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P0171, P0174 check engine codes - possible electrical problem?
I have a 1999 Ford Windstar 3.8L with the
check engine light on and reading codes
p0171 & p0174.
after a bachelors degree worth of research I
have taken many steps to troubleshoot and
fix the problem including: major tune up,
switch out the PCV valve, cleaned the Eger
valve, throttle body and idle air control,
replace the fuel filter, and inspected the
vacuum hoses.
I am aware that I can clean my mass air flow
sensor and possibly replace my oxygen
sensor, however, I have also noticed there is
a short in the electrical in various locations
in the vehicle.
the interior cabin lights come on randomly
when driving and I will need to adjust the
steering column or open the driver door and
shut it to turn the light off. there is also a
short with the seat belt light coming on even
when the seat belt is clicked.
I am beginning to wonder if the check
engine light can be coming on from an
electrical issue causing the o2 sensor or air
flow sensors connections to not get a proper
is this a possible for likely cause? any advice
and assistance would be appreciated.
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For the P0171 and P0174 lean codes you need a high end scan tool to watch the fuel trim. The fuel trim is the correction the engine computer makes to the amount of fuel it allows to go into the engine to compensate for the readings it gets from the oxygen sensor. It's important to note what the readings are at idle and off idle and at WOT to determine when you have the lean problem. Knowing when the engine is running lean will point you in the direction to look for the trouble.
i.e. looks like a fuel/air fault not electrical. But what are the symptoms? What does the car do that's not right?
@David - SYMPTOMS: Periodically the car will sputter like it wants to die when idling in DRIVE or REVERSE; when I shift into neutral the sputtering stops/becomes very minor. I have been paying very close attention to this and have not noticed any particular pattern of when the sputtering occurs, it is completely random and not consistent. @Tom: I checked for vacuum leaks to the best of my knowledge (inspecting what hoses I know are vacuum hoses) however, that is about all I know to do. Are there any tips or tricks that you can share with me to know how to check for vacuum leaks?
1) Listen carefully. Yeah, I know over engine noise that is very difficult. 2) GENTLY pull on all vacuum hoses and see if one has no home, loose. 3) Look at not only hoses, but nipples that have nothing attached to them. When you put it in neutral there is no load and the leak will have less effect on engine, or none.
This is as big as I can make it, if you print it and enlarge you may be able to see vacuum routing
Thank you, should I pull them (vacuum hoses) with the vehicle running or with it turned off? Also, what am I listening for? Thank you for your time and assistance.
Pull on them with engine off, safer, (more safe?), and while it is running a hissing or sucking sound
Update: I have not checked for vacuum leaks yet as today was quite busy however, sometimes when starting the car, it will sputter and then stall out as if it is not receiving any fuel. I noticed today that when I start the vehicle and it begins to sputter, if I press the gas pedal and rev the engine to about 3000 rpms for a (not holding it there but just rev it and then let it go back down) that the car idles perfectly fine. I know that [engine misfire], [high fuel pressure], and [low-fuel pump or pressure regulator] can also set off these codes. Does the symptom that I just explained sound likely to be a fuel problem rather than a vacuum leak? This will help me to know where to start tomorrow and Monday when looking at it. I will keep you updated accordingly.
I am also having identical code 171 and 174 problems with a Ford 2003 Windstar with 60,000 miles. Check engine light comes on when idling at a long light in drive and possibly when driving slow in reverse. Engine has died several times at a long light. I bought the car six months ago and I suspect a dirty fuel filter. Fuel Filters are supposed to be replaced at 15,000 miles. (My interior dome lights also come on at odd times and go off when I open the drivers side door.) My mechanic sprayed fluid around the intake manifold, but no change in idle resulted. He cleared the codes and said to see what happened. I drove about 60 miles and the codes came back on at a long light.
I have a 2002 Windstar that had rough idle when the engine is cold initially. Then, the check engine light came on, with scanned code P0171 and P0174. I did the search on google and it appears to be Mass Air Flow (MAF)sensor issue. Before spending much money, I bought the Mas Air Flow clean spray by CRC. Disconnected the air filler tube, took out the plastic piece connected to the air intake, sprayed generously to clean the Mass Air Flow sensor without disassembling the sensor. Let it dry and put back. The idle is perfect and the car drives so much smoother now. According to someone who is the Ford mechanics that MAF sensor should be cleaned regularly 30K miles.
codes are P1150,code P1151 P1152,MIL, Monitrs,2INC, 02SNSR, 02HTR FUEL,COMP ,CATIYST,EGR,MISFIRE.
Well I replaced a few things in this order. And my problem is gone. The internet rocks you can find anything if you search hard enough. I replaced the crank position sensor first and the fuel pressure kept dropping. They must work together. I thought it was a fuel filter or pump. I changed the fuel filter too. I was driving and my 99 windstar would just cut out. I have a 3.8L V6 by the way. It would still run in limp mode but had a hard time starting sometimes too. No check engine light also. Then a week later my check engine light and Abs light came on. I went to Auto Zone and had them put it on a hand held scanner. Got a bank 1 and bank 2 lean codes. I changed the mas air flow sensor. Reset the codes by disconnecting the battery for 1 hr. Drove fine for a day. Then Check engine light again. So I was told to change upstream o2 sensors left and right. Then drove fine for a day. Then I changed pcv valve and rented a fuel pressure meter. I was holding 30 psi. it would taper off after i shut off the motor. thats okay i heard. Then i found a little tiny pin hole on the return fuel line on a bracket that rubbed a hole in the line. You will still keep fuel pressure cuz it is a return line. I patched it with some rubber fuel line and two hose clamps on each end. Never do this on a high pressure line. That is the one with the filter on it. I reset the codes once again by disconnecting the battery for an hour. Then i got that damn light again. Finally i gave the DPFE sensor or something like that. It controls the upstream and downstream in the computer. And now my problem is fixed.About $250.00 but way less than a garage or dealer who would just re program the computer and your van will just burn more gas. I replaced all the parts my self and I know its done right. Plus I got new parts all over my van and not just dignosis fees. I suck at spelling but i figured it out. Thanks to people like me posting things like this. Hope this helped.
Ford has issued a Technical Service Bulletin on this issue. Inspecting the Vacuum hoses may not be helpful as, from what I understand not being a mechanic, the leaking is actually located at the intake manifold gasket. The root cause is a bushing around the retaining bolts which causes air to leak. In order to fix and clear the codes, you need to replace the intake manifold gasket, replace the retaining bolts (all 8 of them). The new bolts have been redesigned to better handle the oily wet/hot environment.
I had the same issue with the interior lights coming on. I took the interior light dimmer switch apart and cleaned the contacts. It had been a year and no gremlins turning the interior on. I replaced my fuel pump 3 months ago because of starting issues. It fixed that problem. Now I am getting a stutter (acting like a misfire but no codes) when you start the engine after it was warm but sat for about 15 minutes. I tested the fuel pressure and it was good. It held pressure for 10 minutes after shutdown. I was relieving the pressure on the pressure line with the tester. I noticed that after the car sat for few minutes with key off that the pressure increased. I bled it a few more times. And pressure creeped up a little. I when I had the pressure drained, I removed the pressure regulator going yo the return line. Once it was removed, I noticed pressure on the return line and it kept spitting fuel from the return Does any one have ideas why there would be back pressure on the return line?
The newer Windstar also have a flapper valve that are internal to manifold and go through to the outside to the operation linkage which leak also, along with the none sealable bushing retension bolts makes it the worst intake design ever that I've seen in the 30yes working on cars. how this design ever got through any design review sure take my trust away from anything Ford makes!
i have a 2001 ford winstar xl it stutters like its going to die out when i start it and when i put it in gear or when im at a stop like it also iddle high for a few minutes everytime i start it im going 2 start with sencers but i reallly hate enything with a computer or fuel injected but i do all the work myself if u have eny ideals feel free to look me up on fb my name is gfhf ikilludead will be traveling with a carnival so will be on fb as i can hopen to get my van fixed and the stupid check ingene light 2 shut off
lordsmrfixit, i couldnt agree More! that flapper crap should have never been placed on ANY vehicle in the world.
This engine has a issue with the PVC valve sucking oil into the intake which degrades the O rings and gaskets. There is a after market kit at Auto zone to change out the forward valve cover and replace all of these seals. Depending on the length of time this has been going on you may have to change out one or more of the O2 sensors if they have become plugged. It is very common I fixed mine in about an hour.
It causes massive vacuum leaks.
its intake manifold that is leaking, just the upper, an easy fix
I have a 01 windstar sel it keeps blowing #9 fuse as soon as I turn the key on. And it's saying fuel computer data error. Van won't even turn over
Hi I had a question i have a pontaic g6 2006 and the engine light keeps coming on p0171 system ruining too lean bank 1. First I replaced the o2 sensor and mass air sensor and it came back on then I check for a vacuume leak and found none. Whenever the code on it has a hard time starting. I was wondering why it could be doing this
My vehicle my rpm is comeing up than 4 in pathfainder 2002
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So after all this jibber jabber above, does anyone know wtf causes the simultanious P0171/174 codes on the Windstar? Is it a vac leak, fuel issue, o2 sensor, MAF, PCV, intake gasket. Bueller, Bueller, Anyone, anyone?
Yes. There are 8 retaining bolts which do not hold up well under heat. Ford has redesigned these bolts for one better suited to the task. The reason your vehicle is throwing those 2 codes is that air leaks past the intake manifold gasket due to the faulty bolts. The 2 codes are simply the right and left cylinder banks. Replace the manifold gasket and the bolts and the problem goes away. It is noteworthy that according to a Ford Technical Service Bulletin that an additional step in the fix is to reflash the computer with new software to "make the sensor less sensitive to a lean condition". When air gets past the intake manifold gasket obviously the fuel mixture changes. Now the vehicle runs lean throwing the two simultaneous codes. I hope his helps.
I wish the answers were more straight on this. I have the 2002 Ford Windstar. I've replace 2,000$ in parts & labor on this van. Not including a recall from Ford for the rear axle & brackets that Ford paid for, 1,200$. The van sputters like it's going to quit when going downhill, when not giving it gas. It's reading same codes, but that's not all it's doing. Like the gentleman who posted this, the interior lights only work by switch now, not with doors open. The change engine oil, & drivers door ajar lights are stuck on, & the passengers skidding doors won't slide automatically now. They won't reset, the garage tried when my oil was changed, all filters have been replaced, the pvc valve, fuel pump, plugs, wires. I'm so tired of spending money on this van.
@fedupwithford... I had all the same problems you listed. Fixed the sliding doors with wd40 and some clean rags. There's a couple back connections that are very sensitive you need to make sure you clean the sliding doors very good and lube all the moving parts to get the doors to work properly, same with the back hatch door that will trigger interior lights... Took me two times to get all the gunk out and finally I found a itty bitty white hairband had been in the bottom of the door preventing the door latch from connecting. Still haven't cleared to passanger door ajar or change oil warning but neither trigger interior lights any more. I changed out the interior #7 fuse and relays #1 & 4 that helped with some panel issues. Finally I cleaned the throttle plate and the MAF sensor which helped with fuel issues. I'm replacing the bank 2 o2 sensor next as my check engine light just came back on but with lack of performance problems I'm inclined to assume it's a bad sensor. I clean my battery terminals every other month and that helps as well plan to change the terminals when I replace the battery this summer. Still a work in progress hope some of these simple cheap fixes help you
I have a 2000 windstar and had symptoms very similar to these for quite a long time.Items replaced were all O2 sensors,MAF sensor, replaced valve cover and intake isolater bolts with updated ones,cleaned IAC valve and checked for proper operation(passed), also replaced plugs and fuel filter. Codes would switch back and forth between 171 and 171/174. Decided to replace injectors( on front bank only) because all the oil that seeped out from PCV connection to throttle body.Problem solved!! Car has 205,000 miles, is now averaging 19 MPG. Highway MPG is 22-24, City MPG is 16-19.I have not replaced the rear bank injectors,yet. My reasoning for replacing the injectors was this; the code 171 is for the front bank running lean, if there was a vacuum leak, it should affect the entire engine. The O2 sensors were replaced so should be reading correctly. So, if that bank is running lean yet the fuel trim is showing a lot of fuel being pumped to that bank could it be that 1 or more injector be clogged??? Well, it certainly solved the problem. I do hope this helps anyone with these kinds of issues. I am not a mechanic,just a regular guy who has been (trying) to take care of his personal vehicles for 40 years,sometimes with luck.
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While Paris Hilton reminded the world this week of Japan's harsh stance on drugs, the nation itself was more concerned about the arrest of one of its top prosecutors in a case that has shaken public confidence in the criminal justice system.
Tsunehiko Maeda, an investigative 'ace' at the Osaka public prosecutors office, is suspected of tampering with potentially key evidence in a complicated case involving a postage discount scam. It appears that Maeda changed an inconvenient date on a file that contradicted the prosecution's case against a ministry official.
This comes at a time when a string of cases over recent years has shown admissions of guilt obtained by Japanese police to be false, casting doubt on police interrogation and investigative methods nationwide. The incidents have ignited calls for such questionings to be recorded on video. A prosecutor now being accused of fixing evidence will go even further in eroding public faith in criminal justice in Japan.
And Maeda is not just a rank-and-file prosecutor. He's a member of Osaka's special investigation squad and is seen as one of the nation's best in his field. According to the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, he has been involved in high profile cases such as the investigation into the funding scandal surrounding political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa and the fraud case involving Japan's most famous music producer, Tetsuya Komuro.
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In its editorial on Wednesday the Yomiuri said the case made 'a mockery of the justice of criminal trials' and had shaken 'the very foundations of Japan's criminal justice system,' while another of the big dailies, the Asahi Shimbun, suggested that the idea of prosecutors altering evidence 'reminds us of how the prewar "thought police" used to round up dissidents.'
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Educate and Protect the Young (Part 1)Posted: June 16, 2017 Filed under: Care for the Caregiver, Healthcare Innovation, Medical Education, Patient Safety Leave a comment
Last week was the first of three annual Patient Safety Summer Camps for graduate resident physicians in 2017. Each year, I learn from the resident scholars who attend about the current safety challenges and barriers they face on a daily basis as they try to both deliver safe care to patients, and learn to become good physicians. Over the last few years, however, I have noticed a growing concern among our Telluride Scholars, a theme that centers on the overall well being of resident physicians in the healthcare workplace.
Discussions around resident well being reached an all-time turning point this past week during an interactive presentation on Care for the Caregiver programs led by Crystal Morales from MedStar Health. During the presentation, Crystal asked the residents to think back and remember the first patient death they experienced—not from a medical error, necessarily, but just the first patient they cared for who died. She asked them to focus on how they felt versus the details of the case, and then inquired if anyone was willing to share their story with the group.
A first brave resident raised her hand. Before she could finish her story, she broke down in tears yet she continued to talk about how that patient's death affected her still to that day. A second hand was raised and then a third…it was like someone opened an emotional faucet. Each story shared seemed to be both validation and acknowledgment that the pain in serving witness to such loss deserved, and needed, to be honored. The sharing of these stories seemed cathartic; helping ease the pain this group collectively had been holding on to for far too long. Many in the room described Telluride as a "safe place" where they felt comfortable sharing these feelings, and their stories. Portions of their reflective posts on our Telluride Summer Camp blog are shared below. I encourage all of you to visit the Telluride blog and read their stories in their entirety.
- "The afternoon of day 3 left many of us in tears as we went through our stories of first deaths and tragic patient outcomes. It was clear, as these stories came out that many of us were still hanging on to these painful memories and will probably do so for the remainder of our careers. Another common thread in these stories was the lack of support after these unforgettable events happened. In healthcare, we are expected to take a deep breath and move on with our days as if nothing ever happened. Take another history, make another diagnosis, and speak to another family, all while making sure we check our emotions at the door".
- "Yesterday during one of our group discussions, people went around the room discussing the first time they were involved in the death of a patient. The different stories told were poignant and extremely emotional. Some of these stories were quite recent while others happened years ago. The unifying trait in all of the stories was the raw emotion and pain in the voices of the speaker. Every story told ended the same way… "and then I just went back to work." Years later it is entirely evident that these wonderful caring people are still hurting. As a profession we are failing. We are eating our young with the perverse attitude that it will build a thick skin and make you a better doctor. We are not robots."
- "Why is this happening? We, the physicians, need to speak up. We need to consider how talking about our own reactions to and reflections of patient care events is indeed a critical piece of patient-centric care. Today, we finally had a chance to let it out, to vent our frustrations, to discuss our feelings of self-blame and near self-collapse. These stories are so important because we have to let each other know, YOU ARE NOT ALONE."
- "If we are unable to care for ourselves, we won't be able to provide the best care to our patients and their families. The tremendous support 'care for the caregiver' provides is amazing and has inspired me to investigate the options my institution can provide."
- We discussed how good it felt today to open up about the loss of our patients and the support (or lack of) we get in these moments. So many times we just need to talk it out, feel heard, and feel validated. These conversations are cleansing and necessary."
- "Today, we talked about care for the caregiver. After all, there is no other workplace like the hospital in terms of sacrifice, acuity, and risk of burnout. With such high stakes, healthcare providers are subject to exorbitant levels of stress that perhaps defy human physical, mental, and emotional capacity."
The Journey by Anne Gunderson PhDPosted: June 15, 2017 Filed under: Leadership, Medical Education, Patient Safety Leave a comment
In its 1999 report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) concluded that medical errors, particularly hospital-acquired conditions, may be responsible for as many as 98,000 deaths annually, at costs of up to $29 billion. Suddenly, quality healthcare and patient safety became central, public concerns in the United States. According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM; 2000), medical errors accounted for between 48,000 and 98,000 deaths annually in the U.S. At that time, medical errors were considered the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S.; more prevalent than deaths from breast cancer, AIDS, or motor vehicle accidents.
I started my practice in medical education in 2000 at Southern Illinois University College of Medicine. At that time we were creating a new and robust, medical curriculum. Similarly to other medical schools, however, we had just a few lectures in this content area. By 2003, quality and safety had become central concerns in the U.S. Communication failures were identified as the root cause of the majority of both malpractice claims and major patient safety violations, including errors resulting in patient death. The Joint Commission found that communication breakdowns were the root cause of 60% of medical errors, 75% of which resulted in death. 2,034 errors, which means 915 people died as a result of a communication error in 2003. Clearly it was time to get serious.
It was 2005 when I joined the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine faculty in the medical education department. I had the opportunity to engage with faculty members seriously interested in training learners in patient safety. For two years, I worked with this team to create and deliver lectures and simulations, co-lead a patient safety elective, and was invited to attend the Telluride Experience.
In early 2007, we were in the middle of creating a patient safety institute to deliver a formal curriculum on the subject. One of my goals was to create an online, degree-granting patient safety leadership program. 6 months later, the Master of Science in Patient Safety Leadership (PSL) proposal was created. Once it had been approved by the various required entities, the curriculum was created by our team of patient safety experts. In fall 2008, the first cohort of learners began; however, this was only the beginning. The PSL program was very successful and applications were rolling in. The learners couldn't get enough learning and we were getting rave reviews. Despite the program's success, however, I found a letter from the Senior Dean for Medical Education that said they no longer needed my services.
So the journey continued… Thankfully, I had received opportunities from other medical schools. As the Associate Dean for Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (UC), I had the opportunity to work with an amazing faculty and a very talented Senior Dean for Medical Education, Andrew Filak. Within 20 months, we created a new, contemporary, four-year medical school curriculum, which was awarded full accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. . During these very busy years, we created an Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open school and embedded safety, quality, and leadership into the curriculum. With other deans from nursing and pharmacy we implemented interprofessional sessions for medicine, nursing, and pharmacy learners. Each year, I also attended the Telluride Experience as a faculty member and continued to bring learners from UC to the events. One day, I picked up the phone and everything changed again.
It's 2013 and the original PSL team is back together again; this time in Baltimore, MD and the District of Columbia. Despite 14 years of experience in medical education, I was amazed by how little quality and safety training was provided in medical and nursing schools nationwide. Basic training is required by accreditation bodies, but it does not adequately prepare the physicians and nurses for the complexity of medicine in today's world. While some positive changes have occurred, we are still battling the same issues.
A little over a decade later, medical errors are now the third leading cause of death and account for more than 400,000 deaths per year. Recent studies have reported that as many as one-third of hospitalized patients may experience harm or an adverse event, often from preventable errors. Unfortunately, competencies for optimal patient care outcomes in the clinical environment include knowledge, skills, and attitudes in critical disciplines not traditionally trained in medical or other health science programs. Frankly, it's hard to imagine that one can provide 'care of the entire person' if attention to quality care and patient safety is missing.
The absence of such training leads to medical errors – a serious problem that affects not just patients but also the health care workers involved. Many good physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals have left the field due to depression and lack of support from their colleagues. Even more unfortunate, a growing number of health care professionals take their own lives each year when involved in a preventable medical error.
It's 2017 and we have created a solution to this pervasive crisis. I worked with Georgetown University and MedStar Health to create a new Executive Master's Degree in Clinical Quality, Safety and Leadership (CQSL).
CQSL unleashes a systematic, evidence-based education that will achieve striking results in safety, quality, reliability, and healthcare value. With a learner-focused environment the CQSL program will equip learners to become leaders in the advancement of safety science and quality healthcare. The curriculum includes online asynchronous coursework, simulation, team training, and one onsite residency. The inaugural class begins in fall 2017.
Health-care practitioners and leaders need new skills and attitudes to meet the changing needs of patients in a medical environment that has complex multilayered systems, informatics, assessment, outcomes, and quality indicators. Secondary to these changes, health care has become a high-risk industry. As Yukl (2002) noted, "A vision is seldom created in a single moment of revelation, but instead it takes shape during a lengthy process of exploration, discussion, and refinement of ideas".
And so the Journey continues…
Academy for Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety Kicks Off in US for 2017Posted: June 5, 2017 Filed under: Medical Education, Nursing Education, Patient Safety | Tags: Academy for Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety, David Mayer MD, Medical Education, MedStar Health, Nursing education, Telluride Patient Safety Summer Camp Leave a comment
As many of us begin our regular summer pilgrimage to Telluride, Colorado, it is hard to believe that thirteen years have passed since a small group of passionate healthcare leaders came together in Telluride to design a comprehensive patient safety curriculum for future healthcare leaders. As a result of that work, many wonderful and highly committed patient advocates and safety leaders will once again convene in Telluride the next two weeks to continue our mission of Educating the Young. For those not from Colorado, summertime in Telluride may be one of the best kept secrets in the United States. Be it the old west feel of the town, or the hypoxic "magic" that happens at an elevation of 9,500 feet, Telluride has always been an educational mecca for everyone that joins us during these memorable weeks of high altitude learning led by the MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety and the Academy for Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety (AELPS).
Over the past thirteen years, about 1,000 students and resident physicians from across the world have attended one of our AELPS Telluride Experience workshops. Many of our past alumni have gone on to lead work that has inspired real change at their home institutions–change that is helping make care safer and more transparent. We look forward to meeting yet another class of emerging patient safety leaders these two weeks who will also stand up for patients, transparency and a true culture of safety during their careers.
Through the generous support of The Doctors Company Foundation (TDCF), Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR), COPIC and MedStar Health, about 180 health science students and resident physician leaders will be attending one of four, week-long Patient Safety Summer Camps being held in the United States this summer. The US camps are held each year in Telluride CO, Baltimore MD, and Napa CA. In addition, another 100 future healthcare leaders will be attending one of our AELPS International Patient Safety Summer Camps this year in Sydney, Australia and Doha, Qatar.
A new generation of caregivers – young physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other allied health professionals – are stepping up and starting to make a difference in healthcare. Many of them understand and appreciate they will soon be the gatekeepers for safe, high quality, high value patient care. They are taking this responsibility seriously – more seriously than I and my colleagues did when we were their age. These young leaders are the future of healthcare…and the future is bright.
We hope you will follow our activities and learnings through our student, resident and faculty blogs, found here on ETY or The Telluride Blog, found here. Please comment and join our conversation on the blogs or on Twitter (@TPSSC and #AELPS13).


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Kiha & The Faces Teases Anticipated Comeback With New Studio Album
Kiha & the Faces is set to drop a new album this month!
Marking the band's comeback after a two-year hiatus, the full-length studio album is expected to be released on June 16. The exciting news was shared on June 2 via the group's social media accounts, along with a teaser that can be viewed here.
The teaser video starts off with Kiha & the Faces' debut track "Cheap Coffee" released in 2008, and moves on to introduce the band's other hit tracks including "Let's Meet Now" and "Heard It Through the Grapevine." The final scene shows the members sailing on a boat next to the album release date.
On June 3, the album cover stating "Is There Anyone Who's An Expert In Loving Me?" was revealed.
This release will also celebrate Kiha & the Faces' eighth debut anniversary.
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Tales of moonlit wanderings and travels: I am a semi-nomadic writer currently based in Istanbul -but am always most comfortable running with the djinns and wolves. Desert obsessed with a penchant for Sufi Poetry, this blog is a documentation of my weird and wayward, postmodern-dervish ways.
Monday, May 30, 2011
a bottle of dodgy cheap nail polish remover exploding in my face and running to wash off under an ice cold shower that barely works:
that's real everyday life here for me in Jordan. what the hell.
Oh Canada
in this hostel alone, (the "Abbasi Palace" hostel in Amman - my favourite so far, the lady owner brings us sweets and desserts and pepsi and coffee and calls us "her babies"), there is me and the aussie, one young american girl, one mysterious (beautiful) syrian man - who i am going to corner today and talk to if possible, an english lady and her baby mohammed (and her Jordanian husband i think - im aussuming she met him travelling here before, had, er...a bit too much fun, and came back...with the baby?), and....4 Canadian guys, 3 of whom are from Calgary. ??!! basically half this hostel is...Canadian?
i came to travel the middle east to ESCAPE conversations about hockey, and somehow all im hearing about is the Canucks.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
With a crash of the glass-towered world. We escape. Making beds of hostile landscapes.
Will be catching a service taxi to Damascus with another girl from the hostel here, who doesnt have her Visa, and honestly i dont expect her to get through. If she gets turned back, then i will carry on in the taxi, and she will catch another one back to Amman. Then its about 2 hours, and ill be in the front with my cab driver to help me out.
Insha Allah, it will be fine.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
but today, watching lizards slither along the hot ancient roman stones, and falcons circling the puffy post-rain sky, at a moment when there wasnt a single other tourist in sight, just me and the Jordanian air....it was also really really nice to have that experience alone.
i need a balance of emptiness and clutter -usually erring more on the cluttered side, while traveling or at home.
i also thought of something, in my wandering alone today, watching these skittish little lizards running to and fro and trying to avoid people, falling rocks and those mean falcons: survival of the fittest isnt about being the strongest or biggest, its about being the most adaptable. finding a way to make a situation okay.
i honestly feel like my greatest strength is my adaptability, and that made me feel pretty good about my life, even if at age 29 i am currently jobless, homeless, single, and somehow or another have found myself in Amman, Jordan with a backpack full of dirty clothes and not much else going on. i have no rigid plans and no specific way of doing anything, and dont really know WHAT im doing here to be honest.. but that is okay. i can be best friends with someone after one conversation. i can enjoy a week in the desert or a day at the mall equally, and i guess im sort of proud of that. i dont think most girls i know, back home, could handle just how crazy it is to travel in this part of the world (really travel, not staying at resorts and things, but real gritty gross squat toilet style travel, eating 30 cent kebabs on a polluted street while men yell "oh my god sexy SEXY lady" from every single direction, and cars honk non-stop)...and i think the only reason i havent lost my mind is because of that adaptability.
anyways, what was i talking about here? sounding self righteous? i dont know. sorry if thats how it came across haha.
basically..im tired and have ate way too many Jordanian pastries (amazing syrupy things with cheese and pistachios and butter and ohmygod yes). that is the real truth. i dont know what the hell im talking about here. but i had a good day.
goodnight from Jordan.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Another kind of Mecca
This might not be what people want to hear about my time spent in the exotic mythical 'East' but today I spent 4 hours...at the mall.
Not just any mall mind you, 2 malls in fact: the Amman City mall, and the larger, slightly less expensive "Mecca mall", both located in Amman, Jordan.
What a fascinating day, really.
First off, both these malls were HUGE, dwarfing any malls that we have back in my hometown of Calgary (maybe excluding that monstrous one out in Balzac), and were a universe away from the scene here in downtown Amman, where the men grossly outnumber the women and today I had a plastic bottle thrown at me, maybe for showing my...ankles? I dont know what happened really, except that I ran off, swearing.
At the mall it was much different: Jordanian women wearing high heels and skinny jeans, shopping at the Chanel counter, long hair flowing free. Teenagers going to the movies and eating candy. Families shopping for toasters at the giant discount "Walmart"-like store. I honestly forgot at times that I was even in another country....and I suppose eating a whopper and walking past a Second Cup cafe helped with the travel amnesia (though having to go through a metal detector to enter the mall was a rather new experience). It was so interesting to see the contrasts....women like the aforementioned, looking as European as any in Paris, next to a man in the white robe and Bedouin scarf, next to a store selling expensive sequined hijabs next to a racy Victorias secret underwear shop.
It might seem absurd to travel half around the world only to go to a Forever 21 to buy cheap jeans and eat American food and wander the air conditioned halls of a mall....but it was a neat slice of honest life in Amman (for the middle/upper classes that is), and I guess a rather welcome break from the chaos of downtown Amman....not to mention that after over a week spent in the desert, living with the Bedouin and going days without proper showers, it was nice to have the luxuries of city life. Lets be honest here, illusions and romanticizations be damned!
More importantly, I got some much needed shorts and a new toothbrush.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Once in a lifetime
Sometimes when travelling without a plan, with no real time constraints, you have these Rimbaud-esqe moments: "WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE", and Wadi Musa is a town that provides such moments on almost a daily basis. Staring at a cows head hanging in the middle of the sidewalk, trying to hunt down a pair of new leggings, being followed by a group of far-too-pretty teenage boys -or being spit at by the little spawn-of-satan child living at the hostel with his mom who is the owner..and you ask yourself, "Why am i here? and how...HOW did i get here??!". Like that Talking Heads song really.
I saw Petra yesterday but it was too hot to return today, so here i am, sitting on a couch, in the carpeted, spangled, cluttered budget-Sultan's-harem-like lobby of my current home. Doing nothing, with nothing to do.
I suppose i wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
written on May 18th, on the ferry from Egypt to Jordan
I am writing this (in saved document form obviously – no wifi in the middle of the red sea), whilst on the Ferry from Nuweiba Egypt, to Aqaba, Jordan. I have plenty of time to kill.
It is oddly tranquil here on the boat at this time, but that might have something to do with my comfy seat in the "VIP area" that the 10 odd tourists on this entire slow, 2nd class boat, have been segregated into. I am not a fan of such separation, and chose to wander the upper deck earlier, while we waited seemingly forever for the boat to get moving. It was quite the adventure making my way to the upper deck, men taking my photo non-stop, much chatter and smiles and hundreds of local Egyptians and (mostly) Jordanians…but not the same outright harassment as I found in Egypt. (If this is any indication of the Jordanian people, I am impressed! ) I also had the opportunity to converse (well, as much as possible given that they spoke no English) with some Jordanian women, who kept smiling and touching me and asking for my name and saying what seemed to be kind things and showing me the way to the bathroom (where 4 women were basically having a bath party in the sink, washing their feet and faces, veils off).
The unfortunate thing about "mingling" with the locals like this is that because most other travellers seem to be content with the tourist apartheid techinique and apparently don't move from their seat, I got locked out on the deck because certain local people (those who didn't pay for a seat I assume), are not allowed into the cabins and well…they lock the doors I guess?. After much fuss and smiles and laughs and shameless flirting (and one kind matriarchal lady who proceeded to scold the men in very abrupt Arabic for bothering me, hehe), I managed to find one man who knew how to get me back into the VIP sitting area, where I had left my backpack. Shukran! And here I am now, writing this.
I have been thinking a lot about the position of women in the middle east, and it occurred to me that today was one of the first times where I felt like I actually genuinely interacted with women, as a group. I met individual women in Cairo of course, but as a whole, most local strangers talking to me have inevitably been men. Its sort of like the giant pink elephant in the room that is obvious but ackward to talk about, the inequalities and position of women in Islamic countries. I hate making generalizations, and I have avoided really writing about it because of this ( as it always seems to come across as the privileged spoiled almost neo-colonial westerner spouting off on things they know little about), but it is fascinating and worth discussion. I will try to not sound like an ass here.
As I see it, men and men basically just have separate public lives, though im sure behind closed doors it is a different scene and women express themselves normally and yell and get angry at their foolish boyfriends as much as back home. As a traveller I am fortunate to have a window into each world(the women washing their feet in the bathroom on this boat, laughing and smiling at me, and the numerous men who have struck up conversation, initially with the intent of just hitting on me I suppose, but then actually having a real conversation, smoking sheesha and being "one of the boys" to some extent ). I feel fortunate in this, even if the perception of me as an outsider can also be a detriment (the aforementioned low grade sexual harassment).
I don't know how to put this next paragraph delicately. Hmm. As much as I don't want to say it, I have to tell it like I see it I guess: I don't particularly care for how frequently I have seen women in full Burkas (not "full" I guess , ones with slits for the eyes – I have only seen 2 completely veiled women, one on the Cairo subway and another in Nuweiba, walking blindly in the wind which seemed ready to rip it off),sitting next to their husbands in T-shirts and jeans. This inequality is what bothers me, not the act of dressing modestly in the "eyes of Allah" or whatever, which to some extent I respect (though certainly wouldn't care to do myself, its too damn hot here, lets be honest). Add to this the fact that many of these same men who preserve the chastity of their wives and sisters by hiding their physical beauty from the eyes of others, are all too pleased to see me with bare arms and legs, and its hard for me, as a feminist, not to want to screammmm. I am told at least a dozen times a day, probably more if I walk any length down the street, how "beautiful" I am, and "oh my god" etc etc…and it bothers me because it rings so insincere in a culture where local women are not allowed the same liberties. I feel like if these men were more used to seeing natural, strong, women just wearing jeans and tshirts themselves, out and about in public, and could talk with them…their hormones might be a bit more in check. Its also somewhat irritating to have this harassment and see the rings on these mens fingers.
I want to make it clear, that I am not dismissing the strength and dignity of the women here, which I can sense is very strong , I just cant quite put my finger on what im trying to say I guess. I suppose I am just tired of the hypocrisy, and undignified behavior of some of the men. (though admittedly being constantly complimented on ones eyes is a bit of a stoke to the ego – men are obsessed with my eyes here, and I thought it was just some line until no other traveling women I mentioned this to had experienced this compliment. Woohoo! haha). I dont want to generalize "all" the men as being this way, and i know there are exceptions, but the overwhelming majority really fit the negative stereotype, when it comes to hitting on the "western" ladies.
I guess one could argue that there is a similar level of unspoken harassment in the western world, where if a women chooses to show skin or wear a short skirt and she IS sexually assaulted (much more common in the west than here), we often subtely blame her for dressing provocatively, or "putting herself" in a dangerous situation. It seems like your damned if you do, damned if you don't, but I truly believe that dialogue between men and women is the only thing that's ever going to improve things, and change the sexisim that exists in too many cultures including my own,. So globally, not just in the middle east but anywhere, I welcome any chance I get to genuinely talk to men, and women, whoever is open to it.
Okay, my battery is running low here, so I will shut down my computer. 4 more hours I think till Aqaba? And I have already ate all my chips and bread and cheese and coca cola (such a healthy lunch/dinner). Maybe I will go wander around and get my picture taken some more? *sigh*
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Wadi to Wadi
the past 5 days have been the most chaotic, insane, ridiculous, awesome time i have ever had. dear god.
i cannot form proper sentences. showering today here in Wadi Musa was almost a spiritual experience. its amazing what not having the luxury of running water will do for your sense of gratitude.
i will write more later. i have....epic amounts to write about.
sleeping on a giant rock in the Wadi rum desert, foxes circling around us as we slept under blankets, rocks digging into my hips. being subtley and not so subtley hit on by the bedouin in a variety of entertaining ways. tiny cups of special tea. eating sheep and liver and various meats while in the home of the one wife of one of the bedouin men, watching persian pop videos. washing in a bucket and peeing off a cliff. driving up a sanddune and almost tipping the ancient rusted out 4 x 4 truck. meeting a just married bedouin man, driving off from the wedding and having him say with a smile "well, i still look for 2nd wife".
i need to sleep for a week.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Today I say goodbye to Egypt, and take the ferry from Nuweiba, to Aqaba, Jordan.
First i need to take a bus to Nuweiba, then board this infamous ferry (infamous for not leaving on time, showing up randomly, and forcing people to use the oily, coal dusted, "Heart of Darkness"-esque "slow" 2nd class ferry) which crosses the gulf of Aqaba, arriving in Jordan. The whole process *should* take about 4 hours, but its better to view that estimate in Egyptian time (read: double it). Once in Aqaba i can taxi it out to the Wadi Rum desert camp where i am supposed to be staying with a bedouin family. I met Tyseer, leading of his camp, on couchsurfing.
Lets hope this all goes smoothly.
Climbing Mt Sinai last night, i kept meeting people who had been on the road for years, constant travelers. It sort of inspires and annoys at the same time to hear of peoples non-challant exploits in places like Uganda, or those who havent had a real home in 4 years. HOW do they do it? i guess its not impossible. You can pick up work here and there, for pretty easy. I guess if its what i want to do, it wouldnt be so hard, to sustain the gypsy life. I have spent less money than i thought while in Egypt, and if i hadnt been scammed so much...it would be even less.
No matter, my August plane ticket back home seems a million years away, so im just going to enjoy the next couple months, and if i feel like coming home then....i will.
Masalaama Egypt!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Traveling is so strange, you meet people, at hostels or whatever, you get to know them incredibly well in a short span of time, better than some people who have known you for 5 years, sharing food and booze and every thought going through your frantic sleep-deprived head...and then you say "goodbye!" just like that, and most likely...never see them again.
Its sort of sad but sort of wonderful too. You never get the chance to know anything but positive aspects of people (minus the occasional idiot from New Zealand - seriously, this guy was a jackass), and the same goes for you. You remain just a little slice of a colourful memory in the heads of the people you meet, and then slowly fade away into the distance.
Bye Cairo.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
I am actually writing this "blog entry" on a piece of paper, while eating lunch in the 'GAD cafe', where i have ate at virtually every day whilst in Cairo, just because its doesnt seem to bother my stomach, and its decent and cheap - about a dollar for a decent sized Chicken Shwarma. I have ate alot of Shwarma, lets just say that.
I just came back from Tahrir square, where there were actually still some buses bound for Gaza. Word on the street here is that they are being turned away at the border, so i suppose its just as well that i missed out this morning when 3 of my hostelmates were leaving.
While wandering the street near my hostel, i randomly met a guy who walked with me to Midan Tahrir, a very friendly awesome 34 year old dude, named "Sam" who lost one of his brothers in that very square, due to a sniper on Jan 28th, during the revolution.
We talked politics and he said it was thrilling to be able to freely do so now, unlike before the uprising when he and so many others were simply too scared to let their true opinions be known. "Sam" just chatted me up in the street, and i took the chance that he wasnt just hitting on me, or trying to sell me something, and decided to walk with him around for a bit. I am so grateful that i did, because it was amazing to hear his perspective on everything, and to walk around Tahrir square with him, whilst all this Palestinian support was happening. I bought a T-shirt that says "viva free Egypt" in Arabic, though i wish i had bought a Keffiyeh (Palestinian scarf) now that i think about it.
Anyways, this kind of random encounter, and friendliness is why i so love it here in Cairo, and more generally is really an example of the warmth and generousity of the Egyptian people. A similar showcase of the kindness of strangers happened yesterday on the train from Luxor to Cairo.
I had somehow managed to get on the 830 am train, even though it was officially only for locals, and the man taking my ticket seemed worried because there are no "tourist police" on these local trains to "protect" the travellers. I wasnt particulary worried, but maybe seemed a bit..lost as to what platform to get on, which train, and where my seat was (tickets here are printed only in Arabic). Sensing my confusion perhaps, another lone female on the platform read my ticket to me in english, and being that it appeared we were both on the same train car #8, started talking to me. She wore pink converse sneakers and a matching pink hijab, glasses similar to mine, maybe a few years younger but otherwise very similar to me really. We boarded together but, as it turned out that she had mistaken my seat # 8 for the train number, i had to move up 4 cars, and i waved goodbye, no big deal.
As i sat in my new seat, in train car # 4, about 15 minutes later, she appeared again having walked through all the train cars to apologize for her "mistake" and say how sorry she was! I gave her a hug and was astonished that she would go to such trouble, walking on a moving train all that way, just to say sorry for such a minor issue!
This is the kind of thing i will remember most about having travelled here, and its a reminder to me that while some people (a lot of people really) are unforunately looking to "scam the rich tourist", or hit on the easy western lady...its important not to become jaded or dismissive of people as a whole.
As a local Egyptian told my fellow travelling friend here, with advice on how to cross a street in Cairo:
"Close your eyes and open your heart".
It sounds silly but its true.
with love and a mushy heart,
from Cairo,
- Julia
Ordinarily there is a tourist sleeper train the goes between the two destinations, but whether due to my own lack of astute and understandable Arabic with the lady at Ramses station, or the fact that the revolution has killed tourism here (completely absurd – more on that in another entry I suppose), somehow I ended up with a seat on what seemed to be very likely a second class non-tourist train (paying the full 165 egyptian pound price of the tourist train though, mind you, of course..and not realizing any of this until after the fact)
I guess one might use the word "authentic experience" to describe this journey, which began with a very disgruntled lady being told to move from my assigned seat, by the man who pushed me and my travel mate , Leann (from south Africa – she is backpacking alone from Cairo to Cape town, through Sudan, Ethiopia and Rwanda – I am already planning my next trip to Ethiopia it sounds amazing! ) out of HIS and his friends seats which we were forced to use when, well, as mentioned, this lady had taken mine.
Now in our new proper legit seats, We settled in for the journey, under the stark flourensent light, assuming, as is the case with most night trains, that the lights would go off around midnight so that we might get some sleep. No such luck here, and the lights stayed on all night, casting a horrific pallor over its tired yet somehow still very noisy inhabitants. I think my retinas are still burning from this light….as is my throat from the sheer amounts of cigarette smoke that plumed throughout the train carriage, mixing lovely with the wafting odours from the toilet , the babys colic crying and the man selling glasses of tea every half hour.
I wont get into describing the toilet though. Too predicatable. Or maybe I will? Lets just say, it didn't have a flush, so much as a lever to dump yer , well, dump onto the track, and when that wasn't working so well, it just filled up. Lovely. *shudder* I think I would have preferred a squat to be honest.
(I had the embrassment of using said toilet and having this problem, and then just giving up on flushing and opening the door to a line of very handsome Egyptian army officers who smirked at me as I turned crimson in the face).
Anyways, where was i? oh yah.talking about the train ride?
yes yes, so now…. Im in luxor, home of some hundreds and hundreds of new kingdom temples, built on the ancient site of Thebes. Its about 40 degrees out, my legs are spotted like a have some sort of pox (mosquitios) and I am extremely tanned/burnt just a little. I visited the stunning Karnak temple today though (also stole a 4000 year old rock from the walls of one of the hieroglyphic parts that was crumbling, hush hush), which sort of made it all worthwhile. I also ate Koshari for the first time, which in all honesty reminds me of something id make when I have only leftovers in the fridge and somehow think it's a good idea to mix rice, noodles, chickpeas and tomato sauce. But it was pretty tasty I guess. Im not complaining. My stomach seems to agree…so far.
Anyways, As much as I didn't enjoy the train ride, as much as I am in desperate need of some fruits and vegetables that wont make me ill, as much as I really would love a clean pair of leggings to wear (not washed with shampoo in the shower), as hot and sticky as I am and sick and tired of being whisked off by cab drivers into the "friends papyrus shop", as much as I look like a filthy dirty hippie with a mosquito bite on my nose, as hard as a rock as this bed im sitting on is….i am happy to be here. Harassment, train-rides-from-hell and all. The hostel I am at is called "bob marley hostel", and it is run by a very friendly, very stoned, young ,attractive Egyptian man who loves his reggae (and naturally, his weed which I think you might need to smoke to be able to sleep on this concrete slab of a mattress). He made me and my hostel mates the largest breakfast I have ever seen this morning, as we stumbled in from the train station hungry and dirty, and didn't even charge us. It's the little things . <3
Anyways, This isn't a vacation…this is an "experience"….and holy shit…is it ever.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Cairo Time
It is 9:30 am now, and I am sitting on my hostel floor, sipping some coffee, after enjoying the simple free breakfast of bread and cheese and jam, listening to Egyptian pop music on the radio, with my hostel mates. I think there are about 4 people total at the hostel, which is really nice as we have all instantly befriended one another. There is a lovely Aussie girl named Maria, an Irish lad who just checked out today to head to Jerusalem, and a really cool older lady who has lived virtually everywhere, and is now in exile here for some political involvment in Gaza that I dont know much about and didn't want to press her for information on! Suffice to say, I wont share her name. ;)
Cairo is intense and chaotic and amazing. It's simultaneously exactly like how you imagine it, and then nothing like it whatsoever. It exceeds expectations I guess you could say. Last night I had the amazing time of hanging out with a bunch of people from Cairo- really cool young people, who all spoke perfect English, (how easy for me!), and we smoked sheesha and drank Nescafe (as a cappucino is called here), and chatted and laughed our asses off until curfew time at 2:00 am. It was the perfect night, at this little hidden place in some dark alley, dozens of tables and chairs cluttered in the corner, a sort of 'open air' cafe, where tons and tons of Cairenes were lazily chatting, enjoying their Friday night. I would say it was about 95% men, but no one seemed to care I was there. It was great to talk Music and Religion and Art and everything else important with my new hip friends and it was really interesting...who would have thought I would have almost the exact same taste in music as a young dude from Cairo? (Crystal Castles, Depeche Mode, etc)? Too much fun.
Today I'm meeting another couchsurfer friend for lunch, then heading back down to Islamic Cairo with Maria (where I already visited yesterday as part of a rushed "tour" that the hostel provided - im not a fan of such tours but ill save that rant for another time maybe), to shop till I drop for scarves and jewelery and spices at the Khan Khalilli Bazaar.
I love this city despite the pollution and traffic and smog; I love the chaos and busy dirty streets, I love the cheap Cleopatra brand cigarettes and sidewalk shwarma, I love the energy and...madness of it all.


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Currency and coin that are guaranteed as legal tender by the government, a regulatory agency or bank. The most normally applied monetary aggregates (or kinds of money) are conventionally designated M1, M2 and M3. These are successively bigger aggregate categories: M1 is currency (coins and bills) plus demand deposits (such as checking accounts) M2 is M1 plus savings accounts and time deposits below $one hundred,000 and M3 is M2 plus bigger time deposits and comparable institutional accounts.
Modern day monetary theory distinguishes among various approaches to measure the money supply, reflected in unique types of monetary aggregates, using a categorization program that focuses on the liquidity of the monetary instrument employed as money. Citation necessary The major functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange a unit of account a shop of value and, occasionally, a standard of deferred payment four 5 Any item or verifiable record that fulfills these functions can be deemed as money. These monetary instruments with each other are collectively referred to as the money supply of an economy.


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Define user.
According to my observation on the average user and what we mean by the members of the forum a large proportion of them interested in the aesthetic form of the forum and design and ease of writing topics and we mean the presence of WYSIWYG editor in addition to the area of the member file more interactive and interactive with other membersdavid63 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:58 amDefine user.
Are you referring to the end user? If so then, in my experience, 99% are not the least bit interested in all the "bells and whistles", they are content with what is there just as long as you are not continually changing things.
If, on the other hand you are referring to the "user" as the board owner/Admin then that is another matter. Most of the time they think they know what their end user wants without asking them only to find that most of the features that are added are not used.
I am 13 years old in the forums worlddavid63 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:12 pmIn the 20 years or so that I have been running bulletin boards I have never been asked for a WYSIWYG editor by any member of the board. Would I get some wanting one if I asked? Possibly. Do I think that the members would want one? Maybe and if one was available as an option then I would offer it.
As I said before - the site owner's perception of what is required and what actually is required can often be poles apart.


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Elyse Sewell was a contestant and third runner up during Cycle 1 of ANTM.
A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sewell obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of New Mexico. Sewell was known on the show as the "edgy pre-med student." In 2005, one of her "confessional" clips from the show, in which she started a profanity-laden rant against the people on the show, earned her 16th place on E!'s Most Outrageous TV Moments.
Elyse dated Martin Crandall of the Shins until January 2008, when he allegedly assaulted her in a Sacramento hotel. Both Crandall and Elyse were charged with felony domestic assault, though their cases were later dimissed.
Previously, Elyse told the Singapore Straits Times in an interview that she had dumped her boyfriend because he cheated on her while she was working in Japan, though they reconciled shortly afterwards.
As a model, Elyse has been incredibly successful, especially in Asia where she has had print advertisements for Chanel and Chow Sang Sang Jewelry and appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar Hong Kong.
Sewell's first book, based in part on her LiveJournal Weblog, was published in Hong Kong in 2006. She appeared in multiple book signings across Hong Kong.
Over seas, Elyse has been signed with Zucca Tokyo, ZEM Osaka, Mannequin Singapore, Model Genesis Hong Kong, Chadwicks Sydney, Eye For I Milan, Dream Models Hong Kong and Elite Santiago.
Elyse has also been signed with Wilhelmina West Models, M4 Models, Q6 Models Portland, Model One (Hong Kong), Studio KLRP Paris, Seattle's Model Guild, M4 Hamburg, Good Fashion Shenzhen and Model 1.
She is perhaps one of the the most successful models from America's Next Top Model.
Source: Elyse Sewell's LiveJournal
Source: Wikipedia
Photos: Fashion Model Directory
Source: Elyse's Facebook
Source: Elyse's Twitter
Source: All ANTM
To see more photos of Elyse, click here.
96 Responses to "Elyse Sewell"
April 25, 2010 at 2:41 am
Go figure … She talked all that crap about disappearing, and there she is, all over the place!
July 31, 2010 at 12:43 am
I'm glad she's done so well! Out of all the cycles, she's my favorite model by far.
January 11, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Me too. She is my favorite contestant out of all of the seasons of Top Model. I'm glad that she is doing so well.
March 24, 2012 at 3:30 am
She is my absolute favourite of all the cycles and I'm so glad she did well. What a stunning girl!
September 7, 2010 at 9:14 am
I'm not surprised that she made a name for herself in Hong Kong simply because she has a semi-Asian look about her (Eurasian?) that the Chinese love. I can say that with confidence 'cause i'm Chinese myself 😀
January 23, 2011 at 12:44 am
What makes her Eur-Asian? LOL. Just cuz she's got black hair? She's got nothing Asian! They make it in Asia because people over there are obsessed with trying to become western. Ha ha!
February 12, 2011 at 6:26 pm
You MAD? Clara doesn't mean that. What she meant was that Elyse kinda looks like part Asian, not because she has black hair. I mean, seriously? If you see some people who are sort of Caucasian-Asian, you'll see what Clara meant.
May 27, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Really now? you think that Asian people wants to become Western looking? Asia? Have you been to Asia? Its not like that.
October 2, 2011 at 1:15 am
Ron's wrong. It is like that. Not all Asian folks, but many. It's not a judgment, just a fact. There are "double eyelid" surgeries popular in Asia to give young Asian women (primarily) a more Western-look. And yes, I've been to Asia. Although it's by no means true everywhere you go there, many young Asians really dig US-everything – jeans, baseball, Hollywood, etc. That's starting to change, fortunately, as the East starts to rise and the US is beginning to falter.
For what it's worth – of course she looks a bit Asian. She's tall, so not that part, but she's got a very slight build, tiny facial features, big eyes, and yes, short dark hair. She has a look I think many young Asian women would find accessible; more so than some of the blonde all-American looking models.
June 22, 2012 at 12:15 pm
I think Elyse has this skinny, fragile, doe-eyed innocent look, plus her features are very delicate..and milky skin.. all these traits that Asian women and men love..
Whether she looks Eurasian or not.. she could pass as one.. look at Alexa Chung.. man, she looks purely Western.. I was shocked to find her part Asian.. except her last name gave away..
February 15, 2012 at 4:30 am
I agree with you. And to ron, not all Asian's have narrow eyes! Some part-asian's have black hair, but have a certain look to them. So 2 words, shut up.
September 17, 2010 at 4:29 am
Nice. First Class work. And an impressive presentation! Thanks. Elyse has been inspiring and fun. Wish her blessings!
September 19, 2010 at 10:30 pm
I am so glad she was eliminated from ANTM; and where is she now? Doing better than Adrianne.
August 30, 2013 at 9:33 pm
I always thought she had a lot of personality, but I thought she was going to medical school and didn't like modelling? And I was very upset that things didn't work out so well for Adrianne….I mean, she did WIN!!
October 10, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Elyse is beautiful and very cool. I like her.
October 11, 2010 at 12:23 pm
I think Tyra should get a little credit for launching new models who otherwise might never have tried to become one. Elise was my second favorite in the first cycle, but I would have been very happy if she had won.
November 16, 2011 at 1:20 pm
My thought exactly. Tyra is a star because Elise probably won't be taking all these photographs without her show. I love her (both of them)
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March 28, 2012 at 11:29 pm
Tha´s true for most of the girls, I remenber Adrianne in a ANTM E! THS special talking about how she wrote to Tyra demanding jobs and complaining on her career not launching like she wanted, as if that was Tyra´s responsibility after the show; but I consider THIS case rare. Elyse has been booking these great jobs internationally and with nobody´s help long before top model. She says so in her casting video, and the portfolio speaks for itself. She busted her ass and travelled the world living in all kinds of places with strangers (fellow models) to make this fine work. Thumbs up. Palmas!
October 21, 2010 at 9:25 am
If Tyra gets to take credit for Elyse's career, than Tyra also gets to be accountable for all the ANTM alumni whose careers have bombed.
November 6, 2010 at 4:24 am
I'm not shocked she looks amazing on all these pictures and I'm totally not shocked she got all these jobs. But the thing I'm shocked about is that she actually tried and continued modeling outside of the competition. Mostly, because on the show it seemed like all she wanted to do was become a doctor. I agreed with Adrianne about Elyse. She said that Elyse hates everything about being a model and yet she's the best at it.
February 12, 2011 at 6:32 pm
She doesn't really hate it. It's more like she's thinking about the future. She said it from the start that you can still be a doctor when you're old, but you can be a model in a short period of time. If she hated it, she could not have send an audition tape in the first place. She did hate it because of the people. She didn't like the way the other contestants behaved and thought. Especially about how the girls were making a really big deal out of everything fashion.
Elyse has set her mind in the future; like everything is not fashion because there will be a time when you're no longer a model. So, in the other words, she's very intellectual that she couldn't really handle the environment in the show.
November 25, 2010 at 6:54 am
Pics don't lie; best to come out of ANTM.
November 26, 2010 at 12:02 am
She is so beautiful! When I first saw Elyse in ANTM I have started to watch this show only for to see her. She has really amazing face!
January 18, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Oh yes! You're right; she has a beautiful face and a skinny-though-beautiful body!
April 2, 2012 at 1:57 am
She should have won……She was the BEST !!!!!
December 12, 2010 at 8:29 pm
She looks a lot like Winona Ryder.
December 19, 2010 at 2:21 am
I love Elyse, she is beautiful, I also love her body type, I'm shaped like her and it's nice to know I'm not the only super naturally skinny and small girl out there.
January 6, 2011 at 2:07 pm
She does look kind of Asian… maybe almost Faye Wong-ish.
August 20, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Elyse is certainly photographic and she's got brains, but hey – don't compare to Faye, that's sacred ground (as you know).
January 10, 2011 at 5:46 am
I am a big, big fan. Thank you for posting this photos which were new to me.
January 11, 2011 at 4:07 am
I loved Elyse and find it ironic that she's become arguably the most successful of all the models to come from ANTM, especially considering they didn't even select her for the final two. Finally, on the most recent cycle, they had another contestant who was high fashion, and they played it smart and selected her to win. As much as I respect Ann, she had nothing on Elyse when it comes to personal presentation, and I can't help but wonder if ANTM missed it's brightest star when the show decided to eliminate Elyse?
January 18, 2011 at 11:05 pm
What happened to Shannon? Shannon came in 2nd but I've never heard of her. Though I think Elyse is beautiful and great!
August 30, 2013 at 9:38 pm
Isn't Shannon doing quite well?
February 3, 2011 at 5:37 am
Elyse should have won cycle 1. I don't think she would have made all the mistakes that Adrianne did.
February 7, 2011 at 4:23 am
I think that she copped out at the end. I think that she knew she'd be big so there was no reason to have the title of antm. She knew she had it, even though she hated it at one point. Hey man, try living with just a group of women who are of different background and for some (Robin) who treated some of the girls like they were nothing because of how they portray themselves. I mean sh**, I'd go nuts and want to leave also. But good for her, and yeah she probably is the only one who is the most successful throughout all of the antm seasons put together.
February 12, 2011 at 6:35 pm
I think I should point this out: IT WAS FATE THAT ELYSE DIDN'T WIN. Because if she did win, she would be cheated out of that Revlon prize of $100,000. So, it's a blessing in disguise.
But I don't think Revlon was the problem. I think it was Adrianne. They probably didn't like her; that's why they didn't book her. If Elyse won, Revlon would have booked her.
February 21, 2011 at 3:13 am
Boo, I agree with you. That atmosphere was seriously toxic at some points. And it wasn't just the varying backgrounds, there was also a religious aspect to it. I think it's fair enough having your own beliefs, but to force them unpleasantly on someone else is seriously unethical in my books. And Robin did have a massive tendency to do that! That makes it uncomfortable for everyone all around.
Does anyone know why she hasn't been updating her livejournal?
February 23, 2011 at 9:38 pm
I LOVE Adrianne, but Elyse should've won. Just look; she has amazing pictures, and during the show she looked like a real model.
February 24, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Her Paris photo shoot was awful. What was she thinkin'?
July 18, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Who cares…she's a model and was paid for the job.
February 24, 2011 at 11:50 pm
My conclusion from Elyse's success is that not only beauty, but personality, rules in this business. Love her.
March 2, 2011 at 3:40 am
I can't believe she went off and did all this modeling!! What happened to the doctor career? I didn't like her though.
March 5, 2011 at 9:16 am
Yo creo que Elyse era mas de lo que aparentaba y la verdad me alegra el futuro que ha forjado. Era mi favorita aunque si me dio como coraje que no ganara. Veía que los fotógrafos la adoraban y a pesar de sus arranque en ANTM demostró que tiene todo lo necesario para ser una modelo a nivel internacional; a diferencias de otras. Me alegro mucho por ella ya que es mas que una cara bonita.
March 6, 2011 at 4:45 pm
I like Elyse. she has brain, personality and looks. Good thing she didn't win or she'd have gone straight into fulfilling her contract prizes and wouldn't have done her double degrees. Though whatever happened to her 'doctor' dream is anyone's guess. I'm second guessing she wasn't successful with her application to that faculty.
I also like Ann. She and Ann are same category; gentle and demure looking, but both strong inside and clever with charisma. Ann especially seems a very sweet and nice person with a vulnerable look. Elyse is more edgy and gutsy, but nonetheless sensitive like Ann is how I feel about them. No unnecessary judging of others.
I suspect that Robin, who forced her religion down others yet she was a hypocrite, who wouldn't strip for the shoot yet exposed herself to Jay Manuel – she must be thinking doing that will advance her chance – almost like prostituting herself. Yuck. She's so low class, no wonder Elyse couldnt stand her. Respect to Elyse for not slugging her off in a big way. In Elyse's place I would have cursed at that braindead bimbo Robin.
March 6, 2011 at 4:58 pm
I am glad she ditched her ugly boyfriend Martin Crandall. He's not ugly physically, but also ugly as a person because he allegedly assaulted Elyse, but no charge was brought against him because Elyse was maganimous enough not to pursue the matter.
She deserves better than that stupid b*stard.
March 7, 2011 at 5:04 am
Where is she right now? She hasn't updated her blog since 2009. 😦
March 28, 2011 at 2:01 am
Done good like I figured she would, but I felt she was such a liar about modeling and it was a facade in case she did poorly. Nobody likes to lose, but she handled it by faking her likes, dislikes and eating habits.
March 29, 2011 at 8:51 pm
I THINK SHE DID very well and a not surprise that she did. But at elimination she said that she was going to be that lawyer and know look at her. You go girl; keep up the good work. You are beautiful.
April 25, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Elyse wanted to be a doctor.
June 1, 2011 at 10:12 am
LOVED her. I am so glad she went on to be successful.
June 8, 2011 at 1:34 am
Unfortunately, Elyse was a hot mess personally. I notice in her bio above, they only glancingly mention her violend, dysfunctional relationship and don't at all mention her own drug addiction, eating disorder and multiple arrests. Please don't admire this girl. There is literally nothing there to admire.
July 13, 2011 at 2:50 pm
melissa,who do you think you are,by judging people just like that?!are you God or something?or are you just jealous?Elyse is just a person like everyone else,can't be perfect in this world without makin' mistakes,but you have to accept the truth,she's amazing! 🙂
July 18, 2011 at 7:04 pm
I am not surprised by her violent behavior….. when she told the judges models were dumb… that was a dumb and hateful, she has tons of resentment and violence in her.
August 11, 2011 at 6:40 am
She had a drug addiction? What was/is she addicted to? I didn't know anything about that… when?
September 23, 2011 at 3:07 am
The bio is borrowed from wikipedia, so don't expect much.
Multiple arrests? Please elaborate. The only publicly known arrest was the Sacramento one in January 2008. She picked up a DWI yet? Her drinking was getting out of hand even by 2008.
Any convictions? Anyone can meet a bad cop, after all.
How many punchouts with Crandall?
Which drug(s)? What eating disorder(s)?
If you're going to slam her, be specific. Otherwise it's just lame innuendos.
October 27, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Have you read her blog? It's full of pictures of her eating loads of food, some people are just naturally thin. No reason to bash her. It's also not her fault that her boyfriend beat her up, and she broke up with him afterward. Completely unwarranted assessment.
December 4, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Pictures or it didn't happen. B.s. Rumor mongering from a hater
July 17, 2011 at 5:51 pm
I like her way more than Adrianne!! She has amazing pictures and it's pretty obvious that she's made it farther in the modeling industry than the others.
July 22, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Она самая замечательная!!!!!! Как же я расстроилась когда её выгнали…… Она 100% должна была быть первой топ-моделью по-американски!!!! Остальным участницам других сезонов будет очень тяжело затмить её!!! Все её фото просто восхитительны, как во время шоу так и после!!!
July 25, 2011 at 9:14 pm
On ANTM she to me seemed the small lovely girl)))
August 30, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Except that she doesn't have an eating disorder, nor addiction, nor multiple arrests, and she got out of that relationship a while ago.
Anyway, ANTM undermined themselves when they didnt choose her to win. That was so obvious.
August 31, 2011 at 12:58 pm
I love her smile. Pretty teeth. Glad to see she has done well for herself.
September 17, 2011 at 11:30 am
nice pictures
October 18, 2011 at 8:22 am
Does she remind anyone else of Winona Ryder she sure look like her to me. Elyse and Yoanna are the Most beautiful and talented models that have been on the show yet!
October 20, 2011 at 7:20 pm
I knew was going to make it big. She stood out as the star from the very beginning.
November 4, 2011 at 12:23 pm
a lot of job after ANTM!!! wow!!!
December 9, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Where are you getting all that from, Melissa? It doesn't seem backed up by any public information so either you know something most people don't or you're just throwing stones and casting aspersions. Yes Elyse was arrested with her now ex-boyfriend, and some people thought she had an eating disorder on the show, and she is really thin, so is Kate Moss, and somehow everyone was shocked, shocked! when it was revealed that Kate Moss used drugs – in an industry that has exposes young, young girls and women to bizarre situations and demands they stay in an almost pre-pubescent state? I think there's plenty to admire in Elyse. She's got the brains to know what she was getting into, and to those saying "she was going to be a doctor!" she still can be a doctor, like she said on America's Next Top Model that can wait, being a model can't. The show really benefited from having her on it, and the combination of Elyse and Adrianne vs. Robin and the holy rollers made for more interesting conversations and interactions than any subsequent series have managed (although Jayla wanted to be like Elyse really, really bad, and failed). After Robin was eliminated and Adrianne and Elyse included Shannon completely and even brought her out a bit was wonderful; Robin would never have done that in reverse. It was also okay that she was eliminated; she dozed off during a meeting with someone giving them advice and again from a television standpoint it was Shannon and Adrianne that really wanted it, and I for one was thrilled that Adrianne won, and am equally delighted to see Elyse being successful at anything she chooses to do.
December 18, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Is that Elyse Sewell in this commercial? At 0:36.
January 8, 2012 at 8:17 am
I love the fact that she doesn't have to tuck in that gut when modeling. It gives her an advantage over models who do not have naturally flat stomachs. I also love that she looks like Twiggy in some of her photographs.
January 16, 2012 at 6:15 am
I watched Cycle 1 and loved it – because Elyse was on it. Haven't watched ANTM since, except for little snippets of each season before I see that every girl since Elyse has basically been the typical ANTM contestant – shallow, petty, and ignorant. Heard about the All-Star cycle just a few days ago, and was like, "God, I hope they bring back Elyse!" Then found out they didn't – interest level, once again, zero. -.-
January 17, 2012 at 3:56 pm
I really miss reading her blog I keep checking it every 6 months or so hoping she came back to it. She's a great personality and someone I think deserves more positive attention. She stood up for what she believed and I respect her a lot.
February 13, 2012 at 9:29 pm
I hope Tyra is pleased with choosing a future Playboy model instead of a genuinely gorgeous model like Elyse. Unlike other contestants Elyse made a huge name for herself and is a good role model
May 12, 2012 at 12:23 pm
She has one of the worst nose jobs I've ever seen – it's like they just cut off the end without any thought to shaping it – shame because she's a lovely looking girl otherwise.
June 21, 2012 at 5:44 pm
elyse has more pictures than all top model winners combined. she's my favorite antm top model to boot.
July 22, 2012 at 11:56 pm
She knows how to model.
November 6, 2012 at 1:06 am
She's absolutely stunning. I love her edgy look. Her work is amazing. I wish she won. I loved that fiery personality of hers.
November 22, 2012 at 12:58 am
Loved her, and love the pics. Glad she' doing well, she was her own person instead of trying to fit a mold for the judges. More power to her.
December 22, 2012 at 1:54 pm
I am very very proud of her. She was a remarkable person, who had both brains and beauty. But What happened to her? She's almost disappeared the face of the earth- she has completely abandoned her blog (for 4 years), no updates on her youtube channel – nothing. I am getting really worried. Wherever she is, I hope she's happy.
She was very human, she wasn't perfect and I loved her honesty. She was edgy, dorky but that just added to her amazing personality. She was imperfectly perfect. I just love her.
If anyone hears anything about her, please please comment. Thanks 🙂
January 9, 2013 at 10:27 pm
I think that she is so good that she did not have to win to become a winner!
She is the only one that looks like a real model, and was smart enough to get away from ANTM.
After she was eliminated I stop taking the show seriously…. and I am afraid I was not the only one….
Congratulations Elyse! You deserve all the success!
March 24, 2013 at 12:37 pm
May 19, 2013 at 12:48 am
I'm so glad she didn't win, she was hateful and disrespectful. There are plenty of models who are intelligent, she for some reason thought she was better because she was educated. She's a beautiful girl on the outside, but she's lost on the inside, which comes off as bitchy and cocky. That rant about the other girls was totally uncalled for. She had not even known them that long to be rattling off judgments. She felt the need to convince everyone that she didn't care about modeling, and complained about how ridiculous she thought all of it was, yet went on to pursue it. If she didn't really want it, she should not have taken the chance away from someone who really did. What a hypocrite. Good for her on her success, I hope she found herself somewhere on the way.
May 23, 2013 at 5:35 am
She's a great model. Very versatile. She can do commercial, and high fashion. I love her quirkiness.
May 26, 2013 at 2:50 pm
These are some of the more amazing pictures of all the models put together. She's a natural. I could see her in W magazine with all the other high fashion models. She's a little too thin in a few of the photos but all in all they are brilliant.
July 18, 2013 at 10:58 pm
Elyse was the only thing interesting about ANTM. I honestly think the only reason she didn't win is because she wasn't dumb enough. There was no way Tyra was going to allow the person who came in there with a brain and basically laughed at the profession to be the winner. Cause everyone knows, modeling is super duper serious, lol.
June 8, 2014 at 8:29 am
I think if you look back at judges comments, you'll see that Janice Dickinson always favoured Elyse – Elyse even commented that Janice would wink at her to give her the nod that she was through to the next phase. In one of the shows, you can see Janice screaming out "She's gorgeous" as Tyra throws Elyse's picture down and chooses the generic, square-jawed Shannon instead. So at least one of the judges wanted Elyse, but Tyra was offended that Elyse had called models dumb, so she paid the price. Elyse is stunning, her blog was amazing – witty, funny and always interesting. I've tried to find her book at Amazon, but they don't have it. Where are you, Elyse?
September 22, 2014 at 6:34 pm
If she's such a think tank, then why is she modeling?
September 26, 2014 at 12:33 am
For someone who you think laughed at the profession, she sure pursued it seriously. If it was such laughable job, why didn't she become a doctor?? Its kind of ignorant of you to make fun of something that means so much to these girls. I am sure the women who pursue it take it very seriously. I think Elyse was mean and nasty.. I am not surprised she was in a domestic violence case. It wouldn't surprise me if she provoked it. Look how she verbally attacked the girls on the show.
October 24, 2013 at 10:22 pm
Elyse and Allison are the best and most successful models. I love Allison more though!!
November 10, 2013 at 8:14 am
Agree with the last entry, obviously she should have used smaller words to Janice Dickinson when they asked her the now famous question about " what other than physical attributes does it take to be a top model" – a politician will be the first one to tell you that your answer to a question depends on who your audience is – maybe she should have just started singing "How excellent …." Robin eat your heart out !
November 10, 2013 at 8:24 am
Addendum: Adrienne, as much as I liked her, admitted that she was a high school drop-out, (great role model you picked there Tyra)…..hmmmm, med student, high school drop-out……med student, high school drop-out I think Elyse was correct from the get-go
April 12, 2014 at 2:22 am
I'm very impressed. Wow, such a great carreer she did there! She was my favorite participant of that cycle and it's glad to see how many beautiful photos she made after the TV show.
There're some many photos where she really looks like asian. 😛
June 23, 2014 at 9:13 pm
The judges said she was not commecial. In your face biaches 😛
September 1, 2014 at 7:42 am
Bravo.. fantastic model. One of the pros.
October 4, 2014 at 1:24 am
she was my favorite. She was the only one who gave her honest to blog opinion of everyone, and was not afraid during any of the shoots. I really thought that she would win. I'm absolutely glad that she went on to have a good career in fashion, because I don't think that being a doctor would have suited her that well.
December 19, 2014 at 12:13 am
I truly could not stand her. She was so bitchy and catty, thought she was way better than everyone else, and it really really got on my nerves. She also seemed very disrespectful.


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