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Episode 2: Forecast: Rain with a Chance of Knee Deep Powder
A wave of rain shook the window, waking me up. Next to me in the van, my friend was staring at the ceiling in desperation. We had driven late into the night hoping to catch the storm heading for Tomamu. The low-pressure system arrived as predicted but, unfortunately for us, it only brought every skier's nightmare: rain.
We had parked in Shimukappu, Hokkaido, just 25 kilometers from Tomamu Alpha Resort and nearly at the same elevation as the base of the resort. We were sure the conditions would not be good. Even so, through every tunnel, we expectantly hoped to catch a glimpse of the remnants of a snowstorm. The temperature had dropped, but the scenery was still wet and bleak; snow banks like concrete on both sides of the road.
The sad conclusion finally crept forward from the back of my mind all the way to my mouth as I dared to say what we were both thinking, ''It looks like it rained all the way to the top of the mountain."
We planned to ski Tomamu Resort, stay overnight in the impressive tower at the base of the resort, then join a cat-ski tour we booked to celebrate the end of our three-month snow road trip across Japan. As we stepped out of the car and onto the frozen ground, I wished I had worn a pair of skates. After wandering around the lodge for about an hour, we finally mustered up some motivation to strap on our gear and hit the slopes.
The top lifts, with the most interesting terrain, were closed due to howling winds, so we couldn't even see if snow had fallen at the top of the mountain. As we were getting in line for the bunny chair, neither of us was optimistic. On the way up, the screeching sound of some courageous skiers was not heartening. The first (and only) turn I made confirmed my suspicions. It was looking as if our last day of the season would be in the worst snow condition.
We both agreed. This was not a day for skiing. We weren't used to entertaining ourselves at a resort on rainy days, so it took us a while to realize we could hang out in the Viz Spa House which has everything you need to forget a crappy day of skiing. I have tried a lot of onsen, but this was the biggest indoor water park I had seen. There was a hot spring, a huge jet spa area and even a wave pool. We spent the afternoon marinating in the various pools and being massaged by millions of air jets.
As we walked out of the spa, tiny little snowflakes were falling from a semi-clear sky. After a late lunch and watching what looked like a documentary about a snowball fight league in Japanese, our day ended fast. We enjoyed the view of the illuminated mountain from our hotel room as the sparkle of snow began to fill the sky.
I fell asleep thinking about tomorrow's snowcat tour and thought to myself, "At least when I am backcountry skiing I can go back to my car after one run if the weather sucks but, with cat skiing, I will have to keep doing runs all day, even if we're riding ice-hardened conditions."
We woke up to a heavy snowstorm. High winds and large snowflakes were pounding against our window. Snow was trying to stick to whatever it could find, but the preceding rain made it difficult. After picking up some snacks for a quick breakfast at the hotel's convenience store, we waited in the lobby impatiently for our guide. Our man showed up at 8 a.m. sharp. He didn't speak much English but, by the way he handled our gear and packed everything in the van, we could tell he knew what he was doing.
After cruising around the huge Tomamu complex a bit and picking up our fellow skiers, we headed to the Tomamu Adventure Headquarters. We sat through about an hour and a half of safety instructions. Our instructor was an attractive female guide, so staying focused wasn't hard for us, but even though I tried to pick up as much Japanese as I could during my three-month journey, I still didn't understand much of what was said.
In the end, everything was summed up nicely in a five-minute English translation. I couldn't help thinking Japanese must be a much more complicated language than English.
We were then led to a garage where a really nice helicopter was parked. We were showed how to climb on and how to behave around it. I looked at my friend who seemed equally confused. Are we going heli-skiing? High winds grounded the chopper that day, so it was Plan B after all—cat skiing.
We finally jumped in a van and headed toward Mt. Karifuritake. Our driver, who hadn't said a word all morning, turned off the main road to Tomamu's private road leading to the area they use solely for their cat-ski and heli-ski operations. As the car was making its way up the road, the snow banks looked as if they were softening a bit. But the road was still icy.
The staff packed our skis and poles in the back of the cat as we ushered in ourselves. We then realized our silent driver was also going to be our tail guide. A 30-minute ride later, we were at the top of the run. I jumped straight out of the cat, bracing myself to hit hard ground. Instead, I sank up to my knees. Everyone looked excited.
After some more safety information, our cute little guide put on her goggles, smiled and pointed her board down the mountain. No screechy sounds here; only the sound of her board gently lifting off the snow.
The tail-guide told me to stay close to our guide's tracks and to stop at the bottom. Since she was boarding and I was on telemark skis, I expected to hit the icy crust underneath, but it didn't happen. I was floating gently on top of cream-like snow.
When I stopped next to her, I too was all smiles. I couldn't believe I was skiing knee deep powder only a day after heavy rain. As expected, our tail guide was a very good skier, rocketing down the slopes. Everyone was stoked about the skiing conditions.
As we gathered around the cat at the bottom of the run, we were all ready for more. The driver brought us around the mountain for some longer runs. The terrain wasn't crazy steep, but it offered plenty of room to carve turns you wanted. The trees were sparse and the guides were leaving us plenty of room, so everyone could enjoy some fresh snow. The conditions were so great, waking up in the van the day before seemed like a dream.
One more run and it was time for lunch. Another surprise awaited us when we scoped a tee-pee big enough for the whole group. Inside, the ground was covered with evergreen branches to avoid some awkward falls in ski boots, while gently perfuming the air. Lunch was a copious meal with four delicious courses prepared mostly with Hokkaido delicacies. I was surprised to see a fork and knife on the table and no chopsticks. I hadn't used silverware much the past few months, but it came in handy for the steak.
We used sign language and gestures to share our experience in Japan with our new friends. The incredulous looks on their faces indicated they understood the magnitude of our three-month journey. The chef preparing our meal on the grill inside the tepee made the experience even more interesting. Warmed up with a full belly, I forced myself to drink about a liter of coffee to keep from sleeping on the way back up the mountain.
Yet there we were in the cat for another 1,200 meters of vertical in some nice, soft powder. The guides know the terrain well and only brought us to the slopes benefitting most from wind-deposited snow, and the mountain had many faces that protected the snow nicely from the harsh winds. I ventured a bit farther out from where the guides told us to ski, quickly returning as the conditions reminded me of a hockey rink.
Our last run took us all the way back to where we started. The lower we got, the less interesting were the conditions but, by this point, everyone was grateful for such an awesome day. I must confess we actually discussed pretending to be sick to get out of going on the cat tour because we thought it was going to be a horrible day. This only made the Tomamu backcountry experience that much better and reminded us a "bad" day skiing is better than a good day at home.
Tomamu Heli/Snow Cat Tours
Season: Early January to late March.
Best time to go: February (coldest month, but the greatest snow) or March (good snowpack, usually great weather).
Cost: Cat-Ski: ¥29,400 (regular season), ¥23,200 (spring season). Heli-Ski: ¥78,750.
Snow Bum Plan: New for the 2010-2011 season is this great deal. If you stay for a week or more, you can stay and ski for just ¥4,200 a night (includes lift ticket).
Contact Info: Tel: 0167-58-1122 (reservations) 0167-58-1111 (information). Web: www.snowtomamu.jp

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Defining the Impact of AIDS Drug Pricing on the Public Sector
Examining the Pharmacoeconomics of U.S. AIDS Drug Access, Washington, DC, April 6, 2004
I wish to thank the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC) for inviting me to join you all here today to discuss the impact of AIDS drug pricing on the public sector.
My estimate of expenditures for antiretroviral drugs in the year 2003 in New York State, by payer, is shown here (Slide 1). There is some guesswork involved in this, however. The one thing I am fairly certain of is that the ratio of Medicaid to AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) is just a little over three people on Medicaid getting antiretroviral drugs for every one person on ADAP. Based on recent corrections to some previous estimates that we had, and more recent data that we picked up from the Veterans Administration (VA), we are pretty confident that these numbers are pretty close, although there are still some estimates figured in. The biggest guess is with the "Private/Other" category. We lumped a number of smaller things in there so its accuracy is least certain, although I think it is still quite close.
So, New York State spent somewhere over US$800 million in 2003 on just antiretroviral drugs. This cost, spread across various programs such as Medicaid, ADAP, and the VA, is not the same mix that you are going to find in every state. Medicaid in New York is a very inclusive program that covers a high number of people in need of antiretroviral drugs. Christine [Lubinski] has said, "Medicaid is not universal healthcare for the poor." In New York, it is. You do not have to be disabled to get it; you just have to be poor. In some states, the ratio of Medicaid to ADAP will actually reverse, because Medicaid is such a closed system and so difficult to get into that ADAP will have to pick up that much more of the burden.
Here is where we get into the detail. Just for perspective, I think that the antiretroviral drug market in the United States is about US$4 billion per year, and ADAP and Medicaid are probably good for at least US$250 million and US$1 billion of that, respectively. There are a mix of government prices and purchasing systems. The purchasing system used in a distribution system to some extent dictates how you are going to get your pricing. There is the Federal Ceiling Price, there is a Federal Supply Schedule, and there is a Public Health Service 340B price, for which ADAPs are eligible. All of these mean you take possession of the drugs, you get the drugs, and then you distribute them.
The other primary type of system is the pharmacy network system, where you reimburse a broad network of pharmacies at average wholesale price (AWP), typically minus some percentage, plus a dispensing fee. That is the system that Medicaid uses. Medicaid also receives rebates under Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) legislation, and ADAP receives rebates under the 340B Rebate option. I will not go into the 340B Rebate option in great detail.
The way a Medicaid or ADAP rebate works is that for a brand-name drug you get a minimum of 15.1 percent off the average manufacturer's price (AMP), which is a secret price. Though you cannot know what that price is, you get 15.1 percent off the AMP, or the difference between AMP and the best price that the pharmaceutical company is giving to a private sector payer, if it is larger. Plus, you get a supplemental rebate if the AMP price increases exceed the inflation rate as stated by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Inflation is calculated back to the initial introduction of the drug, which is a little complicated, but it means typically when you are in a low-inflation period, such as we have been, the rebates get larger if the drug prices have increased more quickly than the rate of inflation. If you get a 5 percent price increase, what an ADAP or Medicaid is really going to see is a net cost creep of about 0.50 percent or so per quarter, and it keeps getting recalculated each quarter, keeping track with the CPI.
The rebate for generic drugs, of which there are no antiretroviral drugs in this case, is 11 percent of AMP; the 340B discount price is simply AMP minus that rebate amount.
Slide 2 is an attempt to make things a little simpler to comprehend. When you are direct purchasing, that price is going to be the bottom block of the figure. This is a hypothetical drug that costs US$100 at AWP. I say it is very hypothetical in the antiretroviral drug business because we would love to see a US$100 drug, and there is nothing anywhere close to that. The AWP is the retail, or list, price. The figure shows a discount. The pharmacy does not get the full amount as discounted. In this case, the example was discounted 10 percent. The next amount goes to the pharmacy and the wholesaler; it is their cost of doing business, for taking possession of the drug and moving it to the pharmacy; and to the pharmacy for handing it to the individual, and all of the counseling and handling costs involved in that. The next piece comes back as a rebate. But the amount of money going to the pharmaceutical company is really US$68 in this hypothetical situation. That is important, because we talk a lot about drug pricing but it is very convoluted, and the price that you see or that we are even able to talk about is not necessarily the price that anyone is paying. Joshua Cohen alluded to this issue in his presentation (see "Untangling the Economics of Drug Pricing" in this issue).
New York State's ADAP pays AWP minus 12 percent to the pharmacy. This is the same rate that Medicaid pays. If an ADAP were to purchase drugs directly, we could take out the cost of the rebate, the discount to the pharmacy, the pharmacy wholesaler amount, which is their cost of distribution, and their profit margin, plus the potential for additional price concessions. There is a difference between this price, which is closer to the net cost, and an AWP minus 12 percent price, which is what you would see in government data.
There are variations in price increases for individual drugs. You have got the slow steady creep of zidovudine (ZDV). It is the turtle in the race. The company that manufactures this drug takes regular price increases, lets inflation grow, and takes advantage of that CPI penalty or makes sure that there is always headroom so it can grow. When efavirenz (EFV) entered the market in 1998, we had a problem. It was priced substantially higher than other drugs. It set a new pricing point. The only drug that has broken from that trend is emtricitabine (FTC), for which we are seeing cost parity because it has essentially the same effectiveness as lamivudine (3TC).
Whenever we have a new drug breaking new pricing points, it has a negative impact for payers for the next round of drugs coming through the pipeline. Besides some of my other problems with ritonavir (RTV), it really affected the scale. Again, in a similar scenario, we had consistency on pricing for quite a while. Then enfuvirtide (ENF), admittedly a new class of drug, was introduced, but following that there was a new price point; and the price points are coming up further. For fosamprenavir (FPV), in fairness, a boosted dosage is about half the amount of an unboosted dosage, but we are still trying to see what the mix is going to be between boosted or unboosted dosages. The big issue is probably the substantial difference in many cases between the actual cost and the public price. There is a substantial difference between what it looks like we pay and what we actually do pay.
Slide 3 shows the average total monthly cost of antiretroviral drugs per user, and here we have a very clear trend. It is generally a result of more drugs being used in combination. Plus, there are newer drugs coming in, and those new drugs tend to be higher priced, despite the efforts we make to keep prices down. It is also due to regular price increases on the part of most pharmaceutical companies. It is getting more expensive to keep a person on antiretroviral therapy.
There is an ancillary cost as well with antiretroviral drugs, which is treating the toxicities and side effects. For example, in Slide 4 we took a basket of drugs that we assumed would be primarily used to treat the side effects and toxicity of antiretroviral therapy. You have a big jump in 2000 because we added new categories that we had not added in the past. By 2000, we realized that we were absent some classes of drugs that are needed to adequately care for someone with HIV in the longer term. Relative to the actual cost of antiretroviral drugs per month, it is not a large amount, but it is a cost that is growing and it is part of the cost of treating HIV/AIDS.
Looking at New York State's ADAP costs by quarter from 1996 through 2004 (Slide 5), the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are still the major cost component. The protease inhibitors (PIs) are still the second largest. Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) and the new category of fusion inhibitors are third and fourth, respectively, in terms of overall spending on antiretroviral drugs. All of the other drugs, and New York is lucky to have about 450 drugs other than the antiretroviral drugs on its formulary, make up a relatively small part, about 14 percent of total cost. Again, I blame RTV for messing up my charts on average price increases here. We went into cost containment mode the first quarter of 2003 while we tried to get some more money, and we were fortunate that we did, largely from the New York State government. But it really did not have much impact since we could not have any control over the antiretroviral drug end of things, so we had to take the money out of the other drugs.
Clearly we have a growth trend here that is somewhat overwhelming in a relatively closed system such as ADAP. New York State's ADAP, unlike most other ADAPs, also has several other components. ADAP-Plus pays for ambulatory care, medical visits, and lab tests. We have a home care component, and we have ADAP-Plus Insurance Continuation (APIC). We do try and keep people in the private sector by helping them pay for their insurance premiums whenever possible. We did get some savings on home care from 1996 onward when antiretroviral drugs came into play, and we saw a dramatic decrease in home care, but there was little decrease in costs because home care was a small fraction of overall cost. Ambulatory care has more than doubled -- it is about two and a half times what it was, but the bulk of that cost is drugs, and the bulk of drug cost is the antiretroviral drugs. So, in a system where we are looking at primarily outpatient care, all we see are increasing costs year after year, month after month.
In New York State, Medicaid pays for the inpatient cost for their patients, and generally for the ADAP patients as well, because by the time they go into inpatient status Medicaid will kick in for them. We can see some of that cost effectiveness that was discussed earlier. In Slide 6 we can see that total Medicaid cost for AIDS dropped from 1994 to 1997 and then started to level off until 2001 when it started to increase again; this is the last year for which I was able to get data. The one thing that I have to point out is that costs dropped from 1994 to 2001 by about US$200,000 a year. Medicaid's antiretroviral drug bill went up by about by about US$500 million in that same time period. Even though they were saving US$200 million in one place, they were still accruing about US$300 million more in HIV costs at this point, so it is not a net savings, it is a net loss that we are dealing with for government.
It is becoming a harder sell to keep HIV-specific and -related drugs exempt from cost containment measures. Fortunately, our trump card is the decrease in AIDS deaths in New York State from 1990 to 2002. That dramatic decrease in deaths that had started occurring in 1996 and 1997 has somewhat leveled out now. The result of that decrease, of course, is more people living with HIV -- they are living longer, better lives. What you are seeing is that because there are more people now living with HIV and requiring ongoing care and treatment, we are accumulating more and more costs.
So, what is the impact on government and patients? Increasing ADAP and Medicaid costs came at a particularly bad time over the last few years. Both the fiscal situation in this country, and the economy, have not been good. States are suffering a great deal, and it is being reflected in how states are dealing with their ADAPs and Medicaid programs. There is an indirect cost on government through rising health insurance premiums. Michael [Allerton] will deal with that in more detail, I am sure. But from a government perspective, we are seeing individuals losing their private insurance. They can no longer afford to pay those rising premiums, so they are turning to the state programs. There is also a rising cost to government for our own employee health costs, and the impact ultimately on the patients comes by way of the cost containment measures that are being imposed.
Medicaid is focused on generic substitution, preferred drug lists, prior authorization, and reduced pharmacy reimbursement rates. They are trying to squeeze the pharmacies and, ultimately, they are also trying to squeeze pharmaceutical companies with some supplemental rebates by using preferred drug lists. We are very fortunate in New York State; we have probably the most stable ADAP in the country. When we went into cost-containment mode in 2003, it was around mandatory generics, a limit on the number of refills before the person has to be seen again and issued a new script, prior authorization on selected drugs, and replacement of high-cost drugs with lower-cost alternatives. We reduced the amount of Ambien® people could get, and they screamed more about that than anything else. We were very fortunate that ours was more of a tightening rather than elimination. Other ADAPs are much worse off, with capped enrollments and waiting lists.
We are probably going to find that the January 2004 number of 791 people on ADAP waiting lists that José [M. Zuniga] referred to earlier is going to be the lowest number we will see for a long time. States are moving to reduce financial eligibility, imposing restrictive medical criteria, and reducing formularies. I think the most dramatic example of that is New Jersey, which had a full formulary in March 2004. On April 1, 2004, that state's ADAP formulary was downsized to only antiretroviral drugs. ... So they went from abundance down to a very minimal formulary for treating HIV. We are seeing monthly limits on the number of prescriptions allowed, or the cost per participant. That cost per participant is a particular problem when the drug prices go up, because the cost per person has to be calculated at the front end of what is being paid at the pharmacy, not at the back end of what is the net cost for the pharmacies. When you use cost containment like that, it is not really fair to the individual patient.
There are some major problems with current government pricing systems. We have a fragmented system with discrete pricing schedules for the various government entities. It is secretive pricing, and it is protected by law. State officials cannot give you the exact price that we are paying. We cannot even know sometimes whether the price that we are paying is the correct price. There are loopholes in the government pricing protections. The CPI penalty that comes into effect if drug prices increase faster than the rate of inflation goes away if there is a new formulation of an existing drug. If the new formulation gets a new code, it starts from scratch and we are only guaranteed that 15 percent rebate. So new formulations, while a really good thing from a clinical perspective, are not necessarily such a great deal for us from a payer perspective, and we find the pharmaceutical industry blocking any legislative attempts to reform pricing.
I am very glad to be here with you, and with IAPAC today, to discuss what I hope will be some ideas. There have been some efforts on the part of government and the community to partner around drug pricing. The Fair Pricing Coalition is a coalition of treatment advocates and government payers, which engages senior management of pharmaceutical companies in pricing discussions. The primary focus has been on initial pricing of new drugs and on requesting price freezes from industry. The ADAP Crisis Task Force, which was formed last year, represents 10 ADAPs or AIDS Center Directors, reflecting 70 percent of the buying power of ADAPs. We negotiated pricing concessions with all of the antiretroviral drug manufacturers. We calculated US$60 million to US$65 million nationally in savings for ADAPs in that first round of discussions. All ADAPs benefited equally, even though there were only 10 ADAP representatives in the room; one of our major points was that all ADAPs will get a share of the savings. We coordinate efforts with the Fair Pricing Coalition and other advocacy groups, and we intend to continue to expand our efforts to secure the best possible prices for ADAPs.
You have seen a lot of concise, scientific information about cost effectiveness and quality years of life. Unfortunately, when you are working in government, sometimes the people who are making decisions are only seeing my charts with the big growth lines and the increasing bottom line for government agencies, and that is a problem. It is really dependent upon physicians and treatment advocates to make sure decision-makers get the full picture, but you must realize that often they are looking from a very limited perspective, bottom line tax dollars. How much can we raise taxes and get away with it? How much do we have to cut in order to maintain government as it is? We must play a role in helping them to see the bigger picture.
Lanny Cross is Program Manager of New York State's AIDS Drug Assistance Program.
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"You can save it for your solo album," Pretenders leader Chrissie Hynde sings sardonically at one point on "Sweet Nuthin,'" a lively track from her first ever solo album.
Hynde always had made a point of not "going solo" during the last 35 years, but, thankfully, she finally caved. One listen to "Stockholm" proves the solo/group distinction to be a minor issue.
The album's title comes from the Swedish city where Hynde recorded it with Bjorn Yttling, the Bjorn of Swedish pop trio Peter, Bjorn & John who produced and co-wrote its songs.
With Yttling's help, she fashioned "Stockholm" into a richly textured pop-rock album, one where her gloriously fluid contralto gets pushed to the fore, not concealed behind the rock bluster that sometimes came with the Pretenders name in the past.
Even Neil Young's readily identifiable guitar crunch during his guest shot on "Down the Wrong Way" can't steal the attention from Hynde. (Tennis great and part-time musician John McEnroe also pops up with a flashy six-string guest spot on "A Plan Too Far.")
This show is all hers, and she chooses to rely on the instincts and influences that have guided her ever since the Pretenders first covered the 1964 Kinks deep cut, "Stop Your Sobbing," so brilliantly on its first single in 1979.
"Dark Sunglasses" might hew closest to the Pretenders in spirit, with biting lyrics and a bit more sass than most of these more carefully mounted tracks.
"Tourniquet (Cynthia Ann)" sounds like a long-lost Zombies track, a subtle, minor-key ballad with softly twinkling piano highlights and a haunting Hynde vocal.
"You or No One" sports the album's catchiest chorus, and puts all of Hynde's strengths on display, its yearning vocal bathed in a soft-focus, subdued wall-of-sound production that suits it perfectly. It's the album's best song.
"Stockholm" abounds with these treats and many more besides. It's sheer pleasure to hear Hynde indulging so unabashedly — and so skillfully — in such sophisticated and lovingly rendered pop craftsmanship.


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Several classic feature films such as 1961's "Breakfast at Tiffany's," 1950's "Born Yesterday" and 1983's "A Christmas Story" were among the 25 motion pictures selected last December for inclusion in the prestigious National Film Registry of the Library of Congress because they represent important achievements in filmmaking.
But not every film was a familiar title. Also making the list was "Parable," a 20-minute religious allegorical silent short with music. "Parable" was the main attraction of the Protestant and Orthodox Center at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Commissioned by the New York City Protestant Council of Churches, "Parable" depicts Jesus Christ as a white-faced clown/mime, following a traveling circus on a small donkey. Christ takes on the sufferings of the circus workers, including women and minorities.
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"Parable," written by Rolf Forsberg, who co-directed the film with Tom Rook, received laudatory reviews and subsequently earned honors at the 1966 Cannes, Venice and Edinburgh festivals.
Forsberg, 87, will be appearing Saturday at the UCLA Film & Television Archive's tribute, "The Outre World of Rolf Forsberg" at the Billy Wilder Theater.
Besides "Parable," the evening will feature three of his other short films: 1966's "Antkeeper," an allegory produced for the Lutheran Church in America, about an ant keeper who turns his son into an ant in order to save an ant colony; 1970's "Ark," another allegorical tale of a modern-day Noah that UCLA describes as an "expressionistic precursor" to the 1972 sci-fi cult favorite "Silent Running"; and 1972's "One Friday," which explores race relations.
"His work falls somewhere north of the 'Twilight Zone' in terms of style and tone-bold visuals, tackling complex themes with enigmatic allegory and metaphor," said Mark Quigley, manager of the archive's research and study center, who privately submitted "Parable" for inclusion in the National Registry. Quigley is hosting Saturday's evening tribute.
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"I think Forsberg's work is a unique fusion of arts cinema and classroom films," Quigley said. "While some of his films were sponsored by major organizations like the Lutheran church, the work is secular, independent and experimental."
"Even if it looked like I was making their statement, I could make personal statements," said Forsberg, over the phone from his home in Sierra Madre.
Filmmakers Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini and Marcel Carne were among Forsberg's inspirations for "Parable." He also credits French painter Georges Rouault as an influence: "He was a very religious man," said Forsberg. "He painted a lot of faces of Christ and he painted faces of clowns-their eyes were exactly the same."
Forsberg decided to transform Christ into a white-faced mime "because that gave the audience the opportunity to project their own vision — their own image of Christ onto the face. That brought out their imaginations."
And anger.
Before "Parable," Jesus Christ had been traditionally portrayed in such religious epics as Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 "The King of Kings" and Nicholas Ray's 1961 remake and George Stevens' 1965 "The Greatest Story Ever Told."
"Just the concept of using allegory and the character of a mime being a Christ-type figure — nothing had really been done like that before on such a public scale," said Quigley. "People were uncomfortable with the idea."
One minister, said Forsberg, threatened to riddle the screen with bullets if the film was shown. "We got a threat from Consolidated Edison," added Forsberg. "An executive there said if the film was shown, he would cut off electricity. Robert Moses, who was the head of the fair, objected to it. And he was a very powerful man."
But cooler heads prevailed and "Parable" became one of the most popular attractions at the fair. "It's had a very long life in 16-mm distribution to civic groups and churches," said Quigley.
Forsberg is still amazed at his little film's longevity. "We had no idea that there was going to be life for the film after the fair," he said.
'The Outre World of Rolf Forsberg'
Where: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Admission: $8 to $10
Information: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
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Our POB and PLS models are our manual sealing machines. These models can reach speeds of 12 to 14 containers per minute. They seal pre-cut aluminum foil lids. The POB has a moving platform, a heating press and timer. The PLS has an additional thermostat.
Heat Sealing Machines
We use the latest heat sealing technology on our machines. Our heat seal machines seal one layer of thermoplastic material to another using heat and pressure. A constant heating die or a cooling bar is used in this process. An inner seal can be done by our POB and PLS machines in which a heated sealing bar applies heat to the contact area of the container to seal the pre-cut lidding to the container.
Hot constant heat bars are used for pouch sealing machines or bag sealing machines. They consist of two stations, one for sealing and one for cooling. Additionally, there are heat sealing bars for cold filling and sealing and cooling bars for hot filling.
Pack Line machines can also apply lidding. There is an aluminum feeding and sealing station whereby a vertical magazine for pre-cut lids becomes part of a pick-and-place system that uses vacuum suction cups and a lids separation mechanism to transfer lids onto the container sealing position prior to the heat seal process.
Our machines have a pre-die cut lids sealing system which you often see on yogurts and similar products. We also have a capping system for bottles or a lidding system for jars. You have the option of automated the processing or having an operator manually place the lids from the vertical magazine into the jar's sealing position.
Our sealing machines can be equipped with an optional photoelectric eye. This is a a sensor which centers the printed film or pre-cut aluminum foil in the middle of the container for correct seal placement. Our poly lid station does not require a photoelectric eye because the machine forms, cuts, and seals the container by pressing a plastic membrane onto the container from a roll of pre-printed film.
Pack Line offers many options for sealing your products so choose Pack Line today.
Our machines are custom-made and built to fit your specifications. For more information about our machines, please visit us at www.packlineeast.com or you can contact us at 917-916-4477 or email email@example.com.
Extending Shelf Life Through Packaging Machinery
October 11, 2017
Shelf life extension is imperative in any industry, from food to medicine. When perishable products, such as foods, aren't packaged properly, it makes way for the growth of bacteria, molds, and rancidity due to the exposure of oxygen, also known as oxidation, which changes the composition of foods over time.
This is why Pack Line's packaging machines provide you with top-notch packaging technology that ensures your food products last as long as possible while keeping quality intact.
The temperature of the internal packaging is a necessary proponent in food quality and preservation. All of our packaging machinery is outfitted with a Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, by the Allan Bradley company. There is a temperature control mechanism that monitors the internal temperature within the package so that you can control the temperature.
We also offer several options for modified atmosphere packaging, or MAP, that are the latest technologies in the packaging industry. Our MAP system is a form of active packaging that interacts with the internal environment of the package in a process that flushes out oxygen gases and either reduces or replaces the oxygen within to that of nitrogen or carbon dioxide.
Our packaging machines use a nitrogen gas flush system. Inert nitrogen gases are injected into the package by a vacuum pump which in turn, pushes out the oxygen inside. While Pack Line offers vacuum pumps, we understand that vacuums can harm or break delicate products. Pack Line has a special process which doesn't require a vacuum and flushes out the gases inside the package and replaces it with nitrogen.
Additionally, we use heat sealing technologies to make sure that your packaging is sealed tight.
For packaging machinery that extends your product's shelf life, Pack Line is your solution.
Pack Line offers many options for extending shelf life of your products. Our machines are custom-made and built to fit your specifications. For more information about our machines, please visit us at www.packlineeast.com or you can contact us at 917-916-4477 or email email@example.com.
K-Cup Single Serve Coffee Packaging Machines
October 2, 2017
Created from the idea that people like to have a single fresh cup of coffee at a time, the k-cup coffee movement was born. In the mid to late 1990s, Keurig became one of the first recognizable brands in this market. Its parent company Green Mountain Coffee Brewers bought the patents for the single serve coffee pods making it the sole provider of k-cups for Keurig machines.
When Keurig lost its k-cup patents in the fall of 2012, there was a void that needed to be filled. Any coffee shop could now make k-cups for their machines. Competitors from giants like Kraft's Maxwell House, the Rogers Family and Snapple jumped on board, but many small to mid-sized companies are bringing some novel tastes to the k-cup coffee market.
Pack Line offers two k-cup packaging machines that will bring your company up to speed with the latest trend.
Our PXG packaging machine is a fully-automatic filling and sealing machine. It is our smallest producing k-cup packaging machine for the growing, mid-sized company. The PXG is capable of an output of 25 to 100 cups per minute. The machine has an auger filler which provides a simultaneous nitrogen injection into the container. This modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) process will ensure your coffee beans won't get oxidized and turn stale. The PXG has an integrated filter insertion system which accurately inserts and holds filter paper in place. The machine also seals the package with pre-cut aluminum foil lidding.
The PXM servo-driven, fully-automatic filling and sealing machine is for coffee heavyweights. The PXM-4 can produce up to 210 to 240 cups per minute and our PXM-6 model has a capacity of up to 290 to 320 cups per minute. The PXM has ultrasonic or infrared cup sensors to ensure correct placement of filters and lids, and the option for a pre-gas flush of the empty cup. Depending on the output required, the PXM machine is designed to fit up to six lanes and has a capacity of six filling nozzles for powdered coffee products.
All of our kcup packaging machines require that you manually load the paper filter into our feeding systems. Our carriers are designed to hold the filter in a central position when it is inserted into the kcup. There is a unique vacuum system and a holding surface with pins which holds the filter in place and prevents movement. When in position, a heating element seals the filter to the side of the container with a nitrogen flush.
We have many options to help your company grow so jump on the k-cup coffee packaging bandwagon today.
Please Note: Our NBM and NB-070 k-cup packaging machines have been phased out.
Our machines are custom-made and built to fit your specifications. For more information about our machines, please visit us at www.packlineeast.com or you can contact us at 917-916-4477 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP)
September 24, 2017
In the food industry, a long shelf life is important. It is not only a testament to the quality of your product, it is a testament to the quality of your brand and the values you share.
That is why Pack Line offers the option on our packaging machinery of modified atmosphere packaging, or MAP, to an endless variety of food products. MAP systems help you preserve the freshness of foods, extend shelf life and keep your brand in good standing with the customer.
In this preservation technique, the Oxygen surrounding the food in the package is changed to another composition so that the contents remain fresh. Our machines create a modified residual oxygen level equal to 0.3-0.4%, leaving just enough oxygen to prevent the growth of germs and molds. This doesn't only mean freshness, it means that less preservatives or additives are needed in your food to make it last longer on the shelf or in the fridge.
Our proven packaging technology delivers faster outputs and reduces gas consumption. Pack Line has also integrated a revolutionary technology that eliminates the need for vacuum pumps. Traditionally, MAP systems require a vacuum to suck the air out of the package and a gas station to pump inert gases back in. However, our packaging machinery technologies do not require a vacuum which means that there is no change in flavor, texture or appearance to even the most delicate products providing stability and consistency.
Pack Line combines innovative breakthroughs and technologies to give you the best packaging machinery on the market while lowering your maintenance and operation costs.
Our machines are custom-made and built to fit your specifications. For more information about our machines or modified atmosphere packaging, please visit us at www.packlineeast.com or you can contact us at 917-916-4477 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Food Packaging Machines
August 29, 2017
Food packaging is at the heart of our business. With our custom-made, high quality machines, we have serviced many food companies, big and small, like Kraft, Danon, Whole Foods, Sabra, Garden Fresh, Taylor Farms and more.
We provide many options for filling, sealing and capping for food packages. Whether you are looking to fill containers, jars, pouches, or trays, we offer many solutions that will suit your needs. We provide packaging for hummus, Greek yogurt, frozen foods, single serve coffee containers (k-cups), and more.
Pack Line's core characteristic is its flexibility and customization. Our machines are based on your specifications.
Our fillers are designed to provide an even product spread throughout. We have fillers that work well with different products.Our pneumatic and mechanical fillers are designed for liquids, pastes and salads. Our servo driven filler is meant for granulated, paste or liquid products. Our auger filler is designed for powder products and our volumetric filler fills containers with liquids. We also have special fillers for more complicated processes like our green filler for multi-component products and a specially designed PLR filler for easy-to-break products. We offer a multihead scale system, weight checker or timer mechanism that accurately supplies the proper product dosage into containers. All of our machines are equipped with a programmable logic control (PLC) system for quantity and temperature regulation.
Our machines use a heat sealing system to weld plastics and other materials to our containers. We use heated bars that apply heat to the contact area of the container which seals the film to the container. We can provide an inner recessed membrane seal before lidding. The film seal method cuts a film membrane from a roll during the sealing process. We have machines that provide an aluminum feeding and sealing station which does pre-cut aluminum lid placement and sealing as found on yogurt containers. Our sealing methods extend shelf life and prevent contamination.
We provide capping for containers, jars or bottles. The overcap lid can be applied with a pick and place system using a suction that grabs the lid and transfers it onto the container. We also have capping machines that twists cap onto bottles.This can be done in a straight or rotative process.
Our PDP line of stand-up pouch machines can be used for juices, dairy products, dressings, spices, and detergents. Our machines are equipped for modern-style packaging needs which makes our pouches attractive while increasing shelf life. Our machines include a rotary platform with pneumatic assemblies. It can work with packages that require zippers and can adjust to different pouch sizes.
Jars & Bottles
The machine can be adjusted to fill a variety of bottle and cap shapes and sizes. Our machines can fill up to four bottles simultaneously. Jar or bottle positioning is automatic and monitored by a photoelectric cell ensuring correct alignment with the fillers before filling. The machine can be incorporated in a full line including bottle blowing, capping, labeling and packing equipment. Machines include our PLF, PFM and PLG series designed for liquid and pastes.
Map Systems
One of the features that make our products unique is that they can work with a modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) system which creates a modified residual oxygen level within the package itself. A gas flush system can also complement the MAP systems that will inject products with nitrogen and remove the oxygen to increase shelf life and provide additional sanitation. A vacuum can also be used.
Our machines are designed to optimize food packaging with the highest safety and sanitation standards with speed and efficiency. We ultimately care about the final product. We want to bring your product onto grocery stores aisles and into customers homes so jump in line for our food packaging machines today.
Our machines are custom-made and built to fit your specifications. For more information about our machines, please visit us at www.packlineeast.com or you can contact us at 917-916-4477 or email email@example.com.
Packaging Machine
August 4, 2017
Packaging machines are our specialty at Pack Line East. We provide superior quality packaging machines and service for existing packaging machines. Our newest kcup packaging machine, the PXM-2, is the perfect packaging machine for any size company that is interested in packaging k-cups and is looking for a fast, economical machine that will bring your company to the next level. This machine is capable of soaring you into the cutting edge of k-cup packaging and allowing you to surpass your competition. These days you need to be in the K Cup packaging for your coffee company in order to stay relevant.
Here are some stats on our PXM-2 packaging machine:
Performance: Servo Driven Fully Automatic Linear Filling and Sealing machine for Filling, Sealing and Capping of Pre-Formed Containers
Output: 80 – 500 cups per min
Product: Powder / Granulated / Pieces / Paste and more
The PXM Filling and Sealing Machine offers the best solution for multi-component products with the capacity of up to eight fillers
The PXM is Pack Line's Fully Automatic In-Line Filling and Sealing Machine and it is based on digital mechanical, combined with pneumatic assemblies. The PXM filling and sealing machines are suitable for packaging a wide range of liquid, paste, granulated and powdered products into pre-formed containers of various size and shapes. This packaging machine can be used for dairy products, salads, dressings, desserts, dry soups, frozen dishes, cosmetics and much more.
The main advantage of PXM filling and sealing machine line is its extreme flexibility:
Each filling and sealing machine is custom designed in full compliance with the product, its container and sealing style.
Depending on the output required, the machine is designed for up to eight lanes, and has a capacity of up to eight fillers for liquid, paste, dry or powdered products.
The fillers can be fitted with a CIP cleaning system.
Pre-cut lids or membrane cut from the roll can be combined with a plastic cap.
The PLC control system regulates the function of the machine as a whole or through its individual components.
The adjustment of the machine to different container sizes is fast and easy.
Greek Yogurt Packaging Machines
August 2, 2017
The Greek yogurt market is a $2 billion industry and growing. The
breakfast-turned-any-time-a-day healthy snack makes up about 35% of all
yogurt sales in the U.S., a steep comparison from five years ago when it
made up just 1%. Now you cannot go into a store without passing by a Greek
yogurt cup in the refrigerated food aisle.
As part of recognizing this growing yogurt trend, Pack Line offers yogurt packaging machines for small to mid-sized companies, machines that will help get their Greek yogurt out to
the masses. Recognized for its high efficiency, accuracy and speed, the NBM
servo-driven fully-automatic rotary filling and sealing machine is perfect
for the job.
Its sealing machines have a smooth servo driven movement of 12-positions
on its rotary platform. These features make NBM machines the best solution
for yogurt products, with an output of 30 to 120 cups per minute. The
machine is also capable of incorporating other ingredients into its yogurt
products such as fruit, honey and granola. All Pack Line machines can be
fitted with a CIP-cleaning system and a waterproof computerized control
system to regulate whole or individual parts of its machines.
A small but growing plant in New Jersey houses one of our NBM machines.
Norman's Dairy manufactures six flavors for their Greek yogurt. Combined
with a new packaging design, the kosher food producer has seen an increase
in its Greek yogurt sales over the past year. Their Greek yogurt has gone
quickly off the shelves and yours can too with our state-of-the-art machine.
Our machines are custom-made and built to fit your specifications. For more information about our machines, please visit us at www.packlineeast.com or you can contact us at 917-916-4477 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hummus Packaging Machines
July 31, 2017
Hummus is a rapidly growing, multi-million dollar industry and is becoming
more ubiquitous in the grocery store. Chickpea production, the main
ingredient of hummus, is an industry valued at $115.5 million a year in
2012, according to the USDA. The food category dominated by hummus sales
grew by 11% from 2011, and up 25% from the year before that, research
conducted by the Information Resources Inc shows.
To meet the growing demand for hummus production, Pack Line, the industry
leader in packaging machinery, has several hummus packaging machines to meet
any small business and large corporation needs.
All of our machines are custom-made to your specifications. Take for example
our PXM servo-driven fully automatic linear filling and sealing machine. One
of our biggest models, it can handle 80 to 500 units per minute. In
addition, its best use is for multicomponent products with a capacity of up
to eight lanes and eight fillers. If you want to catch up with the wave of
experimental additions to hummus, like adding red pepper or garlic, this is
the machine that can handle it.
For a small business looking to expand, the PXG pneumatic-driven
fully-automatic filling, sealing and capping machine is a good option. It is
capable of producing upwards of 25 to 100 units per minute. An alternative
is the NB-070 fully automatic filling and sealing machine, which has a
rotary platform and is driven by an analogue engine. It can produce up to 30
to 60 units per minute.
Our mid-range machine, the NBM servo-driven fully automatic rotary filling
and sealing machine, can handle up to 30 to 120 cups per minute. Its sealing
machines have a smooth index or driven movement of 12-positions for its
rotary platform. The cup filling and sealing machine is designed for up to
four lanes, and has a capacity of up to four filling units.
All the machines' fillers can be fitted with a CIP cleaning system. They can
also be controlled by a waterproof PLC control system allowing the customer
to regulate the machine as a whole or through individual components.
We bring hummus to the shelves through our partnerships with industry
leaders in packaging design. Walking through the aisles of the supermarket,
you might pass by the refrigerated foods section and find a sea of
red-rimmed or green-rimmed containers. A closer examination reveals hummus,
seen through the clear top packaging. On the labels are big brands like
Sabra, Tribe, Good Neighbors, Garden Fresh, Whole Foods and Wal-mart. That is a glimpse of Pack Line's ingenuity.
Where hummus is, Pack Line is too.
Our machines are custom-made and built to fit your specifications. For more information about our machines, please visit us at www.packlineeast.com or you can contact us at 917-916-4477 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Welcome to PackLine East
July 24, 2017
Pack Line is a leading manufacturer of packaging machinery for the food, beverage, personal/home care and pharmaceutical sectors. Our mission is to provide our customers with products and services that provide a competitive advantage, utilizing breakthrough technology to reduce operational costs and increase line efficiency.
Packaging Machinery
July 17, 2017
Packaging Machines
Packaging machinery is our expertise here at Pack Line East. We provide custom-made, top quality packaging machines and have provided a variety of companies from small to large with our machinery. We are experts in the k-cup, food, cosmetics, beverage, personal/home care and pharmaceutical sectors.
Our extensive knowledge of the packaging industry allows us to be the leaders in packaging machinery and assist our clients with all of their needs when it comes to selecting, installing and servicing their packaging machines. We provide many options for filling, sealing and capping for food packages, kcups, hummus, dairy, cosmetics and so much more.
Whether you are looking to fill containers, jars, pouches, stand up pouches, trays, or a more complicated setup like multi-component package, we offer many solutions that will be sure to fit your needs. Your packaging says a lot about you and we will help you package your product using the safest, most efficient and highest quality packaging machines you can find.
Pack Line East's core characteristic is our ability to be flexibile and customized. Our packaging machines are based on your specifications, so no matter what size or shape your packaging is we can alter your machine to fit your needs.
Check out videos of our packaging machines in action here.
To receive a quote for one (or more) of our custom machines, please fill out our questionnaire form with your specifications so we can recommend the best packaging solution for your needs.