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2018 Guarding Report: Changing Times for the Guarding Industry
How enterprises are working to boost pay and training for security officers, in addition to considering options like K-9s and robots.
Security officer skills and needs are changing due to updated technology and integrated services. End users need a different caliber of security officer who handle more technology- and security management-oriented tasks instead of simply basic patrol, observe and report functions. This provides value to end users' business units that many don't consider – but which all appreciate once they come to fruition.
This value-added comes in a number of forms, ranging from canine patrols, to new technology in areas like access management, to the first generation of robot partners – but only if paired with training. For example, Brookfield Properties Retail Group (formerly GGP Inc.), for the past decade has used canine units supplied by what's now Allied Universal to help search and secure its retail properties and prevent disorderly conduct as well as deter suspicious activity during mall hours. The dogs have proved popular with the public, while also effective in handling the situations we had in mind, says Daniel Ryan, vice president, security.
"The mere presence of a canine gains compliance with disorderly conduct situations – if a fight doesn't end immediately, a command for the canine to bark ends it very quickly," he says. Ryan recalls one property at which a canine discovered a group of people lurking in the bushes, dressed in all black. "They refused to come out until the handler threatened to send a dog," he adds. "They were dressed and equipped to burglarize the mall."
As security technology develops and matures, security officer skills need to be elevated to match, says Nancy Bentley, senior director, security services and BCP for Northwestern Mutual. "To make sure we can continue operating efficiently and effectively, we really are looking at hiring security officers that have much more of a technically savvy mindset," she says. "We believe that enhances our customer experience, as well. It just makes for a win-win for everyone."
MSA Security, which provides explosive detection canines and SmartTech technology for X-ray machines, invests in its people by continuously training them, says Michael O'Neil, chairman. "We stay on top of threats. They're staying current on trends and methodologies," he says. "If you go to the lowest common denominator, you're not going to get the type of people you need to respond. Security professionals are on the front lines. They're going to be the first ones to engage until the police get there."
Pairing Training with Technology
New technology or other guarding methodologies must be paired with relevant, adequate training, experts say. Take Northwestern Mutual's visitor management system. "We can input that information in advance, so when they come into our site, we can automatically understand who they are, who they're visiting, and get them some credentialing in advance," Bentley says. "It's a more efficient, effective and secure process." Similarly, if the company needs to evacuate a facility, she says, "We can quickly account for people using handheld card readers to able to identify and process them, and know who's in and out of the building."
To train officers to understand and use these systems, obtained from AMAG Technology, the company provides a base set of training during the onboarding process and then continues guards' education as the technology changes or is enhanced, Bentley says. "In terms of day-to-day operations, and understanding what the traffic patterns are, we're able to leverage that information to make good business decisions about staffing, or how we help people to get around our campus," she says. "We also use it in terms of emergency response capabilities."
The set of tools from AMAG enables officers to think beyond guarding and patrolling, to making the customer experience more effective and efficient, Bentley says. "They can think outside the box and provide suggestions on how to enhance the experience, or how the tools might be enhanced to make our operations more efficient. This enables the user to have a better interaction with our security force."
At Brookfield Properties, the presence of canines and the fully equipped Ford Explorers that come along with such patrols also has helped to deter looting during community-wide crises such as natural disasters like hurricanes Harvey and Florence, Ryan says.
Mall security officers in general have become greater assets to their property owners, he says. "I don't use the term 'guard,' " Ryan says. "They're doing incident response, they're doing surveillance, they're doing preliminary investigations on incidents and events that occur, in addition to handling response to medical emergencies. There's already an expectation of a higher caliber of officer and a higher caliber of training in the mall industry in general. Our officers are able to respond to a wide variety of incidents. We need officers who can make quick decisions – and make the right ones."
Allied Universal (AUS) works in partnership with clients like Brookfield to ensure they're selecting and hiring the most capable officers, continuously evaluating staffing needs and closely examining pay, benefits and training, says Scott Bickett, vice president – retail for AUS. Ryan adds that security directors are typically former law enforcement or military people. "Our goal is for all of our security officers to be trained and capable," he says. "There are a lot of amazing stories of what these security officers do that I think are overlooked by the public."
Companies can invest in high-end technology, but if they have lowest-common-denominator staff, that's not going to help, O'Neil says. "Personnel costs are heavy in any company, in any industry," he says. "But I do believe that the more you inform people about the threat, even the people in charge of making money at these companies start to understand that not providing a quality, safe environment for people has a cost, as well."
Security staff need to be trained in how to respond to threats like active shooters and improvised explosives, O'Neil says. Executives with the proper awareness "are demanding that their security staff is trained in identifying properly what to do," he says. "What is our active shooter protocol? What are we doing in those first few minutes? What is our response? Not just security staff, but anybody in the building."
Security staff also need to be compensated well enough to prevent turnover, or "the training session you gave last week, that person moved on," O'Neil says. "Paying people better gets them to stay in their jobs; then the company can benefit from whatever training you're giving. If I'm investing in people, I don't want to lose them. I try to make them comfortable."
Losing trained talent is like a team losing a key player, he says. "We focus on benefits, and we find the employees love professional development," he says. "We try to give back to them through training. You don't have to be the highest paid, but you want to be competitive. Through their benefits, their pay and challenging them professionally, the best thing you can get is a long-term employee who wants to grow in your company."
Training to Partner with Robots
It's only just begun, but the next generation of security personnel will need to be trained to work alongside – you might say partner with – robots. Dr. Travis Deyle, CEO and founder of Cobalt Robotics, estimates less than 500 robots have been deployed worldwide for use in physical security. But he foresees three growing uses: outdoor drones in the sky, outdoor robots on the ground for deterrence and indoor robots for real-time response.
"You see that reflected in the product offerings that are starting to be rolled out," he says. "A large part of what's needed will be training – going through and becoming familiar with the systems, and then using their tools as force multipliers. There's a lot of change management. You need to set realistic expectations for what robots can do today, and then iterate and refine over time, using customers who are in the loop to do it."
Robots essentially allow one trained human to be in many places at once, Deyle says. "As a robot is moving around the space, it's building up a profile of what's normal and detecting anomalies," he says. "They're good at detecting but not good at triage. You need to train remote robot specialists – guards combined with a security service – to basically jump into the robot's body, assess what's going on and then respond. How do you meld the man and the machine? There's pretty substantial training that has to happen to make them effective."
But as the technology gets perfected and training advances, people and robots will make strong teams, Deyle believes. "Robots have unique benefits; people have unique benefits," he says. "People are very flexible in how we think and good at getting rapid context. From a cultural perspective, people are more comfortable engaging with another human being. But robots can operate with unwavering attention. They detect leaks and spills, hear incredibly well and see in the dark. It really comes down to exploiting the capabilities unique to both, and marrying them in a way that's better than the sum of its parts."
In the same way that access control and cameras enhance rather than replace humans, robots help fill in gaps. "It's profound, and enabling," Deyle says. "The big challenge is on education, clearly identifying use cases. We have to be honest in marketing what robots can do today, what they can't do today and what they could do tomorrow. Right now, we tend to target times and locations that are relatively low activity, like nights and weekends. In a busy office, we probably wouldn't have a robot around. It would be better to have a manned guard."
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Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador says his country's economy is looking better than ever — but numbers show the opposite. The country's economic activity registered its biggest fall for starting a year in a decade. And among the main factors: nervous foreign investors.
Mexico's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.2 during the first quarter of the year compared to the last quarter of 2018. It's the worst start for a Mexican president since the administration of President Ernesto Zedillo in 1994, who faced one of the biggest economic crisis in Mexico.
Pedro Tello, an economic analyst in Mexico City, explained that the current deceleration started by late 2018, but grows as domestic consumption and public spending decrease.
Tello and other analysts think that layoffs in public sector and budget cuts brought from the current presidency, as well as the gas shortage crisis earlier this year, contributed to the current shrinking of the GDP.
Tello added that uncertainty felt from investors towards the current administration, and less exports, also contributed significantly to the fall. Mexico has been benefited by the current stability of the U.S. economy and the dynamic trade among both nations, but actions such as the unexpected and unjustified cancellation of the new airport in Mexico City send the wrong signals, the economist explained.
López Obrador says he expect a GDP growth of 4 percent by the end of his term in six years. But for Tello, the president needs to bring certainty to the markets and strengthen Mexico's productivity; otherwise, the economy will stagnate on its current drop with an eventual recession.
Analysts and rating agencies warn that the lack of growth in the Mexican economy could also translate into job losses, lower incomes, inflation and less investments.
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Hands-on Activity: Pitch and Frequency
Subject Areas: Physical Science, Science and Technology
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Students explore sound energy by investigating pitch and frequency.
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To further their understanding of sound energy, students identify the different pitches and frequencies created by a vibrating ruler and a straw kazoo. They create high- and low-pitch sound waves.
Electrical engineers understand sound energy as part of the electronic devices and tools they design, such as iPods, radios, test equipment, medical equipment and sonar. Often, they design equipment that can "hear" ultrasound and infrasonic sounds not detectable with human hearing. Ultrasound can test metals and plastics in manufactured equipment for tiny flaws and cracks that indicate product weaknesses. They also design medical equipment that uses ultrasound to diagnose unseen body conditions or injury. Acoustics engineers are specialists in noise control and acoustic design in a given space or structure, such as auditoriums, airports or art galleries. Audio (or sound) engineers work in multimedia, generating and broadcasting sounds mechanically.
Define pitch and frequency.
Describe a sound with a high or low pitch and frequency.
Describe how to change the pitch of a sound.
Give an example how engineers use pitch and frequency in the design of new products.
Patterns can be used as evidence to support an explanation.
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Pitch and Frequency Worksheet, one per student
Pitch and Frequency Worksheet (pdf)
Activity Extension: Sound Lab: Simple Instruments (pdf)
Students learn about sound with an introduction to the concept of frequency and how it applies to musical sounds.
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Students use these concepts to understand how dolphins use echolocation to locate prey, escape predators, navigate their environment, such as avoiding gillnets set by commercial fishing vessels. Students also learn that dolphin sounds are vibrations created by vocal organs, and that sound is a type ...
What is sound energy? It is the energy produced when sound is created. Today we are going to talk mainly about two characteristics of sound energy, pitch and frequency. Everyone: Create a sound, any sound. Can you hear higher or lower sounds around the room? This characteristic of sound is called pitch. What is a frequency? The number of vibrations for each sound pitch is called its frequency. High-pitched sounds have faster frequencies or more vibrations than low-pitched sounds with slow frequencies.
How do we use sound? We use sound to communicate, give warnings, talk to each other and send messages to our friends over the telephone. We also use sounds to entertain us and help us relax or get energized when we listen to music. Engineers also listen to sounds and create machines that detect sounds that our ears cannot even hear! Our ears pick up a wide range of frequencies. However, some animals hear frequencies that are too high-pitched or low-pitched for human hearing. These frequencies are called ultrasounds and infrasonic sounds.
Engineers have designed instruments that "listen" to ultrasound and infrasonic sounds. Ultrasound can detect tiny flaws in metals, plastics and other materials used to make parts and components. Being able to detect these tiny flaws helps keep damaged products from being sold to us in stores. Who would want to use a jet, car or a bicycle with tiny cracks in it? Every time something is cracked, it weakens the overall strength of the item and eventually it may break.
Engineers design other instruments that take pitch and frequency in consideration. Ultrasound is used a lot in medical equipment, especially in devices that help us view what we cannot normally see. These medical instruments help a basketball player see if his ankle injury is going to keep him out of the rest of the game or allow an EMT to see inside a person's injury in a car-wreck. NASA engineers are developing medical instruments that help people diagnose injuries in space.
Today, we are going to look at sound energy and how changing the length of an object changes its pitch and frequency. Are you ready to make some noise?
Gather materials and make copies of the Pitch and Frequency Worksheet.
Divide the class into teams of two students each.
With the Students: Ruler Experiment
Have students hold the end of a ruler flat against a table and hit the other end, which extends beyond the edge of the table.
Repeat this action several times, pulling more of the ruler onto the table each time.
Ask the students how changing the length of the portion of the ruler that hangs past the table changes the vibrations in the ruler. How does it affect the pitch and frequency of the sound the ruler makes? (Answer: The longer the amount of the ruler beyond the table edge, the lower the pitch and frequency.)
To add a math component, have students record on the worksheet how long the ruler vibrates at different lengths and graph the results on the worksheet.
With the Students: Straw Kazoo Activity
Make a straw kazoo by cutting one end of a straw to a point.
Blow into the straw and then cut a bit off the other end to make it a shorter kazoo.
Observe the change in pitch as the straw kazoo is shortened.
Discuss patterns and observations: Recall that pitch is the highness or lowness of a sound, and frequency is a pitch's rate of vibrations. What type of pitch is characterized by slower vibrations? (Answer: A low pitch.) What type of pitch is characterized by faster vibrations? (Answer: A high pitch.)
frequency: The rate of vibrations in different pitches.
infrasonic sound: Sound waves or vibrations with frequencies below that of audible sound (too low for human hearing).
kazoo: A toy musical instrument with a membrane that produces a buzzing sound when a player hums or sings into the mouthpiece.
pitch: The highness or lowness of a sound.
ultrasound: Sound waves or vibrations with frequencies above that of audible sound (too high for human hearing).
volume: When sound becomes louder or softer.
Brainstorming: As a class, have the students engage in open discussion. Remind them that in brainstorming, no idea or suggestion is "silly." All ideas should be respectfully heard. Take an uncritical position, encourage wild ideas and discourage criticism of ideas. Ask the students:
What can you think of that makes noise?
What is different and similar between all these noises?
Pick two or three of these noises and draw a Venn diagram on the board to compare and contrast them. (Note: A Venn diagram uses circles to represent sets, with the position and overlap of the circles indicating relationships between the sets.)
Patterns and Observations: Have the students write down their observations and patterns they noticed from the ruler experiment and the kazoo activity. Compare their observations with a neighbor (not a person on their team) and identify similar and dissimilar observations. Have each group report their findings to the class.
Pitch It: Go around the room and have each student identify a low-pitch noise or a high-pitch noise and say whether or not the sound waves are traveling faster or slower that the sound identified by the previous student. For example: Student 1: Drum — Low pitch; Student 2: Flute — High pitch waves travel faster than the drum sound waves; Student 3: Dog growl — Low pitch waves travel slower than the flute sound waves, etc.
Kazoo Hullabaloo: Tell the students that they are engineers trying to design the perfect kazoo. Give student groups of three or four new straws and have them design and re-design their kazoo until they have four different pitches, each one that is a slightly higher pitch that the person next to them! How can you tell the kazoos apart? (Answer: The shortest kazoo has the highest pitch.) Is there anything they could do to make the kazoo better still? How about poking little holes in the side and playing it like a recorder? Have the students create a jingle that uses the kazoos and communicates to the audience how a kazoo works.
Remind the students to hold on to the rulers tightly so that they do not accidentally fly across the room when they are struck.
This activity can be noisy. Consider having the students work in groups outside of the classroom to minimize the sound (!) disturbance to other classrooms.
Have students make a variety of simple instruments (see ideas in Sound Lab: Simple Instruments). Have each student explain how their instruments make the sounds and why. Conclude by having students use their instruments to perform a song. If the activity leaves the students with a desire to make some more high- or low-pitch sounds, take them to the music room to learn about the pitch of piano notes. For example, the note of middle C, in the middle of a piano keyboard, has a frequency of 261 Hz. The length of this note's sound wave is 126 cm (49.6 inches).
For younger students, remove math component by eliminating the Pitch and Frequency Worksheet.
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Audio Engineering, The Pre-Engineering Times. Published November 2004, Issue #34. JETS, Your Pathway to Careers in Engineering, Alexandria, VA. Accessed October 3, 2005. (Description of audio engineering careers) http://www.jets.org/newsletter/1104/feature.htm
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Krewe of DejaVu chef Gary Williams remembered for generous spirit, big personality
Max Garland Jennifer Chandler
On Wednesday, Memphis lost a beloved chef and a man whose smile and generous spirit could light up a room, according to those who knew him.
Gary Williams, 56, was the chef and owner of Krewe of DejaVu in Downtown Memphis.
According to his son Rondell Williams, Mr. Williams passed away Wednesday from a heart attack. Around 7:30 p.m., he was leaving the Kroger store on Dexter when he collapsed.
Mr. Williams had a larger-than-life personality, and those who knew him took to social media share their condolences and memories.
'Heartbroken':Social media reacts to death of DejaVu owner Gary Williams
He leaves behind his wife, Toni; two sons; a daughter. Originally from New Orleans, he was the oldest of six siblings. Funeral arrangements were still pending Thursday afternoon.
"My dad would give the shirt off his back to someone," Rondell Williams said. "He was all about giving. In fact, he was talking just yesterday about starting a fundraiser for the family of that little boy killed in the bus wreck last week."
Rondell Williams plans to open the restaurant for lunch today, just as he knows his dad would want him to.
"He wouldn't want us to close," Rondell Williams said. "We are not in mourning yet, we are all just feeling so grateful for who he was. How good he is … and was."
According to his son, Mr. Williams first moved to Memphis in 2004.
"After deciding to leave Las Vegas, he knew he wanted to be in the South, but he didn't want to return to New Orleans yet," Rondell Williams said of how his father first came to Memphis.
He opened a small restaurant on Florida Street, serving the Cajun and Creole dishes from his hometown. He eventually opened another restaurant to Main Street in 2013, where he was a neighborhood fixture for years. DejaVu closed, but the Krewe of DejaVu opened earlier this year back on Florida Street.
"People appreciate good food, and they know when they're eating it," Mr. Williams said in 2011. "They also understand that food brings people together, in Memphis or in New Orleans."
The chef had experienced health problems recently. He had two strokes in two years and was hospitalized for diabetes in 2017, The Commercial Appeal reported in April.
Respected by restaurant community
Mr. Williams was well liked and respected among the restaurant community.
"He always lit up the room at an event. It was almost like a parade had arrived when he entered the room," said Michael Patrick, chef and owner of Rizzo's. "He impressed upon me the importance of helping the more impoverished. I will forever be grateful for the events and causes that he got me involved in."
Fellow New Orleans native, Kelly English, chef proprietor of Restaurant Iris and Second Line, said Mr. Williams was "one of the best humans I knew."
"We had an instant camaraderie both being from New Orleans and choosing Memphis as our new home," English said. "Gary did so much for our culinary community and the city he loved. He would always say yes, then figure out how to make it happen. He really was a good man."
Patrick Reilly, chef and owner of The Majestic Grille, said Mr. Williams was "a great chef, a great neighbor and a great man."
"From the day he got here he truly embraced his adopted city, its community and its causes," Patrick Reilly said. "He was so generous with his time and his talents and always ready to help. He had a great sense of humor and a great big laugh. I'm going to miss him, and I'm going to miss his creole shrimp."
Reilly's wife and partner in The Majestic Grille, Deni Reilly, also fondly recalled their friend.
"Gary took a chance on Memphis, and ended up falling in love with this city, especially Downtown," she said. "He jumped right into everything … from Downtown Dining Week, to helping his fellow restaurateurs, to always being there with a kind word, a smile, some smothered okra or just a great big hug. I could always tell when Gary was at our place, because that great laugh of his would travel all the way through the restaurant. We've lost a good soul."
Mr. Williams was restaurant neighbors with Felicia Willett, chef and owner of Felicia Suzanne's, for many years.
"Every time I'd see him he'd say, 'Come in and give me a big hug,'" Willett said. "He really was larger than life. He truly filled a room when he entered. He was always the first to show up at my annual Make-A-Wish event, and he always brought more food than we asked and stayed the whole night, mingling with the crowd and helping others."
Bert Smythe of McEwen's was also a restaurant neighbor.
"Gary was a good guy with a big heart and completely honest about who he was, even down to his faults," Smythe said. "Gary was a giver and truly one of the nicest persons I've known in this crazy business. He loved what he did."
Food photographer and cookbook author Justin Fox Burks bonded with Gary over his vegan and vegetarian fare. "Gary was a light — both in the culinary world and as a person. At every interaction with him, you felt like he was one of your best friends. He will be missed."
On the restaurant's Instagram page, The Majestic Grille summed up the sentiments of many who knew Mr. Williams, "Enjoy that big pot of gumbo in the sky, Chef."
In his words
The Commercial Appeal did the following Meet the Chef feature on Williams in 2009:
Hometown: New Orleans
Who or what was your first cooking influence? My mother. We call her "Mama Gamble." Her passion for cooking, her passion for people, just enjoying what she did.
What was the first thing you ever cooked or baked? Smothered pork chops with sweet peas and steamed rice. I was 12 years old.
What made you decide to become a chef and when was that? When I saw the looks on people's faces as a result of eating my mother's food. Food brings folks together. I want to do that because I love people.
What was your first food-related job? Quality Inn Midtown on Tulane Avenue in New Orleans. I was 15. I started as a busser and I trained in the kitchen.
What was something important that a fellow chef taught you? How to organize and how to just enjoy what you're doing. Taking care of people.
What is the Gary Williams style? Soul food with a Creole twist.
Describe a dish you created. Alligator Stew, a meal I put together when I moved here to Memphis. I'd been cooking over 32 years. Never seen a recipe. Just thought about my time in Miami and Las Vegas, New Orleans, California and blended seasonings — a little henna curry with French bell peppers and onions, dry and fresh seasonings — and the rest is history.
What do you cook or bake at home, if anything? We enjoy a good old sandwich and a cup of soup or some angel hair pasta. Some cranberry juice and I've got a meal.
What's your least favorite ingredient? Powdered oregano. It has such a strong flavor to me. It's bitter to me. I don't use it. I use fresh oregano or leaf oregano.


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Founded in 1993 by area artists, the Greater Gig Harbor Open Studio Tour (OST) has witnessed the participation of more than 130 artists who have annually opened their studios to at least 22,000 visitors over the past 25 years. OST became a program of the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation in 2013.
Sept. 14, 15 & 16 - 10am to 5pm
33 Artists in 23 Studios
Visitors will have a rare glimpse into the lives of artists who live and work in Gig Harbor, Key Peninsula, Fox Island, and South Kitsap. They will learn how each one uses paint, ink, metal, wood, clay, and stone. Beautiful whimsical objects of fiber, glass. and found objects, will stimulate, the imagination.
As always, the self-guided Tour is FREE!
Download 2018 Open Studio Tour Map
QUESTIONS? Call or emailBrad Stave, OST President (206) 910-5459 bstave@comcast.net
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Following consideration of the overarching mission of the Foundation to, among other things, "… work collaboratively to build, bridge and enrich the greater Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula region…" and the focus of the Arts & Culture CAB to "… establish essential support and resources for individuals, initiatives and organizations that strengthen the presence of the arts, make the arts more accessible for everyone, and enhance the understanding of all types of arts and humanities across our peninsula communities."
Under the GGHF umbrella, OST has had the opportunity to evolve toward its vision and continue bringing an intimate and diverse cultural experience to the community, free of charge.
The mission of the OST project is to
provide a free educational experience for the greater Gig Harbor community and visitors by inviting the public to experience art live in the studios and workshops of area artists;
create a greater awareness and appreciation of the diversity and quality of local arts among the public, and;
create connections and foster collaboration between local artists, residents, schools and businesses, and contribute to the economic vitality of our greater Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula communities.
Artists interpret the world around them, often seeing commonplace objects from another dimension, giving weigh to offering onlookers an introduction to problem solving. Watching an artist in action, understanding the processes involved to produce a work in a particular medium may inspire the visitor to try their hand at the creative process.
The arts generate significant social and economic returns that strengthen our communities in numerous ways. According to a 2002, Princeton University study that examined the economic, social, and cultural effects that a strong arts community brings to the citizenry at large, they found among other things that participation in community art events such as an "open studio tour"
increases opportunities for enjoyment and relieves stress
increases cultural capital, and enhances visio-spatial reasoning (Mozart effect)
enhances local economies by bringing people, especially tourists and visitors into a community, which in turn brings direct and indirect effects, such as increased sales revenues to city, county and state governments.
helps to build community identity and pride, leading to positive community norms, such as diversity, tolerance and free expression.
Through the OST Project, all can join in helping to support the arts in our greater Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula community.
Please consider becoming a supporting member or sponsor of the OST Project today by clicking the "Donate" button below.


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Portrait of Timothy Pickering, 3rd Secretary of State President George Washington and John Adams
Arthur S. Conrad (American, 1907-1975), after Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755-1828)
United States: District of Columbia: Washington
Overall: 35 in x 30 in; 88.9 cm x 76.2 cm
Signed "A. Conrad" An inscription on the back includes the following: "after the portrait painted in 1808 by Gilbert Stuart and owned by Miss Rebecca Pickering Thomas of Jamaica Plain, Mass. Painted by Arthur Conrad in 1948 for the Department of State."
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Timothy Pickering (1745–1829) graduated from Harvard College and practiced law before joining the Continental Army during the Revolution. He impressed General George Washington as a confident and skilled negotiator. Early in his administration, President Washington sent Pickering on special diplomatic missions to negotiate a peace agreement with the northeastern Indian tribes. Washington then appointed him, in succession, postmaster general, secretary of war, and secretary of state.
The war between Great Britain and France continued to dominate American foreign policy. Pickering followed a pro-British agenda, and the 1795 Jay Treaty achieved many of his aims since it gave preferential treatment to Britain in matters of trade. But these terms angered the French, who regarded them as a violation of the 1778 treaties of alliance and commerce and began seizing U.S. merchant ships. President John Adams sent peace commissioners to renegotiate trade treaties, but they were not received by the French ministry. Instead, lower-level French diplomats demanded bribes before negotiations could begin in a scandal that became known as the XYZ Affair. Relations deteriorated further, and for the next two years U.S. and French ships attacked each other in an undeclared war, the so-called Quasi War. Pickering's protests of Adams's decision to send another commission to France led to his dismissal. The Convention of 1800 ended the Quasi-War as well as the French alliance from 1778. In 1803 Pickering was elected senator from Massachusetts, and he later also served in the U.S. House of Representatives. A Federalist firebrand, he led the movement for New England secession during the War of 1812.
Timothy Pickering's French Gold and Enamel Society of Cincinnati Badge and Ribbon
L'Enfant, Pierre Charles
metal; gold with polychrome enamels, silk ribbon (reattached)
George Washington's Wine Cooler Presented to Timothy Pickering
metal; fused plate


Visit the Etruscan, Greek and Roman galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Time and Cosmos exhibit at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU on Saturday, March 25. Bus departs Binghamton University at 7 a.m. and departs NYC at 7 p.m. Cost is $36 per person (cash or check) and includes museum admission; payment required to confirm. Contact Margaret Dwyer in LT-510 or via email by Wednesday, March 1. The trip is sponsored by the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than 17,000 works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312 and their collection of collection of ancient Etruscan art includes over one thousand objects dating from about 900 B.C. to about 100 B.C.
Why not take a trip into ancient history? Contact CNES today!
To prepare for the trip or if you cant make the trip and want to learn more about Etruscan, Greek and Roman art, visit Special Collections – we have a number of books on the subjects.


Intensive study of and practice in formal elements of poetry through analyzing models and weekly writing assignments. Depending upon specific instructor, can cover rhyme, meter, rhythm, lineation, stanza pattern, traditional and experimental forms, free verse and open-form composition, lyric, narrative, and dramatic modes. Limited to three attempts.
Intensive practice in the elements and forms of fiction, through analyzing models and completing weekly writing assignments. Covers short stories, short-shorts, longer narratives, and such elements as plot, narrative technique, dialogue, point of view, voice and style, along with tools such as evocation, description, and epiphany. Limited to three attempts.
Assignments include writing exercises and original works of poetry and fiction. May also include drama or creative nonfiction. Includes reading assignments in covered genres, and may include oral presentations or in-class performance. Original student work read and discussed in class and conference with instructor. Limited to three attempts.
Workshop in reading, writing poetry. Original student work read and discussed in class and conferences with instructor. Technical exercises in craft of poetry; may include reading assignments. Limited to three attempts.
Workshop course in reading and writing fiction. Original student work read and discussed in class and conferences with instructor. Includes technical exercises in craft of fiction; may include reading assignments. Limited to three attempts.
Workshop in reading and writing of nonfiction that makes use of literary techniques normally thought of in context of fiction, such as evoking senses and use of dialog. Original student work read and discussed in class and conferences with instructor. Includes technical exercises in artful creating of nonfiction; may include reading assignments. Limited to three attempts.
Workshop; intensive practice in creative writing and study of creative process. Intended for students already writing original creative work. Notes: Enrollment is controlled. Submit 8-10 pages of fiction to instructor for review. May be repeated with permission of instructor. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
Intensive practice in creative writing and study of creative process. Workshop course. Concentrates on specialized literary type other than short story or poetry such as playwriting, screenwriting, children's literature, travel literature, autobiography, gothic novel, or translation. Notes: For students already writing original creative work. Students must submit typed manuscript at least one week before registration. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 6 credits.
Intensive study of topics involving literary or other texts such as film, television, opera, and folklore. Notes: May be repeated with permission of department. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
Students seeking permission must submit typed manuscript of original poetry. Intensive study of and practice in formal elements of poetry through analyzing models and weekly or biweekly writing assignments. Intended for students already writing original poetry. Covers rhyme, meter, rhythm, lineation, stanza pattern, traditional and experimental forms, free verse and open-form composition, lyric, narrative, and dramatic modes. Notes: Other interested students should contact the English Department at (703) 993-1180. May not be repeated for credit.
Intensive study of and practice in various forms of nonfiction writing through analyzing models and weekly writing assignments. Includes biographies, documentaries, editorials, interviews, reports, reviews, and essays. Notes: Other interested graduate students should contact the English Department at (703) 993-2763. May not be repeated for credit.
Students seeking permission must submit typed manuscript of original fiction. Intensive practice in formal elements of fiction through analyzing models and weekly or biweekly writing assignments. Intended for students already writing original fiction. Covers description, narration, plot, dialogue, voice, point of view, style, epiphany, and antifiction techniques. Notes: Other interested graduate students should contact the English Department at (703) 993-1180. May not be repeated for credit.
Explores folklore and folklife topics such as folk narrative and story telling, folklore and literature, folksong, and folk arts. Notes: May be repeated when topic is different. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 12 credits.
Intensive practice in craft of poetry and study of creative process. Intended for students already familiar with traditional and contemporary poetic modes and already writing original poetry. Notes: At discretion of instructor, reading may be required. May be repeated for credit with permission of department. Registration is open only to students in the MFA program. May be repeated within the degree.
Intensive practice in craft of fiction and study of creative process. Intended for students already familiar with traditional and contemporary fiction and already writing original fiction. Notes: At discretion of instructor, reading may be required. May be repeated for credit with permission of department. May be repeated within the degree.
Intensive study of a period in African-American literature between 1800 and present with focus to be determined by instructor. Considers different genres including autobiography, fiction, drama, poetry, essays, and oral artifacts such as slave songs, spirituals, and hip-hop. Notes: May be repeated when topic is different with permission of department. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
For students working on independent reading and research in poetry. Designed for students preparing to take the MFA reading exam in poetry but open to others with comparable reading projects in poetry. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
Concentrated workshops, educational tours, independent studies, and special seminars dealing with selected topics in writing, linguistics, film, electronic media, and literature written in English. Notes: All tours are optional, and may be replaced by specified work conducted on campus. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credits with permission of department, but no more than 6 credits of ENGH 699 may be applied to master's degree in English. No more than 3 credits of 699 may be applied to literature requirement for MFA degree. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 12 credits.
Intensive practice in craft of poetry for experienced writers. Notes: May be repeated for credit with permission of department. May be repeated within the degree.
Intensive practice in craft of fiction for experienced writers. Notes: May be repeated for credit with permission of department. May be repeated within the degree.
Intensive practice in craft of nonfiction for experienced writers. Notes: May be repeated for credit with permission of department. May be repeated within the degree.


West Bromwich Albion lost heavily to Derby County yesterday evening in our midweek Championship clash.
Jay Rodriguez's late 83rd-minute goal was only a consolation in a 4-1 defeat by Frank Lampard's side and although there wasn't a lot between the sides statistically, they did edge the game but whether they edged it by four goals is open for debate.
It was a poorer showing once again though but we'll have days like that.
A noticeable omission from the starting lineup was Ahmed Hegazi and it had been confirmed shortly before the game that he would be missing with a hamstring injury.
Hegazi has a tight hamstring by the way. Interesting to see which CB plays the sweeper role in his absence.
With no clear indication yesterday evening on how long the Egyptian international could be missing, short of the line that he was a speculative doubt for this weekend's tie against Blackburn Rovers, despite being on the end of criticism for his defensive performances so far this year, there will be a number of West Brom fans hoping he makes the game in time purely on the back of last night's showing given the scoreline.


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Toyah On TV: Greatest Songs – 1981
Greatest Songs – 1981: Channel 5: Sunday 22nd January: 10.55pm
1981. Series 1, episode 2. Toyah Willcox, Paul Gambaccini, Cheryl Baker and Clare Grogan are among those recalling the music and memories of 1981. It was a year when Bucks Fizz were losing their skirts, Adam and the Ants were re-inventing the pop video, and synthesizer bands were making it big. However, there was still room in the charts for the retro sound of Shakin' Stevens. Narrated by Tony Blackburn.
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Thank you Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation!
17 May Thank you Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation!
"Thank you for your generosity. Opportunities like this mean the world to parents like us, and children like ours. Thank you for enabling us to create lasting memories together."
~ Quote from a parent that attended a Calgary Hitmen game in a suite
We wish to extend this heartfelt and very special thank you to our partners at the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation. We are grateful for their generous support that enabled thousands of deserving kids to cheer on their favourite hockey heroes on the ice, watch their very first lacrosse game, cheer for the touchdown, or jump out of their seats and scream when their favorite artist took to the stage. Thank you to all the staff at the Calgary Flames Hockey Club, the Calgary Hitmen, the Calgary Roughnecks, the Calgary Stampeders and the Calgary Flames Foundation for making the 2017/18 season a record-breaking year for suites and sporting event tickets for our small organization.
Every young fan made new friends in Farley, Harvey, and Howie; thank you for your patience with all the photo ops and the hilarity of tossing popcorn everywhere. Your antics and playfulness create energy and enthusiasm in our young fans.
With the support of Nicole, Julie, Candice, Alana, Kelsey and everyone on the front line in the ticket office, thousands of children and their families experienced incredible sporting and special events. Thank you for sharing joy with our kids and encouraging donor support for our programs. Our collective efforts and collaboration meant that 221 suites were donated and appreciated by over 1,900 kids and their families in 2017! Now that is something to cheer about! Some of the highlights of the 2017/18 sporting season:
1,948 deserving kids were treated to VIP experiences in private suites;
4,260 Calgary Flames tickets got in the hands of eager young NHL fans;
6,122 young people cheered on emerging talent with the Calgary Hitmen;
322 fans watched with enthusiasm as the Calgary Roughnecks made their way to the playoffs;
3,850 lucky recipients braved the sun, wind, rain and snow to see their favourite Calgary Stampeders heroes take to the field.
What an amazing season across our favourite sporting teams! Thank you for encouraging and developing new fans, entertaining die-hard fans, and making dreams come true for our young sporting enthusiasts.
We wish to thank everyone in the ticket offices, the ushers, the security and concierge staff that go out of their way to help families access will call tickets, clear security with small children and wheelchairs, arrange for accessible seating, support those with last minute tickets, and help get people safely to their seats when they are lost or stressed! We sincerely appreciate it when the staff go the extra mile and take the time to understand and help our kids and families when they need it. Your efforts are noted!
Thank you to our gracious hosts/hostesses, and the dedicated cleaning staff who provide us with the very best at every game and special event. Our groups can be loud, noisy and very excitable! Thank you for welcoming their enthusiasm and energy, and making every event an experience to remember.
Our motto is "One little ticket, one big lift!" and the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation certainly helps us deliver that to thousands of deserving kids each year! Thank you for another great sporting season, and we look forward to the start of Stamps football in June!


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Origin Pharma has designed a creative solution for the pharmaceutical industry supply chain, the Hybrid Pharma Packaging Partner (HP3).
This innovative model aims to improve efficiency and drive profits. HP3 is born into the modern Pharmaceutical market, where competition is accelerating due to scientific and technological innovations both within and outside the sector. It's born into a client pool concerned to remain relevant and increase momentum, whilst ensuring that attributes critical to the successful delivery of health and well-being remain intact. It's born into the only market where speed and perfection are fundamental to success.
Hybrid Pharma Packaging Partner (HP³) is a change programme designed to accelerate the competitiveness of the pharmaceutical primary packaging industry by raising the performance of its supply chains. International competition, together with the challenges posed by government legislation, necessitates rapid improvement in the effectiveness of the industry's supply chain.
Keith Wade of Origin explains why HP3 is becoming a critical aspect of the top 25 pharmaceutical companies' supply chains. He says: "Since 2010, we've been developing a supply chain solution alongside key stakeholders in the top 10.
"The presence of disruptive improvements to the value chain in bordering markets lead us to challenge the constraints within the pharmaceutical market we serve. Historically, speed to market was not considered to be negotiable, in fact statistics show it takes an average of 10 years to bring a new drug product to the market.
"We border Electronics (an industry category with a comparable spend in R&D) where it takes an average of 12 weeks to develop a new app. HP3 facilitates the evolving migration of certain factors across to our industry."
Wade goes on to describe and compare why HP3 will drive efficiency and improve profits, saying: "Our clients realise that the effectiveness of the supply chain in for example the Aerospace industry is an essential attainment in order to remain competitive. Although diverse, both examples reference some essential processes applicable to all markets.
"A new drug product won't be developed in 12 weeks, but applying effective methodology combining speed, leadership, and flexibility minimises the development time and cost to bring your brand safely to market."
HP3 compiles three facets of the pharmaceutical primary packaging function, design and development, strategic manufacturing and supply chain consolidation. These give the client the ability to use the HP3 full process from concept to fulfilment or utilise the aspects applicable to their current requirements.
For example, Origin Pharma assist large pharma companies with their supply chain by consolidating both suppliers and processes (sourcing raw materials and streamlining transport) to reduce cost, improve profitability, and drive efficiency.
Through the securing of dedicated manufacturing and storage facilities in strategic locations across multiple countries, we remain within a short distance of our clients' bases of operation. HP3 also removes manufacturing constraints and allows unlimited access to approved production sites, which encompass all manufacturing techniques. So, no matter what the job, we can deliver to precise specifications and a strict deadline.
Hybrid Pharma Packaging Partner is a new model, which respects the critical nature of quality control, regulatory compliance and change management, yet alleviates traditional constraints. It is born of the frustrations of industry stakeholders wanting to pioneer improvements from speed to market to a streamlined supply chain.
HP3 is stimulating the pharmaceutical market, galvanising developments within the top 10 and will is a guaranteed challenger to the 'norm'.


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Mark Ahn Knows Kung Fu: NAKED WEAPON
by Mark Ahn
They seduce you, just before they kill you!
The Premise in 30 Words, in honor of 30 days of Junesploitation
Maggie Q is an elaborately trained assassin who uses her skills and her looks to complete missions, but finds love with the help of her mom and a terrible cop.
The Most Junesploitation-y Parts
EXPLOITATION OF EVERY ACTION TROPE POSSIBLE - It's as if Director Tony Ching was trying to win the World Championship of Exploitation Bingo, in just 90 minutes. It's obviously got lethal ladies, rape/revenge, and martial arts, but swoops into women in prison, cops, and samples from every entree in the '90s action movie buffet. This is not a criticism, because the movie is having too much fun unapologetically being all of these things. Luc Besson lady assassins? Yes. The Matrix-style wire-slow-mo? Why not. A cold open, straight from Bond? Absolutely. Who's not having fun?
NOT AS NAKED AS EXPECTED? - The movie poster and the trailer would have you think this is one of those titillating Skinemax deals, but it does not match up to those expectations. The sexy-sploitation is all over the map and constantly punctuated by interruptions. There is a girl-girl friendship that seems more than friendship, but that's cut off by intermittent Battle Royale-style elimination murders with the other prisoners. There is a rape scene (brief, but still not cool, Naked Weapon) that comes out of nowhere. Lady assassins suggestively wiggle at their targets, only to brutally kill them with their bare hands. If you were expecting a Skinemax plot, then sorry that this action movie broke out.
The Best Bits
VERTEBRAE KILL - Maggie Q plays Charlene, who along with her friend, Katt (played by Anya Wu), has been kidnapped as children by the mysterious Madam M, who trains athletically gifted girls into assassins. Since the lady assassins usually seduce their targets, they master the art of killing with their bare hands; the signature move is to rip the vertebrae out from its place in the spine of the victim. We see it in the opening sequence, and later on when Charlene is on her first mission. It looks as painful as it sounds.
MAGGIE Q, ACTION HERO - Discovered by Jackie Chan as a potential action star, Maggie Q learned from her mentor to always do her own stunts, despite never having done martial arts before her acting career, and never really intending to be an actor in the first place. Although the movie delights in using slow-motion and hyperbolic wirework, she sells all of the hand to hand combat and the weapons, and through the editing and the practical effects, she's credible as an assassin in this ridiculous, slightly overwrought world.
Junesploitation means weird stuff
OUT OF NOWHERE, A ROMANCE - Daniel Wu plays Jack, the cop who's been on the case of the missing girls and assassinated targets (hard to tell which) for the last several years. In his independent passion for this case, he tracks down Charlene's mom, figuring that by sticking close to her he'll be able to find Charlene, and then the assassination ring. Charlene's next hit ends up injuring her mother, who is an accidental bystander, and leads to a romance that the story heavily invests in, despite the whole movie only being 90 minutes. Charlene escapes from the scene of the crime with Jack in hot pursuit, only for both to be trapped in a freezer truck. Jack gallantly offers his jacket to shivering Charlene, and later on helps her injured mother to a hospital, so obviously he is marriage material, which culminates in a romantic romp on the beach, only for Charlene to go away to complete her final mission before disappearing, both Jack and Charlene pining away for each other. Is the movie hoping that the sequel is about Jack and Charlene getting back together? Has there ever been that drastic of a change from one movie to the next (Alien and Aliens people, please sit down)?
SO MANY QUESTIONS - This is a little of what I wrote while watching, that still seems unanswerable to me.
If the girls are kidnapped at around 12 years old, then how many years do you have to train them before they're credible adult assassins? How is this profitable?
If there is a prison deathmatch to determine the best fighter, then isn't that a total waste of training the whole pack of them? HOW IS THIS PROFITABLE?
The henchman who's training the girls must truly have a passion for working with young people.
FUN FACT - The same producer, Wong Jing, also made movies called Naked Killer and Naked Soldier, with similar lady assassin vibes. Unclear on whether it is more or less naked than this one.
Posted by Patrick Bromley at 12:00 PM
Labels: 2002 movies, lethal ladies, maggie q, mark ahn knows kung fu, martial arts movies, naked weapon
James K. June 26, 2020 at 10:23 PM
I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk, Maggie Q
Will Benson June 30, 2020 at 3:54 PM
I am a Maggie Q completist. Call me dum, but I'd love to see her as Catwoman, or even Black Cat.


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Rural, low-income voters who helped propel President Trump to victory in 2016 are less likely to have health insurance than the urban poor in states that didn't expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
A new study compared uninsured rates from 2008-2009 and 2015-2016 by the the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and the University of North Carolina Rural Health Research Program. It examined insurance coverage in 46 states with significant rural populations and found a disparity between low-income adults living in rural areas and small towns versus those living in metropolitan areas.
The ACA allowed states to expand their Medicaid programs to include people earning around $16,000 a year, which was previously too much to qualify for the social safety net but often too little to pay for health insurance out of their own pockets. Many states -- 34 plus the District of Columbia -- chose to expand their Medicaid programs, a move that was initially fully funded by the federal government.
But many red states opted not to expand Medicaid, refusing the federal money. That dynamic, said researchers, created a growing health-coverage chasm between people in rural communities and those living in urban areas. Rural voters, as my colleague and chief Post correspondent Dan Balz wrote, "form the heart of Trump nation."
Take Virginia, for instance, where there is the greatest coverage gap by geographic region among the non-expansion states, according to the new report. (It should be noted that Virginia recently decided to expand Medicaid). In Virginia's small towns and rural areas, the study found, 31 percent of adults below 138 percent of the poverty line were uninsured compared to 21 percent in metro areas.
The Health 202 looked at county-by-county voting data in states that didn't expand Medicaid, and found that the rural counties that lack health-care coverage overwhelmingly voted for Trump in 2016.
Trump lost Virginia, but the counties that he did win in the swing state are the ones with the highest uninsurance rates, according to voter data. In rural Lee County, 36 percent of low-income adults are uninsured. Trump won there with 80 percent of the vote to Hillary Clinton's 17 percent. Whereas in Fairfax County, 15 percent earning under 138 percent of the poverty level are uninsured. Trump lost there 29 percent to Clinton's 65 percent.
In eight non-expansion states —South Dakota, Georgia, Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, and Mississippi — more than one-third of low-income adults living in rural areas and small towns are uninsured, the researchers found. Trump won all eight counties, the data shows.
Florida, the only battleground state on that list, is another one with deep disparities between its uninsured populations based on geography. In rural Jackson County, 42 percent of low-income adults are uninsured, the study's authors found. Trump beat Clinton in that county 67 percent to 30 percent. In Palm Beach County, where the low-income uninsured rate is 20 percent, Clinton beat Trump 56 percent to 41 percent.
Notably, in states that did expand Medicaid, those geographic disparities are almost nonexistent.
The problem is rural America tends to be poorer and sicker than other parts of the country. Compared to people living in metro areas, low-income Americans in rural areas have less access to medical and social services, and are more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, stroke and unintentional injuries, according to a 2017 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There are several reasons cited in the Georgetown/University of North Carolina report that Medicaid expansion could be part of the solution: It's difficult to get insurance company to offer plans in sparsely populated rural towns; areas with more insured residents draw clinics and providers to operate there; and rural hospitals are less likely to close in places where they can depend on Medicaid payments.
The Medicaid program itself is at a bit of a crossroads right now. The Trump administration is encouraging states to add work requirements to its programs, which, critics say, adds a burdensome level of bureaucracy that many low-income people will struggle to navigate. Some could easily lose insurance not because they don't meet the qualifications for it, but because they failed to file the correct documents or weren't aware they had to.
Yet, such requirements have made expanding Medicaid more palatable for hesitant states. For instance, Virginia will expand its program next year but has also submitted a waiver requiring so-called able bodied adults to work or take up some other kind of community engagement.
At the same time, in the reddest of red states, Idaho, Utah and Nebraska, voters will get to decide this fall through a ballot initiative whether to expand Medicaid.
And, according to some early polling, they may just approve it.
AHH: A new kind of therapy is helping people with spinal cord injuries stand, take steps and walk again, according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
OOF: In the months since the president vowed pharmaceutical companies would make a "massive" voluntary drug price cut, no such change has occurred. During the two months since the May announcement, the Associated Press found there were more than 16 price increases for every decrease, based on a new analysis of 26,176 list price changes for brand name drugs. The analysis, which looked at changes from January 1 to July 31 in the years 2015 through 2018, also found that over those first seven months of this year, there were 96 price hikes for every price cut.
"There were fewer price increases this year from January through July than in comparable prior-year periods, but companies still hiked prices far more often than they cut them," the AP's Linda A. Johnson and Nicky Forster report. "This year through the end of July, there were 4,412 brand-name drug price increases and 46 price cuts, a ratio of 96-to-1… The AP also asked 24 large drug companies this summer if they planned to cut drug prices. None said they did, though some didn't answer.
"Drugmakers typically say they need to keep raising prices of existing drugs to pay for costly, lengthy research to develop new medicines, though industry critics dispute that," Linda and Nicky add.
OUCH: Imagine facing a five-figure ambulance bill after going to the emergency room – all because you didn't call ahead to get an insurance claim approved. In a column for the Los Angeles Times, David Lazarus describes such a scenario a 64-year-old woman faced when she was taken via air ambulance from Mammoth Lakes to a hospital for a severe kidney infection.
Tom Wolfe, Good Sam's chief financial officer, explained to David in a call that TravelAssist "isn't a reimbursement plan." "In other words, the coverage is based on TravelAssist making all the arrangements on a Good Sam member's behalf, rather than paying the member back for any expenses incurred," David writes.
Meanwhile, Mutchler is appealing the decision, and David writes there is a possibility her insurance with Blue Cross may cover both the medical costs and air transportation.
During the Fox News interview, Kavanaugh explained that he was sexually inexperienced as a teenager, our Post colleague Robert Barnes reports.
"So you're saying through all these years that are in question that you were a virgin?" MacCallum asked. "That's correct," he answered, adding that was the case for "many years after." Here's an annotated version of the interview transcript, via our Post colleague Aaron Blake.
Over the weekend, the New Yorker Magazine reported an allegation by a classmate of Kavanaugh's at Yale University, Deborah Ramirez, who said Kavanaugh exposed himself at a party when they were both first-year students. Kavanaugh is set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday along with Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who alleges Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while both were teenagers.
In a letter to Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), Kavanaugh insisted he will not withdraw from the nomination process.
Our Post colleague Deanna Paul explains why the latest allegation against Kavanaugh may be on precarious legal ground, according to former prosecutors.
— Trump said he plans to leave the "controversy" of whether to overturn the landmark abortion decision Roe v. Wade up to the courts.
"Yeah, I don't want to talk about it now, because that's a controversy that I'm going to leave to the courts," Trump said during a radio interview with host Geraldo Rivera that broadcast Monday when asked if he believes the ruling should be overturned. The interview was taped on Sunday.
As a presidential candidate, Trump signaled he would appoint nominees to the Supreme Court who would reverse the decision, our Post colleague John Wagner notes. "Trump's comments come as the nomination of his second Supreme Court pick, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, is pending in the Senate. Many Democrats have opposed Kavanaugh's nomination in part because of concerns he would help roll back abortion rights," he adds.
— Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) told the Washington Examiner she lawmakers to soon strike a deal on the opioid package, Robert King reports.
"I think we will have this pretty well resolved in the next 12 hours," she said about the opioid bill late on Monday.
"Murray told the Washington Examiner that she believes that the final Senate-House compromise bill will be ready for the House to vote on this week, before it recesses until the November elections," Robert writes. He noted "one major outstanding consideration" is negotiations over a provision the pharmaceutical industry has been pushing for that would allow them to avoid being on the hook for more of drug costs covered for seniors under Medicare.
— Republican Josh Hawley, the Missouri attorney general running for the Senate against incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) is running a new TV ad talking about his son's preexisting condition.
But Hawley also signed on to a lawsuit brought by 20 red states seeking to rule the ACA unconstitutional. If the law went down, so too would the part that requires insurers to cover people regardless of their health history. Democrats have accused Republicans of wanting to strip that protection away.
McCaskill, who is a cancer survivor, has made her reelection campaign all about saving coverage protections for people with preexisting health issues. She's featured constituents in daily videos discussing their own conditions and fears over losing coverage.
Most Republicans have said their disdain for the ACA never meant they wanted to throw out preexisting condition protections. This ad from Hawley is tackling the issue head on in a way few GOP candidates have this campaign cycle.
— The Department of Health and Human Services has canceled a contract with Advanced Bioscience Resources, a fetal tissue research facility, because it did not have "appropriate protections" for the procurement of the tissue, Robert reports for the Washington Examiner.
The move follows a call from dozens of antiabortion rights groups who called on HHS to stop working with the facility, he adds. The Food and Drug Administration signed a contract in June with the facility, which provided fetal tissue for the purpose of researching the development of mice with human immune systems.
HHS said in a statement that it is "now conducting an audit of all acquisitions involving human fetal tissue to ensure conformity with procurement and human fetal tissue research laws and regulations" and has "initiated a comprehensive review of all research involving fetal tissue to ensure consistency with statutes and regulations governing such research."
— In her first public appearance as CIA director, Gina Haspel pledged the agency will address the shipment of opioids coming into the United States.
"No foreign challenge has had a more direct impact on American families and communities…than the flow of opioids and other drugs into our country," Haspel said during an event at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, NBC News's Ken Dilanian reports. "That's why the CIA is going to invest more heavily in our counter-narcotics effort abroad to combat this terrible threat, one that has killed far more Americans than any terrorist ever has."
"Haspel's mention of drugs, in a state whose residents have experienced a sharp uptick in drug overdoses in recent years, was an unusual note in a careful speech that emphasized general themes articulated by many of her predecessors," Ken writes.
— Electric scooter-riders are pouring into emergency rooms across the country. At one hospital in Salt Lake City, where the popular dockless electric scooters have filled the streets since June, there has been a documented 161 percent spike in the number of emergency department visits involving scooters compared with similar injuries in the same three-month period last year, our Post colleague Peter Holley reports.
Almost half of the reported injuries included fractures, dislocations of ankles, wrists, elbows and shoulders, as well as sprains and lacerations, Peter writes. There were also cases of head injuries, and some told doctors they were intoxicated and not wearing a helmet when the injury occurred. Just last week, a 24-year-old man died from blunt force injuries to the head after he fell off a Lime scooter on his way home from work in Dallas.
The lone debate between Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and Ben Jealous (D) clearly displayed their differences.
Drug companies are eyeing a popular opioid bill to roll back discounts for Medicare beneficiaries, but opposition has quickly mobilized.
The drugmaker intends to slash the list price of its hepatitis C treatments as it responds to competitive pricing pressures and shifts in the U.S. payment system for pharmaceuticals.
Health-care stocks are helping push major U.S. indexes to new highs as money managers have embraced the sector after technology stocks stumbled in September.
Sarepta's early-stage clinical trial for a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy is back on schedule, the company announced.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a pivotal vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, said she doesn't believe that he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions: Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security hosts hearing to examine health care in rural America.
The Senate HELP Committee hosts a hearing on reducing health -costs Thursday.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee: Subcommittee on Health hosts a hearing on reducing maternal mortality in the U.S. Thursday.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) speaks at the American Enterprise Institute to discuss combating the international shipment of opioids Thursday.


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The Canon 50mm f/1.8 II (aka the nifty fifty, aka fantastic plastic) is a massively popular little lens, and since 1990 has been a go to for countless new photographers. Now 25 years later it has finally been updated and we put it to the test, comparing it to the other Canon 50mm, as well as the new gold standard Sigma 50mm 1.4 Art lens.
Choosing the right gear for the road can be a lot of trial and error. Bring too much, and you want to leave your bag in the hotel. Too little and you might miss a great shot. Or is it even possible to bring to little? In this podcast we talk about how a photographer can be prepared and anything they might encounter in their travels.