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Trey Parker & Matt Stone
Aaron Franco
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It's been 11 years since creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone launched their animated Comedy Central series South Park, but against all odds, it's still funny, and they keep finding new sacred cows to kill. Sometimes the show is topical, with episodes taking on the Terry Schiavo right-to-die case, or the overbearing popularity of Pokémon or World Of Warcraft. At other times, it focuses more on the cheerful gross-out gags and shock value that have characterized Parker and Stone's live-action films, like Orgazmo, Cannibal! The Musical, and the marionette feature Team America. In October 2007, Parker and Stone pushed boundaries again with the three-episode story arc "Imaginationland," in which their kid protagonists travel to a fantasyland full of familiar fictional characters, just in time to witness a bloody terrorist attack taking out the likes of Charlie Brown, Mickey Mouse, and Dorothy from Wizard Of Oz. In conjunction with Imaginationland's release as a DVD movie and the commencement of South Park's 12th season, The A.V. Club recently spoke separately with Stone and Parker about dealing with copyrights, why they never want to do films again, and why having a popular ongoing show is both a blessing and an aggravating grind.
The A.V. Club: Has there been any fallout from all the copyrighted characters you have killing each other horribly in the "Imaginationland" series?
MS: No! Surprisingly not. We have a pretty crack legal team at Comedy Central that everything gets okayed by, so in an episode like this, they gave us pretty explicit guidelines about how much had to change. To a layperson, it's kind of mystifying as to why it's legal to use Strawberry Shortcake as long as she has cherries on her hat, and different-colored shoes.
AVC: Even though you still call her Strawberry Shortcake?
MS: Yeah! I don't know why that's legal. I guess the legal thing is, as long as it's clear that it's parody, and the people who made Strawberry Shortcake had nothing to do with this show, then I guess it's legal. But believe me, I don't know. I am not a lawyer. Every one of those characters was checked by a group of lawyers who approved it and had it altered in some small way. They're not the exact versions, but they're enough to evoke them. No, we haven't heard a thing from anybody.
AVC: You've said in a lot of interviews that you can do whatever you want on the show at this point—that that's your agreement with Comedy Central.
MS: Creatively, that's true. We don't get a single note like, "Eh, we don't like that scene… Can we put the boys in the middle more?" We haven't for, like, 10 years. But we do have Standards & Practices look at the script, and Legal does too. But we probably get more leeway than most shows. And if we want to do something special—like, we just did this Tourette's show, and we said "In order to do this show, we need to say 'shit' a bunch, or else it doesn't make any sense." So we made a case for it, and they let us say "shit" a bunch. And they let us say "cock," too. But it was within the realm of Tourette's, so it was okay, I guess. So there's always a negotiation process, and if we can give a reason for it that's defendable to them, and to our advertisers, then they let us do it.
AVC: Some people have theorized that you've actively been trying to get fired for years, that your writing is a continual process of "What could we do that Comedy Central just couldn't air, that would be a deal-breaker as far as keeping the show going?"
MS: [Laughs.] Yeah! We haven't found it yet. And to be fair to them, by the time a show goes on the air, they've given it the okay, so they're culpable too in the court of public opinion. [Laughs.] Sometimes I wish I could get fired.
AVC: Do you feel pressure to top yourself, to be more current, to be more outrageous every season?
MS: Hmm. No, we don't feel pressure that way. The overriding pressure we feel… On one hand, I'm feeling less pressure lately. We have a four-year contract. No one in television has a four-year contract. We have crazy job security, so it's in our own hands. And so the pressure is more like, we have this body of work that we're pretty proud of, and we don't want to muck it up in the last couple of years. Although, obviously, you're trying to get an emotional charge out of a show that's been around for a while, so you're looking for fresh snow to clomp around in. We don't feel pressure of, "Let's make this really raunchy." It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us. We just really are offensive, raunchy people. The work part of it is making it have a story and make sense and make it worth 22 minutes of your time, which I feel is a tough thing.
AVC: A lot of the humor in South Park feels disgusted and frustrated with the world, like you're basically asking "Why are people such idiots?" Are you actually emotionally involved in the issues you address with the show?
MS: Sometimes. But it's cool, because we get to express our frustration through a little fat kid screaming at the top of his lungs. So it can be taken semi-seriously. We get to enjoy that same distance that the Jon Stewarts of the world get to too. They demand that they be taken seriously, and as soon as someone takes them seriously, they crack a joke. I love the fact that Trey and I have gotten awards for being topical and satirical, but at the end of the day, we are just making jokes. If you ask me how to really solve the health-care crisis, I have fuckin' no idea, and I don't want to be a part of it. But I can make a little fat kid yell some emotional truth about it. That's what we've figured out over the years. If you're gonna make it a TV show, you would never do the actual politics of something, but you would do the emotions behind the politics. Who cares if it's a right-or-wrong policy—here's how it makes me feel. You're not gonna get into a policy discussion with Cartman and Mr. Hankey and Jesus and shit.
AVC: Do you still get outrage from your viewers?
MS: We never hear about it. They might complain to Comedy Central, but those letters never get to us. There's a really funny thing that was on the Internet. If you search for FCC violations for South Park… Somebody published a bunch of the actual FCC complaint forms that people had filled out. Penn and Teller are on there, The Simpsons, Family Guy—we're not the only ones. And those are hilarious. There's just a bunch of people bitching about the show. But we never hear any of that. And anybody who knows us—like, if my mom doesn't like something, she probably just doesn't tell me.
AVC: Do you ever want more feedback? Do you want to know how people are reacting, or are you happier being insulated?
MS: It's two-sided, because on one hand, it's really fun when you flip off the principal and the principal yells at you. But in general, we do the show because we want people to like it. [Laughs.] We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people. At the same time, we've been doing it long enough to realize we're still not a mainstream show. We still get a fifth or a fourth of the viewership of Family Guy. So we're still on cable, we still consider ourselves an alternative show, and we've always been that show that realizes there's this group of people that's not into South Park, but there's this group of people that loves it. Twenty percent of people got this joke, and they love us for it, and we'll piss off the other 80 percent just for them. But in general, we want people to like the show. [Laughs.]
AVC: Speaking of ruffling people's feathers, have you spoken to Isaac Hayes since the Scientology episode blowout?
MS: We haven't. I heard he was on tour, I heard he had a stroke. We haven't.
AVC: Has that been hard?
MS: Not really. It's not like we were really good friends. I think there was something going on more with the Church of Scientology than with Isaac, though I haven't talked to him about it, and I have no evidence of that. It's not something we keep in the front of our minds.
AVC: With "Imaginationland," it felt like the germ of the whole thing was the line "The terrorists have captured our imagination." A lot of South Park episodes reach a point like that, with a line or an exchange that suddenly reveals what the episode is really about. How do those episodes get started? Do you begin with a story, or the central issue, or does it vary?
MS: It totally varies. That's the ephemeral, like, I wish I knew what the process is. You're totally right that someone said that: "Oh, the terrorists bombed us in our imagination," and then instantly everyone got it. And once we got that metaphor going, we realized we could do so much with that. Also, aside from the whole political metaphor, it's so rich as far as making fun of the Chronicles Of Narnia, Harry Potter—little kids in fantasylands. We actually entertained making another South Park movie based on that, but we ended up making a three-parter, which I think was better. But sometimes it's a joke, sometimes just a line, and we follow it and see where it takes us. The "Imaginationland" idea felt big enough to where we could make a whole episode of that at least.
AVC: Some reports on the Internet make it sound like you started off trying to make it as a feature film, and for some conspiratorial reason it never happened.
MS: We talked about it, and it just didn't feel right. It didn't feel big enough. It felt somewhat derivative of all the other imaginary characters. And also, more than anything, we have to make 14 episodes a year, and that's our hungry baby that has to be fed, so that was part of the decision. The other form we kind of made fun of was—there's been a lot of great TV writing in the last few years, and I'm not a big TV viewer, but you know, the 24s and the Losts and those kind of serialized shows that keep those balls up in the air every week. We kind of wanted to try that. How do you take it to the next level? That was fun for us, to be able to serialize something, and do that "Okay, see what happens next week!" That was the form we were going after.
AVC: How involved are you these days with the storyboarding and animation?
MS: Trey is. Trey's really the director, so he approves the look of new characters and stuff like that, and he really directs the shots, directs the episodes, but we have a whole team of storyboarders, like, six people now, and character designers, they do all that stuff. Really, 90 percent of our work is just writing and coming up with ideas. And a lot of times, that crosses with "That character doesn't look good, what do we want it to look like?" But most of my day is spent in the writers' room, sitting there trying to think of what's funny. And for Trey, it's a combination of that and directing. And because it's animated, we get to write, animate, look at it, change it, go "Oh, that's working great, let's do more of that; oh, that's not working great, let's not do any more of that," so it's a little more organic and holistic than normal writing. We don't write a script, then shoot it, then look at it. We get to work on it the whole time.
AVC: How has the collaboration between the two of you changed through all of the projects you've worked on together over the years?
MS: I don't know. We don't really think about it that much. We started out in independent films, and you do whatever you have to do to get it done. Obviously, we have a lot of people helping us who've been here for 10, 12 years, so it's more than just me and Trey that have evolved into this weird huge organism that does the show. A lot of times, we're just co-writers, a lot of times it's a producer-director relationship. Sometimes it's just buddies. It changes with whatever needs to be done. But Trey has always been the director. I've never really wanted to be. I'm not good at it. I probably deal with more business stuff than Trey does. But interviews, we kind of split it up and have fun with it. But it changes from thing to thing.
AVC: What can you say about your current movie projects?
MS: We don't really have any—we're not really doing much with movies right now. We're kind of just concentrating on the TV show. Movies are hard.
AVC: What have you learned from your past live-action movies that you want to put into effect on the next ones?
MS: Uh, they're hard, and I don't want to do 'em any more. If you're gonna do a movie, you'd better be damn sure you want to do that movie, because it's gonna suck to make. They are really, really tough to make. It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun. And what we love about South Park—even though we've been living with South Park for 10 years—we feel like we can do anything in any show, and we can say "Oh my God! The things we talked about today will be on the air in nine days!" And that's a fantastic way to live your life. I feel like we have this incredible, blessed existence, where we can really work on something, get into it, get our hands dirty. Sometimes we're like, "Oh, we're doing an episode about the Vatican," and I'll go read a bunch of stuff online—you have this excuse, kind of like a writer, to get into new ideas and subjects and stuff. And that's fantastic. I mean, I love Team America. I'm glad we did it, I'm proud of it. But would I ever do it again? No. It was horrible—it was a hard, hard thing, to live with a joke for two years, and go "This is still funny, I think this is still funny." It's just not as fun a way to live your life as TV. I don't know how else to say it—TV's just fun. And even then, it's not fun! It's still hard work, it's just, movies are really hard work.
AVC: With that sort of immediacy in mind, have there been current events that you've wanted to tackle in one way or another, but that you couldn't find a humorous way to address?
MS: No, we really don't do that much timely—we do some stuff, but you can hopefully watch an episode in five years and still like it if you didn't know what the news was of that week. Hopefully. There used to be times where we'd say "Oh, I wish we were doing the show right now, I would have ripped on that guy," and stuff like that, but now when we aren't doing the show, I'm mostly just thankful not to be working.
AVC: What would you say are the hardest episodes to write?
MS: Sometimes they're the ones where we start with a point and then we try to shoehorn a story around a point, and it doesn't come out of the story organically. Those just kill us. Or when we try to put two ideas into one episode. You'd be surprised—"Oh, it's about this." "Oh, wait, what's it really about?" "It's about that and that." "Okay, it needs to be about one thing." We've learned that the hard way over the years. I don't know about the easiest, but the best episodes come from "This is a great story with actual emotion in it." And then all of the sudden, when you have a real good story with a real emotional center to it, it actually makes its point. And the point may be what you started out wanting to make, or different, but it will make sense, and it'll be cool. Whereas the ones where we go, "Oh, we want to do a show that rips on this." "How do we do that?" "Okay, how about Kyle gets a letter—" And you just start talking—they always suck that way. They're so hard. We don't make that mistake as much any more, but we do every once in a while.
AVC: What's the time ratio between sitting around and talking it out vs. somebody actually sitting down and banging out the words on paper?
MS: Oh, minutes! Trey really writes most of the dialogue on the first pass, just because we need it so fast. We'll be in the writer's meeting and be like "Oh great, we want to put this in it, we want to do this and this—but what is the scene?" We kind of come up with what the scene will be, "Here's the main joke," and literally Trey runs off and writes it and I go deal with other shit. Sometimes he comes back in and says "Well, that didn't work." But it's minutes. We start an episode on Thursday, and it's on the air in six days, so the writing is done concurrently with the animation.
AVC: Obviously you're insanely busy, and you're not champing at the bit to get back in film, but are there other projects you'd like to do and just can't get away for?
MS: Yeah. There aren't any specifics I can tell you, like, "Oh, I wish I was doing this right now." But there are movie ideas, like "That is such a cool idea for a movie!" And I've gotten offered to do it with this person?" And it's something that we're like "That's going to be a great movie!" "Well, we're shooting! Three months, you could come along!" And you just go "I can't—I've gotta go do this stupid show! [Laughs.] Like, a really good friend of ours, Brian Graden, who runs MTV, is getting a big award from GLAAD, the gay and lesbian group, and he asked us to give him the award. It's kinda of mucky-muck but it's in New York, and it would be totally fun, we could see a bunch of old friends, but it's next Monday, and I can't go. We have these dates we're committed to every year, unlike a movie, where you can move stuff around. But the show has to go on the air in nine days, so you know where I am. I'm here, I can't go anywhere. But in another way, it's good because I think it's a good thing to have to be stuck to.
The A.V. Club: So from your perspective, what's currently going on with your current movie projects?
Trey Parker: That's a good question—that's what our lawyers and agents want to know, too. [Laughs.] It's been a weird year out here with the strike and everything, and for us, Paramount's been in such transition, and that's where all our deal was. We had some movies that we had brought in going, "Ah, maybe these are things we would want to do." And they're still there, everything's just been hanging out, but at the same time, every five months, we've gotta come back to South Park. So we're still deciding—as we're getting older, we're gonna not try to kill ourselves all the time by doing South Park and movies in our downtime. So we're just gonna wait until we find that one that's the perfect one.
AVC: My All-American and Giant Monsters Attack Japan!—are either of those things you feel definitively are going to happen? Or are they both just ideas?
TP: Well, they were scripts that we liked, and we basically acquired them through Paramount, and they're two things that we're working on to figure out which one we really want to do.
AVC: Matt was really clear that he's really not eager to get back into films because it's such a huge undertaking and takes up so much time. Do you feel the same way?
TP: Yeah, Team America just about killed us. Literally, just about killed us. And we sort of came out of that going, "All right, let's never make movies again." But we say that all the time, just about every time we finish a movie. But we kind of thought for a while that what we were sensing ourselves becoming was producers, because when we're killing ourselves on a movie, we would look over and see the producers eating a sandwich, and we'd think, "Wow, that's what we should be doing." So we're like, "Let's go start finding other people's work, and we'll produce stuff and let everyone else do the work." But the truth of the matter is, that's just not who we are. So we're kind of realizing we have to be creating stuff.
AVC: Matt seemed to be saying that you still have a really hands-on involvement with the animation of South Park. More so than he does.
TP: Yeah. Just being more the director, it's sort of always been that way. I'm the one in there looking at every single shot and giving notes on every look and every walk cycle and all that stuff.
AVC: Is there a satisfaction in doing that all personally still?
TP: The motivation was, we started South Park, and after about a year, people started saying, "All right, here's what you do: You dump this off, you delegate this to other people. And you guys sit back and—" 'Cause literally, we would be making the same amount of money if we were sitting at home approving stuff. The thing is, for season two, we kind of listened to everyone, and we started working on other stuff, and we let other people write scripts, and it was just crap. And we started to see it slipping, and I just went back in and said, "No, I'm gonna do this all myself." The problem is, especially with our schedule, doing a show in six days, really the only reason we can do that is because it all goes through one person. In terms of being able to go, "Okay, I'm gonna go write this, and then I'm gonna voice it, and then I'm gonna direct it," it's obviously a much more streamlined process than having to say, "I'm gonna go write this, and then we'll bring in the actor to do the voices, and then the director will look at it…" It's really the only way that this show can get done the way it does is by really just filtering it through one person.
AVC: Why do you create the show on such a tight, grueling schedule?
TP: Actually, it's been interesting, because we've tried many times, and last year was the last time we really tried—we came in over the summer and said, "Let's just do some stuff. There's no deadline, there's nothing." And we wrote and directed and created some of the worst crap we've ever made in our entire careers. I always like, in the interviews too, I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else, but it really is—for me, writing an episode of South Park, it's like sitting down and writing a song. When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. But there's this thing that happens when the song first comes out, that sort of magic when it first comes out of the ether, and you can't even really explain where it comes from. That happens so much with music, and people understand that with music. But I really think that a lot of movie and TV should be the same way.
So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it. Things are so workshopped and so run around the room, and so overthought. And finally, once you have a draft and then a draft of the draft, then they go in there and they work on every single little joke, and "Is there a gag here? Is there something here?" You would never do that with a song. You would never sit around for a month and talk about what a song should sound like, and what the chorus is going to be. To me, every episode is like a song, and every season is like an album. There's that part of the day when you first get the idea and you say, "This could be really funny." And you sit down and you write it. There's just something that happens there that doesn't happen when you really give it a lot of time beforehand. And that's basically my long-winded answer of saying I'm a procrastinator. [Laughs.]
AVC: How would you say your collaboration with Matt has changed over the 15 years or so you've been working together?
TP: It's changed in that we're kind of like a married couple now. We've got such shorthand in the way that we can talk to each other. When we're sitting there and we come up with an idea, and it's like, "Oh this could be good," and it's like, "Yeah, this is like that—" "We're pulling a whatever." We have words for almost everything. We kind of know the pitfalls in structure. When we started South Park, we didn't know how to write at all. And we've sort of become writers as the show went on, and learned structure, and learned—if you look at the first few seasons, they're just a mess. And thank God we got by on them because they were so shocking and new and crappy, and that was funny. But we wanted—both of us, we push each other to make it better every season. And I think there's been seasons where I've wanted to do it, and there've been seasons where Matt's wanted to do it, [but one of us is] just kinda not quite into it. But we always bring each other up, and—this is something we learned from Scott Rudin a long time ago—before every season, we try to get in that mode of, "Okay, this is important. A lot of people want to be doing this, and we're blessed to be in this position. Now let's treat this seriously and let's work." And we're kind of hard on each other, and we make each other work. And when one of us is being a baby—and it's usually me—Matt's the only one that can yell at me and tell me to quit being a baby. It's just stuff like that.
AVC: With that all said, do you still enjoy it?
TP: No. But I've never enjoyed it. That's what's so funny. People always think that making the show is so much fun. Especially people that don't know what it's like to write, and stuff like that. It's always been totally stressful, totally just wanting to kill yourself every day because you're under so much stress, and feel like there's no way you can pull it off, and all of that stuff. And then when it's over, when the season's done and you're proud of what you did, then you totally enjoy it. And when you're out on the golf course thinking, "Wow, that was a good season," then you really enjoy it. But coming here to work in the morning, I fucking hate it, and I always have. [Laugh.] Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.


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Sacred Heart boys are proud of their culture and there is a strong representation in the Kapa Haka, Tongan and Samoan groups. We encourage students of all ages and ethnicities to join a cultural group to strengthen their relationships within the College.
Our cultural groups perform at the College Fiafia Night and represent the College at the annual ASB Polynesian Festival (Polyfest). Kapa Haka students proudly lead the College House Haka competitions and whole-school Haka.
Fiafia Night and Polyfest 2019
In 2019 Fiafia Night will be held on Tuesday 12 March at 7pm in the Auditorium. Please come and support our boys. Polyfest runs from Wednesday 13 March to Saturday 16 March. Click on the ASB Polyfest logo to access their website.
We celebrate Matariki and Maori, Samoan and Tongan Language Weeks as part of a growing tradition within Sacred Heart.
The Kapa Haka group competes yearly at the ASB Polyfest and other important cultural events throughout the school year. Recent performances have seen the group take part in the Waitangi Treaty celebrations, a visit to Bishop Pompallier's resting place, the Merrie Monarch International Hula Festival in Hawaii, the annual Coronation in Ngaruawahia, Matariki celebrations and Haka Powhiri to important guests that visit Sacred Heart. The senior cultural group consists of year levels from Year 11 to 13, these pupils play an important part in preparing the students for House Haka competitions that are held every year. The group also visits Sacred Heart contributing primary schools to perform to them. The Junior Kapa Haka group consists of students in Years 9 and 10 with a third Haka group consisting of the Years 7 and 8 students.
In 2018 the Kapa Haka group travelled to Europe on a hikoi to acknowledge those who died in the great war and to walk the pathways of our role model Sir James Henare. This year, in April, the Senior Kapa Haka group will travel to Hawaii to take part in the pre-celebrations of the Merrie Monarch International Hula Festival and to participate in "The Fallen" US Army and Navy celebrations at Pearl Harbor.
Samoan Group - Talofa lava
The Samoan community is a strong and proud part of Sacred Heart College. The connections with the neighbouring area, local Parishes and our Samoan families has enabled the boys to continue to feel pride in their heritage but a sense of belonging as New Zealanders. Their integration into the mainstream College day to day life is seamless where all students are accepted for who they are not where they come from.
The College promotes the Samoan culture in all things ranging from the obvious participation in the ASB Polynesian Festival and preceding Fiafia Night at school, but also by using icons and motifs recognised as Samoan and other Pasifika nations at school events and ceremonies throughout the College calendar. Recognition of our Samoan and other Pasifika roots in our school uniform is shown through including the traditional lavalava as a formal piece of the College uniform.
Tongan Group -Malo e lelei
Our Tongan community has a long history of supporting one another at school and through the local community. Our boys are humble and respectful, knowing their faith and loving their Tongan roots. The Tongan language is an important part of our identity so it's with pride and mana that we keep it alive through events throughout the year.
The Tongan group that performs at Fiafia Night and then goes on to represent the College at the ASB Polynesian Festival, has for many years received accolades and gained many top prizes. It is evident that the support of family and the church helps our boys to grow into proud young men who will go on to lead their own communities in the future. One special part of being Tongan at Sacred Heart College is the ability to be able to turn to any of the boys and seek support. The College with Mr Wong as our Teacher-in-Charge give the boys guidance and a sense that they belong to the bigger family that is Sacred Heart College.
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Head of Department and Teacher-in-Charge of Maori Mr Ben Christie 529 3660
Teacher-in-Charge of Samoan Group and Pasifika Liaison Mr Chris Hayward 529 3660
Teacher-in-Charge of Tongan Group TBC 529 3660

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Robin Shaw is an award-winning animator and illustrator known for his beautifully lyrical hand-drawn work.As well as fifteen years as a director of animated commercials, he has worked closely with children's author and illustrator Raymond Briggs on a number of film projects. He was part of the directing team behind the hit Channel 4 TV special The Snowman and The Snowdog, and was the natural choice for art director on Ethel & Ernest, the feature-length adaptation of Briggs' graphic novel telling the story of his parents' lives together. 2016 saw his debut as a director on an animated feature film with We're Going on a Bear Hunt, adapted from the children's classic by Michael Rosen and Helen OxenburyHis inspiration for Me and My Dad came partly from his love for the little corner of Southeast London where he grew up and now lives and works.
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A study on alcohol use and its related health and social problems in rural Puducherry, India
V Vijay Ramanan1, Suresh Kumar Singh2
1 Department of Community Medicine, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical College and Hospital, Perambalur, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Department of Community Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India
Date of Web Publication 28-Feb-2017
Suresh Kumar Singh
Department of Community Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Madagadipet, Puducherry - 605 107
Introduction: Harmful use of alcohol was the cause for 5.9% of all deaths and 5.1% of the global burden of disease and injury. India is the third largest market for alcoholic beverages in the world with estimated 62.5 million alcohol user in 2005. The objective of this study was to know the prevalence of alcohol consumption, pattern of drinking, and its effect on people's health and social consequences. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 850 households selected from 19 villages of two Primary Health Centers. A total of 30 clusters were selected, and from each cluster, 28 houses were surveyed by random walk method. Information was collected on predesigned and pretested questionnaire forms and analyzed using Epi Info 3.4.3. Chi-square test was used for statistical significance. Results: The overall prevalence of alcohol use among ≥18 years of age was 9.7% and exclusively among males was 17.1%. The highest prevalence (17.1%) was among 46–55 years age groups and the residents of joint families (37.0%). One-third of the users began drinking before 20 years of age and half of them consumed for getting relief from pain/strain/tiredness. About half of the users had strained relations with their family members and neighbors both. The majority had alcohol dependence problems and about one-fifth had chronic health problems, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension. Conclusion: The prevalence of alcohol use in Puducherry was low and restricted to males only. The prevalence was high among low uneducated farmers and labors. About one-third of users had alcohol dependence problems and one-fifth had chronic health problems.
Keywords: Alcohol use, drinking pattern, health problems, social problems
Ramanan V V, Singh SK. A study on alcohol use and its related health and social problems in rural Puducherry, India. J Family Med Prim Care 2016;5:804-8
Ramanan V V, Singh SK. A study on alcohol use and its related health and social problems in rural Puducherry, India. J Family Med Prim Care [serial online] 2016 [cited 2021 Jan 18];5:804-8. Available from: https://www.jfmpc.com/text.asp?2016/5/4/804/201175
Alcoholic beverages, known since Vedic period, are used for worship purposes, medicinal preparations, and widely consumed as a relaxant.[1],[2] Alcohol consumption, at present, is ubiquitous and has been consistently increasing throughout the world. Globally, harmful use of alcohol causes approximately 3.3 million deaths every year (5.9% of all deaths), and 5.1% of the global burden of disease is attributable to alcohol consumption.[3],[4] It causes more than 60 different disorders and is the third most important risk factor for the global burden of disease.
Although developed countries have succeeded in marginally reducing alcohol consumption, yet their average consumption is still higher than those of developing countries. Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific Regions are still showing increasing alcohol consumption trend. In Southeast Asia Region, per capita pure alcohol consumption has increased by over 50% between 1980 and 2000. Similarly, in India also, per capita alcohol consumption has increased alarmingly by 106.7% between 1970–1972 and 1994–1996.[1],[3]
Estimated number of alcohol users in India, in 2005, was 62.5 million, 17% of them being dependent users accounting for 20%–30% of hospital admissions due to alcohol-related problems.[5] The National Household Survey 2004 had reported alcohol use in 21% of adult males and <5% among females. State-wise prevalence rate is highly variable being the lowest (7%) in the western part of Gujarat and the highest (75.0%) in Arunachal Pradesh.[6] In Southern India, the prevalence of current alcohol use has varied between 33% and 50%.[7]
In view of easy availability of alcohol at a subsidized rate in Puducherry, this study was conducted in rural areas to estimate the prevalence of alcohol consumption, pattern of drinking, and its impact on the health of the people and social consequences.
Study area and design
This cross-sectional study was conducted in two Primary Health Centers (PHCs), Thirubuvanai and Nettapakkam, catering 46,365 population from 19 villages.
The primary sampling unit was an individual household.
The exact prevalence of alcohol users and also alcohol user households in Puducherry was not known. Considering the rough estimate of the prevalence of alcohol user household as 50% at 95% of confidence interval and 10% of relative error in estimated prevalence with design effect 2, the minimum sample size required was calculated to be 769 using OpenEpi version 2.3, developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Assuming nonresponse rate of 10% despite the second visit, 77 was added to the calculated sample size. Thus, total sample size became 846 which were rounded off to 850.
Sampling method
Cluster sampling method was used to select 30 clusters from 19 villages under these two PHCs. Probability proportion to sample size method was used to select the clusters from the villages. In each cluster, 28 households were surveyed.
Sampling technique
A list of all villages with their population, covered under Thirubuvanai and Nettapakkam PHCs, was obtained. The total population of all the villages (46,365) was divided by 30 to get the sampling interval (SI) 1545. A random number was chosen between 1 and SI using random number generator. The random number obtained was 1043. This was the random start (RS) number. Thus, the village having a cumulative population, in which RS fell became the first cluster. The subsequent series were selected by - RS + SI (second cluster), RS + 2SI (third cluster), RS + 3SI (fourth cluster), and so on to obtain rest of the clusters.
Study period
The study was conducted from May 2012 to March 2013.
Data collection tools
Three types of pre validated, structured questionnaire forms were used for collecting the information:
Household Form- for general household information
WHO's Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT)[8] Form- for those who had consumed alcohol in the past twelve months (to assess the level of risk due to alcoholism)
Health Detail Form- for alcohol user's health and social problem related information.
Data were collected by a 2nd year postgraduate student in the Department of Community. After reaching the selected village, a center point like school or temple was identified, and door-to-door survey was conducted in a particular direction from the center point by random walk method until the required 28 houses were interviewed. If the villages contained more than one cluster, the houses were surveyed by moving in a different direction from the center point, depending on the number of clusters, until required 28 houses in each direction were obtained.
The purpose of the study was first explained to the responsible adult of the household, their consent was taken in writing, and general information such as family details, education, occupation, income, environmental condition, and psychosocial environment was enquired from them. All the individuals in the family above 18 years were met individually, purpose of the study was explained to them, and their written consent of voluntary participation was taken. They were asked whether they had consumed alcohol in the past 12 months. The persons who answered yes were interrogated in detail.
Collected data were entered into the Epi Info version 3.4.3 software, developed by CDC Atlanta, Georgia, USA, analyzed, and interpreted. Chi-square test was used to test the significance.
The study was conducted after getting clearance from the Institutional Review Board.
The total study participants from 850 households were 2551, of which 1352 were male and 1199 were female. The overall prevalence of alcohol use was 7.7%, and among ≥18 years of age, it was 9.7%. Since all the females were abstainers, the prevalence of alcohol use among males was 17.9%. The highest prevalence (17.1%) of alcohol use was observed among people above 45 years than any other age group, among married people (12.5%) and those belonging to joint families (12.3%). Illiterates and educated up to primary had high prevalence of 15.7%. Farmers, daily wage laborers, and self-employed (business) group had high prevalence of 17.8%, 14.7%, and 13.2%, respectively [Table 1].
Table 1: Prevalence of alcohol use in different sociodemographic groups
The majority of the alcohol users (92.2%) were in between 26 and 65 years of age and almost same proportion had started consuming alcohol between 16 and 35 years (mean age of first drinking 23.63 ± 6.01 years). Most of them were drinking to get relief from pain or tiredness and were drinking out of their homes such as bars and restaurants but alone (53.9%). Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL)[9] such as brandy, rum, and whisky was the favorite drink for 73.1% of the users, however, most preferred IMFL was brandy. 91.0% of the users were drinking moderately (3–6 pegs in a single sitting), while as per AUDIT score, 41.2% had a medium level of risk due to alcohol drinking [Table 2].
Table 2: Reasons and pattern of alcohol consumption
More than half of the alcohol users had a strained relationship with their other family members as well as with their neighbors and had frequent quarrels with them. The most common health problem for 27.7% of the users was difficulty in sleeping without drinking alcohol, whereas the least common (6.7%) was epileptic fits and mental problem [Table 3].
Table 3: Social and health problems among alcohol users
About one-third of the alcohol users were suffering from chronic illnesses, for which alcohol is one of the risk factors such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and acid dyspepsia, collectively accounting for 86.0%. Of the total alcohol users, 10% were suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis too [Figure 1].
Figure 1: Chronic illnesses among alcohol users
The World Health Organization's Report on the Global Status of Alcohol and Health 2014 has revealed increased alcohol consumption in India between 2008 and 2012. According to the report, around 30.0% of the total population consumed alcohol in the year 2010.[4] Similarly, some studies from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and India have also reported 1-year prevalence of alcohol consumption between 21.2% and 34.8%.[10],[11],[12],[13],[14],[15] Although the overall prevalence in our study appears comparatively low (7.7% in all age groups and 9.7% among ≥18 years), among male, it was 17.1%, comparable to other studies. The complete abstinence by the women may be because of cultural unacceptability or due to underreporting by them. A quadratic type of relationship was observed between alcohol use and age of the alcoholics. It consistently increased up to the age 65 years and declined thereafter. Similar reducing prevalence with increasing age after 60 years was reported from Mumbai also.[16] Studies from Mumbai and Goa have reported the highest prevalence of alcohol consumption among Christians and lowest among Muslims.[16],[17] However, in our study, the prevalence among Hindus, Muslims, and Christians was almost the same.
Education, by increasing awareness about harms of alcohol drinking, plays an important role in abstaining from alcohol which is evident in our study, being highest prevalence among educated up to primary and lowest among postgraduates. Similarly, a study from Mumbai has also reported high prevalence among illiterates and primary-educated and low among college-educated.[16] However, other studies have reported very low prevalence among illiterates compared to other literate groups.[17],[18] Education also determines the occupation of an individual which is clearly revealed in our study. The number of graduates and postgraduates was almost equal to those in service or some professional jobs having very low prevalence (2.7%) among them. A similar low prevalence of 0.60% was reported in another study among semi-professionals from Meerut.[18]
The average age of initiating drinking in our study was 23.63 ± 6.01 years which is slightly higher than the findings from Kolkata 20.8 ± 5.9 years [19] but lower than the reports from Vellore 27.9 ± 9.0 years.[10] Similar to the findings from Bengaluru where 52.0% of the users were consuming alcohol to lighten pain and induce sleep, in our study also 48.7% had initiated and were drinking to relieve pain/tiredness. IMFL, preferably brandy, was the most favorite drink to 46.0% of the alcohol users in our study and many other Indian studies also ranging between 49% and 61%.[3],[5],[10],[19]
In contrast to other study reports where 42.5% were moderate drinkers consuming 3–6 drinks in a single sitting [20] and subjectively 8% were harmful drinkers and 14% alcohol-dependents,[19] in our study, 91.0% of users were moderate drinkers and 44.2% of them were drinking regularly. As per AUDIT score, 41.2% were at medium risk (AUDIT score 8–15) and 29.3% had high risk due to drinking (AUDIT score ≥16). A high percentage of moderate drinkers in our study area might have been due to less price and easy availability of alcohol in Puducherry.
Alcohol use in heavy amount leads to acute intoxication, social problems such as strained relationship with family members and neighbors, and accidents leading to injuries; however, prolonged use in moderate quantity leads to a number of health problems such as epilepsy, numbness in the limbs, and anxiety and depression, dependence, chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, peptic ulcers, and communicable diseases such as pulmonary tuberculosis.[2],[4],[7],[9] Slightly less than two-third of the users in our study also had a strained relationship either with their family members or with their neighbors or both and 10% had communicable disease pulmonary tuberculosis too.
The overall prevalence of alcohol use in Puducherry among ≥18 years of age was 9.7%, and exclusively among males, it was 17.1%. The highest prevalence (17.1%) was among 46–55 years age group. Illiterates and educated up to primary level had the highest prevalence and it decreased with increasing level of education. One-third of the users started drinking before 20 years of age, and most common reason for alcohol consumption was to get relief from pain or tiredness occurring from their occupational works.
IMFL was the preferred choice of 46.0% of the users; 81.5% used to drink out of their homes, 53.9% preferred to drink alone, and 29.3% were alcohol-dependent (AUDIT score ≥16). Apart from social problems, about one-fifth had health problems related to alcohol dependence. Common chronic problems were diabetes mellitus and hypertension.
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A Bench of Justice Deepak Gupta in a judgement said that the accused will be treated as a juvenile and not as an adult and his crime will be treated as serious.
The top court had to decide on a question whether an offence prescribing a maximum sentence of more than 7 years imprisonment but not providing any minimum sentence, or providing a minimum sentence of less than 7 years, can be considered to be a 'heinous offence' within the meaning of Section 2(33) of The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
In the present case, the juvenile alleged to have committed the offence punishable under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC ) for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The offence is punishable with a maximum punishment of imprisonment for life or up to 10 years and fine in the first part and imprisonment up to 10 years or fine, or both in the second part and no minimum sentence is prescribed.
Justice Gupta said the alleged crime cannot fall under the category of heinous offence under the Juvenile Justice Act. Juvenile Justice Act lays down that a juvenile can be tried as an adult only in cases of heinous offences where the minimum punishment is seven years in jail.
On June 4, 2016 the juvenile board had held that the juvenile has committed a heinous offence, and, therefore should be tried as an adult.
The order was challenged before the Delhi High Court, which on May 1, 2019 decided against it and held that since no minimum sentence is prescribed for the offence in question, the offence did not fall within the ambit of Section 2(33) (which defines heinous offences) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
Sister of the victim, 32-year-old marketing executive Siddharth Sharma, had challenged the High Court order in the Supreme Court.
Deciding the issue, the top court held that an offence which does not provide a minimum sentence of 7 years cannot be treated to be a heinous offence.
"The Act does not deal with the 4th category of offences viz., offence where the maximum sentence is more than 7 years imprisonment, but no minimum sentence or minimum sentence of less than 7 years is provided, shall be treated as 'serious offences' within the meaning of the Act and dealt with accordingly till the Parliament takes the call on the matter," said the bench in its judgement.
The Delhi police had termed the accused as a 'perpetual defaulter', as he had been fined thrice - twice for speeding and once for parking wrongly.
The police also charge sheeted the juvenile's father and the family driver in this case. The accused allegedly ran over Sharma with his Mercedes in north Delhi's Civil Lines area on April 4, 2016.
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West to Glory (1947)
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A western sheriff chases a gang trying to rob a rancher's gold.
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Eddie Dean
Roscoe Ates
Soapy Jones
Dolores Castle
Gregg Barton
Jim Barrett
Jimmy Martin
Zon Murray
Bill Avery
Alex Montoya
Harry J. Vejar
Don Lopez
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Casey MacGregor
Billy Hammond
Ted French
Carl Mathews
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Ray Taylor
Elmer Clifton (original screenplay), Robert B. Churchill (original screenplay)
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Eddie Dean was one of the last singing cowboys. The trend was toward action-packed oaters without singing. Tim Holt, Rocky Lane, The Durango Kid were taking the lead, more in the line of Hopalong Cassidy than Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. Then the entire genre was wiped out by the new invention called television. Eddie Dean was not much of an actor, not much on looks, but he could sing and was one of the best songwriters in country music at the time. His classic "One Has My Name, The Other Has My Heart" is still sung today. Even Jerry Lee Lewis had a hit with it.
"West to Glory" is a typical Eddie Dean western from the period. His sidekick was Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates) who looked funny, talked funny, but definitely was not funny. Today when writers run out of humor in a movie they start throwing in flatulent jokes. In Dean's day writers couldn't do this because of the censors so they threw in food jokes. Soapy was always hungry, looking for food. His wisecracks were flat and sometimes even rude. Soapy does have one clever scene in "West to Glory." He is hit on the head and dreams where the stolen gold is hidden. In the dream he appears as Eddie Dean and Eddie appears as Soapy. It's a real hoot. Fact is Eddie plays Soapy better than Soapy plays Eddie. Eddie is hilarious with his dopey expression and mannerisms. There is a wild, crazy shootout with Soapy as Dean coming out the hero, the only time in a B western where the comical sidekick takes over and licks the bad guys single handed.
The story is similar to those of other PRC cheapies, Eddie is an undercover lawman in pursuit of stolen gold. One twist this go around is the emphasis on a priceless diamond. The gold is stolen as a ploy to get the diamond. Another twist is Maria (Dolores Castle) who plays a cat and mouse game with Dean, both in the romance department and in the search for the gold. She is lovely to look at and has a bigger role than many of the ladies in the oaters of the day. Apparently this was her first movie and she was unable to rise above bit parts in films during her short movie career. Also different is having two outlaw bosses rather than the usual one. A businessman and his henchman from the east team up with a saloon owner and his henchmen from the west. This leads to bickering and a power play between the two.
Eddie Dean wrote two of the three songs in the film, including the title song, which is a plus for the movie. The shootout in the showdown between Dean and the outlaws is a good one with plenty of action. As the old banjo player Floyd Holland used to say before he performed, "If you don't expect much, you won't be disappointed."
At the fiesta, Don Lopez shows his guests a satchel of gold nuggets which are later stolen by outlaws. When the gold is recovered at the end of the movie by Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates) by shooting the buffalo head off the wall, what tumbles out are gold coins.
West To Glory
Written by Eddie Dean and Hal Blair
Sung by Eddie Dean with The Sunshine Boys
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There is an uprooting happening in the United States of America. It is spiritually important that ungodly roots that are plucked out are replaced with godly ones, quickly. When unrighteous strongholds are destroyed, the enemy will try to fill the void with plans that are even more ungodly. The first thing needed is clean up D.C. corruption and cronyism. President Trump has strong feelings on this and firm plans to put in place. The Church and the government need to start now to come up with viable options to abortion, should Planned Parenthood be defunded, such as increasing adoption and childcare strategies. Our inner cities need revitalized and we need programs to break generational poverty. President Trump has proposed the "Restoring Community Safety Act" to assist local law enforcement with additional training and resources to curtail recent trends of violence. The planting of righteous laws and actions are on the near horizon.
Worship the Lord, for He has given this nation a chance to right itself.
Pray for President Trump, his Cabinet, their departments and our legislators to work together to tear down and uproot, but also for wise, workable plans to replace the programs they are removing!
Ask God to grant wisdom for the replacing of abortion. We believe this must be a combined effort between the government and the Church community. Life is a spiritual matter first and foremost and must consider the wholeness of families, as well as the lives of mothers and children. Medical care, financial support, support of the family and childcare are all components to be considered and planned for.
Intercede for the poverty in this nation and particularly that which is systemic and generational in our larger cities. Pray that President Trump's business knowledge will be a key to developing means to increase substantial job growth and preparing workers for those jobs. Ask God for those inner city revitalization programs to spring forth!
Pray that God gives the Trump Administration workable strategies to provide for the safety of our cities. Law enforcement must be given training and support that can deal with crowd violence and anti-terrorism, while protecting the innocent.
Cry out for unity in this nation as these newly planted seeds begin to spring forth. Pray that citizens and the media would quickly realize the effect of these changes and that peace would begin to settle over the nation, as a result.


A great public beach (read: free) away from the crowds, Playa Bergantin is favored because of its free access and gorgeous views of the island wrapping around the sea to the west.
Situated in Playa Dorada, Bergantin Beach is on the North coast of the Dominican Republic. You should consider stopping by even if you are not staying nearby. Though not very urbanized, many will find this area exactly what they're looking for, especially as a way to find some peace and quiet.
The beach is consistently lined with local vendors selling snacks and drinks (including Presidente beers). Lounge chairs are also avaiable to rent, and it is common to see visitors out on boogie boards and playing volleyball on the beach. Be warned that the sandflies can get bad here in the late afternoon, so an early morning adventure if recommended.
There are public restrooms at this beach——something you'll appreciate if you bring the kids along. In addition, there are lounge chairs available at this spot.
Beachgoers will find Bergantin Beach on the Dominican Republic's North coast. It is near Grand Paradise Playa Dorada Casino, which is within a distance that tourists could probably walk or take a cab to, and it is one of a number of attractions in the region.
If you're interested in combining some cultural exploration with your trip to the beach, you should consider a trip to Amber Museum, a lovely museum found five miles to the west-northwest, and might make a nice break from the midday sun.
Beaches are a great attraction to visit, but there's plenty else to see during your stay. The table below lists other attractions that are nearby.
Bergantin Beach is very close to Puerto Plata, so you can explore the city as part of your day at the beach. Guests visiting Bergantin Beach who are hoping to find other opportunities for exploration should consider making the trip to Puerto Plata, since it's nearby and is an especially active area of the Dominican Republic. From the beach, Puerto Plata is not far away, maybe four and a half miles (seven kilometers).
The mood here——social and lively, or virtually empty—— will depend on how many hotel guests decide to make the trip as well. You can generally expect to share the sand with more than a few visitors from lodgings in the area.
Since this beach is located in a relatively popular tourist area, it is not usually very tough to find just the right type of hotel nearby. For visitors hoping to find a place that's on or near the beach, the table below shows the closest accommodation options to Bergantin Beach.
When you're starving for a midday meal, the area near this beach provides some viable options, and you don't have to go far from these sands. One of the nearest places to eat is Lucia. This restaurant serves both Caribbean and Fusion cuisines. You'll have the option of walking or taking a cab as it's just a short distance away.
Nearby restaurants are shown below.
Of course, you'll find other beaches besides Bergantin Beach in the Dominican Republic.
You might also enjoy Long Beach, situated a quick car or cab ride away. Still, if you're searching for something a little more active, Playa Congrejo may be just what you're looking for. It's found two and a half miles to the east.
Travelers may also want to consider Dorada Beach, which is located only a short distance away.
The Dominican Republic has so much to offer, and paying a visit to Bergantin Beach is just one way you can spend your afternoon.


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Q: "One who calls others to worship" - A specific term? This would be referring to a position likely held in the ancient world. I thought it was 'hierophant', but that turned out to be wrong. I do have the impression that the two words are related, and vague as it may be I think it starts with an 'S'.
An example would be "The doors of the temple were opened, and the ______ stepped out to announce the start of the rites."

A: I think you can consider using a generic term such as preacher:

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*b : one whose function is to preach sermons : pastor, minister

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*She waited patiently on a Sunday morning until the crowd had said good-by to the preacher. —Don Jeffries

*"What kind of preacher are you? What denomination?" "I was ordained in a Baptist church, but I'm sort of nondenominational now. " —John Grisham

  Merriam-Webster

If you need something more specific to the task of initiating the call to worship, you could consider using herald:

An official messenger bringing news.
Oxford Living Dictionaries

A: In the ancient Jewish religion, the person in charge of blowing the ram's horn, or shofar (שופר), was called a Tokea (which literally means "blaster"), and it is no easy task to perform each of these sounds.
Not only would the Tokea summon people to worship, but according to Ariela Pelaia he also used the shofar to announce the start of holidays, in processions, and even to mark the start of a war.
Pelaia goes on to say,

Perhaps the most famous biblical reference to the shofar occurs in the Book of Joshua, where shofarot (plural of shofar) were used as part of a battle plan to capture the city of Jericho:
Then the LORD said to Joshua… March around the city once with all the
  armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of
  rams' horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the
  city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear
  them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the people give a
  loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the people
  will go up, every man straight in (Joshua 6:2-5).

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On Saturday, March 16th, metalcore band Underoath took a night off from their tour with Breaking Benjamin to play a more intimate show at the Athenaeum Theatre in Columbus, Ohio.
After only one opening band (Columbus' own The End of the Ocean), Underoath hit the ground running with their loud, high energy, and sweat filled performance on a stage almost level with the audience (which was a dream as a short photographer). This only added to the more intimate feel, as this room held around 500 or so people. This small room inside of an enormous building from the late 1800s that normally hosts weddings and proms. It has been restored a bit, but still keeps most of the vintage charm. Perfect for a concert, right? Despite my initial skepticism when entering, that answer is yes. The sound ran great, the lighting was spot on, and the balcony added a perfect view for those not wanting to mosh.
With a set list comprised of current and nostalgic songs, Underoath had the attention of everyone in attendance. The energy of the audience seemed to radiate throughout the space and the band definitely harnessed it in their performance. In that hour, strangers were best friends singing along to one of the most well-known screamo bands since the late '90s. Spencer (singer) even took a moment to show his vulnerable side and open up about his dark past and being given a second chance to do what he loves. I appreciated seeing the human side of a band I've listened to since my teen years.
Overall, this was what I wish all shows were like. Singing, sweating, and body slamming people by a small stage enjoying good music. If you get a chance to see Underoath while on tour, do it! You won't be disappointed.


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MWLC Endorses Connie Simmons!
posted by Katelyn Landess | 23sc
District 53 is a rural district to the east of Kansas City. Which includes Lafayette, Johnson and even some of Jackson County. Towns such as Lexington, Higginsville, Odessa, Bates City, Waverly, and everything in between. Mostly farm land, historic places, churches, schools, and a few orchards, with an extensive strip of I-70 running through.
"As Representative for the 53rd district, I will look out for our children's future and the future of education, healthcare, job growth and pay for those jobs and our rural life. I will make choices that the people of district 53 want and need, not what a political party wants and thinks it needs.
I am a retiring school counselor. I have spent the last 24 years listening to students and parents talk about their issues, problems, situations and helping come up with solutions or simply supporting and encouraging them. I am a wife, mother and grandmother who enjoys my family, farm life and the environment. I was raised in Holden Missouri by my father, lifelong member of Carpenter's Local 61, and my mother, a cashier at Wal-Mart. Met Fred, my husband of 36 years, the week before I started college at CMSU. We have 2 children, Matt, who married his High School sweetheart, Vanessa. They have two children Tristan and Coretta. My daughter, Liz, is married to Jeremy. They are all college graduates as education has always been an important part of our lives. These and other life events have led me to believe in the importance of public education, equal rights for women, Union support, healthcare, and fair wages for jobs.
I am an advocate and have always had an open door policy. This won't change once I am elected. I have always been a bluntly honest person and I want to know what my district wants so I can truly represent them. The only way to do that is to invite them to share with me and discuss with me their needs.
What kind of experience do I have?
24 years as a School Counselor at the following schools, Chilhowee K-12, Oak Grove High School, Ray-Pec High School, Blue Springs High School and Blue Springs Freshman Center.
Owning and operating my own small Antique Shop first in Pleasant Hill, then Warrensburg and Blue Springs. Closing it last year and now renting a booth in another shop.
Living on a cattle farm for most of my life and being involved in all aspects of the farm including risk management, farm operations and the buying and selling of farm products.
I have a Bachelor of Education Degree from CMSU in Vocational Home Economics and Business Education, Certification in those areas as well as Elementary Education and a Master of Science Degree from CMSU in School Counseling.
What about my family?
My family has lived in the Holden, Odessa and Centerview area for the past 40+ years. I am a Holden graduate, my husband, Fred, a Warrensburg graduate. We live on the family farm near Columbus Missouri. My husband is a Maintenance worker in Kansas City and up until this next year I have been a school counselor. Our children are Holden graduates as well as our daughter in law and our son in law a Crest Ridge graduate. Our son, Matt is a Mechanical Engineer and his wife and high school sweetheart, Vanessa, works in computer technology for a new firm in Kansas City. I am the happy "gammaw" to Tristan who starts Kindergarten this year in Pleasant Hill and Coretta who just joined us last month. Our daughter Liz is a High School Library Media Specialist and her husband, Jeremy, a computer specialist at UMKC. My family is very important to me.
What do I believe?
I believe we are all Americans, Missourians, NOT Democrats and Republicans. We are neighbors, friends, brothers and sisters.
I believe that education and knowledge is the most valuable tool available to us and we need to continue to learn and expand our knowledge in every aspect of our lives.
I believe in the Holy Bible and its teachings.
I believe in the ideals of the Constitution of the United States of America.
What do I think is important?
I have always been a counselor. Even prior to actually getting the degree, I was the one who friends went to and told their story to. I am a listener and a supporter. I have always had a calm nature and been able to see situations from each angle to help negotiate peaceful and equitable outcomes of conflicts and to encourage others to start new adventures and explore opportunities. As I retire from the School segment I am actually expanding my reach to help those in my district and my state.
Important Policy Issues:
Ratifying the ERA in the State of Missouri to become the 38th state to do so and becoming the deciding state to put it in the Federal Constitution.
Full and consistent funding of public education
Making sure that the advances gained through the years of Union organization of fair wages, working conditions and hours is maintained whether you are union or not.
Supporting family farms
Re-evaluating infrastructure in rural areas, not just the larger cities who seem to use all of the budget." - Connie Simmons, MWLC's endorsed candidate for Missouri House District 53.
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Automotive Hot News
Graphene leads to another big EV battery breakthrough
Researchers have developed a new component that could heal the Achilles' heel of lithium-sulfur batteries.
Compared to the common lithium-ion battery, lithium-sulfur batteries have important advantages: They use cheaper materials and weigh less. A lithium-sulfur cell can have almost double the energy of a lithium-ion cell for the same mass, yielding an edge where energy density is critical, like in portable electronics or in cars.
Improving energy density and cutting costs in energy storage are important steps in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation and energy production.
However, over a few charge and discharge cycles, lithium-sulfur batteries gradually become unstable, and their electrodes break down, a flaw that has kept them from taking the energy storage throne.
In particular, ions of lithium react with sulfur to form compounds that migrate and reduce the capacity of the cell.
"When this happens, they clog the surface and prevent the lithium from getting within the cathode," said Victor Batista, a professor of chemistry at Yale University.
Previous efforts to stabilize lithium-sulfur batteries involved protective coatings that added to the weight of the device and made other significant performance trade-offs.
In a study published yesterday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Batista and his collaborators unveiled a thin composite film that gave lithium-sulfur batteries exceptional durability.
The researchers first simulated what kinds of materials and structures would work well to make lithium-sulfur cells last longer, computing how molecules in the cathode would interact with different materials.
The team then made the film from graphene, a one-atom-thick carbon structure, and an organic dendrimer, a polymer that has a tree-like branching structure. Results showed that the film had an average thickness of 90 nanometers.
The film kept the lithium-sulfur compounds together in one place, preventing them from leaching into the electrolyte and degrading the cell's performance. With this mechanism, scientists showed that they were able to extend the cycle life of the lithium-sulfur cell without compromising its performance.
"The amazing thing is that with these materials, we were able to make batteries that have a record of stability with a minimum amount of membrane," Batista said.
Co-author Jianbing Jiang, a postdoctoral researcher at the Energy Sciences Institute at Yale University, noted that the composite film was made from commercially available starting materials, which would make it cheap and easy to scale up.
"Theoretically, the preparation of this material is quite easy and straightforward," he said.
The researchers noted that they are still in the preliminary stages of this work and are now working on ways to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries even further. "From there, we can design new materials with even better performance," said co-author Ke Yang, also a postdoctoral researcher at the Energy Sciences Institute.
–Umair Irfan, E&E News – March 21, 2017–
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July 23rd marks International #hellomynameis day. The #hellomynameis campaign was started by Dr Kate Granger MBE, a lady who set up a campaign in August 2013 using social media after receiving treatment in hospital for terminal cancer and realising that not all of the staff helping to support her introduced themselves. The campaign has raised awareness about the importance of healthcare professionals telling service users their name and role to help improve communication and increase the quality of patient care. The 23rd of July sadly marks the anniversary of Kate's passing, though her husband Chris Pointon continues to travel the world delivering talks about Kate's story and how we as healthcare professionals can improve people's experiences of being cared for.
Hello, my name is Abbie and I am a student mental health nurse. As I am a couple of weeks away from the end of my first year I have had lots of contact with service users on practice placements so I've been able to get a flavour of how much of a difference introductions can make from a professional perspective. From a personal perspective when I've been treated myself and accompanying loved ones to the hospital or the doctors I've witnessed professionals assessing not just the physical health but also the personal thoughts and feelings (mental health assessments are very thorough – see here) of people without telling them their name. Not doing so can put up a barrier to communication as the service user may feel awkward and uncomfortable with disclosing very sensitive information that they may previously have never shared with anybody before to a nameless stranger. A simple introduction can make the service user feel more valued and willing to talk about things like what they've been experiencing and what they wish to gain from treatment, which helps professionals deliver person-centred care that is tailored to each individual's needs. Kate's #hellomynameis campaign strives to improve patient experiences and aligns with the 6 Cs, values underpinning effective nursing practice that were set out in Compassion in Practice: Evidencing the Impact (2016).
Some University of Manchester students find themselves on placement within the Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, which is where a number of nurses dubbed 'Kate Granger nurses' are the first in the UK to have been appointed. Kate Granger nurses will wear special identifiable badges and aim to encourage staff members in the trust to demonstrate effective communication and uphold the standards of compassionate care that Kate and her husband Chris have spent years campaigning for.
Searching #hellomynameis online brings up a wealth of posts showing healthcare professionals and service users pledging their support for the campaign. Visit the campaign's website to see what events Kate's husband is attending and find out more about how you can get involved.
I moved into halls for the first year of university despite already living in Manchester (well, Greater Manchester). I felt ready to gain some independence by 'flying the nest' and wanted to be within walking distance of university. When I lived with my mum before university I was only less than twenty miles away from the main campus so my friends from home who I used to live super close to aren't incredibly far from my accommodation. The nursing course can get pretty hectic at times; more often than not all you want to do when you get back from placement is have a good kip!
Seeing my friends from home can be tricky to plan, to be honest, especially seeing as they have commitments like work and studying just like I do and it's not just a ten minute journey involved in meeting up. I probably don't tell them enough that I miss them, but I really do, and I really look forward to going home to meet up with my friends or having them stay over at my flat. Seeing my friends from home is so good for helping me stay grounded and true to my incredibly Mancunian roots and it reminds me of a big reason why I'm doing this course. I really hope I can make the people I care about and who care about me proud. If you don't have the opportunity to meet up with your friends from home very often you'll understand that the time you spend together is golden and you'll appreciate it all the more. I'm so, so fortunate to have maintained friendships with such a brilliant bunch of people even after all these years. I enjoy spending time with the friends I've made on my course too, as I think we have a good balance between chatting about nursing as well as unrelated things. We'll talk about what skills we've been learning on placement and helping each other stay motivated when writing assignments by offering suggestions of resources to look at and just offering a pep talk sprinkled with the essence of 'as a fellow student nurse, I really know how you feel' then five minutes later we'll be having a conversation about something like make-up or food. I'm so, so fortunate to have made such a brilliant bunch of friends at uni.
My advice to anybody studying on a course that keeps you super busy (ring any bells?) would be to appreciate and make time for your friends from home whilst still being open to making new friendships at uni. Your friends from home will be glad that you're enjoying yourself and have support for when they can't physically come to see you. Believe me, you'll have no idea how you would have made it through uni without your friends – old and new.
PTSD and Midwifery- Don't be ridiculous!
So I arrived home today after a day of lectures to find the latest edition of the Midwives journal- The Royal College of Midwives (Winter edition 2016) . Having a read through I stumbled across an article regarding PTSD in the workplace. 'Facing the truth- PTSD and the profession' (RCM 2016).
As I read the first paragraph my heart sank- thoughts of nightmares, comments of panic attacks, drinking to stop the thoughts, ascribed so eloquently, this sounded more like a scene from Full Metal Jacket. As I read further it was revealed that the account was taken from a first year student midwife who had witnessed a horrendous birth at the end of her first year. My heart sank further- statistics now show that 1 in 20 midwives will experience clinically significant post- traumatic stress disorder in the UK (Sheen et al 2015).
PTSD affects anyone who has been exposed to trauma, as student midwives, registered midwives and practitioners we are all aware of the enormity of our profession- the severe lack of funding and TLC our precious NHS needs deserves. The RCM (2016a) report that the pressure on midwives has never been as great, longer working hours, no time for basic human necessities like having a wee! Not getting breaks, teamed with the fact that the birth rate is up almost one quarter in the last decade (Office of National Statistics 2014) ,compounding staff shortages and increasing multiple births, increase in maternal age and expectant mothers with pre-existing conditions means the strain and stress on the midwife has never been so prevalent.
The RCM has recognised this and has adapted the 'caring for you' charter. The aim is for organisations to acknowledge and sign the charter. To improve the health, working conditions and quality of care of student midwives and midwives.
What I take from this article and what I think we all need to remember is that we must care for ourselves- A midwife who works in a positive, compassionate and supportive workplace is more likely to deliver positive, compassionate and supportive care!
Last week I was going to post a blog about how I was feeling about starting third year but feeling terrified was my overriding feeling, and no one needs that kind of negativity, right?! I decided to wait until my first day back to write my feelings. So, here goes.
Firstly, I am exhausted! Woah, information overload! But not too exhausted to write to you lovely bunch so may be exaggerating a little! Today we were afforded an incredible opportunity to speak to trusts from all over the country and learn what they want from students applying for jobs. I felt anxious entering the room but left university feeling inspired. I feel like I can be anything I want to be! The trouble is, I don't know exactly what I want to do yet. I know what my key interests are and know that I want to consolidate my learning in my first role as a qualified nurse but there isn't currently a specialism screaming out at me. That's okay though, isn't it? Here I am referring to this as 'trouble'. Pardon? This is a PRIVILEGE!
I received encouraging feedback today from representatives from different trusts, as well as from my colleagues. We've talked through the benefits of keeping a professional profile and throughout that discussion I flicked through some of my written feedback… Wow! I had forgotten about some of these kind and inspiring words.
Focus on the positives. I have another year of study and a future of continued professional development – even my weaknesses can be positives!
Get organised. Taking some time now for good planning will save a lot of time and worry in the long run. Time to get everything in that shiny new diary!
Remember that it is okay to feel a bit overwhelmed – I'm not the only one feeling this way. I must remember to be good to myself and do something that is not nursing-related from time-to-time… Starting this weekend!
Now I approach this academic year feeling like I can achieve anything if I work hard enough. I've got this! And you have too!
Special thanks to today's speakers, exhibitors and organisers for a motivating and informative day.
With second year around the corner, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little apprehensive.
I've heard of the elusive 'second year blues' and worry that they might already be setting in. Despite having a year under our belt, the end goal somehow seems further away than at the beginning. We're a year wiser, with a better idea of the challenges ahead…and let's face it, we're probably all a year poorer too. All things considered, its no wonder we might feel a bit down.
I know most of us have spend the last few weeks catching up on sleep, earning some pennies or reminding our friends that we still exist, but it's worth having a look at what's coming up. By second year, we're expected to be independent learners, so its up to us to be proactive and find out what is in store for us over the next year. I've been putting it off, but it's time to get organised, dig out the diary and log in to Blackboard…what's my password again?
Somehow I've managed to erase all memory of PAD submission day, which seems like ages ago now, but I remember that we were asked to set some goals for the year ahead. I've just had a look back at mine and they actually make some sense. Personal development plans can sometimes seem like a bit of a box-ticking exercise, but having a goal in mind for second year will give you something to focus on and makes the time fly by.
When I started this course, I made a pact with myself not to leave everything to the last minute. In my last degree, I tactically worked out my words/per hour ratio (about 400), convincing myself that it was totally fine to leave a 3,000 word essay to 24 hours before the deadline. Yeah, I always got them in, but I was an absolute wreck. Believe me, its not worth the stress. This degree is full on enough as it is, so help yourself out by starting early.
Oh and this applies to overcommitting too – a lesson I've learnt the hard way. Figure out what is really important and realise that it's ok to say 'no' sometimes. I still haven't mastered it, but it's a work in progress.
Chances are that most of us will feel down at some point over the year, but if 'the blues' hit, don't bottle it up. With hundreds of student nurses about, you're bound to find a kind, listening ear and you might find that others are feeling the same way.
Also, don't forget the PEFs are there to address any issues you might be having on placement – take a look at this blog to find out more about their role and how they can help.
Maybe it's just me, but does nursing have a way of taking over your life? While on placement, it feels like you think, breathe, dream nursing – sometimes you just need to switch off. Step away from the stethoscope and plan some totally non-nurse activities for the weekend. A break will do wonders.
Conquering second year and banishing those blues is about finding the right balance. This course can take over if we let it, but by staying organised and making time for the other things we love, we can actually be better nurses in the long run.


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Joensen ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Bodil Joensen (1944–1985), dänische Pornodarstellerin
 Edmund Joensen (* 1944), färöischer Politiker, 1994–1998 Ministerpräsident der Färöer (Løgmaður)
 Heri Joensen (* 1973), färöischer Metal-Musiker
 Johan Carl Joensen (1857–1907), färöischer Inspektor von Grönland
 Margit Gaard Joensen (* 1974), färöische Fußballspielerin
 Maria Louise Joensen (* 1985), dänische Singer-Songwriterin, siehe Aura Dione
 Ove Joensen (1948–1987), färöischer Abenteurer
 Pál Joensen (* 1990), färöischer Schwimmer
 Poul F. Joensen (1898–1970), färöischer Dichter
 Sámal Joensen (* 1993), färöischer Fußballspieler
 Sámal Joensen-Mikines (1906–1979), färöischer Maler
 Sigurð Joensen (1911–1993), färöischer Politiker
 Sigrið av Skarði Joensen (1908–1975), färöische Publizistin, Lehrerin und Feministin
 William Joensen (* 1960), US-amerikanischer Geistlicher, Bischof von Des Moines


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Man, that's why we've got judges, we've got trials, we've got people that make decisions for what goes on in court. I'm not worried about anything.
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Man, that's why we've got judges, we've got trials, we've got people that make decisions for what goes on in court. I'm not worried about anything.

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