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Singapore Bike Tours – 10 Iconic Places Around the Singapore River to Visit on a Bike
Published on 12 Feb in Bike Tour, Food Tour
The Singapore River was once what made the tiny fishing village of Singapore into a bustling trading port in the 19th century. Despite having grown into a buzzing cosmopolitan city, the old warehouses at the rivermouth that used to house traded goods such as spices and more remain as storefronts in homage to Singapore's rich history.
Following the Singapore River not only gives insight to this nation's fascinating past and growth, you'll also get to see some of Singapore's most iconic attractions on the riverbank. Enhance your journey of discovery and make it even more exciting by cycling around the Singapore river on a bike, this way you'll get to immerse yourself in the natural sights and sounds!
1. Sir Stamford Raffles statue
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Located at Raffles' Landing Site, the statue of present day Singapore's founding father is one of two statues, with the other being closer to Victoria Memorial Hall. The Sir Stamford Raffles statue is placed where Raffles is said to have first landed on Singapore to sign a treaty with the native rulers, forever changing Singapore's fate and shaping her future into that of a commerce and trading hotspot. Not just an acknowledgement of the colonial hand in Singapore's growth, the statue has also been decorated, tweaked and playfully incorporated into Singapore's bicentennial celebrations in 2019.
2. Esplanade
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Possibly one of the more eye-catching features in the Singapore skyline and appearing in Hollywood movies such as Agent 47:Ronin, the Esplanade is shaped into two gigantic domes. Affectionately dubbed 'the durians' by locals due to their resemblance to the spiky green fruit, the spiked exterior of the Esplanade is cleverly designed so as to let in the maximum amount of natural light while repelling as much heat as possible, keeping the interior bright and cool. The Esplanade is Singapore's theatres on the bay, being one of the best venues for concerts and performances of the traditional, classical and contemporary arts. It has been specially designed so that it offers a flexible space for both Asian and Western arts and has incredible acoustics.
3. Merlion
If you didn't take a picture with the Merlion, did you really come to Singapore? This water-spewing statue is what most visitors associate with Singapore and it is an extremely popular photo taking spot. The half fish, half lion statue is faced east on the Singapore River for auspiciousness and while the lion head represents Singapore's original name (Singapura, or lion city in Malay), the fish tail is a nod to her origins as a small fishing village.
4. Marina Barrage
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The Marina Barrage is a rooftop garden and dam that offers the perfect breezy picnic spot with one of the best views of the Singapore skyline. The shooting location for Equals, a film starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart, the curious spiralled design of the Marina Barrage along with its fountains and various art pieces is a delight to visit. That's not all the Marina Barrage is good for, the dam helps to create Singapore's 15th reservoir, ensuring the nation's water security and lowering chances of flooding. Visitors are also welcome to take a tour of the visitor's centre to learn more about Singapore's desalination and water purification process.
5. Marina Bay Sands
This futuristic structure has been raved about since its conception and been featured in dystopian Hollywood flicks, and most recently, the box office hit, Crazy Rich Asians. Marina Bay Sands is not only a hotel with the iconic infinity pool in its Skypark, it also holds one of Singapore's two casinos, a theatre, hotel, shopping gallery and its very own gondola traversed mini canal a la Venetian Hotel.
6. Artscience Museum
Right next to Marina Bay Sands is the equally distinctive Artscience Museum, which showcases spectacular exhibitions of art, science and technology of international renown, sourcing worldwide for each showcase. The lotus-shaped architecture is symbolic of Singapore's welcoming hand with ten finger-like sections that arc up into separate gallery spaces and end in skylights to show off the exhibits in the best light. The reflecting pool next to it holds a lovely array of lotuses and also collects rainwater to be purified and reused.
7. Gardens by the Bay
Known as the Garden City for her abundance of greenery in an urban city, Singapore's latest and most futuristic garden is Gardens by the Bay. Flanking the Singapore River, it is segmented into differently themed gardens, each perfectly maintained and showcasing some of Singapore's best flora. The towering Supertrees are also a popular draw and visitors often use them for photo opportunities or even choose to walk up and between them. Another part of Gardens by the Bay that are instantly recognisable in the Singapore skyline are the Flower and Cloud Domes, two sprawling greenhouses that contain botanical species from all over the world and in an explosion of colour. The Cloud Dome features an impressive waterfall and the Flower Dome boasts an exciting lineup of floral events that showcases incredible horticultural arrangements according to theme.
8. Cavenagh Bridge
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The oldest bridge across the Singapore River, the Cavenagh Bridge was named after the Straits Settlements' last governor, William Orfeur Cavenagh. Originally used for trams to get from the commercial district to the government quarter, it was later declared a pedestrian bridge. The steel bridge also features in many photoshoots and is popular with wedding couples for its stately design.
9. Singapore Flyer
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Singapore's answer to the London Eye, the Singapore Flyer offers riders a 360 degree panoramic view of the city area, the country's magnificent skyline and, on clear days, a glimpse of neighbouring countries, Malaysia and Indonesia. Its 28 cabins with a maximum capacity of 28 people per capsule highlight the number 28, meaning double prosperity in dialect, and the Flyer's architectural auspiciousness. Asia's largest Observation Wheel, the Singapore Flyer stands at an intimidating 165m tall and is both exciting to view from the ground and to take for a view from the top.
10. Clarke Quay
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Clarke Quay used to be a hub of activity in Singapore's early days as a trading port, with masses of boats thronging the waters to dock and unload their goods. However, this resulted in massively polluted waters and trading activity was eventually relocated to Pasir Panjang. In the meantime, the Singapore River underwent a huge clean up and so did Clarke Quay, evolving into a sleek array of bars, clubs and restaurants along with a bungee jumping set up while maintaining the facade of the old shophouse fronts. Now, more often known as the centre of Singapore's nightlife, Clarke Quay is undoubtedly a historical aspect of the Singapore River.
As an island nation, Singapore's waterways play a huge part in her history and way of life, none as prominent as the Singapore River. Though it is no longer the pivotal part of Singapore's trading scene, with so much of history, culture and re-purposed attractions, it remains an integral part of Singapore as she changes and grows. The best part is that following a Singapore bike tour along the river allows you to see so many of the country's best attractions and more.
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To live in a house full of animals like I do you really have to love animals. People talk about how rewording it is to have a animal love you. They say that all you have to do is look into those beautiful eyes that look at you with all that love and there isn't anything they can't do that isn't... Sign in to see full entry.
Jan 4, 2013 was not a day I will forget soon. It was the day I lost my oldest cat Shadow. Before I married my second husband. Before I bought and moved into my house. Shadow came into my life. Almost 17 years ago a friend of one of my co-workers found three kittens in her barn. Their little eyes... Sign in to see full entry.
Well I guess that I now have five more owners. I toke in five little kittens this summer and I have been trying to find them homes. They are so sweet. I however can not have any more indoor cats. My boyfriend is allergic and he will never be able to move in if I take in more cats. So they will have... Sign in to see full entry.
I am one of the few people in the neighborhood that doesn't feed the stray cats but I seem to be the one that they feel has the safest place to have their kittens. About 4 weeks ago I looked out and counted something like 16 kittens in my back yard. Of course I realize that if I let them go, they... Sign in to see full entry.
Poor Daisy Mae. She is the same age as my old lab Apache. He is 100 pounds and aging fast. Daisy being 30 pounds I expected her to hold up a little longer. The problem is her mind. She was always so sharp and into things. Now she gets confused when I feed her. I have to lead her to the dish and she... Sign in to see full entry.
I can hardly wait for the first snow every winter. The dogs grin from ear to ear. They love it so much. They don't bark at everything. They don't want back in after being out for only five minutes. They roll and throw the snow up in the air with their noses. And then they dog pile each other in the... Sign in to see full entry.
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It's so wonderful to be home. My mother takes such good care of my animal friends while I'm gone. But I can tell when I get home that they are so glad to see me. I love them so much. I am blessed with wonderful animal clients however and they always make me feel loved when I'm with them. Some of my... Sign in to see full entry.
I got to spend monday morning making cupcakes with my soon to be three grandson. We had the best time. It was heart warming to get the time with him that I didn't get much of with his mother. He helped mix and watched them bake with great anticipation. I got them out and explained to him that they... Sign in to see full entry.
My dear old dog Apache has always wanted to be with me every minute. He doesn't have to breath the same air, just be in the same room. Well when I'm pet sitting, he goes "Woof" every 5 minutes all night long and keeps my poor mother up. I feel so guilty that I have been giving up spending time with... Sign in to see full entry.
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world suicide prevention day 2020
KOSHISH commemorates the World Suicide Prevention Day
With the aim of raising awareness among public and to sensitize key stakeholders on the issues of suicide and suicide prevention; KOSHISH conducted a series of events in the month of September 2020.
Awareness through Radio Programs
KOSHISH and TPO Nepal jointly produced and broadcast two episodes of radio program on Suicide Prevention on 7th and 10th September. To create mass awareness and to help people in distress and to encourage seeking help from professionals, KOSHISH has been broadcasting Public Service Announcements (PSAs) during the whole month of September through reputed FM stations in central level and also in Gandaki Province.
Press Meet with the Health Journalists
On 9th September, KOSHISH organized a virtual press meet with the health journalists on Suicide Prevention. The aim of the press meet was to sensitize media persons on the sensitivity of suicide and the effect and impact that can be because of the irresponsible reporting of the suicide incidents.
During the event, Psychiatrist Dr. Deepak Kunwar, Asst. Professor of Kathmandu University highlighted how media can have the media contagion, and increase the incidents of suicide when trying to make the story sensational and glamorous. He also shared the tips for sensible reporting of suicide and how media can help to reduce suicide. Mr. Matrika Devkota, Executive Director of KOSHISH shared his personal experience of suicide and how he overcame it. He also shared that the concentrated approaches from all stakeholders is required to reduce suicide. For which, one can start listening to someone's distress and sorrows without being judgmental and with maintained confidentiality. The government should have a specific multi-sectoral response mechanism, action plan, and strategies for suicide prevention. Mr. Pitambar Adhikari, retired deputy Inspector General of Police presented the existing scenario of suicide. He shared that the government must identify the causal factors leading to suicide and act accordingly to reduce the incidents of suicide.
The event was entirely participatory where participants discussed in details on the issue of reporting the incidents of suicide. The event was moderated by Chair of the Health Journalists' Forum Ms. Kalpana Acharya and was live on KOSHISH's facebook page.
Dissemination of infographics
KOSHISH developed flyers and infographics related with Suicide Prevention. These are also the effective tools for advocacy and generating awareness. KOSHISH has formally disseminated these materials through virtual press meet of 9th September. Those materials including radio PSAs were also circulated among organizations working in the field of mental health and suicide prevention. These materials are intended to aware people on the current situation, myths and misconceptions, risk factors, protective factors, warning signs, preventives measures, and the role of various stakeholders for suicide prevention.
Collaborative effort required to prevent suicide
KOSHISH in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) organized a virtual interaction program on Suicide Prevention on 10th September. Altogether 167 participants including representative from Nepal Police, National Planning Commission, Ministry of Women Children and Senior Citizen, Ministry of Health and Population, and various organizations working on the promotion of mental health, took part in the interaction program.
"The government is undertaking review to address the issues of mental health problems and suicide. The Mental Health Strategy and Action Plan which is almost in the final stage of being endorsed by the government, has also been made comprehensive enough to address suicide." – Dr. Phadindra Baral
"Nepal police have crisis response mechanism for suicide prevention, however it would be more effective if we could conduct it in collaboration with the local people and the government. The media including the social media is influencing suicide. So, the media should be sensible while reporting." -Mr. Deep Shamsher Rana, Superintendent of Nepal Police
"There is need for formulation of the multi-sectoral strategy and it's effective implementation for suicide prevention by the government." – Mr. Matrika Devkota
Mr. Yagya Prasad Adhikari, Chief of NHRC-Bagmati Province thanked KOSHISH for the collaboration to organize such important event. He shared about the efforts and coordination of NHRC to promote mental health wellbeing the rights of persons to live. He also encouraged everyone to continue their hard work and dedication to promote mental health and suicide prevention.
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And if you'll seek Him, He'll keep on giving you the right words, the wisdom, and the right heart on an ongoing basis.
2. Have you messed up your life completely?
Ask God to give you a new life in Christ, and He will. It's never too late to give your heart to Jesus and receive forgiveness for all your sins. It's never too late to start again. It's never, never, ever too late to get things right with God and people and DO OVER.
3. Do you feel worn out and tired?
Sit in God's presence and ask Him to renew your strength, and He will.
4. Do you feel hopeless?
Psalm 23 says that God will restore your soul (your mind, will and emotions), and Psalm 27:14 says that God will strengthen your heart.
That verse is in the present tense. God is making all things new, right now. He can't help Himself, because it's who He is. God is literally a Renewer, a Restorer. He is God Who Makes You New.
God is always ready to give you a new life, a new hope, a new heart, and a fresh outlook on life, if you will let Him. Do you need a new start? Get with God and ask Him for the new start you need. If you will, He will make all things new for you.
This is the fourth post in my series "Who Is God?" about the attributes and characteristics of God. You can also read the first three posts in the series: God the Eternal One, God the Holy One, and God Knows Everything About You and Loves You Like Crazy.
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Awesome blog post! Inspiring to me! There were many things in my life that reevaluated and realized I needed renewing in in my life. Amen!
Hi Sheree, so glad it ministered to you! I think we all need renewal often, and sometimes I know I need radical new starts. Thank God He provides both!
Amen! Jesus makes all things new. All you have to do is ask Him!


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YA Book 'The Trail' In Works As Movie In Imagine Kids+Family, Scholastic Team-Up
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Imagine Kids+Family is teaming with Scholastic Entertainment to adapt into a feature film The Trail, the 2017 YA novel written by Meika Hashimoto. Quinn Emmett has been set to write the script for the story, which revolves around a 12-year old boy who, after a tragic loss, sets off on the adventure of a lifetime to finish the Appalachian Trail.
Imagine Kids+Family president Stephanie Sperber and Scholastic Entertainment president Iole Lucchese and SVP and GM Caitlin Friedman are set as producers. Imagine's Katie Donahoe and Will Davis will serve as creative executives on the project.
The Trail, published by Scholastic Press, follows 12-year-old Toby who, reeling from the loss of his best friend and without his family's knowledge, sets out to finish the final item on their List of All The Totally Awesome Things they planned to tackle this summer: hike the last 400 miles of the trail. He learns all about how to survive on his own in the wild, dodging bears and outrunning hunger, while finding a community of like-minded hikers to help get him through.
Hit YA Book 'Going Vintage' Acquired By Imagine Kids & Family; Kara Holden To Pen Rom-Com Movie
It marks the latest deal for Imagine Kids+Family, which launched in January. The division of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment already has content partnerships with James Patterson's kids division Jimmy Books; Life magazine and Breyer International. It also recently took an equity stake in The Tiny Chef Show to develop a franchise.
"I'm so grateful to be making this film alongside everyone at Imagine and Scholastic," said Emmett. "Even though I'm technically not 12 anymore, I still haven't outgrown all of my own insecurities, and retain my love for hiking, camping, and embarking on reckless adventures. And I'm proud to say I'm nearly self-reliant. I identify deeply with the themes of friendship, loyalty, loss, and the struggle to find my own personal strength."
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Hello there, fellow movie fans ...!
I'm always glad to encourage anyone to attend Bradford's Wide Screen Weekend ("WSW")! It's a fun gathering, taking place in an interesting (interesting to me, anyway) location. You participate in it with lots of others who value the same kinds of experiences.
This is written with a goal of assisting "first timer" attendees coming to Bradford and England from distant shores. It also will be applicable for Europeans visiting -- just bypass the transatlantic airplane stuff!
I'm sometimes blessed by being a bit too "chatty", at least when writing things, possibly a mixed blessing. So, to save you time, I'll give some condensed observations here at the beginning, and then (for those especially interested), more specific details follow farther on, which you can read at your leisure.
Bed & Breakfast for 2 nights @ £46.00 per person per night sharing a Standard Double/Twin bedroom.
Bed & Breakfast for 3 nights @ £42.00 per person per night sharing a Standard Double/Twin bedroom. 3 night reservation will be upgraded, subject to availability, and will be given a complimentary bottle of wine in their bedroom upon arrival.
Bed & Breakfast for 4 nights @ £38.00 per person per night sharing a Standard Double/Twin bedroom. 4 night reservation will receive the above and Dinner complimentary on one of the evenings.
*Premium bedroom supplement of £10.00 per person per night.
*A single supplement of £30.00 applies per room per night.
Dinner will be available from £16.95 per person, per night with a Special Themed Menu running throughout the festival.
Bookings are to be made directly through the Midland Hotel and festival guests will be advised to quote "Bradford International Film Festival" when booking.
By way of background information, most Bradford WSW event(s) take place at the "Pictureville Cinema", which is part of the National Media Museum ("NMM"), (formerly called the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, "NMPFT"). Also part of this complex are the museum facilities itself (an interesting place to visit), and two other cinemas: an IMAX theatre, plus a much smaller place, the "Cubby Broccoli Cinema", a nice intimate room for "smaller" shows and videos. A few shows may be scheduled in those venues. Obviously, anything IMAX has to run in the IMAX site.
I typically like to approach the trip as an entire travel experience, so I may not always take the most direct route. When I discuss costs, I'll mostly be doing so as costs appear to us now, as written in early 2009, when the dollar is VERY LOW vs. the UK pound(£). At the time of the 2008 WSW, it was about 2 - 1, so UK £ 50 was about US $100. Check for current exchange rates. Travelling to, and in, the UK, presently, will cost you some money, no doubt about it, because of the currency issues. But there is nowhere else can you see some of these cinematic treasures!
Bradford is approximately 175 miles (278km) north of London.
Unless you are already in the UK, your trip to Bradford will very likely include both air and train travel components. From the Continent, you can do it entirely by air, or entirely by train, or a combination. From overseas origination points, you'll probably use some of both. For train only, you may skip to the "Access from Europe" section, below.
If you come by air, there are 3 principal airport options to consider: #1) London, of course, actually with several airports – the 2 primary ones being Gatwick (LGW) and Heathrow (LHR). London also has the 3 outlying regional airports: the smaller "City" airport (LCY), and the farther-out Luton (LTN) and Stanstead (STN) airports. Farther to the north, option #2) Manchester (MAN), another large airport with both Transatlantic and intra-European flights. And, of course, #3) Bradford's local airport, (LBA), smaller, but the closest to Bradford.
Bradford's airport (LBA) is the closest to Bradford. If time is short for you, and you take a taxi in to town, figure on an additional taxi fare of some £15 - £18 (approx. US$ 30 - $36) to get into Bradford. If your time permits, there is now a fairly economical bus connection from LBA in to Bradford, and that fare will be slightly more than £ 2. Euros are accepted. Change will be returned in Sterling).
You will have to spend some time calculating your airfare costs + your ground costs, to figure out which routing works best for you, in terms of total cost. Air fares often vary based on unpredictable nuances in times and days, as perceived by airline "revenue management" types, so some persistence is required. I cannot say flat out that a routing via Manchester is cheaper than, say, coming in to Bradford... it will depend on your schedule and what other conditions apply to the route(s) and time(s) you select. The tools and links provided here will assist you in figuring let you figure your costs fairly well.
If you fly to London or Manchester, etc., you'll have to take surface transport to get to Bradford. Trains are the most readily-available option; there are buses, but I've never tried them and can offer no information.
Rental cars are also available at all airports, though useful mostly if combining your trip to Bradford with visits to other nearby scenic areas, e.g. the North York Moors or Yorkshire Dales national park, or the east coast seaside resorts of Scarborough and Whitby, which either have very minimal public transport or none at all.
Here is a link to the (very good) UK rail system travel planner website; you can estimate your additional costs (on top of your airfare costs) and come up with the total cost(s) for your trip to Bradford.
There is a cafeteria in the adjacent NMeM building, open mostly during "daytime" hours. The cafeteria kitchen also conveniently supplies light "snack-" type foods to the Pictureville Cinema bar, immediately outside the theatre entry doors. You can eat light snacks in either place (subject to opening times and availabilities), or you can go out from the complex. You do not need to go hungry! More details in the "Restaurants and Food Service" section below.
That ends the "summary" information: Transportation, Hotel, and Food. Now, I'll go into a bit more detail. If you don't want to read it "all", please skip to any area that may be of interest to you.
For people from the USA, you'll be flying "across the pond". Many routes and ways to do it! (If you are originating from somewhere on the European continent, see "Access from Europe", below).
Depending on your wishes and time constraints, you can fly to England's "main city", London. This allows you to visit a few historic spots (time permitting) in London, should you wish. Also, sometimes, airfares are cheaper (but also, sometimes, more expensive!) to London... Factor in, however, that you'll have to take a train from London to Bradford, a trip of about 3+ hours, at additional cost.... If you're into trains, this can be a great treat -- quality high-speed railroading (not super high speed, but good quality mainline rail service). The train fare will be additional cost, see discussion about rail fares following. As my comprehension of the system has improved, my fare has gone down. In 2005 I paid £52; in 2006 I paid £71; (2007 was air-only); in 2008 I paid 38.
Caution about LHR: If you fly in to the London Heathrow (LHR) airport and are planning on making a "direct" airline connection to LBA, or anywhere up north, advice from folks who live in the UK suggest allowing PLENTY of time for the transfer. Arriving flights from the US arrive at Terminals 3 or 4, and domestic flights operate out of Terminal 1. Getting between them will tax the hardiest traveler and add stress and considerable time, not to mention possible long immigration queues. If you can avoid LHR for such same-day connections, do so.
And while I'm on the subject of air travel in the UK, one other cautionary note, in case you happen to drive into the UK via train but plan to fly out … update yourself on the current hand-luggage regulations for the UK. They have been quite restrictive in the amount and contents of carry-on luggage and if you're not careful, you'll find yourself being required to check some additional piece(s), at potentially outrageously high costs!
You might also check the Newcastle airport, too (code NCL), to see if you can find a cheap flight there. Newcastle is presently being served by several "low cost" airlines and there could be some amazing promotional fare to Newcastle that works out for you. But the ground transportation to Bradford could be a bit more difficult (and longer) than from MME or MAN, so is suggested primarily for the intrepid traveler!
One final airport idea: since you almost certainly will have to take a train trip to get to Bradford from these various "distant" airports, another UK arrival city you might also think about would be Glasgow (Scotland), (GLA). In terms of time and cost of getting to Bradford, it's about the same (178 miles, 285km) as coming from London. So, if you want a more northerly bias to your trip, this one could be worth checking.
If you fly to Bradford airport, taxi fare in to Bradford proper will run about (maybe) £15 - £18 , or US$30 - $36. If you plan to arrive here, if possible try to have some UK £ before arriving in LBA, because the change kiosk at the airport is small and may be busy. (It's a rather smallish airport). A taxi is the most direct way to get in to Bradford City. One big plus will be that the taxi will take you directly to your hotel. There is a taxi queue line out in front of the airport; usually waiting times are short. Bus service: NEW started in 2008: There is now halfway decent bus service between LBA and Bradford's center, including stopping at both railway stations.
The West Yorkshire authorities have now instituted regular 6 am to 10 pm bus service between LBA and Bradford City. The bus route currently terminates at the Bradford "Interchange" Station, but it stops along Market Street, in Bradford, which is just steps away from the Midland Hotel. There are 2 bus routes operating, #737 and #747 (where did they come up with those numbers, I wonder?). For full details on times and prices, go to wymetro.com. The route #747 is slightly faster in to Bradford, at about 40-45 minutes.
One different variation for air travelers is to fly in to one city, and return from another. If you do that, fares may vary, up or down. Or not. Airline fares are quite changeable, perplexingly so, as you probably know. Occasionally (but not always) flights tied in to overseas fares are somewhat independent of the final destination. I most frequently have been flying in to London, and flying out from LBA, but my choice of arr and dep airport changes year by year, depending on what I may be carrying and who's with me (if anyone), etc., etc., etc. Keep in mind you can also do this "open jaw" kind of itinerary on award points, typically at zero additional cost.
If you are coming from the European continent, you probably have plenty of ideas about how to get to the UK. Air service is generally considered the most time-efficient -- but probably not by flying in and connecting through London Heathrow. If you fly in/out of the Bradford airport, or even Manchester, you are able to do it all in one day.
You have a selection of various airports. For the budget-conscious, I suggest you study carefully the airports [listed above] and rail options (in terms of costs) to determine the "real" total costs of getting to Bradford. Discount airlines often fly to out-of-the-way airports, so, once you tally up the additional ground transport costs, your total may come to more than flying a traditional airline in to one of the "major" airports.
One new option for train travel (as of late 2007) is the newly-improved rail link, the "Eurostar" service, which recently completed the high-speed rail portion in the UK, allowing much better (and faster) service from the Continent to central London. And, the London Eurostar terminal is now at St. Pancras station -- and that one is immediately adjacent to Kings Cross station, the London originating point for train trips to Bradford.
Read the information below, and then, if you want to search for specific information, the UK "national rail" travel information service has an excellent website, which is quite a good site for getting pricing and schedule information on rail journeys everywhere in the UK.
Thanks to the internet, it's possible to be quite thrifty in purchasing train tickets, assuming you can make plans in advance. Of course, that comes with the usual warning about "advance purchases": if you change your plans, or miss your train, the headaches (and increased costs) can come your way! As my comprehension of the system has improved, my fare has gone down. In 2005 I paid £52; in 2006 I paid £71; (2007 was air-only). All those was before I used the web-based scheduling system. In 2008, using the internet for a "moderate" [about 2 weeks] advance purchase, I paid £38, and others reported fares as low as around an incredible £12. The national railway booking system link is nationalrail.co.uk, and I highly recommend it for the thoroughness and ease of use. Same day fares can be over £85!
The system will book up to 12 weeks (3 months) in advance. Without being privvy to their booking algorithims, I can say that you'll probably get the lowest fares if you book at least one month in advance.
To use the system, you select your routing, date, and time, and when ready, put in your credit card number. When you arrive at the point where your train ticket will originate, insert your credit card into marked terminals in or near the ticket offices, and … zip! … out pops your pre-paid ticket.
In my experience, for London to Bradford, it is essential to buy the ticket at least one day before the trip, i.e., "advance purchase". If you buy the ticket same day of travel, and it's a weekday, they'll charge you plenty. When I've been in London, I've typically purchased my ticket (the day ahead) right at Kings Cross station, just to be SURE I've got the station location set in my head, relative to where I'm staying, and I don't miss something. Of course, if you're not going to be in London the day before, that option is not available. You can pre-purchase your ticket for most or all of these trains from the national rail website but if so doing, be sure to allow yourself sufficient time for connections to your station of origin. The tickets I've bought have all been reserved seat ticketings, for a specific departure time. If you miss your scheduled departure, you'll lose some value.
For Manchester to Bradford, it's basically a longish commuter ride -- albeit with nicer commuter railcar equipment for the service. The purchase price for single trips will not change all that much, so I don't see any urgent need for one to buy far in advance on that one. You may as well just get it at the airport.
But still ... reports are that you can pay for your ticket in advance on this route, as well. You use your visa card from "home", and then get your ticket issued automatically at the airport station ("prepaid"), thus availing yourself of the advance purchase discounts. I have not personally tried this option and don't know if there are any reserved seat/specific departure time issues here (I doubt it). Word of this option comes from a reliable source. You might save as much as £2 or £3 for the trip.
Some trains run from the Manchester airport station right through, direct to Leeds. Some others require a change [in Huddersfield - same platform, ed], and possibly two changes! When you board your train, be sure to ascertain whether it actually will be going to Leeds, or not. And if not, where do you change?
And at Leeds, almost invariably, you must change. All this changing shouldn't be a problem for you, as the platform announcements and electronic signage are usually quite good -- but if you're arriving from an intercontinental flight, you'll likely still be a bit groggy. Be careful.
The UK rail website is, again, quite good at providing schedules, times, change-of-train locations, and costs, so that should be your guide. If you can print a copy of "your" itinerary before you leave, you'll be much better prepared for the train portion, if you've never done UK train riding before.
Whether you come by train from London, or from Manchester, you almost always get off at Leeds (you shouldn't miss it, it's frequently the last stop of several of the routes – I say "frequently" -- but not always! Pay attention!!) . At Leeds, you transfer to a local train service, Leeds to Bradford. The Leeds-Bradford services operate about every 15 minutes, and it's about a 20 min. ride Some are direct to Bradford Forster Square, some involve another change.
Special note: There is (or have been, in the past -- it still shows in the timetables) at least one train per day between London King's Cross and Bradford as direct, no-change-of-trains service. You get on in London, off in Bradford. "Easy as pie". The one listed now leaves London around 5:30pm, and arrives in to Bradford Forster Square around 8:20pm -- a bit on the late side if trying to catch any movie events that evening. However, if you are not otherwise planning something in the early evening, it eliminates all the "change at Leeds" business. (It goes through Leeds anyway, you just don't have to get off there!)... Details at that rail planning site.
Be aware that there are two rail routings between Leeds and Bradford..
And, just to confuse you, there are two separate train stations in Bradford! They're not so far apart, really -- if you are just walking at a normal pace, without luggage, you could walk between them in, maybe, 8 to 10 minutes. With baggage, it would be more.
The train services out of Leeds run at 15 minute intervals, alternately going to Bradford "Interchange" station, and then Bradford "Forster Square" station.
There are the two different stations in Bradford, one called "Interchange Station", the other called "Forster Square Station". Either station will get you into central Bradford, but (IMHO) the station you want is the "Forster Square Station", because it is only about 100 yards easy walking distance to [my] preferred hotel, the "Midland". (see "Hotels", below).
If you have to wait for the train to the Bradford station you want, I recommend you do that wait there in Leeds, as opposed to taking an earlier train to the less-preferred station. You will have a good 10 min. walk, juggling those bags, or a taxi ride, at additional cost in Bradford, so ... as I say, you may as well wait the few minutes for the "correct destination" train!
On the other hand, if you are on a day trip from within the UK, the "Interchange" station is the one closer to the NMM. If you are arriving without baggage from some other local UK city, "Interchange" is probably the better choice.
My favorite is the last-listed one, the "Midland Hotel", partly because it's a historic building, built somewhere around the late 1800s, and is (or was) formerly an old "railway" hotel. Also, it has, in recent years, become the "official" hotel of the WSW events. Nice, classic, brick structure. They have (usually) lots of rooms, singles and doubles, reached via somewhat labyrinthine corridors. Sometimes you can pre-arrange to share a double with someone, and when you book your room, you should mention that you are attending the Bradford Film Festival and/or the Wide Screen Weekend, as there are usually some kind of special rates. No matter what, lower rates usually prevail on weekend nights.
In '05, my net Visa charge was for £167, and I was billed $330.
In '06, my net Visa charge was for £186, and I was billed about the same, some $330.
But the 3 nights in '07 (my Visa bill doesn't show the '07 cost in UK £ ) cost me $422.
Like I say, travel costs add up... But still it's a nice hotel, and the [included] hot breakfast is quite hearty (ham and eggs and cereal and tea and rolls and juice and beans and ...more toast and jam and ... ) And all that will help keep you going during the day.
There are other hotels, as I listed before. You may check them by doing a web search for "'hotels'+'Bradford, England'". Caution, though, as some may be a bit farther out from the city center. Keep in mind that time can be of the essence. One cash-strapped guy I know sought to save absolute $ by staying at the lowest-price hotel that he could find, which was the Travelodge. But he realized (later) that he spent about 40 minutes per trip each direction, walking back and forth to the hotel, which kind of ate into his available time for seeing films and talking with other people attending ... So, after all was said an done, he felt it was a bit of a "false economy".
I've never tried one in Bradford, but "bed and breakfasts" are quite common in the UK, and usually the least expensive for accommodations. However, they may be located some distance away from the center of the city. There is local bus service along several routes through the city, but my priority has been to stay near the NMM in order to be handy to as many events as I wish to see. And those local buses later in the evening can be few and far between!
I checked the Midland Hotel's online rates listed in December '07 for a single room in March 2008, and it seemed to work out to about £66 (for a single) per night, but that was for 4 nights, some "weekday", and some "weekend", so -- who knows, see what comes up on your own search. You can book via the online links, or telephone them, at (+44) (0) 0124-735-735. Fax is (+44) (0) 1274-720-003.
This "in70mm.com" website has some up-to-the-moment hotel and event pricing information posted as well.
There are several various choices, varying in level of quality and service. "You pays your money and takes your level of service", you could say.
The Midland Hotel's breakfast is a splendidly hearty way to start the day. And that's included in your room rate.
Later in the day, there is a cafeteria inside the NMM which functions daytime hours, and you can get quick helpings of sandwiches, soup, hot dogs, and other hot (and cold) food without having to spend much time in going out. There's also a small "bar" right in the theatre lobby, with coffee, tea, beer, cookies, and the occasional croissants and light sandwiches (supplied from the NMM cafeteria).
Alternatively, going a bit further out, there's the "franchise" options. Your basic Burger King, and a McDonalds -- and other "fast food" spots -- in central Bradford, which you can get to in a 7- to 10- minute walk from the NMM.
And there are other places, too: one at the Midland hotel, as well as a very good Indian restaurant just up the hill from the NMM -- but you'll need to allow time for a full meal there, they are not "eat and run" places.
OK, so central England isn't Tahiti, or anything resembling a tropical paradise. It's late winter (or early spring -- whatever!), and the weather can best be described as "blustery and changeable". Typically, in Fahrenheit degrees, it's maybe 45°F or so daytimes, and 35°F, or lower, nighttimes. (That's approximately 7°C days, and 1°C to 2°C nights). Temperatures and conditions can shift significantly, so you may have a brief flurry of snow, followed by hail or rain, and then sunny for a spell. All within an hour! Sometimes accompanied by rather windy days. So, bring warm clothing, which is wind-resistant, and be ready to take off a layer or two when inside! Umbrella a good idea, but if the wind really kicks up, keep that umbrella closed!
There are several ATMs in Bradford, near the Midland Hotel. There is none in the Museum itself, but there is one near to the Museum, a short walk away outside. The ATMs will dispense £ notes from your overseas accounts, so you can get ready UK£ cash that way. (I don't recall seeing an ATM at the LBA airport, but there may be one). There is at least one bank right near the Midland Hotel, with an ATM colorfully named the "Hole in the Wall". This bank (Barclay's) is open on Saturdays, but is closed on Sunday, so plan accordingly.
Hope this all helps you get a handle on setting up your visit.


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Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Responds to House Vote on the Inflation Reduction Act: Frontline Communities Refuse to be Held Hostage by Fossil Fuels and False Climate Solutions
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Washington, D.C. — Today the U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote on the Inflation Reduction Act. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ), a coalition of over 70 grassroots organizations that represent communities on the frontlines of pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and climate crisis opposes the bill as written, and urges members of Congress to stand with the most vulnerable whose lives will be impacted by harmful provisions in this bill.
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance joins with the Climate Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and the many environmental justice and social justice organizations to denounce the IRA's harmful provisions. We call on Congressmembers to amend the IRA and remove expanded oil and gas leasing handouts to the fossil fuel industry and all investments in unreliable technologies that falsely claim to fight climate change and which will bring harm to communities, including incentives for carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, nuclear energy, biofuels, and carbon offsets, among others. Side deals that serve as a wish-list for the fossil fuel industry put the environment and frontline communities at further risk, and we demand Congress stop any additional legislation that would accelerate fossil fuel projects or weaken National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) review.
Our members demanded the full scale of economic and social investments needed to jumpstart a healthy economy in the THRIVE Act. Some investments in the IRA in renewable energy, in healthcare, and in environmental justice programs are the result of advocacy from our movements. Yet these investments are being held hostage by harmful fossil fuel handouts and false solutions in this bill.
"The IRA is a wolf in sheep's clothing. The Act holds renewable energy projects hostage to new fossil fuel extraction while subsidizing corporate-supported false solutions to the climate crisis like carbon capture and storage, biofuels, nuclear energy, and blue or gray hydrogen. The IRA mandates natural gas lease sale 258 in Alaska's Cook Inlet—a sale that was previously canceled due to lack of industry interest. Congress is pushing new fossil fuel extraction in Dena'ina and Alutiiq waters from thousands of miles away, even though industry itself is not interested in developing there. We honor the leaders pushing for a just transition to regenerative economies that aren't dependent on fossil fuels. Unfortunately, the nature of Congress is to produce disappointments like the IRA; it is the nature of Congress to make trades between corporate interests and the true needs of our communities," said Michaela Stith, Climate Justice Director, Native Movement, lifelong Alaskan born and raised in Anchorage on unceded Dena'ina lands. (Read Native Movement's full statement.)
"We are seeing support for the Inflation Reduction Act coming from big fossil fuel companies, such as Shell Global, because the policy continues to prop up this harmful industry through federal subsidies. Without the necessary amendments, the IRA will put states, like New Mexico, in a position of being the energy sacrifice zone to build out stranded assets like green hydrogen hubs, unproven carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and other false solutions. We don't need another fossil fuel bailout plan. We need comprehensive climate protections for Indigenous and frontline communities that put power back into the hands of the community to build a Regenerative Economy. The IRA does not center the environment or our people and it does not declare a climate emergency. We must act now or future generations will have to live with the consequences of this piece of legislation," said Alejandría Lyons, Environmental Justice Organizer with Southwest Organizing Project and Coordinator of the New Mexico No False Solutions Coalition.
"The Inflation Reduction Act, while achieving some gains, ultimately falls short for the people that need relief the most on the frontlines of pollution and climate chaos: working people. Here in Florida we are faced with hurricanes and rising sea levels. People are being displaced from their homes now. Reversing the climate crisis means no more fossil fuels, and a just transition of working people to an economy of regeneration and not extraction. Any investments that expand fossil fuel infrastructure and extend the life of these polluting industries are a kick in the gut for our communities that are already dealing with climate chaos today. The IRA has important investments we fought for, but we cannot accept leaving behind any of our communities, our family, our relatives to be sacrifice zones for the rest of the country," said Jonathan Alingu, Co-Executive Director of Central Florida Jobs With Justice.
"We do not accept a version of progress that continues to relinquish certain regions, certain communities to sacrifice zones. Here in Oregon we have fought for real solutions that improve health in our communities, like accessible public transit. The Inflation Reduction Act falls short on investing in healthy solutions like public transit, while creating loopholes for fossil-fueled business as usual to continue. A real climate justice bill must undo the accumulation of harms in frontline communities. The IRA does not do this. We will continue to fight for real solutions that invest in and protect those on the frontlines of pollution. We call on our elected representatives to stand with us and demand President Biden declare a climate emergency and use every authority in his power to to stop more harm from coming down on our communities," said Huy Ong, Executive Director of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon.
GGJ members have fought for and won real solutions that improve the lives of everyday people. We do not believe that benefits to our communities can only be won with trade-offs in harmful fossil fuel handouts and false solutions. Confronting the climate crisis requires stopping fossil fuel expansion, ending ballooning military spending when the U.S. military is the largest single polluting institution in the world, and undoing chronic racial and economic inequalities.
Congressmembers must do everything in their power to amend the IRA, stop fossil fuel corporation giveaways, and prevent expansion of harmful technologies that extend the life of polluting industries. We call on Congress to block any insidious side deals that roll back NEPA protections, fast-track dirty energy projects, and advance more fossil fuel infrastructure. We also demand real action on climate justice from President Biden, beginning with declaring a climate emergency, mobilizing every authority in his power to deploy a just transition from the fossil fuel economy, and investing in communities and workers on the frontlines of crisis.


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Our say: This isn't the time to strip mayor's powers
Nov 13, 2013 | 9:45 AM
As we wrote four-and-a-half years ago, "In an ideal world, Annapolis would settle the issue of whether to change its form of government well away from the city election. Serious questions about how would not muddle equally serious questions about who."
We didn't think last week's election of Mike Pantelides as mayor was going to usher in an ideal world. But we did think Democratic Alderman Ross Arnett had more sense than to start talking again about his proposal to drastically reduce the mayor's powers - immediately after the surprise election of a Republican mayoral candidate.
This did more than infuriate some city residents. The story became the outrage du jour in national conservative circles, getting linked on the Drudge Report and being used by Rush Limbaugh as an example of how Maryland is "a suburb of Moscow." Arnett's phone nearly melted, and most of the callers weren't inviting him over for a drink.
To be fair to Arnett, he has long supported this concept: council-manager government. He was pushing it hard when Democrat Josh Cohen was the mayor whose powers would have been sharply curtailed. And there is a good argument that council-manager government, which hands over all the direct power to supervise department heads to a manager reporting to the City Council, makes for stable and professional administration.
But whatever the merits of such a change, discussing it right now could only be seen as rotten political sportsmanship: a Democratic-dominated City Council panicking over the unexpected election of a Republican who has pledged to cut municipal government, and scrambling to keep that newcomer's hands off the levers of power at City Hall. "You're basically saying, 'To hell with the voters,'" commented Alderman Fred Paone, the council's sole Republican.
Exactly. Whatever council members think of Pantelides' views, he has just been elected by the city's voters - in other words, those views have just been endorsed by a majority of people who voted from across the city, not just the voters in individual wards who picked each alderman. No one expects the council to roll over and play dead, but the voters do expect the new mayor to get a fair chance to translate his priorities into policy.
Less than four years ago - in April 2010 - the aldermen, balking at Arnett's arguments for full council-manager government, instead set professional requirements for the city manager and made it possible for the council to fire that official, without mayoral intervention.
The system may not be ideal, but the record since then doesn't suggest this structure is grossly defective and in need of immediate replacement. If it wants, the council can always reopen the issue - after Pantelides has had his chance to steer the city government, and well away from the election.
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import logging

from gensim import interfaces, matutils

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class NormModel(interfaces.TransformationABC):
    """
    Objects of this class realize the explicit normalization of
    vectors. Supported norms are l1' and 'l2' with 'l2' being
    default.

    The main methods are:

    1. Constructor which normalizes the terms in the given corpus document-wise.
    2. The normalize() method which normalizes a simple count representation.
    3. The [] transformation which internally calls the self.normalize() method.

    >>> norm_l2 = NormModel(corpus)
    >>> print(norm_l2[some_doc])
    >>> norm_l2.save('/tmp/foo.tfidf_model')

    Model persistency is achieved via its load/save methods
    """
    def __init__(self, corpus=None, norm='l2'):
        """
        Compute the 'l1' or 'l2' normalization by normalizing separately
        for each doc in a corpus.
        Formula for 'l1' norm for term 'i' in document 'j' in a corpus of 'D' documents is::

          norml1_{i, j} = (i / sum(absolute(values in j)))

        Formula for 'l2' norm for term 'i' in document 'j' in a corpus of 'D' documents is::

          norml2_{i, j} = (i / sqrt(sum(square(values in j))))
        """
        self.norm = norm
        if corpus is not None:
            self.calc_norm(corpus)
        else:
            pass

    def __str__(self):
        return "NormModel(num_docs=%s, num_nnz=%s, norm=%s)" % (self.num_docs, self.num_nnz, self.norm)

    def calc_norm(self, corpus):
        """
        Calculates the norm by calling matutils.unitvec with the norm parameter.
        """
        logger.info("Performing %s normalization..." % (self.norm))
        norms = []
        numnnz = 0
        docno = 0
        for bow in corpus:
            docno += 1
            numnnz += len(bow)
            norms.append(matutils.unitvec(bow, self.norm))
        self.num_docs = docno
        self.num_nnz = numnnz
        self.norms = norms

    def normalize(self, bow):
        vector = matutils.unitvec(bow, self.norm)
        return vector

    def __getitem__(self, bow):
        return self.normalize(bow)
#endclass NormModel

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Staying power: beacon sites offer some answers
By Chris Ham2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Why could US provider Kaiser provide better care at the same cost as the NHS? Why were there so many bed days in the UK? After four years of questions, writes Professor Chris Ham, beacon sites are providing answers
For the past four years an important debate has been raging on what lessons the NHS can learn from Kaiser Permanente, a US organisation that finances and provides healthcare.
The spark was an analysis by Richard Feachem and colleagues, published in the BMJ in 2002, which claimed Kaiser achieved better performance than the NHS at roughly the same cost. It attracted huge interest and argument.
Later, an analysis of hospital use for 11 leading causes of bed day use compared available data for the population aged 65 and over in the NHS, Kaiser and the Medicare population in California. The NHS used three and a half times as many bed days as Kaiser and almost twice the Medicare California standardised rate. Kaiser achieved these results through a combination of relatively low admission rates and much shorter hospital stays. Length of stay varied directly in line with age in the NHS, but not with Kaiser.
But describing differences in healthcare utilisation is not the same as explaining them. How was Kaiser able to provide healthcare to its older members using far fewer bed days? Visits to the US by NHS nurses and NHS managers found a number of factors.
Following the visits, a number of NHS pilot projects were set up, selecting aspects of Kaiser's approach that seemed to have particular relevance to the challenges here.
These beacon sites would not claim to have transformed service provision, even though progress has been made. All three have started to integrate care, focusing on diseases, populations and localities that are local priorities.
A few barriers...
The pilot projects have faced barriers to change. These include government policies that risk further fragmenting care rather than supporting integration. Particularly important in this respect are foundation trusts based on acute hospitals only, payment by results that rewards additional hospital activity, and practice-based commissioning that, in the wrong hands, could accentuate divisions between primary and secondary care.
But local leaders have kept faith with their visions. The Our Health, Our Care, Our Say white paper sets out a direction entirely consistent with the work of the beacon sites. At the heart of this vision is care closer to home through a stronger focus on meeting the needs of people with long-term conditions, thereby avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions.
In the words of one of Kaiser's leaders, the key to achieving successful change is 'momentum rather than speed'. The beacon sites have started to build the momentum required to enable change and improvement to become sustainable.
Plans for the integration of services in Torbay were developed following visits to Kaiser by the primary care trust chief executive and senior staff in 2003. The acute trust was involved early and took part in subsequent study visits. The PCT has also been working with the local authority to integrate health and social care, and a care trust was formed last December.
The common concern has been to achieve much closer integration of organisations and services. Specifically, the care trust and the acute trust have committed themselves to:
integration of care;
promotion of supported self-care, particularly in the management of long-term conditions;
avoidance of unplanned hospital care;
personal care management for vulnerable people with the most complex needs.
One of the early projects was the North Torquay integrated health and social care centre. The aim is to bring together three practices in new premises, with much closer involvement of social care staff. The plans also involve services that are normally available only at Torbay Hospital, such as outpatient services and some diagnostic facilities. A site for the centre has been identified and, when complete, it will serve a population of 28,000.
North Torquay is an example of work across Torbay to integrate health and social care services in areas known as zones. Five zones have been established, serving populations of between 25,000 and 40,000. In each zone, there is an integrated health and social care team under a single manager. The zones provide a geographical focus for service integration and much of their work is concerned with the needs of older people.
The work of the integrated teams is directed at reducing reliance on unscheduled care. Practices have been encouraged to understand the populations they serve and identify patients most at risk of unplanned admissions, using the local enhanced service provisions of the new general medical services contract. In the event, the incentives did not work as intended and zones used the available resources to invest in district nursing support to identify older people at risk.
Patients most at risk are allocated a case manager and given care plans. These include treatment objectives, planned interventions and recommended actions in the event of a crisis. These plans and related information are kept in yellow folders in patients' homes and are readily available to health and social care staff. The name of the case manager is included in the folders.
One of the most significant projects was a review of community hospitals. Attention focused particularly on Paignton hospital, a 50-bed facility in the process of changing into an active intermediate care service. This involved developing the role of nurses and therapists and establishing closer links with Torbay Hospital and its team of specialists in care of the elderly.
Shorter stays
As a consequence, lengths of stay have fallen and more patients have been treated. Paignton Hospital plays an increasing part in reducing pressure on beds at Torbay Hospital by providing a step-down facility. GPs are still involved in providing care but the emphasis now is on GPs with a special interest in care of the elderly working as one full-time equivalent from 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday.
The acute trust has become increasingly involved. The experience of adapting Kaiser's principles has influenced thinking on plans for a new hospital in Torbay. These plans envisage a hospital with 20 per cent fewer beds, based on reductions already achieved (30 beds since 2002-03) and the expectation that further reductions will be realised.
The Northumbria pilot, developed following a visit to Kaiser in 2002, is led by Northumbria Healthcare trust, responsible for three general hospitals and seven community hospitals. Its two main commissioners, North Tyneside PCT and Northumberland Care trust, are key partners.
A priority has been to improve the performance of services in the acute hospitals and strengthen integration with primary care and community health services. A tangible expression of the commitment to integration has been the appointment of a GP as one of the medical directors in the healthcare trust.
Revamping emergency care
An early priority in Northumbria was to reform emergency care. This involved establishing a 'front of house' team - three consultant physicians and two accident and emergency consultants. It operates as the Hospital at Night team after 9pm, and is supported by a single emergency care team of junior doctors. The effect of these changes was to bring consultant input to the shop floor and create a more integrated emergency care service.
A related priority was to improve 'back of house' care. This involved the differentiation of wards according to the acuity of patients treated. The aim was to concentrate acutely ill patients on wards with senior staff and to use other wards for the treatment and care of patients with less acute needs, but who had a predominantly skilled nursing and therapy need. The trust is working with partners in the health economy to expand back-of-house levels of care to community hospitals and intermediate care.
Improvements to back-of-house care are supported by the use of Interqual, clinically based software supplied by McKesson and widely used in Kaiser hospitals to assess appropriateness of admissions, care levels and length of stay. It showed that initially 23 per cent of patients were at the wrong level of care. Most should have been receiving a lower intensity of care, although some should have been at a more intensive level.
Teams of experienced nurses known as care facilitators have been employed to use these results to actively manage length of stay and facilitate patient discharge and the differentiation of back-of-house care. Although initially the Interqual project encountered resistance from clinicians, this has changed over the last year. Recently Northumbria found that, for most of the common reasons for admission, the average length of stay was less than the national average.
Underpinning this work has been the development of the three acute hospitals in Northumbria as a network. Medical staff work across different sites and can sustain services in the new 96-bed hospital at Hexham that provides care to a population of only 70,000. The trust has also invested in a contact centre, which was seen in action in Kaiser in Atlanta. This provides a single phone number for patients and offers information and a 'choose and book' service until the full direct booking service is available.
Better integration
Alongside these projects, Northumbria has given priority to strengthening integration between primary care and community services. This has involved a focus on improving quality of care for people with long-term conditions.
An integrated service for people with diabetes has been established in which routine care is done in primary care with specialist outreach from the hospital. Outcomes are at least as good as those achieved in Kaiser. Similar work has been undertaken in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and is being extended to other long-term conditions. There is more emphasis on self-care, both through the expert patient programme and other related initiatives.
In future, Northumbria will be seeking to exploit the opportunities created by the new general medical services contract and practice-based commissioning. This includes using the new quality and outcomes data and the existing medics data, which has been used for nearly five years as a tool to develop high-quality chronic disease management in Northumberland.
This database will help to focus its efforts in commissioning locally-based community services, targeted at the areas of greatest priority and potential benefit. As this happens, effort is being concentrated on four care streams - urgent care, elective care, family care and long-term conditions - with a view to developing more integrated services through agreed pathways.
This pilot involves Eastern Birmingham PCT, Solihull PCT and Heart of England foundation trust. It was developed following a visit to Kaiser by senior clinicians from the three organisations in 2003. Other managers and clinicians from Birmingham and Solihull have participated in further study visits and the Working Together for Health' programme has emerged out of their collaboration.
Over 90 per cent of Heart of England foundation trust activity is generated by the two PCTs. Its application to Monitor was not based on the assumption that it would increase activity along the lines proposed by other applicants. Rather, its involvement in the programme has led to the assumption that hospital use would stabilise and, in time, become lower volume and more specialised as a result of more integrated working with PCTs.
Quality and leadership
Working Together for Health has focused on two areas of work - improving the quality of care for people with long-term conditions, and development of clinical leadership in partnership with management.
For long-term conditions, particular attention has been given to heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Clinical teams from across the health community have undertaken process mapping to understand existing care pathways and agree how these can be improved.
In response to particular challenges in capacity and demand, Eastern Birmingham PCT invested in an intermediate care diabetes team to support primary care in developing the skills and processes to manage the burden of the disease in its most disadvantaged wards. It became the highest performer in its strategic health authority under the quality and outcomes framework in the registration of patients with diabetes, a key requisite of structured care. Dedicated community-based clinics have been developed to support GPs in managing both heart failure and COPD with heart failure, piloting an approach based on group interventions with patients.
Teams of assertive case managers have been appointed to care for the most vulnerable patients with long-term conditions. They work across the hospital-community interface in support of district nursing, providing advanced nurse practitioner advice in the systematic review and intervention with patients at a high risk of multiple admissions, resulting in a significant reduction in hospital admissions.
To support the work on long-term conditions, the Partners in Health Centre was opened last July. The centre, a converted building on a site next to Heartlands Hospital, provides innovative services for patients with long-term conditions. It operates as a neutral space, neither secondary nor primary care, where professionals can collaborate to deliver integrated care. Patients using the centre have access to self-care support and educational programmes.
The orthopaedic triage service has a major presence at the centre. This began as a pilot programme with two practices and has been expanded to cover the whole health community. It offers orthopaedic assessment in primary care by an extended scope physiotherapist for all musculoskeletal conditions where a GP feels an orthopaedic consultation is required. The service includes a mobile clinic and a choice of locations for patients. Waiting times for treatment have been cut significantly and the achievements of the service were recognised in last year's HSJ Awards. Over 70 per cent of all referrals for orthopaedic outpatients are now managed within this service.
Working Together for Health is in the early stages of using Interqual to establish the appropriateness of use of hospital and intermediate care beds and the medical fitness for discharge of patients. Heart of England has trained staff on Interqual and is carrying out initial ward audits with a view to introducing it on a routine basis on the wards during 2006-07.
The second element of work has been a focus on developing the relationships between clinicians in primary and secondary care and a leadership model that emphasises managers and clinicians working together to develop excellence in local services.
This programme has seen the identification of key individuals to develop them as local leaders according to locality and clinical specialty. The management and clinical partnership has been modelled at its most senior level by the partnerships between PCT and acute chief executives, acute medical directors and professional executive committee chairs.
Chris Ham is professor of health policy and management at Birmingham University's Health Services Management Centre.
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Rustico Romeo is in a charming position with far-reaching views overlooking rolling hills to the ancient town of Volterra on the skyline.
The property could be renovated to combine the ancient materials of the site with modern comforts to produce a special house which would truly make the most of the tranquility of the unspoiled Tuscan countryside. This is a nature lover's delight, a haven of peace where there is total privacy to relax.
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Happy motoring: Sascha Schorr, managing director of Autohaus Schorr GmbH in Eisenach, gives Antje Fink her new Opel Grandland X.
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order for the SUV. The Eisenach plant will produce Grandland X as of 2019.
Ready to go: Antje Fink in her new Grandland X.
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Stacey Paints India
Painting with Paper
See Where I Am
A collagist and painter, Stacey Clarfield Newman has developed a unique method of recycling ephemera to create striking hand-painted papers. She then uses them as painterly "brushstrokes of paper" to produce lyrical collages containing abstracted "mindscapes" and whimsical social commentary. Influenced by music, her love affair with color, life's events and her deep reverence for nature, the artist states "the planet Earth is a small green island- an emerald gem to be cared for and appreciated. We must protect and nurture all the living beings who inhabit it." In keeping with that philosophy and her conviction that artists have a responsibility to open a dialog with the viewer about life issues, she was commissioned to create a collage mural for the Albert Einstein Medical Outpatient AIDS Wing in 1992 entitled The Powers of Healing.
Ms. Clarfield Newman has exhibited widely across the United States and internationally as well, most recently showing in Chicago and in Colorado. Ms. Newman's work was also included in the juried National Association of Women Artists' annual competition "Illuminations" at the gallery 928 Broadway in Chelsea.
In recent reviews, critics have called her work, "ethereal and painterly… the large, intricate collages lyrically evoke a surreal dreamscape, drawing the viewer into the painting," and went on to say that Stacey Clarfield Newman's hand-painted, handmade paper collage paintings "richly suggest an organic landscape of the mind." Her art is in numerous private and public collections, including the White Plains Hospital Center; Bridgepoint Capitol, Inc., The Aesthetic Surgery Center, Darien, CT, The Toberoff Collection and the law firms of Latham and Watkins; Berle, Kass and ,Case in New York City.
After studying at the Fidel School of Art, a private Art Enrichment School, Stacey Clarfield Newman attended Franklin and Marshall College, afterwards earning a B.S. in Management and Labor Relations. She then incorporated her art and business background to develop a successful career in New York City's television and video industry. Deciding to make a full-time commitment to painting, Newman studied at The School of Visual Arts, Purchase College at SUNY, with Roger Hendricks, and privately with the artists Richard Miller, Leo Manso, and the sculptor Caryl Stone
Ms. Newman's collage, The Sky is the Limit, was chosen as a visual statement to represent Catalyst, Inc. a nonprofit research and advisory organization whose primary mission is to enable women to achieve their full professional potential.
Most recently, Ms. Clarfield Newman spent two months living and working in Kolkata, India at the Udayan School, a welfare and rehabilitation school for children of leprosy patients. There she taught her techniques of "painting with paper" collage to 300 children ages 4 – 18, living with the students in the girls dormitory, crossing cultural and language barriers through art. In February of 2010, she curated and mounted an exhibit, "Art of the Heart" of the children's work at the prestigious Chamber of Congress' Palladian Lounge in Kolkata to rave reviews in the city's renowned cultural media. The show was a resounding success and the proceeds of the art sales were donated for the continued welfare of Udayan School.
Author of the book "Stacey Paints India", Stacey Clarfield Newman is a member of the National Association of Women Artists, The National Arts Club, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The National Association of Professional Women and the Indo-American Arts Council. She is a former faculty member of Young at Art, a private enrichment program for children in Westchester, and a former faculty member of the Scarsdale Continuing Education Program. Ms. Newman recently completed her tenure as artist in residence at Green Chimneys Childrens Services.
The artist's biography appears in Marquis Who's Who Women in America, Who's Who Art in America, Who's Who of American Women, Millennium Edition, and Who's Who in the World. Stacey Clarfield Newman was also listed in the Art in America Annual Guide, as one of the new emerging artists to watch. In addition to the venues provided by NAWA, Ms.Clarfield Newman's work can be viewed at Viridian Artists Inc. in New York City, The Walking Man Gallery, Whitefish, MT, online at www.Artslant.com , www.helloscarsdale.com and through Stacey Clarfield Newman Studios
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Gordon Fearey
Hi, Stacey. This site is bursting. I look forward to going through it.
Here's my contact info:
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The Riverarts Studio Tour is 4/24-25. http://www.riverarts.org/
My installation is at 45 Main in Hastings. Someone will be there on 4/24. I will be there on 4/25. Working there off and on 'til then.
Don (I don't seem to be able to give up my nickname)
Hi Stacey,
It was great to meet you last week at New Age and to hear your story. I've been looking through your posts and enjoying the photographs – what a wonderful journey. Thank you for following your purpose. I hope to connect in the future.
ward larkin
Martin Bernstin
Dear Stacey,
Greetings from Manhattan! Recently, we were familiarized with your work online. After reviewing it, we would like to discuss an opportunity of your possible solo exhibition at our space.
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Canada-Squatting Quaids Skip Court in Santa Barbara-Squatting Case
Looks like the California "star whackers" won't be getting a shot at Randy and Evi Quaid anytime soon.
Nov. 2, 2010, 10:48 PM UTC / Source: E!online
By Josh Grossberg and Soo Youn
Looks like the California " star whackers " won't be getting a shot at Randy and Evi Quaid anytime soon.
The paranoid pair, who insist they are on a short list of celebs to be murdered, skipped out on a supposedly mandatory court date today in Santa Barbara for allegedly squatting in an upscale suburban home they once owned.
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"Quaids are not present," Santa Barbara Senior Deputy District Attorney Lee Carter wrote in an email to E! News, adding that their attorney Robert Sanger reported the dynamic duo was "still in Canada."
The Quaids were due to enter formal pleas to charges of vandalism, misdemeanor trespass and (for Evi) resisting arrest stemming from the September break-in where they were found at the guest house of a Montecito property they had sold years ago.
Sanger submitted a request to excuse the Quaids' failure to appear because of their current legal imbroglio in Canada.
After blowing off an Oct. 18 arraignment, resulting in the judge handing down yet another warrant for their arrest, the conspiracy-loving couple made their way north, where they were nabbed by immigration authorities in Vancouver trying to pass through customs.
The Quaids subsequently applied for asylum, seeking refugee status on the grounds that their lives are being threatened by "star whackers" whom they allege killed Heath Ledger and David Carradine, set up Robert Blake, and might even be out to get Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears.
The situation north of the border prevented them from appearing at today's hearing. Randy has a Nov. 8 court date before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada he's required to attend before he can make it back to California. As for Evi, she has claimed she is a Canadian citizen because her father was born there.
Still, today's nonappearance by the Vacation star and his missus, who's on probation for last year's bill-dodging antics at a local hotel, didn't exactly thrill the court.
Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Barbara Geck cut Randy a break, agreeing not to issue a bench warrant for his arrest and not forfeit his $500,000 bond since he has no choice but to go before Canadian authorities. However, Geck wasn't as kind to Evi, slapping her with an arrest warrant while prosecutors suggested they may seek to extradite her.
So how did the kooky couple's attorney explain this fiasco?
Sanger believes the Quaids mistakenly assumed they were staying at a residence they still owned, suggesting that a deed transferring the property to the new owner party may have been forged. He told the court he would spend the next two weeks investigating and trying to confirm his theory.
That still didn't address the matter why the Quaids were AWOL however, prosecutors countered.
"This is now the third court appearance where they've promised to be here," Deputy D.A. Anthony Harris told the judge. "There's no guarantee they're going to be here in two weeks if the bonds aren't forfeited."
And the saga continues...
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