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2 rescued miners detail how they survived against all odds
In this photo from Nov. 4, coworkers of the two miners who were trapped deep within a zinc mine in Bonghwa County, North Gyeongsang Province, hug each other in excitement after finding the trapped miners still alive. Courtesy of Gyeongbuk Fire Service Headquarters
Despair, hope tested two survivors who barely knew each other
By Ko Dong-hwan
Park Jeong-ha, 62, one of the two miners who survived 10 days trapped underground until helping hands miraculously arrived, has 25 years of experience working in the profession. One life-saving tip he remembered from a survival manual, in the event of a tunnel collapse, was not to stay helplessly in one place after becoming trapped but to salvage what is available and prepare a shelter to minimize the danger. This is what he and the other miner did, barricading the place with vinyl coverings to block the cold wind.
The other miner, 56, who wished to only be identified by the surname Park, started working for the mining firm in Bonghwa County, North Gyeongsang Province, only four days before the accident occurred on Oct. 26. The inexperienced miner said after being saved on Nov. 4 that the moment of collapse had instantly shrouded him in darkness as 900 tons of debris fell around them. It was such a shocking moment that he couldn't feel his arms and legs at first.
"My head was paralyzed and I couldn't think rationally," the younger Park said in a media interview, Monday. He sometimes sobbed while thinking about his desperate situation. "But I survived because I could rely on my superior who had many years of experience as a miner."
The pair barely knew each other before the incident. But they started getting to know each other better while trapped 190 meters underground.
Surviving miners Park Jeong-ha, right, and Park, who wished to remain anonymous, talk to each other in a recovery room of Andong Hospital in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, Nov. 5. Yonhap
All they had to sustain themselves were 4 liters of fresh water, 18 packs of coffee mix and an electric water heater. They first tried to heat up the heater using a bonfire they managed to make with about 20 wooden planks. The space was somehow connected to the outside so they could make the fire without suffocating. The fire, however, melted the heater's plastic covering, leaving a stainless steel container within the device, which they used to boil water for coffee. The supplies ran out in three days.
They started collecting underground water dripping from above which they drank without boiling. The inexperienced worker vomited twice while drinking it.
They kept looking for ways to escape, exploring the tunnel's nooks and crannies for the first three days of their isolation. But all pathways were blocked by large rocks that they couldn't move.
"We dug about 10 meters but gave up after seeing no signs of meeting any path for escape," the younger Park said. "Countless times we climbed up a rocky heap about 70 degrees to handpick our way through but kept sliding down unsuccessfully. We had 20 explosives and used them over two times to blow up the rocks but it did little and didn't help with creating an escape path. We took turns clanging on pipes in the tunnel to make sounds to the outside world for about 30 to 40 minutes each time but there were no signs of a response."
Five days into their isolation, they heard the sound of explosions outside. The explosions grew louder the next day. That's when they thought help was on its way. But at the same time, their strength was dissipating.
In front of Andong Hospital, Park Geun-hyeong, son of Park Jeong-ha, shows reporters a pair of work pants his father wore while trapped in the mine, Nov. 5. Yonhap
The younger Park recalled that his physical strength reached its limit after eight days. The older Park reportedly recalled that he had clung firmly to the hope that his fellow miners were on their way to save him. "We miners have nothing, we are just a bunch of poor men with nothing to lose," he said. "We may smell bad but we are incredibly resilient and watch our friends' backs. That gave me hope for the rescue."
On the day of their rescue, both miners' headlamps, their only source of light in the caved-in tunnel, started flickering as the batteries were running low. As the older Park was making a fire to dry his clothes, told his coworker that there may no longer be any hope. Less than 20 minutes later, he heard another explosion. He thought he heard a sound and asked his companion, who said he hadn't heard it. The veteran miner thought he was hallucinating.
Nonetheless, the sound kept growing louder, startling the two and prompting them to put their safety helmets back on. As they retreated, they heard another bang and a light broke through the rubble from outside. Soon their colleagues were rushing in. One of them hugged the older Park and cried. Park, who had nearly lost hope, said "I'm alive, thank you" and fell to his knees crying.
An official from Andong Hospital in North Gyeongsang Province, where the two have been hospitalized after being rescued, told The Korea Times that due to requests from the survivors' family members, he cannot explain in detail about their health problems. He said both patients are eating well but sometimes wake up from sleep with minor fits. The hospital plans to check their psychological condition further and run an ophthalmological examination of their swollen eyes.
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Digital museum opens at Maharaj Bada in Gwalior, MP
In Madhya Pradesh, a digital museum has been opened at Maharaj Bada in Gwalior for the public. The museum is developed by Gwalior Smart City and entry for the public is being made free for a few days.
It is the first center of its kind in Gwalior and Bundelkhand area and will play a role in educating school students.
In the Digital Museum, the architectural styles, objects, costumes, lifestyle, musical instruments, jewelry, handicrafts, cultural tradition, painting and many genres of paintings have been digitally displayed in a modern way.
30th India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol held
The 30th edition of India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT) between the Indian Navy and the Royal Thai Navy took place from November 18-20.
Indian Naval Ship (INS) Karmuk, an indigenously built Missile Corvette and His Majesty's Thailand Ship (HTMS) Kraburi, a Chao Phraya Class Frigate along with Dornier Maritime Patrol Aircraft from both the navies are participating in the CORPAT.
The 30th Indo-Thai CORPAT will contribute towards Indian Navy's efforts to consolidate interoperability and forge strong bonds of friendship with the Royal Thai Navy.
ADB approves $50 mn loan to improve resource planning in West Bengal
The Asian Development Bank said it has approved a USD 50 million loan to improve operational efficiencies and resource planning and management in West Bengal.
The loan will support the integration of financial and information system and the expansion of automation reforms in the operations of the state government, which are expected to strengthen the delivery of public services and create fiscal savings.
The loan will be supplemented by a USD 350,000 technical assistance grant for capacity building, monitoring of IFMS (Integrated Financial Management System) reforms, and strengthening the integration of social and gender aspects in reform areas.
Bank Credit Rises 5.67%, Deposits Up 10.63%, RBI Data Shows
Bank credit grew by 5.67 per cent to Rs 104.04 lakh crore, while deposits increased by 10.63 per cent to Rs 143.80 lakh crore in the fortnight ended November 6, according to RBI data.
In the fortnight ended November 8, 2019, bank credit stood at Rs 98.46 lakh crore and deposits at Rs 129.98 lakh crore.
On a year-on-year basis, non-food bank credit growth decelerated to 5.8 per cent in September 2020 from 8.1 per cent in the same month of the previous year.
Credit to industry recorded 'nil' growth in September 2020 as compared to 2.7 per cent rise in September 2019.
Credit to agriculture and allied activities rose by 5.9 per cent during the reporting month, as against a growth of 7 per cent in the same month last year.
Loan growth to the services sector accelerated to 9.1 per cent in September 2020 from 7.3 per cent in September 2019.
Personal loans registered a growth of 9.2 per cent in the month compared to 16.6 per cent growth in September 2019.
BSE StAR MF launches a direct investment portal for corporates
BSE, the leading stock exchange has launched 'Corp Direct – A Direct Investment Portal for Corporates', with more features which will further simplify and provide end-to-end value-based services to the asset management companies (AMCs), distributors, investors, and mutual fund industry participants.
The StAR MF Corp Direct Portal is loaded with salient new features and is currently live for Corporates. It will soon be available for other non-individuals (HUF, Partnership Firms, Societies, etc.)
The key features of StAR MF Corp Direct are as below – End to End Digital Web Module, Corporate Parent-Child Entity Concept, All AMCs and Schemes available under single plat form, SMS & Email Confirmation & approval process and Multiple Transactions at single click.
CAG GC Murmu Elected as External Auditor of Inter Parliamentary Union, Geneva
The Comptroller & Auditor General of India Girish Chandra Murmu has been elected as External Auditor of Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), Geneva for three years.
Murmu will assume the position shortly by taking charge from Supreme Audit Institution of Switzerland.
The CAG of India has been the external auditor of various international organisations. He has earlier also been on the UN Board of Auditors from 1993 to 1999 and 2014 to 2020. Presently, he is the external auditor of the World Health Organization, Geneva and Food & Agriculture Organization, Rome.
Books by 3 Indian writers feature in 2020 '100 Notable Books' selected by The New York Times
Critically-acclaimed books by three Indian writers have featured among this year's '100 Notable Books' list of The New York Times that also includes former US president Barack Obama's newly released memoir 'A Promised Land'. Editors of The New York Times Book Review selected 100 "notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction" works from around the world.
The prestigious list also includes the work of fiction 'A Burning' by India-born Megha Majumdar.
'Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line' by Deepa Anappara, who grew up in Kerala, also features on the list.
Samanth Subramanian's 'A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane' is a nonfiction work
Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' to be conferred with Vatayan Lifetime Achievement Award
Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' was conferred with the Vatayan Lifetime Achievement Award at a virtual ceremony.
The Vatayan award has been given to Pokhriyal for his excellent contribution to the literary works of India.
The Vatayan International Awards are presented by the Vatayan-UK organization in London to honor poets, writers, and artists for their works in the respective fields.
India becomes 4th nation to get IMO nod for navigation satellite system
India has become the fourth country in the world to have its independent regional navigation satellite system recognised by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) as a part of the World Wide Radio Navigation System (WWRNS).
The other three countries that have its navigation systems recognised by the IMO are the US, Russia and China.
The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) was designed to provide accurate position information services to assist in the navigation of ships in Indian Ocean waters. The Director General of Shipping (DGS) had approached the IMO for granting recognition to the IRNSS as a component of the WWRNS, similar to the US-owned Global Position System (GPS) or Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) – a process that took two years.
Ray Clemence, former England goalkeeper passes away
Former England, Liverpool and Tottenham goalkeeper Ray Clemence has died aged 72.
Clemence, who won five league titles and three European Cups with Liverpool between 1967 and 1981, was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2005.
He made 470 league appearances for Liverpool before joining Tottenham.During his seven-year spell at Spurs, Clemence helped the club retain the FA Cup in 1982 and clocked up 330 appearances.
World Children's Day
World Children's Day is observed on November 20 every year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide and improving children's welfare.
Since 1990, World Children's Day also commemorates the anniversary of the date when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration and the Convention on children's rights. World Children's Day was first celebrated in 1954.
This year World Children's Day theme is ' Investing in our future means investing in our children'.
National Newborn Week 2020
Newborn Care Week is celebrated every year in the country from 15 to 21 November.
The aim for celebrating the week is to raise awareness about the importance of the newborn care for child survival and development.
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan chaired an event to mark National Newborn Week 2020, being observed from November 15-21 to "reinforce the importance of newborn health as a key priority area of health sector and to reiterate commitment at the highest level".
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Double Robust Estimation of Encouragement-design Intervention Effects Transported Across Sites
Kara E. Rudolph, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthFollow
Mark J. van der Laan, University of California - BerkeleyFollow
We develop double robust targeted maximum likelihood estimators (TMLE) for transporting intervention effects from one population to another. Specifically, we develop TMLE estimators for three transported estimands: intent-to-treat average treatment effect (ATE) and complier ATE, which are relevant for encouragement-design interventions and instrumental variable analyses, and the ATE of the exposure on the outcome, which is applicable to any randomized or observational study. We demonstrate finite sample performance of these TMLE estimators using simulation, including in the presence of practical violations of the positivity assumption. We then apply these methods to the Moving to Opportunity trial, a multi-site, encouragement-design intervention in which families in public housing were randomized to receive housing vouchers and logistical support to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. This application sheds light on whether effect differences across sites can be explained by differences in population composition.
Rudolph, Kara E. and van der Laan, Mark J., "Double Robust Estimation of Encouragement-design Intervention Effects Transported Across Sites" (May 2015). U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 335.
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'Paranoid' man punches officer
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Naomi Havlen
An Aspen man allegedly punched a police officer and flung himself through a window in the Pitkin County Courthouse early Sunday morning, and faces three felony charges as a result.
Christopher Parton, 28, is charged with second- and third-degree assault on a police officer and use of a controlled substance after being found in the courthouse, where the sheriff's and police offices are located, demanding to speak to a detective.
During the incident Parton allegedly told police that he had taken cocaine.
According to the arrest warrant, Parton told two officers that he thought his friend was in danger. Police wrote that Parton "appeared paranoid," especially after he said he thought the police were going to hurt him. When Parton asked for identification from the officers, they pointed out that they were both in uniform.
Police stated Parton was agitated and tried to shut the door of the office where he was standing. When officers grabbed Parton and removed him from the office, Parton began to "violently resist arrest" by yelling and trying to get away from police.
According to the arrest affidavit, police struck Parton on the thigh and sprayed pepper spray in his face, but he was unaffected by the attempts to stop him. While trying to run away, Parton allegedly punched one of the officers in the mouth.
The affidavit states Parton then ran toward the north door of the courthouse basement, leaped into the air and crashed through the door's wire-reinforced window. Police immediately called an ambulance as Parton's face was bleeding profusely, the affidavit says.
He was ordered to stay on the ground and get on his stomach, but the affidavit states Parton was slippery because of the blood, and police could not control him. One of the officers used a Taser when Parton started to get to his feet, the affidavit said, firing it a total of three times in order to handcuff the suspect.
Parton was transported to Aspen Valley Hospital at 5:36 a.m., where he was treated and taken to the Pitkin County Jail. On Monday morning he appeared before Judge James Boyd to be advised of possible charges against him. His bond in the Pitkin County Jail was set at $8,500.
[Naomi Havlen's e-mail address is nhavlen@aspentimes.com]


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1. Obtain a strong patent. According to Mark Milliman, co-founder and COO of Quest Products Inc. in Libertyville, Illinois, the company that owns the Puzzle Toes trademark and licensed the patent from Carlson: "Carlson's patent was important in our decision to market the Puzzle Toes concept. We didn't want to go up against all the shoe companies without a patent, as they are just too big and too strong."
Carlson says her patent "is based on the position of the design [on the shoes] and covers the overlay of the image on the adjacent toe sections." Her utility patent is powerful, as its broad claim-"a method for adapting a child's pair of shoes to indicate to the child which shoe is for the left foot and which is for the right foot"-covers all types of images split on adjacent shoes and makes it hard for another company to introduce a competing shoe.
Get help from an industry expert. It pays to hire an industry professional, whether he or she is in R&D, engineering, marketing or sales, to push your product. For one thing, the arrangement cuts the expense of attending trade shows and industry events, since your industry supporter will already be going to the shows. Second, the profes-sional will know who the best contact is at each firm. And finally, an expert's endorsement encourages possible licensees to take a closer look at your product.
Carlson's story is similar to that of many successful inventors. "I had a few discussions with L.A. Gear about licensing my product in my initial marketing push," she says. Those negotiations fell through, but she ended up meeting David Cousin, who worked in product development for L.A. Gear at the time. "[He] thought my idea had potential, and he helped me throughout the process," Carlson says. "He negotiated to get samples made, talked about my product at trade shows, and looked for companies that might license the idea. It was Cousin who located Quest Products for me."
Keep your options open. After receiving her patent, Carlson made a big push over two years to get her product licensed. Despite initial interest, no one was ready to move ahead. Instead of giving up, Carlson explored other possibilities. "I looked at different options [for] having the shoes made by looking into a small company in the U.S. [that] could make them, and then buying shoes from overseas and having the dinosaur image silk-screened on the toes." Carlson considered selling the shoes herself to stores or at fairs, but she never was able to sell them in a big way on her own.
It took her a few years to do this research, but it helped: First, it encouraged her industry contact to keep looking for ways Carlson could get her product on the market. And second, it offered Carlson the opportunity to keep learning more about the industry, its costs, and the work involved in launching a product. This knowledge was very helpful when she finally negotiated a contract.
Be flexible. When Quest Products, a small company that was a perfect licensing partner, took on Puzzle Toes the company made several changes. "Quest changed the product design slightly and then responded to Wal-Mart's requests to add more of a design look," Carlson says. "Quest also changed the packaging, changed the colors, and came up with the packaging slogan 'Get it left and get it right.'"
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Hertha Berlin will win
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Hertha Berlin – Hoffenheim Match Prediction | 26-10-2019 09:30
Well, after looking over everything, for us the value looks to be in a smaller bet in the goals market. So where does that leave us ahead of this game? And we see this being high scoring, ie, over 3.5 goals, for the following reasons: Hertha Berlins poor form in recent weeks might hinder their chances of getting a result, but the way Hoffenheims recent matches have played out, it shouldnt stop them from getting on the score-sheet. Hoffenheims football under Julian Nagelsmanns is a highly effective, attacking style that, as silly as it sounds, focuses on outscoring their opponents, rather than aiming to stop their opponents scoring. And withHertha only failing to score in one of their five home matches so far this term, expecting a goal from them isnt too farfetched.
They were beaten by Freiburg back at the start of March and have since lost three on the spin, losing against Dortmund, Leipzig and Dusseldorf. While Hoffenheim, whove won three of their last four, have been ticking along nicely of late, Hertha have been struggling. Crucially, theyve been giving too much away at the back, which doesnt exactly bode well ahead of a match against Hoffenheims strong attack.
That said, the hosts arent infallible at the back, while Hertha, even in defeat, have often found the net on their travels. On this basis, a small bet on Hoffenheim to Win & Both Teams to Score is merited. In summary, Hoffenheim have offered lots going forward both in recent times and at home overall this season, while Hertha have given lots away on the road.
However, while Herthas defensive efforts suggest that theyll struggle on Sunday, they have often got competitive going forward on the road. Sundays visitors have scored in eight of their last ten away matches, while theyve notched a reasonably respectable average of 1.36 goals for on their travels. Moreover, as good as they are at home, Hoffenheim have a habit of conceding, shipping at least once in four of their last five at Rhein-Neckar-Arena as well as in 11 of their 14 in front of a home crowd.
Both teams have scored in a massive 91% of Hoffenheims matches this season too, including all of those away from home, soSaturdays game clearly has the potential to be a thriller. Expect Hoffenheim to control the flow of this game, and with over 3.5 goals landing in 80% of their away matches, goals should flow their way. When digging deeper into the stats, its easy to see why. And as mentioned before, a number of key defensive injuries wont do an out-of-sorts Hertha any favours. Only Bayern Munich have recorded more shots on target than Hoffenheim in Bundesliga away matches, while only six teams have conceded more shots on target against them at home than Hertha! Our prediction: 3-1 TSG Hoffenheim.
Next to winning the German national league Hertha Berlin managed to reach to the final in the DFB Pokal in 1977, 1979 and 1993. After the bombings Hertha Berlin stated to play their games in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The club colors of Hertha Berlin are blue and red and is also known as Die Alte Dame which is the same nickname as Juventus. Hertha Berlin originally played its home games in the Plumpe which got bombed during the WW II.
Hoffenheims season has been a bit of a roller-coaster ride too, but for the moment, at least, it looks like Julian Nagelsmanns men are beginning another ascent. Hoffenheim had lost three in a row prior to 3-1, 4-0, 4-1, and 2-1 wins over Nurnberg, Stuttgart, Leverkusen and Augsburg in the league respectively, and its been English youngster ReissNelson and BrazilianJoelinton that have proven key to their form. With Tuesdays UEFA Champions League clash with Shakhtar Donetsk looming, Nagelsmann may use Nelson from the start in an effort to manage his resources. Between them, the pair has scored four of Hoffenheims last six goals 10 of Hoffenheims 24 goals overall and now last seasons third-place finishers are just one point short of the top four.
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Hoffenheim vs Hertha Berlin H2H Last Matches
Oliver Baumann is a German goalkeeper who was born on 2 June, 1990 in Breisach. After making 131 appearances for the first team, he signed a four-year deal with Hoffenheim on 14 May, 2014. He started playing for Freiburg II at senior level and he made 22 appearances for the team in the 2009/2010 season. The 187-cm-tall shoot-stopper began his youth career at FC Bad Krozingen and in 2002 he joined Freiburg youth school.
That said, the hosts arent infallible at the back, while Hertha, even in defeat, have often found the net on their travels. In summary, Hoffenheim have offered lots going forward both in recent times and at home overall this season, while Hertha have given lots away on the road. On this basis, a small bet on Hoffenheim to Win & Both Teams to Score is merited.
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Troy Hunter's Ideal City
Troy Hunter is running for City Council, and this is his answer:
My ideal city looks like this…
Figure 1: Potential Aerial Tramway connecting Queensborough to Uptown and Downtown
As a candidate for City Council with New Westminster, I am going to keep my ideas focused on #NewWest and in doing so, I will be drawing upon my historical roots and places I have lived and visited. My answer to housing will be at the bottom of the page.
I am influenced a bit by what I saw there an around the world. In particular, I am in awe with the heritage conservation that has gone into the Old Quebec City. It's a walled city that has more than 400 years of history; I wish we had that kind of heritage, we don't but we have tremendous history and opportunities. I will write a few brief points about what I saw and how I think those could be transformed into what New Westminster is.
Old Quebec City has five million visitors each year and two-thirds of them are in the summertime. The other one-third of visitors are there for winter including the activities that go with the cold season.
New Westminster has tremendous tourism potential and I want us to be the next Granville Island or Steveston.
Figure 2: New Westminster is going to be the next Granville Island, the next Steveston.
With proper access, our waterfront on Queensborough should have paved bike paths, we could have our own biking like on the Rhine River in Germany.
Figure 3: Beautiful arched bridge to Heidelberg Germany with boat passing under.
There are cruise ship terminals bringing shiploads of eager tourists to purchase goods from the local artisans and to partake in fine dining, foody-ism, stay at the hotels, Bed and Breakfast (B&Bs), etc.
New Westminster has much to offer with its own port on the Fraser River,
We can develop a regional tourism strategy that involves the riverfront including kayaking, canoeing, water taxis and tour boats.
Figure 4: River tourism in Bangkok, Thailand.
There is a funicular which is like a diagonal elevator that helps people get up or down the hill where Quebec City is situated. Likewise, Hong Kong has an outdoor escalator.
We could have our very own attraction and solution to transportation to Queensborough. We do have an elevator at riverside to Columbia Street. How can we bring people uptown and vice versa to downtown?
Figure 5: The Funicular at Old Quebec City.
Quebec City has the Videotron Centre which is a $50 million dollar building that houses 18,000 people and works for everything from NHL hockey games to major concerts.
What we could use is a major events centre that could double as a sound stage for movie productions when not being used as a major events centre. If only we had the space…
We need to reinvigorate Massey Theatre as it is a gem in the rough, with a makeover, new beautiful cladding and improved inside, we can turn it into a draw attracting tourists and locals alike to ongoing and programmed events. I would love to see some Aboriginal theatre in there as well.
Figure 6: Aboriginal Tourism facility in Seattle, Washington.
There is a sense of pride in the people that live there at Quebec, the Fur Traders especially the Courer des Bois (Runners of the Woods), Les Filles Des Rois (the so-called King's Daughters), the Carignans Saliere Regiment (the Soldiers), the colonists, the French and the Irish immigrants that started New France and of course, the local Indigenous people, the Iroquois (all of the above my ancestors).
We have the Sappertons, the first Capital City, the gold rush, the first hospital in BC and much more.
In addition, I have resided in Bangkok and Jakarta, and what I saw in those Mega-Cities will also be described and how we can learn from them and incorporate such ideas into our lovely City of New Westminster. I've toured a few places across the Pacific Ocean to Fiji, New Zealand, Vanuatu, India, China, the Great Wall and Hong Kong, Thailand, Myanmar, Hawaii, and also been to Europe including Amsterdam, Bonn, Cologne, Brussels, and of course, Paris. I've been to Ixtapa Mexico, the American Southwest, New York City and other parts of America, Arizona, North and South Dakota, Idaho, Washington, New York City, Montana, Reno and Las Vegas. In all of my travels, I have seen things which also shape my ideas about My Ideal City, my birthplace: New Westminster.
The Rhine River in Germany has a whole industry of ships that bring goods and people up and down the waterway. The ships are specially designed for passing under the many bridges that cross the river.
The Seine River in Paris, France is also another example of we could do with our Royal City.
Figure 7: River Seine at Paris, France with tour boat under low bridge.
In Asia, there are markets that spring up overnight and disappear during the day for vehicle traffic, such as a night market in Bangkok. There are also many malls and even outdoor places where small food stalls (warungs) are busy cooking up and serving a variety of foods from many different places such as Jakarta and elsewhere.
New Westminster can have its own night market with food stalls, little pop-up stores selling wares, etc.
Figure 8: Street food stall in Bangkok.
Figure 9: A very small warung in Victoria, BC offering take away indonesian food.
On my visit to India, I was so fortunate to have gone up to Darjeeling. I travelled from Kolkata by train and then jeep up the twisting mountain road past tea plantations to about 3,000 metres above sea level where I had the chance to even see Mount Everest. On my way back down, I was so ever fortunate that the small group I was with (two other Bangkok law firm interns) to obtain tickets for the "Toy Train" which is an UNESCO heritage site. The little train uses small gauge railway tracks and is a very nice experience indeed.
The key to development is infrastructure, I will also describe what I believe we should be doing to fix our infrastructure to make New Westminster the ideal city I envision.
Lastly, I grew up in a small town in the East Kootenay's: Cranbrook BC. It is close to historic Fort Steele, the St. Eugene Mission and St. Mary's Indian Reserve (now known as A'qam First Nation) and also the Bavarian City of the Rockies: Kimberly BC. With an abundance of outdoor activities in both summer and winter, I learned a lot about things like skiing, hunting, fishing, and even tourism.
I obtained a Two-Year University Diploma from the University of Victoria, Faculty in Fine Arts where I studied Cultural Resource Management. I have the Diploma in Cultural Conservation. After graduating with my CRM education, I developed and opened the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Interpretive Centre at the historic St. Eugene Mission which was an Indian Industrial School (Residential School) until it closed in 1970
Transportation Infrastructure Vision for the Future
I would much rather see a new 6-lane Sapperton Bar Crossing, with rehabilitated Pattullo Bridge for pedestrians and cyclists only, keeping trucks/commuters on the freeway and out of New Westminster.
An alternative is to build a tunnel so that traffic accessing the Pattullo is bypassing downtown, uptown and Sapperton.
I like the idea of a commuter aerial tramway or even a trolley like Toronto style, connecting pedestrians and cyclists to Queensborough and Uptown and Downtown New Westminster. We can have low bridges and need to insist the tug boats go the way Germany did with lower squatting boats.
A Vision for a new city, a Vision for New Westminster
If we dissect our municipal commercial and even residential zoning into categories such as for example, Waterfront, Victorian Era, Fifties Town Square at the Hospital District, Neo Modern, and Post Modern, etc. then we can have a strategy to rebuild according to those types. By doing this, it allows for the accommodation, the means to have both old and new in a mixed fashion but in a controlled way so as to make sense out of it all. This type of thing has been done already, take for instance the many Chinatown's across the globe.
A Fifties Town Square could be made as a faux "memory town" and situated near facilities where the Elders live, in particular, those that are dealing with dementia. This is actually a trend beginning here in North America.
Figure 10: A play showcasing the Fifties.
I want us to build more stone pathways like the one at top of the stairs at the New Westminster courthouse, a place called Queens Court, it is reminiscent of old Europe.
Figure 11: New Westminster Courthouse with Begbie Statue, fountain and stairs (by Queen's Court building).
In regards to tourism and activities for youth and children, we can connect zip lines that enhance activities in places such as Glenbrook Ravine Park or elsewhere in a suitable location.
Figure 12: Ziplining.
Figure 13: Mount Baker with Burnaby in foreground.
I want to see community gardens extended to private property where homeowners are paired with approved gardeners, and rainwater is harvested to irrigate such gardens. City Hall can provide tax incentives and our local "farmers markets" could greatly benefit.
Figure 14: Troy Hunter inspecting native plants in Richmond on Lulu Island.
Figure 15: New Westminster streetscape of row townhouses with Poplar Island in background.
We need to:
Address reconciliation with QayQayt First Nation and offer concrete solutions including Poplar Island;
be able to reduce commuter traffic through our city;
provide affordable rent to all people;
ensure that property owners see the equity in their homes is protected and growing;
offer a range of solutions from more mixed-use zoning such as light industrial with residential, consider micro-housing solutions where people can buy into new models for instance shared kitchens but independent suites of 300 square footage or so;
create community co-op housing and if possible re-invigorate the "worker bee" concept similar to habitat for humanity; find the ways and means to drastically reduce the cost of building homes while maintaining appropriate and adequate housing solutions that fit the character of New Westminster and enhance our city including more amenities, art spaces, artisan studios, etc.;
live and work in the community and decrease the commute elsewhere;
build malls with their own parking lots and hi-rise condo's above;
have public access to a high rise rooftop for dining and lookout over the Fraser River;
maintain and enhance Queen's Park Heritage Conservation Area and include a heritage wall so people know where it is and yet attractive and appropriate;
make it possible for a tourism operator to provide horse and buggy tours in select areas, operating out of Queen's Park;
connect Queensborough to the rest of New Westminster;
build great bike paths at Queensborough and make it accessible for all;
protect our health and environment and make sure asbestos, rodents, and insects are dealt with properly for public health and safety.
Figure 16: The walled city of Old Quebec.
Posted in: 2018 Municipal Elections | Tagged: troy hunter
Nadine Nakagawa's Ideal City


This week we're looking at 3 ways to style this gorgeous White Stuff jumpsuit.
At 100% viscose, it's about as far away from my goal of transforming to a natural fabrics wardrobe as you can get, however I just couldn't resist! I think it's because of that stunning print, and how lightweight and airy it feels, perfect for Summer.
As I've mentioned before, I'm not really one for baring a lot of skin, but I still need to keep cool, and this jumpsuit ticks those boxes for me.
Today we're looking at a more casual way to wear this jumpsuit, or how to 'dress it down' if you will. See, at first, I'd almost convinced myself that I wouldn't wear it as it's quite a fancy piece, but as Monday's post confirmed, I'm absolutely loving it with simple black Birkenstocks.
So, how else to dress it down and make it feel more of an everyday piece? Why, add converse and a denim jacket of course! I love how the simple styling move of adding a basic jacket has totally transformed the look of this jumpsuit.
I'd wear this look day to day, running errands and even taking the dog for a quick walk. Perhaps not so much right now as I'm pretty sure I'd get a bit of a sweat on in that jacket in this heat. But even still, it's perfect for the evenings once the temperature has cooled off a little. And by adding converse rather than sandals, it takes it right back to totally casual and comfortable. Plus, I like how the white converse pick up the white highlights in the print, a nice little extra there!
Next > Style Series | Jumpsuit part 3 + bonus outfit!


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Casey Brewing & Blending
Brewing & Distilling Food & Beverage Colorado
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Founder Troy Casey is getting national buzz for his small-batch beers with Colorado-grown fruit and and an experimental bent.
While studying chemistry at University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Casey landed a job at Bristol Brewing Company "paying $8 an hour in beer," he remembers.
He soon was making real money at a bigger brewery. "When I was 20, I was a tour guide at Coors," says Casey. He got to know the brewers and found he could apply chemistry to brewing, and decided to make it his career after his 2006 graduation.
He continued his education for two years at University of California, Davis, and immediately went to work for the MillerCoors pilot brewery that became AC Golden Brewing Company upon graduating in 2008.
His job description consisted of "testing new malt varieties and hop varieties for core brands like Coors Light" and open-ended experimentation. "It was great," says Casey. "They basically let us do whatever we wanted. That work quickly transitioned into sour beers. That's where my passion lies."
After four years at AC Golden, Casey was ready for a change. "Around 2012 or so, I started seeing the writing on the wall that there wasn't much growth potential for what I wanted to do there," he says. "As with most big companies, it was very political. I wasn't political. I just wanted to make good beer."
His wife had a career opportunity opening the Whole Foods in Basalt and Casey, a Littleton native, decided to open a unique brewery in the Roaring Fork Valley. "We fell in love with this valley and decided to make a go of it here," says Casey.
At Casey Brewing & Blending, he brews at a partner brewery and subsequently transfers and ferments the wort in vintage oak barrels at his facility on the south side of Glenwood Springs. He uses cultures of saccharomyces, brettanomyces, and lactobacillus to create unique flavors, augmented by blending multiple barrels and conditioning the final product in bottles
"We are one of the few breweries that do 100 percent oak-barrel fermentation and aging," says Casey. "That's a big point of differentiation. Most people do this on the side."
A strain of tradition runs through everything Casey Brewing & Blending does. "We're very old world," says Casey. "We don't have a forklift. We don't have a loading dock. We don't have glycol."
Casey uses a lot of seasonal fruit grown in Palisade and the North Fork Valley, and buys cherries, peaches, plums, grapes, and cherries straight from the source. "We work directly with small farmers," he says. "More than half of our production has all Colorado ingredients, including whole Colorado fruit."
A farmhouse ale that's emerged as a staple for the small-batch brewery, Cherry Fruit Stand uses sweet and sour cherries grown in Paonia and Hotchkiss. "We think about cherries the same way wineries look at grapes," says Casey.
After aging, most beers are bottle-conditioned for a month or more. "We don't rush anything," says Casey. "Every batch is different," he adds. "It's like wine."
It's also like a winery in that the place is full of oak barrels. Casey has 200 now, up from 60 when he started.
A 22-ounce bottle typically retails for $18 to $40 or more, but the brewery's growth curve shows that there's an appetite for such ultra-premium beers. "Every month is better and better," says Casey.
The reaction has exceeded Casey's expectations. One especially proud moment when Glenwood Springs barbecue restaurant Smoke replaced its Guinness tap handle with one of Casey's sour beers.
He initially offered monthly tours, but the crowds overwhelmed capacity and staff: which was just Casey. "It just got to the point where it was unsustainable," he says. "Parking became an issue and our neighbors started to complain."
So he switched to a more regular schedule of ticketed tours that include three tastings and started selling out several every week. "We offer a lot of vintage beers here you can't get anywhere else," he says.
The company self-distributes in the Roaring Fork Valley as well as select accounts in Summit and Eagle counties and on the Front Range. Regardless of demand, the long-term plan doesn't involve growing beyond the Colorado market. "We're happy where we are," says Casey. "We have the time to work with small, local producers. We're able to spend more time with each beer."
Favorite beers: In-house, Casey likes Funky Blender, a saison with the brewery's farmhouse culture plus a mix of other yeast and bacteria. "We're getting some flavors from it I'm really excited about," he says.
Beyond his own barrels, he adds, "Comrade Brewing is my go-to whenever I'm in Denver. Their IPAs are top-notch."
Challenges: "Being so far from the Front Range," says Casey. Many of the tours are full of metro Denver residents, so bad weather can result in cancellations and diminished direct sales.
Opportunities: "We're happy with what we are doing right now, but we're always trying to improve on it," says Casey. "We're always trying to make our beers better."
Needs: Locally grown fruit. "Raspberries are hard to find in Colorado," says Casey, noting the brewery recently found a grower. "They planted 1,000 raspberries for us," he says. "We paid them up front. That shows our commitment to local farmers. We told the farmer, 'We're in this with you. There are rewards for both of us.'"
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Q: How do you debug ASP.NET applications under IIS7 on Vista? There is a post on IIS.net titled "Using Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0", but I don't quite believe that's what people do. (Among other gems, it suggests publishing your web app after every change.)
If you debug your ASP.NET applications in IIS7 instead of Cassini, I would love to hear your methods, tips, and tricks.
Edit: I'm referring specifically to local debugging.

A: I believe I pointed you toward that guide, but as I look closer at it I think that's a little more elaborate than what I do. I have done the following:

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*Create a web site in IIS for your project.

*Add a custom host header to that site, for example http://mysite:*/ or http://mysite:80/

*Open the hosts file located at C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc in notepad (Run As Admin if you're on Vista) and add the following line:
mysite        127.0.0.1

If you have more than one host header on your website in IIS, you need to have each one represented in the hosts file.
Now, when you press F5 in Visual Studio, the site will open with the url http://mysite and you'll be able to debug, set breakpoints etc as usual, except with no Cassini related problems... ;)
Edit: For clarification, I just want to point out that I have never had to attach any process to VS, as far as I know. At the very least I do not have to do it every time.

A: I simply attach Visual Studio to the IIS worker process, if you have multiple app pools then you can run "issapp" to get the appropriate PID.
I never debug by clicking "Start Debugging".
This has a nice advantage of working on remote servers as well, if you have installed msvcmon.

A: Well, setting up IIS 7 for debugging isn't terribly tricky, but what I prefer to do to save time (and if I'm uninterested in debugging from a cold start) is to launch the Web Application/Web Site in a web browser first - let ASP.net precompile etc.
Then I'll attach to the IIS process using Visual Studio.  Once attached I can go about setting breakpoints and debugging, I find this is a faster way to get going.

A: I launch Visual Studio as an Administrator, then Debug > Attach to Process > w3wp.exe.

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First released in 2017, Goldy Bingo is a new iGaming site under the watchful eyes of the Live Bingo Network. What this means, for those of you inexperienced with such terms, is that it's part of a larger community of sites from the same network/owners. Even in spite of this though, this bingo site isn't a site that blends in with all the others, but is in fact a website that can stand on its own two legs. However, that isn't to say that you won't see similarities with the other Cozy Games domains we've reviewed. Now that we've given you a brief overview of its launch, we can move onto exploring the rest of this gold and purple interface.
Seeing as how we're gamers who love a good bargain or two, it makes sense that such a young games site should offer a range of promotions. Goldy Bingo provides both introductory offers, as well as other deals designed for existing customers, ensuring that both walks of players are looked after.
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Once you've completed this circuit of welcome offers, you can take advantage of the Midweek Treat every Wednesday, as well as the £3,000 Payday Jackpot. Most of the side deals, except from the additional welcome offer that lasts for seven days, is open to everyone. What is more, you'll finding that as you progress through the deals, a lot of them are designed to be used with specific games, like the Penny Bingo at 75 Ball.
While all of the above are good promotions to have open to members, we're sad to see that there's no VIP scheme on offer at this time, nor does it seem as if there ever will be. After all, a lot of users like to work for extra privileges, which unfortunately they'll be unable to do here.
Seeing as how Goldy Bingo's speciality is bingo, it makes sense that we look at those games first, even though there's other options available. These bingo activities are spread across several rooms, with each offering a specific format of the game; there's the Hump Day Room that plays 90 Ball, while City Hall has a 30 Ball offering instead. There's even the Newbie Room of 90 Ball games, which is there only for those of you who are classed as newcomers.
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Q: Connected sum of topological manifolds A definition of the connected sum of two $n$-manifolds $M$ and $M'$  begins by considering two $n$-balls $B$ in $M$, $B'$ in $M'$, and glueing the varieties $M\setminus \mathring B$ and $M'\setminus \mathring B'$ along their boundary (an $(n-1)$-sphere) by an orientation-reversing homeomorphism.  The construction depends a priori on these various choices, but it is asserted at many places of the litterature (Lee's book on topological manifolds for example, as well as Wikipedia)
 that the result does not depend on these choices.
In the differentiable case, a reference is given to a theorem of Palais (Natural operations on differential forms, Thm. 5.5) which asserts — roughly — that two embedding of $n$-balls differ by a global diffeomorphism which is isotopic to identity.
Are the details of this independence written somewhere in the litterature,
both in the continuous and the smooth case?

A: In the topological category the proof that connected sum is well-defined depends on the Annulus Theorem, first proved by Kirby; the necessity of the Annulus Theorem is seen from Bruno Martelli's answer. So you are not likely to find a proof before Kirby's paper. Perhaps someone jotted a proof down, maybe someone who thought about the Annulus Theorem when it was still a conjecture, and realized that well-definedness of connected sum was a good application. But, I do not know.
Anyway, the proof is straightforward once you have the Annulus Theorem. Here's a sketch.
There's a couple of missing hypotheses. One must assume $M,M'$ are connected. One must also assume $M,M'$ are oriented. And one must assume the balls $B,B'$ are "nicely embedded"; at the minimum, assume that the boundary spheres $S,S'$ are locally bicollared, which implies globally bicollared by Brown's theorem. This rules out nastiness like an Alexander horned ball.
Now one shows that the connected sum is independent of the choice of gluing map $S \to S'$ (assumed to reverse orientation). This follows from the fact that any two homeomorphisms $S \to S'$ which agree on orientations are isotopic: once that is known, one absorbs the isotopy into the collar neighborhoods. Proving this fact may already require the Annulus Theorem.
For the rest, it suffices to prove that for any two nicely embedded balls $B_1,B_2 \subset M$ there exists an orientation preserving homemeorphism of $M$ taking $B_1$ to $B_2$, in fact an ambient isotopy. Using the boundary bicollaring, we may assume $B_1,B_2$ are contained respectively in open balls $U_1,U_2$, which are centered on points $p_1,p_2$ in some coordinate chart. We can also assume that $p_1=p_2$, because there is an ambient isotopy of $M$ taking $p_1$ to $p_2$: connect $p_1$ to $p_2$ by a path, cover the path by finitely many charts, and concatenate a sequence of ambient isotopies supported in these finitely many charts, moving $p_1$ along the path step by step to $p_2$. We can also replace $B_1$ by an arbitrarily small subball in $U_1$ centered at $p_1$, and similarly for $B_2$; this is straightforward to check using an ambient isotopy supported in the coordinate charts for $U_1$ and $U_2$. In particular, we can assume $B_1$ is contained in the interior of $B_2$.
Now apply the annulus theorem: the difference $B_2 \setminus B_1$ is homeomorphic to a sphere crossed with an interval. Using this, one can then ambiently isotope $B_2$ to $B_1$.

A: In the smooth setting, I would suggest you to read the paper of Kervaire and Milnor on homotopy spheres.
The paper explains clearly that connected sum must be defined with some care in higher dimensions: if you choose any orientation-reversing diffeomorphism of the two $(n-1)$-spheres, then the resulting smooth manifold is not determined (low-dimensional topologists don't care about that, because problems arise only when $n\geq 7$).
In fact, every exotic sphere is obtained by gluing two $n$-discs via some diffeomorphism of their boundaries, and this would imply that every exotic sphere is the connected sum of two $n$-spheres! Indeed, to define unambiguously the connected sum you need to choose a particular isotopy class of diffeomorphisms of the two boundary $(n-1)$-spheres, and luckily this can be done by taking one that extends to the two removed discs. This is clearly explained in the paper of Milnor and Kervaire.
With that requirement, connected sum is well-defined and produces a unique result (up to diffeomorphism). The independence of the result is obtained using a theorem of Palais and Cerf that states that two smooth embeddings of the $n$-disc in a connected $n$-manifold are always related by a diffeomorphism of the manifold.

A: The previous version of this post was incorrect.
EDIT:
I just taught a related fact in my undergraduate topology class (in the topological category), and in fact I usually give a version of this as a homework exercise (with hints).
The idea is to define connected sum along the coordinate balls, i.e. the balls that are mapped via a fixed coordinate chart to standard balls in $\mathbb R^n$. For such balls the argument is easy, and no annulus theorem is needed because any two metric balls in $\mathbb R^n$ are ambiently isotopic by an isotopy that equals the identity outside a compact subset  (this can be done with bare hands). Since the homeomorphism group of manifold acts transitively on the manifold (nice exercise), any two points can be brought into the same chart. This provides some clue (not a complete proof) why the connected sum operation is independent of the choices involved.


ASPEN, Colo. — It's hard to imagine having to endure a more exacting executive search committee than the triad of corporate chieftains atop Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway.
But Dr. Atul Gawande's selection last week by Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett to run a venture with the extraordinary yet seemingly futile goal of disrupting the health care industry didn't stem from any longstanding relationship he had with any of them. Its genesis was an article he wrote for the New Yorker nine years ago.
"That opened the door," Gawande told STAT, providing the first explanation of how his selection came about.
Gawande, 52, the celebrated surgeon, author, and journalist, said the closest he had come to knowing Amazon's Bezos was a fleeting hello at a TED Talk. "But I had really never met Jeff Bezos. And I didn't know Jamie Dimon in the least." He did catch the eye of Berkshire Hathaway's Buffett years ago, or, rather, Buffett's longtime right-hand man, Charlie Munger, also a businessman and entrepreneur.
The piece examined why health care was vastly more expensive in some parts of the U.S. than others, despite little difference in the quality of health care and the sickness of people getting it. The piece was reported from McAllen, Texas, then the most expensive health care market in the country.
"Charlie Munger I've known since he told me he loved, he liked, the article I wrote," Gawande said. He then recalled the story, well-publicized at the time, of how Munger thought the article was so socially important that he blindly mailed Gawande a $20,000 check.
Gawande told STAT that he was first approached for his advice in January. He said he did not know when the dialogue evolved from his offering his thoughts to being a prospect for the job.
Gawande has offered scant details about the yet-to-be-named organization (he jokingly referred to it as AJB after its corporate owners), though he said it is meant to come up with ways to reduce health care costs for the companies' employees, as well solutions that could be applied across the entire country.
He said the intermediary who first contacted him was Todd Combs, an investment manager at Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha who was the emissary who quietly put the three billionaires together in the first place. Combs was said to have so impressed Dimon that he was named to the board of JPMorgan Chase.
But he is not giving up his positions at Harvard or Brigham and Women's or his work as a surgeon, and plans to continue writing. He said he will transition from being executive director to chairman of Ariadne Labs in Boston, which works on solving problems in health systems around the world.
"I still have my patients and surgery booked through the summer and have my work," he said.
If it were possible for Gawande to be even more of a celebrity in the worlds of health and medicine, the announcement last week has inevitably made him more in demand. He was crowded by well-wishers at appearances here Saturday and Sunday, with some thrusting his books at him for autographs.
Several leaders in health and medicine said in interviews here that while Gawande's mission is daunting, they thought he was a prudent choice.
Ballou said that the billionaires who will be Gawande's new bosses reminded him of when he worked for Bill Gates. "People who have achieved the kind of success these people have achieved — it's not by accident," he said. "I would expect them not to leave him to his own devices. I wouldn't be surprised if those three bosses become very well-educated" in health care and put forward their own ideas.
"I was very encouraged to hear that all three of his bosses said, 'You have time — you don't have to figure it out by next year,'" Ballou added.
Indeed, during a panel here Saturday, when he was questioned by PBS journalist Judy Woodruff, Gawande took care not to overpromise — and repeatedly noted that he hadn't started yet. He said he understood the daunting challenge of taking on health care intermediaries such as insurers and pharmacy benefit managers.
Gawande emphasized the nonprofit nature of the organization and made clear that he does not see himself under the thumb of Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, or Berkshire Hathaway bureaucracies — something people who know him said was important to establish before he accepted the job.
Asked about the range of employees at the companies, Gawande said, "This is ordinary America. They are across the entire country. So I get to have and have to worry about and learn about the life and needs of — what's the largest employment group at Amazon? Fulfillment center workers, most of them people who probably are only there a year or so.
Sounding much like a politician, Gawande told people here that he intends to embark on a "listening tour." His first decision: coming up with a name that's less of a mouthful than the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan health venture.
I have enjoyed reading all of your enlightening posts, thank you. Having worked in a variety of health care specialties as a nurse for over 37 years I have witnessed clients being discharged much less prepared to care for themselves and family members. When I first became a nurse in 1981 patients were kept in the hospital because the health care team decided they were not "quite ready" to be discharged. Now discharge is dictated by the insurance company with minimal medical input. Although discharge planning should start the day of admission it typically begins the day of discharge. Upon learning that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan were collaboratively hiring Dr. Atul Gawande to "dive deep" into how we can improve the health care system. The fact that the selection was a physician is so refreshing. There is currently a disconnect between patient care and the health care team. I foresee this team (yet to be named, but Centsible Health Reform (CHR) is my recommendation) initially performing a gap analysis to determine where the effort needs to be placed to create the greatest positive impact in health care. Is the solution having an interpreter at every physician/patient intervention for both language and health literacy? Should all health care providers be fluent in a second language? Do we need to focus on our elderly population and make sure they are each assigned a patient advocate that is readily assessible during all transitions of care; during their hospital stay, after discharge and attend all MD visits with them and assure they fully understand and can implement the HCP's plan of care at home? I applaud Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet and Jamie Dimon for hiring a Medical Captain that now has the difficult task of assembling the crew and then determining where to direct the initial sail. It will be very fascinating to observe how this initiative progresses.
CNBC reports that Amazon plans to launch and run primary care clinics of its own for its own employees.
One has to wait for confirmation.
First, this is not primary care. Primary care is unconflicted and relational advocacy for one's patients. Being an employee of the patient's employer presents an inherent conflict of interest. This relates to both the interest of the patient and to his privacy.
Second, owning such a clinic would be using the clinic as a de facto profit center.
The concept of primary care has declined in this country as hospitals and HMOs and corporations have bought up physician practices. Physicians are thus meant to serve the interests of the hospitals and provide in hospital referrals.
I guess you people really don't get it. Bezos has had a problem lately with injured warehouse workers. Just like every other employer in America, and all of the major minimum wage employers, this cuts into profits. Amazon has used the same tactic employed access America, postpone, deny delay, for their injured workers.
Many states have Medicaid but they also have higher taxes, so Amazon wold never locate there. If injured workers "luck out" and get Medicaid eventually, the tax payers can pay for the injuries later on. Since a percentage of these unemployed, injured workers, have musculo skeletal injuries, they had to create a counter narrative. They redefined these injured workers as either "Mentally Ill" or Drug Addicted. The so called opiate epidemic has been a great cover to avoid paying for injured workers. They transferred the costs to all of us. This is the business model. They get the profit and the taxpayers subsidize it all. At the same time they demonize the sick, the low income and the economically disadvantaged.
Bezos doesn't want to invest any money in making his shipping facilities safer, the employees are disposable and deniable. There is a "Wellness Coach" or well paid Psychologist available to tell them that.
Mavis Johnson raises excellent points.
Warren Buffett came out during a recent PBS interview on the News Hour for single payer insurance. So, we do not know what to expect from this new entity.
Dr. Gawande has done some excellent work within hospitals. He has also written eloquently about the doctor patient relationship. He has not written much on health policy. It is not at all clear what he hopes to accomplish working with his new employers and task.
Hopefully, it will not be a form of patrimonial benevolence or capitalism.
Some writings of Dr. Gawande demonstrated poor understanding of what ails medicine globally in this country. He is a highly successful and respected doctor at an elite hospital. He has not seen how the real world of medicine works.
It is possible that JP Morgan, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway want to divest themselves of health care delivery and may even support what Americans like to call single payer.
Certainly, Dr. Gawande's performance may make or break his reputation.
When naming a business it is crucial that it describes its focus, thus I have created the perfect name. I am also interested in when the recruitment team will be created.
Rick; Do you happen to know if Dr. Guwande will be using a recruitment firm to begin to assemble his team? Is there any way to find out?


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Sex scandal: Babcock University expels students over viral video
By OgeneAfrican NG 20th November 2019
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OYO, Nigeria – Babcock University says it has expelled a young man and a lady having sex in a video that has since gone viral.
The school, however, maintained that the act did not take place on its premises.
Babcock University, in a statement by its Director of Communication and Marketing, Joshua Suleiman, said that the video was recorded in April 2019 when the young man, who had earlier been expelled in February, was undergoing rehabilitation at a health facility.
The varsity revealed that the lady in the video was a 300-Level student of accounting at the time the video was recorded but had been expelled since the video leaked in April.
"The boy in the video was expelled from Babcock University in February this year after investigation and the due process proved that he was into certain grievous misconducts, the acts for which the university has zero-tolerance.
"His girlfriend in the same video, until the video broke out, was third-year student of accounting of this university. After due process, she was expelled from the university for violation of our rules and regulations.
"The place where the immoral act took place, according to her written statement, was at St Bridget Hospital, Abeokuta, Ogun State, where the boy has been undergoing rehabilitation for different destructive addictions. According to the girl, the incident took place in April this year during school vacation when she visited the boy at the hospital. The act did not take place at Babcock University."
OgeneAfrican reports that the video, which surfaced on the social media recently, has gone viral, generating series of reactions. Read it here.
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Zimbabwean Theatre after Lockdown: What's the Way Forward?
by Takudzwa Chihambakwe
in Features
The coronavirus pandemic has completely reconfigured society's world over. Health experts say the new normal, in most countries, which sees many cuddling with masks and observing social distancing will not end soon. They predict that in some areas it will run into 2021.
Therefore, all none essential public gatherings will still be kept on ice till a time when a vaccine has been discovered. With this reality dawning on the creative sector, development of new ways of creating content without having to meet physically becomes critical.
For musicians this will not be a difficult terrain to manoeuvre as many collaborations have been staged over the years with artists sending each other files over the internet and sweet music is created with those involved not having to meet at all.
However, for the theatre fraternity, a new methodology needs to be devised.
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With a crisis of dwindling audiences already looming in most theatres on the African continent, the pandemic makes things more difficult for thespians.
So what then could be the way forward?
The African Theatre Magazine caught up with one of the renowned voices in Zimbabwean theatre, the award-winning Raisedon Baya who gives us a few nuggets of wisdom as to what the future may look like in the midst of the pandemic.
"I think it will not be easy," bluntly states Baya as he speaks to us on the matter.
"Theatre by its nature is a live performance and works better with a live audience. It is meant to bring people together and share experiences. However, coming together is what is being discouraged at the moment. So the first response for many theatre practitioners will be to go digital. Record their work either as videos or audios and try to keep their audiences entertained while waiting for the lockdown rules to be relaxed," he shares.
Going digital is something that was attempted earlier this month when the inaugural edition of the Stephen Chifunyise International Theatre Festival was staged.
The views were fairly low and there was no generation of income.
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Like Baya narrates, the magic of theatre is in its live format, something that is not carried in the pre-recorded productions.
When watching the work that was published during that festival it feels like there is a missing element. The intangible feeling that can only be experienced when one is live at the theatre and the cast and technical are serenading you on the go.
Baya continues, "This will be hard for most Zimbabwean theatres. First, it will be hard to pull resources together to record their work. Secondly, it will be hard to monitise these. Putting works on the internet or recording them does not necessarily mean getting paid. They have to find ways to make sure they get paid at the end of the day."
Images from the Stephen J Chifunyise International Online Theatre Festival in March this year
In Britain players in the theatre fraternity who have also been affected by the lockdowns have come up with various ways to keep people entertained and also try to make a few cents in the process.
They have developed platforms like the Coronavirus Theatre Club. But, as is the case with Zimbabwe, technology tends to let them down once in a while and they are considering going for pre-recorded shows as opposed to live ones.
Baya who has been in the game for over two decades indicates that the pandemic will cause many to rethink their approach to the business of theatre. Something that was long overdue in the Southern African Country.
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"The truth is the game has changed. Theatre makers have to change their way of doing business. If audiences are allowed, I see them being allowed in small numbers too. That means thespians have to think about making money. I think now the best opportunity is for those doing industrial theatre and developmental theatre. These can survive teaching communities about the new thinking and where the world is going," he revealed.
Like many other challenges, this one too shall pass. The masks will disappear but what then happens to the sector when social distancing is no longer a factor.
Baya says the cash stripped sector will only make it post Covid-19, by collaborating.
"Collaborations are certainly going to be central in uplifting the sector. I see collaborations between sectors. Theatre and film makers first. Theatre and radio stations. I see collaborations between individuals as companies will be unsustainable for some time.
"I see collaborations working as catalysts in bringing communities together. The virus encourages compartmentalism and divisions and it will be upon artists to encourage togetherness. So I see collaborations playing a big part there," noted the elder.
Many theatre artists have found ways to be creative to keep doing theatre or some form of it, but the real test will be when things fully open up.
Takudzwa Chihambakwe
Takudzwa Chihambakwe is a passionate arts journalist who has been tracking and documenting Zimbabwe's arts and culture events since 2013. In 2015 he started covering theatre stories and since then he has grown to be a critic and avid fan of the genre.
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