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Cartilage damage
Minor cartilage damage may improve on its own within a few weeks, but more severe damage will often require surgery.
This page covers:
Initial treatment and self-care
Less common surgical procedures
If you've injured your joint and your symptoms aren't too severe for example, you're still able toput weight on and move the jointyou can often look after yourself using "PRICE therapy".
PRICE stands for:
Protection protect the affected area from further injury by using a support, such as a knee brace.
Rest rest the affected joint as much as possible during the first two or three days (crutches may help if you've injured your knee or ankle). Then try gradually returning to light activity over the next few days and weeks.
Ice apply an ice pack or bag of frozen vegetables wrapped in a towel to the injured area for 15 to 20 minutes every two to three hours during the first two or three days.
Compression compress or bandage the injured area to limit any swelling and movement that could damage it further. You can use a simple elastic bandage or an elasticated tubular bandage available from a pharmacy.
Elevation keep the injured area raised and supported on a pillow whenever you can to help reduce swelling.
If your joint is painful, take ordinary painkillers such as paracetamol or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) .
Visit your GP if your symptoms haven't started to improve after a few days of PRICE therapy.
Physiotherapy canbe helpful if you have difficulty moving the affected joint. Your GP may be able to refer you to a physiotherapist, or you may choose to pay for private treatment.
A physiotherapist can teach you exercises to helpstrengthen the muscles surrounding or supporting your joint. Thismay helpto reduce pain andpressure on the joint.
Physiotherapy can also beuseful when you're recovering from the surgical procedures described below.
Severe cartilage damage doesn't tend to heal very well on its own, so surgery is often necessary in these cases.
Surgeryisusually performed using arthroscopy a type of "keyhole" surgery where special instruments are inserted into the joint through small cuts (incisions)although sometimes larger incisions need to be made.
It's normallycarried outunder general anaesthetic (where you're asleep).
Some of the main procedures are:
Lavage and debridement the joint is cleaned out to remove any loose tissue and the edges of the damaged area are trimmed to make them smooth. It may sometimesbe possibleto repair the damage at the same time.
Marrow stimulation (microfracture) tiny holes are made in the bone beneath the damaged cartilage, which releases bone marrow into it. Themarrow cells then begin to stimulate the production of new cartilage.
Mosaicplasty small plugs ofhealthy cartilage from non-weightbearing areas of a joint, such as the side of the knee, are removed and used to replace small areas ofdamaged cartilage.
Osteotomy the alignment of the leg is altered slightly to reduce pressure on the damaged area and improve pain. This usually involves adding or removing a wedge of bone from the shin or thigh bone. The bone is fixed with a plate until it heals.
Joint replacement replacing the whole joint with an artificial one, such as a knee replacement or hip replacement ,is occasionally necessary if the damage is particularly severe.
Talk to your surgeon about which type of surgery they think is best for you, what the possible risks are, and how long they expect it will take you to recover.
You'llusually need to take things easy for at least a few weeks after surgery, and you may not be able to return to strenuous activities and sports for several months.
There are also a number of alternative surgical techniques that are sometimes used to treat cartilage damage, including:
Allograft osteochondral transplantation (AOT) similar to mosaicplasty, but the replacement cartilage isobtained from a recently deceased donor and is used to repair larger damaged areas.
Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) the surgeon first takes a small sample of cartilage cells from the joint. These are then used to grow more cells in a laboratory and the new cells are used to replace the damaged cartilage.
Artificial scaffolds a special patch or gel is used to repair the damaged cartilage. It may be used in combination withmarrow stimulation or on its own.
However, these procedures are only carried out in a few hospitals in the UKand aren't routinely provided on the NHS.You may be able to pay for them privately, but theycan be very expensive.
TheNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)says there's too much uncertainty about ACI for it to be used on the NHS, unless it's being done as part of a clinical trial .But this will be reviewed again soon, so this recommendation may change.
For more information, see the NICE guidance onthe use of autologous chondrocyte implantation for the treatment of cartilage defects in the knee joints .
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Posted on January 27, 2016 by Jason Holden-Jones in National Championships, NEWS, SA simGT Series // 0 Comments
The highly respected and well known sim racing team; GhostworX Racing will run two Audi R8 LMS Ultras to spear head their attempt at winning the 2016 SA simGT Series.
GhostworX Racing's Team Principal; Basheer Jadwat, during the teams' 2016 launch at the Nordschleife, announced the decision to switch from the all BMW Z4 GT3 entry last season to the Audi option.
Jadwat will drive the #83 car and Steyn the #35 car.
Jadwat, also one of the teams' drivers, confirmed Markus Steyn as his teammate for yet another season. Both Jadwat and Steyn enjoyed a successful 2015.2 SA simGT Series. Jadwat secured six victores and shared a further more seven podium finishers with Steyn, the results netting overall 1st and 2nd Overall Drivers' Runner-up Championship results and narrowly loosing the Teams Championship by just 22 points. The team has also changed their livery from what was seen in 2015.2, dropping the yellow, blue and white combination in favor of a red, black and white combination for 2016.
Jadwat is known for his love of German cars and enjoying taking out his 'tuned babies', as he puts it, to Killarney race circuit in Cape Town for track days or just to show the immaculate condition they are in. Jadwat considers himself a perfectionist when it comes to cars and specifically simulation racing, making him a very calculated driver on the virtual circuit.
Steyn, is a through and through petrol head, prefers naturally aspirated cars, especially the American Muscle style of the motoring world, and is very much looking forward to, with his track day weapon, attacking the newly renovated Kyalami racing circuit in Johannesburg.
Steyn, ever since the Gran Turismo release in 1997, is a long time simulation racing enthusiast, and despite being starved of championship victories in 2015, has proved a very fast and consistent driver and looks to 2016 as the year to end his victory drought.
Jadwat and Steyn share a long history as teammates, having paired up in the past as team X-Ray and last season as Squadro GhostworX. Pairing up for a third time for 2016, they both feel the unfinished business that stemmed from a very successful season for championship rivals AGBS. AGBS claimed all simGT championship titles in 2015.2.
GhostworX Racing have stated they are fully motivated and ready to give their all to claim the SA simGT championship titles in 2016, and surely must be regarded as one of the championship favorites.
The championship will kick off at Donington on 01 February 2016. With 24 drivers already sign-up for the championship, all newly interested parties, who would like to enter the championship, are welcome to email Jason: jason@simracesa.co.za

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Edward Scott
Hometown: New York City, New York
Information submitted in a nomination letter to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame by Lynn H. Johnson.
Scott Poles are a household name to the American skier. The story as to why that came about begins in the ski area of Sun Valley, Idaho.
Edward Scott was born on July 11, 1917 in New York and he received his first pair of manufactured skis for Christmas in 1932. He began work in the ski shops of New York City and riding the ski trains out of Grand Central Station in the mid-thirties. After World War II, Scott went west to work at California's Sugar Bowl.
"Ed" Scott came to a small community in Idaho to establish a ski shop in 1949. During that time, the management at A. Harriman's Sun Valley Resort had realized the importance of inviting two types of people who would lend notoriety to this remote ski area destination. The first were movie stars and the second were a number of the top ski racers in the country. Care had to be given not to turn the ski racers into professionals as the International Olympic Committee was very strict in policing their amateur rule. The twelve or so top racers who made their home in Sun Valley were given work in the evening so that they could train daily on the mountain that dwarfed the resort. Ed Scott's abilities to keep the racers on the mountain free of equipment concerns started him on the road to becoming the ski equipment expert so many knew him to be. The piece of equipment Ed noticed he had to repair most often was the ski pole. The likes of Jack Reddish, Gretchen Frazer, Dev Jennings, Dick Movitz and other teammates came by (almost daily) to have their baskets, shafts and handles repaired. Ed and this group of finely tuned racers also became aware that the swing-weight of the poles they were using had a detrimental effect on the quickness of their turning ability. After searching the market for a pole that would match the ability levels of his famous clientele, and coming up empty, he decided to put his inventive mind to work. Until then, few people spent a great deal of time really thinking about what made a great ski pole. Most ski equipment inventors were concerning themselves with the intricacies of skis and ski boots, paying little attention to the ski pole and more importantly how if affected skiing. There were some innovative parts on some poles but none came even close to satisfying Ed or these finicky ski racers. The modern ski pole was about to be created!
Ed's friend, Warren Miller, was instrumental in finding a company that could make what Ed considered a suitable shaft from stiff, un-jointed, large diameter, thin-walled, tapered, 2000 series aluminum. It would have a durable, hollow steel tip for lightness. The grip was to be molded from vibram, (a type of rubber) cresting finger notches and canted forward for better leverage. Olympian, Tom Corcoran, in returning a broken test pair, proved that just bending the shaft in a vise weakened the shaft so different methods were used to accomplish the desired results. Ed also added an adjustable strap for variable glove sizes.
The basket on Ed's pole got considerable attention as it was the cause for excessive swing-weight, poor durability (as pole banged against the bamboo racing gates) and aerodynamic drag. Some of the more durable baskets of the day were so stiff they would actually hold the tip of the pole off the snow, causing the pole to glance off, rather than engage. Ed made the diameter of the basket a small 4¼ inches, the same standard used today on many ski poles. He reduced the spokes to three to lighten and cause the basket to be more flexible than the standard four spokes popularly used. Ed molded, into the rubber spokes, a rubber basket keeper at the center which had a hole much smaller than the diameter of the shaft. The metal ring completing the basket was molded into the spokes. The whole basket assembly was one piece, a major improvement for pole maintenance and weight reduction. The basket had to be hammered onto the shaft which gave it great staying quality. Minimizing the number of spokes also enhanced the aerodynamics. Ed's pole became a huge success and still is – almost half a century later.
Ed went on to improve other areas of ski equipment leaving his creation, Scott USA to let other, more attuned to building corporations take over. Not unlike delivering his child to the world, he proudly watched his protégé grow.
Edward Scott was elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Siobhain McDonagh – 2019 Speech on St Helier and St George's Hospitals
Below is the text of the speech made by Siobhain McDonagh, the Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, in the House of Commons on 19 February 2019.
Let me start by putting on record my respect and admiration for every single doctor, nurse, clinician and staff member at both St Helier and St George's hospitals for their outstanding service and dedication to the health and welfare of my constituents. These remarkable individuals go above and beyond, despite facing extraordinarily testing circumstances—nine years of austerity have left our treasured NHS desperately short of staff, services and supplies.
For my constituents, however, the biggest threat to our local hospitals is far closer to home. It is in the wild west of south-west London's NHS, which is once again pursuing desperate attempts to close all acute services, including the major A&E unit and the consultant-led maternity units at St Helier hospital. The impact that that would have on St George's hospital, would, I believe, be devastating.
This evening I want to outline the reality behind the latest threat to St Helier, branded "Improving Healthcare Together 2020-2030". I want to challenge every foundation on which that programme has been built, and I want to appeal to the Minister to step in before we see the decomposition of health services that are vital to my constituents. However, I want to start with some history.
For nearly two decades, the NHS in south-west London has pursued several irresponsible attempts to close the acute health services at St Helier hospital, on the border of my constituency, and move them to leafy, wealthy Belmont in Sutton. Under different titles and brands, and in the guise of countless NHS-funded marketing consultants, the proposal is on repeat, and an estimated £50 million has been wasted on almost identical consultations and programmes. Each one starts afresh, portraying to the public a neutral outlook when it is being decided where acute health services should be placed in south-west London.
The Minister may remember that, back in 2015, secret proposals to close St Helier and build a new super-hospital in Sutton were overheard by a BBC reporter on a train, which brought those plans to an embarrassing end. Fast-forward to 2017 and the programme was repeated, this time entitled "Epsom and St Helier 2020-2030", and once again professing to assess the pros and cons of where to base acute health services. The public support expressed by chief executive Daniel Elkeles, the man running the programme, for moving the services to Sutton somewhat clouded the neutrality of the process.
Paul Scully (Sutton and Cheam) (Con)
Does the hon. Lady not agree that the proposal that immediately preceded this was to close facilities at St Helier and move them to St George's in Tooting, which was universally unpopular? The proposal that is now on the table, on which I certainly hope there will be a public consultation, refers to one of three sites, and includes a reference to locating a new facility at St Helier hospital.
Siobhain McDonagh
My recollection of that particular consultation was that that was really the scorched earth strategy of deciding that St Helier and Epsom were going to close and St George's would take the strain. I thank God that that never happened, because we could be in an extraordinarily difficult position had it ever happened.
I might sound cynical when I talk about the NHS and its bias against my constituency and against services being at St Helier Hospital, but I have been here several times before. A freedom of information request revealed that those running the programme only distributed consultation documents to targeted areas around their preferred site and to just a handful of roads in my constituency. But my constituents care passionately about their local health services and will not be ignored, and 6,000 local residents responded to the programme by calling for St Helier to retain all its services on its current site.
Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
I thank the hon. Lady for giving way. I sought her permission to intervene beforehand because I am always very interested in health issues, and I am here to support her as well. Centralising the health service means that the ill and the vulnerable and pregnant women are expected to travel for miles to get medical assistance. That is totally absurd. Surely the health of the patient must always be put first and foremost.
I agree with the hon. Gentleman, but it is about not just distance travelled but who is travelling that distance: do they have access to a car, or do they have public transport? The NHS constitution requires that equalities legislation is taken into account, particularly looking at disadvantaged people who are in poor health and how they access services, because they access services differently.
As I said, my constituents care passionately about local health services, and when they responded to the consultation 6,000 of them sent in cards explaining how they felt and saying that they wanted St Helier to retain all its services on its current site. Can you imagine the anger when I found out that their responses had been discounted by the programme? Why? Because they were not on the official documentation—the same documentation that had been disseminated in those targeted letterboxes far away from my constituency.
To the public, the trust portrayed a neutral stance whereby a suitable site across south-west London would be selected for their acute services. To the stakeholders in Belmont, it confessed its desire to move the services to their wealthy area, and to mine, it pretended that the consultation would genuinely seek the views of the public. But as my mum always says, much gets more. I would like to put on record that while I fundamentally disagree with the desire to take services away from my constituents, I do recognise Mr Elkeles' hard work and dedication in leading St Helier Hospital.
We now fast-forward to the present day and the latest brand, "Improving Healthcare Together 2020-2030", a programme built upon the unstable and unscrupulous foundation of its predecessors and that once again considers the pros and cons of moving St Helier Hospital's acute services 7 miles west to Epsom or south to leafy Belmont in Sutton. The programme was launched last summer—they always choose the summer—undertaking an initial public engagement that is expected to transition to a public consultation this coming summer. But just 837 people responded to the public engagement, and that is including hundreds of NHS staff and 169 comments on Twitter or Facebook. That is an utterly abysmal response considering the £2.2 million of taxpayers' money squandered on the programme already. Does the Minister agree that this is a complete misuse of taxpayer funds at a time when our NHS is under such overwhelming pressure?
This is about more than just the future of St Helier Hospital. My constituents tell me that if St Helier Hospital were to lose its acute services, they would turn not to Epsom or Sutton but east to Croydon University Hospital or north to St George's. That is a completely terrifying prospect. Before Christmas, my constituent, Marian, was left queueing outside St George's Hospital with her left leg badly infected, because the A&E was full. And that was the calm before the storm, with St George's A&E facing its busiest ever week just a fortnight ago. We all remember the winter crisis last year, but the first full week of February this year was 16% higher than last year's equivalent, with a simply staggering 600-plus visits every single day. This is a hospital that already relies on St Helier as its safety valve. The maternity unit at St George's had to close temporarily in 2014 and 2015, directing women who were already in labour to St Helier Hospital.
That is why a letter sent in November from the chair of the St George's trust to those running the programme is completely astonishing. In the letter, the chair expresses her concern that
"there is no formal requirement to take account of the impact on other providers"
when deciding where to relocate acute health services across south-west London. It is hard to put into words just how dangerous that disregard is. I should like to pause briefly to thank the chief executive of St George's Hospital, Jacqueline Totterdell, for her hard work and tenacity in steering one of London's largest hospitals at a time of such difficulty.
St George's is a hospital already under immense pressure. The plumbing, ventilation and drainage facilities are at breaking point, leading to a bid for £34 million of emergency capital from the Treasury. Does the Minister agree that a recent outflow of sewage in the hospital A&E is a clear sign that such emergency funding is justified and, more importantly, urgent? How busy does she think the same A&E would be if the local NHS were to get its way and move St Helier's major A&E to wealthy, leafy Belmont? Will she step in today and require any proposal to reconfigure health services to wholeheartedly take into account the impact that such a decision would have on all other nearby health providers?
Merton Council recognises the devastating impact that these proposals could have, and I would like to put on record my thanks to leader of Merton Council, Stephen Alambritis, the cabinet member for social care, Councillor Tobin Byers, and the director of community and housing, Ms Hannah Doody, for their unflinching support. It is so disappointing that those at Sutton Council can stand so idly by.
By law, when deciding where acute services should be based across a catchment area of this size, it is fundamental that the level of deprivation and local health needs are accurately understood and thoroughly assessed. So I read from cover to cover the deprivation and equality analysis produced by a range of external consultancy services as part of their £1.5 million programme fee. At a time when the NHS is so strapped for cash, it is extraordinary that my local NHS seems to have carte blanche to employ so many consultants on such extraordinary rates. But even I was absolutely astounded by the monumental gaps in the analysis that these consultants have delivered.
In the pieces of analysis on deprivation and equality, areas that rely on St Helier Hospital are either absent from the documents or actively described as falling outside the catchment area. Take Pollards Hill in my constituency, an area that would be considered deprived in comparison with much of Sutton or Epsom. Wide Way Medical Centre is the largest GP surgery there, and it directs 34% of its patients to St Helier Hospital, but Pollards Hill is deemed to be outside St Helier's catchment area. Why does this matter? Because if areas that rely on St Helier Hospital are not even considered in the analysis, how can the potential impact of moving acute services from the hospital be adequately assessed? Pollard's Hill is not alone. The report does not mention Lavender Fields despite almost a fifth of Colliers Wood surgery patients and Mitcham family practice patients being directed or referred to St Helier from the ward.
I urgently brought the gaps in the analysis to the attention of those operating the programme and Jane Cummings, the NHS's chief nursing officer. I was pleased that everyone agreed that such significant analysis shortfalls would be addressed and rectified.
Paul Scully
The hon. Lady is being generous in giving way. Does she agree that Colliers Wood is pretty much smack-bang next to St George's and that the proposal on which last year's public engagement was based was that 85% of current patients would still be treated in their current hospital, whether St Helier, the proposed Sutton site or Epsom?
There is no reason why the hon. Gentleman should know this, so I am not trying to be tricky, but Colliers Wood surgery is the title of a split-site GP surgery. One site is on Lavender Avenue off Western Road—the hon. Gentleman probably knows Western Road from driving up and down it a lot—in the heart of one of the most deprived areas in my constituency, and many people there go to St Helier hospital. The idea that we could remove an A&E and a maternity unit and keep what is left is complete nonsense, because all the blood and testing facilities and all the talented doctors and nurses simply would not stay there. Chase Farm Hospital, which is in the constituency of my right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield North (Joan Ryan), is a wonderful example of such a situation, and Members may want to have a look at it.
I pointed out that areas in my constituency and large surgeries had not been included in the analysis, and I was promised that they would be. However, months have passed, and the process has proceeded unscathed, with no indication of when such significant gaps will be remedied.
The icing on the cake came in December when three behind-closed-doors workshops based on the deficient evidence were run by the programme. They were designed "to inform the Governing Bodies decision making process about how the community and professionals ranked each of the three potential sites for acute hospital services".
Let me be clear: hand-picked professionals and members of the public used incomplete evidence to rank Sutton as the preferred site for acute services. The Minister will not be surprised to hear that more participants in the workshops were from Sutton than from Merton or Epsom. How can a fair, balanced and rounded opinion be accrued from workshops based on flawed evidence and disputable criteria and with an unrepresentative group of people? For the findings to be used in any capacity in the decision-making process would be completely unacceptable.
Of course, I understand that figures and analysis can always be skewed in one direction or another. Someone wanting to disguise the 76.5-year life expectancy of men in Mitcham West in my constituency could include the 84.4-year average in Wimbledon Park and classify the figures by the borough of Merton as a whole. They could count cancer rates, stroke rates, mortality rates by borough rather than by ward or lower super output area. They could ignore deprived parts of the catchment area and proceed full steam ahead with the programme.
When will the gaps in the analysis be completed? When will taxpayers' money stop being splurged on flawed and biased consultations? When will the madness end? Here is the reality: there are over twice as many people with bad or very bad health within a mile of St Helier than there are living within a mile of the Sutton site, and almost four times the number within a mile of Epsom. Around St Helier, the local population is significantly larger, with considerably more dependent children and more elderly people. Furthermore, the population local to St Helier is far more reliant on public transport, with residents statistically less likely to have access to a car.
Despite all that, when I secured—I can hardly believe it myself—£267 million from the Department of Health and the Treasury under both the Labour Government and the coalition Government to rebuild St Helier Hospital, guess what happened? The local NHS sent the money back. Can the Minister confirm whether the hospital will again receive its funding this time round?
It is time for some accountability and for the Government to step in before even more money is wasted and the future of both St Helier and St George's is thrown into jeopardy. Leave these vital services where they are most needed: at St Helier Hospital, on its current site.
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Billy Bragg - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Thu 28 May, 8:00pm
Fri 29 May, 8:00pm
Sat 30 May, 8:00pm
San Fran, 171 Cuba St, Wellington
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Handsome Tours is thrilled to announce that Billy Bragg will be returning to New Zealand with his "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" tour. This time, it's Wellington's turn, after his sell-out series of Auckland shows in November 2018. Bragg will perform three unique shows on consecutive nights at San Fran.
Thursday 28 May: Current career spanning set
Friday 29 May: Songs from the first three albums
Saturday 30 May: Songs from the second three albums
The first night's performance will feature Bragg's current set, which ranges across his 35 year career. The second will see Bragg perform songs from his first three albums: his punk rock debut Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy (1983), its similarly raw follow-up Brewing Up with Billy Bragg (1984) and Talking with the Taxman about Poetry (1986). The third performance will see Bragg perform songs from his second three albums: the positively jangled Workers Playtime (1988), the pop classic Don't Try This at Home (1991) and the back-to-basics William Bloke (1996).
Billy Bragg has been a fearless recording artist, tireless live performer and peerless political campaigner for over 35 years. Politicised by a Tory government operating without love or justice, this previously adrift young man from Barking, whose failure at national exams had reduced his career opportunities to two, eventually bought himself out of the British Army in 1981 ('the best £175 I ever spent'), determined to make a living out of song.
Don't miss the orator, entertainer, rabble-rouser, negotiator, pamphleteer, the fabled 'Bard of Barking', Billy Bragg, across three extraordinary evenings in Wellington.
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AutoMatters & More: Serious Problems for Formula 1 Racing plus Reviewing the LitraPro LED Light for Photography
Exciting Formula 1 action in 2012 at Circuit of the Americas
(Jan Wagner)
By Jan Wagner
Formula 1 Racing Facing Serious Problems
Long revered as arguably the pinnacle of auto racing – if not all of motorsports – worldwide, Formula 1 racing is now in serious trouble. Ultimately, racing depends on having lots of spectators to generate its massive required revenue. Sponsors pay a large part of that tab, but if spectators do not watch the races – either in person, on TV or on a streaming device, the sponsorship will surely dry up. There are only a few manufacturers that can sustain the enormous costs of Formula 1 for very long, and if no one is watching, the only benefit for them would be product development. Smaller teams would surely fold, and Formula 1 would collapse as a major form of motorsports.
What is the problem? For the answers to that, all one really needs to do is review the results of all of this year's Formula 1 races. That will reveal that one team has utterly dominated the races. That team is the two-car Mercedes Formula 1 team.
Crowds of fans watching F1 at Circuit of the Americas in 2012
The first race of the year was the Australian GP, which was won by Valtteri Bottas, driving for Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton, his Mercedes teammate, came in second. The next race was the Bahrain GP. The order was reversed, but the same two drivers were on top of the results sheet. At the Chinese Grand Prix, the story was the same. At the Azerbaijan GP, Valtteri won again, with Lewis coming in second. At the Spanish GP, Lewis was back in form and won the race, followed again by Bottas.
On Monaco's ultra-tight street circuit, Lewis won again, but this time it was a Ferrari that came in second, driven by Sebastian Vettel. However, this was not a typical Formula 1 track.
In Montreal, Vettel's Ferrari took the checkered flag first – but then he was demoted to second due to a very unpopular application of the rules, elevating Hamilton to the top step of the podium.
Therein lies Formula 1's second big problem: its rules. Let racers race. That's what the fans come to see. When good, hard racing is penalized by the rules, something is very wrong.
F1 racing at Circuit of the Americas in 2012
This past weekend saw the most boring race of the year: the French Grand Prix at Circuit Paul Ricard. Between the inability of any of the other teams to be competitive with the Mercedes duo (Lewis won again), and the forgiving runoff areas, this race was a snoozer.
So, what should be done? Racing is a show. Some may cringe at the suggestion that Formula 1 would be well served to look to NASCAR and IndyCar for how they can and should improve the show. Since IndyCars are, by design, ultra-competitive with each other, any of the drivers might win any race. That is exciting for race fans and good for the sport.
Formula 1 should act this season – not wait until next season or beyond. This situation poses an existential threat to Formula 1 racing and should be treated with the attention that situation warrants.
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Reviewing the LitraPro LED Light for Photography
As promised in my recent AutoMatters & More column about Cine Gear Expo at Paramount Studios, I am now able to review the LitraPro LED light that I saw there. They sent one to me, along with several accessories.
At the heart of the system is the major award-winning (CES and NAB) LitraPro LED light. Litra describes the LitraPro as "the world's first full spectrum bi-color (3000-6000K) compact video and photo adventure light on the market." It includes Bluetooth, adjustable color temperature and is fully dimmable. Furthermore, it is waterproof, compact and constructed of rugged yet lightweight aluminum.
Accessories including a set of colored filters, soft box, barn doors, an adjustable cold shoe ball mount and more make it fully suitable for not only uncompromising video needs, but also as a stand-mounted or even a hand-held light source.
LitraPro LED light on cold shoe ball mount
It is powerful and bright (1200 Lumens), factory calibrated to =/- 100k accuracy and can be used in combination with additional lights, offering both corded and cordless operation (45 minutes to 10 hours of rechargeable battery life). I used it on and off my Nikon Z6 camera and found it incredibly versatile.
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BBMP's helpline is helpless, hopeless
Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Updated: Sep 26, 2018, 04:00 IST
BBMP encourages Bengalureans to report common problems such as garbage, poor roads, tree-felling etc through the Sahaaya citizen-centric service interface
'Sahaaya' service interface receives around 600 complaints/day and BBMP claims it fixes 90% of them. Bollocks, says Bengaluru
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike launched its app, Sahaaya, with much fanfare in 2016, for the speedy redressal of people's civic problems. But the app, and another app, BBMP Fix My Street, according to Bengalureans, seems purely like a window dressing. Many Bengalureans claim that the app has not made any difference to solving their problems. Instead, they have to chase BBMP officials once they register their complaints on the app, because their complaints are automatically rejected or left unresolved for months.
Shanthi Vedula, an architect who stays in Shriram Samruddhi Apartments, Thubarahalli, had registered a complaint in early May for the mosquito menace in her locality. She says swarms of mosquitoes are seen in corners of apartment buildings, making it difficult for residents to enter homes.
When Shanthi registered a complaint on the BBMP app Sahaaya, she was surprised to get a call two days later asking her if the complaint had been resolved. When she said no, the BBMP official promised to take action. Satisfied with the response, Vedula waited for another week but nothing happened.
Many city residents BM spoke to had similar stories to tell. Says Nirmala Sethu of Malleshwaram, "When I lodged a complaint for a tree branch that had broken and was hanging precariously, I got a message that it was assigned to an officer. When I called him, he replied rudely and told me to send photos of the tree by WhatsApp. After that he didn't pick up my calls and then I got a message that the problem had been resolved. Finally, residents in the neighbourhood cut the tree branch which could have fallen on someone and injured them."
BBMP Sahaaya
Shanthi Vedula says, "At first they told me to close the complaint. When I did not and registered another complaint, they came to our area and fumigated the place."
When BM contacted Kalpana, the BBMP health officer, to whom Shanthi's complaint was assigned, she had a different story to tell. She said, "The problem has already been addressed in the first complaint itself. We make sure not to take longer than a week to address these issues. In fact we are also cleaning Varthur Lake every week to make sure the frothing stops. We don't close any complaints. It is the control room that closes them or assigns them. From the Mahadevpura zone, we get 1 or 2 complaints everyday on the Sahaaya app."
On September 6, Anand M, resident of Ashraya Layout, had filed a complaint on the BBMP Fix My Street app to repair the street lights of Ashaya Layout. However, it remained unattended and was closed on September 22nd.
Talking to BM, Mayor Sampath Raj, said, "I have spoken to Sheshadri T, BBMP IT advisor and have discussed the issue with him. He will take measures to ensure that the app is more accessible to people."
Many residents told Bangalore Mirror that the BBMP officials were in a hurry to close the complaint, and when they could not do it, they would try to convince the complainant to close the matter or reject it without following up on it.
Another complainant Aparna Kaushal from ITPL Main Road in Kaveri Nagar said, "When I shifted to Whitefield two years ago, the footpath which was walkable was soon turned into a parking lot for vehicles. I registered a complaint on the app thinking that they would solve it quickly. But they kept transferring the complaint from one person to another and finally stopped taking notice of it. A few days later, I found out that the complaint was closed. "
Kunti Khona, nature enthusiast, who stays near CCD, Whitefield Main Road, had filed a complaint on the BBMP complaint app about an old speed breaker which was removed when a new road was laid. "Accidents increased and it was unsafe for motorists," she says. However, there was no response to her complaint and after 15 days, her complaint was closed.
According to her, four apartment owners registered complaints together between December 13 and 14, 2017, but all four of them were rejected on the same day.
On 26 April 2018, at least 15 residents of Alpine Eco Road, Doddanekundi, filed multiple complaints on the Sahaaya app to clear garbage dumped and burned by BBMP trucks. Said a disappointed Mohit Garg, "Even after a month, there was no action. We tried contacting the person to whom the complaint was assigned. But no one answered the phone."
Anand M, a resident of Ashraya Layout, says he had complained twice on the app but it was rejected both the times. One of his complaints was closed without his permission, he added.
Going by people's complaints, BBMP's apps surely need help.


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I wrote this a year ago when my son was having severe challenges at school...wanted to share. My son, Jonathan, has autism, fully included in general education classroom.
If Jonathan were blind, would I expect him to see?
If Jonathan were deaf, would I expect him to hear?
No, but I'd provide hearing aids and therapies for him to be able to function as best as he could. I would learn to be conversational in sign language so I could understand and know my son.
If Jonathan was disabled in such a way as he could not walk, would I be angry at him that he was in a wheel chair?
No. I think I would see the wheelchair as the best way for my child to enjoy life, and be able to participate.
Why then is it so hard for me to accept the behavior issues that comes with autism? Why do I expect my son to "be like the other kids" in regards to social issues? Why do I expect him to THINK and ACT like the NT Kids? Why does it embarrass and humiliate me when he doesn't?
Would teachers be saying, (if my son was blind) "Oh, gee, you're son couldn't identify his colors AGAIN today..."
Or (if my son was deaf) "No matter how many times we play the song, Jonathan refuses to participate in music. He just will not sing, not ever"
Or (if my son was in a wheel chair) "Once again your son would not walk to the cafeteria. I mean...all the other kids his age are able to walk and carry their own trays. But he just stays in his chair..."
But I am forced to hear about all the behavior issues, almost daily, and then feel like for some reason I need to do better, discipline more, talk more, find the magic wand that will "fix" him.
Why is it different for my son, than a child who is visually or hearing or physically impaired ?


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Wakamatsu Jōtarō (若松丈太郎; * 1935 in Ōshū; † 21. April 2021) war ein japanischer Lyriker und Essayist. Der aus der Präfektur Fukushima stammende Wakamatsu kam durch seine literarische Prophetie eines GAUs im Nordosten Japans nach der Havarie am AKW Fukushima Daiichi vom 11. März 2011 zu nationaler Bekanntheit.

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Wakamatsu wurde 1935 in der Kleinstadt  Ōshū, Präfektur Iwate, im Nordosten Japans geboren. Nach seinem Studium an der Universität Fukushima und seiner Hochzeit zog er mit 28 Jahren nach Hara-machi (Stadt Minamisôma, Präfektur Fukushima). Er war Lehrer für japanische Sprache an High-Schools der Präfektur Fukushima und schrieb seit den 1960er Jahren Gedichte. Nach der Inbetriebnahme der ersten Atomkraftwerke in Fukushima in den 1970er Jahren machte er auf die Risiken der Atomenergie durch Veröffentlichung von Zeitungsartikeln und Engagement in Bürgerinitiativen aufmerksam.

Im Mai 1994 reiste Wakamatsu als Mitglied eines lokalen Anti-AKW-Bündnisses in die Sperrzone des acht Jahre zuvor havarierten Tschernobyl-Kraftwerks. Nach dem 11. März 2011 und der Havarie des AKW Fukushima Daiichi floh Wakamatsu mit seiner Frau kurzzeitig aus seinem 25 km vom Zentrum der Sperrzone entfernten Wohnort, kehrte nach einigen Wochen jedoch wieder zurück. Er lebte mit seiner Frau in Hara-machi. Er hat einen Sohn.

Werk
Sein schriftstellerisches Debüt feierte Wakamatsu 1961 mit dem Gedichtband Yoru no mori (deutsch = Der Nachtwald), für den er im Jahr der Veröffentlichung mit dem Literaturpreis der Präfektur Fukushima ausgezeichnet wurde. Viele seiner frühen Gedichte und Texte erschienen zunächst im Selbstverlag oder in regionalen Zeitschriften. Erst nach der Jahrtausendwende wurden seine Werke von großen japanischen Verlagen veröffentlicht. Nationale Aufmerksamkeit erlangte er im Jahre 2011 durch seine kritischen Aussagen bezüglich der Risiken der Atomkraft sowie der Vorahnung eines GAU an den Atomkraftwerken Fukushimas, den Wakamatsu ab Mitte der 1990er Jahre und seiner Reise nach Tschernobyl in Gedichten und Essays prophezeite.

Zahlreiche seiner Texte im Zeichen der Atomthematik wurden nach 2011 neu aufgelegt, so vor allem in den Sammlungen Fukushima genpatsu nanmin: Minamisōma-shi – Ichi shijin no keikoku 1971nen ~ 2011nen (deutsch = Fukushima-Atomflüchtling – Minamisōma・Die Warnungen eines Dichters. 1971–2011) und Fukushima kakusai kimin: Machi ga merutodaun-shite shimatte (deutsch = Die Im-Stich-Gelassenen der Fukushima-Atomhavarie: Städte die der Kernschmelze zum Opfer gefallen sind).

2014 folgte mit Waga daichi yo aa (deutsch = Ah, unsere Erde!) der erste eigenständige Gedichtband nach der "Fukushima"-Katastrophe sowie 2017 eine lyrische Aufarbeitung seiner frühen Erinnerungen an den Zweiten Weltkrieg in der Anthologie Jūsai no natsu made sensō datta (deutsch = Krieg bis zum Sommer als ich zehn Jahre alt war).

Publikationen
Außer seinen Büchern zu Fukushima und den Folgen hat Wakamatsu Jōtarō Gedichte und autobiografische Werke veröffentlicht. Ins Englische übersetzte Gedichte Wakamatsus legte der Dichter Arthur Binard in dem gemeinsam mit Wakamatsu und dem Fotografen Saitō Sadamu 2012 erstmals publizierten zweisprachigen Band "Hito no Akashi. What Makes Us" vor.

Literatur
 Judith Brandner: Der Prophet, der keiner sein wollte – Wakamatsu Jōtarō und Fukushima. In: MINIKOMI. 2016. Nr. 85, S. 33–42.
 Christian Chappelow: Wakamatsu Jôtarô – Gedichte im Zeichen der Atomkatastrophe (= Reihe zur japanischen Literatur und Kultur Band 14). EB-Verlag, Berlin 2022, ISBN 978-3-86893-355-0.
 Christian Chappelow: Kritische Lyrik nach "Fukushima" – Henmi Yō und sein Gedichtband Me no umi, In: Lisette Gebhardt, Evelyn Schulz (Hrsg.): Neue Konzepte japanischer Literatur. Nationalliteratur, literarischer Kanon und die Literaturtheorie (= Reihe zur japanischen Literatur und Kultur Band 8). EB-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86893-120-4, S. 253–276.
 Christian Chappelow: Die Kirschblüte in Hansaki – Gedichtübersetzung anlässlich des neunten Jahrestages von 3/11. Beitrag für die "Textinitiative Fukushima" vom 11. März 2020 (online).
 Andreas Singler: Sayōnara Atomkraft. Proteste in Japan nach "Fukushima". EB-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86893-261-4.
 Andreas Singler: "Die Ästhetik des Widerstandes: Zum Tod des Dichters und Atomkraftgegners Wakamatsu Jôtarô". (online).

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