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ATC121115: Report of the Portfolio Committee on Health on a study tour to Bangkok, Thailand, dated 12 September 2012
Report of the Portfolio Committee on Health on a study tour to Bangkok, Thailand, dated 12 September 2012
Report of the Portfolio Committee on Health on a study tour to Bangkok , Thailand , dated 12 September 2012
The Portfolio Committee on Health having undertaken a study tour to Thailand from the 23-27 January 2012, reports as follows:
1. Background and Objectives
The National Health Insurance (NHI) is currently high on the health policy agenda. The intention of this financing system is to promote efficiency and the equitable distribution of financial and human resources, improving health outcomes for the majority. The proposed NHI seeks to address health challenges.
The Committee decided on the study tour pre-empting the piloting of the NHI in various areas of South Africa , as well as health care services in general. The NHI will reshape South Africa 's health care system. The Committee also decided on visiting Thailand as it is a country which is perceived to have one of the good health care systems. The lessons learnt from the Thai government healthcare system would assist Members of Parliament (MPs) in their future oversight activities.
The Committee was interested in the following areas of learning:
· National Health Insurance;
· Recruitment and retention strategies of doctors in the rural areas, which assist in the good functioning of primary health care;
· Integration between Conventional and Traditional medicines; and
· Their Office of Standards of Compliance.
2. Delegation
The following members formed part of the delegation:
Dr MB Goqwana, Committee Chairperson (ANC)
Ms BT Ngcobo (ANC)
Ms MJ Segale-Diswai (ANC)
Ms MC Dube (ANC)
Mr M Waters (DA)
Mr DA Kganare (COPE)
The following Parliamentary officials accompanied the Committee:
Ms Vuyokazi Majalamba: Committee Secretary
Ms Nonceba Mahlanyana: Committee Assistant
Mr Zubair Rahim, Committee Researcher
3. Visit to the National Health Security Office (NHSO)
Delegation at the NHSO
The delegation interacted with the following persons at the NHSO:
Dr Winai Sawasdivon: Secretary General of the NHSO
Dr Yoslip Suchanwanich: Bureau of Information Technology
Ms Netnapis Suchanwanich: Assistant Secretary
Ms Netnapis Suchanwanich briefed the Committee and expanded on the constitutional provisions, the universal coverage reform objectives, the National Health Security Act, Thailand 's universal coverage, and the structure of the NHSO.
3.1 Constitution of Thailand
Section 51 of Thailand's Constitution B.E. 2550 (2007) stipulates that everyone has equal right to receive appropriate and standard public health services; and indigents shall have the right to receive free medical treatment. Section 80 stipulates that the State shall carry out the policy directive to:
· Promote, support and develop the heath system that emphasise the health promotion;
· Provide and promote the standardised public health service to people universally and efficiently; and
· Encourage private sector and community to participate in the health development and provision of public health services.
The NHSO is a state agency, officially founded in 2002, under the National Health Security Act. It is responsible for the health security of 47.5 million Thai citizens. Every person born as a Thai should feel secured, irrespective of being sick or not. The mandatory duties of the NHSO are to manage the health security fund and allocate the subsidiary budget to 236 clinics and 963 hospitals to promote and develop a good health care system for all Thai people in order to assure the quality of care provided to Universal Coverage (UC) members. The NHSO has to control and supervise health care units to achieve the required standards of health services for all members.
The vision of the NHSO is to have a health security system that ensures equitable accessibility, public confidence and provider satisfaction. The mission of the NHSO is to:
· Promote and develop a quality health care system with public confidence and provider satisfaction;
· Promote the participation of civil society and local administration organisations in health security development;
· Promote and protect the people's right to health security as well as reinforce the learning process of the public realizing their rights and duties. Manage the health security funding and the utilisation of the fund in the manner of sufficiency and efficiency; and
· Establish an organisational management system which is of high standard and promote continuous development towards a learning organisation.
3.2 Aspects relating to health sector reform
The presenter provided an overview of the universal coverage reform objectives, the Thailand universal coverage and aspects relevant to the National Health Security Act.
3.3.1 Universal coverage reform objectives
The following objectives underpin the reform process of universal coverage:
· To improve efficiency through:
o Rational use of healthcare by level – beginning with primary care while ensuring proper referral;
o Long-term cost containment through capitation contract model.
· To ensure equity across schemes;
· To ensure a sustainability system; and
· To ensure quality of care through the accreditation system and utilisation reviews.
3.3.2 Thailand Universal Coverage (UC)
There are three public insurance schemes, which cover 96% of the population, though 4% is still uninsured. The three schemes are as follows:
· Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme (CSMBS) introduced in the 1960s, which covers government employees, their dependents and retirees. Ten percent of the population is covered in this scheme;
· Social Health Insurance (SHI) which was introduced in the 1990s and covers private sector employees. Twelve percent of the population is covered in this scheme; and
· Universal Coverage (UC) introduced in 2001. Seventy-four percent of the Thai population is covered by this scheme.
3.3.3 National Health Security Act
The National Health Security Act ensures entitlement for health services according to the constitution, which applies to all Thai citizens. The National Health Committee is responsible to announce cost sharing of patients. However the poor have to be protected from financial burden.
3.3.3.1 Services covered under the National Health Security Act
The services covered under the National Health Security Act incorporate promotive and preventative care, diagnosis, antenatal care, curative care, medicine, medical supplies, organ substitutes and medical equipments, delivery, boarding expense within health care unit, newborn and child care, ambulance or transportation for patients, transportation for disability persons, physical and mental rehabilitation; and other expenses necessary as prescribed by the Committee.
3.3.3.2 The National Health Security Act B.E 2545 (2002)
In expanding on the National Health Security Act, the presenter provided an outline of the plan, current status, enabling factors for Thai universal coverage, future challenges and coping mechanisms.
In relation to the plan and current status, financial sustainability was ensured by using multiple sources of funds. Currently, the general tax was the only source of fund. There was an attempt to propose a sin tax as an alternative source and there were forecasts that the total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP was still feasible in the next ten years.
In relation to the enabling factors for Thai universal coverage, there was political commitment with a policy agenda setting comprising evidence based policy formulation. The existing functioning of primary healthcare services was close to clients and easily accessible by rural populations.
There was government effectiveness in scaling up and sustaining the universal coverage scheme. There was a high capacity on information systems, which enabled monitoring, evaluation and continued systems for fine tuning.
Future challenges and coping mechanisms comprised the following:
· Rapid demographic and epidemiological transition;
· Little investment in primary preventions of risk and social mobilisation;
· Unsettled debates on moving dependants (spouse and children) of SHI members currently covered by tax funded UC to contributory SHI;
· Strong push by super-tertiary care (teaching hospitals) to extend high cost medical technologies; and
· Slow progress in harmonising across three insurance schemes.
Having completed the presentations, the Committee was taken on a tour to a call centre where all complaints and benefits were being administered. The call centre was a 24-hour service with 60 lines. They received approximately 1000 calls a day. Information at the call centre was kept for 6 months and then archived for 10 years.
3.3.4 Data Centre
The data centre was a centralised centre where all the data of people on the NHSO was administered. Applications were also managed at the centre. The centre was also responsible for checking and fixing problems from other branches.
4. Site visits to hospitals, clinics, and briefing by the Ministry of Public Health
The delegation visited and received briefings from officials at the Samitivej Private Hospital , Rajavithi Hospital , Bang Sie Thong District Ka (primary healthcare) and a briefing by the Ministry of Public Health.
4.1 Samitivej Private Hospital
Delegation at the hospital
Ms Pat Phatraporn Donavanik
Miss Rungnapa Attanung
Ms Pat Phatapraporn Donavanik, Head of International Affairs informed the Committee that Samitivej was a private hospital, and not part of the hospitals that were offering universal coverage.
4.2 Rajavithi Hospital
Dr Prakarn Thomyangkoon: Medical Technology Training
Mrs Niyom Somprasong: Human Resources Management
Ms Khunying Duenpen Puengprakieat: Health Insurance
Dr Sukit Paripimanmas: Deputy Director of the Academy Group
Dr Warunee Jinarat: Assistant Director of Finance
Ms Benjawan Khumparat: Deputy Director
Mr Sompson Savarat: Interpreter
4.2.1 Presentation by Dr Prakarn Thomyangkoon
The Committee was shown a video of Rajavithi Hospital and services that were being provided. Dr Prakarn Thomyangkoon informed the Committee that the hospital was initially a hospital for women and was converted to Rajavithi Hospital in 1976. Some of the services offered at the Hospital since 1995 were lung, heart, kidney and liver transplants.
Dr Thomyangkoon informed the Committee that Rajavithi Hospital was the leading International Medical Centre, and its mission was to be the leader of academic international medical centres, by providing professional tertiary medical services, health promotion and having effective transferring systems.
The core values of the hospital comprises enhancing the research and academic mind, creating joyfulness, alliance networking, victor, integrity, teamwork, humanising health care and innovation.
The original Hospital was established in 1951. With 1 154 beds, it is the largest hospital under the Ministry of Public Health. In April 2011, the hospital celebrated its 60 th anniversary. The hospital is divided into different directing clusters consisting of the following departments - Departments of General Administration, Finance and Accountancy, Procurement, Planning and Evaluation, Customer Relations and Human Resources.
The academic cluster consists of the following – Centre of Medical Speciality in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Departments of Emergency Medical Services, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Surgery, Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Orthopaedic, Psychiatry, Anaesthesiology, Ophthalmology, Pathology and Laboratory, Medicine, Radiology, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nutrition and Dietetics Academic Support Information, Technology, Family Medicine, and Radiation Oncology (Radiotherapy).
The nursing cluster consists of the following – Departments of Out-Patient Nursing, In-Patient Nursing, and Nursing Academy .
Centres of excellence include ear, nose and throat, retina, organ transplantation, laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery, trauma, cardio-vascular and cancer, head and neck.unit
The hospital also offers three to five year residency training programmes in 13 specialities as follows – general surgery, neurology, Thoracic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Obstetric – Gynaecology, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Ear, Nose and Throat, Anaesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Radiotherapy and Oncology.
Fellowship training courses in 19 subspecialties include – cardiology, nephrology, Gastro-Enterology, Endocrinology, Rheumatology Gynaecologic Oncology, Spine Surgery, Hand Surgery and Microsurgery, Gynaecological Laparoscopy, Glaucoma, Retina and Vitreous, Maternal Foetal Medicine, Arthroplasty, Infectious disease, Head and Neck surgery, Minimally invasive Surgery, Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Pulmonary Disease and Pulmonary critical care.
Short Courses Training include – laparoscopic cholecystectomy , Gynaecological Laparoscopic Surgery, Dialysis Course,
Gastrascopic Technique, Head and Neck Surgery Oncology Course, Temporal Bone Surgery Training Course and Postgraduate Cardiovascular Perfusion.
Mrs Niyom Simprasong, Human Resources Manager, presented the Human Resource Management plan of Rajavithi Hospital . The human resource agenda included staff engagement and the staff environment.
Having concluded the presentations, the Committee was taken on a tour of the Out Patients Department where all patients that were in the Universal Coverage were being administered.
4.3 Primary healthcare of Bang Sie Thong District ka
Ms Yupha Tarwonsarn
Mrs Sabul Thongplere
Ms Vipapoan Kernnak
Ms Yupha Tarwonsarn briefed the Committee and informed the delegation that the clinic provided services to patients around the area. There were about 9000 people living in the area. The area was called area number 4. One of their responsibilities was to assist people to take care of themselves by advising them on healthy diets to follow. Patients were also encouraged to exercise. She informed the Committee that the clinic was taking care of patients under universal coverage. The funds for the clinic were centralised and each patient was allocated 2000 BHT per year. They treated all patients even those who did not have money/funds, as all people have the same rights.
The clinic on average attended to 20 patients or less per day. The clinic operated from Monday-Friday, from 08:30-16:30. A doctor visited the clinic twice a month but the facility was run by nurses who were also provided accommodation at the clinic. The clinic did not have an ambulance. Deliveries were not performed at the centre and those in labour were referred to a hospital, which was 5 kilometres from the clinic.
From questions asked by the Committee about how the universal coverage operates, the nurse informed the Committee that they did not properly understand universal coverage.
4.4 Ministry of Public Health
On arrival at the offices of the Ministry of Public Health, the Committee met the following officials:
Dr Somchai Pinyopornpanich: Minister of Public Health
Dr Suvaj Siasiriwattana: Acting Director General
Dr Damrongsak Bulyalert
Dr Tara Chirakarn
Dr Taries Krassaniarawiwong
Mrs Saewapa Jongkitipong
Mrs Jonokolnee Tiensong
Mrs Sirina Ratipichakul
Dr Damrongsak Bulyalert briefed the Committee and informed the delegation that the population of Thailand was around 66 million. It comprised of 76 provinces, 878 districts, 7,255 sub-districts and 74,955 villages. He informed the Committee that other public hospitals were managed by the:
Ministry of Defence;
Ministry of Finance;
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration; and
Ministry of Education (medical school hospitals).
Thailand has four major healthcare schemes which include the universal coverage programme (used by the general population), social security programme (used by corporate employees), civil servant medical benefit scheme (CSMBS) (used by government employees and state-enterprise employees), and out of pocket, including private health plans.
Some of for-profit hospitals are Bumrungrad International Hospital and Bangkok Hospital , and not-for-profit hospitals are hospitals like Mission , McCormick and Overbook Hospitals .
Dr Bulyalert informed the Committee that there was a Thailand Medical Hub Project and its vision was to:
· Promote Healthcare Services, Health Promotion Services, Health Products and Thai Herb Products, Traditional Thai Medicine and Alternative Medicine; and
· Generate revenue while avoiding negative impacts on primary system of healthcare services through a monitoring mechanism.
The mission of the project is to:
· Establish a central body to effectively implement various strategies;
· Develop the country's competitiveness in healthcare industry;
· Generate revenue in healthcare services;
· Promote healthcare service providers and educational institutions, both public and private, in all sectors to achieve international standards of services;
· Create healthcare innovations with added values;
· Develop a consumer protection system through the processes of quality assurance and consumer safety monitoring; and
· Promote identities and wisdoms of Thailand .
The objective of the project is to strengthen Thailand 's competitiveness in the healthcare industry through developing a healthcare service system of international standards in both public and private sectors.
Thailand was also taking care of medical tourists and Dr Bulyalert in his presentation described medical tourists as people who:
· Need care but lack adequate out-of-pocket (OOP) funds to afford a procedure in their home country;
· Seek lower price for cost savings;
· Seek better medical services; and
· Avoid long waiting times.
Treatments undertaken by United States tourists include dental care, cosmetic, orthopaedic and cardiovascular surgery. The Committee was informed about a comparison of the price of care for selected procedures in the US , India , Thailand and Singapore . The American Medical Association (AMA) guidelines for patients travelling overseas for medical care were as follows:
· Medical care outside the US should be voluntary;
· Financial incentives to go outside the US for care should not inappropriately limit diagnostic and therapeutic alternatives, or restrict treatment or referral options;
· Financial incentives should be used only for care at institutions accredited by recognised international accrediting bodies;
· Local follow-up care should be coordinated and financing arranged to ensure continuity of care;
· Coverage for travel outside the US for care must include the costs of follow-up care upon return;
· Patients should be informed of rights and legal recourse before travelling outside the US for care;
· Patients should have access to physician licensing and outcomes data, as well as facility accreditation and outcomes data;
· Transfer of patient medical records should be consistent with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) guidelines; and
· Patients should be provided with information about the potential risks of combining surgical procedures with long flights and vacation activities.
· Public hospitals have to fulfil their primary missions in providing services to the people of Thailand ;
· Some hospitals such as university hospitals and regional hospitals show potential to provide services to medical tourists; and
· Monitoring mechanisms are needed to determine if they could provide additional services without negatively affecting their primary missions.
Performance Indicators for Service Monitoring
Prevention quality indicator
Patient safety indicator
Paediatric quality indicators
US centres for Medicare and Medical Services
Drug related problems
Healthcare personnel indicators
Customer indicators
4.6 Bumrungrad International Hospital
Mr Kenneth Mays welcomed the delegation and informed the Committee that Bumrungrad International Hospital was a private hospital, which operated in a business framework. He stated that government did not force private hospitals to join universal coverage. He indicated that the hospital was opened by doctors who wanted to start a private hospital. The main hospital was opened in 1997. It was the largest private hospital in Southeast Asia . Mr Mays informed the Committee that there were 100 private hospitals and about 30 public hospitals in Bangkok .
Mr Mays indicated that the hospital was a 22-storey building with 450 operational beds. The hospital treated over 1 million patients a year (outpatients and inpatients). Over 420,000 were international patients from over 190 different countries. The hospital was managed by an American-led international team and had over 1,200 physicians and dentists, many with international training/certification.
The Committee was informed that the Bumrungrad Hospital also contributes to social responsibility. There was a Bumrungrad Hospital Foundation, which was established in 1990, which was dedicated to providing healthcare to underprivileged Thais. The foundation had provided over 100, 000 Thais with free services ranging from check-up programmes to life-saving surgery for children with defective hearts.
5. Findings by the Committee
· Most hospitals in Thailand were private and were not part of the universal coverage.
· Most officials in public health facilities that were visited did not know or fully understand universal coverage;
· Half a million of the Thai people do not have insurance;
· One seventh percent of Thai people were not employed which made it difficult to compare with South Africa as this country has a high unemployment rate; and
· Thai traditional medicines were not covered in the universal coverage.
Having concluded the study tour, the Committee agreed that there was a need to visit other countries to compare and to study their universal coverage.
The Committee would like to thank Ambassador Douglas Gibson and his office for their support and guidance in preparation for and during the trip.


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Create Custom Vibrations For Individual Contacts On Android With Vybe
by Zayed Rehman
Custom Vibration patterns for a ringing phone is not the latest innovation around on Android, and it has been available in a few custom ROMs for quite a while. Custom vibration patterns for individual contacts can be helpful in identifying the caller without even having to take the phone out of your pocket, especially when you're in a meeting or driving. Installing a custom ROM merely to gain this feature on the phone would simply be overkill. Enter, Vybe – Custom Vibrations, a new app with an equally fresh interface that is intuitive and simple to use for anyone, and allows you to define and manage custom vibration patterns. Let's take a look what the app has to offer and how well it fares, after the jump.
Just one look, and you'll see how polished and beautiful the UI of this app looks. There are no complicated settings, and every function is well laid out on the main screen. To record a custom vibration pattern, simply hit the obvious 'Record' button and tap the volume-like dial to record the input. Like a heartbeat monitor, the app will draw your input as a waveform graph. While it does so with some decent accuracy, it doesn't really serve much purpose other than identifying the aptly named Vybration you want to load after it's been saved – something unnerving if you have around 10 or more patterns.
Once recorded, you can save the Vybration or play it once more to review it. If you feel the need to redo it, simply tap the 'Refresh' button. To set the current Vybration as default for all contacts, tap the 'Contacts' icon on the top of the screen. To assign a Vybration to selective contacts, make sure you have selected it first. Then hit the 'Add contact' button on the main screen of the app, and you will see a list of all your contacts. Select the ones you want, and hit the blue button next to the menu button. You will see that these contacts now show a symbol next to them, identifying that a custom vibration pattern is set. Though if you have different patterns assigned to different contacts, you cannot tell which is which. Also, there's no way to save a Vybration with a custom name, and this can make things confusing as well. Currently, you can just switch between different Vybrations, or delete any of them from the pattern list. The developers shouldn't have neglected basic features like renaming them and showing their name with contacts that they are enabled for.
As mentioned earlier, the app doesn't offer a lot of settings to play around with. The available options in the Settings section allow you to remove the default pattern for all contacts, or disable the phone's own call vibration for the app to work properly.
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RIP Bobby Keys & Ian McLagan
Posted by Lance Davis - December 6, 2014 - Bobby Keys, Faces, Ian McLagan, New Barbarians, Rolling Stones
The New Barbarians in 1979. L-R: Ian McLagan (RIP), Zig Modeliste, Bobby Keys (RIP), Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood
The Adios Lounge was shaken to its core this week when a pair of legendary rock 'n' roll sidemen passed away. I'll offer more thorough rememberances at a later date, but I wanted to get this out there given the importance of these two musicians to my life. On Tuesday, news came through that Bobby Keys, longtime saxman for The Rolling Stones, succumbed to cirrhosis of the liver two weeks shy of his 71st birthday. That was the medical diagnosis anyway. Bobby Keys really died from being Bobby Keys, which is to say he wrung every damn bit of life out of those nearly 71 years.
In my opinion, he and Lee Allen were the two greatest saxophonists in rock 'n' roll history, and it's not all that close. Keys played with Buddy Holly as a teenager, backed Chuck Berry on Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, and recorded at one time or another with every Beatle. However, it was with the Stones that Bobby made his bones, adding his unique tenor color to classic tracks like "Live With Me," "Brown Sugar," "Can't You Hear Me Knocking," and "Sweet Virginia." He was also an elemental part of their live shows, touring with the band from 1970-73 and from 1982-2013. It's fitting that the final word on his death go to his brother from another mother — with whom he shared a birthday, December 18, 1943 — Keith Richards, who tweeted this Tuesday:
A message from Keith on the passing of Bobby Keys. pic.twitter.com/1zHe0ecib5
— Keith Richards (@officialKeef) December 2, 2014
The news about Keys was surprising, but not necessarily shocking. The death the next day of Small Faces and Faces keyboardist, Ian McLagan, was a stunning gutpunch. Official word is that he suffered a severe stroke on Tuesday night, then passed away Wednesday. I'm not gonna lie, I'm still a bit overwhelmed thinking about a world with no Mac. When I lived in Austin from 2000-09, he held down a regular Thursday evening gig at the Lucky Lounge with his group, The Bump Band. I saw them there several times and on two occasions was fortunate enough to chat him up. He was one of the nicest, most gracious musicians I've ever met, who acted like he had no idea he was rock royalty. Totally down to earth and always quick to laugh — a high-pitched wheeze that perfectly captured his endearing charm. I couldn't believe that I was able to sit 10 feet away from the man who helped shape "Cindy Incidentally," "You're So Rude," and the Small Faces obscurity, "Get Yourself Together," all songs he included in Bump Band sets. To hear that distinctive Hammond organ sound was a thing of beauty and I consider myself one lucky dude to have experienced it up close.
The successive deaths of Keys and McLagan is particularly noteworthy because they both toured and recorded with the Stones, though ironically, rarely at the same time. Mac first appeared on Some Girls — playing Wurlitzer on "Miss You" and organ on "Just My Imagination" — then joined the Stones' 1978 and 1981 American tours when Bobby was more or less exiled from the Glimmership. However, in 1979, both men toured together in The New Barbarians, a supergroup featuring Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, jazz bassist Stanley Clarke, and Meters drummer Zig Modeliste. Bobby also played on a couple of Mac albums from this era — Troublemaker (1979) and Bump In The Night (1981). As I said above, I plan on delving deeper into the discographies of both men. But, we can't let this post end without highlighting why Keys and McLagan mattered culturally, and that's their music. And what better way to do that then showing them in collaboration. I wish the audio was a little better here, but for pure historical value it can't be beat. It's been a rough few days for rock 'n' roll, friends. Drink 'em and smoke 'em if you got 'em.
New Barbarians — Breathe On Me
Knebworth Festival, Hertfordshire, England
FYI: The bassist for this show was Phil Chen, not Stanley Clarke. The harmonica player who comes out at the very end is Sugar Blue, most famous for his appearance on "Miss You."
"Turn your music so loud let's attract a big crowd
We'll drink a round to this town and bid goodbye"
–"Cindy Incidentally"
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Protect these icons of history! Why does everything that breathes have to be killed? ?????
Let them BE! Nature will take care of it's own!
Leave the horses alone. Everyone knows that special interests are driving this your latest move to exterminate the wild horses. As a tax payer, I am opposed to any such experiments.
Preposterous! Leave them alone ! The World is witnessing this attempted Travesty !! This appears to be a by product of "Cooperate Greed " !!! Stop !


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tyndall glacier trail
The glacier is arranged such that the left (south) side offers the longest, steepest slopes (about 500' of snow topping out at 45 degrees) while the right side offers a much more gentle, shorter climb (perhaps 300' and 35o). Most people try to climb both peaks together, as the approach via Sherpherd's Pass is one of the most difficult in California. Certainly it was a far cry from the last time I stood on the top of Hallett Peak! As you gain altitude you'll pass through a very pleasant and impressive looking pine forest. OR. Next Generation Ski Trail Maps. Ski Mountaineering: Tyndall Glacier via Flattop Mountain Trail. The views from the top were stunning and conditions were great. The Tyndall Trail is dedicated to the Irish scientist and alpinist John Tyndall, which is why you'll encounter a memorial to him during this snowshoe hike. Before long, the lightning had moved out to the east and the sky looked distinctly brighter in the west (though it was still snowing lightly). Thank you for help to prevent copyright vioations! Tyndall Glacier is both an ice and a rock glacier, with the lower portions of the glacier being composed primarily of rock debris and a small portion of ice. Accordingly, I'd come armed for both extremes; ice screws, pickets, and a pair of ice axes for both of us. Nestled between Hallett Peak and Flattop Mountain, this glacier can be seen from many vantage points. Sign Up or Log In. Photographer: Peter Claussen Summary Author: Peter Claussen . DIFFICULT 26.1 mi. Tottering and balancing over a few hundred yards of loose blocks took entirely more time and mental and physical effort than it should have. The route is generally easy to tackle, although the final section is a little more demanding. Eric had perfected the picket-cleaning routine by this point and was climbing harder than I've ever seen him climb. Too tell the truth, I wasn't quite sure what to expect either. Mt. Following in the footsteps of Irish scientist John Tyndall – starting from the mountain station the trail leads to Aletschbord and Hotel Belalp, where he spent several summers researching glacier movements. Flattop Mountain via North Inlet Trail. Hallett Peak. Eric didn't seem to be having any trouble with the exposure or the technique, so we scrapped the ascending traverse plan (the traversing was getting old anyway) opting for speed on the direct route. In his honour, the hotel maintains the Tyndall Room in its original condition. Trailhead: Bear Lake; ... so cross the saddle above Tyndall Glacier and scramble up steep talus to the summit. Location: Rocky Mountain National Park Date: June 8, 2012 Hikers/Skiers: Alan (clemsonmtneer), Sarah (sstratta) Ascent Route: Flattop Mountain Trail to Hallet Peak Descent Route: Tyndall Glacier to Tyndall Gorge I wanted to get one last spring ski descent in this year before hanging the skis up for the season and moving on to summer activities for good. 50% of this trail runs above treeline and is highly exposed. NOT OKAY! Trail: Little Horseshoe Park Trail, Flattop Mountain Trail, Glacier Creek Trail, Boulder Brook Trail. The pickets were pretty secure but the screws were probably more psychological than anything else. We felt right at home donning heavy packs full of ropes and helmets and humping up the trail. These included the Irish mountaineer and scientist John Tyndall, who spent 44 summers at the Hotel Belalp. The Adventure Guide to the Flattop Mountain and Hallett Peak includes directions, trail information, trail description, photographs of the trails, comments from our hikes, mileage data, custom Flattop Mountain and Hallett Peak topo map, and route GPS tracklogs. I was pulling in rope pretty quickly as he raced the thunder up the slope. The trail continues upwards following a rather demanding. Tyndall Glacier is a glacier inside of Rocky Mountain National Park. An Adventure Projects staff member will review this and take an appropriate action, but we generally don't reply. last time I stood on the top of Hallett Peak. If nothing else, it was a great spot to contemplate our places in the larger universe. After nearly four hours of approach, we could finally get on the ice! The mountain was named for the English glaciologist and mountaineer John Tyndall. Heli Tours Queenstown: Tyndall Glacier - See 230 traveller reviews, 227 candid photos, and great deals for Queenstown, New Zealand, at Tripadvisor. 6. First stop, a hike toward Lago Verde along a scree with views of Lago del Toro, the Tyndall Glacier and glaciers in the distant Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. I ran out the length of our 30 meter rope finding that the glacier was a lot firmer than expected. Tyndall Glacier is on the east side of the Continental Divide and in a cirque to the north of Hallett Peak. Nor were we alone; at least a score of photographers lined the shores of the lake snapping away before the spectacular morning light faded. Pickets went in with a good deal of hammering but at least they gave me some confidence. Follow an unnamed but cairn-marked path south from the Flattop - Tonahutu Trail junction to the summit. Visit the Tyndall Glacier Lookout – one of the largest glaciers in the Southern Patagonia Ice Field. Emerald lake lays below Hallet peak, Tyndall glacier, and Flattop mountain. Taking other people's content (text, photos, etc) without permission is a copyright violation and Thunder boomed all around as he arrived and jumped into our nook, a bit shaken and out of breath. A highlight horseback ride in Southern Patagonia visiting a pristine glacier. We tackled the tallus, falling in with a couple groups of rock rats, gaining altitude quickly. I've been trying to interest Eric in some sort of alpine route for quite a while now. 8. Share. Colorado, Hallet Peak, Tyndall Glacier—On August 21, Philip Gillette (31) and his wife (31) climbed Hallet Peak via Chaos Canyon. Tyndall Glacier is one of five active glaciers in the Park. The slope was pretty steep here and a fall would be hard to arrest. A rockslide has taken out a huge swath of the trail and instead of bushwhacking on our first hike, we return happily to the trail head. Tyndall Glacier is on the east side of the Continental Divide and in a cirque to the north of Hallett Peak. Renegade via North Inlet Trail and Tonahutu Creek Trail. Estes Park, CO Tyndall Gorge Descent 1.2 mi 2.0 km. 2 ROUTE. Tyndall Glacier in RMNP looked like a good, mellow introduction to the world of axe-and-crampon work and would be new terrain for both of us. Tyndall Glacier had been identified in 1893 by Frederick H. Chapin and Sprague Glacier in 1895 by Enos Mills. We got to Nymph Lake at sunrise and to Dream Lake just as the ephemeral best lighting of the day struck the picturesque buttresses of Hallett and Flattop across a mirror-smooth lake. "At least we'll die together," he quipped. Then we tackled the terminal moraine which proved to be extremely arduous. For 0.9 miles we gain about 325 … After crossing rivers and ancient Patagonian forests, you reach the Tyndall Glacier viewpoint where you can relax and admire this spectacular scenery. Tyndall is an easy mountain to summit from Shepherd's Pass by either the Class 2, Northwest Ridge or the more direct route straight up from the 2nd lake at Shepherd's Pass (Class 2+). The Tyndall Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, is located in the Torres del Paine National Park on its margin and west limit, adjoining the Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. Password help ... Tyndall Glacier 0.2 mi 0.3 km. While climbing up the glacier is an approach option, the easiest and most scenic option is likely the Flattop Mountain approach. The slope angle ranges from low 30 degrees to up to 50 degrees. The Tyndall Glacier ride, is a one day ride, through remote areas of wild beauty. For our journey to Lake Haiyaha, we have to backtrack 0.6 miles, down past Dream Lake to Glacier Trail Junction, where the trail crosses Tyndall Creek. Tyndall sits right off of Shepherd's Pass, next to Mt. Looking towards the summit of Hallett, I could spot a few hikers making their way up the peak. From the junction, the trail takes us south and we flank Hallet Peak. Trail Stats. The trail was formally constructed in 1925, was rehabilitated by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1940, and is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Being a jerk / offensive? With minimal gear (cameras and food bags), we trotted up the last quarter mile to the summit of Hallett Peak. The peak of Flattop Mountain is rather anticlimatic. The slope opened up to a nice 45-degree sheet of ice and I was really starting to have fun... except for the pesky fact that sky was quite ominously dark and we could distinctly hear thunder from the northwest. Again, it looked like the top was no more than a rope length above but it turned out to be probably another 200'. Sign Up. The climbers' trail ended and we picked our way into the over and around house-sized blocks of stone (some quite freshly fallen) to gain the relatively easy grassy ramps and smooth slabs on the north side of the creek. Some way above the hotel, snowshoe walkers pass a commemorative stone: the Tyndall Monument. It was actually kind of eerie! There are two options to get to the top of the line. Log In. An hour after leaving the lake (after covering half a mile), we gained the top of the major cliff band. I moved out for the third pitch. Your FREE account works with all Adventure Projects sites . His initial misgivings had been about feeling unsecure above a long snow slope, but he found the axes to be quite secure and quickly got the hang of moving on snow. Distances are very hard to judge on featureless snow and the rock rib and it's sheltering bergshrund turned out to be a lot farther away than it appeared. Ascending only 700 feet over 3 miles, this is a great introduction to moderate hiking in the park. Access couldn't be simpler, just start from Bear Lake Trailhead. Fortunately, the impressive buttresses on the north face of Hallett Peak contain some of the most popular alpine rock routes in the world and there is a rugged and indistinct trail up above the lake. We surmounted a rocky ridge and fought our way through some tallus to the miniscule Pool of Jade just below the glacier. Potentially one of the busiest trails at RMNP is the Emerald Lake trail. This trail passes Bear Lake, Nymph Lake, and Dream Lake before making it to Emerald Lake. 74 Places found nearby The steep trail to Hohbiel passes the John Tyndall memorial that his widow had carved from a boulder. The day was beautiful and we took our time. The best part of alpine climbing is the incredibly smug feeling you get when you're back on easy, safe terrain. Tyndall Glacier in RMNP looked like a good, mellow introduction to the world of axe-and-crampon work and would be new terrain for both of us. Very interesting that the glacier is even there as it … Eric started up once I'd moved out onto the face and followed very quickly as I made for another rock rib just below the exit. While getting up at 4am is never fun, it's views like this that make it palatable. Connect with Facebook. DIFFICULT 5.1 mi. Renegade Loop via Tonahutu Creek Trail and North Inlet Trail. An ascent of Tyndall Glacier is a superb basic mountaineering outing. He's been earning his mountain stripes on longer and more ambitious hikes, and knows the ropes of multipitch rock climbing as well as me. One fine example of a drift glacier is Tyndall Glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park. Nearly there! As this was Eric's first time on snow or ice, we'd planned to tackle the gentle terrain, but we were eager to get off the rocks and on the ice, so we started an ascending traverse over to the gentle, right-hand exit. Axe plunging and step kicking didn't work, so I was front pointing and daggering the whole way. and even at 6am there was a good crowd gathered. Williamson. We stood side-by-side in the waist-deep moat with rock at our backs and a ring-side view of the meteorological action on the other three-sides. A brief snowstorm had us diving into our packs for jackets and warmer layers. Hallet Peak is an additional .7 miles and +389' climb from Flattop Mountain. #1 Tyndall Glacier Colorado Glacier Updated: 2020-03-26 Tyndall Glacier is a small cirque glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park in the USA state of Colorado. Your FREE account works with all Adventure Projects sites. Although Bear Lake and Dream Lake are nice stops, Emerald Lake is the true gem in this chain of lakes fed by the Tyndall Glacier. Tyndall Glacier is a 1500' long run down one of the last remaining glaciers in RMNP. We will review your message within a few business days. Another half mile of hiking brought us to Emerald Lake and the end of the easy trail. The trail to Emerald Lake continues by skirting around the north shore of Dream Lake, while pressing deeper into the Tyndall Gorge. I rationed my four pickets suplementing them with my longest ice screws in the occasional patches of snow-ice that looked like they might hold. Tyndall Glacier and Nymph, Dream, Emerald, and Haiyaha Lakes est un sentier allez-retour de 5.1 miles très fréquenté situé près de Estes Park, Colorado. The Ute Trail is the perfect choice. Please use this form to let us know if this photo does not belong to Ryan Nevius. A Saturday morning hike sounded fantastic! CO. Spam? They descended the edge of Tyndall Glacier and were making slow progress due to loose rock and fatigue of Mrs. Gillette. A few weeks ago, Will asked me if I wanted to head out for a hike over the Independence Day weekend. The hard alpine snow made it feel a lot steeper than 50 degrees, that's for sure! Lee first described Arapaho Glacier (Colorado's largest) in 1900 in Science. Considering this was the first time he'd ever swung an axe (never mind two axes) and he was climbing in soft leather boots with old, dull, Scottish-style crampons with a quiver of pickets banging around his ankles, he was doing remarkably well! Life was good! Shown above, beneath the full Moon of April 8, 2020, is Tyndall Glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.It's named after John Tyndall (1820-1893), who was almost the first person to climb the Matterhorn.Tyndall turned back a few hundred feet from the top, one year before Edward Whymper made his famous ascent. I've done a fair number of spring snow climbs and a handful of technical water ice pitches as well. The Bear Lake trailhead is probably the most popular in the entire state (and rightly so!) We were stuck in the city due to work obligations, so I readily agreed. Also about at the tree line snow fields started to be found. I headed straight up toward easily visible top. The top came suddenly and I set up a quick anchor (two tools and my last picket), clipped in a directional, and belayed Eric up the final hundred feet. This would be a trip of firsts. This is about an injury or accident This is a steeper option that reaches the low-50 degree range of steepness; though this line melts out from time to time. Valley: Glacier Gorge, Chaos Canyon, Tyndall Gorge, Prospect Canyon, Tourmaline Gorge, Hidden Valley, Forest Canyon, Windy Gulch, Spruce Canyon. near. Jul 24, 2017 Nearly there! 7. Tweet. However, the sun was out, the lightning was gone, the ice was great, hikers watched us from the summit of Flattop (we reportedly put on quite a show), and there was no place I'd rather be. Tyndall Glacier, at the very upper end of Tyndall Gorge - view looking north, in late summer: Next Photo: Colorado > Rocky Mountain National Park > Trails in the East > Loop Hike > Photographs. Better to be half-way up the mountain during a storm than sitting on the exposed tundra of the Divide! Mt. Please explain. Keywords: Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, snow, ice, glaciers, ravines, canyons, mountains, Rockies, cliffs, scree, landscapes, wilderness Once past the lake the trail begins climbing a series of steps. OR. Mills wrote a guidebook in 1905 that included a map locating Andrews, Hallett, Sprague, and Tyndall Glaciers. The trail starts from the amazing Rio Serrano river and crosses the Rio Nutria and Salto falls. To the south of the main glacier is the Tyndall Glacier Couloir. The Tyndall Glacier seemed to border on being just a permanent snowfield and just barely exhibited some glacial features: a single crevasse indicated that the ice was still massive enough to move. It has a total area of 331 square kilometers and an approximate extension of 30 kilometers, it has two arms, […] The top of the glacier hove into view. From here, it was a climb of 1800' in a straight-line mile to the base of the Glacier; new territory for both of us. Something else? Accompanied by criollo horses and a local guide, enjoy this remarkable ride which is an excellent full day excursion to compliment your stay at our Riverside Camp. I've been on the high peaks many times, but only on a handful of occasions was the sky clear and the wind completely calm. Tyndall Glacier is a small cirque glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado. We regrouped at a small bergshrund below a rock rib, compared notes, and stowed the pickets for the second pitch. At the top there was a faint trail heading over to one of the 5 glaciers in RMNP, Tyndall Glacier. At long last, I pulled up to the second 'shrund, and fashioned a quick anchor. OR. This was certainly not the ideal place to sit out a storm, but we didn't have many options. Ute Trail - Want great panoramic views without having to climb a lot of elevation? DIFFICULT 29.1 mi. Le sentier offre plusieurs activités et sa meilleure utilisation est de avril à septembre. Grand Lake, Tyndall Glacier Tyndall Glacier is a small cirque glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado.Tyndall Glacier is on the east side of the Continental Divide and in … Pin. Eric started up behind me simul-climbing the lower angled terrain but keeping at least one peice of protection between us at all times. W.T. Start from Bear Lake as described in the Getting There section on the main page, but instead of heading right at the first trail junction, bear left towards Nymph, Dream, and Emerald Lakes. Wet gear came off and was laid in the sun to dry while we enjoyed a late lunch. Approach. Le sentier longe un lac et sa difficulté est évaluée comme modérée.
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February 6—A house fire in Crown Hill was determined to be caused by a chimney fire according to a Seattle Fire Investigator.
At 9:23 p.m., dispatchers received a 911 call reporting dark smoke coming from the roof of a home located in the 8800 block of 9th Avenue NW.
Engine Company 35 arrived to find smoke coming from the roof and attic of the one-story home. Firefighters searched the home but did not find anyone inside. After an aggressive attack, firefighters extinguished the flames in 14 minutes.
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At 9:47 p.m., on Monday August 27, Seattle Firefighters were called to the 5700 block of NW 58th Street for reports of a car fire that extended to a the roof of condo building.
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I am quietly (or maybe not so quietly) becoming a big fan of one of Dallas' newer breweries, Deep Ellum. Their beers get consistent high grades from Tilting Suds, and their IPA is going to continue that hot streak.
Deep Ellum has only recently started distribution of their beers in bottles, so I do not know how far beyond Dallas their beers have made it, but they will quickly develop a sterling reputation beyond the borders of this simple blog if they continue making beers as good as this IPA, their flagship beer. Their IPA pours a bright amber, with a strong hop citrus hop aroma. That aroma is complemented by floral hops in the taste, with a nice malt back bone to tie it all together. I do not know what the ABV % is, but there is a bit of an alcohol bite to this beer, which does nothing to detract from the overall flavor profile. Another oustanding beer from Deep Ellum, 7.5/10.
I spent a few years out in Denver in the early nineties. I learned to love mexican food, did some mountain biking, honed my appreciation of good beer, and dug through the racks of the used record stores in between going to class.* I cannot say for certain whether I had any Great Divide Beers while I was living there. I sort of recall the name from that time, but the mind plays tricks on you, and memories, especially those centered around and/or fueled by the consumption of alcohol, are unreliable.
I have certainly had Great Divide Beers in the intervening years, and while I would not put them in the upper echelon of American brewers, they are certainly good enough to take a flyer on when I see something I have not tried before, like the Rumble India Pale Ale. Aged in oak barrels (like all IPAs should be!), and that aging shows in the subtle vanilla aroma and flavor behind the heavy dose of piney hops and caramel malts, this beer clocks in at 7.1 % ABV. Did I mention there was some sediment floating around in my beer? There was, and I love when my beer has flotsam and jetsam** in it, 7/10.
*No, I never went skiing.
**As the sediment is neither cargo dumped overboard nor wreckage from a ship, it is technically neither flotsam nor jetsam, but those terms sound better than detritus so I am going to roll with them.
The Good, The Better, and The Strange: More Florida Beers!
Tequesta Brewing Co. American Farmhouse Ale – Tequesta Brewing Company does not appear to have a website, although they do have a Facebook page and some reviews on Yelp, so they are not wholly ignorant of this thing called the internet. While they may not have much of an internet presence, I can say that they know how to make beer based on the pint of their American Farmhouse Ale that I knocked back recently. This American Saison was delicious. It had the funky farmhouse yeast aroma, pale yellow and cloudy color, and hay like flavors that I associate with saisons. I call it an 'American' Saison as it had a nice dose of hops added to it, which to me tasted like Chinook hops from the Pacific Northwest. This was not as hoppy as an IPA, but the hops were a prominent feature of the beer. This was a fine tasting beer, 7.5/10.
Cigar City White Oak IPA: I enjoyed Cigar City's White Oak IPA in a bottle, so I jumped on it when I saw it on tap recently. All the good parts of the bottled beer (the vanilla and oak notes, the complex fruitiness of the hops, the creamy texture) were amplified in the draft version. This beer was simply outstanding, 9/10.
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Holy Mackerel Panic Attack: Billed as a Trippel/Saison fusion, this tastes as odd as that sounds. This is overloaded with sweet fruit flavors, canned peaches, pineapples, mangoes. It is treacly sweet without any hop bitterness to offset that sweetness. Rather, this beer relies on the 10% ABV as a counterbalance to that sweetness, and 10% is not nearly alcohol to cut it. You also get that cotton candy bubblegum flavor that I find so cloying in trippels. The only saison notes I could find were in a slight funky yeast aroma and flavor. It also had a strange mustiness to it. I know it sounds like I hated this beer, but I actually found it kind of interesting, although I am not quite sure if I actually liked it, 6.5/10.
After drinking some lousy beers, I needed to freshen my palate and drink something good, something that set the shite and onions beers in stark relief, something that made me sit up and say "this is why you love beer." I hit the bullseye with the West Coast India Pale Ale by Green Flash Brewing Co. This pours a deep rich amber with a nice two finger head that is retained to the bottom of the glass. The first thing I noticed in the aroma was the hops, with lots of pine, grapefruit and just a touch of the sticky-icky, with some sweetness from the malts as well. The taste closely tracks the aroma, with a dry and bitter finish. There is a touch of malt sweetness, but this is a hop bomb, as are most west coast IPAs, and the 7.3 % ABV is not even noticeable through all of the hoppy bitterness. My only complaint about this beer is that the texture is a bit thin, but that is a very minor complaint, 7.5/10.
Beating the heat in Texas is a fool's errand. It simply cannot be done. It is like trying to stop Michael Jordan in his prime. That is just not going to happen. But as the sportscasters used to say, "you cannot stop Michael Jordan, you can only hope to contain him" and that is the approach I take to summer in Texas.
I concede that I am going to be hot and miserable. There is no way around it, but I am not going to let the summer defeat me. I am going to ride my bike whenever I can, I am just going to be sure to stay well hydrated. I recognize that my car is going to be pizza oven hot when I get into it, I just park in the shade whenever possible and use the window screen religiously. I understand that every pool I jump into is going to feel like plunging into a bowl of warm spit, instead of the cold, bracing, damn near heart attack inducing sensation I am used to after growing up in the northeast. And I know that the heavy IPAs I usually prefer are going to go down like sludge, so I resign myself to drinking lighter bodied beers during the dog days of summer.
Although I resign myself to drinking lighter beers in the summer, Saint Arnold's Homefront IPA* is a damn fine india pale ale for the Texas heat due to it's light body. The aroma is sweet oranges and flowery hops. The taste has the floral hops right up front, with some orange marmalade bittersweetness in the background. The Homefront IPA clocks in at 6.5 % ABV, which is so well hidden that I would have guessed it would have been around 5%. This is another fine addition to Saint Arnold's lineup of beers, 8/10.
*Saint Arnold brewed this in honor of Memorial Day, and Saint Arnold is donating the profits to Operation Homefront, and organization providing emergency financial and other assistance to the families of American service members and wounded warriors.
Don't see much difference between these two bottles, do you? The bottle on the left is the regular Jester King Wytchmaker Rye IPA (my 2011 Beer of the Year!). The bottle on the right is the Wytchmaker Farmhouse Rye IPA.
The only difference between the two is the Farmhouse Rye IPA uses farmhouse yeast in place of the regular ale yeast. This gives it a slightly sour and funky flavor. It pours a little cloudier, and the aroma is just a touch funkier, with a touch of sourness added to the flavor. The difference is subtle, but nice. I don't think it makes it a better beer, and it is not substantially different either, but it is still damn good, 9.5/10.
The Farmhouse version is a little cloudier, a little funkier, but just as tasty.
BONUS REVIEW!: The Farmhouse Black Metal is an improvement over the already excellent Black Metal Stout. The sourness from the farmhouse yeasts adds another flavor dimension and rounds out the dark chocolate, dried fruit, anise and dark brown sugar flavors. Again, any differences between the two beers is subtle, but liked the farmhouse version a touch more. I gave the regular Black Metal Stout a score of 8.5, but the farmhouse version gets a 9/10.
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— The EU's chief Brexit negotiator said today there had been no progress on major issues and raised the prospect that time would run out to reach an orderly withdrawal. "We did not get any decisive progress on any of the principal subjects," Michel Barnier told journalists at a press conference to mark the end of the third round of negotiations, though he added there had been "fruitful" discussions on issues including the Northern Irish border. The U.K.'s top negotiator, David Davis, offered a more upbeat assessment but conceded that there was a sharp divide over the financial settlement.
— Brexit negotiations reached a standoff Wednesday when the U.K. team challenged the core basis of the EU's demand for a financial settlement and expressed increasing frustration at what they see as inflexibility on the EU side. The atmosphere in the room was, according to EU officials briefed on the ongoing negotiations, "very tense." Michel Barnier told reporters he can't accede to U.K. demands to be "flexible" until he knows what Britain wants.
— British Prime Minister Theresa May, on a three-day visit to Japan, insisted she is "in this for the long term" and wants to lead the Conservative Party into the next general election, despite losing her majority in June's snap ballot. However, while there is no appetite for a leadership challenge, not everyone is supportive of the idea. One former Cabinet minister said: "She clearly doesn't enjoy election campaigns so why would we allow her to fight another." An editorial in the Evening Standard (edited by former Chancellor George Osborne) compared her to the "Living Dead in a second-rate horror film" — staggering on oblivious.
— The Japanese government agreed to negotiate a "new economic partnership" with the U.K. that will be "based on the final terms" of the EU-Japan deal, according to a joint statement with London. The statement said that the two countries' "immediate priority" would be to "continue to champion the early signature and entry into force of the Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement." Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe also said today he had received assurances from May that she would seek to minimize any damage to Japan's big car industry investments in the U.K. over the course of Brexit talks.
This was the week when the Brexit negotiators began to sweat.
It was, according to U.K. Brexit Secretary David Davis, speaking at the closing press conference of the talks, "quite a high stress" time.
We are now three rounds of negotiations into the process, with just two more to go before the milestone European Council summit at which EU leaders will gather in Brussels in October.
Barnier used his remarks at the press conference very deliberately to stoke that sense of urgency.
"With every passing day, we move closer to that date of departure," that moment, he said with a flourish, that the U.K. leaves the EU "on the stroke of midnight" on March 29, 2019.
Barnier wants to turn the screw, and for obvious reasons. He made clear that as far as the EU is concerned, the fundamental British position has not moved far from where it was at the very start of this process, when EU leaders warned after the referendum that no "cherry-picking" would be allowed.
"The U.K. wants to take back control, it wants to adopt its own standards and regulations but it also wants to have these standards recognized automatically in the EU. That is what the U.K. papers ask for. This is simply impossible," he said bluntly.
If the pressure is rising, so is the blood pressure. While Davis sought to portray a sense of bonhomie, smiling and joshing with Barnier in his trademark light-hearted style, some of the EU negotiator's criticisms of the U.K. were far from good-humored.
On the Brexit bill, Barnier called on the U.K. to prove that it will meet not only its legal but its "moral" obligations to EU citizens — and citizens in third countries — waiting on development aid from Brussels, or loans from the EU. With the U.K. now beginning to elucidate its position, the two sides remain far, far apart on this key matter.
On citizens' rights he chided the U.K. for the recent, erroneous Home Office delivery of letters warning of deportation to 100 EU citizens in the U.K. Something as basic as "trust," he said, still needed to be built.
Incremental progress has been made in some less fundamental areas, but the takeaway from the week: Both sides are still talking past each other on the key issues.
— Theresa May denied exaggerating the number of student migrants overstaying their visas while she was home secretary, insisting the figure has come down because of government policies. Last week it emerged that far from the tens of thousands that May had claimed remained in the U.K. after their studies, just 4,600 did so.
— With Brexit on the horizon, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has asked for stronger supervisory powers over more non-EU firms beyond just clearing houses. While on the face of it ESMA's campaign might feel like a power grab, some in the City of London hope it could be the first step in establishing a closer relationship that would allow for freer flow of financial services.
— The chief executive of luxury carmaker Aston Martin has warned that any change to the current customs regime between the U.K. and the EU could heavily impact Britain's £72 billion car industry. "We're all keen to know ultimately what Brexit means. In my world, when you decide to design a new car, it takes four years, and will probably cost you a billion dollars. Those are big bets you have to put down," said Andy Palmer. He added that creation of non-tariff barriers was top of his list of concerns.
— The U.K. can become a world leader in a host of emerging scientific areas. But one thing hangs over these potential opportunities, according to recommendations in Britain's new government-commissioned Life Sciences Industrial Strategy. "Obviously Brexit is an issue for the industry and it's an issue that will, to some extent, determine the success of this report," said John Bell of Oxford University, who compiled the strategy.
— The Scottish oil and gas industry is keen "to ensure that individuals upon which the industry depends, who are highly skilled, are able to gain access to the U.K. employment market" after Brexit, the U.K.'s parliamentary undersecretary of state for Scotland Ian Duncan, said.
— The Bank of England should not use low rates as an insurance policy against Brexit disruption and needs to raise rates soon to keep the economy from overheating, Michael Saunders, a member of the BoE's monetary policy committee, said today. "My view is that we currently have limited slack … and hence I judge that an earlier rise in rates is appropriate," he said.
— Spain said on Wednesday it plans to hire 40 more people at its National Drug Agency to reinforce evaluation and monitoring of medicines ahead of Brexit and the relocation of the European Medicines Agency from London. More staff would also allow Barcelona to better compete as one of 19 European cities that have lodged official applications to host the EMA, the health ministry added.
— "Have you ever had that excited but exasperated feeling when your team's so close to scoring yet can't quite manage to get the ball in the back of the net? Strange as it may seem, that's how we felt this weekend listening to news coverage of Labour's developing Brexit policy," write two of the party's MPs, Heidi Alexander and Alison McGovern, in the New European. They argue that Labour should advocate continued membership of the EU single market.
— With the British government trying to persuade countries which have free-trade deals with the EU to give the U.K. the same privileges post Brexit, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has an idea on how to speed things up. "Govt now wants to copy and paste EU trade deals. Instead of jet-setting round the world, Liam Fox could be left in a room with a photocopier," he tweeted Wednesday.
— A hard Brexit could turn into a stinky problem for the British government — literally. The U.K. is one of the European Union's top waste exporters. It sends more than 3 million tons a year to other EU countries, accounting for over 10 percent of the U.K.'s waste that isn't reused or recycled. Marion Solletty asks, what happens to all that garbage post Brexit?
Correction: In yesterday's Brexit Files we linked to a story on post-Brexit border controls. It was subsequently updated to correct the number of customs declarations.
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By half-decent	 Last updated Mar 21, 2020
To film and light for a 360-degree focus in Photography that was set at night and had to be shot in the bright sunlight of the daytime!
I always cringe a little when a location owner says 'We have this shoot that needs to be set at night, what you think about shooting Day for Night?'
My first thought is similar to when I get asked to shoot a commercial in 'one single shot' or 'the suicide method' as a friend of mine calls it – 'oh bugger'!
I always think, why don't we just Photography it at night..? I like lighting at night it gives you a chance to create something special… However, Photography at night is not always practical especially when your scene takes place in the middle of the Arabian Desert.
On this occasion, the Day for Night approach was probably the right idea.
The project was to Photography x2 commercials for Abu Dhabi Education Council. The first theme was centered on an Arabic man and the second an Arabic lady. They would be walking in the middle of the desert… yep, as the title suggests, at night surrounded by nothing other than sand dunes and stars!
The camera would make a 360 circle around the person as he/ she is walking and then settle in a locked-off position as they head off up a dune towards a pathway that in the post would later be made out of stars…. Essentially, the message is 'follow your dreams and make your own pathway through education'. Ok, sounds a little cheesy, but a fair message to the youth and a fun project so now just how to do it..?
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That's exactly what I thought… Take a look at it first and then I will run you through how I did it.
Lighting a vast area of the desert can be an expensive and impractical thing to do. That's why Eye Squad, the Photography company, sensibly wanted to keep the shoot to its simplest form and go for the day for the night approach.
As you can see the commercial takes a slight fantasy feel and with that approach, you can get away with a lot of creative freedom – which we like! Static clean plates were taken so Talent the artist could clean the sand if there were any unwanted footprints from previous takes, which I think he did have to do when the actress walked in the wrong direction…
Overall it was a cool Photography and I think the day for night method worked really well. Although I'm not usually a big fan of this method, I would suggest it in a similar instance again as long as the production had the time and a decent post-budget to work with a talented artist.
From a Photography perspective, I wouldn't have really done much differently (which is a change) apart from ensured the Grips got to set the track much earlier in the morning to avoid having to carry tracking boards and the dolly up the dunes in the sweltering heat…
Those guys are seriously tough! Photography it at night would have been cool (literally), but a very big and expensive set up would have been needed to light the actress and the dunes to get a decent result.
The Director and Production Company were very happy and the Client loved it so I guess that's the main thing in Photography.
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I had posted a question the other day about a dns problem on my server. I now have the correct dns address's and all can reach Internet and server resources but here is my problem. All my workstations log on to the network extreamly slow. And I cannot seem to find the printer in the directory, i have shared on the network from one of my workstations. So only one person can print. I have tried uninstalling printer and reinstalling. Rebooted all pc's including server. All pc's are winxp pro. and server is SBS 2003. Using active directory. Any help in this matter would be helpfull. Keep in mind this is my first server so I am a bit of a greenhorn in this area.
On your workstations go into the tcp ip properties and set your preffered dns server as the ip of the sbs2003 server.
I should have been more detailed sorry, in the tcp/ip properties for your preffered dns server put the ip of your sbs2003 dns server, for the alternate dns server put the ip address of your router. That should fix your issue.
You want to do those things i mentioned above on the workstations and the sbs server.
Ok that worked great execpt none of us can get to the internet now.
Sorry I hope I did not sound ungratefull in first comment, cause i realy am gratefull.
MY original configuration was all workstations get DHCP and DNS from server. Server has static ip. Internet->Router->switch->server and pc's. My ISP changed their DNS server and I suddenly had no internet. Their change was not suppose to affect me because my Internet modem is DHCP. Somewhere I must have configured things wrong origianly. Changed my DNS servers on server and now everyone gets internet and server resources but very slow to logon and cannot find printer. Manualy place DNS for workstations as server ip, everything is quick, printer is back but no internet. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
You can also use just your primary DNS in your DHCP configuration and setup a DNS forward for all unresolved requests to your ISP or public DNS server.
1. In DNS Manager, right-click the DNS Server object, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Forwarders tab.
3. Click to select the Enable Forwarders check box.
4. In the IP address box, type the first DNS server to which you want to forward, and then click Add.
5. Repeat step 4 until you have added all the DNS servers to which you want to forward.


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Third generation officer graduates
Published on 30 July 2017 Ms Natalie Staples (author), LSIS Justin Brown (photographer)
Topic(s): Naval College, HMAS Creswell
New Entry Officer Course (NEOC) 56 Midshipman Justin Csucsy after the NEOC graduation parade at HMAS Creswell.
The Shoalhaven region of New South Wales is the breeding ground for many Royal Australian Navy personnel due to two Navy bases being prominent fixtures, one of the latest recruits is St George's Basin local, now Midshipman Justin Csucsy.
The former Nowra Anglican College student recently graduated from New Entry Officers' Course held over 19 weeks at HMAS Creswell on the shores of Jervis Bay, and hopes to one day specialise as navigator.
It wasn't only an affinity to the water that led him to pursue a Naval career.
"My dad John was in the Navy for 20 years and my mum's brothers Mick and Gerard also served," he said.
"They followed their dad Harold into service, so as I grew up I'd hear amazing stories about the adventures they had.
"Growing up on the coast you spend a lot of time fishing, boating and playing sport with mates, which has a lot of parallels with Navy life."
His first stop post initial training is HMAS Watson, in Sydney for the Junior Warfare Application Course during which he'll get his first real taste of sea-time.
"I'd love to get aboard HMAS Melbourne before she is decommissioned as there's a bit of family history there. Dad served on the aircraft carrier Melbourne and my uncle Gerard served on Adelaide class frigates.
"It would be great to learn the 'old school' vessels to get a real appreciation of how they operate before getting onto one of the newer ships, like the amphibious assault ships or new destroyers," Midshipman Csucsy said.
So far, he said that the stories he was told about Navy were living up to expectations.
"I've not been in the Navy for long, but already it seems like a tight-knit community," he said.
"I'm looking forward to getting out into the Fleet and really discovering what it is like to go to sea, go on deployments and travel with people who are going to be with you through everything," Midshipman Csucsy said.
"My dad used to always tell me, 'It's not a job, it's an adventure'.
"It's a bit of a corny line and was probably what the recruiters told him, but I don't doubt it's true."
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Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, prominently known as Sir John was a Ghanaian Politician and Lawyer. He held a few political positions in the New Patriotic Party. He was filling in as the Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission before his Sudden loss. Naturally introduced to an Adventist family, the keen legislator joined the church with work in an expert manner.
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Kojo Afriyie was conceived in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He went to Seventh Day Adventist Secondary School in Bekwai from where he got his GCE Ordinary level endorsement. He continued to acquire his GCE Advanced level authentication from Konongo Odumase Secondary School in Konongo. He was confessed to consider political theory at the University of Ghana. He at that point enlisted at the Ghana School of Law where he graduated with Bachelor of Law. After this he was conceded as a specialist and direction for the Supreme Court of Ghana.
Legal career
Afriyie went into private law practice in 1981. During the John Agyekum Kufour organization, he was delegated head of legitimate administrations at the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. He was later made to go about as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the partnership.
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In March 2017, President Nana Akuffo-Addo selected Afriyie as CEO of the Forestry Commission. He supplanted Samuel Afari Dartey, whose term as the CEO had finished. His arrangement was amazing to numerous Ghanaians in view of numerous gossipy tidbits that he was connected to the situation of top of the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority. That position was given to Paul Asare Ansah. Afriyie later uncovered that the bits of gossip were valid however he had dismissed the arrangement because of his dread of the ocean. He expressed gratitude toward the president for the Forestry Commission arrangement and accepted that since he hailed from the woods zone of Ghana, he would have the option to have a more prominent effect here.
As CEO of the Forestry Commission, Afriyie's activity was to direct the different open organizations that structure the divisions of the Commission. His first task as top of the commission was to regulate the festival of World Forest Day which fell on 21 March 2017.
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Six years ago, Órla Ryan was covering the commodities market for Reuters in London. Later she was sent to Ghana to report on the country's cocoa trade, where City stats and prices turned vividly into life and death issues for cocoa farmers. Chocolate Nations is a fascinating account of the struggles of cocoa producers in West Africa, almost all of them smallholders, and what it takes to turn a crop of cocoa into a warehouse full of Ferrero Rocher.
Pricing and speculation are obvious threats to a farmer's livelihood but so are pests, of which there's no shortage for the tricky little evergreen, Theobroma cacao, brought to Ghana by a migrant returning from Fernando Po in 1879. Caterpillar and black pod are common. Witches' broom turns the beans to mush inside the pod, and wiped out huge harvests in Brazil during the 1980s, when it was still the world's second largest producer.
Another menace is the political process in West Africa. Within a few years of Ghana's independence in 1957, farmers were hit by huge tax rises. The theory, President Kwame Nkrumah wrote in his autobiography, was that cocoa "belongs to the country. We had to think of the general public as well as the cocoa farmers".
Farmers were sceptical. Why had their leader ordered up a presidential frigate and spent millions on a conference of African leaders in Accra? By the late 70s, Ghana's Cocoa Marketing Board was buying from farmers at £347 a tonne; world prices at the time, Ryan tells us, "were in excess of £3,000". In the 80s, the government raised prices for Ghana's producers, under pressure from the IMF, and yields began to increase. But by then, farmers were smuggling their beans into Côte d'Ivoire to get a better deal, and Ghana had been displaced by its neighbour as the leading producer.
In 2002 a rebellion erupted in Côte d'Ivoire. The heart of the matter was land rights: the post-independence leader, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, had opened up land to migrants from the north to create a massive cocoa sector and a flourishing sideline in coffee. The policy worked, but after Houphouët's death in 1993 and the economic downturn, there were bitter disputes over land allocations.
Did a migrant family "own" a piece of land just because they'd worked it since the 60s? Equally, could people in the capital, Abidjan, who hadn't visited a plot for a generation, claim it as theirs? The result was a head-on confrontation about Ivorian identity. If you came from the north, or had a northern (Muslim) name, you were a foreigner.
Despite the intensity of the violence, Ryan says, beans continued to move to the port. Cocoa was too crucial for the government and the farmers for anyone to loosen their grip. When the northern opposition – Les Forces nouvelles – started levying money on producers who bypassed the capital and ran their crops directly into Togo, rebel takings reached $30m in one year. "The ubiquity of Ivorian beans," Ryan writes, "is such that . . . nearly every [chocolate] bar you buy will contain at least some from its plantations." It's a safe assumption that a 2011-vintage Twix will contain Ivorian ingredients, even though last year's harvest was hit by bad weather and disease.
Political conflict has also dealt a blow. President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to acknowledge defeat in last November's elections has produced a new round of violence in Côte d'Ivoire and held up delivery. Cocoa prices in the City have been jittery but our love of chocolate can still be indulged at a snip, while citizens of Côte d'Ivoire prepare for the worst.
Ryan has a salutary lesson in her book about why it doesn't do to spill too many beans. Back in the 80s, Gbagbo was a rising star in Paris. At the time he made friends with a hyperactive French Canadian commodities reporter, Guy André Kieffer, who headed out for Côte d'Ivoire in the post-Houphouët era to work for a cocoa auditing company. In Abidjan Kieffer got into the dangerous habit of recycling his in-house reports to the Ivorian press.
When the IMF told Côte d'Ivoire to abolish the state price-setter, the government created five new price regulators to do what their predecessor had done, under the guise of market pluralism. It also introduced new levies on producers to fund the lifestyle of managers and minions in the new buyers' cartel.
Farmers saw less from deregulation than the IMF had hoped. Kieffer, who spoke out on this and other shady operations in the cocoa business, disappeared in 2004. His wife and brothers travelled to Côte d'Ivoire, where Gbagbo assured them he would try to find their relative, but nothing came of it.
After last year's election, it was the president's turn to disappear, but he dug his heels in. Whatever happens next, signs of a return to normal in Órla Ryan's leading "chocolate nation" are not too encouraging.


Does this item sell any got?
is arcane resist needed for anyone raid at the moment?
Good for Curator, having a lock 2nd on threat, etc.
haven't tried it yet, but i bet making these would b the best way to get large brilliant shards... anyone have better ideas?
If you are a tailor/enchanter with the recipe for these bracers, and don't mind doing a bit of farming, you can make a lot of gold by disenchanting these.
Farm the mobs near the Black Temple ramp (right hand side), using whichever method you prefer. They drop a lot of Netherweave Cloth, greens to disenchant and rep items for Scryers which sell well.
With Arcane Dust from the greens and the netherweave you've farmed, you can make a few of these bracers. Shards are up to 35g on my server right now - far more than the resell price of the cloth and dust needed for these.
Of course, this all depends on you having the recipe but if you have it then definitely consider putting it to work for you!
i dunno why the comments above me are voted negatively, as I found them informative.
These are the best way to get large prismatics especially on servers where they run 35g or higher. I would imagine the netherweave is not terribly hard to come by.
I myself have a pair of these in the bank because Void Reaver loves throwing balls of doom at my face.
Costs 23.4g for the mats if the the arcane dusts sells for 1.5g each and the netherweave stacks sells for 3g.
That's pretty normal on my server.
That means you can earn 70 g or more, depending on how much the prismatics sells for, if you're buying mats for 234g and making 10 of these.
If you are a major farmer and have loads of Netherweave Cloth laying around create bolts of netherweave and make make as many Netherweave Tunic's as you possibly can. Also if Netherweave cloth sells for low on your server, buy stacks of that if you are low on netherweave.
Next, after you have created the Netherweave Tunics disenchant them, providing you with Arcane Dusts, Greater Planar Essences, and a chance of a Large Prismatic Shard. Use the arcane dusts along with more bolts of netherweave to create the Arcanoweave Bracers. Sell the extra Essences or use them for enchants if you want.
After you have created the braces disenchant them to receive a Large Prismatic Shard. The shards sell from anywhere between 20-30 gold each depending on your server and can bring in some major income at the cost of very little.
Complete nonsense. Both Items cost alot more to make than their disenchanting value.
In my earlier post I didn't realize that Thottbot falsely calculates it's "cost to make" info with absurdely high auction house values for Rune Thread instead of the normal NPC-Trader value.
Making Arcanoweave Bracers and disenchanting them should indeed allow a profit on most servers given the current prices.
In my earlier post I didn't realize that Thottbot falsely calculates it's "cost to make" info with absurdely high auction house values for Rune Thread instead of the normal NPC-Trader price.
Now go the AH. If Large Prismatic Shards sells for for more than 20g each, you've found a way to make money. Usually shards sell for around 25g on my high-populated server, which in turn also nets lower mat pricers: when I've bought mats at the right time, I've managed a bracer-mat-price of around 13g (7,5 for the dust, 4.5g for the cloth, and around 1g for the Rune Thread) meaning I can make a profit of roughly 12g if the conditions are optimal.
Now imagine making 25 of these: 25x12 = 300g, which is roughly 15 minutes worth of shopping the Auction House, crafting, and enlisting. If you tell me there's a better way to make gold, I'd love to hear about it.
Still you need the damn pattern to drop, and it is rare. I'd run TK instances for weeks before it dropped, and I didn't even know it existed!