HARRER,H., Bilder aus Tibet, Keulen 2007. Hardcover 21 x 29 cm. 207 pag. met ruim 100 zwart-wit foto's.
"Das alte Lhasa ist nicht mehr. Der Einmarsch der Chinesen markierte das Ende einer Kultur, um die sich Legenden ranken. Kein Europäer war so mit ihr vertraut, wie Heinrich Harrer, der für diesen Band sein einzigartiges Fotoarchiv geöffnet hat. Mythen, Familiensitten, Marktgeschehen, Alltag in Tibet - hier wird eine dem Untergang geweihte Kultur gezeigt, wie sie wirklich war."
HARRIS,C.TSERING SHAKYA & EDWARDS,E., Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947, Chicago 2003. Softcover 21 x 28 cm. 150 pag. met ca. 150 afb. waarvan 30 in kleur.
During the 1930s and 1940s the British cultivated close political and social relations with members of the Tibetan elite and established a Mission in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Seeing Lhasa reveals the way in which the city of Lhasa, its palaces, monasteries and mansions, became the backdrop for a social world in which the British and Tibetans interacted.
SOTHEBY's, The Travel sale, Natural History and Maps, Londen 2001. Auction catalogue[ 15 November 2001/ no.: L01959]. Soft cover 27 x 21 cm. 217 pages with 481 lots.
LHALUNGPA, L.P. Tibet , the Sacred Realm. photographs 1880-1950, New York 1983. Softcover, oblong. 160 pag., ca. 140 zwart-wit foto's.
Weir, J. left. Col. & Weir, R.
ENGELHARDT, I, Tibet 1938-1939 Photographs from the Ernst Schäfer Expedition to Tibet, Chicago 2007. Hardcover 21,5 x 25 cm. 280 pag met 150 zwart-wit foto's.
This volume presents 150 photographs[of 17.000 negatives in the Bundesarchiv] most published here for the first time, of the Schäfer Expedition. In 1938, the German biologist Ernst Schäfer led a scientific expedition to Tibet. His team of scientists was able to record Tibetan life and culture with a level of detail previously unachieved by other Europeans. The photographs in this volume are one part of that record, documenting a vibrant traditional society in the early stages of its encounter with modernity. The Tibetans in the photographs, from high aristocrat to humble peasant, are now dead. Many of the temples and buildings where they worshipped, worked, and lived have been destroyed. This volume of photographs, and the essays that accompany them, portray a Tibet that existed not so long ago, but that has since become a memory.
CLARKE,J.[Foreword by the Dalai Lama], Tibet Caught in Time, Reading 1997. Hardcover, 22 x 27 cm. 150 pages with 158 photographs. Good copy.
"Tibet is famed for its majestic beauty, and also for its ongoing struggle for cultural survival. This collection of photographs from the British Library, taken by two British diplomats in the early twentieth century, shows traditional Tibetan culture before Chinese rule was imposed. In Lhasa, a noble family take a picnic in a park, the women's elaborate head-dresses adorned with pearls. Travelling folk-opera singers pose in costumes and masks. John Claude White was Political Officer in Sikkim for nearly twenty years, and photographed extensively in the border regions of Tibet. The earliest photographs in this volume are his - taken when he joined the British military expedition to Lhasa in 1904. His pictures of mountains and glaciers give a geographical context for his more intimate shots of towns and people. White was succeeded as Political Officer in 1908 by Sir Charles Bell. Bell became a good friend of the thirteenth Dalai Lama when he fled to India to escape the Chinese pressure in Lhasa and this friendship later afforded him privileged access to Tibetan society during two extended visits to the capital at the invitation of the Dalai Lama in 1921 and 1933. His photographs reveal an ancient and complex civilization, dominated by the power of monastic religion. Bell, who spoke Tibetan fluently, went on to publish a wide range of scholarly titles on Tibetan culture and campaigned for its independence. His photographs and diaries are held in British Library Oriental and India Office Collections."
CABOT,M.H., Vanished kingdoms. A woman explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia 1921-1925. Hardback, oblong.190 pag. met veel zwart-wit foto's en een paar in kleur.
Vanished Kingdoms is the story of Janet Elliott Wulsin who explored together with her husband remote corners of Western China, Inner Mongolia, and northwestern Tibet. Wulsin's story went largely untold until, after her death in 1963, her daughter, Mabel Cabot, found her mother's private letters and diaries. Cabot spent the next four years conducting research in the Harvard University Library and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to unravel her mother's fascinating story.
They documented tribes people and sublime desert landscapes, and, most remarkably, were allowed to photograph the interior of several of the great Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries, including Choni, Kumbum and Labrang. Several dozen rare, hand-painted lantern slides survived and are reproduced here in color.
The photographs from the Wulsin Expedition, are now in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
(see also: AlLONSO, M.E.ed. China's inner frontier Photographs of the Wulsin Expedition to Northwest China in 1923. Cambridge, 1979).


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PIPC Weekly Update - May 5, 2014
1. PIPC Executive Director Attends PCORI Patient Engagement Advisory Panel Meeting, click here to access the slides, presentations, and agenda.
2. PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho: Why Evaluating "Patient-Centeredness" Really Matters, click here to view the post.
3. PCORI Searches for Scientific Program Officers, click here to view the release.
4. Modern Healthcare: Coordinated Care Alone May Not Yield ROI, ACPE Told, click here to view the article (subscription required.)
5. The Brookings Institution: Medical Devices and Patient Safety: A Promising Path Forward, click here to view the article.
6. RWJF: How Can Health Systems Effectively Serve Minority Communities? Use Electronic Health Records to Discover How to Improve Outcomes, click here to view the blog.
7. The Health Care Blog: 10 Ways Innovation Could Help Cure the U.S. Health Spending Problem, click here to view the blog.
8. Health Data Management: Turning the Battleship Toward Engagement, click here to view the article.
1. PIPC Executive Director Attends PCORI Patient Engagement Advisory Panel Meeting
Sara van Geertruyden, PIPC's Executive Director, attended the PCORI Patient Engagement Advisory Panel (PEAP) meetings on April 28-29. During the meetings, Dr. Joe Selby highlighted that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is beginning its work to review PCORI. The PEAP was provided an update on the Pipeline to Proposals program. PEAP member Kristen Carman provided a review of a recent convening led by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in partnership with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation with a multidisciplinary group of stakeholders to develop a "Roadmap for Patient and Family Engagement." A report from that effort will be available in the near future. The PEAP also had the opportunity to meet jointly with the PCORI Disparities Panel, and to jointly convey their views related to the Dissemination and Implementation Action Plan being developed by Mathematica for PCORI. The PEAP discussed the recommendations of the panel's subcommittee on evaluation, and emphasized the importance of integrating those recommendations into PCORI's development of an Evaluation Framework. Lastly, the PEAP reviewed the work of the panel's subcommittee on patient compensation. Click here to access the slides, presentations, and agenda.
2. PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho: Why Evaluating "Patient-Centeredness" Really Matters
In a new blog from PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho, the Chairman discusses the importance of evaluating PCORI against a patient-centered framework using metrics that are most useful to patients. He suggests that to succeed in their patient-centered mission, PCORI must continue to be identified by patients, patient groups, caregivers and providers as a critical part of the healthcare system. Chairman Coelho writes, "I am proud that PIPC's members supported the creation of an independent institute that conducts comparative clinical effectiveness research directed by patient needs, outcomes and preferences. To succeed in its patient-centered mission, I think that we all can also agree that PCORI must continue to be identified by patients, patient groups, caregivers and providers as a critical part of the healthcare system. Therefore, in order to ensure the future of this commitment to patient-centered research, PCORI would be wise to adopt a strong evaluation framework that appropriately measures the extent to which PCORI's work is truly being led by patients." Click here to view the post.
3. PCORI Searches for Scientific Program Officers
According to a news release last week from the Duke University School of Nursing, "The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is conducting a national search for scientific program officers to support the Improving Healthcare Systems (IHS) program. The mission of the IHS program is to develop, fund, and manage comparative effectiveness research studies of strategies (e.g., policies, interventions, service designs) employed by healthcare systems and organizations to improve the quality, and efficiency of care for the patients they serve." Click here to view the release.
4. Modern Healthcare: Coordinated Care Alone May Not Yield ROI, ACPE Told
Last week in Modern Healthcare, Andis Robeznieks spoke with PCORI's Executive Director, Dr. Joe Selby. He reported, "The key to accomplishing PCORI's mission, [Dr. Joe Selby] said, will be getting patients engaged in research that stands to benefit them...'Patients are ready,' he said, describing their participation in electronically facilitated data collection as the 'secret sauce' needed to successfully generate timely, useful research using data already collected in electronic health records. 'Current research is too slow, too expensive, unreliable and doesn't answer the questions that matter most to patients,' Selby said." Click here to view the article (subscription required.)
5. The Brookings Institution: Medical Devices and Patient Safety: A Promising Path Forward
Gregory W. Daniel, Siromi Gardina and Craig Streit collaborated on an article for The Brookings Institution this week about the coordination of big data and health care research. "Clearly, the current health care information infrastructure does not yet support a robust surveillance system," they wrote. "This limits the ability of FDA, providers, payers, and manufacturers to respond quickly and directly when safety issues arise. We also lack the ability to incorporate patient-relevant information that supports evaluation, or can compare which devices are more effective and why; in what settings; and for whom. Although the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is aggressively building a national network for collecting data to conduct comparative effectiveness research, there is no straightforward approach to include medical devices without an effective tracking system." Click here to view the article.
6. RWJF: How Can Health Systems Effectively Serve Minority Communities? Use Electronic Health Records to Discover How to Improve Outcomes.
In a blog post by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, authors noted that EHRs, if coded in coordination with communities across the country, could improve health in minority populations. "As a first step to compare the effectiveness of [evidence-based practice (EBP)] for minority populations, practicing nurses and nurse leaders need to advocate for implementation of EBP nursing guidelines in EHRs. Additionally, EBP guidelines must be coded with national nursing data standards to compare effectiveness within and across minority communities. Nurse researchers need to conduct comparative effectiveness research to learn how to optimize EBP guidelines for minority communities through the reuse of EHR data and to derive patient-driven evidence." Click here to view the blog.
7. The Health Care Blog: 10 Ways Innovation Could Help Cure the U.S. Health Spending Problem
Steven Garber of The Health Care Blog provided insight into how technology could improve spending on health care. "Changing payer, provider, and patient incentives could increase demand for products likely to reduce spending. A promising approach is expanding use of value-based insurance designs (VBIDs), which require patients to pay more out of pocket the less likely a service is to benefit them. A major challenge in implementing VBIDs is determining which services are likely to benefit which patients." Click here to view the blog.
8. Health Data Management: Turning the Battleship Toward Engagement
Last week in Health Data Management, Greg Goth reported about the need for patient engagement through data. "There was, and still is, a dearth of ways for patients to conveniently get quality, unbiased information. It's out there, but there's a lack of curation, a lack of strategy, and above all, a lack of the financial resources that truly speak to a patient needing it [...] There is a glimmer of hope. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is funding projects like an app for caregivers of stroke survivors." Click here to view the article.

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Q: Homeomorphism classes of upper-half spaces without 'boundary' points. Let $$H=\{(x,y)\in\Bbb R^2: y\geq 0\}$$
i.e. the upper-half space. Let $A$ and $B$ be two finite subsets of the $x$-axis. Then if $|A|=|B|$, clearly, $H-A$ is homeomorphic to $H-B$. However, if $A$ and $B$ are two finite subsets which are not in bijection, how would one show that $H-A$ and $H-B$ are not homeomorphic?
I think this is fairly intuitive, for if we take the orbits of points in $H-A$ and $H-B$ under their self-homeomorphism groups and then separate them into components, we will get sets of different cardinalities. But formalizing this is messy. I was wondering if someone could come up with something sleeker.

A: This is true for all upper half-spaces $H = \Bbb H^k$. By invariance of domain, $\partial M$ is a homeomorphism invariant of $M$. So if $H-A$ and $H-B$ were homeomorphic, then $\partial H - A$ would be homeomorphic to $\partial H - B$. Suppose $|A| = n, |B| = m$. Then $\partial H - A$ is homotopy equivalent to a wedge of $n$ copies of the $(k-1)$-sphere, and $\partial H - B$ is homotopy equivalent to a wedge of $m$ copies of the $(k-1)$-sphere. So you can tell their homotopy types apart by looking at their homology, which is distinct.

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Is it conceivable that President Obama might use the word "queue"?
President Obama in a press conference, in London today, has said that if Britain votes to leave the European Union and makes separate application to the United States for a trade deal, she will be at the "back of the queue", behind the EU.
Some people assert that Obama has been prompted in his remarks by David Cameron, Prime Minister of the UK, and that the President is really only saying this to do Cameron a favour. (It will be a major political blow to Cameron if he loses the Referendum on 23 June.)
On the BBC programme Any Questions this evening, Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, and vehement supporter of Britain voting to leave the EU, said he thought it inconceivable that an American such as Barack Obama would use the word "queue". Americans, he asserted, say "line". So according to Farage, it was not Obama speaking, but, in effect the UK government had written his script for him.
Do Americans use the word "queue", and more specifically does President Obama say "queue"?
Added: A somewhat more complete context for the quote:
He said there could be a US-UK trade agreement "down the line" but warned: "It's not going to happen any time soon, because our focus is on negotiating with a big bloc, the EU. The UK is going to be in the back of the queue."
(I can't vouch for the accuracy of the quote, of course. HL)
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Is it so inconceivable that President Obama, knowing he was in London speaking to a UK audience, would deliberately adopt a Britishism in his speech, something that is increasingly common? – Zach Lipton Apr 24 '16 at 18:06
If I spoke in England, I would say "queue" rather than "line" in cases that I believed were appropriate. I simply understand that it's more common there. – user2338816 Apr 25 '16 at 10:06
He could have used the word queue to resonate easier with the intended audience. We British know about queues and like our queuing etiquette; what we don't like is people jumping in front of us for any reason. That's part of the reason Obama has been criticised for the threat of moving us to the back – gabe3886 Apr 25 '16 at 14:50
@ZachLipton He could have said "I .. am .. a .. Londoner!" and see what happened, I suppose. Worked for that other president who pandered to locals in Europe. – corsiKa Apr 25 '16 at 15:33
This is a commonly known word in the US. Line is more common, but queue is also used. In particular, line is more commonly associated with a physical line (such as people waiting to buy groceries at a cash register), whereas queue is more commonly associated with an abstract or conceptual one. The denotation is the same, and the connotation is loosely the same, but the usage somewhat differs. (Sometimes line will be used in situations where queue would work just as easily; it is a more commonly used word.) – Panzercrisis Apr 26 '16 at 12:57
So, line is much more common in American English, especially when talking about a line that is actually physically embodied. However, queue is not unknown, especially among those with exposure to British English. Whether he was fed the line or doing it as a favor, I can't say, but it would certainly be more than reasonable for Obama to use the British-preferred word when discussing British matters, especially if he was 'aiming' it at a British audience.
I don't see any Obama quotes using it prior, but here's Biden using it in a similar manner in 2014 regarding the Obamacare queue/line
"Get in the queue, now," Biden urged viewers. "Get in the queue. There is still time today."
Per Mr. Farage, this would presumably have been "Get in line" unless he was fed the line then...
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This is pretty much it. Obama is a politician. Good politicians know to tailor their message to their local audience. Even in the US, we have local dialects which politicians will try to pander to when visiting. For example, how "Missouri" is pronounced depends on what part of the state you are in. It regularly makes headlines when a POTUS candidate uses the "wrong" local pronunciation during a visit. – T.E.D. Apr 25 '16 at 14:41
It's not even about being a politician. Just about anybody who travels on a regular basis will use the local words for things, if they know them, when talking to people in that area. – Kevin Apr 25 '16 at 16:11
@Kevin - Quite. I will never forget the dead silence that ensued when I was with a group of guys in New Orleans in the 80's and a visiting Aussie asked the group if he could borrow a fag. – T.E.D. Apr 25 '16 at 17:16
@T.E.D. Had a similar incident where a visiting British student got irritated with some boys who had teasingly taken her notebook and demanded that they give her back her "bloody pad" – Kevin Apr 25 '16 at 17:44
Particularly if he used the phrase "down the line" just prior, because reusing line to mean something different wouldn't be good style. – Sobrique Apr 25 '16 at 18:35
I agree with those who have said it is more likely he used 'queue' in preference to 'line' after speaking to advisors. But it's also interesting to note that Obama seems to like the word. He's used it a few times before, and in a non-British context:
February 25, 2010 Remarks in a Discussion on Insurance Reform at a Bipartisan Meeting on Health Care Reform: "Okay, all right. There were several people who were still in the queue who didn't have a chance to speak prior to us breaking."
November 13, 2011 The President's News Conference in Kapolei: "Could I just say that Chuck's the only guy who asked two questions so far. So just--when I cut off here, whoever was next in the queue--[laughter]--I'm messing with you, Chuck."
November 19, 2013 Remarks to the Wall Street Journal CEO Council and a Question-and-Answer Session: "We've got to make sure that we have a legal immigration system that doesn't cause people to sit in the queue for 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, in some cases, 20 years. "
So, to answer your question, there's nothing unusual or sinister in Obama's use - it seems part of his idiolect.
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It's little known, but before he was a community organizer he tried his hand at computer programming, took a data structures class, etc. Thus, queue. He also speaks of looking up word definitions in a "map" sometimes when he means "dictionary". – davidbak Apr 25 '16 at 18:52
@davidbak Oh no, he's a Java guy... – Grault Apr 25 '16 at 19:10
@davidbak President Obama participated in the Hour of Code event. I thought that was well-known... – mbomb007 Apr 25 '16 at 19:34
"Queue" was used, in the reported statement, in the sense of a "priority" ordering of the elements, and that sense is perfectly idiomatic US English. It's saying, in effect, that the UK would have the lowest priority.
This is different from saying "I had to stand in line for hours to order the new iPhone."
And "queue" is well-known and understood in the US, at least in government. From the Congressional Record, Jan 21, 2015:
Mr. McCONNELL. We were able to process several amendments to the Keystone bill today, and there are now seven more in the queue and pending. Senators should expect votes related to amendments to this bill throughout the day tomorrow.
With regard to moving forward on this legislation, I encourage Members on our side of the aisle who have amendments to come down, get them in the queue. We will have a number of amendments, as the majority leader has indicated, next week. The best way to proceed, if a Senator is on this side of the aisle and has an amendment, is to come on down and offer it and get it in the queue.
Jan 26, 2015:
Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, we continue to talk to Members on both sides of the aisle to set up a path toward passage on this bill that will include some amendment votes on pending amendments and others that are waiting in the queue. We will look to set some of those votes tomorrow after lunch.
Sept 5, 2006:
Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today we continued debate on the Department of Defense Appropriations bill that we started before the August recess. We have three amendments pending, and we expect to have more amendments offered tomorrow. Votes can be expected before the weekly policy luncheons and throughout the day. We will work to finish this important spending bill no later than tomorrow or Thursday. Members who have amendments still to offer to this bill should consult with the bill managers to get their amendments in the queue. Again, I welcome my colleagues back from the recess. We have a lot of work to do, as I outlined earlier this morning, over the course of the next several weeks, and we can expect some very full days.
(And about 430 others. I think this decisively destroys any argument that "queue" is unknown in the US or is only known to "techies".)
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Please provide support. Yes, I know you are older than my T-shirts, and yes, you are 100% born and bred in the US but... "back of the queue meaning" last in priority is a meaning with which I am unfamiliar. – Mari-Lou A Apr 22 '16 at 20:25
@Mari-LouA - Then you're not very "up" on US English, are you? – Hot Licks Apr 24 '16 at 21:45
@Mari-LouA - I have to agree with Hot Licks. I would say that "back of the queue" meaning last in priority or wait your turn is fairly common in BrE. – TrevorD Apr 24 '16 at 22:19
@TrevorD - I don't think Mari-LouA is claiming anything about what :back of the queue" means in BrE. Just whether it's common in US. And certainly where I grew up you would get a strange look (and then mocked) if you said queue. – Joel Apr 26 '16 at 19:39
"Line" is used rather than "queue" for these purposes in American English, but in a technical, rather than colloquial, context, the term "queue" gets used all the time. As an American computer programmer, I work with queues and queued data on a regular basis, and I would never use the word "line" in that context. But if a person is being sent to the back of something, it's a line, not a queue. Using the term "queue" in that context will definitely sound like a British-ism to American ears.
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+1, but we're talking about a country (an "object" in programming parlance), not a "person". I'm pretty sure I would have used the word queue had I been saying the same message. – phyrfox Apr 22 '16 at 21:09
@MasonWheeler How fortunate, then, that Obama did not talk about a queue in the context of computer science. – pipe Apr 23 '16 at 7:59
For the record, what he said was, "[T]he UK is going to be in the back of the queue." I don't know where the "sent to the back" phrase came from, but it doesn't appear to come from that speech. In fact, the UK (as a separate entity) is not in "the queue" at all at this time; Mr. Obama was referring to a hypothetical future time after the UK left the EU, at which time they might want a trade agreement of their own. – David K Apr 23 '16 at 15:32
I do suspect, however, that the use of the word "queue" was influenced by the fact that Mr. Obama was speaking to a British audience and he wanted to be understood. – David K Apr 23 '16 at 15:47
I find it astounding that the number of users who argue that "queue" is commonly heard and used in the US is in fact talking about computer science terms. I know next to nothing about the working of a computer, and even less about mathematics (see WS2's comment beneath Hot Lick's post) and I bet my bottom "dollar" that the majority of Americans do not either. Please, let's remind ourselves that not every user or visitor to EL&U comes from Stack Overflow. This small piece of information is also relevant to the British general public. – Mari-Lou A Apr 24 '16 at 12:30
As a software engineer in the US, I use the word "queue" all the time. Back when most people who subscribed to Netflix used the DVD delivery service, we called it a "queue." I think it's conceivable that the President, being a literate person, would believe that "queue" is the best word to use in this case just because it indicates a priority ordering. It is also conceivable that he knew who the audience was, and tailored his speech for them. It is also conceivable that he had a speechwriter or some other handler suggest that he use it, or that he was directly quoting something David Cameron asked him to say.
It's all conjecture, but I think he very likely could have used the word "queue" for plenty of reasons besides "someone else told him to."
thomijthomij
Does President Obama say "queue"?
I'm not sure. But I'd like to address the other part of the question, which is:
Do Americans use the word "queue"?
Do you know of any idiomatic alternatives for a phrase like "message queued for sending"?
I can't think of any. That sentence already seems 100% idiomatic American English to me.
So yes, most Americans would know what "queue" means.
MehrdadMehrdad
This is rather different from the use in the quote, though. I would only use queue in technical contexts like these. – Casey Apr 24 '16 at 17:37
I'm a programmer, so I understand "message queued for sending" — as computerese. I don't recognize it as idiomatic American English (I have lived in the US all my life), and I don't know whether the average US butcher, baker, or candlestick-maker would understand it. – Scott Apr 26 '16 at 19:06
For a general british audience 'queue' and 'line' are certainly not synonymous. Most british people would understand it in context but it has much less impact as a headline.
This is also different from things like faucet vs tap or fall vs autumn where the difference in transatlantic usage would be obvious.
So this seems very much like a key phrase being disambiguated for the target audience. It is entirely possible that President Obama asked for advice on how best to phrase this, and it may even be a phrase that he had heard said to him.
This certainly doesn't in any way suggest that it was a script written by somebody English. Indeed it would be strange if the president of the US didn't have advisors who would be able to fine tune prepared speeches in this way. In the same way that he would probably hold back on references to bacon and bourbon in a speech delivered in Saudi Arabia.
Similarly even if he has some prompting on the wording it seems unlikely that the President of the US is going to be 'forced' to say something on this matter that he doesn't agree with on principal. Even if he asked an aide or a UK minister how best to say it he did, at the end of the day get up and say it himself.
+1, though I don't really even think an advisor would be needed in this case. As far as I know, it's rather common knowledge among Americans that British English uses 'queue' instead of 'line' (whereas American English uses both terms interchangeably.) – reirab Apr 22 '16 at 22:26
Yes I certainly get the impression that President Obama is certainly well educated and informed enough to work this out for himself. – Chris Johns Apr 22 '16 at 22:33
You miss the point that the usage was completely idiomatic US English. – Hot Licks Apr 22 '16 at 23:31
I suppose you meant to write "fall vs autumn." – Dubu Apr 23 '16 at 8:39
@HotLicks Re your edit to the question, of course had he said it in the British idiom he would not have said *the UK will be IN the back of the queue", but "AT the back of the queue". – WS2 Apr 24 '16 at 21:27
Here's some evidence.
There are 358 speeches and press conferences by Barack Obama on this website. I'm not sure how they decide which ones to transcribe. Collecting all the speeches there, out of 1,162,735 words it seems he's publicly said "line" at least 130 times and never "queue."
Anyway I think it's pretty common for politicians to make nods to local language. For example, there's a bit of Spanish in there too, like when he went to Cuba he referred to "un future de esperanza" [a future of hope].
Edit: As pointed out by @slebetman, @tardy pidgeon's answer has some examples of Obama saying 'queue'. The press conferences in that answer don't appear in this database. As above, I don't know how the site selected the set of events that it did.
HatshepsutHatshepsut
And how many uses of "line" were in idioms such as "draw the line". – Hot Licks Apr 23 '16 at 12:29
The Spanish word is "futuro," not "future." – Casey Apr 24 '16 at 17:42
@Casey Yeah he says "futuro" in the video. I guess the transcriber got it wrong. I checked some misspellings of queue just to be sure -- cue, que --- and didn't find any. – Hatshepsut Apr 24 '16 at 18:31
The answer by tardy pigeon found at least 3 times Obama said "queue" to American audiences. – slebetman Apr 26 '16 at 6:36
@slebetman Cool, thanks for pointing that out. I re-checked the database and there just aren't any events recorded in the db for those dates. – Hatshepsut Apr 26 '16 at 6:46
I'm sure Obama knows the distinctions between British and American English on 'queue' and 'line'. He is noted for his oratory skills, so I am confident that he chooses his words in light of his audience. It is unlikely that he would use the word 'queue' speaking to an American audience, but I would be surprised to hear him use the word 'line' when addressing British media, especially in prepared comments.
When a foreign head of state is speaking to US media, I expect them to speak some variety of English. What is so unusual about Obama speaking British English to the British?
JoelJoel
It's quite possible that politicians use different varieties of English in different countries.
For example, Tony Abbott, who is generally perceived as less intellectual and less internationally-minded than Obama, and therefore less likely to use different varieties of English in different countries, nonetheless gave the following anecdote differently in a speech given in Australia compared to one given in Japan, which tends to use American English. In Australia, he used the Australian English "car parks", whereas in Japan he used the American English "parking lots"
PRIME MINISTER - ADDRESS AT CEDA'S 2014 STATE OF THE NATION CONFERENCE, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA
Prime Minister Menzies for instance opened up trade with Japan at a time when Japanese cars were still banned from RSL club car parks.
TRANSCRIPT OF THE HON. TONY ABBOTT MP, ADDRESS TO THE JAPAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, TORANOMON MITSUI BUILDING, TOKYO
Back in the 1960s, there were veterans' associations in Australia that tried to ban Japanese cars from their parking lots because of understandable feelings about the war – but our countries' leaders, I'm pleased to say, were bigger than that.
(He also gave a description of the RSL in the speech given in Tokyo, rather than mentioning it by name)
If Tony Abbott can use a different variety of English, it's very plausible Obama could as well.
Andrew GrimmAndrew Grimm
I don't know who wrote those lines, but queue is used in in AmE:
a line of people or things waiting for something:
There was a long queue for tickets at the theater.
(Cambridge Dictionary)
Ngram: queue in AmE vs BrE.
The word "queue" is used in American English, but is is less commonly used than "line" in expressions like "stand in ___" or "back of the ___." – sumelic Apr 22 '16 at 20:15
See this Ngram: books.google.com/ngrams/… – sumelic Apr 22 '16 at 20:15
@WS2 - Queue: late 15c., "band attached to a letter with seals dangling on the free end," from French queue "a tail," from Old French cue, coe "tail". The Middle English metaphoric extension to "line of dancers" (c. 1500) led to extended sense of "line of people, etc." (1837). etymonline.com/index.php?term=queue – user66974 Apr 22 '16 at 20:28
@WS2 This sense of queue is a late development in English; it was originally used for a 'tail' and later for a 'pigtail'. If you consult OED 1 you will find that the earliest citation is from 1837, and all the citations have a French context; one, from 1862, actually puts the word in italics as a foreign word. The fascicles in the Q volume were published in 1902-1910. – StoneyB Apr 22 '16 at 20:32
Maybe it's the example...at least in the US Midwest, we'd say "There was a long line for tickets at the theater". – Kristina Lopez Apr 22 '16 at 22:40
He DID say "queue". If I (British) visited New York, would I ask "Where's the elevator" or "Where's the lift?". Would you try to extract any deep meaning from my choice? Would I be accused of "cultural appropriation"? Is there any point whatsoever in this topic, other than a chance for us to display our political agendas?
The purpose is to test the assertions from some quarters that Obama's use of queue illustrates that he was primed by the UK government. – WS2 Apr 24 '16 at 13:02
On this question, a swarm of Stack Overflow users and computer experts have talked about queries and queues, as if everyone knew what they meant. Specialized language is not the language of common folk, and this is true for university level mathematics and computer science jargon. Maybe very soon everyone will be familiar with these terms and how they are used, but what about today? It is a given that Americans will largely prefer: line, or line up over queue.
So, who can say for certain that the US President Obama's expression choice "in the back of the queue" did not refer to the UK being physically, or metaphorically, "at the end of a line/queue"?
Cambridge Dictionaries cites on the Business button
• UK (US line) a number of people who want to do or have something: be at the front/back of the queue It's public-sector workers who are always at the back of the queue when pay rises are being handed out.
No one is denying that Americans "know" the term queue, but there is overwhelming evidence that suggest Americans will say 'line' over 'queue'
Google results for line at the movie = 672,000
Results for waiting in line at the movie = 65,400
Results for waiting in line at the cinema = 32
Results for queue at the movie = 39
Results for queue at the movies = 33
Results for queue at the cinema = 14,500
Results for cinema queue = 6,060
Elsewhere on EL&U we have:
In US English, the thing is: a line
To be on it is
to wait in line
To add to it is:
to get in line
@Mitch
Furthermore,
As badroit notes, queue is more common in British English whereas line is more common in American English in non-technical settings. @choster
Ergo Americans will prefer queue in technical situations. Likewise, computer scientists in anglophone countries will be familiar with its meaning of priority.
Wikipedia has a page dedicated to Queue (abstract data type). Emphasis in bold mine
In computer science, a queue (/ˈkjuː/ kew) is a particular kind of abstract data type or collection in which the entities in the collection are kept in order and the principal (or only) operations on the collection are the addition of entities to the rear terminal position, known as enqueue, and removal of entities from the front terminal position, known as dequeue. [...]
Queues provide services in computer science, transport, and operations research where various entities such as data, objects, persons, or events are stored and held to be processed later. In these contexts, the queue performs the function of a buffer.
Four days later ...
On the issue of whether President Obama was fed the expression (by his advisors or even by the British government) The Washington Post reports
Obama was simply repeating a warning made before by U.S. officials: that the U.S. is not interested in bilateral trade deals with individual countries, and that they would focus instead on deals with larger organizations like the E.U. However, the president's choice of words when making this point left many gobsmacked. The president of the United States had used the word "queue," typically used by Brits, rather than "line," considered the proper term in American English.
Twitter response
The first three twitter comments printed by the Post:
First time I've ever heard an American say queue.
Harry Cole
Re Obama, no American I know, including those in UK uses word "queue", it's "line". Giveaway "back of the queue" is scripted line
Vincent Moss
"Back of the queue"? Wouldn't that be "back of the line" for an American? Maybe No.10 dipped their quill into this speech...
Further on, the newspaper adds
Okay, it's certainly true that queue is used relatively rarely in American English: As the Oxford English Dictionary says in its listing for the word, it is a "chiefly British" word. But this isn't exactly a smoking gun. As James Ball of Buzzfeed UK was quick to point out on Twitter, Obama has actually used the word "queue" a number of times before.
It then lists three instances
(2010) "There were several people who were still in the queue who didn't have a chance to speak prior to us breaking."
(2011) Could I just say that Chuck is the only guy who asked two questions — so far. So just — when I cut off here, whoever was next in the queue — I'm messing with you, Chuck."
(2013) We've got to make sure that we have a legal immigration system that doesn't cause people to sit in the queue for 5 years, 10 years, 15 years — in some cases, 20 years."
…in none of the above examples was the president being used to trick British people to not act in their own interest. In fact, Obama has something of a habit of using British English. According to Not One-Off Britishisms, a blog run by University of Delaware English professor Ben Yagoda with the aim of catching the British English that enters into American daily life, the president has also been caught saying things like "full stop," "run to ground" and "take a decision."
By Adam Taylor April 23
How does this address the question? We all agree that "line" is what you stand in (in the US) when waiting to get into a movie. The word "queue" was used in a different sense by Mr. Obama. – Hot Licks Apr 24 '16 at 13:38
Search results from StackOverflow for "a queue" 24,626. So Obama was using a highly technical term with the general British public? No, he was using a term which the British were particularly comfortable and familiar with. – Mari-Lou A Apr 24 '16 at 14:36
Sorry, you're not making any sense. (Or are you arguing that "making sense" highly technical?) – Hot Licks Apr 24 '16 at 14:38
StackOverflow records 178,971 results for queue without the article, and this question is currently in the Hot Network Questions on SO. This explains the high number of views, the high number of upvotes for those answers which cite the computer science meaning of the term. – Mari-Lou A Apr 24 '16 at 14:54
Yeah, Senator Mitch McConnell is a well-known computer geek who's all up on the latest "highly technical" geek terminology. – Hot Licks Apr 25 '16 at 22:31
If you look at the entire quote, you'll notice that it already contains the word line ("down the line"). Maybe he deliberately chose to avoid using the same word twice (in different contexts) in adjacent sentences.
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The JES was one of the most popular of the auxiliary engines produced in the 1910s, as it had a good reputation for reliability.
J.E. SMITH MOTOR WORKS
Gloucester, England
JES were motorcycles produced from 1909 to 1924. The name came from the initials of J. E. Smith of J. E. S. Motor Works of Gloucester.
1909 JES was first offered as an auxiliary motor set to fit within a bicycle frame and drive the rear wheel by belt. The engine was a 1hp, 116cc four-stroke with a front-mounted gear-driven Fischer magneto, and the whole machine was a bicycle with braced forks and a fuel tank hung from the top tube.
The JES continued in this form for many years and was also built and listed as the City and the Imp.
1920 The engine was enlarged to 142cc and inclined in the frame, but the original simple concept remained.
1921 Added to the list was a 170cc two-stroke miniature motorcycle with two speeds and a vertical engine.
1922 A single-speed version appeared.
1923 The four-stroke was dropped, but the single-speed two-stroke ran on with a three-speed version. To these were soon added a lightweight with four-speed chain-transmission and the choice of 247cc two-stroke or 249cc ohv Blackburne engines – a move to more conventional machines.
1924 The company acquired the Connaught marque of Birmingham, and for that year there were just two lightweight models. One with the 247cc two-stroke, but the other with a 348cc sv engine. Both had three-speed Burman gearboxes and chain-cum-belt drive. The auxiliary motor set was re-introduced. This was a 123cc two-stroke engine, chain drive and in either gents' or ladies' style of bicycles frame. It was also available as a conversion kit. The make did not survive beyond the end of that year. The specification sheet reproduced below is for the 1909 JES, which was 116cc.
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'The Kittens of the Spider World'
Category/Categories: Pet General Interest
Inside the Growing Subculture of Insect Pet Owners
By Heide Brandes
Kathy Hendricks pointed at the shelves of little plastic cups that decorate her living room. In each cup, tiny black dots scurried about and crawled along the sides.
The cups hold spider babies, specifically jumping spider babies. In other containers, full-grown jumping spiders darted around playfully as she teased and cooed to them. The black widow spider was too serious for play. It sat, fat and quiet, like a hanging judge in its own home.
In other places around Hendricks' home, praying mantises swiveled their bulbous heads in search of the flies that Hendricks feeds them. They paid no mind to the perfect replicas of molted tarantula skins that Hendricks collected from her big spider pets.
In all, Hendricks said she probably has more than 1,000 spider and bug pets in her home. As a spider breeder and collector, the Oklahoma native is part of a growing subculture of bug pet breeders and pet owners that is crawling toward popularity in the underbelly of exotic pets.
"That's a little escape jumper on my window. I find them in my curtains and stuff. I love jumpers. They are so fun, and they are just as curious about you as you are about them. I call them the playful kittens of the spider world," Hendricks, 37, said.
Hendricks grew up in Claremore, Oklahoma City and Texas and was fascinated by multi-legged critters from the start.
"In Texas and Oklahoma, there's such biodiversity there. I've always been a fan of bugs," she said. "Growing up on a farm, I was taught from an early age to have a respect for insects. You learn the good ones from the bad ones. So, like with the jumping spiders in particular, I realized what valuable pest control they were, and I knew better than to smush them."
Hendricks said she was a girly-girl who wore princess dresses while flipping over rocks to find spiders. Her fascination grew as she became an adult and started creating art for the Oddities & Curiosities Expos.
"I was buying dead tarantulas to use in art," she said. "Instead of buying the dead spiders, I decided to get a tarantula and collect their molts for myself. When a tarantula molts, it sloughs off its skin, which is a perfect replica of itself."
When she bought her first tarantula three years ago, Hendricks found online groups and communities of bug enthusiasts. She discovered a subculture of people who kept jumping spiders as pets and saw there was a market for the eight-legged furry arachnids.
"There's a lot of talk and concern within the oddities community about ethical sourcing. Did you take this insect out of the wild? Is this having some kind of effect on the environment? And that's a really good question to stop and ask yourself about some of these species," Hendricks said.
"But I love the jumping spiders. They are so playful, and they are so smart. They interact with you and follow you and are really curious about you. I just love watching their little antics."
Hendricks began raising native and some non-native jumping spiders to sell at reptile expos and curiosity expos in Kentucky, where she lives now. She also breeds the spiders to sell nationwide.
"Any good breeder at an expo will tell you how to take care of an animal because we want them to go to good homes. I don't want you to kill all my babies," she said. "I joined Facebook groups of spider collectors. There are people in those groups that have been in the hobby for 20 or 30 years. There's one group that has about 20,000 people in it. … and there's some specifically for breeders."
Like other pet owners, Hendricks goes out of her way to spoil her little spider pets. She makes little miniature sets and houses for them, and many people use the little bugs as models for photography.
"Jumpers are great models. They'll pose for you and interact with you. They make eye contact with you when most bugs don't seem really that interested in you," she said.
Kelly Shufeldt-Rodriguez, 37, also discovered a love of jumping spiders—and found a sort of salvation in them as well.
A Fort Townson, Oklahoma, native, Shufeldt-Rodriguez said she feels peace in the multiple eyes of the little furry arachnids after suffering years of post-traumatic stress disorder from serving in the Air Force as a medic in Iraq.
In 2009, she was deployed during a particularly "intense and brutal" time in Iraq. The losses and horrors she survived followed her home, and over the next six years, that stress made her life hell.
"In 2014, I was diagnosed with PTSD from my deployment," she said. "It was a rough deployment, and there aren't that many of us still around from that time. When I was deployed, Iraq was very hot, so summer is a very hard time for me. I really suffer during the summer months when it's hot outside. It brings up some bad memories."
Last spring, she was gearing up to survive another summer when a teeny tiny jumping spider jumped on her. She called for her husband to bring his professional camera to take a close-up picture of the friendly visitor.
"That's when my husband showed me how to take the close-up pictures," she said.
Shufeldt-Rodriguez grew up in southeastern Oklahoma with an outdoor father who often taught his six children about bugs, spiders and lizards. She was no stranger to the creepy crawly residents of nature, but that little jumping spider sparked something inside of her.
"There was very much a sense of awe and a 'wow' factor when you zoom up close to the spider. I've always been fascinated by spiders, and jumping spiders are very inquisitive and not reclusive at all," she said.
"They like to explore. They jump on you. When you move, they notice, and they look at you and tilt their little heads like they want to understand you. Once I got down on its level, it was looking at me, and I was looking at it. Our eyes met, and there was a shared moment of 'wow.'"
She eventually found the jumping spider Facebook group and began sharing her photos. Through the group, she met Hendricks, who gave her three baby jumping spiders. Eventually, she had up to 22 jumping spiders in little spider houses that she and Hendricks made.
"Around February, I decided to bring them back outside. I only have three spiders left," Shufeldt-Rodriguez said. "I learned so much from keeping them as pets. Last summer, when I discovered macro photography and spiders, that was the first summer in a long time that I felt peace and joy. I still have rough days, but they are interspersed with lots of lovely days of photographing and caring for the spiders I adopted."
NOT SO STRANGE AFTER ALL
Keeping bugs as pets isn't as strange as one might think. Bugs are so popular as pets, most people can buy hundreds of varieties online. Ghost and orchid praying mantises, along with tarantulas and scorpions, are growing in popularity. In Japan, stag beetles are so sought after that they are sold in dollar stores.
"Keeping non-traditional pets, including insects and arthropods or what we refer to as 'bugs,' is becoming common. What was once considered a kind of strange hobby is gaining attention, and more people seem interested in learning how best to care for reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates," said Erica Buckwalter, Family and Interpretive Programs manager for the Oklahoma City Zoo.
Like with any pet, it's essential to do research prior to acquiring a new animal for your family, she said. And when it comes to invertebrates, there are so many to choose from.
"When researching your potential pal, it's important to consider the following: nutritional needs, habitat size and containment, social structure and lifespan. You don't want to be surprised when your new animal doesn't stick around, whether it be because they were sneaky and got out or because they were at the end of their life cycle," Buckwalter said.
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COVID-19 Vaccination for Children With Poorly-controlled Asthma
Dawn O'Shea
The current UK recommendation on COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 12-17 years should be expanded to include children in the five to 17 years age bracket who have been hospitalised with asthma or have been prescribed two or more courses of oral steroids for asthma within the past two years, according to the findings of a Scottish study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
The study, which was urgently requested by the Joint Commission on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), analysed data from more than 750,000 school-aged children in Scotland who were included in the Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II) dataset to identify which children with asthma are at increased risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes, and should be prioritised for vaccination.
Between March 1, 2020, and July 27, 2021, 752,867 children were included in the EAVE II dataset, 63,463 (8.4%) of whom had clinician-diagnosed and recorded asthma. Of these, 4,339 (6.8%) had RT-PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection.
In those with confirmed infection, 67 (1.5%) were admitted to hospital with COVID-19. Among the 689,404 children without asthma, 40,231 (5.8%) had confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections, of whom 382 (0.9%) were admitted to hospital with COVID-19.
The rate of COVID-19 hospital admission was higher in children with poorly controlled asthma – defined as previous asthma hospital admission and at least two previous prescriptions for oral corticosteroids within two years of the study start date - than in those with well controlled asthma or without asthma.
When using previous hospital admission as the marker of uncontrolled asthma, the risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation was increased more than six-fold (adjusted HR 6.40; 95% CI 3.27-12.53) for those with poorly controlled asthma and by more than 30 per cent (adjusted HR 1.36; 95% CI 1.02-1.80) for those with well controlled asthma, compared with those with no asthma.
When using oral corticosteroid prescriptions as the marker of uncontrolled asthma, the adjusted HR for COVID-19-related hospital admission was 3.38 (95% CI 1.84-6.21) for those who had received at least three courses of corticosteroids in the previous two years, and 3.53 (95% CI 1.87-6.67) for those who had been prescribed two courses, compared with those with no asthma. Children who had received one course of corticosteroids had an adjusted HR of 1.52 (95% CI 0.90-2.57) and those with asthma who had not been prescribed a course of oral corticosteroids had an adjusted HR of 1.34 (95% CI 0.98-1.82), compared with children with no asthma.
The findings of the analysis – the first of its kind – suggest that school-aged children with asthma and a recent hospital admission or at least two courses of oral corticosteroids are at markedly increased risk of COVID-19 hospital admission, although it must be noted that the overall risk of admission was low, with one in 380 children with poorly controlled asthma being admitted.
Presenting the results, the authors recommend that children aged five to 17 years, with poorly controlled asthma, should be prioritised for vaccinations. It is estimated that this would translate to approximately 109,448 children across the UK.
Commenting on the research, lead author, Professor Aziz Sheikh from the University of Edinburgh, explained that "understanding which children with asthma are at increased risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes is critical to ongoing policy deliberations on vaccine prioritisation.
"The key takeaway from this study is that keeping children's asthma under control is critical as this greatly reduces the risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation. Vaccinating those with poorly controlled asthma offers an additional important layer of protection from serious COVID-19 outcomes."
The study findings are limited by a number of factors, however, including the use of surrogate markers of poor asthma control and the omission of some confounding factors, such as tobacco exposure, living conditions, and ethnicity.
Writing in a linked Comment, Rachel Harwood from Alder Hey in the Park, Liverpool, says: "Careful decision-making around the delivery of the vaccine to children younger than 12 years is essential. Although children with asthma have been identified as having an increased risk of being admitted to hospital compared with peers without asthma, the overall risk remains very low. A balance between the risk of hospitalisation from SARS-CoV-2 and the low risk of vaccination side-effects needs to be carefully considered before vaccination is contemplated."
She adds, "Over the coming winter, many well recognised respiratory viruses are anticipated in children, and in combination with seasonal changes, these are expected to increase the frequency and severity of asthma exacerbations. A focus on excellent asthma control, including the delivery of the influenza vaccine, and improving air quality and hygiene in schools is essential for all children with asthma to reduce their susceptibility to exacerbations over the coming winter."
Shi T, Pan J, Katikireddi SV, McCowan C, Kerr S, Agrawal U, et al. Risk of COVID-19 hospital admission among children aged 5–17 years with asthma in Scotland: a national incident cohort study. Lancet Respir Med. Published November 30, 2021. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00491-4
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Family Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines - 2021 Year in Review
2010http://reference.medscape.com/sites/2021-allergy-immuno-guidelines
Allergy and Immunology Clinical Practice Guidelines - 2021 Year in Review Collection
Severe Asthma in Primary Care: What Can We Do Before Referring to a Respiratory Specialist? 0.5 CME Credits
0.5 CME
Severe Asthma in Primary Care: What Can We Do Before Referring to a Respiratory Specialist?
2010http://reference.medscape.com/sites/2021-family-medicine-guidelines
Family Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines - 2021 Year in Review Collection
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