Alexander Zverev booked a semi-final date with Roger Federer at the ATP Finals after knocking out John Isner.
The latest battle of big servers at the O2 resulted in a 7-6 (5) 6-3 victory for German Zverev, ending Isner's debut in the tournament at the group stage.
After 40 minutes of hammering their 130mph-plus missiles past each other, the first set went to a predictable tie-break which Zverev edged.
Dropping that set meant Isner knew he would be eliminated, but the American battled on gamely until Zverev eked out the match's solitary break of serve in the eighth game of the second set before sealing victory.
The dream final match-up between Federer and Novak Djokovic at London's O2 remains a tantalising prospect, but not if 21-year-old hot-shot Zverev has his way.
"It's obviously great getting to the semi-finals. But the tournament isn't over," he said.
"I am in the semi-finals. There's only good opponents left. There's only the best in the world.
World number one Djokovic will face South African debutant Kevin Anderson, the man he beat in this year's Wimbledon final, in the other semi-final.


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"""Provides a Track class for the Project CARS Replay Enhancer.

Notes
-----
Way too many thanks to mrbelowski, who made much of the data publicly
available through his CrewChief app, preventing me from having to
reinvent the wheel.
https://github.com/mrbelowski/CrewChiefV4/
"""

import os
from json import load

class Track:
    """Represents a Project CARS track.

    Notes
    -----
    Track detection requires the existence of `lib/track_data.json` that
    contains the track data.

    Parameters
    ----------
    track_length : float
        Length of the track, as found in the telemetry data.
    """
    def __init__(self, track_length):
        try:
            with open(os.path.join(
                    os.path.dirname(__file__),
                    'lib/track_data.json')) as json_file:
                json_data = load(json_file)

            matching_tracks = sorted(
                json_data.values(),
                key=lambda x: abs(x['length'] - float(track_length))
            )
            track = matching_tracks[0]

            try:
                # If all the pit keys are present, we populate the pit
                # information.
                self._pit_entry = (
                    float(track['pit_entry'][0]),
                    float(track['pit_entry'][1])
                )
                self._pit_exit = (
                    float(track['pit_exit'][0]),
                    float(track['pit_exit'][1])
                )
                self._pit_radius = float(track['pit_radius'])
            except KeyError:
                self._pit = False
            else:
                self._pit = True
        except FileNotFoundError:
            self._pit = False
        except ValueError as json_error:
            raise json_error

    def at_pit_entry(self, coordinates):
        """Determines if a car is at the pit entry.

        Parameters
        ----------
        coordinates : [float, float, float]
            Car coordinates.

        Returns
        -------
        bool
            True if car is at the pit entry
        """
        return self._pit \
            and abs(self._pit_entry[0]-coordinates[0]) < self._pit_radius \
            and abs(self._pit_entry[1]-coordinates[2]) < self._pit_radius

    def at_pit_exit(self, coordinates):
        """Determines if a car is at the pit exit.

        Parameters
        ----------
        coordinates : [float, float, float]
            Car coordinates.

        Returns
        -------
        bool
            True if car is at the pit exit
        """
        return self._pit \
            and abs(self._pit_exit[0]-coordinates[0]) < self._pit_radius \
            and abs(self._pit_exit[1]-coordinates[2]) < self._pit_radius

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Ever wondered why airplanes reduced from three to two to one wing? One company plans to reintroduce a triplane (see article below).
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Lots for you today. I occasionally find myself wondering, while alone at home, what would happen if I were suddenly incapacitated and needed urgent help? Even if you live with a spouse, or room-mates, or other people of any nature, there are surely times when you are alone for potentially hours at a time. What would you do if something happened and you couldn't reach a phone?
So, for today's feature article, I offer a solution to that problem. I hope none of us ever need it, but it is vastly preferable to be prepared and not need it, than to be unprepared and unable to summon help when desperately needed.
Also attached is Thursday's Covid Diary entry, and Sunday's is online here.
On the good news front, after six days in the shop, I finally got my car back once more. I hope it was just friendliness when the owner said "See you again soon, David".
A nice collection of other items, below, including the results of our reader survey.
Reader Survey Results – Air Passenger Misbehavior Penalties
Air Travel Numbers Continue to Rise
A Reader Writes of His Delta Problems
A New Norwegian to Return
Interesting Analysis of Airplane Delivery Numbers
A Person Who Should Never Have Become a Pilot
If One Wing is Good, are Two Better? How about Three?
A Different Perspective on Designing the Perfect SST
Yet Another Airplane Design
Might Heathrow Collapse?
And Lastly This Week….
I asked what type of penalties should be imposed on a passenger who refused to wear a mask and who got into a scuffle with a flight attendant, needing to be "escorted off the plane", while it was still at the gate prior to pushing back.
Most of you took a serious view of this type of behavior. You were allowed to suggest multiple penalties, and this first chart shows the types of penalties mentioned :
The second chart shows the specific penalties suggested :
Clearly the concept of "let the punishment fit the crime" saw a lot of people mentioning some type of travel restriction, and as the second chart shows, the most popular travel restriction, by far, was a lifetime travel ban on the airline involved.
People who advocated some jail time generally suggested a week or maybe less, and $1,000 was the most commonly suggested fine.
People who suggested something else tended to usually have a fine or period of ban or jail time that was inbetween two of the values offered, but a couple of people had an interesting point which puts things into a very different perspective.
They suggested treating the "scuffle" as an assault and letting whatever normal assault penalty would apply flow through to the miscreant upon conviction. A simple assault (or more likely battery) charge is usually a misdemeanor, and in California a battery conviction allows for up to six months in county jail, up to a $2,000 fine, and probation up to six months. Other states have a similar misdemeanor classification and about the same types of penalties.
These penalties are increased for battery against specific types of occupations/workers, and while not specifically mentioning flight attendants, it would be reasonable to consider this higher level of penalty for them too. In California's case, that means up to a one year jail sentence, still up to $2000 fine, and probation up to one year.
Those are the maximum penalties. I don't know what a first time offender with no previous criminal convictions for violent acts would likely receive as a sentence, particularly when the victim suffered extremely minimal harm, but my sense is such charges are often plea bargained down to possibly a fine and/or maybe some period of probation, and perhaps a "good behavior" bond of some type that would see a more severe sentence imposed if the guilty party re-offended within a certain time.
It seems possible to equate a travel ban with probation, jail with jail of course, and fines with fines. So the general level of advocacy for penalties for the mask-wearing refusal and scuffle are quite substantially more severe than for other types of noncompliance and scuffling.
My sense is you'd be fairly strict judges!
The last seven days have seen a steady series of rises in passengers traveling, and as of Wednesday's numbers, we have now, for the first time in a year, exceeded 50% of the 2019 numbers on a rolling average, and for two days in a row. Wednesday also saw, for the first time, but absolutely not for the last time, daily numbers higher than the same day in 2020.
There seems no reason not to expect this trend to continue for the foreseeable future. The airlines must be starting to breathe a little easier.
Reader Cary writes
My note focuses on Delta Airlines' lack of responsiveness to its customers when something goes wrong.
Delta cancelled my Long Beach flight to Salt Lake with just a few hours notice, and rescheduled me for a four hour later flight which was totally inconvenient. I called about this and had a computer generated voice tell me it would be a 3 hrs. 18 min. wait to speak to a live person to rearrange a better departure at nearby Orange Co. airport. With the billions the airline industry has received from the government, I find this lack of service appalling.
It gets worse. The Delta app. on my cellphone did not allow me to easily accomplish a last minute change nor arrange for the same upgraded service I had originally booked. Instead the new flight cost 50% more and the refund for the old one would take 1-2 billing cycles. I called repeatedly though the weekend and at one time was told it would be an 18 hrs. wait to speak to someone. Finally by calling before dawn I was able to speak to someone who blamed the delays on "spring break" and offered me $125 credit for the delay.
Southwest gives much better service but is derided by its competition as a "discount airline."
I totally understand Cary's frustration, but I have to also note he was semi-fortunate. At least Delta gave him a chance to wait on hold, albeit for up to 18 hours, to speak to someone.
My pet peeve is calling an airline (or any other company), being told first that due to "the present situation" call times would be longer than average, then placed on hold with the same annoying jingle playing too loudly in my ear, and with an interruption every minute to tell me that my call was important to them, but to suggest that I go to their website instead, then another minute of jingle and the same message again, over and over. And then, all of a sudden, either there's just a click and they've gone without warning, or else a new voice says "all agents are busy, please try your call again later" and hangs up.
All that time suffering the jingle and message, suddenly wasted, plus of course there's then the added edge of anxiety when next calling "will this call go through or will they hang up on me again".
There is no excuse for this type of appalling service. Certainly in Washington, and possibly all states, insurance companies and possibly utility companies too (but not phone companies) are required to have a "real" person answer every call within half a dozen rings or thereabouts. Why shouldn't we require the same for airlines, especially because these days, most of the times when we do need to call an airline, it is for a time-pressing fairly urgent matter.
There is another option, too, although sadly it is a convenience that these days unavoidably comes with a cost associated. Use a travel agent.
One of the saddest airline casualties of the last twelve months has been Norwegian. Although I only flew them a couple of times, they had great crews, average to good service, and wonderful fares.
News came out this week of Norwegian's founder, Bjorn Kos, and his plans to start a new trans-Atlantic airline, to be called Norse Atlantic Airways. It will operate 787s between Europe and the US (and probably Canada), with bargain priced fares.
Not much more is yet known, but the airline hopes to be operational by the end of this year. We just hope the DoT won't shamefully stonewall them the same way they did Norwegian.
Here's a fascinating analysis of the drop in airplane deliveries. This table comes from it :
They have several other charts as well in their commentary, with the underlying main message being that although deliveries are way down, and for a new reason, this is not a unique occurrence and is likely to pass, the same way the other down cycles have also been restored back to an otherwise steady increase.
A Boeing 717 being operated by a Qantas contractor, and flying between Alice Springs and Brisbane, suffered an engine failure less than an hour from landing in Brisbane. (The 717 has two engines.)
The two pilots continued the flight, and landed safely in Brisbane without requesting an emergency landing or diverting to any closer airport. No passengers were injured.
Engine failures in flight are something pilots train for all the time, and, in and of themselves, are unfortunate and regrettable, but also non-threatening events.
So, end of story, right? No. The copilot is now claiming she suffered post-traumatic stress after the incident and is suing Qantas for $780,000.
The article doesn't tell us if she is still working as a pilot. But, for sure, if I see a lady pilot with a name badge saying "Jacinda Cottee" on it, my own stress level will rise appreciably. I'd rather have pilots up front on my flights who are more like Sully and the many others who quietly resolve a truly dangerous situation without any fuss or subsequent lawsuit.
The Wright Flyer and other early planes had two wings. Two wing designs were easier to construct, particularly with the materials and aerodynamic understandings of the time. But as speeds increased, the greater drag of a biplane became increasingly a factor, and better materials for making wings allowed single wing planes to become practical. This article has a great discussion on the pluses and minuses of biplanes.
For a while, not only were there biplanes but triplanes as well – planes with three wings. Think, in particular, of the Fokker triplane used by the "Red Baron" in World War 1. The three wing concept was most famously represented in the Caproni Ca60 Transaero, a plane with three sets of triple-wings (and eight engines).
But the same problems that hindered biplanes were even more challenging in triplanes, and their life was much briefer, giving way first to biplanes and then to the single winged planes that are ubiquitous nowadays.
But might that be about to change? As seen in the image at the top of the newsletter, a UK firm has designed a new version of a triplane. It doesn't have all the struts that created much of the drag in the earlier types of triplane, and it takes advantage of its design to allow it to create a "closed" wing – something that is increasingly trying to be approximately with the wing tips and sharklets or whatever at the end of single wings. The closed wing design reduces the turbulence/vortices at the wing edges where the high and low pressure areas interact with each other.
We're not sure if the benefit of the closed wing is improved by the third wing in the middle, but I'm sure they've run the numbers.
The company is trying to not only redesign the plane wing, but also re-engine it with a mix of electric and bio-fuel engines. Unless they have very deep pockets, we'd suggest they make progress one step at a time.
Nonetheless, it is great to see a new innovative approach (if indeed a tri-wing is innovative) to airplane design. We hope Boeing and Airbus are taking note.
Depending on which of the assorted plans/projects for new supersonic passenger jets you choose to consider and ignore, there are perhaps three major contenders, each very different from each other :
Aerion AS2 – Mach 1.4, 8-10 passengers
Boom Overture – Mach 2.2, 65-88 passengers
Spike S-512 – Mach 1.6, 18 passengers
And, for comparisons, let's remember Concorde
Concorde – Mach 2.04, 92-100 passsengers
I've always derided the Aerion concept as being too small and too slow. Maybe it will prove practical at the high end of the private/business jet market, but as a plane that an airline like British Airways or United might choose to buy and operate, I don't see it having much appeal.
I've generally felt the same about the Spike concept, too – still very small, and appreciably slower than the Concorde (Mach 2.04) or the new Boom concept which, at least on paper, is the clearest successor to Concorde.
This article is very sympathetic to the Spike plane, and explains its concept as being simply that of recreating a first class experience. It is true that most airlines are quietly retiring their first class cabins, because they've made their business class product as good or better than what first class formerly was, and leaving too little extra in the way of luxury and amenities for first class to justify a massive extra cost in airfare.
So Spike says "here is a new way to create a first class experience – a combination of best quality travel experience, and also fastest possible speed". They then note that the typical first class cabin on a 747/A380 was in the region of 14 – 18 seats, and hence the plane's specification – 18 seats. In effect, it is a first class only airplane.
But therein lies the problem. I'm not aware of any airline that has ever succeeded with an all first class or even all business class cabin. Plenty have tried, but none have succeeded and grown to significant size and over multiple routes.
Just like "one hand washes the other" an airline's cabins are co-dependent. Without first and business class, it would be a struggle for most airlines, especially internationally and longer haul, to be viable. But without coach class, it would again be a struggle. Both premium and standard cabins are needed.
The other important ingredient in the Spike plane is a quieter sonic boom which it hopes will allow it to fly supersonically over land as well as over the oceans. I'm not sure the extra routes will compensate for the passenger capacity, but it certainly does give it a lot more choices, although with a relatively low top speed of Mach 1.6 – not quite twice the Mach 0.85 or so that regular planes fly, it is only on perhaps five or six hour flights (at current speeds) that you start to see appreciable differences in travel time (remember that at least an hour of any flight is spent either on the ground, flying at very low speeds at low altitudes, or waiting for air traffic control delays).
With an already stated as "optimistic" entry into service planned for 2028, it will be some time yet before we know if the Spike concept is viable or not.
My money, for now, is on the Boom approach.
Seems to be a good week for airplane design concepts.
Here's another interesting design – it works well for small sized planes but doesn't scale well for larger commercial passenger jets, but apparently is very efficient for business jets.
We hasten to explain that "collapse" means financially, rather than structurally!
This article ponders the question – it is a fairly ridiculous question, to which the answer is either "no" or "who cares" – with the "who cares" answer being in the sense that if the private company owning the airport should fail, there'd be any number of new companies eager to buy Heathrow from the failed company and its creditors.
In the worst case scenario, even though the UK government seems to hate the thought of Heathrow expanding, we're certain the government wouldn't stand back and allow the airport to fail and close.
What we did like about the article though were the fascinating charts and data analysis about Heathrow's traffic and general projections for future air travel numbers.
Do you remember the "serial stowaway" – the lady who kept getting on flights without a ticket? She has been quiet for a while, because she was in prison.
Here is a fascinating interview with her. What I found most extraordinary of all was how she would successfully fly roundtrips to places. Clearly, her techniques for slipping through security and onto planes without any ticket at all must have reliably worked more or less whenever she wished to use them.
At the end, she tells us she is now cured of her obsession on flying.
But then, barely a couple of days later, guess what….
To return to the concept of crime and punishment, we agree with her attorney. She doesn't deserve extended incarceration. She needs counseling, compassion and support. We also note that apparently her techniques for getting through airport security and onto flights don't seem to help her get out of prisons.
There are a lot of unused planes out there at present. Maybe with a bit of lateral thinking, at least some parts of them could be put to good use. Such as, for example, this….
Until next week, please stay healthy and safe
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I will have to put the Giovanni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics on my list 😉
David Rowell
Yes, you and me both. One of those fascinating side-notes to the mainstream history of aeronautical development.

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Forever Alone, Walking Dead Characters, Fear The Walking Dead Characters,
Jim Brauer (Fear)
This article is about the Fear character. You may be looking for the other Jim in the Comic Series, TV Series, or Assault, the Novel Series character, the Road to Survival character, the unseen TV Series character, the Woodbury extra, or the actors Jim R. Coleman and Jim Lau.
Jim Brauer
Late 30s to Early 40s
Brewer (Pre- and Post-Apocalypse)
Owner of Augie's Ale (Pre- and Post-Apocalypse)
"The Code"
"The Little Prince" (Photograph)
"I Lose People..." (Alive)
"... I Lose Myself" (Zombified)
Bitten on the back by a walker. (Caused)
Suicide via jumping off a hospital roof. (Alive)
Stabbed in the head by Morgan Jones. (Zombified)
"The Code" to "I Lose People..."
Jim is bitten on the back by a walker and then commits suicide by jumping off a roof. Later, he is put down by Morgan after reanimation. Image Gallery
"History is built on beer. We are back to a time where a safe and sterile source of hydration and nutrition is needed... Yeah. It is the staff of life. We were nomads. Beer made us settle and become farmers. Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Incans, the Chinese. Beer, beer, beer, beer, beer. You know people who want the world to come back together again... They need me... They need this stuff... They need beer."
—Jim explaining to Morgan why a person with his skills is important for a new civilization.[src]
Jim Brauer is a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's Fear The Walking Dead. He is a skilled and prideful brewer with very little experience handling the undead. Because of his ability to produce beer, Jim allied himself with Sarah Rabinowitz and Wendell, though his skills are the primary reason he is kept around. He is a member of Morgan's group.
Jim was a brewer who won many awards for the beer that he made. At one point, a multinational corporation offered to buy his brewery and services, which would have made him very rich. However, this was right before the beginning of the apocalypse.
Jim stayed in his brewery throughout the apocalypse, hiding from walkers and people, all while brewing beer, believing that civilization would rise again and that his skills would be needed again.
Jim is first seen running, tied up and with a hood, from some walkers through a field. As he is about to get killed, he is saved by Morgan. He informs Morgan that he was almost kidnapped by some people so they could steal his beer recipes.
Then, they set their course to the place where Morgan would meet his friends. Along the way, an optimistic Jim explains to Morgan that the reason as to why he continues to brew beer, is that eventually the world would return to the humans and people are gonna need his skills to brew beer again. Morgan informs him that he comes from a community of survivors that are trying to bring civilization back to the world and invites him to come, to which a smiling Jim seemingly accepts.
However, once they are reunited with Morgan's friends, he recognizes Sarah's voice through the walkie-talkie as the woman who had kidnapped him and before he can flee, he and Morgan are held at gunpoint by Wendell and are forced to surrender.
Locked in the truck's unloading area as they make their way to Virginia, Jim glances at the brewing materials his captors had taken from his brewery and suggests to Morgan to reveal the location of his community. He tries to convince him through the story of his life, that he was about to become rich for his work when the outbreak began and ruined his plans. He asks him to allow him to resume what he had gained by telling them the community where he lives, assuring that they would need him for their vision of rebuilding civilization and returning the world to how it was before.
As the truck stops at another bridge so Sarah can unload the large amount of heavy material they had in the truck, Jim assures Sarah that he won't give them his prescription, but instead offers to make beer for them in case Morgan's community turned out to be what it was.
Deciding to pick up a piece of his brewery machine, Jim accidentally knocks Morgan over into a herd's path, where he is forced to rest on top of a car. Sarah offers him help if he gives the community location, however, due to Jim's lack of skill in killing walkers and Wendell's inability to walk, they abandon him.
The next day, after discovering that the man had lied, they reunite with him on the bridge and they come to an agreement. First, they will go to Texas to search for Morgan's friends and then they will go to Virginia while making some stops along the way to leave some boxes full of provisions as the original truck owner was doing.
"Weak"
Jim is seen on the truck as Morgan makes Sarah and Wendell stop the truck so he can radio his friends.
At night, Jim, Morgan, Wendell and Sarah prepare to drive off until June and Althea drive up behind them. They finally reunite and Morgan tells June he still hasn't found the others. Morgan offers them water from the "take what you need" box while June takes Morgan's walkie to radio the man from before.
"Blackjack"
At the truck, Sarah and Jim argue about how many people should be in the truck. Jim wants to move on and insists his beer making skills are key to their future. Walkers emerge from the tree line and Sarah moves to put them down. Jim gets scared but Wendell uses his wheelchair spikes to impale it while Sarah finishes it off.
Jim looks at it, though, seeing the "take what you need" message written on his head. June immediately radios Quinn. However, she only hears walker groans on the other side, followed by Martha telling her he's dead.
On the road, Morgan buries the walker while Jim questions why. Morgan decides he wants to find the woman responsible. Jim and Sarah start to question Morgan about what the woman meant when she said he used to be strong. He says he has things to make up for and to trust him or he'll take their truck. When they challenge him again, Morgan hits Sarah's knife out of her hand with a shovel, and they agree to follow him.
Sarah and Jim question if they should keep leaving boxes on the side of the road knowing that it could get someone killed, but Morgan insists it's worth it. He adds instructions on the box to use radio channel 4, hoping John will eventually see it.
On the road, Jim and the rest pick up Luciana and continue on their way. Suddenly, they are contacted by Charlie and Alicia on the radio. Alicia tells them she found the channel from the box. Morgan tells her to wait at the mile marker and that they are gonna pick them up when suddenly, Martha radios both of them and warns Morgan of not taking her advice of leaving the boxes on the road.
Morgan tells her he'll continue to find the people they're looking for until they find and help her. Sarah spots Althea's SWAT truck appear behind them. Panicked, Morgan radios Martha to ask what she's doing and she tells him, "You lose people... You lose yourself." Morgan tells the group to get down just as the woman pulls the truck beside them, opens the gun hatch and opens fire.
"MM 54"
After the gunfire stops, Jim wakes up a knocked out Sarah and helps her free from her jammed seat-belt. When Martha passes by again, he pulls her down, worried she is going to shoot again.
A few minutes later, during the standoff, Sarah notices leaking fuel and fire nearby, so she and Jim flee and duck for cover as the truck explodes. They run around to the back with the rest of the group, and he exclaims sadly that his yeast cakes were in there.
Later, as the group walks down the road, Jim becomes angry, blaming Morgan for the whole situation, and initially refuses to go to the hospital with them. However, he soon changes his mind and catches up.
Inside the hospital, Jim thanks Morgan for saving him before when the walkers suddenly break through the front door barricade, and the two flee upstairs along with the rest of the group.
Jim and Morgan then split off looking for another exit, when suddenly, walkers attack them. As Morgan handles them, another walker jumps out at Jim, surprising him. He is knocked into another room, and, unbeknownst to him, is bitten on the back. Jim manages to eventually kill the walker with a pair of scissors.
The group decides to head up to the roof, so Jim tries to open the elevator, but it doesn't work at first. But, when Althea successfully restores power, Jim gets the elevator open, and he rushes the group inside.
When they reach the rooftop, Jim brags about his walker kill. June offers to check his wounds to get any glass out, but when she lifts his shirt, she reveals to him that he had been bitten in his short scuffle, and he reels from the shocking news and storms off.
"I Lose People..."
While the group is trapped on the roof, a depressed Jim blames Morgan for his predicament and pisses off the roof on the walkers. Jim refuses to join the group in escaping the hospital and remains on the roof instead. He also refuses to give Sarah his beer recipe either.
Later, a visibly ill Jim watches Morgan return to create a distraction for the others by dropping a walker on a car roof, setting off its alarm and drawing away the herd, allowing the others to escape. However, the others return for Morgan and Jim admits that although Morgan should feel awful for causing his death, he needs to go and protect them.
With everyone surrounded on the roof of a firetruck, Jim decides to sacrifice himself to buy the others time to escape. Jim gives Sarah his secret beer recipe and then leaps off the roof onto a car below, killing him and setting off the car alarm. Jim's sacrifice enables the others to escape in Al's SWAT van.
That night, Jim's corpse is found by Martha on the roof of the car. Martha writes on Jim's face and tells him that he is now strong. As Jim reanimates, Martha impales him through the throat with a pole and tells the undead Jim that they will now go and make Morgan strong.
"... I Lose Myself"
After Al escapes the hospital, she is confronted by Martha with a zombified Jim on a leash, horrifying her. During the brief scuffle that follows, Al shoots Jim in the abdomen with a shotgun, but is forced to turn her attention to another walker before she can put Jim down.
Later, at mile marker 54, Morgan finds the zombified Jim in the back of Martha's stolen police cruiser. Saddened by his friend's state, Morgan pulls Jim from the cruiser and impales him through the head with his staff, putting him down. Morgan then closes Jim's eyes as a final gesture of respect to him.
After Morgan cures Martha's antifreeze poisoning of his friends with Jim's beer, Sarah comments that its a second time they owe Jim for saving their lives and raises a toast to their lost friend.
"Here to Help"
Sarah talks to a photograph of Jim and mentions how he has missed a lot due to his death. While Sarah has been trying to recreate Jim's beer recipe, she has yet to be successful.
"The Little Prince"
While trying to find a solution to saving their friends, Sarah, Strand, and Charlie discuss Jim and his sacrifice, something that Sarah shows a lot of respect for. As Charlie stares at an old advertisement of Jim and his brewery, she suddenly comes up with an idea and asks if they had taken everything from the brewery. When Sarah confirms it, Charlie draws their attention to the advertisement, shocking them with what she had seen.
Its later shown that Charlie had seen a hot air balloon in the shape of one of Jim's beers on the advertisement. Charlie and Strand recover Jim's balloon and use it to fly to their friends rescue.
Zombies (Caused)
During a scuffle with a walker, Jim is bitten on his back.
Himself (Alive, Suicide)
In order to buy the others time to escape, Jim decides to sacrifice himself by jumping off the hospital roof onto a car below.
Morgan Jones (Zombified)
After finding a zombified Jim in the back of Martha's stolen police car, Morgan drags him out and impales him through the head with his staff, putting him down.
This list shows the victims Jim has killed:
Martha (Infected, Alive, Caused, Assumed)
1 zombie
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Morgan and Jim became fast friends. Morgan saved Jim from a dreaded zombie after he is kicked out of his factory by Wendell and Sarah. They are later seen in the car laughing and Morgan suggests Jim should come back to Alexandria which Jim agrees to things, however, became sour between them. Jim betrays Morgan and sells him as a beer maker to Jim and Sarah. Furthermore, Jim late blames Morgan for Martha destroying the truck and putting them in harm's way. After Jim is bitten they fix their problems. With Jim using his last bit of life to jump of a building on to a car to detract the zombies which surrounded the group. After finding the reanimated Jim, Morgan was noticeably saddened and mercifully put his friend down. As a final gesture of respect to Jim, Morgan closed Jim's eyes after putting him down.
Sarah Rabinowitz
"Yeah. He's dead Victor. And he took one for the team... real hard. He wanted to give up, but he didn't in the end."
—Sarah to Strand[src]
Sarah and Jim had a love hate relationship. Jim didn't like Sarah calling him Jimbo and teasing him about being a beta male, and using Morgan as protection. However, Sarah was the one person that Jim shared his secret recipe with as he was about to die. After Jim's beer saved the group from antifreeze poisoning, Sarah recognized Jim saving them twice and raised a toast to him. Sarah subsequently tried to replicate Jim's recipe without success. Despite their rocky relationship, Sarah later showed a great deal of respect for Jim and the way he went out, showing she considered Jim a true friend and tells Strand off for disrespecting him.
Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki
Al and Jim's relationships wasn't fully explored, but Althea was visibly sad when he revealed his bite.
She was visibly sad when he got bit, telling him in a soothing voice it wasn't glass that cut him, but walker bite instead, trying to support him anyways.
"Here to Help" (Photograph)
Brauer means brewer in German, pertaining to his profession.
Jim displays an intense fear of zombies, more so than other characters, especially at the current point in the apocalypse. His hesitation and inability to combat even one walker greatly implies that he has not had to deal with the undead in the past and that the walker he had killed in the hospital is most likely his first kill.
It is ironic then that, after it is revealed to the group that Jim had been bitten on his back during the scuffle, he does not display much fear past the initial panic of finding out he is bitten, instead being rather apathetic about it.
As Martha was not bitten on-screen, it's possible the walker that bit her was Jim, her current "pet," which would make Martha the only human Jim was in any way responsible for killing.
The photograph of Jim in "Here to Help" and "The Little Prince" is an old magazine cover from Brewsweek proclaiming that "Augie Takes Beer of the Year!" It features an excited Jim in a field holding a beer stein reading Beer of the Year with a giant hot air balloon in the shape of an Augie's Ale in the background.
Jim has helped save his friends lives three times, twice posthumously:
In "I Lose People...", Jim sacrifices himself to draw away a herd so that they can escape.
In "... I Lose Myself", Jim's beer counteracts the antifreeze poisoning everyone but Morgan is suffering from.
In "The Little Prince", Jim's old hot air balloon provides Strand and Charlie a means of transport to rescue their friends.
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It's hard to believe this dull ballet was made by the genius who gave us the smart, pared-down neoclassicism of modern works such as Agon and The Four Temperaments. Created in 1965, when George Balanchine was 61, Don Quixote looks back in homage to Marius Petipa, Russia's celebrated 19th-century choreographer, and has all the fittings of a classical ballet of that time: the court; the villagers; the big love; the tragedy in three acts.
Would it have been revived if Cervantes' novel had not marked its 400th anniversary last year, and had not Suzanne Farrell, the ballerina who, at 19, inspired a lovestruck Balanchine to make the piece, put all her energies behind the task? It seems unlikely. Even Balanchine had his doubts, making many changes following its New York City Ballet premiere.
The work is an odd conglomeration of individual dances, glued together by a narrative loosely borrowed from the book. The focus is on the old man's obsession with Dulcinea, who pops up regularly in different "ideal" woman guises - a nod to Balanchine's own idolisation of women and, in this case, Farrell. Corny props - house-size books, a real horse, a firecracker explosion - are delivered up deadpan and dour. The set is coloured in gloomy terracottas and ochres, and the company skim lightly along the surface of the steps: competent, but lacking edge.
The choreography, up against Nicolas Nabokov's sludgy score, veers from awkward mime and marking time, to occasional sparks and speed. Heather Ogden's Dulcinea in the palace garden is a graceful interpretation of the beautifully off-balance choreography Balanchine developed around Farrell's habit of teetering. But it's all a bit of a curiosity.


Being misdiagnosed or not being told about the importance of determining chorionicity is not a thing of the past. Read about chorionicity in twins and learn from women who were misdiagnosed or who struggled getting determination of chorionicity.
Finding out chorionicity in twins is extremely important. Even though much progress has occurred during the past decades, some women are still misdiagnosed or are not being told about the importance of correct determination of chorionicity. Chorionicity in twins is determined through ultrasound and relates to the number of placentas. Your twins can share a placenta or each have a placenta. Monochorionic twins share a placenta and are always identical. Dichorionic twins have a placenta each. They can be fraternal or identical twins. About 1/3 of identical twins are dichorionic twins, fraternal twins are always dichorionic.
How will I know what I'm expecting?
You need to get a chorionicity scan in order to know whether you're expecting monochorionic or dichorionic twins. It's usually done at the same time as your dating scan between 11 and 13+6 weeks. It might be done sooner if you're in fertility treatment or you get an early scan. It's extremely important that you get a chorionicity scan as monochorionic twins need to be monitored more than dichorionic twins. That's because monochorionic twins are more at risk of pregnancy complications such as Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome and Selective Intrauterine Growth Restriction (sIUGR).
Mom: Lyndsey Vigil – misdiagnosis of chorionicity, from mo-mo, to di-di to mo-di twins.
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*Occasionally, there is only one single umbilical artery (SUA) present in the umbilical cord – this is opposed to the normal two.
Mom: Lisa Kettrick – misdiagnosis of chorionicity, diagnosed with stage 3 TTTS.
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Mom: Lindsey Lowrance – misdiagnosis of chorionicity, thought her babies were di-di twins until birth.
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Hope you and your boys are doing well! It is definitely mind blowing how uninformed OBs are at reading twin ultrasounds. I am still planning on writing the medical board and letting them know how poorly I was treated. Us moms need to keep on channeling our mama bear instincts and fight for our babies! Good luck in Mexico!!
I'm really glad everything ended well for you despite the way you were treated at the beginning of your pregnancy. My blood was boiling too over the mistreatment and manipulation you received from your OB and his scheduler. They basically schemed a plot to shut you up and have you quiet! This is very wrong….
Also, as far as I know, not only the sooner you know your chorionicity the better for the sake of the pregnancy but also I've been told it's much easier to determine it early than later on. It's much more difficult to see later on week 20!
Congratulations on your twins and you are right, we are the better advocates for our babies no doubt about that!!


Let me start by saying that we are very fortunate to have acquired this card. Many other companies have not figured out how to do it for their expats and there are a lot of people who have been living here much longer than us without cards. Instead, they make trips to Congo or Cameroon every few months to renew visas.
Nestor begins by preparing all paperwork. I can't actually tell you what is on this paperwork as he has someone fill in all of the information and I never actually saw it other than to sign the bottom. Every other day, Joe gets an urgent call from Nestor's office saying that they need our passports NOW. Joe complains as he is busy at work and can't drop everything to drive home, pick up the passports and take them to his office… but he does it anyway. This paperwork is sent away, to where I have no idea, and eventually returned with an all important stamp/press seal of approval.
Upon returning to Gabon, we present the original papers that were returned to us, to an immigration officer. It is extremely important to have everything perfect. The papers must be the originals, not copies, the stamp must be in the correct place, the dates must be correct, and we pay 45 000 cfa ($90.) The officer looks everything over, scouring for loopholes so that you can be denied. If you aren't, they scan your fingers, take your picture and provide you with a temporary 30-day visa. They stamp the papers and return them to you and send you on your way.
Nestor anxiously awaits the new visa and stamped papers to begin filling out the second round of paperwork. He resumes calling Joe every other day demanding passports or signatures until everything is in order and then a trip to Libreville is booked.
We catch an early morning flight to Libreville and head directly to the immigration office. Nestor has some sort of connection there as we bypass lines of people waiting outside and head directly to a side door. It is very important to be dressed nicely as people have been turned away at the door. Upon entering, we are shuffled on to a bench where 5 people, no more, no less, must sit and wait. You sit for several hours trying to figure out how everything works because no one actually tells you anything. Nestor tells us to listen for our names to be called which is impossible because they call from the other side of the room and there are a hundred other people shuffling about and talking.
It appears that Nestor has some sort of deal with one particular immigration officer who may or may not have been paid in order to let us jump the line. After 2 hours of waiting, I am called forward and surprisingly Nestor accompanies me. Prior to this, he wasn't allowed to help unless there was a problem. The officer scours the papers and finds something wrong with them. He demands that Nestor explains but never accepts the answer, scans my fingers, and directs me to sit back on the benches. Half an hour later, I'm called to a different man who looks over our 'offenses' and assigns a penalty (the going rate for us white people seems to be 300 000 cfa or about $600.) We are then directed to the cashier to pay the fine.
We resume sitting on the benches waiting for our names to be called again, this time for the photo. Once called, I enter a cubicle and answer a few questions, have my fingerprints scanned again and get the photo taken. I resume my place on another bench and again, wait for my name to be called for the fourth and final time to receive the actual carte de sejour.
Voila, process is complete. Nestor swoops up the card telling me that he needs to take it for one reason or another but assures me I will have it in my hands in a few days.
To recap… 2 trips to Pointe Noire, an infinite number of trips to Nestor's office, 4 passport photos, a wedding, a day at the immigration office in Libreville, several thousand dollars, 4 months of frustration but I am the proud new owner of a Gabonese Carte de Sejour. If we're still here, we'll get to do it all over again in 2 years!
Every visit to an airport in one of these smaller African countries is an experience. Most of the time it is hectic, unorganized and frustrating but yesterday was relatively smooth... except for 2 small things.
Apparently, the leader of the opposition party was making his arrival in Libreville (probably from Port Gentil as I think he resides there as do many of his supporters) just after we were to depart and he invited his supporters to meet him at the airport for a march to the government offices. Those of you who travel know that everyone tells you to stay away from any political protests as they have potential to become dangerous. Unfortunately, we had no choice as we had a flight to catch. I was a little nervous by all the red shirts (the colour of the opposition party) taking over the exterior of the airport. Luckily, nothing much happened while we were there. There was some singing, marching and cheering but by this time, the army showed up, shot guns and all and corralled people outside. I haven't heard what happened afterwards but thank goodness it remained peaceful while we were there.
While in Pointe Noire, Joe purchased a regulator box to plug our TV into as the electricity fluctuates so much here that we worry it could damage our bigger electronics. We were a little concerned as it was 8 kg and we didn't want to be overweight so at the last minute we moved some of Joe's things into my bag. We checked in, left our bags and returned to the main area to look at some magazines. As we were standing around, I hear the distinct name Joseph Thomas Reid (with a very French flare and Reid is always pronounced Red) being called over the intercom. Of course, Joe hears none of this so I get his attention and we report to baggage. Well I guess a regulator looks like a bomb in the scanner so we had a bit of explaining to do. After we opened the bag for them and explained what it was, all was fine, but funny nonetheless.
In the end we made it home safely but unfortunately, I have one more trip this week to Libreville for the final step in the residence card process. I wonder what excitement awaits me then.
This week we had to leave the country to get things rolling with my residence card (that will be another post) so we had to spend more time in Pointe Noire. If you remember, we did this a few months ago and really were not fans of the city (see previous post.) Joe had a lot of work to catch up on so we spent a lot of the time in the room which was fine with me… the incessant honking by the taxi drivers was enough to drive me crazy!
On our way back to Gabon we had to go through Libreville (customs/immigration) and we arranged to stay the weekend to car shop. There are cars in Port Gentil but selection is limited and we just weren't finding exactly what we wanted. This was my first time in Libreville in the daylight (we usually arrive at night and fly out again in the morning before the sun comes up) and I was pleasantly surprised. It actually seemed like a nice city, at least from what we saw of it.
The main road along the ocean in Libreville.
A view of Libreville from above.
Our wishlist for a car was a smaller SUV with 4x4 (preferably Toyota or Mitsubishi as those are the most common and easiest to fix here,) in relatively good condition, automatic transmission and less than 10 000 000 FCFA (approx $20 000 CAD.) Yes, that is a big budget for a used vehicle however as with everything else here, cars are EXPENSIVE. A typical car is close to double what we would pay in Canada for the same vehicle and it is much more difficult to fix when something breaks.
Saturday morning we had our breakfast and hired a driver to take us around to the shops. Mr. Moussa happened to be waiting outside the hotel and he was the perfect match for car shopping. He took his job seriously that day and was just as involved in the search as we were. He didn't speak any English and neither did many of the salesmen so it really put my French to the test. I was translating left, right and centre and for the most part we got along pretty well.
We decided on a 2001 Rav 4 as it hit our entire wishlist. We aren't out of the woods yet as the money needs to be transferred, inspections need to be done, and it needs to be put on a boat to Port Gentil. I probably don't need to mention that we are in Africa and while we are optimistic, the past has taught us that things don't go smoothly here so we are preparing ourselves for several frustrations and headaches. I'll be happy if we have our car by the time we head to Canada for Christmas.
We have officially moved in to our house, problems and all, and I am often asked, "Do you plan on getting a ménagère?" So what is that, you ask? Well, it's a housekeeper. Every time someone comes to the house or hears about our house they ask. This week the men came to spray bugs and when they realised I was sans ménagère, the man left me his number because his sister is looking for a job. The head maid in the hotel left me her number and a lady at Joe's office has also mentioned she knows many good women for the job. They can be hired for about 150 000 CFA per month (about $300) plus taxi fare which is another 10 000 per week and they will clean your house 5 days a week morning until night! If you've ever inquired about hiring a house cleaner in Canada, you will know that this is very cheap.
Every expat household I know, with the exception of one, has hired a ménagère. It's a two way street: the expats like the thought of cheap help to do the dirty work and the locals expect the wealthy expats to provide jobs for their people. It is just Joe and I here so if you ask me, do we need a ménagère, the answer would be no, of course not. If we decide to hire someone, we would only have her come a few times a week and maybe not even for the full day.
Now that we are actually living in the house, I've been tossing the idea around.
-We provide a job to someone who might not necessarily have one.
-We have 2000 sq feet of tile floors that need to be swept and washed almost every other day. It's a big job and I don't like doing it!
-We do not have a dishwasher and it is probably cheaper to hire help than it would be to buy one.
-Any tasks that neither Joe or I want to do, we can pass it off to someone else.
-The house will always be clean and there would be no scrambling with those surprise visitors.
-Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, complains about their ménagère. They either don't do things right or they don't do them well enough.
-It's hard to trust people here as many are opportunists. We would have to be careful about what was accessible in our house.
-You have someone extra in your home whether you feel like it or not that day.
-It's $300/month that could be spent elsewhere. Over the course of a year, that would be 1 return ticket to Canada.
So what do you think? To ménagère or not?
Those of you that have been regularly following our blog know of our trials and tribulations we've encountered relocating to Africa. Housing has been our biggest dilemma and while we are still sorting that, we also had to deal with my immigration.
Joe secured his residence card quite awhile back and in the meantime, we have been trying to figure out how to do the same for me. Because we weren't married, we couldn't follow the same procedure that most other couples do when moving to Gabon. We had heard that we might be able to secure a common law certificate which would be just as good as a marriage certificate so we followed that path for a few months. Protocol changes daily here and what worked for one person one day may very well not work for another the following day. Eventually, we were told they just couldn't figure it out.
Joe and I knew this could be an issue ahead of time and being that we were already planning on getting married at some point we figured what the heck?!
We were in a bit of a rush as my visa, which had already been extended once, was set to expire so we quickly jumped on board. We told our families and let everyone know that while we were having this wedding here we are thinking of it as solely for immigration and we would most certainly have a 'real' wedding at home with our friends and family present.
Everyone in Gabon must be married by the local mayor in order for the marriage to be legal. We had to have a wedding medical, which consisted of blood tests for HIV, syphilis, blood type and things that would concern me in case we ever want to get pregnant, and complete paperwork. (Polygamy is legal here and is actually an option on the marriage paperwork. For those who are wondering, we chose monogamy.) All of the paperwork was submitted to the mayor and we were told that we would be married on October 30 at 9:00 am. Funny enough, after we informed our families, Joe's Grandma told us that her and Joe's Grandpa were married that very day 64 years ago.
Joe and I sitting front and centre in city hall.
The ceremony was presided over by the mayor and 2 others. It was completely in French and while we understood most of it, we had our friend Tarik translate just so we knew exactly what we were getting ourselves in to.
Tarik translating before exchanging rings. (I think we were laughing that the mayor reiterated several times that monogamy meant 1 man and 1 woman FOREVER!)"
Disclaimer: Please do not judge me by my dress. I searched all of Port Gentil and came up with 2 white dresses. This was the better of the two.
We said our "Oui's," exchanged rings, and signed the documents and are now legally married in Gabon. Afterwards, we went for champagne at a seaside restaurant and later out to dinner with the wedding party.
The day was nice and relaxed but certainly not what we pictured our wedding day to be. Luckily, we are happy to announce that we have begun planning our Canadian wedding for the summer of 2011!


Number 21 – Part 3 | Random Indites !
It was almost 6 in the evening. The John Doe had been identified from the missing reports as a small business owner named Howard Bracken. His wife had reported him missing 2 days ago. His wife was contacted and asked to come and confirm if the body was indeed her husband's.
Alan was sitting on the chair looking at the white board. It had been put up with the photos of the victims and had arrows pointing to the previous cases they matched. He couldn't understand how he was involved in all this, and if the letters A, C were indeed his initials or meant something else completely. But the similarity to his first two cases and his initials were very hard to ignore. He was so engrossed in trying to unravel the mystery that he didn't realise someone had come up beside him and was standing next to him looking at the board. The guy suddenly remarked upon the singularity of the case, making Alan jump out of surprise.
Conrad Higgins was his old partner. And his mentor. Higgins was with him on his first 7 cases and had trained him on how to interrogate and read people, where to look for clues, etc. On their eighth case together, Higgins had taken a bribe and destroyed evidence against the guilty, and Alan had reported him to his seniors. Higgins was suspended from duty and official proceedings were started against him. Alan went on cracking case after case, getting many applauds from the department, whereas Higgins got caught up in the bribery charges. Higgins did not speak to Alan for almost a year, and then one day, just called to meet up. They had beer together, talked about old days, and all was forgiven and forgotten.
Alan was glad to see his old partner here. Maybe he could shed some new light in the case. And as Higgins was involved in Alan's first two cases as well, he could find an angle perhaps. Alan told him about the evidence and witness reports. Higgins opined that it might be someone who had tracked Alan's success in solving homicide cases and wanted to challenge his abilities. Maybe the murderer was trying to create the perfect murder, a murder without motive or reason. In that case, it might be very difficult to catch him. This disheartened Alan, but he decided to pursue the thread nonetheless. He thanked Higgins for his help, and Higgins left, asking to be kept updated about the developments.
At around 7 PM, the CSU report on Mary newton's apartment came back. A silver button had been discovered near the door in the CSU sweep. There was a partial fingerprint that matched the victim, but no other evidence on it. The button did not match any of the dresses of Mary, neither did it match any of those of her parents or her boyfriend. This was a new clue, and Alan assumed it belonged to the murderer and had torn off in the struggle to remove Mary from her house.
Alan returned back home at around 9 PM. He wasn't feeling very good. The thought that he might be responsible for innocent people's death was weighing him down. He was utterly depressed, and prayed that he would be able to catch the killer before he could claim any more victims. But Alan was without any clues that would help. He decided to analyse the whole case from the beginning again.
He had dozed off in the sofa in the hall, when vibrations of the phone in his pocket woke him up. It was Jerry, another deputy. They had discovered the bodies of two little twins in a dumpster near the children's park. Alan said he was on his way. It was 11 PM, and he couldn't believe the murderer would strike so soon. Three murders in 24 hours was too much. He sent a text to detective James and reached the park in 15 minutes. A lot of people were crowded there, and a number of women were sobbing quietly. Alan took a peek in the dumpster. His eyes welled up. Two little infants, around 8 months of age were lying there as if in sleep. But they were dead.
Suddenly a woman came rushing towards them, crying that her babies were stolen, and if they could help her find them. She said she had been shopping in the nearby supermarket when the pram holding her kids went missing. Then she looked inside the dumpster, screamed and fainted. They were her babies. The emergency guys took her to the hospital to recover from the shock.
Alan asked the deputy to move people away and cordon off the area. James also reached the spot at the time. She looked shaken after witnessing the scene. Alan took the tape recorder out of his pocket and started recording.
Alan: There are two bodies in the dumpster. That of two identical twin infant boys of about 8 months of age. There are no cuts or bruises on the face, chest, abdomen or on the hands and legs. Both the boys are blue in colour that seem to be the result of choking or asphyxiation. There are no marks on the neck. Maybe a pillow was used. The bodies are in open black plastic bags. The mother of the children was still looking for the kids in the park, so it wasn't long that they had gone missing. The murders seem to be done hurriedly and the bodies dumped here.
Alan noted that this twin murder was similar to this third case. That case was of the murders of two identical twins of about 6 years of age. He had found out that there was a romantic angle of the baby sitter with the father and she killed the kids to make the mother insane with grief so that she could have the father to herself. It took him almost 2 months to crack the case, only after he got the news that the father had asked to divorce his wife.
Alan hoped this was in no way related to the insane chain of murders. With consternation, he slowly turned the bodies over . There was an A and a C inscribed on either of their backs.


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2023 Oscar nominations: Fans 'thrilled' after Stephanie Hsu nods to supporting actress say 'theater kids keep winning'
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards are being announced and we have stiff competition in the Best Supporting Actress category with five amazing actresses competing for the prestigious trophy. However, fans were very happy to know that Stephanie Hsu was rewarded for her impeccable performance in the movie All, All at Once.
It was a stunning night for all the 'EEAAO' actors as they received nominations in various categories, but people went berserk when Hsu's name was announced by the stage as one of the nominees in the Best Supporting Actress category. The young star stunned the world with a superlative performance on film and was unjustly neglected by the award winners. However, the Academy did not repeat this mistake and gave her what she deserved. Hsu portrayed the role of Joy Wang in one universe and a divine, colorful menace to the multiverse.
2022 Gotham Awards Winners List: Everything Everywhere All At Once wins Best Feature Film
She will face off against Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), Jamie Lee Curtiss (Everything Everywhere All at Once), and Hong Chau (The Wal').
Fans didn't shy away from sharing their excitement over Hsu's nomination and congratulated the star on his well-deserved nomination. One of the fans remarked, "We won." Another fan tweeted, "DESERVE YES. Another fan commented, "STEPHANIE HSU NOM AS SHE SHOULD." Another social media user said, "STEPHANIE HSU JUST RECEIVED A BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS NOMINATION AT THE OSCARS. HOLY FUCKING SHIT."
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The Future of Combat Casualty Care
Is the Military Health System Ready?
by Brent Thomas
Combat Medicine,
Combat Service Support,
The Military Health System needs a resilient and responsive posture to treat combat casualties in a rapidly evolving global threat environment.
Preparing for a potential conflict with a near-peer adversary requires understanding the likely requirements for medical care on the future battlefield—including the types of injuries and numbers of casualties—in the aftermath of an attack involving high-precision, long-range weapon systems and other advanced capabilities.
The Military Health System can improve its combat medical support posture, but it will need to evaluate and implement a portfolio of mitigations including
an improved capability and expanded capacity to treat casualties at or near the point of injury
an agile, resilient, and global network of treatment facilities, storage sites for medical supplies, and transportation assets
adequate preparation for homeland support and homeland defense missions
a resilient industrial base for medical supplies.
The 2018 National Defense Strategy signaled a shift in the global security environment and the nature of the threats that the United States must prepare to face in future combat operations. In contrast to the counterinsurgency or counterterrorism operations of recent years, the strategy prioritized preparations for rapidly executed, large-scale conflict between nations. Potential adversaries—such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea—are investing in long-range, high-precision missile systems that give them the ability to launch strikes against U.S. forces from greater distances and to cause larger numbers of casualties.
With such capabilities in the hands of U.S. adversaries, defense planners, logisticians, and senior leaders in the U.S. Department of Defense are exploring options to increase the resilience of medical support for U.S. forces in high-intensity conflict environments. One key element of that planning falls to the Military Health System (MHS), the entity responsible for both providing day-to-day health care coverage to service members, military retirees, and their families and treating U.S. forces injured in combat.
What are the ramifications of these evolving threats for combat casualty care, and is the MHS—which has been undergoing restructuring—ready to meet this challenge? The MHS has multiple opportunities to better prepare for a future conflict environment that could differ from those of recent decades. The open-source literature highlights several important considerations for the MHS:
Are expeditionary medical treatment facilities prepared to receive the anticipated volume of casualties and offer service members the same level of care as in recent conflicts?
Are the services able to rapidly establish an expeditionary network of care to receive combat casualties?
Can the current medical logistics and sustainment posture meet the requirements of a future fight?
Is the MHS prepared to support the homeland defense mission in such a scenario?
Does the medical supply industrial base have the capacity to meet MHS demand in the care of combat casualties?
A Look at Casualty Care on the Future Battlefield
Over the past few decades, MHS combat care capabilities have evolved to meet medical support requirements in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters. The MHS has developed an agile, efficient network of deployed care capable of quickly stabilizing, treating, and evacuating wounded service members, and it has successfully treated patients injured in the line of duty and limited loss of life. But this posture of medical support is based on patient loads that were relatively light in environments where U.S. forces had air superiority that allowed them to safely evacuate patients to higher echelons of care when needed. These assumptions do not align with many aspects of the future large-scale combat operations suggested in the 2018 National Defense Strategy.
Adversary weapon systems, such as ballistic and cruise missiles, could cause damage at air bases across a combat theater and could yield numbers of blast casualties that greatly exceed those treated in recent conflicts. With large numbers of personnel wounded or killed, U.S. forces' ability to wage war would be significantly diminished. Treating injuries and ensuring that personnel can return to duty as quickly as possible will be critical to sustaining operational capability. Furthermore, the ability of deployed medical care to stabilize and treat serious combat wounds is important to reconstituting the force and ensuring its resilience over the longer term. However, preparing to treat combat casualties is only one aspect of the enhanced challenge.
An adversary with advanced weapons could directly target key infrastructure that supports military mobility—parked aircraft, runways, and fuel tanks, for example. Damage or destruction of these assets can make it difficult or impossible for U.S. forces to freely move around the battlespace and to fight back against an adversary. This contested environment can severely degrade U.S. capacity to evacuate wounded service members or replenish urgently needed medical supplies.
In such future combat operations, large-scale streams of trauma patients and degraded availability of evacuation transport assets could quickly tax or overwhelm the capacity, capability, and throughput of deployed military medical care.
Evacuation to a higher echelon of care depends on the nature of the injury, available capacity and capability, and triage strategy
Point of injury
Transport to field hospital by helicopter or ambulance
Transport to theater hospital by plane
Transfer to U.S. hospital by plane
Enhancing Treatment Options at and Near the Point of Injury
The current paradigm for medical support has at least three significant limitations under the conditions expected in future combat operations that could constrain access to high-quality care for injured personnel:
the capacity of field hospitals to treat and hold large numbers of combat casualties
the ability to rapidly triage, treat, and discharge patients through expeditionary military treatment facilities (MTFs)
the ability to provide high-quality care with available medical resources at MTFs.
That said, the MHS could pursue several possible mitigations to help ease constraints in one or more of these areas. For example, expanding the capacity of field hospitals to add beds, operating rooms, and critical care wards—along with the medical personnel needed to staff them—can increase patient holding capacity where it is most needed. First responder training to enhance forces' ability to provide life-saving interventions at the point of injury could improve treatment capability overall. And pairing resilient resupply mechanisms, such as autonomous drones, with triage strategies specific to mass trauma events could accelerate patient throughput—improving patient outcomes, returning service members to duty more quickly, and reducing the need for casualties to be evacuated to higher echelons of care.
Under a heavy load of trauma casualties, expeditionary MTFs will be highly resource-constrained. Given the current emphasis on the fast and efficient flow of patients through an MTF, attempts to alleviate congestion and improve care with a single mitigation strategy can lead to bottlenecks further along in the care network. For example, if first responders are able to save more lives at the point of injury, a larger number of severely wounded trauma patients will need to be admitted to already congested MTFs. Consequently, a portfolio approach of selecting multiple mitigation strategies will be needed to improve the quality of care for combat casualties.
With hostilities expected to arise with limited warning in a future combat environment, it is important to ensure that an expeditionary care network and critical medical supplies are in place before the first wave of combat casualties requires treatment.
Prepositioning Medical Assets
During the Cold War, military planners similarly recognized the importance of a robust network of prepositioned materiel in Europe, which ensured that needed capability could be set up in the field quickly. Prepositioning postures are nowhere near as robust today, so medical planners face the additional challenge of reinvigorating the U.S. military's global medical warehousing network. In doing so, they will need to consider, for example, what to store, where to warehouse it, and how to move it to likely points of end use.
Placing medical materiel in areas where it is expected to be used can expedite deployment and signal U.S. readiness. But there are costs associated with warehouse storage, personnel to monitor stocks, replacing supplies that expire or deteriorate, and transporting the supplies and equipment. Detailed assessment is key to balancing the pros and cons in designing a prepositioning posture and determining the most cost-effective modes of transportation to move materiel to their intended points of end use.
Improving the Resilience of Medical Logistics and Sustainment
Medical logistics and sustainment play an important role in ensuring that service members have ongoing access to medical support in a conflict. If the operational tempo for medical care accelerates, then logistics requirements will as well. Scaling up and adapting current approaches may not be sufficient; rather, a fresh look at the expected requirements and solutions is warranted.
Many elements of stored medical materiel have special handling and maintenance requirements, needing periodic inspection, repair, and replacement. The MHS has a range of manpower options to support these operations, such as on-site maintenance and traveling maintenance teams, but it might also want to consider the cost-saving potential of civilian and contracted labor. In determining whether and when civilian labor might be an alternative, medical planners must consider the requirements for these maintenance specialists to deploy to support contingency operations.
The MHS might consider partnering with other countries to help fill gaps in medical logistics capabilities and sustainment support and to help the U.S. military secure critical medical supplies, patient transport assets, and facilities and medical staff to treat wounded U.S. personnel. Medical logistics support relies on the ability to maintain awareness of the status of medical materiel—what assets are where, what levels of stock are on the shelf, and the condition of supplies and equipment. Reliable and enduring awareness in a contested environment requires resilient data systems and communication links.
Preparing for Missions at Home
The MHS provides medical care to service members not only on far-away battlefields but also in or near the U.S. homeland, and these missions are no less challenging. Defending the homeland from attack is an essential national security priority. In light of adversary efforts to field long-range precision weapon systems, base operations in the Arctic have been receiving increased attention because of their importance to homeland defense. But the climate and austere geography of these locations make conducting military operations particularly challenging.
Should U.S. forces in the Arctic come under attack, the extreme climate has special implications in planning for combat casualty care—from receiving resupply shipments and evacuating patients to higher echelons of care to providing trauma care at the point of injury. Moreover, the typically small operating locations in this region tend to have small clinics and a limited number of medical staff, both of which would be difficult to scale up quickly and cost-effectively.
Moreover, casualties flowing back to the homeland—whether from the Arctic or other locations—could arrive in large enough numbers to overwhelm military treatment facilities in the United States. The country has not managed the large-scale movement of combat casualties or navigated the ensuing challenges of providing care en route and allocating space and resources for their treatment and recovery since World War II. Planning for such scenarios might require the MHS to consider new partnerships, data systems, training programs, and investments in medical equipment and materiel to limit potential shortfalls in the provision of casualty care.
Building a Resilient Industrial Base
If the MHS must deliver medical support to large numbers of combat casualties, demand for lifesaving medical supplies could outstrip the ability of the industrial base to supply them. Under typical day-to-day conditions, the industry is widely capable of providing safe and effective drugs and supplies to care networks. However, the industry has been under significant pressure to manage costs, limiting manufacturing surge capacity and posing a particular problem when large quantities of low-cost drugs—especially generic pharmaceuticals—are needed on an emergency basis.
To overcome these challenges, firms have instituted some safeguards, such as working with international partners whose production costs are lower and carefully tailoring production capacity to match expected demands. As a result, the industrial base has a limited ability to surge production in response to a significant spike in demand.
Nonetheless, in a sudden-onset large-scale conflict scenario, it may be difficult for medical providers to secure sufficient quantities of key drugs to meet the needs of all patients. Consequently, the MHS might wish to pursue a range of mitigation strategies, such as targeting resources to incentivize industry investments in production capacity, diversifying the industrial base, and supporting international partners to enhance their quality assurance and quality control processes. Such steps can mitigate the risk of supply shortages by promoting flexibility in industrial supply chain operations.
The future threat environment as envisioned in the 2018 National Defense Strategy has significantly changed the operational view of front-line combat units and the capabilities they will need in a conflict with a potential adversary. Medical and other combat service support functions face a similarly daunting paradigm shift.
The MHS has a range of opportunities to improve its capability to treat casualties in a future fight—including mitigations to expand treatment and enable a more agile force reconstitution, resilient logistics, and robust sustainment.
It is important to recognize that no single mitigation—no "silver bullet"—will broadly improve the performance of expeditionary medical care in expected future conflict scenarios. Consequently, it will be important for the MHS to continue exploring combinations of mitigations and to assess the overall cost and performance of each portfolio. In this way, the MHS will be better able to conduct its assigned missions, ensuring heightened support to the warfighter both at home and in combat.
Preparing for the Future of Combat Casualty Care
Brent Thomas
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/RB-A713-1
Document Number: RB-A713-1
Combat Medicine
Combat Service Support
Thomas, Brent, The Future of Combat Casualty Care: Is the Military Health System Ready?. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2021. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA713-1.html.
Thomas, Brent, The Future of Combat Casualty Care: Is the Military Health System Ready?, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RB-A713-1, 2021. As of January 14, 2022: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA713-1.html


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Singleton to retire from Denver Post owner…
Singleton to retire from Denver Post owner MediaNews Group
Dean Singleton, MediaNews Group Inc. founder and chairman
Dean Singleton
In this September 1987 photo, William Dean Singleton, center, of MediaNews Group, speaks to The Denver Post newsroom staff after the sale of The Post to MNG.
William Dean Singleton, 62, MediaNews Group founder and chairman, will retire next month. He said he plans to assist his children in various business ventures. He will remain on The Post's editorial board.
By Steve Raabe | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: November 4, 2013 at 7:05 am | UPDATED: June 13, 2016 at 1:22 pm
William Dean Singleton, who built the nation's second-largest newspaper company, will retire next month as chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., owner of The Denver Post.
Singleton, 62, will continue to serve as non-executive chairman of The Post. Mac Tully, president and CEO of the newspaper, will take over from Singleton as publisher.
Singleton said that multiple sclerosis, a condition he was diagnosed with 26 years ago, has slowed him physically.
"Fighting MS has actually caused me to be healthier in some aspects of my life," he said. "But it makes it more difficult to do the things you want to do."
Singleton said he will spend more time with his family and at his Colorado cattle ranches in Grand and Jackson counties. He said he plans to assist his children with various business ventures.
"There are a lot of things I want to do that I haven't had time to do yet," he said. "I'll be thrilled to not be working as hard, but I intend to stay close to The Denver Post."
He said he will maintain an office in downtown Denver and work with Tully.
Singleton founded MediaNews Group in 1983 with the late Richard B. Scudder. Other MediaNews Group newspapers include the San Jose Mercury News, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, The Detroit News and The Salt Lake City Tribune.
"Dean has been a fixture and important leader in Colorado for decades," said Greg Moore, editor of The Post. "He is impossible to replace. Working with a legend has been challenging and exhilarating. I'm going to miss him personally and professionally. At the same time, there is a lot of great journalism to be done here, and I look forward to getting after it with Mac at the helm."
Singleton and Scudder bought The Denver Post in 1987 from Times Mirror Inc. Singleton then presided over an aggressive, 22-year battle for dominance in the Denver newspaper market with Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co., owner of the Rocky Mountain News. The Rocky closed in 2009.
The Denver Post won five Pulitzer Prizes under Singleton's leadership.
"Dean is a newspaper legend, and you don't replace a legend. Our job now will be to build on the great company Dean has created," said John Paton, CEO of Digital First Media, a company created to jointly manage publications of MediaNews Group and Journal Register Co.
Singleton had a sometimes contentious relationship with labor unions that represented employees of The Denver Post and other MediaNews Group newspapers, particularly when challenging economics in the newspaper industry required wage freezes and cutbacks in benefits.
"There was some angst," said Tony Mulligan, administrative officer of the Denver Newspaper Guild. "We didn't like everything he told us. But I felt he was always upfront with us."
Singleton will continue to hold a seat on The Post's editorial board, which establishes positions on issues and candidate endorsements for the op-ed section.
"Everyone I know worked pretty hard to get his endorsement," said Gov. John Hickenlooper. "Even when I've disagreed with him on a position, I've never once questioned the value of having a publisher who really cares about the community."
Mayor Michael Hancock said he often has sought Singleton's opinion on important issues.
"Dean has a very healthy acknowledgment and respect from elected officials," Hancock said.
Singleton began his newspaper career as a part-time reporter in his hometown of Graham, Texas, at the age of 15. He bought his first newspaper when he was 21.
Singleton served on the board of the Newspaper Association of America from 1993 until 2004 and was chairman of the group in 2002 and 2003.
He was chairman of The Associated Press board of directors from 2007 until 2012.
Singleton serves on the boards of the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center, The Helen G. Bonfils Foundation and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He previously was a board member of the National Sports Center for the Disabled, the Winter Park Recreational Association and the University of Denver.
Steve Raabe: 303-954-1948, sraabe@denverpost.com or twitter.com/steveraabedp
1983: Texas newspaperman William Dean Singleton partners with Richard B. Scudder, a third-generation newspaper owner from New Jersey, to form MediaNews Group Inc., an umbrella company, to acquire newspapers. Singleton is president and chief executive officer.
September 1987: Singleton buys The Denver Post from Times Mirror Co. of Los Angeles for $95 million, with about $70 million of that in notes. Four years later, Times Mirror writes down some of the debt in return for a $42 million cash payment. Singleton names Moe Hickey, former publisher of The Detroit News, as publisher of The Post.
1988: To tackle circulation problems, The Post shifts to all-adult carriers and institutes a centralized billing system that allows subscribers to pay bills by mail. The Post follows through with its vow of daily delivery by 6 a.m., and complaints decline.
October 1989: Singleton names Don Hunt as publisher of The Post after a stormy exit by Hickey.
November 1989: Singleton hires a veteran editor, F. Gilman Spencer, to take the helm of The Post newsroom. Spencer, recently resigned as editor of the New York Daily News, is a surprise choice made by Singleton to coax the best out of a nervous Denver newsroom staff.
June 1993: Hunt steps down as publisher and is succeeded by Ryan McKibben.
October 1995: The corporate headquarters of MediaNews Group is moved to Denver from Houston.
January 1996: After The Rocky Mountain News pulls back circulation to all but 15 Colorado counties, Singleton pledges that The Post will continue to serve all of the state, giving it a 125,000-copy lead on Sunday circulation and drawing even on daily copies.
Oct. 20, 1996: The Denver Post announces to Sunday readers that it has recaptured the daily circulation lead from the rival Rocky Mountain News after a 17-year battle. For the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 1996, The Post averages daily circulation of 334,436 copies; the News reports 316,872. Post Sunday circulation is 461,837; the News is 406,503, per the Audit Bureau of Circulations publisher's statements.
December 1997: After acquiring the Los Angeles Daily News from Tower Media Inc., MediaNews Group and its affiliates now own 34 daily newspapers and 105 non-daily publications in 11 states with a circulation in excess of 2.3 million. The Singleton-Scudder partnership is now the nation's eighth-largest newspaper owner — ahead of E.W. Scripps, owner of The Rocky Mountain News.
January 2001: Attorney General Janet Reno approves a joint operating agreement between The Post and The Rocky Mountain News, merging the papers' business functions into The Denver Newspaper Agency to keep the failing Rocky alive. Singleton chairs it for the first four years. He is also named publisher of The Post, replacing Gerald Grilly.
May 2002: Singleton hires a new editor, Gregory L. Moore, from the Boston Globe.
February 2009: After failing to find a buyer, E.W. Scripps closes The Rocky Mountain News.
January 2010: In a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, Affiliated Media Inc., holding company for MediaNews Group, and its lenders agree to restructure $930 million in debt. The agreement swaps debt for equity, retains current management and excludes all of the company's media properties, including The Post. After owning as much as 45 percent of MediaNews Group at one time, Singleton's interest falls to less than 20 percent. MediaNews Group is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher by circulation, with 54 daily newspapers and more than 100 non-daily newspapers in 12 states.
January 2011: Singleton, chairman and CEO of MediaNews Group, announces he will step down to become executive chairman in a management realignment after a new CEO is named. He remains chairman and publisher of The Denver Post and The Salt Lake Tribune.
September 2011: John Paton is named chief executive of MediaNewsGroup and also Digital First Media, a new company created to manage the news properties of MediaNews and the Journal Register Co., of New York. Owner of the Journal Register is Alden Global Capital, which became an investor in MediaNews in 2010.
Nov. 4, 2013: William Dean Singleton, 62, retires from MediaNews Group, but remains as non-executive chairman of The Denver Post. President and CEO Mac Tully becomes publisher.
Compiled by Vickie Makings, The Denver Post Research Library
Steve Raabe


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