Christine Beasley urged nurses to read the document, saying senior nurses such as matrons and ward sisters would be "absolutely pivotal" in achieving the drive.
She said: "We have seen that's the case from productive ward work, where ward sisters and ward leaders at that level have really taken it on and made it their own."
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NHS South Central chief nurse and director of clinical standards and workforce Katherine Fenton said it was vital nurses took action now to avoid "slash and burn policies."
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Another case study in the guide is East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, which used routine falls risk assessments, sensor alarms and falls "champions". One ward reduced its falls rate by 85 per cent in a year.
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Hear hear Phil Dup!
Okay.........How about " EVERYBODY OUT???!!! " I agree with all of the above. After 30 years of unstinting service, in a job that I have loved, I am sick and tired of the likes of Beasley pontificating to those of us who have already saved the NHS an ABSOLUTE FORTUNE in unpaid hours. Wake up and smell the coffee. Get out of your Institute and wise up. The natives are restless. How very dare you, Christine Beasley...How very dare you!!!
Exactly Margaret, heres another idea too, why don't we calculate exactly how much Nurses have saved the NHS on average over the last 20 years or so, then we can order our useless union to send a bill to these pathetic managers, to be paid with immediate effect.
God I can't wait to get out to Melbourne. This country is taking the piss out of us!
I'm bored of should, moral and duty used as as an imperative for nurse or nursing. Please stop it NT.
I whole-heartedly agree with the above comments. Camero, Cleg and Osbourne are multi millionaires.. They are obviously very patriotic and caring. I am sure a pay freeze for them won't hurt
How much money and time was squandered by a subcommittee of non medically skilled untrained business people in coming to the conclusion that once again Nurses hold the key to saving the NHS from failing in its duty of care. Not a duty of care to our patients but a duty to save money.
The answer is tragically simple.... reduce administration posts. There are far too many amateurs in positions beyond their capabilities their knowledge and expertise using inappropriate skills to set ludicrous and meaningless targets for too few real professional care givers to meet.
Let us return the NHS to a service which supplies a safe efficient system of care to our patients not a top heavy service which is financially geared to jobs for administration and IT systems, a service which would rather use agency Nurses than provide appropriate numbers of NHS staff on each ward.
Anonymous | 29-Jun-2010 8:39 pm, I agree with you, but I have seen petitions like this put forward in the past only to be ignored. The RCN actually has a no strike policy. What is needed is a NATIONAL movement straight from the off.
Roger Hodson I totally agree pal, but we are not going to get that because to few people are willing to fight for it.
Don't you feel that those in power think that a nice pat on the back and a supprting word or two is all they have to do to get frontline staff to back down? It's like giving a puppy a treat for doing as it's told! 'Patronising' is a word that springs to mind because that's the atitude that management and politicians have to workers.
Having a 'no strike' policy is a cop-out for the unions; they take millions in membership fees, pay their staff higher than a clinician, squander money on bureaucracy, and don't do anything positive to support their membership. I can't help but feel they are all secretly in cahoots with the NHS management and Government.
Perhaps we should all just STOP filling in the paperwork and concentrate solely on giving practical patient care, refuse to do clinical tasks that ought to be done by house officers and registrars, make doctors get their own tea, do their own bloods, own cannulatuions and own observations on their patients. Yes that is working to rule rather than an all-out strike but boy would it be effective!!!!
Martin, you make Doctors a cup of tea?
Seriously though you are right, a simple work to rule, if everyone did it would be unbelievably effective!
Nursing Times will not issue a rallying cry and no leader will emerge to start a ball rolling. But there is a tide in human affairs and it will eventually turn. The effects can't be foreseen but they will be momentous, you will be caught up in them, you will know that a certain destiny calls you to action, and that you are called upon to choose whether to act or whether to remain aloof: a mere bystander.
The important thing is to be aware that there is always a tipping point, and to be ready to act in solidarity with others when the time comes. You will know what needs to be done, and you will find the courage - with others - to do it.
We are talking about the NHS here, aren't we? We are talking about how it has been ruined to line the pockets of the unscrupulous, and to feed the egos of careerist ideologues, aren't we? We are talking about exploitation and contempt of human values, aren't we?
But the writing is on the wall, here on this forum, and has been for several years. Somewhere in history, a clock is ticking........
Couldn't agree more with all the above. How about we all learn self catheterisation so that prior to duty we can insert and go, avoiding the need to take time to sit, therefore saving untold millions in wasted pee time? Along with the missed breaks, unpaid overtime, and always going that extra mile, we should be able to save a fair wack. Here our pay has been frozen along with increments resulting in the longterm effect of a ward sister eventually working on a top band 5 salary. Unsocial pay on a Saturday is being removed along with all bank staff. We are working 60+hrs a week. All funding for toys for use in play therapy has been stopped and the nurses are buying toys out of their own pay. However, let us not forget that 'we are all in this together' - thus spake the multi-millionaires. Anyone for major walkout?
Those who use the service should also be prepared to do something about the NHS spending more on bureaucrats, administration, IT and contracted out workers than it does on those who provide patient and family care.
Let the public take a hand in deciding who is worth more to the Health Service. It does after all belong to the Nation not the shadowy overpaid accountants who try to run it on the basis of a profit making enterprise. These people probably use private health care anyway seeing the same NHS trained consultants and Nursing staff in their private clinics.
Roger, too true mate. What you are saying, that basically it is up to the public as a whole who they want in the NHS, is the exact reason why I think a strike would be so effective. The public on the whole would back us, we are after all fighting for their services here against those beauracrats and managers, alongside better pay/status and working conditions for ourselves. The two go hand in hand in my opinion.
And Peter, I haven't read quite such an eloquent post in a long while, but I hope to hell that tipping point is soon.
And I hope someone sends all these comments to that turncoat Beasley.
Hi again..Can I offer some more advice seeing as you have the "Pittance Union" to do ZILCH for you in your fight, and who really should be the backbone in this.
( I am still amazed that nurses have not banded together to make their union work for them! Stop paying the fees! ) Anyway with them classed as not available and nurses over there on their own, my first thought would be a major rally in a major city. Getting multiple speakers that would let the public and MEDIA know exactly what is going on and what you demand now as a still caring PROFESSION of Health Care . I feel this would start the ball rolling for you. How difficult would it be without the union who should be the main orginisers and more so supporters of your cause ..its a disgrace. However with the amazing WWW now....communication can roll to every hospital and nurse! Major planning and time, but I believe would be very effective for you. No one wants to strike....absoluatly. Thats always been a thing nurses have been known for.not doing in UK...and thats where the government will always have you unless you make a stand not only for your rights as nurses, but for those you are caring for. They have rights too, and they are suffering too.
However nurses Work to Rule can cripple a Health Service very quickly without patient compromise...and be very costly in the process.
Canada did a strike I believe, but I havent looked much into it, however I think it was super fast effective. Here in Melbourne we did strike in 1984 with the results we needed. We have also had a few rallies since ( organised and atteneded for the nurses by our union!! )The ANF ( Australian Federation of Nurses ) Victoria Branch do not like such militant action, but there again they protect their nurses...Fees I am happy to pay in to at a cost of approx $370 a year tax deductable.
You can either continue with the tears.....or rally round all the great nurses who deserve better
Get Googling for some feedback on Canada and Melbourne ....:)
I agree with the above comments, we all have to do something and stick together or stop moaning about it and accept it! I to am fed up with never getting off on time, skipping meal breaks and working dreadful shift patterns with little time off between 12 hour shifts. I too love caring for the patients but fel everydy I am letting them down due to limited resorces and too much time spent on repetative paperwork that was really designed to make auditing easier. Not patient care. I prefer to spend more time with my patients who I feel are getting neglected. It all about meeting targets nowadays, get them in and shunt them out regardless off wheather they are actually fit for discharge! then low and behold the same patient is back again within days sometimes. What I have noticed more and more is that corners are being cut with paperwork as we simply do not have the time to do the amount that we are now pressurised in to doing by our auditing line managers.
They can stick their moral duty paradox where the sun doesn't shine.
Chris Beaseley has a moral duty to fight for nurses across the country yet she is just another 'jam making traditionalist' who having made it financially herself sees nothing wrong with the rest of us starving.
She and the others of oour unions should have legal action brought against them for continually ignoring the central issues of nursing; for making no headway in fair and realistic pay (which should be £25-28000 on graduation)
Never mind that we are paid the worst for doing the most work and having the least recognition for it.
my job involves doing work that many other people ought to be doing ;
physios:- who often pick and choose who they will se and go at a snails pae around the ward.
dieticians:- who don't order meals, check patients nutritional status or even offer advice. ours just prescribes TPN
pharmacists and their techs:- who do office hours and don't empty my CD cupboard of dead patients CD's/
doctors:- who seem less and less willling to cannulate, properly assess (how any times have you seen them coach patients through the MMSE?!) prescribe adequate IV fluids or ignore me drawing attention to declining patients - especialy the post-op ones
(if you're not worried, why do you keep coming back?)
She is not up to the taskand should be let go without a pension for utterly failing to meet objectives beneficial to the profession
Hear hear Jjez! Does anyone have any idea where or how to send all of these comments to Beasley and the ridiculous NHS institute? I can't seem to find a contact email, but I'd love to hear their self serving responses!
Christ, A&E nurses look happier and healthier than those working in acute medicine, why do it?
I am going to contact my union and ask why they haven't bothered to contact members since the government announced a 2 year pay freeze. With this, and talk of a demolition job on the pension Christine Beasley has just about finished me off!
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1. Thai prime minister removed from office, faces impeachment. Thailand's constitutional court voted to remove Yingluck Shinawatra from office for abuse of power for illegally transferring a civil servant to another post. The court also removed the nine ministers that were in her cabinet at the time. Yingluck now faces impeachment by the Thai senate, in conjunction with alleged connection to a farm subsidy program. Deputy Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan was named interim prime minister of the caretaker government, a choice that satisfied neither supporters nor the opponents of Yingluck and the ruling Puea Thai Party. Protestors, both anti-government and pro-government, continue to be active following Yingluck's removal, and there appears to be no clear way forward. Thailand's democracy has faced a rocky path the past few months, and some fear that elections planned for late July will be postponed. Read more »


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