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D-Day in Newark

Canvassing in Newark

Canvassing in Newark

June 5th is polling day in Newark.  This is my fifth election since 1999. My second in a fortnight.  And my first Westminster election.  I’m the UKIP candidate.

Opinion polls are still putting the Conservatives in the lead.  I just can’t relate those numbers to our experience.  We’ve done a huge amount of canvassing, and on that basis we’re at least level pegging! Maybe better. In fifteen years I’ve never seen the kind of enthusiasm we’re getting here — on the doorstep, in the street, in the shops and the pubs.  It’s heartwarming.

Yesterday a colleague was walking in from the station (we’ve had hundreds of activists in town).  He was confronted with an Agence France video reporter.  “Can you help me?” said the journo.  “I need to interview someone who’s not voting UKIP, but I can’t find anyone”.  “Sorry” said my colleague, “but I’m afraid I’m UKIP’s Party Chairman”.

Of course the voters of Newark are worried by local issues.  The A&E Department at Newark hospital (or lack of it).  Flooding in Southwell.  Problems with local schools and local transport infrastructure.

Of course some plan to vote UKIP because they’re fed up with the legacy parties.  But many simply agree with UKIP policies.  On managed immigration (not “Pulling up the drawbridge”, as Nick Clegg puts it).  On energy prices and wind turbines.  On grammar schools.  On foreign aid.  On not being governed by foreign institutions in Brussels — and paying £55 million a day for the privilege.

And they’re not taken in by Labour’s lies.  We’re not going to privatise Newark hospital.  Or charge £200 (or anything at all) for GP visits.  Or scrap paid holidays or maternity leave.  The voters are smart enough to see through this malicious propaganda — and they’ve got the measure of  the relentless press onslaught against our party in recent weeks.

I can’t tell you we’re going to win on Thursday.  That’s up to the voters.  But I’d say the odds are fifty-fifty.  Maybe better.  We’re coming up fast on the rails.

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76 Responses to D-Day in Newark

  1. David says:

    For the sake of the country, I hope so!

    What’s not to like about Ukip policies?

  2. Gareth says:

    Best of luck.

  3. ps3person says:

    Good luck to you and all your team Roger. If I could afford the cost of the journey, I’d have been happy to help too.

  4. Bellevue says:

    Oh I do so hope that you win, Roger. You deserve to!
    It really would put the cat amongst the pigeons, and show TPTB that we are fed up to the back teeth being treated like ‘mushrooms’.

  5. barrymx5 says:

    You and Ukip could hardly have done more. Roger, your experience is similar to my more limited exposure on Sunday. Some great tweets too. My favourite on the lines that 100s of Ukip supporters in Newark because they are patriots. Hundreds of Tories because they are threatened by Central Office with dire career prospects otherwise. Central office resembles Politburo more and more.
    Looking forward to you being Ukip’s first MP. Everything crossed for tomorrow.

  6. Me_Again says:

    I suspect that as in Eastleigh the voters who voted before the campaign started are the ones who will decide the election. I sincerely hope they chose change. Even if they haven’t then I bet that of the votes cast on the day, UKIP will top the results list.

    The unseemly haste of this campaign, all the minimums of time just met…..

  7. Flyinthesky says:

    Good luck, The problem you face is twofold. The status qou effect and the majority haven’t realised the intent of the collective, yet.

  8. ogga1 says:

    Break a leg Roger, in the nicest possible way.

  9. Henwood says:

    With a wife (new UKIP supporter!) just home from hospital and rather immobile, a journey to support you has not been possible, but this message will hopefully serve to send our best wishes for success, and our admiration for the effort you have put in. Good luck, Mr Helmer.

  10. Right wingery says:

    If you win, Roger, I will grow one of those fetching ‘tashes of yours.

  11. Many of the Bloggers 4ukip have been working hard to spread the breaking news regarding QMV and it’s implications. They have managed to post on the Newark web site warning everyone who is interested just what a liar Cameron is : his 2017 referendum pledge his less than useless and of course he was aware of that nearly as slimey as Blair who he apparently admires !!! Do hooey it helps. This thing is massive we are being conned. Big time.

  12. Richard111 says:

    Good luck and best wishes Roger. I hope the voters who haven’t bothered for years wake up and smell the coffee. To not use your vote is a denial of democracy.

  13. colliemum says:

    Wishing you the best of British!
    We’re keeping fingers and paws crossed – and given that the result in 2010 was 4% of the vote, you’re a winner in any case!

  14. omanuel says:

    Good luck to you, Roger!

    When the elections are over, I hope you will have time to explore the unreported events in August 1945 that changed the course of history and led society to its present demise.

  15. Eric Worrall says:

    Make sure you have plenty of friends watching the count – a lot of activists seem to get jobs helping to count the vote!

    Good luck mate 🙂

  16. Edmund Silverman says:

    You are a true gentleman good luck the people’s army are right behind you

  17. frostyface says:

    Suggest at this late stage that Voters take along their own biro’ or pen to make their mark. I don’t trust you know who one bit.

  18. PJ says:

    Hi Roger, my heart is with you my friend and I just wish i had the wellbeing to be in Newark campaigning with you, but I’m afraid that such a possibilty is not to be at this moment in time. You have a massive figure to overturn and i do seriously think that there is a faint possibilty that this can be achieved but I think the real story is the sudden amount of pressure Camoron has placed upon his senior figures to campaign and also just what a percentage UKIP/you can reduce that majority by!
    I think that you can reduce that 16,000 majority by 10,000 Roger; I also think that, should the now defunct ilLib-unDems vote with you, that you can seriously rattle the Tory diehards-and by God sir, I hope you do!
    The best of luck to you Roger and I hope we meet again soon my friend 🙂

  19. Maureen Gannon says:

    Rooting for you Roger Shake them all up , to win would be unbelievable to diminish the majority will have the WOW factor , love your new recruiting officer Mr Bliar, he should help ,

  20. Justin says:

    Best of luck to you and your team Roger.

  21. Have respect says:

    An honest man that says it how it is. He has been lied about and vilified constantly over many months and he is still fighting strongly to do what is best for Newark. Just have to hope the good people of Newark all get up and vote and drag friends and family along to do so also. Vote helmer a man for the people to help the people. I think Newark residents are wise enough to see through the hate, lies and propaganda unlike the Tory blind sheep followers

  22. Steve Pat says:

    We are with you all the way Roger

  23. Anne says:

    Rooting for you Roger and wishing you ALL THE VERY BEST OF GOOD LUCK AND THE VERY BEST OF GOOD WISHES. Anne

  24. They’d be mad to vote for anyone else. Hilarious today to listen to Theresa May’s spat with Gove as the Tories panic. Meanwhile Ed Miliband brazenly lying about how he can offer an “immigration bill” to stop foreign workers undercutting British wages. Like hell!

  25. lucylocket says:

    Wishing you the best of luck Roger! Ukip are the only party bold and brave enough to ask the difficult questions facing the current times we live in. The other parties are so far removed from the real world and have little or no idea how uncontrolled immigration is affecting local services and communities. Keep up the good work!

  26. Jane Davies says:

    Good luck Roger…ignore opinion polls they are rarely right!

  27. Good luck Roger. The real opinion poll is today. I hope that the Newark electorate will teach these deceitful and lying politicians a lesson they will never forget.

  28. Ex-expat Colin says:

    May much more than the floating vote be with you.

    Tories still don’t get it
    Labour will be poverty for all – again
    LibDems hopefully gone forever.

    Dennis Skinner got it in one yesterday!

  29. Juliette Jackson says:

    Good Luck today Roger ! You and your campaigners have done Newark proud. We’re with you all the way and looking at the comments on local web sites of Newark you have got plenty of support young and old ! Fingers crossed that the good people of Newark realise what a difference ‘this day’ will make by voting for you and UKIP and what a genuine positive difference it will make to their town and their families and friends. Once again thank you Roger !

  30. susan wright says:

    Good luck hope you win. I think you will do well

  31. Paul says:

    Go ‘get em, Rog! Hope you win – even if you don’t, give the Tories a good shoeing at the polls!

  32. xis23 says:

    IT IS D-DAY for ukip in Newak says Roger Helmer!! He was in a war you know. He wasn’t old enough to be in WW2 as a troop, but he was born right near the end of it in 1944 which means he has been through a war, so you should trust your elders, he fought hard being born and alive for a year in WW2, and he is entitled to dismantle the NHS and stuff if he wants because it’s hard fighting babies like him that built the socialism they deserved and they say we don’t need it any more because you are all filthy dole scum and haven’t been through a proper war. He was 6 months old when d-day happened, where were you??? Nowhere that’s right, not even born yet, let alone sat in your council house that *he built* watching jeremy kyle.

    • Me_Again says:

      WTF are you on about? D-Day is a metaphor you moron. Where has roger said that he was in the forces ever? Where has he said he has been at a D-Day?
      Oh and for the morons that think there’s only one D-Day, I have some bad news. The term D-Day wasn’t coined for the Normandy landings, it’s a standard military term. Colloquially known as ‘Do it Day’ but really has no meaning.

  33. catweazle666 says:

    Good luck Roger – and watch out for those postal votes!

  34. Eddie Ward says:

    Good luck Roger from a fellow TFA member

  35. Richard111 says:

    Now 6:30pm. Any news on turnout?

  36. Richard111 says:

    Oh, well. I hear the Tories rustled up 100 MPs to pound the streets and get people to vote and still they ended up with a reduced majority. UKIP a very commendable second, from nowhere!

  37. catalanbrian says:

    Glad to see that the electorate in Newark voted with their brains. The predicted “earthquake” turned out to be no more than a small tremor.that signals the end of UKIP’s clatter.

    • Ex-expat Colin says:

      Not quite. The tories brought in 600 activists last Sat and 1000 activists yesterday (polling day). Turnout was 53%, so those voters were effectively levered out of their homes to vote. Was there any prizes for that? The tories won’t be able to repeat that tactic at the General Election. Strange really, because turnouts are around 30% or less usually. The 60% loafers usually just don’t care.

      The tories did everything to ensure a non PPE graduate could not enter Parliament. I think the tories knew that just one UKIP MP in Westminster would keep UKIP clearly in the public view.

      Jacob Rees-Mogg reckons UKIP is conservatism with a small ‘c’ and means it bodes extremely well for conservatism in UK (+/- Scotland) with two tory party’s present.

      After this the tories will still not get it. At least liberals are close to trashed.

    • Me_Again says:

      Brian, really. How embarrassing to come on her and try to say we failed in any way. Only UKIP and the Greens increased their vote on last time, and bless ’em, the Greens didn’t get very far above the mark.
      The people of Newark got to see just about every Tory MP and every cabinet minister about 3 times and Cameron 4 times and what did they do? Did they provide the Tories with a resounding rejection of UKIP? Did they mince us into the ground? Did the Lib Dems rise up as the party of ‘IN’ to throw UKIP out?

      No. NO and thrice NO. What happened was that the Tory majority was reduced by more than half and UKIP’s vote went up by 20% and more. I think King Canute had a sage tail to tell when they said he could turn the tide back.

      So Brian, do everyone including yourself a favour and drown your sorrows in a bucket of sangria…..

      • Right wingery says:

        You didn’t win so, errr, you failed!

      • Me_Again says:

        You should apply for a job at Tory central office mate. With wins like that you’ll be out on your arse before too long.
        I am completely happy with you thinking Newark was a simple Tory win. You keep telling yourself that, please do. You and Grant Schapps share a mirror and keep saying that to yourself…………….

      • catalanbrian says:

        But you only got 26% of the total votes cast (or roughly 13% of the electorate). And at a time when UKIP have been getting an inordinate amount of publicity in the media. I would regard that as a failure. You will need a lot more than that if you are to get any parliamentary seats.

      • Me_Again says:

        I’m happy with your assessment, yeah its time to pack up and go home because brian say so…..yawn

    • Maureen Gannon says:

      Shame you wasn’t blessed with one !!!

      • Maureen Gannon says:

        Cattlebrain that response should have gone after your sarcasm about tories voting with their brains.

      • catalanbrian says:

        It is of course rather typical that you Ukippers have to resort to insults when faced with a truth that you find unpleasant

      • Me_Again says:

        You plainly wouldn’t know the truth if it bit you in the ass brian. But I’m happy that the spin merchants are all out there telling everyone that UKIP is finished. Just makes me smile wider when they get it wrong, again and again and again.

        These people seem to think they can wish things away, so amusing really.

      • catalanbrian says:

        As I said, you can’t stop yourselves from resorting to insults. You may wish to believe that UKIP is on a roll, but I am afraid that it is just a busted flush.

      • Me_Again says:

        I repeat, you go on thinking, believing and acting like that is true -PLEASE.
        It will just make it easier to beat you.

      • Jane Davies says:

        I must say it’s a bit rich of you Brian to accuse others of resorting to insults. I thought that was your stock in trade! This local election was just one battle, yet again UKIP voters are increasing in number and you are right to be bothered by it, and bothered by it I think you are…the Tories are panicking, how good does that feel?

      • catalanbrian says:

        Firstly I think that you will find that I have only resorted to insults in response to insults thrown in my direction, and secondly I would feel rather good that the Tories are panicking, if indeed they were. What on earth makes you think that I am a Tory supporter? They are nearly as bad as UKIP.

      • Jane Davies says:

        I did not say you are a Tory Brian, just that they are panicking. I reread my comment and I can see how you misunderstood me, my bad!

  38. Maureen Gannon says:

    Well done Roger against the party machine that went ten to the dozen against you that still has the Wow factor.. you reduced the majority that took some doing .

  39. barrymx5 says:

    Well done Roger. Looks like a hung Parliament in 2015 with Ukip holding balance of power!

  40. Brin Jenkins says:

    Why do up want to know, a friendly interest?!

  41. Vraaak says:

    D Day is actually today, and had nothing to do with UKIP

  42. catalanbrian says:

    Right wingery. The question is will Farage be brave enough to stand? Given the lacklustre performance of his party at this election he might be wise enough to not bother with Westminster and concentrate on fiddling round to little or no effect in Europe.

  43. Mike Stallard says:

    I am sorry you did not get elected. That was a real shame. But overturning a huge majority like that in the teeth of a well organised Conservative operation with lots of money was never going to be easy was it.
    What we need to do now is to make sure the UK leaves the EU(rezone) and joins EFTA before the “federalists” get their More Europe at our expense.

    • Me_Again says:

      Agree with most of the sentiment Mike, BUT, we don’t want an agreement where we pay money to them. The EFTA is just that. We just need to negotiate a free, free trade agreement.
      We aren’t Norway and we aren’t Switzerland. Back in the days when they negotiated their agreements the EU was apparently in the ascendant. Now they’ll just be happy to get a tariff free deal from our end.

    • barrymx5 says:

      Do not be too hasty to jump into the EFTA option. EFTA and the EEC were 20th century creations driven by high tariffs. Tariffs are now low or non existent. Read further at

      • Me_Again says:

        Exactly Barry. They were made when the EU thought it was on top. No card player would pick up that hand.

  44. omanuel says:

    Thank you, Roger, for your efforts!

    I do not know when, but I am absolutely certain that eventually “Truth will be victorious!”

  45. Ex-expat Colin says:

    Breitbart UK today:

    Geert Wilders Flouts EU Rules, Will Attempt to Sit in Dutch and European Parliaments

    Likely will get barred…like Westminster.

    Most amusing.

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- Rogue Medic

Is it Ethical to Treat a ‘Bad’ Person?

Image credit. If you are not upset by this image, you are much better at compartmentalizing than I am.

A question was posted on Facebook a while ago.

Suppose that you are dispatched for burns. Your patient is reported to have burned some children and burned herself while setting the children on fire.

Some of the children have died, but others are alive and are in severe pain.

The surviving children are already being treated appropriately. There are more than enough people and pain medicine to treat the children. There is only your patient for you to deal with.

Your patient even states, I did it.

Do you withhold treatment?

Do you provide any pain management?

Do you treat the person who admits to burning these children?

Why not?

Three Children Dead, Four Hospitalized After Houston Daycare Fire

Anybody who doesn’t think this is going to be one of the worst days of the lives of everyone involved does not understand.

First. Not knowing anything more than what is in the headline, don’t be surprised if the number of dead increases. The original title of the article was, One Dead, Seven Rescued In Houston Daycare Fire. These stories are not the kind that get better with time. Burns and pain and little kids do not make for good memories.

Reading the article, there are several things that grab my attention.

HFD Executive Assistant Chief Rick Flanagan said CPR was being performed on four of the children as they were being taken to a hospital. The ages of the children range from 18 months to 3 years.[1]

People will talk about CISM/CISD and other forms of coping attempting to cope, but they do not work any* better than just talking this out with coworkers and/or family.[2] My home family is different from my work family.

I could never talk about these things with family members that do not have patient care experience.

How do we get them to understand?

If we do get them to understand, how can we ever apologize for bringing that pain into their lives?

Why would we want to bring that kind of pain into the lives of those we love?

Sandy Sawyer, who has lived in the neighborhood for five years, said she saw firefighters rushing children to ambulances.

“I saw them running down the street holding babies, running, because there wasn’t enough room for the emergency vehicles to get through,” Sawyer said.[1]

The more people are screaming about things being out of control, the more we need to slow down and remain in control.

When we pull up to the scene, do we park so that others will be able to get by?

The police are in charge of traffic, but that does not mean that the police cannot be the biggest problem in obstructing traffic. Parking a short walk from the scene to allow fire trucks to get in is going to make everyone’s life easier and might make some lives longer.

EMS is supposed to transport people from the fire, but the same rule applies as for police. We do not need to drive up to the front door. Stretchers have wheels and small children are very light. We need to park where we will be able to get out of the scene when it is time to leave.

Fire truck do need to get close enough to put water/foam in the places necessary to put out the fire, but that does not mean that they should not park in a way to allow other vehicles as much room to get around them as possible.

This is not New York City on September 11, 2001. We do need to work together. None of us are unimportant.

Five of the children were trapped inside the facility and were rescued by Houston firefighters, while the other two children were found outside the home.[1]

Thank you.

A year ago today, the operation, registered as a “child-care home,” was cited by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services’ Child Care Licensing division for not having a fire extinguisher on hand.

She later corrected the problems, according to Gwen Carter, a DFPS spokeswoman.[1]

Fire extinguishers are important, but much more important is knowing how to use one and using it appropriately.

A fire extinguisher is a tool and tools are only useful when used appropriately.

Would that have made a difference?

I don’t know if the fire extinguisher was used. I don’t know anything about the fire.

I do know that aggressive use of a fire extinguisher before a fire spreads can be the difference between apologizing to the fire department for calling them to a fire that is already out and losing everything.

There is no substitute for actually using a fire extinguisher. It is worth the cost of having to replace an extinguisher.

The things described in the video should all be known before hand if you are at home. If you are not, slow down, take a breath, check the type of extinguisher, et cetera.

How not to put out a fire. Point the fire extinguisher at the base of the fire has never felt right to me. Aim below the fire, but not straight at the fire, works better for me.

With the video below, because the fire is in a very light container, aiming below the fire will only cause it to tip over and spread, so think about where to aim, what you are aiming at, and how far away to stand.

[1] Three Children Dead, Four Hospitalized After Houston Daycare Fire (Videos) – CPR was being performed on four of the children as they were being taken to a hospital.

[2] Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM): Benefit or Risk for Emergency Services.
Bledsoe BE.
Prehosp Emerg Care. 2003 Apr-Jun;7(2):272-9. Review.
PMID: 12710792 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Free Full Text PDF from Dr. Bledsoe’s website http://www.bryanbledsoe.com/

* Corrected from and to any as pointed out by russ reina of EMS Outside Agitator.

Who Carries Enough to Manage Severe Pain from Burns?

Happy Medic has a series of posts on the 12 Days of Christmas. On the 10th day – #HM12DOC 10MGS OF MORPHINE.

But is that a lot?

How do we know what a lot really is?

I have been told that some of the patients I have treated have received a lot of morphine, or fentanyl, or midazolam, or lorazepam, or diazepam, or some combination of these.

When doctors/nurses/medics have stated that I have given a lot of pain medicine, my responses have not been what they expected. I did not agree with them.

How painful is it to have a large body surface area burned, not a little bit burned, but second degree and third degree burns?

How much do you carry? Assume that you have standing orders for all that you carry or assume that you are able to persuade medical command to give you orders to give as much as you have, if the severe pain continues.

How much do you carry?

Assume a 100 kg patient with 50% of his body burned. No burned airway. No burned genitals.

Has anyone ever seen a patient like this get to tthe level of pain that could be described as tolerable with any amount that would not be described as a lot?

That is the wrong question.

Has anyone ever seen a patient like this get to tthe level of pain that could be described as tolerable with any amount that would make what is usually described as a lot seem small?

1/2 mg per kg of morphine?

Most people would consider this to be a lot. I have heard comments about a lot, when I have given much smaller doses than this.

2nd degree and 3rd degree burns on half of the body.

Should any of us expect 0.5 mg/kg of morphine to make the pain tolerable?

For a 100 kg (220 pound) patient, this would be a dose of 50 mg morphine.

Should any of us expect 50 mg of morphine to make the pain tolerable?

How many of us carry enough to give 50 mg morphine (or 500 mcg fentanyl or 7 mg Dilaudid)?

How many people have seen severe burn pain, such as I described, made tolerable by a dose as small as 50 mg of morphine, except in a very small patient?

How many of us carry even carry 50 mg of morphine?

How many of us would be able to give all of it?

How many would expect this to make the pain tolerable?

I started by asking if 10 mg of morphine is a lot. Since I have moved on to 50 mg, is 10 mg likely to be a lot?

You just don’t understand my chronic pain!

Nurse K at Crass-Pollination (in her sidebar, read the definition) writes Saturday morning CRAYZEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! about a response to an old post of hers What do you do when you start to feel like a drug dealer at work?

First, Nurse K works in the ED (Emergency Department).

Let’s think about that. Chronic pain is something that is long term, so it should not generally result in a trip to the ED. Emergencies are the kind of injuries or illnesses that lead to acute pain. There should be a method, for the patient with chronic pain, to deal with break-through pain. The method should not be to go to the ED. The method should not be to procrastinate on refilling a prescription, until the weekend, so that your doctor is not available. This is manipulative and self-destructive.

The problem patients Nurse K describes are patients who are abusing the system. Legitimate chronic pain patients should be just as upset with these patients as Nurse K is.

The abusers of the system only make it more difficult for those with legitimate chronic pain to receive appropriate pain management.

Legitimate chronic pain patients should hate these people who make a mockery of genuine chronic pain. Those who put on an act to receive their pain medications.

How we deal with pain tells a lot about who we are.

I’ve had patients with extremely bad injuries. Injuries so bad that I feel very uncomfortable not giving them something for pain.

When the patient says, “I’ve had worse,” and I doubt that I have; or “I’ll wait until I really need something,” and I’m hoping that will be sometime before the surgeon starts cutting; or “I used to abuse drugs and nothing is worth living like that again;” or is lying in bed with a heart rate of 150, pale and sweaty, but discouraging large enough doses to make a significant dent in the level of pain; with that perspective, we are able to see the range of response to pain.

What is 10/10 pain?

For most people, burns seem to be the worst kind of pain. Imagine a red hot frying pan.

Now, reach out and touch the tip of your finger to the frying pan for half a second. What would happen if this were done for real? You have a burn. It hurts. Few people would repeat that experiment any time soon.

Now, imagine having your hand being held against the red hot frying pan, the entire palm of your hand, it doesn’t matter which one.

Think about that pain for a while.

If you have any kind of imagination, and you do not have a psychological illness that isolates you from this kind of empathy, then this should make you uncomfortable, at least.

The pain scale is not from This Is Spinal Tap. It does not go to 11.

Work on a burn unit. These patients have experienced this kind of pain, but now are experiencing severe chronic pain similar to the acute pain they experienced with the initial burn. This is not the only kind of acute or chronic pain worth treating. That is not what I am stating.

I am trying to give an idea of what debilitating pain is.

Fibromyalgia is a way to give a name to a much lower level of pain. If it has a name and a diagnosis, well then the drug companies can sell you a treatment for it. Pregabalin (Lyrica) an anti-seizure, neuropathic pain medication is approved for treatment of fibromyalgia. Here is an interesting view of the effect of pregabalin.

In a study of recreational users (N=15) of sedative/hypnotic drugs, including
alcohol, LYRICA (450mg, single dose) received subjective ratings of “good drug
effect,” “high” and “liking” to a degree that was similar to diazepam (30mg,
single dose).

Pregabalin does not have any studies that show addiction to it. It is interesting that recreational users of drugs would rate it as similar to benzodiazepines (part of the class of drugs these drug users desired). Pregabalin, the only drug approved for the treatment of fibromyalgia, is not an opioid (a natural or synthetic derivative of the opium poppy, related to morphine). The idea of using opioids to treat fibromyalgia is not one the FDA appears to be endorsing.

I am very liberal with pain medicine (when OLMC allows it) and I do not take pain lightly.

Encouraging people to lie there, and to give in to the pain, is just the wrong approach. The more you give in to the pain, the more pain medicine you need, the more you become dependent on pain medication, the less you are able to take care of yourself, the more you become a victim of your own response to the pain.

You become your own victim – not a victim of the chronic pain.

This is tragic. The epitome of tragedy, Hamlet, said –

there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
it is a prison.

O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count
myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I
have bad dreams.

That last line confuses many people, not having the ability to understand Hamlet’s “bad dreams,” but it would never work if he were to say, were it not that I have fibromyalgia.”

Hamlet’s dead father would come to him in his dreams and tell him that he was murdered by Hamlet’s uncle, who is now also Hamlet’s step father and the new King. Very unhappy times for Hamlet and this is just the beginning!

Hamlet may have been the prince of despair, the Shakespearean character most likely to whine, but fibromyalgia would never have worked for him.

Maybe it was King Lear with his prove to me that you love me, or Othello with his willingness to let Iago convince him that his wife was fooling around, but Shakespeare knew how to write tragedy. All of these responses to adversity prove to be tragic. And fatal. And whiny.

Was Nurse K being inappropriate?

Not at all. Chronic pain patients would be better off listening to her, than those who say just lie there and suffer, but do it dramatically.

How EMS Manages Pain

In my last post Burns and Pain and Little Kids, I wrote about a case of bad pain management.

The comments included a lot of discussion of how EMS handles pain management.

I was talking with another medic and the topic of pain management came up. Not the first time that has happened.

One of the problems in EMS is that medics are trained to believe that morphine is some dangerous, magical drug that will sneak in on little cat paws and steal your patient’s breath away. This is told to us by doctors, nurses, and other medics – even non-medical personnel.

We frequently treat respiratory depression in EMS. And we often overreact when we do.

Read Ambulance Driver‘s article on EMS1.comThe Airway Continuum. The comparison between airway management and police use of lethal force is a useful one. Why do we automatically leap to the most invasive approach to airway management?

Conversely, why do we leap to the paranoid expectation of respiratory depression and respiratory arrest, when dealing with pain management?

This is an EMS version of an Urban Legend.

A site that is devoted to finding the truth about urban legends is Snopes.com. We have some people who provide the EMS version of urban legend debunking. AD does that, but he does not go far enough in this article. Not that he might think he exhausted airway management in this one article. AD could go on for days with only a pause for something to whet his whistle. And it would be entertaining, even if he does occasionally plagiarize himself.

Airway management is far more complex than “Intubate ‘Em All and Let Respiratory Sort ‘Em Out.” EMS protocols often do not acknowledge this.

Another problem with the use of morphine is the rush to use naloxone when there is any uncertainty about the patient’s respiratory status. This questionable nature of the respiratory drive should encourage a much more conservative approach. AD discusses this in Naloxone: The Most Abused Drug in EMS.

Pain management is also a far more complex treatment than “One Dose Fits All.” It is also something where “One Drug Fits All,” does not apply. Morphine is commonly used to manage pain, but it is far from a good drug for EMS. The big thing morphine has going for it is Tradition!

But the worst tradition associated with morphine is the dosing. If you are good, you may receive orders to treat an adult with 2 mg morphine. If you are really good you may receive orders to repeat that dose One Time. At least from some OLMC doctors.

The Danger.

The Peril.

The Horror.

There are some big problems with this approach. Pain management is not about rewarding paramedics with aggressive doses for good behavior. These doses that aren’t really even close to aggressive.

Pain management is about providing appropriate care for the patient.

Why is it that paramedics have to fight with some OLMC (On Line Medical Command) physicians for permission to appropriately treat patients?

Why are some doctors such vigorous opponents of appropriate pain management?

Why are some doctors such vigorous opponents of appropriate patient care?

Opponents of appropriate patient care? How can I say that about doctors?

A patient in moderate to severe pain.

A patient with no real contraindications to morphine (if hypotensive, no real contraindications to fentanyl).

A patient who will benefit from the treatment.

A patient too often denied appropriate pain management.

A patient too often denied any pain management.

Now, back to my talk with my friend.

He had a patient with a probable hip fracture. His partner insisted on calling OLMC for orders, even though they have standing orders. OLMC gave orders for 4 mg of morphine – much less than is available on standing orders.

Here are the standing orders for isolated extremity trauma:

(Choose one)
Fentanyl 50-100 mcg IV/IO 6,7 (1 mcg/kg)
may repeat ½ dose every 5 minutes until maximum of 3 mcg/kg
Morphine sulfate 2-5 mg IV 6,7
(0.05 mg/kg)
may repeat dose every 5 minutes
until maximum of 0.2 mg/kg
Nitrous Oxide (50:50) by inhalation 8

If we assume that the patient weighs 50 kg (110 pounds), then the standing orders would allow for the patient to receive 10 mg of morphine before having to call command for orders to give any more pain medicine. Not that those orders are likely to take into consideration that the patient is still in pain after 10 mg of morphine – only the “recklessness” of requesting to give more than 10 mg. This is the world of EMS pain management. Pain management isn’t about the patient. Pain management isn’t about appropriate care. Pain management is commonly about treating medical command for discomfort.

If only medical command were familiar with research on EMS pain management, such as I described in Public Perception of Pain Management.

Look at the standing orders again. In the system where he works, the medical director does not allow them to carry nitrous oxide or fentanyl. The medical director does not appear to have any plans for EMS to carry these drugs. The medical director does not encourage the use of the pain management standing orders.

One way that the medics are discouraged is by being labeled “Too Aggressive.”

I once did some ride time with them and was told that they did not want to hire me because some of the medics I rode with said I was too aggressive and others said I was not aggressive enough.

My interpretation of that was that I am Goldilocks’ porridge. Their interpretation was lacking in literary reference. They probably would have labeled me an Upstart.

You can see where the problem is in EMS. When it comes to pain management, it isn’t about patient care. There are several other things that are considered before the well being of the patient is considered. The other things that are considered can all veto the standing orders.

Then there is the problem of pain that is not due to an extremity injury. If the pain is not from an isolated extremity injury, then the pain is categorized as “too risky” to treat.

Not that this is based on research, these are doctors after all, their expert opinion is to “That’s the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered medicine you ever set eyes on!” and “Look, that morphine’s got a vicious streak a mile wide! It’s a killer!” and “He’s got huge, sharp… er… He can leap about. Look at the breathing!”

It is true, the bunny in Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a killer. At times morphine can produce respiratory depression that can be a killer, too. Just not when well trained medics use it to appropriately treat their patients’ pain. Titrating the dose to the patient’s pain. The well trained medic is the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch that counters the respiratory depression from a larger than appropriate dose of morphine, or any opioid.

If only the medical director would insist that the medics be competent in the use of the medications that the medics carry, instead of discouraging the use of the unpopular ones.

Burns and Pain and Little Kids

The ambulance is already on scene, bringing the little girl and mother out to the ambulance.

Everyone is looking to see what is going on.

Who could be making so much noise?

The noise is not from the ambulance, not from my truck, not from the police cars, nor from any of the emergency noise makers you would expect.

The noise is from the little girl screaming.

Piercing all sound barriers.

All except one.

We place her in the ambulance ask a couple of questions and then start to the specialty hospital that is both a burn center and a pediatric center. We have too many people on the ambulance – Dad up front, 2 EMTs in back with me, Mom, and our little patient. We’re not really at clown car capacity, but the amount of room is not as comfortable as I would like. Rather than be able to spread out my gear and have easy access to it, I need to pass my bags to the EMTs, so they can pass individual items back to me. On some calls this might be a problem, but this will not be one of them.

Mom is sitting across from me, on the other side of her daughter, holding her daughter’s hand. Looking for someone to ease her daughter’s pain. All of the right people showed up with all of the right equipment to do just that. Everything is working as it should when a well trained group of people, who do this on a regular basis, work together.

Mom is feeling so much guilt for her inability to protect her child. Feeling she has betrayed her child – allowing a curious child, and what healthy child isn’t curious, allowing a curious child to see the handle of a pot calling to her.

The handle is tempting her from over the edge of the stove.

It is making funny noises.

What is going on there?

What child doesn’t want to know?

Well, Mom feels guilt for not being there to stop the inquisitive climbing, the reaching for the pot.

Guilt for not being able to have the scalding, boiling water land instead on Mom and spare her daughter.

Guilt for not keeping up with the developmental progress of her daughter, ever exploring the unknown.

Guilt because today the monster was not just an imaginary one in the closet.

And she was not able to protect her daughter.

The little girl did pull the pot down onto her chest, onto her arms, onto her legs, and onto her diaper.

Mom deserves praise for being smart enough to immediately remove the diaper and prevent far more serious burns from developing. We forget that diapers are designed to trap water. Trapped boiling water on the groin is sometimes overlooked in the panic following a scalding of a child.

The screaming is not likely to be any worse if the child’s groin is being scalded, but the pain she feels could be worse.

Her expression of pain is 10/10, right now. Can her pain get any worse?

Yes, her pain can get worse, but how can she express it any differently, any more clearly?

She probably cannot.

But Mom has prevented the worst part of the scalding through her quick action of removing the diaper. Telling Mom this does nothing to ease her pain or her daughter’s pain.

I call OLMC (On Line Medical Command) for orders for some morphine to help ease the baby’s pain. Morphine is not the best drug for this, but it is traditional and medicine is enamored of tradition. Fentanyl is much safer.

Dr. No Narcs answers the OLMC phone. Inside I cry, but even he would not force this patient to continue to suffer extreme pain, would he?

He tells me not only does he not want me to give any morphine, he does not want me to start an IV, but he does want me to keep sterile dressings on the burns. He is board certified in both emergency medicine and internal medicine. All of that education is wasted when it is not used. He doesn’t seem to know a thing about EMS or a patient’s experience of pain.

Calling another hospital for medical command, after you have been refused orders, is discouraged. Since it would be irresponsible of me not to call the destination hospital, where they do not know me, I call. They are no better than Dr. No Narcs.

Unknown Useless Doctor – We’ll manage the pain when you get here.

RM – But she’s in severe pain. Can’t you hear her.

UUD – I do not appreciate medics questioning my orders.

RM – I’m not asking for the orders for me – I’m not the one in pain.

UUD – Bring the child in and leave the medicine to the doctors.

I am having a Richard III moment, but I have no kingdom to offer in exchange for a competent doctor. My patient suffers tragically.

We arrive at the hospital (a burn center and a pediatric hospital). By now the little girl is having periods of unresponsiveness, not that I attempt to awaken her – she is already receiving far too much painful stimulus.

Her periods of unresponsiveness are lasting about 5 seconds at a time. She is exhausted. Whatever energy she had that might have been needed to help her heal, has been dramatically diminished.

The doctor, one of the pediatricians, is going to start an IV personally. The doctor is not exactly trusting the ED staff to do this. I am reminding the doctor about the obvious pain. Should anyone need any reminding with a screaming child?

The doctor states that oral acetaminophen with codeine will be enough.

The area is overflowing with university medical centers, yet physicians who understand pain management are as scarce as hen’s teeth.

The doctor gets the IV on the first try, but the little girl pulls away before it is secured. Two more unsuccessful attempts, then success. Before securing the line, the doctor gives one milligram of morphine. By now, the little girls unresponsive periods have increased to 15 seconds long and about a minute apart.

Now, over an hour after pulling the pot off of the stove, she has some relief. With the morphine she sleeps. How appropriate. How inappropriately delayed.

Oh, don’t pretend you know what is best for this child – what if she stops breathing?

She would have to stop thrashing about violently for respirations to even begin to be a concern. We are having trouble just keeping her on the stretcher, never mind keeping sterile dressings on for even the 8 second bronco riding time.

Stops breathing?

As in the respiratory rate drops down from 60 breaths per minute to 50 breaths per minute?

Or to 40 breaths per minute?

That really would be a problem؟

This child is nowhere near respiratory arrest.

If there should be any question about the respiratory drive, and the medic misses the signs, what would make anyone think that Mom will be anything other than alarmist about any problem with her baby’s breathing?

She is feeling under-protective and feels a need to atone for that. Will she remain silent?

What about the medic, only an arm’s length away from the patient?

How could a competent medic miss dangerous respiratory depression in this child?

The only way this can be justified is if you allow dangerous medics in the system.

Do we knowingly endanger the population of patients by scattering hand grenades with faulty pins among the people they turn to for protection?

That would be completely wrong, but does not seem to be uncommon.

Mom felt guilt for not protecting her daughter from a foreseeable dangerous situation.

I feel guilty for being a good little Nazi and just following orders.

Orders designed to allow medical directors to feel comfortable endangering patients and allowing them to delude themselves that they are protecting those patients.

I have betrayed my patient by following the orders of not one, but two different indifferent medical command doctors who refused to allow for the treatment of a tiny patient – a patient they could clearly hear over the phone.

Hippocrates would never have approved of this.

To have the means of easing a patient’s pain, but to refuse the treatment to the patient.

Why is OLMC sometimes the sound barrier impervious to all entreaties?

I continue this and expand on some of the comments in:

How EMS “Manages” Pain.

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Ayush Jajoria finds inspiration in physics for his new release

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Sometime in 2011, New Delhi-based producer Ayush Jajoria got introduced to electronic music. It’s no surprise that the first artists he heard were hit-makers such as Deadmau5, Tiesto and Armin van Buuren. He says, “I was instantly hooked to it, dropping all the other kinds of music.”

One summer day in 2013, Jajoria began music, which he says made him see beyond the “faÃ§ade” of the genre. After a few songs and creating music under different monikers (Fourth Note, The Lost Envelope), he’s releasing his debut EP Annihilate as Ayush, crafting swivelling beats, introspective synth melodies (best heard on “Fade Away,” a track that’s received over 34,000 plays) and even a rock influence (on the cinematic “Chasm.”) He says that “Chasm” is among his favorites. “In a way my music was becoming too genre-bound, which I didn’t like. ”˜Chasm’ was kind of the escape from it, it’s the track that I enjoyed producing most out of them all.”

While Annihilate may give the impression of a heavy, destructive sound, Jajoria relates the choice of title to its definition in physics. “It means ”˜convert (a subatomic particle) into radiant energy.’ The EP started at a very dark and depressing point in my life, I was pretty confused and mad about a lot of personal aspects of my life, somehow the depression was the subatomic particle that I needed to convert into energy. I’d rather say it was very unconscious. The more I worked on it the more I found different types of layer of myself of that particular time,” the producer says.

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These days, Jajoria has found like-minded peers in young music collective Jwala, who have released three compilations so far. He says the glue that bound them together included “the music we used to hear, the sounds we used to make and of course, memeing [sic] and other things.”

Annihilate launches with a special set at gig series REProduce Listening Room on September 24th in New Delhi. Jajoria says, “It’s a really cool place to share music or whatever you want to do really, without the pressure of putting out an act to please the people first, it just gives you the room to be yourself, which I like a lot.” If he did want to play in regular club venues, he prefers to do it as Fourth Note. He says, “After this EP release, I’ll solely be focusing on the Fourth Note side of my music. I think it’s time to show the other side of my music as well to the world.”

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Child Support in Oregon

Typically, whichever parent spends more time with the couple’s children will receive an award of sole legal custody and be designated the “residential parent.” The residential parent will typically receive support from the non-custodial or non-residential parent. However, this may be counter-balanced by the fact that it is likely that the party with the greater income will bear a greater portion of the financial burden to support the couple’s children.

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Child support may be established through:

  • An administrative hearing which the State of Oregon filed
  • Through a paternity action filed by a party
  • In a petition for custody action between unmarried parents
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Child support in Oregon is calculated using a formula and an online child support calculator to determine the amount of child support to be paid to the custodial parent by the non-custodial parent, unless there are exceptional circumstances. The formula is based on a number of factors, including each parent’s income, spousal support paid and received, number of overnight visits each child spends with each parent, number of joint and non-joint children, and child care and health insurance needs.

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In Oregon, the court uses a formula which takes into account many factors including the parties’ income, the parties’ parenting plan, child care costs, medical insurance costs, and uninsured ongoing medical expenses.

If one of the parties does not have any income, the court will calculate that party’s income as their “potential” wage based on that individual’s skill set.  At a bare minimum one’s “potential” wage will be calculated as forty hours of work at Oregon’s current minimum wage.

Some of the other factors that the court frequently uses in calculating child support in Oregon are:

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The court typically uses an amount that is close to what the calculator calculates unless one party can show that the amount is unjust or inappropriate because of particular facts using what are called “rebuttal factors.”

Rebuttal factors which may justify a deviation from the presumed amount include, but are not limited to:

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3221. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 December 1818

3221. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 December 1818*

Ode [1]

Death has gone up into our Palaces!
The light of day once more
Hath visited the last abode
Of mortal Royalty.
The dark & silent house.

But not as when the silence of that vault
Was interrupted last, [2]
Doth England raise her loud lament
Like one by sudden grief,
Surpriz’d & overpower’d.

Then with a passionate sorrow she bewaild
Youth on the untimely bier;
And hopes that seemd like full-swoln buds
Just opening to the sun,
For ever swept away.

The heart then struggled with repining thoughts,
With feelings which almost
Arraignd the inscrutable decree,
Embitterd by the sense
Of all that might have been.

This grief hath no repining. All is well,
What hath been, & what is.
The Angel of Deliverance came
To one who, full of years,
Awaited her release.

All that our fathers in their prayers desired
When first their destin’d Queen
Set on our shores her happy feet,
All by indulgent Heaven
Had largely been vouchsafed.

The household Virtues held their place at Court.
The marriage bed was blessd;
Domestic Purity maintaind
Her proper influence there,
And length of days was given.

No cause for sorrow then, but thankfulness,–
Lifes business well performd,
When weary Age lays down its load,
And falls asleep, to wake
In immortality.

Long long shall England hold her memory dear
And future Queens to her
As to their best example look; –
Who imitates it best
Will best reserve our love.

My dear Grosvenor

I send you as bad an exercise as I ever shewed up at Westminster. [3]  flat as a flounder, & absolutely good for nothing; – fit indeed to be fiddled, – but fitter to be bum-fiddled. They were written doggedly, – there was nothing in my head, & therefore nothing could come out of it: – but in pure courtesy to the composer [4]  (my old enemy being defunct) I put the words into a regular stanza, in order that the music which does for five lines, may do for all. Transmit it to Shields with my compliments, – & if you see him, say something xxxx civil to him on my part, – for I have met him formerly at poor Mr Barbaulds, [5]  & should be glad to meet him again.

Tell me who James Fontaine [6]  of Hornsey is, – a friend of Mr Fielding [7]  thro whom, & {so} thro you he meant to have introduced a subject to me, – which he has now done in a xxx more direct way. – A book about Eternal Punishment on which I am sure he is right in the main. But his book is far too long, & wants method. And he does not seem to know that the same opinions have been held by others before him.

God bless you

Keswick. 21 Dec. 1818.

I had almost forgotten a commission of main importance. When you go in the way of your Tea dealer send us two dozen lb. of seven shilling souchong, three pounds of ten shilling Do. & four lb. of ten or twelve shilling green. N. B. Desire them not to send it in lead, – for we have lead to keep it in when it arrives, & the lead paper last time added nearly a full third to the carriage.

* Address: To/ G. C. Bedford Esqre/ 9. Stafford Row/ Buckingham Gate/ London
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
Postmark: E/ 21 DE 21/ 1818
Endorsement: In Ltr of 21 Decr 1818; 21. Decr 1818/ Ode on the Queen’s death
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. d. 47. ALS; 3p.
Unpublished. BACK

[1] Southey’s annual New Year’s Ode as Poet Laureate, mourning Queen Charlotte (1744–1818; DNB), who had died on 17 November 1818. The ode was neither performed at court, nor published – until Southey let it appear in Friendship’s Offering and Winter’s Wreath (London, 1829), pp. 106–108. BACK

[2] On the occasion of the death of Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, on 6 November 1817. BACK

[3] Here Southey compares his ‘Ode’ to school exercises he undertook at Westminster School. BACK

[4] Part of the ode would need to be set to music in case it was required to be performed at Court, by William Shield, Master of the King’s Music. BACK

[5] Rochemont Barbauld (1749–1808; DNB), schoolmaster, Unitarian minister, writer and husband of Anna Barbauld. BACK

[6] James Fontaine (1778–1826) had sent Southey a copy of his Eternal Punishment Proved to be not Suffering, but Privation; and Immortality Dependent on Spiritual Regeneration; by a Member of the Church of England (1817), no. 1468 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. BACK

[7] William Fielding (1748–1820), barrister, magistrate and son of the novelist, Henry Fielding (1707–1754; DNB). Southey had been introduced to him in 1817 in St James’s Park. BACK

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Completed Flap Actuation System (Section 34)

Drilled the tiny hole in the linear actuator rod for safety wire. First attempt broke through. Second attempt, I ignored Van’s instructions and started by drilling a hole in the end. Then drilled a hole from the side to meet up with the first hole. Then final drilled at an angle to eliminate the right angle and allow the safety wire to slide through.

Greased up the torque tubes and inserted into the bearing blocks on either side. Then I bolted them to the flap crank in the middle. Finally, I bolted the flap motor in place and tested with a 9-volt battery. Worked perfectly.

Today’s Time (hours): 2.0
Fuselage Time (hours): 173.0
Total Time (hours): 627.5

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Strange Bacon’s Socially Relevant Films #21- No Country for Old Men

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Put yourself in Southern Texas, in the shoes of an average Joe retired welder who stumbles across millions of dollars in a bag after a drug exchange goes wrong. Sounds like a pretty good place to be, right? Well, now take off those shoes and slip in a crazed psychopathic killer with an uncanny tracking ability. Still desirable? What if I told you the killer wasn’t a man but some sort of strange, symbolic, mystic entity? At a certain point in time, one has to take into consideration just how much a bag of money is worth.

The distinctive and memorable Chigurh

Because it’s always a major shock when the Coen brothers make a serious movie, and perhaps because it was a relatively slow year for blockbuster films, No Country For Old Men collected four sparkling Oscars and was widely heralded as the best film of the year. Conflict is what makes a film enjoyable, for the most part, and viewers get their fair share of it in this somewhat thoughtful thriller.

The story is Cormac McCarthy’s, so you know immediately that it’s going to be good. Not exactly upbeat and uplifting, but certainly original and groundbreaking. I haven’t found anything by McCarthy I didn’t like, from The Sunset Limited to The Road, so you were always going to see this film included somewhere in my column. The Road  just might be on the near horizon, as well (spoiler alert).

Included; the book, for it’s gorgeous cover art.

Viewers are taken into the home of Llewelyn Moss and his wife, who both provide very strong, believable and consistent performances. But the true breadwinner performance comes from the versatile (but very distinctive) Javier Bardem. His character, Anton Chigurh, carries a sort of chilling detachedness that not only has the viewers, but also the characters in the film thrown off, as if they’d never seen anything like him before. Chigurh doesn’t follow a predictable pattern of behavior that the typical self-interested human could understand, so it leaves you guessing as to exactly what he’s going to do next and exactly what his greater motives are. As Marshall Carson Wells put it midway through the movie: “You could almost say he has principles.”

One of the things that detracts from the quality of this film is the inclusion of some actors who are good friends of the Coen brothers that simply are much more suited for comedic films and roles. Maybe it’s just me, but I had a great deal of difficulty taking a conversation between Woody Harrelson and Stephen Root seriously.

Tommy Lee Jones plays his usual, tired role as a chasing cop, always a step behind the action. It would be a bit of a frustrating cast, if not for his character’s unique philosophy in the role. Jones seems tired and somewhat scatterbrained during his scenes, but his lethargy has a purpose; he feels overmatched against the powerful forces at work in the line of murder’s he is following.

It’s a suppressed shotgun. The fact that he’s able to make something like that work indicates powers at work beyond our understanding. Don’t try to make one of these at home.

The reason I include this film in the socially relevant marathon, is because rarely do you see a production with nuanced messages find such popularity in a modern viewing audience. The absence of a real built up climax, converging with a pressing message of inevitable death and aging might not be the most upbeat approach, but it somehow found the heart of viewers who these days seem to prefer regurgitated comic book films and Will Ferrell comedies. Not to say that there is anything wrong with that, but it’s a lot to ask to separate an audience from their beloved “good guy- bad guy approach.”

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Newsletter Update - November
We started a quiz with the July newsletter, this issue has three more questions – and one might involve a little sleuthing.
Send your answers to by November 15th when a draw of correct submissions will take place for another awesome prize!
Join the Public Image Team!

The Public Image team is looking for a Rotarian to join the team as an EDITOR for the monthly newsletter! This role would include collecting and editing articles for the monthly newsletter.

Please contact Kristina at if you have a few hours a month to dedicate to editing articles for our monthly newsletter

November Planter Contest
Calling All Rotarians who have Creative Landscape/Garden Talent ... A Contest just for you!  Being Green and Enhancing Rotary’s Public Image all at the same time!
The Challenge:  Design a street planter that is beautiful and that builds awareness of Rotary to anyone who admires it!
Your district has asked for input from you about adding goals to our strategic plan related to the environment. That request is in another article in this newsletter.  In the meantime, let's try a fun project to bring some green to our streets -- a "Rotarized Planter Design Contest" – an RPDC!!
Criteria for your design:
  • Easy to build and affordable wooden planter box
  • Durable - no lattice or little bits sticking up that could easily break off etc.
  • Suitable for a municipal street
  • Deep enough for herbs and edibles to grow in it
  • Possibly with two levels
  • Simple yet stunningly attractive
  • Incredibly creative “Rotarizing” to make it clear where the planter came from!
Submit a copy of your drawn design to by 31 December 2019 – along with a statement about what your club would do with $200 to apply to a Public Image initiative. The submission could be a hand drawing or a computer based drawing – or some other format – as long as the dimensions and design features are clear enough for a prototype to be built.
- The RPDC winner's club will receive a PI award of $200 to apply to a PI initiative.
- A prototype will be built and final plans shared with all clubs that may want to build a planter of edibles for their community.
- Photo shows a “boring” one as an example of what we are NOT looking for ....but it may inspire creativity and some awesomely amazingly Rotarizing!
Public Image Puppy Contest Winners
And the winner is…three winners actually!
The Rotary Clubs of Sackville, Exploits and Bridgewater all submitted wonderful accounts of the adventures of their puppies to the Public Image Contest.  They also had great ideas about investing in new banners and parade floats and we are awarding them each $400 toward their efforts.  Congratulations!  But wait, there’s a catch!  We need more photos of what you acquire… with your puppy again!
The next deadline is April 30th – don’t miss it!  Take your puppy on a tour of all your projects and take photos as you go – don’t forget about symbols of your international projects and your social events.  Puppies love social gatherings!  And remember – the puppies are a tool to help you tell your stories – try it!  And when you post images, encourage others to share them – and share what you see on Facebook too.
Club of the Year!
A number of years ago they were faced with decling membership and were  struggling as a club. Just as Phoenix rose from the ashes, the Rotary Club of Yarmouth met their challenges head on to become the great club they are today! Over this past year, as your District Governor, I recognized the incredibly significant contributions the club made to their local community as well as international projects.
In recognition of their many accomplishments, I had the pleasure of  presenting the District 7820, "Club of the Year" award for 2018 - 2019 to club president, Linda Deveau and club members at their recent meeting.
CONGRATULATIONS to each and every member of the club for their dedication and hard work!
Your Board at Work - Input Needed!
Helping clubs thrive...
Your Board and team of Area Governors met in late October for 1.5 days to learn more about intercultural integration and to review priorities.  We were enlightened by a trainer from the Immigrant Settlement Association of NS who offered a wonderful workshop that left us all with new insights.
As always, we also reviewed our strategic plan and made an addition – you may know that RI recently reviewed the areas of focus and changed the names of a few of them.
They also considered whether to make the environment a new area of focus and instead, decided to integrate issues related to the environment in all existing areas.  Great idea!
Your Board decided that we should also include a focus on environment in our district strategic plan.  Some clubs already have initiatives related to climate change and environment – such as planting trees or making personal commitments related to reducing and recycling.
So now the question is, what should we as a district do?  Are there initiatives that we can help with?  We’d like to hear from you about what you’d like your district to do with respect to environment.  We don’t do district wide projects as efforts should come from clubs – but we can support and encourage action – what would you like to see?  We want to hear from you.
Please send Louisa your thoughts and suggestions about this important topic –
Trivia question – what are the new names of the areas of focus and what is now being integrated into them all?
Peace Fellow 2020
We are thrilled to announce that we have a successful applicant for the 2020 Rotary Peace Fellowship program.  This prestigious professional development award is given to only 50 people around the world – and our very own Nora Didkowsky from Hants County is one of them!

Nora will be studying at the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand from January to April 2020.  This professional development certificate program allows experienced leaders gain practical tools for promoting peace and international development during an intensive, 3- month program, which includes 3 weeks of field study and peer learning opportunities with a diverse group.

Nora’s entire career, education and volunteer activities make her the perfect candidate for this program.  Having completed her PhD and working through two post-docs working with Rohingya refugee children in India, this interactive program will strengthen the impact of her work as a peace and development professional.

What is she most looking forward to?  “Beyond the Fellowship’s core teachings, a significant opportunity is the potential to expand the reach and impact of my work through shared learning with a global community of peace-builders. These connections have the potential to magnify the power of our independent and collective work. As conflicts around the world are simultaneously multiplying and intensifying, and we face the highest levels of displacement ever recorded, there is an unprecedented need to coordinate unified and timely solutions that connect diverse worldviews, bodies of knowledge, and approaches.”

This is yet another example of the power of Rotary!  We wish Nora all the best in her studies and look forward to hearing the stories of her experience.

Trivia question - where are the universities at which Rotary Peace Scholars can study around the world?

Rotary's Membership Experience
Why do people join Rotary? What makes them stay in their clubs, and what makes them leave?
Rotary conducts the Membership Experience Feedback Survey every year to better understand the needs, interests, and engagement of our members. The most recent survey offers insights on prospective, current, and former members.
New Rotaract Club at Dalhousie!
The Rotary Club of Truro is proud to support a new Rotaract Club at Dalhousie University, Agricultural Campus.
The Rotaract club launched this September and includes over 21 members. Members  participated in Truro Rotary Club’s Bollywood event, and the president performed a bollywood dance.
The members have been volunteering weekly at the local food bank, filling bags and serving clients. On World Polio Day the club launched the Purple Pinkie campaign, selling cupcakes and stamping pinkies on a poster that will be displayed on campus. The campaign will continue to run at the campus pub, serving purple drinks fundraising for polio.
Club members will be participating in a leadership conference hosted by Dalhousie University. The Rotaract Club is planning on supporting the Christmas Index Program operated through Truro Rotary Club
Rotary Club of Sackville and Area - Adopt a Highway
In September, Rotary Club of Sackville and Area did their semi annual Adopt - A - Highway initiative from Exit 1K to Fultz House in Lower Sackville.
Thirteen members and friends of Rotary took on the clean up of all the garbage nesting on the sides of the road.  Our Club has been a proud participant in the Adopt-A-Highway program for many years now.  Twenty bags of garbage plus other various items were cleared from view and sent to their proper disposal sites.
This regular activity makes for a cleaner, environmentally friendlier community. Thank you and congratulations to all.  Keep up the great work.
Dartmouth Club - General Hospital Redevelopment Memorial Donation
 On October 12th, the Rotary Club of Dartmouth committed $25,000 to Dartmouth General  Hospital Redevelopment.  President Don Penwell, Donna Upham, Reid Harrison and Robert Earle are pictured presenting the cheque to Steve Harding, and Jenna Joyce of the General Hospital Foundation.
The Dartmouth General Hospital Redevelopment consists of major facilities renovations and expansion, and the addition of new equipment and technology. Our Club is particularly delighted with the addition of the new three-story building named after Neville Gilfoy, a prominent member of our Club who pasted away in 2016.
 The Neville J. Gilfoy Wing, has been added on the back of the hospital and will house:
  • Eight new operating rooms with two designed specifically for orthopedics
  • An Ambulatory Care and Endoscopy Centre with eighteen new clinic room
  • A new Medical Device Reprocessing area
 Overall Dartmouth General Hospital Redevelopment will result in:
  • Better integration of Surgical Services across the HRM
  • Concentration of Orthopedic Surgery - majority of primary joint replacement surgeries for patients from all over HRM are to be done at DGH
  • Shorter waitlists and reduced wait times for orthopedic and endoscopic procedures
  • Redeveloping existing space to increase our capacity
  • Improved patient flow to enhance patient privacy
  • Increased patient comfort and improved aesthetic
The Rotary Club of Dartmouth is proud to be involved in the worthwhile community project.
Nigeria Reaches Crucial Polio Milestone

It’s been three years since health officials last reported a case of polio caused by the wild poliovirus in Nigeria. The milestone, reached on 21 August, means that it’s possible for the entire World Health Organization (WHO) African region to be certified wild poliovirus-free next year.

Nigeria’s success is the result of several sustained efforts, including domestic and international financing, the commitment of thousands of health workers, and strategies to immunize children who previously couldn’t be reached because of a lack of security in the country’s northern states.

“Rotary, its Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners, and the Nigerian government have strengthened immunization and disease detection systems,” says Michael K. McGovern, chair of Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee. He adds: “We are now reaching more children than ever in some of the hardest-to-reach places in Nigeria.”

McGovern says Rotary members in Nigeria play an important role in ridding the country of the disease. “Rotarians have been hard at work raising awareness for polio eradication, advocating with the government, and addressing other basic health needs to complement polio eradication efforts, like providing clean water to vulnerable communities.”

Nigeria is the last country in Africa where polio is endemic. Once Africa is certified as free of the wild poliovirus, five of the WHO’s six regions will be free of wild polio. Polio remains endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which means transmission of the virus has never been stopped.

Dr. Tunji Funsho, chair of Rotary’s Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee, acknowledges the milestone but cautions Rotary members about celebrating too soon. He cites the challenge of making certain that routine immunizations reach every child in Nigeria.

“It’s paramount that we ensure all doors are locked to the re-entry of the wild poliovirus into our country,” says Funsho.

Funsho says to achieve this, Rotary needs to maintain strong advocacy efforts, continue to increase awareness of immunization campaigns, and ensure members raise necessary funds. Rotary has contributed $268 million to fight polio in Nigeria.

“As the first organization to dream of a polio-free world, Rotary is committed to fulfilling our promise,” says McGovern. “Our progress in Nigeria is a big step toward that goal, but we need to maintain momentum so that Pakistan and Afghanistan see the same level of progress.”

Did You Know?
Did you know that when Rotary’s founder, Paul Harris, died in 1947, the Rotary Foundation established a memorial fund in his name:  “The Paul Harris Foundation Fellowships for advanced study”.  Right from the beginning, the Rotary Foundation has had an emphasis on education.  We are so pleased that our district currently has two Rotary Foundation scholars:   a Global Grant Scholar studying multiple sclerosis at Memorial University in Newfoundland and now, a Rotary Peace Fellow about to embark on a journey to Thailand.  District 7820 is continuing the Foundation’s tradition of supporting education to improve global health and well-being.
       Trivia question. What was the amount of the first donation from the Rotary Foundation and what did it           support?
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