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The Black History of G.I. Joe, pt. 2
Posted by CSPN on 02/07/2014 03/04/2016
Alpine (image via GeneralsJoes.com)
G.I. Joe is the code name for America's daring highly trained special mission force. Its purpose: To defend human freedom against Cobra… a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world.
In Part One of our Black History Month feature, we ran off a list of black GI Joe (and Cobra) figures and characters after 1989.
Here in Parts Two and Three, we will give more attention to the first ten black GI Joes in the history of the toy line. Once again, a HUGE shout-out to our good buddy JD of General Geekery Cast for helping us round out this roster.
10. Big Lob (1987)
9. Hardball (1988)
Why these two first? As the old saying goes, you save the worst for first and the best for last…. And they're grouped together for the same reason.
Big Lob
Big Lob was an abomination of stereotypes. One of the new Joe recruits who debuted during 1987's direct to VHS animated feature "G.I. Joe: The Movie," Big Lob was a loud mouth showboat who spouted off sports clichés during battle. He was tall and lanky and wore a basketball jersey in combat. All the same, he probably got some chuckles out of his fellow recruits (see what I did there?).
Hardball, on the other hand…no wait, he was an abomination too. But for a different reason altogether. Whereas Big Lob was guilty of playing up to every one of the black man's stereotypes, Hardball was simply there as a nod to America's pastime. Born Wilmer S. Duggleby in Cooperstown, NewYork (not making this up!).
Hardball specialized in heavy artillery as a multi-shot grenadier. His attire was only half out of place, wearing a baseball cap and jersey under his combat gear. Not as face-palmingly disappointing as Big Lob, he turned out to be a punchline, a la NFL SuperPro.
Speaking of sports-themed G.I. Joes…
8. The Fridge – William "Refrigerator" Perry mail-away figure (1987)
If not for the success of the Sgt. Slaughter G.I. Joe figure from '85-'89 (a cross-over that made perfect sense), we wouldn't have had "The Fridge" in '87. Still enjoying the buzz from his success as a member of the '85 Bears Super Bowl Shuffle team, William "Refrigerator" Perry cut a deal with Hasbro to have a figure made in his likeness, giant gap-toothed grin included. The figure had all the makings of a hit, popular sports athlete, the tried and true mail-away method of purchase (shout-out to UPC symbols! these kids don't know about that clip and mail life!), one of the most played with toy lines at the time… but there was ooooone problem…
Are we to believe that his weapon of choice is a cast iron football on a stick? Was he really gonna just bludgeon Cobra over the head with a mace in the shape of pigskin? I guess it was the best they could do, I mean– imagine if they had asked Craig "Iron Head" Heyward to be an action figure? Heck, they could have asked Lawrence Taylor for that matter, but that's a story for another time.
7. Iceberg (1986)
"Brothers don't ski." That's the common refrain I hear in some circles when I ask about why black guys don't go on ski trips. In fact, the only black dudes I've seen on, near or in the vicinity of skis on television were:
(a) Will and Carlton in that one episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air when they hit up the ski lodge and got caught in a blizzard.
(b) X Games reporter and extreme sports analyst Sal Masekela.
(c) Iceberg
Iceberg was colder than Ice Cube, Ice T and Vanilla Ice combined.
Iceberg shattered that stereotype for me at a young age. Born Clifton Nash out of Brownsville, Texas, Iceberg grew up hating hot weather. So much so he enlisted in the Army and requested duty in Alaska. Iceberg's primary military specialty is infantry… his secondary military specialty? Cold weather survival instructor! This guy put fellow cold weather G.I. Joe Snow Job to shame!
Iceberg isn't without his low point, however. In the episode of the Sunbow G.I. Joe cartoon titled "Iceberg Goes South", he tries to infiltrate a Cobra base where Dr. Mindbender is experimenting with animal DNA, gets captured and is injected with whale DNA! Yes, folks, Iceberg is transformed into a frickin whale! The one black guy who skis and look what they do to him. This is why brothers don't ski…
6. Lieutenant Clay Moore (1985) Sunbow cartoon season 1, Cobra Officer, Cobra Shock Viper Commander
Lt. Clay Moore debuted as a character in the two-part "The Traitor" episode of Sunbow's G.I. Joe cartoon series in '85. The G.I. Joe desert combat specialist code named Dusty is branded a traitor to the Joes and joins up with Cobra. Cobra Commander offers Dusty command of armored vehicle detail, which Clay Moore takes offense to, as that's his command. Lt. Moore demands that they settle the issue by combat, which Cobra Commander declares to be a deathmatch. Dusty prevails, but spares the life of Lt.Moore. Later, when it's revealed that Dusty was playing a double-agent all along and with the Joes closing in on Cobra Commander, it's Lt. Clay Moore who saves Cobra's leader piloting a Cobra Fang helicopter.
Clay Moore is memorable for a few reasons:
A black guy in Cobra? Finally!
His loyalty to Cobra Commander, even after being demoted in favor of traitorous G.I. Joe scum
He wore the standard Cobra soldier uniform, but with no facemask.
It wasn't until 22 years later in 2007 that Lt. Clay Moore was commemorated with his own Joe action figure as part of the "Tanks for the Memories" boxed set. The figure itself is a mash-up, with the head of a Balrog figure combined with the repainted body of an Ice Cream Soldier. But he's here and he's now officially in the top ten!
6a. Raven (1986) Sunbow cartoon Season 2, Strato-Viper, Night Raven pilot
Image via HalfBattle.com
Raven appeared in the 29th episode of G.I. JOE: ARAH's second season, titled "In the Presence of Mine Enemies". Presumably a black woman (not sure, exactly), Raven is the last Night Raven pilot left in a three-on-one dogfight with JOE Conquest pilot Slip-Stream. As Raven is about to shoot down an already crashing Slip-Stream, he outsmarts her and hits her plane with a last-ditch missile, causing her to crash-land. Slip-Stream notices the Strato-Viper in trouble while parachuting to safety and rescues her from the wreckage. Together, the two sworn enemies team up to evade Cobra Battle Android Troopers (who fail to recognize Raven as one of theirs) and a green tentacled monster.
During their adventure, it's revealed that Raven's rapid reflexes are a result of her being surgically altered by Cobra. Throughout the episode, Raven slowly realizes the futility of siding with Cobra as the two are attacked repeatedly. Once they are finally out of harm's way in the G.I. JOE Tomahawk rescue chopper, Raven renounces Cobra by ripping off her shoulder patch and tossing it into the sea. She is never seen or heard from again, although it's presumed she immediately became a JOE recruit.
*images via JoeGuide.com
No action figure was officially made for Raven, however there are many customs of Strato-Vipers made in her image.
Image via Hisstank.com
5. Alpine (1985)
The other thing brothers don't do is we don't climb mountains. But similar to Iceberg, Alpine wasn't your average brother.
Born Albert M. Pine and hailing from Minidoka, Idaho (seriously, I am not making this up!) Alpine grew up climbing mountains from an early age and continued doing it even while working as an accountant.
Alpine with all his climbing gear. Mountaineer, mountaineer!!!
Alpine and Bazooka were like Abbott and Costello on G.I. Joe
After graduating Ranger School and joining G.I. Joe, Alpine became one of the more likeable and memorable Joes of the Sunbow series. Quick-witted, intelligent and willing to scale any large structure, including the Extensive Enterprises building, Alpine had a very strong friendship with the conversely dim-witted Bazooka. The two of them were a great comedy routine—damn shame what eventually happened to Bazooka.
To be concluded in Part Three of our series, coming soon!!
Thanks again to JD for helping us bring this post together. You can listen to he and Brian talk G.I. Joe, toys, customs and other cool geek stuff over at the General Geekery Cast…. and tell 'em Cold Slither sent ya!
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The Verve used a sleeve design conceived by Brian Cannon and photography by Michael Spencer Jones for this single, which is for one of my all-time favorite songs, Slide Away.
These concept-driven sleeves tell more of a story than just "buy our product" and this one is no exception. It's a more passive display than would appear on later singles by the Verve. Using a lit-up star, blow up letters, old cabinets, some poor fellow in an open tanning bed, a guitar and amp, and a distraught woman facing nuclear oblivion in the distance, this sleeve has more going on than your average television program.
Mr. Jones is still one of the most highly regarded photographers there is. Microdot is a tremendously influential design company. Even though some of these sleeves are coming up on twenty years old, they hold up rather well.


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by Angela Lorenz
Edition of 22 copies
Bologna, Italy, 2007
In an effort to clean my desk area after four months absence from Italy, I spied something I could perhaps throw away: a very shoddy volume from 1942 of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning poems. I did not consider myself a marked Brownings fan, though in truth one has to know something before rejecting it. I am guilty of rejecting vast swaths of poetry without basis. So, this $1.50 library sale book bought for my own self-education, with thrashed spine, I decided to weed. I noticed my marginalia and Post-its, marking a few passages of interest. Not capable of using the newly-purchased family scanner, and not willing to trek out to a copy shop, I just tore the yellowed, crumbling, acidic pages from the book. Thumbing further, I stumbled on a poem by Elizabeth Browning that correlated to an experience two hours earlier.
Upon opening my morning email, instead of the usual Internet vocabulary word I subscribe to in "a.word.a.day" by Anu Garg, there was a moving note from a woman named Diane Davis Santoriello, who lost a son in battle in Iraq. She had once asked Anu Garg if there was a word for parents that have lost children. Recently, with the help of the Amish, Diane invented such a word, which applies to any relatives grieving for the presence of their beloved: zeitlanger. This is based on the Pennsylvania Dutch Amish term Zeitlang, cited in a Lancaster newspaper, used by the bereft Amish community longing to see their children lost in the West Nickel Mines School shooting a year ago. The coiner of this word shared it with the other Gold Star Mothers she is in contact with, who all lost children in the Iraq war.
Uncharacteristically, I wrote this grieving mother, a stranger, a letter. I acknowledged the sadness, even guilt, I feel as an American citizen for the permanent trauma and death inflicted upon the casualties of war. I included my own simple thoughts regarding grief, based on personal experiences, and sent her my deepest apology. I did this weeping.
The Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem is titled, "Mother and Poet" (Turin, After News From Gaeta, 1861). It is dedicated to an Italian poet, Laura Savio of Turin, whose two sons were killed with Garibaldi's troops at Ancona and Gaeta. It was written in the first person, as if the grieving mother herself wrote the poem. The civil war and Unification aspects of this poem do not speak to the war in Iraq, which many people have struggled to understand. As honorable and courageous as the soldiers are in this poem, working for the higher good of a unified Italy, it ends on a note of grief freeing this Italian poet and mother from victory celebrations and poetic elegies:
"If in keeping the feast
You want a great song for your Italy free,
Let none look at me."
I picture all of the families that will have little to celebrate when wars end.
I decided to send Diane Davis Santoriello the extrapolated pages, or even just an email link to the poem, perhaps to share with other Gold Star Mothers. As I was about to toss the book, I remembered that the Wellesley College Library's prized Browning Collection. I covered the brittle, battered book in a protective, archival glue, and cut out a compartment inside, shaped in the irregular right-angled rhomboid of a dovecote niche. I lined the irregular rectangle with a collaged narrative extrapolated from the book, and gave it to Wellesley. But what should be stored in the compartment? It occurred to me that an essay narrating the morning's experiences would be appropriate to put in the niche, or columbarium. I like the association of columbarium with doves, as in a dovecote, but it is also a niche for the ashes of the dead. Doves, or pigeons, are connected to peace and war, carrying messages across battle lines. Shakespeare used the phrase "An eagle in a dovecote" in his play Coriolanus, referring to the slaughter of innocents when a rapacious bird forces entry in the dovecote tower. This unique work, an altered book, is a tribute to mothers of deceased children, and to grief in poetry and war,
1st Lt. Neil A. Santoriello
KIA 9-13-04.
I do not know how to offer comfort to suffering zeitlangers. But I can visualize the once-battered Browning volume open in a library case, exhibited next to an exquisitely printed version of "Mother and Poet", with an exhibition label detailing the attempt of Neil Santoriello's mother to describe her, and her family's, pain.

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Argument: Riyadh May Have Unleashed More Change Than It Can Handle Riyadh May Have Unleashed More Change Than...
Riyadh May Have Unleashed More Change Than It Can Handle
In the wake of social and economic reforms, some Saudis are speaking out.
By Firas Maksad
| April 22, 2019, 11:48 AM
Teenage girls pose behind a pretend car in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 22, 2018. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
A spring breeze blew through Riyadh's Tahlia Street, a main thoroughfare in the Saudi capital packed with young Saudis watching soccer in outdoor cafes. The men were transfixed by the match as unveiled women, dressed in casual Western attire with black robes known as abayas loosely hanging off their shoulders, traversed the sidewalks, enjoying a late evening stroll.
Peaceful as it was, the scene was jarring. Having grown up in Saudi Arabia, I have vivid memories of my mother being regularly harassed by the much-feared religious police, the mutawa, who would demand that she cover up much more than the women around me now. But such fixtures of daily life are quickly falling by the wayside.
A rapid process of social and economic transformation is unfolding in a deeply traditional society, where it is inevitably causing some disquiet. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose reputation has suffered for his government's involvement in the brutal assassination of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is still very popular in his own country. Still, some Saudis are not shying away from expressing their discontent.
As our delegation of Middle East researchers from various U.S.-based think tanks drove through streets upended by the ongoing construction of the Riyadh metro, a longtime childhood friend who never left the kingdom channeled anger from more conservative segments of society. They are outraged, for instance, that their daughters, compelled by economic necessity, must now fill menial jobs that expose them to unsupervised interaction with male counterparts. "You know the mentality here," he said. "What the government is doing is just unacceptable to the traditional Saudi mindset."
This deeply controversial process of social and economic change is not only empowering women but is also opening up new opportunities for all young Saudis to join the workforce. Gone are millions of expatriates who dominated entire sectors of the economy, replaced by less experienced, yet still enthusiastic, nationals of all genders who increasingly have to work for a living rather than depend on generous government handouts or cushy public sector jobs. Between 2017 and 2018 alone, over 1.1 million foreign workers left the country according to government statistics.
All the Saudis I met—whether for or against government policies—agreed that the crown prince has upended the country's longstanding social contract: state-provided jobs and lavish subsidies in return for unquestioned loyalty. The new (if unarticulated) contract grants Saudi millennials liberation from the suffocating grip of the religious establishment but, in return, expects them to earn their livelihood and not depend on the state's largess. The lifting of generous government subsidies, for example, has resulted in the almost doubling of gasoline prices and tripling of people's electricity bills.
The changes are driven, in part, by what the crown prince and his top advisors believe are long-term structural changes in global oil markets. The advent of shale oil and other technological developments, they argue, will keep oil prices low for the foreseeable future. That means hundreds of billions of dollars less in income than the country was expecting.
Their answer to the shortfall is Vision 2030, an ambitious (if somewhat aspirational) blueprint for escaping impending financial disaster. "The country must diversify away from oil," one prominent government minister underscored. "It must use its accumulated wealth to become a global investor, not just an oil producer."
Saudi Arabia's preferred investment vehicle is its Public Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund under the direct control of the crown prince. The majority of its asset allocations have been overseas, but it has also stepped into the domestic economy, including in the health care, manufacturing, entertainment, and waste management sectors. This is causing consternation among some of the merchant families of Jeddah, the kingdom's commercial hub on the Red Sea.
"The government is purposely undermining us, including by entering the market as our competitor," an heir to one of the country's business tycoons grumbled. "They are cutting down to size the long-established economic families, perhaps in an effort to encourage greater market competitiveness and, eventually, establish a more leveled playing field for foreign direct investments," he suggested. "The crown prince thinks he can turn Saudi Arabia into a Muslim economic powerhouse like Indonesia and even Malaysia."
Higher taxes and new fees meant to shore up public finances have come as a one-two punch for private businesses. The government also introduced quotas mandating that they hire generally less productive nationals rather than experienced expatriates as part of an effort to tackle stubbornly high youth unemployment and limit the remittances that have been leaving the country to the tune of over $36 billion a year, among the highest rates in the world.
Like the social transformation underway, such drastic marketplace disruptions also have political consequences. For now, those are buffered by the fact that an estimated 70 percent of Saudis still rely on the government for their paycheck. But ultimately, to fulfill its own vision for the public sector, the government will have to ensure a return to private sector growth—a daunting challenge for an economy that has always relied on public sector spending.
As it attempts to grapple with the social complexities brought about by rapid change, the Saudi state has grown more authoritarian.
Meanwhile, as it attempts to grapple with the social complexities brought about by rapid change, the Saudi state has grown more authoritarian, restricting an already limited political space. Riyadh's dilemma is clear. It is trying to maintain momentum while also making sure it doesn't lose control of disparate segments of society. In the process, high-profile figures who span the political spectrum—from religious sheikhs on the far right to liberal female activists on the left—have been detained.
The intricate balancing act was captured by a recent government decision to temporarily suspend a controversial television show that addressed taboo subjects such as the liberation of women and gender identity. It even hosted a transgender Saudi man who discussed his experiences. A top security official described the challenge: "The show set off a viral social media campaign by the conservatives, and this person's entire clan came protesting, decrying the humiliation that has befallen them." This kind of social pressure is something the authorities are trying to manage carefully while also reconfiguring the country's economy.
Back on Tahlia Street on our evening stroll, a young woman approached us to give a male member of our party a public embrace—until recently a social taboo. Suddenly realizing what she just did in a moment of reflexive excitement at seeing a friend, she flashed a Vision 2030 badge on her lapel to show her support for the government's policies. The crown prince may be counting on young Saudis like her to carry him and his agenda through. With reliable poll data lacking, it remains to be seen whether he will succeed. Either way, however, Saudi Arabia will never again be the place I grew up knowing.
Firas Maksad is an adjunct professor at George Washington's Elliott School of International Affairs. He is also director of the Arabia Foundation, a D.C.-based think tank.
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Dr. Hanson will be speaking in Washington, D.C, presenting pre-publication data on the use of stem cell injections for ankle injuries such as osteochondral defects with and without chronic ligament laxity at the Tornier National Foot/Ankle Forum on June 17th and 18th. He will be presenting the data with orthopedic surgeon, Mitch Sheinkop, M.D. from Chicago. While we haven't treated as many ankles as we have knees, we have treated about 50 cases between Regenexx-C, Regenexx-SD, and Regenexx-SCP/PRP procedures. Here are some interesting images from various ankle stem cell injection cases, including ankle AVN and a case report of the Regenexx-SCP procedure used to treat a split ankle tendon. Here's the case of a patient with severe ankle arthritis who was looking at a fusion and reported success with a Regenexx-SD ankle stem cell injection procedure. Here's an interesting patient where we were able to help remove an ankle bone spur with a needle rather than surgery. Finally, here's the MRI case study of a local news woman with a hole in the ankle joint cartilage who did well with a Regenexx-C stem cell injection procedure.


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д-р Данилюк Михайло Якович (1 жовтня 1919, м. Кременець, нині Тернопільської області, Україна — 2 березня 1981, Міннеаполіс, США) — український письменник, громадський діяч, редактор, журналіст. Член-кореспондент УВАН.

Життєпис
Народився 1 жовтня 1919 р. у Крем'янці на Волині.

Закінчив українську гімназію ім. Лесі Українки в Крем'янці, почав писати до газет.

У 1940—1941 роках — лейтенант Червоної армії. В роки війни брав участь у підпільній боротьбі ОУН (М), організував повстанські загони на Кременеччині, комендант Кременецького повіту, воював під псевдонімом отаман Блакитний. З наближенням Червоної армії емігрував на Захід.

У Мюнхені студіював медицину, здобув докторат (1950). Потім емігрував до США (1950), нострифікував медичний диплом (1952) у Міннесоті. Здобув спеціалізацію з хірургії, служив лікарем в американському медичному корпусі ракетних сил.

У 1964 р. став довіреним лікарем генерального консульства Німеччини у США.

Від 1971 р. викладав на медичному факультеті Міннесотського університету. Був медично-науковим коментатором «Голосу Америки».

Помер 2 березня 1981 р. в Міннеаполісі, там і похований.

Творчість
Автор «Повстанського записника» (1968), «Лікарського довідника» (1970), «Короткого англо-українського медичного словника» (1970).

 Окремі видання:
 Данилюк М. На медичні теми: Лікарський довідник / М. Данилюк; вст. сл. авт ; Мовн. ред. В. Давиденко. — Нью-Йорк ; Джерсі Ситі: Свобода, 1970. — 337 с.
 Данилюк М. М. Короткий англоукраїнський медичний словник /М. Данилюк ; Ред. В. Давиденко ;Вст. завваги авт. — Нью-Йорк; Джерсі Ситі: Свобода, 1970. — 51 с.
 Данилюк М. Повстанський записник. — К.: Вид-во ім.. Олени Теліги, 1993. — 192 с.

Література
 Маркусь В. Данилюк Михайло // Енциклопедія української діяспори / Гол. ред. В. Маркусь, співред. Д. Маркусь. — Нью-Йорк — Чикаго, 2009. — Кн. 1. — С. 220.
 Мельничук Б., Чернихівський Г. Данилюк Михайло Якович //
 Українська діаспора: літературні постаті, твори, біобібліографічні відомості / Упорядк. В. А. Просалової. — Донецьк : Східний видавничий дім, 2012. — 516 с.

Уродженці Кременця
Випускники гімназій Крем'янця
Українські письменники
Діячі ОУН
Доктори медицини
Українські медики
Українська діаспора
Померли в Міннеаполісі

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Ernie is Vice President at ForgePoint Capital and has deep operating experience from across the public and private sectors. Most recently Ernie served as the Chief Operating Officer of a government "startup" called the Defense Innovation Unit, headquartered in Silicon Valley. In this role, he was responsible for executing the organization's strategy in an effort to rapidly identify and acquire cutting edge commercial technologies to solve national security challenges. Prior to the Defense Innovation Unit, Ernie served as the Director of the U.S. Cyber Command Point of Partnership. In this capacity he built and led engagement strategies focused-on relationship building with key entrepreneurs, startups, and venture capitalists within cybersecurity. Ernie's private sector experience includes roles in management consulting and a technology startup. Ernie has an MBA with a specialization in finance from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU and a B.S. in cell & molecular biology from Loyola University in Baltimore, MD.


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Q: R match.call : how to pass a variable to this function? I'm using the osqp package, in which there is an osqpSettings function, which code can be found there (you can just run this code ithout installing the package if you want, the result is the same). Calling :
osqpSettings(verbose = TRUE)

or :
osqpSettings(verbose = FALSE)

works as expected.
But calling any of these :
my_verbose = TRUE
osqpSettings(verbose=my_verbose)
osqpSettings(verbose=1>0)
osqpSettings(verbose=eval(1>0))
osqpSettings(verbose=eval(my_verbose))

does not work with the following error :
Error in checkpar(inpars[[nm]], defaultOsqpSettings[[nm]]) :
  l'objet 'pairlist' ne peut être converti automatiquement en un type 'logical'
Called from: checkpar(inpars[[nm]], defaultOsqpSettings[[nm]])

(the french part translate to 'object cannot be automaticaly converted to a type' ).
I suspect this is the match.call() method that this function uses that does not accept code in it's parameters. How can i pass a variable as a parameter (without calling the function if a if(my_verbosity)...).

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Will Bladeless Surgery Boost Lasik Appeal?
Let�s face it, going �under the knife� is not something any of us look forward to. Wouldn�t it be great if you could get that Lasik eye surgery without going under the knife?
California Lasik eye surgery, which can cost thousands of dollars and usually aren't covered by insurance, grew in popularity during the 1990s but slowed amid the 2001 recession. The numbers are slowly rising again, but some patients are squeamish about having blades inserted into their eyes, experts say.
Santa Ana-based Advanced Medical Optics Inc. thinks it can move more people to have the procedures by cutting the blade out of the process.
On Monday, the company announced plans to buy Irvine-based IntraLase Corp. for 8 million. IntraLase makes a machine that allows doctors to do Lasik without a blade. I don�t know about you but the though of someone putting a knife to my eyes is not the most appealing thing I can think of.
Lasik, or laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis surgery, is a two-step procedure in which a flap is cut in the cornea, traditionally with a blade. Then, a laser is used to reshape the eye so it can properly refract light.
IntraLase's technology, introduced in 2001, allows what is called an "all-laser Lasik," a more expensive procedure that now accounts for about a quarter of Lasik procedures, according to Market Scope, a St. Louis-based market research company.
How much better the results are with an all-laser procedure is still being debated, said Mark Dlugoss, editor of the trade publication Ophthalmology Times.
As most in the field agree, lasers make a more accurate cut, which leads to fewer chances of complication, Dlugoss explained. But in the decade or so that Lasik surgeries have been around, doctors and blades have improved as well.
However marginal or significant the advantages of laser, the technology is still convincing to patients who are skittish about having sharp metal objects drawn to their eyes, even if in the hands of doctors, Dlugoss said.
"It is definitely a selling point," he said.
For Dr. Roger Steinert's patients, it already is the standard.
"Within a few years, you won't see [blades] anymore," said Steinert, one of the nation's pioneers in Lasik surgeries and a professor of ophthalmology at UC Irvine and director of its UCI Refractive Surgery Center, which has offices in Orange and Irvine.
Lasik surgeries cost on average ,950 per eye, according to Market Scope. An all-laser procedure adds 0 for each eye.
"Most patients realize that when your eyes are at stake, this is not the time to look for the blue-light special," said Steinert, who added that when he started using IntraLase three years ago, many of his patients who were once skittish about Lasik decided they were now ready.
The bottom line is that the world Lasik eye surgery is changing and California eye surgery is on the cutting edge, if you pardon the expression.


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House debates
What are House debates?
National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill 2018; Second Reading
All House debates on 22 Oct 2018	« Previous debate	Next debate »
Cathy McGowan (Indi, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
That this bill be now read a second time.
Colleagues, while this bill has a very long title, the National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill, we refer to it as 'the payday lending bill'. It's an effort by us on the cross bench to bring to the attention of the government that we want things done about the many, many people who are being exploited by what we call 'payday lenders'.
This bill replicates word for word the government's draft legislation which was released on 23 October 2017—a year ago. The government has done nothing, so I'm bringing it to parliament today to say, 'We need to act on this very important issue.' It also follows work from the opposition side of parliament, from the former member for Perth. He brought it to the parliament and wanted to debate it as well. We've also had a debate in notice of motion, so we know how important this legislation is, but what we need is the government to bring it on and to act on its own legislation.
I will say a few words about what's proposed by this bill. This bill would impose a cap on the total payments that can be made under a consumer lease. Currently, there's no cap on the total amount of payments that can be made, so it requires small-amount credit contracts that are made by payday lenders to have equal repayments and equal payment intervals. It removes the ability of small-amount credit contract providers—those people who do payday lending—to charge monthly fees in respect of the residual term of the loan when a consumer fully repays the loan early. So, if you've paid it all off, that should be the end of it. It prevents leasers and credit assistance providers from undertaking door-to-door selling of leases at residential homes. Door-to-door selling of leases—how bad is that practice? It introduces broad antiavoidance protections to prevent small-amount credit contract loans and consumer lease providers from circumnavigating the rules and protections already in the National Consumer Credit Protection Act and the code, and it strengthens penalties to increase incentives for small-amount credit contract providers and leasers to comply with the law. This bill would also facilitate the making of regulations establishing a protected earnings account for all consumers of small-amount credit contracts and also for consumer leases. There are a number of other aspects of the legislation that I just won't bore you with today.
I want to say: there are hundreds and thousands of vulnerable people who are trapped in a debt cycle as a result of being caught by the endless cycle of payday loans or rent-to-buy schemes. These small-amount credit contracts have a significant impact across the whole country. In 2015-16 there were almost 620,000 new payday loans, with almost $500 million advanced. Two in five of these people who entered into a small-amount credit contract loan during this period were unemployed, one in four small-amount credit contract loans were given to people receiving more than 50 per cent of their income from Centrelink, and one in six loans were entered into with a customer using an existing loan. So there's a whole lot of reasons why this needs to be fixed up.
As we do, we wrote to the Prime Minister saying, 'Prime Minister, we need you to act on it,' and we've written to the Hon. Stuart Robert MP, the Assistant Treasurer. I had a meeting with him and had a letter back from him, which I acknowledge and say thank you. He said: 'Cathy, we're going to wait on this. We're going to wait until the outcome of the royal commission.' While I understand the royal commission into banks is happening, I think this particular bit of legislation is important enough to bring on. We don't need to wait until the royal commission findings are heard before we actually get a result from it. The time is now and the urgency is now, and I call on the government to act. With those comments, I'll now hand over to the member for Mayo, who will second this legislation, and invite her to make a few closing comments.
Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Is the motion seconded?
Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo, Centre Alliance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I second the motion, and I strongly support the National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill 2018, from the member for Indi. It's been 1,172 days since the review of the small-amount credit contract laws started and 692 days since the government accepted the recommendations of the review. What are we waiting for? The longer the government ignores this issue, the more Australians will sink deeper into debt. We can no longer 'Nimble it and move on'.
The Consumer Action Law Centre reports that, since the government released the small-amount credit contract review back in April 2016, at least three million—three million—additional payday loans, estimated to be $1.8 billion worth, have been taken out by more than 1.6 million households. This has generated around $250 million in net profits for lenders. They are profits from the misfortune of some of our most vulnerable Australians.
Too often, the people who are taking out these loans are doing so because they are desperate. They are facing unexpected financial costs such as medical expenses for themselves or their family, and they have no other income source available to them. Or, too often, it is everyday pressures like the quarterly power bill that prompt them to this desperate need for credit. No, it is not a sensible financial decision, but, when the alternative is to live in darkness, the payday loan seems like the only option. It is simply deferring the payment and adding crippling interest for the benefit of a little breathing space. When I say 'crippling interest', I'm talking about up to 200 per cent interest in real terms.
But, if these families cannot afford to pay the power bill, how will their financial situation improve with the added burden of yet another financial repayment? The short answer is that for many families the situation gets worse, and you get sucked into a vortex of payday loans paying off payday loans. Research commissioned by the Consumer Action Law Centre shows that, over a five-year period, about 15 per cent of payday borrowers will fall into a spiral of debt that has significant ongoing economic and social consequences for the nation.
The member for Indi mentioned the former member for Perth, who was instrumental in pushing for this in the parliament, but I'd also like to acknowledge the work of the member for Oxley. The member for Oxley and I have had many conversations where he has talked about the volume of payday lenders in his electorate preying on the most vulnerable people in his community.
In conclusion, I'd like to commend the member for Indi on her work and her determination to see this issue given the attention that it deserves. May I just repeat: it has been 1,172 days since the review of these small credit contracts. What on earth are we waiting for? That is over three years. I commend the bill to the House, and I strongly urge the government to act now. You do not need to wait for the findings of the royal commission. Let's not kick this can any further down the road.
The time allotted for this debate has expired. The debate is adjourned, and the resumption of the debate will be made an order of the day for the next day of sitting.
Sitting suspended from 10:53 to 11:00


1963 NASCAR controversy: Racing or race?
Wendell Scott never saw the checkered flag wave after his first, and only, NASCAR win.
The black driver from Danville, Va., wasn't handed a trophy and never considered kissing the race queen following a 200-lap race at Jacksonville's Speedway Park. Not in 1963.
One of stock car racing's most significant days remains mired in controversy nearly five decades later. Questions over scoring and racial tension remain unanswered. Some believe that Sunday afternoon race merely confirmed what was wrong with Southern-based stock car racing. Others say it became one of NASCAR's finest days because it righted a huge wrong.
It took two hours - long after the fans left the Jacksonville track - before NASCAR upheld a protest by Scott. Racing rival Buck Baker originally was declared the winner. He took the checkered flag. NASCAR then pored through its hand-written scorecards and agreed that Scott actually drove two extra laps. Official records now show him two laps ahead of the field.
Scott eventually was declared the winner and received the first-place check. He received a trophy - not the original - four weeks later before a race in Savannah, Ga.
If a black driver won a NASCAR race today, it would be hailed as a landmark event, one that elevates social fairness in a sport perceived to be steeped in blue-collared, sometimes prejudged, history.
When Scott won, few noticed. At the time, other than races at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR had no real national significance. The importance of that victory took years to gain traction.
Scott left an endearing legacy during a tumultuous time. Few can understand the obstacles Scott faced 47 years ago, yet he showed up 495 times with his No. 34 race car during a 13-year NASCAR career with the same objective - to drive hard and win. To him, it was about racing. To others it was about race.
Wendell Scott avoided controversy as much as possible, but it was impossible to steer clear of the obvious struggles for a black man in a white sport, especially during the height of the civil rights movement.
Most of his friends said Scott was proud of his heritage, but insisted when it came to racing, he'd rather be known for his mechanical and driving abilities. It was a lifelong struggle to achieve any level of respect, especially after he made his first NASCAR start in 1961 - coincidentally in a car he bought from Buck Baker.
"He got a lot of abuse in the sport when he first started," said longtime NASCAR driver Buddy Baker, Buck's son. "I heard stories of the way he was treated in the drivers meeting and things like that. In the early days our sport had stuff like that going on, I guess."
Around the country, the civil rights movement had pushed the country's social conscience to a breaking point. It was a year when police used fire hoses and dogs to break up black demonstrators in Birmingham; a year when 200,000 people marched on Washington, D.C., to hear Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
It also was a year Scott was banned from Darlington (S.C.) Raceway for its two annual races -the Rebel 500 and Southern 500.
Franklin Scott, one of Scott's seven children, said his father often drove with a loaded pistol under his seat for protection.
Dale Inman, Richard Petty's longtime crew chief, said Scott once drove to a race in a new black Cadillac, and when he got there the car was covered in dust.
"He said he drove through the orchard to get there because he wanted to stay off the main roads," Inman said.
Scott never had the benefit of significant sponsorship. It was tough for white drivers to find a sponsor; it was impossible for a black man. Like others, he scratched for a meager existence, often relying on the generosity of others to keep his car on the track.
"He did the best he could with what he had to work with," Inman said. "He didn't bother nobody. We threw a bunch of stuff in a drawer on the truck, and we called it 'Wendell's drawer.' He could come up there and take whatever he needed. We had bearings and tie rods and things like that in there."
Scott was eager to return favors.
"Wendell was a gentleman," said Jacksonville's Willie Carter, 74, who raced 17 years at Speedway Park. "I remember going to Atlanta, and I tore the car up pretty bad. Back then we didn't have trailers to tow the cars home. We had tow bars on the back of the truck and we pulled the car home. Everybody was leaving the track and we had the whole front end of the race car out.
Some race promoters cringed at the idea of a black man winning with a white crowd watching. But it didn't keep Scott from showing up and racing hard.
He was generally competitive and finished his career with 20 Top-5 finishes. His breakthrough race, and the only NASCAR event he ever led, was in Jacksonville.
Speedway Park was a rickety racetrack on Jacksonville's Westside, at what's now an apartment complex on the corner of Lenox Avenue and Plymouth Street. The grandstands were crude and splintered; the racing surface primitive.
It was owned by Pat Patrick, who usually served up weekend racing shows for the locals, then served them cheeseburgers around the corner at his restaurant, Pat's Drive-In on Normandy Boulevard, after the race.
NASCAR first came to the half-mile oval in 1951, but it wasn't a regular fixture on the Grand National Series schedule. The race on Dec. 1, 1963, was just the sixth NASCAR-sanctioned event at Jacksonville - and would be the last.
The track surface was filled with deep ruts on two of the turns.
"The track was really rough that night," recalled ninth-place finisher Johnny Allen, one of four living drivers from the race. "The ruts got so deep in [Turns] 1 and 2 you could only see the top of the cars as they went through there. Cars were breaking down all over the place."
Irwin "Speedy" Spiers, who built cars that won more than 1,000 races, put Jimmy Lee Capps in a 1963 Plymouth at his hometown track. After starting third, Capps crashed on the 50th lap after being hit by Ned Jarrett's car. Spiers, 83, still builds engines in a shop on the eastside of Jacksonville, and he still believes the primitive conditions created the perfect environment for Scott to win.
Every car had to make stops for repairs. Jarrett had a big lead early, but was sidelined for more than 20 laps while his team replaced a rear wheel hub. He returned and got back in the top three before getting knocked out 19 laps from the finish with more wheel problems.
Richard Petty, who went on to become the winningest driver in NASCAR history, led 103 laps and appeared to be pulling away to an easy victory when his steering broke from the craggy conditions. With Petty fading, Scott took the lead with 25 laps remaining. When he crossed the finish line after 200 laps, there was no checkered flag. Another lap later, still no flag. He crossed the line again, but Baker was declared the winner.
"Everybody was in and out of the pits; nobody knew who was leading the race," Carter said. "The owners didn't know. I was there when they were discussing it after the race. It was an honest mistake. They didn't know who won the race.
"There was a beauty queen there that night and Wendell walked up to Buck Baker, and said, 'Mr. Buck, you can kiss that beauty queen, but that trophy's mine. I won that race.' That's when the controversy started."
Keeping up with the stops without the benefit of electronic scoring was nearly impossible. Each team manually kept track of the laps, and between the confusion caused by all the breakdowns, the noise and the dust, it was easy to lose track.
It also left some believing the wrong man may have gotten credit for winning.
"Wendell didn't win that race; he inherited it," Spiers said. "Wendell stopped and got out of his car. There ain't no way he won that race. That thing was so messed up that day. It was whoever lasted the longest.
"But Buck never contested it. He knew he won that race. Buck drove for me a couple times after that race. We talked about it. He was glad Wendell got paid for winning. I don't think anyone knows for sure. I was there. I watched the race, and I'm still not sure."
Once race steward Johnny Bruner realized the scorecard was missing two of Scott's laps, he was declared the official winner. Scott also was given credit for completing 202 laps - two more than Baker.
"I always thought it was a legitimate scoring problem," said Jarrett, who went on to win two points championships and became a longtime NASCAR television analyst. "It was common to recheck scorecards after a race back then. It happened all the time. When you have manual scoring, there's going to be plenty of room for a scoring error.
"They found the problem and Wendell won. It turned out the way it was supposed to."
Baker was placed second, followed by Jack Smith in third. Only 10 of 22 cars were still running at the end, and four of those were at least 15 laps behind.
The lost winner's trophy remains one of the biggest controversies of Scott's historic victory, and it fuels some of the racial claims now being made against NASCAR and the racetrack.
The trophy he was given in Savannah wasn't the original. It was a piece of wood without a top or any kind of inscription. It has since fallen apart.
The whereabouts of the original trophy remain a mystery.
During the past 47 years, the significance of Scott's victory has been twisted to fit a variety of agendas. Some, including some of his children, believe their father was the victim of a sinister plan by NASCAR and Speedway Park officials to keep a black man from enjoying a victory.
The 1-hour, 55-minute delay to check the scorecards meant the 5,000 fans were gone. So was the beauty queen. Some insist matter-of-factly the delay was deliberate; a way to make sure nobody was around to appreciate the historic significance of the day.
NASCAR vice president Jim Hunter, who has spent nearly 40 years in the sport, disagreed, saying: "No one in NASCAR ever said anything about any racial problems from that event. It was simply another event where a scoring recheck was required and in those days, scoring rechecks were time-consuming because you had to go through individual scoreboards which was a tedious task.
"This is the last thing Wendell would have wanted."
Several stories were written years later about the track turning off the scoreboard during the final 27 laps so fans wouldn't know Scott was leading. Problem is, the track didn't have a scoreboard.
The controversial ending has even divided some of Scott's family. Sons Franklin and Wendell Jr. remain bitter to this day over how the finish of the Jacksonville race was handled. But others just want to put the disputed finish to rest.
"Daddy didn't like the controversy," said daughter Sybil Scott. "He didn't like to promote negativity. There are a lot of stories out there. I think even [the family] has some different viewpoints."
A crash at the Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway in 1973 ended Scott's racing career. He returned to Danville and spent the rest of his life working as a mechanic.
He died in 1990 following a long battle with spinal cancer.
Scott was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame at Talladega in 1999, and has a helmet, racing suit and a door from his race car currently on display at the new NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C.
What Scott never had was the trophy for winning the Jacksonville race. Wendell Scott Jr. told nascar.com in 2007 that Buck Baker kept the trophy. He also said Buddy Baker has since apologized for his father's behavior.
Buddy Baker angrily denied that this week.
"I never said that," Baker said. "My dad would have made a bigger stink if he thought he won that race. As far as I'm concerned, Wendell won the race, and my dad never told me anything different. Wendell got the money and that's good enough for me.
"I'm sure my dad, after all the races he won, wouldn't covet a trophy he didn't win. My dad had so many trophies we had them stacked up out in the carport."
While others argued about the final results and whereabouts of the trophy, Scott and Baker remained not only driving competitors, but friends.
"What I will take to my grave is knowing daddy calling Buck Baker," Sybil Scott said. "They were fine. We're not trying to erase history, but we still want daddy's real trophy."
The mementos of Scott's career now are divided among his children. There is a small trophy case, an unofficial memorial in downtown Danville that holds other trophies, gloves and trinkets earned in a career that continues to be defined in both racing and social terms.
Like the rest of his racing career, it's a simple collection earned through equal amounts of fear, determination and reverence - a career that can't be defined by a missing trophy.


I find it extremely weird that in a match where we have 20 shots and a clean sheet that the left back is pointed out for an apparent poor performance that resulted in a 0-0 draw.
Nuhiu was great today, I don't see how replacing him cost us. It's not like if he had stayed on the pitch we would've won considering the mistakes.
I thought we were the better team. Two poor moments cost us but to show we can actually compete against the top teams is refreshing.
I don't see how Jos can be at fault for tonight. We had decent chances to make it more than 2 - 0 and all it took were two moments of stupidity by certain players to ruin it.
Whilst I'm not happy with the job he did with us this season and our poor recruitment there's no reason to get angry over him. We got to the playoffs twice at least. Let's hope Jos gets us sorted out for next season.
Clean sheets against decent sides with our reserves whilst introducing youth to our first team. Can't complain about that.
Our 'stability' is becoming stagnation. I'd rather take a risk and get someone new in with actual championship experience and better tactics than have CC continue to spend vast amounts without improving our weakest areas while employing his cowardly football.
It's getting to the point where some people support the manager more than the club. Who cares. We're not improving so get rid. I'm sick of seeing the same inept, obvious performances and the tactics of a manager who won't change.
We should look at our last two end of season results which was a play-off final and a play off-semi final. People are moaning because it was expected that we'd progress to a position where we can achieve that extra step which would lead to our promotion. Finishing in any position within the playoffs is meaningless due to the nature of how it works - 6th can beat 3rd despite the points difference..Spending tonnes of money to end up in what is ultimately the same position of ending up in the play offs despite the team we lost to spending far less won't make people feel better. We can't just pointlessly bring up the results of the past to ridicule those who aren't happy with the end result. It's just ridiculous when we can bring up any past position in an attempt to claim that people can't criticise SWFC. "Oh we spent tonnes of money and finished 2 places higher without actually progressing our style of play and playing those who were meant to improve us? Better bring up the fact Alan Irvine was poor and Dave Jones didn't improve our league position."
What does people struggling with food, safety and life have to do with people's reaction to our result? Adding on a "Winding up-petition" article from 7 years ago in an attempt to stop anyone who is disappointed about yesterday from being disappointed due to the past is ridiculous. If people want to be disappointed let them. From your perspective we might as just refrain from criticising anything to do with SWFC because other people are worse off. We should be allowed to weigh up what happened last night in the context of football. Not some strange guilt trip about what else is happening in the world.
Yeah it's our fault that we kept pointlessly passing it back from an attacking position and subbed off our goalscorer. (Who scored an excellent header out of nothing) It's also our fault for the penalty takers (Who didn't make sense) because our players apparently can't get motivated for a play off semi-final unless we sing "we're on our way back" loud enough.


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