In the period 9-11 May 2007, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway carried out a verification activity at Norsk Hydro's facility at Nyhamna as part of the audit of follow-up and use of risk analyses in connection with the start-up and operation of the Ormen Lange facility. We identified one non-conformity related to the highlighting, dissemination and follow-up of the risk and emergency preparedness analysis.
Section 13 of the Management Regulations relating to general requirements for analyses specifies that it must appear clearly which conditions, assumptions and limitations apply to each analysis carried out.
Furthermore, the section specifies that the analysis must be updated when changes in the conditions, assumptions and limitations, individually or in total, affect the result of the analyses, or when new knowledge exists which is of importance to the results of the analysis. The Section 13 requirements indicate that the person responsible must know, understand and properly follow up the assumptions and conditions used as a basis for the analyses made.
Professional competence and proper knowledge of systems and equipment, as well as relevant assumptions and limitations in the given design solution, are prerequisites for being able to manage and carry out operation and maintenance activities in a prudent manner.
It is also important to understand the risk inherent in carrying out the activities, including potential consequences of deficient planning and/or incorrect implementation, in order to handle irregular and undesirable situations in the best possible manner.
The main purpose of the audit was to assess how the requirements in Section 13 of the Management Regulations have been handled, and what plans have been made to handle/follow-up these requirements during the operating phase at the facility at Nyhamna.
Other purposes of the audit included assessment of the competence and competence requirements in the operations organisation at Nyhamna, as well as establishing an understanding of who carries out full-scale testing of safety-critical systems at the facility and how this is (planned) carried out.
The verification was carried out as planned, with conversations and verifications at the facility.
In our view, much good work has been done in the project to establish systems and tools to follow up important analyses (and their presumptions and assumptions) in the operation of the facility. The main challenge is to ensure sufficient training, knowledge and ownership of the various systems to ensure that they are used in a good and intended manner when the facility commences operation.
We identified one non-conformity related to the highlighting, dissemination and follow-up of the risk and emergency preparedness analysis (SEPA). Some areas of improvement were also identified in relation to completion and highlighting of systems and tools contributing to and/or forming the basis for safe operation of the facility, and to the safeguarding of the competence and risk understanding of the personnel prior to start-up of the facility.
We noted that a lot of work remains to be done in areas such as: Training in connection with the facility's barriers, training in administrative systems, taking over packages/systems from commissioning, etc. We see that many systems are now about to be put to use (e.g.: AT, SJA, FSR, Omnisafe, PIMS, HSE-case), and that training is needed and roles must be clarified.
In our view, there will be challenges related to ensuring that sufficient time is set aside for these and other tasks related to the take-over and preparation for start-up of the facility. We assume that Hydro's terms for safe start-up of the facility include assessments related to the status of the issues mentioned above.


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Tag Archives: Green Hornet
Batman and Green Hornet Roundup
Posted on June 28, 2017 by Mike Glyer
By Carl Slaughter: Batman, Robin, Green Hornet's Kato. Adam West, Burt Ward, and Bruce Lee.
(1) Their golden years. In this 2003 film, Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt, 1960s series actors Adam West and Burt Ward follow mysteriously placed clues to find a stolen Batmobile while they ponder the supervillain actors, fight the bad guys, and reminisce about relationships, casting, and days on the set
(2) Original Sixties screen tests. Adam West and Burt Ward versus Lyle Waggoner and Peter Deyell. West and Ward definitely had the more campy portrayal. Waggoner later starred opposite Lynda Carter in a television series about another DC character, Wonder Woman. Because they under contract during the Batman series, West lost a chance to star in a Bond movie and Ward lost a chance to star in The Graduate.
West makes the better Batman, but Waggoner makes the better Bruce Wayne.
(3) Bruce Lee. Robin — Burt Ward — on Bruce Lee.
(4) Assisted launch. Batman series / Green Hornet series crossover scenes
Posted in Clipping Service	| Tagged Adam West, Batman, Carl Slaughter, Green Hornet, Robin
Early Superhero Movies and TV Series
Posted on January 13, 2017 by Mike Glyer
By Carl Slaughter: Hollywood was quick to adapt early comic book superheroes to the big screen, beginning in the late 30s and early 40s. Superheroes are notoriously difficult to adapt without camp and corn. In contrast to sci fi/fantasy, live action superhero TV shows have not endured, Smallville excepting. My favorite is the second Green Hornet. The scriptwriters and actors do the superhero genre ultra straight and ultra serious.
Captain Marvel movie series (1941)
Original Green Hornet TV series (1940)
Green Hornet Strikes Again movie series (1941):
Green Hornet TV series (1966)
Phantom movie series (1943)
Captain America movie series (1944)
Batman movie (1943)
Batman and Robin movie (1949)
Posted in Like Show Business	| Tagged Batman, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Carl Slaughter, Green Hornet, Phantom, Robin
Pixel Scroll 12/5/16 And They Will Know Us By The Trail Of Pixels
Posted on December 5, 2016 by Mike Glyer
(1) POSTER CHILD. Early this year Cat Rambo placed herself at the forefront of the movement encouraging writers to put up awards eligibility posts, and using the authority vested in her by the Science Fiction Writers of America now calls on everyone to do it.
Wondering whether or not to post an awards eligibility post? I am asking you, as President of SFWA, to do it. Stop worrying.
— Cat Rambo (@Catrambo) December 5, 2016
Practicing what she preaches, Rambo has done a year-end recap of her publications:
The stories of my own I am pushing this year are "Left Behind" (short story), "Red in Tooth & Cog" (novelette), "Haunted" (novella co-written with Bud Sparhawk), and the fantasy collection Neither Here Nor There. SFWA members should be able to find copies of those on the member boards; I am happy to mail copies to people reading for awards whether or not you are a member. Drop me a line and let me know the preferred format. I am looking for reviewers interested in Neither Here Nor There and happy to send copies as needed.
The recap contains links to nearly 30 other F&SF writer awards eligibility posts.
(2) PW PRIDE. Rambo is also proud of Publishers Weekly's starred review for her new short story collection Neither Here Nor There.
This double collection showcases Rambo's versatility within the fantasy genre. In the "Neither Here" half, tales set in her existing worlds of Tabat ("How Dogs Came to the New Continent") and Serendib ("The Subtler Art") rub shoulders with new worlds of magic and mystery. "Nor There" displays her skill at seeing our world through different lenses, with locations including steampunk London ("Clockwork Fairies") and urban fantasy Seattle ("The Wizards of West Seattle")…
(3) SCREEN TIME. George R.R. Martin is getting busy recommending things for Hugos – including other people's things.
For my part, I already know what two of my Hugo nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form will be. ARRIVAL, to start with. Terrific adaptation of a classic story by Ted Chiang. Brilliant performance from Amy Adams. (She is always great, I think, but this was her best role to date). A real science fiction story, not a western in space. Intelligent, thought-provoking, with some wonderfully alien aliens. And WESTWORLD, season one, from HBO. Of course, as with GAME OF THRONES, one can nominate individual episodes of this one in Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form… but for me it makes more sense to nominate the entire season in Long Form. (GAME OF THRONES season one was nominated in this fashion
(4) HITS AT THE LIBRARY. Library Journal's "Best Books 2016" picked these as the top five titles from the year's SF and fantasy.
Borderline, by Mishell Baker
The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman
Every Heart A Doorway, by Seanan McGuire
Behind The Throne, by K.B. Wagers
(5) SURPASSING THE MASTER. No spoilers for the movie Arrival in the following excerpt, only for the story it's based on. But it's natural that the movie spoilers quickly follow in Peter Watts analysis of the adaptation: "Changing Our Minds: 'Story of Your Life' in Print and on Screen".
What might come as a shock— and I hesitate to write this down, because it smacks of heresy— is that in terms of storytelling, Arrival actually surpasses its source material.
It's not that it has a more epic scale, or more in the way of conventional dramatic conflict. Not just that, anyway. It's true that Hollywood— inevitably— took what was almost a cozy fireside chat and 'roided it up to fate-of-the-world epicness. In "Story of Your Life", aliens of modest size set up a bunch of sitting rooms, play Charades with us for a while, and then leave. Their motives remain mysterious; the military, though omnipresent, remains in the background. The narrative serves mainly as a framework for Chiang to explore some nifty ideas about the way language and perception interact, about how the time-symmetric nature of fundamental physics might lead to a world-view— every bit as consistent as ours— that describes a teleological universe, with all the Billy Pilgrim time-tripping that implies. It's fascinating and brow furrowing, but it doesn't leave you on the edge of your seat. Going back and rereading it for this post, I had to hand it to screenwriter Eric Heisserer for seeing the cinematic potential buried there; if I was going to base a movie on a Ted Chiang story, this might be the last one I'd choose.
(6) CALL FOR PAPERS. GIFcon, Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations, is looking for papers and creative works. The deadline is December 19. The SFWA Blog gave their announcement a signal boost:
With a focus on intersections (academic and creative writing; film, art, and games) we aim for GIFCON's inaugural event to be a crossroads at which these communities can meet and come into conversation.
Fantasy at the Crossroads: Intersections, Identities, and Liminality
29th – 30th March 2017
What is Fantasy? This is a question that the University of Glasgow's MLitt in Fantasy has explored throughout its first year. While this may seem an unanswerable question, for many of us, fantasy is where reality and the impossible meet. Fantasy inspires a sprawling collection of worlds that stem from a myriad of identities, experiences, and influences. From traditional epics to genre-melding, fantasy branches out into every style imaginable. Cross-sections of genre and identity create cracks in traditional forms, opening in-between spaces from which bloom new ideas and stories.
Examples of intersections in fantasy can be found in:
– Julie Bertagna's Exodus trilogy, which explores environmentalism within the context of fantasy and science fiction.
– Arianne "Tex" Thompson's Children of the Drought series, which focuses on subversions of race and gender.
– China Miéville's The City and the City, which fuses the detective novel with the fantastic.
– Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child, which uses fairy tale inspirations to create a magical realist setting and narrative.
– Netflix's Stranger Things, which melds horror with Dungeons and Dragons via a coming-of-age science fiction story.
– The Elder Scrolls video game series, which intersects narrative, music, and visual arts.
– Frank Beddor's Looking Glass Wars series, which combines science fiction and fantasy to explore unique, genre-melded world-building.
…Please submit a 300-word abstract, along with a 100-word biography (both in DOC or RTF format) to submissions.gifconference@gmail.com by Monday 19th December 2016.
(7) RIVENDELL AUDIO. Here is the schedule of December Readings from Rivendell program in the Twin Cities, MN.
(8) WETA DIGITAL END OF YEAR PARTY 2016. I'd love to be on the invitation list for this shindig —
The Weta Digital End of Year Party has always had the reputation of being the best party in town. As with previous years, no one knew where the party was being held, or what was involved, all we knew was we had to go to platform 9 at the Wellington train station. After boarding buses at the station, we were transported to the secret location. This is what went down after we arrived… The party was themed by the four elements of nature – Water, Fire, Air/Wind and Earth. As you can see in the video, the themed installations and performance art at the party location were fantastic, and an amazing time was had by all! A big thanks to Weta Digital for putting on such an incredible party!
(9) PUCK VS. CUPID. The Book Smugglers present Tansy Rayner Roberts' review of the year's favorites in "Smugglivus 2016: A Very TansyRR Smugglivus". There's a lot of entertaining writing in the post, not to mention revelations about the previously unsuspected (by me, anyway) subgenres of gay hockey comics and novels.
This has also been an important year for Check! Please, one of my favourite all time web comics. I a couple of scary, stressful months earlier in the year, and the Check! Please fandom pulled me through until I was ready to face the world again. Check! Please was already an adorable gay hockey comic about bros and sports and friendship and pies, but its creator Ngozi gave us so many gifts this year, starting in February with The Kiss which pretty much made the comics fandom lose their collected minds.
Their love is so canon, y'all!
We've also had several waves of updates throughout the year, following the ups and downs of our hero Bitty and his secret NHL boyfriend. Ngozi also launched a Kickstarter for the book publication of Year 2 which was crazy successful, showing how dramatically her work's popularity has soared since Jack Zimmermann got a clue that he was a character in a sweet gay rom com, not a gritty hockey tragedy.
(10) HINES BENEFIT AUCTION #9. The ninth of Jim C. Hines' 24 Transgender Michigan Fundraiser auctions is for an autographed copy of Jenna Black's Replica, and a matching handmade pendant to go with it.
Today's auction is for an autographed copy of REPLICA and a handmade pendant to go with it (pictured below). You can see samples of Black's other gorgeous pendants at her Etsy store.
Sixteen-year-old Nadia Lake's marriage has been arranged with the most powerful family in the Corporate States. She lives a life of privilege even if she has to put up with paparazzi tracking her every move, every detail of her private life tabloid fodder. But her future is assured, as long as she can maintain her flawless public image—no easy feat when your betrothed is a notorious playboy.
Nathaniel Hayes is the heir to the company that pioneered human replication: a technology that every state and every country in the world would kill to have. Except he's more interested in sneaking around the seedy underbelly of the state formerly known as New York than he is in learning to run his future company or courting his bride-to-be. She's not exactly his type…not that he can tell anyone that.
But then Nate turns up dead, and Nadia was the last person to see him alive.
When the new Nate wakes up in the replication tanks, he knows he must have died, but with a memory that only reaches to his last memory back-up, he doesn't know what—or rather, who—killed him. Together, Nadia and Nate must discover what really happened without revealing the secrets that those who run their world would kill to protect.
(11) NOT ASKING SANTA FOR THESE. This link leads to a page from Hunter's Planet of the Apes Archive. Consider it an online museum of print advertising for Planet of the Apes merchandise.
(12) IN DOORSTOPS TO COME. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have sold another Big Book – "Announcing The Big Book of Classic Fantasy".
As Ann and I announced on social media last week, we're thrilled to have sold another behemoth of an anthology, The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, to editor Tim O'Connell at Vintage Books!! Tentatively scheduled for publication in 2018 and covering roughly the period 1850 up to World War II. Thanks to our agent, Sally Harding, and the Cooke Agency. This will be our fourth huge anthology project, following this year's The Big Book of Science Fiction, The Time Traveler's Almanac, and the World Fantasy Award-winning The Weird.
Will this anthology include not just your favorite classics from the English language, but also translations from all over the world? Yes. Will it include never-before-translated new stories? Yes. Will it include the best of the Decadents and the Surrealists in a fantastical vein? Oh yes, most certainly. We hope to widen our net on the translation side, focusing on areas of the world that have been underrepresented in prior anthologies.
(13) WILLIAMS OBIT. Van Williams, famed as television's The Green Hornet, has died at the age of 82.
Variety reports he actually died on Nov. 28, but his passing only became publicly known on Sunday.
Born in 1934 in Forth Worth, Texas, Williams was working as a diving instructor in Hawaii when he was discovered in 1957 by producer Mike Todd, who persuaded him to move to Hollywood. He earned his big break two years later with a lead role on the ABC private detective drama "Bourbon Street." He followed that with "Surfside 6," starring opposite Troy Donahue.
However, it's on the short-lived "Green Hornet" that Williams made a lasting mark as newspaper publisher Britt Reid, who fought crime as the masked Green Hornet alongside his partner Kato, so memorably played by Bruce Lee.
December 3, 1974 – The last new episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on the BBC.
(15) TODAY'S BIRTHDAY BOY
Born December 5, 1901 – Walt Disney
(16) A CAPRINE TRAGEDY. As discussed in comments on an earlier Scroll, the Gävle Yule Goat was burned down on its inauguration day, and replaced by a baby goat made of straw.
Only a week later, a vandal drove a car into the replica.
But in the early hours of Monday, those who were unable to sleep and instead found themselves watching the goat's webcam feed (we're told this is a thing) were able to see in real-time how someone raced towards the new goat in their car and brutally ran it over.
(17) SEND THE BILL TO LUCASFILMS. VentureBeat has been reliably informed coff that "The Death Star would cost $7.8 octillion a day to run".
The British energy supplier Ovo has put some very well-spent hours into a comprehensive calculation of the operating costs of the Death Star, which will return to the spotlight in the December 16th movie Rogue One. They conclude that operating the planet-destroying starbase would cost 6.2 octillion British pounds, or $7.8 octillion, per day—that's $7,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
To put that absurdly large number in perspective, $7.8 octillion is more than 100 trillion times the $70 trillion annual global economic activity of Earth, or 30 trillion times the roughly $200 trillion in wealth on our little blue planet.
(18) WHAT IF THEY'RE NOT LITTLE AND GREEN? NPR reports on NASA's efforts to recognize life if they find it:
There's a growing interest in so-called biosignatures — or substances that provide evidence of life — because NASA has upcoming missions that have real potential to search for them. Those include a visit to Europa in the 2020s and the 2018 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which could scan the atmospheres of planets around other stars.
The last thing NASA officials want is a repeat of the experience with the Viking missions back in the 1970s, when analysis of Martian soil chemistry produced what was initially interpreted as evidence of life — but then later deemed a false-positive.
"I remember the aftermath of that," says James Kasting, a professor of geosciences at Penn State University, who was tasked with planning this week's meeting. "NASA was criticized heavily for looking for life before they had investigated the planet and for not having thought that through carefully. They're hoping to avoid that same experience."
Finding life means first defining life, and NASA's Green says the key features are that it must metabolize, reproduce and evolve.
(19) ESA WILL BUILD ROVER. The European Space Agency will build a Mars rover, even if the cost keeps going up.
Europe will push ahead with its plan to put a UK-assembled robotic rover on the surface of Mars in 2021.
Research ministers meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, have agreed to stump up the outstanding €436m euros needed to take the project through to completion.
The mission is late and is costing far more than originally envisaged, prompting fears that European Space Agency member states might abandon it.
But the ministers have emphatically reaffirmed their commitment to it
(20) AUTO INTELLIGENCE. Uber has bought an AI company to move toward self-driving car.
Ride-sharing service Uber has acquired a New York-based artificial intelligence start-up which it hopes can speed up its progress in creating self-driving cars.
The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will see Uber gain 15 specialist researchers who will form a new division at the company known as Uber AI Labs.
(21) DISAPPEARING STAR. Did you enjoy the video of Chris Pratt's magic, linked here the other day? Cards aren't the only medium he does tricks in — "Chris Pratt keeps cropping Jennifer Lawrence out of Instagram selfies and it's hilarious".
The acting megastar duo are both starring in upcoming sci-fi romance Passengers, but throughout the film's promo tour 37-year-old Pratt has been enjoying social media hijinks by cutting out 26-year-old Lawrence whenever the pair share a snap together….
Me, #JenniferLawrence and @jamieoliver backstage at @thegrahamnortonshow promoting a film called #Passengers coming soon to a theatre near you. Can't believe I got to meet the naked chef!!! He was wearing clothes, but still!!!
A post shared by chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) on Dec 1, 2016 at 12:10pm PST
(22) WINTER IS COMING. At Dangerous Minds, "Stunning images of pagan costumes worn at winter celebrations around the world".
In a recent interview, French photographer Charles Fréger revealed that he has always been fascinated by European tribal traditions. This fascination inspired the well-known artist to travel all around Europe to capture images of people dressed in ritualistic costumes honoring the arrival of winter and other seasonal celebrations.
Fréger began his journey in Austria and to date has photographed stunning costumes and rituals from 21 countries around the world. According to Fréger there are many celebrations that mark the arrival of winter that take place in the Czech Republic and, say, Italy that are quite similar when it comes to the materials that are used to create the costumes. Such as the incorporation of animal pelts, branches from trees, horns and bells into the costumes. Though they may share similar appearances, the story behind each living piece of folklore varies from country and location. Here's more from Fréger about why so many of these celebrations often involve a human masquerading as an animal:
It is not about being possessed by a spirit but it is about jumping voluntarily in the skin of an animal. You decide to become something else. You chose to become an animal, which is more exciting than being possessed by a demon.
(23) LOL. Larry Correia goes through the comments carefully answering everyone's questions about when the electronic and audiobook versions of his latest novels will be available, when one fan decides to yank his chain:
Ben Smith: Will the leather bound book have a kindle version?
(24) MR. GREEN HAS ARRIVED. Let's kick off the verse segment of today's Scroll with a link to Theodora Goss' "The Princess and the Frog" which begins….
I threw the ball into the water.
The frog came out and followed after,
bringing me the golden ball —
which I did not want at all, at all.
(25) SEASONED GREETING. Joe H. and Heather Rose Jones produced this collaboration in comments.
Lo, how a pixel scrolling,
From tender file hath sprung…
Of Glyer's laptop coming
As SMOFs of old hath sung
(26) THEN ONE FOGGY CHRISTMAS EVE. In a piece called "Hamildoph (An American Christmas Story)" the group Eclipse 6 performs "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" as if it was done by the cast of Hamilton.
I cannot fly if I cannot see, people!
I'm in dire need of assistance.
Your Excellency, you wanted to see me?
Rudolph, come in—did you say "brrr"?
Yes, sir, 'cause it's freezing.
[Thanks to JJ, Chip Hitchcock, Cat Rambo, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Peer.]
Posted in Pixel Scroll	| Tagged aliens, Ann VanderMeer, Book Smugglers, Cat Rambo, European Space Agency, George R. R. Martin, Green Hornet, Heather Rose Jones, Jeff VanderMeer, Jim C. Hines, Joe H., Larry Correia, Mars, Mythopoeic Society, NASA, Peter Watts, Planet of the Apes, SFWA Blog, Star Wars, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Theodora Goss
Pixel Scroll 5/19/16 I Am Not In The Scroll Of Common Men
(1) DATA AND YAR AT TANAGRA. Seattle's EMP Museum is opening Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds to the public on May 21. Tickets required.
Plus, be among the first to visit Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds and get an up-close look at more than 100 artifacts and props from the five Star Trek television series, spin-offs, and films, including set pieces from the original series like Captain Kirk's command chair and the navigation console (on display for the first time to the public); Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and McCoy original series costumes; and the 6-foot U.S.S. Enterprise filming model from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Opening day is also when Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) and Brent Spiner (Data) will appear – additional charge for photos and autographs, naturally.
(2) OMAZE WINNER. SFWA's Director of Operations Kate Baker learned during the Nebula conference that she was the Omaze winner, and will join Chris Pratt on the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 set.
Tired and sweaty after hours of work, I sat down to check my phone as we planned to grab something to eat. There in my Twitter feed was a message from a new follower; Omaze. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the company, they partner with a celebrity and charity, design a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a random donor, (and here is the most important part) — raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for deserving charities around the world….
I quickly followed them back and responded. That's when I found out that I was a finalist for the grand prize and to satisfy their partners and sponsors, they wanted to do a short Skype interview that evening.
Unable to contain my excitement, I rushed around my room, curling my hair, refreshing make-up, doing cartwheels, moving furniture, opening blinds, you know — normal things.
As 6:00 CST hit, I took a deep breath and answered the call….. That's when they sprung the surprise.
(3) CLARKE AHEAD. Award Director Tom Hunter has posted at Medium "14 ways I'm thinking about the future of the Arthur C. Clarke Award".
8. Governance & succession planning
As mentioned in my section on charitable status, the Clarke Award is currently administered by just 3 volunteers. Could we do more if we had more people involved?
A fair few people have promoted themselves to me as viable candidates over the years, but while many have been keen to have a say in the running of the award (or just like telling me they could do a better job with it) right now one of the reasons the award has weathered its troubles so well has been because of our ability to move faster on key decisions than a continual vote by committee model would likely have allowed us.
Still, as I look to the future again, there are many potential advantages to be gained from our increasing our board membership, not least the fact that when I first took this role a decade ago I only planned to stay for 5 years.
I changed my mind back then because of the need to build a new financial resilience into the award to keep it going, but one day sooner or later I intend to step down after I've recruited my replacement.
Padawans wanted. Apply here.
(4) ANTIQUE ZINE. This APA-L cover by Bea Barrio glowed in the dark when it was originally made – in the 1970s. Wonder if it still does?
https://twitter.com/highly_nice/status/732782065591160833
(5) MASKED MEN. Comic Book Resources boosts the signal: "Dynamite Announces 'The Lone Ranger Meets the Green Hornet: Champions of Justice".
What is the connection between the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet? Dynamite Entertainment's new "The Lone Ranger Meets the Green Hornet: Champions of Justice" series has the answer. CBR can exclusively reveal that writer Michael Uslan and artist Giovanni Timpano are reuniting for the new series, a crossover 80 years in the making.
According to an official series description,
The first chapter, entitled "Return With Us Now," creates a world of carefully researched alternative history in 1936. Readers will learn whatever happened to The Lone Ranger and discover his familial link to the emergence of a man who is a modern day urban version of The Lone Ranger himself. What is the blood connection of The Green Hornet to The Lone Ranger? What is the link of Olympic runner Jesse Owens to The Green Hornet? What role does Bat Masterson play in The Lone Ranger's New York adventure? What intense rift tears a family apart just when America desperately needs a great champion of justice? The shocking answers lie in the landmark new series 'The Lone Ranger Meets the Green Hornet: Champions of Justice!'
(6) DEARLY BELOVED. Lit Brick has done a comic about "If you were a dinosaur, my love".
(7) TODAY'S BIRTHDAY BOY
Born May 19, 1944 — Before Peter Mayhew was Chewy he was Minaton in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, his first role.
(8) FLORSCHUTZ OUT. Max Florschutz explains why he pulled his book from a contest: "Unusual Events Has Been Removed From SPFBO 2016".
All right, guys, it's official. I just heard back from Mark Lawrence, the head of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, and now that the competition has begun, my book could not be moved to another reviewer, so instead, I've elected to withdraw my entry from the competition (for the reasons for doing so, see this post here). It's sad that it had to be done, but I feel my reasons were sound.
Florschutz outlined reasons for asking for his book to be reassigned in a previous post, "When Did Ethnicity and Sex Become the Most Important Thing?"
Bear with me for a moment, and take a look at these few excerpts from a book review I read this morning, posted on a fantasy review blog (which you can find here, though I'm loathe to give them a link after perusing the site since it's a little messed up). I'd been poking around the place since they are a participating member of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, a contest between 300 different self-published fantasy books, and Unusual Events is one of those titles. This site is the one that will be handling Unusual Events review.
I'm not sure how I feel about that now. In fact, I may request to have it passed to another site, since I'm pretty sure I can already see how its going to go. Because I've been reading their other reviews, and I've noticed a disturbing trend. Let's look at some quotes:
Otherbound is that last sort of book.
I'm fairly certain I discovered it on Tumblr, recommended by one of those blogs which include lists of books that are commendable for their diversity.
Okay, that's … interesting. A little background on the title. I guess that's important? Let's see what happens if we go further.
… fantasy novels are written by and about (and quite possibly for) white men who like running around with swords saving the world.
Uh-oh. Okay. Sensing a theme here, but—
As I said, it's an incredible story, and honestly, I'd probably have loved the book even if both of the leads were white and straight.
So they're saying that it's also likely that they wouldn't have liked the book had the main characters been, to use their own words "white and straight"? The book would be inferior simply because of the color of the main character's skin or their sexual orientation?
….Now, to get back to something I said earlier, I'm considering contacting the SPFBO 2016 ringleaders and asking to have my book moved to another reviewer. And no, it's not because my book is "… written by and about (and quite possibly for) white men who like running around with swords saving the world." because it isn't. But more because now I know that there's a very high chance that that fact is what the reviewer is going to fixate on regardless. My sex, and my ethnic heritage, as well as that of the characters I wrote, is going to matter to her more than the rest of what's inside the book's pages. More than the stories those characters experience, the trials that they undergo.
(9) TEACHING WRITING. "'Between Utter Chaos and Total Brilliance.' Daniel José Older Talks About Teaching Writing in the Prison System" – a set of Older's tweets curated by Leah Schnelbach at Tor.com.
(10) PURSUED. David M. Perry profiles Older at Pacific Standard – "Daniel José Older and Progressive Science Fiction After Gamergate".
The Internet trolls picked a bad week to call Daniel José Older "irrelevant." As we meet in the opulent lobby of the Palmer House Hotel in downtown Chicago, his young-adult book Shadowshaper is sitting on a New York Times bestseller list. He's in town because the book was been nominated for the Andre Norton Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America, which is holding its annual Nebula conference in Chicago. Best of all, he's just signed a contract for two sequels. There's also his well-reviewed adult fiction, the "Bone Street Rumba" series. By no standard of publishing is this person irrelevant.
So why the trolls? They're coming after Older for the same reason that he's succeeding as a writer?—?his urban fantasy novels actually look like urban America (including the ghosts) and he's got no patience for the bros who want to keep their fantasy worlds white.
(11) DAMN BREAK. Kameron Hurley charts the history of hydraulic pressure in sf: "The Establishment Has Always Hated The New Kids".
…Though there has been momentum building for some time, a backlash against the backlash, I'd say it wasn't until about 2013 when publishing started to catch up. Ann Leckie wrote a space opera (a woman wrote a space opera! With women in it! AND PEOPLE BOUGHT IT SHOCKING I KNOW AS IF NO ONE HAD BOUGHT LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS OR ANYTHING BY CJ CHERRYH OR OCTAVIA BUTLER), and it swept the awards. We Need Diverse Books was able to organize the conversation about the overwhelming whiteness of publishing, bringing together disparate voices into one voice crying out for change in who writes, edits, and publishes books, while the first Muslim Ms. Marvel comic book (written by a Muslim, even!) broke sales records.
The water has been building up behind the damn for a long time, and it's finally burst.
Watching the pushback to this new wave of writers finally breaking out from the margins to the mainstream has been especially amusing for me, as I spent my early 20's doing a lot of old-school SF reading, including reading SFF history (I will always think of Justine Larbalestier as the author of The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction). I was, of course, especially interested in the history of feminist science fiction. Women have always written SFF, of course, but the New Wave of the 60's and 70's brought with it an influx of women writers of all races and men of color that was unprecedented in the field (if still small compared to the overall general population of said writers in America). This was the age of Joanna Russ, Octavia Butler, Sam Delany, and nutty young upstarts like Harlan Ellison. These writers brought a much needed and refreshing new perspective into the field. They raised the bar for what science fiction was. And so the writing got better. The politics and social mores being dissected got more interesting and varied, as one would expect when you introduce a great wave of writers into a field that was happy to award the same handful of folks year after year. They shook up the field. They changed science fiction forever. The established pros had to write their hearts out to catch up….
(12) KEN LIU'S OPINION OF HOGWARTS. Rachel Swirsky did a "Silly Interview with Ken Liu who HAS THE SCHEMATICS for a Time Turner!"
RS: Speaking of Harry Potter, if you could send your kids to Hogwarts, would you?
KL: I'd have to ask my kids. Personally, I'm not a big fan of sending them away to boarding school because I want to spend more time with them. Parents get so little time with their children as is… But if they really want to go and learn magic, I'll support them. And I hope they work hard to challenge the rather authoritarian system at Hogwarts and engage in campus activism.
(13) THERE WILL BE WALRUS. Steve Davidson did a silly interview of his own — with Timothy the Talking Cat, at Amazing Stories.
ASM: What kind of cat are you (alley, purebred,,,?), or is that kind of inquiry offensive? Do cats themselves make such distinctions?
TTTC: I'm glad you asked. Some people have claimed that I am a British Shorthair cat. However, my cousin had a DNA test and apparently my family are actually the rare French Chartreux breed. This is an important distinction and finally shows what liars those people are who have accused me of being a Francophobe, 'anti-French' and/or in some way prejudiced against France, the French and anything remotely Gallic. People need to understand that when I point out that France is a looming danger to all right thinking people in America and other countries as well, like maybe Scotland or Japan. I really can't stress this enough – the French-Squirrel axis is real and it is plotting against us all. This why Britain needs to leave the European Union right now. I have zero tolerance for those who say we should wait for the referendum – that is just playing into their hands. But understand I am not anti-French as my DNA proves. Squirrels like to say 'Timothy you are such a Francophobe' as if that was a dialectical argument against my well thought out positions. They have no answer when I point out that I am MORE French than Charles DeGaulle. Squirrels just can't think straight about these things. Notice that if you even try and type 'Francophobe' your computer will try to turn it into 'Francophone' – that is how deep the Franco-Squirrel conspiracy goes. Squirrel convergence happens at high levels in IT companies these days – that is how I lost my verification tick on Twitter.
I don't talk to other cats these days. Frankly many of them are idiots….
(14) HENRY AND ERROL. The editors of Galactic Journey and File 770. Two handsome dudes – but ornery.
[May 14, 1961] In which me and Mike Glyer disagree: https://t.co/Wfo3w1nS0s #sciencefiction pic.twitter.com/72oPlswGjV
— Galactic Journey (@journeygalactic) May 14, 2016
(15) CRITERIA. Dann collects his thoughts about "That Good Story" at Liberty At All Costs.
In a conversation I am having at File 770, I was asked to define what makes a science fiction/fantasy book "great" for me. Rather than losing these radiant pearls of wisdom to the effluence of teh intertoobery, I thought I would cement them here in my personal record….
Stay Away From Check Boxes Whoo boy. I can smell trouble burning at the other end of the wire already.
"Check box" fiction really undermines the quality of my reading experience. What is "check box" fiction? It is a story that includes elements indicating diversity in the cast of characters that has zero impact on the the story.
In a reverse of the above, I'd like to suggest N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season" as a good example of not doing "check box" fiction. One cluster of protagonists included a character that is straight, one that is seemingly bi-sexual, and one that is decidedly homosexual. They have a three-way.
And while the more patently descriptive passages of those events didn't do much for me, the fact that their respective sexuality helped inform their motivations and moved the story forward made the effort in describing their sexuality worthwhile reading. She also did a reasonable job at expressing how physical appearances differed based on regionalism. [There were one or two other moments that could be considered "check box(es)", but for the most part it wasn't a factor in this book.]
IMHO, including a character that is "different" without having that difference impact the story is at the very least a waste of time that detracts from the story and at the very worst insultingly dismissive of the people that possess the same characters.
(16) IT AIN'T ME BABE. The Guardian got some clickbait from speculating about the identity of Chuck Tingle. Vox Day denies it's him. Zoë Quinn doesn't know who it is. The reporter, despite taking 2,000 words of interview notes, also is none the wiser.
Theories abound online: is Tingle Lemony Snicket? The South Park boys? Some sort of performance artist – perhaps the "Banksy of self-published dinosaur erotica" as someone once called him on Twitter? Last year, Jon Tingle – apparently the son of Chuck – appeared on a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread to share unsettling insights into his father: "Yes, my father is very real. He is an autistic savant, but also suffers from schizophrenia. To make it very clear, my father is one of the gentlest, sweetest people you could ever meet and is not at all dangerous, although he does have a history of SELF harm … I would not let him be the butt of some worldwide joke if I didn't have faith that he was in on it in some way. Regardless, writing and self-publishing brings him a lot of joy." If this is all a joke, it's hard to know where it starts or where to laugh….
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Will R., JJ, and Tom Hunter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Anna Nimmhaus.]
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Conclusion new research: Introduction of a legal ban on alcohol advertising is the only real solution.
Young people in Europe are regularly confronted with alcohol advertising on television. New European research shows that the functioning of the so called self-regulation of alcohol marketing does not protect young people against the exposure of alcohol commercials.
This conclusion is in conflict with recent statements of the alcohol industry. This industry claims that self-regulation is functioning perfect and has to be expanded. The AMMIE researchers conclude that only a total ban on alcohol advertising can prevent the harmful impact of alcohol advertising on the drinking levels of young people.
The new research is a part of the AMMIE project (Alcohol Monitoring Marketing in Europe); the project is co-financed by the European Commission and coordinated by the Dutch Institute for Alcohol Policy (STAP). The research has been implemented in Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands in cooperation with the John Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health in the US.
The summary report of the AMMIE project 'Commercial promotion of drinking in Europe' will be presented Thursday the 26th of April at the European Alcohol and Health Forum of the European Commission.
The AMMIE project shows that a minor in the five participating countries was exposed 970 times to an alcohol commercial during the months May and October 2010 via three popular TV channels. In Bulgaria, a minor was exposed 36 million times, in Denmark 10 million times, in Germany 610 million times, in Italy 54 million times and in the Netherlands 54 million times. Given the 22 million minors living in these five countries the conclusion is that on average one minor was exposed to a total of 44 alcohol commercials on the three TV channels during the two months.
Alternative forms of daily exposure of alcohol marketing by other TV-channels, radio, bill-boards, social media, TV via internet and price-marketing in shops are not included in these data.
Thanks to the financial support of the European Commission the researchers of AMMIE were able to buy these exposure data from marketing companies.
During the two months of the study a total number of 11.122 alcohol commercials were broadcasted in the five participating countries. Analysis of the AMMIE project data showed that often relatively more young people were exposed to alcohol marketing than adults. As an example: in the Netherlands 27% of all the commercials were relatively seen by more young people of 12-17 years of age (compared to the total number of young people of this age group) than by adults. The conclusion is that young people of 12-17 years of age are often exposed to huge numbers of alcohol ads.
Especially the age group of 12-17 is very sensitive for the impact of alcohol marketing. Many of these young people start to experiment with alcohol use.
These exposure data are in sharp conflict with the goal of the European alcohol strategy. This strategy aims at reducing alcohol use by young people.
Part of the self-regulation of alcohol advertising is the principle that alcohol advertising is not allowed if the target group exists of more than 30% minors (in the Netherlands 25%). The AMMIE project evaluated this proportional standard. The conclusion is that only in the months May and October 2010 this rule already has been violated 510 times. The highest number of violations was found in Denmark (427 times). The analysis also showed that even in situations where the 30% rule was not violated a large number of children and adolescents were exposed to alcohol ads.
For example: a commercial of Heineken was seen in the research period by 362.244 children (6-17 years of age). However this huge number of young people represented only 15.4% of the total group of TV viewers. The population of not one European country consists of more than 30% minors. This simple fact allows the alcohol industry to broadcast alcohol commercials to almost any public target group.
In 21 of the 27 member states there are different legal restrictions for alcohol advertising on TV. The goal of these restrictions is to reduce exposure of alcohol marketing towards young people.
The AMMIE research showed that also time bans can have an unexpected negative effect. In the Netherlands, an alcohol advertising time ban has been introduced in 2010. Alcohol advertising on radio and TV was from that time forbidden from 6.00 a.m. until 21.00 p.m. However, after the introduction of this time ban the alcohol industry three-folded the number of alcohol advertisements on TV between 21.00 and 22.00 p.m. Given the fact that after 21.00 p.m. many minors are still watching TV the results of this intensification of the number of alcohol ads resulted in an adverse effect: after the introduction of the time ban even more minors were confronted with alcohol advertising than before.
The conclusion of the AMMIE researchers is that a total alcohol marketing ban is the only safe way to protect young people against the harmful effects of televised alcohol marketing.
The AMMIE reports can be found on www.eucam.info/ammie . There are two European reports. All the participating countries issued four national reports. These studies report about the exposure of alcohol marketing towards young people, the results of filing 199 complaints towards the national alcohol advertising committees, sport sponsoring of the alcohol industry and alcohol marketing trends.
The AMMIE project is co-funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Dutch Institute for Alcohol Policy (STAP).
This project is supported by EUCAM, the European Centre for Monitoring Alcohol Marketing.


Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note9 smartphone at an Unpacked event in Brooklyn today. The Note series has always been designed with power users in mind and Samsung is doubling down on that premise with three core pillars for the Note9.
The first pillar is longer battery life, and as such, the Note9 is powered by a 4,000mAh battery, the largest battery Samsung has ever put in a smartphone.
The second pillar is more storage space, so you can store more and delete less. The Note9 will be available in both a 6GB RAM/128GB storage capacity and an 8GB RAM/512GB storage capacity. Both models also have a microSD card slot compatible with cards up to 512GB, so if you get the 8GB model, you can have up to a whopping 1TB of phone storage.
The third pillar is improved performance. The Note9 will be available with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, or a Samsung Exynos 9810 processor. Samsung has also made improvements to its water cooling system, which now has a three times larger thermal spreader, and added an AI-powered performance adjuster. These improvements should result in better performance for graphics or processor intensive apps such as games.
The Note9's S Pen has also been improved, and now uses a Bluetooth Low Energy module and antenna that lets it operate at up to 10m away from the Note9. This extended range will let you use the S Pen as a remote control. For example, you can use it as a remote camera shutter. Currently 11 apps work with the S Pen Remote, however Samsung will be releasing the SDK to developers so more should be added soon.
The new S Pen also contains a super capacitor that lets it charge extra fast. In fact, it takes just 40 seconds inside the phone for the S Pen to be fully charged. One full charge provides 30 minutes of standby time, or 200 clicks.
Design-wise, the phone looks pretty similar to last year's Note8, although it is a tiny bit thicker and heavier. The screen is also slightly bigger at 6.4 inches. On the rear of the phone, the Note9 has the same dual rear camera setup as the Galaxy S9+, pairing a 12-megapixel wide-angle main camera with a dual aperture f/2.4 and f/1.5 lens, with a 12-megapixel, f/2.4 telephoto camera.
The phone will be available on 24th August in four colors: Midnight Black, Metallic Copper, Ocean Blue, and Lavender Purple, although apparently only Ocean Blue and Midnight Black will be available in Singapore. Each color comes with a color-matched S Pen, except for Ocean Blue, which has a yellow S Pen.
The Note has always been our showcase for premium technology and industry-defining innovation, and Galaxy Note9 is no exception. It's designed for a level of performance, power and intelligence that today's power users want and need. Note fans are Samsung's most loyal; we know they want it all, to get the most out of work and play, and Galaxy Note9 is the only phone that can keep up with their busy lives. - DJ Koh, President and CEO of IT & Mobile Communications Division, Samsung Electronics.


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Standing as an Orca in Boulevard Park
by Rob Lewis
Local citizens on November 10, 2018, form an orca at Boulevard Park, calling attention to the plight of the southern resident orcas, who are starving. photo: Rory Savatgy_
It is roughly three-and-a-half months since Tahlequah carried her unnamed calf (who died 30 minutes after birth) through the Salish Sea in a near mythic, 17-day vigil of grief. Soon after, Scarlet, a young female crucial to the regenerative hopes of the pod, succumbed to starvation and disappeared. For our southern resident orcas, the situation is grim. We either take drastic action now on their behalf, or watch, whale by whale, the tragic pageant of their extinction.
That is why, on November 10, more than 200 people from the region put on black and headed to Boulevard Park. There we gathered to stand not only for the orcas, but as an orca. Guided by volunteers of the Backbone Campaign and Occupy Bellingham, we assembled ourselves into a beautiful, arching, dorsal-finned orca, with the message, like a big orange SOS on the beach: WE NEED SALMON.
And our orcas do. More specifically, they need Chinook. The largest of the salmon, and the reason they are called King, Chinook are key to orca survival, as they require less hunting energy per meal. For thousands of years the southern resident orcas have found those Chinook in the once mighty runs converging on the Columbia River, roughly half of which were migrating toward the Columbia's largest tributary, the Snake River. That is why scientific monitoring shows the orca swimming down the coast every winter toward the mouth of the Columbia and staying through spring. They are looking for the Snake's wild Chinook runs.
Endangered Snake River Chinook
But they aren't finding them, for the Snake River Chinook are also critically endangered, having mostly disappeared when, to create a lock system for barging wheat, the four lower Snake River dams were built through the 1960s and 70s. Over $10 billion have been spent since then trying to mitigate the impact of the dams, with demonstrably little success. Every winter the orca arrive to find mostly ghosts. They scavenge for what they can, but are wasting away.
If, from that spot on the beach, we could have lifted our gaze 750 feet and peered over Lower Granite Dam, the last dam in the four dam chain, we would have gazed outward toward a Chinook Valhalla. Over 5,500 miles of wilderness-protected streams and rivers feed the Snake River, as it dives down western Idaho, then circles northwest again, cupping the eastern bulge of the Rocky Mountains and gathering vast flows of cool, mineral-laden water. Those streams and rivers, and their empty spawning beds, also await their Chinoook. It's slow extinction on both ends, with four dams in the middle.
The four dams are no longer needed for their original purpose, barging wheat, a job increasingly done by train. As for their minor contribution of hydroelectricity, that can be replaced with solar and wind.
So the question arises, why wouldn't we breach these dams? What's the holdup? Here we find the usual suspects: large economic interests, such as the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) which operates and earns money from the dams. Today's hostile politics, of which the natural world is often the victim, doesn't make it any easier.
To be sure, real people with diverse livelihoods are directly connected to those dams, and will be affected when they are breached. That's why any agreement needs to account for them, with compensation and retraining for those directly affected. But the cup that is emptied is also filled, by a globally significant restoration project which will bring students, researchers, fishers, nature lovers, hikers, kayakers, honeymooners, retirees, lone adventurers, vacationing families — and their pocketbooks, from around the world.
Breaching the dams themselves would actually be the easy part. The harder dams to breach are the ones inside us, set in ideology or indifference, erected by the outdated notion that this earth is our possession, a mere conglomeration of things put here for our indiscriminate use.
Tahlequah blew that cruel and convenient contrivance to Mars. In a sense she threw us a challenge. She said "our hearts are this big."
"What about yours?"
How you can help: Please share your concerns with Governor Inslee or your state representative. If you would like more information or want to get inolved, go to https://www.backbonecampaign.org/orca or http://www.wildsalmon.org.
Rob Lewis is a poet and house painter, and author of "The Silence of Vanishing Things." He lives in Bow, Washington.


"How Does Housing First Catalyze Recovery?: Qualitative Findings From a" by Eric Macnaughton, Greg Townley et al.
Qualitative narrative interviews were conducted with 195 participants with histories of homelessness and mental illness at baseline and at an 18-month follow-up. Participants were randomly assigned at baseline to Housing First (HF; n = 119) or treatment as usual (TAU; n = 76) in five Canadian cities. Changes in consumers' narratives over time were examined for 13 life domains (e.g., housing stability, typical day, social relationships). HF participants showed superior housing stability that led to three important transitions in their recovery journeys: (1) the transition from street to home (e.g., greater control over one's environment, becoming unstuck), (2) the transition from home to community (e.g., pursuing relationships, participating in the community), and (3) the transition from the present to the future (e.g., developing autonomy and hope). In spite of the gains experienced by many HF participants and some TAU participants, there was a subgroup of HF participants and many more TAU participants who experienced considerable difficulty making positive transitions. This research affirms the importance of housing and support for people with mental illness who are homeless but extends previous research by elucidating how HF enables participants to navigate important transitions in their recovery journeys. Once housing stability is achieved, other services (e.g., supported employment, education, and socialization) are needed to accelerate the transitions that participants strive to make in their lives.
Eric Macnaughton, Greg Townley, Geoffrey Nelson, Rachel Caplan,Timothy Macleod, Lauren Polvere, Corinne Isaak, Maritt Kirst, Christopher McAll,Danielle Nolin, Michelle Patterson, Myra Piat & Paula Goering (2016) How does HousingFirst catalyze recovery?: Qualitative findings from a Canadian multi-site randomizedcontrolled trial, American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 19:2, 136-159.


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Long Term Mobility Care Nurse Practitioner
Location: Missoula, Montana
Providence Medical Group in Western Montana is seeking a Per Diem nurse practitioner to join a compassionate team of providers in the Long Term Mobility Care department. Flexibility is a must as this position will work at 3 local skilled nursing facilities providing high-quality care in long-term settings. As such, it is a great opportunity to work with a diverse patient population while enjoying the beautiful and welcoming community of Missoula, Montana.
Per Diem position with no weekends and no call
Work with geriatric population
EPIC experience and familiarity with Dragon a plus
Experience in geriatrics, long-term care, or internal medicine is required
Where You'll Work
Providence Medical Group - Western Montana includes 2000 employees statewide and over 40 primary and specialty care clinics in Missoula, Polson and several smaller communities. The connection to two outstanding hospitals, Providence St. Patrick in Missoula and Providence St. Joseph in Polson, brings comprehensive care to the region. For years, the network of hospitals, providers, clinics and care centers has offered coordinated care with a singular EMR system and the sharing of best practices throughout Western Montana.
Where You'll Live
Missoula is a sophisticated university town of 65,000 halfway between Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks. The area offers unlimited recreational opportunities like skiing, paddling, fishing and hiking. Its numerous cultural amenities, including a symphony and active theater, fuel a vibrant arts scene. Missoula is a family-oriented community with great public schools, universities and social activities year-round. Western Montana's summers consist of long, adventure-inspiring days and starry nights, and its winters are mild.
Who You'll Work For
Providence is a nationally recognized, comprehensive health care organization spanning seven states with a universal mission - to provide compassionate care to all who need its services, especially the poor and vulnerable. Its 119,000-plus caregivers/employees serve in 51 hospitals, more than 800 clinics and a comprehensive range of health and social services. Providence: one name, one family, one extraordinary health system.
Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran
Job ID Number: 15977
About Providence
Tell us your why, we'll find your where. Provider Solutions & Development is a community of experts founded within Providence, a purpose-driven, 51-hospital health system, out of a clear need to change recruitment. We're not focused on quotas, and we don't work on commission.We support and serve physicians and advanced practice clinicians with heart, from residency to retirement, so you can do the same for your patients. With exclusive access to hundreds of positions across the nation, we offer holistic, personal career guidance that puts your needs first. We don't just fill positions, we fulfill individuals by taking the time to help you find where you're meant to be at every step of your journey. Reach out today by emailing LetsTalk@psdrecruit.org, calling (844) 874-7742 or navigating to www.psdconnect.org.
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Discussion in 'Rifles, Bullets, Barrels & Ballistics' started by AceRoth, Jul 24, 2015.
Getting started with a 338WM. First big bore (>300 mag) for me. What brake do I want? I am a value guy (ie cheap Scotsman) shooting a 20" bbl Savage hog hunter to be used mostly in the field, if that matters.
He did extensive testing of a multitude of brakes, and I think you'll be able to decide which one you want.
Not cheap ($185), but easiest to install and very effective.
Cheep Is Ok as long as you don't expect much. You can buy a $50.00 brake that will reduce recoil by 30% and that's quite a bit. (You get what you pay for). you should spend at least $150.00+ dollars if you want more recoil reduction.
A top quality brake will normally reduce recoil by 45 to 55% . A few will exceed 55%.
and installed brake won't effect accuracy and sometimes It will improve the accuracy and shooter comfort.
300whisper and Mike 338 like this.
I've had good luck with the FTE but the APA FB is also a very effective brake.
+1 ^^^ Jerry at J E Custom is the Guru when it comes to brakes. Skimp on something else! A brake is the difference in a rifle that is fun and enjoyable to shoot or one that you put in the back of the safe and forget.
One of my buddies just got the terminator brake on his ul 338 lapua and he said the difference was amazing! I have the defensive edge slab brake on my 338 lapua improved and it's not bad to shoot at all.
I use a 4 port Muscle break on my .338 EDGE and a 3 port Muscle Break on my 6.5CM. Both excellent breaks. I only shoot 300gr pills out of my edge and I just never get tired of shooting.
On my CM I can spot my shots every time myself.
I used a DE break on my firs edge and by the 10th shot your body would start to fight you prior to the shot. It was a little unconfortable to shoot.
Can you post a link to the muscle break page and give an idea of their price range?


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Amplifying the voice of consumers is essential for advancing fair trade and sustainability, says Kingston University researcher during Fairtrade Fortnight
Posted Tuesday 2 March 2021
Listening to consumer opinion helps to support fair trade farmers, says Kingston University ethical consumer behaviour expert Dr Smirti Kutaula
Understanding and listening to consumers is essential to promote fair trade and sustainability, says a Kingston University expert who shared some of her research findings during Fairtrade Fortnight.
Ethical consumer behaviour and sustainability expert at Kingston Business School, Dr Smirti Kutaula, has been examining buying behaviour and perceptions of fair trade and environmental issues in the UK and India.
Dr Kutaula has interviewed consumers on the environmental aspects of fair trade and whether they consider sustainability when purchasing fair trade products. As fair trade is now present in emerging markets as well as developed countries, her research compares purchasing behaviour in both situations.
While some fair trade proponents focus on sustainability in addition to fair wages for producers, Dr Kutaula emphasised that it was also important to consider the attitudes of consumers and what influenced their purchasing decisions.
"There is a drive in the fair trade community to embrace the principles of a circular economy, which means reducing, reusing and recycling, rather than a linear economy of making, using and disposing," explained Dr Kutaula.
"As well as promoting sustainability by changing how products are produced and the packaging they come in, we also need to consider consumer behaviour and what motivates people to support fair trade and buy fair trade products.
"It is important to amplify the voice of these consumers and how they can better engage with these principles, for example, you can incentivise consumers to buy products that are recyclable and that are also fair trade."
The theme of this year's Fairtrade Fortnight, which runs until Sunday 7t March, is climate change and the threat this poses to fair trade producers who are at risk from droughts, floods and crop disease in climate-vulnerable countries.
Dr Smirti Kutaula has researched consumer attitudes
As part of her research, Dr Kutaula asked shoppers whether they had heard of fair trade and what it meant to them; whether they bought fair trade products; and if the concept of reduce, recycle and reuse influenced their shopping behaviour. She presented some of her research findings during a virtual panel discussion run by Kingston University to mark Fairtrade Fortnight. The event discussed the merits of fair trade in relation to social justice and climate change.
Dr Kutaula's research has found that consumers are conscious of individual responsibility – the idea that the individual, as well as the state, should support fair trade – and of the benefit to future generations of buying sustainably-produced fair trade products.
Participants also mentioned empathy – being mindful of the situations of others and the impact their purchasing choices could have on those people.
A circular economy aims to reduce consumption and encourage consumers to reuse as much as possible so, for example, wearing new clothes more than a few times and giving them to family members or charity rather than disposing of them, explained Dr Kutaula.
"Being part of a circular economy benefits fair trade producers as they receive a farer wage, work more sustainably and resources are reused," she added. "As well as focusing on this goal, it is also important to collect data on what motivates people to buy these products so that they can be encouraged to continue shopping in this way."
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