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Inter-planetary prop: the Tardis is an important part of the 'Britishness' of 'Dcotor Who'
By Richard Johnson
12:01AM GMT 11 Mar 2007
In two years, Russell T. Davies has re-energised a hoary old BBC show and made Saturday night TV bigger, better and louder than ever before. Now for the 'Doctor Who' overlord's next challenge: rewriting Dickens and avoiding 'Newsnight'. By Richard Johnson
It's a bright, warm, spring afternoon, and Russell T. Davies, the writer of Doctor Who, arrives on set in a black suit and a black coat. It's clear that he's been around the nether world of science fiction for far too long. The set would normally be populated by alien life-forms - the Moxx, with its face of blue, the Slitheen, and the Living Trees - all drinking their coffee through straws. But not today. The set, a derelict car-parts warehouse in Cardiff, is completely empty. Everyone is off filming a life-or-death struggle against the evil Toclafane. In Penarth.
Davies walks through the props department shared by Doctor Who, and the Doctor Who spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, doing a quick stock-take. Space-age vehicle from the year five billion? Check - although it does look alarmingly like a VW camper van. Corpse? Check. 'You've got to have corpses,' he says. 'You don't want to keep hiring them. Corpses are expensive. Especially when you hire them on the scale we do.' Traffic lights, beds, radios - all from the past, the present and the future. There's even a Teasmade.
Davies is genuinely excited about rummaging through Doctor Who history. He's a fan, and not in a clever-clever, ironic, postmodern way. After the success of Casanova, Davies's costume romp, in 2005, he was desperate to get started on something else. 'The BBC were going "How about A Tale of Two Cities - in outer space?''' says Davies. 'Whenever a friend of mine went in for a meeting, I'd say, "Tell them I want to do Doctor Who".'
Eventually, the nagging paid off, and the BBC gave him the commission. Davies would be free to take us to the limits of our dark imaginings - from Cardiff. Doctor Who, which is just about to begin its third series under Davies, first appeared in 1963; it is now the longest-running science fiction television series in the world. With good reason, reckons Davies - it's down to the writing.
19 March 2005: The A-Z of Doctor Who
22 October 2003: Who goes there
'Take The Talons of Weng Chiang, for example. Watch episode one. It's the best dialogue ever written. It's up there with Dennis Potter. By a man called Robert Holmes. When the history of television drama comes to be written, Robert Holmes won't be remembered at all because he only wrote genre stuff. And that, I reckon, is a real tragedy.'
He pulls at the Doctor's clothes racks. There's no long scarf any more. 'The scarf was a fantastic accident,' says Davies. 'They were throwing clothes together in some warehouse, and apparently the Doctor said: "Let's try a scarf." They gave some wool to a woman who knitted something that was far too long. If they had sat there and said, "Let's have a really, really long scarf", it wouldn't have been funny. Before we started, we talked a lot about "eccentricity". Well, the Doctor's got two hearts. He's 900 years old. And he travels in time and space. He doesn't need funny clothes.'
This created uproar in the Doctor Who online community. But then, everything creates uproar in the Doctor Who online community. Fans spend hours logging what's right - and what's wrong - with Davies's doctor. He just ignores them. 'In the community of sci-fi shows, I think we're the only one that actively ignores its online fanbase. American shows seem to court them, or pretend that they do. That way lies madness. I can't think of a show that's improved its quality, or its ratings, by doing it. It's like going in search of a massively biased focus group - why would anyone do that?'
But Davies was sensible enough to keep the Tardis, an old-fashioned police box. After all, he was creating an action adventure science fiction show in a world that was full of them. And, early on, he realised that what made Doctor Who unique was the fact that everything else was American. 'I decided on big iconic Britishness,' he says. 'When we go to London, it's a picture postcard London, with red double decker buses and the London Eye. We don't have pearly kings and queens, but not far off. The Tardis is central to all that.'
There are three Tardises: one made from glass fibre, to lug around on location, and two made from wood. And there are four Daleks. In the Doomsday episode, they unleashed hordes of hidden Daleks from inside the Genesis Ark, but only four survived, by hiding in the Void. In real life, they are all kept under lock and key in Cardiff. Not because of the danger they present to the planet. 'It's just that everyone wants to be a Dalek,' says Davies. 'To be honest, if they weren't locked up, they would be damaged to buggery.'
The Doctor Who end credits bill Davies as 'writer' and 'executive producer'. That's an understatement. He has a say in everything, down to the colour of the Doctor's suit. After filming, he watches all the rushes - every single frame of them. He works across Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, writing the key episodes. And when there's an edit, or a dub, Davies is there. It's no wonder that he hasn't had a day's holiday in three years. There's simply no time. When he had a cold, in 2006, it messed up the schedule for months.
For Davies, it's all about retaining control. He remembers Second Coming, the drama he wrote in which Christopher Eccleston claimed to be the Son of God. It had a very precise description of devils in it. 'I wrote, "Their eyes shine with tiny white reflections of light'',' says Davies. 'But somebody made the eyes red. Now, I'm not being a dictator, saying, "It has to be done like this", but I watch an awful lot of telly. Red eyes look like Buffy. Green eyes look like Blake's Seven. So I changed the eyes to white again. It taught me that, as a writer, you can't say things out loud often enough.'
Nowadays, when Davies says something, people listen. A poll of industry experts, conducted by The Radio Times, rated Davies as the 17th most powerful person in television drama in 2004 - he's probably Top Ten by now, and The Stage voted him the most important artist at work in British television. So he's no stranger to the dramatic gesture. As he discusses his work, he becomes animated. He uses his hands like an Italian. He enunciates, slowly, for effect. If you met Davies for the first time, you would say: 'That man definitely works in theatre.'
This is exactly where he started - at the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre in Swansea. 'And it wasn't just swanning about pretending to be a tree,' Davies says. 'It was massively disciplined. God, he [his teacher, Godfrey Evans] would kill you if you were late, and I still carry a lot of that stuff with me. Never late!' Davies is the son of two teachers, but he learnt more at youth theatre than school. 'They were the first people who got me writing: they'd get us to write little half-hour plays, and rehearse them, rewrite them, put them on for the public. Brilliant times.'
Olchfa Comprehensive wasn't as inspirational. 'At the time,' says Davies, 'it was proud of being "Europe's largest comprehensive". It had 2,500 pupils, which is a ridiculous size for a school. But I avoided getting beaten up because I'm so tall [he is 6ft 6in]. I just sort of kept my head down, immersed myself in TV and comics - Marvel comics, loved them - and all sorts of comic strips, like Schulz and Uderzo. I spent a long time wanting to be a graphic artist, because I can draw, and it took me until I was about 20 to realise that it was the writing I liked, not the drawing.'
He studied English at Oxford, but his first step towards a career in television was the director's course at the BBC. Apart from the odd distraction - he presented an episode of Play School, and produced Why Don't You? - his sights were set on directing. His big break came with his first television drama: a six-part serial for children entitled Dark Season, which starred a very young Kate Winslet. His talent for writing soon became apparent, and he went on to produce scripts for Children's Ward and Cluedo.
But it was the Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk that first brought him to popular attention - or unpopular attention: it remains the seventh most complained about show in the history of British television. The gay drama, featuring rimming, underage sex and recreational drugs, also featured complicated, sympathetic characterisation. But it's the rimming that people remember. Davies is unrepentant. He has continued to write homosexual characters, and has excelled himself with Captain Jack, the star of Torchwood. Jack is attracted to males, females and aliens - television's first omnisexual.
In the variety of work that Davies has done, he's always looking to 'make the impossible work', whether it's a gay man falling in love with a woman (Bob & Rose) or Jesus coming back (Second Coming). And just about every episode of Doctor Who. But, at the end of all that dramatic conflict, he likes a good, old-fashioned happy ending. 'I think there's a real skill and genuine craft to a happy ending,' he says. 'I think the natural bent of all dramatists is to go dark. But I'm quite happy to go the opposite way - for the moment.'
His outlook wasn't always so positive. Just look at The Grand. It was Upstairs, Downstairs set in a big 1920s hotel. And it went out at 9pm on a Friday. 'My God, that show was steeped in misery,' says Davies. 'That was me exploring. And experimenting. I wrote about shell-shock after the First World War, betrayal, depression. The ratings just went down and down and down. As it got darker and darker and darker. I know the mistake I made - I thought drama was tragedy. It's a profound mistake to think that drama can't be fun.'
And The Grand wasn't his only failure. Writing is, after all, an imprecise science. Some things work, some things don't. Take Mine All Mine, Davies's drama about a family who inherited Swansea: by the end of its run, on ITV, it was getting two million viewers. 'But there was still no way I would be unemployed after that,' says Davies. 'It's just not that sort of industry. There's a lot of work for good television writers. And I'm one of those. In this country, you have to be a drunk and a drug addict for people to stop employing you.'
Not that he's excusing an audience of two million. Davies thrives off an audience. It defines what he does - popular drama. He's a fan of everything from Coronation Street ('the wit and wisdom of that show - I watch it five times a week') to Cold Feet, and reckons that Shilpa's victory in Celebrity Big Brother was 'the most fascinating two weeks in television's history -almost.' To Davies, reality TV is just a different way of telling a story. 'After all,' he says, 'when Panorama discusses racism, who really wants to watch?' Newsnight is currently pestering him for an interview, and Davies is still saying no. There aren't many television dramatists who would say no to the chance to discuss narrative arc and subtext on Newsnight - apart from, maybe, Russell T. Davies. 'I very rarely watch it,' he says, 'but, when I do, I end up throwing stuff at the screen. I think they're hugely pretentious. I saw them once reviewing The Lion King, which is one of the most brilliant films ever made. And the snobbery, talking about Disney. I couldn't believe it.'
Early on in the Doctor Who production process, Davies knew he had the Saturday night 7pm slot, and it informed the feel of the programme he was going to make. 'If you channel-hop on a Saturday night,' he says, 'you're up against the big Light Entertainment shows, like Ant and Dec, with a shiny black floor and a huge audience. With background music behind everything. They're phenomenally loud, those shows, and I believe that's what draws an audience. So we decided to make Doctor Who really noisy.'
Davies used to work with graphics, and it shows. He is keen on visuals. He's even taken to drawing aliens - Cassandra was one of his - to show his creatives. For the first few months of the job, he was sat in the big chair saying 'Big pictures! Big pictures!'
'I was shouting: "Blow up Big Ben. Blow up Number 10. Let's have a space ship. Not just 10 Daleks. Let's have 1,000 Daleks. Coming out of the spaceship. Coming out of 10 spaceships." That was one of the excitements of working on Doctor Who for me: big pictures.'
Tell him that CGI is getting cheaper. Tell him - and then stand back. Because today he's trying to get an extra shot that makes sense of episode three. It costs £3,500, and he doesn't have £3,500. Davies will never complain about the funding of Doctor Who - not publicly, anyway. 'But it's still the sort of budget, I gather, that they get for Waking the Dead. And they're standing around in morgues. We're blowing things up, with monsters everywhere. We could make a much smaller show. We don't. We make it big and blousy.'
The new series has certainly escaped the confines of the three-wall set, and it's more contemporary. 'I keep reading about how I introduced emotion,' says Davies. 'How ridiculous. I've introduced emotion? Doctor Who is about two opposites travelling together: their friendship and their love for each other. An alien and a human. He's got a Tardis; she's got a family, and a mother and a boyfriend, which is an innovation for Doctor Who - but not for me. It's the only way you can write it now. The more polarised, the better.' He's 900. She's 19. How much more polar can you get?
Davies divides his time between Cardiff - a nice little flat looking out over Cardiff Bay - and Manchester. 'It used to be 50/50,' says Davies, 'but now I'm here for 10 or 11 months a year, and home for weekends - to see the most patient boyfriend in the world.' He has, finally, got the pants and socks to support the two-city lifestyle, but he can't get used to one of the worst journeys on rail. 'Four hours of hell. It's like Calcutta - sitting on a box of chickens with peasants hanging from the windows outside.'
This is one of the reasons why Davies is ready for a new challenge. 'I've always wanted to adapt The Old Curiosity Shop. I love it. It's about time someone had the nerve to rewrite Dickens. The whole plot is a mess. The first three chapters narrated by Edward somebody? Obviously Dickens worked out that he couldn't be in every scene. So, at the end of chapter three, he goes: "That's the end of my part of the story - goodbye." And Quilp's death? Is that it? Anyway, lo and behold, ITV are doing it. If you stay too long somewhere you start missing out on chances like that.'
A fourth series of Doctor Who has already been commissioned, and Davies is putting the finishing touches to scripts for Christmas 2007. His work here is - almost - done. When he does leave, it will be with happy memories, especially of the day the Doctor returned, on 26 March, 2005. 'That afternoon,' he says, 'I went into town, shopping and pottering about. There was a buzz in the air. I felt like I was eight years old again. It was like "Mum's dragged me to town, and I've got to get home because Doctor Who's going to be on". I'll never forget that feeling. As long as I live.'
The new series of 'Doctor Who' returns to BBC1 on 31 March at 7pm
THE RUSSELL T. DAVIES EFFECT
Before Russell T. Davies came along, there wasn't much of a Doctor Who industry, just a specialist niche occupying small corners of the internet and a few shelves in Forbidden Planet. But since 2005, the series has become one of the BBC's biggest money-spinners, a sprawling beast that, like the thing Tom Baker battled in The Power of Kroll (episode 105), has many tentacles. Here are just some of them:
In the last week of 2006 the Top 50 hardback fiction list included nine Russell T. Davies-inspired books: six Doctor Who and three Torchwood titles. In the first week of January 2007, three of the top five best-selling fiction hardbacks were Torchwood stories. As a result, despite publishing no other fiction titles, the BBC is now the 10th biggest publisher of fiction in Britain.
Hundreds of Doctor Who novels have been published since the late 1960s and following the cancellation of the series in 1989, Virgin Publishing developed a successful range of original stores under the Doctor Who New Adventures name, many written by fans, a number of whom are now writing for the television show (including one Russell T. Davies).
BBC Books published six Doctor Who novels last year, all featuring new stories not seen before on television. Each sold at least 50,000, while the top seller, The Stone Rose, has so far sold 70,000, an amazing figure given that most hardback fiction sales reach just a few thousand. A further nine new titles will come out in 2007 along with eight Torchwood novels to accompany its second series.
Penguin also benefited from the RTD effect last Christmas when its Doctor Who Annual sold more than 300,000 copies, way above the few thousands sales the industry usually expects for children's annuals.
Toys and stuff
Doctor Who merchandise was responsible for an estimated £50 million of retail sales last year. The show has dominated Britain's toy industry over the past 18 months and earlier this year the Doctor Who Voice Changer Helmet was voted Toy of the Year by the Toy Retailers' Association, while Doctor Who action figures - more than 1\u221978 million of which were sold in Britain last year - picked up the Boys Toy of the Year Award.
A wide range of Doctor Who merchandise is now available, ranging from character walkie-talkies to bedlinen, alarm clocks and even a remote-control K9. DVD sales are soaring: the complete series one compilation quickly became BBC Video's top grossing 2006 release in North America. Internationally, the show is also selling well: broadcasters in more than 32 countries including Russia, Japan and India have acquired the series from the BBC. Torchwood has so far been bought by nine broadcasters.
The show recently made the transition to the stage, according to gallifreyone.com, the biggest Doctor Who website, which boasts more than 25,000 visitors a day. The Ten Doctors, a new story, ran to a packed house during Gallifrey 2007, the annual convention which took place in America last month.
Britain's biggest channels spent years trying to reinvigorate Saturday night television by experimenting with variety formats - and then came Russell T. Davies's Doctor Who.
The series showed how well-written, slickly produced sci-fi drama could once more reunite the family around the television on a Saturday night. Ratings for the first two series averaged just under eight million an episode, while the Christmas 2006 special attracted an audience of close to nine million. And it didn't take long for ITV to try to emulate the BBC's success.
Within weeks of the Doctor's return in March 2005, ITV confirmed plans for its own £6 million sci-fi rival about time-travelling scientists, Primeval, which launched last month with almost seven million people watching the first episode. ITV also developed Eleventh Hour, a sci-fi series starring Patrick Stewart. It was broadcast last year to lower-than-hoped-for ratings.
Back at the BBC, commissioning editors sought to build on Doctor Who's success in the Saturday early evening slot by developing more drama for a family audience. First came Robin Hood which, despite a subsequent slip from the opening show's audience of just over eight million, is set to return for a second series. Now in development is Merlin, a reworking of the Arthurian legend, destined for the 7pm Saturday-night slot next year. Cardiff
Swansea-born Russell T. Davies has also produced a lasting legacy for Cardiff. Both Doctor Who and Torchwood raised the profile of the Welsh capital as a go-ahead 21st-century city. In response, Cardiff has built a tourism package on the back of the shows and is courting a new breed of 'sci-fi tourists'.
The city's four-star Park Plaza Hotel, for example, sells Doctor Who luxury weekend-breaks. Visitors receive two tickets to Doctor Who Up-Close, an exhibition running in Cardiff Bay that has attracted 130,000 visitors, and an inflatable Dalek. The tourist body Destination Cardiff, meanwhile, has dedicated a page to Torchwood on its Visit Cardiff website, which also has details of a tour of Torchwood locations.
The RTD effect has also put Cardiff's television production business on the international map. Before it kicked in, few high-profile network series were made in Wales. Since the BBC chose to base Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures in the city, however, creative talent that might otherwise have left has chosen to stay while a number of top creatives from London have packed up to head west. BBC Wales also produces BBC1's Life on Mars, which is filmed in Manchester.
The franchise
The BBC has created a wealth of Doctor Who spin-offs to capitalise on the success of the revived television series.
The newest is The Infinite Quest, an animated story with voices provided by David Tennant and his new sidekick, Freema Agyeman. It will air a day or two before each episode of the new Doctor Who series within Totally Doctor Who, the weekly fanzine broadcast on CBBC. The new series, which was developed by the usual Doctor Who editorial team, consists of 13 three-and-a-half minute episodes. At the end of the run, each will be rebroadcast together to form a single, new Doctor Who episode.
But The Infinite Quest is not the first Doctor Who spin-off the BBC has produced. Following the Christmas special in 2005, for example, digital TV viewers could press the red button for a 15 minute interactive experience of life as the Time Lord's companion. And to accompany series two, the BBC produced 13 minute-long 'mobi-sodes', bite-sized prequels to each episode to be watched via mobile phone.
The BBC has also produced a series of weekly podcasts featuring commentary about the series which fans can download from the BBC's official Doctor Who website (www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho), the BBC's most popular site dedicated to a single programme. The podcasts of last year's series two quickly became i-Tunes' most popular TV-themed downloads.
Meanwhile, former Doctor Who designer Paul Tams and Bob Baker, the co-creator of the Time Lord's former robot sidekick K9, are developing K9 Adventures. The £3 million, 26-part series, which combines live action with computer animation, is due to air on the commercial TV channel Jetix Europe next year. The Doctor won't be joining K9 on these adventures, however, because of contractual obligations.
Doctor Who [official site]
Outpost Gallifrey [Doctor Who fan website]


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Firefighters Forum
Analyzing the 2016 LODD statistics
jes82
When arguing for changes in fireground tactics, I often hear people cite the number of Line of Duty Deaths. 'We're killing 100 firefighters a year with this stuff,' the argument goes. But the LODD statistics tell a different story.
In 2016, there were 89 Line of Duty Deaths. Of those 89 fallen firefighters, only 4 died at a structure fire, as a result of collapse, thermal injuries, or smoke inhalation. Only those 4 deaths, of 89, occurred as a result of incidents that could have been avoided by a change in tactics. The other 85 of 89 fatal incidents in 2016 had nothing to with interior vs. transitional attack, the use of vertical ventilation, or the timing of ventilation and search, and most of those incidents did not involve a working structure fire at all.
If you want to keep reading, I'll talk a little about how I came up with those numbers. But if not, just know that I believe that Line of Duty Deaths are tragic, and the fire service should continue making important culture changes in the name of life safety. However, the culture changes that will actually prevent firefighter deaths are related to nutrition, fitness, safe driving practices, and improved training, and have little to do with fireground tactics.
It's true, we are killing 100 firefighters a year. That's a tragedy, and we should do something about it. But changing our tactics will do little to reduce the number of Line of Duty Deaths per year.
I got my numbers from pg. 17 of the FEMA and the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation 2016 LODD report, where they break down Line of Duty Deaths by cause of injury.
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/...s/ff_fat16.pdf
43 were caused by stress and overexertion, and resulted in heart attacks and strokes.
19 were caused by vehicle collisions.
8 were caused by objects striking a firefighter. This includes shootings, and a number of wildland firefighters killed by falling objects. One incident that I arguably could have included was a firefighter who died as a result of an explosion at a gas leak call. But because it was not a working fire, and because the firefighter was in the street when he was killed by debris from the explosion (not actually in the house), I didn't include this in my count of incidents that could be attributed to tactical decisions.
5 causes were listed as other, and all were due to medical emergencies.
1 was caused by a suicide while on duty.
The remaining 13 incidents were the result of falls, collapses, getting lost, running out of air, or exposure.
5 were caused by falls. The falls occurred during EMS and law enforcement assists, training exercises, and wildland operations. None of the falls occurred during working house fires, or had anything to do with tactical decision making.
2 were caused by exposure. One occurred in an industrial setting, and resulted from the use of pneumatic tools. One occurred as a result of a medical emergency during a training that did not include live fire.
1 was caused by running out of air. It occurred as a result of an air embolism during a dive operation.
1 was caused by becoming caught or trapped. This firefighter drowned, while assisted civilians in flood conditions.
Only 4 incidents occurred during working fires in structures.
3 were caused by collapse, all as a result of the same incident. During a rowhome fire with a report of trapped occupants, the first floor collapsed while firefighters were advancing a hoseline into the structure.
1 was caused by a firefighter becoming lost or disoriented, while searching a commercial structure during a working fire.
Last edited by jes82; 12-16-2017, 10:29 AM.
Good info, and so glad to see something new and non-political on this forum. Thanks!
FyredUp
While good information that should open some eyes, this information, with a VERY few limited exceptions over the past decades, has remained constant. The problem stems from a lack of annual physicals by the majority of Fire Departments, both paid and volunteer, and the lack of a physical fitness standard. I am not advocating that everyone be a weight lifting body builder type, or a marathon runner, but at least be in good enough shape to do the job and for more than 5 minutes.
Thanks for posting this. It is valuable information that more Chiefs need to pay attention to and more firefighters need to be held responsible to.
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Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love, and forget how to hate
johnsb
Something seems to be missing. Where are the LODD deaths from cancer??? It doesn't happen on the scene or the next day, but it DOES happen. And what about illnesses contracted by contact with a patient?
I think that's a fair point. As you said, to be considered a line of duty death, it must have occurred on duty (or within 24 hours of duty, since the 2003 Hometown Heroes act). So long term, job related illnesses like cancer or exposure to disease usually don't meet that criteria, because most people who are that sick are already off work or have retired. But not counting those deaths underrepresents the risks of fire/ems as a career field.
Personally, I don't think those longer term deaths should be tracked as line of duty deaths, but they should still be just as carefully tracked and reported. Maybe a separate category for job related deaths, or something like that?
tree68
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While we still need to reduce that number of deaths, your analysis nonetheless confirms my impression that we are not, indeed, killing firefighters at fires.
Something requiring much deeper analysis/research would be a look at how each category of firefighter deaths has trended over time.
Perhaps we have a point of pride there - before we started including some of the categories, we were still killing 100+ firefighters a year. Have we actually progressed from 100 fireground deaths per year to just 4?
We're starting to get the idea with the concept that full PPE/SCBA are necessary well after the fire itself is out, a look at statistics over time with that in mind could be productive. F'rinstance, I'm convinced that more than a few of the firefighter "cardiac" deaths that occur back at the station, or at home, following a fire event are actually cyanide poisoning.
The other categories need similar study. Are motor vehicle deaths up, down, or constant? The list goes on.
Opinions my own. Standard disclaimers apply.
Everyone goes home. Safety begins with you.
Too_Old
Originally posted by tree68 View Post
Not sure we ever had 100 fireground (or rather 'in building') deaths. People used to fall off trucks, got crushed by unchocked engines and hit by tools in the past just as they are today.
With the now common distribution of medical/accident vs. 'true fire' calls, many of these 'back at the station' deaths don't occure after an actual fire. At times they even happen after training events or even with the FF working out in the stations gym. If a body goes to the ME office, part of the standard toxicology is to look for cyanide, so if that was a significant cause I would think it had shown up at some autopsies. Also, cyanide poisoning kills you dead right then and there, not 6 hrs later.
Originally posted by Too_Old View Post
Also, cyanide poisoning kills you dead right then and there, not 6 hrs later.
A misconception on my part, then, borne partly of the European practice of routinely giving smoke inhalation victims a Cyanokit, and the fact that the symptoms of cyanide poisoning can mimic a heart attack. And I've recently seen more interest in the concept from other quarters.
OTOH, death is not necessarily instantaneous - it depends on the dose and route.
I would hope that a toxicology screens would be run, but if someone passes after the incident (at home, at the station), the ME may not put two and two together.
Mr Pita
There are more and more cases of throat, skin and brain cancers popping up. The findings are starting to reveal the lack of proper gear cleaning.
We boiled our hoods in a pot one evening after a fairly long job to see what the water would look like. It looked like somebody dumped a pot of coffee in there. Most cancers are presumptive now, and a death from cancers that fall in those categories are considered LODD.
I was reading an article recently that a fire captain somewhere was finally classified as an OJI after contracting AIDS from a needle stick some years back. Unfortunately he is now a LODD, he was awarded this posthumously. This can only serve to help any future cases like this.
slackjawedyokel
Originally posted by Mr Pita View Post
It amazes me that there is pushback on granting a LODD on something like an aids or a cancer death (especially the more "exotic" types) and then award it to some overweight 50 year old with 3 years in a slow vfd , that dies of a heart attack.
Originally posted by slackjawedyokel View Post
Given what we know now, I have to shake my head any time I see firefighters smoking or dipping in front of a fire station.
Heck, it amazes me to see anyone smoking or dipping, yet they do.
But I have a certain amount of understanding of the habit. Never smoked myself, but my father did, right up to his first heart attack in 1962. Eight years later, another heart attack killed him (bypass surgery, stents, etc were still in the future then). After he died, I found in one of his jackets a roll of Life Savers candy - the final manifestation of the oral habit he never lost. Lemon drops, gum, Life Savers, all served to replace the cigarettes he had to give up.
I've read that one way to beat smoking is to break the habits. Light up a cigarette as soon as you're sitting on the edge of the bed in the morning? Start by giving that one up. Then lose the one you smoke with your breakfast, etc and so on.
Back in the day of one phone in the house, on a table in the hallway, it was not unusual to find a pack of cigarettes and matches. When the phone rang and it was going to be a long chat - light one up!
Many people struggle with breaking the habit - they quit numerous times, but still go back to lighting up. Clearly, they know better, but...
L-Webb
Its a good bet that if you had cyanide poisoning of any level and you acquired it from smoke at a fire then you would have other toxins as well, i.e carbon monoxide will absolutely cause an ischemic heart. Couple that with an older person **or someone with bad genetics** that has just exerted themselves to the max and you have the recipe for sudden cardiac death.
I would be lying if I said that it didn't worry me some when I'm laying down after we have had a fire or a hard day.
Get the first line into operation.
Originally posted by L-Webb View Post
Interestingly, there have been smoke inhalation fatalities where victims had high cyanide levels and low carbon monoxide levels. Nobody is certain how that is. There are plastics that off-gas cyanide when heated below the level of flaming combustion which would be one potential explanation.
The actual cyanide has a half life of an hour in a living human being. Most of the cases of CN poisoning in firefighters became symptomatic on the fireground or in the station. There is some older data that suggests that cardiac effects from cyanide poisoning can be detectable for hours after the exposure.
I do believe that monitoring for CN levels in air during operations and checking blood levels after fires would be a good idea and offer insights on that particular poison. There are issues with both air cyanide level testing and blood cyanide testing that make any such study quite a challenge. Otoh, a Honeywell Gas-Alert HCN is $420, may be worth for the dept to buy one and stick it in the officers pocket to see what we get for readings.
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My original post contained the 2016 statistics. Now that the year is over, I will add that only ONE of the 93 Line of Duty Deaths in 2017 occurred inside a burning structure. That incident occurred in San Antonio, in May, when a firefighter was searching a commercial structure for victims, became trapped while attempting to exit, and ultimately was killed when the structure collapsed.
https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefight...deathYear=2017
The Line of Duty Death statistics do not support the idea that our fireground tactics are recklessly or needlessly risky, and need to be re-evaluated. In the last two years, the 5 firefighters who have died in burning structures have all been searching for victims in tenable conditions. The use of "progressive" fire tactics (like a transitional attack) would not have saved these men. Also, at this point, it has literally been years since a firefighter has died while performing vertical ventilation.
Of course tactics should be determined based on information available to an IC at size up, and based on an assessment of risk. But getting personnel inside is the only way you're going to discover victims. Getting personnel inside (with a hoseline) is the only way to protect means of egress like hallways and stairwells, so that victims can exit the structure, and firefighters can safely conduct a search. Getting personnel inside (with a hoseline) is the only way to discover fire in void spaces, like attics, knee walls, and cocklofts in row homes, and stop the extension that turns a small fire into a fire that destroys an entire structure.
And these "aggressive" tactics aren't nearly as risky people claim. In the last two years, only 3% Line of Duty Deaths (5 of 190) have occurred inside a burning structure. I'm sure we'll keep debating tactics, and there are some good reasons to choose transitional attack as a tactical choice in some circumstances. But the likelihood of a Line of Duty Death is not one of those reasons. Because it's not very likely at all.

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New Hampshire State Police say someone smashed a granite block inscribed with President Donald Trump's name early Friday.
The block is part of a display along the sidewalk outside the State Library that showcases winners of the New Hampshire presidential primary. Trump's block was the last one in the line, marking his 2016 win in the GOP primary, right next to Democratic primary winner Bernie Sanders.
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Thursday ,05 June 2014
| Egyptian Newspaper: Copts United TV presents the first blind talk show host | Brotherhood member promises to kill al-Sisi | EUCOHR congratulates the Egyptians on new president | Church congratulate al-Sisi on victory
American think tank
By-Tarek Heggy
Many of the American journalists & think-tank researchers who described what happened in Egypt 11 months ago (either our of the well-known American stupidity or maliciously) as a COUP, are now referring to what happened in Egypt between 30th June and 3rd July, 2013 as POPULAR COUP !! The same American narrow-mindness, ignorance and isolation-from-reality repeat themselves.
For me, it is another proof that those who have no history and no culture can not understand the world and its different characteristics. What happened during these glorious and golden days was that the majority of Egypt's people (with their peerless inherited heritage) made it patently clear that Egypt would not be ruled and governed by the atavistic Islamists.
Egypy army just joined the popular revolution of 33 million Egyptians. The extremely shallow American journalists and the USA think-tank researchers did not know what to do ! As slaves to the "dead terminology" they all stupidly sang : it is a coup ... it is nothing but a coup ! Eleven months later they get puzzled once again : 24 million Egyptians vote to the man that the brilliant USA thinkers (!!!!????) described as the leader of the Coup ! So, what the slaves of the "dead terminology" would do ?
The inventors of the junk-food would immediately find the solution ! they carve a new blind term, i.e. "The Popular Coup of 3rd July, 2013" !!! But is it really nothing but the well-known American stupidity ? I am not sure ! I have no doubt the historians will undeniably discover : what made the USA government(s) to support the MBs who are nothing but ruthless terrorists, backward minded and anti-modernity force.
Though I firmly believe that Egypt (of 30th June - 3rd July, 2013) aborted an extremely vicious plan for the NEW MIDDLE EAST, the "War" is far from being over. That is why, Egypt is currently working extremely hard to establish new strategic associations with Russia, China and other countries that reject what the USA has in mind with regard to the so-called NEW MIDDLE EAST. As I know a lot about these new strategic associations, I am quite optimistic that Egypt of 30th June - 3rd July, 2013 WILL PREVAIL.
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The Special Committee reviewing cases of persons dismissed for political reasons from Resource Centers and public schools, proved the fact of dismissal of three teachers for political reasons. All of them were restored on their respective positions.
"We would like to thank every member of the Committee, if not the change of the Government, the Committee wouldn't have existed. There would be no one to consider the injustice committed towards us. We are grateful to the Minister for restoring justice."- stated Ekaterine Kareli, a teacher form Gori Public School 2.
The Committee made its decisions regarding the cases of seven school principals dismissed from their positions. According to the Committee, there is no proved evidence of their dismissal on political grounds. Though, certain violations regarding their dismissal were identified. As a result, the cases were passed to the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia for further review.
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A Florida Woman's Long Search for Her Korean Birth Mother Ends, in All Places, Here in Houston
Richard Connelly | April 3, 2012 | 8:00am
Chae Haile is a woman born in Korea and left to be adopted by a mother who had few resourses and four daughters already.
She was sent to America and, eventually, married and settled in Florida.
She set out to look for her birth mother, went to Korea for information, but seemed to have not succeeded. Then her Korean sister e-mailed her and, through broken English, re-established contact.
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Chae and Greg decided to fly to Houston to meet her mother. They didn't speak Korean, and Moon Ja spoke little English, so the couple reached out to a Korean-American organization in Houston to help. The group promised a translator and a videographer who could record the meeting.
After arriving in Houston in January 2011, Greg and Chae drove to a stately brick home in the suburbs. Before pressing the doorbell, Chae looked back to the entourage in tow. Greg was there, holding the video camera as usual, as was a translator and the videographer team.
The door opened, and her mother was there almost immediately, arms outstretched. Her right arm went around Chae's neck and her left under her arm. She pulled Chae in the house while making cooing noises as if for a baby. She whispered words in Korean that Chae couldn't understand. They both sobbed. Her mother put both hands on the sides of Chae's face to take a first look at her daughter as an adult before embracing her again. Chae, never known to cry easily, joined her in tears, surprising herself with how much she felt from seeing this woman she had never met. "It was unbelievable," Chae recalls. "But at the same time, I was just at a loss for words. We sat there, and we were both just struggling with what to say."
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Medina, Ohio, began as a frontier village in 1818. It later became the county seat of Medina County and has held on to its small-town charm while expanding its amenities and activities. Millions of visitors flock to the Medina area annually, with its diverse array of attractions and things to do.
Medina's town band was formed in 1859 and has remained a town staple for more than 150 years (medinacommunityband.org). The band was formed to provide adult musicians with the opportunity to perform music for the community as part of individual enrichment. Medina's annual Summer Concerts on the Square are held every Friday night in June and July at the gazebo in Uptown Park Square. The band also holds indoor concerts during winter and around the holidays. Another annual community event is Art in the Park (medinaartleague.com). It is sponsored by the Medina County Art League, whose objective is to promote education, exploration and awareness of the visual arts. It is a one-day event that takes place in mid-July in the public square. The festival showcases artwork from local and visiting artists and includes a raffle and refreshments at the bandstand.
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A trip to the historic district is almost like stepping back in time, with its restored Victorian buildings. Visitors seeking a more formal historical attraction can tour the John Smart Home Museum and Research Center on North Elmwood Street (medinahistorical.com). It also is home to the city's historical society, featuring Civil War-era displays, Native American tools and restored Victorian furnishings. Medina's museum offerings also include an option for toy and train enthusiasts: the Medina Toy and Train Museum (ormandys.com). The museum features displays of model trains and various collectible toys, including blimps, dolls and figurines. A per-person donation is requested upon admission.
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Carroll County is excited to host its First Annual Carroll United Valentine's Dinner to benefit United Way's work in Carroll & Henry County. This dinner event will feature a performance by the Bethel University Renaissance Bluegrass Group, speakers from the partner agencies serving Carroll & Henry counties, Carroll County Mayor Joseph Butler, a silent auction, and more! Proceeds will benefit the Community Impact Fund, which is allocated by volunteers to benefit Carroll & Henry county agencies!
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2018 Investment Climate Statements: Palau
Palau's economy is dominated by tourism, subsistence agriculture, and fishing. The government is the country's largest employer. The Compact of Free Association with the United States governs the relationship between the United States and Palau. Palau's per capita income is nearly USD 16,400 per year.
Palau's economy contracted in 2008 and 2009, due to the global economic crisis, and its effect on tourism spending and other outside investment into Palau. The number of tourist visitors rebounded in 2010, hit new records in 2015, but the number of arrivals fell in 2016. However, Palau's present hotel and other infrastructure limit its ability to absorb potential major increases in tourist numbers.
The Foreign Investment Act provides the approval-process guidance for foreign investment, and the Foreign Investment Regulations reserves some businesses to Palauan citizens, including wholesale or retail sale of goods, all land and water transportation, travel and tour agencies, and commercial fishing. Other sectors are semi-restricted, requiring a Palauan partner, though no fixed percent of ownership is required.
Palau's economy uses the U.S. dollar. Palau has a strong banking sector with three FDIC–insured U.S. banks.
Palau's judicial system is viewed by Transparency International and other observers as professional and fair. Regulatory and accounting systems are generally transparent and consistent with international norms.
Foreigners cannot own land in Palau, but they can lease land and own buildings on leased land. Establishing secure land title may be complicated due to the complexity of the traditional land ownership system and occasional over-lapping claims.
Palau is not a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the WTO, or any other organization or convention protecting intellectual property rights.
Palau has no bilateral investment protection agreements, and is not a member of any free trade associations. Foreign labor comprises a large proportion of Palau's labor force.
U.S. citizens are exempt from the Palau's normal resident visa requirements. A visa is not required for U.S. citizens visiting Palau for one year or less, provided the visitor otherwise complies with applicable regulations.
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The government actively seeks foreign direct investment. However, the 2011 Foreign Investment Regulations detail a significant number of restricted and semi-restricted sectors. There are no specific financial incentives extended to foreign investors.
The 2011 Foreign Investment Regulations detail the significant number of restricted and semi-restricted sectors (as stated above).
Regulatory changes that occurred in 2010 created a new category of "semi-restricted" sectors. These sectors had been closed to foreign investors from the passage of the 1991 Foreign Investment Act through October 2010. Now, these formerly-restricted businesses can include foreign ownership, as long as a Palauan citizen also has an ownership interest. There are no minimum or maximum requirements for percentage ownership for the foreign investor, as long as the monetary and/or Palauan-employment minimums for all foreign investments are met (as discussed below). These semi-restricted businesses are as follows:
handicraft and gift shops;
bakeries;
bar services;
operations [selling] products being produced by wholly Palauan-owned manufacturing enterprise;
equipment rentals for both land and water within the Republic, including equipment for purpose of tourism; and
any such other businesses, as the Foreign Investment Board may determine.
Sectors not listed as either closed or semi-restricted are presumed to be open for foreign investment. The Foreign Investment Board may, however, amend the semi-restricted sector list for "any such other businesses as the Board may determine."
Screening of FDI
The Foreign Investment Board must approve all foreign direct investment. In addition to the sector in which the investment will flow, the Board requires a statement of level of investment (in U.S. dollar amounts), the length of time the investment will be in Palau, the nationality of the investors, and the percent ownership of each investor. The Board sometimes requests additional documentation from investors if it has questions about the details of the investment. In general, the Board makes decisions in a timely manner.
The government has not undertaken any investment policy review in the last three years.
Bilateral Investment Treaty
Palau has no bilateral investment protection agreements, and is not a member of any free trade associations. Palau is currently negotiating with both the Philippines on a bilateral cooperation agreement and the European Union on a free trade and economic agreement.
Bilateral Taxation Treaty
Palau does not have a bilateral taxation treaty with the United States.
Regulatory and accounting systems are generally transparent and consistent with international norms. Proposed new regulations must go through a period of public comment before being adopted. Businesspeople in Palau do not report specific regulatory discrimination against foreign investors.
Palau is not a member of the WTO.
Palau has civil law based court system, which can be used to enforce contracts. Palau has a specialized Land Court for disputes arising from conflicting claims of land ownership. The Judiciary is independent from the Executive branch.
The 1991 Foreign Investment Act provides the approval-process guidance for foreign investment. In late 2010 the Government of Palau revised its implementing regulations, changing several key requirements in a bid to encourage more foreign investment. A broader reform of the investment law stalled in Palau's bicameral National Congress, or Olbiil Era Kelulau (OEK). The new "Regulations Implementing the Foreign Investment Act, 28 Pnc Section 101 et seq," were signed by President Johnson Toribiong on August 1, 2010, and went into effect on November 1, 2010.
The 2011 Foreign Investment Regulations detail the significant number of restricted and semi-restricted sectors. There are no specific financial incentives extended to foreign investors.
According to Palauan law, the following businesses are solely reserved for Palauan citizens:
"(i) wholesale or retail sale of goods; (ii) all land transportation including bus services, taxi services and car rentals; (iii) tour guides, fishing guides, diving guides and any other form of water transportation services; (iv) travel and tour agencies; and (v) commercial fishing for other than highly migratory species."
While all of the businesses above are officially closed to foreign investment, there is a prevalent use of partnership companies in several categories, in which the foreign investor owns less than fifty percent. The retail sector, as well as travel- and tour-related businesses, currently has numerous foreign investors via such partnership companies.
The Foreign Investment Board would review transactions for any competition-related concerns.
The government of Palau has not demonstrated property-expropriation actions. The Palauan constitution provides for the right of the government to condemn land for national interest ("eminent domain"). There are no reported notable property-expropriation cases.
There are no ongoing investment disputes involving the Government of Palau and foreign investors. There is currently no official "dispute resolution" procedure, apart from civil suits and other legal action. However, trained and licensed arbitrators exist.
Palau is not a member of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Land disputes can take years to settle. Most other commercial disputes can be settled in months.
Not applicable/information not available.
Palau has no bankruptcy law.
The Government of Palau does not offer incentives to domestic or foreign investors. Businesses in Palau must pay a straight 3 percent duty on all imported items, with no exemptions; duties are higher for alcohol and tobacco. There are no taxes on exports. Apart from two small Free Trade Zones located outside Koror, there are no "tax holidays" or other incentives offered to investors.
The Free Trade Zone Act of 2003 established the Ngardmau Free Trade Zone Authority. Another "Tax Free Zone" was established in the state of Melekeok, covering a one mile radius around the Federal capitol building. These zones, still largely undeveloped, offer potential investors tax and other incentives, but ownership and labor rules are the same as elsewhere in Palau.
The Government of Palau does not apply performance requirements to domestic or foreign investors, though certain occupations, such as boat driver, must be filled by Palauans.
Per the reciprocity arrangements of the Compact of Free Association, U.S. citizens are exempt from the Government of Palau's normal resident visa requirements. A visa is not required for U.S. citizens visiting Palau for one year or less, provided the visitor otherwise complies with applicable regulations, for example, on employment.
Palau has no policy forcing foreign investors to use domestic content in goods or technology, for foreign IT providers to turn over source code, provide access to surveillance backdoors into hardware and software, or turn over keys for encryption.
Other than the foreign-ownership restrictions for certain business sectors, there are no restrictions on private entities to engage in all forms of remunerative activity.
Establishing secure land title may be complicated due to the complexity of the traditional land ownership system and occasional over-lapping claims. Banks offer mortgages, and the recording system is reliable. The Land Court has primary responsibility to adjudicate disputes over land ownership.
Palau is not a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the WTO, or any other organization or convention protecting intellectual property rights. Pirated DVDs imported from off-island are readily available. Palauan copyright law explicitly covers materials in which:
one or more of the authors is or was on the date of first publication a national or resident of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Palau District, or the Republic of Palau;
the work is or was initially published in the Republic of Palau;
the work is or was initially published in another country and also published in the Republic of Palau within 30 days thereafter, irrespective of the nationality or residence of the author;
the work is an audiovisual work, the author of which is a resident of Palau; or
the work is an architectural work erected in the Republic of Palau or is an artistic work incorporated into a building or other structure located in Palau.
Any copyright owner who is the bona fide owner of a copyright or the owner of a transferred copyright shall be subject to the same protections provided above, provided he or she registers the work or works with the Office of the Attorney General and pays the requisite fee. The Attorney General shall charge a fee of USD 200.00 per work registered, or USD 2,000.00 for ten or more works registered to the same owner. For persons or businesses registering 10 or more works, additional works may be added at no charge during the same calendar year.
For additional information about treaty obligations and points of contact at local IP offices, please see WIPO's country profiles at http://www.wipo.int/directory/en/ .
Resources for Rights Holders
Embassy Contact
Jennifer J. Nehez
Mission Deputy
NehezJJ@state.gov
For a list or lawyers in Palau, please see: https://pw.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/attorneys.
Palau has a strong banking sector with three FDIC–insured U.S. banks as the foundation: the Bank of Hawaii, the Bank of the Pacific, and the Bank of Guam. The IMF has also praised Palau's healthy and efficient banking sector. Total assets of these banks exceed USD 125 million. There is no stock exchange in Palau.
Other than best practices to review suspicious money transfers (e.g. money laundering), there are no restrictions on converting or transferring funds associated with an investment. Palau's economy uses the U.S. dollar, so there are no issues in obtaining U.S. currency.
Palau collects a four percent remittance tax on money sent electronically out of Palau, for example, by Western Union, but this does not apply to money deposited in any of the three FDIC insured banks in Palau that is later withdrawn outside of Palau.
Palau does not have a Sovereign Wealth Fund.
The state-owned enterprises in Palau include the utilities sector, telecommunications, and the national bank. Because of growing pressure on infrastructure and encouragement from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and others, some of these companies may be wholly or partially privatized in the future. There is a state-managed giant clam farming company, but this is not a barrier to private clam-farming initiatives.
Palau has no on-going privatization program.
Many businesses provide corporate donations to environmental and social Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and /or engage in environmental corporate social responsibility programs to preserve Palau's environment and wildlife. Most CSR activities are conducted via donation, partly attributable to the available tax deduction of up to 10 percent of a company's Gross Revenue for donations to non-profit organizations. Apart from this tax incentive, there are few laws or regulations pertaining to CSR.
The Code of Ethics Act spells out what is illegal for government officials, and the Public Auditor and the Special Prosecutor hold them accountable for failure to observe the law.
Palau is currently the only one of the Micronesian nations to employ a Special Prosecutor. Special Prosecutors have successfully prosecuted a number of elected Federal and State officials, recovering substantial sums of money. Most corruption (proved and alleged) involves improper use of government funds or property, and/or fraudulent collaborations of various kinds. There have been several high profile prosecutions/resignations by public officials related to violations of Palau's government ethics law. None involved alleged abuse targeting foreign investors. Government extortion or semi-extortion of private companies is virtually unknown.
Local media often reports on alleged corruption cases, and serves as an informal watchdog. Palau does not appear in Transparency International's Index of Corruption. In a 2004 country report, however, Transparency International praised the fairness and professionalism of Palau's judiciary. There are no formal anti-corruption NGOs or international watchdogs based in Palau.
UN Anticorruption Convention, OECD Convention on Combatting Bribery
Palau acceded to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in March, 2009. It has been a member of the Asian Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APGML) since 2002.
Palau is not a member of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery.
Allegations of corruption can be reported to the Special Prosecutor through the Attorney General's Office:
Ernestine Rengiil
Palau experienced some political violence in the 1980's and early 1990's, but has become increasingly stable and peaceful since then. The World Bank placed Palau in the 84th percentile in its 2015 rating of country political stability.
With an estimated total of 12,500 Palauan nationals in country (including non-working individuals, such as children and elderly) and 4,300 estimated foreign workers, foreign labor comprises a large proportion of Palau's labor force. In July 2011, the U.S. Interior Department provided a grant to Palau for development of a comprehensive Labor Code.
In October 2013, Palau established the minimum wage for workers at USD 2.75/hour with USD 0.25 increases slated for future years until it reaches USD 3.50/hour in 2016, though certain categories of workers are exempted from the minimum wage. Business owners must pay a tax of USD 500 per foreign employee per year.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has had an investment incentive agreement with Palau since March 15, 2002. Palau is a member of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency of the World Bank Group.
Host Country Statistical Source* USG or International Statistical Source USG or International Source of Data:
Host Country Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (M USD) 2015 287.4 2016 276 CIA World Factbook estimate
Foreign Direct Investment Host Country Statistical Source* USG or International Statistical Source USG or International Source of Data:
U.S. FDI in partner country (M USD, stock positions) N/A 2013 -36 http://bea.gov/international/
factsheet/factsheet.cfm?Area=659
Host country's FDI in the United States (M USD, stock positions) N/A 2013 <1 htthttp://bea.gov/international/factsheet/factsheet.cfm?Area=659p://bea.gov/international/
Total inbound stock of FDI as % host GDP N/A N/A N/A
* Republic of Palau 2015 Statistical Yearbook
IMF Coordinated Direct Investment Survey data are not available for Palau.
MF Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey data are not available for Palau.
Economic Officer
P.O. Box 6028, Airai, Palau 96940
usembassykoror@palaunet.com
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs Palau
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204 E. 4th Avenue,
State Theatre-Harlequin Productions (Official)
Previously operated by: Act III Theatres, Tom Moyer Luxury Theatres
Architects: Benjamin Marcus Priteca, Joseph Wohleb
Firms: Wohleb and Wohleb
Functions: Live Theater
Previous Names: State Theatre
Rex Theatre
Acme Theater
Ray Theater
Avalon Theatre
Cineograph Theatre
News About This Theater
Dec 22, 2005 — Historic Theater Needs New Doors
Dec 21, 2005 — Freeing the Phoenix
The State Theatre opened in 1949 and was first operated by Evergreen Theaters.
Constucted with stadium seating for 1,000 patrons, the former single screen theatre was triplexed in 1977, under Tom Moyer Luxury Theaters.
In 1983, the State Theatre became a second run theatre and later a dollar house before it closed in the late-1990's.
In the spring of 1998, Harlequin Productions, a 501c (3) non-profit semi-professional theater company, purchased the building to be used for live theater, and began a $1.3 million dollar remodeling project.
The remodel created a level, semi-thrust sprung-floor stage with 220 seats set in a seven row amphitheater arrangement. The furthest seat is 40 feet from the stage. A system of catwalks over the stage and audience provides lighting positions of 23' to 27' above the stage floor. Located on an open Tech Deck at the back of the house are an audio board and fully equipped lighting system, which allows for a variety of lighting options as well as a quality sound system with an emphasis on playback. An electrical isolated ground system is in place at four locations: in the first house row, the back aisle of the house, backstage and on the Tech Deck. A system of 6" conduit runs under the audience and stage floor to assist with cabling needs. The stage is accessible by a 9' x 10' roll-up door with a 36" loading dock.
In 2003, further enhancements changed the audience seating area to 212 and added both costume and property storage areas to what was once the two additional movie auditoriums. While there is limited backstage space, there is a fully accessible dressing room and bathroom for artist use. Future plans (2005-2008) call for larger dressing rooms, 80 - 100 additional audience seats, upgraded audio equipment and acoustical enhancement.
Contributed by Trudy Soucoup, Ken Layton, Bret Connell
KenLayton on December 13, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I have a blowup of that full ad somewhere in my collection.
Ron Carlson on February 21, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Having never been in the state does anyone have any photo's of the interior before it was split up into 3 cinemas. And any of the way it is now?
TLSLOEWS on June 21, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Nice photos.
KenLayton on August 7, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Theater opened on Tuesday November 22, 1949. The theater manager at that time was Archie Zarewski.
Mr. G.K. Porterfield was one of the first projectionists at this theater.
KenLayton on August 8, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Boxoffice magazine covered the opening in their December 3, 1949 issue:
http://www.boxofficemagazine.com/the_vault/issue_page?issue_id=1949-12-3&page_no=52#page_start
May 6, 1950 issue of Boxoffice magazine profiles the theater's seating, auditorium, and artwork on the walls.
http://www.boxofficemagazine.com/the_vault/issue_page?issue_id=1950-5-6&page_no=130#page_start
JackCoursey on June 22, 2015 at 9:06 pm
I was just by the State the other day and the exterior is quite impressive! How was the theatre configured for the triplex-enclosed, split balcony with the main floor intact? Does any of the original interior ornamentation remain or was the interior gutted for the conversion to live performance? Something tells me the renovations were massive in that the seating went from 1000 to 212.
KenLayton on June 22, 2015 at 10:40 pm
I can tell you as I worked there (1977 to 1990) how the tri-plexing was done. The theater was originally designed with stadium seating (no balcony). The back half of the auditorium was walled off from the main floor. Then the walled off section was split into two auditoriums of about 100 seats each. The main auditorium held 500 seats after the tri-plexing was done by Tom Moyer Luxury Theatres. From my brief look after it was converted into live theater, ALL of the interior of the auditorium was changed. You would not recognize the interior of the auditorium anymore from the way it originally opened in 1949. The lobby is still somewhat intact though.
JackCoursey on July 19, 2015 at 8:38 am
Thanks! Would really love to see some pictures of the auditorium in its original state. The Box Office link is no longer functional.
KenLayton on March 22, 2018 at 9:27 pm
In "The Olympian" newspaper today is a story about the managing director of the theater suddenly resigning:
http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article206490814.html