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effects they will have on our work as settlement agents and title insurers.
|Ticor Title is working closely with our corporate entities and technology teams to ensure our escrow production systems comply with the new rules; generate the Closing Disclosure and send/receive machine readable data to and from loan originators. We are committed to cover all aspects of the new requirements in the coming months.
In the meantime please visit the CFPB website by clicking here, to get familiar with the new forms. These new forms will replace the existing TILA Disclosure, Good Faith Estimate (GFE) and HUD-1 Settlement Statement on nearly every residential sale or refinance after August 1st , 2015.
|For further information on the new rules, forms and the impact they'll have on all settlement agents, please visit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's website by clicking here for detailed information.
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(MARFA, Texas) -- A 40-foot tall neon Playboy bunny erected just outside the high desert town of Marfa, Texas, has stirred controversy among West Texas residents, with some calling the sign a work of art and others declaring it an eyesore and a marketing ploy.
The Texas Department of Transportation has ordered that Playboy's roadside artwork, called "Playboy Marfa," be removed on the grounds that Playboy did not have a Texas license for outdoor advertising, never submitted a specific permit application for the sign, and that, furthermore, the location did not qualify for a permit, according to a statement the agency released to ABC News.
Marfa Mayor Dan Dunlap said it was not surprising that Playboy would try to promote its brand in a town long known as an art mecca, adding that perhaps Playboy's was trying to create a new image for itself. Playboy's website does refer to the company trying to "reimagine the iconic brand."
"The exploitation of Playboy to try to tag on to Marfa seems to irritate a lot of people," said Dunlap. "The Texas Department of Transportation is treading a thin line here. They decided it's advertising, versus artwork, therefore, it falls into the category of signage."
Playboy could not be reached for comment over the July 4 holiday weekend, but company representatives told the El Paso Times that Playboy had not violated any laws and would try to work with the Texas Department of Transportation to resolve its concerns. PR Consulting, which represents Playboy Enterprises, told the paper its legal counsel "was looking into the matter and hoped to resolve the issue satisfactorily and as quickly as possible."
"Playboy Marfa" doesn't stand alone in the pasture along Highway 90. Designed by New York artist Richard Phillips and Playboy's creative director of special projects Neville Wakefield, it is part of a roadside installation that also includes a 1972 Dodge Charger, another American icon.
Dunlap said he suspected Playboy would fight against removing the sign.
"This is not the first time something like this happened," Dunlap said. "Prada Marfa," erected in 2005 on the same stretch of highway as "Playboy Marfa," spoofed the luxury fashion house.
"Other artists come into town to set up shop. There is other artwork that's outside city limits that is not permitted either. Personally, I don't find the sign to be offensive."
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New Adult Fiction From JCPL is "The Real Thing!"
Butter vs. margarine; there used to be a commercial with a woman dressed as Mother Nature, who, when challenged about the benefits of margarine vs. butter, coined the phrase, "You can't fool Mother Nature!"
One evening, diet and nutrition were the topic for conversation, and as a couple of my friends sat at my kitchen table, they warned me against margarine, because "it's like eating plastic; your body doesn't recognize it as food!" What? My body is so used to Twinkies, margarine, Suzy Q's and other foods probably not classified as foods, that giving it something as nutritious as an apple sends it straight into panic mode, all systems at the ready to detox, detox, detox!
Because I read everything, you better believe I read labels, and no-where on the label of my special brand of margarine is there a warning that my body will not recognize it as anything but a friend. To my body, it's 'the real thing.' Another 'real thing' is this: There are some new adult fiction titles at your local branch of JCPL that you'll recognize as something that's really good for you, so read on!
Nina and Averil are sisters; Nina has given up the career in medicine that she's always dreamed of to be her younger sister's caretaker. Living on Blackberry Island with their mother, the two girls had to look out for each other because their mother lived a reckless life. When Averil marries, Nina begins to think that she can pursue her own dreams, but finds it difficult to leave Blackberry Island when her mother makes a discovery that changes everything for both she and her sister in "Evening Stars," book number three in the Blackberry Island series by Susan Mallery.
Felix Brewster is a charmer, and marries Bambi Gottschalk in 1959, providing a comfortable life for her and their three daughters until July of 1976 when Felix disappears without a trace. Bambi and the girls are left without an income, and out of desperation to find her missing husband, Bambi searches for the one woman who would probably know his whereabouts; his mistress, Julie. When Julie goes missing, however, it is presumed that she has met up with Felix, but when her remains are discovered in a secluded park, it is apparent that something much more sinister is going on. Twenty six years later, Julie's murder case is re-opened by Roberto Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases, and as he investigates, a web of deceit, bitterness and resentment unfolds, and at the center is the man who, decades earlier, disappeared without a trace in "After I'm Gone" by Laura Lippman.
China's Cultural Revolution led to imprisonment and torture for Benfu. When he escapes his imprisonment, he meets and falls in love with Calla Lily, and the pair builds a beautiful life together, taking in abandoned children along the way. As the wounds of his past begin to heal, Benfu is faced with more hardship, and must find a way to overcome it as he has so many times in the past in "The Scavenger's Daughters," book number one in the Tales of the Scavenger's Daughters series by Kay Bratt. The saga of Benfu and his family continues in book number two, "Tangled Vines," and book number three, "Bitter Winds," all by Kay Bratt.
After the death of his father, bomber and space warfare veteran, Patrick McLanahan is flying solo as he leads a team of engineers in the design of Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant. Starfire's capabilities go beyond supplying inexpensive electricity to planet Earth. Among Starfire's major attributes are the abilities to explore the solar system and transmit power to the moon, asteroids and spacecraft. U.S. President, Kenneth Phoenix, has other plans for Starfire, however, and those plans include militarizing the newly created solar power plant, which creates a terrifying arms race that may lead to global war in "Starfire" by Dale Brown.
It is said that "You are what you eat." I, however, prefer to think that "I am what I read," and what I read are great, new fiction titles that are 'the real thing,' with nutritional value through the roof, and very good for all who care to check them out!
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Dead Russian lawyer Magnitsky found guilty
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news agencies say a court in Moscow has found dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky guilty of tax evasion, concluding an unusual posthumous trial.
The court on Thursday also found Magnitsky's onetime client, the US-born British investor William Browder, guilty of evading some $17 million in taxes.
Magnitsky died in prison of untreated pancreatitis in 2009, months after alleging that organized criminals colluded with corrupt Interior Ministry officials to claim a $230 million tax rebate through illegally obtained subsidiaries of Browder's Hermitage Capital investment company.
His death prompted widespread criticism from human rights activists and the presidential human rights council found in 2011 that he had been beaten and deliberately denied medical treatment.
A U.S. law named for Magnitsky calls for sanctions on Russians identified as human rights violators.
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To lose weight and keep it off, a lifestyle change that uses healthy eating and increased activity levels is needed. For more information on healthy eating and activity, see the topics Healthy Eating and Fitness.
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You know that feeling when you arrive alone at a party where you don't really know anyone, and you sort of hang around in the kitchen for a while pretending to talk on your phone until you see someone who might be willing to talk to you? Yeah, me too.
Well just this once I'll try to be the guy who marches straight into the middle of the living room with a crate of beer and a bong, ejects the Goldfrapp CD that had been beiging up the ambience, and replaces it with Ace of Spades, turned up to 11.
So, hello Freethought Blogs! I'm Ally, the newest member of the FTB family, and it is very, very nice to be here.
In a day or two I will post my first proper blog, which will get into the meat and potatoes (not to mention meat and two veg) of my politics, particularly my gender politics. There will be plenty of opportunities to argue about all those kinds of things in the weeks, months and (hopefully) years to come. But it is a bank holiday weekend here in the UK, and it seems appropriate to begin with a bit of a housewarming party.
Being desperately ancient and chronically unhip, I have yet to get into the whole Ask FM wotchamagoogle. But I am told it is all the rage among borderline narcissists and troll-baiters (hello world, you called?) So in the spirit of the times, I open myself here to your questions and impertinent queries. I might edit a few answers into the post here, at least until it starts to get unwieldy.
I'll give you a few to get you started:
Ally? Isn't that a girl's name?
Don't you oppress me with your binary gender conformity. And no, I'm not a woman, I'm Scottish, (long settled in Manchester)
Why does your blog have such a ridiculous name?
It started as a photoshop joke and spiralled horribly out of control. But when you're a straight, white, middle-aged, middle-class man explaining gender issues to the world, it helps to be upfront about these things.
What do you call a man with four planks on his head?
I dunno, but Edward Woodward would.
(From Thil) What do you mean when you call yourself middle-class?
Here in Britland, class is something we are incredibly attuned to and it plays out with all sorts of intricate dynamics. I'm very much lower middle-class. Dad was a teacher, mum a home-maker. So I grew up in a family with more books on the shelves than quids in the bank. I went to a mediocre comprehensive school then a mediocre university. I've continued to live my life with more books on the shelves than quids in the bank. I live in a ramshackle house in a very poor inner-city area, and my own kids are growing up in the same kind of cash-poor, love-rich household that I did.
The labour I sell is my brain, not my brawn, and that is primarily what makes me think of myself as middle-class. But I have little or nothing in common with the upper-middle classes with their inheritances, trust funds, private schooling & health insurance and useful old-school tie connections. I've never been more than a paycheque away from destitution. So in comparison with most people in the national media in the UK, I'm pretty much a filthy pleb with a big ol' fuck off chip on my shoulder as a consequence.
(From Artor) Just curious- What's Ally short for? Are you an Aleister? Albert? Alicorn? Ally-ally-oxen-free?
I'm an Alistair. Or at least I am to my mum when I've been naughty.
(From oolon) do you have a comment policy?
Yes, see here. I have no hard and fast rules. There are no specific rules on what words or ideas are or are not acceptable, but that doesn't mean anything goes. As the great philosophers once said: "Be excellent to each other"
(from Kamaka) Are you an atheist?
Yes. It's something that feels so natural and obvious to me that it barely warrants mentioning. I tend not to write about it because I never really know what to say. It always strikes me as an odd thing to get passionate about. I'm a rationalist, but I've long resigned myself to accepting that people believe in weird and whacky things, like god existing or homeopathy working or Coldplay making interesting music. So long as they don't attempt to impose such weird beliefs on me, I see it as none of my business.
So I'm not a passionate atheist, but I am a passionate secularist and a passionate believer in human rights. When religious people claim dominion over women's wombs, little boys' foreskins, children's schooling or political decision-making, then I will fight them tooth and nail.
But it is not really the religion / rationalism thing that brings me to FTB. I'm here because I try to apply the same principles of free thinking – ie questioning everything, accepting nothing on faith, demanding evidence etc – to gender politics. Political dogma can be just as irrational and damaging as religious dogma, IMO.
(From Stubby) 1) Which Shameless character do you most resemble
Start of the weekend – James McAvoy's character (Steve?) in the first series. Although he's younger and obviously I'm much better looking. We have a similar Scottish/Manc hybrid accent. By the end of the weekend it's more like Frank.
(From Stubby) 2) Better insult: tosser or wanker?
Wanker is more for day-to-day usage, like the mild white cheddar, whereas tosser is more like a mature stilton, to be brought out and savoured as you roll it around your mouth for special occasions.
I hope you feel you know me a little better now. Thanks for all the comments and questions, keep them coming, but it's past bedtime on this side of the Atlantic. Oh look, there are still a few beers in the crate. Help yourself and let yourselves out. I'll be back to check on the debris in the morning.
Thanks everyone for your continuing comments and welcomes. I feel as if this blog is now well and truly warmed.
I've struck a compromise on the threaded / nested comments thing, trying to take on board people's problems (especially reading on phones) when the responses get narrower and narrower, but also other people's preference to be able to react to a comment immediately underneath. So I've set it so that it will only nest one comment deep. After that you'll have to begin again with a new comment, identifying who it is you are talking to manually. I'm sure you'll work it out.
If this is a compromise that pleases nobody but me, let me know and I'll switch it off altogether.
Just as a little note to let you know my plans, over the next few weeks I'll re-post a few highlights from my archive from my previous home as new blogs (with original publication dates etc made clear), as I hope these will be pieces you'd be interested in discussing all over again (or for the first time, for many of you). Then once I've done that, I'll transfer my full archive for you to peruse at your leisure.
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This beautifully packaged conceptual project is a very different move in a very different "found art" direction than the anti-copyright creations that Negativland is more known for, charting new territory for the group in many ways.
DEATHSENTENCES OF THE POLISHED AND STRUCTURALLY WEAK is a 6"x12", 64-page full-color owner's manual... which comes with a 45-minute CD soundtrack. Conceived over many months of "scrapping" at auto wrecking yards and poring over the artifacts found in cars, the visual side of this project is a poignant, voyeuristic, disturbing and occasionally funny glimpse into the lives of those behind the wheel.
The CD is a meticulously layered, ever-shifting electro-acoustic soundscape, created to accompany the pages of the book. No bass lines, no melody, no dialogue, no singing, no beat – perhaps it is the sound of Negativland's studio being destroyed in a car crash across 8 analog tracks.
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Today is the 100th birthday of Vincent Price! So I decided to draw 100 Vincents! On Sticky notes! (they're supposed to in chronological order but I had to cut them up to make them blog friendly. Check out the full set here!)
This piece showcases many of his greatest (and not so great) roles, performances, and appearances. It was a little tough trying to find 100 roles of his, so I had to really dig deep, but I still couldn't get exactly 100, so I had to resort to a few doubles and also a series of his different costumes from his personal horror favorite "Theater of Blood". I know a lot of these aren't really the best drawings but I feel that the whole piece together is what will look good.
The first Price movie I ever saw was "The Great Mouse Detective" (said to have been his favorite role) but of course being a little kid I didn't care who did the voice. I was in middle school when I saw "The Raven" on AMC when they used to play classic horror movies on Friday nights. My dad told me about him and I eventually recognized his voice and linked it to Ratigan. I was very amazed that such an actor who was mostly known for his horror roles would step out of that and do light and funny roles too…and succeed at it! Thats my favorite thing about Vincent, always mixing horror and comedy.
For the past week in his home town of Missouri, they've been having a festival in his honor called Vincentennial. I really wanted to go but there was no way, but it feels good to atleast do artwork in his honor.
Thank you for bringing us such great fright, laughs and all around joy from your films and warm, charismatic personality. Happy Birthday, Vincent. You're a great inspiration to me and it would have been a life long dream for me to meet you. But I hope that if there is an afterlife that I can meet you there. Goodbye so soon and rest in peace.
Friday, May 27, 2011
100 Years of Vincent Price
Today is the 100th birthday of Vincent Price! So I decided to draw 100 Vincents! On Sticky notes! (they're supposed to in chronological order but I had to cut them up to make them blog friendly. Check out the full set here!)
Posted by Zach Bellissimo at 7:31 PM 13 comments
Labels: tribute, vincent price, vincentennial
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Got us a Toitle!
My piece...or should I say SLICE for the Autumn Society's SHELL SHOCK pie...uh show! Its a tribute gallery to everything TMNT!
Rocksteady and Bebop were always my favorites, I thought it was a cool pairing, a rhino and a warthog as bumbling 80's thugs. Here they are seen with a brand new baby turtle. There faces say "No" but their hearts say otherwise....
For some reason I always really like the non popular or underrated characters more than the main ones. I don't know why. Anyway, if anyone's in the Philadelphia area, check out this cool gallery!
Time: Friday, June 3 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
45 N. 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA
US of A
Posted by Zach Bellissimo at 12:20 PM 3 comments
Labels: autumn society, bebop, gallery, rocksteady, tmnt
Monday, May 16, 2011
A Hard Days Week
PHEW! What a week...So much has happened.
First Tara flew in to come to the Dusty's screening, the show that features all the senior thesis films on a theater size screen! What a thrill, seeing my stuff and all my friends stuff on a huge screen was exhilarating!
(Can you see the people's little heads down there?)
After that was the Awards Ceremony for the senior thesis's. I ended up sitting with these two hunks of glass...
I won Best Traditional Character Design and tied with my pal Mike for Best Traditional Animation. It was definitely shocking and nerve wracking, since I had to make a speech and forgot to thank some people but it was an honor all together. I feel like the awards should go to my friends and class mates who worked just as hard, and most of them even harder than I did. Thanks for getting me through the year, guys! Also Congrats to Mirella for Best Production Design and Zack W. for Best Stop Motion and Best Stop Motion Character Design! You guys rock!
Lastly was GRADUATION. I am officially done with school FOREVER. I still don't think it hit me yet since I still feel like I'm going back in 3 months. It's gonna be weird...
I'm extremely thankful to have attended SVA. Being there was really the best experience I have ever had and will stick with me for the rest of my life. Some people say you don't need college, but I think I needed it. I learned so much, met so many cool friends, tried different things, got interested in things I never would have, found new influences and spent a lot of time in the best damn city in the world, New York! It really made me love school and I'm really going to miss the whole college feel.
So what's next for me? I have a freelance job, an internship, my film has been submitted to some festivals...so far so good, lets see how it goes!
See you on the other side!
(Sorry if this post seems rushed, I have to go to bed so I can wake up and do important stuff!)
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Its Alive...ITS ALIVE!!!
Its been about 8 1/2 monthes...and my final year thesis film, Blenderstein!, is finally complete! I'm also done with school...forever...!!! I graduate in like...a week! Scary! Anyway...
at a whopping 6 minutes and 19 seconds, my film is done! But I can't show you just yet!
This above is a DVD cover I made for submitting to festivals. A most notorious festival rule is that if the film can be seen somewhere online it is automatically rejected from the festival. I mean who wants to go to a screening to see a film you could see online for free?
Well anyway, here's some screen caps to tide you over!
I had the time of my life working on this and as my first completed film I can easily say I'm very very proud of it. I want to thank Tara Billinger, Vivienne Medrano, Dana Terrace, Courtney Vonada and Luz Batista for helping me do coloring! I couldn't have finished without you guys!
That's all for now! I'm going to post some backgrounds, sketches and other Blenderstein! goodies soon!
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Liberty Debate Team seeks to complete sweepstakes sweep
Liberty University's Debate Team claimed the National Sweepstakes Championship in both the American Debate Association (ADA), which it hosted March 14-16, and last weekend's Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) at Indiana University. The final rankings will be released in April following this weekend's National Debate Tournament (NDT) competition, also taking place at IU.
This marks the sixth consecutive year Liberty Debate has finished the season atop the CEDA rankings and the 11th consecutive year it has claimed the ADA championship. Liberty remains the only school to win all three sweepstakes championships in a single season, a feat it has accomplished seven of the past eight years and will seek to complete once again this weekend.
At two early-season tournaments hosted by Georgia State University on Sept. 20 and James Madison University on Oct. 11, Liberty's team did not win a single Novice, Junior Varsity, or Varsity divisional title. Since then, the team has come full circle and is now a tournament win away from sweeping all three national sweepstakes championships.
The varsity teams of Meagan Edwards and Vida Chiri as well as Mary Bobbitt and Lindsey Murray will debate at the NDT tournament. Edwards and Chiri became Liberty's third debate team since 1999 to win the Varsity division of a prestigious tournament hosted by the United States Military Academy on Oct. 20.
Michael Hall is Liberty's Director of Debate, assisted by John Nagy and Nicholas Ryan. Heather Holter Hall, Cole Bender, and Benjamin Hagwood serve as the team's assistant coaches.
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BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Investigators were working to determine what caused a new Lion Air passenger jet to miss the runway and crash into the sea off the Indonesian resort island of Bali, in the expanding budget airline's sixth accident in 11 years.
All 108 people on board survived Saturday's crash, which has renewed questions about how safe it is to fly in Indonesia. The country has struggled to clean up its poor air safety record while improving oversight.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday it was sending a team to assist Indonesia's investigation because the Boeing 737-800 that crashed was designed and made in the U.S. The team will include advisers from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing.
The flight data recorder has been removed from the plane and aviation authorities were planning to tow the aircraft to a beach, Transportation Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan. The plane snapped in half as it crashed and came to rest in shallow water near the airport, where divers are searching for the cockpit voice recorder located in the tail.
Wind shear is one of the possible causes being considered in the investigation by Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee.
The weather was rainy with clouds at the time of the crash, Lion Air spokesman Edward Sirait said. The pilot and co-pilot have been grounded for health tests and to answer questions for investigators.
Some survivors swam from the wreckage, while others were plucked from the water by rescuers in rubber boats. Dozens suffered injuries, but most had been released from hospitals by Sunday.
"I couldn't wait to land in Bali when the cabin suddenly turned dark. I heard a sound like an explosion and water was coming in," recalled Irawati, a 60-year-old woman who uses one name, like many Indonesians.
"I heard people shouting frantically: 'The plane crashed! Get out! Get out!' I did not even have the energy to move my body," she said. "I was so weak and frightened, and I was asking a flight attendant for help before I passed out."
Irawati told The Associated Press from her hospital bed that when she regained consciousness, the pilot and co-pilot were putting a life jacket on her and helping her down a rubber ladder. She was then pulled onto a surfboard by rescuers. She suffered neck injuries.
Another survivor, Andi Prasetyo, said there was no warning of any problem.
"The cabin crew had already announced that we would be landing shortly, and I was so excited when I saw the ocean getting closer, but suddenly … it fell," he said. "I can't believe that the plane actually landed on the sea, and everything changed to dark. It was full of horrific screaming. None of us remembered about the life jackets under our seats. Everybody rushed to get out of the plane."
The flight that originated in Bandung, the West Java provincial capital, carried 101 passengers and seven crew members. Three passengers were foreigners, two Singaporeans and a French national who all had slight injuries.
Lion Air spokesman Edward Sirait said the plane crashed about 50 meters (164 feet) ahead of the runway. The Boeing 737-800 Next Generation plane was received by the airline last month and was declared airworthy, he said, and it landed in two other cities on Saturday prior to the crash.
Given that the aircraft was new, Sydney-based aviation expert Tom Ballantyne said a technical or mechanical problem would seem unlikely. He said it was fortunate that the plane landed flat in shallow water rather than nose-diving or hitting deep water, where it could have quickly been submerged.
"I'm surprised. The airplane split in two upon impact," he said, estimating it was likely traveling close to 300 miles (483 kilometers) per hour.
"It was coming into land and hit the water very hard. It's a miracle nobody was killed," Ballantyne said.
It was unclear whether human error was a factor, and Sirait said the pilot was experienced, logging 10,000 flying hours. However, Indonesian aviation analyst Ruth Simatupang, a former investigator at the National Safety Transportation Committee, suspects some sort of miscalculation involving the landing.
"Something was obviously wrong with the pilot, and wind shear is a possibility that could lead to an unstable approach," she said. Sudden changes in wind speed or direction can lift or smash aircraft into the ground during landing.
The pilot and co-pilot will be grounded for two weeks for tests to ensure they were healthy during the flight and for questioning by investigators. They also have undergone alcohol and drug testing, and the preliminary results were negative, Herry Bakti Gumay, a Transportation Ministry official, told a news conference Sunday. In the past two years, three pilots, one co-pilot and a flight attendant from Lion Air have been arrested for illicit drug use.
The airline said it planned to suck the remaining fuel from the undamaged tanks in the plane's wings before towing it at high tide to avoid destroying the area's coral reefs. Bali is one of Asia's most popular destinations, drawing millions of vacationers with its world-class surf and beautiful beaches.
Rapidly expanding Lion Air is Indonesia's top discount carrier, holding about a 45 percent market share in the country, a sprawling archipelago of 240 million people that's seeing a boom in both economic growth and air travel. The airline has been involved in six accidents since 2002, four of them involving Boeing 737s and one resulting in 25 deaths, according to the Aviation Safety Network's website.
Lion Air is currently banned from flying to Europe due to broader safety lapses in the Indonesian airline industry that have long plagued the country. Last year, a Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet-100 slammed into a volcano during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people on board.
Indonesia is one of Asia's most rapidly expanding airline markets, but is struggling to provide qualified pilots, mechanics, air traffic controllers and updated airport technology to ensure safety.
Lion Air, a private company which started flying in 2000, signed a $24 billion deal last month to buy 234 Airbus planes, the biggest order ever for the French aircraft maker. It also gave Boeing its largest-ever order when it finalized a deal for 230 planes last year. The aircraft will be delivered from 2014 to 2026 as the airline positions itself to take on AirAsia, which dominates budget travel in the region.


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Sierra Leone Hosts Symposium for Parliamentarians on Sustainable Immunization Financing (SIF)
Sierra Leone's members of parliament (MPs) are driving forward progress on immunization goals within their country. Yet many MPs who were instrumental in defending immunization budgets and pushing forward legislation were not re-elected this year. To ensure continued progress, the Parliamentary Health and Sanitation Committee of Sierra Leone organized a parliamentary briefing on sustainable immunization financing (SIF) and invited all members of parliament (new and old) to attend in order to learn about immunization and the EPI Program.
Dr. Mohammed Kenneh, Sierra Leone's new EPI manager, used this opportunity to brief the MPs on progress achieved by the country's EPI program, the vaccines that are being provided and coverage across the country and in particular districts, as well as the new vaccines which are being introduced. He clearly identified the program's needs to help ensure that the MPs would be ready to defend the EPI budget for 2014 which has recently been submitted for approval to parliament.
Over 40 MPs attended the briefing, opened by the Deputy Speaker of Parliament Hon. Chernoh Bah. Peer exchangers from Liberia were also in attendance and were able to share their experiences on establishing a Parliamentary Immunization Forum and drafting amendments related to immunization in their Public Health Act.
The UN country team also used the briefing as an opportunity to acquaint the MPs with the commitments undertaken by Sierra Leone within the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) -- a framework approved by the World Health Assembly in May 2012 to achieve universal access to immunization.
Many of Sierra Leone's MPs are also doctors and members of the Parliamentary Health and Sanitation Committee, and therefore understood the issues well. For example, one of the MPs described the difficulties he faced when trying to vaccinate villagers in a remote part of the country earlier in his career. He stated they did not want their children vaccinated, but after some information and outreach they became more comfortable with immunization.
The MPs were interested in learning more about the Decade Of Vaccines (DOV) and the GVAP -- and especially in seeing how much the immunization program would cost in the future based on the cost of vaccines. The MPs also wanted to learn more about the Parliamentary Forums and MPs suggested creating one immediately in Sierra Leone. These Parliamentary Forums are created in Parliaments as a mechanism to create a critical mass of MPs who are knowledgeable about immunization and the needs of the immunization program -- so they can effectively defend budgets and elaborate legislation for immunization. A discussion arose on which option of the two would suit the country more, 1) the Tripartite Committee that has already been created (involving Parliament, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Ministry of Finance (MOF)) or 2) a Parliamentary Forum. Depending on the kind of powers and competencies that these two institutions would have, the country will decide which of the two to pick.
The MPs agreed that increasing the budget for immunization is an important goal. They pointed out that under current law, parliamentarians are not allowed to increase the budget after it has been submitted to parliament. After a budget has been submitted, MPs can make only small changes that do not have a significant impact. However, the parliamentarians also pointed out that prior to the submission of budget to parliament, several parliamentary committees are involved in the drafting and formulation of the budget. These parliamentary committees will be responsible for ensuring that adequate budgets are allocated to immunization in the future. (This is not the case in Liberia, where the Parliament has the power to increase the budgets even once they have been submitted.)
The MPs agreed that passing immunization legislation is an important first step. Hon. Veronica Sessay pointed out that many of the EPI staff would like to draft a series of bylaws to help regulate the Program, but they cannot do it until an immunization legislation is in place. She also noted the country is undergoing a Constitution revision process and new laws are welcomed – creating a unique opportunity to pass immunization legislation. Several MPs suggested drafting a Private Member's bill that would be backed by enough MPs to be passed into law as an Act. Most of the MPs expressed their support. The EPI team and MPs will need to meet to discuss the best way to proceed, either through an Act drafted and submitted by the MOH or through a private member's Bill (similar to Uganda). The MPs agreed to work on the next steps. The interest and commitment demonstrated by Sierra Leone's MPs is an exciting indication of a positive future for the country's EPI program.


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How often does a patient come in with an MRI showing a herniated or extruded disc who has been told they need surgery? Examination may show minimal weakness or even diminished reflexes.The problem is that often, the patient did not receive a functional examination to determine other possible causations or treatments that might help repair the area without surgery.
Structural changes are immediately assumed to be causative from a torn meniscus to a disc herniation to facet degeneration, etc. A significant portion of the population have torn menisci, rotator-cuff and disc lesions, especially as they age. Frequently, rather than the spine being the causative factor, passive and resistive testing of the hip reduplicate the patient's pain.
There is no doubt that MRI is a wonderful diagnostic instrument, but doctors must make sure they provide a clinical examination that emphasizes soft-tissue examination and function before a final decision is made based on structure alone. Regrettably, the rush to surgery based on an MRI occurs too often.
Most sport injuries relating to torn muscles, tendons or narrow cracks in bones do not require an MRI. Most of the time, a careful medical history, examination and simple X-ray is all that is necessary.1 Dr. James Andrews, a well-known sports orthopedist, recently scanned the shoulders of 31 healthy professional baseball pitchers who were not injured and asymptomatic. MRIs found abnormal shoulder cartilage in 90 percent and abnormal rotator-cuff tendons in 87 percent. Said Dr. Andrews: "If you want an excuse to operate on a pitcher's throwing shoulder, just get an MRI."1
It is rare to receive a perfectly normal MRI; even if the primary area is normal, the interpreter often seems to find other abnormalities in secondary areas. Scans are often very sensitive, but not specific, so some abnormality is almost always found. Many doctors believe imaging is vastly overused. One of the problems is that scans are very profitable and patients often demand that their doctor take a scan. Increasingly worried about malpractice, doctors may have an MRI scan taken, even though they don't expect to find anything.
In one study,2 MRIs were performed on asymptomatic athletes including volleyball players, swimmers, and gymnasts, finding moderate to severe changes in the shoulder labrum, and tendon and cartilage problems at the wrist including carpal tunnel syndrome. A follow-up questionnaire was administered 3-4 years later to determine the clinical significance of the asymptomatic findings. At follow-up interview, only one swimmer and one volleyball player reported experiencing shoulder problems during the study period; one gymnast reported suffering a wrist injury during their career.
Another study (one of many) suggests that MRIs reveal a high prevalence of tears of the rotator cuff in asymptomatic individuals, and that tears are increasingly frequent with advancing age and compatible with normal, painless functional activity. The results of this study emphasize the potential hazards of the use of magnetic resonance imaging scans alone as a basis for the determination of operative intervention in the absence of associated clinical findings.3
Another study suggests overuse of bone scan imaging, abdominal ultrasound and MRI with regards to diagnosing men with low-risk prostate cancer, resulting in unnecessary patient anxiety and significant economic waste. There was also significant geographic variation in the use of imaging to stage low-risk prostate cancer.
MRI is more sensitive in detecting cancers than mammograms, but it is more likely to find something that turns out not to be cancer (false positive). These false-positive findings have to be checked out to ensure that cancer isn't present, which means coming back for further tests and/or biopsies. This is why MRI is not recommended as a screening test for women at average risk of breast cancer, as it would result in unneeded biopsies and other tests in a large percentage of these women.
While we must appreciate the benefits of new technical methods of examination, it remains true that a complete history / examination, including an adequate clinical functional examination, is the ultimate decision-maker before we recommend more sophisticated testing.
- Kolata G. "Sports Medicine Said to Overuse M.R.I.'s." New York Times, Oct. 28, 2011.
- Halbrecht JL, Tirman P, Atkin D. Internal impingement of the shoulder: comparison of findings between the throwing and non-throwing shoulders of college baseball players. Arthroscopy, 1999 Apr;15(3):253-8.
- Sher JS, Uribe JW, Posada A, et al. Abnormal findings on magnetic resonance images of asymptomatic shoulders. J Bone Joint Surg (Am), 1995 Jan;77(1):10-5.
- Choi WW, Williams SB, Gu X, et al. Overuse of imaging for staging low risk prostate cancer. J Urol, 2011 May;185(5):1645-9. Epub 2011 Mar 17.
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Time dwindling as Giants try to get struggling offense in gear
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — A month ago, the word was "nervous."
New York Giants leaders Eli Manning and Victor Cruz, and even coach Tom Coughlin, all used that word to describe how they felt about the drastic departure from the team's previous offense toward the scheme being installed by new coordinator Ben McAdoo.
And now that the Giants' first stringers have failed to move the ball effectively and score in three preseason games, there's cause for real concern.
"Well, we're a work in progress. Last week, obviously, in one regard was not very good," Coughlin said Wednesday, referring to his starters' inability to produce points against the Indianapolis Colts last Saturday.
While Coughlin praised his reserves, he made it clear he expects more from the players who will actually play on a regular basis.
"The ones have got to get going on both sides of the ball," he added.
Manning is coming off his worst statistical season since his rookie year. He led the NFL in interceptions (27) in 2013 while passing for 3,818 yards (his lowest total since 2008) with just 18 touchdowns.
Those struggles have seemed to carry over into this year.
In 11 possessions so far this preseason, the Giants' first-string offense has managed two scoring drives, both rushing touchdowns. Five of those series ended with three-and-outs. The first unit gained only 38 yards against the Colts.
According to Manning, however, there's no quick fix.
"I really don't think there's just one thing," he said Tuesday. "We've just got to start playing together, and everybody doing their assignments and just get a great rhythm of the offense.
"We're doing some good things in practice — you know, there are some mistakes and things we have to correct in practice as well — but the things we are doing well, we have to make sure those carry over to the game."
Still, Manning has been a big part of the problem. In the preseason, he's 7-for-16 for 49 yards, with no touchdowns and a passer rating of 51.3. He's also been sacked three times by a juggled offensive line.
Fans are wondering why the two-time Super Bowl MVP's passing appears to have deteriorated significantly. But those inside the team facility say they're not worried.
Wide receiver Rueben Randle believes Manning, while averaging fewer than six passes per preseason outing, hasn't been given the chance to prove himself yet.
"In the games, we're running the ball a lot more," Randle told USA TODAY Sports. "So I don't think he's gotten a lot of reps to pass and get comfortable and get in the flow of that. So I would say that he's struggling just because he's not really passing the ball, and he doesn't get a lot of passing yards while he's in there.
"It's all about the repetitions he gets and making them count. As players, we have to go out there and run what coaches call. Unfortunately, the situation has not allowed him to pass the ball a lot, so people are thinking that the offense is not clicking as much."
The Giants' No. 1 offense will play more snaps than in the previous preseason games while facing the civic rival New York Jets on Friday night. One thing Manning said he wants to focus on is doing "a better job of seeing the pressures beforehand" and getting the Giants into better plays.
But if Manning and the Giants want to be contenders in the NFC East, there simply isn't much time left to work out kinks in the new system.
After the disappointment from the Colts game, Coughlin told his first-string offense that it was time to start producing.
"We got the message," Cruz said Wednesday after practice.
"We understood. He has a way of saying it that makes it very loud and very clear."
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