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Losing Einhorn Is Not the End of the World

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Much like their bullpen, the Mets’ deal with minority investor David Einhorn collapsed, and with it the $200 million infusion the financially strapped franchise was banking on to help them maintain as the Wilpons fight for their team in the fallout of the Ponzi scandal.

Naturally, there’s a difference of opinion of why the deal unraveled, with Einhorn claiming the Wilpons kept changing terms of the original agreement.

Reportedly, Einhorn was concerned about the language in the contract that would have allowed him to eventually assume ownership of the Mets in three to five years if the Wilpons didn’t repay the $200 million. Einhorn wanted a clear path to ownership and bypass the approval of baseball’s other owners.

Einhorn taking shots at the Wilpons won’t help him should he pursue ownership of another baseball franchise. This is a tight fraternity, and as unhappy as many fans are with the Wilpons, they have allies in Commissioner Bud Selig and other owners.

Fans might clamor for new ownership, but it isn’t happening any time soon.

The Mets, meanwhile, insist they aren’t in dire financial distress despite the lingering Ponzi scandal. In a statement released by the team, the Mets said they have the resources to cover the remainder of the 2011 season and to continue business.

It must be remembered it was the Wilpons who walked away from this deal, a signal they don’t believe they are desperate.

However, the Mets did not say whether business would include re-signing Jose Reyes or how active they might be in the free-agent market.

Reportedly, the Mets are still seeking investors, but will explore the piecemeal route rather than try to hook somebody for another $200 million. This might prove to be a quicker way to raise funds.

This is not good news for the Mets, but not the devastating news made out to be on talk radio. For years, the Mets’ problem has not been an inability or refusal to spend, but to spend wisely. All we have to look at is the Omar Minaya era, and it wasn’t much better before him.

It ultimately lies with the Wilpons, and they seemingly put a management plan in place with the hiring of general manager Sandy Alderson. It takes time for these things to develop, but there have been encouraging signs this season, including how the team is playing and chasing .500.

After the last two years, who would have projected that progress?

We were told this would be a rebuilding, learning year, and that is what has happened. There’s been some miserable baseball, but there’s been some sound play, including the Mets’ current streak.

I know Mets’ fans don’t want to hear about patience, but that’s the way it must be. For too long the Mets have gone for the quick fix that invariably put them in this current hole.

But, I don’t believe this hole is an abyss.

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I am an active member of the BBWAA and have covered Major League Baseball in several capacities for over 30 years, including 18 in New York working the Mets' and Yankees' beat. I also covered the Baltimore Orioles and the Cleveland Indians before that. Today I am a freelance writer and social director for several media outlets and a Senior Editor for Metsmerized Online.


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Jacobo vows to make wide-ranging changes in wake of 'Innocents Lost'

Esther JacoboThe head of the state’s child welfare agency told a House committee Tuesday that the child deaths documented by the Miami Herald exposed a gap in the state’s safety net and, for the first time, she acknowledged it will take more services, and money, to fix it.

However, Esther Jacobo, interim secretary of the Department of Children & Families, maintained that the agency does not need to change its policies related to removing high-risk children from unsafe homes in the wake of the Miami Herald’s “Innocents Lost” series.

“We need to identify what those additional services are and what additional resources we may need,’’ she said, noting that the resource levels may vary from region to region.

The Herald chronicled the deaths of 477 children over six years whose families had a history with DCF. The stories found that the number of children who died of abuse or neglect spiked after child welfare administrators implemented an intensive family-preservation program that reduced the number of children in state care while slashing services and oversight for those who remained with troubled families.

Jacobo held up a copy of the Miami Herald and told the House Healthy Families Subcommittee that she had read the series, noting that it gave a face to child welfare issues that are not unique to Florida.

“I think that the takeaway is that we as Floridians are...really working together to find solutions,’’ she said after the meeting. “The conversations are all leading in the direction that something absolutely will be done.” Read more here.

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Good luck determining best next steps with Gabe! It's hard to make those decisions... I would be hesitant to rely on meds, too. I think so often a lot of it has to do with learning styles. Sounds like you're taking a wise approach!

Keep that excirement reigned in. You are ready!

With Matthew it was dinosaurs and sharks. Good luck with your decision. Use all the reources you can handle.

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On The Radar: Thai-Nam’s New Pho

Thai Nam's New Pho Bo, NYC

I passed Thai-Nam (on 45th btw. Lex+3rd) the other day and immediately zeroed in on the tasty-looking photo of pho bo – Vietnamese beef and rice noodle soup – plastered on their window. They describe their new offering as “hearty beef broth scented with cloves and anise. Served with thin rice noodle. Choice of beef/chicken/seafood.” Food that’s scented with anything always sounds suspicious to me, but I love pho so will overlook their attempts at fancy language. Thai-Nam wasn’t well-received by Zach on his last visit, but I’m curious enough to give it a go. Have you had it? And speaking of pho, any suggestions on where to find a good bowl in Midtown East?

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Free Press Columnist Wrote Passionately About Fiscal Crisis

All-White "Fox News Sunday" Panel Takes Up Issue of Race

ESPN Analyst Writes of Being Profiled in His Own Driveway

The New L.A. Register — A Picture of Diversity?

Obama Stops Saying Women Earn 77 Cents to a Man's Dollar

Robin Roberts on Gay Disclosure: "You Gotta Live Your Life"

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Free Press Columnist Wrote Passionately About Fiscal Crisis

Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary Monday "for his columns on the financial crisis facing his hometown, written with passion and a stirring sense of place, sparing no one in their critique."

Stephen HendersonHenderson appeared to be the only black journalist named individually in the winners' circle, but others were on the staff of the Boston Globe, which won in the breaking news category "for its exhaustive and empathetic coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and the ensuing manhunt that enveloped the city, using photography and a range of digital tools to capture the full impact of the tragedy."

In the Free Press newsroom, "He's already been sprayed with Champagne," Thelma Oakes, administrative assistant to the editorial page, told Journal-isms by telephone about half an hour after the announcement. "The mayor's called, the congressman's called, his wife and children are here. It's just a stream of people coming in to congratulate him."

Henderson came into his office as Oakes was speaking. He told Journal-isms, "It's overwhelming. What I hope that what people can take from this is that even in our darkest hour, with our financial problems and the bankruptcy, there is still a city that's functioning.

"There is still greatness there and excellence. I feel like it's ironic almost that I'm being honored for work about perhaps the darkest hour for my city, the city where I was born. . . .  We're down but not out."

In its story on Henderson's Pulitzer, the Free Press listed the columns for which he was being recognized.

Most of the attention is expected to focus on the public service award to the Guardian and the Washington Post for their reporting on national security disclosures.

Ravi Somaiya reported for the New York Times, "The Washington Post and the Guardian won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, among the most prestigious awards in journalism, for their stories based on National Security Agency documents leaked by the former government contractor Edward J. Snowden.

"Through a series of reports that exposed the N.S.A.'s widespread domestic surveillance program, the Post and the Guardian sparked an international debate on the limits of government surveillance, a formal review from the White House and promises from President Obama himself to limit the agency’s powers. The newspapers also came under heavy criticism by the American and British governments, with lawmakers accusing the two papers of compromising national security."

Henderson follows seven other black journalists and one Latina to win in the commentary category since 1970.

The African Americans are Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, 2009; Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2007; Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald, 2004; Colbert King, Washington Post, 2003; E.R. Shipp, Daily News, New York, 1996; William Raspberry, Washington Post, 1994; and Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 1989. Cuban-born Liz Balmaseda of the Miami Herald won in 1993.

In the related criticism category, awards have gone to Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe, 2012; Robin Givhan of the Washington Post, 2006; Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times, 1998; and Margo Jefferson of the New York Times, 1995.

Henderson, 43, became editorial page editor of the Free Press in 2008. The Detroit native worked with the Free Press in the mid-1990s, held editing posts with the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Tribune, and in 2003, became the first mainstream newspaper reporter of color to regularly cover the U.S. Supreme Court. He did so for the former Knight Ridder newspapers, and then for the McClatchy Washington bureau. Henderson returned to the Free Press in 2007.

As Doug Saffir wrote for, "The full staff of the Boston Globe,, and won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013."

Among those staff members were journalists of color Wesley Lowery, Martine Powers, Akilah Johnson, Meghan Irons, Anica Butler, Zuri Berry, Brian Ballou, Andrew Tran, Patty Wen, Tracy Jan, Milton Valencia, Maria Cramer, Maria Sacchetti and Swati Sharma.

The Globe said in a news release, "While noting that this marks the first time that the Globe has won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, editor Brian McGrory asked the staff to observe a moment of 'quiet reflection and remembrance' for those affected by the bombings, and for those who lost their lives. 'There’s nobody in this room who wanted to cover this story. Each and every one of us hopes that nothing like it ever happens again on our watch,' he said. . . ."

The Pulitzer winners:

PUBLIC SERVICE — Two Prizes: The Guardian US and the Washington Post

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING — the Boston Globe Staff

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING — Chris Hamby of the Center for Public Integrity, Washington.

EXPLANATORY REPORTING — Eli Saslow of the Washington Post

LOCAL REPORTING — Will Hobson and Michael LaForgia of the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times

NATIONAL REPORTING — David Philipps of the Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo.

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING —- Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall of Reuters

COMMENTARY — Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press

CRITICISM — Inga Saffron of the Philadelphia Inquirer

EDITORIAL WRITING — The Editorial Staff of the Oregonian, Portland

EDITORIAL CARTOONING — Kevin Siers of the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY —- Tyler Hicks of the New York Times

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY — Josh Haner of the New York Times

Letters, Drama and Music

FICTION - "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)

DRAMA — "The Flick" by Annie Baker

HISTORY — "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832" by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton)

BIOGRAPHY — "Margaret Fuller: A New American Life" by Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

POETRY - "3 Sections" by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press)

GENERAL NONFICTION — "Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation" by Dan Fagin (Bantam Books)

MUSIC — "Become Ocean" by John Luther Adams (Taiga Press/Theodore Front Musical Literature)

No award for feature writing was made this year. Kevin Merida, managing editor of the Washington Post, told blogger Bill Lucey, a former news researcher, "That the board chooses not to hand out an award doesn’t invalidate that work, and doesn’t mean the jurors were wrong about their choices. It just demonstrates what we intellectually know — journalism, like art, is not science."

From left: Brit Hume, Julie Pace, George Will, Bob Woodward, Chris Wallace

All-White "Fox News Sunday" Panel Takes Up Issue of Race

Have President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. been disrespected because of their race? Are some states' efforts to restrict the vote racially motivated?

An all-white panel on "Fox News Sunday" considered those questions — black journalist Juan Williams was absent — and the near-unanimous rejection of those propositions demonstrated the difference diversity can make in such forums.

The next morning, on TVOne's "NewsOne Now" with Roland Martin, an all-black panel weighed those issues and — surprise — the conclusions were nearly diametrically opposed.

On "Fox News Sunday" the reference point for how Holder was treated was Janet Reno, President Bill Clinton's attorney general, or John Mitchell, President Richard Nixon's, but on "NewsOne Now" it was the "you lie!" shouted at President Obama during his 2009 State of the Union Address by Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C.

Joia Jefferson Nuri, founder and CEO of the Public Eye Communications, made the "you lie!" connection in conversation with Martin and Armstrong Williams, the conservative commentator, who contended that the subject on the table was not as important as the lack of sufficient black economic progress.

An excerpt from the Fox discussion, which can be found in its entirety here:

CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Attorney General Eric Holder complaining about treatment of him and also the president after another testy exchange with House Republicans on Capitol Hill, and we're back now with the panel. Well, Attorney General Holder said the Obama administration has faced, his words, unprecedented, ugly opposition and speaking to Al Sharpton's National Action Network he clearly implied it's because of race. Brit, does he have a point?

BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: I don't think so. And I think, you know — first of all, it's false that no attorney general, no president have been subjected to this kind of treatment. After all, Bill Clinton was impeached. Think about that for a moment. [Nixon administration Attorney General] John Mitchell went to jail. I mean the list is long of attorneys general and other officials who have been subjected to some very rough treatment on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.

And this strikes me as kind of crybaby stuff from Holder. My sense about this is that both Eric Holder and Barack Obama have benefited politically enormously from the fact that they are African-American and the first to hold the jobs that they hold and this — I don't know if he specifically meant race or not, I suspect perhaps he did. But to those two men race has been both a shield and a sword that they have used effectively to defend themselves and to attack others. And I think it is depressing at this stage in our national life after all we've been through on this issue and given the overwhelming consensus on the issue of civil rights that this kind of stuff is still going on.

WALLACE: We asked you for questions from the panel, for the panel rather, and we got this on Twitter from Michael Dagan. Why is it that if you oppose their position and you're white, you are branded a racist? Both AG Holder and POTUS — President of the United States — race bait?" George, is that what's going on here?

GEORGE WILL, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Sure. Look, liberalism has a kind of Tourette's syndrome these days, it just [is] constantly saying the word "racism" and "racist." It's an old saying in the law. If you have the law on your side, argue the law; if you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. If you have neither, pound the table. This is pounding the table.

There is kind of intellectual poverty now. Liberalism hasn't had a new idea since the 1960s, except [Obamacare] and the country doesn't like it. Foreign policy is a shambles from Russia to Iran to Syria to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And the recovery is unprecedentedly bad. So what do you do? You say anyone who criticizes us is a racist. It's become a joke among young people. You go to a campus where this kind of political correctness [reigns] and some young person will say, "looks like it's going to rain. Person listening says, "You're a racist." I mean it's so inappropriate. The constant invocation of this, that I think it's becoming a national mirth.

Others on the panel were Julie Pace, who covers the White House for the Associated Press, and Bob Woodward, associate editor of the Washington Post.

Woodward demurred from the race talk, saying, "What happens is a reporter asked John Boehner the speaker about this and the reporter's interpretation was that what Holder said was about race. And he didn't mention race. . . ."

The discussion continued will Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday night, Matt Wilstein reported for Mediaite.

"Bill O’Reilly invited Fox News contributor Brit Hume onto The O’Reilly Factor Monday night to expand on comments he made about Attorney General Eric Holder and race over the weekend. Hume said the reaction to his comments about Holder and President Barack Obama 'benefitting enormously' because of their race was equal parts positive and negative, with about half of people on Twitter calling him 'racist' because there were no African-Americans present for the debate on Fox News Sunday.

" 'In other words, in order to discuss this, you have to have an African-American present,' Hume added. 'But if you’re just white, then discussing this is racist.' . . . O’Reilly went on to agree with Hume’s basic premise. . . ."

ESPN Analyst Writes of Being Profiled in His Own Driveway

Doug Glanville

"Powerful stuff today, via The Atlantic, from former MLB player and current ESPN baseball analyst Doug Glanville," Richard Horgan wrote Monday for FishbowlNY.

"The athlete-turned-author-turned-broadcaster details a very unpleasant recent encounter with a wayward patrol cop, who assumed the black man shoveling snow in front of a certain West Hartford residence must be hustling for bucks.

"From Glanville's piece:

" 'After getting legal advice from my neighbor and my wife, I ruled out any immediate action. In fact, I was hesitant to impulsively share my story with anyone I knew, let alone my media friends at ESPN or the New York Times. I hoped to have a meaningful, productive conversation with West Hartford leaders — something that might be hard to achieve if my story turned into a high-profile controversy. Instead, I asked my neighbor to help me arrange a meeting with the West Hartford officials. I arrived at Town Hall, I was flanked by my neighbor and my wife. They came as supporters, but it helped that they were also attorneys…

" 'In a sense, the shoveling incident was a painful reminder of something I’ve always known: My biggest challenge as a father will be to help my kids navigate a world where being black is both a source of pride and a reason for caution. I want them to have respect for the police, but also a healthy fear — at least as long as racial profiling continues to be an element of law enforcement. But I also want them to go into the world with a firm sense of their own self-worth. . . .'

"Lots more in the essay, including the reaction of Glanville’s mother and how this incident reminded him of something that happened to him as a kid at summer camp. Read the full piece here."

Staff of the new Los Angeles Register. (Credit: Leonard Ortiz/Orange County Regi

The New L.A. Register — A Picture of Diversity?

"Looks like the Los Angeles Register staff falls a little short," Phillip Blanchard wrote Sunday on his Testy Copy Editors blog under the headline "Diversity."

Mary Ann Milbourn reported over the weekend in the Orange County Register, "The Los Angeles Register, a new daily newspaper, will debut Wednesday in Freedom Communications' latest expansion in Southern California.

"Freedom owns the Orange County Register.

"Publisher Aaron Kushner said he is launching a Los Angeles newspaper because it makes good business sense and will introduce residents in the nation's second largest city to the Register's style of community-based journalism.

“ 'We are going to bring our fabulous brand of local journalism and political perspective to a very large market,' Kushner said.

Donna Wares, managing editor of the Orange County Register, could not be reached for comment on Monday.

According to the 2010 Census, the city of Los Angeles was 9.6 percent black or African American, 0.7 percent American Indian or Alaska Native, 11.3 percent Asian American, 48.5 percent Hispanic or Latino and 28.7 percent white only, not Hispanic or Latino. Another 4.6 percent said they were two or more races.

Obama Stops Saying Women Earn 77 Cents to a Man's Dollar

In his weekly radio address, President Obama dropped mention of the 77-cent figure he had been using as the amount of money that women made for every dollar a man earned, Glenn Kessler reported Sunday in his "Fact Checker" column in the print edition of the Washington Post.

Kessler had given the president two "Pinocchios" for the statement in the online version of the "Fact Checker" that appeared last week.

"From a political perspective, the Census Bureau's 77-cent figure is golden," Kessler wrote. "Unless women stop getting married and having children, and start abandoning careers in childhood education for naval architecture, this huge gap in wages will almost certainly persist. Democrats thus can keep bringing it up every two years.

"There appears to be some sort of wage gap and closing it is certainly a worthy goal. But it’s a bit rich for the president to repeatedly cite this statistic as an 'embarrassment.' . . . The president must begin to acknowledge that '77 cents' does not begin to capture what is actually happening in the work force and society. . . ."

Meanwhile, Daniel Holloway of Broadcasting & Cable wrote that the Writers Guild of America, in its 2014 Hollywood Writers Report released Monday, found:

Bernie Lunzer, president of the Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America, told Journal-isms on Friday that the pay disparity between men and women and among the races has nearly vanished from newspaper newsrooms.

Robin Roberts on Gay Disclosure: "You Gotta Live Your Life"

Robin Roberts

In an interview with Good Housekeeping magazine, "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts linked her coming out as gay in December to a renewed appreciation for the value of life after her bone marrow transplant.

"Shortly after I posted about my relationship with Amber [Laign] on Facebook last year, I showed a picture of us with my niece — who'd gotten married in Baton Rouge, LA — on GMA," Roberts said in an interview with Jane Francisco.

"It was like a beautiful family picture. I was so moved that people got it and said, 'You're happy.' Others, though, were asking, 'Why didn't you say something about her before? Why are you only recognizing her now?' News flash: Some people like their anonymity. This is what's right for me. Love is love, and I'm grateful to have that. Sometimes there's a stigma attached to how people view you if you're living a certain way. But I don't care — you gotta live your life. You gotta find what happiness is and what it means for you, and you can't get caught up in what someone is saying about you on Twitter. You don't go through a year like I did to not be happy and not make your own choices. . . ."

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    Five D.C. groups sponsored the journalism job fair.
  • About 200 people participated in the journalism job fair co-sponsored by the District of Columbia chapters of the National Association of Black Journalists, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Asian American Journalists Association, National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association and Society of Professional Journalists, according to Brandon Benavides, the NAHJ chapter president. He said the number of participants exceeded expectations among recruiters and job-seekers, some of whom came from other cities. The event was officially called the "Washington, D.C. Job Fair hosted by Georgetown University's Master's Journalism Program."

  • "Univision is launching an English-language video channel today called with an eye on Hispanics between ages 15 and 30," Christopher Heine reported Monday for AdWeek. "Condom maker Trojan is the cross-programming launch partner for the online endeavor, while McDonald's is sponsoring the funny-minded show, Super Accurate Soccer History. The initiative builds on the youngster-targeted, English-language television channel, Fusion, which Univision debuted last fall in conjunction with Disney. . . ."

  • Marie Arana, former editor of the Washington Post's Book World section, won the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography for "Bolivar: American Liberator" (Simon & Schuster). The ceremony took place Friday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

  • Dwight A. Dugas, news director at KLFY-TV in Lafayette, La., is stepping down for another unspecified job at the station, Dugas told Journal-isms on Monday. The changes come as a result of the merger of Media General and LIN Media in a $1.6 billion cash and stock deal that will create the nation’s second-largest pure-play broadcast group, with 74 stations. In 2008, Dugas became the first African American television news director in Southwest Louisiana.

  • "The ongoing standoff over Pacifica's leadership reached the California courts last week, opening what could become a protracted legal battle over the Pacifica Foundation board of directors' decision to fire executive director Summer Reese," Ben Mook reported Monday for "Reese, who has defied the board's March 14 vote to fire her and taken up residence in Pacifica headquarters in Berkeley, filed a civil lawsuit in Alameda County, seeking a restraining order to reverse the board’s decision. . . ."

  • "Now we REALLY know that NBC's Saturday Night Live does not give a crap when it comes to mocking Latinos," contributors to the Latino Rebels website wrote on Sunday. "A few weeks back, we saw a non-Latina (Cecily Strong) fail with perhaps one of the most unfunny loud Latina stereotypes. Last night, it happened again with non-Latino Kenan Thompson doing a heavily accented and over-the-top Dominicano version of Red Sox slugger David 'Big Papi' Ortiz. . . ."

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Farmer first to claim exotic hog ban violates tribal rights

American-Indian farmer Brenda Turunen claims the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has violated her rights under a 19th century treaty by banning her from keeping her exotic hogs.

Similar lawsuits have been filed – but Turunen’s is the first to raise a tribal rights claim, reports The Mining Journal.

Turunen, of Baraga, filed suit last week in U.S. District Court against the MDNR over the designation of certain hog breeds as invasive species, making it illegal to possess them.  The MDNR claims the exotic hogs are escaping from hunting preserves and damaging the environment.

“Whether Brenda chooses to market squash, peas, cattle, hairy hogs or raw milk, she has a federally protected right to do so,” said her attorney, Joseph O’Leary.

Turunen, who is a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, claims that an 1842 treaty guarantees Indians the right to live off the land through means such as hunting and farming in exchange for ceding land to the federal government.

Her complaint asserts that she and her husband developed a swine breed called the “Hogan Hog” that is well-suited for harsh Upper Peninsula winters. The hog has some physical characteristics of the banned swine, but Turunen emphasized that none of her hogs has escaped or become feral.

According to Turunen, the state has interfered with her shipment of hogs to out-of-state markets and has also harassed her veterinarian. She has asked the federal court to rule that the state has no authority over her operation.

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Sunday, 20 January 2008

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Staffing issues/Bed Occupancy/ Fucktwit politicans/ Superbugs

INCONSISTENCY and mismanagement threaten a critical shortage of GPs and nurses, warn two Fylde coast MPs.
Ben Wallace, MP for Lancaster and Wyre, and Michael Jack, MP for Fylde, said a leaked document on cuts to the NHS wage bill showed bad personnel management.
The document, part of the draft version of the NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2008 to 2011 in England, predicted that within four years the NHS will have a shortage of 1,200 GPs, 14,000 nurses and 1,100 doctors.
It also revealed an extra 3,200 consultants the NHS cannot afford to pay and an excess of 1,600 allied professionals, health scientists and technicians.
The Government has announced that more than 900 NHS staff are to be made redundant across the country as part of hospitals reorganisation.
Mr Wallace said: "The whole thing shows the Government's incompetency when it comes to workforce planning.
"It has encouraged people to join the NHS but now is laying people off and, in my own constituency, I hear of health professionals, for example, midwives, who cannot find a job.

From a recently qualified Graduate Nurse

Well, a few day's on the ward and I have neglected to really mention much of what I have been doing. There is still no job, though there have thankfully been a handful more job's posted on the NHS jobs site for my hospital. It would seem that the reason I was not shortlisted for the job on the ward was that there were 47 other student nurses who applied for the post. Yes, 47 students without jobs. I am not making this up, as I saw the pile of application forms. There were over 100 applications made when you add in the registered Nurse's that applied for the post. Good news is that they are going to keep my application if anything else turns up.

Stéphane Hugonnet and colleagues from the University of Geneva Hospitals, Switzerland, investigated the number of patients admitted to the ICU who developed ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), over a four-year period. They then compared this to the number of nurses on duty for each patient in the preceding days. VAP affected over a fifth of the 936 patients who received mechanical ventilation during the study.

The team found that when there were lower numbers of nurses, patients were more likely to catch pneumonia six days or more after being placed on a ventilator. This suggests that bacteria are transferred between patients, or from one site to another in the same patient. This could be due to short-staffed nurses having less time to follow hand hygiene recommendations and proper isolation procedures or being unable to provide adequate care to the ventilated patient. The nurses' training level had no effect on infection rates.

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ScienceDaily (Jan. 16, 2007) — Hospital death rates can be reduced by employing more Registered Nurses and the routine use of care maps or protocols, according to a study in the latest UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing.

A ten per cent increase in the proportion of Registered Nurses employed was associated with six fewer deaths per 1000 discharged patients.
The death rate also went down by nine per 1000 discharged patients when the number of Baccalaureate-prepared (university graduate rather than diploma qualified) nurses went up by ten per cent.
A ten per cent increase in adequate staffing and resources (as reported by nurses) was associated with 17 fewer deaths per 1,000 discharged patients.

Hospital acquired infections such as MRSA and C.Diff. are on the rise. There is much evidence to suggest this is mostly down to two main factors, poor hygiene standards and bed occupancy.

Bed occupancy rates within Lincolnshire are high, very high. 99.2% !!! (Apr 05-Apr 06) The govt. target is 85%.

Several times a year the whole United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust is on red alert. This refers to the trust having no available beds whatsoever. On 25th November 2006 Lincoln hospital had to close wards as 10 patients had the c.diff bug. One patient died.

Before any more beds and services are cut at our hospital we should ask the Trust board how they can justify further cuts to bed numbers at a time when we have already had one major outbreak at Lincoln and the bed occupancy numbers are massively over government requirements of 85% occupancy.

Quotes from around the press :

"People with MRSA should be treated in isolation, but that does not happen because bed occupancy is running at almost 100 per cent. We have heard of hospitals pulling the curtains around a bed and pinning a note on it to say "isolation".
Katharine Murphy, of the Patients' Association

"Good infection control is being thwarted by high bed occupancy levels, a lack of isolation facilities and too many patients with different conditions being placed together in wards."
Edward Leigh. Public Account Committee,,1260861,00.html

And This:

Staffing patterns and nurses' working conditions are risk factors for healthcare-associated infections as well as occupational injuries and infections. Staffing shortages, especially of nurses, have been identified as one of the major factors expected to constrain hospitals' ability to deal with future outbreaks of emerging infections. These problems are compounded by a global nursing shortage. Understanding and improving nurses' working conditions can potentially decrease the incidence of many infectious diseases. Relevant research is reviewed, and policy options are discussed.

A recent evidence-based practice report sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research concluded that a relationship exists between lower levels of nurse staffing and higher incidence of adverse patient outcomes (14). Nurses' working conditions have been associated with medication errors and falls, increased deaths, and spread of infection (15–30) (Table). RN staffing levels have been associated with the spread of disease during outbreaks (17,22,23,25,28). However, increasing nurse-to-patient ratios alone is not adequate; more complex staffing issues appear to be at work. Many studies have found that the times of higher ratios of "pool staff" (i.e., nursing staff who were members of the hospital pool service or agency nurses) to "regular staff" (i.e., nurses permanently assigned to the unit) were independently associated with healthcare-associated infections (16,17,21,27). The skill mix of the staff, that is, the ratio of RNs to total nursing personnel (RNs plus nurses' aides), is also related to healthcare-associated infections; increased RN skill mix decreases the incidence of healthcare-associated infections (20,29,30). In a recent comprehensive review of the literature, the authors concluded that evidence of the relationship between nurses' working environment and patient safety outcomes, including healthcare-associated infections is growing. They also concluded that stability, skill mix, and experience of the nurse workforce in specific settings are emerging as important factors in that relationship (31).

Anyone see where I am going with this?

And Gordon Brown is going to spend millions on supposed "deep cleaning" instead of creating jobs for front line staff, and redesigning hospitals and creating beds.

I do not need to create a link to my posts about the staffing at my trust or managements attitude towards this problem. Randomly select any of my previous posts and read about it. We do not have enough beds to cope. New nurses cannot find employment anywhere. WE have 3 closed wards at our hospital. They are nightingale wards so cannot be used (as per government orders) but there is no money to refurbish (as per government penny pinching). I know of trusts that have the lowest staff to patient ratios in the country. They have superbug problems. They want rid of hundreds of frontline staff but they advertising for new management consultants.

Gordon, you ignorant slut.

Our domestics are only working 4 hour days and in that time they must serve breakfast and dinner. They are only hiring part timers as domestics. There are 2 domestics to do this in 4 hours and clean the ward as well in that time. The ward is at 100% bed occupancy and is totally overcrowded. They could not clean it properly if you had a gun to their heads.

Everyone understands this and has already connected the dots...everyone except the fucktwits in charge....

Thursday, 10 January 2008

Temper Tantrums

I think I am really losing it as a Nurse. I am still very compassionate but a hardened shell made of diamond has formed around every compassionate and empathetic bone in my body. I want to stand in the middle of my ward and shriek, scream at the top of my lungs: THIS IS REALITY. IT SUCKS BUT THIS IS HOW IT IS AND I CANNOT CHANGE IT. THIS IS NOT HOW THINGS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE AND I CANNOT CHANGE IT. NOW PUT ON YOUR BIG GIRL PANTIES, AND DEAL WITH IT LIKE A FUCKING GROWN UP.

The things some of these people bitch about...Their unrealistic expectations for one to one care....The belief that you are going to get one to one care in hospital.....the belief that the nurse you are sharing 35 patients with can revolve the world around you and your families schedule without fucking killing someone.......

I'm just a nurse who wants to do my job well and take care of my patients.

My assignment of patients wasn't so bad, that turned out to be a blessing later. My colleagues day sucked. It was her and myself for 28 patients. My 14 were in good shape. They were mostly walking wounded. One poorly patient went to ITU. No upcoming discharges. I was able to get in and do a good assessment on everyone at the beginning of my shift and get a good handle on everything. I was able to do this because I went into work early. Only 2 of them were on IV meds. No confused wanderers that day. It was good. I enjoy days like this because they are so rare. I recently got a couple of beautiful thank you notes from patients. The cards were waiting for me when I went into work. I feel bad because I know the care could be so much better.

My colleague had the other 14 patients who were tougher. She ended up with a death, 3 critically ill patients and 4 palliative care patients whose families were angry and inconsolable. I was able to spend most of my shift helping her out since my assignment was so good.

We have no free beds on the ward but are slated to get an admission at 3PM for minor surgery the next morning. The admission comes in and we sit her in lounge. She appears to be a very well lady. She is raging because there is not a bed yet. I told her it is okay as long as she is here and we can sort out her stuff and prepare her for theatre la de da. Called the bed manager and said please find this lady a bed.

Well a bed did become free around half past 3. We knew it would really. A patient in the side room died. The family was there. They were hysterical.

A relative of the dead patient was so distressed we nearly sent her to A&E..She was a young adult and when told that her dad died she lost control of her bladder. The rest of the family was no better. More family came in to say goodbye. We couldn't lay out the body and get it moved to the morgue because the family was laying on top of the corpse and couldn't bear to leave him. This went on for hours and hours. I was so heartbroken for them. It's not cool to say "look we have a new admit that needs this room, please leave". We gently tried to tell them that they could see him in the chapel of rest and encouraged them to get a cuppa while we sorted out dad and prepared him to leave the ward. They were having none of it. They would not budge. They would not converse with us. I don't think their English skills were great. This was the only bed we were going to have. There were no other beds free, or that could be made free.

Bed manager was aware of the situation there were no beds anywhere else. That's what she said anyway but she is also a well known liar.

Meanwhile the new admission in the lounge was getting increasingly PISSED OFF. WE were not going to tell her that there was a body in her upcoming bed
that we couldn't move. I could tell that she was the kind of person who would completely flip out about that.

By 5PM she was in the lounge crying because she was told to come into hospital for her op and expected to come into a bed and see her doctor straight away. She was to have a hernia repair the next day. I left 28 patients to hook her up with magazines, food, a TV some blankets to get comfortable and apologized profusely regarding the bed situation. I told her she wouldn't see her doc until tomorrow morning anyway even if she was in a bed. It did no good. Every 5 minutes she came out of the room to berate us, call us useless for not getting her bed ready. Then she called her husband and he came in ranting and swearing. Then she called her sons and they rang the ward every 5 minutes ranting swearing and threatening us. So did her sister. I guess they thought that this would get her in a bed faster.

This went on until 9PM. She had to go into the bed where the body was, there was nothing else we could do. We couldn't throw the recently bereaved family out. There was 7 of them and 2 of us. Site manager was aware and said his hands were tied. Thanks for the help you fucker. It was 9PM when we finally were able to lay the body out, get him transported to the morgue and clean the room for the new admit.

If you want to know why your nurse isn't answering your call bell, spending time with you etc is because they are messing around with this stuff.

This woman was crying and cursing saying that having to wait for a bed like this was the worst thing that ever happened to her in her life. I had to try so hard not to laugh at her. I brought her a dinner tray in the lounge and she threw it on the floor. I am sorry. The lounge she was in was nicer than the room itself. She had comfortable chairs etc. She wasn't ill. She had food, water, TV and a phone. She was coming in and out to smoke.

My colleague suggested that we should give her full responsibility of 3 bays by herself, then she could have something to really whine about.

By 8PM I came so close to grabbing her by the hair, digging my nails into the back of her head and dragging her to the room with the corpse in it so that I could point to it and the grieving relatives and say "NOW THAT IS A REAL FUCKING PROBLEM". "NOW THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING TO GET UPSET ABOUT".

I came damn close. Maybe it's time for sick leave.

Thank god my 14 patients were all right. They saw me for about 2 seconds each. If one of them had deteriorated, it would have been missed. If any of them peed the bed they sat in it for the duration of my shift.

Edited to Add: I just made a few phone calls and have an appointment with my GP tomorrow. I am now off sick. I hate complaining to my GP, since she probably has too deal with 100x more bullshit at work. I hate feeling this way.

I have had close relatives die horribly. I have had medical problems myself and as stressful as that was I feel ten times worse and more anxious about going into work. I can't handle the abuse and getting sworn at all the time. I don't get to throw tantrums and cry when I am feeling like that. I'll get complained about if I so much as forget to smile. Maybe if they just offer me a chocolate cookie that will make it all better and force me to smile.,,2087-2450166,00.html

I am not going to follow my own advice and put on my big girl panties and suck it up anymore. I am still job hunting so maybe something will turn up. I will even go and work at Asda if they are hiring. If the house sells first we are out of here.

Monday, 7 January 2008

Beauty Salon VS. General Medical/Surgical Ward

Okay guys check this out.

I was talking to my little sister yesterday. She is a hairdresser in the States. She works from 0900 to 1500 daily and makes WAY more money than I do because of the tips she gets. We had a conversation the other day.

Nurse Anne: So how many chairs do you have at your hair salon?

Little Sister: uuuuum like 10 chairs.

Anne: How many staff do you have on a normal day?

Little Sister: Um... like.... never any less than 4 or 5. Um like we take one hour lunches. And if customers don't like waiting it's tough titties. Um like and oh yeah we sit in the back and like smoke and shit and make them wait longer if they complain.

They can leave if they don't like it like okay? Yesterday Kiki and Emilio did my hair and my nails because it was like a totally slow day. We closed down the shop for an hour or 5 and had a little party. Like I think I am going blonde at work tomorrow. Emilio will fix it for me.

Jesus Christ where is their manager and/or owner?

But I digress...

Okay so let's go back and analyze this. They have 10 chairs. The maximum number of people being seen to at once is 10. They may also have customers waiting in the lounge. No harm comes to them as a result of waiting for awhile. They have 10 chairs and 4 to 5 staff.

My 35 bed (now 39 beds because the treatment rooms and day rooms are now patient rooms) ward considers itself lucky if we have 4 staff. We get on our knees thanking Jesus if at least 2 of those staff members are actual nurses. Our patients are acute, highly dependent,and many have dementia. They can die or have extremely bad complications because of one little fuck up or missed bit of information. I had 10 of them who needed to go off the ward for essential diagnostic tests the other day. At the same time. Why does god hate me?

All of them needed escorts because they were either on 02, they had dementia and would wander, fall and get lost if left alone in x-ray, or they were on drips that could not come down. All that stuff requires an escort from the ward staff to go with the Porter and stay with the patient.

We had 3 staff on duty. 10 patients needed to be off the ward with an escort (Nurse or HCA). No escort means no test basically. Radiology has a shit fit if they are asked to come to the ward to do a chest x-ray on someone who is too poorly to go down there and there are no escorts. The other departments constantly have shit fits because they want the nurses to revolve everything around their particular diagnositc department. Endoscopy is the worst for this by the way. Fuckers. Just kidding. ;)

Does anyone else think that any of this is completely sick?

We have been harassing the managers and matrons for months trying to get them to meet with us. The only response we have got from the powers that be recently went something like this "You are well staffed as far as we are concerned. Deal with it and cope".

Wednesday, 2 January 2008

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СОДЕРЖАНИЕ: Petroleum Essay, Research Paper Petroleum, or crude oil, is a naturally occurring oily liquid composed ofvarious organic chemicals. It is found in large quantities below the surfaceof the earth and is used as a fuel and as a raw material in the chemicalindustry. Modern industrial societies use it primarily to achieve a degreeof mobility on land, at sea, and in the air that was barely imaginableless than a hundred years ago.

Petroleum Essay, Research Paper

Petroleum, or crude oil, is a naturally occurring oily liquid composed ofvarious organic chemicals. It is found in large quantities below the surfaceof the earth and is used as a fuel and as a raw material in the chemicalindustry. Modern industrial societies use it primarily to achieve a degreeof mobility on land, at sea, and in the air that was barely imaginableless than a hundred years ago. In addition, petroleum and its derivativesare used in the manufacture of medicines and fertilizers, foodstuffs,plastic ware, building materials, paints, and cloth and to generateelectricity.In fact, modern industrial civilization depends on petroleum and itsproducts; the physical structure and way of life of the suburbancommunities that surround the great cities are the result of an ample andinexpensive supply of petroleum. In addition, the goals of developingcountries to exploit their natural resources and to supply foodstuffs for theunderdeveloped populations, are based on the assumption of petroleumavailability. In recent years, however, the worldwide availability ofpetroleum has steadily declined and its relative cost has increased.Petroleum will probably no longer be a common commercial material bythe mid-21st century. Characteristics The chemical composition of all petroleum is principally hydrocarbons.Petroleum contains gaseous, liquid, and solid elements. The consistency ofpetroleum varies from liquid as thin as gasoline to liquid so thick that it willbarely pour. Formation Petroleum is formed under the earth s surface by the decomposition ofmarine organisms. The remains of tiny organisms that live in the sea and,to a lesser extent, those of land organisms that are carried down to thesea in rivers and of plants that grow on the ocean bottoms, are mixed withthe fine sands and silts that settle to the bottom in quiet sea basins. Suchdeposits, which are rich in organic materials, become the source rocks forthe making of crude oil. The process began many millions of years agowith the development of abundant life, and it continues to this day. Thesediments grow thicker and sink into the seafloor under their own weight.As additional deposits pile up, the pressure on the ones below increasesseveral thousand times, and the temperature rises by several hundreddegrees. The mud and sand harden into shale and sandstone; carbonateprecipitates and skeletal shells harden into limestone; and the remains ofthe dead organisms are transformed into crude oil and natural gas.Once the petroleum forms, it flows upward in the earth s crust because ithas a low density. The crude oil and natural gas rise into the microscopicpores of the coarser sediments lying above. Frequently, the rising materialencounters a dense layer of rock that prevents further movement. In otherwords, the oil has become trapped, and a reservoir of petroleum is formed.A significant amount of the upward-migrating oil, however, does notencounter impermeable rock but instead flows out at the surface of theearth or onto the ocean floor. Historical Development These surface deposits of crude oil have been known to humans forthousands of years. In the areas where they occurred, they were longused for such limited purposes as caulking boats, waterproofing cloth andfueling torches. By the time of the Renaissance, some surface depositswere being distilled to obtain lubricants and medicinal products, but thereal exploitation of crude oil did not begin until the 19th century. TheIndustrial Revolution had by then brought about a search for new fuels,and the social changes it effected had produced a need for good, cheapoil for lamps. People wished to be able to work and read after dark. The search for a better lamp fuel led to a great demand for rock oil ,thatis, crude oil, and various scientists in the mid-19th century weredeveloping processes to make commercial use of it. Thus the quest for greater supplies of crude oil began. For several yearspeople had known that wells drilled for water and salt occasionallycontained petroleum, so the concept of drilling for crude oil itself soonfollowed. The first such wells were dug in Germany in 1857-59, but theevent that gained world fame was the drilling of an oil well near Oil Creek,Pennsylvania, by Colonel Edwin L. Drake in 1859. Exploration In order to find crude oil underground, geologists must search for asedimentary basin in which shales rich in organic material have beenburied for a sufficiently long time for petroleum to have formed. Thepetroleum must also have had an opportunity to migrate into porous trapsthat are capable of holding large amounts of fluid. The occurrence ofcrude oil in the earth s crust is limited both by these conditions, whichmust be met simultaneously, and by the time span of tens of millions to ahundred million years required for the oil s formation. Petroleumgeologists and geophysicists, however, have many tools at their disposalto assist in identifying potential areas for drilling. Thus, surface mappingof sedimentary beds makes possible the interpretation of subsurfacefeatures, which can then be supplemented with information obtained bydrilling into the crust and retrieving samples of the rock layersencountered. In addition, increasingly sophisticated scientific techniques,having to do with the reflection and refraction of sound waves propagatedthrough the earth, reveal details of the structure and interrelationship ofvarious layers in the subsurface. Ultimately, however, the only way toprove that oil is present in the subsurface is to drill a well. An oil field, once found, may comprise more than one reservoir, that is,more than one single, continuous, bounded accumulation of oil. Indeed,several reservoirs may be stacked one above the other, isolated byintervening shales and impervious rock . Such reservoirs may vary in sizefrom a few tens of hectares to tens of square kilometers, and from a fewmeters in thickness to several hundred or more. Most of the oil that hasbeen discovered and exploited in the world has been found in a relativelyfew large reservoirs. In the U.S., for example, 60 of approximately 10,000oil fields have accounted for half of the productive capacity and reserves. Primary Production Most oil wells in the U.S. are drilled by the rotary method that was firstdescribed in a British patent in 1844 assigned to R. Beart. In rotarydrilling, the drill string, a series of connected pipes, is supported by aderrick. The string is rotated by being coupled to the rotating table on thederrick floor. The drill bit at the end of the string is generally designedwith three cone-shaped wheels tipped with hardened teeth. Drill cuttingsare lifted continually to the surface by a circulating-fluid system driven bya pump.Trapped crude oil is under pressure. Thus, when a well bore is drilled intothis pressured accumulation of oil, the oil expands into the low-pressuresink created by the well bore in communication with the earth s surface.As the well fills up with fluid, however, a back pressure is exerted on thereservoir, and the flow of additional fluid into the well bore would soonstop, were no other conditions involved. Most crude oils, however, containa significant amount of natural gas in solution, and this gas is kept insolution by the high pressure in the reservoir. The gas comes out ofsolution when the low pressure in the well bore is encountered and thegas, once liberated, immediately begins to expand. This expansion,together with the dilution of the column of oil by the less dense gas,results in the transporting of oil up to the earth s surface.The fluid may not reach the surface, so that a pump (artificial lift) must beinstalled in the well bore to continue producing the crude oil.Eventually, the flow rate of the crude oil becomes so small, and the cost oflifting the oil to the surface becomes so great, that the well costs more tooperate than the revenues that can be gained from selling the crude oil.The well s economic limit has then been reached and it is abandoned. Oil Drill Rig and ReservoirThe rotary drilling rig uses a series of rotating pipes, called the drill string, to tap into oil reservoirs.The drill string is supported by a derrick, and turned by the rotary table on its floor. Circulating,mudlike fluid driven by a pump removes cuttings as the teeth of the drill bit dig into the rock aroundthe reservoir. Reservoirs occur in many places. They form as a result of intense pressure on top oflayers of dead marine and land organisms mixed with sand or silt. This reservoir abuts a salt dome,which has trapped a layer of oil and natural gas between itself and nonporous rock. Because theyhave no place to expand, the gas and crude oil are under high pressure and will tend to rush

explosively out the channel opened by the drill rig. Enhanced Oil Recovery The oil industry has developed schemes for supplementing the productionof crude oil that can be obtained mostly by taking advantage of thenatural reservoir energy. Such supplementary schemes, collectivelyknown as enhanced oil recovery technology, can increase the recovery ofcrude oil, but only at the additional cost of supplying extraneous energy tothe reservoir. In this way, the recovery of crude oil has been increased toan overall average of 33 percent of the original oil. Two successfulsupplementary schemes are in use at this time: water injection and steaminjection.Water Injection In a completely developed oil field, the wells may be drilled anywherefrom 60 to 600 m (200 to 2000 ft) from one another, depending on thenature of the reservoir. If water is pumped into alternate wells in such afield, the pressure in the reservoir as a whole can be maintained or evenincreased. In this way the rate of production of the crude oil also can beincreased; in addition, the water physically displaces the oil, thusincreasing the recovery efficiency. In some reservoirs with a high degreeof uniformity and little clay content, water flooding may increase therecovery efficiency to as much as 60 percent or more of the original oil inplace. Water flooding was first introduced in the Pennsylvania oil fields,more or less accidentally, in the late 19th century, and it has since spreadthroughout the world.Steam Injection Steam injection is used in reservoirs that contain very viscous oils, thosethat are thick and flow slowly. The steam not only provides a source ofenergy to displace the oil, it also causes a marked reduction in viscosity(by raising the temperature of the reservoir), so that the crude oil flowsfaster under any given pressure. This scheme has been used extensively inthe states of California, in the United States, and of Zulia, in Venezuela,where large reservoirs exist that contain viscous oil. Offshore Drilling Another method to increase oil-field production and one of the mostexciting engineering achievements in recent decades has been theconstruction and operation of offshore drilling rigs. The drilling rigs areinstalled, operated, and serviced on an offshore platform in water up to adepth of several hundred meters; the platform may either float or sit onlegs planted on the ocean floor, where it is capable of resisting waves,wind, and in Arctic regions ice floes. Refining Once oil has been produced from an oil field, it is treated with chemicalsand heat to remove water and solids, and the natural gas is separated.The oil is then stored in a tank, or battery of tanks, and later transportedto a refinery by truck, railroad tank car or pipeline. Large oil fields all havedirect outlets to major, common-carrier pipelines. Basic Distillation The basic refining tool is the distillation unit. In the U.S., after the CivilWar, more than 100 still refineries were already in operation. Crude oilbegins to vaporize at a temperature somewhat less than that required toboil water. Hydrocarbons with the lowest molecular weight vaporize at thelowest temperatures, whereas successively higher temperatures arerequired to distill larger molecules. The first material to be distilled fromcrude oil is the gasoline fraction, followed in turn by naphtha and then bykerosine. The residue in the kettle, in the old still refineries, was thentreated with caustic and sulfuric acid, and finally steam distilled thereafter.Lubricants and distillate fuel oils were obtained from the upper regionsand waxes and asphalt from the lower regions of the distillationapparatus. In the later 19th century the gasoline and naphtha fractionswere actually considered a nuisance because little need for them existed,and the demand for kerosine also began to decline because of thegrowing production of electricity and the use of electric lights. With theintroduction of the automobile, however, the demand for gasolinesuddenly burgeoned, and the need for greater supplies of crude oilincreased accordingly. Oil Refining and Fractional DistillationCrude oil is refined into products such as gasoline, asphalt, and waxes by a process calledfractional distillation. During the process, the parts, or fractions, of crude oil are divided outsuccessively by their increasing molecular weight. For instance, gasoline has a lowmolecular weight and vaporizes at a fairly low temperature. This means that at theappropriate temperature, while all of the rest of the oil is still in liquid form, gasoline may beseparated out. The remaining oil goes through the same process at a slightly highertemperature, and jet fuel is divided out. Repeating the distillation process several times willseparate out several constituents of crude oil, which are then processed and put to a widerange of uses. Product Percentages In 1920 a U.S. barrel of crude oil, containing 42 gallons, yielded 11gallons of gasoline, 5.3 gallons of kerosine, 20.4 gallons of gas oil anddistillates, and 5.3 gallons of heavier distillates. In recent years, bycontrast, the yield of crude oil has increased to almost 21 gallons ofgasoline, 3 gallons of jet fuel, 9 gallons of gas oil and distillates, andsomewhat less than 4 gallons of lubricants and 3 gallons of heavierresidues. Petroleum Engineering The studies and tasks carried out by petroleum engineers are drawn fromvirtually every field of science and engineering. Thus the explorationstaffs include geologists who specialize in surface mapping in order to tryto reconstruct the subsurface configuration of the various sedimentarystrata that will provide clues to the presence of petroleum traps.Subsurface specialists then study drill cuttings and interpret data on thesubsurface formations that is relayed to surface recorders from electrical,sonic, and nuclear logging devices lowered into the bore hole on a wireline. Seismologists interpret sophisticated signals returning to the surfacefrom sound waves that are propagated through the earth s crust.Geochemists study the transformation of organic matter and the meansfor detecting and predicting the occurrence of such matter in subsurfacestrata. In addition, physicists, chemists, biologists, and mathematiciansall support the basic research and development of sophisticatedexploration techniques.Petroleum engineers are responsible for the development of discoveredoil accumulations. They usually specialize in one of the importantcategories of production operation: drilling and surface facilities,petrophysical and geological analysis of the reservoir, reserve estimationand specification of optimal development practices, or production controland surveillance. Although many of these specialists have formal trainingas petroleum engineers, many others are drawn from the ranks ofchemical, mechanical, electrical, and civil engineers; physicists,chemists, and mathematicians; and geologists. Production Volumes and Reserves Crude oil is perhaps the most useful and versatile raw material that hasbecome available for exploitation. By 1995, the United States was using 7billion barrels of petroleum per year, and worldwide consumption ofpetroleum was 25 billion barrels per year. Reserves The world s technically recoverable reserves of crude oil the amount ofoil that experts are certain of being able to extract without regard to costfrom the earth add up to about 2300 billion barrels, of which some 110billion barrels are in the United States. However, only a small fraction ofthis can be extracted at current prices. Of the known oil reserves that canbe profitably extracted at current prices, more than half are in the MiddleEast; only 2 percent are in the United States.Projections It is likely that some additional discoveries will be made of new reservesin coming years, and new technologies will be developed that permit therecovery efficiency from already known resources to be increased. Thesupply of crude oil will at any rate extend into the early decades of the21st century. Virtually no expectation exists among experts, however, thatdiscoveries and inventions will extend the availability of cheap crude oilmuch beyond that period. For example, the Prudhoe Bay field on theNorth Slope of Alaska is the largest field ever discovered in the westernhemisphere. The ultimate recovery of crude oil from this field isanticipated to be about 10 billion barrels, which is sufficient to supply thecurrent needs of the U.S. for less than two years, but only one such fieldwas discovered in the West in more than a century of exploration.Furthermore, drilling activity has not halted the steady decline of U.S.crude oil reserves that began during the 1970s.Alternatives The only alternative fuel that is capable of supplying the huge energyneeds of today s world is coal, the availability of which in the U.S. andelsewhere throughout the world is well established. Associated with itsprojected increased utilization would be an increase in the use ofcoal-based electrical power to do more and more of the chores ofindustrialized nations.

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Taylorism Essay, Research Paper

Mail forum on

“Scientific Management” and Frederick W. Taylor. At one point Vincenzo

Sandrone submitted a post on the subject that the forum moderator deemed

appropriate to the discussion, but to long to be posted to the list.

What he did was post a notice to the list that the paper was available

from Mr. Sandrone via private E-Mail. What follows is that paper posted

on this site with permission of the author.

The paper will form part of an undergraduate thesis entitled

“Total Quality Engineering – A Holistic Approach to Engineering

Management” to be submitted in 1996 in partial fulfillment of the

requirements for a BE in Manufacturing Engineering at the University of

Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Mr. Sandrone’s source for quotes is:

Taylor Frederick W., 1964, Scientific Management – Comprising Shop

Management, The principles of Scientific Management and Testimony before

the Special House Committee, Harper and Row

All the quotes are from ‘Scientific Management’ this needs to be

highlighted as the edition restarted page numbers for each separate

section. That is, page numbers are not unique.

Please address any comments or critique to Mr. Sandrone.

With all the discussion of Taylorism on the list and arguments that

both sides did not have the facts, I have decided I may be able to

provide some information.

I have included a copy of the section on Taylorism from my in process

Undergraduate Thesis. I hope that it may help put some facts into the

discussion. Looking over the section I have realized that it contained

the highest density of direct quotes in my thesis. I feel this was my

subconscious way of fighting the, what I considered, misinformation

that I had received about Taylorism.

Unfortunately I could not find a “definition” of science as applied in

Scientific method. However, I would like to make two points:

1) Taylor did not call his original paper “Scientific management” and

by the time he published it the name had stuck and his publisher changed

the name. (I cannot recall the name of his original paper.)

2) He sort of defines “Scientific Management” by saying what it is

not -

It is not “Rule of Thumb” when you consider that piece work based on

arbitrary quotas ( and heavily biased to the employer) was normal

practice. The use of work study/measurement to determine a fair quota

was a step forward for both management and the workers.

Under Taylor’s management system, factories are managed through

scientific methods rather than by use of the empirical “rule of thumb”

so widely prevalent in the days of the late nineteenth century when

F. W. Taylor devised his system and published “Scientific Management”

in 1911.

The main elements of the Scientific Management are [1] :

“Time studies

Functional or specialized supervision

Standardization of tools and implements

Standardization of work methods

Separate Planning function

Management by exception principle

The use of “slide-rules and similar time-saving devices”

Instruction cards for workmen

Task allocation and large bonus for successful performance

The use of the ‘differential rate’

Mnemonic systems for classifying products and implements

A routing system

A modern costing system etc. etc. ”

Taylor called these elements “merely the elements or details of the

mechanisms of management” He saw them as extensions of the four

principles of management.[2]

1. The development of a true science

2. The scientific selection of the workman

3. The scientific education and development of the workman

4. Intimate and friendly cooperation between the management

and the men.

Taylor warned [3] of the risks managers make in attempting to make change

in what would presently be called, the culture, of the organization. He

stated the importance of management commitment and the need for gradual

implementation and education. He described “the really great problem”

involved in the change “consists of the complete revolution in the mental

attitude and the habits of all those engaged in the management, as well of

the workmen.” [4]

Taylor taught that there was one and only one method of work that maximized

efficiency. “And this one best method and best implementation can only be

discovered or developed through scientific study and analysis… This

involves the gradual substitution of science for ‘rule of thumb’ throughout

the mechanical arts.” [5]

“Scientific management requires first, a careful investigation

of each of the many modifications of the same implement,

developed under rule of thumb; and second, after time and

motion study has been made of the speed attainable with each

of these implements, that the good points of several of them

shall be unified in a single standard implementation, which

will enable the workman to work faster and with greater easy

than he could before. This one implement, then is the adopted

as standard in place of the many different kinds before in use

and it remains standard for all workmen to use until superseded

by an implement which has been shown, through motion and time

study, to be still better.” [6]

An important barrier to use of scientific management was the limited

education of the lower level of supervision and of the work force. A

large part of the factory population was composed of recent immigrants

who lacked literacy in English. In Taylor’s view, supervisors and workers

with such low levels of education were not qualified to plan how work should

be done. Taylor’s solution was to separate planning from execution.

“In almost all the mechanic arts the science which underlies

each act of each workman is so great and amounts to so much that

the workman who is best suited to actually doing the work is

incapable of fully understanding this science..” [7]

To apply his solution, Taylor created planning departments, staffed them

with engineers, and gave them the responsibility to:

Develop scientific methods for doing work.

Establish goals for productivity.

Establish systems of rewards for meeting the goals.

Train the personnel in how to use the methods and

thereby meet the goals.

Perhaps the key idea of Scientific management and the one which has

drawn the most criticism was the concept of task allocation. Task

allocation [8] is the concept that breaking task into smaller and

smaller tasks allows the determination of the optimum solution to

the task. “The man in the planning room, whose specialty is planning

ahead, invariably finds that the work can be done more economically

by subdivision of the labour; each act of each mechanic, for example,

should be preceded by various preparatory acts done by other men.” [9]

The main argument against Taylor is this reductionist approach to work

dehumanizes the worker. The allocation of work “specifying not only what is

to be done but how it is to done and the exact time allowed for doing it”

[10] is seen as leaving no scope for the individual worker to excel or

think. This argument is mainly due to later writing rather than Taylor’s

work as Taylor stated “The task is always so regulated that the man who is

well suited to his job will thrive while working at this rate during a long

term of years and grow happier and more prosperous, instead of being

overworked.” [11]

Taylor’s concept of motivation left something to be desired when

compared to later ideas. He methods of motivation started and finished

at monetary incentives. While critical of the then prevailing distinction

of “us “and “them” between the workforce and employers he tried to find

a common ground between the working and managing classes. “Scientific

Management has for its foundation the firm conviction that the true

interests of the two are one and the same; that prosperity for the employer

cannot exist a long term of years unless it is accompanied by prosperity for

the employee [sic], and vice versa ..” [12]

However, this emphasis on monetary rewards was only part of the story.

Rivalry between the Bethlehem and Pittsburgh Steel plants led to the

offer from Pittsburgh of 4.9 cents per ton against Bethlehem’s rate of

3.2 cents per day to the ore loaders. The ore loaders were spoken to

individually and their value to the company reinforced and offers to re-hire

them at any time were made. The majority of the ore loaders took up the

Pittsburgh offers. Most had returned after less than six weeks. [13]

The rates at Pittsburgh were determined by gang rates. Peer pressure from

the Pittsburgh employees to not work hard meant that the Bethlehem workers

actually received less pay than at Bethlehem. Two of the Bethlehem workers

requested to be placed in a separate gang, this was rejected by management

for the extra work required by management to keep separate record for each

worker. Taylor places the blame squarely on management and their inability

“to do their share of the work in cooperating with the workmen.” [14]

Taylor’s attitudes towards workers were laden with negative bias

“in the majority of cases this man deliberately plans to do as little

as he safely can.” [15] The methods that Taylor adopted were directed

solely towards the uneducated. “When he tells you to pick up a pig and

walk, you pick it up and walk, and when he tells you to sit down and rest,

you sit down. You do that right through the day. And what’s more, no back

talk”. This type of behaviour towards workers appears barbaric in the

extreme to the modern reader, however, Taylor used the example of Schmidt

at the Bethlehem Steel Company to test his theories. Taylor admits “This

seems rather rough talk. And indeed it would be if applied to an educated

mechanic, or even an intelligent labourer.” [17] The fact that Taylor took

the effort to firstly know the workers name and to cite it is some

indication that he empathized with the workforce. This study improved the

workrate of Schmidt from 12.5 tons to 47.5 tons per day showing the worth

of Scientific Management.

The greatest abuse of Scientific Management has come from applying the

techniques without the philosophy behind them. It is obvious from Taylor’s

own observations that the above discussion would be misplaced in other

workers. Taylor acknowledged the potential for abuse in his methods. “The

knowledge obtained from accurate time study, for example, is a powerful

implement, and can be used, in one case to promote harmony between workmen

and the management, by gradually educating, training, and leading the

workmen into new and better methods of doing the work, or in the other

case, it may be used more or less as a club to drive the workmen into

doing a larger day’s work for approximately the same pay that they received

in the past.” [17]

Scientific Study and standardization were important parts of the Scientific

Management. One example, was the study undertaken to determine the optimum

shovel load for workers. The figure of 21 pounds [18] was arrived at by

the study. To ensure that this shovel load was adhered to, a series of

different shovels were purchased for different types of material. Each

shovel was designed to ensure that only 21 pounds could be lifted. This

stopped the situation where “each shoveller owned his own shovel, that he

would frequently go from shoveling ore, with a load of about 30 pounds per

shovel, to handling rice coal, with a load on the same shovel of less than

4 pounds. In the one case, he was so overloaded that it was impossible for

him to do a full day’s work, and in the other case he was so ridiculously

under-loaded that it was manifestly impossible to even approximate a day’s

work.” [19]

Taylor spent a considerable amount of his books in describing “soldiering”

the act of ‘loafing’ both at an individual level and “systematic soldiering”.

He described the main reasons that workers were not performing their work

at the optimum. Though worded in a patronizing way the essence of the

descriptions are still valid. [20]

The belief that increased output would lead to less workers.

Inefficiencies within the management control system such as

poorly designed incentive schemes and hourly pay rates not

linked to productivity

Poor design of the performance of the work by rule-of-thumb

The fear of redundancies within the workforce was a valid argument during

the previous style of management. Taylor not only countered this argument

by using economic arguments of increased demand due to decreased pricing

but put forward the idea of sharing the gains with the workforce.

Taylor saw the weaknesses of piece work in the workers reactions to gradual

decreases in the piece rate as the worker produced more pieces by working

harder and/or smarter. The worker then is determined to have no more

reduction in rate by “soldiering”. This deception leads to an antagonistic

view of management and a general deterioration of the worker/management

Taylor also was a strong advocate of worker development. It follows that

the most important object of both the workman and the establishment should

be the training and development of each individual in the establishment,

so that he can do ( at his fastest pace and with the maximum of efficiency)

the highest class of work for which his natural abilities for him.” [21]

Taylor’s ideas on management and workers speaks of justice for both parties.

“It (the public) will no longer tolerate the type of employer who has his

eyes only on dividends alone, who refuses to do his share of the work and

who merely cracks the whip over the heads of his workmen and attempts to

drive them harder work for low pay. No more will it tolerate tyranny on the

part of labour which demands one increase after another in pay and shorter

hours while at the same time it becomes less instead of more efficient.”[22]

Taylor’s system was widely adopted in the United States and the world.

Although the Taylor system originated in the factory production departments,

the concept of separating planning from execution was universal in nature

and, hence, had potential application to other areas:

production support services

offices operations

service industries.

Management’s new responsibilities were extended to include: [23]

Replacing the old rule-of-thumb with scientific management

Scientifically select and train, teach and develop the workman

“Heartily cooperate with the men so as to insure[sic] all the

work being done in accordance with the principles of the science

which has been developed”

Take over the work for which they are “better fitted” than the

Relationship between Taylorism and TQM

Taylor’s more general summary of the principles of Scientific Management

are better suited for inclusion into the TQM methodology, than the narrow

“It is no single element , but rather the this whole combination, that

constitutes Scientific Management, which may be summarized as:

Science, not rule of thumb

Harmony, not discord

Cooperation, not individualism

Maximum output in place of restricted output

The development of each man to his greatest

efficiency and prosperity” [24]

Much has happened, since Taylor developed his method of Scientific

Management, to make obsolete the premises on which he based his concepts:

Lack of education is no longer reason enough to separate the

planning function

The balance of power between managers and the work force has

changed. Where in Taylor’s time it was heavily weighted against

the workers. Unionism (or the threat of it) has profoundly

changed that balance.

Changes in the climate of social thinking.

Revolts against the “dehumanizing” of work.

A basic tenet of Scientific management was that employees were not highly

educated and thus were unable to perform any but the simplest tasks. Modern

thought is that all employees have intimate knowledge of job conditions and

are therefore able to make useful contributions. Rather than dehumanizing

the work and breaking the work down into smaller and smaller units to

maximize efficiency without giving thought to the job satisfaction of the

working. Encouragement of work based teams in which all workers may

contribute. Such contributions increase worker morale, provide a sense of

ownership, and improve management-worker relations generally.

1. Scientific Management, pg 129-130

2. Scientific Management, pg 130

3. Scientific Management, pg 131

4. Scientific Management, pg 131

5. Scientific Management, pg 25

6. Scientific Management, pg 119

7. Scientific Management, pp 25-25

8. Scientific Management, pg 39

9. Scientific Management, pg 38

10. Scientific Management, pg 39

11. Scientific Management, pg 39

12. Scientific Management, pg 10

13. Scientific Management, pg 75

14. Scientific Management, pg 77

15. Scientific Management, pg 13

16. Scientific Management, pg 46

17. Scientific Management, pp 133-134

18. Scientific Management, pg 66

19. Scientific Management, pg 67

20. Scientific Management, pg 23

21. Scientific Management, pg 12

22. Scientific Management, pg 139

23. Scientific Management, pg 36

24. Scientific Management, pg 140

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вторник, 10 августа 2010 г.

Valume? You may easily mistake it for volume... By the way, using the correct name of a drug, you get the best results while searching the Web for it. And you get them quickest. Really, just try typing "valume" in the Google's Search box, and what will you see?

The first few resources will be for "volume" (yes, they try to correct your misspelling), and you will know that "Volume is how much three-dimensional space a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or shape occupies or contains" and even "Volume is an independent quarterly magazine that sets the agenda for architecture and design"! But you have been trying to get a slleping pill, haven't you? You do not need any "volumes", you insist on VALUME!.. OK, let's go on.

"...Valume Nob are a metalcore band consisting of a number of veteran musicians who have been in some of New Orleans' heaviest underground bands", "Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about Valume Nob, a collection of shared knowledge concerning Valume Nob"... Perhaps, you are a heavy metal rock fan? No? Well...

"is there anyone know how to add system valume in c#? i can't find the option for it" To say the truth, we can't either.

The problem is that we need a drug which fights insomnia, and its generic name is Diazepam. What about the brand? On page three of Google Search we come across a link which offers us "valume pills for stress valium vs xanax vs klonopin valium for dogs ... valum valium virginia low valium valium xanax yellow valium pill wikipedia valium ..." Oh, dear! Don't you think that it looks rather strange and the text seems to be a perfect bullshit? It will almost lead you into hands of some crooks. Just because you have used a wrong spelling of
! Isn't it a pity?

суббота, 24 апреля 2010 г.

According to our investigation, when searching for this drug online, every sixth person makes a little mistake in spelling the name. Only one single vowel in the middle can make the spelling wrong. And, as it often happens when some sounds are alike, one may have real trouble choosing between "a" and "o" (again!). Trazadone or Trazodone? Both are possible in terms of pure writing. But when it comes to disease treatment, don't you think it is better have something genuine instead of dubious? Of course, you don't need any persuading. Trazadone is WRONG, Trazodone is RIGHT. To be most precise, "Trazadone" is, in fact, Trazodone hydrochloride, an antidepressant, also marketed as name brand Desyrel. By the way, can you spell the last name correctly? ;)

четверг, 4 марта 2010 г.

Watson 755? No! Watson 795

And again, we have a pill that is slightly damaged and a pair of digits that may look alike. These digits are "5" and "9". Really, if a "9" is a little scratched in the upper right, it may seem to be a "5". This may mislead you into searching for a "Watson 755" pill which, actually, cannot be found. Instead, there is another pill, indexed Watson 795, and it does really exist! It is generic Bentanyl (Dicyclomine) distributed by Watson Pharmaceuticals. The medication is used to treat IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), or cramps and spasms inside the belly. No big problem if you mistakenly try to find a "Watson 755" as nothing dangerous is hidden under this index. You will only waste your time. In order not to be tricked into a false search, just keep in mind that there are letters and numbers which may look similar...

среда, 6 января 2010 г.

One more misspelling variation of a popular medication. Incredibly beautiful! Unbelievaly harmonious! All the letters are doubled. The word can be divided into two equal halves. The doubled consonant in the middle mirrors one half of the word in the other. The word can still be read backwards without any changing. So comforting, so calming you down, so anxiety-relieving... So dangerous if you purchase a pack of it as it is almost certainly faked! It is Xannax, and the extra 'n' in the middle makes it very dubious.

пятница, 25 декабря 2009 г.

The other misspelling of Darvocet differs from the right name in only one letter. And this letter is "a" which changes the drug's name into Darvacet. The point is perhaps in difficulties people experience while trying to write the name by ear, as it is may not be easy to make out the vowel in the middle. And again, it is no problem until it comes to buying the medication. Be careful not to get a fake product which name is written in a slightly different way. The word Darvacet is different from Darvocet in a single letter, but a faked medication called Darvacet can differ from genuine Darvocet drastically.

пятница, 18 декабря 2009 г.

Darvocet-N 100 or Darvocet N-100?

In fact, does it really matter? In both cases a mixture of acetaminophen 650 mg and propoxyphene napsylate 100 mg is meant. Just to be more precise, let us determine that the letter 'N' in the drug's name corresponds to napsylate salt of propoxyphene in Darvocet, which is different from the formulation with hydrochloride salt of propoxyphene. As a result, we get a special formula of Darvocet-N, a drug with special features and effects different from "common" Darvocet. The number '100' corresponds to 100 mg of propoxyphene napsylate, but the letter 'N' seems to be of more importance in this case. This 'N' turns ''regular'' Darvocet into ''special'' Darvocet-N. So, let us spell the drug's name in the right way: Darvocet-N 100.

вторник, 1 декабря 2009 г.

They say, English spelling is very difficult. Perhaps they are right. There are languages that let you write as you hear. Or almost as you hear. E.g. in Italian nearly every letter corresponds with its own sound. Little variations do not make lives of the Italians more complicated. In English there are sounds that require different letters in different words. And there may be found letters that sound differently in different positions, too. "A" and "e" may sound the same. Probably because of this some people write the name of Diazepam changing the "a" in the middle of it for "e" which sounds the same for them. As a result, we have one more misspelling of Diazepam medication - Diazapam.