If you followed national Formula Ford 1600 in any capacity last season, then there is no way you would have been able to miss the name of Niall Murray, who came, saw and conquered across the board in a remarkable 2016 campaign.
Not content with just a dominant title success in the BRSCC British National Formula Ford 1600 Championship, the Irishman would also add victories in three blue-riband FF1600 events, the Martin Donnelly Trophy, Formula Ford Festival and Walter Hayes Trophy.
Murray’s journey to Formula Ford superstardom has been a fascinating one, with him first entering the spotlight in the UK back in 2011, when he entered the Ginetta Junior Championship as the inaugural champion in the Ginetta Junior Ireland series.
Despite battling with limited resources and testing in the small Beacon Racing outfit, Murray enjoyed a hugely impressive maiden season in the competitive BTCC support series, with six consecutive podiums to end the year setting him up for a 2012 title tilt.
Moving to Douglas Motorsport, Murray would go on to compete in a talented field that was headed by now Ginetta factory driver Charlie Robertson, two-time McLaren Autosport BRDC Award finalist Sennan Fielding and McLaren GT young driver Andrew Watson.
Early drama on the second weekend at Donington Park dented Murray’s championship challenge, but the Irishman would eventually end the season having accrued more points than anyone else – though the series’ dropped score ruling left him third in the final standings.
As Murray told TheCheckeredFlag.co.uk at last month’s Autosport International Show, he looks back at his time in the Ginetta fold with fondness, and feels his time in the championship provided him with the perfect grounding both on and off track for his subsequent career.
“Ginetta’s were fantastic for me, particularly the team there. At the time, they were just in the national scene really and there was a real family feel to it, hanging around in the parts trucks with the team just having a laugh and enjoying the weekends,” said Murray.
“My time in the Juniors really matured me as a driver. In Ireland, you were racing on one or two tracks with a relatively small paddock, but you came over here and it was a big step, with ten different circuits to learn and no real testing in my first year.
“I’m glad we spent that first season on the backfoot really, engineering ourselves with no team-mate to work with, as it taught me to learn a new car and new circuits quickly, which are skills that have definitely helped me since.
“I look back at 2012 and one weekend ruined the championship for me, with the problems at Donington Park. I would have loved to have won the title, but I learnt from the mistakes I made that season and came away with lots of race wins, podiums and lap records that stand to this day.”
As his time in Ginetta Junior competition came to an end, Murray saw efforts to stay on the sportscar ladder curtailed by budget restraints, which led to a return to his homeland and an introduction to the world of Formula Ford.
Murray’s entrance coincided with a huge boom in popularity for the Irish championship’s, ensuring he was pitted against a competitive field as he learnt his trade, with his season long progression being ultimately rewarded with a massive surprise win in the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch.
“At the end of 2012, we looked to take the step up the Ginetta ladder to the G55’s, but the budgets were out of reach. So we looked to head back to Ireland, and the only championship we had any interest in was the Formula Ford, with 2013 being one of its biggest ever years,” he explained.
“There were 35 cars on the grid for the first race, which is unheard of in Ireland, and it was fantastic to be part of it. Throughout 2013 me and the team were learning the car and single-seaters, so there was no pressure and we managed to win a race during the year.
“It was only during the end of the year that it started to really click, and we went to the UK knowing that I’d always done well around Brands Hatch. We were quick in testing in Thursday and Friday, but with no live timing nobody was really sure where everyone stood.
“As the Irish guy doing it for the first time, no-one expected much from us, but the rumours started going around the paddock on the Friday evening that we had done these times and that gave me a boost of confidence, that we had the pace to challenge.
“To actually go on and win was unbelievable, and it was made all the better by the fact we started back in fifth and had to pass everybody to get into the lead, no-one fell off or broke down, and overtaking had been my main weakness through 2013.”
With confidence high following his Festival victory and the subsequent accolade of being named the 2013 Dunlop Motorsport Ireland Young Racing Driver of the Year, Murray would go on to truly dominate proceedings in Irish Formula Ford the following season.
A sensational campaign would see Murray win both the Northern Ireland and All Ireland Formula Ford 1600 titles with a weekend to spare. Whilst that success should have catapulted him to the next level in single-seaters, his next move would prove to be a bit of a surprise.
With options limited as the 2015 campaign rapidly approached, Murray found himself making his first foray into tin-top racing with a late challenge in the SEAT Supercup Ireland series – utilising the machinery used in the BTCC-supporting SEAT Cupra Championship in the late 2000’s.
Despite his relative lack of experience and the fact he missed the opening rounds, it’s perhaps no shock that the rapid Dubliner was a front-runner from the off, with four wins in four weekends eventually taking him to championship glory.
“Winning the Driver of the Year award gave us a fully-funded season in 2014. Running with Bernard Dolan, who is unbelievable, we had a fantastic year in Ireland and was quickest in the Festival but didn’t race, and was leading the Walter Hayes before the weather changed,” he recalled.
“When the prize was finished, we looked at our options and despite winning the championships and having proven we were quick in both Ireland and the UK, opportunities didn’t open up for us and we didn’t really have the budget to go and race Ginetta’s, Clios or anything like that.
“We had a deal about 70% done to compete in a European GT4 series with a Dutch team, but that fell through and the week before the first SEAT Supercup races, we looked at a bare shell in the workshop and decided we’d build it up for me to race.
“The championship was just starting and it was only meant to be a one weekend thing to get another number on the grid, but although we didn’t end up getting the car built in time for the first races, I ended up doing the rest of the championship on a weekend-by-weekend basis.
“Every weekend we realised I was getting closer to the championship lead, so decided to just do another one and another one, and I’m delighted to have come away with the championship, especially with my season having cost less than nine thousand euros.”
Following his tin-top excursion, Murray headed back to familiar ground in Formula Ford last season and certainly showed that the year out did him no harm as he pieced together a sensational maiden campaign in the BRSCC British championship.
A run of ten victories in fourteen races ensured he won the title with three races to spare, and that wasn’t all for the Irishman, who added victories in the Formula Ford Festival, Walter Hayes Trophy and Martin Donnelly Trophy – success for which Murray gives all the credit to one man.
“Bernard [Dolan], simply, was the key. His level of preparation with the car was extraordinary. It was the same car I used to win the 2013 Festival, but he’d completely reworked the car, the details of which he wouldn’t want to be published, to get it exactly how he wanted it,” he enthused.
“The car was unbelievable, and I knew that from the first test session I did in it. We made a couple of clicks here and a couple of turns there with the set-up that day, and then did we didn’t have to touch the car set-up wise for the majority of the season.
“It didn’t matter how different the tracks were, or whether it was for qualifying or the race, we didn’t need to change anything and that shows just how perfect Bernard’s car was, and it’s no surprise he’s won the championship the last two years.
“A number of times through the season I’d have to drive the rental car back to the hotel at 11pm just to get some sleep, but Bernard would stay behind working on the car, sleep in the garage and then be back working on it again first thing in the morning.
“The level of dedication he puts in is unbelievable, and thank god his workshop is at his home, or else he’d never be home to see his wife! His son Sam works for us and has the same work ethic, they don’t go home at 6pm, they just keep working all night until the job is done.”
Murray’s end-of-season victories mean he’s written his name in the history books as only the second driver ever to win both the Festival and Walter Hayes in the same season – a feat that he acknowledges he will always look back on with immense pride.
“It’s brilliant. I wanted to be the first driver to win the Festival two years in a row, but it didn’t go our way in 2014, so to then come in this year and not only win the Festival for a second time, but in the same year as the other successes, it’s truly unbelievable,” he enthused.
“After winning the championship, I remember saying to Bernard that all we had to do now was win the Festival and the Walter Hayes, but deep down I knew that even if I was quickest at both, I might win one if things went my way.
“With over one hundred entries, anything can happen on those weekends, with mistakes, contact, mechanical problems and everything. I needed luck on my side, and fortunately all the stars aligned and it all clicked for me.
“The car was there, it was so good it made my job so easy, so I just needed to do the lap-times on track and managed to bring it home both times. It was a fantastic team effort and I can’t thank them all enough for helping me make history like that.”
Murray’s title success in the BRSCC series was rewarded when he was invited to Laguna Seca in December to compete in the coveted Mazda Road to Indy shootout, which saw him battle twenty other drivers to try and win a $200,000 scholarship for an entry into USF2000.
The contest brought together champions from across the globe, with Murray impressing on his way to the final six. While he missed out on the ultimate prize, he says the experience highlighted to him just how valuable racing in the competitive Formula Ford class can be for a driver.
“70, 80% of the people at the Autosport Show here today that are involved in motorsport will think nothing of Formula Ford, viewing it as some club racing, and Dad’s wanting to move their kids from karts to cars will ignore it and go for Formula 4 or similar,” he commented.
“It’s sad that Formula Ford isn’t noticed, it’s such a good class and teaches you so much more about set-up and on track racing than slicks and wings cars do, and the shootout in America really showed the level that Formula Ford championships are at around the world.
“It was brilliant to meet drivers from across the world, all at a similar age group, and hear their stories about how they got into the sport, and it was great to pit myself against the best drivers from the most competitive Formula Ford series in the world.
“Unfortunately I didn’t come away with the prize, but it was a brilliant experience. I finished fastest on day one, despite having not driven the car or circuit before which others had, and got into the final six drivers which was fantastic.”
Murray admits his scholarship experience has opened his eyes to American racing and the wealth of opportunities for a young driver across the pond, with his ambition to race in USF2000 next year being clear – though he accepts that the chances of him making the move are looking slim.
“All I want for 2017 is to be in a race suit in a race car, and where that is doesn’t bother me too much. Deep down, I know that the most opportunities for my career are in America and it’s unquestionable that I would want to go out there and race,” he concluded.
“Seeing how well the Scholarship was run, everything about the preparation and execution was perfect, and that shows how well they run their race weekends and championships, plus there’s the proper ladder of progression there unlike anywhere else in the world.
“I would love to go into USF2000, but the cost of the new cars and spares are higher than the teams expected and therefore budgets have naturally skyrocketed, which has sadly put it out of our price range for now.
“We spoke to the teams out there and they’re really proactive, trying to get tests together and do deals with us. We’re looking at maybe trying to do the first couple of rounds over there and see if we can continue after that, but I’m keeping my options open.
“Whether it is GT’s, prototypes, touring cars or single-seaters, I’m confident that I can jump into something new, learn it quickly and do the business straight away. I’d love to drive anything to be honest, I just need the next opportunity to show what I can do.”
While it’s not clear what the future will hold for the speedy Irishman, if his recent history is any indication, then Murray is destined for plenty more success as he tries to climb the motorsport ladder … on which side of the Atlantic that is remains to be seen.


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Allison Russell, Fisk Jubilee Singers seamlessly blend sacred, secular music at the Ryman
The multi-award-winning performers joined forces for a joyous celebration of Black spirituality
The Ryman Auditorium's 130th anniversary coincides with the 150th anniversary of historically Black Fisk University's Jubilee Singers. The two Nashville institutions are separated by the delineations between country and gospel music, now evolving beyond a past in which, as recently as five years ago, the venue had a sign on its lower level awning reading "Confederate Gallery."
However, via the soulful and transcendent testimonial of a modern Nashville resident -- world-renowned multi-instrumentalist and intensely empathetic, Montreal-born multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell -- the space between Music City's past and future was sanctified on Tuesday evening. The musical sermons of not just Russell but the Grammy-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers and mother-daughter performers O.N.E The Duo reigned supreme in moments as much defined by the holy gospel as they were ethereal alchemy.
The vaunted venue on John Lewis Avenue has heard Johnny Cash proclaiming that he'd "Walk The Line" to show his love to his wife, June, to Wynonna Judd, recently elevating her mother, Naomi, to the heavens via magnificently acknowledging that "Love Can Build A Bridge."
However, Allison Russell revealed that her track "Quasheba, Quasheba" -- recorded with Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla and Rhiannon Giddens in her quartet Our Native Daughters in 2019 -- was a song that she named after her African ancestor. It preceded onstage musical magic, unlike anything that has likely ever happened at the Ryman.
"We are one human family; faith, strength, and hope are our birthright," stated Russell. She then switched from clarinet to banjo, summoning all the gospel and R & B echoes awoken by the early solo set by the Fisk Jubilee Singers and O.N.E. the Duo.
"It felt like a wall of protective Black sound, an army, a fortress of ancestors protecting us. I've never experienced joy like that, on that song," Russell's band guitarist, New Orleans native Joy Clark, said of the performance. "That level of spirituality is how the Ryman should feel, forever, for Black people singing out ancestry,"
The Fisk Jubilee Singers, conducted by their three-time Grammy-winning conductor Shannon Sanders, backed Russell on the song.
"The curse of violence and bigotry can be broken. We are the ones we have been waiting for," noted Russell.
Allison Russell's 'Outside Child':‘The record isn’t about abuse, it’s about the journey out of it’
God's a soprano?:Fisk Jubilee Singers' director tells stories from all over campus
Previously at the Ryman:Yola leads a generation of Black female artists standing for themselves
Not just as of late, but over the past six years, she has been a vocal activist on the side of progressive political norms remaining in social conversations. Russell's post-COVID decision to embrace her status as a 20-year veteran artist as a leader of the reclamation of Black sounds from America's white-defined history has yielded many incredible moments. This event may have been the most notable.
In 20 years, Russell -- whether recently as a solo artist or in her past as a member of the music groups Po' Girl, Birds of Chicago and Our Native Daughters -- has officially released somewhere in the neighborhood of 170 songs. Her catalog has delved into everything from Carolina Chocolate Drops-retrofitting of timeless pop to bluegrass standards, gospel bridging into more secular tones and the banjo's reclamation as an instrument brought to America by Black hands.
On June 28, she played less than five percent of that catalog of beloved material.
Her set followed the Fisk Jubilee Singers, led by Paul T. Kwami, who breathed concert chorale-style life into Negro spirituals and soul ballads.
Of note, the Fisk Jubilee Singers' takes on quintessential gospel songs like "Good News" and "Old Time Religion" put versions from Sam Cooke and the live recording of Stax's 1973 "Wattstax" festival on alert in regards their excellence.
Russell followed for an hour. Each of her tracks was roughly ten minutes long, including spoken interludes that saw the Grammy-nominee deliver homily-style soliloquies to the crowd in attendance.
Hearing Russell, joined by the SistaStrings duo of Chauntee and Monique Ross, plus virtuoso guitarist Clark, is one of emergent-into-the-mainstream music's great pleasures. Thus, looser than usual versions of tracks including the set opener (and "Outside Child" album-included) "Hy-Brasil" and critically-acclaimed set-closer "Nightflyer" showcased the point and counterpoint interactions developed in a quarter-year of constant playing between Russell on the banjo, Clark on the acoustic guitar, plus the Ross sisters as violinist and cellists. Add in the Fisk Jubilee Singers' euphoric, holistic presence as the set's vocal made it a transcendent experience.
On her version of the 2019 Our Native Daughters track "You're Not Alone," Russell began to sing in her Montreal-native French. Given the nature of elevated spirituality achieved during the evening -- and if you were unaware -- it could be described as if she were speaking in tongues.
Describing the evening in total would require coining a term from a gospel hymn not sung at the storied venue on June 28: After three hours of performances, peace flowed like a river at the Ryman.
Allison Russell feat. Fisk Jubilee Singers setlist
- Quasheba, Quasheba
- 4th Day Prayer
- All of the Women
- You're Not Alone

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Stewart Casts Long Shadow on Martha Stewart Omnimedia
The company said Monday that it generated $39.6 million in revenue in the second quarter, compared to $47.3 million during the same period a year ago. Ad and circulation revenues fell at the company's flagship publication, Martha Stewart Living, mirroring a Magazine Publishers of America study released last week. Television ratings dropped although upfront CPMs rose slightly.
Second-quarter publishing revenues dropped 16.3% and although ad-revenue figures weren't available, chief financial officer James Follo said ad pages were down 34% to 312 pages during the quarter at Martha Stewart Living. Revenue numbers also included a new publication, Everyday Food, plus an extra issue of Martha Stewart Living and a Martha Stewart Wedding issue that wasn't published in the same quarter a year ago. Newsstand and subscription revenues dropped as well. Fallo told analysts that the company expected ad pages at Martha Stewart Living could drop
Television revenues fell 9.1% to $6.6 million in the second quarter, with lower ratings and advertising revenue for its syndicated show. While chief executive officer Sharon Patrick reported 70% inventory sold and mid single-digit CPM increases in the just-past upfront, the company expects the ratings to continue to drop as CBS moves Martha Stewart Living from daytime to late night although it will run during the day on UPN and independent stations in the same market.
The company told analysts and investors not to expect better results as long as Stewart's case remains unresolved.
"We believe that the Martha Stewart Living core brand will continue to be under significant pressure until a resolution of Martha's personal legal situation comes forward," Patrick said. "Our strategy until then will be to continue to invest to sustain our core brand equity, brand labels, and infrastructure and other assets of the company, including our talented people, and our core competence of editorial content, television production and product design."
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"This is an issue where, both on the commercial side in terms of advertising, and the consumer side in terms of product purchases, people are reacting to the negative effects of the brand, and the brand is embodied in a single person," Passikoff said. Brand Keys has temporarily stopped measuring Stewart's brand equity but it had been down nearly 35% in an assessment.
Passikoff said that if Stewart is found innocent, the company will recover but not to the level it had once enjoyed. But he said that Martha Stewart Omnimedia's best bet might be to migrate away from its personality centered approach and toward brand labels. He said that the days of thinking that advertisers and consumers had only one place to go for this type of product are over, with the appearance of Oprah Winfrey's magazine and AOL Time Warner's Real Simple.
"There are perfectly acceptable alternatives to what she has to offer, and the thing that gave her the added value was that it was Martha Stewart," Passikoff said. "Now there isn't that value, that value is down by 35%. "
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I have a 98 lincoln navigator 4x4 and hooked up a obd reader to it and pulled the codes p1309, p0304, and p0305. Now I have replaced the crankshaft and camshaft position sensor. The car still shakes, idles, ******, poor acceleration, gas mileage, hesitates, loud wind sound coming from the undercarriage of the car, also burnt smell coming what seems to be from the spark plugs. And I also hear like a loud whistling sound. Now in reference to the p1309 code if I changed both the crankshaft and camshaft position sensor synchronized them, than is one of the wire from my pcm or my pcm actually faulty?
I'm not sure why you started changing any sensors. All your problems apply to misfire issues. The PO304 and PO305 indicate misfire in cylinders 4 and 5. On that engine they have a ton of problems with the individual coils.I don't know how many miles are on your plugs now but I would be replacing the 2 coils in 4 and 5 and all the plugs if they have any age on them. That is no fun job to do on that truck either.
January, 8, 2011 AT 1:56 PM
As for the whistling noise, make sure you have no vacuum leaks but I kinda doubt that because you have no lean codes.
March, 4, 2011 AT 5:09 AM
I have almost the same issue, mine is a 98 expedition with a little over 170,000 except I have a third missfiring cyl. I have not even started into it yet. Could the three missfiring cylenders cause the p1309 code? I will be replacing coils, plugs and wires this weekend in hopes to clear everything up.
March, 5, 2011 AT 8:17 AM
Ok, I answered my own question. I changed the three coils and fired it up and I ran like a champ! Yes it was one hell of a miserable job! I was going to change all the spark plugs but might have to finish the rest when the other coils go bad, changing spark plugs isnt like it used to be.
March, 5, 2011 AT 12:28 PM
Please start another question of your own. We don't address multiple cars in one question


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Objectives: To describe patterns of uptake of Indigenous-specific health assessments and associated follow-up items, and examine the barriers and enablers to delivery and billing of follow-up over the first 3 years of implementation of the Indigenous Chronic Disease Package (ICDP).
Design, setting and participants: We used a socioecological approach to analyse data derived from the Sentinel Sites Evaluation of the ICDP — with data from 24 sites across Australia. Administrative data (1 May 2009 to 30 May 2012) and program data (1 March 2010 to 30 May 2012) were provided by the Department of Health. Data on barriers and enablers to follow-up of health assessments were obtained from community focus groups, in-depth interviews and discussions with key informants (1 November 2010 to 30 December 2012).
Main outcome measures: Monthly number of Medicare Benefits Schedule items claimed for Indigenous-specific health services and follow-up; qualitative data on enablers and barriers categorised according to patient, patient–health service relationship, health service or organisation, community and policy environment levels or influence.
Results: There was an increase in the uptake of health assessments, but relatively limited delivery of follow-up care and billing for Indigenous-specific follow-up items. Follow-up was constrained by factors that operated at various levels: patient, interpersonal, health service, community and policy. Constraints included practitioners' lack of awareness of item numbers, staffing, poor state of clinical information systems, billing against non-Indigenous-specific items or more general follow-up items, emphasis on health assessments with less attention to requirements for follow-up, limited capacity to arrange and facilitate follow-up, and communication and transport challenges for patients.
Conclusions: Work is required across various levels of the system to address barriers to follow-up care. Enhancing follow-up care is vital to achieving health benefits from the large financial and human resource investment in health assessments.
Preventive health assessments have become a feature of health policies internationally.1 In Australia, Medicare-funded Indigenous-specific health assessments (herein referred to as “health assessment”) and follow-up items have been progressively introduced since 1999 as a means to improve the limited preventive health opportunities and reduce high rates of undetected risk factors among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (respectfully referred to hereafter as Indigenous people) (Box 1).3,4
A recent systematic review shows that while health assessments may increase new diagnoses, there is a lack of evidence of their effect on morbidity and mortality.1 While the reasons for lack of impact of health assessments are not well understood, it is clear that health assessments have limited potential to impact on health outcomes in the absence of appropriate follow-up care.5-7 The $805 million Indigenous Chronic Disease Package (ICDP) introduced by the Australian Government in 2010 included program funding and a new workforce to help increase the delivery of health assessments and appropriate follow-up.8
Analysis of Medicare data shows an increase in the uptake of health assessments, but relatively limited billing for Indigenous-specific follow-up items.5,9 The limited use of follow-up items raises questions about the effectiveness of health assessments as a catalyst for enhancing access to preventive care and chronic disease management,10,11 and highlights the need for further research on how to increase follow-up after a health assessment.12
This paper reports on patterns of uptake of health assessments and associated follow-up items, and examines the barriers and enablers to delivery and billing of follow-up care over the first 3 years of implementation of the ICDP.
The analysis presented here draws on the mixed-methods Sentinel Sites Evaluation (SSE) of the ICDP. SSE methods are detailed elsewhere.5 The SSE was a formative evaluation covering 24 urban, regional and remote locations in all Australian states and territories. Data were collected, analysed and reported in 6-monthly intervals over five evaluation cycles between 2010 and 2012.
Data on uptake of health assessments and follow-up items were derived from administrative billing data provided by the Department of Health from 1 May 2009 to 30 May 2012. The period May 2009 to April 2010 was used as a “baseline” period, as it preceded implementation of the ICDP. Health assessment data include Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items, and are presented as health assessments claimed by services within the site boundaries per 100 Indigenous people aged ≥ 15 years. Similarly, the follow-up data include MBS items for follow-up of health assessments (see Box 1 for health assessment and follow-up items included in this analysis). Population data are based on Australian Bureau of Statistics projections from the 2006 Census according to the statistical boundaries used to define the sites.
Qualitative data on barriers and enablers to delivery of and billing for follow-up were obtained from individual and group interviews with a range of key informants from Aboriginal Health Services (AHSs), which include community controlled and government managed health services, and the general practice sector, which includes employees of Medicare Locals and general practices (Appendix 1). Interviewees were purposively sampled for their knowledge and experience with the ICDP. Interviews and analysis were informed by data on state of implementation of the ICDP at site level, as reflected in Department of Health reports. Repeated 6-monthly cycles of interviews and feedback of data between 1 November 2010 and 30 December 2012 allowed review and refinement of our understanding of delivery and billing of health assessments and follow-up items.
Community focus groups were conducted to explore community perceptions of accessibility and quality of services. Data from community focus groups were related to access to health services in general rather than being specific to follow-up of health assessments.
For the purposes of this paper, we conducted an analysis of SSE data using a socioecological framework.13,14 We reviewed the themes that were identified through the SSE as barriers and enablers to follow-up of health assessments,5 and used an iterative approach to categorise these themes according to various levels of influence: patient, patient–health service relationship, health service or organisation, community and policy environment. Some themes could be interpreted as a barrier or an enabler, and some were relevant to more than one level. We have therefore described each theme according to the predominant direction and most important level(s) of influence.
Ethics approval for the SSE was granted through the Department of Health Human Research Ethics Committee, project 10/2012.
Of the 581 individual interviews done through the SSE, 63 contained specific information about the follow-up of health assessments. Of the 58 group interviews, 31 contained information relevant to this paper. These 31 group interviews included 103 participants. Of the 72 community focus groups, 69 provided data on access to services (Appendix 1).
Uptake of Indigenous-specific health assessments and follow-up Medicare items
Aggregated data show a general improvement in uptake of health assessments and follow-up items after the baseline period, with some differences in trends between the sentinel sites and the rest of Australia (Box 2 and Box 3). The uptake of follow-up items was disproportionately low compared with health assessments. There were marked differences in trends between individual sites (Box 4) — more marked than differences between sites according to rurality.5
Levels of influence
Barriers and enablers to delivery and billing of follow-up care using a socioecological framework were identified at five levels of influence: patient, interpersonal, health service, community and policy. Findings at each level of influence are summarised below and exemplar quotes illustrating each theme and sub-theme are provided in Appendix 2.
Strategies to create community demand and incentives for patients to undergo health assessments were evident at the local level. These strategies did not appear to include attention to increasing follow-up of health assessments, and there was little evidence of patient demand for follow-up after health assessments in the sentinel sites overall. People working in ICDP-funded support roles with responsibility for encouraging patients to attend for follow-up reported that patients frequently appeared to lack information about the reasons for their follow-up referrals.
Interviewees in some sites identified relatively frequent movement of people, with no regular residential address and limited options for contacting patients by phone, as constraining follow-up care. Limited access to transport was consistently identified by community focus groups as a barrier to accessing services. Concerns were expressed about the cost of accessing follow-up services, with out-of-pocket costs to patients for allied health care in particular being unpredictable.
Negative past experiences affected patients' willingness to attend follow-up appointments. Community focus groups and interviewees shared personal stories that reflected perceptions of racist attitudes among health service staff — commonly reception staff.
Outreach workers, funded through the ICDP, played a key role in educating and supporting allied health providers and clinicians to provide culturally appropriate care in isolated pockets, but overall, allied health professionals had relatively limited access to cultural awareness training. General practitioners and practice staff were reluctant to refer patients to allied health professionals who they could not be confident would act in a culturally appropriate way.
Some GPs reported reluctance to refer patients for follow-up unless critical because they believed the patient would not attend, or they provided referrals with no expectation of attendance. Some patients appeared to resist adherence to follow-up referrals and treatment due to what they regarded as the “pushy” nature and communication style of some health professionals, and lack of adequate explanation of their health problem and treatment needs.
External support by regional support organisations including Divisions of General Practice (and subsequently Medicare Locals) helped improve awareness of the Indigenous-specific follow-up item numbers in health services and among allied health providers.
Health service level
Health service providers felt that short consultation times meant they had limited opportunity to explain reasons for referral for follow-up care to patients. This was related in part to shortage of service providers, including GPs, allied health professionals, Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) and practice nurses. Limited numbers of allied health professionals in particular constrained referral for allied health services. In some settings, eligibility requirements meant that some AHWs appeared to be ineligible to bill for relevant follow-up services, constraining use of these item numbers.
Organisations tended to have a greater focus on health assessments — partly for financial reasons rather than potential health benefit — with less attention to follow-up. This imbalance was also evident at policy and patient levels. Small numbers of Indigenous patients in many general and allied health professional practices were associated with a reluctance to reorient systems to address the needs of relatively few patients.
A general orientation within some health services to acute rather than chronic illness care limited the availability and interest of many nurses in providing follow-up services. This was particularly the case in remote settings, where acute care skills are an important criterion in recruiting nurses. GP-centric models of care, lack of clarity about roles and lack of confidence in co-workers were associated with limited opportunities for practice nurses and AHWs to manage patient lists and appointments and deliver follow-up consultations.
Another constraint on the uptake of follow-up items was the lack of established systems to organise and bill for follow-up, and a perception that the steps required for completion and correct billing of follow-up services were complex and required highly organised patient records and information flow. The need for changed work patterns, reorientation to preventive health and enhanced staff training and support in the use of clinical information systems presented significant challenges to health services in delivering and claiming these Medicare items. Leadership and management were vital to system change: where leadership lacked commitment, management practices did not support system change to implement this aspect of the ICDP. Where GP-centric models of care were entrenched, it was particularly difficult to reorient systems to enhance uptake of follow-up items.
Lack of capability in using clinical information systems, such as patient recall and reminder systems, also constrained follow-up. Ineffective use of these systems to support patient care was commonly reported in AHSs and general practices, and was also evident in allied health professionals' practice systems.
Staff turnover and use of locum staff (both nursing and GP) were associated with limited use of follow-up items. GPs were found to have varying knowledge and skills in relation to accessing appropriate Medicare items and working within a multidisciplinary team. Fluctuating staff numbers and variable knowledge among staff of the service operations made it difficult to reorganise systems to enhance follow-up.
Interviewees commonly reported that follow-up consultations were frequently billed as a standard consultation rather than the correct Indigenous-specific Medicare item number.
Lack of private allied health providers, and a tendency — for cost reasons — for clinicians to refer to salaried allied health professionals, where these professionals were available, also limited the use of the Medicare follow-up item numbers. Lack of easy access to information and transparency around gap payments, and entrenched perceptions that services would be expensive and require numerous repeat visits, were a barrier to health service staff referring patients to allied health professionals.
Barriers related to Indigenous social and economic disadvantage included poor availability of transport to attend follow-up appointments and high or unpredictable cost of allied health services. These were exacerbated in the context of general social and financial disadvantage. ICDP-funded outreach workers played an important role in helping patients overcome transport barriers in some sites.
At the policy level, the relatively low value of the MBS reimbursement for follow-up (relative to health assessment), reflected in the large gap payments that patients are faced with, appears to be an important constraint to greater uptake of the financial incentives available for follow-up. Increased and ongoing funding to support preventive care through Medicare encouraged uptake of follow-up care. The impact of this was constrained by relative emphasis on health assessments. There was confusion over eligibility of AHWs to claim the use of the follow-up items. Funding of positions and programs (including through the ICDP) to assist with provision of information to providers and community members and to overcome barriers to access enabled uptake of follow-up items.
While there has been a substantial increase in the uptake of health assessments over recent years, delivery of follow-up care and billing for Medicare Indigenous-specific follow-up items was disproportionately low, particularly given the evidence of the high levels of need for follow-up.6,12,15,16 Our study identified multiple influences on uptake of follow-up care at various levels of the system — many related to actual delivery of follow-up care and some related to billing for Medicare items numbers. The influences identified in our analysis are consistent with the research on barriers to implementing health assessments and on access to health services more generally.3,6,7,17-19 It appears that people receiving health assessments may be those who use health services more frequently,5 those of higher socioeconomic status, those with lower rates of morbidity and mortality and those with lower risk of chronic disease.1,20 Thus, health assessments may not be reaching those who need them most, reducing potential benefits at a population level. This “inverse care law”21 is likely to also be relevant to follow-up of health assessments, indicated by the access and cost barriers to follow-up identified in this analysis.
Strengths of the analysis in this paper include the mixed-methods approach, numbers and diversity of interviewees, geographic scope and diversity of study sites, and long-term repeated engagement with stakeholders, including feedback and member-checking of data and interpretation by local stakeholders. The socioecological analytical framework highlights that there are a number of factors at different levels of the system that enable or constrain choices made by individuals about access to health care.13,14
Limitations of this study include that sites were selected on the basis of early and relatively intense ICDP investment, and interviewees were selected because of their knowledge and interest in Indigenous health. The data provide a broad perspective of service settings across Australia, but this perspective may not necessarily be representative. Other limitations include that administrative data reflect billing for Medicare items, but do not necessarily accurately reflect the provision of clinical care. There is some evidence that follow-up may be happening, but that it is not being billed accurately. However, many of the identified barriers related to delivery of follow-up care rather than billing for follow-up items. Ecological models require themes to be categorised, and this process may be overly Western-centric.22 In conducting the analysis our team (which included Indigenous members) was sensitive to this risk. The strong links and interrelationships between themes need to be recognised. More general limitations of the SSE have been described elsewhere.5
Overcoming barriers to follow-up and strengthening enablers is vital to achieving health benefits from the large financial and human resource investment in health assessments. Our findings point to the need to support health services in developing systems and organisational capability to undertake follow-up of health assessments, but more importantly to reorient to high-quality, population-based and patient-centred chronic illness care. Drawing on our findings, we propose actions at various levels of the system to enhance both delivery of follow-up care and billing for follow-up items (Box 5). The diversity of contexts in which health services operate, the wide variation in current levels of follow-up between sites and the relevance of different contextual factors to barriers to uptake in different sites mean that strategies will need to be tailored to local circumstances.
1 Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS)-rebated items for Indigenous-specific health assessments and follow-up2
Follow-up by a PN or registered AHW
Follow-up by an allied health professional
Available to all Indigenous people and may only be claimed by a general practitioner
After a health assessment, a follow-up item can be claimed by GPs for follow-up services delivered by a PN or registered AHW on behalf of the GP
After a health assessment, if the GP identifies a need for follow-up by an allied health professional, a referral is made and the allied health professional can claim this item
MBS item number
704, 706, 710 to 1 May 2010; thereafter 715
Changed to simplify claiming by streamlining MBS item numbers to one item and making all claimable annually. This came into effect from May 2010 and coincided with implementation of the ICDP
Introduced in 2008, this MBS item allowed five follow-up services per patient per calendar year. This was expanded in 2009 to allow 10 follow-up services per patient per calendar year
Introduced in 2008, on referral from a GP, a maximum of five follow-up allied health services per patient per calendar can be claimed
AHW = Aboriginal Health Worker. ICDP = Indigenous Chronic Disease Package. PN = practice nurse.
2 Health assessments provided by a general practitioner, and follow-up services provided by a practice nurse (PN), registered Aboriginal Health Worker (AHW) or allied health professional
3 Follow-up services provided by a practice nurse (PN), registered Aboriginal Health Worker (AHW) or allied health professional in Indigenous people who had a health assessment
4 Uptake of practice nurse (PN), registered Aboriginal Health Worker (AHW) or allied health professional follow-up items in all urban sentinel sites and in the rest of urban Australia
NSW = New South Wales. Qld = Queensland. SA = South Australia. Vic = Victoria.
5 Potential strategies for strengthening follow-up of health assessments
Approaches to enhancing follow-up are presented for each level of the socioecological model. It is important that strategies to enhance follow-up use approaches across the range of levels, with attention to maximising synergies between approaches at different levels.
- develop locally relevant evidence-based approaches to create community demand for follow-up of adult health assessments;
- address transport and other barriers to access to follow-up care; and
- strengthen linkages between health services and local communities to enable recall of patients who require follow-up.
- ensure that cultural awareness training reaches relevant providers, including allied health professionals and service support staff, such as receptionists.
Health service level
- continue efforts to raise awareness of the follow-up Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item numbers among health service staff and allied health professionals, including how item numbers complement each other and why the correct Indigenous-specific item numbers should be used (eg, additional numbers of items available with specific item numbers);
- strengthen capability of health service staff to make effective and efficient use of clinical information systems, specifically including use of recall and reminder systems. Ongoing training and workforce development is required to address staff turnover and locum staff needs;
- support service reorientation from models suited to acute care to models suited to patient-centred and long-term care;
- develop and assess effectiveness and efficiency of alternate models of provision of allied health services and “what works for whom and in what circumstances”; and
- identify and communicate cost implications of referral for follow-up care, and address cost barriers to follow-up care.
- raise awareness of the need for ongoing chronic illness care and the importance of follow-up of issues identified in health assessments; and
- identify relatively high-need and hard-to-reach groups in local communities, and develop strategies to overcome the barriers to these groups accessing follow-up care.
- clarify the Aboriginal Health Worker role in provision of services, including provider number eligibility;
- ensure that the policy intent of having an Indigenous-specific MBS item number for follow-up services is clearly understood at different levels in the system; and
- emphasise the health-relevance of health assessments and the importance of follow-up care, and refine incentives to maximise potential health gain.
Received 21 December 2013, accepted 17 April 2014
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Latrobe Valley Meeting
12th Jul 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
WA Northern Sandplains/Kwongan Heathlands Mike Beamish
In 2016, Mike and Cathy travelled Western Australia for several months, pursuing their interests in nature and in particular, plants. Mike has already given us some instalments of these travels and this is a continuation of their movements through the Kwongan Heathlands north of Perth.


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ALOE VERA Considered a superb healing plant for burns; used for fungal induced itching and for soothing of the intestines (only consume as needed).
ARNICA OIL Can be utilized externally for sprains, muscle pulls, stiff and/or sore muscles and the like.
A HEAT SOURCE Such as a hot water bottle or heating pad, etc. These are used for dilating or “driving” herbs into the skin. Also used for Castor Oil Packs.
BENYDRYL – for a closed throat. Temp treatment.
CASTOR OIL PACKS The packs can be used to soften skin and muscle tissues, aid an individual during times of breathing difficulties (great for people with lung problems), pain management and much more. OLIVE OIL Can be used as an alternative to castor oil.
CAYENNE PEPPER Applied topically to stop injuries from bleeding.
AN ANTI-SPASMODIC HERBAL TINCTURE Used in cases of spasms, convulsions, and all types of cramps. Also used for mild to moderate pain.and much more.
HERBAL PAIN FORMULA Used for mild to moderate pains. Preferred in tincture form. Valerian Root, White Willow Bark, Kava Kava good for pain.
TEA TREE OIL Used as an herbal antiseptic, and also for temporarily remedying itching originating from fungi.
SLIPPERY ELM AND/OR MARSHMALLOW ROOT HERBAL TEAS Used in cases of acid reflux and for relief of digestive inflammation and distress.
PLANTAIN TINCTURE AND SALVE Used for insect bites, snake bites, and other poisonous bites.
PLEURISY ROOT, MULLEIN LEAF AND/OR FENUGREEK SEED Used as lung expectorants.
HERBAL INTESTINAL CORRECTIVE LAXATIVE Used in cases of food poisoning or intestinal discomfort following a meal.
HERBAL HEALING SALVE A healing salve should contain herbs such as comfrey, horsetail, lobelia, marigold, etc. This type of salve is used for sprains, muscle pulls, joint pains, wounds and the like.
AN HERBAL PARASITIC FORMULA For bacterial “infections” (overgrowths), E-coli, Candida, etc.
AN HERBAL BLEEDING FORMULA To stop internal and profuse external bleeding.
JOHN W. KEIM’S BURNS & WOUNDS OINTMENT Applied topically to heal burns (1st through 3rd degree burns) and wounds.
BURNAID[.com] Emergency burn dressings (used mostly for 1st and 2nd degree burns) for soothing inflammation and alleviating pain.
SALTWATER BATH – good for acne, psoriasis, eczema, etc. Soothing, alkalizing. Add a few good handfuls of a natural unprocessed salt to a tub of warm water. You can add a handfull of baking soda for extra alkalyzation. Some like to add Epsom salts as well.
STABILITY AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
(1) MOONSHINE YARROW; (2) EMERGENCY RELIEF; (3) FIVE-FLOWER FORMULA All three of the above flower essences can be used to calm individuals experiencing anxiety attacks, emotional shocks and traumas, emotional release, mild to extreme sorrow, etc. Moonshine Yarrow can greatly assist someone going through depression.
ASSISTANCE FOR STOPPING CIGARETTE SMOKING LOBELIA Once ingested, gives cigarettes a sometimes very foul taste.
KUDZU ROOT Used for breaking the attachment to alcohol, but also makes quitting cigarette smoking easier.
SKULLCAP Used for decreasing withdrawal symptoms.
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One day after in thanksgiving break my grandma came to visit. I loved having my grandma over because she would always bring me chocolates and gifts, but also I loved seeing my mom happy and she would always have the biggest smile on her face when grandma was visiting. Everyone in the family thought grandma was a proper grandma the classic one, she would eat nicely and get her nails done, have her hair done and always try to look her best, but what I learned from this experience are lots of things that you would never think my grandma would do.
The 110 degree air hits my body as i walk out of the Miami florida airport where a bus is waiting for me and everybody else that is going to get a car to rent. I get excited and want to do as much as i can with my family
Growing up and hearing my dad say, “I am going to Hattie’s house who wants to come.” This would always make all of us kids jump off the couch. As a matter of fact, I would have dropped anything I was doing to go to her house. Everyone loved my aunt Hattie. It always seems like she had the whole neighborhood at her house. That’s probably because she did. My aunt Hattie has always been so welcoming and open hearted; she was always so delighted to see anyone that walked through her door. She always made you feel as if her house was your own. Always insisting us to help ourselves to all the food and drinks she kept at the house. I can never remember a time being bored at my Aunt Hattie’s house. Her house was like an all you can eat buffet, racetrack and ballpark all at once.
Our grandma’s house is the one place we can go to celebrate things like holidays or birthdays. So when I was six we went to our grandmas house to celebrate our cousins 4th birthday. The first thing we do as a family is play a family game. So we did play a game but the thing about playing games in my family is that something bad always happens like someone getting hurt or we argue and fight and then we would end the game instantly. So after we played that family game the parents usually just sit around and talk the rest of the time.
The familiar smell of soft cookies and homemade cooking are common thoughts when people think about their grandma's house. Great feasts and family gatherings play a part in everyone's grandmother's home. But when I really think about my grandma's house only one word comes to my mind: fun.
My grandma had survived a hard life, and yet managed to raise four responsible, well-educated, and successful children. All this she did while working as a respected psychiatric nurse and a state mental health board member. Although she had had and was still overcoming trials in life, I always knew she would be there and cared about me and my life. As my brother and I grew older and were unable to visit my grandparents as often as we
I close the car door and step onto the snow covered pavement. The dogs bark inside of my aunt’s house, and my family and I walk in. I am greeted by my aunts, uncles, and grandma on my dad’s side. My cousins, who are much older than me, sit in


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By Darren Gilbert
While this is a fairly basic explanation, there is more meaning in these words than you may initially think. Green isn’t only speaking about PR in the traditional sense of the word. Instead, he is referring to PR’s new best friend: technology.
In a world where technology has provided a path for a company’s growth and development, it’s difficult to find an area that hasn’t been touched by it in some way or another. The same can be said for PR. In fact, if you were to go along with the sentiment of Phatic Communications’ director, Candice de Carvalho, you’d realise that technology has not just become a best friend for PR; it has become a necessity. “With PR evolving technically as a whole, the opportunity of using modern technology [in an effort to reach more people] has given the industry a new dimension.”
One part of this new aspect involves digital PR, a term which is surprising old school according to Channel Managed PR owner, Angelo Coppola. For America, it has been around for close to 14 years while in South Africa, it has only been around since the introduction of Facebook
to this country. If you haven’t guessed what it’s all about by now (and it’s fairly easy to do so), here it is: digital PR allows for the opportunity of the dissemination of news and information online, without relying solely on mainstream publications.
Otherwise referred to as ‘interactive public relations’ overseas, it allows for something which De Carvalho believes people in PR have wanted for a long time: a two-way conversation. “PR has come into its own online. People in PR have longed to dialogue and haven’t had the chance to do so [until the introduction of social media].” And then there is the absence of corporate obstacles for things such as giveaways, more freedom and its undeniable reach. “It’s definitely taken PR to the next level,” says Green. “If you were to just focus on numbers alone, you’d find that traditional PR can’t compete with online.”
I wonder whether those who dabbled in social media in the beginning ever envisioned such possibilities. My guess would be ‘no’, but such is the power of online as it stands that as Green rightly says, it would be downright mad to not even consider going the route of digital PR. With social media allowing anyone and everyone instant access to news and information no matter where they are, the possibilities of what online can do for PR, and thus for someone with a message to spread, is phenomenal.
It’s at this point that De Carvalho adds another reason for going the digital route. While distributing your message as quickly as possible is the goal, your thinking around how to get a message out needs to change. “You need to realise that your traditional outlets such as the Mail &ampamp Guardian
newspaper also have an online presence while [certain] publishers may only have an online presence. By not at least attempting digital PR, you are cutting out potential customers,” and in doing that, short-changing yourself. It’s a point Green agrees with. He maintains that “80% of those businesses who attempt it will find that it helps their company.”
In fact, Green is so confident about digital PR and its future role in South Africa that he believes by the middle of this year, the uptake will be immense. Of course, there is still fear from some companies about using social media, with Coppola admitting it is often viewed as the “whining channel,” but that can be easily combated with education. Another way of soothing those anxious minds, as Green reiterates, is to acknowledge that while the methods used in traditional and digital are different – the latter uses technologies such as search engines, Twitter
, blogging and social media marketing – communication online and offline is essentially the same.
It comes back to Green’s first statement. PR aims to get your message out to as many people as possible without having to do too much. In that light, social media and indeed the online space is like manna from heaven. Where else can you directly reach an audience of millions in so little time? For De Carvalho, and indeed Green and Coppola, it’s a no-brainer. In our world today, you need to think digital first.
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Poker is a family of card games that share common characteristics. They are played by comparing cards and making wagers over the hand that contains the highest ranking combination. Each game has its own rules and variations. However, the main feature of poker is bluffing. A player can bet his or her hand to bluff other players, thereby gaining the right to draw new cards. This feature of the game is a major reason why poker is so popular.
Poker is commonly regarded as an English descendant of the French game brelan, which is a similar game that uses cards to determine winners. However, it is also believed that the game originated in the Middle East, where it was known as as nas. There are several versions of the game, but most of them are played with a standard deck of cards. The most popular version is a game known as Texas hold ‘em.
All types of poker involve one or more rounds of betting. After each round, the winnings are added to a central pot. Pots may be awarded to different players or split into separate side pots. Depending on the type of poker, the winner may be the player who holds the best hand or the lowest hand.
One of the most basic types of poker is called three-card brag. It is also called “Primero” in France and “Stand pat” in the U.K. During the American Revolution, this game was very popular. Today, it is considered to be a gentleman’s game.
Another type of poker is called draw. In this game, players receive new cards from an undealt portion of the deck. Usually, a player must place an ante in the pot before he draws. He or she can discard a maximum of three cards. If no other player matches the bet, a showdown takes place.
Players may bet either with coins or chips. Depending on the game, a player who wins the showdown may receive a number of chips that is equal to the amount of the pot. An all-in bet, on the other hand, involves the player betting his or her entire stack of chips. Generally, a straight or flush is the lowest hand, but some games do not consider a pair to be the lowest. Similarly, some games do not include wild cards.
Poker is played in casinos, private homes, and in clubs. The popularity of the game has increased considerably in recent years. Many people play poker online. Some of the world’s largest tournaments were held in casinos between 2003 and 2006. Online poker games have become more popular than ever.
Most variants of poker allow a certain number of players. Usually, the number of players is six to eight. For example, the ideal number for a game of Texas hold ‘em is about six. Other poker variations are played with fewer players, or with a fixed number of players. When more than one player remains in contention after the final betting round, the game is referred to as a draw.

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