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Lawrence of Arabia – the Lost Critic and the Legend
February 28, 2013 Hugh Pope	Leave a comment Go to comments
A poster of Lawrence's portrait (advertising an Orientalist exhibition in Istanbul) defaced with the words "English Spy"
The one thing I couldn't persuade the publishers of Dining with al-Qaeda to change as we edited the text was their leading phrase in the jacket-sleeve blurb, which referred to the author as "Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Burton and Lawrence of Arabia …"
In January, for the magazine The Majalla, I finally got to write down the full reason why I felt a reference to Lawrence wasn't appropriate for a book like mine, which is in large part about how difficult it is to set facts straight about the Middle East. I've complained about modern journalists who claim to be strictly reporting what happened and yet do not always stick to the non-fiction high road (more here). "Faction" is of course not uncommon – some books of Ryszard Kapuściński were so light-footed they were dubbed "magical journalism" (more here). To be sure, both Kapuściński and Lawrence appear to have told their friends that they were not trying to recount plodding facts. But the problem for me remains that most people don't realise that, and most publishers are not in a rush to tell them.
Lawrence of Legend
The lost critic and the legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Hugh Pope's discovery of a long forgotten book; Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry by Richard Aldington unravels the hype and fabrication behind the Lawrence story.
The Majalla, 28 January 2013
T.E. Lawrence (left) and American publicist Lowell Thomas
When I was spending summer afternoons copying Arabic lettering off the blackboard at Oxford University's Oriental Institute, I would often catch myself staring out of the dull, aluminum-framed windows. Where were the sweeping skylines pricked with minarets, the romantic deserts, the bustling bazaars of my imagined Middle East? Where were the clash and drama of newspaper coverage of wars and revolutions? Much of the Arabic syllabus seemed to peter out around the time of the Ottoman Empire's conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and their takeover of the Arab World soon thereafter. Strangely, it seemed to me, even Britain's extraordinary twentieth century moment in the Middle East was almost never discussed in my university classes.
In those days, soon after the publication of Edward Saïd's Orientalism, our teachers were also determined to avoid the Orientalist label. Sweeping vistas were out. The fashion was for minute, detailed study of manageably small events and narrow themes—and, for me, those impossible-looking curves and dots scratched in chalk on the blackboard. One result was that I began to nurse a secret love of the breezy memoirs and letters of the British who passed through the history of the East and could write well about it: Lady Wortley Montague, dragomans and ambassadors; or officials like John Bagot Glubb (dubbed "Glubb Pasha"), Sir Mark Sykes and Sir Harry Luke, even a glossy vision of Iraq that leaped from the pages of the 1955 yearbook of the London-based Iraqi Petroleum Company, a treasure I discovered on an upper floor of Baghdad's old book market.
The most glamorous of them all, of course, was T. E. Lawrence—Lawrence of Arabia—and his voluptuous literary feast, theSeven Pillars of Wisdom. This promised and delivered "the sweep of the open spaces, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight and the hopes." Before going up to Oxford I had bought a copy of this account of the 1916–1918 Arab Revolt. I thrilled to his desert guerrilla raiding as a semi-amateur British army officer, his seamless acceptance into a different world to which I aspired to belong. I admired his promotion of the oppressed Arabs' cause, and the selfless sacrifice of his status when London betrayed their promises of Arab independence. This work seemed to be considered almost pornographic by the Oriental Institute dons, but since we never studied the period or discussed the book in any depth, I never learned why.
Actor Peter O'Toole studying for his part in the film Lawrence of Arabia
Then one recent day in Edinburgh, I came across the plain black cover of the first edition of Richard Aldington's Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry, a book I had never heard of. Here, in the folds of what I judged was measured prose, was concealed a jeweled dagger of a polemic. It led me into a whole world of debate about the Lawrence story—the great film, the (lack of) sex, his genius, his psychology—of which I am no scholar. But Aldington's arguments did ring startlingly true as he portrayed Lawrence as one of my bugbears, a writer who exploits the confusion and magical reputation of the Middle East to play fast and loose with the facts.
Aldington was ambitious, seeking to deconstruct "the legend of Lawrence," and to prove that key parts of his work were "heightened, exaggerated, faked, boastful and sometimes entirely without foundation," making the British hero "at least half a fraud." Even Lawrence's trade-mark blowing up of Hejaz Railway trains, he said, was just "a wartime intensification of a constant peacetime nuisance," and what other British and French officers equally proficient in such guerrilla actions lacked "was literary skill to write up their achievements."
Aldington acknowledges that Lawrence's lyrical description of the march to capture the Red Sea anchorage of Al-Wajh is "one of the admired set pieces of Seven Pillars," with much singing, bouncing camels and barbaric splendor. But he then notes that Lawrence brought his men up two days late for the fight, during which British navy ships and men did the real fighting while the Bedouins hung back or looted. As for the ramshackle capture of the Red Sea harbor town of Aqaba—"another Gallipoli," according to Seven Pillars—it had been done twice before in the war.
Later, the final British race through Palestine to Syria in 1918 was won thanks to old-fashioned bludgeoning by General Edmund Allenby's main army columns, with Lawrence and his light raiders at most slightly distracting the Ottoman-German command with skirmishing on the desert flanks. It is sickening to read Aldington's indictment of the massacres of retreating Ottoman and German troops by Lawrence and his Bedouin irregulars, even if Lawrence admitted the slaughter. As for the great price on his head that Lawrence suggested was offered by his enemies, Aldington can find no evidence for it—nor indeed any mention of Lawrence in any of several accounts published by German or Ottoman officers who served in the Arabian peninsula.
Aldington also challenges a central pillar of the Lawrence legend. Lawrence told one of his biographers, Basil Liddell Hart, that "since about sixteen years of age [he had been] filled with the idea of freeing people and had chosen the Arabs as the only suitable ones left." Later, Lawrence said he resigned from government service because Britain betrayed promises forwarded by him to the leaders of the Arab revolt, or as he puts it in Seven Pillars, "an Arab war waged and led by Arabs for an Arab aim in Arabia."
An indisputably great photo by Lawrence of the Arab army on the march
Perhaps Lawrence was torn between a pro-Arab commitment and official instructions, but Aldington finds no proof that any authority ordered him to make any promises. Surprisingly, he even finds evidence that Lawrence's Arabic was far from fluent. While Lawrence and the British faction to which he belonged may have had sincere sympathy for the Arab cause, Aldington believes "these causes were in the main British camouflage for . . . excluding the French." As Lawrence put it in one letter, British policy should be to "biff the French out of all hope of Syria . . . won't the French be mad if we win through?"
Aldington shows too the extraordinary degree to which Lawrence—not known to public opinion during the First World War itself—was catapulted to fame due to a delayed-action trick of US wartime propaganda. An American team out to boost morale, reporter Lowell Thomas and photographer Harry Chase, had tried the Western front but there, as Aldington puts it, "the drab butchery . . . did not lend itself either to thrilling photography or to eloquent narrative." The pair then hit upon the idea of the Arabian front, where they found a ready and photogenic Lawrence.
The resulting show, eventually entitled With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia, was only ready in 1919, after the war was over. After a modest beginning in New York, the lecture tour became a sensation in the English-speaking world, with two thousand performances over four years. It was a true feast for the Orientalist imagination. In London, the promoters borrowed a "Moonlight on the Nile" scene from an opera set, a Dance of the Seven Veils was performed, and an Irish tenor off-stage sang a musical version of the Muslim call to prayer. Aldington says this was irresistible to a British public still in shock from the war:
What was now wanted was a success story, and who could give it better than an American, for whom success is a national duty? The technique was hardly understood at all in England, where advertising seldom rose above a flat monotony of uninventive mendacity—'Ponsonby's Picklesare the Best' . . . Anyone who has seen a Japanese judo expert throwing hundredweights of London policemen about a stage will realize what Lowell Thomas did mentally and emotionally with those naïve British audiences.
The spectacle's focus on Lawrence went so far as to include an inaccurate film subtitle stating that Lawrence dynamited the Hejaz Railway while other British officers remained at base. Lawrence's own Seven Pillars of Wisdom followed, published in various public editions from 1926 onwards. In the introduction, Lawrence strikes a modest pose:
My proper share was a minor one, but because of a fluent pen, a free speech, and a certain adroitness of brain, I took upon myself, as I describe it, a mock primacy. In reality I never had any office among the Arabs: was never in charge of the British mission with them.
But for all Lawrence's later denials, Aldington painstakingly shows he was deeply involved in helping Thomas create the show that put him front and center. As Lawrence told Thomas, "History isn't made up of truth anyway, so why worry?"
Aldington says he began his commission with no particular feelings about Lawrence. Aldington was a minor poet of the 1910s imagist school, dedicated to replacing romantic abstractions with exact observed detail and apt metaphors, and one of sixteen First World War poets commemorated in London's Westminster Abbey. He had also edited a literary magazine, written a successful novel based on his grueling years in the trenches of the Western Front, and published a prize-winning biography of the Duke of Wellington.
Yet publication of his unexpected findings about Lawrence gravely damaged Aldington's reputation, book sales, and health. Britain was not ready to see its only hero to emerge from the morass of the war toppled, and many disapproved of his revelation of Lawrence's probably "humiliating and painful" feelings about his illegitimate birth. When Aldington died in July 1962, seven years after publishing his Lawrence book, his obituary in The Times said he was "an angry young man of the generation before they became
fashionable; he remained something of an angry old man to the end." It called his attacks on British middle class values "shrill" and suggested that his Lawrence of Arabia book would be "better forgotten."
And forgotten it was, a mere footnote now in the Lawrence legend industry. For a few—Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia: A Cautionary Tale, by Fred Crawford—it proves how hard it is to attack a national idol. More usually—as in John Mack's Prince of our Disorder, which won a Pulitzer in 1976—Lawrence remains "a great man and an important historical figure . . . [who] strongly influenced the [war's] military outcome and the political aftermath." Mack allows that Lawrence was at times "less than completely accurate" and "had some tendency to exaggerate his role and importance." But Aldington's work, he says, was a "flagrant example of the use of psychology . . . for denigrating purposes."
Michael Korda, author of the most recent biography Hero, says Aldington was "obviously" wrong to dispute Lawrence's claim that he was offered the prestigious top British job in Egypt after the war. But the proof of this is missing—indeed he implies Aldington was right in a way, saying any such offer was not serious—and Korda exaggerates in saying that Aldington's "whole case" rests on this "idée fixe." Nevertheless, Korda dismisses Aldington's findings as "minor stuff" and a "sad object lesson in the perils of obsessive self-righteousness."
Still, even Korda allows that "somebody was bound to come along and correct the balance" after the previous biographical "panegyrics . . . without any serious effort at independent research." And Aldington does not accuse Lawrence of treachery, as one of Lawrence's loyal fellow officers has suggested. He just draws attention to grandiose misrepresentation of Lawrence's role, partly due to Lawrence's own efforts, partly because everyone wanted to believe it.
Some writers on the Middle East have always doped up narratives, shaped up stories for audiences, or appropriated others' work as their own. Such self-serving sensationalism is hard to expose, since normal people want to trust colleagues, newspapers and government figures—especially those heroically caught up in great events. Fact-checking is also difficult in this tumultuous region, and few in the Western audience can compare what they read with personal experience. It is precisely these generations of repeated inaccuracies that have widened the gulf of understanding between the region and Western public opinion.
Aldington was bravely ready to show that reality counts, and paid a great price for showing that a fabulous legend was an extraordinary but hyped-up story. No wonder those Oxford academics preferred digging up matters that are buried in a deep and less sensitive past.
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The Cautiously Conservative Cost of Film-Making In the Recession…
Posted on September 8, 2011 by Darren
When it first became clear that we were in for a long recession, there was a lot of fear about what that would mean for cinema. With less money to go around, and the ever-present fear of financial disappoint, a lot of people speculated that it would lead to a serious downturn in the production and distribution of "indie" movies by the major studios, a concern validated by the closing of various speciality divisions within major studios. While it has undoubtedly gotten significantly harder to produce and sell independent film, one look at last year's Best Picture nominees suggest that these little gems are doing relatively okay – with films as provocative as Black Swan, as alternative as The Kids Are All Right and as gritty as Winter's Bone all making the cut. Still, if the indie apocalypse that was foretold hasn't come to pass, I do have to wonder what the cinematic cost of the current economic climate might be.
Hollywood's taken the occasional slap on the wrist over the past few years...
It doesn't seem that big budget motion pictures are suffering too much either. After all, one need only look at the incredibly bloated budget of the unproven (and subsequently disappointing) Green Lantern to see that the studios are still pumping huge amounts of money into their matinee productions. If anything, in what seems like an attempt to consolidate spending by applying it where it is likeliest to see greatest return (a prudent investment strategy), with the budgets for summer blockbusters soaring. It seems like the strategy is paying off, at least mostly. With the exception of a few very costly misfires (including Cowboys & Aliens), it's the big budget films (including Transformers 3 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II) that have been pulling in huge volumes of cash.
So, if big budget blockbusters aren't suffering, and small indie films are still surviving, where are the cuts being made? It seems that the cuts are being applied to unproven studio properties. It looks the studios are saving money by refusing to invest huge sums in franchise properties that have yet to prove themselves. It's hard to fault the studios for what amounts to a sound business strategy, but I was more than a little sad when Universal announced they weren't moving ahead with an adaptation of The Dark Tower or that they were pulling the plug on Del Toro's adaptation of The Mountains of Madness. On the other hand, I think I actually signed with relief when they cancelled the upcoming Ouija movie, so your mileage might vary.
It's not as easy to stay in the green as you might think...
In fairness, one can see why the studio is cautious. With the obvious exception of Bridesmaids, they've had a bit of a rough year, and apparently their new owners, ComCast are less interested in their movie production facilities than they are with the company's broadcast division. it's a shame, because the studio has produced some of the more interesting big-budget movies of the past number of years, including films like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Public Enemies. I can understand why neither film was a hit with audiences (and I didn't even particularly like Public Enemies), but there's no denying that they represented somewhat brave choices.
That sense of cautious conservatism appears to be spreading to other studios, with Disney currently wrangling with Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinksi about the troubled adaptation of The Lone Ranger. Truth be told, even I'm not entirely sold on the premise (why do we need cowboys vs. werewolves?), but that creative team seem to deserve a better shot than most of the big budget blockbusters that get thrown our way – certainly more than a fourth Transformers film. I understand the business logic behind it, and I can't fault it, but it's frustrating to see the studio that produced Imagine That and The Haunted Mansion dumping the Tom Cruise sci-fi movie Oblivion.
Movie piracy is always a concern...
So, I think it's projects like those that will suffer in the recession – movies made around unfamiliar or unproven premises. Instead, I imagine we'll see a lot of studios returning to the same well, with a whole host of remakes, prequels and reboots to established franchises. Truth be told, I'm not being overly cynical here. Although they represented reboots, X-Men: First Class and Rise of the Planet of the Apes were perhaps the year's best blockbusters. That said, I can't help but wonder if Rise of the Planet of the Apes survived on luck, as it's probably hard to argue that – following Tim Burton's disastrous remake – Planet of the Apes is a more recognisable franchise than the Lone Ranger. But what do I know?
You might argue that there's relatively little difference between the movies Hollywood is producing and the movies that it's passing on. After all, one could hardly describe Gore Verbinski's Lone Ranger as "original" – it's arguably just as much a reboot as The Amazing Spider-Man. Similarly, Del Toro's Mountains of Madness was an adaptation rather than an original screenplay, as was Ron Howard's The Dark Tower. I can understand why they might not seem that different from the movies that are flooding our multiplexes in the years ahead.
Another failure might cause the studio to go bananas...
However, I do discern a rather subtle distinction. It seems that Hollywood's reliance on old ideas is increasingly becoming far more modern. It's no longer simply the goal to take what worked for an audience twenty or thirty years ago and serve it up for their children to enjoy – the window of opportunity seems to be closing. It seems to be more about taking the films that we enjoyed five to ten years ago, and serving it up for us to enjoy ourselves. It hasn't been that long since Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and we're already getting a new origin for Peter Parker. I remember going to the cinema to see Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier… now it's James McAvoy. At least there was a much larger gap between Hollywood and its inspiration in the past, with The Lone Ranger as something of a pop culture relic that perhaps deserved to have the dust blown off.
Instead, this feels like a snake eating its own tale, but it's impossibly catching up with itself. The length of the creature is gradually getting shorter, and I have no idea what's going to happen when the beast inevitably runs out of tale. But I would guess that it won't be pretty.
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Andrew, on September 13, 2011 at 2:53 pm said:
What's interesting about the current cinematic climate is that studios lie about the budgets of their films. And we tend to buy those lies. I've heard a rumor that one of the summer's blockbusters reported a budget $50 million dollars less than what was actually spent. I get the impression that studios don't want people to really know what they're spending, maybe now more than ever since this isn't totally new.
Darren, on September 26, 2011 at 8:00 pm said:
That's interesting, becaus ethe first bit of damage control on Green Lantern was not to say it'd have legs or it'd make the money back on video, but to argue that the budget was much lower than reported. Literally lowering expectations.


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Replicon Secures $20 Million in Series A Funding
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SAN MATEO, Calif., and CALGARY, Alberta – June 28, 2013 – Today Replicon, the global leader in cloud-based time tracking solutions, announced a round of funding that will help the company accelerate its already aggressive growth, expand into new markets, and further its footprint within the explosive enterprise marketplace. Replicon's $20 million Series A was led by Emergence Capital Partners and The Social+Capital Partnership.
Replicon expects 60 to 80 percent growth by 2015, fueled by the surge in demand for cloud services in the enterprise. This round of financing will be used to support significant growth, with a focus on aggressive expansion, continued development of the company's direct sales channel, and to extend its reach internationally into Europe and APAC.
"We strongly believe that the ways in which companies align and build their organizations are changing rapidly," said Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and managing partner of The Social+Capital Partnership. "They are partnering with other companies and integrating outside products or services to accelerate business growth. With this growing interdependence, there needs to be a common platform that can help companies deal with increasingly complex business needs and labor practices. Replicon is poised to become this platform for the future."
"Replicon has built an incredibly impressive and diverse global customer base of more than 7,800 customers by offering a powerful but simple-to-use solution," said Jason Green, founder and general partner, Emergence Capital Partners. "We believe with additional capital, expertise, and resources that Replicon will be able to turbo charge its growth and leadership in a market with significant global potential. Every company with hourly workers — which is over 60 percent of the global workforce — needs a solution that Replicon offers, and we intend to help them aggressively capture this global opportunity."
More than 7,800 customers worldwide use Replicon's award-winning cloud-based time tracking solutions. Easy-to-use and deploy, a single platform tracks time for any business need — whenever and wherever required. As a result, users can optimize processes, gain greater insight and visibility into business operations, and reduce compliance risk.
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Since I treated my cousin and friends to lunch, he took me to dinner with a small group of his friends. We went to his favorite Sien Dart restaurant or fondue restaurant in Phonsavan, Xieng Khouang and had a dinner that lasted a few hours. When you are out and dining with friends or relatives in Laos, the meal lasts longer than the typical sitting in the US.
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Michael Weeder launches new anthology of poetry
The Right Reverend Dean of St George's Cathedral Michael Weeder, right, with Baxter Theatre Centre marketing manager Fahiem Stellenboom, at the launch of his new body of poetry, called The Promise of Memory
The Right Reverend Dean of St George's Cathedral, Michael Weeder, who is also a serious jazz lover, outspoken critic against corruption and injustice and former columnist, has launched his second anthology of poetry.
The Promise of Memory was launched at the cathedral and online last week.
It is a follow-up to his debut anthology, Lockdown, Love & Lament (published in 2020), both inspired by the lockdown and its impact on the mental and spiritual well-being of South Africans.
Musicians Mervyn Africa, Darren English and Clive Fester at the launch.
Father Weeder, from Oranjezicht, says the collection focuses on that which has been lost and serves as a rallying call, to better nature.
"It attempts to express the resolve to raise the tattered flag of hope, while living life daily out of a consciousness, flowering from the wisdom of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who believes that 'we can't go to heaven alone'," said Father Weeder.
"Our historical mandate is to rebuild out of a recognition that we all have, in one way another, contributed to the current malaise in our society."
He said he believes that this collection dates back over many years and is focused on the theme of identity and the struggle for freedom.
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"It is also located in a contemporary reality that recognises that 'freedom isn't free.' That it came at a cost. We are still paying off a debt incurred by our martyrs. The Zuma years compelled a certain farewell to an innocence that facilitated deception and plundering of our future and undermining the quality of our lives in the present."
Copies of The Promise of Memory cost R150 and are available to order via email at mweeder@mweb.co.za.
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Tiong Bahru Social Club (Chinese: 中峇鲁俱乐部) is a 2020 Singaporean satirical black comedy art film. The film tells the story of a simple man who accidentally becomes a happiness agent in an artificial intelligence cult community named Tiong Bahru Social Club, which aims to become the happiest neighbourhood in town.

It was released on 10 December 2020 in Singaporean cinemas.

Synopsis
Just fired from his job, 30-year-old Ah Bee then signs up as a young Happiness Agent with Tiong Bahru Social Club, a planned community project using data to build the happiest neighbourhood in an ageing Singaporean district. In this place where society has embraced artificial intelligence that will allow them to help people to learn what to do based on big data, and even matches their lovers. He moves into the communal house and finds himself in a strange cult of happiness and technology. He is now tasked with taking care of an elderly aunt, and he even meets a girl. Things seem to look brighter and better, but he soon realizes that something is going wrong. How will his story go?

Cast
 Yao as Ah Bee
 Guat Kian Goh as Mui
 Jalyn Han as Miss Wee
 Benjamin Lee as Uncle Mok
 Noorlinah Mohamed as Haslinna
 Jo Tan as Geok
 Munah Bagharib as Orked
 Mochi
 Imran Shafie as Happiness Agent

Production
The film is Tan Bee Thiam's solo directorial debut. He previously co-directed local indie films Fundamentally Happy (2015) with Lei Yuan Bin, and produced Snakeskin (2015) and As You Were (2014).

Release
The film served as the opening film at the 2020 Singapore International Film Festival on 26 November 2020.

The film was invited for a screening at the 20th New York Asian Film Festival. It was featured in Uncaged Award for Best Feature Film Competition section and screened at Lincoln Center and SVA Theatre in the two-week festival held from 6 to 22 August 2021 in New York.

See also
 Bigbug - A 2022 science fiction film with a similar theme
 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - A 2003 science fiction novel with a similar theme
 Men, Women & Children - A 2014 film with a similar theme
 Nosedive - An episode of television series Black Mirror which also has similar theme

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Singaporean independent films
2020 films
2020 black comedy films
2020s satirical films
2020 independent films
Utopian films
Films about artificial intelligence
Government by algorithm in fiction
Social reputation in fiction
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers may have talked about calling the whole thing off when they sang those now-famous lyrics back in the 1930s, but that isn't the case today for some members of the HIT world.
With the advent of certain electronic technology in the healthcare field, as well as organizations devoted to making the sharing of health information easier, another kind of po-tay-to, po-tah-to problem was bound to crop up. That's because one facility's electronic medical record (EMR) may be another's electronic health record (EHR)—and there is a difference.
Recently, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) enlisted the National Alliance for Health Information Technology to craft standardized definitions for five key HIT terms: EMR, EHR, personal health record (PHR), health information exchange (HIE), and regional health information organization (RHIO). The hope is to facilitate further adoption of electronic technology and establish information sharing groups designed to improve the quality of healthcare, as well as ensure their success and prevent any further confusion.
But just how many definitions for these HIT terms are currently being used? In the interim draft report of the alliance's work "Defining Key Health IT Terms," it is noted from the research done by the organization's two workgroups involved in creating the standardized definitions that the following number of unique definitions were found: 63 for EHR, 36 for PHR, 26 for EMR, 20 for HIE, and 18 for RHIO. These numbers were the result of a comprehensive search of all the organizations that would have reason to use a definition for one or more of these terms, according to Horowitz.
The alliance began working on this project with the ONC in September 2007, holding the first workgroup meeting on November 30, 2007. There are two workgroups involved in the process, with the Network group devoted to definitions for HIE and RHIO and the Records group dealing with EMR, EHR, and PHR. The workgroups consist of many HIT stakeholders, including providers, vendors, and members of the legal profession, especially those with experience concerning medical records.
In January 2008, a public forum was held in Washington, D.C., to discuss the workgroups' progress to that point. "We weren't that far along in the process, but we sensed we were going in the right direction by the comments we received [during the forum]," says Horowitz.
After the public forum, the workgroups examined the questions that were posed to further refine their research. "By answering those questions, it really helped us flesh out some of the work we were doing, question some of the directions we were heading, and determine if we had a good, solid basis to make those recommendations," Horowitz explains.
An online comment period occurred after the public forum and before the draft report was presented for discussion during the recent HIMSS conference in Orlando, Fla. There were two sessions about the report held during the conference—one centering on the definitions for EMR, EHR, and PHR and the other for HIE and RHIO.
A third draft of the report was due for public comment by mid-March, with the final report due to the ONC by April 28. The American Health Information Community will have the final approval of the definitions.
Updates to the definitions will occur as technology and information sharing organizations (hopefully) flourish, with comprehensive reviews done before any changes are made final, according to Horowitz.
And if all goes well with the creation of these standardized definitions, no matter whether a member of the healthcare community says po-tay-to or po-tah-to, it will sound the same to everyone.
— Tracy Meadowcroft is the production editor at For The Record.
Electronic medical record: A computer-accessible resource of medical and administrative information available on an individual collected from and accessible by providers involved in the individual's care within a single care setting.
Electronic health record: A computer-accessible, interoperable resource of clinical and administrative information pertinent to the health of an individual. Information is drawn from multiple clinical and administrative sources and is used primarily by a broad spectrum of clinical personnel involved in the individual's care, enabling them to deliver and coordinate care and promote wellness.
Personal health record: A computer-accessible, interoperable resource of pertinent health information on an individual. Individuals manage and determine the rights to the access, use, and control of the information. The information originates from multiple sources and is used by individuals and their authorized clinical and wellness professionals to help guide and make health decisions.
Health information exchange: The electronic movement of any and all health-related data according to an agreed-upon set of interoperability standards, processes, and activities across nonaffiliated organizations in a manner that protects the privacy and security of that data and the entity that organizes and takes responsibility for the process.
Regional health information organization: A multistakeholder governance entity that convenes nonaffiliated health and healthcare-related providers and the beneficiaries they serve for the purpose of improving healthcare for the communities in which it operates. It takes responsibility for the processes that enable the electronic exchange of interoperable heath information within a defined contiguous geographic area.
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Boring Cars With Fascinating History
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(This article was intended for DriveTribe, and is very long.)
All my life, I have been fascinated by things with wheels, and I was particularly interested in cars. Things accelerated when I was seven. I was sitting, bored, in traffic, with nothing to entertain myself with, so I came up with a game--try to remember the names and logos of all the cars around you. Thanks to this game, I quickly picked up on which cars were rare.
One day when I was nine, when we were on a four-lane road, we caught up to a little red two-door hatchback that wasn't very old, so I was surprised that I didn't recognize it or the badging. I did some research when I got home, and found that it was a Daewoo Lanos. If it was just a regular car brand, why hadn't I seen one in over a year, and why would I scarcely see them from then on? My fascination with Daewoo has never faded.
Daewoo Group was founded in South Korea in 1967 by Kim Woo-Choong using a $5,000 loan. Within 20 years, Daewoo was the second-largest Korean conglomerate, and enjoyed $40 billion in global sales. Regular, rapid expansion into various product markets was enabled by the purchase and turnaround of declining businesses.
Kim entered the car industry in 1978 by purchasing 50% of Saehan Motors, who had sold completely knocked down Nissan and Toyota kits since the sixties; the other half was owned by General Motors. In January 1983, Saehan was renamed as Daewoo Motors, and sold rebadged Opels throughout the eighties.
In 1987, Daewoo's version of the Opel Kadett, called the Daewoo LeMans, started to be sold as the Pontiac LeMans in the US. Unfortunately, sales were lackluster, as the car became known for poor quality. After the failure, Kim was convinced that Daewoo Group could build a better car on their own, and purchased GM's half of Daewoo Motor in 1992 for $200 million.
Kim Woo-Chung believed that debt was the ideal solution to quick growth. In his book, Every Street is Paved with Gold, he wrote that "If we don't have technology, we can buy it. If we don't have money, we can borrow and repay it when we make it." However, later in life, he admitted, "My big mistake was being too ambitious, especially in autos."
In hopes to achieve global car development, Kim looked to emerging markets and post-communist states where plenty of automotive market share was available. Second, he set his sights on Western Europe and North America, which meant designing several new cars from scratch and building twelve new factories and two technical centers. However, all of the investing meant that Daewoo would eventually reach $80 billion in debt--during a financial crisis. Kim intended to repay his debt using the profits from product success, so a one-year delay on the US launch caused serious issues. Daewoo only had mediocre sales in Korea and Asia, so they were dependent on a strong US entry to remain afloat.
US sales began in September 1998 with a full lineup--the subcompact Lanos in sedan and three-door hatchback forms, the compact Nubira sedan, wagon, and five-door hatchback, and midsize Leganza sedan. Daewoo distinguished themselves with a 3-year/36,000-mile warranty, salespeople not paid on commission, and no-haggle pricing. They focused on cheaper factory-owned dealerships, but only certain states allowed it, so Daewoo eventually stuck with traditional franchised dealers with commissions. They even tried to lease space at Kmart and Walmart stores to sell as many cars as they could as quickly as possible.
Daewoo's most intriguing attempt at advertising was Daewoo Campus Advisors. Essentially, Daewoo hired several thousand college students nationwide, lent them loaner cars, and urged them to inform friends and family about the new brand. They were even asked to hand out flyers and host test-drive events. As an incentive, Campus Advisors were given an all-expenses-paid trip to Seoul, considerable discounts on new Daewoos, and commissions of up to $500 per car sold.
Although none of the cars were completely redesigned, there were updates along the way. The Nubira received a major refresh for 2000, which included new front and rear ends, and the wagon got new tail lights for 2002. The Lanos received new tail lights for 2001 and a special edition for 2001 only. Called the Lanos Sport, it was fully loaded, came exclusively in red, and equipped a unique body kit and wheels (the pictures were taken by the seller, not by me). The Leganza was never facelifted over time.
As Daewoo found customers over the next few years, there was difficulty internally. In early 1998, Kim Woo-Chung requested that GM buy them back, but they declined. In late 1999, the Korean government took over operations of Daewoo Motor as Daewoo Group floundered, and put the automotive division up for sale. GM, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and Hyundai all showed interest, for Daewoo had an expansive production and sales network, and plenty of growth potential.
GM was eventually chosen as Daewoo Motor's next owner, but while Korean Development Bank, the company handling the sale, wanted debts to be paid, GM wanted to avoid it. After over a year of careful negotiation, GM purchased Daewoo Motor in April 2001 for a good price and evaded hidden debts.
However, GM did not purchase Daewoo's North American dealer network, as it would be pointless to pour money into a brand that competed with Chevrolet. All of the sudden, Daewoo Motor America's 525 dealers were left stranded with thousands of cars to sell without warranties or parts support. Roughly 8,000 jobs would be lost as the dealers gradually closed and Daewoo owners were left on their own.
In total, a little under 170,000 Daewoos were sold, divided almost evenly between each model. Due to rapid depreciation, below-par reliability, and a lack of parts, Daewoos disappeared quicker than their peers, and are scarce today. Fortunately, many enthusiasts have carefully maintained low-mileage examples, one famous example being a 47-mile 2002 Leganza.
One Daewoo I'm unable to prove having seen is the 1999 Nubira hatchback. The body style, of which I estimate around 200 were sold, was only available for one season in 1998, and the reason why is unknown. Perhaps it was selling significantly worse than the other body styles? I saw one at an airport in Spokane, Washington, in summer of 2018, but was unable to take pictures. I found another in Spokane on the October 2013 Google Maps Street View. Considering the rarity and matching color, I suspect that it's the same car, and it's encouraging that the condition it's in has not changed in five years. I am currently watching AutoTrader for Daewoos for sale, and I'm hoping that it comes up eventually.
Now that GM owned Daewoo, they decided to begin selling American models in Korea and Korean models in America. The Lanos was replaced by the Kalos, which would reach North America as the Chevrolet Aveo. The Nubira was replaced by the Lacetti hatchback and Nubira sedan and wagon; the Lacetti was sold as the Suzuki Reno and the Nubira as the Suzuki Forenza. Finally, the Leganza was replaced by the Magnus, which was sold in the US as the Suzuki Verona.
The Aveo, Reno, and Forenza sold much better than their predecessors, likely thanks to the disguise of established manufacturers, but the Verona flopped. All four were launched in 2004, but while the Reno and Forenza lasted until 2008 and the Aveo until 2011, the Verona only made it to 2006. While they mostly sold well, they were not known for being especially good or reliable. Chevrolet sold 426,845 Aveos, Suzuki sold 182,093 Renos and Forenzas, and just 25,874 Veronas were sold.
Aveo hatchbacks and post-facelift hatchbacks and sedans remain a common sight, but pre-facelift sedans are rather hard to find, and well-kept Aveos are gaining rarity.
Since Suzuki left the US market in 2013, their cars seem to be generally falling into disrepair, and Renos and Forenzas (especially the Renos) are starting to disappear, especially pre-facelift models. The Verona was the very first car I spotted, and I have not seen one since August 2019.
Possibly the most intriguing Daewoo in disguise was the Pontiac G3, a Kalos-based hatchback available from 2004 to 2009 in Canada, where it sold decently. It was only available in the US in 2009, and just 6,237 were sold there.
GM stopped using the Daewoo name everywhere but Korea in 2004, and in 2011, discontinued the name entirely, rebranding GM Daewoo as GM Korea. When the Daewoo name was still in use, several GM models were engineered in Korea. The second-generation Aveo appeared in 2012, sold in the US as the Sonic. It was joined in 2013 by the smaller Spark, originally launched in 2009 as the Daewoo Matiz Creative. Furthermore, the 2006 Daewoo Winstorm was sold as the Chevrolet Captiva, and the 2009 Daewoo Lacetti Premiere was sold as the Chevrolet Cruze. Finally, the 2011 Chevrolet Orlando replaced the Daewoo Tacuma MPV; neither were sold in the US, though the Orlando was available to Canadians.
Do you own or have owned a Daewoo, whether in disguise or not?
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madj minj @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan that's was an interesting read, great job on the write-up
Cé hé sin @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan
Ah, Daewoo. We used to have them as, well, Daewoo. Cheap Korean cars with nothing in particular to recommend them. Then GM bought in and decided that the time was ripe to try the hitherto almost unknown Chevrolet brand in Europe as a kind of downmarket alternative to Opel/Vauxhall. Enter then cheap Korean cars with nothing in particular to recommend them but now with a strange name.
Now put yourself in the shoes of a Daewoo owner rocking up to his Daewoo dealer as used to be wanting to trade in for a new Daewoo.
"They're called Chevrolet now"
"Who??"
"Chevrolet. Yes, they say it Shevrolay"
Our buyer heads off to his Hyundai dealer. Exit Chevrolet.
Sam Blockhan @madj minj last edited by
@madj-minj Thank you!
WhoIsTheLeader @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan said in Boring Cars With Fascinating History:
Daewoo did make a good car after all! Opel was involved as well but Daewoo did most of the work on the first gen Cruze.
I very seldom see actual Daewoo badged cars but the ones that were disguised as Chevrolets seem to have held together reasonably well. Even if they weren't known for effortless reliability, it seems that Daewoo engineered cars have a reputation for being simple and robust. With the exception of the 1.4 liter turbo engine in Cruzes but that was Opel's fault.
WhoIsTheLeader @Cé hé sin last edited by
@cé-hé-sin said in Boring Cars With Fascinating History:
I never thought of it that way but I suppose it is a strange name without context. Maybe not stranger than Daewoo though. Or Peugeot for that matter.
Sam Blockhan @WhoIsTheLeader last edited by
@whoistheleader It seems as though Daewoo, like Hyundai and Kia, was improving over time. It makes me wonder if they could have been a strong competitor to them if they were able to remain independent instead of a part of GM.
Genesis Haysenhox DT last edited by
I can relate, I was younger and didn't know what it was either. I later found out it was a Daewoo. The same exact thing with Genesis.
DSM_OR_DIE @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan I test drove a first model year Spark back in 1021 or 2013 and found it terrifyingly unsafe even on surface roads due to its inability to hit 60 mph through that horrendous 4 speed auto. The entire car felt as cheap as we expected (but no more) and if there had been a manual version available we might have considered it, but instead we got a higher quality and better appointed Fiat 500 fir the same price.
I am told that that transmission was short-lived and later model years got more speeds and reasonably safe driving.
Sam Blockhan @DSM_OR_DIE last edited by
@dsm_or_die The Fiat 500 had great value, but they don't seem to have held up as well. I often see 500s with missing hubcaps, and I've heard of interior quality issues such as fraying seatbelts and armrests whose tops break off.
ike808 @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan This is good long-form Oppo.
aremmes @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan That's a great write-up! I first came to know about Daewoo cars in 1997 when the company began to market them in Puerto Rico. There they offered the Lanos with two engine options, a 1.5L SOHC and a 1.6L DOHC, while in the US only the larger engine was available. I owned a white Lanos hatchback in base trim with the confetti seats and no options for four years, and while its fit and finish wasn't particularly commendable it was mostly trouble-free and never left me stranded despite my regular abuse. The only notable issue was during a time when it would intermittently misfire and run on two cylinders, which a GM dealership (this was after Daewoo left the US) diagnosed as a bad coil pack, but I eventually figured out was due to bad spark plug wires. Eventually I traded it in for my first Miata in 2003.
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@ike808 Thank you!
DSM_OR_DIE @Sam Blockhan last edited by DSM_OR_DIE
Certainly around here the Fiats were both more popular and more lasting, but they had one critical failure that ends their lives early. The chassis harness frays and shorts or breaks around the rear hatch. No rear hatch access or rear wiper is the start of the problems. I've neither seen nor heard of any seatbelt issues but the center armrests did have a creaking/looseness issue for the first few years. Whenever they upgraded to dual center armrests was when they fixed that, but I've only ever personally owned 2012s.
ranwhenparked @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan Daewoo's breakup was really messy, Tata got their South Korean truck & bus operations, and their plants in the former Soviet bloc were mostly re-nationalized by their respective governments and kept on building Daewoo models under different temporary/placeholder brands. I think there was also one auto plant in South Korea that wound up separately owned by a consortium of the government and creditors and operated as a contract supplier to GM Daewoo
Mr. Hawk @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan I am surprised these still exist
ranwhenparked @Cé hé sin last edited by ranwhenparked
@cé-hé-sin I always thought the Chevrolet brand made little to no sense in Europe, given GM already had Opel and Vauxhall, and Daewoo, although not doing great, at least already existed there. I think they were banking on people, if they knew it at all, associating it with Corvettes and Bel Airs and giving a better sheen to the Korean compacts. Which is why Bob Lutz pushed to make Corvette its own marque in Europe, to get it away from the Daewoo taint, and which also wrecked the halo car concept
Longtime Lurker @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan I wouldn't own a Daewoo vehicle, after seeing many of them pass through our shop their quality ranges from downright unreliable like the 2.5l inline six in the Epica, or questionably engineered like the Orlando that despite being on a Cruze chassis uses many bespoke parts that make it difficult and expensive to repair.
Chariotoflove @Sam Blockhan last edited by
Good write up on a brand we never hear about.
Sam Blockhan @Chariotoflove last edited by
@chariotoflove Thank you!
RallyDarkstrike @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan Very nice post Sam! You should look into Daewoo's history with a Polish automobile company called FSO!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabryka_Samochodów_Osobowych#Daewoo_era
They helped FSO produce some of their cars in the '90s, like the FSO Polonez Caro. One of us Opponauts has a pre-Daewoo Polonez Caro....interesting cars!
Sam Blockhan @RallyDarkstrike last edited by
@rallydarkstrike Thank you!
SN P @Sam Blockhan last edited by
I hate Daewoo cuz they make crappy cars
Snuze @Sam Blockhan last edited by
You mean this thing?
Gabriel Santos @Sam Blockhan last edited by
@sam-blockhan Nice article


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Дефлација је смањење трошкова живота и уопште нивоа цена у једној економији. Дефлација је појава супротна инфлацији, а означава пад општег нивоа цена. Дефлацијска политика владе означава њену интервенцију у случају да укупна понуда надмашује потражњу те се експанзивном кредитно-монетарном и фискалном политиком утиче на повећање потражње и потрошње. Дефлација одговара власницима новца чија имовина постаје све вреднија, али истовремено смањује потрошњу, што доводи до пораста незапослености и привредних криза. Кад до пада цена дође због пораста продуктивности развојем технике, технологије и организације, или због смањења пореза, то смањење је позитивно за развој привреде и раст запослености. У свим осталим случајевима пад цена доводи до пропасти појединих привредних грана, а ако дефлација дуже траје долази до тешких привредних криза, стагнације и привредне депресије.

Дефлација се јавља кад инфлациона стопа падне испд 0% (негативна инфлациона стопа). Инфлација редукује вредност валуте током времена, док је дефлација повећава. Ово омогућава да се купи више роба и услуга него раније са истом количином валуте. Дефлација се разликује од дезинфлације, успоравања стопе инфлације, тј. када инфлација опадне на нижу стопу, али је и даље позитивна. Економисти генерално верују да је дефлација проблем у модерној економији, јер повећава реалну вредност дуга, посебно ако је дефлација неочекивана. Дефлација може такође да погорша рецесију и да доведе до дефлаторне спирале.

Неки економисти тврде да су продужени периоди дефлације повезани са основом технолошког напретка у привреди, јер како се продуктивност повећава (TFP), цена робе се смањује.

Дефлација се обично дешава када је понуда велика (када се јавља вишак производње), када је потражња ниска (када се потрошња смањује), или када се понуда новца смањује (понекад као одговор на контракцију насталу непажљивим улагањем или кредитном кризом) или због нето одлива капитала из привреде. То може настати и због превелике конкуренције и премале концентрације тржишта.

Узроци и кореспондирајуће врсте

У моделу ИС–ЛМ (равнотежа инвестиција и штедње – преференција ликвидности и равнотежни модел понуде новца), дефлација је узрокована померањем криве понуде и тражње за робом и услугама. Ово заузврат може бити узроковано повећањем понуде, падом потражње или обоје.

Када цене падају, потрошачи имају подстицај да одлажу куповину и потрошњу док цене даље не падну, што заузврат смањује укупну економску активност. Када се куповине одлажу, производни капацитети не раде, а инвестиције опадају, што доводи до даљег смањења агрегатне тражње. Ово је дефлациона спирала. Начин да се ово брзо преокрене био би увођење економских подстицаја. Влада би могла повећати продуктивну потрошњу на ствари попут инфраструктуре или би централна банка могла почети да шири понуду новца.

Дефлација је такође повезана са аверзијом према ризику, где ће инвеститори и купци почети да гомилају новац јер његова вредност сада расте током времена. Ово може произвести замку ликвидности или може довести до несташица које подстичу инвестиције које доносе више радних места и производњу робе. Централна банка не може, нормално, да наплаћује негативну камату за новац, а чак и наплата нулте камате често производи мање стимулативни ефекат од нешто виших каматних стопа. У затвореној економији, то је зато што наплата нулте камате такође значи нула приноса на државне хартије од вредности, или чак негативан принос на кратка доспећа. У отвореној економији то ствара кери трговину и девалвира валуту. Девалвирана валута производи више цене за увоз без нужног стимулисања извоза у истом степену.

Дефлација је природно стање привреда када је понуда новца фиксна, или не расте тако брзо као становништво и привреда. Када се то догоди, расположиви износ чврсте валуте по особи опада, што заправо чини новац оскуднијим, а самим тим повећава се куповна моћ сваке јединице валуте. Дефлација се такође дешава када побољшања ефикасности производње смање укупну цену робе. Конкуренција на тржишту често подстиче те произвођаче да примене барем део ових уштеда у смањењу тражене цене за своју робу. Када се то деси, потрошачи плаћају мање за ту робу, а самим тим се јавља дефлација, пошто је куповна моћ повећана.

Растућа продуктивност и смањени трошкови транспорта створили су структурну дефлацију током ере убрзане продуктивности од 1870–1900, али је постојала блага инфлација око деценију пре успостављања Федералних резерви 1913. године. Током Првог светског рата било је инфлације, али се дефлација поново вратила после рата и током депресије 1930-их. Већина нација је напустила златни стандард 1930-их, тако да има мање разлога да се очекује дефлација, осим колапса шпекулативних класа имовине, у оквиру фијат монетарног система са ниским растом продуктивности.

Историјски преглед

Дефлација је била честа док је новац имао златну подлогу. Почетком индустријске револуције и легализацијом слободног деловања развојних механизама, тј. тржишног механизма селекције и механизама за удруживање идеја и средстава дошло је до наглог пораста продуктивности и производње. Већа производња довела је до наглог повећања количине роба на тржишту. Производња злата није могла пратити тај темпо раста па је злато вађено из трезора да би се количина новца изједначила с количином роба тј. да би цене остале стабилне. У тренутку кад су залихе злата тј. новца пресушиле долазило је до помањкања новца и смањења цена. Последица тога је била: гомилање робе на складишту, немогућност продаје, смањење производње, отпуштање радника, настојање да се све вредности претворе у злато, и гомилање злата у трезорима.

У дефлацијским кризама одвијао се брзи процес повећања залиха злата на складиштима, тј. злата (новца) је на тржишту било премало, а у трезорима превише. Резултат тог складиштења злата је пад цена већине роба, те је након неког времена долазило до стабилизације цена роба на знатно нижем нивоу. Чим су се залихе роба смањиле, а залихе злата повећале, долазило је до опоравка привреде и новог развојног циклуса. Овакве цикличне промене привредног развоја и криза биле су редовне у свим  земљама где је постојао брз развој продуктивности и производње. Раздобља пуњења и пражњења златних трезора престала су онда кад су државе укинуле златно важење новца, и кад су почеле да користе новац као регулатор цена. Увођењем номиналне вредности новца дефлацијске кризе постале су реткост, али су зато инфлацијске кризе постале честе, било због превелике потрошње, било због уласка државе у валутни рат са другим државама, како би повећали домаћу конкурентност. Дефлацијска криза може настати и због финансијске агресије од стране других држава, а монетарне власти се не усуде или не желе да ућу у валутни рат против такве агресије. Кад политичари прихвате да новац у привредном систему има улогу сличну улози уља у мотору аутомобила, врло лако се могу изградити механизми који ефикасно контролишу његову количину на тржишту.

Притајена дефлација

Кад у држави правни систем не функционише, обавезе се не плаћају, стечајни поступак је спор, и неефикасан закон о задржавању и хипотеци штити дужнике, може се догодити да су цене номинално стабилне, а на тржишту нагло расте ликвидност. Тада долази до стварања два паралелна тржишта, новчано тржиште и компензацијско тржиште. Предузећа, да не би морала да смањују производњу и да отпуштају раднике, продају и онима за које знају да неће моћи да плате у новцу, већ само у некаквој другој роби. У привреди долази до појаве да свако сваком нешто дугује, сви међусобно пребијају своја потраживања, а новцем се плаћа само порез и бар део плате. Овакво стање може функционисати док већина предузећа која послују са добитком, могу да осигурају новац за порез и плату. Кад и најбоља подузећа дођу у блокаду жирорачуна овакав систем се распада, предузећа престају да продају онима који не плаћају, смањују производњу те отпуштају вишак радника. Резултат је нагла дефлација и рецесија.

Монетарне власти у оваквим ситуацијама често не знају како да исправно реагују, најчешће зато што институције које статистички прате кретање цена, дају криву слику стања у привреди. У прикривеним дефлацијским кризама обично расту монополске цене (због жеље монополиста да надокнаде губитке ненаплативих и отписаних потраживања), и цене основних животних потрепштина (Гифeнов парадокс - због немогућности становништва да купује супституте вишег квалитета), а истовремено падају цене некретнина, пољопривредних сировина и производа, индустријских сировина и производа, деоница и сл. Због раста цена основних прехрамбених производа, монетарне власти виде инфлацију па воде антиинфлацијску политику, чиме кризу само појачавају. Да би се то спречило, цене би требало посебно пратити по категоријама:

 1. основни прехрамбени производи,
 2. монополски производи и услуге,
 3. увозни производи и услуге које домаћи произвођачи не могу да испоруче у довољним количинама,
 4. остале врсте роба (производи, услуге, некретнине, деонице и сл.).

Чим цене осталих врста роба почну да падају емисијска банка би морала из примарне емисије да повећа количину новца (кредита) у секторима где цене падају. Истовремено би институције робних резерви требало да повећају наруџбине роба којима цене падају, а на складиштима да смање количине оних роба којима цене расту.

Референце

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If you are experiencing oral pain, your Mission District emergency dentist is here to help you when you need it most. At the practice of the Edward Orson Dental Corporation, the skilled, caring dental professionals are well versed in the full scope of general, family, preventive, restorative, cosmetic and emergency dental services. Your smile will be in the very best of hands at the Mission District dental office dedicated to being current with the leading edge in diagnostic and treatment technology, techniques, and research. Whether you are suffering from jaw pain, a toothache, or have damaged a filling, crown or denture, Dr. Orson provides the gentle, compassionate, and prompt treatment you deserve and require.
Statistically speaking, cavities are most commonly responsible for a toothache. If you have a cavity, your Mission District emergency dentist is fully equipped to provide you with the highest quality treatment and restoration to preserve your tooth. Because a cavity—as the name implies—leaves a shallow hole in your tooth, following treatment, a restorative filling or dental crown is placed, repairing the structure of the tooth, fortifying it for eating, speaking and smiling! The highest quality dental restorations are built to last and provide a conservative, and aesthetically appealing solution. As it happens, if damage to a restoration has brought you to your Mission District emergency dentist, have no worries, as your dentist is prepared to repair and replace as needed! Fillings and crowns can become loosened in an accident, or as the result of dental decay over time. If a tooth's or teeth's restoration has loosened, been damaged or been lost, it is important that you see your dentist as soon as possible. Any exposed opening between the restoration and the tooth can provide an entry point for harmful bacteria, making your tooth vulnerable to an infection. However, even if such an infection should occur, once again—you guessed it!—your Mission District emergency dentist is fully prepared to help!
Whatever the nature of your dental problem or discomfort, at Edward Orson Dental Corporation, your Mission District emergency dentist is ready to take action. To schedule the prompt and gentle care you deserve, please don't hesitate to call our office at the number below!
This entry was posted in Emergency Dentist and tagged 94110, Dental Emergency, Dental Office, Dentist, Dentistry, Emergency, Mission District, San Francisco, Toothache on September 25, 2017 by pjdhanoa.


We interview Pluto.TV co-founder Ilya Pozin about the best cord-cutter service for the lazy and bored. Plus: Amazon bans Chromecast and Apple TV, Verizon goes nowhere, and the new Chromecast proves to be well designed.
- "It's important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion."
- And an Amazon rep told David in email "… we'll expand Amazon Video to the upcoming Apple TV 4th Gen in the near future."
- Live NCAA football, basketball, and international soccer.
- TiVo Bolt on sale at Best Buy and Amazon.
-4K support, can handle cablecard and Over the Air signals and has a bent design to help with cooling and make it look cool.
- SkipMode which lets you skip past commercial breaks on 20 channels for programming that airs 4PM to Midnight.
-500GB model costs $299 and a 1TB model runs $399. Both models get a year of service for free after which it's $15 a month or $150 a year.
- TiVo Chief Marketing Officer Ira Bahr on company forums to TiVo enthusiasts: "we already have a roadmap plan to bring you something you'll like way better in 2016 (more on this shortly)."
- Tim Cook told BuzzFeed there will be an open API for Apple TV's search so it can expand beyond the launch apps of iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Showtime and HBO.
- YouTube Kids is now available on Chromecast and AppleTV. Also new curated playlists from the likes of National Geographic Kids and tools for parents that help you learn the app and tweak the password.
- On Virgin America flights now, Netflix is offering free in-flight WiFi and access to its full catalog of movies. You just have to be on a plane with ViaSat WiFi. The promotion ends March 2nd of next year.
- HBO Now, Showtime and CBS All Access are all three now available for Android TV users. The console also gets Disney Movies Anywhere's store, Epix, WWE and UFC.
Bryce: Hand of God. New Amazon Original series. 10x1hr episodes out now. Starring Ron Perlman.
It's October which means our beloved Redbirds are once again in the hunt for a World Series title. As a cordkiller I'd like to know the best way to see the action.
It is a confusing process to know where to watch the team with or without cable. I have a Roku and am willing to pay to watch the games. I don't believe MLB At Bat has playoff coverage.
How are we going watch, Tom?
I continue to enjoy your show and appreciate all your hard work.
PayPal will notify users when their card is about to expire, so they can fix it before it actually starts being declined. This will help Cordkillers get their money on time.
Merchants don't see PayPal users' card numbers, so there's less risk when a database is hacked (you probably already knew that, but it's timely information considering recent events).
PayPal wasn't available on Patreon when I first signed up, soon after you started Cordkillers. So some of your bosses who signed up in the beginning might not be aware they even have this option. Tom should tell DTNS listeners, too.
I like the idea of using VR for virtual theaters and be able to sit back on my comfy couch with nice headphones and get a real theater experience minus the seat kicking.
Brian's comment about being able to look around the virtual theater and see the shocked expressions of the people around you reminded me of a DTNS story about the software that is able to read emotions.
If down the road our VR gear is able to do that, then it would be possible to have our virtual avatar display the same surprise, shock, disgust, etc, that we're feeling as we watch the movies.
This would be good for that community feeling if the theater is full of our friends, or even a selection of strangers that also happen to be watching the movie at the same time.
It would also be useful for film makers and studios to see the data that is fed back so they can make better movies.


NYC - based Translator - Writer / Historian can translate from German to English and vice versa and can also write for you in German. I have done several translations/subtitles for Vice Media and a small subtitling job for pinnacle media for series and documentaries.
Integrity is such a big word. It must be protected against wear and tear. I take it seriously. Without honesty, transparency and responsible action, it does not happen, especially in our industry. Take advantage of it and trust me. I will not disappoint you.
I have learned my craft from scratch, with customers of all kinds and with problems of all kinds. No reason to stand still: As an expert, I remain curious and follow the current developments with great attention. I advise you professionally, with up-to-date knowledge and always with the necessary portion of creativity.
Ich habe mein Handwerk von der Pike auf gelernt, mit Kunden aller Art und Problemstellungen aller Couleur. Kein Grund, stillzustehen: Als ein Experte bleibe ich neugierig und verfolge aktuelle Entwicklungen mit großer Aufmerksamkeit. So beraten wir Sie fachkundig, zeitgemäß und immer mit der nötigen Portion Kreativität.
I am happy to do a good job. And if do my job really well , I am able to recognize from your success. For this I set all the levers in motion. And if you recommend me to someone else, I know: I'm on the right track.
Ich habe Freude daran, meine Arbeit gut zu machen. Und ob ich die Arbeit wirklich gut gemacht habe, erkenne ich an Ihrem Erfolg. Dafür setzen ich alle Hebel in Bewegung. Und wenn Sie mich dann weiterempfehlen, weiss ich: Ich bin auf dem richtigen Weg.


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New Review for The New Day EP
September 06, 2014 / Adam Baker
New Review for The New Day EP:
Adam Baker releases new EP "The New Day". Lyrical singer/songwriter style EP. Emotional and soft yet powerful vocals. Romantic mood can be felt through out the release. "Come Away" reminds a little bit of John Mayer style. EP "The New Day" it's subtle, thoughtful and professional it has it's ups and downs when it comes to tempo and mood. "The Beauty and The Broken", I can imagine it playing on the radio as you drive through highway
http://www.musiceyereviews.com/blog/new-ep-from-adam-baker
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