My research has involved the use of new technologies to create different types of patient-doctor transactions. I am also interested in how these new transactions impact clinical care processes. Current work includes the evaluation of a patient portal for children with cystic fibrosis, the use of telemedicine to bring asthma experts into the schools and the attitudes of teens and parents about the use of a secure patient portal for teens.
Objective. To evaluate an innovative curriculum meeting new pediatric residency education guidelines, Special Care Optimization for Patients and Education (SCOPE). Methods. Residents were randomized to intervention (n = 23) or control (n = 25) groups. Intervention residents participated in SCOPE, pairing them with a child with special health care needs (CSHCN) and faculty mentor to make a home visit, complete care coordination toolkits, and participate in case discussions. The primary outcome was resident self-efficacy in nine skills in caring for CSHCN. Secondary outcomes included curriculum feasibility/acceptance, resident attitudes, and family satisfaction. Results. Response rates were ≥65%. Intervention residents improved in their self-efficacy for setting patient-centered goals compared with controls (mean change on 4-point Likert-type scale, 1.36 vs 0.56, P < .05). SCOPE was feasible/acceptable, residents had improved attitudes toward CSHCN, and families reported high satisfaction. Conclusion. SCOPE may serve as a model for efforts to increase residents' self-efficacy in their care of patients with chronic disease.
Objective. Care for children with medical complexity (CMC) relies on pediatricians who often are ill equipped, but striving to provide high quality care. We performed a needs assessment of pediatricians across diverse subspecialties at a tertiary academic US children's hospital about their continuing education needs regarding the care of CMC. Methods. Eighteen pediatricians from diverse subspecialties were asked to complete an online anonymous open-ended survey. Data were analyzed using modified grounded theory. Results. The response rate was 89% (n = 16). Of participants, 31.2% (n = 5) were general pediatricians, 18.7% (n = 3) were hospitalists, and 50% (n = 8) were pediatric subspecialists. Pediatricians recognized the need for skills in care coordination, giving bad news, working in interprofessional teams, and setting goals of care with patients. Conclusions. Practicing pediatricians need skills to improve care for CMC. Strategically incorporating basic palliative care education may fill an important training need across diverse pediatric specialties.
To identify existing challenges and potential strategies for providing complex care training to future pediatricians from a national group of educators.Data were collected from pediatric educators involved in complex care at the Pediatric Educational Excellence Across the Continuum national meeting. Participants completed an anonymous 15-item survey adapted from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Best Practices for Better Care initiative and participated in a focus group to understand the challenges and potential solutions to pediatric complex care education. Data were analyzed using grounded theory.Of the 15 participants, 9 (60%) were in educational leadership positions. All participants provided care to children with medical complexity (CMC), although 80% (n = 12) reported no formal training. Thematic analysis revealed learners' challenges in 2 domains: 1) a lack of ownership for the patient because of decreased continuity, decision-making authority, and autonomy, as a result of the multitude of care providers and parents' distrust; and 2) a sense of being overwhelmed as a result of lack of preparedness and disruptions in work flow. Participants suggested 3 mitigating strategies: being candid about the difficulties of complex care, discussing the social mandate to care for CMC, and cultivating humility among learners.Residency education must prepare pediatricians to care for all children, regardless of disease. Training in complex care involves redefining the physician's role so that they are better equipped to participate in collaboration, empathy and advocacy with CMC. This study is the first to identify specific challenges and offer potential solutions to help establish training guidelines.
Internet-based developmental screening is being implemented in pediatric practices across the United States. Little is known about the application of this technology in poor urban populations.We describe here the results of focus groups, surveys, and in-depth interviews during home visits with families served by an urban safety-net organization to address the question of whether it is possible to use Internet or e-mail communication for medical previsit engagement in a population that is majority Hispanic, of low socioeconomic status, and has many non-English-speaking families.This study included families in 4 clinics within a safety-net health care system. The study design included the use of (1) parental surveys (n = 200) of a convenience sample of parents whose children received primary care in the clinics, (2) focus groups (n = 7 groups) with parents, and (3) in-depth interviews during home visits with 4 families. We used χ(2) and multivariate analyses to compare Internet access in English- and Spanish-speaking families. Standard qualitative methods were used to code focus-group texts and identify convergent themes.In multivariate analysis, independent factors associated with computer use were English versus Spanish language (odds ratio: 3.2 [95% confidence interval: 1.4-6.9]) and education through at least high school (odds ratio: 4.7 [95% confidence interval: 2.3-9.7]). In focus groups, the concept of parental previsit work, such as developmental screening tests, was viewed favorably by all groups. However, many parents expressed reservations about doing this work by using the Internet or e-mail and stated a preference for either paper or telephone options. Many Spanish-speaking families discussed lack of access to computers and printers.In this economically disadvantaged population, language and maternal education were associated with access to the Internet. Given the potential power of previsit work to tailor well-child visits to the needs of individual families, alternative strategies to using the Internet should be explored for populations without reliable Internet access.
There is a large and persistent failure to achieve widespread dissemination of evidence-based practices in child health care. Too often studies demonstrating evidence for effective child health care practices are not brought to scale and across different settings and populations. This failure is not due to a lack of knowledge, but rather a failure to bring to bear proven methods in dissemination, diffusion, and implementation (DD&I) science that target the translation of evidence-based medicine to everyday practice. DD&I science offers a framework and a set of tools to identify innovations that are likely to be implemented, and provides methods to better understand the capabilities and preferences of individuals and organizations and the social networks within these organizations that help facilitate widespread adoption. Successful DD&I is dependent on making the intervention context sensitive without losing fidelity to the core components of the intervention. The achievement of these goals calls for new research methods such as pragmatic research trials that combine hypothesis testing with quality improvement, participatory research that engages the target community at the beginning of research design, and other quasi-experimental designs. With the advent of health care reform, it will be extremely important to ensure that the ensuing large demonstration projects that are designed to increase integrated care and better control costs can be rapidly brought to scale across different practices settings, and health plans and will be able to achieve effectiveness in diverse populations.
The goal was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptance of a new model for well-child care (WCC) in a large health maintenance organization.We designed a new model of WCC that engages families in Internet-based developmental and behavioral screening, allows for review of the results before the visit, and allows for selection of the appropriate visit type (e-visit, e-visit with brief provider visit, or extended encounter). The new model was pilot-tested in 2 practices within a large health maintenance organization. Seven providers and 70 parents participated in the study. Parents and providers were surveyed regarding their experience and satisfaction with the encounter.Seventy-five percent of parents thought that the online previsit assessment improved or very much improved the WCC visit. However, 12% of parents found the online assessment somewhat or very difficult to use. All of the parents found the e-visit or the e-visit with brief provider visit acceptable or very acceptable, compared with a standard WCC visit. All 7 providers thought that use of the new model helped focus the visit and that they would continue or definitely continue to use the model.We demonstrated the feasibility of a new model of WCC that engaged parents in previsit assessment and used alternative visit types to tailor care to the needs of the family. Future research will be needed to examine the impact of this model on important WCC outcomes.
Teen use of a patient portal: a qualitative study of parent and teen attitudes. Perspectives in health information management / AHIMA, American Health Information Management Association Bergman, D. A., Brown, N. L., Wilson, S. 2008; 5: 13-?
We conducted a qualitative study of the attitudes of teens and parents toward the use of a patient portal. We conducted two teen and two parent focus groups, one teen electronic bulletin board, and one parent electronic bulletin board. Videotapes and transcripts from the groups were independently analyzed by two reviewers for significant themes, which were then validated by two other members of the research team. Twenty-eight teens and 23 parents participated in the groups. Significant themes included issues about teens' control of their own healthcare; enthusiasm about the use of a patient portal to access their providers, seek health information, and make appointments; and concerns about confidentiality. In summary, there was considerable support among teens and parents for a patient portal as well as concerns about confidentiality. The teen portal affords an opportunity to negotiate issues of confidentiality.
Previous studies documented considerable variability in the treatment of febrile infants, despite the existence of practice guidelines for this condition. None of those studies documented the extent to which this variability is accounted for by differences in clinical severity.To quantify the individual effects of the patient's clinical presentation, demographic, provider, and practice characteristics, and regional variables on practice variability in the evaluation and treatment of febrile infants.With data collected through the Pediatric Research in Office Settings network, we analyzed data on the treatment of 2712 febrile infants examined by 484 pediatricians located in 194 practices. We analyzed hospitalization, lumbar puncture, urinalysis and/or urine culture, blood work, and initial antibiotic administration. We obtained a summary score for evaluation and treatment intensity (ranging from no tests or treatments to comprehensive testing, hospitalization, and antibiotic therapy) by performing principal-components analysis with these 5 variables. This summary score was regressed with respect to patients' clinical presentation, demographic and practice/practitioner features, and geographic region. Provider fixed effects were also included in the model.Although the overall model explained 46.5% of the variance, the clinical characteristics of the patient alone explained 29.7% of the overall variance. Practice site fixed effects explained nearly 15% of the overall variance. Provider and practitioner characteristics and geographic region had minimal explanatory power.Our results show that measures of the patient's clinical presentation account for nearly one third of the variability that our model explains. This suggests that differences in clinical presentation and severity of illness underlie much of the observed practice variability among pediatricians evaluating and treating febrile infants. These findings demonstrate that the management of this common and potentially serious condition depends more on the clinical presentation of the patient than on the characteristics of the provider/practice and the residential region.
Fever in infants challenges clinicians in distinguishing between serious conditions, such as bacteremia or bacterial meningitis, and minor illnesses. To date, the practice patterns of office-based pediatricians in treating febrile infants and the clinical outcomes resulting from their care have not been systematically studied.To characterize the management and clinical outcomes of fever in infants, develop a clinical prediction model for the identification of bacteremia/bacterial meningitis, and compare the accuracy of various strategies.Prospective cohort study.Offices of 573 practitioners from the Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) network of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 44 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.Consecutive sample of 3066 infants aged 3 months or younger with temperatures of at least 38 degrees C seen by PROS practitioners from February 28, 1995, through April 25, 1998.Management strategies, illness frequency, and rates and accuracy of treating bacteremia/bacterial meningitis.The PROS clinicians hospitalized 36% of the infants, performed laboratory testing in 75%, and initially treated 57% with antibiotics. The majority (64%) were treated exclusively outside of the hospital. Bacteremia was detected in 1.8% of infants (2.4% of those tested) and bacterial meningitis in 0.5%. Well-appearing infants aged 25 days or older with fever of less than 38.6 degrees C had a rate of 0.4% for bacteremia/bacterial meningitis. Frequency of other illnesses included urinary tract infection, 5.4%; otitis media, 12.2%; upper respiratory tract infection, 25.6%; bronchiolitis, 7.8%; and gastroenteritis, 7.2%. Practitioners followed current guidelines in 42% of episodes. However, in the initial visit, they treated 61 of the 63 cases of bacteremia/bacterial meningitis with antibiotics. Neither current guidelines nor the model developed in this study performed with greater accuracy than observed practitioner management.Pediatric clinicians in the United States use individualized clinical judgment in treating febrile infants. In this study, relying on current clinical guidelines would not have improved care but would have resulted in more hospitalizations and laboratory testing.
Chlamydia trachomatis infection is a serious public health concern that disproportionately affects adolescent girls. Although annual C trachomatis screening of sexually active adolescent girls is recommended by health professional organizations and is a Health Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) performance measure, this goal is not being met.To test the effectiveness of a system-level, clinical practice improvement intervention designed to increase C trachomatis screening by using urine-based tests for sexually active adolescent girls identified during their routine checkups at a pediatric clinic.A randomized cluster of 10 pediatric clinics in the Kaiser Permanente of Northern California health maintenance organization, where adolescent girls aged 14 to 18 years had a total of 7920 routine checkup visits from April 2000 through March 2002.Five clinics were randomly assigned to provide usual care and 5 to provide the intervention, which required that leadership be engaged by showing the gap between best practice and current practice; a team be assembled to champion the project; barriers be identified and solutions developed through monthly meetings; and progress be monitored with site-specific screening proportions.Chlamydia trachomatis screening rate for sexually active 14- to 18-year-old girls during routine checkups at each participating clinic.The population of adolescents was ethnically diverse with an average age of 15.4 years. Twenty-four percent of girls in the experimental clinics and 23% in the control clinics were sexually active. Of the 1017 patients eligible for screening in the intervention clinic, 478 (47%) were screened; of 1194 eligible for screening in the control clinic, 203 (17%) were screened. At baseline, the proportion screened was 0.05 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.00-0.17) in the intervention and 0.14 (95% CI, 0.01-0.26) in the control clinics. By months 16 to 18, screening rates were 0.65 (95% CI, 0.53-0.77) in the intervention and 0.21 (95% CI, 0.09-0.33) in the control clinics (time period by study group interaction, F(6,60) = 5.33; P<.001). The average infection rate for the experimental clinics was 5.8% (23 positive test results out of 393 total urine tests and a total of 3986 clinic visits) vs 7.6% in controls (12 positive test results out of 157 tests and 3934 clinic visits).Implementation of this clinical practice intervention in a large health maintenance organization system is feasible, and it significantly increased the C trachomatis screening rates for sexually active adolescent girls during routine checkups.
Clinical practice guidelines have a long and distinguished tradition in pediatrics. Currently, the American Academy of Pediatrics has developed more than 15 practice guidelines and more than 250 clinical policy statements. In the past, practice guidelines have been used to improve care through the dissemination of evidence-based, clinically effective practices to pediatric practitioners. In the current environment this purpose has been broadened to include cost reduction, standardization of practice, and reduction of medical liability. This has led to both confusion and distrust on the part of the pediatrician. Practice guidelines are best understood as a tool to insure that children receive evidence-based care. They are best used in association with a set of outcome and performance measures that provide feedback to clinicians and allow for modification of the guidelines to meet the needs of the local patient population. The quality of practice guidelines is directly dependent on the quality of the medical evidence supporting the recommendation. Unfortunately only a small percentage of the evidence supporting practice guidelines comes from randomized clinical trials with the majority of the evidence coming from expert clinical panels. The success of practice guidelines in improving care for children has yet to be convincingly demonstrated. Currently, there is a dearth of well designed studies that document the effectiveness of practice guidelines. Their ultimate effectiveness will depend on both an improved evidence base and effective strategies for rapid dissemination of the recommendations. The development of evidence-based practice guidelines does not insure that it will have a major impact on physician practice. In the past, effective dissemination of new knowledge has been a long process, often taking years. This cycle time can be dramatically shortened through the development of networks of practice sites that share knowledge and experience in the implementation of practice guidelines and the use of strategies that take advantage of key groups in the dissemination process. When used appropriately, practice guidelines can provide an important adjunct to clinical research by facilitating the dissemination of new clinical findings and can provide an important platform for encouraging innovations in patient care.
Managed care has changed the practice of medicine. The choice of health care providers has been narrowed, physicians are being held financially accountable for the number of services they use, and a new emphasis is being placed on the cost and quality of the care provided. The transition to managed care has occurred with little attention to its impact on access to health care services or the quality of services provided. There is an absence of information about how children fare in these new systems. What little is known indicates that children in managed care arrangements are less likely to be able to be seen by pediatric specialists, and that families and providers are less satisfied under managed care. The impact of these changes on children's health status, however, is yet to be determined. For children with special needs, the problems of coordination of care, coverage of needed services, and the choice of the appropriate pediatric subspecialists, many of which existed in traditional fee-for-service systems, persist under managed care. In spite of all of the negative anecdotes about managed health care, managed care's focus on its population of enrollees and its heightened sense of a need for health care accountability bring exciting new opportunities to measure and improve the health care children receive. A new emphasis is being placed on practicing evidence-based medicine; the focus is on closing the gap between what is known (effective, evidence-based care) and what is done (current practice). Improved health outcomes and reduced health care costs have been documented in demonstration projects in neonatal intensive care units and in pediatric offices. Applying the principles of these learning collaboratives and employing the tools of continuous quality improvement in health care are urgent challenges that deserve to be met. Health plans, physicians, health care purchasers, regulators, families, and their children must work together to assure that children receive the highest-quality care possible--care that is technically excellent and medically appropriate, and that improves the health of our children.
Clinical practice guidelines are becoming pervasive in pediatrics and newborn medicine. They have spanned a wide range of primary care practice parameters from treating otitis media with effusion, to performing complex surgery for congenital heart disease, and management of respiratory distress syndrome and coordinating discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit. Administrators believe that using clinical practice parameters reduces health care costs, improves quality of care, and limits malpractice liability. Practice parameters and guidelines have grown in use because powerful interests-third-party payers, insurers, and health maintenance organizations, as well as hospital administrators bent on reducing variable costs of care and contracting for capitated care-champion their development, implementation, and monitoring. Economic credentialing of physicians with excessive variances without risk-adjusting for other than average patients is problematic and remains unchecked partly because of the fundamental characteristics of the evolving health care industry in which costs are more easily measured than quality. For highly autonomus physicians this standardization of medical decision making may represent a difficult transition into corporate practice by realigning traditional values of the doctor-patient relationship. However, because guidelines are almost certainly here to stay, pediatricians and neonatologists need to think critically about how their content and method of implementation, monitoring, and modification may influence medical teaching and decision making in the future. If guidelines are introduced primarily as a cost savings or containment tool that ignores the impact on the quality of care and restricts necessary care for infants and children, especially those with chronic illness or who are developmentally at risk, then neonatologists and pediatricians must be quick and determined to challenge the potentially damaging use of practice parameters or guidelines. Furthermore, there are many medicolegal implications of guideline implementation that may not favor physicians and leave to hospitals, insurers, and ultimately the courts decisions regarding evidence-based practice. In this review article, we pay special attention to the guidelines developed in newborn medicine. We discuss why and how guidelines are developed and critically evaluate the available evidence describing potential benefits and drawbacks of guidelines in general. There are legal implications to the implementation of guidelines, and guidelines may increase provider susceptibility to malpractice allegations. Neonatologists and pediatricians should critically analyze the following questions when guidelines are being developed: Are clinical practice parameters the most effective means to reduce the costs of health care, or improve the quality of health care services while reducing the need for and protecting physicians from malpractice suits? Or do clinical practice guidelines more closely resemble an audit system developed by health care organizations, insurers, and others including government-sponsored health care to appease powerful interests-with limited evidence for promise and perhaps potential negative cost, quality, and malpractice liability implications? In pediatric and newborn medicine there is limited evidence that guidelines have achieved the desired goals and further analysis of their process of care and the costs of implementation is warranted.
The past two decades have brought about major health care changes that have been driven by an ever-increasing cost of health care, practice variability, and medical malpractice litigation. These changes pose a challenge to pediatricians to contain costs, to reduce inappropriate use of health care services, and to demonstrate improved health care outcomes. To meet this challenge, a new "clinical tool kit" is required, one that will allow the pediatrician to analyze current practices and to document effective interventions. Two of the major tools in this kit are practice guidelines and outcomes assessment instruments. Practice guidelines are optimal care specifications that provide an analytic framework for defining high-quality care and measuring health care outcomes. Ideally, these guidelines should be developed from scientific evidence. In practice, however, scientific evidence to support the majority of recommendations made in guidelines is insufficient. Consequently, these recommendations are instead developed by expert consensus. Measurement of health outcomes includes clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, cost and use, and quality of life. Health care organizations have become very sophisticated in measuring cost and use, but considerably less work has been done in the patient-centered areas of satisfaction and quality of life. This is particularly true for children, because measures are dependent on the viewpoint chosen (parent, child, or teacher), the age of the child, and the adjustment for severity of illness. Analyzing practice patterns and improving health outcomes will not be easy tasks to accomplish. For the pediatrician to use these tools in an efficient and effective manner, a new research agenda and new skills will be required.
In the study reported here, the authors assessed the use of efficient organization of knowledge and of problem-solving strategies to enhance medical students' clinical problem-solving skills. Thirty-five preclinical medical students were randomly assigned to a experimental or control group and given a knowledge base containing information on eight congenital heart diseases to learn. Information for the experimental group emphasized disease groupings (based on their similar clinical presentation), symptom-disease associations, and clinical problem-solving heuristics. The same information for the control group was presented in a textbook format that emphasized the pathophysiology of the diseases. The students then diagnosed three computerized diagnostic problems of varying difficulty while verbalizing their problem-solving strategies. The results showed that the experimental group acquired a higher ratio of diagnostic to nondiagnostic cues, mentioned the correct diagnosis sooner in their workups, and correctly diagnosed the most difficult case more often than the control group. These results provide support for revisions in the organization and presentation of information that are aimed at improving clinical problem-solving skills.
The study presented here reports on the impact of newly published clinical research on physicians' decisions. Eighty-three pediatricians, pediatric residents, and family practitioners were presented with a common, potentially serious problem, an infant with a high fever, and were required to estimate the probabilities of bacteremia and of acquiring meningitis and to choose from management options. The participants then read a published scientific report addressing the risks of meningitis in febrile infants and were asked afterward to answer again the questions relating to the clinical problem. After reading the study, the participants significantly increased their probability estimates of the patient acquiring meningitis. Only 14 percent of the participants would have hospitalized the patient before reading the article, but 47 percent would have done so after reading the article. Pediatricians were more likely than family practitioners to use antibiotics after reading the article. These decisions were not based not based on logical processing of information, as there was no correlation between the physicians' estimate of the risk of meningitis and the underlying risk of bacteremia and no correlation between the participants' decisions to hospitalize or use antibiotics and their estimated risk of the patient developing meningitis. Physicians appear to have considerable difficulty in using probability data and appear to base estimates of serious disease and subsequent management on intuition rather than calculation.
Nine centers collaborated to determine the rate of urinary tract infection in infants with unexplained fever, to determine whether the rate is higher in febrile infants than in asymptomatic infants, and whether the yield justifies urine cultures in febrile infants. Urine cultures were done in 501 infants 0 to 2 years of age. The rate of confirmed urinary tract infections in the 193 febrile infants was 4.1%. All infections were in girls, with a rate of 7.4%. The rate of confirmed urinary tract infections in the 312 asymptomatic infants was 0.3%; again, all infections were in girls, with a rate of 0.7%. The rate in febrile girls was significantly higher than the rate in asymptomatic girls (P less than 0.01). The data support the advisability of culturing the urine of infant girls with unexplained fever.
A behavioral evaluation and referral unit (BERU) was established in a Children and Youth Project, to facilitate the referral of children with learning and behavioral problems that were beyond the scope of the general pediatrician. The BERU assessed the need for referral, determined the most appropriate receiving agency, initiated the appointment, and ascertained if the appointment was kept. Results of the program revealed that 48% of referrals to BERU were referred outside the Children and Youth Project. Eighty-four percent of this group completed their referral. Sixty percent received additional care either within or outside the Children and Youth Project. BERU evaluation was required for 25% of behavioral and learning problems presenting in a general pediatric clinic.
Results of a questionnaire assessing pediatricians' perceived competence regarding psychosocial, developmental and traditional medical problems were analyzed. The data were compared with a similar questionnaire distributed to seventh grade teachers, youth and parents assessing problems for which pediatricians were utilized. The results reveal that pediatricians rate their competency higher in the area of traditional medical problems. The implications of this study are discussed.


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Observation - Tormentil - UK and Ireland. Description: This plant was on the top of the sea cliffs, it seemed quiet small and at first thought it might be creeping Tormentil but all flowers had four petals. The size may be due to this plant being in a very exposed location?
This plant was on the top of the sea cliffs, it seemed quiet small and at first thought it might be creeping Tormentil but all flowers had four petals. The size may be due to this plant being in a very exposed location?


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Lynyrd Skynyrd Announce November UK Shows
Published 9 years ago on July 23, 2012
Lynyrd Skynyrd Announce Trio of November UK shows-
Southern Rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd will return to the UK inNovember for a clutch of dates in support of forthcoming album,'Last of a Dyin' Breed,' which will mark the bands fifteenth studiooffering.
The band performed a trio of sell-out shows in June at London'sfamed Hammersmith Apollo, the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow and theManchester Apollo.
The band's new album, 'Last of a Dyin' Breed,' will be releaseddigitally and via a Classic Rock 'fanpack' edition August 20th. Thephysical release will follow four weeks later on September 17ththrough Roadrunner Records.
Lynyrd Skynyrd UK dates
Sunday the 11th of November - Gateshead Sage
Monday the 12th of November - London O2 Shepherds BushEmpire
Wednesday the 14th of November - Norwich UEA
Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday the 20th of July, priced£38.50 adv and £45 regionally, and London £40 adv and £45, and willbe available from www.ticketmaster.co.ukand on www.livenation.co.uk.

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Der Mörderberg bei Weitin, einem Ortsteil der Kreisstadt Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, liegt etwa 2500 Meter nordöstlich des Ortes an der Landstraße 27.

Am Nordende des Bergplateaus befindet sich ein frühdeutscher Turmhügel (Motte) aus dem 13. und 14. Jahrhundert. Auf ihm stand einst eine kleine Burganlage, bestehend aus einem steinernen Turm und umliegenden Wirtschaftsgebäuden. Auf dem restlichen Bergplateau lag wahrscheinlich eine Vorburgsiedlung. Im Jahre 1348 wurde die Burg als "Castrum Walwensmoelen" urkundlich erwähnt. Möglicherweise war der Auftraggeber Walwanus, der von 1293 bis 1309 der Propst des Klosters Broda am Tollensesee war. Hauptaufgabe der Anlage dürfte die Sicherung der nahen Krappmühle sowie des vorbeiführenden Handelsweges nach Altentreptow gewesen sein.

Letzte Ruinenreste wurden in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts zum Bau von Straßen abgetragen. 1976 bis 1978 wurden archäologische Grabungen am Bodendenkmal durchgeführt. Sie erbrachten den Nachweis, dass der Turmhügel am Fuß mit einem Graben und einem Palisadenzaun gesichert war. Man barg Hufeisen, Armbrustbolzen, Kämme, eiserne Nägel sowie Keramikscherben.

Literatur
 Uwe Schwarz:  Die niederadligen Befestigungen des 13. bis 16. Jahrhunderts im Bezirk Neubrandenburg. Berlin 1987.

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Geographie (Neubrandenburg)
Bodendenkmal in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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Ehemalige Burganlage in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

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Dubai, 24th April, 2016 (WAM): His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said that shaping the future and making it is no longer a theoretical concept but a key factor for countries to achieve competitiveness in the global arena. "The future is not built on possibilities and numbers but on clarity of vision, planning, action and implementation," His Highness stated. Science and technology are changing the world at an accelerating pace, and the choice is to either play the role of influencers or get confined to the position of the affected, His Highness added.
His Highness said: "Dubai has a modern infrastructure and appropriate legislative structure which can promote its position as a global hub for the making of the future in the region and the world. Shaping the future is not a new concept for Dubai. The city has achieved significant experience in aviation, trade, financial services and technology."
HH Sheikh Mohammed said: "Arabs and Muslims established House of Wisdom in the 9th century as a global model for sciences and a platform for innovators from all over the world. Today we need this concept again in the 21st century to keep up with the changes and shape the future to serve humanity. After more than 1000 years we are recreating wisdom through Dubai Future Foundation."
HH Sheikh Mohammed stated this during the announcement of the Dubai Future Foundation and after approving the Dubai Future Agenda as a strategic framework for the Foundation.
In this context, His Highness said: "Today we have launched 'Dubai Future Foundation' and we look forward to a new phase in which the Foundation will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Dubai. We have launched Dubai Future Agenda as a roadmap for the Foundation to shape the future of the strategic sectors in the medium and long term in cooperation with government and private sector entities."
HH Sheikh Mohammed added: "Dubai Future Agenda will focus on supporting and developing individuals, organizations and sectors, and include more than 20 initiatives to enhance the leadership of Dubai and the UAE."
HH Sheikh Mohammed also approved the establishment of Future Endowment Fund worth AED 1 billion to invest in innovation and shape the future of strategic sectors in the UAE. His Highness approved the Future Cities programme as a framework for the launch of strategies and research projects related to the future to achieve the global leadership of Dubai and the UAE and create a global model in the field of future cities with all its components such as energy, transportation and infrastructure.
The Dubai Future Foundation will have a new board of trustees headed by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, and Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi as the Vice Chairman and Managing Director. Saif Al Aleeli will be the Chief Executive Officer of the new Foundation.
The Future Agenda – an integrated plan to strengthen Dubai's position The Future Agenda includes three main pillars: Individuals, Organizations and Sectors. Individuals pillar aims to build the capacities of individuals in making the future. The Organizations pillar will enable organizations to drive innovation within their sectors. The Agenda also aims to support and strengthen the role of future sectors of the national economy.
Individuals pillar: The pillar aims to build capacities, culture, knowledge and communities. During the coming period, a range of initiatives and training programmes will be launched targeting individuals in the government and the private sector within the UAE and abroad to prepare them for future leadership and explore the future of strategic sectors.
Dubai Future Foundation will further develop initiatives launched during the past period such as 'Mostaqbal Portal', a scientific platform to publish reports and visual material about developments in future science and the latest innovations in strategic sectors, as well as the 'Schools of the Future' report which highlights the future of the educational system in the short and medium term.
Organizations pillar: The Future Agenda will focus on engaging various organizations from the public and private sectors by establishing 'Future Teams' to conduct research and apply the latest future technologies. The agenda also includes the establishment of 'Future Laboratories' specialized in the analysis of strategic challenges of the government sector and the development of innovative solutions to solve these challenges in partnership with international companies and research institutions.
Sectors Pillar: The third pillar of the agenda will enhance the role of the existing sectors of the future based on innovation, science and technology in the national economy through four main programmes: The first programme aims to organize interactive exhibitions inside and outside the UAE to explore of the future of sectors in the long term and develop the concepts that will re-invent these sectors such as the annual Museum of the Future during the World Government Summit.
The second programme is Future Partners, which will be a network of global partners in the areas of innovation, research and development, and establishing specialized companies in consulting, modelling and future design in addition to the launch of joint initiatives with international companies and key players in the field of innovation research and development around the world.
Future Cities programme will work in cooperation with government entities to launch specialized strategies and pilot projects to achieve global leadership for the UAE within the main innovation sectors.
Future Making programme will establish value-added new sectors economically and socially, through initiatives such as: Future Incubators andFuture Endowment Fund worth AED 1 billion.
The Museum of the Future Under the new structure, the Museum of the Future, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum last year, will be a part of the Dubai Future Foundation. The Museum of the Future on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, which is one of the most important projects that will completed in the coming period, will include laboratories of innovation in health, education, energy, smart cities, transportation, and a Museum of Future Inventions.
Global partnerships and projects Since its establishment in August 2015, Dubai Future Foundation has signed several agreements with government entities, companies as well as academic and international organizations, including: Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, IEEE, Shenzhen Foundation for International Cooperation, UNESCO, IDA, General Electric, and others.
The Foundation has also launched many successful initiatives at the international level, including the UAE Drones for Good, the UAE AI & Robotics Award for Good, as well as the world's first 3D printed office in Dubai.
The Foundation has also established the World Federation of Future Sports as an organization to oversee the future sports sector and advance research and development in the field of future technologies. The Federation will organize the World Future Sports Games.
Dubai Future Foundation has also founded the Global Blockchain Council, which includes 42 government entities and private companies to discuss the best applications in Blockchain technologies.


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Caution tape hangs across a closed parking lot at the Kellogg's Canada plant in London. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley)
As Ontario grapples with an increasing number of job losses in the manufacturing and factory sector — most recently a total of 1,250 full-time positions at H.J. Heinz in Leamington and Kellogg's in London — it's time for the Liberal government to look at the role interprovincial trade plays in our economy.
Most of us like to think we are a trading nation. We have a long history of mutually beneficial trade with the U.S. and have signed nine international free trade agreements since 1995. The final details of a new deal with the European Union are being worked out, and there are ongoing talks with Japan, India, South Korea and the trans-Pacific Partnership.
Most Ontarians might also think that in terms of facilitating trade, provincial governments are relatively progressive. But if the building blocks for a cohesive trade strategy begin at home, we are doing a poor job.
For example, it's estimated interprovincial trade is worth about $300 billion a year, yet a series of internal trade barriers that prevent the free flow of goods and services across our borders amount to a seven per cent tax — about $20 billion. Businesses could better use that money to take advantage of new marketing opportunities and cut costs.
This week, the Globe and Mail reported that a group of seven business groups — including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters and Council of Chief Executives — says the problem is so serious that the EU deal will provide better access to European countries into the Canadian market than the provinces are willing to give each other.
"It is an embarrassment that we are able to provide greater benefits to our trading partners than to each other (within) Canada," the business group says in a letter written to federal Industry Minister James Moore.
The letter concludes the provinces should extend "the same commitments to each other as they do to foreign governments."
Existing provincial trade barriers can include different food, fuel and transportation regulations, and varying trade and professional standards. A study by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute said it all adds up to a "crazy-quilt patchwork" of impediments to free trade that restrict "our ability to sell milk, drive buses or work as accountants within our home and native land. The barriers costs us money, erode our rights and damage our shared citizenship."
For its part, the federal government says the provinces need to mirror agreements such as the New West Partnership — a recent initiative that integrates cross-border regulations between British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The Harper government has also said it would be willing to use its constitutional trade and commerce power to dismantle trade barriers if the provinces don't take action. However, considering the clear problems created by trade barriers that shouldn't be necessary.
In fact, given the continuing erosion of jobs in Ontario, the Wynne government should be the lead advocate for change.
With a more competitive and productive province and country, everyone is a winner — whether you're a consumer looking for the best possible prices, or a company looking to expand its markets, or simply survive.
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The city of San Francisco passed an ordinance that required Laundromats located in wooden buildings to have a permit. The ordinance established a board which would decide who would and would not get the permit. The facts suggest that not a single Chinese applicant was ever granted a permit, despite the fact that Chinese operated Laundromats constituted nearly 90% of the city's laundry business at the time. The Plaintiffs were held in violation of the ordinance and issued a fine. Plaintiffs then sued under the 14th amendment, citing a violation of equal protection.
Does an ordinance that gives absolute discretion to a permit board that discriminates on the basis of race in their eventual decision making violate the equal protection clause of the United States?
Yes, the ordinance is invalidated and the appeal ruling is overturned. The court noted that the ordinance did not have any discrimination detectable within its text. However, its enforcement did violate the equal protection clause because its execution was racially unequal. The court held that the new rule should be that the Supreme Court may shoot down state or local laws that are neutral in their text, but discriminatory in their execution.
The court wrote that the enforcement of the law was "a practical denial by the state of that equal protection of the law," and, as such, was a violation of the constitution. Moreover, the court also noted that equal protection is afforded to non-citizens within US borders, as many of the Chinese Laundromat operators were non-citizens.


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HOODS of AMERICA, the renowned hip hop artist has come up with his latest single 'Holding On' that will literally hold on to your musical till the last second.
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Helensview School awarded CTE grant to support student participation in Phoenix Industries
Two hundred and fifty students at Helensview School will have increased access and opportunities in Career Technical Education thanks to a $336,286 ODE CTE Revitalization grant. Using grant funds, the school will upgrade existing facilities to allow the school to support student participation in Phoenix Industries, its suite of career technical programs. The funding will allow the school to work towards establishing a pre-trade apprenticeship in carpentry offerings, establish a production kitchen to support the culinary business program, and provide additional dual credit opportunities through Mt. Hood Community College.
Students Angelica Perez-Garcia and Zoria Hudson welcomed the news with excitement. "Being at Helensview and involved in Phoenix Industries and the culinary program has allowed me to see myself and my future differently," and, "I'm excited about all the new things this money will allow us to do in those programs," said Perez-Garcia. "Participating in the CTE woodworking and manufacturing program has taught me math and confidence in speaking in front of a group, and the CTE funding to add an internship will help me learn about careers that I haven't considered before," echoed Hudson.
Principal Dawn Joella-Jackson added, "At Helensview we serve students who have been referred by their districts when they were not successful there. These students have so many skills and gifts. The growth of our CTE programs will allow them to find new ways to shine."
CTE teachers Jermain Whitaker and Joe Williams explained about the impact the revitalization funds will have in their classrooms. "The math integration into the pretrade apprenticeship in carpentry allows students to visualize career and post-secondary opportunities after high-school," explained teacher Jermaine Whitaker who leads the Woodworking and Manufacturing program. Teacher Joe Williams who leads the culinary business program added, "The program supports student learning in math, forecasting, marketing, and project planning. Students will receive dual-credit for their coursework through a partnership with Mt. Hood Community College."
Phoenix Industries is a suite of hands-on career technical education programs. The programs include Phoenix Bike which uses bicycle repair and rejuvenation to support physics instruction and leads to internships with the community cycling center; Phoenix Ink a design and screen printing program, Phoenix Feast a culinary business program; Phoenix Beats, a composition, arrangement, and recording studio program; and Phoenix Build, a custom design and build construction and manufacturing program.
Helensview school is a middle and high school that offers multiples pathways to graduation for students grades 6-12. Its mission is to provide culturally competent educational and support services that empower students to engage in their own learning and encourage students to transition to post-secondary school, training or career opportunities. The school offers integrated community-based units built around common standards, actively incorporates student voice in themes and directions of the classes and offers hands-on programming through Phoenix Industries.
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Dell will be closing all of its US mall kiosks -- 140 in total. Unsurprisingly, the official word attributes the move to Dell's shift into big box retail stores ... According to Tony Weiss, vice president for Dell's Global Consumer business, the move "fits in with how its broad global retail strategy is evolving,"
Meanwhile IFOAppleStore.COM reports Apple will continue its success with retail by opening another 40 stores in 2008.


The race was held in Mäntsälä, 30 miles north of Helsinki. The track was leaking a little but that's normal.
Unusually, the massive percentage of riders wear full-face helmets. Except this fella, below.
The leaking track. I can only imagine how miserable the rider behind number 94 felt two seconds after this photos was taken.
I don't know the layout of the track, but it must have had a decent length straight to encourage a tuck like that.


RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite an increase in long term care costs nationally, costs in Alaska were mixed, with the cost of assisted living facilities and nursing homes (for both semi-private and private rooms) increasing, while the cost of home care and adult day care services remained the same or decreased,1 according to the 15th annual Genworth Cost of Care Survey.
"For the past 15 years, Genworth has been a leader in helping educate families about the potential of needing long term care by providing our annual Cost of Care Survey and underscoring the importance of planning ahead for these costs," said David O'Leary, President and CEO of Genworth's U.S. Life Insurance division. "Most people assume government programs will pay for some or all of these costs7, but that's not always the case. That's why it's so important for people to educate themselves about the costs and how they will pay for them -- well before they need care -- so that they can live on their own terms as they grow older."
2 Genworth's Cost of Care Survey, conducted by CareScout®, 2017-2018.
3 Genworth's Cost of Care Survey, conducted by CareScout®, 2017-2018.
4 United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, accessed 10/03/18.
5 Recent research suggests that most Americans turning age 65 will need long-term care services at some point in their lives. Source: 2018 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (www.longtermcare.acl.gov). November 14, 2017.
6 Genworth's Cost of Care Surveys, conducted by CareScout®, 2004-2018.
7 Genworth's Long Term Care Sentiment Study, September 2017.


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How The 2020 Gold Rush Smashed Through Records
Nine years after the last rally collapsed, a new gold rush is in full swing.
This week, prices rocketed to record highs above $2,000 per troy ounce for the first time — a 36 per cent ascent in the year so far that far outstrips any stocks index.
Even with prices at these lofty nominal levels, few are calling for a drop, prompting some to warn of a bubble and stunning even veterans of the industry.
"I've been active in the gold market for 35 years, and this is probably the most abrupt shift I've seen," said John Reade, chief market strategist at the World Gold Council and a former gold trader.
Much of the latest rally stems from central banks' efforts to shield the global economy from the worst effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Interest rates in major economies, which had started to pick up after the last financial crisis, have now headed back close to zero. That, plus central banks' aggressive bond-buying programmes, has crushed the returns available to buy-and-hold investors in government debt and left little further room for price appreciation.
Meanwhile, inflation expectations, while low by historical standards, have ticked higher. That leaves gold, typically second-best to bonds because it does not provide interest payments, in a sweet spot. Its upper limit is confined only by what the next buyer is prepared to pay.
Gold "has become an increasingly important part of portfolios in a low-yield world", said analysts at UBS.
Some of the most prominent hedge fund investors have, in many cases reluctantly, turned into gold supporters. In a letter to investors in May, Paul Tudor Jones of Tudor Investment Corp said a simple ratio tracking the value of gold above the ground to global money supply suggests the price could reach $2,400 an ounce. If demand becomes as extreme as it did four decades ago, before then Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker ratcheted up US interest rates to tame inflation, prices could reach $6,700, Mr Tudor Jones wrote.
"Gold remains a very attractive hedge against the 'Great Monetary Inflation' and hedges against other risks clouding the outlook, including a renewed flare up in the China-US relationship where financial sanctions could eventually be used in a brute-force decoupling," Mr Tudor Jones added.
Jewellery demand is not a factor here; demand for wearable gold has collapsed in key markets including India since coronavirus struck. Instead, much of the support comes from exchange traded funds tracking the price of gold.
One such ETF, SPDR Gold Shares, has this year snapped up physical gold to match investors' demand at a record-breaking pace. The size of the fund's holdings — which are held in HSBC's London vaults — has climbed to more than 1,200 tonnes, making it a bigger gold holder than the central banks of either Japan or India.
Gold bulls say the metal is still under-owned by historical standards. Bank of America said global investors now keep about 3 per cent of assets in gold, half the size of allocations in 1980. Jim Luke, a fund manager at Schroders, said gold-backed ETFs represent about 2.5 per cent of global ETF holdings, compared with 10 per cent in 2011.
Some analysts are concerned about a repeat of gold's previous sharp rallies in the late 1970s and in 2011, after which prices collapsed by 55 per cent and 33 per cent in the following five years. In addition, the runaway price rises that many gold enthusiasts are predicting may not materialise; investors such as billionaire John Paulson were wrongfooted after the 2008 crisis when inflation did not appear.
Campbell Harvey, a professor of finance at Duke University, said gold was an "unreliable hedge" against inflation fears in the short term because it was too volatile. He cautioned that the rush into gold-backed ETFs looked like "irrational exuberance", citing Warren Buffett's quote that gold buyers could be "bandwagon investors" who "create their own truth".
"It's a classic situation where people are buying when prices are going up," he said.
Still, the surge in demand is a boon for operators of gold vaults. IBV International Vaults has built a facility in London with "Fort Knox security" near the Dorchester Hotel. Here, investors will be able to store the metal behind bulletproof glass built to comfortably withstand the force of an AK-47 — backed up by biometric security and monitored by three separate control rooms.
The opening of the new vault, which had been scheduled for the start of this year, has been delayed by coronavirus. But inquiries have risen. "We are seeing a lot more people who are nervous of the banking system and looking to hold their wealth outside of the conventional banking system," said Debra Thomson, head of sales at IBV Gold.
"If you look at dollar weakness or local currency weakness, having a physical product like gold or silver . . . they get the feeling that they're controlling their wealth by holding it in a physical object."
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Tips for baby's first Christmas?
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My daughter, my first child, was born last month and this will be her first Christmas! I'm so excited and have all these plans to make it so special. But, I'm hearing from many friends that I shouldn't set my expectations TOO high. I'm wonder…do you have tips for making baby's first Christmas successful? Are things I definitely should or should not do? I don't want to go over-the-top, but I also want to make this memorable for our family.
Would love any advice from other experienced parents!
I would suggest you keep things simpe. On holidays, particularly the early ones with kids, the quiet moments are sometimes the most memorable. Focus on a few specific traditions you want to start or moments you want to capture and consider anything else above that the works out to be a bonus.


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Copyranter: Why Chevrolet's Prince 'tribute' ad is awful in every way
April 26, 2016 | By Mark Duffy
Mark Duffy has written the Copyranter blog for 10 years and is a freelancing copywriter with 20-plus years of experience. His hockey wrist shot is better than yours. Follow him on Twitter.
To glom or not to glom, that is the question for brand folk when a celebrity dies or a tragedy happens.
The answer — always — is of course shut up and say nothing. Who cares what a brand thinks about anything not related to their brand?
But you ask, what if you sell Corvettes and a very recently deceased beloved celebrity sang a song comparing a woman to one of your cars?
Well then, by all means, test it on Twitter and then spend well over a million dollars to place full-page ads in major newspapers all across the country. Fifth-gear engagement, baby! Floor it!
When Chevrolet and its agency, Commonwealth/McCann Detroit, quickly concocted this ad, there was only one thing on everybody's marketing mind: Sell hundreds of Corvettes. Prince may well have died from a sad, tragic overdose? Who cares, sell product! Interestingly, Corvette sales are down over 25 percent compared to last year.
Keep this in mind, millennials, as you see brands doing "social" or "empowerment" ads: The only thing corporations care about deeply is profit.
In the song "Little Red Corvette," Prince strongly advises the red-hot woman with "an ass like I never seen" to slow down. Chevrolet should've heeded Prince's warning, too. Was Prince ever an official spokesman for the Corvette? No? Oh.
But this post isn't, mostly, about "ethics" because — duh — we're talking about ad people here. Of course it's unethical; of course it never should have run on Twitter or anywhere.
But leaving aside the question of whether they should have done the ad, the ad itself is a creative failure. It's classless and tasteless.
Commonwealth McCann isn't exactly known as a high-level creative agency. And some copywriter (or art director) there thought that changing a lyric line from the song and turning it into a headline was "cool as shit." If you absolutely had to do an ad glomming onto Prince's untimely death, people would have gotten the ad without the "much too fast" line and just a simple "1958-2016," you overwriting idiots.
But it wasn't simply creative overkill. The line diverted the reader's attention away from Prince to the brand trying to be "ad-dy" and "clever" — a completely classless and tasteless move.
Back in 2009, Levi's did a similar thing when Ted Kennedy died:
Levi's placed this full-page New York Times ad five days after Kennedy's death. They couldn't wait to get their blue jeans on a dead Kennedy's legs. And so they went "forth" with the tasteless glomming because sales dreams (forecasts) never die.
A more accurate visual would have been vultures (wearing Levi's) dining on Teddy face. Did Kennedy wear Levi's brand jeans? Who cares.
Corvettes start at around $55,000. Maybe get yourself a purple one!
But next time Chevrolet/Commonwealth McCann, just play his music all day and maybe send flowers.


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An experiment in writing about film: select three different, arbitrary time codes (in this case the 10 minute, 40 minute, and 70 minute mark), freeze the frames, and use that as the guide to writing about the film. What if, instead of freely choosing what parts of the film to address, one let the film determine this? Constraint as a form of freedom – a new method of film criticism, freed of the old tyrannies of continuity. The discontinuity of the digital age, demanding a new way of seeing. A new way of writing.


Burning man? Made me LOL. Go while your young, try not to do anything you'll regret later… Keep your head. The older you get, the more creepy it all seems. Careful what you look at. Some of those images will burn permanently in your mind – especially the hippies way past their prime. gag. Overshadows the good stuff. Not a lot of beauty there. Good luck to you.
If you want to hang around gun-crazy people you could stop-in a the Gunblogger Rendezvous in Reno the week after. There's a chance to win some cool swag including a Leupold or a Glock or a HiPoint Carbine.
Also… yeah, the one draw back of being out where I am is that there aren't any clubs shooting highpower nearby (but then, I've got my own 100yd range, so…). I'll probably be back in the Bay Area for the winter though, so hopefully I'll be able to make the occasional appearance in SJ. I'm also hoping to make it to Coalinga in October, so I might see some Zouaves there too.
I'm reading this blog. You're a real live tin horn Jerimiah Johnson. God Bless you and I hope that bear doesn't eat ya. Hang in there.
There's a lot you can't even do by yourself in a situation like that, where you need an extra pair of hands – it's not just a matter of taking x-longer multiples. Even if you have heavy equipment to lift the roof-beam, you should have another guy (or two, one to run the equipment) at the other end of it when you put it in place. And a girl with cold lemonade for afterward, or to call the ambulance if there's a major mishap. You don't want to fall off a high place, and don't go doing any tree-trimming alone by yourself either, that's definitely a two-person job.


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Argument preview: Revisiting the balance between speech and reputation in the context of airline security
By	Cristina Tilley
on Dec 3, 2013 at 1:01 pm
As the fiftieth anniversary of New York Times v. Sullivan approaches, the Court is poised to revisit the balance between speech and reputation in a case that pits a humiliated pilot against the regional airline which alerted TSA that he might pose a safety threat. Sullivan essentially created a bifurcated defamation tort, so that speech published with "actual malice" was far more susceptible to tort liability than speech published without that level of fault. Actual malice does not refer to ill will on the part of the speaker, but instead to the knowledge that he is making a false statement or the reckless disregard of falsity. On December 9, the Court will hear oral argument in Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. v. Hoeper, a case involving the interpretation of a federal statute designed to encourage airlines to report suspicious behavior by immunizing them from civil liability for those reports unless they were made with Sullivan-style actual malice. The case unpacks the relationship between falsity and malice when the speaker has complete knowledge of the facts at hand and chooses extreme words to describe them.
1. Background
William Hoeper had been a pilot for Air Wisconsin for six years when he sought certification to fly a new type of aircraft for the regional carrier. The Air Wisconsin officials who managed the new fleet allegedly disliked Hoeper and attempted to block his certification by manipulating his simulation tests so that he would fail. After quitting a simulator test in Virginia that was his "last chance" to retain his job, Hoeper accused the tester of railroading the exam and headed to the lobby of the building, firing expletives along the way. Airline personnel booked him a flight home and drove him to the airport.
Several hours elapsed before Hoeper boarded the flight, during which the test administrator reported the results to an airline official in Wisconsin, explaining that Hoeper was very angry. They recalled that as a federal flight deck officer, Hoeper owned a gun. The carrier eventually decided to advise TSA of the situation. The report to TSA stated that Hoeper "was a [flight deck officer] who may be armed. He was traveling . . . later that day and [Air Wisconsin] was concerned about his mental stability and the whereabouts of his firearm"; it also indicated that Hoeper was "[u]nstable" and had been "terminated today." When it received the report and realized that Hoeper had already boarded his flight, TSA launched a "hijack response," pulling the airplane from the runway back to the gate, boarding the plane to remove Hoeper and unpacking his luggage on the jet bridge in a search for a possible firearm.
Hoeper sued Air Wisconsin for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and false arrest. A Colorado jury awarded him a total of $1.4 million in compensatory and punitive damages on the defamation claim. At trial, Air Wisconsin unsuccessfully moved for summary judgment and for a directed verdict, claiming it was immune from liability under the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA). That statute provides that airlines reporting suspicious transactions to TSA cannot be held civilly liable under state law unless their reports are "made with actual knowledge that the disclosure was false, inaccurate, or misleading" or with "reckless disregard as to the truth or falsity of that disclosure."
The trial court held that ATSA immunity was a question of fact for the jury because the jury was solely responsible for determining whether the report was false or misleading; the jury did not grant immunity. The appellate court in Colorado agreed that immunity was a jury question. The Colorado Supreme Court, in a four-to-three decision, held that immunity was a question of law for the court, but that the error below was harmless because Air Wisconsin was not entitled to immunity. The state high court reasoned that for immunity purposes, the mere fact that Air Wisconsin's statements overstated the situation was an indication of reckless disregard for the truth sufficient to strip them of ATSA immunity; later in the opinion, the court declined to overturn the jury's determination that the statements were false.
Air Wisconsin filed a petition for certiorari, which the Court granted on June 17, 2013.
2. Arguments
Air Wisconsin is essentially suggesting that the Colorado high court found actual malice without finding falsity, in contravention of the Sullivan scheme incorporated into the statute. The court withheld immunity after finding that Air Wisconsin's report was an "overstatement" that satisfied the "reckless disregard" prong of the statute. Without explicitly determining whether Air Wisconsin's statements were false, the court determined that Air Wisconsin created the "overall implication" that "Hoeper was so unstable that he might pose a threat to the crew and passengers of the airplane on which he was scheduled to fly back to Denver," notwithstanding that the behavior of the airline staffer who made the report "belie[d that] claim." This approach, the airline now argues, impermissibly allowed civil liability for true statements. Further, Air Wisconsin argues that mere "overstatements" do not strip it of ATSA immunity because the Sullivan actual malice standard requires material falsehoods. Air Wisconsin and the federal government (which filed an amicus brief in support of the airline's position) join forces to show that the statements here were not materially false. The airline urges primarily that the report was a reasonable summary of its concerns, and that any inaccuracies were "picayune." The government takes the lead in pressing a novel definition of materiality for purposes of this statute: namely, that a statement cannot be considered materially false for ATSA purposes unless it would have altered the safety response ordered by the TSA personnel who received the report.
In response, Hoeper claims that Air Wisconsin's representation of the Colorado Supreme Court's holding – that true statements can be the basis for liability if made recklessly – is a distortion of that court's analysis. The Colorado court bypassed the issue of the statement's veracity, Hoeper contends, because it was essentially analyzing whether the airline had the requisite culpability if the statements were found to be false. Thus, Air Wisconsin is tilting (for the first time in this litigation, Hoeper contends) against a straw man in urging the Court to reject a rule that statements which are reckless but true are entitled to immunity. Further, Hoeper points out that the lower court did not condone punishment of a true statement because it ultimately affirmed the jury's finding that Air Wisconsin's statements were materially false. Bringing up the rear is Hoeper's argument that Air Wisconsin's statements were materially false because they conveyed the impression that he "was so mentally unstable as a result of his recent termination that he might use a gun . . . to injure passengers or commandeer a plane," even though a number of Air Wisconsin employees testified that they never considered him a safety threat.
The Court has tended to be wary of tort actions that cramp speech on matters of public concern, and air safety clearly fits that category. Thus, there is a good chance the Court will be receptive to arguments that ATSA bars civil liability for airline safety reports that are anything short of fictional. But one of the chief difficulties posed by this case is the fallacy inherent in Sullivan itself – that truth and falsity are binary propositions. When the truth-falsity stakes are so high – constitutional protections or statutory immunity may ride on them – what is a court to do with statements like these that are neither gospel renditions nor bald-faced lies? The Court, to date, has conceptualized "truth" generously in order to make more space for speech, especially in classic news reporting situations in which journalists are forgiven for imperfect word choices when acting as conduits of information between third-party sources and news consumers (for example, Time, Inc. v. Pape, Masson v. New Yorker, Bose v. Consumers Union). So it's not surprising that Air Wisconsin and the government are framing the statements as substantially true in order to bring themselves within the Court's speech-protective canopy.
Notably, however, Congress did not replicate Sullivan's actual malice rule precisely when it wrote the ATSA. Instead, it appeared to leave slightly more room for civil liability when statements fall into the twilight region between truth and falsity by withholding immunity not just for knowingly false statements, but also for knowingly "inaccurate or misleading" statements. That statutory language may afford Air Wisconsin less latitude than the paradigmatic Sullivan journalist, both because the malice definition is subtly different and because — unlike most journalist-defendants — the carrier was both the source of the information and the speaker. Thus, any ambiguities in its description cannot be attributed to unreliable or vague information, but instead were the product of its own involvement and language. Put another way, what the Colorado Supreme Court described as "reckless" regardless of truth could be described as "knowingly misleading."
This posture may explain Air Wisconsin's novel argument that any inaccuracies in the TSA report were immaterial unless they would have triggered a different threat response by the agency. Given the Court's solicitude for speech, its likely sympathy for airline security concerns, and its enduring skepticism about jury findings in speech-tort cases, this argument may carry the day. But it overlooks the purpose of stripping Air Wisconsin or other carriers of immunity for culpably false or misleading statements, which is to allow individuals to vindicate interests like reputation that may have been infringed by the suspect speech. Here, the jury appeared to accept Hoeper's evidence at trial that hundreds of pilots heard about the TSA report, assumed he "went off the deep end," and effectively "blackballed" him from the industry as a result. Essentially, they determined that the falsehoods were material for the pilot community who determined Hoeper's reputation. Limiting materiality to the community of TSA agents could be said to read out of ATSA the door to civil liability for "misleading" speech.
Posted in Merits Cases
Cases: Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. v. Hoeper
Recommended Citation: Cristina Tilley, Argument preview: Revisiting the balance between speech and reputation in the context of airline security, SCOTUSblog (Dec. 3, 2013, 1:01 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/12/argument-preview-revisiting-the-balance-between-speech-and-reputation-in-the-context-of-airline-security/
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