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No big entry today, folks. I have spent too much time playing some ninja games on my DS, and work is neigh.
Question: Why do nerds/geeks like ninjas so much? What about them is so appealing?
If you can answer my question with proof, I will give you an ice cream cone. For real.
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Director Needed for Broadway Play Called: AMERICA
If we had to choose one of the Presidential Candidates, who would the actors choose as their director?
Actors want their show to run smoothly? Yes or No? ALWAYS YES. DUH.
Now, if we could choose any Presidential Candidate, President or Ex-President as an example of the best director of a show called America, we would all choose Ronnie Reagan. Hands down, two-thumbs up, right?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan was an actor raised as a liberal Democrat? Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt was his inspiration for continuing to get involved in politics throughout his life despite his day job of being an actor. He was also a director though. Not of any shows that I know of, but as the President of his class in college and then as the President of the Screen Actors Guild he showed he had the wherewithal to be a man of many talents. He even took on a business role when he held a Sunday show traveling around informing people about GE products and speaking with executives of other companies in regards to business in America. However, eventually Democrats persecuted him for the conservative views he was inspired by such as anti-communism, fiscal responsibility and anti-big government. So he was forced to change his affiliation to the Republican Party. Remember that last part, because it's pretty important.
Well, we can't go back to the 80's as bad as we want another chance to wear parachute pants, we just can't. So given our choices today, why are celebrities and actors seeming to side with someone who ironically may not be their actual first choice if they had to decide who would run their show if it were an actual show? Still with me? Why would they be drawn to say they are inspired by someone and so therefore say it is a good idea for all of America to be inspired by them as well? Why would they do that? Let me explain.
While actors tend to be very popular they are not "cliquey." They are popular and they do what is popular but tend to remain fairly independent. They have a lot of friends, but not too many "best" friends if you know what I mean.
And if there is one thing that is true about all actors, it is that they love to be in the limelight. They can't help it. It's in their DNA and what gives them the ability to be actors. Like a moth to a flame, etc. etc. This is what draws them to President Obama. He offers them the limelight, not necessarily popularity, but that doesn't really matter to them. Consequences, smonchemences. Let me explain, further. If Obama invites you to the White House for dinner, nothing else matters. Fans opinions have nothing over being a part of something exclusive. Actors learn early on that fans opinions are not of their control anyway. They say what is popular, and their fans do it. Not the other way around.
So how do I know so much about the psychology of actors? "No comment" as they say in Hollywood when there is something people actually want them to say. Let's just say I spent a lot of time in the world of theatre/radio/television and film in my younger days. My main job was on stage but I dabbled in the world of stage crew too. And I have to say I definitely preferred the backstage crew. Being in the back was like being in reality. We were building; running things, making sure the show went perfectly. On stage you just had to learn your lines and take direction well while constantly staying "in character". Actually, you didn't even have to get the lines right until absolutely necessary. Procrastination was an assumed natural handicap.
The one thing that I know we all wanted though, was whether you were an actor or on stage crew or light crew or costume crew, prop crew, or on whatever crew, you wanted the show to run well and the only way to do that was having an excellent director. The director knows how to do everything. He/she knows how to act and direct. He/she makes sure the house crew markets the show immensely and that the tickets are sold and not given away. They're in charge of the budget of the show. They are in charge of what the costumes and the set will eventually be designed like. He/she knows how to build stuff and has to know how to show others how to build stuff. He/she needs to know the difference between stage left and stage right. He/she needs to be able to tell the actors when they are about to fall off the stage.
I know everyone would like to think of their president as someone they would also like to be friends with. Now, I would like to be friends with my director too, but at the same time I know he is going to give me criticism when I need it and can fire my ass at any moment. And I hope to God he would have the balls to fire anyone who sucked, because it would make the show suck. Not even a tiny little bit of crap can be tolerated in Broadway, so why would we tolerate that in the big show we call America?
Ronald Reagan was a great actor and a great director, so to speak, diplomat and humanitarian. He could do it all, could he not? We want him back so bad it hurts! We all want him back. If Ronnie could come back through Theresa Caputo from time to time we would vote for her. But we can't. So here's the thing. Republicans worship President Ronald Reagan for a reason. They identify with him. In other words they want to be like him and represent him proudly. More to the point, we want our leaders to be like him. Romney is not Reagan, but he represents and is a part of a whole team that is all about what Reagan believed in; running the show well.
Now, here's the moment of truth. Who would be the better director if we were putting on a show called America? Would you hire President Obama or Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney to direct your show? I have to say, just going by the man's experience, I would definitely cast Obama in the show, because he's a great actor, but I don't know if he even knows what a fresnel is or what it does. Therefore, I couldn't even count on him to approve a good lighting design. However, since Mitt Romney has directed such things in the past like oh, THE OLYMPICS; one of the biggest shows in the world, I'd have to say he'd get the job. For some reason I just get the feeling President Obama wakes up every day and says "Macbeth" before his first sip of coffee.
Well, Lacee, you say. This is not a Broadway show this is reality. This is a reality show, baby. Real people don't run on scripts.
And to that I retort: I think it is a play and we do run on scripts that we write out for ourselves every day. We depend on our leaders and caretakers to keep our lives going in the right direction hence the very real need for someone to be helping with all that, a director. A real President of the United States is a job that is one that most certainly is if not more than equivalent to a title of Director. Besides reality shows aren't really reality either, are they? I mean really. I'm just sayin'.
I think it's about time someone from the Republican campaign just took the time to lay it all out there. Just tell the people what is up with what Republicans believe. I'm not Karl Rove or anything, but I think it ought to come from Mitt Romney himself and P.D.Q. Here's what I would say if I were him.
Hello, my name is Mitt, and I'm a rich man. I'm standing before you and I admit it. Yes, my name is Mitt and I AM a rich man. I'll own it.
There is certainly a lot of discussion out there about being rich or poor. That people who are rich will always be rich and that poor people will always be poor. Rich people do nothing for anybody but themselves and poor people can do nothing for themselves. Is that how you see it? Funny, I always thought America was about poor people who thought they could be rich if they really wanted to be and then did. America is where we break through those glass ceilings and say nothing is always the way it is.
Let me tell you about two sons I know. They both worked for Dell Computers way back before Dell was DELL. One man's father was a middle to upper income earner, a CFO, while the other's father came from Mexico as a migrant worker picking watermelons. One day these sons tell their fathers to invest in Dell because they see customized computers as the future. So the dads do this, each father taking what they think they can spend on the investment. Now you might imagine the migrant worker invested less than the wealthier CFO, but we'll never know for sure. He was unable to speak much English and had no idea what a Dell computer was until his son started working there. Some years later, the CFO father grew "un-enchanted" with the computer company and decided to cash out of his slow if not motionless investment. The migrant worker dad on the other hand, out of love and respect for his son, faithfully kept what little money he had in Dell despite his poor means. He just worked harder to make ends meet. A couple years later, Dell Computers turned the whole technology market on its head. Stock price for this company skyrocketed and then split… then split again. The migrant watermelon picker was now a multi-millionaire and the CFO dad was just as moderately wealthy as he always was. In America, both had equal opportunity to be extremely wealthy despite their backgrounds. There was no insider trading- just faith in a good business.
In America, poor people can become rich people and rich people can become poor people. There is no guarantee; there is only the right of pursuit. Now if you take the right of pursuit away, by telling people there is no chance so why pursuit…all you do is guarantee that most people will try less to succeed and try less to pursuit great things. I pursued great things, became rich and now that allows me to help you, uninhibited by my background. I heard a citizen say the other day, to a reporter, "Well Mitt is rich. Why would he want to bother with such a hard job as the President?" And the answer to that is because I can. And I can do this without having to be tempted by corruption. No one could ever pay me enough to do harm to my country. There isn't one thing I need or want in my life more than the opportunity to save this country from ruin.
There are people in charge right now that clearly have no idea what they are doing. The polls show we agree we are not heading in the right direction. I understand the Obama Administration's pride and why they are so frustrated by this failure. They had a revolutionary plan. Unfortunately, it's not a working plan. It never was. It has failed because they don't want to admit when they are wrong and they don't want help. Have you ever seen this show called Kitchen Nightmare's with a chef by the name of Gordon Ramsey? This guy comes in and tells the restaurant owners either that their kitchen is filthy, they are spending too much money, or too little money on good produce, their behavior towards their employees and customers need to change, the food sucks or all of the above. In each case the restaurant is going bankrupt, the owners are in debt up to their ears, they're about to lose their home because that's tied to the restaurant too, but still… because they had such great plans for the restaurant and it was their "dream" they don't want to listen. They get angry. They get violent. They literally hate this guy Ramsey because they think he's all high and mighty. They think he couldn't possibly understand where they are coming from, the whole bit. He comes in, gives them all these alternative options. He makes changes to the menu and the decor. Overnight he makes real physical changes and helps change their attitudes whether they will admit it will work or not and then faithfully waits to see what happens. Suddenly everyone likes the food and surprise, the business grows. The families end up naming their children after Gordon and all live happily ever after. Now Gordon Ramsey isn't an American citizen, so he can't be nominated for President, so don't even try it! Now here's the thing. He goes back six months later to check on them and those owners who decided to be stubborn and go back to their old way and not listen to the expert went under. Those who refused to try and trust someone they thought was "out of touch" with them, lost out big time. Never to be recovered.
I don't want that to be America. I am rich because I'm good at business and we need to change the way we do business in America. Forgive me for saying this but the majority of America's problems right now are about money. We need the poor and the rich working together in America like we used to. Now those who have the money are literally unable to use it. People cannot get the loans they need. Workers cannot get paid. The way America used to do business is no longer possible because of the way the current administration chooses to run it. I'll say it again. They don't know what they are doing. People don't want to do business with us anymore, in other words, people are going to stop coming to our restaurant if we don't get it functioning as a modern, fresh and comfortable place to be.
They are telling you that by doing things right, what the Republicans think is right, that it will put hard working minorities "back in chains." There is no skin color of the Republican Party. Anyone who says there is, is backwards. They want you to look backwards too. Doing it over and over and over again is intolerable. The hatemongering has got to stop! If you took us all and stuck us in a blender we'd be a very nice shade of brown. Our expertise, our experience, our love for our country and the great things about it has no class status. "Wise men profit more by fools, than fools by wise men; for wise men avoid the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the good examples of wise men." – CATO THE ELDER, c. 200 B.C. If you don't want to work with rich people you're missing out. If you don't want to work with poor people, you're missing out. Great educations come from working with both. That is why America has for centuries been so ahead of the curve. Our tolerance of each other, our abilities to make our differences work for us, make us smarter.
As people have actually tried to disrupt the harmony and our strides with civil rights, making us stop to question whether we should continue to keep working together, our country has become stagnate and numb. But here's the trick. It's only on the surface. The real truth about this whole campaign thing is that under all this media coverage of class warfare and anger, we are real people. We are a real country. We don't hate each other. We're angry because we feel we can't make a difference in our financial status or communities. Opportunity has literally been snatched from our grasp. Because of fear, doors- as in opportunity, as well as the real doors to our homes and businesses… like our favorite restaurants are literally closing every day.
Speaking of closing doors. There is something I would really like to stop and that's the bold face lies being told by those working for the Democratic Party to confuse you about the Republican policy. Republicans don't hate gay people and we don't have an ongoing war against women. We will not make it our focus to repeal gay marriage. Nor will we make it our focus to repeal Roe v. Wade. Furthermore, in case you were curious, none of our policies make the environment more polluted or the globe warmer either.
If that's what you are afraid of, then you aren't living in the real world. That's where the Republicans and I live. I'm going to be real honest with you right now. So listen up. Our focus is saving the economy right now. Without an economy, we can't do jack. That's just the way it is. All the smart cars and healthcare in the world won't save us if our economy collapses. This is what Republicans stand for right now. We will fix this problem carefully and methodically. To do this, despite popular belief, Republicans will not throw Granny off a cliff. I don't even know how those actors got that wheelchair with granny up there. No, seriously. In fact, we only plan to cut spending on Medicaid by 3% compared to what Obama wants to spend. That's hardly reducing grandma to eating cat food. In fact, once we get rid of Obamacare we can put the 716 billion Obama's plan steals from seniors back in the Medicare pot. Another fact is that if we continue with Obama's healthcare plan, Medicare for seniors will be completely insolvent in 12 years.
The model we are looking at for offering everyone a healthcare choice is doing better in use than we ever anticipated. It has cost 43% less than what we thought it would cost to implement and young people get to choose whether they want Medicare run by the government or get the equivalent of that cost to use towards a private insurance of their choice. This will drive the cost down with the good old' American way. Competition. Competition means choice for everyone. Competition, in case you were wondering, isn't the same as fighting each other.
If we can hold onto our thoughtless blurts of disgust and spontaneous angry reactions to the little stuff for just a while, we find we aren't that upset after all. When we don't waste the time responding to every word each other say with anger, we listen to the other guy a little more and understand where they are coming from a little bit better. Americans don't ask each other whether we are rich or poor when we are fighting for our country. It's not our style. We may not agree, but a compromise can surely be explored a lot easier on that safer frontier.
We built this country together. It seems like we haven't built anything in a long time. That's what it feels like. I know we can build a great future together. Would you rather let the government say they'll come up with something to help you out and you don't need to worry about what it is or what it costs? Or would you rather be involved by learning from and working with your countrymen to build something you believe in? I know, in fact I will guarantee you, as a successful business man who honestly cares about each and every one of you, if we all work harder, if we all work harder on working together we'll all be a lot richer.
Stand with me. Support me and the other Republicans in your state. Don't let them close more doors on opportunity. Let's make more doors of opportunity! Thank you and God Bless America.
Okay, so I'm not as good as Mitt would be. I'm just sayin'.
It's Adventure Time
There may be something wrong with having a tendency to see life through certain cartoons, but yah, here I go again. Like many Americans out there concerned with how the next election will turn out, I want to know how exactly the opposition to the Democratic Party will go about their plan of battle. I don't know about you but I have battle plans constantly rolling around in my head, because well, I'm more than concerned. I'm borderline frantic. I'm on edge. I'm wondering if Mitt Romney and the campaign leaders will actually have the bollocks to take the gloves off and put forth the effort to beat the Democratic Party at its own game. So far, I think they are behind on getting this show on the road, but I can be patient… Okay, no I can't. Might I relay some of my thoughts on the subject?
Is there anyone on the opposition of the Dems that can think like a liberal? I'm not saying is there a person that thinks this way all the time, just part-time, like on an "on-call" basis? This is very important, because there are certain liberal weaknesses we all enjoy and could be used like a bridge, a corpus callosum if you will, to the casm that spans our right brains and left brains. Weaknesses like our love for movies and cartoons. It's a welcomed weakness, but a weakness none the less because we tend to let our guard down when we are being entertained.
I heard two different references to the movie industry by conservative analysts in relation to how this campaign should be run. I think they are on the right track. Janine Turner made a comment about how actors in a great movie are super talented and feel bonded like one cohesive team. Dennis Miller referred to how Chris Christie running with Romney would be like Kevin Costner and Sean Connery in The Untouchables. Unstoppable. Bulletproof. That just shows how we are as conservatives seeking and longing for a hero. That's thinking liberally in a good way. We know realistically that real heroes don't run for the office of President and Vice President because they're not stupid enough to walk into that burning building, but we are definitely wishing on a star aren't we? I think we should prove to the other side that we haven't lost that sense of wonder. Let's show them we have a sense of adventure by showing what kind of change America can have when individuals like them imagine what can be built with a little hard work and cooperation. Why not think the whole campaign strategy could be a metaphorical representation of our ideal America and get the attention of a lot more of the folks who tend to think that way. Let me give you an example.
Cartoons are an art form and art was created to speak messages to us without having to actually be interested in the message. Even liberals turn on their right brains for anything that is portrayed as a display of "art". I think this is why art can be so powerful.
Cartoons have this wonderful way of keeping our attention to the very end because we are being entertained instead of being brow beat by live people who want to get their point across. Even when they are completely demented, the good ones with a moral lesson intertwined, seem to be the most successful cartoons. Why? Because we want to be better people, we just don't want to be told to be. In my spare time, I like to write children's books and the best ones are those that teach a lesson without seeming like they are teaching anything. SpongeBob is a perfect example of how good moral behavior can be disguised behind strange behavior and be hugely popular. Now if you've never watched SpongeBob, you have no idea what I'm talking about. And if you've never watched SpongeBob you definitely have never watched a fairly new cartoon out there called Adventure Time.
Talk about art, Adventure Time's artistic staff is absolutely stunningly talented. The colors and creativity that goes into each episode is entertainment alone. Then they add original musical pieces that are really quite clever and you have something any one with eyeballs would watch. That is my hope, because Adventure Time isn't just a great cartoon it implies something very important about what kind of people we should all be, heroes in a world of uncertainty.
The problem with being a hero is that it's complicated. That's the main theme. To me that kind of sounds like a story about being American. Hey, this is art. I can interpret it how I want to. We are so powerful as a whole, but as individuals it seems we are losing our grasp of what we really need to do with our lives. Fin and Jake the dog (not his dog) are the heroes of our story who always want to be good and win battles for that which is good. Fin is a thirteen year old young man who metaphorically represents our youthful vision of America and the world. Jake, Fin's best friend and a super stretchy shape-shifting dog represents the ever-expanding opportunity and freedom available in America that is to be taken advantage of in order to win. Princess Bubblegum, who is this super-genius sweetheart, represents the establishment, what is all-good and worth fighting for. It's funny because she tends to create bad things by accident (like our government) and needs Fin's help to get rid of them. One episode she created zombies and had to get Fin to keep it quiet while she worked on a cure or the candy kingdom would destroy itself in panic Essentially he had to make up and partake in what can only be described as a government cover-up while at the same time he righteously fought zombies to keep the unappreciative candy people safe. Tell me you don't see a common theme here.
If you really observe closely you'll see several poignant pieces with very American themes. A hero doesn't mean always killing the foe, but sometimes it does. Sometimes you don't recognize the foe because they are dressed in poor sad case clothing and pull at your heartstrings. Many times, it says you don't know who your foe is until the very end no matter what you do. Sometimes there's a possibility to solve problems with tools and technology and sometimes it takes brute strength to win. Sometimes you have to hold weak people up and sometimes you just have to teach them to turn their weaknesses into strength. Some problems are not your problem and you should stay out of it, but if it's a situation where evil is present, it's always your problem. Sometimes there are blood sucking dead girls that sneak into your house, but they're not necessarily evil. Okay, I don't know what that last one has to do with America, but my point is, this cartoon has some very conservative themes in it that are a joy to absorb. Just don't tell any liberals you watch Adventure Time. Just like kids if they find out you like it they won't watch it anymore.I'm just sayin'.
Once something is labeled as something with a moral backbone, you have to fight harder to make people pay attention. Everyone expects too much of individuals with moral messages all the while not even listening. Like Fin, a hero doesn't always know what to say. Good people aren't 100% good, but it doesn't make us hypocrites either. Good people are sometimes violent and loud, because that's what it takes. Good people plan because they don't always know how to fix things on the fly. When people call you slow or lazy or unprepared in the meantime, do not quit. Never give up. Never surrender. Never be ashamed of being a methodical planner. Remember that Republicans! It's such an adventure to be good.
With the new developments and precedents being set by the powers that be in America recently, I'm positive it is time to start hunkering down and becoming more aware of our hero work. A big part of that is making sure we have an America that can actually produce and house heroes. If we let America crash and worse yet go more towards and entitlement society, where we have to depend on the government for our scraps,individuals will become powerless and it will be too late. We are literally going to have to take advantage of all our tools, technology and tenacity to fight against the evil succubus that is in power today. I don't know if that includes time to watch cartoons, but in light of what I've said about it, maybe you can relax a little knowing liberals and those who do not care about politics are probably sitting and watching something that is good for them too.
President Obama's campaign spent more than $30 million to run TV ads on the subject of Romney being bad for American business for nearly three months even though the allegation that Mr. Romney "shipped jobs to China and Mexico" was called "misleading, unfair and untrue" by the Washington Post fact checker and labeled "bunk" in an editorial. The Annenberg Center's FactCheck.org said it found no evidence to support the claim that Romney shipped American jobs overseas, but still the commercials and "legal slander" continue.
I would imagine that over the next few months they are going to try and go all out to widen the gulf between those who know how to make/save money and those who do not. They are going to try to paint a picture of business people and rich business people in particular as those who use sneaky tactics to make money. They will portray hard work as something only noble poor people do. They will make poor people feel even more hopeless about their attempts at hard work and saving by telling them that both the rich and the government are miraculous staples in this country that can never be matched or achieved or changed by the common man. They will tell us the only difference between the two is that rich people want to remain rich so they do anything, use any and all hidden resources to keep it that way and that in contrast the government uses its "magic" to help the people. They will tell us the only way to change things is to give the government more of our support not the "mysterious" rich business people.
So how do we counter this Cro-Magnon campaign? We can't stay on the level and just keep up with the status quo. So far, Obama and the Dems are the status and we the Republicans, we're the quo. Let's say no to the quo. I say we need to go over the top imaginative. While they use their cash trying to lie and do those things I mentioned above, the Republicans, Independents, Tea Partiers and Dems who give a damn need to spend their money on wowing the hell out of us with a vision of a great future. Show it to us. I don't care if you have to hire Steven Spielberg himself. We need to out liberal mind the liberals. The only thing liberals like more than dwelling in their own sorrow is being distracted from the pain with something spectacularly inspiring.
Show us how private people and rich businessmen with big imaginations turn the world around. Bring as many of these men and women to the table and relay their potential to as many Americans as possible. Show the world that we will not rely on the government to make the leading strides in technology. Show us how innovators like Burt Rutan and Richard Branson are going to go all "X Prize" on our ass. Show us how we will therefore breathe new life back into innovation, breeding business, more engineers and therefore more wealth. All those bridges and wonderful things we have were built by engineers not the government, President Obama. No, I didn't build it, but some regular hard-working Americans did. The government may have given its permission to build the bridge, but they didn't build it or even plan it probably. But you know what? That's all it can do. Obama doesn't want anyone to think about the fact that all the government can really do is give you permission to do something or not do something. Do you really want them to do this in all aspects of your life? You don't even let your mom do that. Do you?
Back to the point. I think if we take the over the top, high energy, high special effect, historical fiction, science fiction-type approach we could really get more of the liberal types to open up their minds a little bit to our cause. That shouldn't be as hard a trick as what Obama and the Dems have to do. They have to try to convince us that the government can do all that inventing and a bag chips too. Well, they have NASA, I guess. Oh, wait, no. They're in the process of dismantling that. Hmm. I don't know how they're going to show us anything positive in motion for the future. The auto industry is doing just fine on its own, without any help from the government and has been for some time now. So I guess the car companies have already burst the government's bubble on taking credit for that one too.
What it comes down to is this. Fight negative pseudos with positive pseudos. You can't fight all Obama's lies with the cold hard truth necessarily. We saw this when Romney had his "Night at the Apollo" as I like to call it. Even though the NAACP was slightly receptive to Romney's speech in which he refused to pander it wasn't exactly something that inspired anyone in the audience to vote for him. What I refuse to do in contrast to many of the commentators I saw who spoke about the speech Romney gave at the NAACP, is imply that the audience members were racist and would not vote for Romney because he doesn't want to speak "their language". That's ridiculous. I think they will if he can inspire them. Remember, many African-Americans who were supporters of Obama are feeling in general, pretty darn used by the Obama campaign.
I think instead of using people or a particular group of people, we need to actually give them something they can use as a constituency to better their cause. If you give them something they need, their support will come. Come to think of it there are a lot of groups that have been used by the Obama campaign. They know they're being used, they just expected something in return. "Dollar make me holler, honey boo boo." Sorry, I had to. Find out what they need and use our imagination to actually give something to that effect to them. Anything is better than empty promises. Anything.
Republicans don't need a miracle. We just need to appeal to liberals' better, let's say more idealistic and prosperous nature. Let's embrace our liberals with tattoos and show them how to be true rebels. Help them surprise the living hell out of employers by showing them how to get skills and education that overshadow how they look. Let's be realistic. Employers are going to have to get used to working with tattoos just like they had to get used to working with women. We can be extremely distracting, but none the less can be invaluable assets to any team if we can bring the skills. Conservative leaders, surprise the hell out of liberals and other conservatives alike by supporting and appreciating the harmless if not good things about being liberal. In fact I think it would behoove the Mitt Romney campaign to recruit as many tattooed conservatives as they could find and publicize the hell out of them. They do exist! It won't be an easy task but I think it's worth it. Tattooed people talk to other tattooed people. That's just a fact. Now you might say, well why don't we just get old Mitt up there in the tattoo shop? Why don't we all get holey faces and ink up our skin? Well, that would just be too contrived wouldn't it and we don't want to do that. I'm not getting a tattoo. I think I get more attention without them. Then again, I won't be as effective at a biker rally as Spike with his Sarah Palin tattoo, will I? Isn't politics exciting? Isn't the whole thing a big dirty contrived mess? Absolutely, so we might as well make it worth our while and win the damn thing. Like I said, it's adventure time!
Please Go Newt!
Does anyone know what's going on here? Do you know how many Republicans have decided that they are too tired to watch any of the Republican debates or any kind of news about the campaign anymore? Try like everyone. All I know is I'm more than turned off and it's not because of the ugliness like sweet Mrs. Bush Sr. says. I don't think it's all that bad considering baggage does need to be aired. You don't want bed bugs creeping into your house later. You know what I'm saying? I think she just said that because that's what old ladies say when they can't say "this is a fuck". Pardon my French. I think she feels like many of us do, that we may have the wrong candidates in the lead and we're not quite sure what to do about it.
But the great thing is, it's not totally over! Now that the "ugliness" is relatively passed us, we should re-look at our candidates, don't you think? This kind of illusion that it's down to two candidates Romney and Santorum is merely that, an illusion. For one, I don't want us to think this race is over because we're clearly not happy with who we are going towards choosing as the Republican candidate. It's pretty obvious that that is the main reason why Republicans are sick of watching. We've got to that point again where we have gone through the traditional motions, gotten towards the end of that process and realized we've got a product we don't want. The Republican Party can't admit they're going the wrong direction when they're trying to win the election despite who the front running candidate is. The Republican win is the main goal. I know this.
But maybe the main goal of choosing the right Republican candidate should be getting the right candidate for what happens after the election in 2012. I think the candidates were correct in the beginning when they all said if you elect any of us it would be better than letting President Obama continue to be the president for four more years. I still agree with that. What I think is happening now is kind of like… Well, have you ever been baking something new and you follow the recipe, you followed everything that the recipe said exactly. You get to the end of it and it's nothing like you thought it would be. It doesn't taste good, it's falling apart and you've got a party to serve. How embarrassing.
We've faithfully depended on our process of choosing a candidate and here we are getting towards the end and oh no… we can tell it's starting to look funny. Frankly, I think Romney scares the hell out of most of us. And Santorum is just so …Magoo. I don't know what else to say. We have gotten ourselves into a process that when you come right down to it is not a good recipe. The recipe is very much a beauty contest or a popularity contest and it likens itself to a lot like a High School Class President election. But wait a minute, we don't really just want to elect someone we think is the most popular or who we see is going to be a winner do we? This can't be about seeing ourselves standing next to what looks like a guaranteed winner. That's Pseudos.
The real candidate for an American President is someone who still carries that old-school-American, Reaganistic spirit we love and miss. We need someone who can be calmly strong and who can be smart in high pressure situations. You know what? I think this man we're looking for is a nerd, and an arrogant one at that. The one none of us liked in High School and in fact the exact opposite of who we would vote for class president. But see, we're all grown up now and we can appreciate the need for someone who is completely confident in his intelligence and bold with his ideas of fixing this joint. If you've ever had to deal with an engineer you know this simple rule: don't ask an engineer to fix something if you can't deal with the correct way to fix something. We really need to set our pride aside and start paying attention to the person we would go to for real answers; especially if we needed them in a pinch.
It's funny, but when people believe their time is short, they put all stereotypes and prejudices aside to get to what is important. When we're failing math and we're about to be kicked off the team, who do we go to for study help? Who's the one we have to go to when we were too lazy to do the homework? Who always has the vocabulary list for the quiz? The nerd.
Of course I'm talking about Newt Gingrich. If you don't think Newt's a nerd, more power to you, but please note that this means you too are a nerd. J Newt is the guy that has worked his butt off all his life and has been getting the straight A's. He has been paying attention, he's been taking the notes, he's been taking the crap too and still, we're not willing to give the nerd some credit? Hey, this is America. We're not like that. Our country of America is the country that holds up the nerd with pride. Revenge of The Nerds is one of our classic movies for a reason. There are those who still hold Booger up there as one of their all-time favorite, All-American heroes just based on his burping talent, among other things. You know who you are. Let's do this! Let's raise up the appreciation of nerd abilities this day because what we need now is someone who knows how to do some basic accounting, some basic economics, some basic history and maybe some basic science would be good too. The thing about nerds is they revel in a challenge, in the unexpected. They are successful because they have the mindset to completely surprise people with something spectacular when the people whole-heartedly expected the opposite.
Hold the phone. Wait a minute here. Newt is no Booger. He's actually got some pretty cool skills that make him a super nerd. Like Clark Kent! He's a diplomat. Not many nerds are diplomats. He's got a great sense of humor. Not many nerds have senses of humor. He's got a hot wife. Not many nerds have that. Needless to say, he's got good qualities people and I think we need to start thinking about this seriously in these last few races. This is no time to bail out on the process. They can matter. We need to make this cake work and can if we can get around to doing something about what we really want for the future. Not just about what we think is good for the popular election, I should say. You should be very worried when the main stream media starts endorsing a certain Republican and it also just so happens to be the same way we're going in our process of elimination. To search for who will be the most popular or electable is just following into the Democratic Party's ways of life. That does not get us anywhere.
We've got two Republican candidates that all day debate about who is the most conservative. Meanwhile, we're thinking uh, Romney and Santorum are both too damn conservative. Preaching to the choir is an understatement. They continue to show us they believe that we will not elect someone who may be a little bit of an underdog. Actually, this is a quality in candidates Americans tend to empathize with more. President Obama is a direct result of that. Apparently Republican campaign advisors think the Republican Party is all about being conservative and I think they've missed the mark completely. The majority of swing votes are going to come from the middle to left of the Republican and Independent voters. I'd be sad to think this concentration on conservativism was not just a fight against President's liberal policies but also someone's single-handed wet dream of eliminating the purpose of the Tea Party all together with this election as well. That could be a very costly mistake.
Albeit I think if we happen to elect someone who is super conservative I don't believe they can ever get us to the point where all mainstream views are threatened. Because we are way the hell over to left and getting kind of out-of-control, it would probably just swing us enough over to the right to make us more in the middle.
Newt by all means is what I would consider your average conservative. I don't see how his baggage is much different than many Republicans I know. We all have a history full of mistakes. (That's how we get to be so wise.) And since we've gotten over Newt Gingrich's history of his many divorces, his obvious stray from conservatism, I think we're definitely steering in clearer waters. Seriously, is that's all you got? A man who has lived in Washington DC for as long as he lived and that's all you got? He's a freakin' angel.
Newt Gingrich reminds me of America. He is smart. He is observant and is maybe not necessarily who you want to like. Kind of like the nerd you want to just stick in a locker sometimes because he so arrogant about what he knows in that big ol' Q-tip head of his. He kind of goes off on these tangents where we can't follow. So we think, is he trying to make us feel stupid? That's essentially why we don't like nerds, but in this case we really need that. We need someone who's ability to think out-of-the-box surpasses the average individual. I have not seen that from Romney. I've not seen not that from Santorum. Even as the leader, Romney tends to do what he knows is popular and what you know he needs to do to get the job done systematically. I don't see him doing anything that inspires me or inspires our country.
I don't see Santorum inspiring our country to the point where we are all on the same page. I think he already has gotten himself into the conundrum of causing division just by simply falling into some of these traps that the left wing media has laid for him. Newt is the one person who has shined on both of those points in that he has not repelled/excluded anyone with his personal beliefs and he's caused people to be inspired. You've seen that with the two standing ovations. (Now I think he's trying not to get them for the thought that they may start to look contrived.) And he has also been the only one to be able to show some kind of balls when it comes to standing up to the media. Those three things alone say this is our dude. We need someone who's going to help us step out of this left wing media charged box of self-imprisonment. Let's not govern ourselves by the Middle East's, the European, the East's, the west coast's or the east coast's opinions and prejudices of us. We can no longer afford to do that.
The real candidate for an American President is someone who still carries that old-school Reaganistic spirit we love and miss; someone who can be strong and who can be smart in pressure situations. You know what? I think this man we're looking for is a nerd, and an arrogant one at that. We need someone who is completely confident in his intelligence and bold with his ideas of fixing this joint.
And the only man who is shown any kind of inkling of an ability to do that is Newt Gingrich and we have little time to show him and the country that he is our man. So if you're out there and you're able to vote or you're able to do something about this please root for Newt!
I think a Newt Gingrich/Perry or a Gingrich/Palin ticket would be strong… to very strong. In a way, a Gingrich/Palin ticket would maybe remind Americans they had a second chance to erase the mistake they made last time. I'm just sayin'. Some said that Palin was the reason why McCain lost the election in '08, but we all know that wasn't it. The left-wing media just said that to try and take down a female conservative and the McCain campaign needed a convenient scapegoat for failure. The overall reason McCain lost the election for Republicans was the overwhelming weakness the people began to see in him.
Unfortunate as it was, at the same time Palin was announced his running mate, McCain suddenly became very vulnerable looking on conservative issues as well as appearing weak in his physical health. Both attributed to his appearance of being the weaker candidate when compared with Obama. I think again the Republican campaign advisers missed the mark on what our idea of what we as Americans (not as individuals) identify with.
McCain campaigned as the hero that he is. Unfortunately, not all American heroes are built alike when it comes to what the American people see as heroes they would want as the President. Americans are actually more taken with the ordinary American hero more so than the P.O.W. super-sacrificial soldier hero of lore. Of course we hold our military, our soldiers to the highest degree of honor and standards for that matter, but then again we don't hold ourselves to that standard. I think we all tend to want to have a President that is a hero but also somebody we can still identify with. He or she needs to have the appearance of having walked in our shoes for a bit. Romney does not fit this shoe, and Santorum seems to be wearing elf shoes. It may not be the truth, but what the people are seeing in this case does matter.
This generation of Republicans identify with the real beneficial "change" that took place in the late 80's and also with Americans that remind them of a more Reaganesque time. I think Gingrich has got that hands down and that Sarah Palin adds no weakness or loftiness to the image whatsoever. Americans are leaders not followers. Some of our leaders just happen to be nerds. Go Newt! Go!


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We are very proud of Anand. He has done the nation proud. The past few months have been good for Indian sport. —Dilip Tirkey, hockey player
I am really happy Anand has proved his class. I have been following his exploits. He is a great ambassador of chess the world over. —Pankaj Advani, cueist
It's a wonderful achievement. Winning a world title is not easy in any sport. All credit to him that people are taking to chess in India. —Rohan Bopanna, tennis player
I think this is a great thing for Indian sport. I do not understand the intricacies of chess, but yes, I have followed him very keenly. —Manavjit Singh Sandhu, shooter
It's a fantastic achievement from a great sporting icon. His consistency and performances over all these years have been inspiring. —Rahul Dravid, cricketer
Winning the world title is the best thing that can happen to anyone and it shows your class. Anand is a legend as his career proves. —Jeev Milkha Singh, golfer
It is always great to see Indian sportspersons perform. We are racing towards becoming world champions in several sports. —Narain Karthikeyan, racer
Great news for Indian sport. Anand has consistently done well and. I only hope this performance spurs more Indians to take to chess. —Bhaichung Bhutia, footballer
I am happy for him. This is going to inspire many, including me. One billion people back home wanted him to win and he proved himself. —Tania Sachdev, chess player
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Tyronne Ebuehi's ADO Den Haag suffered their 2nd loss in a row going down 0-2 to Sadiq Umars NAC Breda in a Dutch league game at the Cars Jeans Stadium yesterday
It was always going to be an uphill task for ADO who had to play over a half with ten men after a red card was issued for Ivorian Wilfried Kanon for a foul on Nigerian Olympic striker Sadiq Umar
Ado Den Haag also lost influential Nigerian International right back Tyronne Ebuehi in the 67th minute to a suspected groin injury
ADO had started off the better side getting a few good chances through Nasser El Khayati, Erik Falkenburg and Bjørn Johnsen but As the minutes passed, the visitors got more grip on the game and that resulted in a big chance in the twelfth minute. Angelino put the ball dangerously in the box with a free kick, but keeper Zwinkels saved on a header from Sadiq Umar
NAC eventually broke the deadlock against the run of play in the 18th minute through Mounir El Allouchi
NAC made it 2-0 when Kanon was adjudged to have fouled the dangerous Umar Sadiq in his own sixteen-yard area.
Referee Danny Makkelie issued a straight red for the Ivorian and Sadiqs strike partner French youngster Thierry Ambrose converted the spot kick
Things got worse for ADO when Nigerian right back Tyronne Ebuehi had to leave the field with groin complaints halfway through the second half
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Sadiq almost made it 3 in the 2nd half but ADO keeper Zwinkels made a brilliant save to deny the Nigerian
Due to the loss, ADO Den Haag remains at 36 points going into Next week away match against Excelsior while NAC will receive Roda JC in the Rat Verlegh Stadium on Sunday
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Japanese intentions to invade mainland Australia during World War Two have long been the subject of passionate debate amongst historians worldwide. Some scholars are convinced that the Japanese had made solid preparations to invade mainland Australia but their plans were thwarted by the Allied victory at the Battle of the Coral Sea. Others state that the Japanese were too busy consolidating their position in South East Asia in preparation for the inevitable entry of significant US forces in the region. The theories touted by both of these parties are irrelevant for our purposes. Regardless of their actual intentions, the Japanese "Jungle Blitzkrieg" so seriously concerned Allied military planners that significant resources and manpower were concentrated on the defence of Australia. The important issue is that Australia was fortified for invasion and that plans were drawn for a guerrilla campaign to wear out the Japanese forces before an allied counter attack.
It is a matter of historical record that Australian government and military planners were deeply worried about the prospect of a Japanese invasion and extensive plans and "defence schemes" were devised to defend Australia in the event of large areas of the mainland being occupied by the Japanese. It is known that part of these plans involved pre-positioning stockpiles of civil relief materials and food for use by civilians and military personnel caught in areas of the Australian Mainland overrun by the enemy.
Australian Intelligence had received reports from Chinese and US sources, which seemed to confirm our government's worst fears. The Curtin government openly admitted its concerns to its citizens and implemented a massive civil defence program. This was accompanied by public announcements about the Japanese threat as evidenced by official posters, pamphlets and radio recordings that exist at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
It's Fight, Work or Perish!
The enemy Thunders at our very gates. Everything we cherish is in immediate peril.
As Australia's leader I can no longer wait to argue with you, appeal to you or reason with you. There is no time: the danger is too great.
Strikes, lockouts, provocation, profiteering and exploitation increase our national danger. They must cease. What we have done, or are doing, is not as good as what we can do–should do–and must do.
You must make complete sacrifice for Australia or become a complete sacrifice to the enemy.
It's fight, work–or perish.
Rt. Hon. John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia.
Australian Government's position on the threat of a Japanese invasion of Australia may not have been far off the mark as originally thought.
New information has come to light suggesting that the the Australian Government's position on the threat of a Japanese invasion of Australia may not have been far off the mark as originally thought.
According to a United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) report from October 1942, the Japanese were actively planning an invasion of Australia in June or July 1942. The OSS report is based upon information secretly passed to an OSS asset by neutral Spanish diplomatic staff in Tokyo.
The report extract below appears to be derived from minutes of a Japanese Imperial War Council meeting and details Japanese motivations for carrying out such a costly operation.
The costly lesson learned by the Japanese during their attack at Midway has resulted in the opinion, apparently held by Admiral Suetsugu, that surface operations even with carrier air support cannot successfully be carried out within 750 miles of a strong enemy base of shore-based aircraft. He believes that the Japanese possessions in the Western Pacific can only be made impregnable by concentrating on the strengthening of their air defence and that only Australia remains as an obstacle to the creation of a perfect defensive chain. However, he appears to have felt that Australia has already been reinforced to such an extent that operations designed only to isolate it would cause such heavy losses that its subsequent invasion would be rendered impossible.
The above opinion, claimed to have been voiced at a meeting of Japan's policy-makers, was in general agreed to by other members, but it was felt that regardless of losses, Australian invasion plans must be pursued. General Tojo, the Prime Minister, agreed that Australia must be reduced. General Asaka and General Terauchi supported General Tojo, but pointed out that unless Fiji, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia were soon captured, such a plan would have little chance of success and the Japanese gains in the South West Pacific Area would become increasingly endangered. General Tojo expressed the opinion that in order to cut down the losses of naval operations against the Australian mandates, a simultaneous attack by the landing of a massive expeditionary force at several points on the Australian mainland should be undertaken.
In December 1942, Chinese Intelligence sources provided details of what appears to be the general strategic concepts of the proposed operation. The Japanese Military Headquarters had drawn up plans for a large-scale military incursion into the Australian mainland in mid 1942. The concept of the operation was described as follows:
The base of operation was to be situated in the areas comprising the Nan Yang (South Seas) and New Guinea. By adopting a defensive strategy against the US naval forces the Japanese hoped to be able to defend their left flank. The main defence for this flank was a massive minefield in the Straits of Malacca. This would effectively block any naval force attacking the Japanese supply areas from the Indian Ocean.
A force consisting of warships and transports was to make a lightning attack on Darwin in the hope of drawing US and Australian forces into the isolated areas between Katherine and Birdum. Then the main invasion force would set out from Sunda Strait and Christmas Island and land on the Australian coast in the vicinity of Fremantle. The Japanese would then attempt to control the railways and harbour facilities west of Esperance Bay and Sandstone before advancing eastward.
The operation was originally planned to take place in mid-June 1942 with Japanese military supplies stockpiled at a large base at Java in the Netherlands East Indies (now the Republic of Indonesia). Japanese troop transportation and reception centres were established throughout the area and plans were drawn to secure the sea and air routes down the Northwest coast of Australia.
The attack was apparently postponed on account of US-led counter-attacks such as the Battle of the Coral Sea and once the Japanese started to lose their initiative and were forced to concentrate on defending the areas they had already annexed, the Invasion of Australia plans were never implemented. The authenticity of the invasion plan as described by the Chinese sources is a matter of contention.
Some academics argue that the plan above is a fake and that the Chinese may have thought that an authentic-looking Japanese invasion plan might have forced the Allies to fast-track plans to clear the enemy from Southeast Asia. This would have helped make China a major theatre for Allied operations rather than the Southwest Pacific. The truth is almost certainly lost to the mists of time, but the plan is included here to illustrate the kind of intelligence acted upon by the Curtin government. It certainly helps to explain why the Australian government was publicly discussing a pending Japanese invasion well into 1944 when, as we know now, the Japanese were barely capable of defending the Japanese Home Islands, the Philippines and their Mandated Territories.
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Publication - Consultation paper
Scotland's Oral Health Plan: consultation on the future of oral health
- Directorate:
- Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate
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- Health and social care
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Consultation on how we take dental services forward to meet the challenges of the future.
Supporting files
3 Addressing the Challenges
Identifying the Challenges
3.1 One of the Scottish Government's key priorities is the need to address the significant and persistent inequalities in the population and the adverse effect these have on health outcomes. The evidence from the National Dental Inspection Programme ( NDIP) shows that although oral health has improved significantly across all communities, children living in the most deprived communities still have more decay experience compared with those in the least deprived.
3.2 There continues to be an increase in the incidence of oral cancer, while that of other cancers is decreasing. While oral cancer primarily affects those over 50 years of age it can also affect younger people.
3.3 The current system in NHS dentistry is embedded in a restorative culture. However this does not fit with the new preventive agenda that we are already seeing with the Childsmile Programme. There is a need to further incentivise prevention rather than treatment amongst the dental team, with the resultant improvements in oral health and costs avoided of otherwise having to provide relatively expensive restorative treatments.
3.4 The improvements that have been made in oral health in Scotland have also presented us with new challenges. The increasing ageing population combined with more adults retaining some or all of their natural teeth inevitably means there will be a significant increase in people requiring domiciliary care, either in their own home or in residential care.
Reducing Oral Health Inequalities
3.5 Despite the success of the Childsmile Programme, health inequalities with respect to oral health persist in Scotland. For example, 53 per cent of Primary 1 children in the most deprived areas have 'no obvious decay'; the equivalent figure for the least deprived areas is 83 per cent. [8] This gap between least and most deprived needs to be further addressed and engagement with parents, communities and certain Third Sector organisations will be key to achieving this.
3.6 Similarly, the proportion of adults living in the most deprived areas who had some natural teeth was 86 per cent, compared with 95 per cent of those in the least deprived areas. In addition, nearly three times as many people from the most deprived backgrounds as those from the least deprived had no natural teeth. [9]
3.7 At present, as part of the Childsmile Nursery Programme, three and four year olds benefit from daily supervised toothbrushing. We will extend this programme to two year old children with nursery places. In addition we will extend the fluoride varnish element of the Childsmile Nursery Programme to the 20 per cent most deprived children at a Scottish level, as measured by the national Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation ( SIMD).
3.8 For adults, we will look to take a more holistic approach to the NHS dental examination by introducing an Oral Health Risk Assessment ( OHRA) to help patients improve and maintain their oral health. This would mean patients receiving dental advice more specific to their needs. For example, the benefits of smoking cessation and diet advice in relation to oral health can also contribute to the improvement of the general health of patients.
3.9 The 2012 National oral health improvement strategy for priority groups [12] set a clear direction for NHS Boards regarding frail older people, people who were homeless and people with special care needs (e.g. a person with a learning disability). It is clear that there are many effective measures to prevent oral diseases if action is taken early. NHS Boards have begun to take action to support people within these priority groups. In future the intention would be to encourage NHS Boards to identify and share best practice. The Scottish Government will look at ways to facilitate this and establish a more joined-up approach across NHS Boards and localities.
Oral Cancer Pathway
3.10 There continues to be an increase in the incidence of oral cancer, while that of other cancers is decreasing. In the United Kingdom, oral cancers account for between 1 per cent and 4 per cent of all malignancies. [13] The major risk factors in the development of oral cancer include tobacco use and the excessive consumption of alcohol, and these risks multiply when in combination.
3.11 A clear association is seen between social deprivation and incidence rates of oral cancer and this relationship is stronger in males. Whilst approximately 90 per cent of new cases of oral cancer occur in people aged over 50 years, oral cancer should not be considered a disease affecting only older people.
3.12 At the dental examination a discussion between dentist and patient about risk factors can help patients manage those behaviours which increase the risk of oral cancer. If, at the dental examination, the dentist has concerns that a patient may have signs of oral cancer we will ensure that there is a consistent approach to urgent referral to an oral cancer care pathway to streamline diagnosis and treatment.
Summary of Proposals:
- Move towards a national SIMD basis for targeting fluoride varnish in children;
- Improve our engagement with parents, communities and those Third Sector organisations that help support people with special care needs;
- Look at ways to ensure a consistent joined-up approach between NHS Boards to improve oral health and services for people with special care needs;
- Review the approaches taken by NHS Boards regarding their oral cancer pathways to streamline diagnosis and treatment.
Modernising NHS Dental Services
3.13 The current system of remuneration for independent GDPs is complex, difficult to administer and manage, while equally difficult for patients and GDPs to understand. The number of different types of payments, and mechanisms for making payment, mean that it is difficult to appropriately incentivise GDPs to provide the care which delivers the desired oral health outcomes.
3.14 There are over 400 items of treatment that a GDP could provide, each of which has a set fee (for example, GDPs earn a fee for filling a tooth). The items of treatment which GDPs can provide under NHS arrangements and the associated payments to GDPs, and patient charges, are set down in the Statement of Dental Remuneration ( SDR).
3.15 It is our aspiration to introduce a preventive care pathway with more emphasis on maintaining or improving the level of oral health. Our vision for a new preventive dental culture requires a system of payments to dentists which reflects its positive nature and aligns payments to the needs of the patient, whilst rewarding the time, effort and hard work that the dental team put in to promoting and maintaining good oral health.
3.16 Initially this new preventive care pathway will be introduced for children in good, stable oral health, building on the continuing success of the Childsmile Programme. We anticipate that the majority of children at present would qualify for this new preventive treatment pathway. The new pathway will run concurrently with item of treatment. This recognises that where a child has poor or unstable oral health then continuing to remunerate the dentist through item of treatment would be more appropriate.
3.17 As children with stable oral health transfer into the adult service (i.e. from the age of 18) they will remain on the preventive care pathway. Children with poor or unstable oral health on reaching the age of 18 will remain on item of treatment.
3.18 Initially all existing adults will remain on item of treatment, as this recognises that a proportion of the adult population will require treatment on a regular basis. Over time it is expected that adult patients with stable oral health would move from item of treatment to a preventive treatment pathway. This would be a gradual change and informed by the new preventive pathway for younger adults.
3.19 We will also review the items of treatment within the SDR to ensure they are up to date and fit for purpose.
Oral Health Risk Assessments ( OHRA)
3.20 Our intention would be to introduce an Oral Health Risk Assessment ( OHRA) for all patients at 18 years of age as part of oral health care planning. An OHRA involves a full dental examination and includes a discussion between the dentist and patient about associated risk factors such as smoking, alcohol intake and medication. This patient-centred approach encourages the involvement of patients in managing their own oral health.
3.21 Introducing OHRAs at this age reintroduces oral health surveillance at a key age. This would provide young people at a transitional stage in their lives with tailored oral health information that will assist them in caring for their oral health more effectively.
3.22 We anticipate that OHRAs would be repeated at regular intervals to ensure that this group of people were receiving the most appropriate treatment for their oral health and to ensure they are on the correct pathway.
Patient Charges
3.23 At present children under 18 years of age are entitled to free NHS dental treatment, while all adult patients receive free NHS dental examinations.
3.24 Following a dental examination, unless an adult patient is entitled to free NHS dental treatment or qualifies for help towards the cost, they are currently required to pay 80 per cent of their NHS dental treatment cost up to a maximum of £384 per course of treatment, with the Scottish Government meeting the remaining costs.
3.25 At present the charging system is extremely complex; the amount an adult patient is required to pay towards the cost of their NHS dental treatment depends on the extent and nature of the treatment they receive.
3.26 We propose that when adult patients on the preventive care pathway receive treatment, they will pay a simplified system of charges.
3.27 This could be the first step in simplifying the system of patient charges towards the cost of NHS dental care and treatment.
Summary of Proposals:
- All children with stable oral health would transfer into the new preventive care pathway.
- All adults (and children with poor and unstable oral health) would remain on item of treatment.
- The existing SDR will be reviewed to ensure it is up to date and fit for purpose.
- An OHRA would be introduced, in the first instance at 18 years of age and would be free of charge.
- As children transfer into the adult service (at 18 years of age) they would remain on the new preventive care pathway, unless the OHRA determines that they should revert to item of treatment.
- If, after completing the OHRA, it is decided that an adult patient, who is required to pay a contribution to their NHS dental treatment, will remain on item of treatment they will continue to pay a percentage of the cost of their NHS dental treatment, up to a set maximum per course of treatment.
- If an adult patient's OHRA determines that they qualify for the new system of preventive dental care, we propose a simplified system of charges payable when treatment is provided.
Enhanced Service Model
3.28 A full range of NHS dental treatments are able to be delivered by GDPs. However, some treatments such as oral surgery and treatment under intravenous sedation, are increasingly being referred inappropriately to the PDS and HDS, which inevitably has a detrimental impact on these services. These procedures could alternatively be delivered by GDPs with enhanced skills or specialists working in 'enhanced service' practices.
This will:
- allow patients to receive more complex treatments closer to home without the need to attend a hospital;
- shift the balance of care from secondary to primary care dental services.
Top Ten Reasons for Admitting a Child to Hospital for Day Cases (2013-14) [16]
3.29 Given H&SCPs' role in strategic planning and commissioning of health and care services, we anticipate that H&SCPs will be able to commission enhanced services within a National Framework, including:
- domiciliary care (complex cases);
- oral surgery (complex extractions);
- restorative services (complex treatment);
- treatment under intravenous sedation;
- orthodontics.
Domiciliary Care for Dependent Older People in Care Settings
3.30 At present the majority of oral health care for dependent older people in a care home setting is provided by the PDS. Our proposal is to ensure that these services are delivered where possible by GDP-led teams. This could be by introducing an enhanced service model for the provision of domiciliary care in a care home setting. There should be recognition that practices delivering an enhanced service to treat care home patients may need specific experience and equipment. The same approach could be used for highly dependent people cared for at home.
Emerging Technologies and Treatments
3.31 We will continue to review the clinical and economic evidence for new technologies and treatments to determine whether they can be delivered within the NHS through an enhanced service model.
3.32 At present the budget for GDS is held centrally by the Scottish Government. There are a number of areas where we envisage greater control by NHS Boards and H&SCPs in the delivery of local NHS dental services, for example, the proposals around enhanced service delivery. Given that H&SCPs are now fully operational it would seem sensible to begin to consider options for them to take on greater responsibility for the financial planning and management for GDS.
Summary of Proposals:
- Introduce an enhanced service model for the provision of domiciliary care in a care home setting, and for highly dependent people in their own homes.
- Undertake in partnership with NHS Boards and H&SCPs the development work to pilot additional enhanced services within GDS in oral surgery, restorative services, intravenous sedation and orthodontic care.
- Consider options for how H&SCPs can take on greater responsibility for the financial planning and management for GDS.
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My teaching in France has been a far cry from teaching high school English. I feel like I'm only just now starting to actually teach, and I've been here for nearly two months!
During the first few weeks, I introduced myself and observed each of the different classes for about an hour. I'm working in nine classrooms in three different schools, so there is a lot of variety in classroom behavior and English proficiency. For example, at one of the schools there are several kids from American and British families and even though I'm used to working with bilingual kids at the ISA, I'm still blown away by a child's ability to master languages. However, in other classes, it's a struggle just to get them to distinguish between the French pronunciation of spider (since they know Spiderman) and the English pronunciation of spider. They struggle with the long 'i' sound and have the typical francophone tendency to put more emphasis on the last syllable of a word, so the English pronunciation of spider becomes 'spee-DAIR.' They're making some progress, but there's only so much I can do when I'm only in the classroom for an hour, thirty minutes with one group and then thirty minutes with another.
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Most of my lessons so far have revolved around Halloween. After teaching the same two or three lessons nine times over the course of three weeks, I am so burned out on Halloween! The French have started celebrating the holiday over the past ten years or so, but their schema of Halloween costumes is limited to the scary. When I showed the two kids from my host family some of the typical kid Halloween costumes, their reactions were quite hilarious: "C'est nul, ça!" roughly translating to "Well that's useless/What's the point of that?" Why wear a princess or superhero costume when Halloween is supposed to be scary? However, I learned that the French dress up in costumes during the Carnival season before Mardi Gras, so there you have it.
Thanksgiving is an entirely different matter. The kids and the teachers know next to nothing about the history and traditions, so I've had the rough task of historian thrust on me. Luckily I brought along a couple of books with illustrations that have helped me to explain pilgrims, the Mayflower, the New World, Squanto, etc. A few of the sharper kids have asked me why the pilgrims and Native Americans are friends in the story of Thanksgiving when they actually fight and kill each other -- that hypocrisy is hard enough to explain in English already, but I'm doing the best I can.
|Me circa 1994 (?) -- An elementary Thanksgiving
- Tarte aux pommes?
- Tarte au citron?
- Des mandarines?
- Des abricots?
- Tarte aux cérises?
They know not the deliciousness of all things pumpkin-flavored, peuchères.
I'm going to have some Thanksgiving desserts with the American family on Wednesday and hopefully have a Thanksgiving get-together with the other language assistants in Pierrelatte. I wish I could have some of Mimi's delicious mashed potatoes too, but that will have to wait.


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Saturday, March 12, 2011North Carolina
I'm really not sure how to sum this one up. I could throw out a bunch of adjectives: Crazy, stupid, awesome, fun, challenging, rusty, tall, muscle burning. Or I could just leave a quick note and say that you gave me one hell of an adventure for my 1000th find. I'll take neither of those approaches since they are both WAY to short for my long-winded self.
We approached from the listed parking coordinates and saw baseball fields that were completely depressing, but more importantly we saw the cache in the distance. Yes. Thats right. We could spot the location about .2 miles away. My heart fluttered as I knew I had designated myself the climber for this rag-tag group. As we made the descent through the (thankfully) dead Kudzu. My mouth dried up a little as I made jokes about falling to my death. (which my boss told me I would)
We arrived at GZ and I immediately hopped up onto the <i>failed apparatus</i> (that's a pun - although it sounds gross/dirty when I think about it now) hoping to see the cache. Bending over backwards and tilting allowed me to place my head in the center of the device and look straight up....uncomfortably. I couldn't see anything but that didn't mean it as there. I decided to let SmithPeaknuckle stand on my back as I rested on all fours to see if he could see it. Still nothing. dang. Guess I'm just going up.
The first step up was the hardest. Some might say one giant step for man. Not sure who those some are though. Before I knew it I was scaling the rust beast without a safety rope and a small crowd of soon to be happy cachers, if I found it. I got near the top and was thankful to spot the cache within arms reach as I was originally afraid it would be somewhere way to hard to grab. I immediately had a realization. There was NO WAY I was going to be able to retrieve, open, and sign it for all of us with my limited strength and wavering nerves. We decided that the best bet was to throw it to the ground. I did. As the log was being signed, I made my descent to that perilous first step where the container was tossed up to me for my second climb.
Arms burning, breathing heavy, cache in my mouth, and my mind thinking back to the time as a young kid where I got stuck on my parents garage roof because I was too scared to take the first step on the ladder, I reached the summit for the second time in about 15 minutes. (maybe longer. I kind of blacked out for a bit) I quickly placed the cache container back to the spot where I found it. or at least roughly.
Back down I come. As hard as that first step was the last step was even harder for me. Thankfully SmithyPeaknuckle guided my foot to a safe spot and I touched down safely. Everyone in the crew contributed on this one. R&R was the photographer, SmithyPeaknuckle was the guidance, FailedApparatus was the log signer, and some other guy stood around a lot. :)
As I write my final words on my 1000th cache I sit here wondering.....did he really sign my name to that log?
Thanks for an awesome cache!!!
The crew heading tot he cache
Up there?!?!
Up, up and away
I love you crane. I'm very attached to you
Goodbye dear friends!!
Showing a travel bug that went to the top with me
Eric helping me touch down
beast in the distance
Happy to be alive
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