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The Scotland Yard Review and Ad Hominem Attacks in the Madeleine McCann Case
I just wrote a set of responses to comments on my last post and I thought I should copy and paste them in a new post because I think they are important enough to restate in a place where more might see them. The comments I received where on my belief that the Scotland Yard review of the Madeleine McCann case is a whitewash and the recent ad hominem attacks on me that been quite vicious, mostly attacking my professionalism or the fact I am getting my information secondhand from the Internet (which is pretty much true for everyone commenting on this case except that I have been to Praia da Luz and investigated on the ground and I have met withGonçalo Amaral). Here are my responses below:
The second reason I have no faith in the Scotland Yard investigation is how inappropriately it has been handled. I have seen reviews before and they don't require this much time and money. Even if the detectives of Scotland Yard, including Andy Redwood, were sent in with the remit that the McCanns were off limits and the Yard was to focus on the abduction theory, it is hard to believe they would spend so many years and millions on the review without at some point, realizing that no evidence of an abduction occurred and the Tapas 9 behaviors and statements along with the cadaver and blood dog hits just might be where they should be looking. Since so much time has passed and so many abductors looked at, so much ground has been dug up that clearly was linked to the abduction theory, one can only surmise, at least I can, that the remit stands regardless of what anyone thinks. Who knows? Maybe Andy Redwood was only trying to do the job he was required to do and, maybe, he knows that it is hogwash and has tried to leave a few hints to the truth along the way. Maybe this was what getting rid of Tannerman and focusing on Smithman was about. However, since Tannerman must have been fabricated, this certainly can't be any kind of clever ruse to use against the McCanns because in court, the defense would shred the police for misconduct. The prosecution in this case had been dead in the water prior to the arrival of Scotland Yard and they have only made matters worse, if something can be deader than dead. ONLY if they find REAL evidence of someone having abducted Maddie (like her body being found buried under someone's cement porch or enclosed in the brick wall of their home) or Maddie's body being found in such a place and with such evidence to link to the McCanns, is a prosecution in Portugal going to happen.
As to the public view of this case and the guilt of the McCanns, they matter little in the eyes of people who control things unless they are a real threat. Outrage is only so good if it has some kind of true power. The outrage against the McCanns is pretty much just on the Internet and in comments. This is not real power. When people take to the street in droves, then you have something, but even with the horrible waste of taxpayer money by Scotland Yard on a case that isn't even British or likely prosecutable, where is the real protest? There isn't one and that is why when Scotland Yard closes this case down with some dead creepy guy or a "we tried our best" the whole case will go quietly away except on the Internet where people who have websites and FB pages and tweet will believe still that the whole world is watching and not just some very tiny segment of it. That Sonia can make a difference with her documentary is questionable, although I appreciate her doing it. Unless she is really on a major MSM channel (which I find unlikely), I think her documentary will be much like Hall's; very useful to posterity but not so much still enough to turn public protest around and expose enough of the corruption to turn this case around.
As far as the ad hominem attacks on me for not buying into certain theories, my frustration is mostly at seeing things devolve from a clear focus on this case of the McCanns' involvement in the death of their daughter and a subsequent hurried coverup and support of Gonçalo Amaral and his fight for justice, to a dozen very convoluted theories that I believe only serve to damage the antis message that the McCanns are not innocent and the fund has been stealing money for years from unsuspecting people. In becoming so obsessed with creating alternative scenarios to the one Amaral had forwarded, the label of nutters and conspiracy theorists is going to cause the message to be killed. While I take issue with many of these theories, I have never made a personal attack on other antis because I don't want others to think ill of them and, quite frankly, I don't think ill of them for thinking differently than me, so I see no reason to not still be friendly and polite. I don't want to cause the antis to disband into camps that attack each other (which is what I am seeing happening) and give fodder for the pros to abuse us.
I feel bad for all because I know they mean well, but, sadly, along with what I believe will be closing of this case by Scotland Yard without any prosecution of the McCanns, the message going into the future which should be one of simple concern of mishandling of missing children's cases, abuse of the media, misappropriation of public monies, and political protection will be lost in all the ad hominem attacks and complicated, bizarre theories. The gleeful personal attacks on me add to this destruction because I am one of the few professional voices on this case and if the antis call me incompetent, then that is one less professional voice. Recently, some have even trashed Gonçalo Amaral which pretty much is just knocking the legs from under us all. I wish people would understand that you don't have to agree with everything someone says in order to appreciate their efforts and be civil.
By Pat Brown
What really happened to Madeleine Beth McCann in Praia da Luz, Portugal in 2007? Was she abducted as the Gerry and Kate have claimed or did something happen to Madeleine on May 3 in the vacation apartment and the incident covered up? Criminal Profiler Pat Brown analyzes the evidence and takes the readers through the steps of profiling, developing a theory that is intriguing and controversial.


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I had my first Snow Day since moving to Sebringville. I decided that there was no point opening the shop, since the views out my window looked like this.
Yes, Janet - that's a church across the street. And very charming, too! Good call!
How 'bout the rest of you? Staying safe and warm I hope?
Sunday, December 16, 2007
The Snow, It Blows!
Posted by Barb McMahon and Alan Mailloux at 4:59 p.m.
Labels: My Glamorous Life...
4 comments:
- Janet said...
Warm and toasty, but the wind is till howling!
- December 16, 2007 at 7:58 p.m.
- The Pickled Hutch said...
Love your blog. And yes, toasty in San Francisco compared to your picturesque blizzard!
- December 16, 2007 at 10:52 p.m.
- Jennifer said...
Yes, pretty warm! That was some storm! I've never had to shovel so much snow in my life!!
- December 17, 2007 at 5:21 p.m.
- Barb McMahon said...
I pulled muscles I didn't even know I had!
Sunny today, though. Yay!
- December 18, 2007 at 11:58 a.m.
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I always feel so disingenuous sweeping in at the end of the year to give a closing speech on my blog, that- let's face it- has been horribly neglected for most of the year.
On the other hand though, what's the use in me keeping the blog, if not to share things on it? Like for example, the books I read in 2017.
So, here goes…
In 2017 I started 44 books, and I finished 40 of them. That's a pretty standard drop-off rate for me, exactly the same as 2016 in fact. Gone are the days when I forced myself to finish every single book I started. Since having kids I've become a lot more forgiving of myself if I can't make it to the end, and in fact sometimes I start a book and almost immediately put it down- not because it's terrible, but because I think its probably wonderful- just not right now. There's definitely an element of timing for me, when it comes to reading, and I have to be in the mood for certain stories.
This year has been quite difficult for a variety of reasons- both on a personal and global level, and that had undoubtedly affected my reading life too. Of the 44 books I picked up, only 3 were non-fiction. Basically, I was done with reality and looking for an escape. For the same reason, 14 out of the 44 books were romances. Like many other bookworms, I expect, I just needed to know that SOMEONE SOMEWHERE was getting a Happily Ever After, even if that someone was a fictional character in the regency era. I read Tessa Dare's Romancing the Duke not once, but twice this year, and it was like a literary poultice for my aching soul. In fact, I may yet leave an amazon review that says exactly that. Seriously, if historical romance is your thing, you should add it to your 2018 TBR list.
Similarly, 12 of the books I finished this year were re-reads. There's just something comforting about reading a book you've already read (in my case, possibly several times), when you know the ending, but enjoy the journey nonetheless. So I revisited The Infernal Devices- the YA trilogy by Cassandra Clare, for what must have been the 4th or 5th time, and still fell hopelessly in love with her supernatural, steampunk-inspired Victorian London, and the trio of main characters- Tessa, Will and Jem. And, as with every other time I've read it- the epilogue of Clockwork Princess made me literally sob, which shows that even when you know what the outcome of something will be, you can still become fully absorbed to the extent that you'll have a physical, emotional reaction to it.
For those of you who like a good statistic, this was the numerical breakdown:
That's a massive increase in Kindle books compared to last year when I only read one e-book in the whole of 2016. That is partly a result of a. my CIDP flaring up a couple of times, making it difficult for me to hold books for long periods, and b. the fact I got a brand new Kindle Fire HD for Christmas 🙂 so my final two books of the year I read on that.
There was also a decrease in the amount of library books I read, but that doesn't actually correlate in any way to the amount of library books I borrowed– I still find it almost impossible to come home empty-handed from work, it's just that they're all stacking up precariously in my living room as I renew them over and over and over…something I should possibly work on in 2018 *whispers* You can only read one book at a time, Rebecca…
So, of the 40, what were my favourites? Some years that's an almost impossible question, but this year a few titles really stand out. For a start, 2017 was the year that I read Jane Eyre for the first time.
I know, I know, I almost can't believe it's true either. For some reason, I- a lover of the Bronte sisters, and gothic literature, and Byronic heroes- managed to get to 32 years of age without becoming acquainted with Jane and her Mr Rochester. In a way, I'm sorry I didn't come to it sooner, knowing that if I had, I'd probably have re-read it forty million times already, but in another way, I'm almost glad I saved it until now- because what a delicious treat it was in the middle of what was in many ways an utterly ludicrous year. And there was something so perfect about it's timing in my life too, as Jane wrestled between what was right and what was easy, holding herself and others to exacting moral standards, I found myself exploring similar questions in my own life, and being surprised by my answers. So yes, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte= an instant, hands-down favourite, not just of 2017 but of all-time.
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee, a YA historical with a bisexual main character, also undoubtedly became one of my immediate favourites. I scarcely put it down from the minute I picked it up- and it was a brand-new, hefty hardback, so that's an impressive feat for me with my feeble wrists. I adored Monty, the main character and Mackenzie Lee's writing style is brilliant so I was immediately swept up in the adventure. It was rare case of me having heard about a book in advance of it's release, and suggesting it as a purchase for the library, which meant that I was the first to get it when it arrived, and for once I wasn't disappointed. So many times, when a book is hyped up, or I care enough to pre-order it, I get to the last page to find it isn't all I'd hoped, but with this one it absolutely was. So if it sounds like your thing, definitely check it out.
There was also Romancing the Duke, which I've already mentioned, A Tale of Two Cities- which I finally got round to finishing about 5 years after I first started it, and adored (although it isn't exactly what you'd call easy-reading, but then Dickens rarely is), The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, which was a delicious piece of straight-up storytelling, and My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, which left me breathless, literally. It did absolutely nothing for my anxiety, but I loved it all the same. The suspense was intolerable and at one point I put the book down and actually physically pushed it away, as though by distancing myself from the words, I could escape the inevitable conclusion the characters were marching toward.
So, there we have it- another year in books.
I don't have any goals for 2018 when it comes to reading- whether I read more or less is irrelevant, just so long as I'm reading and enjoying it. One thing I have vowed though, is not to leave the books I got for Christmas languishing on my TBR shelves, which means my first few reads of 2018 are all set and will definitely include The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman, and Bad Boy by Elliot Wake
I hope you all had a good reading year too. If you discovered any new favourites in 2017, I'd love to hear about them 🙂


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In the late 1970s, Mrs Rollo, an elderly resident of Friars Street, Inverness, shared her memories of old Inverness with a Mrs. Sneddon. Mrs. Rollo had lived as a child in Shore Street and moved to Friars Street in the early 1920s. She had five of a family; three boys and two girls. Her husband worked for the Highland Railway. In this audio extract, Mrs. Rollo remembers the baker's van.
The photograph is of Friars Street with the steeple of the Old High Church in the background.
Interviewer: Did they have a lot of mobile vans? I mean, not so much - well it would have been sort of horse-drawn vans, would it?
Yes, horse-drawn, he came - the bakers - they came round to the door two or three times a week wi bread an rolls an stuff. But then, ye see, we baked our own, we didn't need to do that.
Interviewer: Did ye make yer own bread?
Not our own bread but we kept ourselves in buns, scones. We hardly ever bought buns an that. It was always scones or pancakes or something like that. They were all brought up on plain food. Take it or leave it.
Interviewer: Did you get different kinds o loaves in those days?
Yes, ye would get Vienna, an bran loaves, an plain bread, an pan bread, currant bread, spiced loaf, spiced currant, an plain currant.
Interviewer: Loaf quite cheap then?
[Sighing]. I should've kept some of the bills. Ah think it was only about fourpence or something we paid for a loaf then. An sometimes we'd get the outside ones a bitty cheaper.
Interviewer: Why?
Cos they were outside crusts on them an, a skin on them or what - I don't know what you would call it nowadays


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Last week Richard Johnson won the Australian Art Music Awards, Award for Excellent in Experimental Music at both the national and state levels. He was honoured with this award for his outstanding work in the promotion of improvising musicians, for his passion within the experimental arts and for developing the SoundOut Festival of Experimental and Improvised Music, which was held this year at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery.
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Tidmouth is a town situated on the River Tid Estuary, on Sodor's west coast. With a population of 35,000, it is the largest town on Sodor. It is home to the headquarters of the North Western Railway and the main line sheds.
The Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light Railway reached the town via a road-side tramway from Knapford, which was destroyed after a gale in the autumn of 1908. A treasury grant was obtained in 1910 and a tunnel was built. In 1916 the North Western Railway completed another tunnel, this time with an extra line, and Tidmouth's value as a harbour began to be used.
The passenger station, known as the "Big Station" in the books, has four terminal lines and a "through" road leading to the Arlesburgh branchline, sheltered by a glass roof.
The Tidmouth station has four platforms, a glass roof, and about eight trains a day. It contains the Sir Topham Hatt's office, and is the station where HM Queen Elizabeth visited Sodor. Gordon also pulls his Express out from there every day.
The local economy mainly comes from ship-building, fishing and heavy industry.
Though Tidmouth is still in the television series, it has been replaced by Knapford as the biggest station and by Brendam as Sodor's main port. It only appeared in the second and third seasons. Lower Tidmouth and Tidmouth Hault have also been seen in episodes. It was later mentioned in the seventeenth season episode, Gordon Runs Dry.
- The town's motto is "Industry and Progress".


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After buying a Leatt neck brace a few months ago it was frustrating to discover that it doesn't work with the Fox Titan jacket that I use. The Titan fits me really well, is comfortable, gives CE-1 arm protection and CE-2 back protection, and replaces the armour in my outer jacket. But the design of the chest protector interferes with the front support of the Leatt, so different armour is needed.
Scouring various internet forums uncovered the Alpinestars Bionic 2 as one of the few jackets that works with a neckbrace and offers both CE-1 and CE-2 protection like the Fox Titan. So I ordered an XL. Although I heard they fit tight, I was at the bottom of the XL sizing range according to the measurements indicated by Alpinestars.
Now, I'm not a big guy--6'-1" and about 190 lbs--but there's no frickin' way I could fit into that XL. The arms were painfully tight, the stitching was stretched to the point of ripping, and I lost sensation in my hands after about a minute. Also, the chest was weirdly shaped and seemed to leave half my torso exposed. Riding was out of the question. The 2XL--largest size offered--was equally bizarre. The chest protector didn't cover my lower ribs, the shoulders were painfully tight and dug in to my arms, and the arms were still numb-inducing tight through most of the length although the wrists were floppy. I didn't even bother trying it with the Leatt. I really wanted to like the Bionic 2, but there's no way I could get it to fit. Unless mine were labelled incorrectly (didn't seem to be the case) it's really puzzling who it's designed for.
Now I'm back to square one looking for a jacket. The Clover Crossover would likely be a strong contender if budget allowed.


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text: 5 of the Most Unusual Hondas By Gabriella Massari - August 23, 2016 1. Honda Micro CommuterHonda's concept for a Micro Commuter is so futuristic, it doesn't even look like a car at first glance. The boxy wheels and thick trim make it look like a little spaceship ready to take off. As out there as it is, the more I look at it, the more it grows on me. The concept will inevitably be watered down for production, but it's fun to imagine a future where this car is the norm. It's intriguing just to picture it driving down the street; with the wheels obscured, I wouldn't be surprised if it looks like it's floating. 2. BMW OdysseyIt may be a Honda at heart, but this Odyssey's exterior was fitted with a BMW 3 series front fascia, making it barely look like the popular Honda minivan. Is this absolute blasphemy? Somehow lowering a minivan and adding custom exhaust and rims seems counter-intuitive, but it's still interesting to look at a well-done mod nonetheless. 3. Honda S660The Honda S660 two-seat roadster is the 1990's Honda Beat's successor and fits into the Kei category. Interestingly, the S660 is a modern version of the S500, Honda's first mass-produced car from 1963. Its engine was modified from the N-One's S07A. The S660 isn't sold in the U.S., so you'll need to head to Japan to get your hands on one. 4. Suicidal AccordThis lowered white Accord lives in Saudi Arabia and is the epitome of the suicide door concept come to fruition. This Accord is so modded, it looks like it's straight out of Transformers. Even the custom hood opens upward in two pieces. The reasoning behind this must've been, "How can we defy the laws of gravity and confuse people at the same time?" I'd say someone went a little too far here, especially with those seemingly impossible rear wheels, but this Accord is definitely interesting to look at. 5. Honda Z600Spotlighting another car in the Kei class, the Honda Z600 was produced from 1970-1974 and marketed as the sport coupe version of the N600. The Z600's name was derived from its engine size: 598 cc or 36 cubic inches to be exact. But the 1972 Z360 model received an even smaller engine that was more powerful. When the new Civic came out in 1974, production of the Z600 halted. The 1973 oil crisis also didn't help keep this tiny car in production. For information on maintenance and repairs, check out our how-to section here in Honda-Tech.com.


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The UK NSC recommendation on Homocystinuria
Find general information about population health screening.
Why is screening recommended by UK NSC?
The UK NSC has recommended screening for Homocystinuria (HCU) within the current Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme. Screening for this rare inherited amino acid disorder will identify babies early and lead to treatment to help prevent problems in the baby's development.
More about HCU
HCU is a rare disorder that prevents the breakdown of the amino acid, homocysteine.
Without treatment, most children with HCU have learning difficulties and problems with their eyes. They may also develop bone abnormalities (osteoporosis), blood clots, or strokes.
Some frequently asked questions were developed following the 2014 expanded newborn blood spot policy recommendations and can be found here.
Screening in the UK
Compare how screening is offered across the UK.
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The stakeholder groups will be involved when the recommendation is next reviewed. If you think your organisation should be added, please contact us. More information for stakeholders can be found in appendix C of the UK NSC evidence review process.
Recommendation Review History
The policy was first recommended in 2014 following the conclusion of a one year study between 2012 and 2013 that included HCU and four other conditions.
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I got a date where my two friends are free and so we're booked to start filming "Obscure" tomorrow!
Gah it's almost 1 AM though and I haven't really written the script. I have the general idea, some costumes and props and a location but as for what I imagine doing when I get there, I still have to plan. Always cramming! But seriously, all of spring break I haven't relaxed at all. For some reason filming makeup tutorials takes A LOT out of a person, if you care about lighting, background and good angles. Arggh. But this is what I love to do and I choose to, so I shouldn't complain.
So Obscure is supposed to be a horror/psychological thriller. It's for this bi-annual film festival within my school, but if things go well enough, maybe I can submit it to more places? I'll just have to look out for copyright music and sounds.
So my idea is, Obscure is a silent film that mostly takes place in a forest or abandoned wood run area. I won't say the plot because it's supposed to be a puzzle and it's a silent film, so, if I say it here the film might be no fun...if it turns out right. But I'm aiming to make it horror/psychological thriller.
I am going to load up on special effects ... on iMovie.
Is it normal to get creeped by your own ideas/footage you took yourself/ideas in your head? I always gravitate to horror and scary things yet they terrify me. Straaange.
So this film is supposed to involve forests, masks, fake blood, memory loss, knives and scary girls. Sound fun? Sound typical? Nyehh we'll see.
I even wrote a song for it! It's like 4 lines though, but I think it'll be the only dialogue or spoken words in the entire thing. It's gonna be like .... 6-8 minutes since there is a time limit.
Team Audivila! :) So excited I am filming a narrative tomorrow! I've been doing tiresome documentaries in teams for so long, it's about time I got to do something like this. So thankful!
PS - I have two actors and myself tomorrow. However I need another person so I am going to be acting with them at one point tomorrow. Despite how many times I've put myself in front of the camera for a tutorial or talk video, when it's people watching and other people holding a camera, I get so awkward! Wish me luck!
- bring your camera when you are visiting an interesting place. you never know what footage could come in handy later. *this is saved me so many times and gotten me footage i wouldn't have been able to film when i needed it
- expect changes, expect things to be not what you expected. is the image of a painting in an artist's head the same as their finished product? rarely ever
- the weather is usually not on your side
- do not drop your camera. yeah.
- Keep the camera on longer
- Try multiple perspectives and angles
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Undoubtedly, tractor trailer crashes can be some of the most serious and deadly of vehicle accidents. Recently, there was news of a crash involving not one, but two tractor trailers, resulting in three fatalities.
This deadly December crash happened on Interstate 75, near exit 296 in Cartersville. According to Gordy White, a spokesman for the Georgia State Patrol, around 1:50 am a northbound tractor trailer was on the left shoulder and hit a guardrail and a concrete pillar in succession. The truck rolled on its side and caught fire. Then, the sign fell in the southbound lane and was hit by another tractor trailer. That driver also lost control of his truck, which also caught fire. The driver of the first truck, 43-year-old George Benjamin White, and his passenger, 36-year-old Jermaine Duriel Smith, both died, as did 58-year-old Hugh Bruce Duling III, the driver of the second truck. The news did not say what caused Mr. White to run off the road and hit the pillar, which started the chain reaction resulting in this fatal accident. Nevertheless, the combination of these powerful vehicles and human error is frightening.
Other times, like a January incident, the cause of the problem is much more evident. Another trucker, James William Geasley, Jr., has been arrested and charged with aggressive driving. A 26-year-old woman claims her Camry's check engine light came on, and she tried to switch lanes when a tractor trailer sped up behind her in Bartow County. He began honking his horn and flashing his lights for several minutes, until she moved back into the center lane. Then, he suddenly moved into the center lane in an attempt to cut her off and run her off the road. His response was, "I may have wobbled into her lane." But he admitted that he sped up and slowed down several times in order to try to get the Camry to change lanes. This kind of aggressive driving behavior is dangerous at any time, in any vehicle, but it is especially dangerous when a tractor trailer driver acts in this dangerous and reckless fashion against a much smaller and more vulnerable car. Mr. Geasley was very lucky that this did not cause a serious accident, which could have caused severe injuries or death to those in the Camry.
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Truck accidents are serious and can cause severe injuries or death. Truck drivers cannot be allowed to behave so dangerously without consequences. If you or a loved one has been injured in an accident with a tractor trailer, the personal injury lawyers at Sammons & Carpenter may be able to help. Large commercial trucks must follow specific laws, and our experienced attorneys can help you understand your case and how to obtain much needed compensation for your injuries. Call our law office at 404-991-5950 to discuss your potential case, or fill out our confidential online case evaluation form for a free consultation.
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Links for the Day: Film Anonymous Webcast, The White Shadow Screens, How HBO Revolutionized TV, Heckler Interrupts Obama, & More
Tomorrow at UC Berkeley, Roland Emmerich and his Film Anonymous writer and producer John Orloff, among others, will discuss the film's Shakespeare authorship controversy. To watch the webcast live, from 8:15 to 9:15, click here.
Alfred Hitchcock's first film, The White Shadow, which was lost for more than 80 years, has been screened in Los Angeles.
More reasons to hate heath insurance companies…and opponnents of "Obamacare."
Activists post identity of NYPD cop who pepper-sprayed Wall Street protesters at Union Square.
Matt Zoller Seitz explains how Terra Nova lets us excape the consequences of befouling Earth.
How HBO revolutionized TV.
This year's Experimenta at the London Film Festival is full of fascinating, taboo-busing and just plain beautiful films, says curator Mark Webber.
For Press Play, Steven Santos on Roman Polanski's life work.
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Review: That Was Something Lays Bare the Ephemeral Desires of a Lost Youth
By the end, the lesson we've learned is that the stories we tell ourselves about the past have always been revised from a previous draft.
Film and theater critic Dan Callahan's witty debut novel, That Was Something, chronicles the young adulthood of Bobby Quinn, a gay Midwestern transplant who's just moved from Chicago to Manhattan to attend New York University. Retrospectively, it examines his obsession with the two leading players in the story of his early days in the city in the late 1990s: the enigmatic Ben Morrissey, an irresistible fellow student destined for fame in the art world, and the mysterious Monika Lilac, a dramatic and performative slightly older cinephile whose devotion to silent films is emblematic of her entire character. "I was looking for the keys to the kingdom, and I found them or thought I did in Manhattan screening rooms, in the half-light and the welcoming dark," Bobby declares to the reader in the novel's opening, and so begins a provocative—and conspicuously wine-drenched—narrative that serves both as a paean to a bygone era and an emphatic testimony about how we never really leave behind the people, experiences, and places that shape us into who we are in the present.
For a fleeting period of time, the lives of these three characters become intertwined and united by their shared passion for the cinema—and for each other. While Ben and Monika enter into a tumultuous romance, Bobby watches from the sidelines as he privately explores his own sexuality, mostly in dalliances with anonymous older men who he meets at bars in Chelsea, having learned to offer himself up "as a kind of virgin sacrifice." Throughout, Callahan's frank descriptions of Bobby's early sexual experiences are a welcome departure from metaphor, while still seeming almost mythical in the way that Bobby recalls them, just like how all of the liminal moments in our lives—the moments in which we cross a threshold and permanently abandon whoever we had been before—seem to mark our personal histories almost like the transitions between the disparate chapters of a novel.
Bobby has been deeply in love with Ben ever since the two met for the first time in a common area of their shared dormitory at NYU, and Ben keeps Bobby only barely at arm's length—sexually and otherwise—throughout the dazzling weeks, months, and even years of their relationship as young men. He constantly reminds Bobby that they would probably be lovers if only Ben were gay, which is obviously music to Bobby's ears, fueling many of his private fantasies. And Bobby is also the prized subject of Ben's budding photography career, often photographed in the nude, and both the photographs themselves and the act of bringing them into the world blur lines of sexuality and masculinity as the friendship between the two young men deepens and becomes increasingly complex.
Callahan cocoons his characters in what feels like a time capsule, capturing them at their most beautiful and glamorous and then presenting them to us as if on a stage—or on a screen, which the characters in the novel would agree is even more intimate, even more akin to a grab at immortality. Other characters drift in and out of the central narrative in the same way that one-night stands and people we've met only at dimly lit parties can sometimes seem blurry and indistinct when we try to recollect them later, but the love story that Bobby is most interested in sharing with the reader is that of a queer young man's obsession with his larger than life friends during a time when everything for him was larger than life.
Callahan's previous book, The Art of American Screen Acting: 1912-1960, demonstrates the author's talent for dissecting the subtlety and nuance of the many nonverbal ways in which the icons of the screen communicate with one another, and here too in That Was Something is close attention paid to the power of performance. The novel is also a story about falling in love with a city, even in retrospect—and even after the version of the city that you originally knew is gone forever. And in the familiar yet always poignant way in which the sights and sounds of a lost New York typically wriggle their way into a novel like this one, the city is at first a backdrop before it inevitably becomes a character.
Monika Lilac hosts a silent film-themed party at her house during which the guests have been cleverly instructed to pantomime their communication to one another rather than speak out loud, and to write out any absolutely necessary dialogue on handmade title cards. At the end of the party, the various revelers—wearing only their underwear, at Monika's command—all together "streamed out into the night and ran like crazy" through New York City streets while being pummeled from above by heavy rain, not caring at all who was watching. And Bobby, from the vantage point of years in the future, recalls:
In any other place, we might have been harassed, arrested, or the object of wide-eyed stares. Not in Manhattan. And that has its flip side, too. Because Manhattan will let you do whatever you like, at any time of the day or night, but it won't ever pay attention to you. You can be world famous, and Manhattan still basically doesn't care, most of the time. And if you aren't world famous, Manhattan regards you at several ice-slicked levels below indifference. And sometimes, on less wonderful days and nights, some attention might be welcome.
In a blurb on the novel's back cover, Wayne Koestenbaum describes That Was Something as "The Great Gatsby on poppers," and there's definitely something of Nick Carraway in the voice of Bobby Quinn as he looks back at his disappearing New York and the people who populated it, the ghost of a city that disappeared forever the moment he looked away. Callahan's novel enters the canon of the queer roman a clef—as well as the literary New York novel—by mixing vibrantly realized memories of a fleeting youth, ruminations on the origins of desire, and a deeply felt nostalgia for the way things once were into a cocktail that tastes exactly like growing up and growing older in the same city in which you were once young. And the hangover after a night spent knocking them back in the dim light of a Manhattan dive, as anyone who still occasionally haunts the haunts of his youth can tell you, is always brutal.
Bobby is now many years older as he narrates That Was Something, his desires tempered or at least contained by realistic expectations of how and in what ways they might be satisfied, and his relationships with Ben (now famous) and Monika (now vanished) are either nonexistent or else greatly demoted from the centrality that they had once firmly occupied in the narrative of his life. But there's still urgency in what Bobby is telling the reader. In the novel's brilliant final pages, we come to realize that the act of looking back at our younger selves is both masturbatory and transitory, mostly an exercise in framing. Bobby has been explaining how age has made him wistful about his moment in the sun, but then he's suddenly remembering a fantasy that he once enacted alone one afternoon in his dorm room, back when he was still a virgin—and back when all of his fantasies were about Ben Morrissey:
I entered another place with my mind. It felt like what stepping into the past would feel like now, maybe. It was forbidden, and I was getting away with it. … Looked at from the outside and with unsympathetic eyes, it would be pitiful and grotesque, maybe even laughable. So why am I still so certain that something else occurred?
The lesson we've learned by the end of That Was Something is that the stories we tell ourselves about the past have always been revised from a previous draft. Just think of all that film that ends up on the cutting room floor during the editing process, to be forgotten and swept away with the garbage after the best take has been safely delivered. Only with the benefit of hindsight can we wipe away the shame and growing pains of early stabs at love and failed expressions of desire and instead render the past beautifully, artfully, just as the cinematic film frame limits our perspective so that all we can see is what the director has meticulously manufactured specifically for us. The equipment that made the image possible in the first place has been painstakingly concealed, so that all we notice—all we remember—is whatever ends up remaining beneath the carefully arranged spotlight.
Sometimes a great novel, like a great film, can at once transform and transport us, offering a glimpse into a lost world made all the more beautiful by the distance it asks us to travel into our hearts and minds. At the end of one of the last film screenings that Bobby attends in the company of Monika Lilac, she says wistfully to him, "You know, you're downhearted, and you think, 'What's the use?' and then you see a film like that and it speaks to you and suddenly you're back in business again!" And the film they've been watching, she has just whispered to Bobby as the credits rolled in the emptying theater, was the story of her life.
Dan Callahan's That Was Something is now available from Squares & Rebels.
Blu-ray Review: Peppermint Soda Gets 2K Restoration from Cohen Media Group
Diane Kurys's poignant debut powerfully evokes the bittersweet feelings of leaving behind the halcyon days of one's youth.
Diane Kurys's Peppermint Soda is like flipping through a young girl's diary, capturing as it does snippets of the small-scale tragedies, amusing hijinks, and quotidian details that define the lives of two Parisian teenage sisters over the course of their 1963-to-'64 school year. Through a delicate balancing of comedic and dramatic tones, Kurys's debut film taps into the emotional insecurities and social turmoil that accompany the awkward biological developments of adolescence with a disarming sweetness and subtlety, lending even small moments a poignancy that shuns overt displays of sentimentality or nostalgia. As evidenced by the opening title card, in which Kurys dedicates the film to her sister "who has still hasn't returned my orange sweater," Peppermint Soda's authenticity arises from its specificity, both in its characters' tumultuous inner lives and the detailed rendering of their friends and teachers, as well as the classrooms within which they passed their days.
Structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes, the film bounces between the introverted 13-year-old Anne (Eléonore Klarwein) and her outgoing, popular 15-year-old sister, Frédérique (Odile Michel), who both attend the same strict, bourgeois private school. While Anne's concerns often verge on the petty, be it her frustration at her mother (Anouk Ferjac) refusing to buy her pantyhose or at her sister for preventing her from tagging along to social gatherings, Kurys depicts Anne with a uniquely compassionate eye, mining light humor out of such situations while remaining keenly aware of the almost insurmountable peer pressures and image-consciousness that are the driving forces behind most irrational teenage behavior.
Some scenes, such as the one where Anne's art teacher ruthlessly mocks her drawing in front of the class, are representative of the emotionally abusive or neglectful relationship between Anne and many of the adults in her life, and throughout, Kurys understands that it's how Anne is seen by her classmates that most dramatically affects her state of mind. In the heightened emotional state of teenage years, the sting of simply not having a pair of pantyhose can be more painful than a teacher's overbearing maliciousness. But Peppermint Soda isn't all doom and gloom, as the bitter disappointments of youth are counterbalanced with a number of droll passages of Anne gossiping and goofing off with her friends. Particularly amusing is a conversation where Anne's friend confidently, yet with wild inaccuracies, describes sex, eventually guessing that boy's hard-ons can grow to around six feet long.
In Peppermint Soda's latter half, Kurys seamlessly shifts her focus toward Frédérique, broadening the film's scope as current events begin to shape the elder sister's political consciousness. Everything from John F. Kennedy's assassination to a classmate's terrifying firsthand account of the police's violent overreaction to a student protest against the Algerian War lead Frédérique to slowly awaken to the complexities of the world around her. But even as Frédérique finds herself becoming quite the activist, handing out peace pins and organizing secret meetings in school—and much to the chagrin of her mother and her sexist, conservative teacher—she's still prone to fits of emotional immaturity when it comes to her boyfriend.
It's through these frequent juxtapositions of micro and macro concerns, when the inescapable solipsism of childhood runs head-on into the immovable hurdles and responsibilities of adulthood, that Peppermint Soda most powerfully evokes the bittersweet feelings of leaving behind the halcyon days of one's youth. Yet the sly sense of whimsy that Kurys instills in her deeply personal recollections acts as a comforting reminder of the humor tucked away in even our darkest childhood memories. Sometimes it just takes a decade or two to actually find it.
Peppermint Soda is now available on Blu-ray and DVD from Cohen Media Group.
Oscar 2019 Winner Predictions: Sound Editing
If it were biologically possible to do so, both Ed and I would happily switch places with A Quiet Place's Emily Blunt.
If it were biologically possible to do so, both Ed and I would happily switch places with A Quiet Place's Emily Blunt, because we'd much rather give birth in a tub while surrounded by murderous blind creatures than have to once again write our predictions for the sound categories. As adamant as we've been that the Academy owes it to the nominees to air every category, which they agreed to after an extended "just kidding," it might have given us pause had the sound categories been among the four demoted by Oscar. But no, we must now endure our annual bout of penance, aware of the fact that actually knowing what the difference is between sound editing and sound mixing is almost a liability. In other words, we've talked ourselves out of correct guesses too many times, doubled down on the same movie taking both categories to hedge our bets too many times, and watched as the two categories split in the opposite way we expected too many times. So, as in A Quiet Place, the less said, the better. And while that film's soundscapes are as unique and noisy as this category seems to prefer, First Man's real-word gravitas and cacophonous Agena spin sequence should prevail.
Will Win: First Man
Could Win: A Quiet Place
Should Win: First Man
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Top 10 Stephen King Movies, Ranked
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One of the British time buildings of Dharwad. This group of buildings were built to accommodate railways offices but with change of plans the buildings were used as army barracks. Then the buildings were given to run a college for training teachers.. which still continues. The uniqueness of the main building is a pair of towers - the twin towers of Dharwad.
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Getting an Edge When Selling Your House :: Exterior Hand Carved Doors
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 11:21:26 AM America/Los_Angeles
In today's housing market, many people are finding that they have a better chance of selling an ice cube to an Eskimo than their house to a buyer. One reason for this is because the present market is geared towards buyers. But, that s not the only reason. The market is also very over wrought with people who want, or need, to sell. A journey down any neighborhood USA can leave you finding For Sale, For Rent, or even Foreclosed. This means one thing to people who are trying to sell: you have to get an edge on the competition. Short of spreading rumors about the others houses on the market (did you hear what that Victorian was doing at the bar last night?), there is no foolproof way to get an edge. However, the following can get you started: Buy New Windows: Believe it or not, new windows can make a world of difference to a house, particularly an old house. Windows, over time, wear out. This can leave them leaky, cracked, or fogged. Not only can old windows leave your house cold (and increase your heating bill), but it can also leave your house looking less than appealing. The downside of new windows is the price: they aren't cheap. However, they are an investment, an investment that just might help your house get noticed. Add an Exterior Hand Carved Door: When you think of home improvement, chances are an exterior hand carved door is not on the top of your list; you re probably a tad more occupied with fixing a plugged up toilet or a leaky sink. But, when preparing to sell, don t overlook the outside of your house. Adding something such as an exterior hand carved door can give your house a whole new look, and open up doors (exterior hand carved and otherwise) in the process. Try Hardwood on for Size: Just like an exterior hand carved door can give the outside of your house a little zest, hardwood floors can equally improve your inside. There is a reason hardwood floors are becoming increasingly more popular (and it s not just because they re pur-dy). Hardwood floors are easy to clean, efficient, and most of them will last a lifetime. Don t Forget Landscaping: As discussed above, the outside of your house is as important as the inside when you are trying to sell. In fact, since the outside is what prospective buyers first see, it may be your best bet at making a good first impression. This makes landscaping important. Nothing will show a buyer you aren't really that interested in selling faster than unkept shrubbery or a lawn that doubles as a parking spot for your truck. Remember the Details: Little things count when it comes to a house. Something as seemingly insignificant as an exterior hand carved door, a vegetable garden, a basketball hoop, or new kitchen counters may be what turns a prospective buyer into a definite one. Windows: Believe it or not, new windows can make a world of difference to a house. Windows, over time, wear out. This can leave them leaky, cracked, or fogged. Not only can old windows leave your house cold (and increase your heating bill), they make your house more vulnerable to break-ins. Investing in new windows is an upgrade that guarantees return on your money over time.
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"Young Melbourne designers, Emma Grace and Ellie Mücke (who was featured on Find, Make Do last year), invite you to be inspired by their novel approaches to making new from old. Through the Wearit exhibition and workshops, the designers aim to facilitate a shift in the way that we consume fashion items.
The general public is invited to participate in a workshop, bringing along broken, un-loved and out of date jewellery ( everyone's got some in the bottom of their jewellery box!),and pre loved shirts, (you know, the ones that your boyfriend has had stuffed into the back of the cupboard and is never going to wear again. Or that shirt your bought at the op shop that just hasn't managed fit in with the rest of your wardrobe. In any case a shirt, a 'biggish' one, an old one, a mens one ideally, one that definitely doesn't fit you as it is, but one you can see would be just right with a bit of a makeover) to fix or re-create into something new and unique.
Simultaneously an exhibition of new works by Grace and Mücke will provide inspiration, challenge conventions and offer new perspectives.
Wearit is an opportunity to re-connect with community in a regional location and a forum to exchange skills, materials,thoughts and inspiration. Together we can begin a mental and physical shift away from a 'throw-away culture'.
Come and visit Stockroom in Kyneton this March, and see how wearing the consequences of this shift can be truly inspirational."
Bookings for either a Jewellery or a Shirt workshop are essential and can be made via the Wearit Blog.
via the Wearit MediaRelease
Friday, March 4, 2011
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Simple, clean with relaxing natural tones, raw wood and an industrial touch...a cozy house in London photographed by Paul Massey.
February 09, 2014
London house by photographer Paul Massey
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Citigroup slashed its earnings outlook for Wall Street investment banks, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc and Morgan Stanley, citing a tough operating environment.The second quarter has seen lower client-related trading volumes, little banking activity, losses related to ineffective hedging and reversals of gains on fair valuing liabilities, analyst Prashant Bhatia wrote in a note dated May 16.
Bhatia, who is the latest in a growing line-up of Wall Street analysts to cut estimates on US investment banks, said he expects significant asset sales related to leveraged loan inventory, and commercial and residential mortgages as a result of a greater degree of liquidity in the marketplace.
"We expect the brokers may take some losses to exit concentrated positions," he said, adding that although the operating environment appears to have improved considerably this month, it will not offset the weakness seen in March and April.
Second-quarter results could be a catalyst for restoring investor confidence that the worst of the markdowns have been taken and that balance sheets have been considerably de-levered and significantly de-risked, Bhatia said.
The analyst rates Lehman and Morgan Stanley "buy," and Goldman Sachs "hold."
He cut his target on Morgan Stanley stock to $70 from $75.
Goldman Sachs shares fell nearly 1 percent to $185.77 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares of Lehman were down nearly 1% to $43.27, while Morgan Stanley shares were down 37 cents to $46.84.
The Amex Securities Broker-Dealer Index, which includes Lehman and Morgan Stanley, has fallen 16% this year as the effects of the subprime mortgage crisis, credit crunch and housing slump reverberate. (Reuters)


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In addition to playing games, listening to music, browsing my Etsy app (!), and looking at photos, my 2 year old is also known to snap a picture from my phone now and then. It usually turns out to be a shot of her foot or an an up-close view of her forehead, but awhile back we decided to put her budding photography skills to good use by setting up her stuffed animal friends for a portrait shoot. Her hands were a little wobbly, but she quickly got the hang of it and ended up with a few good shots among many blurry ones!
I thought it would be fun to frame them in her room. I found these kits to decorate your own picture frames at Target (on clearance!) and let her do her thing with some tempera paint and glitter glue.
Now her completed photography / art project is proudly on display in her room!


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The 41th Scientific Annual Meeting of Indonesian Association of Geophysicists
Bandar Lampung, September 26-29, 2016
Hundreds of scientific publications will be presented at this event. Make sure you become part of The Indonesian largest geophysical event in this year.
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Welcome to The 41st HAGI Annual Convention and Exhibition 2016 where the Indonesian Association of Geophysicists (HAGI) bring a wide audience from oil, gas, mining industries as well as other related participants. The 41st HAGI Annual Convention and Exhibition 2016 will be held at The 7th Hotel, Lampung, Sumatera, from 26 – 29 September 2016. We believe that Lampung is the best place to represent many innovations to answer the challenge of exploration in the Oil & Gas, mining and Geo-tourism industries in Indonesia and will draw promise for investors. So we bring the theme of "Reflection, Challenge, and Innovation" to this convention because we believe in the 40-years journey of HAGI, this is an excellent momentum to reflect what we do in over 40 years, where many challenge happened, and as a part of this nation, we want to make a change with innovation. This convention is one of the best ways for employees, executives, lecturers, and students, to share their knowledge, ideas, experiences, and success stories even the challenging efforts, face to face. Included in the event are live talks and poster presentations. Oil, Mining, and Service companies are welcome. This Convention will also serve as a great opportunity for you to expose your vision and core technology as the Convention Committee has accepted more than 370 papers. On behalf of the committees and members of HAGI, we invite you to participate as delegates, presenters, exhibitors and sponsors. We look forward to your participation and support to this important event and to seeing you at The 41th HAGI Annual Convention and Exhibition 2016.
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To understand the geology, geophysics, and geochemistry of Krakatau 1883's catastropic erupstion and its lethal tsunamis.
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Peterborough Sports' promotion prospects have been dealt a big blow with the loss of star player Dan Clements to AFC Stamford.
Clements, Sports top scorer in United Counties Division One with 16 goals, has made a three-division jump and is expected to feature for 'The Daniels' in their Northern Premier Division match at Belper this Saturday.
Sports have reacted by signing Ashley Stevens, a former Posh youth team player with an excellent scoring record in the UCL.
"It's a blow to lose one of my best players," Sports' boss Chris Plummer admitted. "But it's a big jump in standard for Dan and I hope he succeeds there.
"We have boosted our strike force though with the arrival of Ashley. He hasn't played much this season so we have to get him up to match fitness, but he has an outstanding scoring record in the Premier Division so he should be a good signing for us."
Sports are second in Division One, but have two tough games in succession against fellow promotion contenders Raunds (away, January 31) and Lutterworth (home, February 7). Stevens is expected to be in the squad at Raunds.
Stamford are struggling in the league, but they did gain a first competitive win at their new Zeeco Stadium by beating local rivals Spalding in the Lincs Senior Trophy this week. Lewis Carr scored the only goal of the game.
March Town produced the result of the week by despatching higher level Histon from the Cambs Invitation Cup. Danny Woods (3) and Denny Escorio (2) scored the goals in a 5-3 win.


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- Research article
- Open Access
- Open Peer Review
Are they really refusing to travel? A qualitative study of prehospital records
- Deborah Shaw1Email author,
- Jane V Dyas†2,
- Jo Middlemass†3,
- Anne Spaight†1,
- Maureen Briggs†1,
- Sarah Christopher†1 and
- A Niroshan Siriwardena†1, 4
© Shaw et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2006
- Received: 05 July 2006
- Accepted: 19 September 2006
- Published: 19 September 2006
Refusal by the patient to travel after calling an emergency ambulance may lead to a preventable waste of scarce resources if it can be shown that an alternative more appropriate response could be employed. A greater understanding is required of the reasons behind 'refusal to travel' (RTT) in order to find appropriate solutions to address this issue. We sought to investigate the reasons why patients refuse to travel following emergency call-out in a rural county.
Written records made by ambulance crews for patients (n = 397) who were not transported to hospital following an emergency call-out during October 2004 were retrospectively analysed.
Twelve main themes emerged for RTT which included non injury or minor injury, falls and recovery after treatment on scene; other themes included alternative supervision, follow-up and treatment arrangements or patients arranging their own transport. Importantly, only 8% of the sample was recorded by ambulance crews as truly refusing to travel against advice.
A system that facilitates standardised recording of RTT information including social reasons for non-transportation needs to be designed. 'Refused to travel' disclaimers need to reflect instances when crew and patient are satisfied that not going to hospital is the right outcome. These recommendations should be considered within the context of the plans for widening the role of ambulance services.
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Ambulance services in the United Kingdom (UK) are legally required to attend emergency '999' and general practitioner (GP) calls unless valid treat-and-leave or despatch triage protocols are in place. Previous literature from the UK and North America sometimes refers to 'inappropriate calls'[1, 2] which it is argued could lead to fewer resources being available to respond to life-threatening incidents. The potential problem is even greater in large rural counties where long distances are travelled.
There is considerable overlap between the concept of an 'inappropriate call', non-transport (or non-conveyed call) and 'refusal to travel' (RTT). The Department of Health cites the national average of non-conveyed calls as 17% [3]. Marks et al. in a study in the East Midlands (UK) identified that over one third of these were due to falls in elderly people; patients who were categorised as 'refusal to travel' (RTT) formed a further subset (up to half) of those not transported [4]. Patients or relatives may genuinely request transport but they may also agree to sign a non-transport disclaimer after informal advice from an ambulance crew that transport may be unnecessary; another factor raised but not elucidated in previous research [5].
Alternatives to ambulance attendance may provide a possible solution[6] although studies in North America have found that, of those who refuse to travel, almost half require further attention within one week,[7] a significant minority require hospital admission,[8] and many agree to be admitted following telephone advice from medical personnel [9, 10].
Recent research from the UK has shown that prior telephone assessment of non-urgent calls by nurses or paramedics may identify patients less likely to need emergency department care [11]. Possible methods to address RTT include alternative community services, alternative transport,[12] and specific interventions such as community falls programmes.
In order to inform the development of such interventions a greater depth of understanding is required of the reasons for RTT. This study sought, using mixed methods, to investigate why patients refuse to travel following emergency call-out in a rural county.
This study was conducted during 2003 and 2004 in Lincolnshire, a large rural county for which East Midlands Ambulance (formerly Lincolnshire Ambulance and Health Transport) NHS Trust provides prehospital services to a population of over 700,000. At the time of the study all patients requesting an emergency ambulance were assessed by nonmedical trained dispatchers using a decision support tool, the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System (AMPDS), and if categorised as needing an ambulance response were required to be transported to hospital unless they completed a 'patient not treated/transported' form, known colloquially as a 'refusal to travel' form. No medical or nurse assessment was used to assess or prioritise calls at the time of the study.
Free text data were collected retrospectively from standard 'patient not treated/transported' forms written by paramedic or ambulance technician crews (clinicians) and signed by patients to confirm that they received advice and declined transport. Corresponding patient record or report forms, also written by clinicians, were also used to obtain information on patient details, presenting complaint, observations made and treatments administered. It was the responsibility of the crew to ensure where possible that the record was completed in cases where transport was declined. This study occurred before protocols were in place to enable crews to 'see and leave' or 'see and treat' patients. Numbers of forms completed were recorded and data on travelling times involved were obtained from the Computer Aided Despatch (CAD) system. Costs were derived from trust financial data.
Ethical approval
Ethical approval for this study was obtained from Lincolnshire Local Research Ethics Committee (reference no. 04/Q2405/46).
Sample selection
There were 76635 emergency requests resulting in activation of an ambulance response from April 2003 to March 2004. This resulted in 63650 transportations, 9068 instances of refusal to travel (RTT), 967 deaths and 2950 calls with other reasons for non-transportation (see below). The rate of RTT as a proportion of the total requests was therefore 11.8% and this was stable throughout the year without significant seasonal variation. A single month (October 2004) was therefore selected as typical for both the pilot and the main study. Consecutive cases of RTT were selected for analysis until saturation was reached. Cases where treatment only had been declined but transport accepted were excluded.
Data collection and analysis
Data collection headings used to organise data from the AS34 (RTT form) and AS9 (patient record) developed in the pilot study
Data collection Heading
Source and content of information
Date of Incident and job number
Unique identifier for every emergency call. Patient details were omitted from the research data but the unique identifier ensured that the researchers were able to trace the original records.
Vehicle call sign
'Cross check' to ensure that in cases which involved multiple patients under the same identifier, for instance in the case of a road traffic collision, or where a patient name had not been recorded or in cases where the scanning system used to store information onto the record database misread job numbers leading to two records with the same identifier being stored, the correct record could be identified.
Presenting condition
The presenting condition was the information recorded in the 'chief complaint' box (on AS9)
Immediate treatment given
Any treatment that was recorded on the AS9 as being provided to the patient by the ambulance clinician on scene.
Refusal against advice
Instances where the clinician has explicitly noted on the AS 34 or AS 9 that the patient had 'refused to travel' against advice.
Clinical reason for non-transportation where stated
Where the reason, as recorded by the clinician for non-transportation, suggested that the injury or condition did not require hospital treatment/there was no injury. This information was gathered from the reasons recorded on the AS34 and/or the free text history box on the AS9.
Patient reason for refusal where stated
This heading was used to note the reasons for non-transportation where they were explicitly recorded as originating from the patient. This information was gathered from the AS 34 and/or the AS 9.
A count of clinical observations recorded on the patient report was included in the analysis because this indicated that the crew had made a clinical assessment of the patient. This was important because some instances of RTT, for example when the patient was intoxicated, could involve refusal of clinical assessment as well as transport.
An audit during April 2003 to March 2004 identified 9068 instances of RTT out of 76635 calls comprising 11.8% of emergency calls throughout the year in Lincolnshire. There were also 2950 cases where a patient did not travel where death was confirmed on scene by a doctor, the patient refused to provide details or to sign a disclaimer, or alternative means of transportation occurred, for example by air ambulance. The overall rate of non-transportation for the year was therefore 16.9%. RTT was estimated to cost £1.45 million. This was calculated from an average cost per emergency activation of £160.02 (a figure derived from trust data), 9068 episodes of RTT × £160.02 per activation costing £1.45 million for the year. This assumed that RTT activations were a similar cost per activation as non-RTT emergency calls.
Presenting condition
Presenting themes, conditions and prevalence
Number of presenting conditions (n = 409)
Medical (153 [37.4%])
Named Conditions (includes):
Respiratory (inc breathing, hyperventilation)
Chest pain
Abdominal pain
Medication problem
Other (Including pregnancy)
Sinus problems
Non-specifically unwell
Mobility (134 [32.8%])
General difficulty with mobility
Actual/potential trauma (87 [21.3%])
Minor Injury – non-fall
Fire call
Entrapment – non-RTA
Ingested foreign object
Toxic (27 [6.6%])
Psychological (6 [1.5%])
Social (2 [0.5%])
Clinical observations
Clinical observations made by ambulance staff were routinely recorded in 229 of 397 (57.7%) cases. Electrocardiography (ECG) was included as a form of immediate management because it may have indicated that the patient's condition was potentially serious.
Immediate management
Type of immediate management given to patients
Immediate management themes derived from the analysis of the records (n = 397)
Investigations 6 (1.5%)
Treatment 75 (18.9%)
Glucose given (22 [5.5%])*
First aid dressing (20 [5.0%])
Ankle/wrist strapped
Airways cleared
Other management 87 (21.9%)
Lift from floor/bath etc (60 [15.1%])
Advised/observed taking medication
Delivery of baby
Catheter bag replaced
Management prior to arrival by others at scene
Reassurance (hyperventilation)
Paper bag
Hand/arm released
Referral 2 (0.5%)
Out of hours doctor called
Transport 5 (1.3%)
Transport other than to hospital
Refused treatment 14 (3.5%)
Immediate management was sometimes administered by others at the scene rather than the ambulance crew, for example one patient received oxygen from the fire service. Giving oral glucose to patients suffering hypoglycaemia resulted in clinical improvement obviating the need for transport. The minor theme of 'transport' reflected cases where transport was provided other than to hospital, for example, to a patient's home when there had been a fall in a public place. A small number of patients, particularly cases associated with alcohol consumption or assault, refused treatment as well as transport to hospital. Clinicians had no choice but to make a decision about the patients' competence to refuse treatment in this situation.
Reasons for 'refusal to travel'
Patients' stated reasons for refusing to travel
Reasons given by patients but recorded by crew Themes * (n = 100)
Quotations recorded on the AS34
Patient instigated follow-up 52 (52%)
'Patient preferred to travel to hospital with husband in car'
'Patient to take self to A&E if pains worsens'
'Patient prefers to see own GP tomorrow'
'Felt isolated episode and did not wish to travel to hospital having recovered'
'Patient's parent will keep an eye and call back if needed'
'Will call again if side effects later'
Alternative supervision arranged 19 (19%)
'Left in police custody'
'Patient left with care staff'
'Patient put in contact by phone with YMCA outreacher'
Follow-up in place 3 (3%)
'Had bloods taken at hospital in morning re investigation into faints. Did not wish to attend A&E'
'Patient due on ward for knee operation'
Terminal illness 2 (2%)
'Terminal, wish to remain at home'
'Patient family requested to keep at home. District nurse on scene'
Ambulance used as alternative management 5 (5%)
'Off feet. Family friend rang GP, wouldn't visit told to ring 999'
'Patient called ambulance just to have old wound dressed'
Social 7 (7%)
'Patient said she had been drinking most of the day and was going to walk home'
Patient threatening to 'have crew for assault if touched or forced to go to hospital'
'Did not want to leave disabled daughter'
Doesn't like hospital and has to look after wife'
Other 12 (12%)
'Didn't know why ambulance had been called, became agitated and aggressive'
'Neighbour rang against wishes of the patient'.
'Does not travel well, going home with partner'
Clinicians' stated reasons for patients 'refusing to travel'
Reasons given by clinicians/crew Themes (n = 220)
Quotations recorded on the AS34
Non injury/minor injury 120 (54.5%)
'Fall – no injury'
'Minor injuries only'
'RTA – no injuries'
Patient responded to treatment/recovered/significantly improved 54 (24.5%)
'Condition improved after treatment'
'Baby delivered, no need for transportation'
For assessment by other clinician (usually doctor) 2 (0.9%)
'Examined by out of hours doctor'
No medical emergency/social problem/inappropriate call out 12 (5.5%)
'No medical emergency (4 th visit in last 20 hours)'
'Faint – couldn't get through to Out of hours [OOH] doctor so called ambulance'
'Not appropriate as social problem'
'No reason for call-out'
'Can't cope – wants to go but only if wife can go as well'
Explicitly recorded refused to travel against advice 32 (14.5%)
'Refused against strongest advice and concerns'
'Refused transport four times'
'Refused – pain in lumbar region following RTA'
'Refused – liased with out of hours GP'
In just over half of the cases where there was a clear statement of why a patient 'refused to travel' (54.5%; see Table 5), there was either minor injury or no apparent injury. In a further quarter (24.5%) of cases the patient responded well to treatment. In 5.5% of cases the clinician recorded that there was no medical emergency and labelled this as a social problem or inappropriate call-out.
However, in only 32 of 397 (8.0%) cases did the ambulance crew explicitly record that the patient refused to travel against advice.
Discussion and conclusion
Summary of main findings
This study has shown that the term 'refusal to travel' was misleading as only 8% of our sample were recorded as not travelling to hospital against professional advice. The findings show that recorded reasons for completing a 'refusal to travel' form were complex and diverse. Sometimes these consisted of patient generated reasons and at other times clinically derived reasons. These were expressed variably as medical diagnoses or using lay terminology and in physical terms more often than psychological or social descriptions. In most (over 90%) cases, although a RTT form was completed, it appeared that refusal to travel was a negotiated shared decision. Although RTT was estimated to cost £1.45 million this was not an entirely wasted resource because ambulance crews did provide an on-site assessment. However, it is clear from the data that alternatives to an ambulance response based on prior telephone assessment may have been a more appropriate use of some of this resource.
Comparison with existing literature and implications for future practice
One third of patients who subsequently 'refused to travel' had suffered trips, slips and falls without sustaining injury, a finding consistent with other studies [4] Management for these patients, often the frail elderly, was to lift them from the floor or bath. Telephone triage before sending an ambulance may have determined an alternative response, reducing the likelihood of transfer to hospital [11] Although meeting NHS needs, little is known of the acceptability of this approach to patient or carer and whether other psychological or environmental needs are being met.
Third-party requests against the patient's wishes resulting in RTT may have been prevented by a question incorporated into the triage process, for example "does the patient know about the call-out being made on their behalf?" If the answer is "no", an attempt could be made, for example using a triage nurse, to speak with and gather information directly from the patient, thereby potentially facilitating a more appropriate response. Obviously where the patient is unconscious or involved in a road traffic accident this is not a consideration.
Calls were labelled by clinicians as inappropriate for very few patients. Where calls were for trivial complaints or by frequent callers, mental health issues may have been an underlying factor. Calls requesting medication supplies could have been addressed by patient education.
Strengths and limitations of the study
One limitation of the study included the data source, the written clinical records, from which qualitative information which was derived. The data gleaned from these records included reasons given by patients but interpreted and documented by crews. These were sometimes brief, consisting of a few words and therefore not enough to gain any in-depth understanding of why certain phenomena were occurring. It cannot always be assumed that the interpretations of patient reasons were accurate.
The focus on physical rather than psychological or social terms by clinicians could have been due to the way the form was constructed or because of expectations of clinicians. For example, only one social problem was explicitly recorded in our sample.
Another anomaly in the recording system occurred when patients had recovered significantly since the call, which obviated the need for transport. The system at the time of the study prevented ambulance crews from doing anything other than take patients to hospital, even if their condition did not warrant it, unless a 'refusal to travel' form was signed. Not transporting after treatment of hypoglycaemia, for example, has been shown to be safe [14] with adequate follow up[15] but was not an option for crews at the time of the study. A 'treat and leave' protocol would have removed the perception that these successfully treated cases were inappropriate calls instead of appropriate requests with satisfactory outcome for patient and crew.
The strength of the study is in its careful analysis of qualitative data from a multidisciplinary including patient perspective.
Conclusions and suggestions for future education and research
New systems for responding to emergency calls, whether in the UK or in comparable health systems abroad, including the use of telephone triage, on-scene assessment and referral could lead to changes in the rate of 'refusal to travel'.
The data suggested that the processes leading to refusal to travel and non-transportation to hospital were complex. Many interacting factors were often involved, including medical, emotional and social. In-depth interviews with ambulance crews and patients would enable a fuller understanding of these factors.
There are implications for future ambulance service education and training, not just in recording information, but also shared decision making, informed consent and greater integration with other health professionals in order to develop more multi-disciplinary solutions for those cases not leading to transport to hospital.
Further research is recommended into the impact of Emergency Care Practitioners and Community Paramedics on non-transportation. These recommendations should be considered within the context of the new Government plans for widening the role of ambulance services outlined in the Bradley report [16].
We thank Nick Sentance for his initial advice, Trent RDSU for funding and East Midlands Ambulance Service (formerly Lincolnshire Ambulance and Health Transport) NHS Trust board and executive for their support.
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AUGUSTA – Fifteen of 57 hunting charges against a Mount Vernon man have been condensed by the District Attorney's Office into a single felony charge.
Joseph A. Deleskey, 39, also faces 42 misdemeanor charges.
He is among several relatives and friends who were charged with hunting violations after an 18-month investigation by the Maine Warden Service, which alleges that Deleskey was involved in illegally killing or wounding more than a dozen deer.
A dismissal document filed recently in Superior Court by Assistant District Attorney Steven Parker says the 15 counts were merged with the first count of the indictment, which charges Deleskey with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person on Nov. 1, 2010.
Deleskey was prohibited from having a gun because he was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon on Feb. 3, 2000, in Massachusetts.
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It was not a big hit. It suffered from trying to have every trope they could use and every possible character- Froggy really wasn't needed, and Darla tended to overact. The kids were good, though. It was also a bit schizophrenic, as what kids in the mid 90s looked like kids from the early 30s and had all the old-fashioned stuff that made the originals so charming?
Using the He-Man Woman Haters Club was a bit silly as well, at least by this time frame. It was dated, if still funny, in the 70s and was not quite as funny in the 90s. I wish they had gone with the International Silver Screen Submarine Band instead.
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