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Last week, I posted the first part of my interview with South African rave-rappers Die Antwoord, which means "the answer." Talented and profane, Ninja (né Waddy Jones) and Yo-Landi Vi$$er—who have a daughter together, although they aren't a couple—have concocted a surreal musical chemistry, tag-teaming in a hypercharged mix of English, Afrikaans, and even tribal languages.
They were largely unknown outside of South Africa until this past February, when their video for "Enter the Ninja" suddenly went viral. This launched a bidding war that culminated in a record deal and the release, this week, of $O$, their much-anticipated debut on Interscope. In the first part of our interview, which you should read, Ninja discusses the record deal and the story behind the group's startling new "Evil Boy" video. In part two, I talked to Ninja and Yo-Landi about the meaning of zef, the documentary that changed their lives, and why they plan to kill Die Antwoord after five albums.
Mother Jones: You guys like to say that you represent South African culture. How do you view that culture?
Ninja: We like to absorb all the different elements of South Africa that we find interesting and attractive and unique. We're like sponges. There's things about the Xhosa culture that we love, and we love things about the Afrikaans culture; that's very amusing and interesting to us. And then there's the colored culture, which is a whole other thing.
MJ: That's mixed-race?
N: Ja. They refer to themselves as coloreds, not "blacks." The PC-version people try and promote this image of South Africa as a rainbow nation and make it all like pretty and stuff. But it's actually like this fokked-up, kind of broken fruit salad. 'Cause all those things don't mix that well together in the real world. But for us it does mix. That's why we say it's, like, "fokked into one person." 'Cause that's how we feel on a certain level. Like we absorb all these things, but they're not harmoniously flowing together through the air in this pretty rainbow picture.
MJ: And that's what you're trying to project?
N: That's our experience of being South African. But we enjoy the brokenness. Our music comes out of a very dysfunctional thing that we're trying to make sense of with our music.
MJ: You guys get asked a lot about "zef," which as best I can tell is kind of like "bling."
N: Zef is South African underdog kind of style. Zef has been an insult for long in South Africa. It means you're like a piece of shit. So not really bling. It's seen as an embarrassment. The thing is, the word kind of started transforming about 10 years ago. It's kind of abstract. It's like if you look at '70s movies, everything's like slick and like good looking and fokken pretty and stuff. And then the '80s everything was like, bam!—in-your-face, kind of colorful, kind of ugly. And then the '90s came along and so many different things happened and technology started freaking out, you know? There's Nirvana and hip-hop music and rave music, and the interweb was starting to come around and cyberpunk and all this different-style stuff. And then 2000 came and everything got like so fokken hectic. For me, this is what zef was born out of: Rap overtook country music. Everything became super too-fast-too-furious, WWF information overload. Pop music started getting fokken dumb—like the-retards-are-winning type style. And you're sitting in this little fishing village in the bottom of the world, and it feels like almost like an apocalyptic wasteland. We've got like different styles, but it's like that too-fast-too-furious, WWF lifestyle. A kid wearing a 50 Cent t-shirt in North Africa for me is fokken zef. It's like, kind of bad, but kind of like this apocalyptic debris that we've stuck together. People say trashy; it's not really trashy. It's not having money, but still fokken having style. So we kind of embraced that.
MJ: How have Afrikaners responded? Are they scandalized?
N: At first they were totally fokken freaked out, obviously. The kids loooove us. But a lot of the older people were like, "Jesus, this is fokken terrible—like the worst representation of South Africa ever." But at the same time, Afrikaans has been billed off as this dying language, and all of a sudden people in the overseas are trying to learn Afrikaans. Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture. We've kicked down the doors to the overseas and a lot of people really like us now.
MJ: The Afrikaners have this really rich history of creativity and dissent but I think a lot of Americans impulsively equate Afrikaners with apartheid and racism. Do you encounter that?
N: No, not really, because like, uhh, I'm not really a racist, so it has nothing really to do with me.
MJ: For a long time you've been doing variations on what you're doing now, and you were a total unknown outside of South Africa. Then out of nowhere, "Enter the Ninja" became this worldwide sensation. Would you recall that time for me?
N: It just seemed like I was going fokken mental before. And then, when that happened, it just seemed completely normal. It was just like, thank God.
MJ: Tell me the story.
N: I'd been experimenting with different music for long. I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap and it was all around me. Then it got dumb. It got, like, fokken boring. Then I started doing experimental stuff and trying all different things. And then I saw this fokken documentary about a producer for Blondie. I forget his name, but my whole life—like 10 years of what I've been doing—this guy just fokken destroyed it in one sentence.
He was speaking to the group, to Debbie Harry and them, and he was saying, "Stop making these clever jokes and say something real that people can connect to emotionally." And I was like, uhhhh…fok! I just realized all my fokken experimental music has got zero personal involvement. My nuts were not exposed. I didn't put my soul on a platter, ever, in any of the music I'd made until I heard that fokken sentence. I was just fokking around with different concepts. That sentence haunted me, and I decided to throw everything that I'd ever done away and create something that's got my heart and soul involved. I built in my mind, like, a robot—like a "Mecha" from Japanese Manga—and all of a sudden switched it on, and it was like this indestructible fokken force. I don't know how to explain it any better than that. That was three years before Die Antwoord blew.
MJ: So Die Antwoord was happening for three years before you took off?
N: Three years. We just said, "Fok everything; let's just do this shit!" Yo-Landi helped me find that fokken zone. Before anyone was into it, we were like, "This is the fokken answer!" I mean, we were kind of bullied by reality: There's a group consciousness, people's opinion, the popular opinion and shit—they are watching you. With Die Antwoord, we found a way to flip that shit around. You're not watching a show; the show's watching you. It's the sum of our philosophy: Become the enemy. Do you have a wife?
MJ: Yes.
N: And a child?
MJ: Two.
N: Do you have a gun?
MJ: No.
N: If you hear a noise and someone's broken into your house with a gun, that's not a situation that you want to be in. And that shit happens in South Africa all the fokken time. South Africa's, like, fokken the wild west—everyone's got electric fences and shit—so this is something I relate to all the time. Now if someone breaks into the house, you don't want to be the fokken victim, you want to be the master of that reality. And Die Antwoord is like the Ninja. If you break into the house that I live in, you're pretty much fokked. Because, like, you're not the enemy. I'm the enemy.
MJ: Okay. So, what about the chemistry of Die Antwoord do you think people find so intriguing? Because I think it goes beyond the music.
N: Yeah, It's pretty intense. I'm not sure. I think it's got to do with what I just said now, that zone. It was kind of obvious that this shit's magnetic—like a punch in the face.
MJ: I think a lot of people's first reaction is like, who the hell are these guys?
[We get cut off, then reconnect with Yo-Landi Vi$$er joining us on the line.]
MJ: Hi Yo-Landi. So we were just talking about people's first reactions to Die Antwoord, people asking, "Who are these guys?" And, "Are they taking themselves seriously?" Because I think there's a lot of humor in Die Antwoord. Do you see that?
YV: Ja. We've very funny. But we're fokken serious.
MJ: Take the "Wat Pomp" video, for instance.
YV: That was the first video we ever made. With my friend's little digital camera. I don't know how I feel about it. It was the first thing we were able to put together.
N: I think Yo-Landi's verse is quite good and my verse is a bit dumb. We should re-cut that and just have her verse and nothing else.
MJ: I wanted to ask you about the whole Ninja identity. I mean, who is it that reads your daughter her bedtime stories? Is it Waddy Jones or Ninja?
N: I changed my name to Ninja. So my daughter calls me Ninja.
MJ: Really?
N: Ja, ja ja.
MJ: Tell me a bit about her.
N: Nah. It's kind of private, you know. She's kind of like our little secret, so it doesn't really got to do with anyone.
MJ: Is she the one we hear cussing on the record?
N: One of them. The other one is our little niece.
MJ: Is it true that you've already recorded your second album, Tension.
N: We've written a lot of the hooks, and it's fleshed out quite powerfully. But it's pop music—the hooks are fokken impossible. Writing rap is like stop-frame animation: You have to keep documenting your experience and making it interesting and pouring out. But the hooks are fokken freaks of nature. We've written like the majority of the meat, the hooks, the catchpods of Tension, and now we're fleshing it out and very, very, very deeply into the musical side, marrying the catchy-ass hooks with the melodies.
MJ: It seems like it's going to be pretty different. Can you give a preview?
N: We're actually recording some sketches tonight, but it's pretty much how "Enter the Ninja" jumped to "Evil Boy." It's like a quantum leap, but still the same group.
YV: Ja. Music for me is just about where you're at, and that's always changing. The second album will just be a new phase, but it will still be us.
MJ: Trying to kind of keep from getting bored, I guess?
N: We just evolve, and we like upgrading. It's like getting the new iPhone or something. It looks the same as the old one—it's just cooler and the battery lasts longer.
MJ: In past interviews, you said Tension will be mostly in English. Is that still the plan?
N: No. That was just 'cuz we didn't know that anything was going to happen with $0$. We finished it sometime in 2009, and then we started writing Tension and said, like, "Fok, how are we ever going to break outside of South Africa." So we started putting a lot more English hooks in. We actually don't think English vs. Afrikaans that much anymore. The Afrikaans is nice—like tapping a new gold mine of rhymes and words, and there's a whole fokken new vocabulary. But you have to balance it.
MJ: I think one of the great things about Die Antwoord is the novelty of hearing those sounds.
YV: It makes it a bit exotic, you know, to add another flavor to it: The Afrikaans flavor. So we'll always maintain that, but—I don't know—it just depends on what you feel like saying and how you feel like saying it.
MJ: The way Die Antwoord is headed, Yo-Landi, it sounds like you may end up being a "rich bitch" (her alter ego) in real life. How do you suppose having money will change the way you live?
YV: Well, before anything was happening for us, me and Ninja always thought, fok! Imagine if we just had budgets to do the things we wanted to do instead of begging people for favors and scraping things together. That's all that's really changed for me. Our lifestyle's kind of the same. We're the same fokken person. We just now have a little bit of budget and we can pay our friends to help us.
MJ: What's it been like going from total obscurity to everybody knows who you are?
YV: Not everybody knows who I am.
MJ: Everyone's gonna know.
YV: It just feels natural. Before, we were going mental thinking, "Fok, if your art doesn't relate, if it doesn't take, if people don't connect with it, there's no point in being a fokken artist or a rapper or whatever." And when it connects, a flow starts happening and a cycle starts happening and you get other people putting energy into you and you get to put out what you want to put out.
MJ: It's a lot fun too, I imagine. By the way, why did you guys name your first album SOS?
YV: Because if this album didn't make it, we were fokked!
MJ: It's super catchy. It's also over-the-top raunchy—especially "Beat Boy." Do you have to hide this stuff from your parents?
N: My mum hasn't heard any of my songs. She's just very happy that I'm doing good.
YV: My parents were shocked at first because they're Afrikaans, and obviously all the Afrikaans swearing was very brusque to them at first. But now they're getting into it as well, and I find them every now and again bumping one of our songs secretly in their room!
N: I made a clean version of "Enter the Ninja" that my mom can listen to.
MJ: But you're probably not feeling it so much, are you?
N: I don't mind the Wal-Mart version. The vibe's there. In Japan, they don't understand fokken one word we're saying and they're feelin' it. So there's like a mood transfer happening, which is the main thing, I think.
MJ: You've talked about this plan to do five albums and then game over. Is that true?
N: Yep.
MJ: So you're kind of like drawing a circle around Die Antwoord's career in advance?
N: Ja, ja, ja.
MJ: Why do that?
N: Because…Well, you know Michael Jordan?
MJ: Yeah, yeah.
N: Then you know he retired, like, as a god and then he came back as a man.
MJ: Yeah?
N: We ain't going out like that.
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An innovatice attempt at creating a whole new paradigm of reality, incorporating consciousness as well as physics.
Laetus in Praesens - an enormous website by Anthony Judge, over a thousand pages and essays.
The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory (called CTMU for short) by the "blue-collar genious" Christopher Michael Langan. A 56 page thesis which presnets not only a "Theory of Everything" but also integrates the foundations of science and spirituality. For a more general introduction, see Questions and Answers, and Telologic Evolution, Official website: Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe . The wikipedia summary Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe I found to be rather heavy going
New Age (Integral) Philosophy, website by Yuri Demchenko:
Emerging Global Information Society needs New Age (Integral) Philosophy. What is the philosophy choice for the Information Age? Materialising reality of information al dimension as a new reality and increasing virtuality of human existance? Semantic abstraction and supramental channeling?
Philosophy of Information Society and Information Age will combine the Philosophy of Reality of Material World extended TO and BY Information and Knowledge HyperSpace. The Time is the new dimension - the development goes on to be accessible and retrievable.
Integrity/Ceptual Institute - Homepage of James N Rose; includes essays and many links. See also The Integrity Paradigm by James N. Rose - The Integrity Paradigm binds together all things related to how our Universe exists and what and how we conscieve of our living environment in one unified picture still fimiliar and comprehensible to us. - site maintained by Yuri Demchenko
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While in New York for the BDI Online conference called Web Video Goes Mainstream, I was on my way to meet a friend for lunch and on the way, I was approached by a guy representing The Human Rights Campaign, an organization that "envisionas an America where gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgenderpeople are insured of their basic equal rights." To fund the organization, he, of course, was trying to get people to donate. While I might donate, I told him I'd be happy to give a worthy cause some publicity. So here it is. Street marketer calls attention to equal rights for all.


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For those who do not know, the South Shore of Long Island is a long strip of low barrier islands. The most valuable land is closest to the shore and the lowest and most subject to flooding, including, of course, the Hamptons. As Eli often points out, a flood tide hitting that area would cause so much monetary damage that it would pay for just about any action the US takes to limit climate change.Well, that is soon to get a test. Not only has there been a fair amount of sea level rise in the area, but tonight the tides are high, and a certain weather disturbance will be in town. Eli is not one to claim that an additional half meter or more of sea level rise by itself won't cause some problems, but it is always the and not the or what gets you, so sea level rise, high tides and storm surge are the perfect combination.
The National Weather Service expects
- Tidal departures: between 2 to 3 ft above astronomical Tides tonight during high tide with locally higher values, 3 to 4.5 ft above astronomical Tides Monday morning, and potential for 6 to 11 ft above Monday night into Tuesday morning. The higher end of the range relegated to the New York Harbor, western Long Island Sound and the Long Island South Shore back bays.
- High Surf and beach erosion, breaking waves are expected to build to 15 to 20 ft along Ocean facing Shorelines By late Monday into Monday night. The destructive waves on top of the storm surge will cause significant damage to coastal infrastructure nearest to sea level. At the same time, 5 to 10 ft waves are possible along exposed eastern and northeastern facing portions of Long Island Sound, Peconic Bay, and New York Harbor. This is expected to cause major beach erosion and Washovers. This will especially be felt for Fire Island communities such as fair Harbor, Ocean Beach, Cherry Grove, Fire Island Pines and Davis Park.
Bunnies can blow that up, or, let Eli help you take a look at upper New York Bay, Brooklyn and Queens
Large chunks of the Rockaways, Coney Island and the other barrier islands gone, most of south Brooklyn, and kind of where the 678 shield is, oh yes, that was Kennedy Airport. Is it gonna be that bad. Hope not. Is it due to climate change? Well there has been significant, tho not huge general sea level rise and some extra special sauce with subsidence in the area, and, of course, we have loaded the climate dice, so all in all, remember the word and.
As a special added feature Shepard, et al Assessing future risk: quantifying the effects of sea level rise on storm surge risk for the southern shores of Long Island, New York (Shepard et al. 2012, Nat. Hazards, 60:727–745 DOI 10.1007/s11069-011-0046-8) have looked at the combined effects of a 50 cm sea level rise and a cat 3 storm would be. This one is not cat 3, but it has a significant surge on top of a high tide, and is carrying lots of water. It will give the model a good workout.
Tamino has been dancing on the pointy headed critics of Shepard who are wearing rose colored glasses about future sea level rise and damages there from. Now some, not Eli to be sure, might say that he is a bit annoyed at the NC-20 crowd and their insistence that the sea levels are only increasing slowly if at all but he does have something to say about their need for reading glasses.
In closing, to those in the storm area, stay safe, don't do foolish things and spend your time reading and commenting on Rabett Run. It's safer.


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Emergency Room Diversions: A Symptom of Hospitals Under StressIssue Brief No. 38 mergency room (ER) diversions—when ambulances are redirected from one hospital emergency room to another—are becoming common in communities across the country, raising concern that critically ill patients are increasingly confronting obstacles to timely medical care. Although hospitals have long diverted patients during the winter flu season, recent site visits conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) reveal that ER overflows are now a year-round problem. As this Issue Brief describes, difficulty obtaining emergency services may be just the most visible evidence of deeper problems facing many hospitals as they struggle to meet growing demand for services at a time of increasing capacity constraints. The ER in Crisisn average, two hospitals a day in Boston closed emergency rooms to ambulances this year, sending patients to other facilities. Boston is not alone in frequent closure of ERs. Last year, the Cleveland Clinic Hospital reportedly was closed to ambulance patients an average of nearly 12 hours a day. Syracuse hospitals do not have the capacity to admit ER patients on an ongoing basis, so they regularly rotate times when they are closed to new patients. Such closure and diversion programs have occurred more frequently over the past two years, according to findings from HSCs 2000-2001 site visits to 12 nationally representative communities. ERs are the main entry point into inpatient settings for people requiring nonelective acute care. In addition, many patients with less serious medical problems seek treatment in ERs because they have difficulty getting care elsewhere. Under federal law, patients who walk into an ER cannot be turned away. However, hospitals can exercise more control over patients who arrive by ambulance. When hospitals lack capacity to provide emergency care for patients requiring treatment or admission, they commonly divert ambulances to other hospitals. Nationally, the number of ER visits increased by 15 percent between 1990 and 1999, according to the American Hospital Association. 1 Many hospitals in HSCs 12 study sites also report marked rises in ER use, with notable increases occurring in Boston, Cleveland, Greenville and Phoenix. As ER overcrowding has become more prevalent, and hospitals in any given community experience ER overload simultaneously, serious threats to patient care emerge. Patients are faced with longer waits in the ER to receive necessary services, and those arriving by ambulance frequently are required to travel farther to receive medical attention. As discussed below, recent ER overflows stem from both demand-and supply-side problems: increased patient demand for ER services and increasingly constrained supply. Increased Demand for ER Servicesemand for ER services has increased primarily as a result of:
Looser Utilization Management by HMOs. As HMO enrollment grew during the mid-1990s, and plans gained greater leverage over utilization patterns, use of ER services declined. Recently, however, HMOs have been reporting double-digit increases in ER service use. Most attribute this growth to less restrictive management practices-a response to the consumer backlash against managed care and less rigid interpretations of what constitutes a medical emergency, particularly under prudent layperson laws in more than 40 states. It also appears that HMO enrollees increasingly are turning to emergency rooms for less serious medical problems because they are unable to get timely access to primary care physicians (PCPs). Indeed, PCPs paid by capitation have less incentive to see patients needing urgent care than to refer them to the ER. In addition, changes in HMO structure to accommodate consumer demand for less restrictive health insurance products have contributed to the increased demand for emergency services. For example, when Bostons Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan departed from a traditional staff model, its urgent care centers were scaled back significantly, increasing pressure on the communitys ERs. Stricter Enforcement of EMTALA. With new funding authorized under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services strengthened enforcement of EMTALA. The 1986 federal law requires all hospitals that receive Medicare reimbursement-the vast majority of hospitals in the country-to provide screening for an emergency condition, necessary stabilizing treatment and appropriate transfers for patients, regardless of their ability to pay. In 1998, the OIG issued a special advisory bulletin clarifying implications of the law and stepped-up enforcement. This move put the spotlight on hospitals obligation to provide emergency care, including screening the patient, providing stabilizing treatment and, if necessary, admitting. In Phoenix, many downtown hospitals attributed increased provision of ER services primarily to greater focus on EMTALA compliance. Increased Demand from the Uninsured. Rising numbers of people without health insurance have increased pressure on ERs. Despite a small decline in uninsurance in 1999, the number of people without insurance increased by almost 10 million during the 1990s,2 increasing demand for care in emergency rooms, which commonly function as the uninsureds usual source of care. Supply-Side Constraintsressure on emergency rooms also stems from supply-side problems. In many communities, the number of ERs has decreased because of hospital closures and mergers, leaving fewer facilities to respond to growing demand. Between 1994 and 1999, the number of ERs across the country decreased by 8 percent (see Table 1). In addition, newly developing inpatient capacity constraints have compounded ER supply problems. Downsizing and reconfiguration of hospitals inpatient capacity have led to delays in admitting patients from the ER. At the same time, there are fewer discharge options because of reduced investment in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and home health services, adding to the bottleneck in inpatient units and, consequently, ER overload. Finally, a severe nursing shortage has contributed to hospital capacity constraints (see box). Downsizing. Anticipating lower utilization under managed care and declining reimbursement from private payers and Medicare, many hospitals significantly reduced inpatient capacity over the past several years. To "right-size" for expected changes in demand and payment, hospitals mothballed beds by not staffing them, and they closed less profitable units. Nationally, the number of medical/surgical beds declined by 18 percent between 1994 and 1999, and the number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds declined by almost 3 percent. Certain communities experienced even more pronounced declines. Over the same period, the number of medical/surgical beds in Boston and Cleveland dropped 29 percent and 21 percent, respectively. Sometimes, less profitable services were converted to highly specialized units, such as cardiovascular care or cancer centers, that promised to boost revenue. Yet, as more beds were dedicated to these specialized units, hospitals had less operating flexibility during periods of peak demand. Moreover, the overall reductions in inpatient capacity left hospitals with fewer beds to accommodate admissions from the ER. At the same time, demand for inpatient care remained stronger than expected. A combination of managed cares success in shifting patients with less acute problems to outpatient settings and technology improvements left hospitals with sicker patients requiring more intensive care. This occurred at a time when many hospitals aggressively pursued increased inpatient business to attract revenue to offset declining reimbursement. The growing popularity of insurance products allowing consumers greater freedom to choose providers contributed to this strategy of vying for patients. However, inpatient volume increased beyond expectations and, coupled with significant downsizing, has resulted in serious capacity constraints in many hospitals inpatient units. Reduced Discharge Options. Shortages of SNFs and home health services that facilitate early discharge from hospitals have compounded inpatient capacity problems. In the past two years, many SNF and home health providers have gone out of business or filed for bankruptcy, including several of the largest for-profit companies. At the same time, changes in Medicare reimbursement under the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 for SNFs and home health left hospitals increasingly wary of pursuing opportunities to provide these services. In Phoenix, for example, one hospital closed two hospital-based SNFs and gave up its home care business, reportedly largely as a result of BBA reimbursement changes. The OIG has monitored changes in the SNF and home health industries, concluding that sufficient capacity remains to serve Medicare beneficiaries. However, hospitals contend that reduced investment in home health and SNFs has resulted in fewer discharge options overall, adding to the bottleneck in inpatient units.
Hospitals Responses to ER Overcrowdingo address the most pressing problems, hospitals in many communities have developed coordinated diversion programs to ensure patients maintain reasonable access to care. Some have moved to expand ER capacity. For example, one hospital system in Greenville has led community efforts to alleviate capacity pressures by expanding ERs in other local hospitals with lower occupancy rates. Others have taken steps to address inpatient capacity constraints by reopening licensed beds. In Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital have reopened about 300 beds, including most of the beds closed during the mid-1990s as a result of cost-reductions. In addition, MGH recently added 22 nursing positions and two attending physician slots to increase emergency room capacity. Many hospitals have tried to improve recruitment and retention of permanent nursing staff, while bolstering rosters with temporary staff to the extent possible. Another way that hospitals are dealing with the nursing shortage is by reassigning nurses from outpatient clinics to inpatient units. Hospitals also are focusing on the bottle-neck problem by improving the efficiency with which patients are discharged. One approach is to free up beds by discharging patients earlier in the day. Many have tried to decrease lengths of stay by moving patients to extended care settings, when these options are available in the community. As a more long-term approach, many hospitals hope to accelerate patient discharges through increased reliance on clinical guidelines to standardize treatment plans and on hospitalists- physicians who specialize in managing patients hospital stays. Finally, some hospitals have turned to more immediate fixes to inpatient capacity constraints, such as postponing elective admissions. ER physicians in Phoenix advocated this approach recently, when ER overcrowding became unusually severe. Implicationslthough excess capacity has long been considered a major problem for U.S. hospitals, overcrowding in the ER-and the role that constrained inpatient capacity plays-suggests a significant change is occurring in the hospital environment. In fact, after a decade of hospitals downsizing and reducing operating costs, local health care systems have been left with little slack to accommodate unforeseen trends in patient volume. Stopgap measures to address ER overflows, such as diverting ambulances to alternate facilities or requiring patients to delay elective surgery, may help to reduce sporadic strains on capacity, but they focus on only the most immediate problems. Numerous factors underlying the strain on ERs, such as the rising number of uninsured, the declining investment in home health and SNFs and the nursing shortage, may require policy attention. Moreover, what these stopgap measures do not address is the erosion of emergency stand-ready capacity that has occurred in response to converging market forces and policy changes of the past decade. It is this stand-ready capacity that makes hospitals- and ERs in particular-such vital, yet expensive facilities to maintain. Looking forward, policy makers will need to assess whether market-driven adjustments to the current mismatch of supply and demand adequately address this problem or whether maintaining timely access to medical care for the uninsured and insured alike requires other steps. A Nursing Shortagenursing shortage—which has become severe in many communities—complicates hospitals capacity problems by limiting their ability to staff existing beds, particularly those in critical care units. Although nursing shortages tend to be cyclical, hospitals today are more vulnerable to the vicissitudes of nursing supply because of operational changes over the past 10 years. To reduce fixed costs and accommodate lower inpatient utilization expected under managed care, many hospitals downsized nursing staff, retaining a smaller permanent core staff and supplementing with part-time or temporary nurses to cover fluctuations in patient census. However, hospitals have faced serious obstacles to recruiting and retaining nurses, in part because of the proliferation of other opportunities for them in the managed care and pharmaceutical industries. In addition, the nursing labor pool has been shrinking because of a decline in nursing school enrollment and an increase in the number of nurses retiring. As a result, while demand for inpatient care remains strong, many hospitals cannot hire enough nurses to keep existing beds in operation. About HSC Site VisitsSC conducts site visits every two years to 12 communities: Boston, Mass.; Cleveland, Ohio; Greenville, S.C.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Lansing, Mich.; Little Rock, Ark.; Miami, Fla.; Northern New Jersey; Orange County, Calif.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Seattle, Wash.; and Syracuse, N.Y. Researchers conduct intensive interviews with leaders of local hospitals, health plans, physician organizations and representatives of key employers and policy makers to explore how the health system is changing. HSCs third round of visits was conducted in 2000- 2001 in collaboration with researchers from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., the University of Washington and individuals from selected academic institutions. Notes1. American Hospital Association, Trend Watch, Vol. 3, No. 1 (March 2001). 2. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey (1999).ISSUE BRIEFS are published by the Center for Studying Health System Change. President: Paul B. Ginsburg Director of Public Affairs: Ann C. 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Close to Sunset Walk / Margaritaville on HWY 192 and Disney's Animal Kingdom
Solara Resort
5 bedrooms (sleeps 10)
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5 Themed Bedrooms Frozen, Lego, Stars Wars, Avatar & Jurassic Park
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Property ID: 7469
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South Facing Pool Area | 2,294 sqft | Open Plan Family Room, Kitchen and DIning | Close to Sunset Walk / Margaritaville on HWY 192 and Disney's Animal Kingdom
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Solara Resort Orlando villas and vacation rentals in Kissimmee, Florida just minutes from Disney World. The Solara Resort is brand new community and features a world class clubhouse with onsite restaurant, communal pools, gym, kids club and Flowrider surf pool (additional fee applies).
Why not get a drink from the the poolside bar and relax by the firepit and enjoy those stunning warm Florida evening. Let the kids play in the splash pool while you chillout nearby. The Solara Resort clubhouse has two different pools areas, the main pool area surrounded by sun loungers and cabanas.
Then you have the Kids Splash pool which has Zero entry all the way round and features water slides and splash bucket.
The Solara Resort clubhouse also has a coffee shop and a market place selling cold drinks, snacks, pool inflatable toys, sun cream and other essentials needed for time in the sun!
Other Solara Resort clubhouse facilities include a sand volley ball court, basketball court and grass football pitch. They also have anoher kids play area just outside the pool area with slides and climbing frames.
The Solara Resort clubhouse also runs a kids club called #clubsolara in there decicated room which features classic board games as well as Xbox One, Nintendo and some virtual games on the big cinema screen.
The gym at the Solara Resort is huge and features treadmill running machings, cross trainers, free weight, gym balls, yoga mats as well bikes and a number of different leg and chest machines. There won't be one part of you that can not be exercised!!
The clubhouse also has a number of indoor and outdoor covered seating areas if the heat gets too much for you were you can relax and read a book while the family enjoy all the facilities the Solara Resort has to offer.
The Solara Resort is a brand new community therefore as of Sept 2018 there is still some construction work going on but will be be visiting on a regular basis and will update the details as we get them.
We are constantly adding new luxury Solara Resort vacation homes so please check back on a regular basis. The community is located at the end Westside blvd inbetween HWY192 and Champions Gate. This is a great location giving you easy access to the restaurants and the parks.
We currently have over 40 luxury Solara Resort villas from 3 bedroom townhouses to 9 bedroom vacation rentals. Access to the resort clubhouse is free for all onsite guests.
Over the next couple of years we think the Solara Resort will become one of the most popular Orlando villas communities available. We will be updating the photos and details as we get them. In the meantime if you would like more information about any of our Solara Resort vacation rentals please contact the owners direct for a quote and to book. We know these homes will fill up fast once the word gets out!!
We just wanted to add this short video showing the Solara Resort clubhouse facilities and also the different types of vacation homes we have available to rent. It also shows the Flowrider which is amazing and the first one we have seen at any Orlando vacation community. There is a Fee to use the Flowrider and you need to book either online or at the clubhouse.
The Solara Resort is located on Westside Blvd about 2.75 miles from HWY192. There are hundreds of restaurants along HWY192. We have put together a list of over 50 Kissimmee Restaurants that are between mile markers 4 & 6 and around 5 minutes from the Solara Resort.
This should be enough choice for everyone and means you can eat somewhere different everynight even if you are there for the winter! Our personal favourites would be Bone Fish Grill, Millers Ale House and Bahama Breeze all of which has daily dinner and drink specials.
If you can't find what you are looking for at the Solara Resort but like the location below is a list of other nearby Orlando rental communites to take a look at.
We have put together some infomation to help you get around once at your Solara Resort vacation rental. The main places you will be visiting are the Orlando theme parks so here are driving directions to the various parks and our short cuts to help you avoid the traffic.
Most of our Florida villas will either have door alarms on any exterior door that leads to the pool area or a pool safety fence surrounding the pool. Some even both, we have put together a blog post and video showing you how to use the fence. If there are no children in your party then you can take it out and rolling it up in the corner if you prefer but please put it back when you leave the villa, ready for the next guests.


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Since 1976, when Shark's Lithography opened as a contract print shop, through the past 40 years of publishing prints, Master printer Bud Shark has collaborated with a distinguished group of more than 150 artists and produced thousands of prints. This eclectic body of work has often challenged the assumptions and limitations of printmaking.
The Sharkive is a compilation of a print from each edition and related materials used to create them. Artists approach the printmaking process in many ways. Some arrive at the Shark's studio with maquettes or drawings, others with a suitcase full of reference materials and some with an only an idea. The Sharkive contains some of these preparatory materials, as well as color trial proofs, unique proofs with paper alternatives and artist and printer notes and color separation proofs.
Processes used in the studio have included lithography; monotype- using watercolor, oil pastels and other materials; metal leaf, chine collé, embossing and collage, as well as innumerable innovations for cutting and printing woodblocks and other relief prints; and the engineering and construction of three-dimensional lithographs.
Bud Shark has devised unique methods and materials for realizing the challenging projects artists propose.
Prints published by Shark's Ink. are included in numerous private and public collections including MoMA, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; The New York Public Library, NY; The Library of Congress, DC; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, DC, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and many others.
Shark's Ink. is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association.
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The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries. It is headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with regional offices across Asia and Africa. IWMI works in partnership with governments, civil society and the private sector to develop scalable agricultural water management solutions that have a real impact on poverty reduction, food security and ecosystem health. IWMI is a member of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food secure future.
IWMI's Missionis to provide evidence-based solutions to sustainably manage water and land resources for food security, people's livelihoods and the environment.
IWMI's Vision, as reflected in the Strategy 2014-2018, is 'a water-secure world'. IWMI targets water and land management challenges faced by poor communities in the developing countries, and through this contributes towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of reducing poverty and hunger, and maintaining a sustainable environment. These are also the goals of CGIAR.
IWMI works through collaborative research with many partners in the North and South, and targets policymakers, development agencies, individual farmers and private sector organizations.


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MRI stands for magnetic resonance imaging. MRI is an imaging technique that provides a visualized detail of internal body tissues. MRI provides much greater contrast and clarity between the different soft tissues of the body than other imaging technologies, making it especially valuable in diagnosing neurological (brain), musculoskeletal and cardiovascular conditions, as well as cancer.
MRI, unlike CT scans, does not use radiation to produce an image but rather uses strong magnetic fields to create images of structures inside the body. While CT scans are used for imaging hard materials in the body like bones, MRI is used to image soft tissue.
Unlike previous generations of cardiac devices, the SureScan™ systems are FDA approved for MR-conditional use in the MRI environment. Your device identification card will indicate whether or not you have a complete heart device system that allows you access to an MRI scan.
Without SureScan technology, an MRI could change the settings and/or temporarily affect the normal operation of your heart device. If you are referred for an MRI scan, your cardiologist will determine if you meet the necessary conditions for a scan and will provide further information about the steps you need to take before getting a scan.
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It's true, as much as [Will] and I like being a scrappy two person shop with a 'never say die' attitude, and penchant for fist pounding after successful compiles, we need more people (MOAR even). We're looking for a few more contributors to help out with the daily posting, digging up the extra obscure, and especially the how-tos we've started to get back into.
This is a paid, freelancing position that requires professionalism, consistency, and reliability. We want to hear from people that are passionate about software/hardware hacking and growing Hack-A-Day. To apply, send the following to firstname.lastname@example.com
- A short bio about yourself
- 3 example daily posts written in the style of Hack-A-Day
- 3 how-to ideas you could personally execute. For examples of work we've done in the past, look here, here, here, and here.
- A couple sentences on how you would improve the site either through features or content
- Any additional reasons why you would make a good fit for Hack-A-Day
Please do not send any attachments, especially not pictures of your sweet ride. An aversion to capital letters is not required, but definitely encouraged.
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I'm not gonna lie, this meal in more finicky than what I usually like to cook. It messes up more than 1 pan and requires that you pay attention to it while it's cooking. It's what I imagine having a child would be like. I get it though…you gotta put up with the crap and in the end, you'll reap the reward. In this case, it's food to stuff into your face.
- 1 lb. ground beef, chicken, turkey, pork…almost any ground meat will work
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 carrots or parsnips, chopped
- 4 oz. mushrooms, sliced
- 1 T each FRESH rosemary, sage and thyme (herbs are the flavor maker and must NOT be omitted)
- splash + 1/2 c chicken stock
- 1 T potato starch
- 1/2 head cauliflower, chopped and boiled in water until soft
- 1 egg
Preheat your oven to 400ºF.
In a deep-sided, oven safe saute pan add the ground beef and saute on medium heat until browned. Add the onions, garlic, carrots and mushrooms and cook until softened. Add 1 c chicken stock and potato starch. Use a spatula to pick up any brown bits on the bottom of the pan. Turn the heat off and toss in 3/4 of the chopped herbs along with some salt and pepper.
In a small bowl, whisk together the egg, a splash of  chicken stock and the cooked cauliflower pieces. Use a combination of whisking and smashing to get the cauliflower as smooth as possible. Throw in the rest of the herbs along with a nice, heavy pinch of salt. Spoon the mixture on top of the meat and press into an even layer with your spatula.
Bake in the oven, on the middle rack, for 10 minutes, then turn the oven on broil and cook for another 10 minutes. Once the "pie" has come out of the oven, let it rest a few minutes before serving.


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Dialysis Patient Maintains Her Independence by Performing Home Therapy 250 Miles Away from Her Doctor
Despite a 21-year battle with a medical condition that disabled her kidney's ability to function, Joann continues to live the life she wants by performing peritoneal dialysis at home in Anselmo, Nebraska. Joann can sleep soundly while performing her dialysis therapy at night. Meanwhile, her healthcare providers use a two-way telehealth platform to monitor and adjust her treatment from their office in Lincoln, Nebraska.
A mother of three, Joann has lived and worked in her small community in rural Nebraska her entire life. In her late forties, she was diagnosed with membranous nephropathy, a kidney disease that can progress to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring patients to go on dialysis therapy or receive a transplant. As time went on and the disease gained momentum, she began feeling worse and worse.
"I did not realize how much I had declined and how bad I was feeling," said Joann. "I didn't have the energy to work in the yard, go anywhere or do anything. I was just existing."
Last year, Joann's doctor indicated she needed to start dialysis to filter toxins from her blood, the work her kidneys were no longer performing. Current dialysis options include peritoneal dialysis (PD) or hemodialysis (HD).
It's like knowing you've got a guardian angel looking over you. Peritoneal dialysis has given me my life back.
Joann, Peritoneal Dialysis Patient
From her peaceful ranch in Nebraska, the nearest HD center is 80 miles away. The three-hour commute, in addition to a four-hour treatment session, would make it hard for Joann to maintain her home and lifestyle. And, she would need someone to transport her to and from the treatment sessions, which created additional challenges for her and her adult children's work schedules. Fortunately for Joann, PD therapy allows her to garner the treatment she needs without sacrificing her daily life.
"My peritoneal dialysis has been so easy to do at night, by myself, and then I get up and go about my day — doing whatever I want," Joann said.
To conduct treatment, Joann uses Baxter's AMIA Automated Peritoneal Dialysis System with its intuitive features, such as voice guidance, a touchscreen control panel and the SHARESOURCE remote patient management platform. SHARESOURCE is a two-way telehealth platform that also allows Joann's healthcare providers to proactively manage her care by viewing recently completed home dialysis-related treatment data that is automatically collected after each PD session. Her healthcare providers can then act on this information by remotely adjusting her home device settings without requiring her to travel the 250 miles to see her nephrologist.
"It's like knowing you've got a guardian angel looking over you," Joann said. "Peritoneal dialysis has given me my life back."


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The Galaga was a DHARMA Initiative submarine that was appropriated by the Others after the Purge and used as a means of transporting recruited personnel from the outside world. ("Enter 77") ("The Man Behind the Curtain") In 2004, Locke destroyed it using C-4 explosives he acquired from the basement below the Flame. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
DHARMA Initiative service[]
The Galaga was originally part of the DHARMA Initiative infrastructure on the Island. There were docking facilities around the Island, including those near the Barracks, the Processing Center, at Hydra Island, and at the Looking Glass station underwater. It was used to travel between destinations on the Island and from the Island to the outside world. An underwater beacon helped the submarine locate the Island. During the 1970s, the Galaga was commanded by Captain Bird.
In 1973, an eight-year-old Ben and his father arrived at the Island in the Galaga along with several others to join the DHARMA Initiative. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
When Sawyer's group became stranded in 1974 at the conclusion of the time flashes, Horace Goodspeed said only DHARMA Initiative personnel were allowed to stay on the Island and offered to return them to Tahiti by the submarine. After saving the DHARMA Initiative from Richard and the Hostiles, Horace allowed the five to stay two more weeks until the sub's next departure. Juliet sat at the dock beside the Galaga, telling of her intention to leave anyway, until Sawyer convinced her to stay. ("LaFleur")
In 1977, following Daniel's warning of the impending Incident, Pierre Chang evacuated all non-essential DHARMA Initiative personnel, including all the women and children, aboard the Galaga. Among the evacuees were his wife and infant son, as well as young Charlotte Lewis and her mother. When Sawyer and Juliet were discovered by Radzinsky, they agreed to reveal the location of the Hostiles in exchange for letting them leave on the sub. After returning from the Others' camp, Kate was also forced to leave with them. ("Follow the Leader") However, the three overcame their DHARMA Initiative captors and ordered the captain at gunpoint to release them on a life raft, and then to carry on with his evacuation mission. ("The Incident, Part 1")
Service under the Others[]
Sometime after the Purge, Charles Widmore was exiled from the Island for breaking the rules and left via the Galaga. Ben came out to the dock to see him off, and Widmore was escorted onto the sub in restraints by armed guards. ("Dead Is Dead") Mikhail would later claim that he arrived on the Island by submarine to join the DHARMA Initiative. ("Enter 77")
Juliet arrived on the Island in 2001 aboard the Galaga. The exact circumstances of her journey are unknown, as she was kept unconscious from the time she met Ethan and Richard Alpert at an airport (presumably outside of Miami) until after the submarine had docked at the Island.
When she woke up, she found herself strapped to a bunk in the submarine. Ethan claimed that the straps and the tranquilizer were necessary because of the roughness of the travel experience to the Island. ("One of Us")
Ben claimed the submarine was the Others' only way of reaching the outside world. When the Swan imploded, the underwater beacon stopped functioning along with the rest of the former DHARMA Initiative communications equipment. This meant that if the submarine left, it would not be able to return. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
John Locke infiltrated the Barracks and held both Ben and Alex hostage, demanding to be taken to the submarine. Ben later explained that since communications with the outside world were lost the submarine was only capable of leaving the Island, but never returning, and that Jack would be leaving the Island by submarine in a few hours. The result would be the same whether Locke destroyed the submarine or not. All he would accomplish by destroying the submarine would be to keep Jack on the Island. Locke was later taken to the submarine by Alex and planted a C4 explosive. As he left the dock, he surrendered to the Others, but the submarine appeared to explode moments later. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
In the aftermath, Juliet (who would have left together with Jack) questioned if Locke acted on his own or under Ben's influence when blowing up the sub, and whether he blew up the Galaga at all. ("Operation: Sleeper")
Name revelation[]
The submarine was used by the Others to launch a raid on the Elizabeth with the intent of capturing it. During the preparation for this mission, the name of the submarine was first revealed when Colleen whispered to her husband Pickett her orders to use the Galaga to capture the sailboat from the survivors of Flight 815. The whisper cannot be heard on the audio track of the show, and was discovered in the closed captions of the episode. ("The Glass Ballerina")
On the April 16, 2007 Official Lost podcast, writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse confirmed the name.
Non-destruction theory and producer's commentary[]
A theory that originated shortly after "The Man from Tallahassee" aired postulated that Locke did not actually destroy the submarine, but instead moved it elsewhere for future use. Evidence supporting this theory was the fact that Locke appeared on the dock soaking wet, despite entering the sub dry and presumably exiting it the same way; there appeared to be no reason why Terry O'Quinn would be soaked between shots.
When asked about this discrepancy shortly after the episode aired, Damon Lindelof replied "no comment."[1] It is still unclear if this was ever intended to be a plot thread in future episodes or a mere production error.
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Jeff Jensen: "When Locke was walking away from the submarine in "The Man from Tallahassee", he appeared to be soaking wet, despite the fact that we never saw him get into the water. This was just before the blow-up. Are we supposed to be wondering why John Locke was all wet?" Damon Lindelof: "No comment." |
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- The Season 3 interior shots of the submarine were filmed on the USS Bowfin (SS-287) which is located near the Arizona Memorial. [2][3] The Bowfin is a Balao-class submarine constructed in 1942. The interior is very similar to US Gato-class submarines from the same period.
- The exteriors of the submarine were two props located at the fish pond at Molii Gardens, owned by the Kualoa Ranch in Hawaii.[4]
- A ☵ trigram is seen on the submarine's conning tower and on the shirt of one of its crew members. The same symbol appears on the bottom of the DHARMA logos. This symbol has two symbolic representations: as Nature, Water; and as one of its meanings, the Abyss.
- Galaga is an arcade game released by Namco in 1981. The arcade game was played often in between writing episodes of the show, and thus the submarine was named after the game in its honor. (Official Lost Podcast/April 16, 2007)
- What may be a submarine mistaken for a whale is described on Day 13 of the diary transcript: "I think I saw a whale this morning... So there I was floating in the ocean when I heard a sound like a steam vent blowing behind me. I turned around and saw this really huge shape going back and forth under the surface."
- While Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse pronounced the name of the submarine as "GAL-uh-gah", (Official Lost Podcast/April 16, 2007) which is the typical pronunciation of the arcade game, the submarine's captain pronounced the name of his vessel as "guh-LAH-guh", ("The Incident, Part 1") which is closer to how the word would be pronounced if it were Spanish in origin.
Unanswered questions[]
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Galaga/Theories
- Why did the DHARMA Initiative use a submarine to travel to and from the Island?
- Why do travelers need tranquilizers to make the trip?
- Does everyone aboard the submarine take the tranquilizers?
- Why was Locke wet after returning from placing the C-4 aboard the submarine?


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A tweet by the Girl Scouts congratulating new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett drew such outrage from Barrett's critics that the youth organization swiftly deleted it – only to draw a new backlash from Barrett's supporters.
The original tweet, posted Wednesday evening, said, "Congratulations Amy Coney Barrett on becoming the 5th woman appointed to the Supreme Court since its inception in 1789."
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The post featured an image of Barrett, who was confirmed Monday and sworn in at the court on Tuesday; along with currently serving justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor; former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; and Barrett's predecessor, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The post was quickly attacked by critics who view Barrett, a conservative, as a potential threat to civil liberties and women's rights.
"What kind of patch does one earn for uplifting a woman who is the antithesis of justice?" tweeted U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Actor Amber Tamblyn tweeted that the Girl Scouts' post is "really disappointing and won't age well when access to safe abortion and the healthcare needs of millions of women and girls is gutted in this country because of Barrett's addition to the court."
Actor Zach Braff was among numerous people who tweeted about seeking alternatives to Girl Scout cookies due to disenchantment with the Barrett posting.
"(asterisk)Googles 'How do you make your own thin mints,'" Braff tweeted.
As the online criticism mounted, the Girl Scouts deleted their original tweet and posted a new statement.
"Earlier today, we shared a post highlighting the five women who have been appointed to the Supreme Court. It was quickly viewed as a political and partisan statement which was not our intent and we have removed the post.... Girl Scouts of the USA is a nonpolitical, nonpartisan organization. We are neither red nor blue, but Girl Scout GREEN. We are here to lift up girls and women."
The retreat by the Girl Scouts was quickly assailed by many of Barrett's conservative supporters.
"Of course the @girlscouts caved to the mob and deleted this tweet congratulating Amy Coney Barrett. SAD," tweeted the Independent Women's Forum.
"This is pathetic," TV personality Megyn Kelly tweeted to the Girl Scouts. "It's not 'partisan' to generically congratulate the 5th woman ever to join the High Court. It's patriotic. Taking your tweet down (asterisk)is(asterisk) partisan, however, and a real disappointment."
There was no immediate reply from the Girl Scouts' media spokeswoman to an Associated Press request for additional comment and for any details on whether Barrett had been in the Girl Scouts.
The Girl Scouts have been entangled in the culture wars as far back as the 1970s, when some conservatives became irked by the prominence of feminists such as Betty Friedan in the organization's leadership.
More recently, in response to criticism from religious conservatives, the Girl Scouts insisted that they had no partnership with Planned Parenthood, and did not take positions on sexuality, birth control and abortion.
The Girl Scouts, along with the Boy Scouts of America and other youth organizations, have experienced membership declines in recent years, for reasons ranging from busy family schedules to the lure of online games and social media. According to 2018 data, the Girl Scouts had about 1.76 million girls and 780,000 adult members — down from about 2.9 million girls and 900,000 adult volunteers in 2003.